Music lyrics meme

[justice_turtle]

From eponymous_rose and bookblather. (Answers to the Happy Meme are coming. I'm just waiting for the sudden storm of happy-making pending events to settle down a bit so I can babble about them. *g*)

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle

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[dbskyler]

6. is "Valleri" by the Monkees.

8. is the lullaby "Hush, Little Baby, Don't Say a Word," but I have no idea who the artist is. (And I thought diamond ring came after mocking bird? I always get the verses wrong, though. And I never remember how it ends.)

9. is "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees.

25. must be from the soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz?

28. is "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees.

29. sounds like it's one of Bilbo's songs from Lord of the Rings? Assuming someone took Tolkien's words and made a song out of it?

[justice_turtle]

You're totally right about "Hush Little Baby" - I typoed it. *fixed* (I was listening to the song while trying to type out the lyrics, and I guess a later bit of the song slipped past my brain straight to my fingers. *g*)

And #29... haven't you heard those? Go here, then! :-) Somebody did take about half a dozen of Tolkien's poems and made songs out of them; that's not all of them in that search, but I'm in a hurry. The song-cycle is called "The Road Goes Ever On". They are not exactly the tunes I imagine the "real" tunes being, but they're pretty good. (And Namarie has the distinction of being PROFESSOR TOLKIEN'S ACTUAL TUNE, for the songwriter spoke to him about it.)

[justice_turtle]

And yup, you got all six right. #25 was a spoken-word-only snippet from "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead" - the bit where they say "To see (to see) If she (if she) is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably dead!" So it doesn't really have a title. *g*

[dbskyler]

Hey, come to me for all your Monkees music identifying needs! *g*

As for #29, nope, I haven't heard those songs. I'm a little hesitant to check out the link, though. I still haven't gotten over how the LoTR movies got the pronunciation of Saruman's name wrong (i.e., they didn't pronounce it the way I pronounced it in my head). I don't want to hear Bilbo's songs sung to the wrong tune!

[justice_turtle]

Ah. Well, I wouldn't blame you for skipping them. ;-) Except I do highly recommend "Namarie", especially if you've got anything like my penchant for hunting up the tunes the songs were originally written to (like "The fox went out on a winter's night" for the Troll Song). *g*

I believe there's also a version of Prof. Tolkien himself singing his version of "Namarie", but he was... not a singer. XD (I mean, I like it, but I'm halfway tone-deaf myself. *g*) And he read some of his poems aloud on tape, also the "Ride of the Rohirrim". *is too sleepy to hunt them up atm*