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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[lost_spook]

You are too busy being happy to write the happy meme? :lol: That is lovely, if so.

Also, and I don't know what this makes me, but is 3. anything to do with Veggie Tales? (Or is it a scary thing that I see Bob and Larry and instantly think of a tomato and a cucumber?)

[justice_turtle]

#3 is indeed VeggieTales! It's a medley from one of their music CDs - it's called "Foreign Exchange", and basically it's the one where they translated several of their songs into Spanish, arranged some others for polka band, and put them together with an odd little story about Larry traveling around the world. XD

And yes! I am busy running around doing awesome things and arranging to do more awesome things. In January I'm going to a car show in Detroit, for free (my school is paying); today I tried out three different spinning wheels to see which one I want to buy (and the lady who gives spinning lessons said I was excellent - it was my first time spinning on a wheel :D); tomorrow there's a bonfire at a friend's house, with marshmallows. Also I might be trying out one more spinning wheel this weekend, and then ordering whichever one I pick.

[lost_spook]

Yay for happy things, and spinning. :-)

[neveralarch]

14. is some version of John Henry, I don't know which. And 26. is Johnny Cash's John Henry.

(Apparently I only know one song. At least it's an interesting one!)

[justice_turtle]

Right on both! The #14 was a Pete Seeger cover from a live concert recording I checked out of the library.

(And it is definitely interesting! I love Johnny Cash's version so, so much - although it loses some of the historical specificity of the original folk version, like "John Henry drove fourteen feet, the steam drill only made nine", in favor of a more mythic overall tone. But nothing beats "Ain't no machine can; that's been proved to you". *g*)

[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!

[eponymous_rose]

Ooh, tricky. Um. I know 6 is by The Monkees, couldn't say which song.

8 is of course "Hush Little Baby" (is that the title? Or is it something to do with the mockingbird?) - maybe sung by Peter Paul and Mary?

25 is definitely the song about Munchkin Land from The Wizard of Oz.

And... that's all I've got!

[justice_turtle]

#6 was "Valleri" by The Monkees - one of their later songs. #8 is "Hush Little Baby", and that is indeed the title, but I've got the Weavers cover. XD And #25 is actually a thirty-second snippet of spoken-word passage, but you got the source location right, so! *g*

[meneleth]

Music! What fun! By the way, I like your taste in tunes.

#2 is O Holy Night
#9 is Last Train to Clarksville
#15 is Ode to Joy (I can't remember the hymn's name)
#18 is Proud to Be An American
#25 is Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
#28 is Daydream Believer (yea! TWO Monkees songs!)
#29 is Bilbo's Song (if that's the right title)

[justice_turtle]

You got all of them except #15 - it's not Ode to Joy. (It is a hymn of similar tone and rhythm, but they don't quite fit to the same tune... *hints vaguely*)

And there were actually three Monkees songs! #6 was "Valleri". But yes: yay Monkees! XD