Music meme gacked from [profile] cariad2

May. 11th, 2006 11:26 am
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Here are the instructions:

Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Pick your favorite lines from the first 10 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 4: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: DON'T GOOGLE THEM.



1. Isolation pushes you 'til every muscle aches
Down the only road it ever takes
But everybody's scared of this place and staying away
Your little house on memory lane
It's your decision to be open about yourself
be careful, or else
be careful or else...

2. Oh say little doggies, why don't you slow down
You've wandered and trampled all over the ground
graze, little doggies, and graze kinda slow
don't be forever on the go
move slow, little doggies, move slow.


3.No pares! (sigue sigue!) No pares (sigue sigue!)
chocolate chocolate chocolate choco
de canela de canela de canela de ca
chocolate chocolate chocolate choco
de canela de canela de canela de ca....

4. Little red wagon, painted blue
little red wagon, painted blue
little red wagon, painted blue
skip to my lou, my darling...


5. If I were a carpenter I'd
Hammer on my piglet, I'd
Collect the seven dollars and I'd
Buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head

Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads
Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads


6. I buried him down by the river
'cause that's where he liked to be
and every night when the moon is high
I go there and weep openly
He and I were married
By this river 'neath this willow tree
and with God and friends witnessing it
He pledged his life to me

7. so much to read you're skimmimg
lots of advice from women
loves the one that lets him in
a bright bulb's better then a dim one
feeling the fleeing and reeling

(I had to look this one up, don't be silly, it was almost impossible to understand! The singer himself transcribed some of his own lyric as "garble garble." But here's another lyric that I actually like, from the same album, not that anyone is going to know it:)

The rain disregards
any agenda of the stars
The stars are still too far
to get you out or by and far
the rain and the cracklin' light
throws thick thunder
and shows off the night
get it goin'
get it gone
when the lighting can't even touch you
when you can't go wrong
in a four door Maverick
four door....

8. Minimum wage! Hyah! (whipcrack!)

9. Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me.


10.
There was a mouse lived in a well
ding dang dong go the wedding bells
and a pretty little mouse lived under a mill
ding dang dong go the wedding bells.

Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees
Here's to the lovely strawberries
Ding dang dong go the wedding bells

Froggie went a courtin' and he did ride
ding dang dong go the wedding bells
Now Miss Mouse you must decide
ding dang dong go the wedding bells...

Date: 2006-05-11 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cariad2.livejournal.com
You really like They Might Be Giants, don't you? :)

OK, I'll claim number 10, and am thrilled to find another John McCutcheon fan! It's...well, is it called something other than Ding Dang Dong Go the Wedding Bells? It's a version of Froggy Went a Courtin, right? Here's to Cheshire? It's from Howdja Do. I think.

Date: 2006-05-11 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Well, I think it's iTunes that likes They Might Be Giants.

#10 is not John McCutcheon. Guess again. (obviously it's another folksinger!)

Date: 2006-05-11 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cariad2.livejournal.com
Huh. He does sing that one on one of his CD's (I checked) It yours Tom Chapin?

Date: 2006-05-11 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Nope, not Tom Chapin. Older than that.

But I realized that I do get to cross off both of the They Might Be Giants songs. I guess I could wait for you to come up with the name of #5, but that's kind of silly.

Date: 2006-05-11 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cariad2.livejournal.com
Pete Seeger? Woody Guthrie?

Date: 2006-05-11 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Bing bing bing bing! Pete Seeger! The Children's Concert at Town Hall, 1963. It is one of my son's favorite albums.

Date: 2006-05-11 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mechaieh.livejournal.com
The only one I recognise is #9 - Beatles, "Nowhere Man." But your note to #7 cracks me up. :-)

Date: 2006-05-11 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com
That's the only one I recognise as well!

Date: 2006-05-11 04:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
I have photographs for you! Where should I send them?

I need to write a blog post about all the places where those penguins have been...
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
They are digital photos, so it's easier to email them than to have them printed. I actually have your snail mail (it was on the package of penguins.) The reason I didn't just have the photos printed and sent to you was that my husband was being all perfectionistic about it.

Date: 2006-05-11 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Hey! Do you know I am still thinking about a birthday present for you? First I had this idea to write a ficlet based on a Yiddish poem from the 1920s, but I couldn't find my anthology. Then I was going to write rhyming smut with your name in it--you like bondage, and "mechiaeh" rhymes with "I'll tie ya", did you ever notice that? Then I couldn't decide between sonnets and limericks and...

Date: 2006-05-11 08:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] busaikko
Number 2 and number 4 would be Pete Seger, would they not?

On the town hall record, after the girl screams (AGGGG!), he says, "Aw, did I scare you? didn't mean to scare you..." and launches into Skip to my Lou.

Although, really, anyone could have recorded these! We have a nice version of Skip to My Lou by John McCutcheon from the CD A Child's collection of Folk Music (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002M7Z/002-5049701-7804867?v=glance&n=5174 ) which makes me happy.

Should resist this meme, but man oh man is it tempting....

Date: 2006-05-11 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
YEAH baby. that's exactly the record.

Date: 2006-05-11 08:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] busaikko
Heh--I had it as a REAL record too, back in my youth. BTW, are there any CDs out of Tom Glaser (Music for 1s and 2s)? Those are such great songs, but my record came from the Salvation Army, and the tape I copied it on to is wearing thin.... Great songs for teaching English....

Date: 2006-05-11 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com
I used to listen to that They Might Be Giants album obsessively about ten years ago. I have the lyrics engraved on my brain. :)

Date: 2006-05-12 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
That explains a great deal... :)

Date: 2006-05-12 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-senjou.livejournal.com
I'm so rubbish at these types of memes *shakes confused head in despair* However I like to inflict them on my flist *steals*

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