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catsittingstillWell, I didn't get much done on the canoe yesterday.
It's a combination of not having as many hours as usual to work on it, and a finicky, slow part of the work to do, that has to be redone, and redone, and would be much quicker if I had exactly the right tools, but I don't, and can't afford to run out and buy them, so it all has to be done by hand.
Anyway, I attended the UFO Housefilk by Skype again, and they expressed an interest in having all my songs, and two of us both said (well, typed) "All your songs are belong to us!"
And I thought "Hmm..."
Now people at the housefilk made noises about writing a song with that title, so there may be other songs out there. This one is mine--the lyrics anyway; I'm still working on the tune. There will probably be an mp3 presently.
ALL YouR SoNgZ ARE bELoNg 2 US!
lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber {later edit}mp3 now available!{/later edit}
We welcome you, and we love your song
And we'll try our best to sing along.
Music lingers in this place
'Cause it can't escape from our embrace.
(chorus)
We'll preserve this song, that brought down the house
With recorder, voices, keyboard, mouse
With the subtlety of a blunderbuss
ALL YouR SoNgZ ARE bELoNg 2 US!
We must learn this song, 'cause we love it--yup!
Why it's just so cute, we could eat it up!
We'll perform this song--we'll arrange it too--
For ukelele and kazoo!
(chorus)
We'll arrange this song...
And you'll find next week, that the lyrics...bent
And no longer say what you thought they meant;
You'd stop us treating your song so rough
If you could just stop laughing long enough!
(chorus)
We'll pervert this song...
You'll find pieces scattered, west to east
Like grisly bones from a cannibal feast
As tune--or words--we cheerfully steal
And drop the rest like an orange peel.
(chorus)
We'll dismember this song...
It doesn't adhere as strictly to the scansion as is my usual wont, but I think it will still work.
It's a combination of not having as many hours as usual to work on it, and a finicky, slow part of the work to do, that has to be redone, and redone, and would be much quicker if I had exactly the right tools, but I don't, and can't afford to run out and buy them, so it all has to be done by hand.
Anyway, I attended the UFO Housefilk by Skype again, and they expressed an interest in having all my songs, and two of us both said (well, typed) "All your songs are belong to us!"
And I thought "Hmm..."
Now people at the housefilk made noises about writing a song with that title, so there may be other songs out there. This one is mine--the lyrics anyway; I'm still working on the tune. There will probably be an mp3 presently.
ALL YouR SoNgZ ARE bELoNg 2 US!
lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber {later edit}mp3 now available!{/later edit}
We welcome you, and we love your song
And we'll try our best to sing along.
Music lingers in this place
'Cause it can't escape from our embrace.
(chorus)
We'll preserve this song, that brought down the house
With recorder, voices, keyboard, mouse
With the subtlety of a blunderbuss
ALL YouR SoNgZ ARE bELoNg 2 US!
We must learn this song, 'cause we love it--yup!
Why it's just so cute, we could eat it up!
We'll perform this song--we'll arrange it too--
For ukelele and kazoo!
(chorus)
We'll arrange this song...
And you'll find next week, that the lyrics...bent
And no longer say what you thought they meant;
You'd stop us treating your song so rough
If you could just stop laughing long enough!
(chorus)
We'll pervert this song...
You'll find pieces scattered, west to east
Like grisly bones from a cannibal feast
As tune--or words--we cheerfully steal
And drop the rest like an orange peel.
(chorus)
We'll dismember this song...
It doesn't adhere as strictly to the scansion as is my usual wont, but I think it will still work.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:48 pm (UTC)OK, maybe I'm a little *too* eager to arrange it for ukulele and kazoo.
(and by the way, I'm earwormed by "Boats Have Bones" now)
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Date: 2011-03-26 07:56 pm (UTC)And I, ah, apologize for the earworm.
I am still messing about with the tune. I will try to fit some serious songwriting in tonight but I'm in the middle of working on the boat (the glue needs another 15 minutes before I can continue) plus I haven't done any practicing yet so we'll see how it goes.
UFO?
Date: 2011-03-26 11:24 pm (UTC)Re: UFO?
Date: 2011-03-27 12:37 am (UTC)I think other people may also, but the housefilks are at Dawnya's.
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-27 12:37 am (UTC)But...
Date: 2011-03-27 12:42 am (UTC)To The Tune Of ... What? (http://filk.cracksandshards.com/TTTOWhat.html)
Re: But...
Date: 2011-03-27 02:22 am (UTC)When I posted, I hadn't really written the tune yet. I had kind of a tune but it wasn't really solidified, and it didn't change for verse and chorus and it was something I was using in another proto-song that hasn't seen the light of day and stuff like that.
I wrote the actual tune a few minutes ago--one of the few things that went well today besides writing the lyrics, actually--but it will be a day or two before I can perform it solidly enough to make an mp3--at that point I will add one. And I will post that I added one so you can go back and listen if you want. :-)
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Date: 2011-03-27 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-29 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-29 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-29 11:00 pm (UTC)I'm very glad you like it.