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thedarlingoneLyrics meme from Pedanther:
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up, with the title, if it appears, redacted. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist. Leeway is also given for traditional ballads, jazz standards, etc.
Under a cut!
1. Now the Sun-girl, the golden Sun-girl,
Snuggles in the blanket of the night
2. A British bank is run with precision,
A British home requires nothing less -- Mr Banks's ad for a nanny from *Mary Poppins*, guessed by pedanther
3. The clouds will form a crown,
Circling the rocky mountaintop -- The Storm King by Dar Williams, guessed by bookblather
4. [TITLE] and he did ride, uh-huh, uh-huh,
[TITLE] and he did ride, uh-huh
5. [TITLE], sleeping, sleeping,
[TITLE], in the house.
The cat's asleep and now, they say,
Is the time for mice to play.
6. The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair
7. Would you be free from your burden of sin? There's [TITLE], [TITLE]!
Would you o'er evil the victory win? There's wonderful [TITLE]!
8. Near to Banbridge town in the County Down on a morning in July,
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by -- Star of the County Down, trad., guessed by bookblather
9. There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall,
And the bells in the steeple too -- So Long, Farewell from Sound of Music, guessed by bookblather
10. With his fool's gold stacked up all around him,
From a killing in the market on the war
11. Run come and look out, look out and see, [TITLE]
12. Running through the shadows of the forest in the full moon
In the middle of the night with his eyes full of fire and his teeth so blood-bright
13. Theirs is a [TITLE], theirs is,
In a pear tree full of pearses
14. [TITLE], laeti triumphantes,
Venite, venite in Bethlehem -- Adeste Fideles, trad., guessed by pedanther (my cover is by Bing Crosby)
15. [TITLE] for singing,
Hey, how about you?
16. What have we here? He must be three or four,
Shaken out of a book on its way back to war -- I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything by Dar Williams, guessed by bookblather
17. [TITLE],
[TITLE],
[TITLE],
It's good enough for me -- Give Me That Old Time Religion, trad., guessed by Pedanther (cover by Pete Seeger, labeled by me as "Religious Indifferentist Version")
18. [TITLE] go round and round, round and round, round and round -- The Wheels on the Bus, trad. by Raffi, guessed by Pedanther
19. Noah, Noah, let me come in,
The door's all fastened and the window's pinned
20. [TITLE], way out on the sea,
I'm far from my loved one who's waiting for me
21. By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
22. [TITLE], it's a long way to go -- It's a Long Way to Tipperary, trad., guessed by Pedanther
23. Have you ever seen a boy with funny clothes,
A girl with braces on her teeth or freckles on her nose?
24. If everybody had an ocean,
Across the USA -- Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys, guessed by Pedanther
25. I gotta [TITLE],
[TITLE],
[TITLE], and wiggle my waggles away -- Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi, guessed by bookblather
26. [TITLE], marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before -- Onward Christian Soldiers, trad., guessed by Pedanther (my cover by Andy Griffith)
27. With tuppence for paper and strings,
You can have your own set of wings -- Let's Go Fly a Kite from Mary Poppins, guessed by Pedanther
28. [TITLE], over life's tempestuous sea.
Unknown waves before me roll, hiding rock and treacherous shoal
29. I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah,
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda -- Yoda by Weird Al Yankovic, guessed by pedanther
30. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine,
I keep my eyes wide open all the time -- Walk the Line by Johnny Cash, guessed by pedanther
Skipped: 8 instrumentals (many of which I hadn't realized were instrumentals in the covers I have, because I *think* the lyrics along with them, but in the interests of accuracy I have not included them).
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up, with the title, if it appears, redacted. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist. Leeway is also given for traditional ballads, jazz standards, etc.
Under a cut!
1. Now the Sun-girl, the golden Sun-girl,
Snuggles in the blanket of the night
A British home requires nothing less
Circling the rocky mountaintop
4. [TITLE] and he did ride, uh-huh, uh-huh,
[TITLE] and he did ride, uh-huh
5. [TITLE], sleeping, sleeping,
[TITLE], in the house.
The cat's asleep and now, they say,
Is the time for mice to play.
6. The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair
7. Would you be free from your burden of sin? There's [TITLE], [TITLE]!
Would you o'er evil the victory win? There's wonderful [TITLE]!
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by
And the bells in the steeple too
10. With his fool's gold stacked up all around him,
From a killing in the market on the war
11. Run come and look out, look out and see, [TITLE]
12. Running through the shadows of the forest in the full moon
In the middle of the night with his eyes full of fire and his teeth so blood-bright
13. Theirs is a [TITLE], theirs is,
In a pear tree full of pearses
Venite, venite in Bethlehem
15. [TITLE] for singing,
Hey, how about you?
Shaken out of a book on its way back to war
[TITLE],
[TITLE],
It's good enough for me
19. Noah, Noah, let me come in,
The door's all fastened and the window's pinned
20. [TITLE], way out on the sea,
I'm far from my loved one who's waiting for me
21. By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
23. Have you ever seen a boy with funny clothes,
A girl with braces on her teeth or freckles on her nose?
Across the USA
[TITLE],
[TITLE], and wiggle my waggles away
With the cross of Jesus going on before
You can have your own set of wings
28. [TITLE], over life's tempestuous sea.
Unknown waves before me roll, hiding rock and treacherous shoal
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
Skipped: 8 instrumentals (many of which I hadn't realized were instrumentals in the covers I have, because I *think* the lyrics along with them, but in the interests of accuracy I have not included them).
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Date: 2019-11-24 12:42 am (UTC)7. (I don't recognise this at all, but the context suggests it has to be "Jesus" or "Grace" or a synonym thereof)
9. (I have a feeling I'm going to kick myself when I find out what this is)
14. "Adeste fideles", traditional
17. "Give me that old time religion", traditional
18. "The wheels on the bus", traditional
22. "It's a long way to Tipperary", traditional
24. "Surfin' USA", The Beach Boys?
26. "Onward Christian Soldiers", traditional
27. "Let's go fly a kite", from Mary Poppins
29. "Yoda", Weird Al Yankovic
30. "I Walk the Line", Johnny Cash
I'm noticing a theme here, if not in your collection then at least in the parts that I'm capable of recognising.
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Date: 2019-11-24 12:57 am (UTC)All the others are correct. I'm almost wondering if your "bonus round" was Old Time Religion - the cover I have is a delightful Pete Seeger piece that goes on "We will pray with Aphrodite / She wears that see-through nightie", which seems like you might have it in your collection given the overlapping parts of our music taste. ^_^
(This is a good cross section of my music collection, really. Traditional, show tunes, a bit of 1960s popular rock. There's a JRRT spoken word piece in there you missed, too.)
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Date: 2019-11-24 02:15 am (UTC)I know "Old Time Religion" entirely through verses added by various people referencing older religions; I don't think I've ever heard it performed completely straight. One of my favourites, because I have a fondness for over-elaborate rhymes, goes something like:
Let us pray to Quetzalcoatl
With him, victory is toatl
(Well, the proof is anecdoatl,
But it's good enough for me!)
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Date: 2019-11-24 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-24 09:07 am (UTC)6 is something from Tolkien but I can't remember the title or really anything else about it. It just sounds like Jrrt.
8. The Star of the County Down! My version's by Irish Descendants but it's traditional.
9. It's the goodbye song from Sound of Music! The title might be So Long, Farewell? It's the one with all the kids going to bed.
13. That's Raffi but I don't know which one. I hear his voice singing it though.
16. I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything, Dar Williams. Did I give you this CD? (also it's boot)
25. Shake My Sillies Out, also definitely Raffi.
Unrelated, but Surfin USA has my hometown in it! Redondo Beach fuck yeah.