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To the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," you can sing the words to Emily Dickinson's "Because I would not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." However, my efforts to sing the words to "Are you nobody? I'm nobody too" to the tune of "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols has come to no fruition.
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This isn't exactly on point, but I once heard an acapella singing group do a medley of the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This" and "Here Comes The Rain Again". They finished by singing the choruses simultaneously in a sort of a round. They don't exactly sync up, but the effect is surreal and cool enough that now I can't hear either of those songs without mentally filling in the other one.
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stolen their tunes from classical works, such as the musical "Kismet's" song, "Stranger In Paradise" from Borodin's opera "Prince Igor."
In fact, Geoff, the whole of Kismet' music is stolen from Borodin, mostly from "Igor" but part of it is from one of his concertos, I believe.
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Hum Moonlight in Vermont
Now hum Autumn in New York
Tricky, wot?
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And then there's Mussorgsky's "Boris Gudunov," which name gave rise to the bad guy in the old Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, Boris Badunov.
(sorry, I was compelled to deviate)
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You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.
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My brother and I have often had a great time thinking of as many songs as possible which follow a certain chord progression, e.g. 1, 4, 5, 4, 1, (very common).. as in Wild Thing, Stand (REM), Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves for those who ave to know), Louie, Louie, and the list goes on. It's great for busking, because you can seamlessly go from one hit to the other.
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B-Youth - don't get me started.  Flatlander - I love Annie, but she does sing in the same key often (as most pop stars). William - i think Sparteye was referring to songs which can change lyrics, not different songs with the same tune. it's more a poetry problem (rhythm) than a music one (tune). Is the glass half empty or half full? I feel the difference is litearlly meaningless... I yart myself by citing Mad Magazine as the experts in this form of lyric substitution. WOW - "The Star Spangled Banner" melody being an old English drinking song, I believe! It's all making sense now...  Jackie - Homer Simpson laments over the loss of hearing his daughter Lisa practice (based on her size) an "alto" saxophone by singing Beethoven's 5th into the mouthpiece using the words "sax-a-ma-phone, sax-a-ma-phone..."  satin - I knew you weren't a "stranger" when I saw your first post...
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AnnaS, I've been cracking myself up with the Emily Dickinson/Buy the World a Coke thing for days now... that's one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time! In my wild hooting, I somehow managed to discover that you can segue to Auld Lang Syne from the Coke song. Who knew? Aenigma wants Auld Lang Syne to be Aunt Lang Synergism... Again, who knew?
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Also, most of Emily Dickenson's poems to the old Coke ad tune "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony"...
eg:
"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me..."
After the tears of laughter generated by singing that poem to myself had dried, I wondered, has AnnaS suggested to her fellow Atlantans that they try that in their next global marketing campaign?
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