#71362
05/26/2002 6:04 AM
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#71363
05/26/2002 10:25 AM
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"Ramble on Rose"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
("Ramble On Rose" composed and written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. Reproduced by arrangement with Ice Nine Publishing Company, Inc. (ASCAP)).
Just like Jack the Ripper
Just like Mojo Hand
Just like Billy Sunday
In a shotgun ragtime band
Just like New York City,
Just like Jericho
Pace the halls and climb the walls
Get out when they blow
(Chorus)
Did you say your name was
Ramblin' Rose?
Ramble on, baby
Settle down easy
Ramble on, Rose
Just like Jack and Jill
Mama told the sailor
One heat up and one cool down
Leave nothin' for the tailor
Just like Jack and Jill
My Papa told the jailer
One go up and one come down
Do yourself a favor
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I'm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it ain't never gonna end
I'm gonna march you up and down the local county line
Take you to the leader of the band
Just like Crazy Otto
Just like Wolfman Jack
Sittin' plush with a royal flush
Aces back to back
Just like Mary Shelley
Just like Frankenstein
Clank your chains and count your change
Try to walk the line
(Repeat chorus and bridge)
Goodbye, Mama and Papa
Goodbye, Jack and Jill
The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter
either side of the hill.
Did you say your name was
Ramblin' Rose?
Ramble on, baby
Settle down easy
Ramble on, Rose
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#71364
05/26/2002 2:42 PM
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Well, here's a whole siteful of The Lord of the Rings lyrics: The Tolkien Music List http://www.telia.lv/~witchcraft/jrrt/jrrt2.htm But the one I wanted to mention is... THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE (©Led Zeppelin 1971) Oh the war is common cry, Pick up you swords and fly. The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know. Oh, well, the night is long the beads of time pass slow, Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow. The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath, The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black, Ride on. Sing as you raise your bow, shoot straighter than before. No comfort has the fire at night that lights the face so cold. (There's also another Zeppelin tune with the lyric "in the deepest depths of Mordor where the Evil One dwells" which has been ridiculously attributed to Satanic worship when it is obviously a literary allusion to LOTR!...I'll post it when I find it, I should know it, but.  ) [Edit:] RAMBLE ON (©Led Zeppelin 1969) Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah. Ramble on... (well, I was close  ...and my apologies to my man Gollum for forgetting him here! I dunno how the Tolkien song site missed this one?)
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#71365
05/26/2002 4:10 PM
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SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM
Based on a poem by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning
Within the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart
The center cannot hold
And a blood dimmed tide
Is loosed upon the world
Nothing is sacred
The ceremony sinks
Innocence is drowned
In anarchy
The best lack conviction
Given some time to think
And the worst are full of passion
Without mercy
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Hoping and hoping
As if by my weak faith
The spirit of this world
Would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows
That straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness
Troubling my eyes
Shaped like a lion
It has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank
And pitiless as the sun
And it's moving its slow thighs
Across the desert sands
Through dark indignant
Reeling falcons
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Raging and raging
It rises from the deep
Opening its eyes
After twenty centuries
Vexed to a nightmare
Out of a stony sleep
By a rocking cradle
By the Sea of Galilee
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Joni Mitchell
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#71366
05/26/2002 6:12 PM
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enthusiast
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Well, maybe not specific works of lit, but specific poets.
The Dangling Conversation~~Paul Simon
It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.
And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.
Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.
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#71367
05/26/2002 9:45 PM
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Oh, that is a good question SilkMuse. Ooo, ooo, what is that song that incorporates… “like Romeo and Juliette Samson and Delilah” See what you've done...now I'll be thinking about that little bit allll night trying to figure out what the song is  ___________________________ There Is the song "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult that has "Like Romeo and Juliette, together in eternity" in the lyrics.
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#71368
05/26/2002 9:54 PM
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Posts: 5,400
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Our love's going down in history
Just like Romeo and Juliette?
the do-wap 1950's song?
(i know that song.. but for the life of me, i can't remember it.. hello, AnnaS? Remember it for me!
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#71369
05/26/2002 11:06 PM
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Oh come now -of troy, we don't want do-wap's shallow mentions of classical literature, now do we? We want...
_________________COLE PORTER_____________
Introduction: spoken
The girls today in society.
Go for classical poetry.
So to win their hearts one must quote (with ease).
Aeschylus and Euripides.
One must know Homer and, b'lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles... also Sappho-ho!
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope.
Dainty debbies will call you a dope.
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'.
Is the poet people call.
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon!
~ refrain
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella".
And they'll think you're a helluva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er.
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer!
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing...
What are clothes? "Much Ado About Nussing!"
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
With the wife of the British ambessida.
Try a crack out of "Troilus and Cressida."
If she says she won't buy it or tike it.
Make her tike it, what's more, "As You Like It."
If she says your behavior is heinous.
Kick her right in the "Coriolanus!"
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
If you can't be a ham and do "Hamlet".
They will not give a damn or a damnlet.
Just recite an occasional sonnet.
And your lap'll have "Honey" upon it.
When your baby is pleading for pleasure.
Let her sample your "Measure For Measure!"
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
Better mention "The Merchant Of Venice".
When her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace.
If her virtue, at first, she defends---well.
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well"!
And if still she won't give you a bonus.
You know what Venus got from Adonis!
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream.
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
If she then wants an all-by-herself night.
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night."
If because of your heat she gets huffy.
Simply play on and "Lay on, Macduffy!"
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And the women you will wow.
So tonight just recite to your matey,
"Kiss me, Kate. Kiss me, Kate. Kiss me, Katey!"
Brush up your Shakespeare.
And they'll all kowtow.
BRUSH UP ON YOUR SHAKESPEARE - COLE PORTER
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#71370
05/26/2002 11:48 PM
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Found it -- and thanks for the memory.
Just Like Romeo and Juliet -- The Reflections
(Written by Freddie Gorman and Bob Hamilton)
Findin' a job tomorrow mornin'
Got a little somethin' I wanna do
Gonna buy somethin' I could ride in / Take my girl datin' at the drive-in
Our love's gonna be written down in history / Just like Romeo and Juliet
I'm gonna buy her pretty presents
Just like the ones in a catalog
Gonna show how much I love her / Let 'er know one way or the other
Our love's gonna be written down in history / Just like Romeo and Juliet
Talk about love and romance,
just wait 'til I get myself straight.
I'm a-gonna put Romeo's fate
right smack dab out of date.
All right, now, I'm speculatin'
Wonder what tomorrow's gonna really bring
If I don't find work tomorrow / It's gonna be heartaches 'n' sorrow
Our love's gonna be destroyed like a tragedy / Just like Romeo and Juliet
Quote from the web: (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet skyrocketed to No. 5 on the pop charts, and the #1 spot on the Rhythm and Blues charts in 1964, with sales peaking at just over 4 million.
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#71371
05/26/2002 11:57 PM
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Monster Mash
I was working in my lab, late one night / When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
My monster from the slab began to rise / When suddenly, to my surprise
(He did the mash) He did the Monster Mash
(The Monster Mash) It was a graveyard smash
(It was a smash) It caught on in a flash
(The Monster Mash) He did the Monster Mash
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The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolfman
Dracula and his son
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#71372
05/27/2002 1:41 AM
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old hand
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Last year my AP English teacher played this song by Rush for us:
"Xanadu"
To seek the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
To break my fast on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise...'
I had heard the whispered tales
Of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book. I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops
Of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost --- Xanadu
Xanadu --- To stand within The Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milks of Paradise
A thousand years have come and gone
But time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end
Weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost --- Xanadu
Xanadu --- Held within The Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honey dew
And drunk the milk of Paradise
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#71373
05/27/2002 10:17 AM
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Well, Madonna's Cherish mentions Romeo and Juliet; and I can't believe that people have forgotten Dire Straits' take on Romeo and Juliet, the name of which escapes me and I can't be bothered to look it up... I'm glad someone got to Led Zeppelin quick smart - there's also a couple more with references to LOTR. Cream [Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker] has a song about Ulysses, but I must say it's always annoyed me, for one very specific reason: it talks about poor Ulysses, his ears tormented by the Sirens. Sorry! He deliberately left his ears unbound so that he could hear them and yet not die. So I have no sympathy!  alexis
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#71375
05/28/2002 6:50 AM
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newbie
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belM: I think the song you mean is "Fire" performed by the Pointer Sisters:
"Well Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet - a love they couldn't deny.
My words say 'split', but my words they lie etc. etc."
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#71376
05/28/2002 4:36 PM
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#71377
06/08/2002 2:03 AM
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old hand
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U2 pops Biblical references into their songs from time to time (I'm thinking of the Joshua Tree album in particular).
Both ABBA and Al Stewart have songs about Cassandra, from the Trojan legends - very poignant.
Are we allowed to include songs that mention famous types, or should that be another thread? I'm thinking of another Al Stewart song, Antarctica:
The hopeless quest of Shackleton
the dreamlike death of Scott
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