List Songs: * = lyrics below
Songs listened to in class 3/19:
*One Week – Barenaked Ladies
*Capitols – Rockapella
*The Witch’s Rap – “Into the Woods”
*Ball of Confusion – The Temptations
La Vie Boheme –“Rent”
Long list of List Songs on Wikipedia. Many are worth listening to, including:
A Little Priest – “Sweeny Todd”
*The Elements – Tom Lehrer
The Major-General’s Song –Gilbert and Sullivan (what The Elements is based on)
*Let’s Do It – Cole Porter
*Mambo #5 – Lou Bega(and Perez Prado)
*My Favorite Things – Rodgers and Hammerstein
The 12 Days of Christmas (traditional)
*We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel
You’re the Top – Cole Porter
*50 Ways to Lose Your Lover – Paul Simon
*All My Exes Live in Texas - George Strait
*Reasons to be Cheerful – Part 3 - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Ain’t Got No – “Hair”
*It’s the End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M
50 Ways to Lose Your Lover -Paul Simon-1975-his biggest solo hit
The problem is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty ways To leave your lover
She said it's really not my habit To intrude Furthermore, I hope my meaning Won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself At the risk of being crude There must be fifty ways To leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover
[CHORUS:]
You Just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself free
She said it grieves me so To see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do To make you smile again
I said I appreciate that And would you please explain About the fifty ways
She said why don't we both Just sleep on it tonight
And I believe in the morning You'll begin to see the light
And then she kissed me And I realized she probably was right
There must be fifty ways To leave your lover Fifty ways to leave your lover
[CHORUS]
All My Exes Live in Texas – George Strait - 1987
All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is a place I'd dearly love to be.
But all my ex's live in Texas And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
Rosanna's down in Texarcana; wanted me to push her broom,
And sweet Ilene's in Abilene; she forgot I hung the moon,
And Allison in Galveston somehow lost her sanity,
And Dimples who now lives in Temple's got the law lookin' for me.
[Chorus]
I remember that old Frio river where I learned to swim.
And it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thin.
My transcendental meditation, I go there each night,
But I always come back to myself long before daylight.
[Chorus]
Some folks think I'm hidin', It's been rumored that I died, But I'm alive and well in Tennessee.
Ball of Confusion – The Temptations
1970 hit single for The Temptations Genre- Psychedelic soul written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
People movin' out People movin' in Why, because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run, but you sho' can't hide
An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth Vote for me, and I'll set you free Rap on brother, rap on
Well, the only person talkin' 'Bout love thy brother is the preacher And it seems,
Nobody is interested in learnin' But the teacher
Segregation, determination, demonstration, Integration, aggravation, Humiliation, obligation to our nation
Ball of Confusion That's what the world is today
The sale of pills are at an all time high Young folks walk around with Their heads in the sky
Cities aflame in the summer time And, the beat goes on
Air pollution, revolution, gun control, Sound of soul Shootin' rockets to the moon Kids growin' up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will Solve everything And the band played on
So round 'n' round 'n' round we go Where the world's headed, nobody knows
Just a Ball of Confusion Oh yea, that's what the world is today
Fear in the air, tension everywhere Unemployment rising fast, The Beatles' new record's a gas
And the only safe place to live is On an indian reservation And the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction City inspectors, bill collectors
Mod clothes in demand, Population out of hand Suicide, too many bills, hippies movin' To the hills
People all over the world, are shoutin' End the war And the band played on.
Capital – Rockapella-1992 by Sean Altman from “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”
Albany, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Oklahoma City, Trenton, Nashville, Concord,
Dover, Little Rock, Des Moines, Sacramento, Olympia, Montpelier, Jackson,
Carson City, Juneau, Denver, Raleigh, Austin, Boston!
Capital! Just one city in every state Where the Governor and the legislators stay up late,
Got the name, got the fame, the political weight! Hey!!! Capital!
Providence, Topeka, Santa Fe, Indianapolis, Annapolis, St Paul, Jefferson
City, Honolulu, Baton Rouge, Harrisburg, Columbia, Augusta, Phoenix, Salt
Lake City, Salem, Madison, Cheyenne, I'm thinkin' Lincoln!
Capital! Just one city in every state Where the shiny politicians contemplate our fate,
Taking aim, making claims in the friendly debate Hey! Capital!
Bismarck Boise Springfield Frankfort Richmond Columbus Charleston Helena
Capital Lansing Hartford Montgomery
Just one city in every state Turn the political machine on, watch it percolate,
Lotsa Honest Abes kissing babes making each state great!
Capital! Just one city Capital! (Oh no! Oh no! Pierre! Pierre! We forgot Pierre
The Elements – Tom Lehrer-lyrics 1959, melody 1879
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,<gasp>
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,<gasp>
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – R.E.M.-1987
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn. World serves its own needs, dummy
serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux, speed, grunt no, strength, the Ladder structure clatter with fear,
fight, down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games and a government for hire and a combat site.
left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters
baffled, trump, tethered, crop. Look at that low playing! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population common
food but it'll do, Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed,
dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Lock it in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.Light a
candle, light a motive. step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fearcavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
(chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine it's time I had some time alone) I feel fine
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it's time I had some time alone)
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line. Leonard Bernstein, Leonid
Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs .Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic,slam, but neck, right? Right
(chorus) – 4x
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) – Cole Porter-1928
Verse: When the little bluebird Who has never said a word Starts to sing Spring
When the little bluebell At the bottom of the dell Starts to ring Ding dong Ding dong
When the little blue clerk In the middle of his work Starts a tune to the moon up above
It is nature that is all Simply telling us to fall in love
And that's why birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love
In Spain, the best upper sets do it, Lithuanians and Letts do it, Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it, not to mention the Finns; Folks in Siam do it-think of Siamese twins.
Some Argentines, without means do it I hear even Boston beans do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love
Romantic sponges, they say, do it Oysters down in oyster bay do it-Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it Even lazy jellyfish do it Let's do it, let's fall in love
Electric eels I might add do it, though it shocks ‘em I know. Why ask if shad do it –“Waiter bring me shad roe”
In shallow shoals English soles do it, goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it, Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Mambo #5 – Lou Bega-lyrics – o 1999, music composed by Perez Prado - 1949
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Mambo number five. Verse 1
One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car so come on let's ride...
To the liquor store around the corner.
The boys say they want some gin and juice but I really don't wanna.
Beerbust like I had last week. I must stay deep 'cause talk is cheap. I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita.
And as I continue, you know they're getting sweeter. So what can I do? I really beg you my Lord.
To me flirting is just like a sport. Anything fly, it's all good let me dump it. Please set it in the trumpet.
A little bit of Monica in my life, A little bit of Erica by my side. A little bit of Rita's what I need,
A little bit of Tina's what I see. A little bit of Sandra in the sun, A little bit of Mary all night long.
A little bit of Jessica here I am, A little bit of you makes me your man! Mambo number five.
from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/lou_bega/mambo_number_5.html ]
Jump up and down and move it all around. Shake your head to the sound, put your hands on the ground.
Take one step left and one step right. One to the front and one to the side.
Clap your hands once and clap your hands twice And if it look like this then you're doing it right.
Chorus
Bridge
Trumpet, the trumpet. Mambo number five, ha, ha, ha.
Chorus Outro
I do all to fall in love with a girl like you. Cause you can't run and you can't hide
You and me gonna touch the sky. Mambo number five.
My Favorite Things – Rodgers & Hammerstein - 1959 from “The Sound of Music”
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudel Doorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses and blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eye lashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites When the bee stings When I'm feeling sad
I just simply remember my favorite things And then I don't feel so bad
One Week – Barenaked Ladies-1998
It's been one week since you looked at me Cocked your head to the side and said "I'm angry"
Five days since you laughed at me saying "Get that together come back and see me"
Three days since the living room I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me but it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry
Hold it now and watch the hoodwink As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi 'cause it's never touched a frying pan Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes Big like LeAnn Rimes
Because I'm all about value Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits, you try to hold me but I bust through Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin achin shake I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours
Gotta see the show, cause then you'll know The vertigo is gonna grow
Cause it's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver
How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral Can't understand what I mean?
Well, you soon will I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve I have a history of taking off my shirt
It's been one week since you looked at me Threw your arms in the air and said "You're crazy"
Five days since you tackled me I've still got the rug burns on both my knees
It's been three days since the afternoon You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon
Yesterday you'd forgiven me And now I sit back and wait til you say you're sorry
Chickity China the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurasawa I make mad films Okay, I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai Gonna get a set a' better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon 'Cause the cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing
How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad Tryin' hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve I have a history of losing my shirt
It's been one week since you looked at me Dropped your arms to your sides and said "I'm sorry"
Five days since I laughed at you and said "You just did just what I thought you were gonna do"
Three days since the living room We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?
Yesterday you just smiled at me Cause it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie
Reasons to be cheerful – Part 3 – Ian Dury and the Blockheads-1979
Why don't you get back into bed?, Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed?, Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed?, Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed?, Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed?, Why don't you get back into bed
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly Good Golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet Jump back in the alley, add nanny goats
Eighteen-wheeler Scammels, Domineker camels All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy Being rather silly and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it You're welcome, we can spare it, yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty Going on forty, no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of a parrot A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, the days when I ain't spotty, Sitting on the potty, curing smallpox
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful - one, two, three Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses Round or skinny bottoms
Take your mum to Paris, lighting up the chalice Wee Willy Harris
Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to RicoHarpo, Groucho, Chico
Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motor sickle Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale Balabalabala and Volare
Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy Being in my nuddy
Saying 'okey-dokey', singalonga Smokey Coming out of chokey
John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celantano Bonar Colleano
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful - one, two, three
Yes, yes, dear, dear, perhaps next year Or maybe even never In which case .....CHORUS
We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel-1989 headline events from 1949-1989
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez CHORUS
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo CHORUS
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say CHORUS
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on... CHORUS-3x
Witch’s Lament – Stephen Sondheim -1987 from “Into the Woods”
Witch: In the past when your mother was with child she developed an unusual appetite!! She took one look at
MY beautiful garden and told your father that what she wanted more than anything in the world was-
Greens Green and Nothing but green!
Parsley, Peppers, Cabbages, and Celery. Asparagus and Watercress and Fiddlefern and Lettuce.
He said "Alright!" But it wasn't quite cause I caught him in the autumn in my garden one night!
He was robbing me, Raping me. Rudding through my rutabaga raiding my arugala ripping up the Rampion
MY CHAMPION MY FAVORITE! I shoulda layed a spell on him right THERE!
Coulda turned him into stone or a dog or chair-eh-eh. *Momentary Trance"
But I let him have the rampion, I'd lots to spare in return however I said fair is fair.
You can let me have the baby that your wife will bare.. And we'll call it square .
Baker: I had a brother?
Witch: NO! But you had a sister.
Narrator: But the witch refused to tell him anymore of his sister...even that her name was Rapunzuel.
Witch: I thought I had been more than reasonable...but how was I to know what your father had also HIDDEN in
his pocket! You see when I had inherited the garden my mother warned me that I would be punished if I were
ever to lose any of the beans.
Baker and Wife: Beans?
Witch: The special beans, I let him go I didn't know he'd stolen my beans! I was watching him crawl back over the wall
when BANG! CRASH! And Lightening Flash- and well that's another story nevermind...
Anyway at last the big day came, I made my claim.
"Oh don't take away the baby!" They shrieked and screeched but I did!
And I hid her where she'll never be reached! Your father cried and your mother died.
But for extra measure-I admit it was a pleasure- I said "Sorry I'm still not mollified" and I laid a little spell on them. You too son!
That your family tree will always be a barren one! Baker and Wife: No!!!
Witch: So...there's no more fuss and there's no more scenes and my garden thrives! You should see my nectarine! But
I'm telling you the same I tell Kings and Queens don't ever ever ever mess around with my greens!
ESPECIALLY THE BEANS!