This week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge is to feature a song that refers to a state, a country or just a place. That’s certainly a huge area full of potential choices. This version of ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ is certainly, from a UK perspective, the seminal one. Released in 1964 it caused something of…
The key prompt words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday are, rather morbidly, ‘death’, ‘kill’ and ‘murder’. I’m no fan of death or thrash metal, so I suppose that’s a fair part of the pool of possibilities ruled out. Some others that came to mind also had to be ruled out on the basis that…
We watch quite a few TV quiz shows of varying Ievels of intellectual rigour – from ‘Mastermind’ and ‘Only Connect’ to ‘Tipping Point’. One sad common characteristic of them all, however, is the diminishing awareness among the contestants of The Beatles. For goodness’ sake, being from Merseyside we almost literally grew up with them. However,…
This week, we’re asked to present a song about running water – be it stream, brook, creek or, indeed, river. My initial thought was to go with ‘Black Muddy River’, one of my favourite Jerry ballads by The Grateful Dead. However, I was mortified when I checked back in my contributions history to discover that…
This week, we’ve been asked to feature a song that’s appeared on a ‘Greatest Hits’ or ‘Best Of’ compilation album. Given that any artiste(s) worth their salt will have had at least one of these released at some point, the pool of potential choices is certainly both wide and deep. Rather than plump for something…
This week our task, should we choose to accept it, is to feature a song about jewelry. I’m almost ashamed to say that the first song that came into my head was a now problematic ballad called ‘She wears my ring’ by an American crooner called Solomon King. Why problematic, you may ask? Well, the…
This week we’ve been given the task of featuring a song that mentions tea or coffee in its title or lyrics. It’s not too difficult to think of quite a few although, at least in my experience, many of them hark back quite a long way (think ‘You’re The Cream In My Coffee’ or ‘Tea…
“I need a dump truck baby to unload my head” My first thought on seeing this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt was the Beach Boys’ ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’. However, when I typed that into Tags it came up as already present there. Did this mean I’d already used it? Indeed it did – although perhaps…
Jim is clearly taking his theme for this week from the old adage ‘sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me’. There seems to be some debate about the origins of this saying, but it appears to be from the Book of Nehemiah in the Bible Old Testament. Anyway, the…
This is a little different for Song Lyric Sunday: Jim wants us to feature a song that makes reference to an insect. It’s the song, not the artistes, so I guess that puts The Crickets out of contention. I doubt that I’m the only Brit who, on seeing this prompt, immediately thought of ‘Ant Music’…
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