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Exercise #905: Prep
Posted 6/2/21 - 6/24/21
Each person was asked to submit snippets from poems or songs.
From Jo:
Whoa, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
Written by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton
Performed by Helen Reddy
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His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big ol' band
Many people comin' from miles around
Johnny B. Goode
Written and performed by Chuck Berry
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Yes you got your spell on me baby
Turning my heart into stone
I need you so bad - magic woman
I can't leave you alone
Black Magic Woman
Writer Peter Green
Performed by the band Santana
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A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
Little Orphant Annie
James Whitcomb Riley - 1849-1916
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
Songwriters: Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
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Somebody is gonna hurt someone
Before the night is through
Somebody is gonna come undone
It's nothin' we can do
Songwriters: Bob Seger / Don Henley / Glenn Lewis Frey / John David Souther
Heartache Tonight lyrics © Cass County Music, Red Cloud Music
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From Wmson:
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain.
I feel summer creepin' in, and I'm tired of the town again.
Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Written by Tom Petty
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How much do I love you?
I'll tell you no lie.
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
How Deep Is the Ocean? performed by Ella Fitgerald.
Written by Irving Berlin.
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I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing eyes -
I wonder if it weighs like Mine -
Or has an Easier size.
I measure Every Grief I Meet, poetry by Emily Dickenson.
Edited by Thomas Johnson (1960)
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From Sue:
I hear singing and there's no one there
I smell blossoms and the trees are bare
All day long I seem to walk on air …
Title: You’re Just in Love
Lyricist: Irving Berlin
Artist: Perry Como
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As some day it may happen that a victim must be found
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders..
Title: As Some Day It May Happen
Lyricist: W.S. Gilbert
Artist: Ko Ko Act 1 Scene 1- The Mikado - various singers!
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Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let, 50 cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Title: King of the Road
Lyricist: Roger Miller 1964
Artist: Roger Miller
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Well, if you loved me half as much as I love you
You couldn't worry me half as much as you do
22 words
Title: If You Love Me Half As Much As I Love You
Lyricist: Hank Williams Snr.
Artist. Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Rosemary
Clooney, et al
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
22 words
Title:The Road Not Taken
Poet: Robert Frost
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When I was 17, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
24 words
Title: When I Was Seventeen
Lyricist: Ervin Drake
Artist: The Kingston Trio,Lonnie Donnegan, Frank Sinatra, et al.
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From Cynthia:
There is a price
There is a price
For every gift
and all advice.
From the poem “Quarto”
Poet: Adrienne Rich
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Goodnight little house
And goodnight mouse
Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady whispering “hush”
From “Goodnight Moon”
Poet: Margaret Wise Brown
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From Jan:
"If there ever was a time, it's now, it might not come again.
You have to choose which eyes to see through in the end."
Burning Bridges
Lucinda Williams
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"Too bad about your girlfriend,
Too bad about you wife,
Too bad about that thing you call the rest of your life."
How'd You Get This Number
Guy Clark/Susanna Clark
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“Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise?
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?"
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
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From Joe:
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
Title: Today
Songwriter: Billy Corgan
Performed by: The Smashing Pumpkins
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...almost there to Vegas where they're putting on a show
They've come so far, I've lived this long at least
I must just go and...
Title: The Happening
Songwriter: Black Francis
Performed by: The Pixies
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...I thought to myself how the moon
That night, cast its light
On my heart's true delight
And the reef where her body was strewn
Title: Unknown
Author: writing staff for Grim Fandango
Recited by: Manuel Calavera, in the PC game Grim Fandango
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There's no diversity because we're burnin' in the melting pot
Title: Dance With The Devil
Songwriter/Performer: Immortal Technique
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Anger, he smiles towering
In shiny metallic purple armor
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown
Sneers at the grassy ground
Title: Bold As Love
Songwriter: Jimi Hendrix
Performed by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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From Sharona:
Rainy day people aways seem to know
when you're feeling blue
High stepping strutters who land in the gutter
sometimes need one too
Title: Rainy Day People
Lyricist and songwriter: Gordon Lightfoot
Artist(s): Gordon Lightfoot et al
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Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Title: Big Yellow Taxi
Lyricist Songwriter: Joanie Mitchell
Artist: Joanie Mitchell et al
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A million candles burning
for the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame
Title: You Want It Darker
Lyricist Songwriter: Leonard Cohen
Artist: Leonard Cohen et al
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nor can we talk it all over,
have a calm, rational discussion.
There is no reason for this, only
a starved dog's logic about bones.
Title: More and More
Poet: Margaret Atwood
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For I have known them all already, known them all--
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
Title: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Poet: T.S. Eliot
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And you alone can hear the invisible starfall,
the darkest-before dawn minutely dewgrazed stir
of the black, dab-filled sea.
Title: Under Milk Wood
Poet: Dylan Thomas
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But sometimes in summer
I'll get thinking of her
And I'll take the long way home
I still take the long way home
Title:The Long Way Home
Lyricist: Bob Seger
Artist: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, et al
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And freedom, oh freedom
Well that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Title: Desperado
Lyricist: Don Henley
Artist: The Eagles, et al
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How the hell can a person
Go to work in the morning
Then come home in the evening
And have nothing to say?
Title: Angel from Montgomery
Lyricist: John Prine
Artist: John Prine, Bonnie Raitt et al
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The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky.
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
Title: I'm So Lonesome I could Cry
Lyricist: Hank Williams Sr.
Artist: Hank Williams et al
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And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Title: Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon
Poet: Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs give you cramp;
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smell awful;
You might as well live.
Title: Resume (accent acute on final e)
Poet: Dorothy Parker
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From winebird:
But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true
This car was once a dream of mine, now it belongs to you.
Title: Riding With Private Malone
Lyricist(s): Wood Newton/Thom Shepherd
Artist: David Ball
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I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind.
Title: Eagles & Horses
Lyricist(s): John Denver/Joe Henry
Artist: John Denver
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Stretching his arms out as far as they'd go
Whispering daddy, I want you to know
I love you this much and I'm waiting on you.
Title: I Love You This Much
Lyricist(s): Chris DuBois/Don Sampson/Jimmy Wayne
Artist: Jimmy Wayne
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I spent 48 dollars last night at the county fair
I throwed out my shoulder, but I won her that teddy bear.
Title: I Like It, I Love It
Lyricist(s): Steve Dukes/Jeb Stuart Anderson/Mark Hall
Artist: Tim McGraw
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Let us build a house where love is found
In water, wine and wheat
A banquet hall on holy ground
Where peace and justice meet.
Title: All Are Welcome
Lyricist(s): Marty Haugen
Artist: Marty Haugen
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Now they stood beside the treasure
On the mountain, dark and red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.
Title: One Tin Soldier
Lyricist(s): Dennis Lambert/Brian Potter
Artist: Jinx Dawson (cover)
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Ooh baby, you couldn't have done a worse thing to me
If you'da taken an arrow and run it right through me.
Title: Arrow Through Me
Lyricist(s): Paul McCartney
Artist: Wings
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Goodbye doesn't mean this has to be the end
Fading dreams grow cold as ice
And I got a feeling that we will meet again.
Title: Return to Paradise
Lyricist(s): Elton John/Gary Osborne
Artist: Elton John
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Stonehaven Sunset the mountain's on fire
My spirit is lifted, rising higher and higher
All the prophets are laughing they say we told you so.
Title: Stonehaven Sunset
Lyricist(s): John Denver
Artist: John Denver
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