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Pure poetry...

Bryan Burnett | 19:58 UK time, Wednesday, 25 August 2010

simon.jpgThursday's theme could well be tricky,
And we know how the bloggers can sometimes be picky

We try very hard to not play a bad track
In the eyes of Henri, Scotch Git and Madmac

It's a theme that's been asked for several times
And it's 'songwriters greatest ever rhymes'

Is it Bacharach David's 'he'll never phone ya'
Which they managed to get to rhyme with pneumonia?

Or is it Eddie Cochrane's congressman's quote
That will end up getting your vote?

What kind of ideas will this theme spawn
Think of a rhyme and - Get It On....

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  • Comment number 1.

    If rhyming with a bit of panache is your thing, there's nothing that can better Noel Coward. IMHO.
    So, Dinah Washington's or Ella Fitzgerald 's version of Mad About The Boy would be good.

    Mad about the boy
    I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy
    I'm so ashamed of it but must admit the sleepless nights I've had
    About the boy

    On the silverscreen
    He melts my foolish heart in every single scene
    Although I'm quite aware that here and there are traces of the cad
    About the boy

    Lord knows I'm not a fool girl
    I really shouldn't care
    Lord knows I'm not a school girl
    In the flurry of her first affair

    Will it ever cloy
    This odd diversity of misery and joy
    I'm feeling quite insane and young again
    And all because I'm mad about the boy

    So if I could employ
    A little magic that will finally destroy
    This dream that pains me and enchains me
    But I can't because I'm mad...
    I'm mad about the boy

  • Comment number 2.

    Maggie comes fleet foot
    Face full of black soot
    Talkin鈥 that the heat put
    Plants in the bed but
    The phone鈥檚 tapped anyway
    Maggie says that many say
    They must bust in early May
    Orders from the D.A.
    Look out kid
    Don鈥檛 matter what you did
    Walk on your tiptoes
    Don鈥檛 try 鈥淣o-Doz鈥
    Better stay away from those
    That carry around a fire hose
    Keep a clean nose
    Watch the plain clothes
    You don鈥檛 need a weatherman
    To know which way the wind blows

    Bob Dylan - Suntarranean Homesick Blues

  • Comment number 3.

    There once was a radio poet,
    Least he thought so, but he didn't know it




    please continue...

  • Comment number 4.

    and the bloggers cried out
    "stuff that, where's my shout?"



    as per DC, please continue...

  • Comment number 5.

    we're all music lover's, here's some Mo毛t!

  • Comment number 6.

    that shopkeepers inappropriate apostrophe. I blame it on norrie.

  • Comment number 7.

    Harry Nilsson's track How to write a song from Sandman has the following tips about rhyming:

    Don鈥檛 try to rhyme silver with anything
    That goes for homage as well
    But notice how cleverly
    I just used them both
    And all I have to do
    Is rhyme well

    You鈥檝e got to be tricky
    Because to avoid these words takes talent
    So never ever trap yourself
    Like that, or you鈥檒l end up saying words like

    Oh, balent or falent
    Or dalent or
    OOHHH, I鈥檓 sure you鈥檒l catch on fast!


    Great advice...


    DC

  • Comment number 8.

    #6 don't blame me I'm still recovering from the shock of some of the mummies considered yummy.....

  • Comment number 9.

    Think we've had a really good run of shows lately but tonight's bar one or two shining lights was the ultimate in mediocrity.

    Dunno about the best rhymes but up there with the worst are
    He always beat me at subbuteo
    Cos he took the flick and i didn't know

    or

    My love for you is immeasurable
    My respect for you immense
    You're ageless timeless lace and fineness
    your beauty and elegense

  • Comment number 10.

    We all know
    How beastly Tigers are
    Out In - Out In
    Out In Indiah

    They bite, they scratch
    They make an awful fuss
    It's no use stroking them
    and saying 'Puss, Puss, Puss'


    from 'Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah' by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 11.

    I see Fred proved a decent decoy on the last thread for the moderator

  • Comment number 12.

    #8 sorry, norrie - that was over-familiar of me. Trying to get in on the "norrieitus" thing, but sounding like it was a dig against you, when ..... anyway. it wasn't! ;o) I'm not so sure about your prognosis on tonight's show, though - only a couple of duds on the re-thought-out rename for the theme. An excellent listen.

  • Comment number 13.

    #12 mary-doll not at all - no offence taken whatsoever!

  • Comment number 14.

    #9 afraid I have to agree with you on tonight's programme, esp considering some of the suggestions that weren't played.

    I take it you'll be offering once again Frankie's finest

    Darlin, feelin pretty lonesome
    I'd call you on the phonesome
    but I dont' have a dime

  • Comment number 15.

    don't

  • Comment number 16.

    and can someone tell me why the blog is doing this silly thing of showing the first post while the seconds count down so that you have to refresh to see if your apostrophes have gone wandering? Or is it just my pc?

  • Comment number 17.

    #13 thanks, norrie - you're a Darlin'!

    #14 - disagree to agree. But you don't like me and I don't like me.
    Second that Frankie Miller. Was but a young nipper when this came out and I still love/d it.

    Frankie Miller - GIO!

  • Comment number 18.




    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


    Bare Naked Ladies ---- One Week

  • Comment number 19.

    #16

    Mine 'n' aw'

  • Comment number 20.

    #15 Doh'nt

  • Comment number 21.

    84. At 8:48pm on 05 Jul 2010, mary-doll wrote:

    me first? never.

  • Comment number 22.

    a contected Tiger song

    The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
    'Not when he looked so fierce' his mother butted in
    If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
    All the children sing

    Hey Bungalow Bill
    What did you kill
    Bungalow Bill


    The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill ... The Beatles..


    Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin
    And proceeded to lie on the table
    He said 'Rocky met your match'
    And Rocky said 'Doc it's only a scratch'
    And I'll be better..I'll be better doc as soon as I am able

    Now Rocky Racoon he fell back in his room
    Only to find Gideon's Bible
    Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
    To help with good Rocky's revival.


    from Rocky Raccoon... the Beatles ( Mccartney can write goods lyrics when he can be bothered

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 23.


    One for DC

    Well we got no class
    And we got no principles
    And we got no innocence
    We can't even think of a word that rhymes!


    >8-D

  • Comment number 24.

    #17 ?

  • Comment number 25.

    She won't dine out with me no she won't dine out
    Says my t-bone steak is at fault
    She won't dine out with me no she won't dine out
    With a murderer pass the salt

    Lighten Up Morrissey - Sparks

  • Comment number 26.

    "I'm a real Pothead Pixie
    The green planet Gong is my home
    I live everywhere but in case I'm not there
    You can reach me by Radio Gnome"


    ... 'The Pothead Pixies' Gong

    nuff said

    Please support your local Pixie ...

  • Comment number 27.


    But seriously, folks; one upbeat,

    Roses are red and violets are purple
    Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple


    'Dang Me' - Roger Miller


    and one downbeat.

    There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes,
    And Jesus Christ died for nuthin' I suppose


    'Sam Stone' - John Prine


    In the interest of balance you should play both.



  • Comment number 28.

    Well I woke up Sunday mornin,
    No way to hold mah head that didn't hurt
    But the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
    So I had one more for desert.....


    Sunday Mornin Comin Down - Kris Kristofferson

    It didn't get a play last week either



  • Comment number 29.

    'Taylor the Latte Boy' - Kristin Chenowith (heard Alan Cumming sing this at his recent Fringe show)

    Ian Dury - 'Don't Ask

    Ian Dury - 'Honeysuckle Highway'






  • Comment number 30.

    #28

    In the desert you only drink beer after sundown. And,
    In the desert you can't remember your name...

  • Comment number 31.

    "It's not my fault, this is how my mother made me
    I've been magnetic since I was a baby"

    ... Semi Precious Weapons

    Garage Punk delirium ... for what it's worth ...

  • Comment number 32.

    #21 oh, well, there's a first then. and I mangeled it. But that's between you an' me, ok? ;o) (mandatory disclaimer)

    #24 it's not you, it's me. I'm a bit hormonal at the moment. The standard for explaining mouthy females off. Anyway, I've been assured by a very scared male in the household that a warm bath has been prepared for me, so... the bath's gain is your gain . or summat.
    toodles. happy rhyming.

  • Comment number 33.

    #23

    ...so remember this (Boys & Girls), when freedom comes along, don't p**h in the water supply

    (as introduced by the incomparable Alex Harvey)







    wonder if the moderator will delete this because I quoted lyrics?

    DC

  • Comment number 34.

    Limerick time

    M-D's better half said,






  • Comment number 35.

    #28
    How many of us have put on that cleanest dirty shirt

  • Comment number 36.

    #32

    Bring home some chocolates
    It might save your life
    Tell her you love her
    And hide all the knives



  • Comment number 37.

    More like how often....,.:o(

  • Comment number 38.


    M-D's better half said
    Couch? Or sperr bed?

  • Comment number 39.

    According to a guy in my year at College, if you had seven items of a certain piece of clothing, you could go a month without having to wash them.

    "That's pants", I said

    "Correct", said he....

    I didn't associate with him after that.






    Anyway, back to the rhymes


    Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got,
    Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot




  • Comment number 40.

    #38

    Your hormones are bonkers
    your friends are all plonkers
    That blog's sent you clean off your head

  • Comment number 41.

    You got a smile so bright
    You know you could have been a candle
    I'm holding you so tight
    You know you could have been a handle
    The way you swept me off my feet
    You know you could have been a broom
    The way you smell so sweet
    You know you could have been some perfume
    Well you could have been anything that you want to
    And I can tell
    The way you do the things you do

  • Comment number 42.

    I posted a few ideas on Sunday. Latest thoughts include:

    Stones throw from nowhere - Cado Belle:
    You said you just had to leave, then you turned on right around
    You're stealing all my time like you steal my logic
    I can't say what I believe, 'cos I feel I've lost my ground
    I can't trust in love I can't believe in magic

    Every time you walk in the room - Pam Tillis:
    I close my eyes for a second and pretend its me you want
    Meanwhile I try to act so nonchalant

    Indepemdence day - Martina McBride/Gretchen Peters:
    Let Freedom ring,let the white dove sing
    Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 43.

    Now there's girls melting on the beach
    And they're so fine but so out of reach
    Cause I'm stuck in traffic down, here on 53rd Street
    Now Sherry my love for you is real
    But I didn't count on this package deal

    Mr Scialfa - Sherry Darling

  • Comment number 44.

    She shouted get him rover and he jumped over and bit my ell ee gee
    She sank her teeth in my bee you em and called me an effincee

  • Comment number 45.

    Well we shot the line and we went for broke
    With a thousand screaming trucks
    And eleven long haired friends of Jesus
    In a chartreuse micro bus

    Convoy...CW McCall
    The only song to rhyme trucks with bus

  • Comment number 46.

    Bad rhymes are much more fun than good ones. I reckon this one would be hard to beat.


    She unscrews the top of a new whisky bottle
    And shuffles about in her candlelit hovel
    Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
    she smells like the cat and the neighbour she sickens
    The black and white TV has long seen a picture
    The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture
    The postman delivers the final reminders
    She sells off her silver and poodles in china

  • Comment number 47.

    #45

    ,,,but not moon with June.

    When love congeals
    It soon reveals
    The faint aroma of performing seals
    The double crossing of a pair of heels
    I wish I were in love again

    Rodgers and Hart 1937

    If driving fast cars you like,
    If low bars you like,
    If old hymns you like,
    If bare limbs you like,
    If Mae West you like
    Or me undressed you like,
    Why, nobody will oppose!
    When every night,
    The set that's smart
    Is intruding in nudist parties in studios,
    Anything Goes.

    Cole Porter 1934

    Now re-read the suggestions above and move on to Friday.

  • Comment number 48.

    Touches, Clutches, Duchess,

    New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello

    Terrific word-play and a brilliant tune to go with the rhymes.

    Paul from Ayr

  • Comment number 49.

    0k for tonight some of the finest rhymimg if not the finest

    Came out in the early 70's and told the history of rock and roll in three and a bit minutes

  • Comment number 50.

    I've had relations with girls from many nations
    I've made passes at women of all classes
    And just because you're gay I won't turn you away

    A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden
    Headlines give me headaches when I read them
    I had an uncle who once played for Red Star
    Belgrade

    Billy Bragg, Sexuality.

  • Comment number 51.


    Foe Thursday - Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel


    "And so you see I have come to doubt

    All that I once held as true

    I stand alone without beliefs

    The only truth I know is you"


    Like it says at the top of the page, Pure poetry...

    :o)

  • Comment number 52.


    Theme suggestion for Friday

    As the Prime Minister and his wife celebrate the birth of their new baby girl in Cornwall, I suggest songs with girls' names from the Celtic nations.

    Aisling - Christy Moore ~ Shane McGowan wrote the song. Aisling is the Irish word for Dream, as well as a popular name for Irish girls.

  • Comment number 53.

    #52 - Fleetwood mac - Rhiannon

  • Comment number 54.

    Point of order your honour:

    Is the theme about rhyme or poetry?

    If poetry is allowed, it's hard to beat Van Morrison



    Justin, gentler than a man
    I am down on my knees
    At the wireless knobs
    I am down on my knees
    At those wireless knobs
    Telefunken, Telefunken
    And I`m searching for
    Luxembourg, Luxembourg,
    Athlone, Budapest, AFN,
    Hilversum, Helvetia
    In the days before rock `n` roll

    When we let, then we bet
    On Lester Piggott when we met
    We let the goldfish go
    In the days before rock `n` roll

    Fats did not come in
    Without those wireless knobs
    Fats did not come in
    Without those wireless knobs
    Elvis did not come in
    Without those wireless knobs
    Nor Fats, nor Elvis
    Nor Sonny, nor Lightning
    Nor Muddy, nor John Lee
    In the days before rock `n` roll





    DC

  • Comment number 55.

    Point of order your honour:

    Is the theme about rhyme or poetry?

    If poetry is allowed, it's hard to beat Van Morrison

    DC

  • Comment number 56.

    OK, wotys happening with the blog here? I tried to post and a wee window popped up telling me that I said the same in comment #1. I therefore re-phrased it and the same thing happened.

    Has Mary-Doll taken her revenge on the bloggers?

    We need tae be telt

    DC

  • Comment number 57.

    #52

    What about the singers?

    M谩ire Brennan

    Sin茅ad O'Connor

    Cerys Matthews

  • Comment number 58.

    #56

    Buy a Mac.

    >8-D

  • Comment number 59.

    #56 That鈥檚 been happening to me the last couple of days, same message 鈥 trying to post 3 times and nothing happened, then 3 come up, one blank, one with blog then one saying I broke the house rules.

  • Comment number 60.

    #56 That鈥檚 been happening to me the last couple of days, same message 鈥 trying to post 3 times and nothing happened, then 3 come up, one blank, one with blog then one saying I broke the house rules.

  • Comment number 61.

    Now look what's happened

  • Comment number 62.

    Easy to get near the goal with this formation!

  • Comment number 63.

  • Comment number 64.

    #54 Not a snowballs chance.


    ''It has been asked for''






    hunners of times.

  • Comment number 65.

    #9
    "Cause he flicked the kick and I didn't know" actually, PP. (RQN 2010-Music Round)

    #56
    Happened to me too

  • Comment number 66.

    Rhyming lyrics.

    Need to go with the 8os standards:

    Can't complain, mustn't grumble,
    Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble

    That Was Then But This Is Now - ABC



    she used to be a diplomat
    but now she's down the Laundromat

    Highly Strung 鈥 Spandau Ballet

    (You could also make a case for 鈥渉ighly strung 鈥 she鈥檚 undone鈥)

  • Comment number 67.

    What Is The Point Of This Story
    What infirmation pertains..
    The thought that life could be better
    Is woven indelibly
    Into our hearts
    And our brains

    Everybody Loves The Sound Of A Train In The Distance
    Everybody thinks it's true.


    Paul Simon... Train In The Distance

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 68.

    Donovan - The Trip Lyrics:

    We was a-d-d-d-drivin' d-downtown L.A.,
    About a-midnight hour
    And it almost b-b-blew my mind,
    I got caught in a coloured shower.
    All those lights were t-t-twinkling on Sunset,
    I saw a sign in the sky
    It said, "T-t-t-trip a t-trip, I trip, trip,"
    I couldn't keep up up if I tried.
    Ah, we stepped down to reality company
    To get some instant sleep
    And the driver turned, I said, "Welcome back"
    He smiled and he said, "Beep beep".

    What goes on ? Chick-a-chick.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.
    What goes on all around me,
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.

    When in should come-a my dream woman,
    She got sequins in her hair,
    Like she stepped out off of a Fellini film,
    She sat in a white straw chair
    But I thought I'd take a second look
    Just to see what I could see
    And my scene had popped out like a bubble does,
    There was nobody there but me.
    I said, "Girl, you drank a lot of drink-me,
    But you ain't in a Wonderland
    You know I might-a be there to greet you, child,
    When your trippin' ship touches sand.

    What goes on ? Chick-a-chick.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.
    What goes on ? Chick-a-chick.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.

    A silver goblet of wine is-a to be
    Held in a bejewelled glove
    And her knights they toast the tournament,
    The falcons they fly above.
    And the queen will a drink of the dew tonight
    But the jester she cries alone,
    Because Merlin he spoke of an instant spell
    To make the devil's white knights moan
    And-a all in all, the seagull said,
    "As I look to where I've been,
    The whole wide human race
    Has a-taken far too much Methedrine".

    What goes on ? Chick-a-chick.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.
    What goes on ? So near
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.

    Yeah well, come on.
    We sat in a velvet jewel case
    With sparkles everywhere,
    And Julian he sat on a diamond ring
    And-a talked of the days gone by.
    We spoke of a common kaleidoscope
    And the pros and the cons of Zen
    And he spoke and-a said for a piece of cake
    He really did have a yen.
    Bobby Dylan he sat "the Mad Hatter",
    A broken hour glass in his hand,
    And-a Joannie sat in a white lace
    Looking cool with a black lace fan.

    What goes on ? Chick-a-chick.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.
    What goes on ? Yes please tell me.
    What goes on ? I really wanna know.


    Great Record Bryan, let's hear it - great bass line btw. I've copied the entire lyric so that we can all sing along while listening to the programme. Try it - it's great... the song that is..

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 69.

    If anyone had any doubts about the destructive power of drugs let them read this.

  • Comment number 70.

    Okay - point accepted, but it's still a great record to sing alaong to - how we all sing along to:....

    I may go out tomorrow if I can borrow a coat to wear
    Oh I'd step out in style with my sincere smile and my dancing bear
    Outrageous alarming courageous charming
    Oh who would think a boy and bear
    Could be well accepted everywhere
    It's just amazing how fair people can be

    Seen at the nicest places where well fed faces all stop to stare
    Making the grandest entrance is Simon Smith and his dancing bear
    They'll love us, won't they?
    They feed us, don't they?
    Oh, who would think a boy and bear
    Could be well accepted everywhere
    It's just amazing how fair people can be

    Who needs money when you're funny?
    The big attraction everywhere
    Will be Simon Smith and his dancing bear
    It's Simon Smith and the amazing dancing bear


    Randy Newman - but can you play the Alan Price version... besides, Julie likes Alan Price..

    regardez youse

    henri


  • Comment number 71.

    Down the Oily Way you slide
    Through the inner space you ride
    Lots and lots of Pot-Head Pixies
    Ridin' round in Teapot Taxies
    On the Planet Gong they say
    If everything goes wrong today
    Fill your Teapot up with tea
    Come and take a ride with me

    OILY WAY from ANGEL'S EGG: RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE, PART 2 by GONG

    Space-age couple
    Why don't you flex your magic muscle?
    Space-age couple
    Why do you hex your magic muscle?
    Space-age couple
    Why do you hustle 'n bustle?
    Why don't you drop your cool tom-foolery
    'n shed your nasty jewelry?

    SPACE-AGE COUPLE from LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

    Two dead certs for tonight, I鈥檓 sure.

  • Comment number 72.

    There's only one songsmith who could (or would) find rhymes for Wapping and Shoeburyness:

    * Billy Bragg: A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
    The Essex version of Route 66

    If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
    Take the A road, the okay road that's the best...


    It starts down in Wapping
    There ain't no stopping...

  • Comment number 73.

    'nother good one, that's so strong in the rhyming dept, you can do the "all together now" audience feed with it:

    * Eric Bogle - Nobody's Moggy
    Somebody's Moggy by the side of the road
    Somebody's kitty who forgot his highway code
    Someone's favourite feline who ran clean out of luck
    When he ran into the road and tried to argue with a (Alltogethernow...) truck
    ...
    Now, you who love your pussy, be sure to keep him in
    Don't let him argue with a truck, the truck is bound to win
    And upon a busy road, don't let him play or frolic
    If you do, I'm warning you, it could be cat-a(Alltogethernow...)-strophic

  • Comment number 74.

    70. At 2:17pm on 26 Aug 2010, henri hannah wrote:

    And litter off the gutter
    Puts it in a bag
    And never thinks to mutter

  • Comment number 75.

    #74

    ARRGHHHHH! Anything but that... it actually gets worse...


    And I'm telling this story
    In a faraway scene
    Sipping down Raki
    And reading Maynard Keynes
    And I'm thinking about home
    And all that means
    And a place in the winter
    For Dignity


    Whit? You go to a faraway scene (a holiday somewhere around Greece, obviously) and sip Raki whilst reading Keynsian economics? This prompts you to speculate about where the guy who picks the rubbish at home might park his boat in the winter, if he ever saves up enough from his implicitly miserly council salary to do so?

    Must've been a great holiday.

    Dignity Rears Up Its Ugly Head Again.

  • Comment number 76.

    You're the one who brought it up.

    There's still time to give us the full text of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Remember you don't have to type it all - just cut and paste.

  • Comment number 77.

    I wish that for just one time
    You could stand inside my shoes
    And just for that one moment
    I could be you

    Yes, I wish that for just one time
    You could stand inside my shoes
    You'd know what a drag it is
    To see you

    Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Steet

    regardez youse

    Henri

  • Comment number 78.

    What about the repetitive motion stress injury on my right scrolling finger???

  • Comment number 79.

    #76

    No - it was a bad boy called Norrie - winding things up. Doubtless, we'll end up hearing it now - one more time. It really is duff though...

  • Comment number 80.

    All of which reminds me of another lyric:

    No matter what they take from me
    They can't take away my dignity

  • Comment number 81.

    Oh yes they can.

  • Comment number 82.

    Not that I'm requesting it I hasten to add!

  • Comment number 83.

    #78 between the refresh button and the scroll down wheel, this is a full time occupation! Where do these guys get time to type out all these lyrics? (I assume they're not doing the dastardly deed as suggested in #76

    An answer to #55 is still required






    (actually a cunning plan to enhance Adam's claim against el Healthio y Safteyo Executeev)




    DC

  • Comment number 84.

    Health and Safety in South America is a blindfold.

  • Comment number 85.

    #78 was it from looking up all those yummie mummies?

  • Comment number 86.

    #83 Your name ees also on ze leest.....

  • Comment number 87.

    Struggling to find a rhyme in English? Well, why not just throw in a little French or German? Surely 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' by Ian Dury and The Blockheads has to be a contender for tonight's show?

  • Comment number 88.

    You got a smile so bright
    You know you could have been a candle
    I'm holding you so tight
    You know you could have been a handle
    The way you swept me off my feet
    You know you could have been a broom
    The way you smell so sweet
    You know you could have been some perfume
    Well you could have been anything that you want to
    And I can tell
    The way you do the things you do - the Temptations

    Darlin, feelin pretty lonesome
    I'd call you on the phonesome
    but I don't have a dime

    Darlin' - Frankie Miller

  • Comment number 89.

    #87

    Ah, open goal for

    99 Duesen Jaeger
    Jeder war ein grosser Krieger
    Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk
    Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk


    or, in English:

    99 jet fighters
    Each was a great fighter
    That stayed for Captain Kirk
    And gave some big fireworks


    * Nena - 99 Luftballons

  • Comment number 90.

    When do we start putting in suggestions for tomorrow's theme?

  • Comment number 91.

    I married Isis on the fifth day of May
    But I could not hold on to her very long
    So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
    For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

    I came to a high place of darkness and light
    The dividing line ran through the center of town
    I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
    Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down.

    A man in the corner approached me for a match
    I knew right away he was not ordinary
    He said "Are you looking for something easy to catch ?"
    I said "I got no money". He said "That ain't necessary".

    We set out that night for the cold in the North
    I gave him my blanket he gave me his word
    I said "Where are we going ?" He said "We'd be back by the fourth"
    I said "That's the best new that I've ever heard".

    I was thinking about turquoise I was thinking about gold
    I was thinking about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace
    As we rode through the canyons through the devilish cold
    I was thinking about Isis how she thought I was so reckless.

    How she told me that one day we meet up again
    And things would be different the next time we wed
    If I only could hang on and just be her friend
    I still can't remember all the best things she said.

    We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
    He said "There's a body I'm trying to find
    If I carry it out it'll bring a good prize"
    It was then that I knew what he had on his mind.

    The wind it was howling and the snow was outrageous
    We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
    When he died I was hoping that it wasn't contagious
    But I made up my mind that I had to go on.
    I broke into the tomb but the casket was empty
    There was no jewels no nothing I felt I'd been had
    When I saw that my partner was just being friendly
    When I took up his offer I must-a been mad.

    ISIS from DESIRE by BOB DYLAN




    Sitting on the beach like clarence in wonderland
    I had a dream and I know you will understand
    Riding up the beach, it only took a moment
    Along came a lady looking for amusement
    She came up to me and everything was smiling
    And then she said something, it sounded like a violin
    Let鈥檚 go to my chateau, we could have a good time
    Drinking lots of sky wine
    Miss juliet kate, queen of the moon
    We鈥檙e gonna get there soon
    Gonna get there soon
    There鈥檚 no doubt about it
    Miss juliet kate, queen of the moon
    We鈥檙e gonna get there soon
    Gonna get there soon
    Miss juliet kate, queen of the moon in june and this tune
    We鈥檙e gonna get there soon, soon. soon, soon

    CLARENCE IN WONDERLAND from SHOOTING AT THE MOON by KEVIN AYERS

  • Comment number 92.

    Ticks - Brad Paisley - thanks to Scotch-git for putting me onto this one a while back


    every time you take a sip
    In this smoky atmosphere
    You press that bottle to your lips
    And I wish I was your beer
    An' In the small there of your back
    Your jeans are playing peek-a-boo8
    I'd like to see the other half of your butterfly tattoo.

    Hey that gives me an idea
    Let's get out of this bar
    Drive out into the country
    And find a place to park.

    'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
    I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
    And I'd like to check you for ticks.

    I know the perfect little path
    Out in these woods I used to hunt
    Don't worry babe I've got your back
    And I've also got your front
    I'd hate to waste a night like this
    I'll keep you safe you wait and see
    The only thing allowed to crawl all over you when we get there is me.




  • Comment number 93.



    This city's glamour can never spoil
    The dreams of a boy and goil

  • Comment number 94.

    On Listen Again again and I am incredulous that they played Hanging on the Telephone yet again.

  • Comment number 95.


    You don't believe the evidence of your own hearing?

  • Comment number 96.

    Quite

  • Comment number 97.

    Then let us pray that come it may,
    (As come it will for a' that,)
    That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
    Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
    For a' that, an' a' that,
    It's coming yet for a' that,
    That Man to Man, the world o'er,
    Shall brothers be for a' that.

  • Comment number 98.

    #97
    Which reminds me of another lyric

    Won't you save them for me
    even though you're only three

  • Comment number 99.

    #97

    "The best rhymes of all time"?

    How could they include the Clapping Song and miss or


  • Comment number 100.

    hell, why not

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