The West PacificBoard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoMi5IUW_Mw

The Strangelings - Season Of The Witch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZldnP0lhHA

Bill Withers - Use Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Ww4FG0n48

Boys in Books, by Carrie Hope Fletcher

It started off with Jacob,
But then Edward came along
I had a thing for Emmett
But my love for Jasper's strong
Or maybe even Carlisle
But that would just be strange
These boys in books are better
'cause they're never gonna change

I wish I was Hermione
'cause those Weasley boys are fit
And I'd date Draco Malfoy
If I thought he would commit
Or maybe Cedric Diggory
Oh, but he's in Hufflepuff
These boys in books are better
And I just can't get enough

Of reading everything about them
These guys we'll always depend upon
And maybe there's a guy out there just like them
Who's looking for a girl like Bella Swan... Nah!

These boys in books are better
'cause they'll be here forever
And we'll always be together
And you can take me bowling
If you were made up by Rowling

I was sold on Gale
Who's strong and brave and tall
But then she gave us Peeta
Who I think confused us all
But Finnick's where my heart is
So Annie, move aside!
But why couldn't I have fallen for
The ones that didn't die?

Don't even get me started
On Pride and Prejudice
I've looked for Mr Darcy
Girls, he really don't exist
But then again, there's Bingley
So Jane, get out of the way
'cause I love a bit of cheesiness
And I love a good cliche

So boys I hope you're taking a notice
'cause I'm one in a huge majority
I think that I'm more of a Luna Lovegood
But if you ask me nice, I could be your Ginny

These boys in books are better
'cause they'll be here forever
And we'll always be together
And you could be a player
But I won't care if you're by Meyer

Don't make me use Accio
Come on, Darcy
And please bring Draco
Finnick's body
With Edward's looks
But hurry up
Before I close the book

These boys in books are better
'cause they'll be here forever
And we'll always be together
And you can be my man
If you've been written by Suzanne

These boys in books are better
'cause they'll be here forever
And we'll always be together
And I know it's an addiction
That I'm in love with fiction
But as long as I'm still breathing
I just have to keep on reading
And it's gonna be red letter
When I find a guy that's better…..

Than Edward, Jacob, Emmett,
Jasper, Harry, Ron and Draco,
Cedric, Peeta, Gale, but I want Finnick
Darcy, Bingley, Wickham, no chance

And it's gonna be red letter
When I find a guy that's better
Than you.

(Unless I am too early for Karaoke Friday, then I will come back later).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGV9Bl6CGg
Jimmy Cliff - I can see clearly now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNeozIH2SQ
Odetta - Hit Or Miss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhe0hFmH7Kw
100 Cigarettes - Big Sugar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUgGs9IStY
Neil Young - Old Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg6xaFZStEI
I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leI7sfmipuI
DONOVAN- ATLANTIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9OqUuA6a0
Put The Lime In The Coconut - Harry Nilsson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPnRh9U8ZE
Mah nà mah nà - Piero Umiliani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU
The Kinks - Lola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAqINhejokU
Joe Walsh ~ I.L.B.T.'s <--- NSFW lyrics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfkhT32gm0
Rockapella - Shambala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8Bn0gGwV8
Truckers - Papa Oom Mow Mow (Hq)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBOwPORHGU
Don Henley - Dirty Laundry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

*sips coffee*

This is a cool live acoustic version!

https://youtu.be/DyBqeK2AFz8

"The Boys Of Summer"

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm driving by your house
Though I know you're not home

But I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
I see you walking real slow and you're smilin' at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but-

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

*Sips decaf*

(having had a little nap over lunch, I feel somewhat revitalised and have returned to sing once more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f4O1AWKKd8

The Foggy Few (trad)

When I was a bachelor, airy and young
I followed the rovin' trade
And the only harm I ever done wrong
Was to court a servant maid
I courted her in the summer season
And part of the winter too
And the only harm that I ever done wrong
Was to keep her from the foggy dew

One night as I lay in my bed
A-taking of my sleep
She came and stood by my bedside
And most bitterly she did weep
She sobbed and sighed and tore her hair
And cried, What shall I do
For this night I've resolved to sleep with you
For fear of the foggy dew

'Twas in the first part of the night
We did sport and play
And in the second part of the night
She in my arms did lie
And when we woke on the next day's morning
She cried, I am undone
Ah hold your tongue, you silly young wench
For the foggy dew has gone

Now supposing you should have a child
'Twould make you laugh and smile
Supposing you should have another
'Twould make you think awhile
Supposing you should have another
And another and another one too
'Twould make you leave off your foolish young pranks
And think of the foggy dew

Now I loved this girl with all my heart
I loved her right through my life
And in the second part of the year
I took her for my wife
I never told her of all my faults
Yet never intend to do
But every time she winks and smiles
We think of the foggy dew

(this was why the explanation "it's about The Easter Rising in Ireland" caused me so much confusion!!)

There's certainly a lot of innuendo in traditional British and Irish film songs.

On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day
With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray
In search of some game if the weather proved fair
To see could I get a shot at the bonny black hare

Oh, I met a young girl there with her face as a rose
And her skin was as fair as the lily that blows
I says "My fair maiden, why mumble you so?
Can you tell me where the bonny black hare do go?"
Oh, the answer she gave me, her answer was "No
But it's under me apron they say it do go
And if you'll not deceive me I vow and declare
We'll both go together to hunt the bonny black hare"

Well, I laid this girl down with her face to the sky
And I took out my ramrod and my bullets likewise
I says "Lock your legs round me and dig in with your heels
For the closer we get, oh, the better it feels

The birds they were singing in the bushes and trees
And the song that they sang was "Oh, she's easy to please"
I felt her heart quiver and I knew what I'd done
Says I "Have you had enough of my old sporting gun?"

Oh, the answer she gave me, her answer was "Nay
It's not often young sportsmen like you come this way
And if your powder is willing and your bullets play fair
Why don't you keep firing at the bonny black hare?"

"Oh, my powder is wasted and my bullets all gone
My ramrod is limp and I cannot fire on
But I'll be back in the morning and if you are still here
We'll both go together to hunt the bonny black hare"

Write a book of debt everyone must pay
exact revenge in a grotesque way

build a taj mahal on vacation time
the kid will frag the sap before the ink is dry

its as good as any joke I know

Write a book of leaves shuffled by the wind
two unbound lives orderless and grim

setup to ensure famine miserably
to sublimate a world into poetry

but make sure your last intentions known

you were dead by 42
there'll be no rigid form for you

jammed into a plot that you'd never fit
a tiny manuscript with a whole cut in it

as you drifted off to sleep
my mother set bedtime for me

terry cloth robe with a hand me down fit
playing in the bath with a warship in it

you were gone by 42
there'll be no rigid form for you

jammed into a plot where you never would fit
a tiny manuscript with a whole cut in it

as you drifted off to sleep
my mother set bedtime for me

terry cloth robe with a hand me down fit
playing in the bath with a warship in it

Big Bad Badger wrote:

The West Pacific

ahhhhh

*burns tongue on coffee*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8zGfKDCCY

The other day, I checked my bank account
I could swear it was the wrong amount
And I didn't understand 'cause
I'd been workin' hard
For the life of me, I didn't know where it went
I hadn't even paid the rent
Then the Mercedes pulled up in the yard
Oh, lord, I should have seen it comin'
This time I'm in deep

Now I'm headin' to the poorhouse
Or headin' to jail
And if I end up there
I ain't makin' bail
And if it goes to court
I sure don't have a case
'Cause I ran out of money
Some time ago
But if you look at my wife
You'd never know
I'm afraid my baby's got champagne taste
On a beer budget

Well. my throat dried up
And my heart just sunk
As she motioned me over
And popped the trunk
And I tried to ignore her absent-minded smile
And, boy, I was greeted by quite the crew
This Louis Vuitton and some Jimmy Choo
And that was just the fellas who were sittin' on top of the pile

I said, Baby, there's a Walmart a block away
And I don't think they sell these brands

Now I'm headin' to the poorhouse
Or headin' to jail
And if I end up there
I ain't makin' bail
And if it goes to court
I sure don't have a case
'Cause I ran out of money
Some time ago
But if you look at my wife
You'd never know
I'm afraid my baby's got champagne taste
On a beer budget

All the bills are in my name
*All the bills are in his name*
They're gonna haul my ass away
*They're gonna haul his ass away*
And I won't see her pretty face at all
*No-o-o*
'Cause the prison ls nowhere near the mall

Now I'm headin' to the poorhouse
Or headin' to jail
And if I end up there
I ain't makin' bail
And if it goes to court
I sure don't have a case
*Yee-haw*
'Cause I ran out of money
Some time ago
But if you look at my wife
You'd never know
I'm afraid my baby's got champagne taste
On a beer budget

Oh, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.