A. Here are some songs whose titles mention a house, part of a house, or objects found in a house:
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
Open The Door, Richard
House Of The Rising Sun
This Old House
Bless This House
Come On-A My House
Old Rocking Chair's Got Me
Get Up, Get Up, Get Up, Get Up, Get Up, Get Out Of That ..... Bed
Dancing On The Ceiling
Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah
Stairway To The Stars
My Grandfather's Clock
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost ..... Overnight?
B. Here are some songs whose titles mention fruits and vegetables:
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me
Yes, We Have No Bananas
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Lemon Tree Very Pretty
Strawberry Fields Forever
I Found My Thrill On Blueberry Hill
Orange Colored Sky
C. No composers or lyricists were harmed during the compilation of the two lists above.
D. Setting aside the fact that all the songs in B above mention fruits and not a single one mentions vegetables, I wonder if you noticed what I noticed about every single item in both lists above, namely that every single song mentioned in A and B above is an OLD song, VERY OLD. I suppose, no, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt. that the reason for this phenomenon is that I also am OLD, VERY OLD.
E. You don't have to agree so readily.
F. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it (remember Mission Impossible?) is to come up with more recent entries for both categories.
G. Changing directions, I tend to pay attention to detail (one has to when one writes computer programs) and don't like inaccurate statements in the media. Here's one that has been bothering me lately:
In a television commercial soliciting donations to a charity that provides food to the elderly in Israel, the voice-over man said, "Scripture says that joy can come in the morning" and then tried to guilt viewers into responding. Ethics aside, I just want to point out that Scripture does not say joy "can come" in the morning. Verse 5 of Psalm 30 says "weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Not can come. Comes. There's a difference.
Until next time, I remain
Your intrepid online pointer-outer,
rhymeswothplague
I can only think of 'Our House' by Madness.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of it or them, so I did a little research and learned that the song is about 20 years old and the group was a Ska group in Britain. That qualifies as new in my book. Thank you, Janice.
DeleteMrs Crandall's Boarding House released in 1974.
ReplyDeleteGrandmother's Old Rocking Chair
Brick House
I'll Stay In The House And Live in Grandma's Kitchen
Enough for now.
These are all new to me. I’ve never heard of any of them. Live and learn. Thank you, Emma.
DeleteSo I looked them up and I did recognize the artists (the Commodores, Pearl Jam, and the Irish Rovers)! Thank you again, Emma.
DeleteWhat kind of verse would "joy can come in the morning" be?
ReplyDeleteIm not as intrepid as you but i will point out that you signed off "rhymeswothplague"
Vapid, insipid, definitely uninspired, that’s what kind of verse.
ReplyDeleteProofreading documents used to be part of my daily job and now I can’t even spot an error in my own blogname. Thank you, kylie (I think!).