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Also songs used when people needed to work in rhythm. Many are familiar folk songs. Like
--sea chanteys where the lead singer's solo line would get everyone set, and then they'd all sing (and therefore exhale) when they put out their effort pulling on a line.
-- field hollers that were used to keep lines hoeing a field up with each other. (And field hollers, speeded up and with some rhythm and some guitar added, might have been one of the origins of the blues, and thus of most American popular music since 1920)
-- capstan chanteys that kept people pretty much walking in the same rhythm while they turned giant cranks.
Very often work songs were subversive, making fun of the boss, complaining about the conditions, and sometimes carrying instructions for prison breaks, union organizing, or the Underground Railroad.
Work songs examples:
Sea chantey,
Leader (while the end man belays, and everyone walks up the line and gets a grip): Reuben was no sailor ...
Crew (Singing while they pull the line back): Ranzo, boys ranzo!
(later in the song it turns out Reuben is now the captain ...)
Field holler ...
Leader: (while the crew picks up their hammers, stretches, and gets ready to swing): When Israel was in Egypt land ...
Crew (hitting on the drills on let, peop, and go): LET MY PEOPLE GO!
Capstan chantey, used to turn the winch to move the locks on the canal ...
Leader (while crew breathe and get set): I got a mule, her name is Sal ...
Crew (Walking forward, pushing on the capstan bars): FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL!
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When you are flipping through your iPod or other song media and you can't seem to find a song that fits the mood you are in and you keep skipping to the next song.
"I can't pick a song! I have Song A.D.D.!"
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A song written by Phish bassist Mike Gordon. It was in the Phish reportoire for over 15 years, and is often played before I Am Hydrogen and Weekapaug Groove to form Mike's Groove. If there is one Phish song most people have heard, this is probably it. It has one of the most distinct and awesome riffs of all time to open the song.
Mike's Song was performed at its best on 8/11/93.
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Song, sung by Eric Cartman and Somalian pirates, that goes like this:
Pirate song:
We drink and we pillage and we do what we please.
We get all that we want for free.
We'll kick your ass and rape your lass.
Somalian pirates we!
So with a yo ho ho.
And with a ye he he.
We take to the African sea.
We'll brave the squalls and bust your balls.
Somalian pirates we!
We left our homes and we left our mudders,
To go on a pillagin' spree.
We'll cut off your ears and break your toes
and make you drink our pee.
And if you sail into our waters,
You best hear this decree.
We'll take your boat, set your ass afloat
Somalian pirate we.
And with a yo ho ho.
And a tricky lahty do.
We'll shoot you in the face with glee.
Then we'll cut off your cock and feed it to a croc.
Somalian pirates we.
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Song by Sum 41.
From the cd Does this look infected?
The song is about a friend of the band who contracted HIV.
the hell song lyrics:
Step back to see what's going on,
I can't believe this happened to you.
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When you have a song stuck in your head you say you have this. It means that a song that you heard recently or thought of is now playing over and over in your head and you can't think of any other song to get rid of it.
Aw man, I have the worst song wedgie ever. I can't get that one song out of my head!
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Singing a horrible song's chorus in a group of friends and getting it stuck in their heads.
I was standing there with Kelly, Frank and Jen when I dropped a chorus of "Living on a Prayer." Two minutes later, they're punching me for dropping a song grenade.
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