tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041401197354997631.post2198075922447516615..comments2013-06-23T02:36:06.849-07:00Comments on Ruth's Blog: SingingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041401197354997631.post-36250446960090140432012-10-19T14:29:23.101-07:002012-10-19T14:29:23.101-07:00Ruth, I agree! And I think the song the world sho...Ruth, I agree! And I think the song the world should sing together is "I Believe in Music."<br />Music is the universal language<br />And love is the key<br />To brotherhood and peace<br />And understanding and livin' in harmony<br />So take your brother by the hand<br />And sing along with me<br /><br />One we used to sing at the top of our lungs was "Take Me Home Country Roads." I always thought it was funny when we got to the chorus, since we were usually on some back road in Utah or Colorado, and none of us had ever been to West Virginia.<br /><br />"Country Roads, take me home To the place I belong<br />West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads" <br /><br />The goofiest one, however, was "Snoopy vs the Bloody Red Baron." It is a terrible song, but like a good mother I taught it to my children, and they now sing it loud and proud.<br /><br />"After the turn of the century<br />In the clear blue skies over Germany<br />Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard<br />Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird<br /><br />Up in the sky, a man in a plane<br />Baron von Richthofin was his name<br />Eighty men tried, and eighty men died<br />Now they're buried together on the countryside<br /><br />Chorus:<br />Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more<br />The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score<br />Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree<br />Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany."<br /><br />May the embarrassing traditions continue.Jennifer Mackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238061911674138706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041401197354997631.post-31294440844722560262012-10-19T08:46:21.041-07:002012-10-19T08:46:21.041-07:00We did a lot of singing on road trips when I was a...We did a lot of singing on road trips when I was a child, too. My mother was a music major in college, so she particularly looked for songs that were not too difficult to sing. One of the first was, "Twas just an old beer bottle, floating on the foam. 'Twas just an old beer bottle, many miles from home, and in it was this message, these words were written on: whoever finds this bottle, will find the beer all gone." Imagine her dismay when my sister's first grade teacher told her Beth had sung it for Show and Tell. <br />We sang Bill Grogan's Goat, Big Rock Candy Mountain, and Johnny Verbeck--another version of the same sad tale (which we loved!) that ends with backing into the sausage machine and being turned to sausages. <br />Sandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02996843489781158342noreply@blogger.com