AbelardsJunk
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You have been forewarned. "This is not a funny poem." - Corey on the final stanza of Bilbo's Farewell Song
In the back of old church hymnals is a "Metrical Index." I saw these in church when I was a kid, but didn't know what they were for until years later. I was in a church service where the hymn was, "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken." The piano did the intro, but it wasn't the tune I learned in church growing up. It was the tune, "Hyfredol". And then I remember finding out that the English have a different tune for "O Little Town of Bethlehem" than you'll hear in an American store the day after Halloween.
It turns out that LOTS of hymns and tunes are interchangeable. If there's ever a "Squatch-Moot" in the PNW, I will do a demonstration of the interchangeability of Amazing Grace, Joy to the World, and...
Gilligan's Island.
If you haven't figured out where this is going yet, there's still time to stop reading.
Repeat the fourth line of each stanza, and the theme song of Gilligan's Island works PERFECTLTY.
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
PS: Nearly every school Alma Mater works with Gilligan's Island too. Except mine, whose words are "We don't know the g** d*** words. We don't know the g** d*** words." At my graduation, with the words printed in the bulletin, the entire student body sang "the real words" like it was a football game. Bonus points to anyone who knows where I got my BA.
PPS: The last phrase of the little intro song for the show is the same as the last phrase of "Naughty Girls Need Love Too" by Samantha Fox.
In the back of old church hymnals is a "Metrical Index." I saw these in church when I was a kid, but didn't know what they were for until years later. I was in a church service where the hymn was, "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken." The piano did the intro, but it wasn't the tune I learned in church growing up. It was the tune, "Hyfredol". And then I remember finding out that the English have a different tune for "O Little Town of Bethlehem" than you'll hear in an American store the day after Halloween.
It turns out that LOTS of hymns and tunes are interchangeable. If there's ever a "Squatch-Moot" in the PNW, I will do a demonstration of the interchangeability of Amazing Grace, Joy to the World, and...
Gilligan's Island.
If you haven't figured out where this is going yet, there's still time to stop reading.
Repeat the fourth line of each stanza, and the theme song of Gilligan's Island works PERFECTLTY.
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
PS: Nearly every school Alma Mater works with Gilligan's Island too. Except mine, whose words are "We don't know the g** d*** words. We don't know the g** d*** words." At my graduation, with the words printed in the bulletin, the entire student body sang "the real words" like it was a football game. Bonus points to anyone who knows where I got my BA.
PPS: The last phrase of the little intro song for the show is the same as the last phrase of "Naughty Girls Need Love Too" by Samantha Fox.
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