[pct-l] Tunes, good ones, bad ones, and ear worms.

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

My favorite personal song parody, to the tune of "Rawhide":

Get that laundry rollin'
Hikers dirty clothin'
Get that laundry rollin'
Use Tide!  

It's dirty and disgustin'
Parts of you are crustin'
Good hygiene it means nothin;
Use Tide!  

We make you smell better,
'Cause your mom, it would upset her,
Knowing your clothes are half-alive . . . 

Get it in, get get it washed,
Get it out, get it dry,
Get it clean -- use Tide!  

;-)

-=Donna Saufley=-

p.s. I acutally use Arm & Hammer (with baking soda), but it didn't fit in the song . . . 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marion Davison <mardav@charter.net>
Sent: Mar 16, 2005 10:12 PM
To: PCT List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tunes, good ones, bad ones, and ear worms.

Carl & Judy Rush wrote:

>To those of you who are old enough to remember Shari Lewis you know
>with the puppets Lamb Chop and Charley Horse. Well she had a song
>called The Song That Never Ends only I changed it to the trail that
>never ends.
>                                Carl
>
>  
>
So I am not the only one who composes bad song parodies as I hike 
along.  I can spend days mangling one song, and years singing it 
mindlessly.  I'll share mine if you will share yours.  Let's hear it for 
obnoxious ear worms!  Sample of my "Lyrical handiwork" at the bottom of 
this message.   Skip if it you just can't take it!

Re: "America" They improved with age, fortunately for all of us.  The 
lyrics on their first album were uniformly awful, but I can tell you as 
a guitar player that their songs were fun to play despite the dreadfully 
puerile lyrics.  I have never understood all the words to Ventura 
Highway, but I enjoy hearing  it, and also Sister Goldenhair.  The lead 
guitar riff from Ventura Highway was sampled in a recent hip-hop song.  
Very weird.

It was nice to see John Denver get some votes.  People will often vilify 
his music publicly, but I have played hundreds of campfires and taken 
thousands of requests, and his songs top the list of requests, by far. 
Funny thing, when my son was a teenager I could torture him by playing 
John Denver albums.  He liked all of my other music, but couldn't stand 
JD.  I liked all of his music too.

My trail parody--The llama hiking song
to the tune of "Erie Canal"
I got a llama, his name is Lee,
500 miles on the PCT
He carries my back breaking loads for me,
500 miles on the PCT
He hauls those big loads up the trail
through the rain and snow and hail
and he's tasted every blade of grass
from Cottonwood to Sonora Pass
Meadows, flowers all around,
tall grass, llama's happy grazing ground
and you know my favorite llama,
is my big buddy Lee,
'cause we hiked 500 miles on the PCT.

llamalady


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