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

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

This has to be the best trail song yet!

Let's hear it for the Goddess of Laundry!!!


> [Original Message]
> From: <dsaufley@sprynet.com>
> To: Marion Davison <mardav@charter.net>; PCT List
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 3/17/2005 10:26:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tunes, good ones, bad ones, and ear worms.
>
> 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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