The Coffee Shop

[captivecuties]

Jefferson, Franklin and Adams doubtless engaged in discussions, no doubt some of them heated. But I’ve never been able to wrap my historian trained head around them singing.

For a musical, this particular film has more dialogue than most!
And musicals don’t make much sense anyway when reality is applied to them.

 

[Eulalia]

It is often played on the organ in ballparks. It is virtually unsingable because of the range of notes. Before a game in Baltimore, someone whistled it.

Yes, I find it a bit hard to imagine how it sounded roared out by drunks in the 'Anacreon' club. I think it may have been a musicians' drinking club, or at least that sort of customer, which might have helped. I've not found the original words.

 

[Frank Petrexa]

 

[Hugin&Munin]

This anthem reminds me of the first time I heard it on the radio in late 1969, played by Jimi Hendrix. I was only 14 years old at the time.
So happy 4th of July to all US Americans!

 

[captivecuties]

@Apostate , this should make even less sense then patriots singing but as we say over here “Murica!”

 

[Mikerytel]

@Apostate , this should make even less sense then patriots singing but as we say over here “Murica!”

Peak murica right there

 

[Naraku]

Yes, I find it a bit hard to imagine how it sounded roared out by drunks in the 'Anacreon' club. I think it may have been a musicians' drinking club, or at least that sort of customer, which might have helped. I've not found the original words.

The original:

Both songs are bad poetry shoehorned into a tune that they don't really fit. But, "To Anacreon in Heaven" lacks the awkward chord changes.

 

[Eulalia]

The original:

Both songs are bad poetry shoehorned into a tune that they don't really fit. But, "To Anacreon in Heaven" lacks the awkward chord changes.

Thanks, Naraku! Like 'Rule Britannia' and a great many other songs of the sort, it's a pretty good tune, but hard to fit to any passable attempt at English verse, patriotic or otherwise. I agree it's better without the throat-straining cadence that even trained singers can rarely sing without screeching.

 

[Jollyrei]

I don't know. America isn't even girt by sea.

 

[captivecuties]

I don't know. America isn't even girt by sea.

True but its girth is from sea to shining sea!

 

[Jollyrei]

True but its girth is from sea to shining sea!

Which one is the shining one?

 

[captivecuties]

Which one is the shining one?

I’ve been to both shores…it depends on what company is hired to dump the sewage at low tide.
I was infected with a bit of nasty when in college days at the shore amd a friend was sick after jumping in on the Cali side a few years later.
Although, the last time I was at the Atlantic coast, I saw a whale and two dolphins at the same time, so that’s encouraging.

 

[Mikerytel]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...epartment-store-making-prank-calls-deal-grief if I saw a famous female celebrity do that I'd be happy.

 

[Eulalia]

And we think we're weird here on CF!

 

[Jollyrei]

And we think we're weird here on CF!

WHO'S WEIRD? PERFECTLY NORMAL AND WELL ADJUSTED, ME.

 

[captivecuties]

WHO'S WEIRD? PERFECTLY NORMAL AND WELL ADJUSTED, ME.
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Is that death taking a holiday or just a swim?

 

[Wragg]

WHO'S WEIRD? PERFECTLY NORMAL AND WELL ADJUSTED, ME.
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You're not the one hanging around in a blue cape trying to write chronicles with a sword!

 

[Loxuru]

Is that death taking a holiday or just a swim?

Whatever! One wrong move with that scythe, and Grim Reaper would better know how to swim!

 

[Jollyrei]

Whatever! One wrong move with that scythe, and Grim Reaper would better know how to swim!

WHY? YOU FIGURE I MIGHT DROWN? INTERESTING IDEA.

 

[Loxuru]

WHY? YOU FIGURE I MIGHT DROWN? INTERESTING IDEA.

Considering the odds....A heavy cape that pulls you down! No muscles for swimming!