Parodies, puns and assorted doodles inspired by favored tunes

Sound of Music (The Hills Are Alive)

BACKPAGE TITLE 1959 Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein “The Sound of Music” is the title song from the 1959 musical of the same name. The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs, they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill...

Sunshine On My Shoulders

Sunshine On My Shoulders 1971 John Denver Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry Sunshine on the water looks so lovely Sunshine almost always makes me high If I had a day that I could give you I’d give to you a day just like...

Side By Side

Side By Side 1927 by Harry M. Woods Oh, we ain’t got a barrel of money Maybe we’re ragged and funny But we’ll travel along singing a song Side by side Don’t know what’s coming tomorrow Maybe it’s trouble and sorrow But we’ll...

Solitude

Solitude 1934 (In My Solitude) music Duke Ellington lyrics Eddie DeLange and Irving Mill Ellington’s recording in September 1935 reached No. 2 on the charts In my solitude you haunt me With reveries of days gone by In my solitude you taunt me With memories that...

Shelter from the Storm

BACKPAGE TITLE 1974 Bob Dylan from album “Blood on the Tracks” It was in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form Come in, she said “I’ll...