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Themes for September 2011
Themes
1. All the gates of love you won’t walk through
2. That girl with the blue dress on
3. When I think on it now, sure, we had a good time.
4. Baby, you can kiss my friends.
5. All your cities I will burn.
6. My mother is an acrobat; I do the best I can.
7. Oh, lord above, send down a dove with beak as sharp as razors.
8. Take this, my darling, for the damage I have done.
9. You can’t win a race with a cannonball.
10. And tonight she’ll be weeping for me
11. How a man of the sea became a man of the road
12. My dear, I wish you joy.
13. Now you are here, all my grief is removed.
14. She’s long gone with her red shoes on.
15. Nobody thinks about you.
16. Come and take him by his lily white hands.
17. My race is run beneath the sun.
18. Little Miss Queen of Darkness
19. With dark and roving eyes
20. Some men like to hear the cannonballs roaring.
21. Ten thousand stood round me but I was alone.
22. There’s frost on the window, no bread on the shelf.
23. He knew the lights would all be burning bright.
24. Won’t you let this body your burdens share?
25. Face the future and forget about the past.
26. It’s hard dying, but it’s harder being born.
27. I’m writing a letter that you’ll never see.
28. Virtue rewarded
29. Something wondrous fair
30. The only lonely place
References
1. "Funny Face" by the Kinks. 2. "Johnny Come Down to to Hilo," traditional sea shanty. 3. "Roll, Bullies, Roll," same as above. 4. "Love Me Til the Sun Shines" by the Kinks. 5. "Fennario," English/Irish traditional. 6. "The Roving Kind" by the Weavers. 7. "Sailor's Prayer," sea shanty. 8. "Bell Bottom Trousers," sea shanty. 9. "Mrs. McGrath/My Son John," Irish traditional. 10. "The Mermaid," sea chanty. 11. "Donegal Danny," written by Phil Coulter. 12. "The Handsome Cabin Boy," English traditional. 13. "Long, Long Ago," nineteenth century parlor song written by Thomas Haynes Bayly. 14. "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," American traditional. 15. A rather brutal example sentence in a Spanish workbook I once used. 16. "Henry Lee," English murder ballad. 17. "Down in the Willow Garden," same as above. 18. Title of Kinks song. 19. "Knoxville Girl," American murder ballad. 20. "Whiskey in the Jar," Irish traditional. 21. "Nottamun Town," English traditional. 22. "Still I Love Him," Irish tradtional. 23. "Willie the Weeper" by Ernest Rodgers. 24. "Early in the Morning" by Peter, Paul, and Mary 25. "Shahdaroba" by Roy Orbison 26. A mishearing of some lyrics in "Song to Woody" by Bob Dylan. 27. "Blue Lines on White Paper" from the play Providence Gap. 28. Subtitle of Pamela by Samuel Richardson. 29. "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair," Irish traditional. 30. "Jet" by Paul McCartney & Wings
1. All the gates of love you won’t walk through
2. That girl with the blue dress on
3. When I think on it now, sure, we had a good time.
4. Baby, you can kiss my friends.
5. All your cities I will burn.
6. My mother is an acrobat; I do the best I can.
7. Oh, lord above, send down a dove with beak as sharp as razors.
8. Take this, my darling, for the damage I have done.
9. You can’t win a race with a cannonball.
10. And tonight she’ll be weeping for me
11. How a man of the sea became a man of the road
12. My dear, I wish you joy.
13. Now you are here, all my grief is removed.
14. She’s long gone with her red shoes on.
15. Nobody thinks about you.
16. Come and take him by his lily white hands.
17. My race is run beneath the sun.
18. Little Miss Queen of Darkness
19. With dark and roving eyes
20. Some men like to hear the cannonballs roaring.
21. Ten thousand stood round me but I was alone.
22. There’s frost on the window, no bread on the shelf.
23. He knew the lights would all be burning bright.
24. Won’t you let this body your burdens share?
25. Face the future and forget about the past.
26. It’s hard dying, but it’s harder being born.
27. I’m writing a letter that you’ll never see.
28. Virtue rewarded
29. Something wondrous fair
30. The only lonely place
References
1. "Funny Face" by the Kinks. 2. "Johnny Come Down to to Hilo," traditional sea shanty. 3. "Roll, Bullies, Roll," same as above. 4. "Love Me Til the Sun Shines" by the Kinks. 5. "Fennario," English/Irish traditional. 6. "The Roving Kind" by the Weavers. 7. "Sailor's Prayer," sea shanty. 8. "Bell Bottom Trousers," sea shanty. 9. "Mrs. McGrath/My Son John," Irish traditional. 10. "The Mermaid," sea chanty. 11. "Donegal Danny," written by Phil Coulter. 12. "The Handsome Cabin Boy," English traditional. 13. "Long, Long Ago," nineteenth century parlor song written by Thomas Haynes Bayly. 14. "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," American traditional. 15. A rather brutal example sentence in a Spanish workbook I once used. 16. "Henry Lee," English murder ballad. 17. "Down in the Willow Garden," same as above. 18. Title of Kinks song. 19. "Knoxville Girl," American murder ballad. 20. "Whiskey in the Jar," Irish traditional. 21. "Nottamun Town," English traditional. 22. "Still I Love Him," Irish tradtional. 23. "Willie the Weeper" by Ernest Rodgers. 24. "Early in the Morning" by Peter, Paul, and Mary 25. "Shahdaroba" by Roy Orbison 26. A mishearing of some lyrics in "Song to Woody" by Bob Dylan. 27. "Blue Lines on White Paper" from the play Providence Gap. 28. Subtitle of Pamela by Samuel Richardson. 29. "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair," Irish traditional. 30. "Jet" by Paul McCartney & Wings