Lively Lyricist Gifts

Musical pill box

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

"I always thought love made the world go round."

"I wrote a poem, even though I'm on vacation."

Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with a positive message.

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

"Yes, 'the lion sleeps tonight', I know the tune, but it means it's had a good feed during the day, which is not really a good thing..."

Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on.

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

"Yes, I know, Munger. But Wallace Stevens didn't scribble his damned verses on company time."

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

This is called "The Ballad of a Self-Taught Guitarist."

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'This next one I wrote myself. It's about pain, misery and heartbreak, until I finally wised up and dumped him.'

'Moon, June...'

"Yeah, most people are surprised when they learn I'm actually a lyricist."

"My next song is a little ditty about why I don't have any references."

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

Noel Coward

'For your aerobic exercise today, give me five 'Sweet Georgia Browns', a couple of 'Hot Times in the Old Town Tonight', and hit the showers.'

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

Totally Nude Hand Puppets.

"Since when did my opinions become 'riffs'?"

Dolores O'Riordan

'I know.. Let's write a song all about the evils of material wealth. After all, that last one netted us a bloody fortune!'

Rick decides to save his real lyrics for when someone is actually listening.

'...when all at once I saw a bunch, a bunch of golden daffodils...no, it still doesn't sound right.'

"You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with mister inbetween!"

Stephen Sondheim, 1930-2021