Long Change the record Poems

1971  (Hey Dude)


Hey dude, come in, come in.
Been a long time since we last smoked the peace pipe together. 
Hey! I think it was during Hendrix’s set in Bethel, dude!
Here, let me move these...

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[To the tune of Ghost Riders In The Sky (loosely)]
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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in a ballad of somber sorrows,
I floated like a ballet dancer
in...

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[sung to the tune of Jewel’s hit song, Hands, from her album, Spirit.]
* You may need to slow her song down a bit, and then my lyrics fit in better!

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Suburban Mindmelt 

You and I know what it takes to make the sky turn around.
We still know when to stop in our tracks, 
To look and smell and pause; we must, if we can, 
For...

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(From the movie, Stayin' Alive)


Whether you're on the left or whether on the right
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the world breakin; and everybody shakin'
But we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin'...

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How to ride a jetksi I don’t know
But my rucksack’s packed and I must go
To see a gal across the Irish Sea

Spent five grand on a new jetski
And I’m gonna sail across the sea
Though a...

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(In tune of the song "Your Song" by Elton John)

It’s my feeling of joyful time
I sense deep inside
It’s not me who can conceal time’s tide
My expression of love is silent, if it’s not
I’d give you...

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(to be sang to the tune of I Saw Her Standing There)

WHEN I GO DANCING OUT THERE
	
Well, I’m turning seventy,
will have a party.
And the way l feel
is way beyond compare
for I could still dance like...

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(To be sung to the tune of the Christmas Carol - “Away in a Manger”)
Nature’s Language of Love
The landscapes are glowing when the world awakes 
And earth smells aromatic as the dawn breaks
Then when day...

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{To be sung to the tune of "I see the light" from "Tangled"}


Good old days lurking in the shadows
Good old tears I cried, walking out
Good old times never are they going
No more can I doubt
All...

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What am I gonna do about you?
I've finally gotten to experience your lips on mines, the outcome was uncontrollable
you have left me completely vulnerable to your attacks

I felt so high from the pleasure of it...

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Hey friends, I wrote for you 
I made some words...sound a little better 
I took them, and I scrambled them all up 
Straight from my cup...that overflows my love 

Hey friends, my pen still drips...

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(The Noodles sung to the tune of The Blessing)

I will boil you
And eat you 
May the spices taste upon me
And be brothy to me
My spoon lift this
Chicken flavor
And let me feast

I will boil you
And eat...

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You're Beautiful, oh Yes You Are 

(to be sung to the tune of "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" -a 1910 British music hall song by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston and Signature song...

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(I Will Always Love You _ from The Bodyguard movie)

It is this way
A journey each one must travel
Alone into darkness
And now I dwell only in your past memories.

But you... are strong, a survivor
You will...

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Song, Copter Over My Roof, to be sung to the tune
of 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters', Simon And Garfunkel


I see eeriness               ...

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Read to the tune ("The Sounds of Silence") by Simon & Garfunkel

Hello nighttime my old friend, the sun is setting once again
Because the darkness is slowly creeping
I start to snore and the wife is steaming
I...

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Mr. Down, you’ve got a vicious daughter.
Girls this mean lay my emotions bare.
I am so glad she doesn’t like me now.
She is clever enough, but me she doesn’t mind.

She’s a snot and acts haughty, your...

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(Sung To The Song "I Will Always Love You" By Whitney Houston...From the film..The Bodyguard)...(1992)


If you do stay
You'll be tempting me to your way
In the bin you now go
I can't risk having you here everyday

Coz...

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I am sick of hearing,
That same song.
Change the record
The feelings have gone.

The refrain is not the same anymore,
Now that you have left me,
Alone, and walking out of the door.
Without saying goodbye,
As someone else had caught...

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Upon the ground

(To be sung to the tune of “As Time Goes By” from the movie “Casablanca”) 

In this October mist
I know you must insist
The leaves will fall around
In colors right before your eyes
Upon the...

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(To be sung, of course, to the tune of "When You Walk Through a Storm" from "Carousel")
WHEN I WALKED THROUGH THE STORM
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Let me be
With your troubles do not bother me
I am busy, is that so hard to see,
Oh please, dear…please just let me be

Take a walk
At my good advice you balk
I have tried to tell you...

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(Jesus Loves Me)
Weed does love me yes I know
For the doctor tells me so
My pain pills he took away
As he feels they made me crazed

Yes weed does love me
Yes weed does love me
Yes weed does...

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