I remember one of my all time favorite games...Encore! I am pretty sure that this game was made for the Hansen family. I would usually loose when I was put up against my older sisters but it was still fun. I am pleased to announce that they still make the game! What a great idea for a Christmas present. Oh I forgot...Marenda has me and I am pretty sure she finished her Christmas shopping by Presidents day. ;)
So here is the deal (I am copying my sister-in-law Kari because she is so cool) I am going to start a game on my blog because if I know my sisters they will go nuts. Any and all of my friends and family are welcome to play.
Here is how the game goes...
- I am going to pick a word - for example "Happy"
- Each person has to think of a song that has not been sung yet, with that word in it and be able to remember at least 8 lyrics or words in a row. Example: "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you"
- We will have one round each day until we run out of songs and you are out if by the end of the day (midnight my time) you can't think of a song.
- Who ever wins gets to pick the next word.
Sounds fun hu!?! I bet you can't resist playing with me.
Alright...In honor of Mothers Day the word is: Mom or any version of Mother
- "Mother I love you, Mother I do. Father" (Children's Songbook)
Round 1 ... (Wednesday)I must say you were all extremely creative! And I am so excited you wanted to play. :)
Our current contestants are:
- Me
- Kendra Halterman
- Foote (Andrew)
- Neera Jackson
- Preston Hickman
- Camille Foote
- Trina Harding
- Serena Rosenhan
- Blair Rosenhan
- Brian Reynolds
- Kerali Reynolds
- Kalen Reynolds
- Trysten Reynolds
- Kari Hickman
Round 2 (Thursday)
Here is my song:
2. "The mama's on the bus go 'shhh! shhh! shhh!'" (The Wheels on the Bus)
Contestants are:
- Me
- Trina
- Kerali
- Preston
- Kendra
- Kalen
- Trysten
- Brian (Show off! I better only count that as one round)
- Foote
- Camille
- Neera
- Kari
Round 3...(Friday)OK lets clarify...The idea is to think of the songs from the nether regions of your brain and see how many you can come up with. Referencing your personal collection of music would be acceptable but searching the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS makes it a little bit unfair for the rest of us. OH and only do 1 song per day please. If the competition is still strong than next round we will do more than one to knock a few people off, like myself. So lets start fresh with round 3. I am not sure I have more than 1 round left in me.
Here is my song:
3. "Where cosily curl'd on mother's brest, my share o' the world, you'll rest till dawn." (A Lullaby, by Hamilton Harty) I did this one in voice lessons
Contestants so far are:
- Me
- Trina
- Kendra
- Foote
- Kari
- Neera
- Camille
- Trysten - (Yes you guys are still in and you can always catch up if you miss a day. I am keeping track)
- Kalen
- Kerali
Round 4 - Double Trouble (Saturday)...this time to stay in the game you must think of 2 songs. And the competition heats up!!! I am pretty sure that I am out unless I think of some songs today. So I have learned that not only do my big sisters beat me at this game but my nieces too (if they get two for round 4 and I am pretty sure they will).
Here are my songs:
4. "Round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant" (Silent Night)
5. "Where a mother laid her baby In a manger" (Once in Royal David's City)
Contestants for today are:
- Trina
- Foote
- Kendra
- Shanda
- Kari
- Neera
- Camille
Round 5 (Sunday) We will do Double Trouble again. 2 Songs please. Man, you guys are good!!! I am pretty sure I am out this round.
Contestants for today are:
- Foote
- Camille
- Trina
- Kendra
- Kari
Round 6 (Monday) 3 for the Money!!! You guys are too good so today you must do 3 songs each. And if you see a repeat speak up because it is hard to keep track. Have a happy Monday!
Contestants for today are:
- Kendra
- Trina
- Foote
- Kari
Round 7 (Tuesday) 3 for the Money!!! All right...someone has got to win this thing! You guys are amazing!
Todays contestants are:
- Kendra
- Foote
- Kari (really...Spice Girls!?!)
51 comments:
"Mother Dear, I love you so. Your happy smiling face is such a joy to look at. It makes home a lovely place." (Children's songbook)
I wanna play. How about Vanilla Ice with Ice Ice Baby. If there was a problem, yo I'll solve it. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Word to your Mother.
"Mama, he's crazy
Crazy over me
And in my life is where he says
He always wants to be
I've never been so LOVED
He beats all I've ever seen
Mama, he's crazy
He's crazy over me"
(The Judds - a country music mother/daughter group)
Mother tell me a story that I love to hear...(children's song book)
nice one foote!
Preston
Mamma said there would be days like this, there would be days like this my momma said - The Shirelles. By Camille
Ok, I've got two, is that allowed?
1. "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. . ."
2. "Ma, he's makin' eyes at me.
Ma, he's awful nice to me.
Ma, he's almost breakin' my heart, I'm beside him, mercy let his conscience guide him,
Ma, he wants to marry me,
be my honey bee.
Every minute he gets bolder, now he's leaning on my shoulder,
Ma, he's kissin' me!"
(I think Kerali and Serena sang this in a group a way back)
--Trina
Serena says...
"My Mama done told me,when I was in pigtails, My mama done told me, Hun, a man's gonna sweettalk and give you the big eye, but when the sweet talkins done, a man is a two-face, a worrisome thing, who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night"
(Blues in the Night - Various Artists)
But Blair says...
"You wake up late for school, man you don't wanna go
You ask you mom, "Please?", but she still says, "No!"
You missed two classes, and no homework
But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk"
CHORUS: "You gotta fight for your right to party"
"Your mom busted in and said, "What's that noise?"
Aw, mom you're just jealous it's the Beastie Boys!"
(The Beastie Boys - Fight for your Right)
Serena and Blair
Brian's contribution:
(Skipping the more graphic first lyrics) from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody:" " . . . Mama, Life had just begun, and now I've gone and thrown it all away. Mama, Ohhhh...."
Here's mine: "What do you leave to your child when youre dead
Only what ever you put in its head
Things that your mother and father had said
Which were left to them too." -"Children will Listen" from Into the Woods
And on a much less morbid note, "When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, what will I be? Will I be pretty, will I be rich? Here's what she said to me: 'Que sera, sera, whatever will be will be. The future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera."
Momma...Ooooooo....didn't mean to make you cry if I'm not back this time tomorrow carry on...carry on....as if nothing really matters.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Curse you Reynolds family...Brian in particular...you got it in one minute before I did.....:)
Now I am going to have to come up with another one....
Okay let's see....
I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee won't my mommy be so proud of me....
(Kalen & Trysten)
More morbid selections from the Reynolds... O_o
Another mother's breakin'
heart is taking over.
When the violence causes silence,
we must be mistaken.
(Zombie - The Cranberries)
The trench is dug within our hearts
and mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart.
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2)
Man! I guess we all had Queen on the brain. I was going to do Bohemian Rhapsody today. :-(
Oh well, how 'bout:
"Oh your Daddy's rich and your Ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry" (Summertime)
Kalen & trysten: Starting next round we'll play as seperate people.
and our dad insists we put these up...
Your daddy don't dance and your mamma don't rock and roll (some 50's song - by some obscure group)
Callin' some brother, hey tomorrow's not so far away, Mother Freedom (Bread)
But the mother and the child reunion, only a motion away (Paul Simon)
Mother in law, mother in law, mother in law, the worst person I know. She worries me so...(Ernie K. Doe)
Well you gotta have a mother for me (Aerosmith)
I hear every mother say, mother needs something to day to calm her down (Rolling Stones)
We can work it out when the wind blows, when the mothers talk, when the wind blows. (Tears for Fears)
Tell your daddy and your mother that you got something better to do (Sail Cat)
Momma don't want you, daddy don't want you, give it up baby (Elton John)
Momma didn't lie, she didn't lie, here comes that boy and his friends (Jan Bradley)
Throw mama from the train a kiss, a kiss (Patty Paige)
Mama I'm coming home, you took me in and drove me out - yeah (Ozzy Osbourne)
You been fadin' always out paradin' touch with mama kin (Aerosmith)
Mamma look at Bubu, their mother tell them "shut your mouth" (Harry Belafonte)
Mama told me not to come, she said that aint the way to have fun (Three Dog Night)
Mama Mia does it again, shows it again (Abba)
Oh babe, you'll always be a baby to me. Mother, did it need to be so high? (Pink Floyd)
Mother, Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb? (Pink Floyd)
Mama, Mama, we will all go to hell (My Chemical Romance)
Mama Mama you are the queen of my heart (Boys 2 Men)
My dad has a pin to the library of Congress archives...this game could go on for a realllllly long time.
Am I still in?
I have one that hasn't been used yet. LL Cool J - Mamma said knock you out. I'm gonna knock you out.
is the object to publish as many as possible to take away from everyone else's options and the most songs win? I'm a little confused. If so I've got a list of 48 that aren't listed yet.
My two for today come from the same place--"Fiddler on the Roof"
"For Mama, make him a scholar,
For Papa, make him rich as a king."
(Matchmaker)
"Who must know the way to make a proper home,
A quiet home, a kosher home?
Who must raise the family and run the home,
So Papa's free to read the holy books?
The Mama, the Mama! Tradition!"
--Trina
Ok, I'm feeling silly. I mis-read Shanda's instructions about round 2. I thought we all had to submit 2 new ones. That's what comes from trying to play while at the same time I try and keep Mitchell from re-configuring the computer or launching himself onto the floor. Sorry...
--Trina
Who's that lounging in my chair Who's that casting devious stares in my direction mama this surely is a dream.(Marcy Playground)--Camille
Hush little baby, don't say a word.
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird don't sing
Mama's gonna by you a diamond ring.
Ok, I'm late in the game and a little overwhelmed with the comments but I'm giving it my 2 cents. I noticed not everyone did 8 lines to the song like stated in the rules...
Misguided Angel by Cowboy Junkies:
I said "Mama, he's crazy and he scares me
But I want him by my side
Though he's wild and he's bad
And sometimes just plain mad
I need him to keep me satisfied"
I said "Papa, don't cry cause it's alright
And I see you in some of his ways
Though he might not give me the life that you wanted
I'll love him the rest of my days"
AND
Brother and Sister by Erasure:
Brother and sister
And father of mine
Keep us together
And keep us in line
A lot we depend on
A lot we can do
Send love to mother
I'll be good to you (I'll be good to you)
Kari,
It is a minimum of 8 lyrics or words. But you rock with 8 lines! I'm glad you joined the game. :)
I don't know Shanda, there are still a lot of songs floating around in the recesses of my mind. This could go on for quite some time.
For today:
"Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'll curdle
If she'd hear her baby's queer
For all that jazz" (Chicago--the musical)
Kendra
Your mother told you all I could give you was a reputation. Only the good die young - Billy Joel
By Foote
Ah, got it. It was me misreading the instructions. I'm on board now. I'm having a hard time keeping track of what's been done,but here goes:
My momma, she is steady as the sun... (Born to Fly, Sara Evans)
Mama, if you don't mind my sayin' so, you have a bad habit of changin' ev'ry subject--
(The Music Man)
Gonna see my picture on the cover Gonna buy five copies for my mother.
Cover of the Rolling Stones..Dr Hook
Cover of the Rolling Stones is Camille's entry
Trysten
I heard someone crying, who though could it be? Maybe it was mother, calling out come see...
(I Heard Someone Crying - The Secret Garden)
Kalen
Stop telling me what to do, don't treat me like a child of two.
I know that you want what's best
but mother please give it a rest.
Kerali
Dearest mama I am writing for I'm lonely and distressed
For I'm staying here in Leadville without Harvey by myself.
(Letter Song - Ballad of Baby Doe)
We lost track of the time - are we out?
2 for Saturday:
"When my mother calls me
quickly I obey."
(Children's Songbook)
"My mother bids me bind my hair
with bands of rosy hue."
(Art song--Rachel Cherry sang it in high school)
--Trina
So come on Mamma, dance to the drummer- Hey Momma by the Black Eyed Peas
and how about this one, I saw mommy kissing Santa Claws, underneath the mistletoe last night.
From Foote
I sang that song, too, Trina, and it was on my list to use eventually. Good one.
1) "I remember Mama said, you can't hurry love, oh you just have to wait, she said love don't come easy" (Diana Ross?/Dixie Chicks, etc.)
2) "Truth is reason, truth eternal, tells me I've a mother there." (O My Father--Hymnbook)
Kendra
Does your mother know that you're out? (Does Your Mother Know by ABBA)
Mother's pride, baby boy, his father's eyes...(Mother's Pride by George Michael)
That list from the Reynold's family is really unfair - they took so many good ones!
I was sure that two baseball games today and a PTO end-of-year party was going to do me in, but...
"Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
The youngest one in curls."
(The Brady Bunch Theme)
"Hello mother, hello father,
Here I am at Camp Grenada."
Lyrics from that commercial…but I don’t remember which one!
"I'd like a man to nibble on my ear but I'll admit no man has bit so how come I'm the mother of the year?" --Little Girls musical Annie
"Stacy's mom has got it going on I'm in love with Stacy's mom"---Stacy's mom Fountains of Wayne
-Camille
Foote contributes these two.
Mamma Duck said Quack quack quack, 2 little ducks came waddling back
Mamma called the Doctor and the Doctor said, "no more monkeys jumping on the bed"
Two songs I sing probably 12 or more times a day and I only just now thought to add them.
"The mamas on the bus go shshshsh all through the town"
"I love mommy she loves me we love daddy"
--Camille
Two Primary songs for Sunday:
"Dear mother, all flowers remind me of you."
"I see my mother kneeling with our family each day. . . "
--Trina
Since it is Sunday, I will use my primary songs:
"I see my mother kneeling, with our family each day." (Love is Spoken Here--Children's songbook)
"I often go walking in meadows of clover.....dear mother all flowers reminds me of you" (Children's songbook).
I know it's a little hard to keep track now, but Shanda, didn't you already do the "Wheels on the bus"?
NO Way! Trina took my exact two songs, just moments before me!
Luckily I have more!
"And every mother’s child is gonna spy, to see if reindeer really know how to fly" (Christmas Song)
"And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again" (It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas)
Kendra
You know we're getting desperate when it's all Primary and Christmas songs...but mine aren't!
"A child should be with his mother, everybody knows that..."(I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying by Sting)
"A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto and his mama cries..." (In the Ghetto by Elvis)
Whoops sorry I forgot to check the comments on the main blog page.
2nd song for Sunday - Picture a little baby Jesus picture a mother Mary fair
--Picture a Christmas- Childrens Songbook
Camille
1) You’ve got your mother and your brother every other undercover telling you what to say. (Walkaway—Kelly Clarkson)
2) You were my father and mother, too. Thank you lord for what you done for me. (Thank you Lord—Gospel spiritual sung with LDSingers)
3)Mother said straight ahead not to delay or be mislead (Into the woods-Goldilocks Song)
Gotta get 'em in early this round!
Kendra
Kendra beat me today with Goldilocks. Luckily, I had a spare.
1. "I've been good and I've been kind, Mother
Doing only what I learned from you.
Why then am I left behind, Mother
Is there something more that I should do?
What is wrong with me, Mother?
Something must be wrong."
(Cinderella at her mother's grave from "Into the Woods")
2. Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
("No One is Alone" from "Into the Woods")
3. I come home in the morning light,
My mother says "When you gonna live your life right?"
(Cindi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun).
I love her, my Mom, you'd love her, who wouldn't love her, My Mom Tony Bennett - My Mom
I know I used to be a real wild child, but now I am a volvo driving soccer mom - Everclear
The Captain strikes again.
Foote
whoops, I just read the update 3rd song for Foote is from the Rolling Stones and its called Mothers little helper.
Things are different today, I hear every mother say, cooking fresh food for her husbands just a drag
ROUND 6 on Monday
This is exhausting but I can't stop myself...I hope the next word has less rounds...
1. Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you? (Mama Mia by ABBA)
2. Oh , my mama loves, she loves me, She get down on her knees and hug me (Loves Me Like A Rock by Paul Simon)
3. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers, So mothers be good to your daughters too (Daughters by John Mayer)
Hush a by don’t you cry, go to sleep little baby....Mama loves you, daddy loves you (All the Pretty little horses)
Fly away, lay your little, sleepy head on your mammies breast (Kentucky Babe)
Make my mommies life a song, keep my daddy safe and strong, let me have them all year long (That's What I want for Christmas)
That may be all I've got!
Kendra
Three Song Tuesday, Hooray.
Number one, by Bob Carlisle call Butterfly Kisses
"Sweet 16 today, she's looking like her mamma a little more every day"
Number two, by Coolio (some of you may have heard this one) called Gangsta's Paradise
"I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone"
And number three for Tuesday for Foote, by Guns & Roses, A popular song in the 80's and 90's called knock knock knock'n on heavens door
"Mamma take this badge from me, I can't use it any more"
Foote
ROUND 7 (Tuesday)
1. Mama Leone left a note on the door, She said, "Sonny, move out to the country." (Movin' Out by Billy Joel)
2. The, mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it (Daughter by Pearl Jam)
3. Mama I love you, Mama I care,
Mama I love you, Mama my friend
(Mama by the Spice Girls)
...believe it or not, I still have more!
I thought I had come to the end of my list, but I have thought of 4 more. My Hawaii trip might impede my ability to keep playing, though. :-)
Kendra
I'm assuming that we are still asking for three mom songs. If today we are graduating to four, I am prepared. Here now are Foote's contributions. I would like to apologize up front for the long entry from Alice's Restaurant (3), the song as a whole is quite amusing, but the one line with Mother in it by itself does seem disturbing therefore I have included well more of the lyrics to put it into context.
1. Garth Brooks - 'Til the sun comes up
Mammas on the front porch screamin' out her warning, better get your red head back in bedbefore the mornin'
2. Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue
Well my daddy left home when I was three, and he didn't leave much for Ma and me
3. Arlo Guthrie - Alices Resturaunt
the Group W bench is where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime and there were all kinds of mean nasty ugly lookin' people on the bench, there was mother rapers, father stabbers, father rapers, father rapers sittin' right there on the bench next to me and ... and the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one; the meanest father raper of them all was coming over to me ... and he sat down nest to me and said kid, what you get? And I said I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage. And he said what were you arrested for? And I said littering. And they all moved away from me on the bench ... 'til I said "and creating a nuisance" and they all came back, shook my hand and we had a great time
You can get anything you want at Alices Resturaunt.
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