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December 04, 2007
One Song to the tune of another
On Friday it's our Department Christmas bash. As it's more Advent than Christmas I need to steer a course somewhere between the two. We will have a bit of a sing-along around the piano and I want to do a fun, one song to the tune of another, type affair mixing Christmas Carols and other songs, hymns, ballads, whatever! So if anyone knows switchable tunes/words (that ACTUALLY fit) or if anyone sufficiently understands metre and the funny little black dots all over all those lines, I'd love to hear suggestions.
THANK YOU :-)
Posted by ian at December 4, 2007 10:01 AM
Comments
Isn't the point of the game that the word's *don't* fit?
Posted by: Richard at December 4, 2007 12:03 PM
In the ISIHAC version yes BUT if you want to have people singing together rather than acoustic anarchy then they HAVE to match :-)
Posted by: Youthblog at December 4, 2007 12:08 PM
Go West fits perfectly with Give Thanks!
Posted by: Laura at December 4, 2007 04:17 PM
I do mean to give you some suggestions but my brain is full at the moment. Sorry.
Posted by: Sarah B at December 4, 2007 06:40 PM
I reckon you can get Angels from the Realms of glory to the tune of Deck the Halls. God rest ye merry and It came upon a midnight clear seem to work too (with a slightly fiddly end). Without the chorus O Come all ye faithful and away in a manger work. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is pretty funny to we three kings - not sure it works the other way round though! Hope that gets you going!
Posted by: Sarah B at December 4, 2007 07:09 PM
I know it`s not a carol but "Amazing grace" goes to the tune of "House of the rising sun"
Posted by: les at December 4, 2007 07:23 PM
'Amazing Grace' also goes to the tune of 'In the Jungle', although I can never get my worship leader to do it... you can replace the 'awimbawe's with 'Amazing Grace' too.
Posted by: Rich T at December 5, 2007 12:35 AM
And Amazing Grace also works to Gilligan's Island. Just to take it from the sublime to the ridiculous! :)
Posted by: Simon Chambers at December 5, 2007 07:20 PM
You can be more adventurous than a hymn/Carol switch... I've no idea whether it would work at all, though I'm sure you could make it... but how about trying something like "Away in a Manger" to the "tune" ;) of Britney Spears "Hit me baby one more time"?
Posted by: Mark at December 6, 2007 01:57 PM
Far too late I'm afraid, but I'm currently listening to a great CD by an English folk trio* who are singing While Shepherds Watched... to the tune of Oh for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Rockingham). It's a perfect fit, and sounds great.
And it's quite normal in many places to sing While Shepherds Watched... to the tune of On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At. Again, a good fit.
* in case you're wondering about the CD, it's A Garland of Carols by Coope, Boyes and Simpson. Top stuff; highly recommended.
Posted by: Rhys at December 11, 2007 02:45 PM
Sorry, what was I thinking of? The tune is Lyngham, not Rockingham. Apologies.
Posted by: Rhys at December 11, 2007 02:48 PM