Adie Pena

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Original text in yellow, anagram in pink.

Do, a deer a female deer
Re, a drop of golden sun
Mi, a name I call myself
Fa, a long long way to run
So, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow So
Ti, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do.

From a knowledgeable, eager Maria in a grand "The Sound of Music," just a phenomenally (Billboard Radio Top Ten?) wonderful ditty to aid a fellow laggard kid learn and follow the lame notes on a scale.

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I LOVE PARIS

I love Paris in the springtime.
I love Paris in the fall.
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles,
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles.

I love Paris every moment,
every moment of the year.
I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris?
Because my love is near.

I LOVE PARIS

I love Paris in retirement.
I love Paris, in come whim.
I love Paris, trim my pillow, where she nuzzles,
I love Paris in the tavern, inn ... she guzzles!

I love Paris, beer investment!
Every inmate of the day.
I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris?
I miss the Freeto-Lay!

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My Mammy

Everything is lovely
When you start to roam;
The birds are singin', the day that you stray,
But later, when you are further away,
Things won't seem so lovely
When you're all alone;
Here's what you'll keep saying
When you're far from home:

Mammy,
Mammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
I know where the sun shines best--
Mammy,
My little mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I'm comin',
Sorry that I made you wait.
I'm comin',
Hope and trust that I'm not late, oh oh oh
Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! Oh oh oh...

(SPOKEN) Mammy...
My little Mammy.
The sun shines east-- the sun shines west--
I know where-- the sun shines best!
It's on my Mammy I'm talkin' about, nobody else's!
(SUNG) My little Mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
(SPOKEN) Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'--
I'm so sorry that I made you wait!
Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'!
Oh God, I hope I'm not late!
Look at me, Mammy! Don't you know me?
I'm your little baby!
(SUNG) I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy!

Oh, Larry
("My Mammy" melody)

Everythin' is chummy
In this homey site;
The family is fun, teammates into puns.
But oftentimes, when I'm on the run
Everythin' ain't that chummy.
When I'm by myself.
I summon my loneliness;
I take me one last byte...

Ana-grammy,
The tilt is tense, this Mey is blest!
I know the family is obsessed.
Larry,
My ana-grammy,
My total business is built on
Ana-grammy.
The mommy
Says we eat too little meal now
The mommy
Says we lost this small knowhow, (how, how, how?)
Larry, my ana-grammy,
"My mommy, it's so hot!"
Me momma thinks it's NOT!
Ooh, Larry (Whoo, whoo, whoo?)

(SPOKEN) Yea, you Larry! Larry you!
"The truth, uh-huh! No mommas bless
A son who's immature," me momma says.
It's Anagrammy I'm talkin' about, adore nuthin' else!
(SUNG) My Anagram-mee!
My whole life is dependent on you,
Anagram-mee!
(SPOKEN) Anagrammy, I'm meetin'...
My timely TOPICAL (I'm in the mood!)
Anagrammy, I'm makin'...
My immensely scummy RUDE!
Lovable wooly me, Larry. I'm the dumdum; the meek mutated mummy!
(SUNG) I'd take a million words
And settle for thirds,
Ooh, Larry!

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

I read the news today, oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh, boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I love to turn you on.

Woke up, got out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ah...

I read the news today, oh, boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on.

John started crafting the newsworthy song while reading the Daily Mail.

Two items caught the Beatle's eye; one was about the spooky death of a gadabout who drove a Lotus Elan into the back of a parked lorry in South Kensington, London.

The other one was about a plan to fill four thousand muddy potholes in the streets of Blackburn, Lancashire.

John's "English army" was thought to be a reference to a kooky role he bagged in the wacky comedy film "How I Won the War."

Paul then added the short middle piece about a busy commuter whose routine leads him to wander off. "It was a reflection of my gawky youth. I would have my Woodbine and somebody would speak and I would go into a dream far away." (No puberty mystery there, man!)

Paul's was followed by a short wordless (hummed?) atonal chorus -- "Ah, da-dah-dah, da-dah-dah, da-dah-dah ... Dah, da-dah-dah, da-dah-dah, da-dah-dah" -- which segued back into John's last part.

By the way, Paul also contributed the synonymous line "I'd love to turn you on" in the first section of the song.

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LONG, LONG, LONG
by George Harrison

It's been a long long long time,
How could I ever have lost you
When I loved you.

It took a long long long time
Now I'm so happy I found you
How I love you

So many tears I was searching,
So many tears I was wasting, oh. Oh -

Now I can see you, be you
How can I ever misplace you
How I want you
Oh I love you
You know that I need you.
Ooh I love you.

(Was There Any) LONG, LONG, LONG?
by A. Pena

It took a LONG, LONG, LONG time
Now I survived, I'm so light
How I read you.

It's been a LONG, LONG, LONG time,
Oh, how can I ever lose you
When I formed you.

So many grooves I was trying,
So many hopes I was courting, oh. Oh -

Now I can see you, be you
How can a SPECIAL elude you
How I solve you
Oh I love you
You know that I want you.
Ooh I love you.

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Please join me in this unusual but sentimental stroll amidst nature for I'd like to share something wonderful. It just sounds strange and outrageous but did you know that this prayerful poem written by Joyce Kilmer...

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.


...could be anagrammed into a much-recorded popular love song about dead leaves?

A memorable piece about an unallayed heartbreak, it apparently has become, in many artists' repertoires, a hot hit in Europe and America, from Sinatra to Streisand. The work, written by J. Kosma, J. Prevert and J. Mercer, is...

Autumn Leaves [or "Les Feuilles Mortes"]

The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sun-burned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall.


It took hours to help hammer out this keepsake on their homages to beauty (a "green" poem and a "foliage" song) but, aha!, it was totally worth it.

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Updated: May 10, 2016


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