Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:25:28 GMT



Joe Ellis wrote:
> 
> In article , ibonewits@qed.net wrote:
> 
> > "With Friends Like These"
> > Words by Isaac Bonewits, (c) 1997 c.e.
> > Music: "Love and Marriage"
> > (Best performed with a little soft shoe)
> >
> 
> ...And a more-than-healthy-even-for-filk suspension of belief in rhyme
> scheme, scansion, and the existance of any part of a song other than the
> verse.
> 
> I thought everyone knew this song from "Married...With Children". Better go
> look at a few more episodes to get it down, then revise the words a bit if
> you want to continue saying they go to that melody.

Well, I've certainly been known to mutate a melody here and there ,
but I've never seen the TV show, so I was working from very old memories
of vaudeville-style performances.  So there's a chorus?  I'll have to go
look it up now... Hey! that'll give me room to put in a couple of lines
that didn't fit the pattern I was using...

thanks!
Isaac
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