This week's challenge, as ever sponsored by Total Feckin Eejit (probably the greatest blog...in the worrrrrld - you have to imagine Rutger Hauer doing the ad, it's that good) is brought to you by Revolutionary Revelry who asked us, amongst other things, to think of a sensory memory to do with summer
And I nearly missed the bus again thanks to my usual woolgathering and scattergun thoughts - then i thought about something that happened to me one June day in what we Brits laughingly refer to as "summer" and for some reason, unexplainable to the mortal eye, also found myself much in the styling of Bob (he's a musician) Dylan - prompt cards for the video are optional.
Subterranean Stormcloud Blues
June day
bike ride
looking for the right sign
hot day
OK
Gonna get me outside
Lookout June, come too soon, gonna take my bike, gonna take it for a ride
Lookout you, went too soon, see the clouds arising when you thought the sun was shinin
Hailstones
chase me home
sky is helter-skelter
cold rain
brain drain
looking for a shelter
Lookout June, caught you too, going on a bike ride thinking you were clever
Lookout you, come too soon, aught to know better than to ever trust the weather
15 comments:
Fantastic!
This really does need to be sung :)
try to imagine the Dylan singing it and you'll be there
You beat me too it - was going to add another verse that ended: clean your chain up later/throw your clothes on the radiator - or something like that!
And it should have been called Subterranean Hailstone Blues, but there you go!
Cool!
x
I like it! We went south to visit our folks in North Carolina last week. End of July in the southern US - I didn't pack any long pants. And then was cold the whole time. The weather was MOCKING me, I'm sure of it!
I am a June girl, but that's not the only reason i liked this...
It was so refreshing...:)
Beautiful!
Yeah, I can just imagine Bob doing this one! Cleverly constructed and fun!
This must be a song, surely it's a song?When we gonna hear you sing the song that demands to be sung? Better than Bob, Ilkiesit!
Next bus driving day available id Sep 20th.Would that be ok? Be brillo have ye drive again!
is it wrong that I really want to try and play this with my mandolin and the 3 chords I know??? good idea bad idea? I could post a video...
Oh yeah, I was singing to these words, most definitely. Loved it.
If the global weather keeps warming your summers will soon be like ours and ours will be like Southern California's and Southern California's will be like the Sahara and the Sahara will be like friggin' Mars!
Rachel - thanks
Bug - i bought two pairs of shorts for the summer. it rained. I went on holiday where they have nine months of sun - it rained. Spotting the pattern?
Erratic - thanks
Argent - but only if he went electric
TFE - maybe i will try and record it for next week?
Jessica - would be honoured if you recorded it
Lydia - if i'm right about global warming then UKs weather will in the short term merge into one season with more random weather and we'll lose the "gulf strait" that keeps us warm
Great!! I could hear the guitar strumming along as I read this. Thank you for your very British June memory.
Amazing, but the two times I've visited England, it was hot and sunny. Oh, but those times were both in July.
; )
That's a neat one, pixie-starver!
definitely needs music to set it off properly. Good lyrics,
get composing!
Jeanne - sometimes we get sunshine for whole hours at a time!
Seriously - we do get some good weather, it's just you learn to know better than to trust it
Nanu - thanks
Friko - i may still put this to the tune that this was inspired by
Sung it all the way! Great one.
Raining again today here...
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