Showing posts with label favorite. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

House of the Rising Sun (Old West version)

Simple melody sheet music.  Simple piano sheet with the Animals's arpeggio. 

Slow blues version from 1942.  The Animals, 1964.  Muse, 2016.  Chase Holfelder, 2018.  

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor fool
For I, oh Lord, am one.

My mother was a tailor,
My pa, a hired gun.
My brother turned a sailor
To escape the Rising Sun.

My sweetheart was a gambler
Down in New Orleans.
He woke up of the wrong side of debt...
I still can hear his screams.

If I'd listened to what my mother said,
I'd be at home today.
But I was a young and foolish poor girl,
Let a gambler lead me astray.

I came out west to Salt City
For I was on the run.
It takes just disappearance or death
To escape the Rising Sun.

One foot is on the platform,
The other on the train.
Oh, I'll become a blacksmith
To break the ball and chain.

Oh God, please save my mother.
Oh God, please save my son.
Oh God, please save your children
From the House of the Rising Sun.

My mother died in poverty,
And I will do the same.
Oh death, oh death, come down on me,
Release me from my shame.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor fool
For I, oh Lord, am one.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The End of All

Let's share consuming kisses,
And like fire meeting powder,
Let's explode and end this town.
These violent delights have violent ends,
And we'll show them the triumph of true love.

Let's kill the envious and swear not by the moon,
But by our hands and by what we can do.
And I will do it all to be with you.
And will you leave me so unsatisfied?
For I want more than what you do;
I want the world to die for you.

So we'll be not ourselves
And we'll love no one else,
For we'll die in the world
And we'll live in the grave.
I'll have no other name
If you will call me love,
For your name murders me.
And when I married you,
I wed calamity.

I'll make your wedding bed the grave,
And we'll destroy our lives
If just to kiss these pilgrim lips.
We'll quench our love with purple fountains issuing from our veins.
If we survive, I'll cherish you to death.

Let all things die if I cannot be loved by you
For love-devouring death do what he dare,
It is enough I may but call you mine.
So we'll show those that never hurt
What pain sweet bliss can be.
So dedicate your loveliness alone to me.

What's love? The damned ones use that word in hell.
I must be gone, or stay for love and die.
And love's the end of all.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Secret Tunnel

Wrote some lyrics to make it a whole song!

Two lovers, forbidden from one another
A war divides their people
And a mountain divides them apart.
These lovers made a pact to one another
With the power of their hearts
No mountain could keep them apart.

Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!
Through the mountain!
Secret secret secret secret tunnel!

The walls would move and the tunnels would change
Only they knew the way through
And their names were Oma and Shu.
They dreamed of a city of peace and prosperity
Built from the earth by their hands.
They wished for a new land.


Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!
Through the mountain!
Secret secret secret secret tunnel!

And if you go in, you must follow your heart
And your love will lead you to light.
But if you do not trust the power of love,
You will surely get lost and die.


Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!
Through the mountain!
Secret secret secret secret tunnel!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

House of the Silver Snake

There is a house at Hogwarts,
They call it Slytherin.
It's been the ruin of many a pure witch
Once she was sorted in.

With one foot in the Dark Arts,
The other in the flame,
The head of house is Severus Snape
With bravery and shame.

Oh mother, tell my sisters
Not to go where I have gone.
When the Sorting Hat is on your head,
Just choose a different one.

Oh mothers, tell your wizards
That it's for their own sake.
Don't follow in the Dark Arts
In the house of the silver snake.

There is a house at Hogwarts,
They call it Slytherin.
It's been the ruin of many a pure witch
Once she was sorted in.

Ballad of Bracken

He was born a unicorn
But he lost all three of his horns
An evil man locked him up tight
He paced the dungeons through an endless night

The first horn he gave away
To a man who saved the day
The third horn was made into a cup
That helped lock the demons up

Yeah he was born a unicorn
But he lost all three of his horns
He’s trapped in his avatar form
But he was born a unicorn

The second horn was stolen, you see
By a villain with treachery
That evil man locked him up tight
Until he met a girl who shone bright

Yeah he was born a unicorn
Until he lost all three of his horns
When he looked into her mind
He knew that she was fairykind

They escaped and went on a quest
Protect Eternals, they did their best
When his second horn came into sight
He had to laugh and win the fight

Yeah he was born a unicorn
Now he got back his second horn
From his body a brilliant light poured
And his horn turned into a sword

Dragon, man, and fairykind
Are his companions, they’re determined
Narcoblix, shadow charmer, golem too
And the satyrs were part of his crew

‘Cause he was born a unicorn
He can make a sword from his horn
Now they’re off to the demon gate
The end of the world to await

The Fairy Queen helped with the fight
And they battled the darkness with light
Though he may look just like a man
He’s a unicorn and he has a plan

Yeah he was born a unicorn
Without his horns he felt so forlorn
That all changed when he made up his mind
To spend his life with the fairykind

Yeah he was born a unicorn
He felt so awesome when he found his horn
He had to stay in his avatar form
But he will always be a unicorn

Your Blood is So Pure

You wake up in the morning
And play with some new Dark toy
And prance around like a git
Because you're a Malfoy.

Does your mother always look
Like something died under her nose?
Or is it just when she's with you
That her disdain shows?

Because your blood is so pure
It makes you so sure
You're so much better than us
But you're so immature
'Cause when Purebloods are through
It'll be us and not you
At the end of the war
Mixed blood will endure.

Only Slytherins would care
If your blood is here or there
I'd rather mix with Mudbloods
Than be a millionaire

Your hair looks like it's slicked down with glue
When you see a Hippogriff, you scream like a girl
Just like every time that we see you
We have to hold back the instinct, the instinct to hurl

Because your blood is so pure
It makes you so sure
You're so much better than us
But you're so immature
Cause when Purebloods are through
It'll be us and not you
At the end of the war
Mixed blood will endure.

The Magic Cure It Do It All

My dearest ladies and gents,
Welcome to the recipe section of
The Quibbler.

The potion we're about to make
Is good for your home cannery
It's something that you've never seen
In your entire life-spannery
You'll find it very useful for
Your dragon-leather tannery
It makes disgusting sycophants
Both well-to-do and mannerly.

It's the greatest potion of them all
It replenishes your bile and gall
You'll be held within a thrall
With the Magic Cure It Do It All!

(Tis the greatest potion of them all
Replenishes both bile and gall
You'll be held within a thrall
With Magic Cure It Do It All)

The ingredients as follows now
The method, and the where and how
The why and which and what to do
If in the course of making it,
You accidentally lose a shoe--

But for the potion, gather round
A length of your best boyhood string,
A pint of dark brown ale, a pound
Of limbas grass, a hornet's wing

In the cauldron over low heat
Stir these things to a quicker beat
Than you would find in trot or waltz
And halfway through add bathing salts

Shred your snakeskin nice and long
Dissect the liver of a goat
Hum an upbeat, happy song
And remove a green frog's throat.

Let this simmer fifteen days
You'll know it by the sickly haze
That fills the room, that's the first phase
Of Dr Quibbler's magical, mystical and wonderful
Masterful, disasterful Magic Cure It Do It All!

(Of Dr Quibbler's magical, mystical and wonderful
Masterful, disasterful Magic Cure It Do It All!)

Add boomslang skin and ginger and the tail of a unicorn
Add beetle's eyes and half a pinch of Crumpled Snorkack's mystic horn
Finely ground, and on the side chop mandrake root until it dies
Add just enough until the steam remsembles mandrake's fatal cries
You're almost done, and oh what fun you'll have when you've had just a sip
Of Dr Quibbler's magical, hysterical, empirical
Insuperable, incomparable,
Beautiful, unstoppable
Masterful, disasterful
Magic Cure It Do It All!

(Of Dr Quibbler's magical, mystical and wonderful
Masterful, disasterful Magic Cure It Do It All!)

Toss in a handful earwig dust
Three fairy's eyes, two dragon teeth
Until the whole thing smells of must
You must let it gently seethe

Remove from heat immediately
And take it to the coldest spot
Which you can reasonably reach,
And there you have it, to the jot!

The fanciful, romancible
Chanceable and danceable
Appalling and enthralling
Magic Cure It Do It All!

(It's Dr Quibbler's magical, mystical and wonderful
Masterful, disasterful Magic Cure It Do It All!)

It's the greatest potion of them all
It replenishes your bile and gall
You'll be held within a thrall
With the Magic Cure It Do It All!

(Tis the greatest potion of them all
Replenishes both bile and gall
You'll be held within a thrall
With Magic Cure It Do It All)

Ron's Song: In the Forest


Why
Did I ever leave you?
How
Can I get back to you?
Oh please,
Let me in.

Harry,
I know you're in danger
But can't you see me?
I'm not a stranger.
Your protective charms
Are keeping out your friend
I want to be with you
In the end.

Why
Did I ever leave you?
How
Can I get back to you?
Oh please,
Let me in.

I've been following the Potterwatch Network
And they say that you're okay
My mum would go berserk
If she knew I ran away.

Why
Did you let me go?
Don't you know how
Stupid I can be?
The Deluminator
Leads me to you
But you have to
Let me in.

Please let me in.

Why
Did I ever leave you?
How
Can I get back to you?
Oh please,
Let me in.

Lily's Eyes--Sirius and Remus version

SIRIUS:
Strangely quiet, but now my mum
Simply rests to strike again
Standing, waiting, I see his face
I see her eyes

LUPIN:
Strange, this Harry, he leaves the room
Yet listens, Extendable ears
Something stirs me to think of her
I think of her

SIRIUS:
From death she casts her spell
From death, secretly spies
For now a boy has come who has her eyes

He has her eyes
The boy has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that saw him happy long ago
Those eyes that gave him life
And hoped he’d never know
The darkness that killed her and
Destroyed those green eyes

LUPIN:
He has her eyes
The boy has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that closed and left us all alone
Those eyes I feel will never ever let us go
How can we see this boy who has her green eyes?

In Lily’s eyes shone happiness
In the darkest hour
And though she fought with all her might
She crumpled from his power

SIRIUS:
He has her eyes
He has his mother’s green eyes
Those eyes that loved my best friend and their son
Those eyes that shone ferocity
And loved her one son
And held him close
To live at last with Lily’s eyes

LUPIN:
Imagine me, a werewolf

SIRIUS:
I longed for the day
She would defeat Lord Voldemort

LUPIN AND SIRIUS:
Would God had let her stay

SIRIUS:
He has her eyes
He has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that Potter loved so
How can
I now forget
That once she dared
To fight against the Dark Lord
It’s Lily’s eyes
It’s Lily’s eyes

LUPIN: (sung simultaneously with SIRIUS)
He has her eyes
His mother’s green eyes
Those eyes that saw him happy long ago
How can
I now forget
That once she sacrificed her life
And he’s alive
With Lily’s eyes
With Lily’s eyes

Lily’s Eyes (Snape version-duet with cello!!)

Strangely quiet in the Great Hall
As the students leave at last
But when I looked him in the face,
I saw her eyes

This Harry, he acts just like
His dad, that smarmy git
Yet something stirs me to think of her
I think of her

Each day I cast my spell
All night, secretly sigh
And now a boy has come who has her eyes

He has her eyes
The boy has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that saw me happy long ago
Those eyes that gave me life
And hope I’d never known
Oh how I hate this boy
And miss those green eyes

The boy has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that turned away, left me alone
Those eyes I feel will never ever let me go
How can I see this boy who has her green eyes?

In Lily’s eyes this Severus
Was good and true
But as I changed she turned away
My love she never knew

He has her eyes
He has my Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that loved that Potter, never me
Those eyes that, though they saw me
Never knew I longed
I hold her close, to live forever
In her eyes

Imagine me, a lover
She was a true friend
But I hurt her and she hurt me
This pain will never end!

He has her eyes
He has Lily’s green eyes
Those eyes that first I loved so
How can
I now let go
And I still dare to be
In love, my wretched soul
In Lily’s eyes
In Lily’s eyes

In Which Bellatrix Can't Stop Talking About Herself


When Imperius doesn’t do the trick
And AK is overkill
They ask for me specifically
To use my special skill

I’m the witch on the moor
I’m the demon in the night
I’m the fear that creeps about you
I’m the Dark Mark in the sky
I’m the thorn on the rose
I’m the worm in the apple
I’m the venom in the snake
I’m the prize you cannot take

And it’s so awesome being evil!
Lord Voldemort loves me
My never-ending loyalty
So freaking awesome being evil!
Lord Voldemort loves me
He has all the power that I need

When there are happy homes to break
And children’s lives to ruin
While there are Mudbloods still alive
And Aurors left to do in
You will find me there
With my wand in my hand
The Cruciatus Curse
Not even death is worse

And it’s so awesome being evil!
Lord Voldemort loves me
My never-ending loyalty
So freaking awesome being evil!
The Dark Lord has the power that I need

I vow my devotion to all things Dark
And I swear on my purest blood
To do as I am told, Lord Voldemort
I’ll obey your every whim
I passionately follow him

I’m the lust that is forbidden
I’m the nightmare with no end
The secret you can’t keep hidden
The Dementors’ best friend
I’m the dagger at your throat
I’m a disembodied note
I'm the essence of your screaming
A stabbing pain, and death beseeming

And my eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming
And the Dark Mark o'er me gleaming
Casts my shadow on the floor
And your soul from out that shadow
That lies floating on the floor
Your soul from out that shadow
Shall be lifted nevermore!

And it’s so awesome being evil!
Lord Voldemort loves me
My never-ending loyalty
So freaking awesome being evil!
I can do anything!
The Dark Lord has the power that I seek!

Humungous Bighead Boy

Absolutely spiffing!  How corking to see you!
Quite charmed!  You ought to be filled with joy!
For it’s not every day that one gets to meet
The Humungous Bighead Boy!

I’m the Humungous Bighead Boy!
I’m the greatest boy around!
So come on up and shake my hand
I’m telling you, you’ll feel grand
Once you’ve met the Humungous Bighead Boy!

I polish my badge every day
Got to look sharp, you know
The sheen complements the smirk I have
When my humungous head starts to grow

I’m more important than you can guess
When they make me responsible, I scream, “YES!”

I’m the Humungous Bighead Boy!
I’m the greatest boy around!
So come on up and shake my hand
I’m telling you, you’ll feel grand
Once you’ve met the Humungous Bighead Boy!

Hey Flint


Hey Flint
Get off the field!
I booked the Quidditch pitch for today!
 
Hey Flint
You scummy guy
Get out of here and let us fly!
 
Hey Flint
Your house team sucks!
Get out of here before we get angry!
 
Hey Flint
This isn't fair!
Whatever Snape says, we don't care!
 
Hey Flint, hey Flint, hey Flint, hey Flint
You suck!
What can you do?
You better run before we brawl you!
 
Hey Flint
You're gonna pay
Watch out what your players say!
 
Hey Flint, hey Flint
It's Quidditch time out on the pitch!
We're gonna catch that Golden Snitch
And Malfoy's gonna be our--

(some kind of instrument breakdown)

Then McGonagall came along
And broke up our Quidditch song.

(Hey come on Professor! You didn’t hear what he sad! Aw man.)

Fred and George


Who's the guy who makes mischief
And stands up for what's right?
Who's his brother, yes his twin
Who won't hesitate to fight?
Who are those two, they're quite a pair
Let me tell you who they are, it's

Fred and George!
When school is troubling you
Use the three Ws!
Fred and George!
Let's get magical!
Fred and George!
Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!

They're the guys who invent treats
Like Canary Creams
They're the ones who gives us sweets
Which cause lovely daydreams
They're the best, it's no contest
Fred and George beat all the rest! It's

Fred and George!
When school is troubling you
Use the three Ws!
Fred and George!
Let's get magical!
Fred and George!
Better watch out, you bad boys!
Fred and George!

Die Tonight

I've been sent down to the Chamber
And I don't know what to do
Her bones will lie here forever
Means someone will die before this is through

Stone behind and stone ahead
In the eyes of the dreaded basilisk
She lies on the ground, her hair is red
And I know that there's a risk
That she might

Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you
Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you die

"She won't wake," he said, soft and cold
His eyes glint with a hungry red
A handsome boy, sixteen years old
His memory no longer dead

Tom Marvolo Riddle
It means "I am Lord Voldemort"
And I'm here in the middle
Knowing very well
That she is here to

Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you
Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you die

Then came the song, sweet and warm
The phoenix and the Hat of Sort-
ing, when I needed it the most
Out came the sword of Gryffindor

The phoenix plucked the serpent's sight
My only thought is that Ginny might

Die tonight
By the sword in my hands
I won't let you
Die tonight
By the sword in my hands
I won't let you die

And I fought the mighty basilisk
Long into the night
And I wield the sword of Gryffindor
With all of loyalty's might
And the serpent fell
And the Dark Lord screamed
And the phoenix shed a tear
And I know that I'll be happy
If Ginny's always near

Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you
Die tonight
By the powers in my hands
I won't let you

Die tonight
By the sword in my hands
I won't let you
Die tonight
By the sword in my hands
I won't let you die

Dean Thomas Must Die


As for secret monsters
Within secret chambers
Lord Voldemort did well
The basilisk was swell
I killed it with a sword
I foiled the Dark Lord--but
A greater monster waits
For the sister of my mate

I’ve saved Ginny and Hogwarts from
Monsters and from Voldemort
Now there’s another monster that’s
In a chamber in my heart

There's a monster in my chest
That makes me want to kill
Dean Thomas every day,
In any way
I want to punch him in the face
Or hex him in the halls
Dean Thomas will pay
In every way
Dean Thomas must die

It all comes down to
That awful feeling
And I can’t stop it
I can’t control it
This secret monster
In my heart’s chamber
I need to feed it
Kill Dean Thomas!

I felt petrified when I saw them
Snogging in the hallway
He can’t take my best mate’s sister
Cause I deserve her more!

There's a monster in my chest
That makes me want to kill
Dean Thomas every day,
In any way
I want to punch him in the face
Or hex him in the halls
Dean Thomas will pay
In every way
Dean Thomas must die

Who cares about Ron?
(He's just Ginny's brother)
Who cares about Ron?
(He's only my best mate)
Who cares about Ron?
(He'd kill me if he knew
I have to) Save Ginny
Weasley from Dean Thomas!

There's a monster in my chest
That makes me want to kill
Dean Thomas every day,
In any way
I want to punch him in the face
Or hex him in the halls
Dean Thomas will pay
In every way
Dean Thomas must die

Dean Thomas must die!

Always

(I’ve) been fighting for so long, but I will never make it right
To say I’m sorry every day will never win the fight
I’ve made too many mistakes now, no matter how I try
I simply cannot change the fact that I led her to die

(And) I should have never been involved with this whole pureblood mess
Best friends was not enough for me, but then she loved me less
I found she wouldn’t have me and she went to him instead
Such anger, such confusion, and I wanted them both dead

Sometimes I think that I’m forgetting how she smelled, her laugh and voice
I just remember that day when they hung me overhead and I
I know that I’m the one to blame, that I made such a stupid choice
I loved her more than anyone, and I will love her always

(I’ve) been fighting for so long, and I will be forever wrong
Just keep on lying, don’t forget the reason to be strong
They think that I am evil; never evil have they seen
Or understood the cost of what a single word can mean

Sometimes I think that I’m forgetting how she smelled, her laugh and voice
I just remember that day when they hung me overhead and I
I know that I’m the one to blame, that I made such a stupid choice
I loved her more than anyone, and I will love her always

Sometimes I think if I could try again she would love me instead
And we would be together in our lives, instead of in my head
And every drop of my half-blood remembers my once-happiness
And I will love her always, always, always, always, always, always . . .