Now, where did I leave those marbles?

I just had to post this deliciously silly song when I found it. Wendy Stanford versifies, and sets to music the complexities of a mind that is no longer perfectly in step with the world, and does so in a lighthearted way. I'm sure that the scenario she describes musically will be familiar to a lot of us who won't be celebrating another "thirty-ninth" birthday.

X:123
T:Senility's Silly
C:Wendy Stanford
O:http://www.concertina.net/tunes_detail.html?rec_id=1110
L:1/4
M:3/4
K:B
|: "B"z2d/e/ | fz/d/d/e/ | fzb/b/ | "E"ba>g | "B"f2f/f/ |
w:When I'm old, if I'm a nut, and of joke's I'm the butt, I won't
w:When I'm old, should.I not re-main this-- so-ber and sane, sing-ing
"F#"f>cc/d/ | ezg | "E"g>fe | "B"d>dd/e/ |
w:wor-ry, it's o-kay; that's just the world's way. I'll car-ry
w:bold-ly all the while 'bout get-ting se-nile, I hope the
fzd/e/ | fzb | "E"ba<g | "B"fzf |
w:on, sing-ing songs, and laugh-ing out loud; 'S'one
w:voices in my head.will say in-t'rest-ing things, Maybe
"F#"a>ab | c'/aa/a | "E"b>bb | "B"b2z | z2b |
w:thing a-bout cra-zies, they don't have to act proud. I'll
w:add some harmo-ny-- if-- any of 'em sings! Yes.I'll
"E"b2g | e2z | "B"bbf | d2z |
w:read the clock, fix up the bed,
w:fix.up the clock, read-- the bed,
"F#"f2f | a2z | "E"b2b | "B"b2z | "E"b2g | e2z | "B"bzf | d2z |
w:Find my shoes, toast the bread. Feed the dog, wash my face,
w:Toast my shoes, find the bread. Wash the dog, feed my face,
"F#"fz/f/f/f/ | aza | "E"b<bb | "B"b2z :| z2 |]
w:Take my vi-ta-mins, and get out 'the place.
w:Get.out my vi-ta-mins, and take-- the place.

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At home, with Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena

This is an entry for all you fans of the Thuringian Stud. From Johann Sebastian's chart-topping 1745 album, Nun da, was ich Musik nenne, here are the Minuet in G, and Sleepers Awake.

X:55 % number
T:Minuet in G % title
C:Johann Sebastian Bach % composer
O:The Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach % origin.
M:3/4 % meter
N:Requires notes up to B' in the upper octave
L:1/8 % length of shortest note
Q: % tempo
K:G
V:1 % voice 1
d2 GA Bc | d2 G2 G2 | e2 cd ef | g2 G2 G2 |
c2 dc BA | B2 cB AG | [1 F2 GA BG | B2 A4 :|
[2 A2 BA GF | G4 z2 | b2 ga bg | a2 de fd |
g2 ef gd | ^c2 B^c A2 | AB ^cd ef | g2 f2 e2 |
fa d2 ^c2 | d4 z2 | d2 GF G2 | e2 GF G2 |
d2 c2 B2 | AG FG A2 | DE FG | AB c2 B2 |
A2 Bd G2 | F2 G4 ||

X:54 % number
T:Sleepers Awake! % title
C:Johann Sebastian Bach % composer
O:Traditional Lutheran Chorale % origin.
M:4/4 % meter
N:Requires notes up to C''
L:1/4 % length of shortest note
Q: % tempo
K:C % key
V:1 % voice 1
G c/d/ e e | d f e G | F e/c/ d F | E B c2 :|
g g2 f/e/ | d/c/ d/c/ B/A/ G | A/B/ c/d/ e/d/ f/e/ |
d/c/ e d2 | G e ^f2 | g c/B/ c2 | A ^f g2 | a c/B/ c2 |
c' b/a/ g2 | (3a/g/^f/ g d B | G z E2 | ^F2 G2 |]


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