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Emily Dickinson Mash-Up!
It's the greatest match of all time!
Bigger than Godzilla versus Mothra...
Badder than Freddie versus Jason...
Meaner than Alien versus Predator...
It's... EMILY DICKINSON versus THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS!!
Recite the poems mournfully, or sing them with the famous melody cheerfully!
Try both! They all work BOTH ways!!
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Anyhow, "Crossing the Bar" goes to a Roger Miller tune, um, "Chug-a-Lug."
"Grape wine in a Mason jar
Homemade and brought to school
By a friend of mine, and after class
Me and him and one other fool
Vowed that we'd drink up what's left
...."
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example Melodies:
Greensleeves
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
Theme from Gilligan's Island
I Saw Three Ships
Amazing Grace
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
example Poems:
lyrics to all those melodies
most Emily Dickinson poems
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
All of the poems can be shoehorned (more or less) into all of the melodies, because they are all in what is called "common meter" for hymns, or "ballad meter" for songs in general and for poems. But the contrast between Emily Dickinson poems and Yellow Rose is particularly funny, especially when the poems themselves get mashed up too.
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