Lyric Bits
Bits of unused lyrics are beginning to collect on my hard drive. I wasn’t planning on submitting an entry for “Rattle”, even though it seemed a rare opportunity to submit an instrumental tune. But before I could stop it, my brain cranked this out:
rattle
what do you call this creek we’re in and where’s my paddle
we’ll win the war without this battle
so let the baby have his rattle
…along with some clever ideas involving shaking the rainstick in 11/8 time. A rainstick is a percussion instrument, by the way, for those of you who thought that was a euphemism.
This gets added to a growing list of Songfight!s that I didn’t get around to entering, including
one less
one less bottle to drink
one more crime in the kitchen sink
one tough row to hoe
gotta backflush the filter when the water won’t flow
I’m not certain what that was supposed to be about, but I sure like the way it scans.