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Post by brucemacneill on Mar 26, 2024 17:06:22 GMT -5
Always wondered how to change that from a girl's song to a boy's song but that's a good try.
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 26, 2024 17:09:30 GMT -5
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Can’t count the number of folks I’ve resurrected with just fluids. It’s a miracle!
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Post by howard lee on Mar 26, 2024 17:11:12 GMT -5
Always wondered how to change that from a girl's song to a boy's song but that's a good try.
Just change all the pronouns to "they."
Easy-peasy.
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Post by brucemacneill on Mar 26, 2024 18:31:58 GMT -5
Always wondered how to change that from a girl's song to a boy's song but that's a good try. Just change all the pronouns to "they." Easy-peasy.
Easy for a New York Democrat, I suppose.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 26, 2024 19:02:20 GMT -5
Ian Tyson wrote someday soon and, unless I recall incorrectly, he sang it from the woman’s perspective.
PS: My memory was right.
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Post by howard lee on Mar 26, 2024 19:13:04 GMT -5
Just change all the pronouns to "they." Easy-peasy.
Easy for a New York Democrat, I suppose.
Bruce, you kill me. 🤣
FYI, I'm not a registered Democrat—I'm an Independent.
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Post by Marty on Mar 26, 2024 20:08:10 GMT -5
Always wondered how to change that from a girl's song to a boy's song but that's a good try.
Just change all the pronouns to "they."
Easy-peasy.
Make it interesting, change them to "US"
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Post by epaul on Mar 26, 2024 20:13:36 GMT -5
"There's a young they that I know whose age is 21 Comes from down in southern Colorado Just out of the service, they lookin' for us fun Someday soon, goin' with they someday soon"
Hey, it works! Good job, Howard!
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Post by Dub on Mar 26, 2024 21:22:44 GMT -5
Ian Tyson wrote someday soon and, unless I recall incorrectly, he sang it from the woman’s perspective. Ian & Sylvia recorded it in 1963 (released on an album in 1964). That was the only version I remember hearing. Since Sylvia is singing harmony on the track, I just assumed she had written it. Thanks for setting me straight.
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 26, 2024 21:39:04 GMT -5
Brother John called it last Thursday and just changed the pronouns (and the disapproving parent to Ma). Worked just fine. Great song.
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Post by epaul on Mar 27, 2024 0:13:44 GMT -5
There is no reason to screw up any of the lyrics of the fine song, "Someday Soon". To do so is not only dumb, it is disrespectful and dishonest.
To begin, unless you are young and in the throes of new love, you are adopting a persona/perspective other than your own when you sing this song... whether as written or as abused with pronounical perfidy. Singers adopt a persona/perspective other than their own with regularity (or what in the dickens would they have to sing about?)
So what is this fuss and concern about singing "Someday Soon" as written and intended?
Oh... are the concerns about gender or voice conflicts with the lyrics? But why? There are none. None. Unless you have trouble singing the song from the perspective of a young gay man in love with a rodeo dude. If so, then the conflict is with you, not the song.
"Someday Soon" works as intended by the creator of the song for any gender and can be sung appropriately and believably by a singer of any gender... or, no gender or undefined/unknown/undecided gender (the combinations are endless).
Really people, torturing yourself and this perfectly fine as is song with awkward and distracting (and damn silly) pronoun abuse when it works beautifully as written and as is for any gender you can come up with is, again, disrespectful, dishonest, and just plain silly.
Certain minds perhaps could do with some changing, but "Someday Soon" requires none.
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Post by epaul on Mar 27, 2024 0:46:53 GMT -5
Songs, and sonnets, can swing both ways. Always have, always will. So go for it, Bruce! Make the song yours!
(a couple slugs of Scotch will help with the initial awkwardness)
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 27, 2024 13:00:34 GMT -5
Just a great, great song. I first heard and loved it when Judy Collins released it eons ago. Possibly the best steel guitar accompaniment to any song ever. Who was that? Bruce Longhorn?
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 27, 2024 13:28:00 GMT -5
I can't really do justice to "My Funny Valentine," which is conventionally a girl's song, but I'd do it in a NY minute if my pipes were up to it. But then, it's a love song to a guy that was written by a gay lyricist, so there's already some genderbending going on in it. (Gerswhin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" has a similar attraction, though uncomplicated by Ira's conventional orientation. I would just bull through "Though he might not be the man/Some girls think of as handsome," which is a brilliant phrase. I'm too old to be insecure about how I present.)
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Post by Dub on Mar 27, 2024 21:07:03 GMT -5
I can't really do justice to "My Funny Valentine," which is conventionally a girl's song, but I'd do it in a NY minute if my pipes were up to it. But then, it's a love song to a guy that was written by a gay lyricist, so there's already some genderbending going on in it. (Gerswhin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" has a similar attraction, though uncomplicated by Ira's conventional orientation. I would just bull through "Though he might not be the man/Some girls think of as handsome," which is a brilliant phrase. I'm too old to be insecure about how I present.) My favorite rendition of My Funny Valentine will always be Chet Baker’s.
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