On Friday 23 May 2003 11:49 am, Roger Mills wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Dirk Elzinga scripsit:
> >
> > > "I will not be afraid of death and bane
> > > Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane." - Macbeth V.iii.59-60.
> >
> > This couplet has a very nice blues melody, though I'm not sure if it
> > was written by Leonard Bernstein or not:
> (snip)
> I remember that!!. (Will pick out the melody on the piano
later......) His
> point was, of course, that any iambic pentameter couplet could be
turned
> into a blues.....
>
> Some may recall-- a long time back somebody used the term of address
"baby"
> in an email. Irina Rempt replied rather (pseudo-?)indignantly, and
signed
> off with "Irina, who is nobody's baby anymore". I'm still trying to
work
> that up into a blues....... "...(I, she) ain't nobody's baby anymore".
Maybe
> some of our more musically-talented members would give it a try.
>
>
Scansion's off for blues... should be
She ain't nobody's baby no more
--
Elyse Grasso
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