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johnny9fingers) wrote2021-04-16 04:44 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote2021-04-16 04:44 pm
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Well, I was perusing Eliot's "Wasteland", as you do, and a couplet lodged itself into my head:
"Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames run softly for I speak not loud or too long."
So I mucked around with it, as you do, and worked out it could be a chorus.
So I used it, the chorus, as a bookend and put some filler in the middle to give it some sort of putative context.
The melody for the "Sweet Thames..." is played on slide. Given my slide technique, you can just about work out how the words might fit.
Now I'm spending the rest of the evening combing through the Wasteland looking for other bits to pinch.
"Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames run softly for I speak not loud or too long."
So I mucked around with it, as you do, and worked out it could be a chorus.
So I used it, the chorus, as a bookend and put some filler in the middle to give it some sort of putative context.
The melody for the "Sweet Thames..." is played on slide. Given my slide technique, you can just about work out how the words might fit.
Now I'm spending the rest of the evening combing through the Wasteland looking for other bits to pinch.