Final Performance - Sundown on Lit Kinds 2012

Lit Kinds Song (Tune of Sundown By Gordon Lightfoot)

Chorus:
Lit Kinds, I think it’s a shame if you don’t know fact from fiction how can truth be explained.

Lit Kinds I’m going insane ‘cause I realize our perceptions are never the same.

Verse:

Digital Humanities are moving along now you don’t need a doctorate to survey what’s going on.

Verse:

Then Price came to visit said she’s open to things and if we laid down on the floor it wouldn’t bother a thing.

Chorus

Verse:

When you’re struggling with the difference essay, story or life, start with definitions it might bring it to light.

Verse:

Then we’re talking about breaking and those kind of things but some don’t like when teachers share personal things.

Chorus

Verse:

Now we start with a discussion of a title’s name and if you don’t really get it better read closer in.

Verse:

We’re working on the board, which we don’t really like, let’s just talk in our seats I think that’ll be alright.

Chorus

Verse:

(War of the) Worlds was really different on the radio

Wells tried to trick us, Was that nice? (Yo!)

Verse:

Then we’re filling out our evals, Our letters to Anne

Every question had genre so confusion set in.

Chorus

 Bonus song/lyrics not performed in class:

Lyrics to tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald :

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when you realize a memoir has fiction?

The bell rang one time for each category that died when the genres they blended like seasonings.

Commentary:

In addition to all of the growth that went on in class this semester, I decided to try to re-learn the guitar.  Gordon Lightfoot has some great tunes that are fairly easy to strum, so I worked on that.  It was fun to combine the two experiences for the final project.  

I had started by writing lyrics to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but it got to be too over the top.  I wanted parts to be a bit funny, but that song was sending me too far away from a happy medium between amusing and serious.

The performance was a bit of a challenge, since I haven't played live since a Haverfest in the '90s, but everyone was very kind to clap along and try to learn the chorus.