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Old 09-29-2008, 03:53 PM   #324
geodeticman.5
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Default Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !

RM., just to re-assure you how right you were, it seems Lightfoot songs can be have the lyrics broken up in two different and/or same verses with regularity, so that the "iambic pentameter" (I think the English teacher calls it, when referring to the musical rhyming nature of both one-line-to the next, and Lightfoot's acknowledged specialty ( one of several) - that being, it has been said, his uncanny ability to have a musically-flowing rhyme within a verse, as somewhat the case in SDYS, which your "mind's ear" told me you were admirably working off of the top of your head, and not lookin-up the while shootin match in the lyrics board, as follows:

as Lightfoot wrote SDYS:

There's rockets in the meadows and ships out on the sea
The answer's in the forest, carved upon a tree

John loves Mary, does anyone love me,

versus your assumption of why you were lkely wrong, but were not, you assumed the lyrics flowed deez avayea:

John loves Mary,
does anyone love me,

hence, the need to fix the program quickly, as this would have been fully show in ther std output of the lyrics key program, which woud have show in my inital response to you you the first, single line, winning case of

John loves Mary, does anyone love me,

(which is why your SDYS won, and indeed was the song I had planned in the key to begin with)

Congrats again Ron ! Trust thineself 2 B true to thine lyrics self-confidence,
and aso fruth anda swan....something like that !
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