I can give you an evil EARWORM. Enter as your own risk

[yvr girl]

Did you know that you can sing Amazing Grace to the tune from Gilligan's Island and visa versa? Try it.

[gollygee]

1. Did you know any Emily Dickinson poem

can be sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Requires a little stretching of syllables, though.

"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me", for instance...you really have to elongate the word "death" and turn it into 2 syllables by stretching the diphthong...so it doesn't QUITE work.

[gollygee]

3. Ok gotta sing to myself

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me
There's a yellow rose of texas that I am going to see

It doesn't match up syllable to syllable but I don't have to stretch death.

I guess it's only *most* of her poems that work to that song though.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=100993

But on to earworms - I thought of that because I studied English in college and every time we'd read Emily Dickinson I would get that damn song stuck in my head. LOL

[tuvor]

4. Ever hear "Stairway to Gilligan"?

Yup, GI lyrics set to the most overrated radio staple of all time.

"'Stairway to Gilligan' comes from the bootleg LP 'KNEBWORTH'. Published in the late 70s as a 45rpm single by the band 'Little Roger and the Goosebumps', the Backing tracks are similer to Led Zepplin's 'Stairway to heaven'." http://www.milkandcookies.com/article/453/

Ooh, look, an mp3! http://www.daveamason.com/april/mp3/StairwaytoGilligan.mp3

[Jara sang]

5. Gilligan is the devil

...and each of the castaways represent a different level of Hell.:evilgrin:

[ChoralScholar]

6. it's because they're both 'basically' 8.6.8.6

metrically speaking.  (eight syllables/six syllables)

Not quite, but very close, requires some doubling up on the
Gilligan's tune...


Amazing Grace how sweet the sound, 
12 3    4     5   6     7   8      

that saved a wretch like me
1    2     3 4      5    6
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, 
1    2   3     4    5          6    7 8 

a tale of a fateful trip
1 2    3    4   5   6  

EDIT: formatting