what are some good songs that are lists
@FStewartT Lehrer - the Elements
Wacko Warner - countries
@silby hmmmm i was hoping for songs that aren't Novelty Songs
@FStewartT yeah I figured :/ I might not really know any in that case, so plz publish your findings
@FStewartT some parts of some songs by Of Montreal are cataloguish in nature/less plottish
@silby i think a plot can be a list
@silby if a plot is a list of things that happened
@FStewartT Man, I feel like a woman is a list of ways in which one is a woman
@silby good.
@FStewartT the Dan Bern song “Thanksgiving Day Parade” is a lot of verses approximately listing Thanksgiving Day Parade participants, sort of. One verse more specifically lists the players of various instruments in the marching band.
@FStewartT obviously the folk repertoire likely contains a jillion examples, cf. counting songs, riddle songs. The Passover song “Chad Gadya” is a shtetl version of “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly”, both lists.
@FStewartT the alphabet song is a list
@FStewartT the lullaby “mocking bird” is a list of bad ways of soothing a child
@FStewartT there’s art music with scores that consist simply of lists of elements the performer is free to choose from
@FStewartT the Jewish worship liturgy contains many chanted lists, e.g. lists of sins, lists of good things attributable to god
@FStewartT “we didn’t start the fire” and “it’s the end of the world as we know it”
@FStewartT I’m pretty sure every musical comedy ever contains a list song of some description
@silby certainly g& sullivan have several
@silby also it's like the natural associate of the patter song
@silby or at least the ways in which one feels like a woman, depending on how one defines feeling/being in relationship