Hiya, I've done a rough idea of what the lyrics might be. I've put this up now so that you guys can read it and get back to me any feedback that I could work on before Thursday. The 1st chorus is about us doing Beowulf & Vanessa saying no, 2nd is about how Jordan knew the story better than anyone else and Sarah saying yes to Wiglaf, 3rd how Jordan tries to do a monolog, 4th - Jordan's revenge, 5th - stop being a brainyake. The last two (4th&5th) are jokey ones, but can easily cut out. I hope you enjoy, the girl who I've linked is truly amazing and have spent the day singing this making sure that it all fits. Let me know what you think, thanks.
Our drama group decided to do
The folk story of Beowulf
And we were so excited to perform it
So we played around
With ideas, but then
Vanessa cut out Wiglaf
And this made Jordan feel very, very upset
This is Jordan, this is Jordan, this is
Jordan, this is Jordan …
He studied it at school
He was the top of his class until he got
here
But Sarah said
No need to worry
We will put back Wiglaf into the play
But yet again Vanessa said no
This is Jordan, this is Jordan, this is
Jordan, this is Jordan…
Oh Jordan wouldn’t stand for this
He decided to do a monolog
But Victor came along and took it from him
Now Jordan stands all alone
While Victor reads out to the crowd
And
now all you see is Jordan crying his eyes out
This is Jordan, this is Jordan, this is
Jordan, this is Jordan…
Jordan will have his revenge
He will tell the story about how man met
fire
And now all he needs
Is to stand up
Wipe away his tears and face
His biggest fear and forget about Wiglaf
This is Jordan, this is Jordan, this is
Jordan, this is Jordan
Maybe there is a God above
But all Jordan has learnt from this
Is how not to be such a brainyake
It’s just better to
Sit in a corner
And put ideas across to the class
Oh this is story of poor Jordan
This is Jordan, this is Jordan, this is
Jordan, this is Jordan Matthews…
well done anna, great first attempt. I wonder if we should try and include the rhyme scheme of the original. I will try and do this if i have time today to see if it would work with some of your lines.
ReplyDeleteOk thank you, Vanessa
ReplyDeleteI had a look at this last night and this morning went through the song with the original playing in the background, its really works well in some parts but there are bits we could tweak to make it fit more with the song as vanessa says. Are we going to be going through this on Thursday? might be an idea to have victor play the song while we sing it to see which bits need to be adapted slightly?
ReplyDeleteAwww thank you Ami for the feedback, its really helpful. I don't think we should use either of the 4th and 5th verses as they can be easily taken out but yes I would love some help to jiggle around some of lyrics to make it work slightly better. Thanks again x
ReplyDeletethanks both. i think we need to do that beforehand if possible and use thursday to block instead. anyone want to help anna please do. just need some rhymes i think like the original. sorry didn't get any time today, might try tonight.
ReplyDeleteOk thanks, I can always try out some new lyrics tomorrow and see if they work better with the song if you would like. I completely agree about using Thursday for blocking and getting the main story going. We are currently meeting up anyway after on Thursday so I can always go through it with a few people.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jordan heard there would be a sword
ReplyDeleteThat props would make for the beowulf lord
But you don't want to play beowulf do you
it goes like this you want a part
the character's name is wiglaff
the battle king that jordan wanted to play
this is jordan.... this is jordan this is jordan this is joooooordan.
he knew the poem it was no spoof
he learnt the part to give them proof
Wiglaf's beauty and the moonlight overthrew him
he learnt the words he dressed it up he practised hard and he begged for a chance
but from his lips victor stole the speeches.
this is really hard
ReplyDeleteWow sounds really good, yes it does look rather hard - turning Shakespeare in to song
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