The Friday Fling Lyricizes April Shower Power!
Friday Fling #177 April 13th 2012
We’ve all heard the cliche “April showers bring May flowers.” But aside from that effect, what do April showers mean to you? What sensual, emotional, or other feelings do they evoke? Were such ever associated in your life with anything significant?
To express the nature of April shower power, we thought it would be interesting for you to try to write about it in a song! No you do not need to create your own melody. In fact that would be quite difficult to relate accurately here, unless you did a video of yourself singing it!
Instead, pick the melody of a popular song, one as many of your CPC Pals and readers would recognize and could repeat to themselves, and write a new lyric to it. For instance, here’s one I just did to the Pat Boone standard April Love:
APRIL RAIN
April rain, is for beginning growing.
Soaking down into the ground to wake the seeds.
April rain helps thaw soil after winter.
But it can’t tell the flower seeds from weeds.
It takes one April day to muddy ground with showers,
rain to nourish seedlings for their sprouting growth.
More April rain helps keep plants growing quickly,
just like love sustained grows not just one but both.
Here’s the original lyric by Paul Francis Webster:
April love is for the very young
Every star’s a wishing star that shines for you
April love is all the seven wonders
One little kiss can tell you this is true
Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers
Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet
But April love can slip right through your fingers
So if she’s the one don’t let her run away
This week the Friday Fling dowers its bowers with April shower power!
Be sure to save time to read and shower compliments on your fellow Pals’ soggy songetry. Then go enjoy the April weekend, which just might include a shower or two!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for April 13th
Congratulations Sonnet Diva!
Welcome everyone to our Friday Fling Spring Sing Thing! We’re hoping you can find or make up a song and rewrite or write lyrics to it involving April showers in some way, even if it is a wedding shower. The important thing as always is to be creative and have Friggin’ Fabulous Friday Fling Fun! Let the songwriting begin!
Here’s another to inspire you:
Well gave it a try…Sleep over about to arrive So, posting and hope did alright 🙄 😳
Rain Power
Girl come by my side
Take me to the heavens
Rain drops falling over us
Blessings from up high
You and me thinking the same
Rainbow over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
A new life one in a million
Angels see a new us
Age has no number as we think
Both are as ageless stars
Monte Carlo night ain`t got nothing on us
Tonight we are our own party as one
Reach for me baby or better yet,
We will reach for each other yes, yes
We are hot baby as we make sure that we stay roasted
Hot off the grill sizzling turning over
Talk about power we have it over each
Not a game for one but, for each other made real
Baby, baby ahi let it rain over us
Our body does not lie
We are fried
Let it rain over us
Let it rain over us
We are so high
Out of our minds
So let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
As a spring rain feeling good
Mami you know the feel, they won’t know what we got until they feel
I ain’t try, I am trying to keep it real
I’m trying to keep wealthy for us that’s for real
No games you’ll see, we can put the blame on each other
ahi, and let it rain over us
Rainbow blessings above see
Our body don’t lie
We are outta our minds
Let it rain over us
Rising so high
Out of our minds
So let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
I was playing she was playing
Next thing you know, we were playing toe to toe hehe
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I was playing with her, she was playing with me
Next thing you know, we were playing toe to toe hehe
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Rain over us
Our body don’t lie
We are outta our mind
Let it rain over us
Rising so high
Out of our mind
So let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
Ay ay ay April rain
Ay ay ay April rain
Let it rain over us
April rain soft as showers
Rainbow blessings as one
And another
Misty April Shower – to the tune of Little April Shower from the movie, Bambi.
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April shower
Pour me some love
As you soak up the ground
~~
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April shower
What can compare
With your beauty around
Beauty around
Beauty around
Drip, drop, drip, drop
~~~
Drip, drip, drop
When the day is gloomy
You brighten the earth
With flowers you bring
~~~
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April Shower
Pour me some love
As you soak up the ground
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April shower
What can compare with your beauty around
~~~
Drip, drip, drop
When the day is gloomy
You nurture the earth, nurture the earth with some loving care
Drip, drip, drop
When the day is gloomy
You nurture the earth, nurture the earth with some loving care
~~~
Sweet fragrance that you bring
The pleasing smell of spring
How I love the April showers
Pushing up the springtime flowers
Cheery posies, pretty pansies
Happy faces for days and hours
~~~
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April shower
Pour me some love
As you soak up the ground
Drip, drip, drop
Misty April shower
What can compare with your beauty around
Michelle R. King
4-19-12
This is by Sonnet Diva! Thanks so much for your contribution, Lori! :love:
APRIL IN PARIS
Apirl in paris
Where love lose
Their souls
Love of their lives
So sad it be
The rail fall in spring
Lover lose their way
April in paris
Shodows of smiles
That use to be
Now all that remain
Is the tears
Tears fallin like rain
A sad feelin no you want
To ever have
April in paris
Pretty scene you ever seen
Yet it still haerts
And breaks them onto
I been rhyhm
With the moon
Gratherin
All the pieces
That were broken
My heart for on
April in paris
She stole me heart
And I will for ever remember
April shower
Even the rain that I walked in
Midnight in paris
Is the best time to cry
When there is no one around
Its so ordinary
Spring time in paris
You get the feelin of love bloomin
April in paris
I love paris
In the spring time
When flowers are bloomin
Reds yellows pink and purple too
I love paris
In the summer time
When all the lovers are lovin
And birds are singing
I love paris
In fall when trees are green
And winter is callin
I love paris
In winter time
When the snow
Covers the ground but
April in paris still makes me so blues
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————– © April 19 , 2o11
Another by Sonnet Diva 🙂
I did the Eurythmics song Here Comes The Rain Again
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my garden perennials
Falling on my head getting me all wet
I want to walk see all my flowers bloom
I want to talk my garden soon
I want to dive into my raised beds
is it raining near you?
So Flowers talk to me
With such bright blooms
Stay with me
Drink in the rain
Talk to me
With colors bright
Here comes the rain again
Raining on my head like a great downpour
Teasing me with weeds for my devotion
oooh
Flowers do breath in the open wind
I want to kiss your petals soft
Diving into your colored ocean
Is it raining near you
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my garden perennials
Falling on my head getting me all wet
I want to walk see all my flowers bloom
I want to talk my garden soon
I want to dive into my raised beds
is it raining near you?
Here is a collab from a few years ago that reads like a song. It’s not to the tune of any song in particular but it seems to fit the topic.
ALL THE POEMS ARE ABSOLUTLY GORGEOUS. VERY VERY LOVELY. KUDOS TO ALL THE WRITERS. WOW
IT’S SO FINE
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
(Da rain, da rain)
It’s so fine
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
A key Spring sign
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
foul weather helps grow the fare
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
even fibers that we can wear.
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
I don’t know how it always does it
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
But it always grows the green
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
It’s the boon of all gardeners
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
working magic on the scene.
(Da-rain, da rain)
It falls soft to the ground,
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
soaking in all around.
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
Makes me wonder if I
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
could grow rhubarb for a pie.
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
I know Mother Nature’s sly
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
Rain can’t shy away forever
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
After which the sun will shine
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
For some fine growing weather.
(Da-rain, da rain)
It’s so fine
(Oh yeah)
finer than wine
(Oh yeah)
Sooner or later
(Oh yeah)
I hope it’s not later
(Oh yeah)
Bring on the stormy weather
(Oh yeah)
The sooner the better
(Oh yeah)
I just can’t wait, I just can’t wait
To see that rhubarb rise.
When April is here,
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
before all my seeds have been sewn
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
I’ll do everything that I should
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
Everything until they are grown
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
For they’re so fine
(So fine) so fine
(So fine) flowers fine
(So fine) so fine
(So fine) veggies fine
[Fades]
(So fine) oh yeah
(They’re so fine) They’re so fine
(So fine) uh-huh
(They’re so fine)
Rain’s so fine…..
(Da-rain, da rain, da rain)
(Da-rain, da rain)
~^~
This is from a mixture of song rewritten form … Bruno Mars / Ray Charles / David Nail / Pitbull …
~^~
NO LOVE IN THE RAIN
If you ever leave me baby
Leave some medication at my door
Cause there aint nothing gonna stop this pain
I realize what we used to have
It aint there any more
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Its hard to find the perfect time to say something
When good bye is on your lips
Living with this heart ache
It aint nothing like the pain that I saw on her face
There are your pile of things
I just threw out the window
Next it will be you
No twevel years cant hide the one night stand you had
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Come rain come shine
There will be no comin back
Now wont that be just fine
The day and I can finally close the door
We are outta time of lovin
And I am all outta tears
I can live with the pain come rain or shine
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Till April in Paris chestnuts in blossom
Lover are lovin but what about me
April in Paris this is a feeling
That no one can ever reprise
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
If you ever leave me baby
Make sure you lock all the doors
Cuz I may just come ‘a knockin just
To make sure you dont love me any more
Baby let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it pour down on me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain on me
Cuz I aint got on sun shine sense you been gone
Till April in Paris
Whom can I run to
What have you done to my heart
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Ay ay ay
Ay ay ay
Let it rain over me
Rewritten By: Bettie Davis ——————————- © April 19 , 2o12
Hi Bob and Michelle! Great blog with wonderful new songs! 😉 Just stopping by to read and leave a heart. :love: :love:
here is mine Scottrainhopper I went ahead and tried whatcha said it was funfersure hope you like and it did go good with it!! Youwere right……
Just so frickenlong as it is you know!! Oh again You all have to watch the video to understand some of the write .. or don’t :love: :love:
Loveall of you and have a beautiful weekend..
i am going to and Bob and Chelle the blog is beautiful good to see you :love: :love:
Beautiful blog and challenge and pieces posted. Congratulations to Lori. Happy Friday to All.