Monday, January 21, 2008

The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing, Disappearing Hilltroll


Well here I am again.

Coming up on the horizon is Pantheacon, where I work the registration desk every year. For those of you who don't know about p-con, it is a gathering of Pagans and other weirdos to go to workshops about religion and magic, and also don outrageous drag and attend wild rituals and balls. It's on Presidents' Day Weekend every year for the last 14 years.

I will get there a day early so as to attend the staff meeting on Thursday night, which means that it will be Feb 14--you guessed it, Valentine's Day!! Since last year I missed my chance to do the Bittersweet Valentine Sad Love Song Sing-Along...I figure this is my chance to make it up! I have had a lot of time to practice songs and get better on my uke, so I am pretty excited. Here is my tentative song list, and I hope if you can think of additional songs you will write in! The more sentimental and over-the-top the better. So in no particular order:

Plaisir D'Amour
Love Hurts by Nazareth
Love Stinks by J Geils Band
Ring of Fire--Johnny Cash
Hopelessly Devoted to You-Olivia Newton John
I've Heard the Tearstained Monologue You Do there by the Door Before You Go--William Mason
Your Cheatin Heart--Hank Williams
Banks of the Ohio (traditional)
Banks of the River (Stanley Brothers--hey, does anyone know how to get the chords for this?)
One (Is the Loneliest Number that You'll Ever know)--3 Dog Night
Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
You Suck (Ais Harvey)
Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
Yesterday (Beatles)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell--I also need chords for this one if anyone has them)
Cries for No One (Beatles)
Below in the Valley (Brahms)
If I Loved You (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
I Ain't Missin You (Tyler Hilton)
Sandy (John Travolta)
Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers)
Oh Darling (Beatles)
Tear in my Beer (Hank Williams)
Crazy (Patsy Cline)
St Louis Blues (I think this is traditional, that or Gershwin)

1 comment:

Linda Bohara said...

I'm so happy you included "You Suck" in this list! I can't think of anything else to add off the top of my head. Hmm, maybe it's because I'm in Sacramento right now for a boring three day nutrition and public health conference - not very conducive to thinking of sad broken hearted love songs.