{"id":18092,"date":"2019-12-15T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18092"},"modified":"2019-12-15T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:15:37","slug":"althallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/12\/15\/althallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"#AltHallelujah"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Last night, Ellen Kushner saw that someone had written verses to the tune of Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cHallelujah,\u201d telling the Christian Nativity story. So she asked Twitter to come up with some non-Christian \u201cHallelujah\u201d variations:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I call upon the power of all my genius rhyming friends (and any of theirs) to now crank out a series of increasingly rambunctious songs beginning always with: <br>&quot;I heard there was a....&quot;<br>a\/a\/b\/b\/etc. rhymes only, please<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizduffyadams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lizduffyadams<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Signs_of_Life?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Signs_of_Life<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ellen Kushner, Queen of the Lizard People (@EllenKushner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EllenKushner\/status\/1206061921604186112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p>And Twitter, of course, responded. Follow the link to see many delightful verses.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think my favorite from that thread may be Amal El-Mohtar\u2019s Carrollian verse:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I heard there was a vorpal sword<br>ate snicker-snacks when it got bored<br>but you don&#39;t really care for Carroll, do ya<br>well it goes like this, drawn forth in myth<br>a shouted call, a gleaming gift,<br>a frabjous boy Calloo-ing, Callalujah<br>Callay-loo-jah, Callay-loo-jay<\/p>&mdash; Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tithenai\/status\/1206063628115468293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p>but it\u2019s hard to really pick a favorite, because I love so many of them. (A fair number of the pieces in that thread don\u2019t quite rhyme and\/or don\u2019t quite scan, but even among those, there are often excellent bits.)<\/p>\r\n<p>And someone in that thread linked to a thread from a couple of months ago that combined <cite>Sweeney Todd<\/cite> with \u201cHallelujah\u201d:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">attend the tale of Sweeney Todd<br>his skin was pale and his eye was odd<br>but you don&#39;t really care for music, do ya?<\/p>&mdash; Frankie Thomas (@frankie_jay_tho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankie_jay_tho\/status\/1172173380864200711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>See also my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/08\/31\/hallelujah\/\">post<\/a> from a couple of months ago, linking to some meta-verses.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18096,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions\/18096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}