One of my favorite songs from the 60s was Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon", but since it was written for a woman to sing I never had much opportunity to sing it. But then I figured that if it's time for women to be engaging in combat, maybe it's time for this song to be re-gendered.
Hmmm. It doesn't really work. I changed all the gendered words but now it sounds like some mama's boy pining away for some bull-dozing staff sergeant named Melba. But I recorded it anyway.
I went way overboard on the guitars, laying down several tracks and not being satisfied with any one of them. So I blanked out all the parts I didn't like and left in the ones I sorta did.
FLASH! Dugym Qycfyl just e-mailed me and said that my regendering of this song doesn't work because all I did was change the pronouns. He said the whole plot of the song needs to be adjusted so that it's about a guy who's having trouble because his girlfriend is too feminine. Just as the original song is about a girl's boyfriend being too masculine.
Luckily, Dugym supplied revised lyrics for me and here's the new, re-sexed version.
FLASH! Dugym Qycfyl just e-mailed me and said that my regendering of this song doesn't work because all I did was change the pronouns. He said the whole plot of the song needs to be adjusted so that it's about a guy who's having trouble because his girlfriend is too feminine. Just as the original song is about a girl's boyfriend being too masculine.
Luckily, Dugym supplied revised lyrics for me and here's the new, re-sexed version.
If you ask me, this new version could become a hit for some studly C&W crooner.
BONUS COVER!
I realize that the song of the night was mostly cover but Knees made so many decent covers (all of excellent songs) I like adding them here. This is one that has a completely different beat from the original version by Buffalo Springfield. It was sort of an experiment and it turned out quite well, I think.
