Story Song

I tell ya, no tale's quite so full of glory as the Americans' cracked up version of their revolution. Well, ah, who am I to know just how much they stretched the truth. Anywhat, it's a nice little story.

And what better to jazz up a story like that further than to turn it into a crazy children's song! Heck yeah, I'm talking about Schoolhouse Rock, fellas. Let's run with it!!

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"Shot Heard 'Round the World"
from Schoolhouse Rock
(written and performed by Bob Dorough)
Lyrics here !!!


Plot!!

• The Glorious American Revolutionary War. The Americans and the British are in lovely combat and the song goes on and elicits the details of some of them!

Characters!!

• British
• Cornwallis
• Revolutionaries (Minute men)
• Paul Revere
• General Washington
• Colonel Prescott
• France and Spain??

Conflict!!

• Why, the lovely fighting that's going on between the british soldiers and the revolutionaries, of course!

Theme!!

• Independence
• Patriotism

Setting!!

• British Colonial America
• Old North Bridge
• Bunker Hill
• Delaware
• Valley Forge
• Yorktown

Six word memoooooirs

Now, does anybody actually read through every baby tidbit of text that falls into making this kind of a blog? Heck no! Not a chance, lads! At least, I certainly don't. But maybe there'll be a right better chance if it's actually short enough to read through. Worth'a shot, anyhow. So read away, kapeesh?

(Nah I kid, I read through your stuff, I do.)

((Eh, usually anyway.))

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In no particular order BUT STILL IN REVERSE ORDER!!

10; plain sight was never so obvious!

9; sorrow fights much harder than joy.

8; when in doubt, abuse your power!

7; don't fall without causing a crater!

6; unfortunately, with water comes pond scum.

5; careful, lads. this garden ain't eden.

4; elevators like these only go down.

3; hardly a boat unless it floats.

2; many good ideas die when executed.

1; oops this isn't enough words

Grand Theft Poetry!

okay I stole some lines and then I unstole said lines to make something useful

(this one has no relation to the character of omatav, regrettably)

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Gentlemen, we've all proven ourselves

We stand our ground stalwart

On a bloodstained minefield that has never been safe;

When does it explode?

Kill them.

a Mass extinction to be inflicted on my own kin;

The fowl of the air alone carry my secrets.

At night, as the skies wash out the light,

I plead to the stars

that no soul will realize:

that I'm protecting the rest of humankind

Tears stained red,

Blood stained cold,

Words stained with silence,

the silence that crushes the strongest man

and makes him weep

Privileged to command with authority and grace.

but...

what would you have me do?

Speak what you will. Likewise, will I.

Perhaps we will see, yet, who is truly more free.

Freedom weighted against consciousness

Fame against sincerity

Children haunt the minefield on which we are planted

They inflict fear enough to cause one to fall;

The fall drowned in the endless expanse

But proclaimed in its own way nonetheless.

Otherwise, will it end?