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The Holy City, Jerusalem – just not in Afrikaans, please

Gé Korsten popularised an Afrikaans translation of Fred­er­ic E. Wea­ther­ly’s “The Holy City” (1892). This is a song that, in its original, is filled from end to end with allusions to scripture. It is about the joy of Jerusalem of … Continue reading

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Illsong

Being distressed at the prospect of singing a Hillsong song, I collected all the lyrics of 100 or so Hillsong songs, and put them through a Markov chain generator, to generate new songs in the style of the originals.  The … Continue reading

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The sound of outage

Here’s a song to sing the next time your network goes down.  Click the play button on the youtube karaoke, and sing it yourself: Hello outage my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because of vulnerability creeping … Continue reading

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When Daddy comes driving home again

I needed to sing something (the internet was down, thanks Telkom, for your speedy attention to this problem). I thought I’d sing “When Johnny comes marching home again”, but couldn’t remember the words. So this is what it came to:When … Continue reading

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Silly songs with Audacity

And now it’s time for silly songs with Audacity: that part of the show where Audacity comes out and plays, a silly song. So it turns out that if you have a high tolerance for background noise and a poor … Continue reading

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