Day 41: Ninja Please
Since I had such a great response to my last song posting (Glenn said he enjoyed it), I decided to post another old classic from those heady days of early 2003, when the world was my oyster and I saw a song in everyone and everything.
This piece was actually commissioned to me based on some graffiti reading "Ninja Please" visible behind me in a grainy photograph (if I ever scan the photo it will appear in this blog). We had just watched Peter's sister Jana play an enjoyable show with David P. Smith - who is probably crazy - but certainly a genius. I believe the occasion was Glenn's 33rd birthday - but we had bailed on Glenn and the gang - or had they bailed on us? Time forgets. Doesn't much matter now.
Sometime later I wrote this little ditty and first played it for Sandra over the phone. When listening to old recordings, it sounds primitive and sloppy - what a surprise that I never moved on from that level! Anyways - Paul always seemed to enjoy this one and liked to request it.
The first and last verse go "Em->G->D->A", while the other ones go "D->A->G->D". Very simple. It's a classic example of my style of humour - it initially seems comedic but when you boil it down you realize it's dead serious and there's nothing particularly funny about it except the premise.
"Ninja Please"
In these times of trial
I know what I want, I know what I need
It's the simplest thing
Give me a ninja please
He can fight you for me
Cause he's a real cool fighting machine
I can do the laundry
Or maybe the dishes, iron my shirts
Cause it's not me you're after
A scrap with a ninja would do you more good
I can run away
Just use my ninja please
(musical interlude - aggressive ninja fighting style)
You can punch his belly, pull his hair
Kick my ninja anywhere
Or maybe you can scream and shout
Out all the things you're mad about
Yeah - you can fight him for me
Cause he's a real cool fighting machine
I can run away
Just use my ninja please
And when the fighting's done
And whether you lost, or whether you won
You can tell me all about it
Thank you ninja please
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Copyright: Croftonsongs, 2003
This piece was actually commissioned to me based on some graffiti reading "Ninja Please" visible behind me in a grainy photograph (if I ever scan the photo it will appear in this blog). We had just watched Peter's sister Jana play an enjoyable show with David P. Smith - who is probably crazy - but certainly a genius. I believe the occasion was Glenn's 33rd birthday - but we had bailed on Glenn and the gang - or had they bailed on us? Time forgets. Doesn't much matter now.
Sometime later I wrote this little ditty and first played it for Sandra over the phone. When listening to old recordings, it sounds primitive and sloppy - what a surprise that I never moved on from that level! Anyways - Paul always seemed to enjoy this one and liked to request it.
The first and last verse go "Em->G->D->A", while the other ones go "D->A->G->D". Very simple. It's a classic example of my style of humour - it initially seems comedic but when you boil it down you realize it's dead serious and there's nothing particularly funny about it except the premise.
"Ninja Please"
In these times of trial
I know what I want, I know what I need
It's the simplest thing
Give me a ninja please
He can fight you for me
Cause he's a real cool fighting machine
I can do the laundry
Or maybe the dishes, iron my shirts
Cause it's not me you're after
A scrap with a ninja would do you more good
I can run away
Just use my ninja please
(musical interlude - aggressive ninja fighting style)
You can punch his belly, pull his hair
Kick my ninja anywhere
Or maybe you can scream and shout
Out all the things you're mad about
Yeah - you can fight him for me
Cause he's a real cool fighting machine
I can run away
Just use my ninja please
And when the fighting's done
And whether you lost, or whether you won
You can tell me all about it
Thank you ninja please
---
Copyright: Croftonsongs, 2003
2 Comments:
At 9/16/2004 11:59 AM, gkarlsen said…
Nice!
I'm more a fan of just running away than sending in a surrogate fighter but I guess that would work to.
At 9/16/2004 12:35 PM, Gilman said…
I've said it before, I'll say it again, this song is the bee's knees. Give me a Ninja please!
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