A late congratulations to Bonnie Stewart for defending her dissertation on Friday. I am little peeved she scheduled it the morning I left for a 4 day backpack to the Grand Canyon, so I missed the live video stream and all of the twitter live action support.
Through emails I did not see until today, Sara Honeychurch and others started a playlist of tribute songs, and I felt compelled to pen a quick one tonight.
Knowing that Bonnie is a major David Bowie fangirl, I saw right away that the words to Space Oddity e.g. “Ground Control to Major Tom” had a nice option to make it “All of Twitter to #DrBon”. The chords are really doable and the song does have a nice acoustic guitar strum throughout it.
So here it is, a hasty re-write of the lyrics, and about 3 practices and a one take recording…
I might have spent more time doctoring up the poster (pretty tricky since nearly all of Bonnie’s photos are looking right into the camera):
It’s just a coincidence I made a song for Bonnie’s husband Dave Cormier last week; this is not a regular thing!
And here, for anyone who cares, or cannot make out the words I am croaking, are my re-written lyrics and the chords I played:
Intro C Em C Em
C Em
All of Twitter hashtag Drbon
C Em
All of Twitter hashtag Drbon
Am Am7 D7
Close the slide deck and put your smile on
C Em
All of Twitter hashtag Drbon
C Em
Commencing countdown, streaming video on
Am Am7 D7
Kiss the kids and know our support be with you
C E7
This is All of Twitter to Drbon
F
You've really made the grade
Fm C F
And the tweeters want to know whose shoes you wear
Fm C F
Now it's time to defend the thing if you dare
C E7
This is DrBon to all of twitter
F
I'm stepping through the door
Fm C F
And I'm floating in a most the peculiar way
Fm C F
And the tweets look very different today
Fmaj7
For here
Em7
Am I standing in the defense room
Fmaj7 Em7
In front of all the world
Bb Am
Dave has clicked the stream
G F
And it's feeling like a dream
C F G A A
C F G A A
Fmaj7 Em7 A C D E
C E7
Though I'm past one hundred thousand words
F
I'm feeling very still
Fm C F
And I think my committee knows which way to go
Fm C F
Tell my hubby I love him very much (he knows!)
C E7
All of Twitter hashtag Drbon
Am Am7
Your defense is done, there's nothing wrong
D7
Can you tweet me, Drbon?
C
Can you tweet me, Drbon?
G
Can you tweet me, Drbon?
Can you tweet....
Fmaj7 Em7
Here am I floating above PEI
Fmaj7 Em7
Far above the snow
Bb Am
Dave has closed the stream
G F
And it's feeling like a dream
C F G A A
C F G A A
Fmaj7 Em7 A C D E
Top / featured image credits: from photo tweeted by Dave Cormier (like will tweets ever get creative commons?)
