Your wish is my command! Done, and thank you, because mellow's exactly the tag I was looking for on some of my other ones.

In reply to this comment by taranimator:
this is sweet! 'mellow' 'downbeat' tag?

this is sweet! 'mellow' 'downbeat' tag?

fantastic!
got that trip-hop downbeat i love!

Broken Waltz: 33808,0,0,16,0,8464,24,0,0,16916,0,16,80,128,8,67872

Groove w/o downbeat: 0,0,122882,0,240,61440,0,0,15360,0,2,7682,482,2,0,2

Close encounters: 20744,0,0,4228,0,0,16912,0,36864,0,16896,32768,2112,65536,4096,0

Cannon: 8712,0,8192,256,17416,2048,1032,8320,33040,65536,32768,4104,8480,64,288,4

Reich: 74896,37448,18724,74896,37448,37448,74896,18724,37448,74896,18724,18724,74896,18724,37448,74896

This morning, I'd intended to get up early so I'd have plenty of time to pack and load into my gig, but I ended up sleeping in an hour longer. When I did eventually get up, I played with my kitties, made an omelette, watched an episode of 30 Rock, and took a quick peek at my video queue. With all this dilly-dallying I would have to be quick in order to load up, drive and set up before the 12 noon downbeat. I got there about 17 til, and was set up by a few minutes after noon, which wasn't a big deal, since rehearsals usually start 5-10 minutes late.

After rehearsal, I came home and ate some tapioca, read this sift talk post, read kp's comment and then eventually posted my own comment. This is that comment.

After posting and re-reading, I considered fixing up some of the poor grammar and run on sentences, but eventually decided against it.

>> ^rottenseed:
I think the music in this made it more dramatic and philosophical feeling than the question and answers really are...
what's next? "What kind of shoes do you want to wear tomorrow?"


However, not all the people are reaching into the great existential realms for their answers, and yet this downbeat lighthearted song made them too deep?

I think you are just in a bad mood.

These boys have been to many an unhappy bardo, and now they are sacrificing the Dharma in this most ideal incarnation, for another few million trips.....
-Downbeat

This is the worst attempt at anything I have seen in quite some time. After not having played for 6 months I could still do better than this, and without looking like I'm going to have a hernia on all the simple downbeats. I'm going to have to say the White Stripes ho may be better than this as well. Please downvote this comment, or I will be very unhappy.

Here's the chords and lyrics for you prospecting musicians
A PIRATE I WAS MEANT TO BE
Capo II

[Am]
We're a band of vicious pirates!
A sailin´ out to sea.
When you hear our gentle singing...
You'll be sure to turn and flee!
[F] [E]
Oh, this is just ridiculous.

Bridge: [F] [C] [E] ×3

[Am]
Come on, men! We've got to recover that map!
[F] [E] [Am] [A7]
That pirate will be done for, when he falls into our trap!
[Dm]
We're a club of tuneful rovers!

We can sing in every clef!
[Am]
We can even hit the high notes!

It's just too bad we're tone deaf!
[E] [F]
A pirate I was meant to be!
[C] [E]
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

Bridge: [F] [C] [E] ×3

[Am]
Let's go defeat that evil pirate!
[F] [E] [Am] [A7]
We know he's sure to lose, ´cause we know just where to fire at!

[Dm]
We're thieving balladeers.

A gang of cutthroat mugs.
[Am]
To fight us off ye don't need guns!

Just jolly good ear plugs!

[E] [F]
A pirate I was meant to be!
[C] [E]
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

Bridge: [F] [C] [E] ×3

All right, crew, let's get to work!
Our vocation's a thing we love
A thing we'd never shirk!
We'll fight you in the harbor.
We'll battle you on land.
But when you meet singing pirates...
They'll be more than you can stand.
Oh! That was a good one!
No, it wasn't.

No time for song! We've got to move!
The battle will be long,
But our courage we will prove!
We're a pack of scurvy seadogs
Have we pity? Not a dram
We all eat roasted garlic
Then sing from the diaphragm.

A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

Less singing, more sailing.
When we defeat our wicked foe,
His ship he will be bailing!
If ye try ta fight us
You will get a nasty whackin'!
If ya disrespect our singin'
We will feed ya to a kraken!

A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

I'm getting so sick of you guys and your rhyming.
We're ready to set sail,
though the cannons need a-priming.
We're troublesome corsairs!
And we've come to steal your treasures!
We would shoot you on the downbeat
But we have to rest five measures.

A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

Stop! Stop! Stop!
The brass is what we'll polish
And the deck is what we'll mop.

You say you're nasty pirates...
Scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?
From what I've seen I tell you
You're not pirates! You're just slackers!

A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
And...!
...um...
Well...
...err...
Door hinge?
No, no...
Guess the song's over, then.
Guess so.
Hokay, back to work.
Well gee.
I feel a little guilty, now...

Bit of a long one, this.

A somewhat rough cut (no sound effects or background music or, apparently, colour), but the awesomeness of this slightly more downbeat ending is still plainly obvious.

Background info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_%281986_film%29#The_lost_ending