BILL GRIFFIN’S

BILL GRIFFIN’S

MUSIC!

New Releases:

Smells Like Plagiarism (January 9, 2012) Smells Like Plagiarism (unplugged version)

(This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s) White Christmas [This didn’t used to be a Christmas song] (December 21, 2011)

It Is Over (Happy Christmas) [You know, I never liked the original version of this one] (December 23, 2011)

It’s The Most Stressful Time of the Year [Sorry, I don’t have Andy Williams’ voice] (December 23, 2011)

SOME OF THE MORE POPULAR SELECTIONS

Death by Chocolate [lyrics] I Will Fail You [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics] We Are the Scholars [lyrics] (poking fun at professors) Test Tomorrow [lyrics] (commissioned by a student) Fight for Your Right to Study [lyrics] I Hate Paper Grading [lyrics] Yesterday (think of all the food I'd put away. . . [April 20, 2008]) [lyrics] Slow Elevator Comin' (April 27, 2008) [lyrics] (about the elevator in Trask Hall) Better Not Dance (Remastered) [lyrics] (inspired by the book of Judges) My Lady (2008 Remastered, March 2008) [lyrics] Write This Way [Lyrics] (to teach Bible majors SBL writing style) Comfortably Dumb [lyrics] (the responses are taken from student writings) Calvinist (no, I’m not one) The Worship Police Aliens [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics] Springfield MO [2] [Lyrics] (most of the specifics come from students in one of my classes) Mommy Used To Make Me Go To Church [2] [3] [Lyrics] (from when I was a student--I wrote this after leading worship at a summer school chapel [yes, we had chapel during summer school in the early 1980’s]) Mommy and Daddy Wear Spandex Somethin’s in the Water out Here [lyrics] (about rural Wisconsin) [Photos related to this song] Please Go Home For Christmas {with a lot of help from my Sophomore Seminar students} [lyrics] Back in the U.S.S.A. [lyrics] (yes, this is political) Popular Christianity (the first non-serious song I ever wrote) In A Nutshell (a musical montage about EU professors)

RECENT SONG RELEASES Griffin’s Homepage Email Bill Griffin

2011 (1 new recording)

Homework (January 1, 2011) [Lyrics] {This is a serious revision of an earlier version I recorded years ago. I added 3 guitar parts, percussion, and a new vocal track.}

2010 (7 new recordings)

Write This Way (December 30, 2010) [Lyrics] {A musical introduction to SBL writing style, with appreciation for

my wife who just gave me a new mixing board. The vocals were an incredible tongue twister.}

For Christmas:

Here Come Old Fat Man (December 24, 2010)

I Wonder as I Wander (December 23, 2010) {a non-traditional approach to an old melody}

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Scans by the TSA (Nov 20, 2010) [lyrics] {WWMD [What would Moses do? <cf. Genesis 3:21; 9:21-25; Exodus 20:26>]}

Summer School Class (May 16, 2010) [lyrics] {written and recorded on the same day}

We Are the Scholars (February 5, 2010) [lyrics] {You ask how I recorded a song when I am one-armed because of surgery? Well, I started recording this last November. I took the original electric guitar part, cut it apart, and duplicated it so that it sounds like 2 guitars instead of one. Since there was no bass guitar yet recorded, I then took snippets from other songs I have recorded and pieced them together into a bass part. The piano would always be sampled sounds (I don’t play keyboards). I can sing without a functional right arm (there are up to 12 vocal parts in various parts of the song). Frankly, sitting at the computer and using a mouse with my left hand was very low physical activity.

Surgery (January 27, 2010) [lyrics] {written and recorded the day before my shoulder surgery}

2009 (18 new recordings)

CHRISTMAS

Resolution {My wife says this isn’t one of my better parodies—I’ll try to do better next year!} (December 31, 2009) [lyrics]

Please Go Home For Christmas {with a lot of help from my Sophomore Seminar students} (December 17, 2009) [lyrics]

Bad King Wenceslas (December 13, 2009) [lyrics]

OTHER

My Lady {acoustic guitar version w/the missing verse!} (May 17, 2009) [lyrics]

Test Tomorrow (April 19, 2009) [lyrics]

Somethin’s in the Water out Here (April 12, 2009) [lyrics]

(about rural Wisconsin) [Photos related to this song]

Calvinist (March 16, 2009) [lyrics]