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COLLECTIONS:
Christmas Academics Theological Humor Various Political
Cycling Valentine’s Day Live
Stuff Really Old Collections
2014
Good
Translations [remix, September 1, 2014
Every
Time She Turns Around (she takes a photograph) [remix, June 8, 2014]
2013
An acoustic remix/re-recording of Death
by Chocolate (December 29, 2013)
Arrest
Ye Married Gentlemen (December 24, 2013)
You’re
a Mean One, Dr. Griff (basic acoustic guitar version [a much better one is
coming] December 21, 2013)
If
Led Zeppelin did Deck the Halls (December 20, 2013)
Shinar
You Crazy Tower (January 25, 2013; I began recording this October 11, 2011)
2012
Mr.
Teleprompter (November 4, 2012)
Smells
Like Plagiarism (January 9, 2012) Smells
Like Plagiarism (unplugged version)
2011
(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)
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}
…………………………………………………………..
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
Calvinist
(March 16, 2009) [lyrics]
Every
Time She Turns Around (she takes a photograph)
(February 6, 2009) [Lyrics] I wrote
and recorded this one as my wife’s
Valentine’s Day present this year. To see her photos click
here.
I’m Too
Smart (February 15, 2009) [Lyrics]
Fight
for Your Right to Study (January 25, 2009) [lyrics]
I
Hate Paper Grading (January 21, 2009) [lyrics]
Another
Phone Bites the Dust (February 8, 2009) [lyrics]
You’ve
Lost That Cell Phone Signal (February 9, 2009) [lyrics]
Political
songs from 2009
We
Track Our Enemies (August 24, 2009) [lyrics]
Back in the U.S.S.A. (June 19, 2009) [lyrics]
White
House (April 26, 2009) [lyrics]
Enter
Homeland (April 20, 2009) [lyrics]
(It’s screaming heavy metal. Waddaya expect?
Read the lyrics
if you can’t understand the words.
I couldn’t understand the Metallica original w/o the lyrics.
[My wife
said I needed to do something patriotic which wasn’t a
country song.])
The
New Man Came to Town [Same
thing without the intro ](April 6, 2009) [Lyrics]
2008
Death
by Chocolate (February 2008) [lyrics]
God
Bless the NSA (2008) [lyrics]
If
Pink Floyd did Rudolph (December
2008)
O Come
O Come Emmanuel (not a parody, but imagine what would happen if
the band Rush got caught in a snowstorm at a
monastary during Christmas)
[December
2008]
Slow
Elevator Comin' (April 27, 2008) [lyrics]
Ghost Writer
(April 20, 2008) [lyrics]
Yesterday
(think of all the food I'd put away. . . [April 20, 2008]) [lyrics]
Remastered
Chorus
Praise (remastered May 3, 2009) [lyrics]
Biker’s Tan
(remastered April 26, 2009) [lyrics]
Better
Not Dance (2008 Remastered, March 2008) [lyrics]
My
Lady (2008 Remastered, March 2008) [lyrics]
2007
It Ain't
Easy (December 2007) [lyrics]
When
the Bills Come Pouring In (December 2007) [lyrics]
Comfortably
Dumb (August 2007) [lyrics]
Brown Eyed
Lady (July 2007) [lyrics]
Click for MY CHRISTMAS
MUSIC
TOPICAL GROUPING OF BILL
GRIFFIN'S HUMOR, SATIRE, and LIGHT-HEARTED SONGS (129 different songs)
[numbers = alternate recordings
{once they have an underline then the link has been added <these are in
process>}]
Academics
Come to
Class [2]
[Lyrics] [3]
EC
Bible Department 1985 [Lyrics]
Fight
For Your Right To Study [Lyrics]
I
Should Have Studied Harder [2] [Lyrics]
I
Will Fail You [2] [3]
[4]
[Lyrics]
KECC
Jingle [2] [Lyrics]
Life
in the Cafe Line [Lyrics]
Mommy
Used To Make Me Go To Church [2]
[3]
[Lyrics]
Old
Testament Syllabus [Lyrics]
Plagiarized
Paper [2]
[3] [Lyrics]
Sleeping
in the Chapel [2]
[3]
[Lyrics]
The
Freshman Blues [2] [Lyrics]
Bicycling
Biker's Tan [2] [Lyrics]
Brown Eyed
Lady [Lyrics]
Cycling
Medly [Lyrics]
Heartbeat
Oh Well [Lyrics]
I Ride Alone [Lyrics]
It Ain't
Easy [Lyrics]
It's
the End of the Ride As We Know It
[Lyrics]
Let's Ride [2] [3] [Lyrics]
Mommy
and Daddy Wear Spandex [2] [3]
[Lyrics]
My Baby
Rides a Hundred Miles a Week [2] [3]
[Lyrics]
Please
Quit Gripin 'bout my Bike [Lyrics]
Ride the 150 [Lyrics]
Riding
the Greenways [2] [Lyrics]
Christmas
Another
Tear-Jerking Christmas Song [2]
[Lyrics]
Bad King
Wenceslas [lyrics]
Bring
Those Funky Presents Santa [2]
[Lyrics]
Busy Stripmalls [2] [Lyrics]
Here Come
Old Fat Man [Lyrics]
If Pink
Floyd did Rudolph [Lyrics]
No
Place Like WalMart for the Holidays
[2] [Lyrics]
O Shopping Mall [2] [Lyrics]
Online
Presents Coming to Town [2] [Lyrics]
Please
Go Home For Christmas [lyrics]
Please
Stop Ye Merry Gentlemen [2] [Lyrics]
Please
Stop Ye Merry Gentlemen (Acapella)
Rudolph
Got Run Over By My Grandma [2]
[Lyrics]
The
12 Digital Days of Christmas
[Lyrics]
The
Elves vs St Nicholas [Lyrics]
Up For The
Bargains [2] [Lyrics]
What Food Is
This? [2] [Lyrics]
When the Bills Come Pouring In [Lyrics]
Other
Ha-showfait
ivvair [2] [Lyrics]
Y2K [2] [Lyrics]
Yesterday
(Think of all the food I'd put away) [Lyrics]
Regional
Hang
Low Ice Covered Branches [Lyrics]
Ice
on the Branches [Lyrics]
Propane [Lyrics]
Somethin's
in the Water out Here [2] [Lyrics]
Springfield
MO [2]
[Lyrics]
Politics
The
New Man Came to Town [Lyrics]
Great
Bombs of Fire [Lyrics]
(Well, I wasn’t quite right about this one.)
Theology
Alliteration [2] [Lyrics]
Answering
the Call [Lyrics]
Avenue
to Hell [2] [3] [Lyrics]
Better
Not Dance [2] [Lyrics]
Brotherly
Love [Lyrics]
By
Permission [2] [3] [Lyrics]
Calvinist
[Lyrics]
Challenged
for Jesus [2] [Lyrics]
Chorus
Praise [Lyrics]
Come to
Class [2] [Lyrics]
Cooking
in the Bible [2] [Lyrics]
Everybody
Must Get Slain [Lyrics]
Friends [Lyrics]
Good
Translations [2] [Lyrics]
Housetops [2] [Lyrics]
If
I Had a Big Church [Lyrics]
Illustrations
[2] [Lyrics]
Marcion's
Song [2] [Lyrics]
Mommy
Used To Make Me Go To Church [2] [3]
[Lyrics]
My
Father's House [Lyrics]
Popular
Christianity [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics]
Reformation
Rap [Lyrics]
Revival [2] [Lyrics]
Secret
Coding Man [Lyrics]
Sleeping
in the Chapel [2] [3] [Lyrics]
S.P.I.R.I.T.U.A.L. [2] [Lyrics]
Tape
Backout [2] [Lyrics]
The
Feminist Theology Colors [2]
[Lyrics]
The Hop [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics]
The
Missionary Offering Song [Lyrics]
The
Politically Correct Bible [2]
[Lyrics]
The
Scripture Twist [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics]
The
Sunday School Blues [2] [3] [Lyrics]
The
Theologian Song [2] [3] [4] [Lyrics]
The
Worship Police [2] [3] [Lyrics]
Virtual
Spirituality [Lyrics]
Technology
Another
Phone Bites the Dust [Lyrics]
Dataport
[2] [3] [Lyrics]
You’ve
Lost That Cell Phone Signal [Lyrics]
Valentine’s Day/Family
Brown Eyed
Lady [Lyrics]
Daniel
Little Boy [2] [3] [Lyrics]
Every
Time She Turns Around [Lyrics]
Good
Translations [2] [Lyrics]
My Baby
Rides a Hundred Miles a Week [2]
[Lyrics]
My
Lady (electric) [Lyrics]
Tia's
Song [2] [Lyrics]
ALPHABETIZED;115 different recorded
songs (list needs updating)
Aliens Alliteration Another
Phone Bites the Dust Another
Tear-Jerking Christmas Song Answering
the Call Avenue
to Hell Back
in the U.S.S.A. Better
Not Dance Biker's Tan Bomb
Afghan Bring
Those Funky Presents Santa Brotherly
Love Brown Eyed
Lady Busy Stripmalls By
Permission Calvinist
Carol of
the Bells Challenged
for Jesus Chorus
Praise Come to
Class Comfortably
Dumb Cooking
in the Bible Cycling
Medly Daniel
Little Boy Dataport Death
by Chocolate EC
Bible Department 1985 Enter
Homeland Every
Time She Turns Around Everybody
Must Get Slain Fight
For Your Right To Study Friends Ghost Writer God
Bless the NSA Good
Translations Grade
Somebody Great
Bombs of Fire Ha-showfait
ivvair Hang
Low Ice Covered Branches Heartbeat
Oh Well Homework Housetops I
Hate Paper Grading I Ride Alone I
Should Have Studied Harder I
Will Fail You Ice
on the Branches If
I Had a Big Church If Pink
Floyd did Rudolph Illustrations I’m Too
Smart It Ain't
Easy It's
the End of the Ride As We Know It KECC
Jingle Let's Ride Life
in the Caf' Line Little
M1 Marcion's
Song Mommy
and Daddy Wear Spandex Mommy
Used To Make Me Go To Church My Baby
Rides a Hundred Miles a Week My
Father's House My
Lady My
Lady (acoustic) No
Place Like WalMart for the Holidays O
Come, O Come Emmanuel O Shopping Mall Old
Testament Syllabus Online
Presents Coming to Town Plagiarized
Paper Please
Go Home For Christmas Please
Quit Gripin 'bout my Bike Please
Stop Ye Merry Gentlemen Please
Stop Ye Merry Gentlemen (Acapella) Popular
Christianity Prof on
the Run Propane Reformation
Rap Resolution
Revival Ride the 150 Riding
the Greenways Rudolph
Got Run Over By My Grandma Secret
Coding Man Sleeping
in the Chapel Slow
Elevator Coming Somethin's
in the Water out Here S.P.I.R.I.T.U.A.L. Springfield
MO Surgery
Tape
Backout Test Tomorrow The
12 Digital Days of Christmas The
Elves vs St Nicholas The
Feminist Theology Colors The
Freshman Blues The Hop The
Missionary Offering Song The
New Man Came to Town The
Politically Correct Bible The
Scripture Twist The
Sunday School Blues The
Theologian Song The
Worship Police Tia's
Song Up For The
Bargains Virtual
Spirituality We
Are the Scholars We
Track Our Enemies What Food Is
This? When
the Bills Come Pouring In White
House Y2K Yesterday
(Think of all the food I'd put away) You’ve
Lost That Cell Phone Signal
Lyrics,
an alphabetical listing of my music, and how I recorded many songs.
BY BROAD GROUPING:
The main collection: mostly
humor/satire/light-hearted stuff (since 1995 [mainly])
Theological &
Church-Related Humor/satire
Various
Other Humor Topics (other sports, 2007 ice storm,
politics, etc.)
Live recordings
(1981-present)
1981 Bill & Jim
Live (
1982 Live at Chi Alpha
(Bill Griffin, Jim Griffin, Larry Morrison;
1985 The Theologian (
1988 Cambridge
Christian Center (MA)
1995 Bill G Live (
Coming soon: Live at the
Barn (a real barn, not the ET one) October 11, 1997
Freshman Chapel,
2004 MS 150 Rally (
2004 Evangel University
Homecoming Tailgate Party (
2006 Live at Evangel
Temple (
2007 ET Christmas
Concert (
Apocalypse (1977;
a band I was in with Jim Griffin, John Price, and Steve Mercer)
Apocalypse:
The Basement Tapes (1977)
Bill’s
Quick Mix (1981; collaboration with Jim Griffin)
Head
On (1982; collaboration with Jim Griffin)
Songs
from the Holy City (1983)
At It Again
(1984)
Boston
Uncommon (1987; recorded when we lived in
MUSIC BY MY BRO’: A link to James Griffin’s music website