songs to sing while walking

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my favorite one is a "rap" of unknown provenance and era:

Right -
right -
right in the middle of the whole darn thing I
Left -
left -
left my wife and forty-nine kids because I thought it was
Right -
right etc.

It doesn't match up unless you do a little skip right before "Left" and then again at the end/beginning.

Some rounds are really good too. Am I a hippie?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor - particularly useful if you need motivation.

― K-reg, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

feeling groovy - simon and garf

― Geoff, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Most of the songs from Talking Heads "More songs about buildings and food," can be walked to while singing. They have a quirky marching cadence. Try it. Especially "Stay Hungry" " Thank you for sending me an angel" "warning sign" etc.

― Gage-o, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I love to swagger to "I'm Real"

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I often find myself singing classical stuff while walking. Current faves would include Stravinsky's "Symphony Of Psalms", selections from "Die Schoene Muellerin", and chunks of the Brahms "Requiem".

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Proclaimers, "I Would Walk 500 Miles."

― nickn, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

tunes by the Police have an odd "train chugging downhill" vibe thats great for jogging along with. Mostly because of Andy's geetar playing. (It sounds like he all he does is do the Townshend Windmill Manuever 2 times a second.)

― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"If I Only Had a Brain"

― Arthur, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sterl - surely you need a walking partner for that one? (i am imagining a slightly psychotic Sterl switching ventriloquist-style from gruff Ja Rule parts to syrupy sweet J-Lo parts and drawing intrigued stares; tho surely this is pitfall of all walking songs in this urbanized world)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"I'm lucky I can open the door and I can walk down the street..." is all I can think of. (adjust tempo to your pace.) I used to recite "The Cremation of Sam McGee" when I went running so I wouldn't stop or slack off.

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Also, Katrina and the Waves "Walking On Sunshine," but you have to swing your arms and kick your feet really high as you're walking.

― nickn, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Down My Block" by Trip Shakespeare. Then you must brush your teeth.

― felicity, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's the "The way you walk, the way you talk" bit that swaggers the best. And they both sing that.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Primal Scream. oh yes.

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ooh! Felicity receives an Edna gold star for mentioning the terrific Trip Shakespeare on ILM. It's good to toddle along to "Look at the Moon" also.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think Arthur's wins my gold star because his suggestion is briskest. Also I'm suspicious of a walking song written by a band with "trip" in their name.

My family used to sing a round between us that went "come follow follow follow follow follow follow me / whither shall i follow follow follow, whither shall i follow follow thee? / to the greenwood, to the greenwood, to the greenwood greenwood tree." by the time we'd worked it all out and done it with no mistakes we'd be there already.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"I'm suspicious of a walking song written by a band with "trip" in their name."

Ok, then you're not a hippie

― felicity, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Except I don't really know the words, Tracer. I just hum most of them till I get to the chorus. But yeah, it's the jauntiest tune I know. And the lyrics that I do remember have great resonance.

― Arthur, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two steps, step out, by the go-betweens: i'd walk a hundred miles, a thousand miles, a million miles...

― cecilia, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Codex," Pere Ubu. This is the right title, yeah? That song off Dub Housing that goes "Here comes my shoes...here comes me..." & is the most stalkerly song I've ever heard.

― daria gray, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I do tend to sing Pavement's "Embassy Row" every time I walk around that particular part of Washington which is pretty often since I work down the street. 'by men in dashikis/with their leftist weeklies..' it's genius.

― daria gray, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight years pass...

I have not heard the songs in months, but I find myself singing...

"Radio, live transmission"

"You slap our backs and pretend you knew about
All the things that we were gonna do.
What ya gonna do,
What ya gonna do,
When it's over?"

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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