You take the song, get all the lyrics in a word document, put in the chords at their correct places, then go through the songwriting phase of basically taking every single line and reworking it to speak a different narrative. It's sometimes tricky with songs that have a very memorable chorus, in that you either have to surrender the song to be less thorough or find words that sound very similar and hope they have the same impact.

There are a lot of nuances to doing these parodies/adaptations, some are far easier to do than others.

I would be thrilled if other people besides me started doing these

https://youtu.be/aojLR_sszWk

This song is most excellent and I've considered starting working on it

I love Cumberland gap

@Bard It would be cool if you did one for duncan. I am listening to that song right now

It would be even better if, for each verse, we had lines for a different martyr.

It would be helpful to me for you guys to compile a list like that

As an honorary nod to those who weren't as fortunate as us. Could even mention ruby ridge or waco

I'll get some work on it done today

to quote Soap in the mission contingency on MW2 "Make it count these things don't grow on trees"

If these are the same sort of "Firearms charges" that caused ruby ridge, oughta call the song "2 inches of iron"

In Potomac city Maryland, just a day ago, a boy of 21 there got a taste of federal law

His friends online were waitin', for tragedies to find, the boy of olden Maryland had a brand upon his mind

He dared to speak his mind, his thoughts were his crime

There's a great line in too many martyrs were it says "The country gained a killer, and the country lost a man"

so sad

Alright I'm getting fucking amped up right now

I want to rewrite the song, cut the track, do a dub over so the lyrics sound really clear and nice, then put it under a video slide show of Duncan's life with his pictures etc.

Finish that, post it to PWAVE, good to go

A proper tribute, none of this half assed shit

Hell yeah dude, I'll throw it up for you when you get it all set!

you should add in a line at some place that says something about us boys not being afraid to die, because all the boys will meet us in the after life. Cause we all are mad about this.

Ryan Taylor from fb here

ryan Throw up one of your jams

1775 anti tax street ballad “What a Court Hath Old England”. Also, The melody is a very popular old one called “derry down” which would serve well for writing new songs to it

Could only post a small segment of the video but you get the gist

I dig it. I think we gotta have some more shidd to rally behind. Music is, of course, the ultimate bond

Indeed!

@Rustbelt Rover a fellow bard! Welcome friend, and a 12 string man, my kind of dude

Used to have a nice Martin 12 but I sold it for extra money when I went to school

Still regret it

@Bard haha yea its actually a 12 string strung with only 6 strings. I like the wider neck spacing.

That's a Kurt Cobain move right there

Except that fucker stringed a 12 string classical with only 5 strings and did all his demos with that

And still sounded badass

So I make heavy shit. If anyone wants to make some music to roll into battle with, I'm down

thats a stupidly simple beatdown song

I make shit like this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLU_iXioJpY