History ToTheTuneOf / RealLife

** Also, the theme song from BarneyAndFriends {{Expy}} Mary Moo Cow in {{WesternAnimation/Arthur}}

* Germany's national anthem uses a tune that was originally written by Music/JosephHaydn for Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire. The tune is also used for several hymns. Most Americans probably associate the song ''exclusively'' with WorldWarTwo, but it's OlderThanTheyThink.

* "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and the opening theme to TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack.
* "Dance Of The Hours" and ''The Garfield Opera'' from WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends.

* The AlmaMaterSong of Yale is a taken from German patriotic hymn "The Watch on the Rhine", best known in America for its appearance in the "Marseillaise" scene in ''{{Casablanca}}''.

* Patsy Gallant gave us "From L.A. to New York", to the tune of Québecois folk song "Mon pays". The English lyrics (written by Gene Williams) are nothing at all like the French lyrics, and the original author (Gilles Vigneault) has disowned the English version. (to be fair, Mlle. Gallant also recorded the French version in the same disco style)

* "BINGO (Was His Name-O)" and the opening theme to ''CampLazlo''.

* The Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" has an alternate version known as "Johnny Fill Up The Bowl". The Irish ballad "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" also uses its melody.

* The former TropeNamer is "God Save the King/God Save the Queen," sung in America as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" and in ImperialGermany as "Heil dir im Siegerskranz."

** And of course "The Red Flag" has been parodied, thanks to [[TonyBlair New Labour]], as "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Flag_Once_A_Year The People's Flag Is Palest Pink]]."

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* In a case legally ruled to be plagiarism, "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here" appropriated the tune of "With Catlike Tread" from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
** The tune itself is a reference to "The Anvil Chorus" from ''Il Trovatore'' by Music/GiuseppeVerdi. Listen to the "Come, friends who plough the sea" bit.
* Similarly, Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''My Sweet Lord'' from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'' was ruled to have plagiarized the Chiffons' ''He's So Fine'', in a case of what the judge called "unconscious copying". Harrison later bought the rights to the song to avoid further legal entanglements.
* It is worth bearing in mind that Renaissance composers such as Josquin, Ockeghem and Dufay who created the foundations of our musical language worked almost EXCLUSIVELY with melodies that were not their own. Many of their works were even called "parody masses", in the sense that they used short pieces of music (not just a melody) composed by others as a starting point. (Parody does not imply a humorous appropriation in this case).
* A good number of songs written early on for "'Series/BarneyAndFriends'', including the theme song and I Love You, are set to the tune of traditional kids' songs. The show, however, has a ton of original songs as well, even in its early days.
* "Twinkle twinkle, little star..." / "A B C D E F G..." And they're all based on the French song "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" -- which itself inspired a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:12_Variations_Tema.ogg 13-part]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Variation_I.ogg Mozart piece]].
** Germans know this one as "Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann" ("Tomorrow comes Santa" -- a Christmas song!)
*** In Hungary it's known as "Hull a pelyhes fehér hó" ("Fluffy white snow is falling") -- Another Santa-themed song (maybe a translation of the German one?).
** Finnish children learn both the ABC song and the star song (called "Tuiki tuiki tähtönen"). There was a third song to the same tune, "Lapsukaisten koululaulu" (starting with "koska meitä käsketään"). It's been pretty much forgotten about, probably because it's basically propaganda of 50's values.
** ''Twinkle twinkle, Little Star'' not only shares it's tune with ''The Alphabet song'', but also sounds suspiciously close to ''Baa baa, Black Sheep'', and to a lesser extent, ''I Have a Little Nut Tree''.
* Music/{{Coldplay}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2x8q5wMfk have been accused of doing this]] with their song "Viva la Vida" (which, itself, is about a king), being accused of copying the melody from four different sources: alternative rock band Creaky Boards (who retracted the claim and decided that both bands probably stole the tune from VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda), guitar virtuoso Music/JoeSatriani's "If I Could Fly," and Cat Stevens' "Foreigner" suite. And "Talk" borrows ITS main riff and parts of ITS melody from Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s "Computer Love" -- though they sought permission before releasing it, and the members of Kraftwerk are credited with co-writing the song.
** On the topic of "Viva la Vida", there's more than that, actually. The above three are the most well known because they were the only 3 to accuse Coldplay of plagiarism. There's actually more things that sound similar to Viva la Vida, like Francis Limon, Ding Dong Song, J'en Ai Marre, Hearts, and Dirty Diaper Blues. Or at least that's what [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxSIAXGakuk&feature=related this video]] is saying. And there may be more. And there may be similar sounding songs made ''after'' Viva la Vida. Someone should make a medley based on that single melody and its variations.
** Music/MitchBenn wrote a song, referencing his earlier "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now" about new bands copying Coldplay's style, called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2pdv6faw8M Now Coldplay Sound Like Everything Else]]" (to the tune of 'Viva la Vida'.)
* As pointed out in ''Film/MrHollandsOpus'', "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys uses the sweet strains of Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G" stretched to four-quarter time.
* A huge number of Music/ElvisPresley's hits were new lyrics written for old music. "It's Now or Never" is a cover of the 1898 Neapolitan aria "O sole mio". "Can't Help Falling in Love" uses a melody from 1780. "Love Me Tender" is a version of "Aura Lee", written in 1861. "There's No Tomorrow" is another.
* "Danny Boy" is only one of many lyrics set to the tune of "Londonderry Air" (though "Danny Boy" originally had a different tune, believe it or not). Just try to explain the "simple" progression here: The theme to the anime ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'' is "Inori~You Raise Me Up〜" sung by Lena Park. That was a take-off of "You Raise Me Up" by Rolf Løvland of Secret Garden. This was taken from "Danny Boy", which is, in turn, set to the tune of "Londonderry Air".
* Music/BrightEyes' "Road To Joy", as the title hints, takes ITS melody from Beethoven's "Ode To Joy".
* A related phenomenon: Jazz compositions often consist of new melodies laid over the chord changes of some standard. "Hot House" (based on Music/ColePorter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?") may be the most famous example.
* Music/EdwardElgar's ''Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1'', composed in 1901, was almost immediately given words to turn it into the patriotic hymn ''Land of Hope and Glory'' for King Edward [=VII=]'s coronation in 1902. In the [=US=], it is still often performed without the lyric, most often at school graduations.
* "My Way," most famously performed by Music/FrankSinatra from ''Music/MyWay'', is set to the tune of a French song, "Comme d'habitude" by Claude François.
* Music/MichaelJackson was accused of doing this with "Will You Be There" from ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'', apparently set to the tune of a song by Italian singer Al Bano. Italian courts eventually ruled in favor of Jackson. Bano had to pay Jackson's legal fees. The song does start with a snippet of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's 9th Symphony, however (and this Jackson also got in trouble for as initial releases lacked the proper credit; this was promptly fixed.)

* "This Land Is Your Land", by Music/WoodyGuthrie is from the traditional folk song "Oh, My Loving Brother"
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers were accused of ripping off Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" with their own "Dani California".
* Music/{{Nirvana}} were accused of copying the bass riff from "Eighties" by Music/KillingJoke for their song "Come as You Are".
** Kurt Cobain admitted that with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" he was trying to write a Music/ThePixies}} song, and the end result sounds quite a bit like their song "U-Mass" in terms of overall sound and "Debaser" in terms of the main riff. And then when the song came out non-alt rock people thought it sounded like "More Than a Feeling", which he was also aware of:
-->"It was such a clichéd riff. It was so close to a Boston riff of 'Louie Louie'."
* "Alouette" = "Down By the Station"
* "I Fear IKEA" by The Lancashire Hotpots is sung to the tune of "The Wild Rover". ("That's why I fear IKEA (clap-clap-clap-clap) I won't go there again! I don't want a bookcase called Billy, or a table called Sven!")
** Others include "Bitter Lager Cider Ale Stout" (to the tune of "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain") and "Dolby 5.1" (to SuspiciouslySimilarSong of "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs").
** Actually most Hotpots songs. Some aren't quite so obvious to people without a folk music background, though.
** On another note, when hearing ''The Wild Rover'''s chorus for the first time, most Germans start singing ''An der Nordseeküste'' (At the north sea's coast), a silly song by silly East Frisian singers ''Klaus & Klaus''.

* Music/PetShopBoys' "It's a Sin" was alleged by the 80s DJ Jonathan King to have plagiarized Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and remixed Stevens' vocals to the PSB version onto a single (see the George Harrison case above; it was the B-Side to this single). The funny thing is that Stevens' version actually sounds a lot more like "It's a Sin" than King's version.
* Music/TheKinks' "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" has a guitar riff similar to Music/TheRollingStones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash", while the ending of "U.K. Jive" recalls Music/TheWho's [[Music/MyGeneration "My Generation"]].
** Music/TheWho's "I Can't Explain" has a similar feel and guitar tone to Music/TheKinks' "You Really Got Me". Both were produced by Shel Talmy, and Townshend himself admitted "Explain" was written as a Kinks ripoff. TheClash later used the riff from "I Can't Explain" twice, once for "Clash City Rockers" and again for "Guns On The Roof".
** As does Music/TheDoors' "Hello, I Love You" from ''Music/WaitingorTheSun'' to "All Day and All of the Night."
* Music/BruceSpringsteen's "Outlaw Pete" has a similar melody to Music/{{Kiss}}' disco single, "I Was Made For Lovin' You" from ''Music/{{Dynasty}}''.
** The Boss is a phenomenal songwriter otherwise, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrOYsNCPmg Radio Nowhere]] is essentially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHJqtgo8RA 867-5309]] made heavier and more awesome.
* Mägo de Oz, a Spanish PowerMetal[=/=]FolkMetal band, is very prone to this. As an example, they have a song, "En Nombre De Dios", which is basically "The Gates of Babylon" by Rainbow + new lyrics about the CorruptChurch.
* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "Karma Police" from ''Music/OKComputer'' uses piano passages that are lifted almost verbatim from the Beatles' "Sexy Sadie" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''.
* The famous "Habanera" from Bizet's ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' was based on what the composer originally thought to be a folk melody, but turned out to be a composition of a contemporary Spanish musician Sebastian Iradier called "El Arreglito". Bizet acknowledged this in the score. Of course, Bizet's version is a vast improvement.
* And speaking of Carmen, Music/EricCarmen's hit song "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is essentially the 3rd movement of [[Music/SergeiRachmaninoff Rachmaninoff]]'s 2nd Symphony.
* The Japanese children's song "Musunde, Hiraite" and "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" are both based on the Pantomime of Creator/JeanJacquesRousseau's opera ''Le Devin du Village''.

* Cherry's "Yes I Will" uses the tune of P!nk's "U & Ur Hand" verbatim.

* All over the place in just about any hymnal:
** The hymns "For the Beauty of the Earth" and "As with Gladness Men of Old" both use "Dix", a melody composed by Conrad Kocher.
** "What Child Is This," a Christmas song, was written with the melody from "Greensleeves", an English folk song.
** Likewise, the hymn "Lord of the Dance" copied "Simple Gifts", a Quaker song.
** The traditional Gaelic hymn tune "Bunessan" has been used for the Christmas carol "Child in a Manger" and more commonly for the hymn "Morning Has Broken".
** "Battle Hymn of the Republic" comes from "John Brown's Body", as does "Oil Thigh," the FootballFightSong of Queen's University.
*** "John Brown's Body" was itself sung to an even earlier tune, "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us."
*** In turn, the union hymn "Solidarity Forever" used the same tune.
** Overall it's a common practice for even new lyricists to repurpose existing familiar tunes for new hymns.
** When the (Liverpool) Spinners performed the folk song "Old Johnny Booker" they got one woman complaining that the song was "sacrilegious" because it has the same tune as her favourite hymn. What she didn't realise is that both the hymn and the folk song lifted the tune from an earlier song.
** The tune "Winchester Old"; best known as the UK tune for "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night", but also the tune of several other hymns (and ''nearly'' the same as "There Is A Green Hill Far Away").
** Really, you could pick up any two hymnals at random and find that they have totally different melodies for the same words. The fact that a lot of hymns are in CommonMeter really helps.

* When Music/BillyJoel wrote "Uptown Girl", he in part (accidentally) plagiarised a Mozart piece.

* The Roman Catholic Liturgy does this to itself. "The Mystery of Faith" and "The Great Amen" are generally sung to the same tune (assuming, of course, that they are sung).
* Metallica's "The Unforgiven II" sounds almost exactly like "Children of the Damned" by Music/IronMaiden (which itself resembles "Simple Man by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd)

* [[MajorGeneralSong "The Modern Major General's Song"]] and [[TomLehrer "The Elements Song."]]

* Music/{{Les Luthiers}} have fun with this trope: in one of their shows, the narrator mentions Johann Sebastian Mastropiero always used the same music for all his operas. He describes a scene from one, but then they perform a scene from another opera ("La Hija de Escipión").

* "Si pido otra cerveza" by Los Inhumanos uses the tune of "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster.
* Music/ChuckBerry may have spawned a lot of (textual) copyings, starting with the tune ''Too much monkey business'', which led to Music/BobDylan`s "Subterranean Home Sick Blues" from ''Music/BringingItAllBackHome'', which eventually inspired Music/{{REM}} to make ''It`s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)'' from ''Music/{{Document}}''. Music/BillyJoel also joined in, with ''We didn`t start the fire'', almost certainly ripped from Dylan.
* Solarstone's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE80EivmL04 Part of Me]]" is based on the tune of the Celtic standard "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAlG0xokS4 "She Moved Through The Fair]]".

* The AlmaMaterSong of Yale is a taken from German patriotic hymn "The Watch on the Rhine", best known in America for its appearance in the "Marseillaise" scene in ''{{Casablanca}}''

* And speaking of Carmen, Eric Carmen's hit song "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is essentially the 3rd movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony.

* "Danny Boy" is only one of many lyrics set to the tune of "Londonderry Air" (though "Danny Boy" originally had a different tune, believe it or not). Just try to explain the "simple" progression here: The theme to the anime RomeoxJuliet is "Inori~You Raise Me Up〜" sung by Lena Park. That was a take-off of "You Raise Me Up" by Rolf Løvland of Secret Garden. This was taken from "Danny Boy", which is, in turn, set to the tune of "Londonderry Air".

* "Orpheus in the Underworld (Can-Can)" by Music/JacquesOffenbach and the theme to ''FightingFoodons''.

* Solarstone's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE80EivmL04 Part of Me]]" is based on the tune of the Celtic standard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAlG0xokS4 "She Moved Through The Fair"]].

** Possibly OlderThanTheyThink: the initial version of the theme was allegedly written by Jean-Baptiste Lully for the King of France Louis XIV, then plagiarised by Händel, who sold it to the British crown.

* In a case legally ruled to be plagiarism, "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here" appropriated the tune of "With Catlike Tread" from ''ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
** The tune itself is a reference to "The Anvil Chorus" from ''Il Trovatore''. Listen to the "Come, friends who plough the sea" bit.
* Similarly, George Harrison's ''My Sweet Lord'' was ruled to have plagiarized the Chiffons' ''He's So Fine'', in a case of what the judge called "unconscious copying". Harrison later bought the rights to the song to avoid further legal entanglements.

* {{Coldplay}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2x8q5wMfk have been accused of doing this]] with their song "Viva la Vida" (which, itself, is about a king), being accused of copying the melody from four different sources: alternative rock band Creaky Boards (who retracted the claim and decided that both bands probably stole the tune from VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda), guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly," and Cat Stevens' "Foreigner" suite. And "Talk" borrows ITS main riff and parts of ITS melody from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love" -- though they sought permission before releasing it, and the members of Kraftwerk are credited with co-writing the song.

** MitchBenn wrote a song, referencing his earlier "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now" about new bands copying Coldplay's style, called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2pdv6faw8M Now Coldplay Sound Like Everything Else]]" (to the tune of 'Viva la Vida'.)

* Bright Eyes' "Road To Joy", as the title hints, takes ITS melody from Beethoven's "Ode To Joy".
* A related phenomenon: Jazz compositions often consist of new melodies laid over the chord changes of some standard. "Hot House" (based on Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?") may be the most famous example.
* Edward Elgar's ''Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1'', composed in 1901, was almost immediately given words to turn it into the patriotic hymn ''Land of Hope and Glory'' for King Edward [=VII=]'s coronation in 1902. In the [=US=], it is still often performed without the lyric, most often at school graduations.
* "My Way," most famously performed by Music/FrankSinatra, is set to the tune of a French song, "Comme d'habitude."
* Music/MichaelJackson was accused of doing this with "Will You Be There", apparently set to the tune of a song by Italian singer Al Bano. Italian courts eventually ruled in favor of Jackson. Bano had to pay Jackson's legal fees. The song does start with a snippet of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, however (and this Jackson also got in trouble for as initial releases lacked the proper credit; this was promptly fixed.)

* "This Land Is Your Land", by WoodyGuthrie is from the traditional folk song "Oh, My Loving Brother"

* Music/{{Nirvana}} were accused of copying the bass riff from "Eighties" by Killing Joke for their song "Come as You Are".
** Kurt Cobain admitted that with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" he was trying to write a {{Pixies}} song, and the end result sounds quite a bit like their song "U-Mass" in terms of overall sound and "Debaser" in terms of the main riff. And then when the song came out non-alt rock people thought it sounded like "More Than a Feeling", which he was also aware of:

* PetShopBoys' "It's a Sin" was alleged by the 80s DJ Jonathan King to have plagiarized Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and remixed Stevens' vocals to the PSB version onto a single (see the George Harrison case above; it was the B-Side to this single). The funny thing is that Stevens' version actually sounds a lot more like "It's a Sin" than King's version.
* TheKinks' "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" has a guitar riff similar to Music/TheRollingStones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash", while the ending of "U.K. Jive" recalls TheWho's "My Generation".
** TheWho's "I Can't Explain" has a similar feel and guitar tone to TheKinks' "You Really Got Me". Both were produced by Shel Talmy, and Townshend himself admitted "Explain" was written as a Kinks ripoff. TheClash later used the riff from "I Can't Explain" twice, once for "Clash City Rockers" and again for "Guns On The Roof".
** As does TheDoors' "Hello, I Love You" to "All Day and All of the Night."
* BruceSpringsteen's "Outlaw Pete" has a similar melody to {{Kiss}}' disco single, "I Was Made For Lovin' You".

* {{Radiohead}}'s "Karma Police" uses piano passages that are lifted almost verbatim from the Beatles' "Sexy Sadie".
* The famous "Habanera" from Bizet's ''Carmen'' was based on what the composer originally thought to be a folk melody, but turned out to be a composition of a contemporary Spanish musician Sebastian Iradier called "El Arreglito". Bizet acknowledged this in the score. Of course, Bizet's version is a vast improvement.

* The Japanese children's song "Musunde, Hiraite" and "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" are both based on the Pantomime of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera ''Le Devin du Village''.

* Metallica's "The Unforgiven II" sounds almost exactly like "Children of the Damned" by Music/IronMaiden (which itself resembles "Simple Man by LynyrdSkynyrd)
* "Frere Jacques", "Where is Thumbkin",, the Chinese children's song "Liang Ji Lao Hu" ("Two Tigers"), and Binky the Clown's birthday song from GarfieldAndFriends.

* "Orpheus in the Underworld (Can-Can)" and the theme to ''FightingFoodons''.

* "The Syncopated Clock" and [[SesameStreet "One of These Things is Not Like The Others."]]

* "Dance Of The Hours" and ''The Garfield Opera'' from GarfieldAndFriends.

* {{Les Luthiers}} have fun with this trope: in one of their shows, the narrator mentions Johann Sebastian Mastropiero always used the same music for all his operas. He describes a scene from one, but then they perform a scene from another opera ("La Hija de Escipión").

* Music/ChuckBerry may have spawned a lot of (textual) copyings, starting with the tune ''Too much monkey business'', which led to Music/BobDylan`s ''Subterranean Home Sick Blues'', which eventually inspired Music/{{REM}} to make ''It`s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)''. Music/BillyJoel also joined in, with ''We didn`t start the fire'', almost certainly ripped from Dylan.

* As pointed out in ''MrHollandsOpus'', "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys uses the sweet strains of Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G" stretched to four-quarter time.
* A huge number of ElvisPresley's hits were new lyrics written for old music. "It's Now or Never" is a cover of the 1898 Neapolitan aria "O sole mio". "Can't Help Falling in Love" uses a melody from 1780. "Love Me Tender" is a version of "Aura Lee", written in 1861. "There's No Tomorrow" is another.

* "My Way," most famously performed by Frank Sinatra, is set to the tune of a French song, "Comme d'habitude."
* MichaelJackson was accused of doing this with "Will You Be There", apparently set to the tune of a song by Italian singer Al Bano. Italian courts eventually ruled in favor of Jackson. Bano had to pay Jackson's legal fees. The song does start with a snippet of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, however (and this Jackson also got in trouble for as initial releases lacked the proper credit; this was promptly fixed.)

* The RedHotChiliPeppers were accused of ripping off Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" with their own "Dani California".
* {{Nirvana}} were accused of copying the bass riff from "Eighties" by Killing Joke for their song "Come as You Are".

* When BillyJoel wrote "Uptown Girl", he in part (accidentally) plagiarised a Mozart piece.

* [[JohannSebastianBach "Minuet in G"]] and "A Lover's Concerto."

* Germany's national anthem uses a tune that was originally written by JosephHaydn for Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire. The tune is also used for several hymns. Most Americans probably associate the song ''exclusively'' with WorldWarTwo, but it's OlderThanTheyThink.

* Creator/ChuckBerry may have spawned a lot of (textual) copyings, starting with the tune ''Too much monkey business'', which led to Creator/BobDylan`s ''Subterranean Home Sick Blues'', which eventually inspired Creator/{{REM}} to make ''It`s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)''. Creator/BillyJoel also joined in, with ''We didn`t start the fire'', almost certainly ripped from Dylan.

* Creator/ChuckBerry may have spawned a lot of (textual) copyings, starting with the tune ''Too much monkey business'', which led to Creator/BobDylan`s ''Subterranean Home Sick Blues'', which eventually inspired Creator/{{REM}} to make ''It`s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). Billy Joel also joined in, with ''We didn`t start the fire'', almost certainly ripped from Dylan.

* "Danny Boy" is only one of many lyrics written for the tune of "Londonderry Air." Just try to explain the "simple" progression here: The theme to the anime RomeoxJuliet is "Inori~You Raise Me Up〜" sung by Lena Park. That was a take-off of "You Raise Me Up" by Rolf Løvland of Secret Garden. This was taken from "Danny Boy", which is, in turn, set to the tune of "Londonderry Air".