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A repost of a repost but I had to see this so you do too.

Also works for Amazing Grace and House of the Rising Sun.

How do I know, right off the top of my head, that last one is in the common meter?

Because someone I know attended a funeral where the lyrics of Amazing Grace were sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun.

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Additional songs in the common meter include Yankee Doodle, Gilligans Isle, the main theme of Phantom of the Opera, and the Star Trek fansong Banned from Argo. Have fun with that information.

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Also The Yellow Rose of Texas, which is particularly good for this poem.

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All my life, I seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. My grandpa, Stanley Yelnats II, says it’s all because of this 150-year-old curse. Now, I don’t really believe in the family curse, but when things go wrong, it kind of helps if you can blame it on something. And for me, things went wrong a lot.

Holes (2003) dir. Andrew Davis