#SongLyricSunday-Valarie-June 6

We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post.

This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Old, New, Borrowed, Blue.

Take some time to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this music challenge, and even better, read as many of them as you are able to as you will probably find many enjoyable songs and it is quite possibly that you will learn a thing or two. Also feel free to offer up your suggestion to this week’s prompt.

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

June is often called the “Wedding Moth”. The prompt this week certainly could apply as part of a wedding day recipe. That tradition comes from an Old English rhyme, “Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, A Sixpence in your Shoe”. It all indicates the four good-luck objects (plus a sixpence) a bride should include somewhere in her wedding outfit or carry with her on her wedding day. 

Well apparently in the California live music world there is a person named Paige Clem who likes our weekly prompt. She is the creator, curator and host of the popular “Songs About Something: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue Tunes in the Round”—an ongoing monthly songwriters-in-the-round series held at Albany CA’s Ivy Room,  Every first Thursday of the month at the Ivy Room, Paige hosts this unique spin on “songwriters in the round”. At the event talented local and touring songwriters come together to share a “NEW” original song, an “OLD” original song, a “BORROWED” cover song and a “BLUES” song. 

So I am ditching the wedding concept with this week’s prompt and headed to a BORROWED song.

Valarie is the cover song I am selecting this week. The version I am profiling was performed by Mark Ronson and the late Amy Winehouse. The original was performed by The Zutons and written by a bunch of folks including Abigail Harding, Boyan Chowdhury, David Alan McCabe, Russell Thomas Pritchard, Sean Francis, and Caleb Payne.

Here are the lyrics.

The video even includes stand ins covering Amy voice dubbed as the Winenettes.. What is not BORROWED in this video is Amy’s talent as a singer. It is sad when a talented performer like Amy Winehouse leave the world way too soon.

Enjoy the BORROWED version of Valarie.