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Important Notice: If you pick up your phone and start playing some hip tunes to yourself via push buttons you may find yourself connected to an angry Libyan. [ 1 ] This might actually be a reference to Back to the Future – (1985 movie) Before playing a tune be sure to do one of the following:
- Call a friend, and bother them with your push-button madness.
- (If using a modem) Disconnect the phone line, and turn the Modems speaker on (Issue an
ATM1command, if Hayes compatible) and enjoy. - Call the local ‘Weather and Time’ recording, or other similar Recording, and play away.. I hear these Taped Operators like music.
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Call a friends answering machine, and bother them silly.
When experimenting with this ‘fun stuff’ read the buttons/lyrics as a sing along ‘Follow the bouncing ball‘ type deal, it’s quite simple. Really..
That’s about all I can think of that I have to get out of the way before embarking on this joyous journey into Push-button phone song land..
Enjoy…. Ron, of course.
America ∞
5 5 6 1 5 9
My count-try 'tis of thee
0 0 8 0 8 4
Sweet land of lib-er-ty
8 4 2 4
of thee I sing
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ∞
1 1 9 9 Twin-kle, Twin-kle, 0 0 9 Lit-tle star
Strangers in the Night ∞
4 8 8 4 8 Stran-gers in the night 4 8 6 8 4 Ex-chang-ing glan-ces
(c) 1966 by Champion Music Corp & Screen Gems
Here Comes the Bride ∞
1 3 3 3 Here comes the bride 1 9 6 6 All dressed in white
A Tisket, a Tasket ∞
6 6 4 8 6 4 A tis-ket a tas-ket 8 6 6 6 9 6 4 A green and yel-low bas-ket 4 6 6 4 4 6 6 4 I wrote a let-ter to my love 8 6 9 6 0 6 4 And on the way I dropped it 8 6 4 8 6 4 I dropped it I dropped it 8 6 9 6 0 6 4 And on the way I dropped it 8 6 6 4 6 6 4 A lit-tle girl picked it up 8 6 9 6 0 6 4 and put it in her poc-ket 8 6 4 8 6 4 Her poc-ket her poc-ket
Here we go round the Mulberry bush ∞
4 4 4 2
Here we go round
2 6 6 2 4
the mul-ber-ry bush
4 8 8 8 8
the mul-ber-ry bush
6 2 4 4 4
the mul-ber-ry bush
4 4 4 2
Here we go round
2 6 6 2 4
The mul-ber-ry bush
4 8 8 6 8 4 4
so ear-ly in the morn-ing
London Bridges ∞
6 9 6 8 7 8 6 Lon-don bridge is fall-ing down 1 4 5 7 8 9 fall-ing down fall-ing down 6 9 6 8 7 8 6 Lon-don bridge is fall-ing down 8 6 0 4 My fair la-dy
Ring around a Rosey ∞
8 8 8 6 0 4 Ring a-round a ros-y 4 8 8 8 6 0 4 a poc-ket full of pos-ies 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 ash-es, ash-es, we all fall down!
Old McDonald had a Farm ∞
6 6 6 7 8 8 7 Old Mac-Don-ald had a farm 9 9 0 0 4 EE-II-EE-II-OHH! 4 6 6 6 7 8 And on this farm he had 8 7 some chicks 9 9 0 0 4 EE-II-EE-II-OHH!! 4 4 4 4 4 With a chick chick here 4 4 4 4 4 and a chick chick there 4 4 4 4 4 4 here a chick there a chick 4 4 4 4 4 4 ev-ry where a chick chick
Way down upon the swanee river ∞
3 2 1 3 2 Way down up-on the 1 0 4 5 Swan-ee riv-er 6 8 4 2 far far a-way, 3 2 1 3 2 That's where my heart is 1 9 4 5 Turn-ing ev-er 6 5 4 2 2 4 That's where the old folks stay
Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits! ∞
9 4 4 2 1 6 6 Shave and a hair-cut, two bits!!
When Johnny comes marching home ∞
8 4 4 4 4 8 When john-ny comes march-ing 6 8 6 5 * 5 * home a-gain Hur-rah! Hur-rah! 8 4 4 4 4 8 We'll give him a heart-y 6 8 6 9 # 5 # Wel-come then hur-rah! hur-rah! 5 # # # 5 9 The men will cheer, the boys 9 9 5 6 6 6 4 Will shout The lad-ies they will 8 8 8 4 8 # 9 all turn out and we'll all feel 6 8 4 4 4 Gay when John-ny comes 4 0 4 march-ing home!
Mister Sandman ∞
4 2 6 2 Mis-ter sand-man 6 2 2 6 Bring me a dream
(c) 1954 by Edwin H. Morris & Company
Row, Row, Row Boat ∞
4 4 4 8 6 Row, row, row your boat 6 2 6 9 # gen-tly down the stream # # # Mer-ri-ly 0 0 0 Mer-ri-ly * * * Mer-ri-ly 4 4 4 Mer-ri-ly 6 2 2 1 1 Life is but a dream
Mary had a little lamb ∞
6 0 4 0 6 6 6 Mar-y had a lit-tle lamb 2 2 2 6 6 6 lit-tle lamb, lit-tle lamb 6 0 4 0 6 6 6 Mar-y had a lit-tle lamb 6 8 8 6 8 4 Its fleece was white as snow
California Here I come ∞
8 8 8 8 9 8 1 Cal-i-for-nia here I come 3 3 3 Right back where 3 6 3 4 I start-ed from
(c) 1924 by M. Witmark & Sons
The Old Gray Mare ∞
4 4 4 4 The old gray mare 8 6 6 8 6 8 4 She ain't what she used to be 8 8 4 8 8 4 Ain't what she used to be 6 6 8 6 8 4 Ain't what she used to be 4 4 4 4 The old gray mare 8 6 6 8 6 8 4 She ain't what she used to be 8 8 8 6 8 4 Ma-ny long years a-go
Pop Goes the Weasel ∞
4 4 8 8 6 8 6 1 All a-round the mul-ber-ry bush 4 4 4 8 6 0 4 The mon-key chased the wea-sel 4 4 4 8 The mon-key thought 8 6 7 6 1 'Twas al-l in fun 5 1 6 0 4 Pop goes the wea-sel
I’ve been working on the railroad ∞
7 2 4 5 I've been work-ing 4 2 6 4 on the rail-road
Happy Birthday ∞
4 4 2 4 # 8 Hap-py birth-day to you 1 1 2 1 9 8 Hap-py birth-day to you
(c) 1935 by Summy-Birchard Company.
Jingle Bells ∞
6 6 6 6 6 6 Jin-gle bells, Jin-gle bells 6 # 7 8 6 Jin-gle all the way 9 9 9 9 9 5 5 Oh, what fun it is to ride 5 5 5 7 4 5 6 in a one-horse o-pen sleigh
Comin’ round the mountain ∞
4 8 She'll be # # # # 8 4 comin' round the moun-tain 4 8 # When she comes
Three Blind Mice ∞
6 8 4 Three blind mice 6 8 4 Three blind mice 9 5 5 4 See how they run 9 5 5 4 See how they run
Yankee Doodle ∞
4 4 2 6 4 6 2 Yan-kee doo-dle went to town 4 4 2 6 4 1 Rid-ing on a po-ny 4 1 5 6 4 6 2 stuck a feath-er in his hat 4 4 2 6 4 1 1 and called it mac-a-ro-ni
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech ∞
6 8 4 4 4 I'm a ram-bling wreck 8 6 6 6 from Geor-gia tech 8 4 8 6 8 4 0 4 and a hell of an en-gin-eer
Frere Jacques ∞
4 2 6 4 4 2 6 2 Fre-re Jac-ques Fre-re Jac-ques 6 9 # 6 9 # Dor-mez-vous? Dor-mez-vous?
Auld Lang Syne ∞
8 4 4 4 6 Should auld ac-quain-tance 8 4 8 be for-got 9 1 4 3 9 # in days of auld lang syne
Ending notes ∞
Well, that’s about all I can come up with for now.. Maybe at a later date I will scrape up some more of this silliness, and bother to put it in a text file (don’t hold your breath) or maybe (this is a stronger possibility) I will make some of these songs into Telix scripts, or dialing directories. That might prove to be interesting.. Hope you had as much fun as I did.
..Ron
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Footnotes
| ^ 1 | This might actually be a reference to Back to the Future – (1985 movie) |
ported
I didn’t find a copy of it online when I was first porting it, but I did end up finding it after I tried harder. But since I had already completed this edit and port, I’ll just keep this up here and rant in a comment.