SONG REQUEST 50% HP Challenge Week 5! - Winner: @hannes-stoffel Runner-up: @celticheartbeat

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa!

I have decided to start a challenging series of posts! BUT I Need your Help!

This is the challenge I'm setting myself every week: I ask for cover song requests on the MUSIC community, and then pick a favourite song to learn and post a live video of me attempting it. The person who asked for the winning song then gets 50% of the post rewards in HP!

I received some excellent requests this week! If I didn't get around to your request this week, please keep asking for it and there is a good chance it will win in the weeks to come! Please keep trying with either the same request, or a different one, in the comments of this post?

There were also some songs that I would love to tackle with my singing and writing friend @clairemobey. When I see her again we will do some duets, or songs where she should sing lead, and share the posts and reward the people who requested those songs as well! This request challenge seems to be (hopefully) taking off!

Let's get to this week's winner!

This week's winner is @hannes-stoffel from Germany who asked for an absolute classic called "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam since he converted to Islam). Here is the original:

Well done @hannes-stoffel - you will be getting 50% of this post's rewards in HP!

Well that should be it, but I just can't help but try another song and see if I can make @celticheartbeat happy by playing his request and awarding him 20% of this post's rewards in HP:

@celticheartbeat is from Scotland and is a lover of traditional Scottish and Irish music (think penny-whistles and fiddles!) and so he asked me to take on "The Irish Rover", and the version that he showed me was this particularly fun and rousing jam between the Dubliners and the Pogues:

Well I wish I had that many friends to jam with, but I will make do with a rattle and old tambourine at my feet!

I will also cut out all of the middle verses and replace them with a single verse I quickly made up myself that goes like this:

Now Celticheartbeat, you've got me beat!
This song has a million verses!
Must I remember all this? You must be taking the piss!
I haven't had the chance to rehearse it!
So now my friend, let's skip to the end
'fore my fingers are blistered all over...
Let's find out how they died, as they sailed on the tide...
Aboard the Irish Rover

NOW READER, perhaps next week is your turn? Please give me some suggestions of cover songs you would like me to try next week, and maybe you'll be the winner next time!

See you Next Week!

Lyrics for "Father and Son" by Cat Steven / Yusuf Islam

It's not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old but I'm happy
I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Why, think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not
How can I try to explain?
When I do, he turns away again
It's always been the same, same old story
From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go
It's not time to make a change
Just sit down, take it slowly
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to go through
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old but I'm happy
All the times that I've cried
Keeping all the things I knew inside
It's hard but it's harder to ignore it
If they were right, I'd agree
But it's them they know, not me
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go.

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Yusuf Islam
Father And Son lyrics © Cat Music Ltd., Cat Music Limited

Lyrics for "The Irish Rover" by The Dubliners and the Pogues

On the fourth of July, 1806
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the Grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft
She was rigged fore and aft
And oh, how the wild wind drove her
She stood several blasts
She had twenty-seven masts
And they called her The Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo Rags
We had two million barrels of stone
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides
We had four million barrels of bones
We had five million hogs
Six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails
In the hold of The Irish Rover
There was ol' Mickey Coote
Who played hard on his flute
When the ladies lined up for a set
He was tootin' with skill
For each sparkling quadrille
Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
With his smart witty talk
He was cock of the walk
And he rolled the dames under and over
They all knew at a glance
When he took up his stance
That he sailed in The Irish Rover
There was Barney McGee
From the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk
Who was scared stiff of work
And a man from Westmeath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
Who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Treacy from Dover
And your man, Mick MacCann
From the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper on The Irish Rover
For the sailor it's always a bother in life
It's so lonesome by night and by day
That he longs for the shore
And a charming young whore
Who will melt all his troubles away
Oh, the noise and the rout
Swillin' poitin and stout
For him soon the torment's over
Of the love of a maid, he is never afraid
That old salt from The Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years
When the measles broke out
And the ship lost its way in the fog
And that whale of a crew
Was reduced down to two
Just myself and the Captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock
Oh Lord, what a shock
The bulkhead was turned right over
Turned nine times around
And the poor old dog was drowned
And the last of The Irish Rover

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jeremy Max Finer / James Thirkhill Fearnley / Andrew David Ranken / Peter Richard Stacy / Philip Chevron / Terry Woods / Darryl Gatwick Hunt / John Sheehan / Shane Patrick Macgowan / Canon Campbell
The Irish Rover lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Mgb Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Ltd., Perfect Songs Ltd., Wardlaw Banks Limited, Wardlaw Music, Box & Cox Inc.