Idumea Puns

I was really meaning to do one 7-string tutorial and tab per week for my new YouTube channel (same username as this) starting around Christmas, but I managed to get two done (Dying Californian, and Taps), and then I got busy, and then where I'm staying (Washington DC) got really weird. So I'm somewhat delayed.

I should be able to get back to doing YouTube tutorials in a week or two once US society calms down, but unit then here's a preview of my tablature for my next video, a setting of a minor key Shape Note tune:

Idumea (47b) Tuning DEGABDE

2-2(5)-1-2-3(1)-4-5(2)

Oh am I born to die?

5-6(3)-5-4-3(1)-4-5(2)

To lay this body down?

5-6(3)-7-6-7(5)-5-4-3(1)-3-4(1)

And must my trembling spirit fly

3-2-1-2-3-4(1)-3-1(5)

Unto a world unknown?

Here’s what the tune sounds like as a Shape Note tune for reference: https://youtu.be/98fVjc4MfXQ

(If you’re new to reading tablature, the “1” is your thickest lowest string, the “7” your thin high pitched one, and so on. Pluck each string as numbered in sequence, and any number in parentheses like “(5)” means it’s an optional harmonizing note you can opt to pluck simultaneous with the note to the left of it)

I made a I/II/III mashup fan trailer for Dark Souls III using a Sacred Harp song; I've always felt like the Souls games have a real, irrepressibly dark, 'Old Testament' feeling, so it seemed like a natural fit.

Idumea

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!