May SONG Title Challenge (2025)

[Cassel]

Once a week, there is a radio show that has been on for many years. It is called Vinyl Tap. It is 2 hours of songs that are picked around a particular theme. Sometimes, it has to do with a word, sometimes, a topic, sometimes it is another particularity (like "unlikely duets").

May brings blooming flowers, warmer days, and a sense of renewal—so why not let music capture that mood on your next scrapbook page? For this challenge, use a song title or lyrics that include the words FLOWER, BLOOM, SUN, or MAY. Whether it's a joyful spring anthem, a nostalgic ballad, or a love song that mentions May, let your creativity blossom through music!

Here are some song ideas to get you started:
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers – Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond
Sunshine on My Shoulders – John Denver
The Lusty Month of May – from Camelot
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles

What will your song of May be?

[Ann Seeber]

I just might have one handy...

[Harmony Birch]

Part of me wants to apologise for posting an overtly political image, it is certainly not aimed at trying to offend anyone. It is however what my heart was drawn to create. I usually try to avoid anything that feels like a political statement here but the song that instantly sprang to mind was where have all the flowers gone. That not many people realise is an anti war song. The photos I used were all stock photos from Gaza including the dasies, The full words to the song are as follows:

 

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

2 hours ago, Harmony Birch said:

Part of me wants to apologise for posting an overtly political image, it is certainly not aimed at trying to offend anyone. It is however what my heart was drawn to create. I usually try to avoid anything that feels like a political statement here but the song that instantly sprang to mind was where have all the flowers gone. That not many people realise is an anti war song. The photos I used were all stock photos from Gaza including the dasies, The full words to the song are as follows:

 

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

 

This song sums up the idiocrasy of what is happening at the moment and you made a fitting layout for it. To me this isn't political, it underlines the madness of it all.

[Anne Lamp]

The lyrics to this song has several of the suggested words.  It also came to mind because before I mowed my back yard it was full of those tiny little wild violets.  There was rain coming in soon so I didn't take the time to try to get a photo. 

[Michele]

19 hours ago, Harmony Birch said:

Part of me wants to apologise for posting an overtly political image, it is certainly not aimed at trying to offend anyone. It is however what my heart was drawn to create. I usually try to avoid anything that feels like a political statement here but the song that instantly sprang to mind was where have all the flowers gone. That not many people realise is an anti war song.

I don't find this overly political. It was written in the 1960s and is simply an anti-war protest song. It applies to all wars, in my opinion.

[Susan Ewart]

20 hours ago, Harmony Birch said:

Part of me wants to apologise for posting an overtly political image, it is certainly not aimed at trying to offend anyone. It is however what my heart was drawn to create. I usually try to avoid anything that feels like a political statement here but the song that instantly sprang to mind was where have all the flowers gone. That not many people realise is an anti war song. The photos I used were all stock photos from Gaza including the dasies, The full words to the song are as follows:

 

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the husbands gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

 

I agree with Corrie.  This song came to mind too, it seems humans are doomed to repeat past mistakes over and over.  Even in everyday life I've found myself saying, why haven't I learned, why do I keep doing the same thing over and over?

[Corrie Kinkel]

This challenge came at exactly the right moment for me, thank you Carole for the inspiration. I'm making some scrapbook pages for a photoalbum from my trip (see the what are you working on thread) but I need a page that isn't specific for a subject, like a daytrip to..... I will use this layout without the song challenge text and put a text in Dutch at the same place saying "Voorjaar in Californië" (Spring in California) and a datestamp with 2025.

I have cass-Watercolor2 script and used that on 5 flowers from my trip. As all the flowers have greenery around them the colors blended in when I arranged them and everything is on a very light artsy background that I already made before. The font is Fantasy Snowman and Arial

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

This challenge came at exactly the right moment for me, thank you Carole for the inspiration. I'm making some scrapbook pages for a photoalbum from my trip (see the what are you working on thread) but I need a page that isn't specific for a subject, like a daytrip to..... I will use this layout without the song challenge text and put a text in Dutch at the same place saying "Voorjaar in Californië" (Spring in California) and a datestamp with 2025.

I have cass-Watercolor2 script and used that on 5 flowers from my trip. As all the flowers have greenery around them the colors blended in when I arranged them and everything is on a very light artsy background that I already made before. The font is Fantasy Snowman and Arial

They are so pretty.  Lucky they are to have flower for so much time of the year.  I really like that watercolor 2 Script.