Think about it… how many songs about Thursdays can you name (not counting Thanksgiving songs… which is another thing that doesn’t really exist, does it?). This song is about the worst day of the week or, rather, how the worst day of the week doesn’t deserve any songs.

Musically, this song just uses the diatonic chords, and mixes in a a flat-VII for fun, along with flat-vi at the very end. The a cappella opening is a reference to the NOFX song “Thank God It’s Monday.” I had originally planned to do a full punk rock version of this and finished 95% of the drum arrangement and base track programming when I decided to just go with a simple live recording instead.

This was recorded live on the Hohner beater guitar, using the Zoom recorder’s XY pair and a Shure SM-57 for vocals.

Lyrics

Thursday is a day that ends in “Y”…

Monday’s got New Order, Tuesdays have Skynyrd

Wednesdays have Simon and Art

We all love Fridays and Fridays we’re in love

Kristopherson’s got Sundays for a start

There aren’t many songs about Thursday

It seems like there’s not much appeal

It’s not in the middle, it’s just in the way

It looks like Thor got a raw deal

 

Elton fights for Saturday, but no one backs Thursday

And it isn’t very hard to see why

It doesn’t do much besides prolonging the week

We’d all rather kiss the day goodbye

 

Thursday doesn’t deserve any songs