Championship: "Me And Bobby McGee" vs "Hallelujah" *CLOSED*

Topics for the 2017 cover song tournament.

Championship: Best Covered Song?

Poll ended at March 3 17, 9:27 am

Me And Bobby McGee
10
40%
Hallelujah
15
60%
 
Total votes: 25

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Championship: "Me And Bobby McGee" vs "Hallelujah" *CLOSED*

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http://challonge.com/grb_cover_tourney has all the tourney info.

Championship Match!

#25: Gashouse's "Me And Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin


Originally performed by Roger Miller:


#62: stlouie_lipp's "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley


Originally performed by Leonard Cohen:


I'm letting this one run for four days since it's the final match.
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A landslide!

Speaking of, this is a great cover of Landslide. I almost entered it in the tournie.


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Guys don't do this. Buckley's "Hallelujah" is overrated.

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Michael wrote:Guys don't do this. Buckley's "Hallelujah" is overrated.
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Given the person in the pic I'm going to assume you agree with me.

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This is a travesty. Bigly sad.

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Time for the dirty hippie to hit the shower. Hallelujah. :wink:

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Wow. Sad.

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For you Janis fans




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Belated congrats Lipp. I lost twice to Hallelujah, including the song that I think actually deserved to be in the final (Watchtower) instead of Janice.

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