So I choose Wild Mountain Thyme and Time Song by The Kinks.
Time lives our lives with us Will you go lassie, go? Walk side by side with us And we'll all go together Time is so far from us To pull wild mountain thyme But time is among us All around the purple heather Time is ahead of us Will you go, lassie go? Above and below us For the summertime is coming Standing beside us And the leaves are sweetly blooming And looking down on us And the wild mountain thyme When we were young Blooms around the purple heather And our bodies were strong Will you go lassie, go? We thought we'd sail And we'll all go together Into the sunsets
Being lazy I asked https://chat.openai.com to give me a script to mix two text files.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 input_file1 input_file2 output_file"
exit 1
fi
input_file1="$1"
input_file2="$2"
output_file="$3"
paste -d '\n' <(paste -d '\n' "$input_file1" "$input_file2") | tr '\t' '\n' > "$output_file"
echo "Alternated lines from '$input_file1' and '$input_file2' into '$output_file'"