The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23663   Message #264353
Posted By: wysiwyg
25-Jul-00 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: What's RISE UP SINGING?
Subject: RE: What's RISE UP SINGING?
I think of it as my Esperanto songbook. Handy to have in case no one else has brought along a songbook or if seven people have each brought seven different ones and the people are all too old to read across that many shoulders! There is a lot of crap, but also something everyone can agree on, and no one gets hurt. No one likes it so much they insist on using it when other stuff is available. And it's a little more portable than DT, especially if you are at a truckstop where there is no hookup to get online, or at the airport with no printer.

But like Esperanto, it is hard to learn to use well and not worth the effort most of the time. Most of the time the fun is easier to come by just with fooling around with tunes people can recall.

Of course as we all lose our ability to memorize in this crazy society, not to mention those of us who fall prey to CRS, these things will become more necessary.

Spaw, BTW, that post with titles was worth a prize. If I could find you the fox that got blown up, to keep Cleigh company or be his stunt double, I'd get it for ya man.

~S~