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Thread #11197 Message #82363
Posted By: Philippa
28-May-99 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Nonsense songs to dance tunes
Subject: RE: Nonsense songs to dance tunes
Soldier's Joy -I am my mother's darkling pet(3x)/I won't get married for a long while yet
I am my mother's darling boy(3x)/singing that Soldier's Joy
mrs McLeod's - Did you ever go to meeting uncle Joe, uncle Joe(3x)Don't mind the weather when the wind don't blow
Scots English lyrics [NOT translation] to Gaelic puirt a' beul "Brochan Lom": Oh the broon coo's gotten oot and eaten a' the corn(3x) What it eats the day, it cannae eat the morn
Oh, a-tower the bed, a-tower the bed, and up against the wa' He couldna dae it, couldna dae it, couldna dae it at a' He tried it on the sofae and the tried it on the chair the only place that he could dae it was lying on flair
not so nonsensical:Old Zip Coon, Daniel O'Connell (making babies by steam, Rollicksome Boys of Tandragee, I am a Little Beggarman, a pioneer song to 'the Irish washerwoman', sample verse: Oh how happy I am when I crawl into bed and the rattlesnake rattles his tail round my head and the dear little bedbug with tacks on his toes Plays why don't you catch me wherever he goes
Oh hurrah for Lane County, the land of the free the home of the bedbug, the louse and the flea [?]Where the sun is so hot that if in it you remain 'twill burn you quite crisp on your government claim
and let me know if you want clickable links to some such songs in Gaelic...