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What did your Dad used to sing?

Beer 28 Jan 08 - 05:43 PM
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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:43 PM

Melancholy Baby
Down the River of Golden Dreams
Smile Awhile
Ever in Dreams (not sure here if title is correct.)

And lots more.
Beer (adrien


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:29 PM

...we don't regard this lot as folk music. Or do we?...

We do here Boatman.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:18 PM

Great question!
My father played several instruments (Guitar, banjo, piano and fiddle that I remember and Bagpipes!) But what did he sing.
Miss Otis.
Shutters and boards
SCotland the Brave
really too many songs to remember but it certainly is fun trying!. Neil


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:03 PM

I think eclectic is the right word - G&S, hymns, standards of all descriptions including the Kerry Dances, and a whole repertoire from canteen "Sod's Operas" from wartime service, Moving Father's Grave to Build a Sewer (mostly delivered in a flawless tenor voice), and recitations - the Farting Contest was a favourite... the strange thing is, we don't regard this lot as folk music. Or do we?


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:42 PM

Subject: Lyr Add: O THE DAYS OF THE KERRY DANCING (Molloy)
From: Alice - PM
Date: 30 Jul 99 - 11:11 AM

Here are the 4 verses altogether. The third verse changes keys and slows down (piu lento) and also changes tune. The first two verses are bright and lively (vivace), and the fourth verse, same tune as the first two, is sung lento, sadly, in the beginning, then speeds up at "when the boys". I considered singing this in my program at the Victorian Ball last week, but decided to do "The Lass With the Delicate Air" instead. As it turned out, I didn't have time to sing The Lass.

O THE DAYS OF THE KERRY DANCING
words and music by James Lyman Molloy
1837-1909


1. O the days of the Kerry Dancing,
O the ring of the piper's tune!
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas! like our youth, too soon.
When the boys began to gather,
In the glen of a summer night,
And the Kerry piper's tuning
Made us long with wild delight;


O, to think of it, O to dream of it,
Fills my heart with tears.
O the days of the Kerry Dancing,
O the ring of the piper's tune!
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas! like our youth, too soon.


2. Was there ever a sweeter colleen,
In the dance than Eily Moore!
Or a prouder lad than Thady,
As he boldly took the floor:
"Lads and lasses to your places,
Up the middle and down again,"
Ah, the merry hearted laughter
Ringing thro the happy glen.


O, to think of it, O to dream of it,
Fills my heart with tears.
O the days of the Kerry Dancing,
O the ring of the piper's tune!
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas! like our youth, too soon.


(piu lento, tune & key change)
3. Time goes on, and the happy years are dead.
And one by one, the merry hearts have fled.
Silent now is the wild and lonely glen,
Where the bright glad laugh
Will echo ne'er again.
Only dreaming of days gone by,
Fills my heart with tears!


(back to same tune as verse 1 and 2)
4. Loving voices of old companions
Stealing out of the past once more,
And the sound of the dear old music,
Soft and sweet as in days of yore:
When the boys began to gather
In the glen of a summer night,
And the Kerry piper's tuning
Made us long with wild delight;


O, to think of it, O to dream of it,
Fills my heart with tears.
O the days of the Kerry Dancing,
O the ring of the piper's tune!
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas! like our youth, too soon.





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Subject: RE: TUNE ADD - NEED LYRICS: The Kerry Dances
From: Alice - PM
Date: 30 Jul 99 - 11:15 AM

By the way, my source is the sheet music published by Warner Brothers, who now own the copyright. They are posted here for educational puposes only.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Tootler
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:16 PM

My Dad didn't sing, but he did listen to a lot of Beethoven.

My Mother and Grandmother both sang a lot round the house, though my Mother stopped in later years. You only had to say something and they would come up with an appropriate song. I can only remember two for certain now but what they sang was a mixture of traditional and popular songs of the day. The two I remember them singing for sure were

Kerry Dances and
Katie Bairdie

I got a set of words for Katie Bairdie and would love to have words for the Kerry Dances as I still have the tune in my head. The first two lines I remember were

Oh, the days of the Kerry Dances
Oh, the ring of the piper's tune

That's all I remember.

Geoff


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:16 PM

My Dad was incapable of singing. He could not carry a tune to save his life.

He could whistle reasonably well, though...and he knew about 4 tunes on the piano: "You Are My Sunshine" and a handful of others like that.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:04 PM

Dad sang pretty decently, but very, very seldom around home; about all I remember is an occasional scrap of "It ain't agonna rain no more". He sang regularly in church, and joined in a quartet on rare occasions. I know of any number of songs he enjoyed listening to, but so far as what he especially liked to sing, "Near the Cross" would probably be at the top of the list.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Partridge
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 02:56 PM

My Dad and I used to sing loads of gilbert and sullivan together. The first folk song I ever sang I sang with him - the keeper. It was at a family wedding and everyone did a turn. When I visited him he used to put on the alexander brothers and we'd sing the northern lights of old aberdeen, and his favourite the road and the miles to dundee - it reminded him of my mum - who he missed so much.

We also sang lots of old white heather club stuff and the corries, The tears pour down my face as I write this , but they are such happy, happy memories. Singing is not the same without him. It was what we did together - we sang

Pat xx


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: AnCailínÉireannach
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 02:21 PM

My native town Drumlish is a favourite of my dads


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Fidjit
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 02:14 PM

When Father Papered The Parlour
Any Umberellas
Underneath The Arches
White Cliffs of Dover
Run Rabit Run

My job as a kid on a Friday after school was to go get the Acumulator from the cycle shop where it had been re-charged, so's we could listen to the wireless at the week-end. There was "Good Evening. This is Henry Hall speaking and Tonight is my Guest night".
Then on Sunday lunch time it was Wakey! Wakey! Billy Cotton Band show with Allan Breeze and he'd sing.
I've got a Luvly Bunch of Coconuts

Chas


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: scouse
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 02:10 PM

A very drunken version of "Barefoot Days." the Harmonies outside the pub with his mates still bring back memories.. Vin Garbutt was right when he sung "they don't write them like that anymore." Virtually all the words where true!!!
As Aye,
Phil.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:55 PM

dunno - he died when I was 9 months old. But from what I recall of family folklore - singing never figured.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Mrs Scarecrow
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:52 PM

One of my greatest regrets is that I did not get into traditional folk music whilst my father was still alive. He was born in 1907 and his first commision at sea was on a sailing ship although it only lasted a few days before it got into trouble and he moved on to something else. He sang Leave her Johnny Leave her, Spanish Ladies and probably many others that I do not recall or didn't get to hear as my mother was strictly into clasical music and a lot of what my father sang would also have been considered inappropriate for children, I do recall the jug of punch and snippets of other drinking songs being sung to me from an early age which may explain a lot


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:50 PM

Mooh.....That's a beautiful memory my friend and thanks for bringing it here.

Spaw


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:22 PM

When he wez singin' te me (aah wez a bairn) he sang "Little White Duck" and he made aall the noises instead for sayin' 'quack' or 'croak' - Aah wez fascinated as he sat at the pianna and sang lots of kiddy songs but THAT one stuck in mind.

He did a lot of 'concert party' type gigs and could yodel reet canny and wez a big fan of Slim Whitman etc


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Subject: Lyr Add: AN OVERWORKED ELOCUTIONIST (Carolyn Wells
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:19 PM

I can't remember him ever singing a note....but many silly poems & recitations...

like

AN OVERWORKED ELOCUTIONIST
Carolyn Wells

ONCE there was a little boy, whose name was Robert Reece;
And every Friday afternoon he had to speak a piece.
So many poems thus he learned, that soon he had a store
Of recitations in his head, and still kept learning more.

And now this is what happened: He was called upon, one week,
And totally forgot the piece he was about to speak!
His brain he cudgelled. Not a word remained within his head!
And so he spoke at random, and this is what he said:

"My Beautiful, my Beautiful, who standest proudly by,
It was the schooner Hesperus—the breaking waves dashed high!
Why is the Forum crowded? What means this stir in Rome?
Under a spreading chestnut tree there is no place like home!

"Whence come these shrieks so wild and shrill? Across the sands o' Dee?
Lo, I will stand at thy right hand and keep the bridge with thee!
For this was Tell a hero? For this did Gessler die?
'The curse is come upon me!' said the Spider to the Fly.

"When Britain first at Heaven's command said, 'Boatswain, do not tarry;
The despot's heel is on thy shore, and while ye may, go marry.'
Let dogs delight to bark and bite the British Grenadiers,
Lars Porsena of Clusium lay dying in Algiers!

"The sea! the sea! the open sea! Roll on, roll on, thou deep!
Maxwelton braes are bonny, but Macbeth hath murdered sleep!
Answer me, burning shades of night! What's Hecuba to me?
Alone stood brave Horatius! The boy—oh! where was he?

"When Freedom from her mountain height cried, Twinkle, little star,
Shoot if you must this old grey head, King Henry of Navarre!
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue castled crag of Drachenfels,
My name is Norval, on the Grampian Hills, ring out, wild bells!

"If you're waking, call me early, to be or not to be,
The curfew must not ring to-night. Oh, woodman, spare that tree!
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! And let who will be clever!
The boy stood on the burning deck, but I go on forever!"

His elocution was superb, his voice and gestures fine;
His schoolmates all applauded, as he finished the last line.
"I see it doesn't matter," Robert thought, "what words I say,
So long as I declaim with oratorical display!"


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:19 PM

Wreck on the Highway - Roy Acuff
Footprints in the snow - Bill Monroe
stuff like that....


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:15 PM

Bert and Surreysinger

Thanks a lot...not a dry seat in the house!!

(One of Dave Sealey's best lines I feel...)

I can hear him now

(Dad,that is, not Dave...but come to think of it...)

Cheers m'dears

Baz


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: maire-aine
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 12:17 PM

"The Preacher & the Bear"

"Oh, Lord, if you can't help me, don't you help that grizzly bear."

Did Phil Harris record that?

Also, something about "3 Children in the Fire-y Furnace" and "Jonah in the belly of the whale"

Maryanne


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 12:17 PM

I've no actual memory of my father as he died when I was two, but one day my mother was round at the house & I'd just bought Bob Robert's Topic LP Songs from the Sailing Barges, and thought it might be the sort of thing she's enjoy. After Bell-bottom Trousers she said "Your father used to sing that." Gave me a bit of a glow I can tell you, though I've never actually sang it myself.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 12:09 PM

Painting Box - The Incredible String Band was a favourite with me and my sisters, and still such a lovely song.

Charlotte


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 11:43 AM

Little Redwing
Big Rock Candy Mountain
I Went Down To Derby Town


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 11:20 AM

No pop from Pop, but a million things from humourous songs of the early 20th century, to serious classical, to hymns and anthems (very Anglican), to stuff he wrote for church liturgy, choirs, and childrens groups. Even heard him and some opera singer demonstrate singing harmony a semi-tone apart without screwing up. Besides sightsinging like a pro, he could improvise various styles of harmony.

After several strokes of varying severity, Dad became virtually mute. Days, even weeks, would pass where he'd barely utter a sound, much to Mum's sadness. When he was well enough to be taken out, off to church they went. Dad struggled to his feet and sang as if he'd never stopped. It seems it's a different part of the brain that operates singing. Of course, in church everyone thought it was some sort of miracle, and in a way it was. It so happened that he still remembered entire hymns, bass lines, melodies, words, just as he always had. We knew then that inside the newly quiet man there was still the memory that used to amaze us with its ability and sheer volume. Until the day he died, Mum continued to play music for him, read to him, hold one way conversations with him, and take him about on daily life. I'm sure it sustained both their lives.

I have 45 year old memories as clear as this morning of rolling around in our little skiff on the waves of Georgian Bay, going to and from fishing spots, with Dad loudly singing, "...we fired salutes at the captain's boots in the teeth of the blooming gale...". What a man he was, and I can't begin to describe how I miss him!

Thanks for the memories.

Peace, Mooh.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Phil B
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 10:43 AM

My dad didn't sing but he played fiddle in a local dance band called
'Arthur Chalice and his black diamonds' They played big dance engagements at weekends and there was a tune set which was always announced as 'something for the scots!!' This was a very sophisticated big band arrangement (possibly from Victor Sylvester) of well known tunes such as 'Flowers of Edinburgh' and 'Cock of the north/Athol Highlanders' etc. The Scots in the audience would leap to the floor and generally brighten up the strict tempo proceedings.
I think this is my earliest memory of trad dance music Incidently, Bob Cann was of course well known in the area as the best purveyor of 'Country Dance' music.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 10:23 AM

Katmeluv, I remember your Dad singing Ace Down in a Hole for us on Mudcat Radio.

Gargoyle, my Dad was off pitch quite a lot but it never stopped him singing. His last wife said he was like a radio that you couldn't turn off.

SRS, if you know all those songs it's a shame not to sing them. Get out there and share them with your friends.

Spaw, LOL, that does explain a lot.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 10:13 AM

Baz, here's the lyrics to roll a silver dollar


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Surreysinger
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 08:51 AM

Baz "Any ideas?" Silver Dollar was certainly sung by the Springfields in the pre-Dusty days... I have an LP somewhere which has that track on it... unfortunately I can't lay my hands on it at the moment, but as far as I can recall I think it was listed as "Traditional". Googling for it, I found one site which quoted quite a few variations of the words, and suggested that the song dated from around 1907.

As to what songs my father sang - quite a few, but the only things which stick in the memory are his stunning trumpetless trumpet imitations, and his singing me to sleep as a tiny tot with "Goodnight Irene" - I didn't get to hear the full words until I was in my twenties ... probably just as well, as they're not really kiddies bedtime stuff [grins]. And my mother never sang that I can recall ... I think she was the subject of one of those teachers at school who dent your confidence by criticising !!


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Granny in Wales
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 08:39 AM

I don't know where this song came from but my Dad used to sing it - the scenario, presumably is that the rent-collector has come, mother has no money and he is issuing threats, one of the children sings:

Please don't burn our shit-house down
Mother has promised to pay
Father's away on the ocean blue
And sis in the family way
Brother dear has gonorrhea
O times is f***ing hard
So please don't burn our shit-house down
Or we'll have to shit in the yard.

RIP Ivor 10.1.22-28.5.07


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: rich-joy
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 07:45 AM

Only ones I can now recall are :
The Words Are in My Heart ("My dear, I love you so, and even though I can't say it, the words are in my heart ......")
and
Wyoming Lullaby (chorus starts "Go to sleep my baby, close those pretty eyes .....")
Mum occasionally sang stuff like "O Tannenbaum" and "Song of the Volga Boatmen" and "De Lorelei" though ......


Cheers, R-J


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 07:25 AM

my dad's a great trad singer but has never sang outside the house. He brought me to fleadhs and seisuins the length and breadth of Ireland and taught me numerous songs - i don't even have a recording of him though and now he says he's too old to remember any!

his favourites were;

the jolly tinker
lough erne's shore
the young servant man


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 07:06 AM

Its come up before here, but I'd put my Dad up against anyone when it came to partially remembered song lyrics and poems. Now he did know a lot of them but mostly he remembered only a verse here or a line there and in all cases as they suited his needs which were to supply his somewhat off the wall sense of humor (Y'all understand now?).

He'd combine this with that or quite annoyingly (this'll be familiar too) latch onto something and beat it to death until he had a great laugh over it, leaving my Mom and I groaning and in pain. Plus there were certain key words which would trigger some piece of a poem or a half of a song verse (or chorus) or some inane piece of wacky pseudo folklore.

Ya' know, all in all, I really never had a chance...............................................

Spaw


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 06:27 AM

The miner's dream of home


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 06:17 AM

If you were the only girl in the world
Bless 'em all (RAF version)
RIP, Ivor
24.8.16-21.12.07

RtS


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:50 AM

My dad had just a few songs - Liz's Guinea Pig Song was one.

The one I most remember was The Miner's Dream of Home - "The bells were ringing the old year out, and the new year in".

And one short poem:

WATER

Pure water is the finest drink
That man to man may bring.
But who am I, that I should have
The best of everything?
Let prelates revel at the pump,
Peers at the pond make free,
But whisky, wine or even beer
Is good enough for me!

Sixty years later, I understand it better!

Phil


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Banjiman
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:46 AM

My Dad didn't sing....he played the accordion, and the dog sang along though.

Accordions still don't sound right to me without a dog howling along...........


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:31 AM

I learned these songs at my fathers' knee.... we were too poor to afford paper so he wrote them on his knee.

I learned 'When this bloody war is over' and a jolly little ditty entitled 'The Guinea Pig Song'..

How can you tell when a guinea pig is pleased
if he ain't got a tail to wag.
All other animals you will find,
have got a little tail stuck on behind.
If they'd only put a tail on a guinea pig
and finished off a decent job,
the price of the animal would then go up,
from a guinea up to thirty bob!

He told us he won a prize for singing, the prize was a gobstopper.

LTS


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:58 AM

Something I've never heard elsewhere...but I suspect picked up from the Americans he served with in WW2

You can roll a silver dollar down a rusty road
And it will roll roll roll
Because its round round round

No woman knows what a good man has until she brings him down

Then I forget until the corus which went

Listen my honey listen to me
I want you to understand
That as a silver dollar goes from hand to hand
A woman goes from man to man

Any ideas?

Baz


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:51 AM

My Dad didn't sing much, but boy...could he recite! He had his own versions of many famous poems and was especially fond of "The Lays of Ancient Rome". He also liked to mix the poems up or come out with strange quotes such as:

"Look thou, stand within the arras, and when I stamp my foot upon the bosom of ground, rush forth! But he rushed fifth and lost all his beer money!"

Dad played the piano well, and had a wide repertoire.

Twas Mum who was the singer.

Best wishes,

Peter


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Megan L
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:17 AM

I remember sitting on the bed in the back bedroom as he played, mum used to make him practice his saxaphone into the airing cupboard the melodeon in the hut but the banjo in the back bedroom.

Helleujah i'm a bum
Old faithful
Will the angels sing their songs for me

right up till just before he died aged 93 he could recite many long poems.

The shooting of Dan Magrew
The creation of sam magee
The green eye of the little yellow god
Tam o shanter

and his own poems

The golddigger
Macbeth
The easter egg


My mum on the other hand sang all the timewhnever she was working about the house you would here her sweet voice.

The star o Rabbie Burns
The rowan tree
Dark Lochnagar
Grannies hielan hame

these were joined by hymns and any other tunes that happened to flow through her head.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:14 AM

"Let the rest of the world go by"
"Out of town"


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:02 AM

Never heard my Dad sing a thing ... he did used to thump out "Donna e mobile" on the piano, though.

Anne


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Sooz
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 02:36 AM

I'll take you home again Kathleen (my Mother's name) when he wanted something and Come into the garden Maud (my Mother's hated middle name) when he wanted to wind her up.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 11:50 PM

You name it, he sang it! Dad was a folk singer (John Dwyer). :)

When we were little he used to come to each of our rooms at bedtime and sing a few songs. Sometimes (often!) we were a captive audience for a new song he was learning. I knew lots of words to lots of songs very early, because of this. So, of course, I don't play a portable instrument or sing (unless I'm singing along and mostly drowned out, but I do know the words!)

SRS


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Julia
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:54 PM

The Whiffenpoof song (baaa, baaaa, baaa)
Aura Lee (which, as a curious child, i understood to be "orally" and wondered how a blackbird would sing any other way)
Shenandoah (I love your sweetie)

Then there was this little novelty- Anyone ever heard it?

When Pa was a little boy like me he used to go in swimmin',in swimmin'
He used to go 'way up the creek where there was no fear of women,of women
One day, one day,
One day some people came along and stole my pa's apparel (apparel)
He stayed in the water all day loo-oo-oong
And that night came home in a barrel, a barrel
A big.... round.... wooden..... barrel!
(The last "barrel" is shouted and accompanied with merciless tickling)
Took awhile to understand the barrel bit

My Dad also read us Greek myths and Beowulf as bedtime stories when I was 5 or 6

Cheers- Julia


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:53 PM

Hey Dan - I have an old Bruno banjo!

My dad was tone deaf, but he sang. 'There's a Long, Long Trail', 'Trail of the Lonesome Pine' (the one with the cow on the railroad tracks), 'Mademoiselle from Armentières' (the chorus). Most of the time, I only remember he sang the song if I hear it elsewhere.


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:24 PM

"Little Birdie," "Sally Ann" and "Cripple Creek" - all played on his old Bruno and Son banjo.

Dan


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:22 PM

INTERESTING - Question.

My father could not carry a pitch....none of family could....his oldest sister took instruction from a teacher that "promised" results....four lessons later the fee was refunded.

Luckily my musical ability came from the other side of the family....one with a RICH musical inheritance....something my siblings also missed.

But, back to the topic:
While working on a "difficult task" my father would either smoke a "Camel Unfiltered" or whistle "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" and this tune always seemed "in-key" because of its "off-key" nuance.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:13 PM

you know! And I know, Bertdarlin'...your dad sang a lot more. Love that tape!


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Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Kent Davis
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:02 PM

"You get a Line" (The Crawdad Song")

Kent


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