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Lyr Req: The Stranger: 'I'm from up north...' |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Bob Bolton Date: 31 Jul 07 - 09:29 AM G'day Bob, Thanks for your thoughts ... I must admit that my latest acquisition is patiently waiiting up in the Blue Mountains for me to fetch it - and pay Richard Evans for reconditioning the bellows ... and working his usual magic very hard to recover a set of reeds that seems to have been tuned up by a mouth organ specialist! (No filing, tweaking ecetera ... just dobs of solder - at one end to raise and at the other to lower pitch!) Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: note to Bob Bolton From: GUEST,Bob Tedrow Date: 31 Jul 07 - 09:18 AM I noticed an OLD internet posting from you on the subject of bellows making. For your information and interest, here is my bellows making page http://hmi.homewood.net/bellows Bob Tedrow |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Bob Bolton Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:08 AM G'day Nigel, Yeah ... possible - if you're looking for the lowest common denominator ... Regard(les)s, Bob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Nigel Parsons Date: 29 Jul 07 - 08:03 PM Also seems to fit well to "Villikins & his Dinah" Nigel |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Canberra Chris Date: 21 Jul 07 - 07:34 AM Bob, thanks for the words and music. I have heard it sung several times by Evan Mathieson, it is in his current performance repertoire. Folkiedave, if you PM me, I can put you in touch with Evan. Cheers, Chris |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE STRANGER (John Manifold) From: Bob Bolton Date: 20 Jul 07 - 09:29 AM G'day again, The Stranger By John Manifold A stranger came into the district last Week, He wasn't a Balt and he wasn't a Greek; We enquired was he Irish? He answered us, No, - He came from up North where the pineapples grow. He answered so mannerly, so quite at his ease, Saying neither too much nor too little to please, He was hardly a stranger by tea-time, although He came from up North where the pineapples grow. We swapped the old stories of famine and flood And the crook politicians that suck a man's blood; We had reckoned they might have been local, but no! It's the same in the North where the pineapples grow. We tickled his fancy with peaches and cream, We showed him Polled Angus all sleek as a dream; He agreed they were "mighty", but still he must go - He was needed up North where the pineapples grow. The moral of this is too plain to be spoke: The bloke on the land is a sensible bloke Be he brown as a berry, or black as a crow, Or just from up North where the pineapples grow. And this is the MIDItext (which you can convert if you downloaded Alan's program... otherwise grab out the ABC scratchings.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Bob Bolton Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:58 AM G'day Folkiedave, That's The Stranger, by John Manifold - presumably written after he had left his native (southern) Melbourne and moved north to Queensland. It was published in Singabout, vol. 1, no. 2, Autumn 1956, p. 3. There are no notes on the item, so I don't know if John had published it previously ... the heading and illustration of clustered pineapples suggests he may have brought it out in his series of Bandicoot Ballads. I'll shortly post the words and tune (in Alan Foster's "no longer supported by Mudcat" MIDItext format) ... at least you can pull out the ABC format section and feed it back through a converter to real music notation. Regards, Bob |
Subject: Lyr Req: I'm From Up North- Australian again From: Folkiedave Date: 20 Jul 07 - 05:01 AM All that talk of Australian songs reminds me of one to which I can only remember the first verse.........clearly Australian I would say..... An sailor came to me one morning last week, He wasn't Italian, he wasn't a Greek, I asked was he Irish, he answered me "No" I'm from up North - where the pineapples grow.......... Sorry I don't remember any more.. |
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