Lyr Add: Islip (parody of Kilkelly)

Subject: Lyr Add: ISLIP (parody of KILKELLY)
From: GUEST, Anon strikes again.
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 09:08 AM

Firstly, I had to do it. The risk of a song being parodied is directly proportional to the emotional seriousness of the original. It's why we make jokes about death, injury, and in-laws.

Secondly, I don't think anybody's ever gonna sing it, but it might be amusing to see once.
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ISLIP, LONG ISLAND

Islip Long Island, 19 and 60. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
I hope that this small, insignificant letter finds you happy and well.
I hope San Francisco is all that you dreamed of, although it's a long way from here.
I hope that you watch out for bad boys and beatniks. There's a lot in this world you should fear.
Your brother's moved close to his girlfriend, so he says, but I fear they are living in sin.
Please don't concern yourself. I'm doing splendid but I can't wait to see you again.

Islip Long Island, 19 and 70. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
Say hi to Moondog. He looks like a nice boy, but with all that hair I can't tell.
Does his mother know that he has hair like a hippy? I hope you have checked him for lice.
Oh well, never mind. I'm just being a mother. I'm sure that he's really quite nice.
And the wife of your brother, I don't think she likes me. She wants him to move to Bayonne.
Your room is exactly the same way you left it. Anytime you want, you could move home.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 80. Dear daughter Estelle and son John:
I'm sorry to give you the very sad news that your father, that bastard, is gone.
He moved out last weekend to live with some floozy. She's skinny and has curly blond hair.
I'm a shame he decided to trade you poor mother for a pretty young head filled with air.
But please, not to worry. I'm sure I'll recover. At least that's what my doctor has said,
But I hope you're still planning to move back to Islip Before your dear mother is dead.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 90. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
I'll be fifty-one this coming Sunday and my colon is giving me hell.
I just mentioned my birthday in case you'd forgotten. I know you're too busy to call.
Thanks for the pictures. It's the only reason I know what the kids look like at all.
Except for the clothes from the Salvation Army, they're lovely young women and men.
Are you thinking you might bring them here for a visit? It would be nice to see you again.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 92. This is your dear brother John.
I'm sorry that I didn't write sooner to tell you that mother has moved on.
She was living with some guy she met in college. I think he is just thirty three.
She sold the house and closed all the accounts and they're off on a traveling spree.
And she sent us a letter from a country in Europe, and some photos they took on a cruise.
If you ask me, she has lost it completely and the young man's affection's a ruse.
And it's funny the way she kept talking about you. She said something to you at the end.
She said, "Tell Estelle you get one chance at life. Maybe someday I'll see her again."^^

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 09:20 AM

Loved it Anon

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jacob B
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 09:22 AM

Dear Anon,

It's fun.

Of all the threads on Mudcat, this is the one that I knew I had to print off immediately and show my wife.

And I expect we'll probably sing it through, once.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:09 PM

Dear anon, I find your parody highly entertaining, and so have several of my friends. One of them would like to publish it. If you are willing to shed even part of your cloak of anonymity, show your face here, or send me a personal message.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amos
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:26 PM

I agree! And it weren't even I!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:38 PM

This "Anon" thing is starting to become a habit. Just did it to be silly this time.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 07:16 PM

Jeri,

I want to do it too.... can I huh? please?.......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 07:23 PM

That is a fun one!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 07:37 PM

Jeri--

It's not a dumb parody, it's wonderful. And actually moving, if I may be so bold as to say so. Thanks for doing it. And it will be sung...by me, for one, at next week's Singtime Frolics in Oregon.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 07:46 PM

You do that, Mark, and Meryle will join you. I just sent it to her. Me too, maybe.
He's right Jeri. YOu done good.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amos
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 07:51 PM

Jeri:

I have to request that you turn in that bushel under which you have been modestly hiding yer songwriting talent, to the Keeper of the Songbook, forthwith and immediately, as a confiscated contraband Bushel. This is a genuinely excellent talent, you. Had we but world enough and time....

Warm regards,

A

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 09:49 PM

Uhm, Jeri, one quibble. I thought I'd make 51 into 61 at least, since otherwise

1990
- 51
______
1939 DOB
and if she gets married at 16, that makes it
+16
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1955
and that will give her a daughter leaving home for the wilds of SF in 1960 at the age of 5.
Sixty-one works about right, tho maybe not for doing the continent with a 33yr old student. At least she dies happy, right?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 10:10 PM

Oh, picky, picky, picky! :-) I actually thought about the age and thought I had it right, but I'm very mathematically challenged. Yes please change 51 to 61.

Thanks for the compliments. Please print, sing, and share. And Alison - I'm imagining you, a woman raised in Ireland, living in Oz, doing a Long Island accent...

Cheers!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: MMario
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 10:20 PM

60 plus and 30's? I know a couple of couples who are 50's and 20's, so sounds about right.....Jeri, the song is hysterical in it's own right AND as a parody....THANK YOU!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Dan
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 10:21 PM

Great work Jeri! And, Barbara, you seem to be very on top of things too. I'll be adding this to my repetoire.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 10:56 PM

I'll be changing the name of the Island to an Aussie one if that's OK with you.... then the Aussies might understand me better......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 07:59 AM

Alison, it doesn't have to be an island - anything that fits the rhythm. In fact - "Sydney, Australia" works, but I don't know what you'd do with "Bayonne."

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Alice
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 09:31 AM

excellent job, Jeri. A gem.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 10:13 AM

Jeri, it works from top to bottom. I'll never sing it because I couldn't remember all the words, but I loved it anyway and will pass it on to someone who might sing it. Thanks! A

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 11:27 AM

Jeri. Great parody! I've recorded Kilkelly, and sing it in shows, and I'd love to start doing this one. I do parodies of Country Roads, and the Streets of London, and as I get older I find myself losing track of whether I'm singing the original or the parody, and once or twice I've jumped back and forth between them until the "Huh?" from the audience brought me back to where I was supposed to be. All the best. Seamus

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 11:36 PM

Well done, Jeri! Hysterical with such an element of truth! Although completely different, it reminds me of the irony in Cat Stevens' old song "Cat's in the Cradle".

Oi! An' I just learned Killkelly!!So, when do we hear you sing it in HearMe?

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 18 Mar 00 - 09:11 PM

Kat, I understand your feline leanings, but wasn't that Harry Chapin?
Mark

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Mar 00 - 11:26 PM

Uhoh, you are right, Mark! I coulda sworn it was that other "Cat".Thanks. **BG**

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 01 Jun 00 - 10:49 PM

I jsut sang the "sydney australia" version in hearme... went down very well Jeri....

great song

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: TonyK
Date: 05 Jun 00 - 10:09 PM

Very good,Jeri. You should write more.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Jun 00 - 02:05 AM

Jeri,

That is quite lovely. I want to see more of your work.

Amergin

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jun 00 - 01:25 PM

My Dad lives in Islip and just took off for Florida with a lady he met online. I bought him the computer for his 86th birthday. This will be printed and sent south. Hilarious. SS

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Jun 00 - 01:28 PM

I actually don't write much - usually just one-verse sillty things like:

For two years now I've tried to grow a lawn that's lush and green
But though I tried, my grass just died 'till only sand was seen
But there's something new this year to view, if you know what I mean
Oh the crabgrass looks like hell, but it's growing

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 07 Jun 00 - 11:12 AM

Jeri - I'm flying to Islip at the end of the month to see my in-laws in Huntington and sing them this song....

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: DADGBE
Date: 07 Jun 00 - 11:34 AM

Parodies are wonderfully valuable for giving us glimpses into ourselves and the culture. This one's a GEM, Jeri!
Hey Barbara, are you thinking what I'm thinking that this would be a great addition to the San Francisco Folk Music Club's newsletter song page?
Jeri, do you want to have it submitted?

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Jun 00 - 07:21 PM

I gave it to Faith for Sing Out, Ray, and shipped it to both you and Kay, I thought, back in March. Kay liked it but said that the tune was not familiar enough, so we needed to run it too. One of you said that we probably couldn't get permission to run the tune to Killkelly. Does any of this sound familiar?
What's the name of that herb that helps with memory?
I think Jeri's parody would be great on the song pages.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 07 Jun 00 - 09:06 PM

Rosemary.... for remembrance????

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 07:42 PM

Well, I finally have my fifteen minutes of fame. MaryMac reported last night on Mudcat Radio that the song is in the current issue of SingOut!

Interesting - someone on a newsgroup I read pointed out that the tune to Kilkelly (at least I may be spelling it right now!) is virtually the same as Old Maui, done in 3/4 time.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 07:48 PM

congratulations Jeri....

wait 'til the royalties start rolling in......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: MMario
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 07:58 PM

Congrats, Jeri!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 01:52 PM

Cool, Jeri. Faith finally got it in her column? MY Singout hasn't come yet, so I didn't know. Congratulations!
Blessings,
Barbara
Are you in Roll and Go now? If so say Hi to Charlie for me, and ask him about the night the boiler blew up.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM

Jeri,
Congratulations on getting published. My dad lives in Islip. I'll let you know his reaction. Mary

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM

No - not in Roll & Go. It's too far to drive for me, and I have absolutely no experience performing. I think they're looking for someone who's likely to commit, not be committed. :-)

I have to find someplace around here that sells SingOut! My subscription ran out at a time when I didn't have the money to renew it. That'll teach me!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 03:00 PM

Jeri,

It's never too far to Roll&Go, and if you're not careful you'll find us rolled up on your front crabgrass in six-part harmony. Great song! Looks nice in my nice fresh copy of Sing Out!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 05:10 PM

Yawl should get a membership Charlie. It don't cost nothin'. Nifty song, hey?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 05:26 PM

Charlie - when did you see my lawn!?! I wish there were a lush, flowering variety of crabgrass.

I ought to go over to the songwriting thread. This was just going to be a silly song with not much of a point. The last verse sort of wrote itself. Said "Hey, I'm turning out just as sad as the original. Poor old lady, all by herself...DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 06:46 PM

JERI! Congratulations! I opened my copy of Sing Out! and there was this great song. I read through it and laughed and admired it and completely missed the name of the author! Charlie mentioned it was yours when he called me earlier. DOH!

He and I will be at the press room tomorrow night. Email me if you don't get your own copy of Sing Out! and I'll pick one up at Bookland for you.

Obligatory shout... CHARLIE! JOIN UP!

And Roll & Go is looking for someone with a great voice, commitment and who should probably be committed. I think, Jeri, you would qualify for some of that.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 07:19 PM

Brett, if you can find a copy, I'll pay yez for it. I don't know if I'll make it to the Press Room. Gonna try, but I seem to have come down with the flu, or some similar type of viral thingie.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-c
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 07:36 PM

Jeri, with respect to your crabgrass: we have eyes everywhere. A Roll&Go gathers no moss! Of course we may have just sifted through an earlier part of this fascinating thread.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 08:26 PM

I'm truly sorry to hear you may not make it. I hope you feel better soon.

I realized earlier while in the car that the magazine may not be on the shelves yet. I will check. If you don't make it to the Press Room I'll give the magazine (if I can find one) to Tom and Linn.

Get well soon.

Brett

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: KathWestra
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:35 PM

Congrats, Jeri. Good song, and great to see it in my newly arrived copy of SingOut!

And feel better quickly, please. Kathy

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:42 PM

Thanks for the kind words about the song.

I'm not dead yet, although it's close, and I'm considering dragging my poor, virus-wracked body, with its 120 degree fever and throat like sandpapered liver, down to the session. I will try not to hit anyone when I pass out.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:53 PM

Damn! Now I've got to relearn "The Face on the Bar Room Floor." ;}

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 04:02 PM

Mazel tov, Jeri! Now you have to teach everybody how to pronounce Islip.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:12 PM

Like me, hey, Mark?
Well, I'm from Michigan, and I've given up on doing Jeri's parody. It's wonderful, but I don't have the background for it (I didn't know how to say 'Bayonne', either). And sounding like you're from that part of the world makes it so much better.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM

ICE-lip. Bay-OWN.

Mark, in HEE-low.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM

Islip: eye-slip (or ice-lip)
Bayonne: bay-own
...or do like Alison did, and change the place names to fit your location.

Anyhow, had a good session and I don't feel so bad. Thanks to Kath and Naemanson for wishing I felt better - musta worked. (And I should have said thanks earlier.)

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:10 PM

Musta beat you by a millisecond or two, Jeri!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:32 PM

Ooh...that is so Twilight Zone!

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Alice
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:43 PM

Barbara, you can do my parody of Kilkelly, "Roundup Montana". It's in the forum somewhere.

Alice

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara
Date: 03 Mar 01 - 01:33 AM

Yee haw! I kin say "Roundup" jes fine, thank yew ma'm. I'll go have a look, Alice.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson
Date: 03 Mar 01 - 05:45 AM

You are right, Jeri, it was a good session. Too bad you had to leave early. And about your comment last night that you only know three songs. You are hereby assigned a task to learn a fourth song for next session! And another song for the next session etc. Now, I don't make it every Friday so you can cheat and only learn a song for those sessions that I will attend but you'll never know which ones those are will you? Thus, you'll have to keep learning. *BG*

For those 'catters who don't know, Jeri has a strong clear voice that is just right for unaccompanied singing. We need to help her learn more songs and even find someone to play along with her so we can hear what she sounds like with an accompanist. I believe she'll be great there too. Any volunteers?

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 01 - 08:46 AM

Thanks Brett. I feel like crap today, but I'm glad I went. Sometimes they have accompanied me - usually on acapella songs. ;-) I know more than 3 songs, but either they're not suitable for a session or I'm in danger of killing them with over-singing. Maybe I ought to start a thread asking for suggestions...

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 03 Mar 01 - 04:28 PM

Hey, Jeri, it was such fun to see your name in Singout! I haven't had much time for Mudcatting so I missed this thread- both times!
Another song you've shared, but didn't write, is Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here. I've been having some fun with that one.

Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 01:34 AM

Hey, my Sing Out! didn't arrive until today. I have to say I was duly impressed to see that Faith put TWO Mudcatter songs in her column. Steve Suffet is relatively new here, but if you click on his name, you can see he's made a significant contribution to the information posted at the 'Cat. His song in Sing Out! is an inspiring variation of "Wasn't That a Time."
-Joe Offer-