Song Chain

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 12:59 PM

Roam?
Rome?

Off one night one a toot with Brutus,
He got pickled as a Roman neutue,
Woke next morning, feeling solemn,
Couldn't see the end of his Roman column...

I'm glad, glad, very, very glad,
I'm glad I'm a gladiator.
Ancient Rome, that's me home,
Fried fish and chips by the old hippadrome.
I'm glad, glad, very, very glad,
From me helmet to me toes.
My old dad was a Roman glad, and he left me his Roman nose.

Next?

Bob

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

Helmet......

Goliath of Gath

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 05:18 PM

Goliath fell down in a swoon on the sward.

THE OLD MAID (4)
And give me a croft at the foot o' a hill
Wi' gowans upon the green sward
In sight an' in sound o' a clear sparkling rill
A peat stack and a bonnie kailyard

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 05:25 PM

But let me be gudewife to a clouthie gudeman

Barring of the Door

It fell upon the Martinmas time
And a gay time it was then, oh
When our goodwife got puddings to make
And she's boiled them in the pan, oh.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 07:57 PM

We've come for some figgy *pudding*,
And a cup of good cheer.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 04:48 AM

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Merry may the Maid Be.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 05:23 AM

Butter and Cheese and All!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 05:58 AM

The Farmer's Toast

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 07:10 AM

I have lawns, I have bowers

EARLY ONE MORNING

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 07:26 AM

Sweet nightingale.

"valley below".

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 08:01 AM

Holmfirth Anthem

1. Abroad for pleasure as I was a-walking
On one summer summer's evening clear (repeat 1st 2 lines)
There I beheld a most beautiful damsel
Lamenting for her shepherd swain (bis)

2. The fairest evening that e'er I beheld thee
Evermore with the lad I adore
Wilt thou go fight the French and Spaniards
Wilt thou leave me thus my dear?

3. No more to yon green banks will I take thee
With pleasure for to rest myself and view the lambs
But I will take thee to yon green gardens
Where the pretty flowers grow

( Early one morning Flowers)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 08:16 AM

The Shepherd's Wife's song

Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe
As doth the king, at every tide or sithe--
    And blither too,
For kings have wars and broils to take in hand,
Where shepherds laugh and love upon the land.
    Ah then, ah then,
If country loves such sweet desires gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain?

    Robert Greene

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 09:12 AM

Searching for lambs

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 10:01 AM

"So hero-like the sun did shine"

Oh, rare Turpin, Hero!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 04:48 PM

As he rode over Salisbury plain,
He met Lord Judge with all his train:
Then hero-like he did approach,
And robbed the Judge as he sat in his coach.
O rare Turpin, hero,
O rare Turpin, O.

-------------------------

As I was a-walking on Salisbury Plain
I heard such a fuss and to-do
For the lassies were crying and tearing their hair
For the rout had just come for the Blues
The rout had just come for the Blues.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 08:07 AM

High Germany ( rout)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 12:57 PM

Lowlands [as opposed to High Germany]

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 01:49 PM

The Golden Vanitee

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 03:32 PM

Golden Apples of the Sun

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 07:05 AM

u<>Dr. Finlay

A snippet I recall,

'........he travels far
in his little car
And all the lassies say
You should never eat an apple
'cos it keeps the doctor away!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rknbn22sV8

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:20 AM

Adam lay i-bowndyn,

bowndyn in a bond,
Fowre thowsand wynter

thowt he not to long

And al was for an appil,

an appil that he tok.
As clerkes fyndyn wretyn

in here book.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:31 AM

Ten Thousand Miles Away

A short hop from 'Fowre thowsand

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:41 AM

This has got to be breaking the rules of the game.


From the film TEN

Ravel's Bolero was in the score

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:27 AM

Lily Bolero

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:40 AM

Lilli Burlero

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:14 AM

I knuw I'd speld it rong :)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM

The song of love is a sad song,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli , Hi lo
The song of love is a song of woe,
Don't ask me how I know,
The song of love is a sad song, for I have loved and I know.
I sit by the window and watch the rain,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli Hi lo,
Tomorrow I'll probably love again,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli Hi lo

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:39 AM

"Low high, low high,low high,low,
Eeny meeny miny mo"

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:46 AM

1. Ain't no mo' cane on this Brazos, my boy
Oh, oh, oh
We done ground it all into molasses,
Oh, oh, oh

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 04:24 AM

She took him in her own white hand,
And led him to the table,
Here's cakes and wine for you my love,
Eat and drink while you are able.


The Light Dragoon

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 04:30 AM

From Odetta's Ain't No More Cane On the Brazo's

Go down old Hannah
Don't you rise no more
If you rise again tomorrow
It be my judgement day fo shore


Go Down Old Hannah

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 05:27 AM

damn cross posting... ignore my last

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 05:33 AM

He came down the lane on his walking cane
And his old grey beard kept wagging

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 09:58 AM

Hand me down my walking cane,
I'm gonna leave on the midnight train
'Cos all my sins been taken away!

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 10:39 AM

Train...

I'm the Man that Put the Engine in the Chip Shop by Dave Goulder

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

from previously posted Dave Goulder song

I started as a cleaner back in nineteen forty nine

to this

It was back in the days of forty nine
Heave away Santy Anno
Back in the days of the good old times
Way out in Californi o

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 06:45 AM

On Board A '98

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,The Walrus (in the library)
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:14 AM

Keeping with the idea of serving on warships-

"On Board of a Man of War"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:17 AM

What a shame! I wasn't fast enough to link "Little piecer" with "On board a 98" - the only two songs I know which mention cocoa!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:35 AM

Eric Idle's theme song for the BBC sit com One Foot in the Grave. Oblique link. Ignore if you don't get it / or think it's in any way appropriate....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:52 AM

OH I'M AS HAPPY AS A YOUNG SPRING CHICKEN

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:52 AM

Okay. My link would be On board of a Man o' Warboys - oblique, tangential, irrelevant as I say. Anyway, back on track (from One Foot in the Grave - which echoes the final sentiments of '98) to

All Around the Greenwood (The Christmas Goose)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:55 AM

Cross post there, but Snuffy wins by a nose! So:

The Cow that Ate the Piper

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 10:36 AM

So he tucked up the legs and he took to his pegs

The Pegging Awl (A L Lloyd version)


As I was a-walking one morning in May
I met a young maid and her gown it was gay.
I step-ped up to her and back she did fall,
She want to be played with a long pegging awl.

I said, "Pretty fair maid, will you travel with me,
On to foreign countries, strange things for to see?
And I will protect you whate'er may befall
If you'll follow four love with the long pegging awl.

It was home to her parents she then went straightway
And unto her mother these words she did say:
"I'll follow my true love whate'er may befall,
I'll follow my love with his long pegging awl."

"Oh daughter, oh daughter, how can you say so?
For young men are false as you very well know;
They'll tell you fine things and the devil and all,
And leave you big-bellied with the long pegging awl."

"Oh mother, oh mother, now do not say so.
Before you were sixteen, you very well know,
There was father and mother and baby and all,
You followed my dad for his long pegging awl."

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 10:55 AM

Nice one. One of my 'new' songs for 2012 that.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:15 AM

Silver dagger

Dont sing love songs you'll wake my mother

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:40 AM

Arghhh! Wrong post! It should have said:

Nice one. One of my 'new' songs for 2012 that. Which links to one of my new ones for 2011 which I first performed in public at The Punchbowl in January last year.

Lord Thomas & Fair Eleander

*

Okay - seeing we're on with Silver Dagger, and Max Hunter, here's an alternative version...

VERSE 1
A youth once courted a handsome lady
He loved her as, he loved his life
He often vowed, was his intention
To make 'er his lawful wedded wife

VERSE 2
O, when his parents came to know this
They strove t' part them day an' night
Saying, Son, O Son, don't be so foolish
For she's to poor, to be your bride

VERSE 3
And when this lady, come to know this
She quick resolved, what she would do
She wondered forth an' left th city
This pleasant place, no more to view

VERSE 4
She wondered down beside th river
There she prepared herself, for death
Saying, here I am, a youth unmarried,
An' I must die, in dark destress

VERSE 5
Well, she pulled forth a silver dagger
She plunged it in, her snow white breast
O, first she reeled an' then she staggered
Saying, my true love I'm goin' to rest

VERSE 6
Her sweetheart begin, in th valley
He thought he heard, his love one's voice
He ran, he ran, like one destracted
Saying, my true love, I fear your lost

VERSE 7
Well, he picked up th bloody body
He turned it over in his arms
Sayin, neither man or God can save you
An' you must die in all your charms

VERSE 8
Well, he picked up th bloody dagger
He stabbed in thru his own true heart
Saying, let this be a lawful warnin'
T' all who keeps true loves apart

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 05:48 PM

And yon pretty maid, with the silver-headed pin,
Pray open the door and let us come in



The Gower Wassail

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 05:58 PM

Rillaton Wassail. Written by Mike O'Connor for the hamlet of Rillaton, Cornwall



Wassail. Wassail, then let us sing wassail,
Wassail, wassail, then let us sing wassail

By light of star and light of moon the night of twelve is coming soon
We shall to the orchard go, for mother Mary told us so.

With drums and guns we sing an shout to drive the king of Winter out
Frighten every spirit dark and wash away the devils mark.

Then we shall make the sign of 3 to consecrate the apple tree
Cider in the flowing bowl will free the spirit, warm the soul.

Then our wassail will light the flame and let the spirit rise again
From root and seed to bud and bloom, to raise the sap and bless the womb

For if the tree takes back his power he'll bear the blossom, bear the flower
Rich will every branch appear with apples for the coming year

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 08:52 PM

Another mother Mary...

LET IT BE
(John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

When I find myself in time of trouble, mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be.
And tho' they may be parted, there is still a chance that they
will see.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines
on me.
Shines until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary sings to me
There will be no sorrow, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
There will be no sorrow, let it be.