April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing

Subject: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Apr 13 - 08:59 AM

Our monthly shanty, forebitter, and ballad song session will be happening this Saturday, April 20th, at The Press Room on Daniel St. in Portsmouth, NH from 3:30 to 7:30 PM.

Tom, alas, has been missing the Friday trad sessions since February and then missed last month's shanty sing because he fell in front of The Press Room the evening before. He's been working with some off-and-on foot and ankle pain that's made walking problematic. But the pain has been considerably less lately and he's making great progress with his physical therapist. And, fortunately, the weather looks as if it will cooperate this week. Who knows, might even start acting like spring.

So, with a clear sidewalk and lots of incentive, Tom will definitely try to be at Saturday's sing.

Hope we see YOU there!
Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: maeve
Date: 17 Apr 13 - 08:26 AM

Refreshhhhhhhhh with a tip of the hat to Linn and Tom.

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Apr 13 - 08:23 PM

Linn and Tom-

I'm off to NEFFA this weekend. Maybe I'll catch some of the regulars in Gloucester at the Dog Bar when I'm working my way back up North.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Apr 13 - 09:46 AM

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Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Guest -Dianne
Date: 18 Apr 13 - 10:22 AM

Lynn,
So good to hear Tom is making progress.
I will be there too! I am doing well, surgeon discovered a second tear so the repairs were more involved than we thought. However, I returned to work two days after surgery and am feeling better and better every day!
Dianne

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Apr 13 - 02:07 PM

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We're heading to tonight's weekly trad session at The Press Room in about an hour.

Practice for tomorrow.

Tom will be there tomorrow. He will NOT make the same mistake he made last month. (He'll be using the walker, not just a cane.)

Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: NbptErnie
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 11:14 AM

Amy and I will be there.

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 01:05 PM

Tom will be there, too -- he didn't run into any walking snags yesterday at the weekly trad session.

And I KNOW there will be more people there than have "signed in" here.

Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 09:29 PM

Yes, LOTS more singers plus two groups -- one from Connecticut and the other from Vermont -- who wandered in by accident (for a late lunch) and enjoyed the music intensely. One gentleman even gave us a song (after requesting a number of others).

More tomorrow.

Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: ranger1
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 09:42 PM

Wish I could have been there. Soon, soon, when the rest of the crew comes back and it's not just me and Andy keeping the park from becoming over-run with cidiots and tourons.

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 09:09 AM

Let's get started. First, the crew -- Curmudgeon (Tom Hall) and I, of course, Dianne Lavoie, Mike Modern from Kittery, Maine (I think the only representative from Maine this month), Bob Eaton, Steve from Gloucester and his wife, Erin & Lindsay Weaver from Vermont, Don Hale from waaaay south in Massachusetts, Jeri, Ernie Pigeon & Amy from Newburyport, MA, W.B., Justine Donovan & Steve Smith, Carol Coronis, Barbara Benn, Jean Jennings(!!! -- we don't see her often enough), Jeff Warner, and Irish singer newly arrived in the area Sean Fell.

Took awhile to get the drums, etc. of the jazz people moved out so we could set up and then getting the piped in music shut off seemed to be another project. Then we seemed to have trouble getting jump started, so Mike Modern kicked in with a little ditty...

1. Rabbi Has No Tail At All - Mike Modern; Horse Ran Around With His Foot On the Ground - Linn; hen doggeral - Jeri
2. Fire Marengo - Jeri
3. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn Schulz
4. All For Me Grog - Dianne Lavoie
5. Survivor Leave (Boarding Party) - Ernie Pigeon
6. Boys of Killebeg - Bob Eaton
7. Heave Away, Me Johnny - Don Hale
8. Sea People (Dave Webber) - Steve from Gloucester
9. Rolling Down to Old Maui - gentleman visiting from Connecticut; 1st time ever leading a song in public
10. The Day We Went to Rothesay, O - Mike
11. Coming Down the C&O (Boarding Party) - Ernie
12. Bear Away, Yankee - Jeri
13. Three Drunken Maidens - Linn
14. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Don
15. Reuben Ranzo - Dianne (request from CT party; words thanks to Don Hale)

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 10:41 AM

16. Race of Long Ago - Linn
17. Noah's Ark/A Long Time Ago - Bob
18. Sittin' On the River By the Levee - Ernie
19. Constant Lovers (Dave Webber) - Steve
20. May Song (Dave Webber) - Linn
21. Padstow May Song - Dianne
22. Manura - Mike
23. Plains of Mexico/Santy Anno - Mike and group effort to comply with a request
24. Ocracoke Time - Ernie
25. Demon Lover - Carol Coronis

more to come
Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 10:54 AM

"Rabbi Has No Tail At All"

I bet you want me to change that to "rabbiT".

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 11:31 AM

LOL I wondered.
SINS

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 02:11 PM

Please, Jeri...(and how about writing a new song, "The rabbi has no tail"...)

26. Rolling Sea - Justine Donovan
27. Fire Down Below (no, not that one) - Don ("It's fetch a bucket of water girls")
28. Fire Down Below (yes, that one) - Jeri ("Midway Plaisances")
29. Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer - Dianne
30. Little Sally Racket - Ernie
31. Three Score and Ten - Bob
32. Row, Bullies, Row - Mike
33. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth - Linn (so loud I couldn't hear myself)
34. My Son John - Justine
35. Boney Was a Warrior - Ernie
36. Hanging Johnny - Jeri
37. Lost In the Gale - Sean Fell
38. The Jeannie C - Dianne
39. Jeannie Brown - Don
40. Home From the Sea - Steve
41. Shallow Brown - Jeff Warner
42. Cape Cod Girls - Jean Jennings
43. Marco Polo - Ernie & Mike
44. Prison Ship - Sean
45. Lover's Wreck - Carol & Justine
46. Albertina - Don
47. Astoria's Bar - Linn (sans my usual accompaniment)
48. Yangtze River - Ernie
49. Eyes of Clover - Sean
50. Hurrah, Sing Fare You Well - Jeff
51. Willie Taylor - Carol
52. Johnson Girls - Justine
53. Congo River - Dianne
54. Black Bird, Get Up - Jeri
55. Hold the Line (Save Our Groundwater protest song) - Carol (written by Jeri)
56. Back Home In Derry - Sean
57. Won't You Go My Way - Jeff
58. Clear Away the Morning - Bob
59. All the Things I'd Leave Behind - Steve
60. Rolla Bolla - Ernie
61. Jamestown Homeward Bound - Don
62. I'm a Rowdy Soul - Jean
63. Pleasant and Delightful - Jeff
64. Fields of Athenry - Sean
65. Nelson's Prayer - Jeff

There!
Linn

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Don Hale
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 11:34 PM

Yet another Fun Session! Linn, a couple of notes re: the song titles.

#27: Given as "Fire! Fire!" with "Fire Down Below" in parenthesis on the "Short Sharp Shanties, Vol. 1 CD. Should help differentiate it from the more familiar one Jeri sang.

#39: Should be "Feeny Brown", as sung by Barry Finn.

                                  Don

Subject: RE: April Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 08:44 AM

Thanks, Don. I always appreciate corrections, etc. If I don't know the title, I try to research it, but sometimes my remembered lyrics (from my notes) just don't hit the right combination. (Or I just plain have a brain cramp.)

Linn