Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir (Sequel)

Subject: Lyr Add: ABDUL-A-BUL-BUL-AMIR, A SEQUEL
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 10:29 PM

ABDUL-A-BUL-BUL-AMIR, A SEQUEL

By the sea of Sargotha I wandered one night.
The stars were shining so clear.
For no reason at all, I heard someone call
For Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir.
I pondered the moonbeams descending so low
Casting shadows ghostly and then
I discovered that I was standing close by
The tombs of these two famous men.
Then from the tombs' shadow there rose from the grave
The form of a Russian Tzar.
My skin nearly peeled as he stood there revealed.
It was Ivan Skovinski Skovar.

It was he who was calling. I hardly dared breathe.
My heart 'most stopped beating from fear,
When out of the grave in need of a shave
Stepped Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir.
"Would you speak to me, Ivan?" says Abdul quite low.
"I would," replied Ivan quite clear.
"That quarrel we had was all to the bad,
Friend Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir."

"Oh, friend, thou art blameless," said Ivan Skovar.
"The fault lies in my hands alone."
But Abdul said, "Nay, it was never that way.
The fault was no ones but my own."
"Do you call me a liar?" said Ivan Skovar.
"Step forth and I'll slice off thine ear."
"Why, you son of a cat, you'll never do that!"
Said Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir.

So, once more they battled and fought as before.
The multitudes came from afar.
These lords of no fear, these bold buccaneers,
A Turk and a Russian Tzar.
And just at that moment, each sword found its mark.
I heard a blood-curdling scream,
And to my surprise, I opened my eyes
And found it was only a dream.
^^
I don't know the author. I collected it from Smokey Green, and he got it from Doc Williams

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From:
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 11:24 PM

In DT it's Emir.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: WyoWoman
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 11:44 PM

I have such fond memories of this song. It was one of my dad's only songs. My sisters and I sang incessantly, and family trips were always the "concert in the Chrysler." Occasionally, if we were very good, we could entice him to sing this song. He didn't have a beautiful singing voice but the song was beautiful to me because he sang it.

VERY dramatically, might I add.

ww

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 01:31 AM

I suspect that you've not actually read the words Kendall has given us. At least, I couldn't find this song in the DT. "Abdul Abulbul Amir" (the well-known Percy French song) is there, true, and a very raunchy parody for which the title is given as "Abdul el Bulbul, Emir," but neither of these is the song given here. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 04:23 AM

The version I knew started;

'The sons of the prophets were fearless and bold'

and goes into a song that is much less PC and repeatable than the one that Kendall has posted. Copies available in a plain brown wrapper......

I'll have a look out and see if I can find it, but I do know that Micca has it, if you really want it that much....

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 05:07 AM

Kendall's version is a sequel to the original (recorded by Frank Crumit and George Melly among others)which I've not heard before.
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Tiger
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 10:49 AM

I have the Crumit version, entitled "The Return of Abdul Abulbul Amir."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: kendall
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:10 AM

so, who wrote this sequel?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Tiger
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:48 AM

Sorry, Kendall, no credits shown on my version.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Micca
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 06:40 PM

I have a track on a Frank crumit CD called the "Grandson of Abdul a Bulbul Amir" which is credited to Crumit himself, there is a spectacularly unPC version of teh original also, which i am not allowed to sing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: JTT
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 06:50 PM

Wasn't the original written by Percy French?

Incidentally, why does the webpage clang at me and give annoying error messages almost every time, the first time I try to click into this field?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 07:03 PM

Micca is not allowed to sing it, not for any PC reasons, but have you ever heard a vampire badger that could hold a tune in a bucket???

It is, however, not half so unPC as a track entitled 'Mountain Greenery', one that would have suffragettes the world over rolling in their graves, and feminists up in arms and ready to depod any male that so much as opened a door for them!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 10 Nov 99 - 01:42 PM

I've loved 'Abdul' since I was a schoolboy. We had it on a 78 by the great Frank Crumit. There's also a song where the combatants rise from the dead to begin all over again after quarelling whose fault the original fight was. Each one blames himself. It contains the immortal line, "Out of the grave, in need of a shave, stepped Abdul Abulbul Amir."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Abdul-a-bul-bul-Amir
From: kendall
Date: 10 Nov 99 - 03:57 PM

hey Burl check the original post.. thats what I sent in.