The Mudcat Living Room

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 03:28 AM

Hey mbo, nice place you've got here. You have any PG Tips with a little cream and sugar? Ah, thank you my good fellow. I'll just sit here on the couch, and maybe have one of those chicken salad sandwiches on the coffee table.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 02:50 AM

CAMDEN TOWN (Gregson)

I remember when I met her
She had barely turned eighteen
Her hair was not quite auburn
And her eyes were not quite green
She was English as the coal dust
And Irish as the rain
And every man in Carter's Bar
Had put their love in vain
She was total imperfection
A queen without a crown
Like a fool I swore I'd win the heart
Of the prettiest girl in Camden Town

Her name was unpronounceable
Some Irish Northern tongue
But I loved the way she always smiled
When I got it wrong
She spoke a differnt language
Rolled out light her phrase
And every word was played out
To the music in her face
She was total imperfection
Queen without a crown
Like a fool I swore I'd win the heart
Of the prettiest girl in Camden Town

She worked at Houston's Station
Selling tickets and advice
The business men who asked her out
Never asked her twice
They could not understand why she
Refused to change her mind
Said "Good Lord now, Irish
Leave the past behind"
She was total imperfection
A queen without a crown
Like a fool I swore I'd win the heart
Of the prettiest girl in Camden Town

Once she let me lie with her
After years of holding down
She always said that love would spark
But friendship wasn't found
One night when sense deserted us
Madness ran our fates
She crept into my shaking arms
And rocked away my pain
She was total imperfection
A queen without a crown
Like a fool I knew I'd lost my heart
To the prettiest girl in Camden Town

Well sometimes I still see her
With her children in the park
Two by different fathers
How the years have left their mark
It seems she never married
God knows she had the chance
But her English blood would doubt inside
And her Irish blood would dance
She was total imperfection
A queen without a crown
Like a fool I still would give my heart
To the prettiest girl in Camden Town

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 02:27 AM

Delightful as always Susan...I find it's better if you just enjoy the dumplings and try not to think about what's in them. Viola would be great. I love Low Lands of Holland on the Viola, sounds so warm.

Loved the song Dave. My granddad used to sing it to us kids. Lots of good memories.

I'm celebrating tonight. Smuggled in a bit of amaretto for my tea. Finally figured out the HTML garbage. More like Joe and MMario figured out how I work....but that's a different story.

So, I got a really great gift from a friend. Come in close Susan, this is right up your alley. Polar fleece socks. Who'd a thunk it? They are toasty as all get out. So I brought a pair for everyone. Tried finding them in Cleigh's size, but thought against it. We'd forever be picking fleece bits out of the leftovers. Gonna go sit in a warm spot and fire out a song for you all. Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:59 PM

Mbo, a song from Bonnie Scotland for ye and Danlbear, if he's around? Good evening one and all, fine night for a good fire with some good music. Hope you have some fun; it's been getting altogether too serious on other threads. Yours,(as usual)Aye, Dave

BANNOCKS O' BEAR MEAL

Words by Robert Burns

Chorus: Bannocks o' bear-meal
Bannocks o'barley;
Here's to the Highlandman's
Bannocks o' barley

Verse: Wha in a brulzie*
will first cry a parley?
never the lads wi'
the bannocks o' barley

Chorus:

chorus: Bannocks o' bear-meal
Bannocks o' barley
here's to the lads wi'
the bannocks o' barley
Wha in his wae-days
were loyal to Charlie?
Wha but the lads wi'
the bannocks o' barley Chorus:

Key of C boisterously and with a swing Brulzie = fight to an old tune in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, 1790

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:27 PM

Susan--how did you know? My favorite Chinese food AFTER Tso is fried rice (pork, chicken, or shrimp) and dumplings! The Golden Dragon in Jacksonville, NC makes the BEST dumplings, next to yours, of course! Do you think you could use this new Hearme thing? I'm really pumped about it, I'm going to try it out Sunday night, so if anyone's around, I'll be waiting to talk & sing & learn Gaelic! I can add a bit of guitar accompaniament to Anachie Gordon...let's go!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:18 PM

Susan - or you could sing to a tape recorder and mail the cassette....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Susan A-R
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:12 PM

Well, I've brought some chinese take-out All of that talk about General Tso's Chicken got me inspired, and so after a day of vegetarian cooking, I went out and got pork fried rice and some great steamed dumplings. I have no idea what type of animal is in em, but they are great. I'm dressed in the penguin suit, and ready for a slow evening. I could probably play a bit of viola on Anachee with you if you think it'd fit.

How do I share a tune to a song if I am technophobic? Wanna call me and have me sing it over the phone??

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 06:48 PM

Richt guid, Animaterra! I really like that song!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 05:25 PM

Hi, everyone- please make room on that couch, I'm a bit weary and blue and glad it's the weekend and time for some music. Susan, I'm dying to hear that song! Meebo, I've brought the last of the yuletide eggnog- d'ya think there's any rum to cut the sweetness with? I'll let it settle and then make an attempt at Anachie Gordon- I'm feeling a bit melodramatic tonight!
Allison

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 10:44 PM

Brava!!! (from a fair Ellen who loves your song) Yes, darlin' Suze, Cap'n Crunch. If he begs for anymore caffeine, tell him NO! Causes too much of the Number One(make it so).

Mbo, can't tell me on top of all of this, you're a trekkie too? Where do you find the time?

MMario, no more weeping over the elephant song. Did you know that elephants symbolize power and royalty? They are worshiped because they are the carriers of Indra, the king of Heaven. They are good luck! All that and a memory to boot.

Gotta go get some of the Thai before the possum walks all over it. Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Susan A-R
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 10:35 PM

Wow can that possum put away the Pad Thai, and Spaw does a pretty good job himself. Cap'n crunch??

I'll have a bit of earl grey and continue with that sone (which I wrote on the way back from the Grand Union on just such a night as is described in the ballad. Something like Rip Van Winkle and Thomas the Rhymer end up in northern New England.)

Young William rode across the fields to bonnie Ellen's farm
He sang a song to the bitter wind to keep his spirits warm
He met the folk upon the way, they thought him passing fair
They bade him join their company, nor could he deny them there.

They bore him on 'neath wheeling stars and unto a frozen vale
His voice did grow more fey and clear, his face more fair and pale
He sang and feasted among them all, forgetting his own hearth fire
And he's forgot his parents and fair Ellen, his heart's desire.

But when the morning it did come, he woke all on the road.
The folk, like frozen mist, were gone and once more he felt the cold.
And all the thoughts that had fled his mind returned with the morning sun
And swiftly o'er the frozen fields to Ellen's farm he did run.

But he has found no cozy home, nor eager lover there.
But frost as thick on the frozen beans, abandoned to nature's care.
For though it seemed but a single night all in that enchanted place,
Full twenty years had passed and gone as mortals count their days.

Winter moves across the land, a cold and a glorious king
The bitter wind his trumpeter makes oak and ash to sing.
A silent moon in a deep black sky, a single star beside
On such a night as this, my love, the winter folk do ride.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 08:11 PM

Well, the link DIDN'T work! This one does: Master Of The Starts

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:51 PM

Reminds me of Q, in the guise of a flower delivery man says "Is there a John Luck Pickerd here?" BTW if you want to see my Star Trek parody of "Master of the House" you can check it out here

--Mbo (hope the link worked!)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:41 PM

Yep, he's the scrawny bald fella hanging around the kitchen trying to convince Susan that he's Cap'n Crunch. Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:32 PM

Ahoy mates, Evening all! There's a funny looking bloke here with a cup of Earl Grey tea for Cap'n Picard. Anyone seen im?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 06:35 PM

Have mercy Mbo, can you imagine this bunch in outer space? (some are closer than others....) And if you mention Klingons around Uranus, 'Spaw will just link into another toilet seat! Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 06:17 PM

"Computer--Earl Grey--hot!"
--Captain Jean-Luc Picard

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:57 PM

Hech mon! MMario, watch to where you fall m'laddio. I'm an innocent bystander just waiting with baited breath to hear how our lady's birthday went. She survived in one piece, obviously, but I want details! Hot mug of the Earl and a good story.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:57 PM

Welcome in, Caitrin and Mario. I'm sure we'll put you right back in action with tonight's music!

WELL! No piping tonight, I'm afraid. The reed went out on my chanter! I've just had my performance classical guitar out, and playing all those great old Renaissance pieces I used to play a couple years ago.

So when searching for pipe music, I found a recording of a pipe band doing Scotch On The Rocks and The Black Bear in the same set! Coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO!

Folks, I just want to tell you, "A'Ghrian" which is from Shaun Davey's new suite "The Pilgrim" (it's about St.Columcille) is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard! The Gaelic singing, the chorus, the orchestra, the Highland pipes, the drums and bass sounding like the coda of ELO's "Shangri-La"...just pure musical BLISS!

Hmm...let me get my steel string...I think I'll play "The Green Autumn Stubble," one of most requested songs, which incidentally has a funny story that goes with it...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Caitrin
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:38 PM

Thanks for the Earl Grey! It's my favorite, though I put in a bit too much sugar. Nothing like a cup of tea and good music for a nice evening.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:27 PM

a quivering traumatized broken shell of a man stumbles into the room and falls dramtically (but carefully) face forward onto the nearest soft object.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 11:45 AM

It sure does, especially if there are butterfly nets further on...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 11:23 AM

When the crescent moon has a single star
To guide her through the night
When the horned owl calls from lofty branch
And the fox steals on as silent as light

We come, we come, we strange little people come,
Hobby derry dando, hobby derry dando
Hobby derry dando, hobby derry dando

Wish I could remember the rest of this...... but doesn't it just suit the M'Cat??

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 08:55 AM

Susan? Where can I find that song? is there more?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:16 AM

Lovely song Susan. Can't tell if the tears are from music, or the overpowering smell of possum...Glad to have you back. Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Susan A-R
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:33 PM

Dave, there is always good black (very strong) french roast coffee soomewhere within my reach. What I really should have is an espresso pot,but I make do with my little melior pot and way too much coffee.

Spaw, you take that possum out in the kitchen and I'll whip up a little pad thai, or mee krob, or some such thing. The little guy has been eating all of that stuff Cleetus and the Regs feed him. No wonder his bodily functions are out of whack (to say the least)

Tonight we are having one of those bitter (10 below?) nights with lots of stars. So I shall sing you all a song about the Winter Folk

Winter moves across the land a cold and a glorious king The bitter wind, his trumpeter, makes oak and ash to sing A crescent moon in a deep black sky, a single star beside On such a night as this, my love, the winter folk do ride

Their crystal forms are frosty fair, their raiment is of silver Their songs rise pure on the bitter air to make all mortals shiver and if you meet them along the road, the cold you will not mind. You will not fret, but soon forget your hearth and home behind.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 07:38 PM

Mbo - watch it with that kilt, you could do someone a mischief with a sporran: watch out for chapped legs in warm weather. If worn properly, there is nothing to absorb sweat as with trollies and trousers, so if you are very active and sweat a lot, you could end up with severe chaffing to the erm..... tops of the thighs.... just ask Micca about the Savlon incident.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 04:33 PM

*stepping out of the sound-proofed storeroom, where-in he has been venting at the top of his lungs*

I needed that!

If Áine stops by - I owe her a BIG hug, and a home cooked meal.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 04:23 AM

Well, I'm not usually allowed in folks' living rooms and I've eaten & drunk so much over the holiday season I doubt I could get throught the front door so I'll just press my nose to the window to see what's going on & listen to the music wafting out.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:39 PM

Never toss a possum.....they have serious digestive problems and uh.......well anyway.........

Nice room.....Living rooms have never been my speed, more of a kitchen type....Bad early toilet training I guess....Have a good time folks. I'm gonna' slip on outa' here before Cleigh whizzes on your carpet again...uh..hmmmmm.....make that a third time. Sorry about the mess in the hammock too........got any FeBreez?............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:54 PM

Ta Suze. Earl Grey for me. God love the black stuff. Shot of cream and dip your finger in the mug for sweetness. ;) Just made some oatmeal cookies that'll go great with it too. So sorry to hear about Kendall, just when you think you're set, they vamoose. I'm not one for gossip, but I heard it was Barbie... Maybe he'll get VERY seasick? I'm no voodoo queen, but karma is a pretty fair judge. Save some of that corn too, as soon as I can dig up a quilt, I'll be set for the night. C'mere and sit down a minute Dave, I'll share the blanket, and here's an icepack. No whining. I didn't even use the big needle, probably should have...for all the times you didn't inhale. You're telling me that you don't get a lung full of sea air three miles out and just grin? Or that when the Sprogs were just wee ones you didn't grab them after a bath and smell their hair until it hurt you? Then you deserve the big needle! Don't like the heat Mbo? I can take it either way myself, but this is the time of year I start dreaming about deep sea fishing someplace warm. Sun on my shoulders and wind in my face. Can hardly wait for the Mudcat beach party. It's scheduled right after the Mudcat Highland games, right? (Cleigh-bur tossing is my favorite! I'm going for the gold this year..) Ah, the tea is done. Rest my aching bones and wonder what ever made me think I could make a living wrestling cows...mind if I put my feet in yer lap Dave? Cheers all, Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:58 PM

Well folks, if you're still not tired of hearin' o' it, the MIDI "The Pawky Duke" is now on the Mudcat Midi page for your listening pleasure. Elle, I think I was unclear about the weather--it was as HOT as Wyoming here--76 degrees and humid--now it's blowing up a storm outside. By the way, "here" is Jacksonville, North Carolina. I can't wait till in gets back into the 50's again! Well, it's just right in here at any rate!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:40 PM

Morning!... Elle don't know what you put in that syringe but wow! I had a good sleep....Susan A-R any coffee on the go? They kicked me outa England cause I don't drink tea and I ride Western....What happened to Danlbear? Listening to Mbo's Black Bear gotta try and figure out how to play it on the keyboard... no good without pipes and drums really. TTFN, Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Susan A-R
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:01 PM

So long as this lovely old gas range doesn't blow up and take all of my hair and eye lashes with it, I've got the tea situation under controll. It's rainy and nasty here tonight. I almost ran off with that Kendall, but he left without me. RATS! I'm making a large pot of popcorn as well. Next best thing to running off with a musician. Actually, since I'm married to one, it'd be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire, so I guess I'll just settle for finding a nice over-stuffed chair and munching popcorn and drinking tea. I've brought some nice jasmine, earl grey and constant comment (my grandmother Pearl's favorite) for black teas, and have some lovely apricot, rose hip and mint for the non caf drinkers. Oh, and there's lots of honey, even enough for Mr. Bear to just dig in.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:35 PM

No I haven't heard that song, and you more than likely deserved any beating you got from me. If not, you'll probably do something soon, so it's a pre-emptive strike on my part.

Catirin, so good to have you back! I'm thinking I'll take a spot too. No Austen I'm afraid, tonight it's Solzhenitsyn. I have to admire your dedication, and the love of a good story. Can't imagine reading in a room full of wee ones tho, I think I'd be too tempted to play!

Felt like Wyoming here today too. Blasted cold at the farm. And they have this goat that thinks I'm the coolest thing since cracked corn...follows me everywhere, and any time I lean down he chews on my hair. So it's a shampoo in the sink, and a pot of tea to warm my bones. Anyone got the kettle on yet?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 07:43 PM

Elle, the only thing I inhale is the fragrance of the occasional rum and whiskey. (pipe/cigarette tobacco I quit 14 years ago when the Admiral {i'm only a captain} got pregnant) Anyway did you ever hear of a group called Adge Cutler and the Wurzels? they had a song out about a vet performing artificial insemination on a farm The "Bull" caught the vet bending down with an EI EI OH! got his revenge for being made redundant...Hey put that down girl NO Elle NO help !!!!AGHHHHHHnightnightZZZZZzzzzzzZZzZzzZzZZZzZzZZZzzzzZzZzZZzzAye.Dave

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 07:43 PM

Nice song, Elle. Speaking of Wyoming, it FELT like it here, at the beginning of January! Caitrin, did you get to the "I hate crooked twisted blasted trees" part?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Caitrin
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 07:26 PM

JenEllen, one of my many talents is an ability to read in virtually any environment. :) I have been known to sit in a room crowded with rowdy first graders and continue to read. And I'm almost always in a mood for Jane Austen! :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM

Well Elle? At least it wasn't "Elle's Bells". I get that enough as it is....;)Welcome Danl! Don't be a stranger. Good lord, keep yer schtick handy. Nobody wants me running around brandishing the business end of a frying pan anyway. Even ol' Salty and his cutlass would run! (By the way, PUT THAT THING DOWN, at least with the rollerblades it was only yerself that had the aches.) But Gordon Lightfoot, Dan, c'mon...Have you hear the Wreck of the Edna Fitzgerald? That one is a keeper. Mbo, laughing still. We've got a bit of the Duke's mix on our side too. A friend of mine re-did Heidi Muller's "Talk a Little Texas to me Darlin'" for my grampas birthday. Except it was "Shout a wee Scottish a me Lassie", it was a solid hit. Dave, darling, you should inhale every time you get the chance. It's tradition around our lab. Better Living Through Chemistry. Gotta get moving, innoculating cattle thisafternoon. Maybe it should be mooooving then? They always beat me straight to snot, so save a warm spot for my aching arse to come back to. Anybody know any Kent Lewis? Craving a Song of Wyoming. "Weary and tired/ And I've done my day's riding/ Nightime is rolling my way/ Sky's all on fire/ And the light's slowly fading/ Peaceful and still ends the day/ Out on the trail/ There's a night bird a calling/ He's singing his one melody/ Up on the hill/ There's a coyote singing a song of Wyoming to me"

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 03:42 PM

Welcome in Dan'l! Well Elle (hehe) there is a small part of me that is Scottish--my great-grandfather (on my father's side) claimed to be of "The Duke's Mix", a combination of Irish, Scottish and Welsh. My real background is lots of Italian, lots of German, and a little English. The red hair comes from my father's side, and with a last name like Richards, people think I'm of Scottish or Irish descent (Richards is actually a Ellis Island change of an old German name). It certainly feels like it sometimes, because while I am greatly interested in my Italo/German heritage, I'm even more interested in Celtic (Irish/Scottish/Breton) stuff, which is only a fraction of my genetic soup. Music, art, folklore, I love it all. All my family knows I'm a Celtophile, and one aunt asked if I was so into it that I would wear a kilt. Too bloody right I would, wi'out a moment's hesitation! Infact, that self-portrait I did was originally going to be me in a Highland warrior costume, but as you can see, I ended up as a soldier in Napoleon's Army. (Yet another interest!) Hey, let's do "The Road to the Isles"!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Danlbear
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 12:42 PM

It's ok guys I can protect myself. I brought my schtick with me.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 12:38 PM

Elle the ether is getting to ye lass? Careful with them chemicals. Pass me my cutlass, the next one who throws anything at the "bear" will be singing with the angels or the devil in short order. (my daughter would not be as gentle as me with ye) come on in Danl pull up a chair mate... Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:42 AM

'Morning folks! Thanks for the DigTrad info Joe. I'll have to work on that, just a matter of figuring out the damnable computer. Danlbear, you can come in, I'll protect you! Of course, it would require me getting my fanny out of the hammock, but everyone needs a mission in life....MMario, I'm keeping you as my techno-god, laying flowers at your feet. ;) Mbo, got one for you, passed along by a friend and gave me a laugh. Difference between a bagpiper and the Rolling Stones? One is "Hey you, get off my cloud" and the other is "Hey McCloud, get off my ewe" I've gotta quit inhaling in the lab!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:25 AM

climb in through the window then. And bring the veggies with you, we'll marinate them and grill them for a snack.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Danlbear
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:06 AM

I'm in the front yard, and every time I step on the porch, someone throws a vegetable at me.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 07:47 AM

Joe! nice to see you around again. And thanks for reminding me of that song....brings back summer evenings at the village sing-a-longs down by the lake...
Jenellen - techno-god I ain't - but willing to pass on what info I have and know.

guess I'm going to drop a quarter in the binocular telescope over there and spy on the schooner...(Does anyone else remember those at "scenic outlooks"?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 05:13 AM

Say, you guys, there are some great songs here. I tried to clean up the HTML a bit and add <br> line breaks where I could. Whenever you post song lyrics at the Mudcat, it's a good idea to put them in the standard Digital Tradition format, so Dick and Susan can harvest them for the database if they want to. In the Standard Format, the title of the song appears in ALL CAPS, and the name of the songwriter appears on the next line (in parentheses). If you have any other information about the song, it's always helpful to include that. If you're posting lyrics in a thread like this one that includes the lyrics to many songs, it's a good idea to change the "subject" box information so that the "subject includes the song title. Correct format for the "subject" box when adding lyrics is: ADD: and then the song title. If you have the song title in the 'subject" box, people can find the song by doing a subject search.
Guess I'll sit here by the fire and listen to you sing a few more. Here's one for you that I sang at camp last week: Long, Long Ago (click).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 01:11 AM

G'nite Dave. Hammock fresh as a daisy. Glad someone was feeling domestic....when I get my snoot in the books again, it's hard to get the inspiration to do laundry. Only thing that'll put a gal to sleep faster than anesthesia is reading about it! Laughing out loud about the Schooner Mudcat folks...did you ever hear "Jeremy Browne and Jeanie Teale"...I love it. (He had faeires in his yaw-boat, and there was't a thing in the lovin' world he could do about it.) MMario, you seem to be quite the techno-god. Thanks for all the input. I'm slowly but surely figuring this one out....Mbo, lovely as always. Believe it or not, that was a piper joke I hadn't heard, and I thought I'd heard them all. I'm sure it's just the droning that makes it seem that way...;) Reid-Heidit? You don't have any of the Scotch in you now do ya? Gonna crawl into the warm spot Dave left in the hammock (Ta Salty) and try and learn a new song before the weekend. Sweet dreams all, Elle

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 09:45 PM

Mbo - if you get miditxt program then you con convert midi to text for posting or e-mailing. it also creates an abc. it does do only one channel, but gives melody line at least. follow the links from any of the red miditxt files in a thread....(it also allows you to change that red text back to a midi)

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: The Mudcat Living Room
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 09:09 PM

Here's a good pipe joke: What does a bagpipe player and a tornado have in common? They both will lift you up, spin you around, and totally BLOW YOU AWAY!!! A funny thing about the song, the bristly besom-bearded reid-heidit duke looks a lot like me--only I call it "the artist look"! BTW I don't have long bony legs(!), but do occasionally engage in a Ghillie-Callum every now and then. Hech mon!

--Mbo