Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook

Subject: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 10:32 AM

Since the last Additions thread has reached over 50 messages, I'm starting Part III to alleviate slow page loading for a lot of you. If you'd like to review Part II, please click here.

I'm looking forward to getting a new song from The Shambles soon, so keep an eye out for new "Additions".

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 03:14 PM

Not one of my songs but another fine song from Mrs Shambles. She says, "It was written about the back of the head of a complete stranger who was driving the car in front of me one morning"! You have been warned.

SAVIOUR OF THE LAND

She has heard that he's returning home
To take the reins once more
The freedom that he fought for
Should have opened her some doors
Through the fear, she understands his shunning of her kiss
But the man that she is shackled to
She would dearly like to miss

Coming home from war, he is a hero
Honoured as a saviour of the land
Knowing only duty to the service
And men at his command

She'd offered him a sanctuary
But a prison, its become
The chains are bound so tightly
She's not free enough to run
She sees the medals on his chest
That he gained for valiant deeds
Will he never see the ones at home
Are the ones with greatest needs

Coming home from war, he is a hero
Honoured as a saviour of the land
Knowing only duty to the service
And men at his command

She applies the same old make-up
To cover her new bruise
The children sit so quietly
Too afraid to move
He plays domestic warfare
As he sees as his birthright
But the ones who loved him dearly
Have their nightmares through the night

She does not see the hero that they speak of
Not for her the saviour of the land
Seeing only painful days before her
Living with a man who must command

Katrina Gall 1996.

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 03:41 PM

Wow. Hats off to the Ms. -- she done Got it Said.

A

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 03:48 PM

Thank you so much, Roger, for sharing this song with all of us. You already know how much I like it. Yahoo/Geocities seems to be suffering from server flatulence today; however, as soon as I'm able, I'll be putting Katrina's song in the Songbook.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 06:20 PM

Well, the problem with Yahoo/Geocities cleared up and I've added 'Saviour Of The Lane' to the Mudcat Songbook. This is a powerful song and, having heard Mrs. Shambles sing it, I know how moving it is also. She has the voice of an angel, I tell you. Please have a look at this 'hit-you-between-the-eyes' song. The woman can write as well as sing -- Roger, you are one lucky man!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 06:22 PM

Sorry, Katrina! The title of the song is "Saviour Of The Land".

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 06:41 PM

(Smiles) You have gone and done it again. I will now have to find a footpath under danger and get her to write a song about that, to fit the new title.

Many Thanks. Roger (The Lodger)

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 07:01 PM

Oh dear, Roger, I think I've developed a complex when it comes to you!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 11:12 PM

The latest addition to the Mudcat Songbook is the first ever submission Bradypuss entitled 'Turing Testing Time'. You can find in the Thread Songs Category, and it's a hoot! Go, read, and enjoy! Thanks Bradypuss, here's hoping there's more from you to come!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 02:54 PM

I had forgotten this one but the 'liberal education' thread, prompted my 'old' brain. I will leave it to Anne to re-title it. Smiles or should that be smoles?

Rough Diamond

I need to learn

You, teach me how to earn

Try to kill the flame inside

That needs to burn

I need to run

Not to walk in line

Take hold of this rough diamond

And make it shine

Not to pass some test

But to be my best

To be as good as I can be

And not step on the rest

You teach me the how

But not the why

You teach me how to crawl

When I've wings to fly

Trample all the new growth in the forest

To get some to the top of the tree

You let me wear this badge of failure

When it's you that's failing me

I may not be wise

But you may be surprised

If you could see the world

Through my eyes

Don't take, the few

Teach me too

Then you can learn from me

As I learn from you

Teach me how to grieve

How to believe

How to find a lover

And how to leave

How to share

How to care

Show me wild horizons

And take me there

Roger Gall 1996.

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 03:01 PM

Young Love Old Love

Young love, a desperate duet to be sung
Those eyes, burn like fire, shine like the sun
The beam shines only on what it desires
Leaving dark the forgotten ones

Old love, forgets the words but not the tune
Light travelled to and reflected from the moon
The warm glow falls everywhere
On all, who need to be loved

Roger Gall 1997.

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 03:26 PM

Oh Roger, you do make me smole!

I've added 'Rough Diamond' and 'Young Love Old Love' to the Songbook. Good job, as usual, Roger.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Bradypus
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 05:13 PM

AIne -

Thanks for putting me in the song book. The verse breaks are fine. Just one very small point - there's only one 's' in 'bradypus'. This animal isn't really a cat!

Bradypus

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 05:24 PM

Dear Bradypus(no second 's'),

Fixed it! Thanks for song and I hope there'll be more!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 10:10 PM

Thinking about your summer holidays lately? Breaking out those brochures with the exotic pictures on them? Does a trip to the Far East sound inviting? Then you need to learn the latest song by Micca and Dave (the ancient mariner) that's been added to the Mudcat Songbook! It's entitled 'The Sinking' and it'll give you something to do when . . . well, you'll just have to learn the song, that's all.

Well done, Micca and Dave! (it sounds like everything came out all right!)

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 08:52 AM

Finally, some songs from the woman's point of view!! Let's hear it for harpgirl, who has three songs on the Mudcat Songbook as of this morning! 'Hummingbird Song', 'The Downieville Nugget', and 'Mustang Ranch Blues' are lovely songs, and worth your time to check them out! Thank you, harpgirl!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:03 AM

I am not too sure that song 'Saviour of the Land', is about what she said it was.

I started thinking this morning at 5, when I was putting Katrina through her PT drill and then again when she was on full kit parade at lunchtime. It was on the regular assault course that I put her through in the afternoon that I finally realised that the song might be about me?

Just imagine, she really thinks I am a hero! Shucks.

(Smoles) Roger.

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:12 AM

harpgirl, I read all three of your songs and I think they are ... just beautiful. Thanks for putting them into the Songbook!

A

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:26 AM

Áine - I e-mailed off a midi of "Sir James Reply" to the Mudcat Midi page. Not complete, but opening chorus and first verse plus another chorus for good measure, so at least people can get an idea....

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:41 AM

That's great, MMario! Please be sure and let me know when Alan puts it on the Midi page, so I can link to it from your song page.

-- Áine

Subject: ADD: PITMANS REDUNDANCY PAY (BILL SABLES)
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:17 AM

PITMANS REDUNDANCY PAY by BILL SABLES

Now Jonty Broon the pitman was off to work one morning
He'd got his bait and pit boots on, the day was still just dawning
He put on his cap and left the house, met his mates out in the street
They didn't know the shock they'd get before coming home that neet
'Cos as they walked into the yard they heard the buzzers call
And saw a great big notice, it was plastered on the wall
It was put there by the coal board, "They were very sorry but
Due to economic pressures, the pit had got to shut"
Some said they'd go to Nottingham, some leave the pit for good
But Jonty sat there thoughtful like and said to Tommy Judd
"I've been involved in pitwork all my married life
And the hardest part of all this is how to tell the wife"
So he went and told his missus, it was very hard to say
But she said "Now divent worry man,I've saved for a rainy day
Ye knaa up in the wardrobe, I've got two biscuit tins,
Wey I've saved a bit of money there in case the times got thin."

"Now we've been married fowerty years and I asked you when I was a bride
Not to ever ask me what I kept inside
In all that time you've worked so hard through strikes and war torn years
And never once have you asked me what was in them tins upstairs
Well now that things have altered I think it's time I said
What I've got in them biscuit tins we've kept beside the bed".
They opened up the first tin and lifting up the lid
Found shillings, two bobs, and half croons, there was nearly fifty quid
He asked her where it had come from, "Did you keep it from my pay"
She said every time they had made love she put half a croon away
A tear filled that old pitman's eye he broke down and he said
"If I'd known that forty years ago I'd have brought youy all my trade"
But then he got the other tin and laid it on the floor
Inside he found two chicken eggs and ten thousand pounds or more
He said "Now this is funny, This thing has got me foxed
I just can't fathom out why these eggs are in this box"

She said " Sometimes I got lonely when you were doon the pit
Wey I mebbies was unfaithful, but just a little bit
Now every time it happened I put an egg away
Ye knaa just a little token to remind me of that day"
Now Jonty thought, that's only twice that she had gone astray
And thought of all the many times that he had played away
So he said he would forgive her 'cos she was a canny wife
"But how come all that money, I've never earned that in my life"
She said " Ye think I divent knaa that you've been with other wimmen
I've listened to the gossop man, I knaa that you've been sinnin
Now for all that money in the tin I think you should be grateful
'Cos I used te gan and sell the eggs every time I had a crate full


Some of the words are in the Geordie Accent , the language of the Nort East Mining area of England.

Subject: ADD: Whitby Fishermen (Bill Sables)
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:19 AM

WHITBY FISHERMAN by BILL SABLES

When I was spending an evening with Sandy and Caroline Paton in August 1999 they sang an American Hymn called "Blessed Quietness". I liked the tune and the chorus prompted a thought about the "coble" fishermen of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland in the North East of England, so I strung a few words together and this is what came up. I have used the same tune and chorus of the origional Hymn. Whitby is a fishing town on the Yorkshire coast famous for being the starting point of Captain Cook when he discovered Australia, and the annual Whitby Folk Festival Week held every August.

I'm a fisherman from Whitby, keep my boat down on the shore
And I fish the banks for herring as my father did before
When we leave the land at sunset for to plough the northern sea
It's the peace of moonlit waters that brings thoughts of home to me

Blessed quietness, Holy quietness,
What assurance in my soul
On the stormy sea speaking peace to me
How the billows cease to roll

When I'm standing in the wheelhouse in the subdued compass glow
I can find a peace unequalled, while the crew's asleep below
And the stars are there to guide me and to help me through the night
Mingling with the lights of comrades sailing for the morning light

When we shoot our nets at daybreak praying for a bumper haul
Then the sun shows in the heavens spreading brightness over all
And the seagulls wheel above us as we turn the boat around
'Cos the nets are full of silver and tonight we're Whitby bound

We'll unload our catch in the harbour and make sure all is tied down
Then it's home, a bath, then supper and a stroll down into town
We will pass around the bottle in a pub down on the quay
And we'll praise the Lords protection and His gift of Peaceful seas

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:30 AM

Encore! well done what a great song! Thats a Keeper and will be a classic. Yours,Aye. Dave

Subject: ADD: CAMBRIAN COLLIERY DISASTER (BILL SABLES)
From: bill\sables
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 10:52 AM

CAMBRIAN COLLIERY DISASTER by BILL SABLES

I wrote this song in May 1965 just after hearing the news of a mine explosion in the Cambrian Colliery, at Tonypandy in South Wales, where thirty one miners were killed.

On the seventeenth day in the month of May in the year of sixty five
An explosion happened in the pit and miners lost their lives
Eight hundred and fifty feet down below these miners were found dead
While trying to earn an honest wage to keep their families fed

Two miles from the bottom of the shaft they worked behind the plough
They little thought that they would be amongst the angels now
But in that two foot eight inch seam a death trap 'twas no doubt
The rescue men risked life and limb to get the bodies out

There were eighty men in the pit that day, thirty six were safe and free
Thirteen were injured, thirty one killed in the explosion at Tonypandy
A blast of air then dust and smoke, the explosion shook the pit head
The manager and his assistant they were counted with the dead

No one knows what caused it, electricity or gas
We only know it happened and these miners lives did pass
We never shall forget it, this disastrous pit in Wales
Along the Rhonda Valley near the town of Clydach Vale

The queen, she sent her sympathy to sweethearts and to wives
But this could not atone for the precious colliers lives
So think of these bold miners as in their graves they lie
And pray no more explosions will cause other men to die

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 11:13 AM

Thank you so much, bill! I've added all of the above songs to the Songbook. Glad to see you on the 'honor' roll!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 11:36 AM

Ach, Sable,

I take off my hat, sir, in the presence of a master. Those are stirring, well built songs that should last for generations. I would love to hear them.

Áine, what's the chance of finding enough storage space to put some .wav files up for 'Cat access? Anyone got a few terabytes of spare space out there?

There isn't a dry eye on the list today. Thank you, bill.

A

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 11:56 AM

I agree, Amos. Bill certainly adds a lot of class to the Songbook!! I think we can find some room for .wav files on the page, although I'd prefer MP3's, but I can convert a .wav, if necessary. I don't have room for each entire song, but a taste of each would be lovely!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 12:09 PM

Ay, a taste of each...wonderful notion.

A

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 03:08 AM

I have found yet another:

I always feel better after I sing this one but I do have to carefully explain to the audience that it is about a particular place and time and is not about them. Otherwise they are usually gone before the end of the song. It was a place where songwriters could go and perform to an audience that consisted of other songwriters. The idea was that they, of all people would provide a sympathetic audience for original material. It was a disaster of course as they were too busy either preparing to perform or flushed with success after they had performed, to actually listen to anybody else and just went through the motions, clapping dutyfully at the end of songs.

Without the song (there's no show).

I saw no storm clouds appear
Is that the sound of thunder I hear?
Or the sound of warm applause?
No, it's just the roars
Of clashing egos and crashing bores

You know you're the best
So why not listen to the rest?
Don't sharpen your claws
Don't join the roars
Of clashing egos and crashing bores

Small fishes, small ponds
They wait for you to go on
They even call out for more
Then join the roars
Of clashing egos and crashing bores

The singers come and go
But without the song, there's no show
How can you sell, what's not yours?
Don't join the roars
Of clashing egos and crashing bores

The bottle may be shattered
But it's the message that matters
So if it washes on your shore
Don't join the roars
Of clashing egos and crashing bores

Roger Gall 1997

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 08:24 AM

There you go, Roger. It's in the Songbook. Very good song and one that I can emphasize with!

Also added yesterday were the SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5 Winners on the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE:

Feminism One-Oh-One by Amos
The Rejoinder by katlaughing
The Hanging Munchkin by Bradypus
Lost Men of Munchkin Town by Amos
I've Got Those Scarecrow Blues by Mbo
The Storking Blues by Mbo

Well done everyone! -- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 05:45 AM

It's getting closer to St. Valentine's Day, and the latest addition to the Mudcat Songbook is a lovely song of love found and lost by MMario entitled 'Marilee'. Read it and then go eat some chocolate to make yourself feel better, because this one will get you right in heart.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 09:01 AM

*aw gorsh!*

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 08:34 AM

I arose very, very early this Saturday morning and found a wonderful song by Willie-O floating around my computer, and I had to share it with the Mudcat Songbook . . . '1743 (The Ballad of Farquhar Shaw)' is a song based in the history of Scotland and 'pretty much accurate account of a mass mutiny of a bunch of highlanders in the Black Watch,' says Willie-O.

A great song by a great songwriter -- check it out on the Mudcat Songbook!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:05 AM

I found this in the threads too.

The following song is almost entirely (and intentionally) composed of proverbs, platitudes and clichés. Parents have, pretty much, to rely on these only, as the accumulated wisdom of humankind, in any formal way, does not appear to be directed to the business of producing, rearing and educating our children. Education is for passing on knowledge on far more important subjects You do need a licence to drive a car or keep certain types animals but practically anyone has the right to produce children.

. Old Wives Tales

You've gone and spoilt it for yourself
Look a gift horse in the mouth
You put your big foot in it
When you open your *north and south
You know the value of nothing
The price of everything
Know when it's going for a song
But not what makes you sing

Well where there's a will
Well, there's a way
Tomorrow is another day
But, if tomorrow never comes
It won't matter much anyway
You're only young once you know
You reap what you sow
The devil makes work for idle hands
Easy come and easy go

When wise words fail, try old wives tales
Try old wives tales, when wise words fail

Well, look at how you've grown
Soon have children of your own
Staying out until late at night
Talking on your telephone
The things you hear yourself say
"It wasn't like it in my day"
Just use those words and proverbs
What's wrong with an old cliché?
If you repeat it one more time
Maybe, the ball will cross the line?
You win the game, set and match
Everything will turn out fine
This life is full of surprises
You won't win many prizes
There's plenty of sunsets
But the sun it also rises

When wise words fail, try old wives tales
Try old wives tales, when wise words fail

*North and south, is cockney rhyming slang. for mouth.

Roger Gall 1997

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:13 AM

That Shambles, makes me downright jealous he does, he's so darn good. Nicely made song, Roger!

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:41 AM

Geez, Roger, can't a girl finish her first cup of coffee around here?? ;-)

I agree with Amos, well done! 'Old Wives' Tales' is now in the Songbook, and thank you, Roger (the Lodger).

-- Áine

(However, in defense of parents everywhere, I have to say that most of the time those little cliches (that I swore I'd never say to my children) just slip out without warning -- it's like you've been possessed by the ghosts of parents past).

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:50 AM

First cup ... 9:41, allowing for Texas time = 7:41--how do you sleep so late with 4 hockey players in the house?

Thing about these taglines is they summate (accurately or not) large chunks of a situation, and its dynamics, all in a neat lil package. So they are awfully handy because parents are often too tired, otherwise engaged or distracted (or just too busy being adult) to really look at, analyze, talk about the moment, especially a child's view of the moment.

The cliche of the moment seems to substitute for a lot of tiresome thinking. That's why they can be dangerous.

They don't reallytranslate well through time as we'd like to think.

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:04 PM

I've just added two fine submissions from McGrath of Harlow: 'The Great Music Show' about his experiences at Woodstock, and 'The Planets Seven', a song by Joseph Mary Plunkett to which McGrath has added a tune. Please peruse and enjoy!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 02:59 PM

Here's my first song, written for my wife for Valentine's Day.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE?

CHORUS

Would you like to dance, make some sweet romance
Would you take a chance with me?
We'll spin around the floor once or twice or more.
I love you can't you see?
Dance with me.

When I first met you many years ago,
who could tell what would transpire?
Neither you nor I knew as time went by
you would set my heart on fire?

CHORUS

We went our separate ways, while the music played
Some sad and happy tunes.
Before the dance was through I came back to you
And we kissed beneath the moon.

CHORUS

Now if you'll just step into my arms
We'll waltz all around this hall.
Then no matter what the future brings
I'll be there each time you call.

CHORUS

by Jeff Porterfield

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 03:14 PM

Thanks so much, jeffp! Your song is now on the Mudcat Songbook. Folks, if you're in the mood for a love song, 'Would You Like To Dance' is one -- waltzing and kissing under the moon -- I LOVE THIS!! Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 03:39 PM

Thanks Áine, for the quick posting and also for the nice comments. I'll be sending a MIDI of the tune to Alison for posting to the Mudcat MIDI page.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Willie-O
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 05:12 PM

Aine your kind comments on my lengthy ballad have inspired me to provide the melody!

Below is an ABC approximation of the melody for my song "1743". Its my first attempt and the rhythm is imperfect (gasp) but it approximates it.

The ABC repeats the tune, but with a different last line the second time. The second-ending line is minor-sounding and it is used in verses 3, 4, and 7,8,9,10,11. (For the other verses the last line is the same as the first, stead of getting better its getting verse. Oh shut up Bill.) Very flaky way to put a song together--I guess I just got tired of that melody line part way through!

Willie-O

C:A:M: X:1 T:1743 (Farquhar Shaw) C:Bill Cameron M:4/4 L:1/4 K:D A, DD2 A2 ^F E D2B,2A,2 B,2 D2D3 ^C D4 A, DD2 A2 ^F E D2B,2A,2 B,2 D2D3 ^C D4 DE^F2 E D ^F2 E2 D^C2 A, B, D2 D2B,A,4 |1 A, D D2 A2 ^F E D2B,2A,2 B,2 D2D3 ^C D4z2:|2 D2 ^C2 B,4 D2 E2 ^F4 E2 D2 E4 D4 ||

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Willie-O
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 05:20 PM

Ah crikey should I have html'd that or would it only make it worse?

Aine when the rush is over could you be a dear and add numbers to the verses on the "1743" song listing, so if anyone actually wants to sing the thing, they can figure out the random-changing last line thing as outlined above?

So here's a challenge: how come my song is listed first in the songbook? Honest I didn't plan it that way, I wrote the song fifteen years ago. Yours could be ahead of mine, I guess, if you give it a title that's a year (or a number) which preceded 1743 (AD). What went on back then that we should hear about?

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 05:49 PM

Dear Willie-O,

Tune and paragraph numbers have been added. You're first in the list, because that's just the way 'tis. Unless someone writes a song called 1742, you're stuck in 'first place'!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 08:16 PM

I've just added My Grandfather Hated The Germans by Micca, which is a song about the First World War and his grandfather who survived and returned home. A wonderful song -- do yourself a favour and check it out!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Willie-O
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 09:28 AM

Thanks Aine. This songbook must be taking up a lot of your time--please convey our apologies to your family!

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 09:35 AM

Don't worry, Willie-O, the kids have learned how to tie a lasso and they use it every now and then to hogtie me and drag me into the kitchen to cook them supper! The only conflicts are between the Mudcat and hockey . . . it's so sad when you're a fanatic about both!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 11:07 AM

Mmmmmmm -- Just added a song by harpgirl that's dear to my heart called 'Louisiana Bound'. Hankerin' for a romp amongst the cyprus knees? Well, take a look at this song and you'll feel right at home!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Mbo
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 11:08 AM

Aine--you don't want to put "Bloody Edward" in the songbook?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 11:28 AM

Of course, Mbo! I'm working on it right now -- you guys are writing songs so fast, I'm having trouble keeping up with you! Be patient, luv, it'll be up soon.

-- Áine