Subject: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 29 Feb 00 - 10:08 AM (Starting a new 'Additions' thread since Part IV has exceeded 50 messages) Here are the winners of the SONG CHALLENGE! Part 11 that you can now find on the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE. Thanks to everyone that participated, well done!!
The Tale Of The Mardi Gras Queen by Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:26 AM With thanks to all the contributors and after six days hard work and one day of rest, I wish to announce that the UNI-VERSE is now finished and ready to proudly make it's way in to The Mudcat Songbook.
The world is but a song.
This thought struck me today as I realised that we must think in those terms. For do we not refer to the 'whole shooting match' as THE UNI-VERSE
Now this IS collective a song challenge: To write the Uni-Verse……..?. Our at least a, Uni-Verse.
*(I have it in my head for some strange reason, that tune-wise this should be a square dance, calling,, music then verse, 'take your partners' type thing)
To Write The Uni-Verse
For a song challenge, can there be one worse?
For a song challenge, why what could be better.
Your space and your time keep our poor spirits locked
Out of Chaos came not "The Word"
If your rhymes don't scan, when you try to write,
Thou, spiral, cosmos, far, entrancing
Though you seem so never ending
Endless spacetime, force and masses
The great Big Bang? That was some feat… …
Out of nothing grew the song
The great AUM in silent contemplation
Matter never seems to care
Are we dull Chemistry's daughter?
Space and time, feel their heatbeat,
Things are grim, but they could get worse,
But mankind just keeps on bragging
Chemistry and Spirit Melding
In the beginning, there was One
The Answer:
To keep humanity asking "why?" Mbo
Why this furious analyzing,
Water shimmers, rushes by
The Universe is still expanding
The Uni-verse Song was an interesting idea,
Shamb laid the challenge, and you all have weighed in.
Another sun's coming with another day's zest,
Another book to be planned, or a tune to research.
Talking Quantum Physics, Ying and Yang
God's Word on the subject, I think, is quite clear, |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 02 Mar 00 - 09:07 AM Holy Moly, Jedidiah! What a ConCatenation! What a gang, unique in all the Universe. To think such flair, and soul, and creative will, should be invested in such a motley crew of rapscallions and flibbertygibbets as are We... The heart doth boggle in its tender frame, To find such art in Mudcat's name! Let doctors haunt their vaunted halls, We got the rhythm, and we got the balls! Clang, Amos del Huevos D'Oreo |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 02 Mar 00 - 09:49 AM shambles! Thanks for the yoeman's work on editing and consolidating that thread song! |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 02 Mar 00 - 10:15 AM To Write The Uni-Verse by The Shambles, Amos, Praise, katlaughing, Mbo, Troll, MMario, mcmoo, Molly Malone, and Lonesome EJ has been added to the Mudcat Songbook this morning, and has the distinction of the being the longest song in the Book! Kudos to The Shambles and his assorted Company of 'Cats!! Thanks to you all. -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 02 Mar 00 - 10:35 AM I didn't submit this earlier cuz it's an older composition....
NOW HONOR HIM |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 02 Mar 00 - 10:35 AM I should hope it's the longest. <;>= Willie-O |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Mbo Date: 02 Mar 00 - 10:40 AM Mario, that's absolutely beautiful! I love it! --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Mar 00 - 10:51 AM Mmario, You are hereby formally invited to come south some Saturday evening SOON and sing that as an offertory at our Sat. eve service. Come as you are and sing it for us!!! Give us enough notice to set up the PortaStudio! |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 02 Mar 00 - 11:04 AM There you go, MMario -- Your beautiful song is now in the Songbook. I'd love to hear you sing it . . . if you do get down to Praise's neighborhood and get to record this, can I be the first in line for a copy?? Just beautiful! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 02 Mar 00 - 11:10 AM alwuys profred! compser should be composer.... there are problably other multiple mistakes.... Áine - if I can get off my doofus long enough, I've been planning to send you a tape. If it happens, I'll remember to include this one. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 02 Mar 00 - 11:13 AM Dear MMario, Well here's hoping you jump off that doofus of yours real soon *BG* -- And take a look at the your songpage for Now Honor Him and see if I caught all the boo-boos, OK? -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 03 Mar 00 - 03:03 PM Happy Friday, 'Catters! Two more great songs have been added to the Mudcat Songbook: To A Moose by Bradypus, a late but memorable submission to the SONG CHALLENGE! Part 12 (Awarded The Golden Cow Chip with Guinness Crest). You can find this song on the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE. The Provo's Song by Lonesome EJ which sprang from this thread, is a grand song and (at this time, at least) is in need of an appropriate tune. So, if you'd like to help LEJ with a tune, check it out. Thanks to Bradypus and Lonesome EJ for two wonderful additions to the Book! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 05 Mar 00 - 10:40 AM I've added another wonderful song to the Mudcat Songbook to come from the Peace in Ireland: Song Challenge thread. It's Ireland To Me by The Shambles. Hopefully, we'll be hearing this soon on the Mudcat Radio. (Will we, Roger?) Please check out this new offering from the one and only Roger Gall -- you won't be disappointed! -- The Keeper of the Book |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:36 AM This was not easy and I would not have chosen to attempt it but I am glad, now that I did. I would urge others to attempt it too. For whatever the merits of the end product, the quiet process of close examination of this truly terrible event does, enable some kind of personal accommodation to be arrived at. It does not however provide much comfort for those who are directly involved in this particular case but, they are in my thoughts. I was just trying to avoid thinking too much about it before, for she could have been my daughter and he could be my son..
Tears And Winter Rain(A Song For Kayla)
The slightest glimpse of springtime
Things will now be different?
This life was not your choosing
The slightest glimpse of springtime
Surely things will now be different? Roger Gall 2000 |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:45 AM Ahh--Roger, lad -- you have a heart of gold and a voice like a lark. Thank you for that song, which has moved me to tears. A |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 02:16 PM I am honored to add Roger's song, Tears And Winter Rain (A Song For Kayla) to the Mudcat Songbook. -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:09 PM That was very well said, Shambles. So I'm minding my own business, and all of a sudden it's friggin spring. This doesn't normally happen in February in my part of the world, but this year it did, which is extremely weird. Consequently we're having an early syrup season, and I've got my first boil on outside and have to get back to it shortly. In celebration of this, here's yet another song about one of my favourite times of the year! (I think I've posted them all now!) Gotta run, there's a pan of hot sap calling for my attention...my postings will be sporadic for a little while. I just found a decent 4-track recording of this song, I'll MP3 it when I get a chance. Willie-O Spring on the Mississippi I think I hear that damn dog barking 2 Chorus 3 4 Chorus
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Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:12 PM WillieO, you have the touch. Makes me wanna call Ryder right now. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:15 PM yer not half bad yerself, old bard. W-O |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:56 PM There ya go, Willie-O -- Spring on the Mississippi has been added to the Songbook! Just wonderful, too. Now, don't you be gone too long playing with your sap -- We'll all be 'pining' away for ya until you return *BG*. -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:33 PM Áine-- - I think they're maples, as far as I am maple to tell, and not worth pining over, if you'll pardon a little oak. Let's just leaf it there. I d be a sap to say any more. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:37 PM Oh Amos -- groan . . . With that note of levity, I'm happy to announce that the latest Song Challenge Winners have been selected and inserted into the Songbook:
Here Are The Nudes by Mbo You can find all the wonderfully whacky and whimsical works of the winners on the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE, so why wait? -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Bradypus Date: 06 Mar 00 - 07:07 PM You might like to include my Lullaby for Caroline, which featured in this thread! (if my first blue clicky works !) Bradypus |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 07:15 PM Dear Bradypus, I thought about asking you to submit Caroline's song when you first posted it, but I thought it would be thoughtless and crass (well, that's what I get for trying to be sensitive). I'm so happy that you want to share it with us in the Songbook. I'm on my way now to do your bidding. Thank you again. -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 07:29 PM There we go -- Bradypus' song for his brand new baby girl, For Caroline is now in the Mudcat Songbook. If you need a lift or a reason to keep on keeping on, take a look at this song -- it will remind you what a miracle life really is! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 06 Mar 00 - 11:22 PM I've just loaded two new songs by Praise onto the Mudcat Songbook, both of which originated in this thread. A Prayer For The Madness Of Leap Year will move you inside, and Roll Down To It will get you moving on the outside. No doubt about it, this woman can write songs coming and going! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:20 PM I've just added a very special song by Kara, Bring The Peace Home which is her first song submission to the Mudcat Songbook. Please check out Kara's song, which she posted on the Peace in Ireland - A Song Challenge. Well done, Kara! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:18 AM Amos warn yews that anyone who has gotten this far into this thread will be very sorry someone had to start with the tree puns...ya think of weird things sittin around the boiler late at night... yours deeply regretfully, I ent pining away fir yew, baby, On the Ponderosa pining for a chance to loblolly
count 'em, nine species of pine. In one verse. Willow weep for me.
I am still more or less... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:22 AM Willie-O, You have *definitely* been sitting too close to the sap! Now, give me a title for that delightful little ditty and I guarantee it's in the Book . . . well, you have to give him a medal for having the pine nuts to post the thing, don't ya? . . . -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:32 AM Title! It needs more than a title... Still I had one in my overrefreshed brain a little while ago, I'll go check the boiler n maybe it'll come back. Jack. Red. Whoever. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:54 AM Your the topper, Willie-O. Very trim piece of work, I can't leaf it alone, I needle memorize it. Or so I trunk until I cross cut a limb last fall. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:56 AM it's gotta be the "Arbor Day Blues"..... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 10 Mar 00 - 09:28 AM This morning's addition to the Songbook is a song by Amos, Children Of Erin. He put his words to the well known tune, The Foggy Dew, so most of us should know how it goes. Check it out and sing along, and I guarantee you will be moved. It's one of his best songs (so far), and one worth giving a look. Thank you, Amos. -- Áine (And Willie-O -- I'm still waiting on a title for your tree song . . . ) |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 10 Mar 00 - 10:16 AM Thank you, Áine, for the careful and lovely job in the Songbook, and for your Excellent wordpolishing. If it hasn't be mentioned, you deserve a real vote of thnask around here for that constant artistic product -- every time I look through the Song book it seems more nicely done! |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 10 Mar 00 - 10:26 AM ditto. Makes life MUCH easier for the rest of us when we try to find the songs .... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 10 Mar 00 - 12:14 PM OK I'm finished my 3-day gargantuan boil...temperature yesterday dropped from about 60 F around noon to 10 F last night...everything is good and frozen up again. (And Aine, pines have cones not nuts, to my knowledge). And Aine I third the motion, you're doing a fine fine job...the title will come to me... W-O
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Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 10 Mar 00 - 12:41 PM heh-heh! Willi-o ....some pines DO have nuts....check "pinon" or "pignoli" |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:02 PM You're all welcome! Heck, this wouldn't be any fun at all if it wasn't for all your wonderful songs -- so keep it up! MMario -- Be nice to Willie-O, cuz I'm sure they don't have pinon trees where he lives -- and if they did, he couldn't see 'em through the sap-fog *BG* -- Áine (The Lucky Keeper of the Best Book of Songs by the Best Songwriters in the World!!) |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:20 PM but..but...they MUST have Italian food....no one could possibly live in a place without pesto, could they? Don't tell me there *is* a place without pesto.....I don' wanna know.... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 10 Mar 00 - 03:48 PM Italian food yes, including pesto. Pine trees with nuts on 'em? I had a forestry education but it was limited to species found in northern North America...is the pinyon a true pine? Willie-O (yer right again Aine my eyes are still all fogged over but I'm recovering gradually from the unaccustomed labours...)
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Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 10 Mar 00 - 03:55 PM willi-o I think Pine "nuts" are not botanically nuts, I know that you get them OUT of the cones by roasting....pinons, stone pines, and a couple other species I believe.... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 10 Mar 00 - 04:20 PM sorry for the thread creep - but see pine nuts for imfo and links to the 28 species of pine producing edible "nuts" - (more in NA then most continents from the looks of it.) |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 13 Mar 00 - 01:50 PM I wrote my thoughts about education in this song a little while ago as it stopped me 'ranting on' in company.
Back To Basics
When we talk about education, we all have our views
When they say "back to basics", we don't doubt it
In so called 'primitive' cultures, they're taught what they need
When mass education started, it was for liberty
You have one level of attainment, and you devise a test
Take a system that's built on failure, mix with our 'class system' as well
We must be doing something wrong, have we money to burn?
Our children are in chains, chains called education
We have stored a lot of knowledge, about our society
I don't have all the answers, the children, they may have a few Roger Gall. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 14 Mar 00 - 11:34 AM Weyell, I sent Max an MP3 of "Spring On The Mississippi". Mayhaps he'll play it on da radio. Aine if yew still want a title for that dreadful punny thing about pines and suchlike, just call it "Red Pine's Yellow Blues".... Who was it said "there are more species of pine under the sun than you could ever dream of..." I should warn you all that I'm going to start a fire under some more sap this afternoon... for I am |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 14 Mar 00 - 01:43 PM Willie-O -- Just choose yer victim carefully. I have had hard lessons learned from trying to start a fire under the wrong sap! A |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 14 Mar 00 - 08:38 PM Alrightey, here are the latest additions to the Mudcat Songbook. If I've accidentally forgotten to either post or mention your song, then (1) please forgive me, and (2) let me know so I can fix things. -- Áine
Red Pine's Yellow Blues by Willie-O
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Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Willie-O Date: 14 Mar 00 - 11:10 PM Yeah Mmario, when you try to light a fire under them, nobody appreciates it at the time....just later. Usually, decades later. Maybe my kids will be talking to me again by then! Just finished my little boil, got some more gooey sweet stuff... W-O |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 14 Mar 00 - 11:16 PM hey! that was Amos! I'm the sap that was roastin' pine nuts.... |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 15 Mar 00 - 09:12 AM The Last Roar
The last roar
For time had flown
Just running to stand still
Put to the test
For they had begun
Just running to stand still Roger Gall. |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 15 Mar 00 - 09:33 AM Wow -- that gets the Imagination cluster for sure, Sham. Thought provoking indeed. Mebbe the problem is, when you're a dinosaur, you tend to make friends only with other dinosaurs. While this works well for the management of IBM, it probably is not a recipe for Pleistocene survival. Lesson: be friendly with the species you meet on your way up the food chain...you may need them if the weather changes! :>) A |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 15 Mar 00 - 10:01 AM Great song, Roger, and it's been added to the Songbook. I do hope that you'll be sending that one in to Max for the Mudcat Radio Show. I'd love to hear it! Thank you for sharing this one with us! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 17 Mar 00 - 03:38 PM THE RAINBOW PROMISE When all the world was water, and nowhere was dry land God made us a promise, and sealed it by His hand. An arc of light across the sky, in multi-coloured hue A covenant, forever, He made to me and you Chorus: Remember the Rainbow promise, the skies aren't always grey But it's up to us to cherish, the world we have today When the foosteps in the sand are marchin' single file When problems hover 'round us, and nothin' seems worthwhile When it seems if all our dreams are nightmares of our mind Reach out and take the comfort, left for us to find chorus: There'll always be another dawn, the rain will always end And if we only will believe, we'll always have a friend Remember we are not alone, no matter how it seems But we must choose the way to go, not drift along life's stream chorus |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 17 Mar 00 - 04:13 PM That's a beautiful song, MMario, and I've placed it in the Mudcat Songbook. Thanks so much for sharing it with us 'Catters. And it's also a wonderful thought for the day! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 21 Mar 00 - 04:35 PM It is news, such as the latest mass 'suicide' of up to 470 members of a cult in Uganda, that confirm my belief that we have created God, in our image and not the other way round.
Such Is The God
You will find, in the finest of gardens
Inquisitions and witch-hunts and final solutions
The rose and the thorn, fine fruit and the poison
Do you join in the song, that everyone's singing?
The rose and the thorn, fine fruit and the poison Roger Gall 1996 |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 21 Mar 00 - 08:21 PM I'm honored to add your song to the Songbook, Roger. Your talent amazes every time I see another of your songs. Don't ever stop writing them, please. -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: The Shambles Date: 04 Apr 00 - 05:17 AM Jason is my nephew and exactly the same age as this song.
Jason's Song
Home is where the heart is
All that glitters, is not gold
Home is where the heart is
The only ones, who know for sure, are the young
Home is where the heart is
What me is there, I can say? Roger Gall 1995 |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 04 Apr 00 - 09:30 AM Thank you so much, Roger! I've just placed Jason's Song on the Mudcat Songbook. If you have an original song that you'd like to add to the Songbook, please post it here or send it to me at doireanne@yahoo.com. You'll be in some great company -- Check out the Songbook and see for yourself! -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Amos Date: 19 Apr 00 - 02:19 PM This song was commissioned by our own MAG in exchange for some support flow to the Mudcat, as promised on a couple of threads. It is a slow, rolling barrel-house blues reminiscent of Bessie Smith's "Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer", or her "Ain't Done Runnin' Around" blues. Dedicated to Mary Ann, and to women everywhere who wish men could be just a little different... Affectionately, Amos Mary Ann's Walla Walla Woman Blues
E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Big bikers want to play you But I'm gettin those Bridge: I got three hot kitties Leaves me them Bridge: I don't want a man on booze |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: Áine Date: 20 Apr 00 - 03:24 PM Well, it's great to see some more wonderful songs in the Mudcat Songbook! This morning I added four great new songs, (including Amos' song above) and I hope that everyone will go and have a look at them. Here's the list --
Radio Song by Spider Tom -- Áine |
Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook From: MMario Date: 21 Apr 00 - 12:45 AM thread song alert! from Kelida.... |
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