Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook

Subject: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 03 Jul 00 - 01:58 AM

If you're looking for a poignant, heart-breaking, evocative original song, look no further than Whispers In The Breeze by Amergin, now in the Mudcat Songbook. Thank you so much, Amergin, for sharing this with all of us.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: canoer
Date: 03 Jul 00 - 07:30 AM

Second that!

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: bob jr
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 12:00 AM

um its was a bit hackneyed but you can hum the tune of gilligans island too it!!!

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 02:02 PM

Here's a little song about Jesse James -- or is it?? Started by Rick Fielding, That Dirty Little Coward! is a joint effort by Rick, Sinsull, Jeri and myself. Have a look, have a laugh!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 10:09 PM

Not one to cower from controversy, our own InOBU began an 'add-a-verse' song that I've just put in the Songbook, A Scouting Song by InOBU, Morticia, Áine, Liz the Squeak, ivy b*. You can still add a verse if you have something to say...

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 12:22 AM

I posted this in the Peace for Ireland thread originally.

All The Fighting, Lord
(tune of All My Trials)

Hush my country, don't you cry
You know that we all are born to die
May all the fighting, Lord, soon be over

It's not too late, dear brothers
It's not too late to march together
May all the fighting, Lord, soon be over

As my tears ring out in the moonlit night
I pray you'll lower your rifle sights
May all the fighting, Lord, soon be over

I've got an orange sash given to me
Stitched on the breast are strips of green
May all the fighting, Lord, soon be over

There is a wall they call the Peace Line
Tear it down and let your hearts shine
May all the fighting, Lord, soon be over

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 12:41 AM

That is beautiful Amergin, thank you and please come sing it for us in HearMe sometime...We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects(1706)

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 10 Jul 00 - 11:35 AM

I've placed Amergin's wonderful song, All The Fighting, Lord, in the Songbook. Thank you, Amergin.

I've also added a late-entry to Song Challenge! Part 31, the 'stirring' The Miser And The John, by Naemanson. Please check out both these great Mudcatter originals.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 11 Jul 00 - 01:11 PM

I've just added two very different, but both very wistful, songs to the Mudcat Songbook. First, the lovely Now Comes The Time by our globe-trotting Allan C., and second, Time Zones, by our own wonderful Micca.

Enjoy these very nice additions to the growing tome of 'Cat Classics!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 17 Jul 00 - 12:12 PM

Just put these three wonderful songs into the Songbook:

A Good Line by Spider Tom - a wonderful song about the strange things you can catch when you go fishin'...

Ice Damming by Barry Finn - if it's hot where you are, cool off by singing this catchy song!

Vhere Da Rippling Vaters Flow by Lloyd62 - a sweet song of remembering . . . Lloyd wrote this after his recent surgery - just goes to show that you can't keep a great Mudcatter down!

Thanks to all of you for these great additions to the Songbook.

Keep playing, singing and writing, Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 04:46 PM

I had originally posted this here but I made some changes and decided to post it here with the changes made and all...

I Wish I Was Back Home...

Chorus:
I wish I was on the Kootenai River
I wish I was among those northern hills
I wish I was on the Kootenai River
I wish I was back home…

Walking down the street past the closed up shops
Snuggling against the cold in the snowlit night
Hands stuffed into pockets, hiding from the chill
Hood blanketing the head, fighting winter's bite

Frozen shoelaces flap around with each step
Smoky tendrils of fog escape the twitching lips
Snowmen standing by the sidewalks greeting
Passersby with outstretched wooden fingertips

Chorus:

Slogging across the sodden lawn, snow receding
Dandelions poke their heads up embracing the sun
Birds come back north to raise their families
The Kootenai singing on, rambling down her run

The rain clouds shift and congregate in prayer
Darkening, crying out in joy at the coming spring
The farmers work their fields, riding the tractor cats
The birds bring out their flutes to play "On The Wing"

Chorus:

Schools out, kids across the street playing baseball
Birds dance on the limbs as their kids leave the nest
Bees whistle as they pollinate, spreading the nectar
The sun reaches out its arms caressing the rivers breast

The piper from Creston leading the annual parade
The huckleberry pies sit on the table in patriotic glory
Swimmers dive beneath the clear depths of Deep Crick
Listening to the water whistle its endless story

Chorus:

The geese cry, flying towards their southern refuge
The leaves turn brown, rotting from their treetops
The flowers sink down, hiding from the coming cold
The windows pound in the impact of the raindrops

The schoolyards bellow with the laughter of children
Down the valleys the cold wind begins to blow
Guns roar in the hills, hunting for elk and deer
Firewood is gathered in preparation to the coming snow

Chorus:

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 05:13 PM

Aine,
Iwish I could take credit but that verse (Jesse James) was from I recording I heard years ago. I don't remember who or when.
SS

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 05:34 PM

There you go, Amergin, I Wish I Was Back Home is now in the Songbook. Thanks so much for sharing it with us!

And Sinsull -- thanks for fessing up ;-) I'll make the appropriate changes.

Keep playing, writing and singing, Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 22 Jul 00 - 06:45 PM

Seems that Mbo has been researching his archives, and he's found some songs that he thought needed to be put in the Songbook. As always, I'm happy to oblige -- y'all check these out and enjoy!

Master Of The Stars

The Virus Song

The Night Before Mudcat Christmas by Mbo, Caitrin, MMario, and InOBU

In Praise Of Barky

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 01:50 PM

I just added a lovely song by Amergin to the Songbook. If you'd like to know 'what lies beneath' this Mudcatter, check out Shades Of Memory. Thank you, Amergin!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 09:54 PM

Very nice, Amergin! How poignant. Thanks, too, to you Aine for keeping up the book!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 10:31 PM

Thanks, Aine and Kat, this place has permanently got me blushing...Even my toes are now fiercely red...

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:04 PM

I'm probably going to make Amergin blush even more now -- but, dang it, this Mudcatter can write the kind of songs that just tear your heart out! The newest addition to the Mudcat Songbook, All Horses Go To Heaven, is Amergin's tribute to another Mudcatter's dear friend. Thank you so much, Amergin, for sharing your songs with us.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 07:56 PM

No probably about it, Aine, I am....I don't know what to say, but thank you for your words and for keeping up the TOME....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

We have some wonderful new additions to the Mudcat Songbook by Amergin today: Farewell, full of melancholy and longing; Dance In The Mudcat Tavern, which Amergin signed liked this -- "Amerginwhoapologisestoanyonewhofeelsleftoutofthisbutifyougetmadathimforityoucanpissoff" (but it's a hoot!); and We Will Meet Again, a sweet, but spooky, love song.

And speaking of new additions, we have a brand new Mudcatter adding his very first (Mudcat) song to the Book! It's The Rains Of April by MichaelAnthony, a beautiful, haunting, and evocative poem in itself; and I hope we all can hear him sing it on the Mudcat Radio very soon. Welcome to the Mudcat, MichaelAnthony!

Thank you both very, very much.

Keep playing, singing and writing, Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 06:46 PM

A couple of notes about two of those songs....they refer to Kaiser Aluminum (?) who have been on strike for a couple of years or so....

Michael, that's a wonderful song. Thx, Aine,

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 10:06 AM

Two more wonderful additions to the Songbook this morning. Darkest Central Savannah River Taliaferro by Mudcat newbie MichaelAnthony; and The Submarine Kursk by IanC, posted originally in the thread that discussed the recent Russian submarine disaster. Thanks to both MA and IanC for these two great songs.

Put some music in your souls and check 'em out, Mudcatters.

Keep playing, writing and singing, Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Bradypus
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:35 PM

Aine -

There are a couple of thread songs I forgot to send to you. There's one about the human genome here

And another about explicit lyrics here

Bradypus

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 05:18 PM

There ya go, Bradypus. Look in the 'Thread Songs' category for both of your newest entries in the Songbook, The Chromosomes Genomical and These Are Explicit Lyrics -- Well done once again, Mr. B!

And Amergin's been busy, too -- This Is Our House and Donning The Red -- are both evocative, bittersweet songs about home, and having to leave it. Excellent stuff.

Thank you both for your wonderful songs. Keep it up, Mudcatters, you're all fantastic!

-- Aine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 05:22 PM

Oops! Sorry, Bradypus, I was just all aflutter with your 'explicitness', and mistyped the name of one of your songs -- It should be These Lyrics Are Explicit.

-- Aine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Bradypus
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM

Aine -

The Explicit Lyric song didn't have an explicit title - I suppose it might have been implicit that the title was the first line. But if I can give an explicit title to the explicit lyrics song, I'll call it 'Explicit Lyrics' (if you see what I mean)

Bradypus

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:58 PM

Explicitly!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 09:53 PM

Bring Down the Walls

G                    C      D
It's not only you,
D                                     G            Em
Who knows how the wind blows
Em                 C                             D                             G
Not only they who know just how the world must be.
G                  C      D
It's not only she who
D                      G                 Em
Is looking for answers,
Em           Am                 Em                  D
Not only them, not only you, not only me...

Cho:
 

D                                C             D
Bring down the walls
D                          G      Em
And bring in the river
Em                            C                       D
Bring down the lonesome, frozen clay,
D                               G
And bring in the light.
G                           C            D
Bring down the walls,
D                          G           Em
Throw open the windows,
G                  Am
And if we just hold on,
Am   Em                 Em  D
We just might find a place
                        Am            G
Where just living is right

The justice has called,
And canceled the weddings.
The jester has answered all the phones,
Before they could ring.
The mothers in town
Have nailed  down all the windows
And the merchants barred their doors, to go home and sing....
 
 

Bring down the walls
And bring in the river
Bring down the lonesome, frozen clay,
And bring in the light.
Bring down the walls,
Throw open the windows,
And if we just hold on,
We just might find a place
Where just living is right

Bridge:
 

G                                Am
Just living is not an easy answer;
    D                                            G
Not simple,  and not always kind;
G                                Am
Just living cannot guarantee you
Em                                               D
Comfort to an overcrowded mind...

G                    C      D
It's not only you,
D                                     G            Am++       G
Who knows how the wind blows
G                 C                             D                             G
Not only they who know just how the world must be.
G                  C      D
It's not only she who
D                      G          Em
Is looking for answers,
Em           Am                 Em                  D
Not only them, not only you, not only me...

Final Cho:
Bring down the walls
And bring in the river
Bring down the lonesome, frozen clay,
And bring in the sun.
Bring down the walls,
Throw open the windows,
And if we just hold on,
We just might find,
A place where just living is done
 

Copyright 2000, by Amos H. Jessup

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 03:30 AM

Nice one Amos.

I thought that I had already posted this one, but I do not appear to have.

The Price To Pay (The Party, Party Song)

Well, you saw me walk in that door
Looked at you and liked what I saw
Living life is what it's for
Nothing more

I could talk to you all night
It was dark, 'til you put on the light
No need to be polite
It's alright

C'mon and party on, my dear
You bring the whisky, I'll bring the beer
It's Paddy's night and New Year
Over here

Let's get out of this bar
My place ain't heaven, but it's not too far
Remember, wherever you go,
Well there you are

It may not last too long
But it's alright, 'til it's all wrong
If it lasts 'til the booze is gone
Then you're the one

C'mon and party on, my dear
You bring the whisky, I'll bring the beer
It's Paddy's night and New Year
Over here

We wear the scars of many battles
The wrong moves made at the wrong time
The past spreads behind us, like a bruise
We're prisoners free, to repeat the same crime….

Well, pass that bottle round
Think I'm on that 'holy ground'
Nothing's lost and nothing's found
We'll paint this town

Tomorrow is another day
We'll drink this night away
We know the price to pay
And it's OK

C'mon and party on, my dear
You bring the whisky, I'll bring the beer
It's Paddy's night and New Year
Over here

Roger Gall 1997

I have now........

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 10:05 AM

That's an excellent song, Amos! Can I expect to hear the melody on Mudcat Radio soon?

--Matt

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 12:33 PM

Wow! Give y'all a weekend and see what ya come up with!

I'm so glad to see that my darlin' Amos is back amongst us, hopefully to stay. And I've added his Bring Down The Walls to the Book.

And of course, the wonderful submission by The Shambles has been added as well, The Price To Pay.

And Amergin has sent two very deep and thougthful songs in to the Book as well. At The Edge Of Town and In Hiding.

Check 'em out, Mudcatters. And bigs hugs and thanks all 'round to three of my favourite folks!

Keep playing, singing and writing, Aine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 06:26 AM

Stoneground

I see that limestone, look, in your eye
I know you can't help it but still you try
Is it a place you're seeking or a state of mind?
I can take you there, but what would you find

Roaring, pummelling thoughts aside
It plunges deeper, deeper than a knife
Uplifting, in forlorn moments
It ignores the natural forces of life

Stoneground…Where I want to be...On Stoneground
My roots down… Surrounded by the sea…On Stoneground
I'm home!……….I'm home!

Its twisted ways, torturous to the mind
Chosen paths, must be ignored
Like a jealous child, it holds the heart
Return to the nest, in innocence

Debilitating needs, thunder on
Ceaselessly pushing towards it's goal
Taken along, there is no rest
Oh! Let me be where I belong

Stoneground…Where I want to be...On Stoneground
My roots down…Surrounded by the sea…On Stoneground
I'm home!……….I'm home!

Katrina Gall and Roger Gall. (Started in 1986 and finished after returning home to Portland in)1996.

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 10:23 AM

There you go, Roger, I've added Stoneground to the Songbook. Very interesting song, that. Would you like to give me a little intro to it that I could put in before the lyrics, please? I'd love to know where this song 'came' from, so to speak. Thanks!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 04:02 PM

When we were living in the Shetland Islands, Katrina became very homesick for her birthplace Portland. Which is a big lump of limestone sticking out into the English Channel. The distance between the two places is about as far as you can get and still remain in the UK.

She wrote a poem about how she was feeling then, and if I had read it earlier we would have moved long before we did. We turned it into a song when she was feeling better and living on Portland. I just added the chorus and the first verse.

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 06:43 PM

Thanks for the story of your song, Roger. I've added it to the song's page.

And Amergin has sent in another one of his 'gotcha' love songs, Memories Of Heaven, which is wonderful. Check it out, 'Catters, and 'get got'!

-- Aine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 05:13 PM

hey - lookee here!

The thefter of rodents is talented!

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Micca
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 05:50 PM

I agree Mmario, kleptomouse is good. I like the song...

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 05:56 PM

You guys. You'll turn my pretty head.

O..O
=o=
clickme

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 06:17 PM

Dear mousethief,

Does this mean that I have your permission to place your song in the Book? (please, please, please)

-- Aine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 06:24 PM

Aine - If you put my real name on it, which is Alex Riggle. (I flatter myself that someday my descendents might fight over copyrights to my songs. Hehehe. Oh well, we all have our little dreams, right?)

Thanks!

O..O
=o=
clickme

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 07:13 PM

There ya go, Alex (a/k/a mousethief) -- You're very first addition to the Mudcat Songbook, the wonderfully wacky What Can We Talk About?. I've put it in the 'Thread Songs' category, so look for it there. Congratulations and Cudos to our newest member of Songbook writers and may we see plenty more songs from him in the future!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 06:50 PM

I've been advised by mousethief that the real title of his first-ever-Mudcat-Songbook-song is The Sex Life of Chinchillas; and as such, ye shall now find it in the Book under the Thread Songs category...*BG*

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 02:02 PM

Thanks Áine, you're a gem.

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:35 AM

Three more great songs added to the Songbook this morning:

Mona Lisa Never Really Smile by MichaelAnthony and a song submitted by MichaelAnthony, Say A Prayer For Dirty.

The Day They Slowed Ol' Mudcat Down by mousethief, which you can find in the Parodies category.

Thanks to these new Mudcatters who are making some excellent contributions to the Songbook. Take a look, Mudcatters, and you won't be disappointed!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 04:10 PM

Yet another mousethief 'classic' added to the Book today. If you're a fan of the film, 'Three Faces of Eve', you'll love this song! It's in the Thread category, and it's called: Anonymous, Unreal and Phony. It's a hoot.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 04:28 PM

Oh stop, Aine! You're going to make me vain! (does that rhyme? How DO you pronounce your name/handle?)

Here's one I wrote when I was about 17 years old, more or less. But if you say nice things about it I might send you another, so be careful!

Wild and Free
by Alex Riggle

While sleeping on a summer night
Beneath a broad oak tree
I woke to find a unicorn
Running wild and free
Running wild and free
(repeat this phrase after each verse)

I held my breath and turned to watch
The show he gave for me
Dancing gracefully beneath the stars
And running wild and free

And when at last his dance was done
He shyly came to me
And bid me climb upon his back,
Go running wild and free

And so we ran beneath the moon
The unicorn and me
So clean and pure that summer night
We were running wild and free

I often think back to that night
And what it meant to me
How dull men's lives are when compared
To running wild and free!

(C) 1979 Alex E. Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

If someone would teach me how to do that note thing that people post tunes by, I could post the tune to this. Is there software people use?

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 09:38 AM

There ya go, mousethief, Wild and Free has been added to the Book. You just got better and better, didn't ya? ;-)

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 11:16 AM

Are you saying Wild and Free isn't very good?

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 01:14 PM

No, she means you were good to start out with....and instead of getting worse or drying up you improved and improved.....and keep on improving....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 01:18 PM

I kinda figured that but I was teasing her. Shoulda added a smiley.

Alex
O..O
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