Lovingkindness Song Circle

Subject: Lyr Add: MAIRZY DOATS
From:
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 01:49 PM

Since "the Balkanization" Dick G. referred to, and Tim J. deplored, was, at least originally, my fault, I propose a "kinder, gentler" song circle of reunification. Here we shall have only sweetness and light, worthy sentiments, camaraderie and fellowship. We'll begin with a group sing of some dear old songs, listed below, and proceed to let each, in turn, offer up a personal contribution.

Group sing (feel free to expand the list):

1. Because All Men Are Brothers
2. Simple Gifts
3. Comin' Thro' The Rye
4. Jambalaya
5. When I'm Sixty-Four (not "folk" but fun)
6. Lavender's Blue
7. Peg O' My Heart
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
9. Red River Valley
10. Annie Laurie
11. Amazing Grace
12. Mairzy Doats (complete lyrics below)

MAIRZY DOATS

I know a ditty, nutty as a fruitcake,
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon.
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy,
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats,
And liddle lamzy divey,
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you?

Well if the words sound queer,
And funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing, "Mares eat oats
And does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy!"

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats,
And liddle lamzy divey,
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you-oo-oo-hoo?
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you?

Whailzy deals and sealzy deals
And baby fishy doysters,
A squiddley doysters too,
Wouldn't you?

Well if the words sound queer,
And funny to your ear,
All of you girlsters and boysters,
Say, "Whales eat eels
And seals eat eels,
And baby fish eat oysters!"
Whales eat eels and seals eat eels
And baby fish eat oysters,
A squid will eat oysters too,
Wouldn't you?

A whale will eat oysters too,
A squid will eat oysters too,
A kid will eat ivy too,
Wouldn't you?

Hope this restores a more courteous, congenial, convivial atmosphere! (Also hope others will have the courage to risk adding "sentimental stuff" from their own collections.)

Shalom,

Shula

Subject: Lyr Add: DIDDLE DIDDLE or THE KIND COUNTRY LOVERS
From: Bruce
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 02:20 PM

I'm sure #6 will get us off on the right foot. Here is an early version.

Diddle, Diddle.
Or, The Kind Country Lovers

Tune of Lavender green, &c.

Lavender's green, didle, didle
Lavenders blue
you must love me, diddle, diddle
cause I love you.
I heard one say, diddle, diddle
since I came hither
That you and I diddle, diddle
must lie together.

My hostesse maid, diddle, diddle
her name was Nell,
She was a Lass, diddle, diddle
that I loved well,
But if she dye Diddle, diddle,
by some mishap,
Then she shall lye, Diddle, diddle
under the Tap.

That she may drink Diddle, diddle,
when she is dry,
Because she lov'd Diddle, diddle
my Dog and I.
Call up your Maids Diddle, diddle
set them to work,
Some to make Hay, Diddle, diddle
some to the Rock.

Some to make Hay, diddle, diddle,
some to the Corn
Whilst you and I Diddle, diddle,
keep the bed warm.
Let the birds sing, Diddle, diddle
and the lambs play,
We shall be safe Diddle, diddle
out of harms way.

James at the George, Diddle, diddle
Sue at the Swan
He loves his maid Diddle, diddle
she loves her man.
But if they chance Diddle, diddle
for to be found,
Catch them i'th Corn Diddle, diddle
put them ith the pound.

I heard a bird Diddle, diddle
sing in my Ear
Maids will be scarce Diddle, diddle,
the next New year.
For young men are Diddle, diddle
so wanton grown
That they ne'r mind Diddle, diddle,
which is their own.

Down in a Dale Diddle, diddle
where flowers do grow,
And the Trees bud Diddle, diddle
all on a row.
A brisk young Man Diddle diddle
met with a Maid,
And laid her down, Diddle, diddle
under the shade.

Where they did play Diddle, diddle
& Kiss & Court,
Like Lambs in May Diddle, diddle
making fine sport.
There lives a Lass Diddle, diddle
over the Green,
She sells good Ale Diddle, diddle
think what I mean.

Oft have I been Diddle diddle
with her i'th the dark
And yet I nere Diddle, diddle
shot at the mark.
But now my Dear Diddle, diddle
have at thy bumm
For I do swear Diddle, diddle
now I am come.

I will be kind Diddle, diddle
until I dye,
When prethee love Diddle, diddle
my Dog & I.
For thee & I Diddle, diddle
now are all one,
And we will lye Diddle, diddle
no more alone.

London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. [1674-1679]

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Bruce
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 02:37 PM

P.S. Let's see your "Comin thro' the Rye".

Subject: Lyr Add: AR FOL LOL LOL O
From: Alice
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 04:46 PM

Here's one I like to lead for group sings, and since I learned it as a child from Clancy Bros. records, I was amazed at how few people know it now. Anyway, here goes.

Ar Fol Lol Lol O

chorus
Ar fol lol lol O horo, ar fol lol lol ay,
Ar fol lol lol O horo, ar fol lol lol ay,
Ar fol lol lol O horo, ar fol lol lol ay,
Fol lee fol O horo, ar fol lol lol ay.

l. There's lilt in the song I sing, there's laughter and love.
There's spray from the sea, and blue from heaven above.
Of reason there's none and why should there be,
As long as there's fire in the blood and a light in the eye.

chorus

2. And whether the blood be highland, lowland, or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow,
Of kith and of kin, we are one, be it right, be it wrong,
As long as our voices join the chorus of song.

chorus

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 04:57 PM

Dear Alice,

(Didn't see your post before I sent mine.) Yes! Now That's the ticket! Merci beaucoup!

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 05:48 PM

I know I just posted one, but here is another song of worthy sentiments:

"Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms", words by Thomas Moore. ...

"Oh, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
the same look which she turned when he rose."

Alice in Montana

Subject: Lyr Add: COMIN' THRO' THE RYE and LADYBUG AND...
From: Shula
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 12:16 PM

Dear Bruce,

Turns out I've got TWO "Comin' Thro' The Rye"'s! There's the one from Bobby Burns, via my grandfather, about "Jenny's draighl't petticoatie," all but the last verse of which is in the DT. Checked my Burns and the last verse is truly his, so here it is (Dick, this really should be added to the DT, methinks!):

Gin a body meet a body
Comin' thro' the grain;
Gin a body kiss a body,
The thing's a body's ain.

Then there's the one I learned in elementary school, (which is the one of which I was thinking when I made the "starter" list), whose origins are unknown to me:

COMIN' THRO' THE RYE

Gin a body meet a body, comin' thro' th' Rye.
Gin a body kiss a body, need a body cry?
Ilka lassie has her laddie; nane, they say, hae I;
Yet a' the lads they smile on me,
When comin' thro' th' rye!

Gin a body meet a body, comin' frae th' toon;
Gin a body greet a body, need a body froon?
Amang th' train, there is a swain I dearly luve mysel',
But what's his name or where's his hame,
I dinna choose t' tell!

So, Bruce, if you're checking anyway, could you give us any additional information you might have? Thanks.

Dear fellow participants,

Don't want to hog this thread, but I recalled a charming little song about an enterprising, problem-solving, newly married ladybug, and couldn't find it in the DT. Hope it'll turn up the corners of everyone's lips, (wish I could share the catchy tune, too!):

THE LADYBUG AND THE CENTIPEDE

Oh, the ladybug and the centipede got married;
Oh, the ladybug and the centipede they wed.
On their wedding night, I heard it said,
Fifty-one pairs o' slippers were near that bed!
Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

Oh, the ladybug thought the cricket's voice was gentle,
And an ant she knew was likely to succeed,
And the bee had a kiss that was sweet, indeed,--
But none could HUG like her centipede!
Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

On their wedding night, they called each other, "Darlin;'"
Their happiness was total and complete, --
Until she slipped beneath the sheet, On her back, fifty pair of cold, cold feet! Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

Next day the centipede he came home early, (rabbit!),
And his ladybug looked slyer than a fox.
She was sitting 'neath the hollyhocks,
Knitting lots and lots of little socks,
She winked her eye with a twinkle that seemed to say:
Hey, ho! (Hey, ho!) Hey, ho! (Hey, ho!)
Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

(This is the version sung by Leon Bibb.)

Cute, nu?

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Bruce
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 12:21 PM

See a version of "Coming thro' the Rye" in DT.
'kiss' was a common 17th and 18th century euphemism for sexual intercourse.
E.g., "Some say that kissing's a sin", descended from a 17th century broadside ballad.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 12:36 PM

Bruce,

Where does the version NOT FROMBurns come from?

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Bruce
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 01:20 PM

Burns' song is in 'Scots Musical Museum', #417 (1796). With 1st verse and chorus switched around it is in DT. It is not quite clear where the another version, SMM #418, came from.

There is a more explict version in 'The Merry Muses of Caledonia' (1799) where one verse of six goes:

Gin a body meet a body,
Comin thro the rye;
Gin a body f--k a body,
Need a body cry.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Bruce
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 01:59 PM

I forgot to add that there are 8 lines, unfortunately not reprinted, commencing "Jennys a' wet, poor body", in the Mansfield/St. Clair MS, c 1770-1790. The tune citation there is "The Miller's daughter" rather than "The Miller's Wedding" (same tune but different title from that cited by Burns).

At least one editor has taken Burns' song to be a polite revision of that in 'The Merry Muses.'

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Wkailey
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 03:10 PM

Has anyone out there heard of Priscilla Herdman? She records childrens songs, many of which are very much in the innocent vain you are discussing here. I wish I knew where I could buy any of her albums, as well as similar stuff. Here is a part of her "Waltzing with bears."

I went up to his room in the middle of the night,
I tiptoed upstairs and I turned on the light,
But when I got there he was nowhere in sight,
And I'm sure Uncle Walter went waltzing that night.

He goes wa wa wa wa wa waltzing with bears
Raggy bears, shaggy bears, baggy bears too
And there's nothing on earth Uncle Walter won't do,
So he can go waltzing, go waltzing with bears.

Etc.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LADYBUG AND THE CENTIPEDE
From: Shula
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 03:54 PM

Dear Walt,

Love the lyrics so far, please post the rest! (And more like it, if you've got 'em!)

Reposting this so folks that want a copy don't have to take out all those dad-burned exclamation points:

THE LADYBUG AND THE CENTIPEDE

Oh, the ladybug and the centipede got married;
Oh, the ladybug and the centipede they wed.
On their wedding night , I heard it said,
Fifty-one pairs o' slippers were near that bed!
Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

Oh, the ladybug thought the cricket's voice was gentle,
And an ant she knew was likely to succeed,
And the bee had a kiss that was sweet, indeed, --
But none could HUG like her centipede!
Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

On their wedding night, they called each other, "Darlin;"
Their happiness was total and complete, --
Until she slipped beneath the sheet,
On her back, fifty pair of cold, cold feet!
Hey, ho! Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day ?!

Next day the centipede he came home early, (rabbit!),
And his ladybug looked slyer than a fox.
She was sitting 'neath the hollyhocks,
Knitting lots and lots of little socks,
She winked her eye with a twinkle that seemed to say:
Hey, ho! (Hey, ho!) Hey, ho! (Hey, ho!)
Hey, ho! What a wonderful wedding day!

(This version sung by Leon Bibb.)

Hope it stays put this time!

Dear Bruce,

This is the "makin' nice" thread, not the "makin' whoopee" thread. We let the small fry into this one. Bet there's hardly a grown soul here that doesn't know the euphemisms! If ya wanta talk trash, go hang in the tree house with the rest of the hooligans, or start up a thread o' your own with The title: "Warning: some content unsuitable for tender ears." You'll have to take the flack -- not to mention the filth that follows. (Know some nasty stuff myself; don't like to put it on public display, ... necessarily.) Only milk 'n' honey 'n' treacle served here, if ya please, sir!

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 04:25 PM

Sally Rogers sings a couple of songs that just make me melt. Both are in the database, but I think we sometimes miss something in our discussion here if we don't furnish at least partial quotes of the songs we discuss.
One is Bob Franke's "Thanksgiving Eve." For some reason, I've had trouble mastering the tune. I'm the only one I know who knows it, and I haven't quite been able to teach it. The words are beautiful, though:

What can you do with your days but work and hope?
Let your dreams bind your work to your play.
What can you do with each moment of your life
But love till you love it away
Love til you love it away.

The other I like even better, especially the time I heard Faith Petric sing it - "It's a Pleasure to Know You," by Karl Williams.

It's a pleasure to know you,
A pleasure to see you smile.
A comfort to know we'll share the road awhile.
But pleasure is fleeting and comforts are far between
It's a pleasure to know you and the comforts you bring.

I think both of these songs are apropos for the nice folks who gather here. Wish we could all sing together. I think we'd sound wonderful, and I'm sure we'd melt a few hearts.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Wkailey
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 04:26 PM

Shula, here's some more of Waltzing with Bears

Mom bought Uncle Walter a new suit to wear
But when he comes in it's all covered with hair
And lately I've noticed there's several new tears
And I'm sure Uncle Walter's been waltzing with bears

Chorus

I told Uncle Walter that he should be good
And do all the things that I told him he should
But I'm sure that he'd rather be off in the wood
And I'm afraid that I'll lose him, I'll lose him for good.

Chorus

In the last verse, the narrator herself goes waltzing with bears, but I can't remember all of it right now.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Jon W.
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 05:15 PM

I checked into some Klezmer music a few months ago (or should I say I checked it out from the library) - "In the Fiddler's House" by a famous violinist (Itzhak Perlman?). There was a song "Alle Brider" (All Brothers) that seems to belong in this thread. Lyrics, Shula, Rechal, or anyone?

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Catfeet
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 06:27 PM

Someone beat me to it, but I can still help with all of the verses to Waltzing with bears.

Chorus: Wa Wa Wa, Wa Wa Wa Waltzing with bears,
Raggy bears, baggy bears, shaggy bears too,
There's nothing on earth uncle Walter won't do
So he can go waltzing, wa wa wa waltzing,
So he can go waltzing, waltzing with bears

V1: I went upstairs in the middle of the night,
I tiptoed in and I turned on the light.
To my surprise, there was no one in sight
My uncle Walter goes dancing at night.

V2: I gave uncle Walter a new coat to wear,
When he came home it was covered in hairs,
Lately I've noticed several new tears
My uncle Walter goes waltzing with bears

V3: We told uncle Walter that he should be good,
Do all the things that we said that he should,
I think he would rather be out in the wood,
I'm afraid we might loose uncle Walter for good

V4: We begged and we pleaded, "Oh, please won't you stay!"
We managed to keep him at home for a day,
But the bears all marched in and they took him away!
Now he's dancing with pandas, he can't understand us,
The bears all demand at lease one dance a day!

Catfeet

Subject: Lyr Add: ALEH BRIDER (Yiddish)
From: Shula
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 07:02 PM

Dear Jon W.,

Didn't post this before because the whole cut is more than twelve minutes long, and the best part is the prolonged klezmer instrumental, during which the audience is urged to get up and dance a rousing hora up and down the aisles. The words, like those of many "secular Jewish" (yes, I know that OUGHT to be considered an oxymoron), compositions, are determinedly pedestrian, as if trying to adandon biblical poetics as well as theology, but they do have a certain plain, robust charm, especially when companioned with such engaging music. The lyrics are based on Morris Winchevsky's poem, "Achdus," meaning "Brotherhood."

ALEH BRIDER


Un mir zaynen aleh brider, oy, oy, aleh brider,
Un mir zingen sheyne lieder, oy, oy, oy!
Un mir halt'n zikh in eynem, oy, oy, zikh in eynem,
Azelkhes iz nito bay keynem, oy, oy, oy!

Un mir zaynen aleh eynik, oy, oy, ale eynik,
Tsi mir zaynen fil tsi veynik, oy, oy, oy.
Un mir libn zikh dokh aleh, oy, oy, zikh dokh aleh,
Vi a hchos'n mit a kalleh, oy, oy, oy!

Un mir zaynen aleh shvester, oy, oy, aleh shvester,
Azoy vi Roch'l, Rus, un Esther, oy, oy, oy.
Un mir zaynen aleh freyleckh, oy, oy, aleh freylekh,
Vi Yoynason un Dovid H' Melech, oy, oy, oy!


The translation in the song notes is neither singable nor quite accurate, so perhaps someone could give it a go.


Shalom,


Shula

Subject: Lyr Add: MY FATHER'S OLD SOU'WESTER
From:
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 07:40 PM

Waltzing With Bears is in the database. I know because I got a copy some time ago. I have heard different attributions as to who wrote it. I was also told it was based on Dr. Seuss but I can't remember the poem.

Here's a Newfie song I like as a kid.

MY FATHER'S OLD SOU'WESTER

Memory often brings me back To when I was but a lad,
And the boats came in from fishing And I ran to greet my Dad,
He'd take his old sou'wester off And throw it ashore to me
I'd put that old hat on my head How happy I would be.

Chorus: My father's old sou'wester, He wore in days gone by
And every time he put it on His face would beam with joy
It reminds me of those happy days Those happy days of old
I would not part with that old hat for the full of it in gold.

He wore it every Sunday He never liked a cap
He wore it every Monday When he went to haul the trap
He wore it in the sunshine, He wore it in the rain
On a Sunday or a Monday He wore it just the same

(Chorus again)

If that old hat could only speak What stories it would tell
It would tell you of the many times He fought the raging swell
It would tell you of the happy times Out on the squiddin' ground
Wherever that my father went It was perched up on his crown.

(Chorus again)

And now he's dead and laid to rest He'll wear it nevermore
For there's no stormy weather Out on that distant shore
He said to me before he died "There's one request I"ll make:
Take my old sou'wester And wear it for my sake.

(Chorus again

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: rechal
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 08:18 PM

Awww...I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to read many posts lately. Here's my contribution, courtesy of Sandy and Caroline Paton:

This is a song

Not very long

The words aren't fresh

The tune isn't new

It's just a song

Not very long

To say I'm glad

That I met you.

‹and that's true.

Subject: Lyr Add: A HAND FOR A HAND
From: Shula
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 10:01 PM

Dear all,

Maybe I'm just gettin' sentimental in my dotage, but this is definitely becoming my favorite thread. Like 'em all, even Bruce's naughty one. Many thanks!

This song may be imperfectly remembered, and is from a most unlikely source (but from not me or from anyone I know). Just for fun, I'll let ya'll guess at it before I tell you. Comes under the category of, "if it ain't a folk'song, it oughta be!" (Wouldn't we all go home from this sing a'hummin'!)

A HAND FOR A HAND

A hand for a hand was planned for the world:
Why don't my fingers reach?
Millions of grains of sand in the world:
Why such a lonely beach?
Where is a voice to answer mine back?
Where are two shoes that click to my clack?
I'm all alone in the world!

A hand for a hand was planned for the world:
Now your fingers reach.
Millions of grains of sand in the world:
Make such a lovely beach!
Here is a voice to answer yours back.
Here are two shoes that click to your clack.
You're not alone in the world!

Keep 'em comin'!

Shula

Subject: Lyr Add: GUMBOOT CLOGGEROO (Stompin' Tom Connors)
From:
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 11:35 PM

Some of you may have heard Stompin' Tom do this song with k. d. lang's band on CBC some years ago. If you didn't, it's a merry uptempo song and dance. Gum boots are the large rubber boots that commercial fishermen wear on-board when working with the fish, although the name is sometimes used to denote those same rubber boots which the English call Wellies. By the sound of it the dance is in PEI.

THE GUMBOOT CLOGGEROO
(Stompin' Tom Connors)

Oh! we sailed away at the break of day
To pull traps in oil-skin trousers
On the "Suzie Jack", but tonight we're back
With a thousand pounds of lobsters.
Oh! Shanty Town, we're gonna tear you down
I got money comin' out of me stockins
Tonight I'm due to bushwack Sue
And take her to the Gum-Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum-Boot cloggin'.

Gimme fish and brewis, and qua-hog stew
And a bowl of clam chowder
Just let me reach for that Newfie Screech
When they diddle-up-the-fiddle jig louder
Hear the French girls sing and the guitars ring
And the squeeze box squeek-a-dee squawkin'
Me and my Sue gonna whoop-dee-doo
Take her to the Gum Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum Boot cloggin'.

There's "Boots" Bernard and the rough Richards
And the girls 'way down Tracadie
How many Bluenosers and Herrin'-Chokers
We just don't know exactly
Pack 'em all in tight and dance all night
Get the old barn dance floor just a-rockin'
But a ring-dang-doo for PEI Sue
And take her to the Gum Boot Cloggeroo
And do a little Gum Boot Cloggin'.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 11:49 PM

Further explanations to Gumboot Cloggeroo, for non-Canadians, which I should have put with the original post:

Fish and brewis -- an Eastern Canadian dish, mostly eaten in Newfoundland.

Bluenoser -- Nova Scotian

Herring-choker -- New Brunswicker

Newfie Screech -- a kind of foul black Newfoundland rum, so named by American servicemen stationed there during WWII.

Qua-hog (pronounced KO-hog)-- a kind of thick-shelled harbour clam, with the texture of a radial tire and fit only for stews that have been long a-stewing, or feeding tough-jawed cats.

Tracadie -- an Acadian town in New Brunswick.

Stompin' Tom -- a Canadian legend.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MOON (Robert Louis Stevenson)
From: Wkailey
Date: 23 Sep 97 - 03:35 PM

DT wasn't working just now, so I couldn't check and see if the last verse of Waltzing with bears is there. Catfeet omitted the last one that Priscilla Herdman sings. It goes

But last night when the moon rose we crept down the stairs.
He took me to dance where the bears have their lairs.
We danced in a bear hug with nary a care.
It all feels like flying,
There is no denying,
And now my pajamas are covered with hair.

Also couldn't check the DT for this one, which PH calls simply "The Moon" [by Robert Louis Stevenson]:

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall
She shines on thieves on the garden wall
And streets and fields and harbor quays
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees

Chorus: But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of the way.
Flowers and children close their eyes,
'Til up in the morning the sun shall rise.

The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.

Chorus

Return to first verse.

Anyone know anymore verses to this pretty little song?

Subject: Lyr Add: BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE (Pounds/Feari
From: Shula
Date: 23 Sep 97 - 04:33 PM

Posting (with a "P") this here for Sara, because it looks nice in this grouping. (Already in DT, but it's a slow afternoon.)

BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE
(Mrs. J. B. Pounds; J.S. Fearis)

Somewhere the sun is shining,
Somewhere the songbirds dwell;
Hush, then, thy sad repining;
God lives, and all is well.

cho: Somewhere, Somewhere, Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!
Land of the true, where we live anew
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!

Somewhere the day is longer,
Somewhere the task is done;
Somewhere the heart is stronger,
Somewhere the guerdon won.

Somewhere the load is lifted,
Close by an open gate;
Somewhere the clouds are rifted,
Somewhere the angels wait.

Words by Mrs. Jessie Brown Pounds Music by J.S. Fearis copyright 1897 and 1901 by E.O. Excell.

This funeral song was sung by a four-part women's choir at the memorial service for President McKinley. CIose harmony songs like this were very popular in those days.

filename[ BEAUTISL CB apr96

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: dani
Date: 23 Sep 97 - 11:25 PM

Am on my way to bed, but wanted to let you know:

Wkailey, I have some Priscilla Herdman stuff... it's my favorite for lullabyes! Will try to post tomorrow more info for you.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 24 Sep 97 - 01:10 AM

I had almost the entirety of the English folk song The Herring's Head written into the slot, when my computer froze and I lost the works.:(:(:(:(

The muse had left me now, and I really must ditch this PC and buy a Mac. . .

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: dani
Date: 24 Sep 97 - 12:44 PM

I love The Moon. PH says the tune came to her when she was pregnant with her daughter, and it was one of the first songs her daughter learned. The words are from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verse", which, grown-up that I am, I am the proud new owner of.

PH's music is widely available - good toy stores such as Zany Brainy are a good bet. For more info on her, look here: http://www.mindspring.com/~rlhess/music/ph__000.htm

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Mike M
Date: 25 Sep 97 - 11:25 AM

Don't know if it's exactly what y'all are looking for, but "When you and I were young, Maggie" in ANY of its versions is the sweetest, most sentimental song I know. If you would rather something sentimental but up-tempo I would suggest "Dance to your Daddy" as a fast (but loving) song.

"When thou art a man, free to take a wife, thou shall find a maiden, love her all thy life. She shall be thy lassie, thou shall be her man, dance to your daddy my little man."

Mike

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Songster Bob
Date: 26 Sep 97 - 10:57 AM

Well, about the third time I heard "Waltzing with Bears," which is NOT based on the Dr. Suess poem, by the way, I couldn't help myself:

My Uncle Walter's not right in the head,
He's been that way all his life, my mother said.
It's not that he's violent, or falls down the stairs,
It's just he goes waltzing,
Wah-wah-wah-waltzing,
It's just he goes waltzing,
Waltzing with bears.


It actually makes a pretty good introductory verse for the whole song, so that the "tiptoed" verse now makes more sense.
Whatever, if I knew it, I'd add the rousing "When All Men Sing" (PC'd to "When We All Sing") to the song circle. It's on a very good Johnny Collins recording, though I don't remember which one. Perhaps on "Peddlar of Songs." Highly recommended.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Whippoorwill
Date: 26 Sep 97 - 03:21 PM

Shula:
I've been off a few days, and just discovered your "Mairzy Doats. I'd never heard the second verse - loved it! But have you heard the country version?

Cowzy day and goatzy day
And little pigzy donuts;
A kiddely donuts, too, wouldn't you?
(Repeat)
Now if the words sound queer,
And funny to your ear,
You think you're gonna go nuts,
Say cows eat hay, and goats eat hay,
And little pigs eat donuts.
(ETC.)

This kid would much rather eat a donut than ivy, or oysters, for that matter.

Speaking of centipedes:
A centipede was happy, quite, until a frog in fun,
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?"
This threw her mind in such a pitch
She lay distracted in a ditch,
Considering how to run.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 26 Sep 97 - 05:02 PM

Mike, may grandfather McConnell played fiddle, and my grandmother Maggie McConnell played guitar and piano and sang along with him. He used to sing "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" to her. He was a prospector, and the last claim he lived on, where he died on the Yellowstone River, was called the Maggie and Me. I didn't know this until years after his death and the claim site was turned into a forest service river access called McConnell River Access (it is near Gardiner, MT). I was walking along the river there where I used to play in the sand bank under the trees, and found an old flattened out tin can nailed to a tree. With a nail, he had punched holes that spelled out Maggie and Me Claim. Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: JMike
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 10:31 AM

Alice:

That is a beautiful story! I have had a number of people tell me they thought the song was hokey until they really listened to it. It's one of those songs like "Danny Boy" which can't ever quite become a cliche because a good performance brings back all the freshness. Much gratitude for your sharing.

(This really IS the lovingkindness circle...)

PS The name change is due to the personal page/registry business JMike = Mike (The "J" is silent)

Subject: To dani and Shula
From: Wkailey
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 01:55 PM

Dani, thanks a lot for the info. It is truly pathetic the kind of miserable to nonexistent selection of folk music that is available in all our record stores here in Denver. But I never heard of a Brainy Zany, and we don't have any toy stores out here except Toys R Us, which has just been taken over by the Baby Superstore (which I am fond of calling the Baby SS). I guess you've got to live somewhere with a little bit of culture, like the Twin Cities, where I grew up, to have this kind of stuff available (that's where the one tape I have came from)--that is, if they haven't entirely ruined it yet with abominations like the acursed Mall of America. But I digress away from lovingkindness. My apologies to all.

Shula, the kid referred to in that ditty (which, I believe, was actually on the pop music charts at some point in the late forties or early fifties) is a baby goat, not a human child! But maybe you were joking about kids eating ivy &c.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Jack
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 03:59 PM

I have to add James Taylor's Close Your Eyes (its in the DT).

I have a personal memory of holding my 12-hour-old first-born son while listening to that song on the tape player we had with us at the hospital. I will always think of it as "our" song.

Jack

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Jack
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 04:00 PM

I have to add James Taylor's Close Your Eyes (its in the DT).

I have a personal memory of holding my 12-hour-old first-born son while listening to that song on the tape player we had with us at the hospital. I will always think of it as "our" song.

Jack

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:28 PM

Dear Jack,

Am so glad you added this! Ought to be in the Lullabye thread, too, I reckon.

Good thing songs are not like sculpture or paintings, or you'd have to fend off quite a crowd to lay claim to "You Can Close Your Eyes." When we started our family songbook, this was the top song on all our children's lists. While I might wish them a favorite with a better literary pedigree, this was the song my kids all wanted sung to them EVERY night. (My oldest son also wanted "Sweet Baby James.") At our house, YCCYE is called, "Sun Is Surely(should this be "slowly"?) Sinkin' Down," because I always sang it without the article at the beginning of the first two lines, to smooth it into an even more soothing lullabye. BTW, have you ever seen the life-savers commercial where the little boy and his Dad watch the sun set and then the lad turns to his father with unsullied trust and says,"Do it again, Daddy!" Seems just made to fit this song, eh?

Thanks, again.

Dear Wkailey,

It was Whippoorwill, not I, who referred to himself as "this kid." I realize that this was once a "pop" song, but as Whip. has provided us with a delightful "country" verse, it seems this song is truly gettin' "folk-i-fied"! (Whippoorwill: My doughnut-loving spouse asks me to convey his gratitude to Whippoorwill for the addition.)

Need to tell you that "Waltzing With Bears" has become the new household fav. here, and that's before we even have the tune! (MIDI or other sound file, anyone?) If the tune is as delicious as the words, we will quite content ourselves. In same vein, wish I could provide tune to "The Ladybug and the Centipede," which may antedate the song, and is affectionately charming.

Dear Everyone Else,

Ah! T'is sweet! There are so many riches here, so many life-affirming songs, that one might only wish the flow to continue unimpeded! Wasn't Alice's story a gem? Jack's shared memory a joy? Why is it that songs of rage, sorrow and disaster seem to get the jucier glosses? Think THIS is just the thread for Oral Historical Embellishment! Life is short; let others curse the darkness. May the candles lit here burn bright and warm! May this thread live long and prosper!

In appreciation,

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:59 PM

Waltzing With Bears does have a nice tune -- a waltz, of course!

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 06:03 PM

Somewhere in my desk I have the sheet music to Waltzing With Bears, so if you e-mail me with a snail I can send it to you, Shula.

Desk needs a cleaning out anyway.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 06:38 PM

Found it.

Seems the one in the database has a couple of errors:

1. the chorus has one "waltzing" too many after "wa-wa-wa-wa-wa". It would be hard to sing with the extra "waltzing".

2. My sheet music doesn't say anything about Dr. Suess. It merely says "Words and Music by Dale Marxen, as sung by Robbie Clement".

Shula if you have a fax no I'll fax it to you, if you wish. It has the chords for guitar too.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 07:26 PM

Dear Tim Jaques,

Bless you 'n' your'n! FAX # by e-mail momentarily. Plum tickled!

Merci!

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Catfeet
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 08:14 PM

A little info on Waltzing with Bears. The man who wrote it, when he finished, was certain that he'd heard it somewhere or read it to one of his children a long time ago. He then petitioned the library of congress to make sure that it wasn't "a Dr. Seuss book". He got the all clear from that estimed establisment and published the thing, and we've all been singing it ever since. (The story as I heard it at a Tommy Makem concert)

Catfeet

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: dbonnici
Date: 29 Sep 97 - 08:41 PM

Hello there Wassup

Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG
From: Alice
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 02:00 AM

I looked in the DT and couldn't find this, but of COURSE it belongs on this thread:

LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG
lyrics, G.Clifton Bingham, music, J.L.Molloy

Once in the dear dead days beyond recall,
When on the world the mists began to fall,
Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng,
Low to our hearts love sang an old sweet song.
And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam,
Softly it wove itself into our dream.

refrain
Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low,
And the flick'ring shadows softly come and go,
Tho' the heart be weary, sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes love's old song,
Comes love's old sweet song.

Even today we hear love's song of yore,
Deep in our hearts it dwells forevermore,
Footsteps may falter, weary grow the way,
Still we can hear it at the close of day;
So til the end, when life's dim shadows fall,
Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

Big group hug to all you mudcats... Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Frank Phillips
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 01:08 PM

Tim

My copy of New Folk Favorites says the same thing about Dale Marxen and Robbie Clement. It has a bio of Robbie but not of Dale.

Joe

When I decided to get serious about this singing hobby about 3 years ago I took an evening course from our local School Board. Our instructor is (among other things) a folk music enthusiast and one of the tunes he used was Thanksgiving Eve. It was my favorite song of the course. I prefer Garnet Rogers' version since I sing down in that range (and lower). I also have a Bob Franke CD with a third verse which I don't like as well as the first 2. (Just a personal thing.)

All

While I'm on the subject of Bob Franke, Do you think "The Great Storm is Over" fits in with this thread. I absolutely refuse to sing the chorus at anything less than full volume because it seems so triumphant. This makes it kind but NOT gentle.

Frank

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Jack (who is calle jack)
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 04:57 PM

Frank,

The Great Storm is Over definitely fits this thread. My wife and I sing it, but usually not at full volume. She's incredibly sentimental and always cries by the last verse.

A great writer of songs for this thread is Joel Mabus. He does one called "A better voice" that I'll see if I can transcribe.

Alice in Montana,

Love's Old Sweet Song! What a great choice! What a great chorus for singing. Thanks and hugs back at ya.

Best Regards

Jack

Subject: Waltzing w/Bears & Priscilla Herdman
From: Wkailey
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 06:08 PM

Shula, I recommend the Priscilla Herdman recording of this song very emphatically. Any kid between the ages of about two and six is bound to fall in love with not only the song but PH's voice and the instrumental background and everything about this recording. Someone up above said that PH's music is widely available in toy stores, so you might find a recording if you keep your eye peeled. I'm sorry to keep reverting to old subjects, but when it comes to lovingkindness, I think that PH has few equals both in her selection and her style, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to plug her a little bit, if only in the selfish hope that her increased popularity will heighten the quantity and availability of her recordings.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:40 PM

Dear Wkailey,

Am convinced! Will endeavor to obtain PH CD, earliest opportunity. Thanks again for a wonderful song. So glad I started this'un. Never know what the net 'll fetch 'til y' fling it!

Dear Tim,

My fellow GS leader, Speed-1, and I are most grateful for your FAX. Thanks, again! And YES, we would LOVE a copy of the Newfie book. Merci, BEAUCOUP!

Posies t'ye,

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:44 PM

I'll post a lullaby, and a rather strange one, but in keeping with a recent suggestion I will put it separately in a new thread. When I can find Cape Breton Lullaby I will post the lyrics to that too.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Oct 97 - 02:37 AM

Shula - the only problem I have with Priscilla Herdman is deciding which of her CD's to recommend. Her 'Daydreamer"(1993) and "Stardreamer"(1988) are great chiildren's albums, and "The Water Lily"(1977) is an interesting collection of Australian songs. The others are "Seasons of Change" (1983), "Darkness into Light" (1987), and "Forever and Always (1994). I suppose a purist could complain that she does too many singer-songwriter songs,. Darn it, they're GOOD songs, even if the songwriters have names. and she's got a great voice. I guess I'd say she's my favorite female folk singer, although Sally Rogers runs a close second.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: PH-Stardreamer
From: Wkailey
Date: 01 Oct 97 - 03:19 PM

Stardreamer has Waltzing With Bears.

Joe, since you have all her stuff, perhaps you know an address where one can write to order through the mail?

Well, enough of this. Time for a new song. What about Mountains O' Mourn. I learned it from Don McLean's Playin' Favorites album, which is all folk music and blue grass and therefore by far the best of McLean's albums (in my humble opinion). To my surprise (I just checked) it's not in the DT. Here's the bit I can remember.

She lives far away o'er the mountains
Where the little birds sing on the trees
And the cabin's all covered with Ivy
And Ollie is waitin' for me.
Yodel-ay-heedlee, yodel-ay-heedlee
Yodel-ay-hee-deedlee-dee.
The day I bid goodbye to Ollie,
That day I will never forget.
For the tears bubbled up from their slumber;
I fancy I see them yet.

. . . /

And she said, "My dear boy, don't forget me,
'Til we meet here again or above."
Yodel &c.

Another pretty song off the same album that also fits our mood here is Mountains of Mourne. That is in the DT.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 01 Oct 97 - 08:08 PM

Don MacLean of American Pie fame? "Starry, Starry Night" is a lovely song and fit for a Loving Kindness folk collection.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 97 - 02:12 AM

Wkailey, the only CD vendor I like to recommend is Folk Legacy, because they're so nice. They have lots of good folk music, and lean toward traditional, New England, and Canadian stuff. They're at www.folklegacy.com, but it's better to call them at [phone] and hope they've got time to chat a bit. Owners Sandy and Caroline Paton often answer the phone. They are musicians themselves, and they recorded many of the label's early records in the field, finding the best unknown performers all over the English-speaking world.
You can order all the adult Herdman albums at www.rounder.com - Rounder owns the Flying Fish and Philo labels Priscilla Herdman records on. Besides, there are RealAudio samples available at Rounder.
But I have to admit that the only place that has all the CD's and that has the best prices is CD Now, www.cdnow.com. Their delivery is quick, and they ship internationally.

But I have to make another plug for Folk Legacy. The four Bok-Muir-Trickett albums and the four "Golden Ring" albums certainly fit well into the "Lovingkindness thread. And if you order ten CD's, you get a substantial discount.
-Joe Offer-

Folk Legacy

Rounder-

CD Now

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 02 Oct 97 - 12:49 PM

Joe, I agree about Folk Legacy. I e-mailed them with a question and got a very friendly and informative response.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ (Wade Hemsworth)
From:
Date: 03 Oct 97 - 09:48 AM

Here is a happy song or waltz recorded by Stringband, from Toronto, as well as by its author Wade Helmsworth, who presently has a CD of his works on the market. In Canada, there used to be a cartoon shown on television as a "filler" wherein this song was sung and illustrated.

Stringband said "If Wade Helmsworth were American he'd be a national hero. However, he is Canadian."

THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ
(Wade Hemsworth)
If you ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes
She'll say "I'm not sure how it's business of yours
But I do like to waltz with a log driver

(Chorus)
For he goes burling down, down the whitewater
That's how a log driver learns to step lightly
Burling down, down the white water
A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely

When the drive's nearly over I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all want to waltz with a log driver

(Chorus)
To please both my parents I've had to give way
And dance with the doctors, the merchants, the lawyers
Their manners are fine, but their feet are of clay
There's none with the style of a log driver

(Chorus)

Now I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again
I think I will marry my logdriver

(Chorus)

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From:
Date: 03 Oct 97 - 09:51 AM

Almost have the hang of it. There should have been a break after the second (chorus). The chorus is the one that begins "For he goes burling down. . ."

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 29 Apr 99 - 01:53 PM

refresh for Love's Old Sweet Song lyrics request. alice

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Susan A-R
Date: 29 Apr 99 - 11:43 PM

Let's see, there's "The Dutchman" by Michael Smith (?) The Bluebird Song, (have no idea who wrote it, it's about counting bluebirds. One, you'll have sadness, two, you'll have joy, Three, get a present, four, get a boy, Five, receive silver, six, receive gold, Seven. a secret that's never been told, Eight, a love letter with promises three, Nine means a true love as true as can be.

Subject: Lyr Add: LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:40 AM

I think we need to continue this circle now, what with all the bad news we've been hearing. Here's one especially dedicated to Catspaw:

LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS
lyrics: Jan Struther, 1901-1953
© Oxford University Press, London
Tune: Be Thou My Vision (Slane)

Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,
Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares can destroy,
Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,
Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.

Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,
Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,
Be there at our labors, and give us, we pray,
Your strength in our hearts, Lord at the noon of the day.

Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,
Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,
Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,
Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.

Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,
Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,
Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,
Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 11:40 PM

refresh, again, some lovely sentiments and songs....

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:52 PM

aaahh.... one of my favorite old threads

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 03 May 01 - 09:29 PM

I refreshed this last year in August, but no one else was inclined to pick up on the thread again. This thread is what mudcat used to be for me.

From Thomas Moore, "As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow,
While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below,
So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile,
Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while."

Alice

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 May 01 - 09:42 PM

Welcome back, Shula.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: GUEST,Dancing Mom
Date: 03 May 01 - 10:24 PM

This is wonderful stuff, a great resource. I've been looking for songs of a loving, spiritual nature to sing. This has been helpful. Sharon

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 04 May 01 - 02:30 AM

Dear Folks,

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 01 - 03:12 AM

Yes? *G*

~S~

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Shula
Date: 04 May 01 - 06:33 AM

Dear Folks,

I wrote an entire note up there -- honest to Gosh! Poltergeists, p'raps?

I wanted to say how glad I am to be back at the 'Cat, and how delighted I am to see this friendly old thread refreshed -- what a thoughtful welcome!

Since so many of you have been very gracious in asking after my health, I'll tell you about it here. I don't want to start another thread with my own name on it, and all my old chums are likely to find me lounging about this thread I started so long ago, anyway.

I "still" have dilated congestive cardiomyopathy; when a virus "eats" part of your heart, it doesn't regenerate, you just manage as well as you can for as long as you can. Sometimes I am pretty sick, other times I can sustain the illusion of normalcy for several hours at a time. I was too sick for awhile to post regularly, and then, quite unexpectedly, I had a nice hiatus for almost a year, when I was feeling well enough to get about and do "regular" things, if I didn't push too hard. I didn't spend much time on the computer at all then, because it was so nice to be up and around. But that wasn't the main reason I have been so long away.

My mother-in-law and my father both passed away during the last year and a half. Settling their affairs took up most of Akiba's and my energies. These weren't tragic or unexpected deaths; both my dad, and Akiba's mom were elderly and ill. In my father's case, his passing was a blessing. He had lung and throat cancer, and was expected to live a few more wretched, pain-filled months, when he died peacefully in his sleep. Akiba's mom was eighty-eight, widowed and very frail; she had simply finished living. both of them left a lot of things to take care of, however, and we aren't done with all the minutiae even now.

We planned the funerals, ourselves. Since Akiba is a convert, and my father wasn't Jewish, we were each in the odd position having to devise a Christian service for our deceased parent, in spite of being Jews, ourselves. I am considering posting to the "Melting Pot Muddles" thread about that.

I also think it might be nice, since this is a music site, to start a thread about the musical choices in funeral services. We did some nice things, I think. Wouldn't it be nice to gather many such stories into a helpful musical resource for other Mudcatters who are preparing funeral services for loved ones? (I hope that doesn't sound too maudlin. I know I would have liked such a ready-made set of suggestions as I went about doing this necessary office to honour our parents.)

Again, I am touched that so many of you remember me -- an so pleasantly, too -- 'tis a wonder! I have missed you; it is nice to come home.

Shalom,

Shula

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: Alice
Date: 04 May 01 - 09:18 AM

I don't have time to make the links right now, but if you type "funeral" into the forum search box, here are some of the previous threads that come up on the topic:

What song do you want at your funeral?

Singing thu the tears- how?

Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs

Bagpipes at funerals

BS: Your own funeral

Funeral tunes, songs that heal

Help: Funeral Song

Good to see you hear again, Shula.

Alice

Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
From: maeve
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 10:28 AM

Here's a lovely old thread. Perhaps it fills a need now, as well, so...

refresh!