Subject: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: GUEST,SIMON Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:59 AM lat night at a singing session I heard the "Californian" version of Pleasant and Delightful ( "the larks they sang melodious"), the one with such choruses as: AND THE BIRDS GOT INTO MUSIC (x3) Man all they did was sing It was hilarious. Anyone got the full lyrix ? Thanx |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 02 Apr 02 - 09:58 AM I don't have the words you're looking for, but we used to sing "the larks they played melodeons..." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Morticia Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:50 AM It's called Cosmic and Freaky and it's here in the DT: blickie |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:25 PM And it's sharks that played melodeons at the bottom of the bay.... LTS |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BAR IT SMELLED MALODOROUS (parody) From: Dead Horse Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:39 PM One more for the collection, wot I wrote some years gone.
THE BAR IT SMELLED MALODOROUS |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:42 PM Grit Laskin. But I thought it was Cosmic and Groovy. Still, the memory can wobble after 20 years. I heard it from Black Joker Morris (Cambridge, Mass?) when they were over on tour England in 1982. Groovy might have been the Anglicised form. Kitty |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:47 PM Dead Horse Any connection with
"There's a stain on the floor of the bar-room Kitty |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Apr 02 - 01:53 PM Sorry, cap in case. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Micca Date: 02 Apr 02 - 02:14 PM while your at it , has anyone got the complete words of "the sharks they played Melodeons??? Herga Kitty? Morty,? Anyone? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Jacob B Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:46 PM Herga Kitty, Which one of us Black Jokers did you learn it from? I don't think I ever bothered getting all of the words to that song, so I don't think it was me. That was a fun tour. The Brits were wearing tricornered hats, while the Yanks were wearing bowlers. We danced in front of Westminster Abbey, and the police didn't allow us to bag because the Queen was inside. She finally came out and drove past us, waving from her car as I was doing split capers, so I can now honestly say that I've danced before the Queen. (I can also honestly say that I stopped by Althorp for tea and a chat with the Earl of Spencer, but that's another deliberately misleading story.) The song that we collected while in England was a parody of Lord Of The Dance about Morris dancing. ("Dance, dance, when I give the word, never mind the people who say we look absurd ...") Are you familiar with that one? Jacob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Apr 02 - 05:32 PM Jacob This really takes me back. The dancers in tricorn hats were Herga Morris. Back in the 1970s and 80s the London Morris sides took it in turns to dance outside Westminster Abbey on Wednesday evenings in the summer, and I remember being there in 1982 when Black Joker were also dancing (there might have been a a pre- and/ or after session in the Buckingham Arms pub too, because there usually was). One of the Herga Morrismen (Derek Harrison,who was running Dragon Records with John Heydon) was married on 3 July 1982, and the wedding ceilidh was held in Haddenham Village Hall, Buckinghamshire. Black Joker were there and danced, and someone from the side sang Cosmic and Groovy (or Freaky). And Bob Walser was there, singing and playing - my recollection is that he was resident at the Mystic Seaport and away from Minnesota at the time - and that was the first time I met him. And I learnt all the words of the cosmic parody and have now completely forgotten them. Which is a shame, as I'm involved in running a parody workshop session at Upton on Severn festival next month. Of course Grit Laskin was responsible for Angus Hemsted as well. Kitty
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Apr 02 - 05:47 PM Sorry Jacob, I forgot to pick up on the Lord of the Dance parody. I have a niggling (well, more like nauseating) recollection that this was down to Robot Nimbb - allegedly a shepherd discovered by Herga Morris in the Black Horse at Chippenham folk festival in 1975, but in reality an anagram of Ron (Barnett, then bagman of Herga Morris), Bob (Hawkes) - later organiser of Saffron Walden Folk Festival - and Tim (Edwards - squire of Herga Morris when they appeared on the Generation Game with Larry Grayson and Isla StClair). Robot Nimbb were responsible for "Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks" which is now in the DT ( the parody of John Connolly's ....) Kitty |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Hawker Date: 02 Apr 02 - 07:13 PM Any chance of the lord of the dance parody then? love a copy of that one! Cheers Lucy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: GUEST,SIMON Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:27 PM tA VERY MUCH mORTICIA for CCosmic and Freaky. Thanx also to Dead Horse for yr version |
Subject: Lyr Add: LORD OF THE DANCE (PARODY) From: Jacob B Date: 03 Apr 02 - 12:06 PM Dead Horse, thanks for The Bar It Smelled Malodorous. It's delightful.
Here's the LORD OF THE DANCE (PARODY): |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Dead Horse Date: 03 Apr 02 - 01:57 PM Or for putting in the morris bag! And who said Watneys was popular? It's the beer that usually gets mentioned in parodies when you wish to express disgust! As in Watneys Red Barrel. Saying, May I go along with you? Saying, May I go along with you? Saying, May I go along with you? Oh, yes you can, like hell. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 03 Apr 02 - 03:11 PM As far as I know, Watneys (formerly Watney Mann) no longer exists. (Does anyone brew in Putney?) Watneys features in "Untippled" (Heaven is where Watneys Red Barrel is banned and the fool never buggers a dance that is planned), and also in the version I learned by osmosis at Herga of Glorious Ale - "Some folks is teetotal, they drink Watneys neat". Watneys were also responsible for the large "Party 7s" cans that got recycled from party to party in the 1970s because no-one wanted to open and drink them. Dear me, what a nostalgic thread. Kitty PS I learned the original, traditional, Pleasant and Delightful at my first Sidmouth festival when I was 17 and Tony Rose was teaching it to people to sing in the last night procession. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Bill D Date: 03 Apr 02 - 11:42 PM also...this one is in the DT, too.... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Hawker Date: 04 Apr 02 - 10:33 AM Thanx for the Lord of The Dance parody Jacob, Muchly appreciated! Cheers, Lucy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Catherine Jayne Date: 04 Apr 02 - 11:01 AM As Micca has been to stay for a week with jez and I, I now have the tune squirrelling around in my tiny little head...........thanx Micca!!!! cat |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: dick greenhaus Date: 04 Apr 02 - 12:48 PM Dave Diamond also did one: "Twas Efficient and Cost-effective". In DigiTrad |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Herga Kitty Date: 04 Apr 02 - 01:59 PM The Lord of the Dance parody wasn't a Robott Nimb (silly me, should have spotted that the bs and ts didn't correspond) - Bob Hawkes suggested, and I have since confirmed (by looking at the book wot I own,) that it was written by the late Dave Houlden. It's on page 32 of "I never meant to be taken literally" - the collection of Dave's songs and parodies put together by Malcolm Austen after Dave died. On page 8 is the "Boney goes boozing" parody of "My name's Napoleon Bonaparte", for which Dave was also responsible, and the words of which I have posted on a previous thread. Kitty PS Watneys didn't brew at Putney but at Mortlake. I've always assumed that the University Boat Race was a desperate attempt to find some Fullers (brewed in Chiswick). Although the experts on this are probably Hammersmith Morris. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: YorkshireYankee Date: 28 Nov 03 - 06:46 AM Some folks I know (Dale Petty & Janet Goldwasser, to give credit where credit is due) made up an additional verse (which I quite like) to "update" C&F: Thus she was once male identified, but now she can cope She's into women's music, self-defense and out of dope She has friends; long-term relationships, all based on equality 'Cause after all sisters, it's two thousand ____ (fill in the blank), Not 1963 After all sisters, it's two thousand ____ After all sisters, it's two thousand ____, not 1693 (Note: the last lines worked particularly well in the last couple of decades of the 20th century; the new millennium dates are not quite as singable, but so it goes...) Cheers, YY |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Schantieman Date: 28 Nov 03 - 07:07 AM The last lines of the verses, repeated as the choruses, can go like this: 1. And the sharks, they played melodeons at the bottom of the bay (as normal) 2. I must go and leave you Nancy Someone else has took my fancy I must go and leave you Nancy For the girl that I adore 3. Saying, "May I go along with you? No-one else is half as long as you!" Saying, "May I go along with you?" "Oh, no, my love - like Hell!" 4. And if ever I return again, I will take you for a ride. :-) Steve |
Subject: Lyr Add: BORED OF THE DANCE From: fantum Date: 30 Nov 03 - 07:55 PM Hawker this is another Lord of the dance parody taken from the digitrad The tune is slightly different BORED OF THE DANCE (Nudds & Sugden) As I walked down to the village hall I met Charlie leanin' on the wall "Why are you standin' out here, Char-lee?" "Cause I am bored of the dance!" said he! Chorus: Dance! Dance! Whatever do they see? In prancin' round all the time, said he I'll leave them all to do it without me For I am bored of the dance, said he! I come to the dance with my girl, he said I told her that I'd rather go to bed, Oh yes I'm sure you would, said she, But first you'll come and dance with me! She said, You'll come and dance right now! But I weren't list'nin' when the caller told us how They "cast left," but "right" I went They danced on, but I ended in the "Gents'!" I drank with the Morris-men, James and John, They drank with me as the dance went on and on, We drank and we drank till it all went black. It's hard to dance when you're lyin' on your back! Oh, how she danced on the night they were wed She danced, he drank, and then they went to bed I'm afraid there's no more story to be told She was too hot, and he was out cold! From The Kipper Family, Fresh Yesterday |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Leadfingers Date: 30 Nov 03 - 09:48 PM In the mid sixties I recall singing The Sharks with some Very Good singers in the Tithe Barne Ruislip,one of the Middlesex Festivals the OLD Uxbridge Club ran. The last lines were :- And The sharks They Played Melodeons at the Bottom of the bay I Must Go And Leave You Nancy, Tou're A Filthy Old Whore Saying May I Go Along With You - Oh No My Love Like Hell And If Ever I Return Again I'll Be Out of My Mind I will Not publish the names of those involved - Some of them are still getting well paid and are ? Respected ? singers. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Lady Hillary Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:44 AM And the Sharks, they stank malodorous, at the bottom of the bay... And I'm goin' to leave my Nancy, she's a two dollar whore... And if ever I return again, should I see you, I'll hide. I've been using these variant lines since the 70's. EBarnacle on Lady Hillary's machine |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Daniel Kelly Date: 06 Sep 24 - 04:19 AM A new parody, after some discussion about how much people hate parodies and the 'traditional' interjections to songs. (my recording) Thoughtless and Spiteful by Daniel Kelly 2024 - TTTO: Blackbird and Thrush How thoughtless and spiteful to mess with a song When you alter the story, and make the words wrong The purist is rankled in every degree, When you sing the words erroneous by way of parody As a soldier and his true love their pleasure did take Said the true love to the solider I must you forsake For you’ve ruined my song, you’re a terrible bore I will go and please my fancy and love you no more Three heavy sighs he gave, Oh Nancy my dear Are you going to leave me in sorrow and despair Are you going to leave me in sorrow to complain While you sing the same old ballads, again and again Fare well my dear charmer if you’ll no longer stay For my penchant for humour ain’t going away I'm going to the folk club with my Les Barker book And I’ll not return love till the rafters I’ve shook Then her fine middle finger she instantly drew Take this dearest Jemmy and cursed be you And while they were parting, in her mind words did flow, And the sharks they played melodeons, wherever she’d go. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: GUEST,PHJim Date: 06 Sep 24 - 10:02 AM Probably this is the parody you are after. I got it from Grit Laskin's Unmasked LP: COSMIC AND FREAKY It was cosmic and freaky, on a midsummer's day And the pipes in the meadow, Man, they blew me away, And the blackbirds and the thrushes were into their own thing, And the larks got off on music, Man like all they did was sing A freak and his ol' lady were out tripping through the heather Said the freak to his ol' lady, "Man, my head's not together, So I'm trucking out to Frisco, where the alpha waves run free, And the highs you reach on skateboards have transcended LSD." Well, a picture of his Earth Shoe, she instantly drew Saying, "This is where I'm at Man, I'm still tuned into you." And as they dug each other's head space, tears from her eyes he did see She said "Can I come?" and he said "No, Man, don't lay that trip on me." He said, "Man, we're getting heavy, I'm not into what's going down The taxi meter's running, and I'm turned off this town But you'll still be my ol' lady if you're ever near San Francisco After all, Babe, you're a Pisces and I'm a Scorpio." Cosmic and Freaky - Grit Laskin |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: GUEST Date: 07 Sep 24 - 02:46 PM as I recall it was the 'tarts' who played melodeons |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: Jeri Date: 07 Sep 24 - 04:38 PM What were they doing at the bottom of the sea? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Pleasant & Delightful' parody From: GUEST Date: 08 Sep 24 - 05:24 AM probably a good place for massed melodeons?- well you did ask |
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