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Subject: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 06:47 PM

Still playin' catch-up with the Songbook . . . I've just added mousethief's 'non-jingoistic' flag song, All Hail Flag Day, to the Tome. Enjoy! (well, next July, anyway). ;-)

And while I'm up and about, if I've neglected to post anyone's submission to the Songbook, please let me know.

Thanks, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 07:19 PM

To be sung to the tune of Villikins and his Dinah - the Yetties, Threshing Machine (Sling it here, sling it there, and if your standing by, then your all get your share).

SING IT ELSEWHERE

Sing it here
Sing it there
For the sake of the landlord
Please sing it elsewhere


Important to us, is to be able to sing
And thought by many, to be very fine thing
But councils officials, who can count up to three
Are making outlaws of you and of me

I bring you news of a terrible fact
Singing in pubs is a criminal act
At the moment you're safe if there's only two
But there's even worse news, in the Parliament due

The two in a bar rule is to be taken away
From now on, no one will be able to play
Folk songs from England or music from France
Without permission sought well in advance

They say you can't sing, "public safety I'm afraid"
It would seem to be fine, if your not paid?
Its only the Minister that quite understands
How the pub is unsafe, just when 'money changes hands'

And the lads can crowd in, watch their team on TV
Need no, permission or a safe capacity
Can shout all they wish and nothing is wrong
Only, needing permission to burst into song

Football supporters with money to burn
Can wake up the neighbours, with no apparent concern
But you and the 'missus', you'd better beware
When you quietly burst into 'Scarborough Fair'

I would like you all to write your MP
Its time that they listened to you and to me
I don't know about you but I think this a farce
To hear politicians speak out of their ....(dispatch box)

Sing it here
Sing it there
For the sake of the landlord
Please sing it elsewhere



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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:17 PM

WOW!!! DA GODDESSS IS BACK!! Whooooopwhooooop!! Yeeeeehaw!!


A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:34 PM

Thank you, dear Lodger ;-), for your PEL protest song -- very, very, good! here it is, in the Book.

Would you like for me to put a link on the page to one of the PEL threads, or, would you like to write a comment on or explanation of the situation, so folks will better understand the background? Let me know.

Smoles, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 09:21 PM

Well seeing as you are back, Old Aine....here is one:

Black Is The Colour

and BTW there are some stories in the storyteller's thread too.....for whenever you get a chance....


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 09:44 PM

Thanks, Amergin! Here it is in the Songbook!

And thanks for the headsup about the stories -- Can you give me the thread name so I can go and 'round 'em up'? ;-)

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 10:36 PM

There was a great concatenation song, recently, by MMmario, and Willa and your humble servant, on this thread. It just sorta sprangup and kept growing!! Here 'tis::

By Your Fruits



MMario, Amos, Willa


By your fruits shall ye be known
Whether drupe or pome or berry
Be they grain or nuts or melons
If they give us food for thought

Ye shall reap as you have sown,
Whacky, kind or evil very,
And the fruits that you are sellin'
Tell us truly what is what!

Gather up the fruit you've grown
Wilde oats or Queen Anne's Cherry
Borne on branch or stem or vine
stew to jelly in your pot

Thus the oldest air is known--
Not Greenfleeves or London Derry
The most ancient song in time
Is that Jelly Roll, by Gott!

And when winter winds are blowin,
And are hearts are full of care we
Will recall what you were tellin
And be happy with our lot.

Yes the chill that Winter's blown
Will not stop our making Merry!
We'll not pause for kings or felons,
While the Jelly Rolling's hot!

When the laden tables groan
We will sip a Christmas sherry
In our warm and cosy dwellin
And then dance a wild gavotte

What care we for hearts of stone?
Those whose tonguesa are barbed and serried?
Those who bother us with sellin'?
Dance with us, oh, these shall not!

Where the wild Imagines roam,
Fueled by grape and love and perry,
We abandon cruel melan-
Choly for a wilder trot!

And we shall not dance alone.
Let no one be sedentary,
And the glorious voices swellin'
Make this place a hallowed spot

Yea, though hearts be hard as stone,
Full of gloom extraordinary,
There will be no use rebellin',
Pure enjoyment is our plot.

Wandering through the world alone,
Finding none to share out story
Weary of the world's pell-melling,
With our hearts and spirits shot,

Come as though to spirit home,
To the end of ponderance hoary,
Where the heart alone is telling,
Jelly roll, and sweet Gavotte!



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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 10:44 PM

Wow!! I think that came together really nicely, MM&W!


A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 11:37 PM

Aine:

There's another one over here on the Empty Nester's Blues thread if you want it!!

Mucho Love-o,

A-o.


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 02:41 AM

Many thanks

If you would be kind enough to link it (for more infomation), This would be the best one.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=49945

It is the thread where links to all the PEL threads can be found. I think there may even be more of these than these 'additions' threads! But they don't make such interesting reading, unfortunately and unlike these, I don't look forward to seeing any more.


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 02:52 AM

Welcome back to the land of the living, Áine!

Can you submit any song for the songbook? Or does it gotta be good?

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 08:02 AM

Very good to see your name here again Áine!

Here's a new one I put on a recent thread. I post it again, rather than just the link because the words have changed a wee bit now in the singing

As we keep the old music alive

Somehow it seems there are always a few
And we do what we can and we do what we do,
There's her and there's him and there's me and there's you,
Trying to keep the old music alive.
Was a time we were young but the years how have rolled
In this world where most everything's bought or it's sold
and we sing the old songs where the stories are told,
as we keep the old music alive.
But away with all your cares now,
the world will pass us by,
as we sing on down the years now,
and the music will not die.


There's a session tonight in the Bell or the Crown,
and one way or another the word gets around,
but there's no music licence, so keep the noise down,
while you keep the old music alive.
And we sing and we play and we have the odd drink,
till the barman says "Boys, it's getting late, don't you think?" -
but he pulls close the curtains, and he tips us a wink,
and we keep the old music alive.
But away with all your cares now,
the world will pass us by,
as we sing on down the years now,
and the music will not die.


And every now and again there's a fete or a fair,
with a whole congregation of friends gathered there,
and we all play our part and we all take our share,
as we keep the old music alive.
Then the street stops and stares as the dancers parade,
and the years slip away and we are not afraid
and the glory of England is bravely displayed
as we keep the old music alive.
But away with all your cares now,
the world will pass us by,
as we sing on down the years now,
and the music will not die.

And here's a parody verse I added:

There's a session tonight at The Crown or The Bell,
And the fiddler been drinking, you can tell by the smell,
And the man with the squeezebox is playing with himself,
As we keep the old music alive.
And the barman says "Boys, why can't you get a life?
You should can bugger off home to your family and wife,
If you hand me that bodhran, and pass me a knife,
I'll help keep the old music alive."


(And here is a link to it on my website, with a link to a RealAudio of me singing it, for the tune.)

duplicate posts deleted by mudelf ;-)


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 11:14 AM

Geeze, Kevin -- you think she's gonna pay more attention to you if you say everything three times?? It doesn't work that way, man!! LOL!!

Love ya, dude!


A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 09:01 PM

Thanks everyone, for your wunnerful additions to the Mudcat Songbook!! Below, in no particular order, are the latest additions to the Tome:

Under the 'Folk Songs' category:

As We Keep The Old Music Alive by McGrath of Harlow

Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love's Eye) by Amergin

Under the 'Thread Songs' category:

Sing It Elsewhere by The Shambles

Empty Nester's Blues by Amos

By Your Fruits by MMario, Amos and Willa

Composers, please check your individual submissions for any mistakes I might have made in formatting, and let me know if corrections are needed. And the rest of you get busy and KEEP PLAYING, SINGING AND WRITING!! ;-)

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 10:02 PM

And dear old Amergin ;-) -- Thank you for refreshing the Additions to the Storyteller's thread!! I'm doing some HTML code corrections on the index and the template pages, so as soon as I've completed that, I'll be roundin' up the stories.

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 01:59 AM

Aw, thanks., TGG!! You're the bestest ever wuz, true-blue and mint green at the same time!!

A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,Sonja
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 03:28 PM

Welcome back, Áine! (I never realized till yesterday that some of my SongChallenge! submissions were in the Mudcat Songbook. Thanks for including them.)

Here are links to a couple of my parodies that have been posted in the forum:

I'll 'Ave Guinness Free

Banks Of The Ohio (Revisited)

~SWO~


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 03:34 PM

true blue and mint green at the same time? she's TEAL!

(that's an acronym for Texas/Eire-American Lady)


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,Sonja
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 04:04 PM

Good color for redheads, dontcha think?


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 04:00 PM

Here ya go, Sonya -- Banks Of The Ohio (Revisited) and I'll Have Guinness Free are now both in the Book. Thanks!!

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,Sonja
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 08:27 PM

Another one for your perusal, dear çine: click here.

SWO


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 20 Aug 02 - 12:27 AM

I just now realized that this book contains a poem posted by a friend long time ago which was gotten off of another now defunct website. Also was one of the early contributors to Mudcat Radio and had one tune sent in as a demo - basicaly wanted to prove that a complete arrangement in stereo could be sent over the wires under 250k, be original, be interesting enough to play.

I still have the words but the original tape is lost as is the digital image. Oh well. I think lots of folks did make songs at the time. Anyway if there are any goodies I should learn please point me to them

Thankyou


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 20 Aug 02 - 11:25 PM

Maybe a little early for Christmas (though I've seen stores that started hawking their Xmas goodies a month ago), but here's one of my holiday offerings:

Fleece Mom and Dad.

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 12:04 PM

There you go, Sonja and Genie, Ripple and Fleece Mom and Dad! are now in the Book. Thanks!

Keep 'em coming, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 06:35 AM

With love and affection to and for all parties.

The Wid Rover (reformed)

I've been a 'Wild Rover', now I've seen the light
I won't be 'Leaving Liverpool' every night
I've packed up my songbook, and you'll understand
I'll not tie it up with a 'Black Velvet Band'

If they call out for a 'Jug Of Punch'
Tell them politely that I'm out to lunch
I'll leave Captain Farrell alone in the bar
From now on the 'Whiskey' can stay 'In The Jar'

My fingers were only for holding my beer
But now I know better, they fit in your ear
Now its worthy tradition and a very hard slog
Where once it was only 'All For Me Grog'

I'll not 'Tell me Ma' when I get home
I'll not be in 'Dublin's Fair City' alone
No more will a week be 'Seven Drunken Nights'
But long songs about tokens till they turn out the lights

You may have thought things couldn't get worse
But I've nearly remembered the 31st verse
When I can remember the full 93
There's nothing on earth that is stopping me

Its hard to be saying, goodbye old guitar
When I've been for so long, 'County Down's Star'
I will no longer, make those 'Fiddler's Green'
By slipping, now and then, a song in between

The session's loss is the sing-around's gain
For I never will play the 'Wild Rover' again
I may be missed when I'm no longer around
Don't look for me to get your 'Lobby Washed Down'

You won't find me staying on that 'Holy Ground'
But awaiting my turn, at the next sing a round
I know that this news will fill you with joy
I may still bring along my old pal 'Danny Boy'

And its, no nay never, no nay never no more
Will I play the Wild Rover
No never no more
………Until the next time.


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:59 PM

LOL, Sham!! I like it!

A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 01:09 PM

Thanks Amos - any idea what a Wid Rover is?


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 01:27 PM

Dear Lodger -- I really like it, too! Slept late this morning, so I'm off to the showers, and I promise I'll place this e-steamed piece of work in the Tome ASARP afterwards, OK?

Hogs, snugs and smoles to ya, darlin', Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 01:57 PM

Sham:

I think it's a limey SUV with a hydraulic problem in the steering gear, or a loose nut behind the wheel.

I can think of a few other extrapolations but they might be viewed as inappropriate for mixed company...which is probably the first time you ever heard me say that!!

Regards,

A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 03:42 PM

I'm back -- squeeky clean and very efficient -- and I've just added The Wild Rover (reformed) by The Shambles to the Mudcat Songbook.

Ta, Lodger, and big smoles for this one, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 02:46 PM

I am very proud to announce that a brand-new song by a Master Mudcatter of Song, bert, has been added to the Songbook. Please check out The Flag With A Thousand Stars -- it's a great song. 'Nuff said!

Thank you, bert, for another fine addition to the Tome ;-)

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 01:23 PM

Or tidied up a bit.......

We're alright Jack

We're alright Jack, so don't bother us
It may affect us too, if you go kicking up a fuss
I can see you are wounded
Not in the best of health
But we all agree, you must have brought it on yourself

Am I not entitled, just like all of you
To speak from what I see, my personal point of view?
I'll question those who try to get the problem solved
And criticise those who would get me involved

We're alright Jack, so don't bother us
It may affect us too, if you go kicking up a fuss
I can see you are wounded
Not in the best of health
But we all agree, you must have brought it on yourself

These fears of mugging are simply overblown
Didn't get mugged, when I went out alone
Ignore the statistics, ignore the traumatised
In my opinion, its over dramatised

We're alright Jack, so don't bother us
It may affect us too, if you go kicking up a fuss
I can see you are wounded
Not in the best of health
But we all agree, you must have brought it on yourself

The victims of this crime may not think I am right
Many now, if able, would not go out at night
My support may give some consolation
I'll leave them in their lonely isolation

We're alright Jack, so don't bother us
It may affect us too, if you go kicking up a fuss
I can see you are wounded
Not in the best of health
But we all agree, you must have brought it on yourself

Roger Gall – September 2002

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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:13 PM

There ya go, Lodger -- We're Alright Jack is in the Songbook!

Now, there just has to be a story behind this song -- Could you enlighten us, please? Mmmmm??

Smoles, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 08 Sep 02 - 10:47 PM

It's been a great week for the Songbook, hasn't it? I've just put in a new song by McGrath of Harlow called Whitby Coming Home, which he wrote about the Whitby Folk Week this year.

He even has a streaming RealAudio soundfile of the song that you can access from the Songbook page, or you can go straight to his 'new songs' page on his own website here.

Thanks, Kevin, for yet another wonderful contribution to the Tome!

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Sep 02 - 10:52 AM

Thanks and *smoles*.

As requested, the thinking behind the song can be found HERE


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 09 Sep 02 - 10:33 PM

çine, I PM'd this song to you click here , but I didn't hear back from you. (I could have taken it as a rejection of the song, but I figured if that were the case you would have told me so. So I thought maybe you're still working to recuperate and have not kept up on all your PMs. That would be very understandable.)

I didn't know what category to submit it for, since it's a sort of political commentary, sort of maybe inspirational, and sort of ballad. Anyway, please use the song as posted in the thread I linked to here as the "definitive" version -- the latest and the one with the most complete notation -- which I have posted at Mudcat.

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 06:28 PM

Dear Genie,

I don't remember getting your PM in re your song. I'm so sorry that it got 'lost' in the ether! I've got it copied now; and I promise to get it 'html-ed' and posted to the Songbook this evening or in the morning (I'm taking some kick butt cold medicine today, and I don't want to mess up your code, don't ya know!).

And FYI, for you and the other 'Catters - If at first you don't succeed, keep bugging me about your songs; 'cuz I'm susceptible to CRS more and more these days ;-)

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 06:59 PM

Now, would that be "Cooke Relaxation Syndrome", dearest Gawdess?

:>)

A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 09:24 PM

Well, some of us just hope that CRS stands for "Censor Relaxation Syndrome." ¤'-D

Amos, is "Cooke Relaxation Syndrome" something you get when watching the old archives of Masterpiece Theater?

çine if there is any question about where the chords go, they are in the right position in the thread to which I linked above (right above your reply).

It is good to hear from you, çine, and know you are alive and well, if groggy.

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 09:50 PM

Genie:

To make that accented capital A you need to type the following characters strunf together:

1. &
2. A
3. acute
4. ;

The ampersand and semicolon act as delimiters.

Otherwise it comes out looking like a cedilla.

A


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 09:54 PM

Genie -- I'm working on making the chords come out right as you read this. It's a wee bit time consuming, since I'm not one of the resident Mudcatter html geniuses; but, I'll be able to finish it tonight, hopefully, before the bedtime dose of allergy medicine kicks in. ;-) I know you want it in the book for Wednesday, so I'm doing my best.

BTW, dear Amos BOTF, you can call me Annie, you call can me Áine -- just don't call me late for supper (hehehe)!! *BG*

Back to the code . . . Herself ;-)


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 11:25 PM

There you go, Genie -- Valley Of The Towering Shadows is now in the Book. I hope I managed to get the chords in the right places. Please let me know if any corrections and/or additions are needed.

Thank you for sharing your song with us all.

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 01:05 AM

çine,* thanks so much for putting the song in the book. I will send a MIDI or MP3 as soon as I can.

Sorry it took so much of your time in formatting. When I posted it in the "September 11th Commemoration Songs" thread (linked to above), I configured the chords in Netscape Composer and then went to "Source View" and cut everything from the beginning to the end of the text and pasted that into the thread. It's a trick Amos and his wife Daly taught me, and it works like a charm for keeping the formatting "as is" when posting. I don't know how to do it using something other than Mac and Netscape. I didn't realize you were going to have to spend very much time on this; that was not my intent.

The chords as posted in the Songbook (per your link) are close to where they should be, on most lines, but they are perfectly aligned in the "September 11th Commemoration Songs."  If anyone wants the "definitive version," that's where it is.
 

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Amos, on my Mac, I hold down the "option" key and "e" at the same time, then type in the letter I want to give the acute mark.  I don't know how it comes out on other folks' screens, but on mine it comes out as an "accent acute" (slanted to the left), which is the way Aine's name is supposed to look. This is the way my Microsoft Word 5 for Mac manual says to do it, and, at least on my screen, it seems to work within Netscape, AOL, and Explorer, too.  ( I can also do it by going to Microsoft Word and going to the "Insert Symbol" command and finding the acute-accented capital "A," then pasting that into a MS Word page and then cutting and pasting into Netscape or whatever browser I'm using.)  Either way, it always looks right on my screen.

On the other hand, Áine's name as entered by TGG herself shows up in the thread and post titles as "¡ine" on my screen.  But within the text of her posts, it comes out as Áine with the acute accent over the "E."

Since you use Mac, too, I'm surprised you don't use the same key combinations as I do to make the acute accent.

Let me try something.  Tell me which, if any, of the following shows up correctly on your screen:

Áine
Áine
&A«;ine

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 01:58 AM

Dear Genie,

Isn't formatting a witch! ;-) Per your experiment, the first two work a charm 'as seen on my PC', the third one is a lil' funky. Whatever Amos is doing, seems to work on the 'Cat. I think the 'problem' is with Netscape Composer. But, like I said, I'm no html genius. ;-)

On the morrow, I will put a link on your song page in the Book to the 'September 11th Commemoration Songs' thread; just so folks can have the 'definitive' version of the chords' placement. If there's anything else you need me to do, please let me know.

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Genie
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 02:15 AM

Actually, çine, the third one came out exactly as I typed it -- i.e., "a lil' funky!" (I may not have understood Amos's instructions.)

The first one was done with the "Option" and "E" keys together followed by the letter "A." (That's my usual method.) The second was a cut and paste from the "Symbol" menu of MS Word 5 for Mac.

Amos uses Netscape, too, I think. Remember, it was he and Daly who showed me the "Netscape Composer" trick.

Genie


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:43 AM

I just added two new Mudcatter songs to the Songbook. Check 'em out -- they're very different, yet equal in the 'getting to ya' category.

The Lilt Of A Grandmother's Song by bert

AND

He's Gonna Go To War by Amos

Great job(s), fellas! Keep 'em comin'!

All the best, Áine


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:54 AM


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Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:56 AM

Hey ´Aine! Thanks for grabbing that silly war song for the book.

If I turn into a Republican in my old age, we'll have to take it out, but I'll let you know when I get there. :>)

And Bowling for Rutabagas? Or was that promise only for MM? LOL!!

A


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