Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck (Zeke Hoskin)

Subject: Lyr Add: HUNTING THE DUCK
From: Barbara
Date: 10 Aug 98 - 12:57 AM

HUNTING THE DUCK
Zeke Hoskin 1991

This drab city life isn't right for a man
We're bound to live free and to kill what we can;
So it's off to the country where the air's fresh and clear
With a carton of ciggies and 12 dozen beer.

CHORUS:
So blow the horn loudly and rev up the truck;
We're off to the boondocks to murder the duck.

We climb in the truck about six forty-five,
And proceed to tank up for the long weary drive.
When we get to the cabin we're all brightly lit;
Can't remember who drove and can't tell what we hit.

It's up with the dawn though the coffee's no good,
And down to the lake through the dew spangled wood;
When we get to the blind we're as happy as boys,
Till we find out that Harry forgot the decoys.

We crouch without moving from seven to three
Except every five minutes we stand up to pee;
At last there's a duck and we fill it with lead
Can't figure who shot it, but the bugger's sure dead.

Then back to the cabin for whiskey and steak,
And we talk about women 'til nearly daybreak;
Though no one believes what the other guys say,
But we have to talk dirty to prove we're not gay.

The next day the ducks have gone elsewhere in flocks,
So we have to shoot tree stumps and beer cans and rocks.
Tom dropped his gun when he fell in the lake,
And Dick shot a full can of beer by mistake.

Then it's back to the city refreshed by our sport,
Burning gas by the gallon and beer by the quart;
We have to draw straws to see who has the luck
To pick two pounds of shot out of three pounds of duck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 10 Aug 98 - 04:02 AM

Lovely! Air?

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Barbara
Date: 10 Aug 98 - 01:42 PM

A friend tells me it is close to some other tune, Morning something, but give me a day or two and I'll post it. Zeke is a Vancouver BC songwriter, and he's written a number of wonderful songs including a Chocolate song for adults, "Those harp-breaking bastards that fly the great planes..(they plug up their earholes and and unplug their brains), and a song about flatulence whose chorus goes: "So load up on chili and blow out your shorts.
The ocean is wide, it's a long way to port
The dusty old cowpoke goes rambling along
This chorus has nothing to do with the song"

He has a tape out called "Life Is Lethal"and his e-mail addy is "[e-mail]".
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: Tune Add: HUNTING THE DUCK
From: Barbara
Date: 12 Aug 98 - 04:56 PM

Try this, Martin, and let me know if it works.
Blessings,
Barbara

MIDI file: duck.mid

Timebase: 240

TimeSig: 6/8 36 8
Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 12 Aug 98 - 08:28 PM

Barbara

Will do!. Thank you.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 30 Oct 98 - 11:31 PM

Barbara,

I can't get the URL you gave for Zeke to work. Has he perchance moved to another location? If you have an more up-to-date contact point, please post. Thanks in advance.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Barbara
Date: 30 Oct 98 - 11:40 PM

Here's the most recent information I have, I think it's about a month old. Hope this works. Let me know if it doesn't. I can call and check.
Blessings,
Barbara

Email: still tzhoskin @ uniserve.com.
Web: http://users.uniserve.com/~tzhoskin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 30 Oct 98 - 11:51 PM

Thanks Barbara, the Website helped.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Nov 98 - 03:18 AM

Zeke's got a new cassette out called "Reprieve!" with some ewxcellent new songs such as "Jonathan Livingston Seafood" and his classic shanty "Valparaiso in a Rowboat". He's at [e-mail]. JB says check it out.

Subject: Zeke Hoskin contact info update
From: Haruo
Date: 03 Jul 04 - 02:06 PM

Apparently his email is now zeke @ zekehoskin.com, and his webpages start at http://home.comcast.net/~zekehoskin/ . Heard "Valparaiso in a Rowboat" for the first time last night (at the chantey sing preceding a showing of the Huston/Bradbury/Peck Moby-Dick on board the Wawona! Great venue for a sailing flick!) and had to look him up to see if I can get the Esperanto rights in time for our convention two weeks from now in Sidney.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Zeke Hoskin's website
From: Haruo
Date: 03 Jul 04 - 09:31 PM

Or you can just use www.zekehoskin.com...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck (Zeke Hoskin)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jul 20 - 11:28 PM

refresh, just for the hell of it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hunting the Duck (Zeke Hoskin)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 06:09 PM

Lots of Zeke Hoskin lyrics: http://home.openaccess.org/flipandzeke/zeke/lyra_b.htm