You must leave now!!

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 12:49 PM

They were loaded with bananas
Cigarettes and Havanas
Every 'bo and bum
Was on his way to Montreal
Every 'bo and restless mover
From 'Frisco to Vancouver
Chicago and Milwaukee
Minneapolis and St. Paul

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 07:26 AM

I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun
I rode the rods till evening and I laid me down again
All strangers there, no friends to me, till a dark girl towards
me came
And I fell in love with a creole girl by the lakes of Ponchartrain

I said, "Me pretty Creole girl, me money's here no good
And if it weren't for the alligators, I would sleep out in the
wood"
"You're welcome here, kind stranger, our house is very plain
And we never turned a stranger out on by the Lakes of Ponchartrain"

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 01:38 AM

And they rode on and further on
Through plains full of dead men's banes
And horrid hags with ravenous claws
Picked the banes of unchrisened weans

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 12:31 AM

Casey said before he died
Fix them blinds so the bums can't ride
If they ride, let'em ride the rods
Trust they lives in the hands of God

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 11:59 PM

Rod is fine, Rod's sublime
Rod's ma ain wee dearie-o

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 08:40 PM

I'll ride the rods, just trustin' in God,
and clutchin' my bottle of wine..

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 07:01 PM

Oh, the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road,
The Rock Island Line is the road to ride...

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: just john
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 03:58 PM

Loud music is a forty dollar fine
Down in Amarillo Texas on the Rock Island Line
If you can make it sing or you can make it whine
Don't forget loud music is a forty dollar fine

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 01:58 PM

And from the cottage you hear music
You'll hear her father say
Step it out Mary my fine daughter
Sunday is your wedding day.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 01:39 PM

and there was music, in my mother's house;
there was music, all around

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,gonner
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 11:54 AM

and will ye come to me muther's house
when the moon is shinin' clearly?
oh and will ye come to me muther's house
when the moon is shinin' clearly?
I'll open the door and I'll let you in
and divil the one will hear us

wid me toor-aye-ah
fol-dah-diddle-dah
dire-ee-fol
dah-diddle-dairee-oo

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 11:39 AM

And who are you, me pretty fair maid
And who are you, me honey?
And who are you, me pretty fair maid
And who are you, me honey?
She answered me quite modestly,
"I am me mother's darling"

With me too-ry-ay
Fol-de-diddle-day
Di-re fol-de-diddle
Dai-rie oh.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,gonner
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 09:43 AM

i thought she was as fair a lass
as ever wore a shoe
so i sat doon beside
and with tae and buns supplied her
and to soften her
i offered her
a lozenger or two

and as i was feelin' boulder
i nipped her on the shoulder
i nipped her and i told her
that i'd take her ouan ma knee
but she said yee'll be in bother
for i'll go home an' tell me mother
i'll go home an' tell me mother
if yer impudent ta me

(aye N. - donchya love a sing-song?)

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 07:25 AM

It's a sair thing love, when it hits ye in the waistcoat
Though ye aften think yer gettin on sae fine, man
But och honarie tae find oot that ye've been coortin
Anither laddie's lassie a the time, man

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 06:58 AM

Butto up your overcoat when the wind is free
Take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

(Nice choices folks)

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 06:34 AM

Willie's rare and Willie's fair
Willie's wondrous bonny
Willie said he'd mairry me
If ere he'd mairry ony

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 09:06 PM

sich a wife as Willie had
i woun't gee ya a button for her

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 09:04 PM

oh Willie dear, where are those blushes
those blushes ya had many years ago
ohhh Mary dear
the cold clay has changed them
I am only the ghost of your Willie - O

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 09:01 PM

I went up to the Royal Infirmary to see Big Willie there
I stepped up to his bedside and sat down on his chair.
He didn't look too cheerful his face was turning blue
I asked how his health was but all Big Willie said was
Ooooooh...

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:45 PM

oh it happened one evening
at the playing of ball
that i first met lovely Willie
so proper and tall
he was neat fair and handsome
and straight in every limb
there's a heart in this bosom
lies breaking for him

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:15 PM

All I want is a proper cup of coffee.
brewed in a proper copper coffee pot.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:00 PM

Is it perfume? Is it wee?
Whatever it's supposed to be it doesn't taste like tea
Should I drink it or dab it on?
Can I swap it for a coffee or has all the water gone?

It is hot it is wet
It is eau de toilette
Is it Twinings? Is it Tetley? Let me see
Go ahead make my day
But please don't make me drink Earl Grey
All I want is a proper cup of tea

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 07:25 PM

I will give you the stars
...Or a nice wee biscuit
I will give you the sun
...Or a cup of tea.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 07:09 PM

One day she left without a word, she took away the sun.
And in the dark she'd left behind, I knew what she had done.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 06:52 PM

Sun, moon and stars
From my skies have been taken
And god as well
Or I'm much mistaken

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 06:42 PM

that lucky old sun, he's got nothin' to do,
but roll around heaven all day.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 05:45 PM

Every day he drive away the darkness
Every day he drive away the darkness
Bringing back the warmth to the ground

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 02:24 PM

If I could save time in a bottle,
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day till eternity passes away,
Just to spend them with you

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 09:18 AM

i was so much older then
i'm younger than that now

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 09:02 AM

For the leaves are getting greener,
    And spring is on the way;
    And the girls are getting prettier
    And younger every day.

Silver in the stubble,
Winter in the wood.
Fare you well you wicked world
I'm going to be good.

I didn't know this was one of Sydney Carter's, nor did I know he died a year ago :-(

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:28 AM

Left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh
My soul was sold with my cigarettes to the blackmarket man
Had the Vietnam cold turkey
From the ocean to the Silver City
And it's only other vets could understand

About the long forgotten dockside guarantees
There were no V-day heroes in 1973
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour
Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss her
She was lined, and I was home to the lucky land

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 01:14 AM

Volunteered for the army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 12:27 AM

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil,
Fill it with new-made corn mash and never more you'll toil.
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 11:51 PM

Ye should never tie a kettle
Tae a big dog's tail

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 10:37 PM

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago, ...

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 07:38 PM

There's a man in the funny papers we all know
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He lives 'way back a long time ago
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well, this cat's name is-a Alley-Oop
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

He got a chauffeur that's a genuwine dinosawruh
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
And he can knuckle your head before you count to fawruh
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 01:22 PM

The big ship sails on the Alley-Alley-O...

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: just john
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 12:56 PM

And three times around
went
our
gallant
ship

And
three
times
around
went she

And three times around
went
our
gallant
ship

And she sank to the bottom of the sea! (ker-plunk)

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 10:54 AM

For three long years I was beastly treated,
and heavy irons on my legs I wore.
My back from flogging was lacerated
and oft times painted with my crimson gore.
And many a man from downright starvation
lies moldering now underneath the clay.
And Captain Logan he had us mangled
at the triangles of Moreton Bay.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 10:43 AM

In 1803 we sailed out to sea
Out from the sweet town of Derry.
For Australia bound if we didn't all drown
And the marks of our letters were heavy
In the rusty iron chains we signed for our wanes
Our women we left there in sorrow
As the main sails unfurled, our cares we hurled
At the English and the thoughts of tomorrow

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 08:55 AM

i am bound on a Yankee clipper ship
donald rumsfeld is her name
and cheney he is the captain of her
and they say that she's a floating hell

so fare thee well me own true love
when i return united we will be
it's not the leavin' o' Liverpool
that grieves me
but me darlin' when i think of thee

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 08:40 AM

With a crew of twenty one Manx men
Her passengers, Liverpool businessmen
Farewell to Mona's Isle, farewell
This little ship was bound for Hell.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: John O'L
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 02:10 AM

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there
And they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 01:34 AM

Lisa, Lisa, sad Lisa, Lisa...

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 12:19 AM

Never mind, never mind
I'm just talking through the wine
And you know that drinking
Always makes me sad

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 10:56 PM

I sell the morning paper, sir, my name is Jimmy Brown.
Everybody knows that I'm the newsboy of the town.
You can hear me yelling "Morning Star", running along the street.
Got no hat upon my head, no shoes upon my feet.

Never mind, sir, how I look, don't look at me and frown.
I sell the morning paper, sir, my name is Jimmy Brown.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 10:26 PM

sally's teeth are white and pearly
way hey roll and go
her eyes are dark - her hair is curly
spend my money on Sally Brown

sally brown she's got a figure
way hey roll and go
her bow is big but her stern is bigger
spend my money on sally brown

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 09:56 PM

I'm bound away for to leave you
Shallow oh shallow brown
I'm bound away for to leave you
Shallow oh shallow brown

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: khandu
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 12:17 PM

Missis Brown imagines
Her figure's very fine.
She told me quite in earnest
Hers was twice as good as mine!
It stung me to the quick
And since that day I've not forgot it;
For I know the figure that she's got,
And the shop at which she got it!
Oh! Missis Brown,
Bumptious Missis Brown!
Remember I have seen her in
Her little dressing gown.
If you think her figure's real,
Talk about a "skinny eel!"
Just you come to tea with me
And Missis Brown.

Subject: RE: You must leave now!!
From: DannyC
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 09:59 AM

Missus Brown you've got a lovely daughter
girls as sharp as her are something rare