Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:25 PM

The links on the Songlist have not only been fixed, they have been IMPROVED by the addition of MMario's heartfelt rendition of Lullaby for a Borrowed Child (The Uncle's Lament).

We need to hear from Leo himself as to how this good song came into existence.

Meanwhile enjoy the selection at the Mudcat Songbook Song List.

A

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: GUEST,moofus
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:51 PM

Ref the Bruce Murdoch song. Yes, it's great... and thanks for posting... Nothing against you or against Bruce or anyone... but in the song he says "I seek the voice of honesty". That's what I'm doing here. Why were there never any protest songs about the phony war in former Yugoslavia? Why no songs for all the people we killed there and the lies told (the 10,000 dead "Kosovars", for example... there were only a few hundred before we bombed and killed them)? How we helped with ethnic cleansing? Are even all the musicians just sheeple? And no one ever mentions our oil pipeline (yes, oil pipeline... the AMBO pipeline) that is proposed to run straight under our camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. Is war only okay when it's Mr. Clinton's war instead of Mr. Bush's? What about all our soldiers still in that hole called Kosovo? Sorry, I just wonder. No one seems to protest the politically correct version of things spoon fed by the media (as in bombing Serbia is good, bombing Iraq bad) ... sorry, I've been overseas and I came home disappointed (no, not a soldier -- a refugee/humanitarian worker I am, not military). I'm just trying to figure out what's happened to my country. Thanks, ya'll.

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 07:06 PM

Moofus:

You are not alone. Why not join up and start a thread yourself on what has happened to our country? I think you will find many kindred souls who hate hypocrisy in high places, whether Clinton's or Bush's.    This particular thread should be kept for the discussion of the Songbook site. Welcome to the Cat, and I hope we'll see more of you.

A

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Naemanson
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 07:21 PM

Cool! Good going Amos. I toured the Mudcat challenge page looking, because I have my own untuned ego, for songs I had written. I was amazed at how many. I had forgotten most of them. Thanks for all your hard work.

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:32 PM

Well, you're more than welcome, but when you get A Round Toowit, you can use it to record a few and send me the MP3s or AIFFs and I'll add them to the collection, Brett!


A

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:46 PM

Lullaby for a borrowed child came about 1/2 due to thankfullness for all the people that have (very generously) shared their kids with me; 1/2 due to recognition of mortality, both my own and that of "my" kids (one of whom had suicided but a short time before) and 1/2 due to whingeing self-pity due to being a childless bachelor.

Yes - that makes three halves - but it was that kind of a mood.

First time I ever sang it for anyone else I ended up with two youngsters in my lap -- and the first public performance of it was with a toddler in my arms. It really does go over better with a babe in arms.

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: open mike
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 02:30 PM

this songbook can be found now (aug. 2010) at :
http://reocities.com/SoHo/Easel/5746/

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 02:56 PM

Link to another thread about this.

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 08:21 PM

Blicky for link given by open mike
Mudcat Songbook

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Apr 11 - 07:42 PM

The Sad and Tragic Story of Patrick Wright and the Ferrets for your listening pleasure.

A

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Janie
Date: 27 Apr 11 - 08:49 PM

Wonderful!

Now, I 'spose I may as well post this here as anywhere - A little history and information about "The Mudcat Songbook" as well as Aine's Mudcat Songbook would be appreciated by this person who has been around Mudcat for quite a bit, but not that quite a bit. Bein' as how I have yet to die from terminal uniqueness, I suspect there are at least a few others who would appreciate learning a bit....

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Janie
Date: 27 Apr 11 - 09:05 PM

Are both of these intended to be collections of wonderful of artifacts from Mudcat days of yore, made more accessible as the folks working at doing so have time, in the process of being slowly compiled by volunteers as they have time for this formidable task, or salvaged after the original caretakers and compilers moved on?

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 11 - 12:41 PM

Aine built the original Mudcat Songnook and tended it carefully for several years.

After she moved on to other interests, it stayed as it had been until the whole site where it had been hosted was being bought, and several steps were taken to prevent it from being lost. One was Joe's gradual effort to bring the songs in the Songbook over to our own repository gradually. ANother was some shuffle external to the Cat to re-host the whole of the old site on a new site., not sure by whom.

The page I created, called "Songs from the Mudcat Songbook" was just to provide links to recordings where they existed to songs that had been in the Mudcat Songbook.

A

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 04 May 15 - 06:36 PM

I returned to these lovely links after four years absence, and am delighted with the memories these songs evoke of the heady days when Song Challenges walked the land and Cowchips graced the mantelpieces of the Minstrels and Poets.

There was a whole mess of fine songwriting going on in them there days.

If any of you forgotten Scriveners want me to, I will gladly seek to add links to any recording you make of your own songs--just send me a URL to link to or an MP3 file.

Regards,

A.

Subject: RE: Songs From the Mudcat Songbook!!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 May 15 - 08:04 PM

I got pretty far on the PermaThread, transferring songs form Geocities to Mudcat. But then life interfered. If anybody would like to continue and complete the transfer project, let me know.
-Joe-
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