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08 Oct 99 - 03:21 AM (#121983) Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T ASK ME TO SING THE WILD ROVER From: John in Brisbane Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover (Endah Kenny)
Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover
Do you ever stop to ask yourself
How many friends have you made over here Endah Kenny is one of my favourite singer/songwriters. I'll submit the Midi when I can find where I've stored it. Regards, John
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08 Oct 99 - 03:51 AM (#121991) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: alison Nice one John, slainte alison |
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08 Oct 99 - 04:52 AM (#121998) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: HåvardR Just reminded me of the last verse a friend of mine adds to "the Wild Rover" whenever a drunken crowd requests it: I've been a folk-singer for many a year Can you schiing "The Wild Rover"? (drunken voice, soft Irish "R") Is all that I hear So now I'm retiring to live on the dole and I NEVER will play that "Wild Rover" no more Incidentally, has anyone heard Eric Bogle's "Plastic Paddy's Pub"? It's generally the same sort of song, but there are a few pieces I haven' figured out yet. Håvard |
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08 Oct 99 - 09:05 AM (#122028) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Paul S There was a band in Kingston, Ontario, called the Mahones. They're a bit famous as a bar band, now. They used to sing a song that went, "The Unicorn, The Unicorn, We hate that f***ing song". Wasn't the best song in the world, but it stopped all of the yahoos from requesting The Unicorn. |
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08 Oct 99 - 09:16 AM (#122035) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Magpie I was at a session a while ago, and the inevitable question popped up. I said I didn't really know the song, but maybe some of the other musicians might. An English fella agreed to do it, and this was his rendition:
I'VE BEEN A HELL'S ANGEL FOR MANY'S THE YEAR Needless to say, we all cracked! Magpie |
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08 Oct 99 - 06:36 PM (#122184) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Sam Hudson Only a pernickety point, but it's 'Enda'. No 'h' at the end. |
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08 Oct 99 - 10:45 PM (#122230) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Malcolm Douglas ...and "Dirty Old Town" was written about Salford in England, by Ewan McColl. An ignorant audience will assume it's Irish because they once heard it sung in what they believed was an Irish accent. Sad. If I get asked for "Wild Rover", I pretend to have forgotten the words, but offer to accompany the requester if s/he is prepared to sing it. Usually works.<>Malcolm |
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09 Oct 99 - 08:28 AM (#122277) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: John and Alison My wife agrees with you both, she thinks Enda is fantastic. We are fortunate in that his home is not far from where we live so she is able to hear him fairly often. |
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09 Oct 99 - 06:31 PM (#122339) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: poet Why not!! I am fortunate my band still plays it as a finishing song and one should do something the audience wants to hear now and again as a change to what we in our wisdom think they want to hear. Magpie I love the verse we'll add that if you don't mind. Malcolm Dirty old town was sung by an Irish Band and the Irish Wanted to Adopt it what's wrong with that it certainly fits some towns in Lancs and in Ireland 20 years or so ago. Graham |
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09 Oct 99 - 09:50 PM (#122378) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Malcolm Douglas Graham Fair enough; I was probably a bit snappish about that. The Dubliners' recording of "Dirty Old Town" (I guess that's the one you meant?) is the one a lot of people remember, and it's understandable if they imagine it was meant to be about Dublin. As an Anglo-Scot, and long-time pub-session player, I do get a bit annoyed when people just assume that everything they like must be Irish; the music, good and bad, is shared pretty evenly between the nations. When I'm playing with a band, incidentally, I'll play DOT, or anything else the audience wants. If it's a session, then I'll please myself! Malcolm |
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10 Oct 99 - 07:07 AM (#122441) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: poet Malcom I overreacted too my Apologies. Graham |
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10 Oct 99 - 07:16 AM (#122443) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: alison Poet... there are more verses to the "hell's angel" version.. it's in the database.. have fun. there was also a long thread on other versions of the wild rover in the last year or so. slainte alison |
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10 Oct 99 - 07:22 AM (#122445) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: alison Here's the earlier thread wild rover with quite a few parodies...... and here is Hell's angel slainte alison |
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10 Oct 99 - 06:18 PM (#122541) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: poet OOh ta very much. |
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11 Oct 99 - 01:17 PM (#122703) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. I've been a school teacher for most of my life, But now teaching's nothing but trouble and strife. For now the inspectors are here at the door, I intend that I'll never go teaching no more. Chorus |
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11 Oct 99 - 02:04 PM (#122717) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Nogs In the Hells Angel parody, several stazas in: But I'd only just started when in from of me eyes I saw two great big jackboots with black shiny toes! Shouldn't the first line be 'nose'? Or am I not accounting for regional pronunciation differences? |
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11 Oct 99 - 02:49 PM (#122727) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Eric the Viking The wild folk-singer according to Lackford!
I've been a folk singer for most of me life.
And it's oooh arrr forever.
I went to a folk club I used to frequent
And it's oooh arrr forever.
They swore and they cussed and then they threw me out
And it's oooh arrr forever.
I fell on the floor me guitar broke in twain
I'll go home to the wife, tell her what they said
And it's oooh arrr forever. Freshly penned? Typed? Written in response to the Wild Rover. Thankyou, goodnight! Eric the Viking.
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11 Oct 99 - 02:53 PM (#122728) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Magpie I've been a school teacher ... - Oh PENNY I LIKE IT! Right up my alley, or should I say profession. I'll sing it to my pupils one day! Magpie |
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11 Oct 99 - 03:00 PM (#122731) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Eric the Viking Sorry for the lack of puncuation in "I've ben a folk singer" but I thought it would display as written! And I'm hurrying because I have marking and planning to do!! I've been a school teacher for too many years and I've mark books and papers coming out of my ears......... Bye. |
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11 Oct 99 - 05:13 PM (#122754) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Martin _Ryan Nogs Yes - "nose" makes more sense, and is what I thought I had typed originally! Regards |
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11 Oct 99 - 06:48 PM (#122776) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. Thank you Magpie. There were a lot more verses last night as I drove home! And I've put another parody in the Bedstead Men thread, this time of "The Gasman Cometh" Our inspection began today, I've been observed twice, once fairly good, once not so, and I've had an interview with the leading inspector on IT, better than last time. Three days to go. The inspectors seem less confrontational than last time (I was in tears at one stage then). We are all building up morale with chocolate biscuits. Penny |
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12 Oct 99 - 11:35 AM (#122979) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Roger the skiffler No doubt this is the folk equivalent of the old New Orleans jazz venue sign:" Requests $5, 'Saints' $10! (That's dollars if the signs didn't transmit). RtS |
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12 Oct 99 - 12:40 PM (#123008) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. 'Twas some years ago that they started to act, To take pleasure from lessons, to Gradgrind each fact, They laid down the hours that each teacher worked, And if we didn't do double they'd say that we shirked.
When that wasn't enough they contracted all hours, Penny, bearing up. |
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13 Oct 99 - 10:53 AM (#123400) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. I was there in the classroom, by the screen I was sat, Laughing out loud at verses I found on the 'cat. In comes the Inspector, "Now what's this about? Subversives like you we can well do without!" Penny |
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14 Oct 99 - 12:18 PM (#123847) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. And now that it's over, I have to come back, To treat them more fairly, things don't seem so black, Now I've heard the report, picked myself from the floor, I shan't think of retiring, not never no more. And it's no, nay, never, No nay never, no more, Will I think of retiring, no never, no more. Not 'till retirement age, or the lottery comes up, or my ship comes in ........ Penny |
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15 Oct 99 - 10:30 AM (#124213) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: GeorgeH Penny . . if you've really just been Ofsteaded (rather than recreating the experience from seared memory) then have a PARTICULARLY excellent weekend! Now I just need to compile your verses for my various still-teaching friends. (Our neighbour's school has - seriously - three staff who've announced their intention of leaving at the end of the year as a result of their recent OFSTEAD . . and he assures me they're all excellent teachers.) George. |
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15 Oct 99 - 12:57 PM (#124273) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. George, thanks very much. It was this week, we came out well, my department, ICT, was good (last time abysmal), I was quite good, too, so the jaundiced start has worn off a bit. I sang this, and the Gasman parody (Bedstead Men thread) in our end-of-week staff meeting, and they went down well, although the head had a funny look on her face when I got to the last verse above! Do pass it around. And post any more verses it triggers! I find that once the tune is in my head, everything starts to scan to it! Penny (cheering) |
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23 Oct 99 - 10:52 PM (#127369) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Shimbo Darktree For Penny S. Now they've made me a principal (headmaster?) ... hallelujah With a dollar pay increase and a small Honda car All of a sudden it is not so bad, When I think of Head Office jobs still to be had. Yes, I know it needs some work! After all, I can sing for myself at home. |
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24 Oct 99 - 07:53 AM (#127444) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Penny S. And I have got a raise! |
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25 Oct 99 - 04:02 PM (#127867) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Marion I once heard the Wild Rover sung at an Irishish pub, and each time the band sang "No, nay, never..." the crowd would chant "Right up your kilt!" A bit of a non sequitor maybe, but it was fun and it neatly filled in those empty beats in the chorus. Marion |
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25 Oct 99 - 06:35 PM (#127913) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Richard Graham,Malcolm and all, Hi Your comments re: what the audience wants can get tricky...VIZ, in a bar in Stavanger, Norway, a guy comes over and asks us to play the Wild Rover, or the Irish Rover...I forget,and after he wandered off the chap on the table nearest to us, who was enjoying our less obvious material says in low but firm tones, ' whatever he offers you to play that, I'll give you double if you don't!'.....hmmmmmmmm Cheers Raichard |
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26 Oct 99 - 08:10 AM (#128115) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Shimbo Darktree Richard: Good point! No doubt whatever you sing, someone will not like it, and (hopefully) someone will. I have always liked sad songs, but have had to modify what I sing because some other members are unpleasantly affected by sad songs. As we are singing for fun, I feel it is fair not to unduly subject people to what they don't like ... but I still slip in the odd tear-jerker. Shimbo |
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26 Oct 99 - 09:11 AM (#128135) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: alison Marion, We always sang "Right up your kilt", at the appropriate times.... Same thing in "It's a long way to Tipperary"... "it's a long way to go (without your trousers)"... and "to the sweetest girl I know (God bless her)" slainte alison |
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26 Oct 99 - 04:18 PM (#128305) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Gint |
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27 Oct 99 - 09:44 AM (#128540) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: Blackcat2 Greetings yall I've discovered that sometimes I have trouble differentiating the beginings of Wild Rover and the Moonshiner - I've tried to solve that by starting Moonshiner with the chorus, but by the time I'm willing to sing either of those songs it is late and my fluid level is closed to being topped off! pax |
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07 Jul 01 - 11:07 AM (#500573) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Here's another link to replace Alison's for the Hell's Angel parody |
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10 Oct 05 - 08:27 PM (#1580589) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Don't Ask Me To Sing The Wild Rover From: GUEST,Niall Hi does anyody have the Guitar tab to Enda Kenny's "Don't ask me to sing the wild rover" cheers |
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10 Oct 05 - 09:52 PM (#1580627) Subject: Lyr Add: WILD TEACHER (parody of WILD ROVER) From: Dead Horse Apologies to all, cleaned it up a bit. WILD TEACHER I've been a school teacher for most of my life, But now teaching's nothing but trouble and strife. For now the inspectors are here at the door, I intend that I'll never go teaching no more. CH. Twas some years ago that they started to act, To take pleasure from lessons, to Gradgrind each fact, They laid down the hours that each teacher worked, And if we didn't do double they'd say that we shirked. When that wasn't enough they contracted all hours, From midnight to midnight, the workload just towers, With curriculum changes arriving each day, But never, no never, an increase in pay! I was there in the classroom, by the screen I was sat, Thinking out loud that Baker's a pratt. In comes the Inspector, "Now what's this about? Subversives like you we can well do without!" Now our school's failing, whatever that means. We slipped down the charts and the Head's making scenes The Mums are all taking their brats clean away And the men from the ministry seem set to stay My P.A.s on strike for a decrease in hours The playground's been dug up and planted with flowers Computers are crashing, software overload And I'm heading off to the school down the road |