04 Feb 01 - 01:30 PM (#389765) Subject: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos The Off-Beat News feature of Netscape Central offers this todbit from jolly England, where the unusual is to be expected: Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001 Lovelorn Peacocks Terrorize British Villagers LONDON (Reuters) - Flocks of feral peacocks are terrorizing villages across Britain in a desperate but futile search for mates, the Sunday Times reported. The lovelorn peacocks have descended on rural communities, chasing children and destroying vegetable patches in a vain search for peahens to mate with, the paper said. "Because the hens nest on the ground, they are being eaten by foxes, which means there are not enough to go around," peacock breeder Quinton Spratt told the paper. Peacocks are not known for their monogamous habits. Each male bird requires at least five hens to mate with. The birds are believed to be fugitives from stately homes where they have become popular attractions because of their colorful plumage and fan-shaped tails. Well, challengers, rev up your dithyrambs and let's hear about the woes of these under-priveleged males with less than five mates each! Make the Goddess proud!!! |
04 Feb 01 - 01:31 PM (#389766) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos Yuk! If some Joe-clone could end my h2 bracket after the headline above, it would look a lot better! A |
04 Feb 01 - 01:43 PM (#389775) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Sorcha omigawd. Roast peacock is quite good, I hear. |
04 Feb 01 - 02:16 PM (#389798) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario Several ideas percolating - but nothing has surfaced yet. I've heard peacock is actually quite tough and stringy - but the satisfaction of eating one is great because they are really annoying, nasty birds. Beautiful, but nasty. |
04 Feb 01 - 02:38 PM (#389813) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: wysiwyg Is Tod missing his bit d'ya think, Big Guy? A peacock musta had it to go. ~Spielchuckler |
04 Feb 01 - 03:10 PM (#389841) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos Jes a looonely peeeeacock male Why must I be? Jes a looonely peacock male With no place to pee.... |
04 Feb 01 - 04:28 PM (#389889) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: McGrath of Harlow I ain't seen none. The Sunday Times is not my favourite paper.
But that's neither here nor there. I suppose if you were a gay peacock it might be quite a good situation... |
04 Feb 01 - 05:12 PM (#389907) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Micca well, I couldnt resist... The peacock song By Micca Oh dear oh what ever shall I do A peacock usually needs 4 hens And I've only got 2 I am disgraced in my demesne And in the country too A peacock usually needs 4 hens And I've only got 2 I will tramp around the country lanes and see what I can find I will flash around the feathers that grow from my behind For the foxes they are eating up the totty on the ground But maybe in the cornfields some females hang around They terrorised the paper boy and village children too They've damaged all the veggies that we would put in our stew.. They are searching high and low around to try and find some mates They are just a bunch of escapees from some ones big estates
With the foxes and the moggies robbing nests the country round |
04 Feb 01 - 05:45 PM (#389937) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: wysiwyg I had a cock and the cock pleased me.... The little cock goes wouldjoo, wouldjoo-wouldjoo? Wouldn'joo? Wouldn'tjoo? Wouldn't! Would you? ~S~ |
05 Feb 01 - 12:44 AM (#390178) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos LOL! Bravo, Micca. WYSIWYG, a great opening line...but couldn't you flesh it out a bit? Surely there's room for some groth there... A |
05 Feb 01 - 12:54 AM (#390190) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: The Sugar Dog (inactive) Heard tell dat Wizzy she cain't quit a-laffin', fininsh a sawng? She jes' hopin' she make it all de way tuh de baffrum! Keep singin' dat one line over an' over... somebuddy make her stop! ~S~ |
05 Feb 01 - 09:31 AM (#390329) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Noreen Nice one, micca! |
05 Feb 01 - 11:06 AM (#390393) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Dharmabum (sung to I'm a little teapot)
I'm a horny peacock on the trail
I'll trample down your veggies
I'm a lovelorn peacock
And I don't believe DB. |
05 Feb 01 - 11:11 AM (#390401) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario PEACOCK ENVY Well, I'm just a wild turkey A-runnin' through the woods Doing all those turkey things The way a good Tom should The other day I heard some news, That caused me great surprise! Now I've got Peacock Envy; Damn - they sure are lucky guys! A Peacock isn't satisfied, With one Peahen or two; But fully half a dozen hens, Before that guy is through Where he gets the energy, I'm sure I'll never know. But I've got Peacock Envy! And I will tell you so! They say size doesn't matter; Feathers do not make the bird Frankly I think peacock tails Are way beyond absurd All the chicks and ducks and turkey hens Swoon when he struts on by Yes I've got Peacock Envy, But that's not the reason why! For the Peacock may be handsome, He may get hens and chicks galore The stately homes all offer him As job as lawn décor But the hunters will ignore him When Thanksgiving rolls around I've got Peacock Envy They don't price HIM by the pound! |
05 Feb 01 - 11:16 AM (#390409) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST clap clap clap!!!! I can't get started, so I am giving my idea away. See, I think the peacocks are obsessed with the mistaken idea that they have to make enough peacock babies that every TV in the USA can have one! (For non-USers, that's because one of our biggest TV neworks has the peacock as its logo.) Pore lil peacocks. Working so HARD so we all can have our favorite programs! Pore lil peabrains... aw, WHY don't people understand? they're doing it all for US?? ~S~ |
05 Feb 01 - 06:44 PM (#390881) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario y'mean with a chorus that goes something along the lines of:
We're doing it for you! |
05 Feb 01 - 06:50 PM (#390887) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST Yeah, but with verses. Go babee! I liked your other one, too. I guess we cross posted and I didn't see it. It sounds like a "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" hoedown! ~S~ |
05 Feb 01 - 07:06 PM (#390902) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: mousethief I can't get no Peacock Satisfaction tune: Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
I can't get no satisfaction
When I'm loose in London Town
When I'm walking down the road
I can't get no satisfaction c2001 Alex E Riggle. All Rights Reserved. |
05 Feb 01 - 07:34 PM (#390925) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: georgetownboy If you can stand the infernal noise these little beasties make, you're a better man than I am Gunga Din. I used to operate a small shop next to and old mill, here in East Tennessee. It was a rural area near a tourist town. one of the folks in the neighborhood had a farm of sevral hundred acres, with many pea fowl. There were plenty of them of both sexes, who called loudly, all the day long. The only kind of tune I should have liked to play for them was out the end of a twlve guage. |
05 Feb 01 - 07:58 PM (#390942) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Sorcha Yes. They scream "ghelllp", at the top of their lungs. I keep hearing:
An old peacock went riding out one dark and windy day, Maybe someone can finish for me? |
05 Feb 01 - 10:01 PM (#391027) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST Hey georgetown boy, welcome to the Mudcat. There is a New Member's welcome thread, you been there yet? ~S~ |
06 Feb 01 - 01:05 AM (#391152) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos LOL!! HUZZZAH, you lot!! The Goddess will be proud! I am sure she's working up som eextra warm BLOBs for these first class couplets, so to speak!!! MMario, I love "Peacock Envy"!! A |
06 Feb 01 - 05:45 PM (#391671) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Bradypus This one's a bit offbeat ... I'm not sure if it works unless you know the original (quoted at the end) Bradypus
I Saw a Peacock
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06 Feb 01 - 06:59 PM (#391713) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario Bp - is there a tune to that? And where does the original verse come from? I feel I should know it, but I cannot place it. |
06 Feb 01 - 07:06 PM (#391719) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario BTW - Amos, thank you! I thnk I've actually got one I can sing of my own, finally. |
06 Feb 01 - 08:00 PM (#391748) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos I wanna hear BP sing that one! MM, I yam proud of you! A |
07 Feb 01 - 04:39 AM (#391952) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze Hmmmm... Mmario, do you reckon Matt is really in the uk... lol Lovelorn Peacocks Terrorize British Villagers LONDON (Reuters) - Flocks of feral peacocks are terrorizing villages across Britain in a desperate but futile search for mates, the Sunday Times reported. Could almost be, lovelorn Matt terrorizes Paltalk Mudcat room - JOKING MATT... before you get worried.. Ella |
07 Feb 01 - 08:53 AM (#392035) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario well - I would hesitate to use "futile" regarding Matt's search. *grin* |
07 Feb 01 - 11:21 AM (#392137) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze oooo Mmario!! |
07 Feb 01 - 11:24 AM (#392140) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: mousethief Be nice, you guys! |
07 Feb 01 - 11:28 AM (#392151) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: wysiwyg They are! |
07 Feb 01 - 11:36 AM (#392160) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze we is... I mean we are... Not being nasty at all... just kiddin around |
07 Feb 01 - 11:38 AM (#392164) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST,Matt_R In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt, I'm after you I smell like a hound I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf Straddle the line It's discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt, I'm after you Mouth is alive, all running inside And I'm hungry like the wolf... |
07 Feb 01 - 11:48 AM (#392181) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario Believe me, I sympathize with Matt and wish him the best luck in the world! |
07 Feb 01 - 11:49 AM (#392183) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze lol Matt... don't be quoting Duran Duran at me... silly. Especially if you really smell like a hound.... BEHAVE>>>> oh dear... young men and their hormones..... |
07 Feb 01 - 11:53 AM (#392189) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST,Matt_R Yes Ella, and what about those older women and THEIR hormones? Eh? Eh? Check out my post on the 'Songs About Getting Older' thread! |
07 Feb 01 - 12:06 PM (#392206) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze hey.... I'm ONLY 27.... huff!! hee heee |
07 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM (#392209) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze oooooh I'm going home.. hufff.. got a gig tonight... huff huff.. hee hee |
07 Feb 01 - 12:09 PM (#392210) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: GUEST,Matt_R Well there's only 5 years diff, so what? And it's well know that women's peak is late 20's-early 30's! --Matt (putting on his life jacket and his Speedo swimming shorty shorts) |
07 Feb 01 - 01:46 PM (#392327) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Ella who is Sooze LMAO Matt.... you know.... some people wont know what you are on about... but start swimming lol... |
07 Feb 01 - 01:52 PM (#392332) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Matt_R Here I cum...I mean come!!! |
07 Feb 01 - 02:44 PM (#392383) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: wysiwyg Mbooz! Silly, we peak at about... lessee... 47-3/4. Yup. Right THEN. ~S~ |
07 Feb 01 - 03:16 PM (#392414) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: mousethief (to the tune of "neener neener neener"):
I know how old Susan is. |
07 Feb 01 - 03:56 PM (#392451) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Kim C Truth to tell, I'm 33 and feeling a lot perkier this year than usual. ;) I bought a 2-piece bathing suit for the first time in 20+ years... it's conservative, though... doesn't show the royal Fiddlebum. Quentin Spratt?!!!?! That sounds like a character out of a Dickens novel! |
07 Feb 01 - 03:57 PM (#392455) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Matt_R See, I TOOOOOOLD YOU!!!! Hey Ella, where's YOUR 2-piece?? Hmmmm? |
07 Feb 01 - 06:46 PM (#392615) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Bradypus Meanwhile, back at the challenge ... Mmario - the original I learned from my grandfather, so it's genuine folk process! However a Google search (I'd forgotten one of the couplets) came up with this , which indicates that it's a very old piece of nonsense. The point is, of course, that if you change the punctuation, it makes perfect sense:
I saw a peacock I didn't really have a tune (I usually write to existing tunes, but not this time). I've tried to put one together - I'll send it to the Mudcat Midi page. Apologies for the mistakes in the lyrics - 'tale' should obviously be 'tail', and 'oak tree' (as in the original lyrics) scans better than 'sturdy oak'. I kept switching between the words I thought I knew, and those I found on the web. Bradypus |
21 Feb 01 - 10:38 PM (#403401) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Áine Hello Everyone! It just warms the cockles of a Goddess's heart to see that y'all kept the Challenge flame goin' whilst I was away nursing my swollen pinkies . . . (Oh behave, Amos!) Here are your "unofficial" Golden Cow Chip Awards for this most (uh-hem) interesting challenge:
Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Harp Ribbon (The Harp Ribbon is given for being able to make The Keeper of the Book fall on the floor laughing OR make her short out her keyboard with tears): All the best, Áine |
21 Feb 01 - 11:11 PM (#403411) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Amos Oh FUMES OF FRABJOUS MINTY LIGHTNING!!! YE GODDESS OF YE SONGBOOK IS BACK!!!! Callooo, callay! Erin go Bragh!! And all like that!!! A. |
22 Feb 01 - 08:30 AM (#403605) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario it is nice to see her back, isn't it? |
22 Feb 01 - 02:25 PM (#403888) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Hawker Bit late, but here is my offering anyway......
THE PEACOCK'S LAMENT line breaks edited by mudelf |
22 Feb 01 - 02:38 PM (#403909) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: MMario owww! oh, my! I haven't seen puns fly like that since the cow that dropped out of....oops! wrong challenge! excellent, hawker! |
22 Feb 01 - 02:58 PM (#403931) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Áine Dear Hawker, The one 'rule' of the Song Challenge! is that it's never too late for a song! And for your wonderful lament, you've been awarded The Golden Cow Chip Award with Harp Ribbon! Congratulations, and I hope we see a lot more songs from you! -- Áine |
22 Feb 01 - 03:37 PM (#403960) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: Lonesome EJ The Horny Lil Peacock
Well I'm the horny lil Peacock
Even the ol grey mare
(Ha) De crows best stay on their toes
Cause I'm the horny lil peacock
Now I left my fancy home
Ask me why I'm creepin
(Ha)The sheep best not fall asleep |
08 Feb 02 - 04:58 PM (#645550) Subject: RE: Unofficial Song Challenge: Peacock Envy From: harpgirl Synchronicity...or else this must be mating season! |