21 Jun 01 - 03:45 PM (#489102) Subject: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine I love this Challenge! idea from Amos -- even though I had a great plumbing story to give you (hahahaha) -- So, let's ruffle some feathers around this birdcage with:
Polly Want a Divorce? SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese housewife is seeking divorce claiming the family's talking bird dropped clues on her husband's illicit affair, state media said on Tuesday. Go (or flap) For It, Challenge!rs!! -- Áine |
21 Jun 01 - 04:17 PM (#489126) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Okey dokey... (To the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad") I've been staying with my parents All the month of May. I've been staying with my parents And I just got home today. Can't you hear the mynah crowing, Saying the word until he's hoarse? Can't you hear the lawyer shouting: "Mynah, say 'divorce' "? Mynah, won't you say Mynah, won't you say Mynah, won't you say "divorce"? Mynah, won't you say Mynah, won't you say Mynah, won't you say divorce"? Husband's in the kitchen with Mynah Husband's in the kitchen, I know Husband's in the kitchen with Mynah Whisp'ring in the phone so low Saying: "Let's go fiddle around-o "Let's go fiddle around-o "Let's go fiddle around-o" Whisp'ring in the phone so low!
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21 Jun 01 - 04:26 PM (#489134) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: mousethief APPLAUSE! Well done, Sharon The Self-Flagellant! Maybe if the courts don't grant her a divorce, she can still have her husband prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a mynah? Okay, sorry, I'm off to write a song. Alex |
21 Jun 01 - 04:30 PM (#489137) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario Mynahs Can'T Testify (tune: Long Black Veil) She walks Chongqing, with her mynah bird tale She visits the judge, and the mynah bird wails "Nobody knows, nobody sees Just the telephone and me..." Two weeks ago, I had just come back From my parents home, I was not un-packed I was all alone, just my mynah and me That bird it said "D,I,V,O,R,C,E" chorus: I thought it strange, that a bird should spell And such a word, bizarre as hell! Then it said "My dear, please patient be "we'll just have to wait, for the final decree chorus Since that day, when the phone it rings the feathered tattle tale birdie sings Each word it says, it has heard before, From my cheating Husband, so I'm out the door! chorus Judge, can you swear in a mynah bird? The truth in this tale now it should be heard This bird doesn't lie, I will swear my life Please make me no longer, that bastard's wife! chorus
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21 Jun 01 - 04:38 PM (#489145) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario I prufred it ! Honest! dang html! |
21 Jun 01 - 05:09 PM (#489159) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,Coal Mynah The second part is slow 12 bar blues, to be performed similar in style and tempo to "Love in Vain" (Robert Johnson) as done by the Rolling Stones. The Intro you probably know. Blues In a Mynah Key Intro
Now the bird heard the bird heard the word
She came back home from the station, with a suitcase in her hand
Next day when I came home she didn't say a word
She went out to see a lawyer to see if she can sue
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21 Jun 01 - 05:25 PM (#489168) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: McGrath of Harlow I saw this one in the paper, and was just thinking of suggesting it. Amos beat me to it - he moves quick. I couldn't resistthis:
Mynah's Lifeguard
"Mynah's life is life in danger
"I've been locked there in a prison,
"For the truth is, birds with memory
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21 Jun 01 - 05:44 PM (#489189) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos Marvelous brilliant, McGrath!!! The whole lot of youse are top-drawer, which is where he shoulda kept the dang bird!!! A |
22 Jun 01 - 04:15 AM (#489528) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler I offer this as a possible future challenge, scope for sentimental song: (BTW the pig was saved by the judge) The owner of a retired celebrity pig is fighting a legal battle to save him from the foot-and-mouth slaughter. Grunty, a rare Maori kune kune pig, starred in a children's television film and has his own website. But his fame did not stop an inspector from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) from ordering him to be culled under the foot-and-mouth regulations. Grunty's farm in Somerset was condemned because his owner had visited another of her holdings, which turned out to be infected. Rosemary Upton, of Hill Farm, Stawley, near Wellington, Somerset, is applying for permission to seek a judicial review. Appearing for her, Stephen Smith QC, suggested that Grunty had a much stronger case for survival than Phoenix the calf, saved after a blaze of publicity in April.
Grunty starred in Pig at the Ritz on Channel Five and in pleasanter times has accompanied Mrs Upton on trips to the local village. RtS
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22 Jun 01 - 06:31 AM (#489574) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: McGrath of Harlow Here is Grunty's website.
Here's that last song I posted, slightly modified:
Mynah's Lifeguard
"Mynah's life is life in danger
"I've been locked here in your prison,
"For in truth we birds with memory (Maybe it should be Avian Mynahs? Probably not.) |
22 Jun 01 - 10:05 AM (#489677) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos SUre, McGrath, and don't fret about that last wee issue. It's a mynah point, after all. |
22 Jun 01 - 10:08 AM (#489682) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario Amos! *THWAP!* |
22 Jun 01 - 10:56 AM (#489716) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA McGrath: Nah, I like the idea of a mynah's union (with birdseed for dues?). Right now my mind's ear is listening to Patsy Cline belt out your song. It sounds just lovely! And such a sad song, Coal Mynah (do you have a daughter?)! MMario, I wish I knew the tune to sing along with your piece; is the one in DT a different version? I can't make heads or tails of that tune (I'm balladally challenged). mousethief: Who's calling whom what?? You can't fool me; I saw your 6/20/01 post on the SCA thread! Sounded pretty self-debasing to me. Here's 'nuther song: "Mynah Can Spat" Dance (Tune: Mexican Hat Dance) Oh, I want you to be a divorcee 'Cause I heard that old mynah of yours say All that you (in my absence, of course) say To your lover-girl over the phone! "Divorce, divorce, divorce"... Don't tell me you have remorse For what you've done. My source Has said that you said, "Divorce"! Oh, the bird says you tell her, "I love you." Though I'd thought that you put me above you, I've developed a diff'rent point óf view And I'm kicking you out on your own! Divorce, divorce, divorce Is what I would like to force But will the judge endorse A mynah that says, "Divorce"?! |
22 Jun 01 - 10:58 AM (#489717) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: mousethief Okay, I'm checking in finally. Wrote this in the car on the way to work. Missed the news, even.
Heard It From the Mynah
Ooooh, I bet you wonder how I knew
Oooh, I heard it from the mynah
(background singers:
Now, a mimic is this bird, of course
Oooh, I heard it from the mynah
So I went down to my lawyer's place
Oooh, I heard it from the mynah Copyright ©2001 Alex Riggle. All Rights Reserved. |
22 Jun 01 - 11:43 AM (#489746) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA What terrible things does the mynah ken! His beak can spout more than his hi... (well, maybe that's a bit too graphic) |
22 Jun 01 - 11:52 AM (#489752) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Gosh, you guys are quick and good! To be honest, I thought it would take a while for y'all to warm up to this one. With a big grin on my face, I'm handing out these Silver B.L.O.B.s to you: Two to SharonA for:
I've been staying with my parents -- Áine
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22 Jun 01 - 01:41 PM (#489825) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos LOL!!! Appalause!!! Appaloosa!!! aPPEASE!!! Aw, please!!! This is a real PWO!!! A |
22 Jun 01 - 02:31 PM (#489863) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Clifton53 I'll Tell Me Mah
I'll tell me mah when she comes home
Sittin' up here upon my perch
Let his lawyer cry and blow
Wish I had more time folks but I'm off to work. Great job everyone!!! Bring on the pig!! Clifton
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22 Jun 01 - 07:33 PM (#490076) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Great song, Clifton! Feel free to add more to it this weekend, OK? Meanwhile, here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
Sittin' up here upon my perch I love it! -- Áine |
22 Jun 01 - 07:47 PM (#490081) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: JenEllen LMAO! Wonderful stuff! When I was a Mynah (younger daze- to 'When I was Single')
I was just a chick when he brought me home
She walked in the door and I chirped a hello
I don't know Pavlov, but the guy must be smart
Went to the lawyer and he looked at me sage
If they'd only asked, I could've told them more
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22 Jun 01 - 07:58 PM (#490087) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Wow! Yet another great song from JenEllen!! Go girlfriend!! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for the mirth-making:
Went to the lawyer and he looked at me sage -- Áine |
23 Jun 01 - 01:16 AM (#490197) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos Aw, Jenerator you're something else!!! I have your song dancing in me fevered brain!! A lilting bright, and a one and a two and "YES!!! I love you....". Just CHARMIN, is what! A |
23 Jun 01 - 06:49 PM (#490577) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Bradypus To the tune of 'Delilah' ...
My Mynah |
23 Jun 01 - 06:52 PM (#490581) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos LOL! Wodda a talent, BP!! A |
25 Jun 01 - 10:27 AM (#491340) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Hey Bradypus! LOL! I love it! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for this great resolving verse:
Here's the new plan that we've hatched between me and my mynah. Well done! Now, everyone check back later today for the great Golden Cow Chip Awards, which will be tossed out into the waiting arms of all you Challenge!rs later today -- as soon as the repairman fixes the air conditioner (pant, pant, pant). -- Áine |
25 Jun 01 - 10:30 AM (#491344) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario sing christmas songs and think cold snowy thoughts. It may not help the heat, but heck, it could be fun. |
25 Jun 01 - 12:35 PM (#491494) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Trapper Here's my submission... - Al
POLLY WOLLY DIDDLE
Chorus: |
25 Jun 01 - 12:43 PM (#491500) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: mousethief Applause! |
25 Jun 01 - 12:46 PM (#491505) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario *guffaw* |
25 Jun 01 - 12:49 PM (#491506) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Brilliant, Trapper!!! ROTFLMAO!! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
My lawyer's case would not be heard -- Áine |
25 Jun 01 - 04:15 PM (#491638) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Help! I can't stop!!! OL' MYNAH'S DAUGHTER Well, I was born an ol' mynah's daughter In a pet store next to "Ever'thing's a Dollar" Under Mommie's wing at night She'd teach this lesson by the pale streetlight: "Whatever someone whispers, you should holler." One day, a lady took me to Chongqing city To a gilded cage where I was sittin' pretty Eatin' crackers by the score I would holler anytime I wanted more By repeating things she thought were awful witty. In the spring, she packed her bags and she went away And told her husband he should talk to me ever' day Till the time that she returned But her tender love he spurned. For cheatin' on his wife, I'd make him pay. By the summertime I'd learned his vocabulary With his mistress on the phone; he wasn't wary Of the things that I might say When his wife would come back ths way. When I tattled on him, things got pretty hairy. Yeah! I'm proud to be an ol' mynah's daughter! I remember well that threats were made to slaughter This bird who worked so hard When that bad man let down his guard, 'Cause I memorized his whispers that I would holler. Well, the tune he sang has changed since way back then And it's so good that his wife's back again 'Cause her husband's out the door; She don't hear him anymore Except the mimics by an ol' mynah's daughter. |
25 Jun 01 - 04:18 PM (#491642) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Whoops! I should've mentioned that the tune for that last song is Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter" (just in case anyone's not familiar with it). Sorry! SharonA |
25 Jun 01 - 04:24 PM (#491646) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Whoops again: correction time... Line 10 should read, "By repeatin' things she thought were awful witty." Line 19 should read, "When his wife would come back this way." Arrgh. Sorry again. SharonA |
25 Jun 01 - 05:11 PM (#491673) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: JenEllen Best one yet Sharon. Tea flew on that one. Is there a Dolittle Lynn addition to the cowchips now Aine??? ~J |
25 Jun 01 - 05:57 PM (#491710) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Aw, shuckin's. Thanks, JenEllen! |
25 Jun 01 - 08:36 PM (#491822) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos Bravos all around!!! Uncontainable guffaw prizes to Trapper and Sharon for those last two!! Rave on! A |
25 Jun 01 - 10:31 PM (#491879) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Oh SharonA, that last one is definitely a Silverplated Spittoon candidate!! I'd barely gotten off the floor from Bradypus' song when I saw yours -- you guys are really costing me in soap and water, ya know '-)!! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for my fav verse:
Yeah! I'm proud to be an ol' mynah's daughter! Geez, you all are good!! -- Áine |
26 Jun 01 - 10:05 AM (#492145) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Dharmabum I'm still a little burnt out from Old Songs,but here goes.
DARK AS AN OVEN
Come all you young Minah's
(Chorus)
I listened intently
(Chorus)
If you don't wanna end up
(Chorus)
If I could go back
(Chorus) DB. |
27 Jun 01 - 07:12 AM (#492844) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Dharmabum Got more? |
27 Jun 01 - 08:27 AM (#492875) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos LOL!!! Bravo DB!! A |
27 Jun 01 - 09:01 AM (#492895) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario "I'll be served with cranberries And potatoes so sweet. As I wear paper booties On my little feet. " another keyboard shot to hell. |
27 Jun 01 - 09:49 AM (#492927) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Dharmabum I'm still wiping coffee off of my screen from all of you guys!!!! DB. |
27 Jun 01 - 10:19 AM (#492952) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Oh DB -- that is one excellent spit-making, screen-scrubbing song!!!!! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for my fav verse:
Cause it's dark in this oven Bravo! -- Áine |
27 Jun 01 - 10:23 AM (#492955) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA Me, I'm just feeling so sorry for that poor bird of Dharmabum's... roasted ALIVE!!! Yikes! |
27 Jun 01 - 11:58 AM (#493044) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Dharmabum Yea Sharon, he wasn't treated very well,was he? Just for the record,I'm against animal cruelty***BG*** DB. |
27 Jun 01 - 12:03 PM (#493050) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: mousethief No birds were harmed in the making of this thread! Great work, DB! |
28 Jun 01 - 05:00 AM (#493736) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Well, the AC is still not fixed yet; so, I'm too hot to sleep -- so, of course, I'm on the 'Cat and drowsily handing out your well earned awards for this Challenge! You all outdid yourselves on this one -- I just hope that you have something left for the next one (hehehehe). As you can see, we have yet another new award, The Golden Cow Chip with Doo-Lyn Ditty Digger Decoration -- Thanks to JenEllen and SharonA for instigating the creation of one more kind of cow chip to grace the mantels of you fantastic Challenge!rs. Cudos, congrats and much, much thanks for another wunnerful Challenge! -- Áine
Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Shamrock Cluster (The Shamrock Cluster is awarded for a very high level of imagination, imagery, and/or creative use of language in a song): |
28 Jun 01 - 10:12 AM (#493894) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,SharonA I... I...... I don't know what to say. I'm overwhelmed. I'll have to borrow a line: "You like me! You really like me!" I'm deeply honored to accept the first Golden Cow Chip with Doo-Lyn Ditty Digger Decoration. I'll display it proudly on my virtual mantel forever. Thank you (sniff) I have to run off to the virtual ladies' room now and have a good bawl; I'm so happyyyyyyy... SharonA :,^) |
28 Jun 01 - 10:19 AM (#493901) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Jack the Sailor Thanks for the Kudo's What's a "Silver B.L.O.B." Coal Mynah |
28 Jun 01 - 10:32 AM (#493919) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Dear Rob, A Silver B.L.O.B. (Best Line O' Bull) -- is given to each Challenge!r for a distinctive verse in each song. It's the Keeper of the Book's way of encouraging folks, ya see. ;-) -- Áine |
28 Jun 01 - 10:48 AM (#493938) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Amos BRAVO BRAVO!!! CHEERS! What a gang o' poets this Madcap Mudcat Music doth bring forth!!! Applause to all, and the Gaelic Goddess above all!!! What a limey green froth of magic blessings she does endow upon their happy souls! It's enough to make an old folkie believe!!! A |
28 Jun 01 - 10:54 AM (#493944) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine . . . and the clouds parted and she spoke . . . Why, thank you, dear Amos B.O.T.F., but watch those 'limey' cracks, eh? Or are you dabbling in daring double entendre?? ;-) And the happiest soul around here has to be mine -- I just love seeing my darlin' Challenge!rs create music, mirth and merriment. Hugs and snogs to one and all, Áine (K.O.T.B./TGG) (P.S. You did all go and see the new icons on the Song Challenge! Page, didn't you? Hope you enjoy them! -- Á) |
06 Sep 01 - 04:05 AM (#543186) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Aidan Crossey To the tune of "The Croppy Boy", the last of my "catch-up" entries! THE CRAPPY MAN 'Twas early, early all in the spring When the small birds whistled and did sweetly sing Changing their notes from tree to tree And the song they sang was "He cheats on thee" I am a lecherous, inconstant blade As before the altar, my vows I made I crossed my fingers behind my back To cut myself a little slack My honeymoon was barely o'er When I was grappling on the parlour floor With a lady fair, who was not my wife Who I swore to cherish for all my life Which started me on a sorry spree A hundred women must have lain with me And all the while we were overheard By my loving wife's precious mynah bird Every gasp and every pant and groan Were captured by this avian dictaphone To be transmitted at a later date To my life partner and my true bedmate Oh all you men who like to play away Take my advice or you will rue the day Oh, courting's pleasure, but be prepared Don't carry on with her fornent a bird 'Twas early, early all in the spring When the small birds whistled and did sweetly sing Changing their notes from tree to tree And the song they sang was "He cheats on thee" |
06 Sep 01 - 09:10 AM (#543312) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Jack the Sailor Congrats Derry! I've been following your progress. Good work! |
06 Sep 01 - 09:13 AM (#543315) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Aidan Crossey Thanks JtS! It's been a laugh at times and a frustration at others. Still for mental gymnastics it beats doing the crossword! |
26 Sep 01 - 02:40 PM (#559233) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,Mugwa What the Mynah Heard
And the Mynah told it all
I went to visit mama and papa
And the Mynah told it all
He's talking when the phone rings
And the Mynah told it all |
26 Sep 01 - 02:57 PM (#559248) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: MMario Huzzah! Well done, mugwa |
27 Sep 01 - 04:07 PM (#560136) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: GUEST,chintz you guys are good~ |
02 Nov 01 - 06:50 PM (#585062) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 56 From: Áine Another bit of 'catching' up to the 'latest but greatest' additions of our newer 'Catters . . . fine, fine, work!!
Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Shamrock Cluster (The Shamrock Cluster is awarded for a very high level of imagination, imagery, and/or creative use of language in a song): |