UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Willa
Date: 24 May 04 - 10:50 AM

YY. Not sure how you tune 'em, but I guess once you've done it you can 'make the whelkin ring!'

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:09 AM

Maybe, but we prefer to strum small dogs (centre of the page)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:48 AM

Most of the pictures that I took are very similiar to ones already posted - anyway, I'm not in any of them !

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 May 04 - 04:37 PM

If Douglas Adams is involved, I request a change of price for a whelk from £57 to £42 ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 28 May 04 - 06:11 AM

Dave - what a pity! But photographers seem to share the same fate as the daylight in Greenland: seldom seen.
You should send in a small collection of your pictures, where MudGuard can be seen, considering the fine pictures he took from you. You owe him this, I think.
Linda - nag him till he does it!

Cheerio
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Essex Girl
Date: 28 May 04 - 10:23 AM

I've got a few pictures which we've downloaded,(including one of Mudguard) but I'll have to ask Dave to post then as I haven't quite got the hang of it yet. (NO RUDE REMARKS !!!!!)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 29 May 04 - 12:07 PM

Thanks, Linda. Unrude remark enough?
Have a nice sunny Pentecost with a lot of songs.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 07:01 AM

Hi folks,

finally I found it again, on a crumpled sheet, in a corner of my satchel:

A Rather Silly Lullaby

Flow gently, sweet Humber
deprived of any elks,
sing me into slumber
with the help of your whelks.

I don't care for their number,
fifty seven or nine;
sing me into slumber,
with me it is fine.

Be proud, mighty Humber,
to be not so narrow
and lick all the outskirts
of the village of Barrow.

So flow on, sweet Humber,
and flap to the shore,
sing me into slumber
with a Mudcat folklore.

(the snoring contest MudGuard vs. Wilfried ended even; Saturday Wilfried 1 point, Sunday MudGuard 1 point)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:17 PM

That was lovely Wilfried. Thanks for sharing it.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:34 PM

Well, Oaklet... I'm feeling quite neglected now! You complimented Wilfried on his song, but you didn't mention *my* song -- even though it mentions *you* all over the place! Humph! I'm pouting now... ;-p

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 12:44 PM

Oaklet, my dear driver of veteran treasures - thanks a lot for your appraisal.
YorkshireYankee - I'd be the first to utter my praise of your song in writing (I did it verbally after hearing it, I'm sure), but I didn't find it in this thread. Please publish it here or give me a link.

Cheerio
Wilfried

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:16 PM

Good though it was, Wilfried's poem cannot even hope to gain permission within this current millennium to qualify to sniff the bottom of YY's seminal opus with me in it.

There.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:23 PM

Wilfried, you should open your eyes. click here to move up to Yorkshire Yankee's posting with the Oaklet song

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:24 PM

Right - this is from memory and should be sung (as I do) to the tune of "On Ilkla Moor Bah T'at...

Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
With Oaklet and Mudcat
Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
Where hast tha been sin I saw thee? (Sin I saw thee)
With Oaklet and Mudcat
With Oaklet and Mudcat
With Oaklet and Mudcat

Barrow on Humber really swings (It really swings!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Visit Hull's famous "curry ship" ("curry ship"!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Tha'll die of eating curried whelks (curried whelks!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Then whelks will come & et thee up (they'll et thee up!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

All only 57 quid!
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

Three cheers for Greg and Eric too! (& Eric too!)
With Oaklet and Mudcat...

I hope I have remembered it ok...

Grand stuff

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:33 PM

Thanks to all who opened my eyes. What should I do without you? Retire to a long boat till I'm sober? Anybody ready with a hose pipe?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:34 PM

What I didn't say was YY's song will shortly be offered to Buena Vista studios as a spec feature-film potentially starring Daniel Day Lewis, Sting and Linda Lusardi. All the artist's respective agents have demanded a (returnable) fee for the option. They wouldn't do this if the artists thought the idea was pants. Me old mate Linda is up for my part. This is a bit ironic, as I am usually up when I think of most of hers.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 May 04 - 02:05 PM

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I've come not to bury but to praise. A really lovely song, YY, and it merits to be produced as a spec film. May I ask for a small part in it?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 31 May 04 - 06:14 PM

Vicky, sorry to be so quiet on the subject, but I thought the song great even when you first sang it. It added (if possible at all) greatly to the hilarity of the Hull Eurogathering, and deservedly featured Oaklet as among the foremost Hull Mudcat whelks. However - as us Scots would say - Wilfried's poem was no bad at a either! (And one of these days I'll get round to posting those two songs I dared to sing at the gathering to be added, for anyone who's interested, to the Low German section of the DT.)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 11:49 AM

Happy news: Kate is working on the video!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 12:31 PM

Goodness, I wasn't expecting a response from so many quarters! (I'm blushing now!) Oaklet, all is forgiven... I was *most* impressed and gratified by your total and flawless recall of all the words ;-), and your comment about Buena Vista Sudios made me laugh out loud! (my husband always has to come find out what I'm reading when that happens.)

Now, down to brass tacks: the offer from Buena Vista *sounds* good, but I'm a bit wary -- have they said who they have in mind to play the whelks? After all, that's really the *most* important part(s)...

Wilfried, how would you feel about playing a whelk? (Remember, there are no "small parts", only small actors.)

Susanne, thanks for your kind words as well, and you're right about Wilfried's poem/lullabye -- a sterling effort! (If I could produce something *half* as good in German, I would be absolutely delighted!)

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 10:38 AM

Remember my song about the Iraqi war? You'll find it in the forum under Lyr Add: Iraqi War Song