The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79095   Message #1430291
Posted By: Mark Cohen
09-Mar-05 - 02:44 AM
Thread Name: Rounds Anyone?
Subject: RE: Rounds Anyone?
Allison, when I saw your post, mentioning "Nero's Expedition," my first thought was, "Hey, I don't remember posting to this thread, but I guess I did!" Because "Nero", written by Moondog, is my favorite round, too. That link you posted didn't work, though. When I (finally) got back to Camp Harmony this year, one of my few regrets was that I didn't get to spend enough time with some of the champion rounds singers, like Lani Herrmann and Deborah Frank. Just enough to make me want a lot more.

Some of my other favorites:

Sweet Rest -- I'm not sure what the real title is. It goes:
Goodnight, goodnight
Time sends a warning call, sweet rest descend to all
Time, time sends a warning call
Sweet rest, sweet rest descend to all

Great Tom is Cast -- really sounds like bells ringing (well, I think it does, anyway)

Ride a Cock Horse

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Albert the Alligator

I agree with Padre's choice of Alix (Anne) Herrmann's New Year's Round. What a joy to sing that one!

Does anybody know the late Jan Harmon's My Friend Sharon? I almost remember it. The words go:

My friend Sharon
Saved an armadillo from a crocodile
One day
My friend Sharon
Saved an armadillo from a crocodile
One day
It was out in Amarillo
Where this vile child
Had an armadillo by the tail
And he would have sent it sailing
To some smiling crocodile
Only Sharon hollered
"Stop! You rotten kid!"
And he did

Aloha,
Mark