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Thread #107378   Message #2229353
Posted By: GUEST,Martin Ryan
05-Jan-08 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Northwest Passage (Stan Rogers)
Subject: RE: Northwest Passage
Metchosin

I never suggested, of course, that tardiest and laziest are synonomous. Apart from the internal rhyme mentioned earlier, I'm quite happy with "laziest" as a narrator's gently sardonic comment on the idea of driving a car through the wilderness.

More generally: as an unaccompanied singer with a very mixed but largely traditional or traditional-style repertoire, I typically find that, as I learn songs, they tend to morph slightly in my head for a variety of reasons. If a song has a very standardised set of words and a static presentation style, I find I'm not likely to sing it - regularly, at least. That said, I may happily join in in with someone elses singing of it where appropriate!

Regards

p.s. Or, as a well known female Irish singer remarked once: "Martin - you just collect oddities of song!"!

p.p.s. I continue to be fascinated by the "Ads by Google" generated by our threads. The current one is offering me two possibilities of a Northwest Passage voyage in 2008. Clearly, the organisers have great fate in global warning!