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Thread #108112   Message #2247915
Posted By: ClaireBear
29-Jan-08 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: What did your Dad used to sing?
Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
Where to start? It's been 22 years since he died, but I'll never forget. Any time of the day or night, Dad would pick up the mandolin or mandola and start in. I sang harmony, my two sisters came in on piano and melody respectively, and my brother on guitar. We had, erm, a wide range of material. Here are a few of our family favorites, to give you a vague idea of just how eclectic we were:

Twickenham Ferry
Lazybones
Santa Lucia
Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
The Dying Hobo
La Golondrina
Poor Little Joe
La Marseillaise
Slap 'er Down Again, Paw
Lili Marlene
Green Grows the Ivy
Ymnos eis tin Eleftherian (the Greek national anthem)
Flow Gently Sweet Afton
Long Black Veil
Cancion Mixteca
Do Ye Ken John Peel?
The Whiffenpoof Song
Mean to Me (How Come You're So...)
Ach! du liebe Augustin
Father, Dear Father (Come Home with Me Now)
Lady Be Good
MalagueƱa Saleroza
Fratelli d'Italia (the Italian national anthem)
Adios Muchachos
Let the Rest of the World Go By

Thanks for helping me relive my misspent youth...
Claire