HearMe - 4/16/00

Subject: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: MMario
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 10:04 PM

Anyone planning a hearme session this sunday? or is it just gonna "happen" - theme? no theme? (Not that I expect to be able to use my mic sunday, but I like to be prepared...)

Monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, on the other hand...family is away and MMario just may play! or sing...

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 10:13 PM

Umm, Mario, and everyone, it pretty much well-established that there's ALWAYS a Hearme session going on Sunday nights at 7:00pm, as for "theme" we've pretty much done left them on the side for now. They do make the action happen faster, but sometimes it's just easier to "go with the flow" and sing what you want. Don't worry, we'll listen!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 10:39 PM

See ya'all there!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 10:45 PM

Yay Dave's back! Y-yes!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: paddymac
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 08:29 PM

Ya'll be sure to take a nap tomorrow, just in case this thing runs to the wee small hours as it did last week.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 12:13 AM

Mmario, after Holy Week services every evening this week, you may be just the thing. I'll tune in when I can!

~Susan~

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Caitrin
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 03:31 PM

I know what ya mean, Praise. After Stations of the Cross, you need something to cheer up a bit! : )

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 04:19 PM

Or we could sing Stations here if enough have mics (I don't) and then get flamified!

Easter Sunday HearMe could be very interesting as well.

But then, that's just my humble opinion!

~S~

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 04:27 PM

Just so long as we keep it open to other themes, too, please, although it would be fun to sing "Easter Parade."*BG*

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 04:41 PM

I just typed in "easter" in the DT search box to see what would come up. A lot of songs with that word in them; some pretty interesting ones, too.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 07:14 PM

Here's a link for tonight:

click here

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mbo
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 07:28 PM

Good idea Praise! Online Stations, yes! And Easter Sunday would be really neat...got some good Gospell tunes!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 08:30 PM

Oh Lord, I didn't mean it quite like that!!

Mea culpa....

But surely you know me better than that by now, yes, please??

~S~

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 09:40 PM

I tried to get on, but I'm stuck at home with a laptop that doesn't have a built-in mike and a modem connection that's via slow cell phone (one of the prices you pay for living off the grid), so I'm going to have to miss it. Hope you have fun. Next week I should be healed enough to get into the office. I'll have to do a Passover song.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 09:52 PM

The Last Shanty
Marching Inland
Sailors Prayer
all by Tom Lewis

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 11:01 PM

Oh, this was wonderful. It is still going on. Just incredible talent and fun.

I sang:

That's Not My Colorado
Prairie Lullaby (as much as mom and dad sang to me)
Desert Silvery Blue
Irish Lullaby
Tattooed Lady

and I read my girlfriend's poem, Hula Girls

Thank you everyone. So far, we had three people from the UK: Jon Freeman, Ed Pellow, and Richard Bridge; Callie from Oz and a bunch of us from all over the US, and Dave in Nova Scotia! Not sure of where some of the others are locatd, so I hope they sign in here. Great music selections tonight!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 11:53 PM

Still going strong!

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mbo
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 12:07 AM

Great fun once again! I sang (and played):
Stranger--by ELO
Cripple Creek (on fiddle, very badly)
Forever & Ever, Amen--by Randy Travis
I'll Still Be Loving You--by Restless Heart
Irish Slip Jig/The Humours of Whisky (on fiddle)
The Cowboy Piper (poem I read)
The Limerick Lasses (poem I read)
When Cowboys Didn't Dance--by Lonestar
Chicken Truck--by John Anderson
Black Sheep (of the Family)--by John Anderson
The Fields of Athenry
The Stuttering Lovers

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 12:23 AM

It was fun to be back!!!

I sang and played:

Common Sailors Palms of Victory (in honor of Palm Sunday) Bulley in the Alley with harmonica John Hardy/Cripple Creek on my new(old) banjo.

The talent tonight was awsome. I just wish I could get through one song without making a blunder. Everytime I get a little closer to doing it though, so maybe someday I'll do it. Please be patient.

My mic is a Labtec AM-252 "NCAT" I think Linn said it was $13.00 at the local computer store. It seems to really work well.

Good night! Sleep tight!

JAB

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mark Clark
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 12:29 AM

Buckdancer's Choice (instrumental) Railroad Bill (instrumental) Staggerlee

Going back in.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 12:41 AM

I sang "Old Rugged Cross," "Henry My Son," "Aragon Mill," "River of my People."
We're still going strong - 11 or 12 people there.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
From: paddymac
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 01:56 AM

LYRIC ADD: Here are the lyrics to "Lament For the Molly Maguires", more or less as done by the Irish Rovers. The tune is verry close to "Hills of Connemarra".

LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES

Chorus: Suck-in' up the coal dust, in-to your lungs,
un-der-neath the hills where there is no sun.
Try-in' to make a liv-in' on a dol-lar a day,
dig-gin' coal in Penn-syl-van- I-A.

Verse 1: We left old Ire-land, we left our homes,
a-cross the o-cean we had to roam.
With five gosoons and a scrawny wife,
tryin' to make some kind of a life.

VERSE 2: But the Welsh and the English, the Germans, the Dutch,
controlled all the mines, they didn't leave much.
A tar-paper shanty, no Irish need apply,
the Molly's started blowin' all the mines sky high

VERSE 3: A straw-boss shot and an owner disappears,
Many's a Welsh man lost his ears.
Company store burned to the ground,
the Molly's started spreadin' all around.

VERSE 4: Black Jack Peeple looked after his pack,
even honest Irish, they wouldn't fight back.
Checkin' his boys put fear in their souls,
The Molly Maguires were controllin' the coals.

VERSE 5: Well terror ends as it had begun,
Jack McParlan he ended the run.
He lived as a Molly and brought their fate,
after many years he ended the hate.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: alison
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 01:58 AM

still going

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: paddymac
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 01:58 AM

Oops. There should be a line break after the word "CHORUS:"

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 01:59 AM

Hey, Alison just woke up, and we're still going strong.

Subject: Lyr Add: PEAT BOG SOLDIERS ^^
From: paddymac
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 02:08 AM

I'm not sure about attribution for these lyrics, but here's the version of "Peatbog Soldiers" I did tonight.

PEAT BOG SOLDIERS

Verse 1:
Far and wide as the eye can wander,
Heath and bog are everywhere.
Not a bird sings out to cheer us,
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare.

Chorus:
We are the peatbog soldiers,
Marching with our spades
To the moor.

Verse 2:
Up and down the guards are pacing.
No one, no one can get through.
Flight would mean a sure death facing,
Guns and barbed wire greet our view.

Chorus:

Verse 3:
But for us there is no complaining,
Winter will in time be past.
One day we shall rise rejoicing,
"Homeland" dear. your mine at last.

Chorus (2):
Then will the peatbog soldiers
March no more with their spades
To the Moor. ^^

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 03:05 AM

Alison did a beautiful job on Green Glens of Antrim.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: alison
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 03:07 AM

Thanks

I did

dirty old town
spanish lady
green glens of Antrim

slainte

alison

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO'S CHASING DREAMS AROUND? (T Paxton)^^
From: Bugsy
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 03:23 AM

just did the one:

Tom Paxton's "Who's Passing Dreams Around"

WHO'S CHASING DREAMS AROUND?
(Tom Paxton)

Billy chased the diamonds in the mountain stream.
Shivered through the night beside the fire.
Spent his whole life chasing after just a dream.
Died proclaiming hope was never higher.

And Cynthia chased heaven on here dancing toes.
Dreaming swans, batons and bright bouquets.
Now she does the cleaning in her dancing clothes.
Now the old victrola seldom plays.

CHORUS:
Who's passing dreams around this morning bright and early
Might be better if he stayed in bed.
Maybe he ought to let us be, find something else to do.
God help me I've been dreaming too.

Leroy he liked racing he was doing swell
Folks who knew said he was rising fast.
Lost control, you know his car blew all to hell.
Now he's on the corner pumping gas.

Chorus.

cheers
Bugsy ^^

Line Breaks <br> added. By the way, the tune is reminiscent of "Me & Bobby McGee."
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 08:38 AM

...oh sorry I missed it again. Worn out from six hours of yard work! Paddymac, will you be too tired for band practice tonight??? harpgirl

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: MMario
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 08:58 AM

I didn't even get a chance to check the forum.....drat! B-I-L was finishing his taxes, and then "working" hard at a war game.....

oh well, I plan to be on tonite, if anyone want s to join/listen/whatever....

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Caitrin
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 09:19 AM

I sang:
If Wishes Were Changes- Nanci Griffith
and "Songs from the Wood"- Jethro Tull (badly)

Great fun, as always!

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 10:01 AM

Harpgirl:

Sorry you missed the hearme session. Someone, I think it was Ed Pillow was really interested in hearing good autoharp playing.

It might be fun to pick a future session and get as many autoharpers to come in and play as we can find. Not to limit it to just autoharp, but it could be an autoharp friendly hearme session.

JAB

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 10:11 AM

Drat! I missed Bugsy!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 11:50 AM

i am a new member and more than a little confused. How do I get in on "Hear Me"? And can I just listen?

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: MMario
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 11:55 AM

sinsull - I suggest you put "hearme" in the filter and set the date to about three months....then read the threads.

other then that, there is a link further up in THIS thread, click on it, and follow the instructions. it takes a while to downlad the script the first time....

yes, you can just listen, or join in the text chat.

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Mbo
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 11:56 AM

Sinsull, you can get Hearme by clicking on this link! And of course you can just listen. If you have a microphone to plug into your computer, you can sing or play too! And you know we'd love to hear you!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 01:37 PM

Hi, Sinsull, welcome to the Mudcat. You can just listen, but there has to be another person in there for you to listen to. We always have a circle on Sundays at 7pm Eastern Time (United States). Other times, you can post to the HearMe Now thread, to let folks know you are headed in there, and usually someone will show up to chat or swap songs.

Hope this helps, keep asking question...we'll try to get the answers right.

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: paddymac
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 05:22 PM

And another grand time was had by all!

Subject: RE: HearMe - 4/16/00
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 06:56 PM

As always, I had a great time!

I got there late, about 9:30, but better late than never, say I! I sang:

I've Got No Use for the Women
Blood on the Saddle
The Eddystone Light
The Mantrap (my own;shameless self-aggrandizement!)

Dave Oesterreich