The Weekly Walkabout

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 07:25 PM

Good grief, WAV, you didn't even get the joke, did you!!??

Sheesh!

(Vanishing behind the curtain again.)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:08 PM

Actually Gene, I think somewhere down the road you'll have a Tom Petty one as well. (:<))

Saw the Bogdanovich documentary on him (and of course the Heartbreakers just the other day......4 hours long!). Somebody in there commented they could play for 2 and a half hours and you'd be singing along the whole time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 04:31 PM

James James
Morrison's mother
Hasn't been heard of since.
King John said he was sorry,
So did the Queen and Prince.
King John
(Somebody told me)
Said to a man he knew:
If people go down to the end of the town, well,
what can anyone do?"

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Gene Burton
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 03:21 PM

Anything I can readily hum written before I was born qualifies IMO...
Incidentally, I've just been watching highlights of Neil Diamond's set at Glastonbury; and it was striking to see how thousands of people, mostly under 30, seemed to know all the words to "Sweet Caroline". I reckon a "Neil Diamond: Folksinger" thread is long overdue!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 03:20 PM

Dear Don: ballads tell STORIES; good or bad, "Lancashire Sung Simply" is NOT a ballad.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 03:12 PM

Is there such a thing as a "Childish Ballad?"

(Who was that masked man, anyway?)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 03:06 PM

Who can tell if its a folk song or not..he only posted the lyrics .Lighten up!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 02:49 PM

Above post in response to Gene.

Don Firth (in cloak and mask)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 02:46 PM

Oh, yeah!??

Then just what do you mean by "folk song?"

(There, by God! That'll dump the poop in the punchbowl!!)

Don Firth (strikes again!)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 02:43 PM

You can write a song. It MAY become a folk song, but you can't write one.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Gene Burton
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 02:15 PM

"BTW Dumbass. you can't write a folksong."

(Altogether, now): OH yes, you can...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: s&r
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 12:45 PM

Here it is

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: s&r
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 12:43 PM

Does anyone remember the scintillating narrative oof E L Whisty (Peter Cook)? There weren't many dull moments in his diary, that's for sure.

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 12:36 PM

To Sedayne: the boundary of Lancashire does, indeed, in part, run along the Pennines; and, in the second stanza, I put a semi-colon after it to try and make it clear that it's the county that's "steeped in hist'ry".
Also, as has happened before on Mudcat, it has been changed to "Penile" presently (as Spaw just noted), so, if you want the correct version of THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, perhaps it's best to use blue clickys - walkaboutsverse.741.com
(To the Mod. - please change it back for me as you did last time.)
Finally, I have to disagree with John - not many dull moments when I have a go.

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I changed it to "Pennine," as requested. I can't imagine why a moderator would have changed it to "Penile." Could it be you made a typographical error in the first post?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Sedayne (Astray)
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 11:24 AM

As a very recent immigrate into Lancashire, I read WAVs Weekly Walkabout with interest. I was especially struck by the reference to the Penile boundary, a somewhat perplexing image in any context, but here it carries an added pathos, especially being (somehow) steeped in hist'ry. A search for Penile Boundary on Google throws up some very interesting results indeed. Nice one, WAV - though perhaps a footnote or two might be of use in future...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 07:33 AM

Boredom?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: s&r
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 07:20 AM

It seemed unneccessary to close the previous thread - it wasn't too unpleasant, a bit tasteless at times, but I must confess to reading it with a morbid fascination, and half hoping it would make 1000 posts.
Perhaps the moderators would say why threads are closed?

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:55 AM

Neither can I, GFS?!...but, at least, anyone on a not-so-powerful computer like mine, won't have to wait so long to post here, if they wish to.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:48 AM

Hi WAV, somehow your last thread 'Walkaboutverse' stopped allowing one from posting on it. I'm somewhat new to this, was their a reason as to why? Also, your attempt at a folk song was fine, nothing wrong with it, I didn't understand why someone could object to it(?????).

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:33 AM

"Lancashire Sung Simply" is, indeed, one of my attempts at a folk song, Mysha.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Mysha
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:14 AM

Hi,

Never mind: Now it is. Just ignore it.

                                                                Mysha

Subject: BS
From: Mysha
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 06:12 AM

Hi,

This isn't about folk songs, is it? Shouldn't it be below the line?

                                                                  Mysha

Subject: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 05:24 AM

THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G.
WEEK OF JUNE 23-29
From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Poem 136 of 230: LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY

Lancashire:
Cut by rivers, met by sea;
Patched by farmland,
Mills and other industry.

Lancashire:
With your Pennine boundary;
Steeped in hist'ry,
Through your buildings, there to see.

Lancashire:
Where, through Graces, moorlands be;
Wooded parklands,
Flowered gardens - kept neatly.

Lancashire:
Red Rose County, God's blessed thee.