A little help to a NYC firefighter...

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 09:51 PM

Thanks Wilfried... give my reguards to your fellow firefighters. The only volunteer batalions in New York are in the outer broughs, I am in Manhattan, don't know if they'd take me at my age anyway if there were volunteers in Manhattan, but thanks again for the compliment. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 06:00 AM

Hi Larry,

First I wiped some tears, and then I must tell how wonderful your lyrics are. If you are no volunteer firefighter you understand them well. Congratulations for your deep insight.
In times long ago the poets were considered the messengers of the gods. So I think you are.

Wilfried.

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 03:56 PM

Hallo Skarpi!
PM me a phone number, and a time to call, with the difference between NY and Iceland... and I will sing it for ya! Paul Brady sings it on some album or another, it is not the usual tune for Arthur McBride. I hope to start recording the new CD one day, and it will be on it.
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: skarpi
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 02:32 PM

Halló Larry, It´s a good lyric I like it, is the tune anywhere there i get it?. All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: chip a
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 12:31 PM

I don't know the tune but it reads good. You done good InOBU, thanks

Chip

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 11:26 AM

Hi McGrath... I hot linked it to my Genie, to see if she could download it. Cheers, Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:59 AM

It might work better if you download it from the the Fire Brigade Union page direct, instead of via the link to the petition that I gave. If not I'll find another way.

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:49 AM

Hi McGrath...
The firefighter's petition is in a format that I can't open... Can you post it to a Mudcat post? Or can you cut and past and email it to me at [e-mail]?
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 09:40 AM

ALSO! Please note it is the slow version of Arthur McBride as sung by Paul Brady... makes a lot of dif. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 09:39 AM

CORRECTION!!!! I wrote this out at 5 this morning, so you will notice I left forty off the number in the second verce... it should read...
So although the flags remain at half mast,
And though o'er the doorway grim buntings are cast
three hundred and forty three wounds will e're last
I know that our brothers have finally come home

Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 09:07 AM

THanks McGrath! I also think Danny the bike is Rowan, I will ask him today. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 08:43 AM

One b - it's short for probationer, and if it had two b's it'd have to be pronounced to rhyme with hobbies.

Meanwhile the powers that be believe that closing down firehouses and sacking firefighters in New York is a good way to deal with budget problems."What price a Hero" And they haven't had a rise in three years.

And in England the Fire Brigade Union has just resolved to ballot its members on industrial action for the first time in a generation, in a bid to get a fair wage. (And here is a downloadable petition in support of their demands.)

Subject: RE: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 07:11 AM

PS are there tow b's in probie? Larry

Subject: A little help to a NYC firefighter...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 07:11 AM

Two days ago, Dan the bike, mentioned how hard it is to see the flags at half mast at his firehouse. He is the chaufer for ladder 9. The bunting and flag at half mast means they have not yet brought all the firefighters of a house home. I was thinking of the hunge number of orange shields I see, marking new firefighters, or probies, and so this came to me, and it is for Dan and all the women and men of the FDNY...

The Probies of 01
Words Lorcan Otway, Tune Arthur McBride from the singing of Paul Brady
Inspired by Dan "the bike" Rohan and dedicated to 343 firefighters and their loved ones.

I saw in the eyes of a probie last night,
That familiar confidence that sense of fight
And I knew as I watched in the flashing red light,
I knew that our brothers had finally come home

So although the flags remain at half mast,
And though o'er the doorway grim buntings are cast
And three hundred and three wounds ever will last
I know that our brothers have finally come home

All the new probies know that which they face
They know of the dangerous demon we chase
And while shouldering the burden they'll never replace
Those heroes our brothers, they helped to bring home

So here's to the probies who joined in O one
As they sort out the job, as they have begun
To take up the slack where the bravest would run
As they help to usher our lost brothers home

So I look past the flags and the buntings and grief
At so many young faces providing relief
The orange shield on your helmets expresses belief
You carry our brothers, back to us and home.