Off went the van with me home packed in

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Mo the caller
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 03:02 PM

Just been ar Bedworth festival singing it with Alhambra.

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 10:39 PM

Not so much Irish music publishers, I suspect, as Americans who think that everything not American is probably Irish. Watch out though, you lot; point out a few more of the ridiculous mis-attributions in the DT and you'll be getting anonymous messages accusing you of being a "begrudger" or an "anti-gael".

Telling the truth tends to make you unpopular with idiots.

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 10:03 PM

Irish Music Publishers will steal anything not nailed down...

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 07:26 PM

Can't be that one Micca - at the bottom of the page it says that one is Irish!

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 03:27 PM

There was a theme folknight' thread doing the rounds lately -- we had a 'Cockney' night a couple of years back here in Canada with all these old favourites 'done.' It turned out much better than I anticipated (I did Ian Dury's 'Clever Bastards' ... bet yer grannie wouldn't have allowed that one, Mo!)

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Mo the caller
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 03:20 PM

Thats the one, though I never sang more than the chorus to my children.
I remember it from family parties, along with Nellie Dean and Old Bull and Bush (not at grandma's house though, she wouldn't have anything so "common").

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Micca
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 03:02 PM

as in here?

Subject: RE: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 02:53 PM

I followed on with me old cock linnet.
G

Subject: Off went the van with me home packed in
From: Mo the caller
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 02:50 PM

"Mummy, was that the same as the sweet chariot?"

(coming for to carry me home)