Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 02 Jun 25 - 04:46 PM

A parody to commemorate/celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Mudcat zoom sing:

This Sing is Your Sing
To the tune of This Land is Your Land by Woodie Guthrie
(which is based on the Carter Family's When the World's on Fire)
new words by Vikki Appleton ©2 June 2025

CHORUS:
This sing is your sing
This sing is my sing
From the lovely low notes
To the way-up-high zing
From the Sierra foothills
To the Aussie harbours
This sing was made for you and me

When Covid cancelled
Our socialising
See Joe and Mudcat
To the challenge rising
They gave us singing
To lift our lockdowns
This sing was made for you and me

So every Monday
We learned what grace is
And made new friends in
Far distant places
We kept on singing
We kept on listening
Cos this sing was made for you and me

Now five years later
Across the nations
It’s time for Thank Yous
And celebrations
We are so grateful
To Joe and those who
Built this sing, just made for you and me

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 17 Jun 25 - 06:06 PM

Updated version of my parody God Save (us from) the King in honour of No Kings Day…

God Save (us from) the King (v2)
new words by Vikki Appleton Fielden ©17 June 2025

God save us from the King
Don’t let him touch a thing
God stay the King
Send him felonious
So disharmonious
To someplace incommodious
God stay the King

God save us from the King
It’s time to march and sing
“We don’t do kings!"
Put on your TACO hat
Veto his coup d'état
We won’t support an autocrat
We don’t do kings

God save us from the King
We won’t be worshiping
We don’t do kings
See every single state
Spurn his parade of hate
That’s how the people demonstrate
We don’t do kings

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 24 Feb 26 - 01:44 AM

I've realised I never got around to posting this song here. I wrote it for a fabulous concert in Sheffield I was invited to sing at called "Folk the Patriarchy" — in honour of International Women's Day. It's a song about a special kind of freedom...

Very rough recording available on SoundCloud

Freedom!
©Vikki Appleton Fielden, March 2020

It’s been a long day; I’m finally home
I know just what I want when I walk through the door
It’s such a small thing but it does make me moan
Though it’s nothing to do with my fab pelvic floor
And truly a pleasure I crave and ado-ore, oh

Freedom! (Freedom!) Freedom! (Freedom!)
I took off my bra and I freed’em! (Freedom!)
Oh, the relief when there’s nowt underneath
There’s nothing compares when you’ve freed’em!

There’s a sad little secret most women don’t tell
But all the day long, we shift and we twitch
We try to ignore as our bosoms rebel
In the lacy containers that pinch and restrain us
Can’t wait to get home, so you’d best not detain us, oh

Chorus

I’ve been to the specialty stores now and then
Let M&S* measure my girth and my cup
Despite seeing “experts” again and again
Still somehow the numbers do not quite add up
So my “authorised” size is revised in each sho-op, oh

Chorus

I pray for the day when we’re finally free
And comfortable clothes are not viewed with disdain
When all of society simply agrees
To let suits and ties wane and let sisters regain
Their freedom from high heels and bras without sha-ame, oh

Freedom! (Freedom!) Freedom! (Freedom!)
I took off my bra and I freed’em! (Freedom!)
Oh, the relief when there’s nowt underneath
There’s nothing compares when you’ve…

Freedom! (Freedom!) Freedom! (Freedom!)
I took off my bra and I freed’em! (Freedom!)
Oh, the relief when there’s nowt underneath
There’s nothing compares when you’ve freed’em! (Freedom!)


*Non-Brits might not know that M&S = Marks & Spencer (also nicknamed Marks & Sparks) — a major department store which offers "fittings" for women.