shanty cabin

Subject: chanty cabin
From: GUEST,Paul & Linda Sirman
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 12:45 PM

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 12:50 PM

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Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: John Routledge
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 12:59 PM

Is this subliminal advertising gone wrong?

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 01:05 PM

It's only a shanty in Old Shanty Town
The Roof is slanty, it touches the ground
Just a tumbled down shack
By an old railroad track...

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Mudlark
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 04:02 PM

Nifty song...also pretty apt description of MY shack, except sans RR.....

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 06:33 PM

www.chanteycabin.co.uk

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 11:26 PM

There's a shanty in the town
On a little plot of ground
Where the green grass grows all around, all around.
The roof's so worn,
So badly torn,
That it tumbles to the ground.
It's a little old shack
That's set right back
Twenty-five feet from the railroad track,
Linger in my mind
Most all of the time,
Keeps calling me back
To my little old shack.

Feeling just as sassy
As Haile Selassie --
If I was a king,
'Twouldn't mean a thing --
Put my boots on tall,
Read the writing on the wall,
And it wouldn't mean a thing, not a goddamn thing.
There's a queen waiting there
In a rocking chair,
Blowing her top on some gator beer.
Looking all around
And a-trucking on down,
How I want to get back to my shantytown!

Where does that come from, anyway? I've sung it for 50 years, and I've never known.

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 03:51 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Paul and Linda! Why don't you sign up as members? It's easy, it's free. Obviously you've run into a technical problem on using this site, but if you type a message in the blank box at the bottom of this thread and then click on "submit," it should go through.

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Mudlark
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 03:59 AM

Guest Joe...I've heard that as a sort of fast riff added on to Shanty in Old Shanty Town. The words are a take-off of the original song, and were sung by what sounded like the members of the band, very up-tempo.... circa late 40's, I think.

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 10:14 AM

The couple that run The Chantey Cabin are very friendly people and they stock a good range of maritime recordings. Furthermore, their prices are quite reasonable.

Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: GUEST,whiskey
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 05:23 PM

Hi Chanteyranger...glad to see you're back in circulation after The Captain Cook festival on Teeside. What's the weather like Stateside? Will you ever forget the journeys around Teeside with Keepers Lock?