Mudcat Campfire

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 25 Jul 99 - 03:02 PM

alison, go to CDnow and type in the title. It will bring up all the recordings they have, several by different people. That's where I found the one I posted. I played a few different real audio clips, and I think they have bits and pieces that make up the whole song.

I just drove back from Virginia City, Montana's Victorian Days celebration, where I was the singer last night at the Victorian Ball. It was great, with a program I did onstage in the ballroom, then another one upstairs after 'victuals' in a room with high tin ceilings (bright sound, much better than the stage/dancefloor). Everyone was dressed in late 19th century clothing, including a couple of cavalry men. It was wonderful to see people getting into the 'act'.

Just before I was introduced, a lady whispered to me to stop at some point in the program and call out for "Tom" to come to the center of the dance floor... he planned to propose to his girlfriend. So, after my first two songs, I called out to the audience asking if there was someone named Tom who could come to the center of the room for a special moment. It took them a bit to find his girlfriend, since she had stepped out to the boardwalk for some fresh air. She came in, and he went down on one knee and pulled out the engagement ring. It was great, and an added romantic twist to the night for everyone.

If I have a good photo from last night, I will post it later. It's good to be back. "Home, Home, sweet, sweet, home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home." I did get another 'gig' from this and also met musicians that may work with me in the future.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Jul 99 - 08:46 PM

I give up DougR, it appears I am no match for you, you son of a gun. Would you teach me how you do this???? hahqahahahahahaha

I had a great weekend, my friends around the campfire of Blessings Barbara and family. Cap'n Bob was their and we sat up until all hours singing songs and enjoying the company of one another. Her family is lovely, her husband Mark harmonizes very nicely, her brother Jamie and his wife play jigs, reels and hornpipes on the whistle and guitar, her brother Stewart is one of the nicest folks I have ever met, her niece Fiona and her nephew Keagan (both with red hair) are two perfect little charmers and her partents are free with the hospitality and lovely to talk too. All things considered, it was one of the nicer singarounds I have been to. Ole Cap'n Bob hauled out some GREAT songs, and is very good on his Martin and his tenor banjo. And nobody minded me hauling out my bodhran. And of course, my Guild just loved the company. The dog next door did swipe my shoe, but we fielded a search party and found it in about a half hour. So how did the weekend go?? Couldn't have gone better.

Glad to be back at the campfire though. Now, Doug R, you have to teach me those moves, doggone it all. LOL

Mick

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 25 Jul 99 - 09:50 PM

Big Mick ~ It certainly was a great time last night on the lake shore. Couldn't have been better and then there was that great breeze that came in from the lake to blow away those hungry mosquitoes.

After hearing Barbara's description of the building of the OPOSSUM I doubt if many of could afford to buy one. Catspaw should take great care of that treasure of his.

I agree with all your comments about Barbara and her wonderful family. I think I'm going to junk my old Yamaha 12 string and start looking for a Guild. Your Guild was, without a doube, the easiest playing 12 stings that I've ever had in my hands. It's amazing how fast time flies when you are having fun...

Oh the night has gone so quickly and the time has almost come~~~~For the fiddler and the piper, the singer and the song~~~~~~The time has come for us to leave you, one more song before we go~~~~~bundle up and aye be cheery, have a dram before ye go......

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jul 99 - 09:59 PM

Well you guys obviously had a great weekend!!! And Bob, please rest assured the possum is in a safe place and on display at the same time.......He is truly a one of a kind from a very special friend.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: lloyd61
Date: 25 Jul 99 - 10:30 PM

It's Sunday night, I've enjoyed all you tonight.

Sing with me, you know the words....

Now the day is over, night is drawing nigh shadows of the evening steal across the sky.

Good night.

Lloyd

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:28 AM

Nice to see you here, Lloyd.

G'night.

kat

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jul 99 - 11:24 AM

Well, folks, I must share "Aura Lee" with you, since the Victorian Days program is still going 'round in my head. A lovely song for around the campfire.

I checked the Virginia City website and thought I would share it with you, since it is the kind of history you would enjoy. The city started by being in Idaho Territory, then the Montana Territory was formed, encompassing Virginia City. It was a Confederate gold mining town during the Civil War, but came under the control of the Union Government. Talk about political controversy!

Here is the history of Virginia City, Montana.

The boardwalks are still there, the wooden and stone houses, and many were closed up with everything left inside - stores, offices, and houses. Not all was vandalized, because it was protected and preserved well enough for the town to remain intact. You can look in the windows and see clothing, furniture, etc that is original. The house I stayed overnight in had the interior walls exposed to the planks. There were pencil signatures with flourishes and dates from the 1800's on the wood walls, with two penciled penmanship doves.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: DougR
Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:09 PM

Big Mick, you give up far too quickly! If I could have a weekend such as the one you described, I would glady share any secrets I might have with you! It really sounds like all of you had a great time. Now as to the serious stuff, REALLY sharing my secrets of success with the opposite gender, I guess you'd have to ask my wife of 48 years that. We met on a blind date at college, went to a movie (Jolson Sings Again) and she went to sleep. I was absolutely shocked that she went to sleep with me on our first date. The fact that several hundred others were in close promimity while she snoozed notwithstanding. So that shows you how interesting I am!

Alice, we took our family to Ennis, Montana to fish O'Dell Creek and the mighty Madison several years ago, and drove over to Virginia City for a visit. A great place! Wish I could have been there to hear you perform.

DougR

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Cara
Date: 26 Jul 99 - 02:34 PM

I must say that this thread is great. BUT, I saw the scariest mivie of my life this weekend ("the Blair Witch Project") and the ghost stories creeped me out all over again. I don't know how many of you have seen this movie, but I was so frightened I actually cried, and I'm not that spook-able.

I love a campfire though...always reminds me of how I cried when I fist heard "One Tin Soldier", sung by children's voices. Can we sing that? And "A Pair of Brown Eyes"? And "Barges"? And "Rare Ould Times" again, since I missed it? And could someone pass the bug spray?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: LEJ
Date: 26 Jul 99 - 03:18 PM

Can such things Be?

This little tale doesn't rank with Penny or WW or Katlaf's stories, but I thought I would offer it as a corroboration of certain strange phenomena.

My wife, her daughter, our infant daughter(at the time) and I lived in a mountain home that was built in 1928. The house had a very positive and comfortable feel, but my wife and my step-daughter often mentioned, well out of the hearing of the little one, voices being heard from the kitchen. I had never heard them, until one night after all three of them had left for a visit to relatives in California. I woke up at about 3 AM, listening to the dull and muted interchange of several voices. I could aaalmost make out what they were saying, but not quite. I had just awakened, and in that confused state thought that my wife and her daughter were in the kitchen, speaking quietly so as to not awaken anyone. Then I remeembered they were gone. I decided that I had left the TV or a radio on, and got out of bed. As I entered the front room and saw that the appliances were all shut off, I also noticed that the voices had stopped.

We moved two years ago, and I asked my daughter (the former infant I had mentioned) if she liked the new house better. "Yeah, I guess. I miss some of my friends in the neighborhood." Then she thought for a second. "And it's not as scary at night. At least I don't hear people whispering in the kitchen all night long."

LEJ

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:51 AM

There is a large forest fire burning up the Musselshell, Montana area that my grandparents homesteaded, where my mother grew up. Be careful with that campfire and its embers.

Smokey the Bear, Smokey the Bear Prowlin' and a-growlin' and a sniffin' the air ...

(All together now, it's in the DT.) I know I have the sheet music someplace, just don't know exactly where.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: WyoWoman
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:03 AM

Cara--I know what you mean. I don't go to any movies that advertise being about ghosts or goblins or things that go bump in the night. Why would I PAY to have someone scare the bejabbers out of me? I pride myself on being a pretty straight-up kind of person and looking life right in the face. But that whole arena is one I simply don't want to know about, thenkyew very much. There may very well be spooky stuff out there, but I'll choose to avoid any such knowledge as long as I can.

Let's get back to singing songs. I'm too easy when it comes to scaring half-to-death.

Let's do a lovely little round from my college days: the Collegiate Version of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Ready:

"Propel, propel, propel your vessel Placidly down the liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is but a delusion..."

Ok, 'Spaw, you start out with Group 1. Kat, you take Group 2, and Big Mick, would you please get Group 3 outta the bushes and ready for their part in this round?

WW

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: DougR
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:07 AM

Alice, I thought of you when I heard about the forest fires on the evening news. Those fires are so horrible. Necessary, I guess, to balance the forces of nature, but heartbreaking to those who live in their path.

DougR

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:53 PM

Alice, on Sunday we had smoke filling our valley. The radio said it was from a fire in the Bighorns in Wyoming and from the one in Montana. The wind had brought it. It was a weird weekend all round in Wyoming. 8 people killed in car wrecks and a couple of other deaths, as well as the ehat and that smoke.

Cara, sorry I didn't see your post about the Blari Witch movie til now. We saw a documentary on it on the Independent Film Channel last week. It was scary because it was real and used actual footage. I cannot imagine how horrendous the movie must be. Not stuff to mess with.

Now some good ole' M.R. James ghost stories....best ever written.

LEJ: that is fascinating. Interesting how "little ones" tune in without our knowing it. When I was a kid, living in a big old country Victorian, on the Western Slope of Colorado, I woke up one night because I'd heard somebody digging wiht a shovel. My window faced east and there was a huge old cottonwood tree across the driveway from it. There by the light of the moon, I saw a man, kind of a hobo looking guy, digging at the base of the tree. when I asked mom in the morning who had been digging under the tree she told me nobody that she or dad knew of. That house's attic was spooky to me at that age:-)

kat

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: LEJ
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 06:45 PM

Kat- That might have been the ghost of the old Wanderin' Hobo, showing you where the legendary Treasure of Chief Ouray was hidden!:)

LEJ

Subject: Lyr Add: COOL WATER (Bob Nolan)
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:18 PM

Well, the temperature is getting hot even here.... time to head back up the mountainside for our evening campfire. Amazing how quickly the air cools after the orange and purple sunset clouds fade to stars. I have photos from my Virginia City re-enactment experience, and a few sound clips I will try to post tonight.

COOL WATER
(Bob Nolan, 1936)

All day I've faced a barren waste
Without a taste of water
Cool water.
Old Dan and I with throats burnt dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear water.

Refrain Keep amovin' Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan
He's a devil, not a man, and he spreads the burning sand
With water.
Dan, can you see that big green tree
Where the water's running free and its waiting there for you
And me.

The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water
Cool water.
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water
Cool, clear water.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 02:05 AM

This campfire is getting so slow to load, it may be time for it to follow the example of the tavern.
It feels good to be back in a light cotton dress again. That heavy velvet gown was fun to dress up in, but incredibly impractical. I don't know how ladies did anything with all the cumbersome clothes they use to wear. The hardest part, though, was getting those ringlets to stay in my hair.

Well, it is still a summer night, and the lure of the woods is upon me. I think I'll check out the stars for awhile.

HALLEY'S COMET

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 06:54 PM

Well,I found the campfire ring from our fire last year,I've piled some leaves,pine branches and kindling in it.Anyone have a light?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 02:56 AM

Another year on the old campfire. Worth visiting again for the cider and the stories.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 12:12 AM

Light the kindling again, LEJ.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Amos
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 12:29 AM

Dang, lemme pull up a stump, LEJ, and hand me a Sam Adams. I am bone weary and a little nervous about the world, let me say. And sitting with my knees pointing at the fire and just listening to it crackle to the stars ad watching the pines silhouetted before the moon is my idea of thebest possible way to unwind.

Maybe its just me, being less knowledgeable than some in such matters, but one of the finest campfire songs I know is that simple one:

Eyes like the morning star
Cheeks like the rose!
Laurie was a pretty gal,
God Almighty knows.
Hear that lonesome whistle blow,
Hear the coyote wail.
All up and down along
The Colorado trail.

Regards, and thanks,

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 02:24 AM

Alice----'way out there in the wilderness, how the hell did you get on the Mudcat???

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 04:13 PM

Monkey See Monkey Do.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 09:04 AM

Montana residents were some of the first to get online back in the late '80's through a program called "Big Sky Telegraph". It was a state bulletin board project with helpers trained in many towns, often teachers or libarians, who helped people get access to computers, modems, and learn how to use them. I signed up in 1988 to be one of the "telegraphers" getting, at the time, a floppy disc for the BBS free from Frank Odasz at Western Montana University in Dillon. All I had to pay for was the long distance calls to Dillon to connect. One of our state senators, Conrad Burns, has been a long time promoter of internet access to rural areas and schools.
An intersting history of it here:
Case Study - Big Sky Telegraph


Happy virtual campfires,

Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: open mike
Date: 23 Nov 04 - 09:35 PM

i am preparing a yule log to throw on the fire...
and how about some hot apple cider to add to the grog?
what's that i see? a horse-drawn wagon bringing another load
of revellers to join in the celebration?? ahh--listen to those
harness bells -- how they jingle!! and an old fashioned
long handled pop corn popper for making snacks over the fire!
rise up oh flame....by thy light glowing,
show to us beauty, vision and joy!

and thanks for the Si Kahn tune "WHAT YOU DO WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT."
posted earlier...what a wonderful song...any one know more?
cannot find it in d.t.--message saiys not found...may be a glitch...
from way out here in the woods, no wonder the connection is iffy....
woould like to know where to get a recording of this...perhaps
Dick Gaughan has done it??? i hope i can play it on my radio show..

anybody know any good ghost stories??

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 06:22 AM

Yoo hoo - Joe Offer! I'm here and ready to give you that virtual backrub I promised you!

Got a keg of Guinness with me too.

Here's a few to go on with - (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)

And here's a toast to Max and the Mudcat, and all who sail in her.

TO MUDCAT - LONG MAY SHE LIVE TO RISE AND RISE AGAIN!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 06:51 AM

Looks like I'd better head on over to the Mudcat Tavern Nouveau ! That seems to be where all the action is. I'll just take my Guinness and toast over there!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 07:52 AM

Someone grab bert's credit card if we're headed back to the tavern.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 01:06 AM

*stumbling into the Mudcat Campfire Circle* and planting myself on an old log. Do any of you remember a song called the Cannibal King? I learned it with hand motions at Girl Scout Camp....

It goes something like this:

Oh the cannibal king with the big nose ring
Fell in love with a fair young maid
And every night by the pale moonlight
Across the lake he came
with a hug and a kiss for his pretty little miss
Under the bamboo treeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee

Barump *kiss kiss* Barump *kiss kiss*
Barump oddy oddy AAAaaaAAAAA
Barump *Kiss kiss* Barump *kiss kiss*
Barump Oddy oddy AAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAA

I'll build a bungaloo big enough for two
Big enough for two my honey
big enough for two
And when we're married, Happy we'll be
Under the bamboo, under the bamboo tree

If you'll be M-I-N-E mine
I'll be T-H-I-N-E thine
And I'll L-O-V-E love you
All the T-I-M-E time

Shave and a hair cut: 2 bits
Gas in a match tank: BOOM BOOM

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 09:07 PM

Sure is nice to see the old campfire, again, Alice. Good to see you lot, all o'ya, too. Nice tribute, JennyO! Mick, I hear ya and raise ya a hundred times feeling the same way.:-)

Cowboy songs around the campfire is how I was raised, always brings my dad to mind...we'd always beg for the sorrowful ones, Little Joe the Wrangler, When the Work's All Done This Fall and a coupla fun ones, too.

Give me a tall glass o'water with a pinch of sea salt, please? It's been too hot here to keep a body going at all without the pause that refreshes.*wink*

kat

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 09:51 PM

It's just a temporary glitch, Mick. Wander through the thread about Barry's recent surgery and Kendall's latest medical report - nothing but good wishes and good feelings from good friends.

So who's coming to the Lobster Boil and Jed Marum's concert? PM me Mick. There will be two special guests you may want to connect with. And Jeri is coming to Jed's concert. There is always room for an oversized Irishman with or without the ring.

I hate Kumbaya. How about "California Dreaming" and "Satisfaction"?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 09:56 PM

Oh...Joe, come on over here and share a blanket and some JD while I sing you a rousing chorus of "Long Live The Pope". If you are extra good I will nominate you and your dimples/blue eyes for the position of Mudcat ToyBoy. I have influence in that realm, you know.

You have taken a beating lately. How often do you have to be told not to feed the trolls? The little bastards bite and often cause festering infections that take months to heal. Nothing a little JD and a hug can't cure.

Shove over Seamus. Make room for Joe. And don't pig out on those marshmallows.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 11:44 PM

Hand me a bratwurst and a cup of that camp coffee while I throw another log on the fire. Nice and cool tonight.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 12:11 AM

Well, boy howdy LEJ!! Good ta see ya!!

Had any wild adventures worth tellin'??

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 12:13 AM

I might have a lie or two in me. Let me mull it over for a minute.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 10:44 AM

SINS, I think there is great merit in Joe as the next Mudcat ToyBoy... the dimples definately work for me.... I think we may need to work on the harmonies in California Dreamin' though the last version seemed.... well perhaps we added a little too much JD to the mix. Never mind if we don't film it it can live perfectly in our memories around the fire.

I could use a few warm and fuzzies too.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 10:53 AM

Tinker - any chance of you making the Lobster Boil or Jed's concert? Pleeeeease????

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:11 PM

Well the start of this thread is lost, smudged out somewhere in the bottom layer of ashes in this old Mudcat camfire ring of stones.
Here's a fresh pile of dry sticks and tinder, starting her up again, breathing in the forest scent of pine needles and crisp May evening air, the thread of smoke twisting up from the first flames.

Here's a song to start us all off again, to gather the voices around the new fire... who has the marshmallows?

When it's springtime in the Rockies
I'll be comin' home to you...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Susan A-R
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:22 PM

Mind a fiddle riff on that? No, the bow is NOT for marshmellows. but I did bring the hershey bars.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:25 PM

Yay! Chocolate AND fiddle music!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:26 PM

I think there's still quite a pile of firewood that Mick gave us. Should keep the campfire going quite some time. Gather round and warm your hearts and hands, folks.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Janie
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:30 PM

The marshmellows are right here. Since Susan won't let us use her bow, I'll just pick out a few sticks from the woodpile....there!

I like 'em burnt.

Boy, the stars sure are bright tonight....

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:34 PM

from the Flicker thread... I've never heard this one. Anyone have the tune to it?

A flicker in the campfire, Wind in the pines The moon in the heavens, The stars that shine A place where people gather Make friends of all kinds, A
place where old man trouble Is always left behind.

Oh, give me the light of the campfire, Warm and bright And give me some friends to sing with I'll be here all night Love is for those who find it I found
right here Just you and the light of the campfire And the songs I love to hear.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Janie
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:47 PM

Nope. I've never heard that one either.

I remember a song we used to sing to start the campfire circle at 4-H camp. It is to the tune of "Geordie"

As the bright flames ascend to heaven
Oh God of love and truth
We would in thought with thee commune
Our joy, and peace and youth.
The hills resound with our glad songs
And echo back to thee.
Our thanks received for work and play
And love and loyalty.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:59 PM

From an old Roy Orbison tune...Heading south to see the sun go down on camp fire light, to join the singing at night

I love campfires; good to see this one rekindled.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:36 AM

Here ya go ladies, a little more wood to keep the chill off. Mind if me and the ole Low D sit around. Been awhile, but it is nice to get away from the noise and sit with old friends. ......

"One night as I was a ridin'.....

Mick

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 14 May 06 - 07:46 AM

Alice! Yes, I know that song, but we didn't start it with "A flicker in the campfire", just "Give me the light of the campfire"

I learned it at Camp Tattapanum in 1970. Is there more?

I've got a load of dry wood and a thermos of hot cocoa, as it's getting a bit chilly on the backside. The fire's nice, though. Thanks for reviving it!

Allison

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Susan A-R
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:04 AM

It's so nice to just sit and sip and listen to those old camp songs. If I can find a spot to put the coffee mug where it'll stay standing, I'll throw in a harmony there. Ah, that should do.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Alice
Date: 14 May 06 - 11:18 AM

Mother's Day morning here in the mountain camp, and it is blueberry pancakes on the campfire griddle!
Mugs of coffee, tea and cocoa to go around, and, well, how about

MAY MORNING DEW

How pleasant in winter to sit by the hob
Listening to the sounds and the bark of a dog
Or in summer to wander the wide valleys through
And to pick the wild flowers in the May morning dew.

Summer is coming, Oh, Summer is near
With the leaves on the trees and the sky blue and clear
And the small birds are singing their fond notes so true
And the wild flowers are springing in the May morning dew.

The house I was born in is but a stone on a stone
And all round the garden the weeds they have grown
And all the fine neighbours that ever I knew
Like the red rose have perished in the May morning dew.

God be with the old folk, they are all dead and gone
And likewise my brothers, young Denis and John
As we tripped through the heather, wild hares to pursue
Our joys they did mingle in the May morning dew.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Campfire
From: Susan A-R
Date: 14 May 06 - 11:42 AM

One morning, one morning, one morningin May
I spied a young couple a making their way
And one was a maiden, so sweet and so fair
And the other was a soldier and a brave grenadier

(Maybe she's the fiddler and he's the one who falls for the tunes this time.)

Mmmm, how about a little Vermont syrup for those blueberry pancakes. A friend of mine brought me some lovely medium amber to share.