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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Feb 21 - 07:59 AM I just checked my records after last night's magnificent singaround, and i find that i sang Anna Shannon's Yorkshire Song there myself on the very first edition of the Singaround, 8th June last year! It's truly one of those songs that haunts you for ever. But hey, doesn't time fly?!!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 09 Feb 21 - 08:16 AM would it not be handier to have this thread be for lists of which songs are sung each week (presently given in an exceeding long discussion of everything and anything to do with the Mon night song session), with links to the lyrics in their own threads? If the lyrics are not already on Mudcat, they deserve their own threads. A group of songs with related themes would suit being together in a thread, but here we are going to have songs which have little in common apart from having been sung at the same singing circle. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM Oh, no doubt that will happen in time, Felipa. In fact, it's happening now to a great extent. But it takes time. I'm trying to keep the main announcement thread clear for announcing coming singarounds. It's fine to post other things there, but eventually they will be moved to more permanent homes. It's a very easy thing for me to move a message to another thread. For the most part, I have been starting or refreshing threads during the Singaround for songs that aren't common or that we don't have full information for, and then researching and discussing the songs over the coming week. Gerry Myerson and others started building lists of songs sung at the singarounds, so we started this thread for those lists and as a temporary resting place for lyrics. Monique is managing a thread for songs from the Singaround that are not in English. We've been trying our best to document sources for lyrics and to ensure we have correct and proofread lyrics in the "origins" and "DTStudy" threads. But until lyrics have been checked, it's nice to keep them elsewhere until they're ready for "origins" threads. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:24 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 8/9 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. As usual, I made up names for Jane Nicholls' stories, "The Flood and the Family" and "Two Lads and a Foal". "God Bless the Birds" seemed like a good title for Elizabeth Block's takeoff on "God Bless the Grass". "Are You Out There" is a guess for a song Hazel Richings sang. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Mr Rabbit, Mr Rabbit The Green Man The Nightingale Lawd, How Come Me Heah La Chanson des Vieux Amants The Jabberwonky (poem) Ancient Mariner.com (poem) Don't Fence Me In Yorkshire Song Pretty Polly Bells of Rhymney The Wild Raparee Roger's Courtship Follow the Heron Carrigdhoun Just as the Tide is/was Flowing The Rare Ould Times Innisvaddie Annie The Boys of Mullachbawn The Flowers in the Valley Tarzan of the Apes (aka Everyone Calls Me Tarzan) Be a Man, Joe The Sailor's Grave Lynn's Dream The Cat Came Back Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (funeral song from Cymbeline, set to Norwegian folk ballad Heiemo og Njkkenn) Millie's Waltz Aura Lee [with bonus Allan Sherman parody] Johnny Give Me The Pitmen Poets Seven Drunken Nights Folk Song Army Homeless Beaver The Prisoner Song (aka I Wish I Had Someone, aka I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me, aka Someone to Love Me) Springhill Mining Disaster The Flood and the Family (story) The Overflowing Catbox Blues The Bonny Broom The Barnyards of Delgaty The Hippopotamus Down the Mountainside Donal Og The Seven Wonders Painting Box Fair Weather Friends I Think of You Cape Farewell Ye Banks and Braes If You had a Brain You'd Be Dangerous Political Noncooperator (poem) Union-Busting Time in Massachusetts Bold Doherty The Queen of Tarts (poem) Maybe Someday Sally, Free and Easy The Rich Man's House Everything's Fine Right Now Sammy's Bar Shepherd O Shepherd Harwich Ladies (TTTO Spanish Ladies, aka Brisbane Ladies, aka Augathella Station, aka The Drover, ....) Slunécko (in Czech; title means "Sun") Crackdown Addict I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Just Coorie In An Empty Table Lorena Poor Boy Go Tell Aunt Rhody The Land of Bright Gold Santiana Two Lads and a Foal (story) The Olive Tree God Bless the Birds (TTTO God Bless the Grass) Little Piece of Wang John Henry Buy Broom Besoms Blind Mary (instrumental) Magic Penny Eight More Miles to Louisville Are You Out There (??) Miners Lullaby Po' Lazarus Strike the Bell 500 Miles Henry the Accountant The Final Trawl |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 12 Feb 21 - 05:25 AM The title in Czech is Slunécko, which is a diminuitive of slunce which translates as Sun. Wasn't too happy with the performance though, I think neres or tiredness got the better of me, and maybe I should do new material firth time round. The other title - according to the Sheet Music is 'Everyone Calls Me Tarzan'. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 12 Feb 21 - 06:54 AM Thanks, SPB. I've added the Czech. I went back and forth between "Everyone Calls Me Tarzan" and "Tarzan of the Apes" as I saw each given as the title by various sources, so I've edited to show both as alternatives. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST Date: 16 Feb 21 - 05:46 AM Last Night we played Can y Bugail by Geraint Jarman & Meic Stephens (There should be a To Bach/Circumflex over the 'A' in 'Can', but I can't work out the HTML!). I promised the lyrics for this morning, but I need to delve a bit deeper, so please bear with me. I have an English translation, but I will wait until I have the Welsh as well before posting. Thanks for a great evening(UK), we will be back. Splott Man and Dame Pattie Smith EPNS. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:37 PM Splott Man, it's great to post lyrics you sang to this thread, and thank you very much for that. Be aware, though, that I will eventually move such posts to other places, like Monique's "songs not in English" thread. If you posted something and can't find it, clicking on your name in any post should bring it up. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 17 Feb 21 - 03:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/tunes that were sung/recited/played, in order, at the Singaround on 15/16 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. I couldn't find any trace of a song called "Dark-haired Mary" – was that maybe a tune, not a song? I couldn't find any song called "Don't Believe in a Woman", or any version of Pretty Saro associated with Aunt Molly Jackson, or any song set on Clinch River and connected to Pretty Saro or to Aunt Molly Jackson. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Follow That Road Something in the Way She Moves Dark-haired Mary La Calha (The Quail) (in Occitan) Spinning wheel song If Love Doesn't Bother You It Doesn't Bother Me (tune) Anathea The Quiet Land of Erin (Ard Ti Cuain, chorus in Irish) River (with instrumental bridge Planxty Irwin) Plains of Kildare (aka Skewball, aka Stewball and Griselda, ....) When Black Hands Saved Me From the Blue Alabama John Cherokee Get On a Wagon Rolling West Cân y Bugail gan (Song of the Shepherd, in Welsh) Machynlleth (tune) Blarney Roses The Prince of Denmark's March (tune) Week Before Easter Catfish John Vicky's Secret Lochmaben Harper (aka The Blind Harper) Coulters Candy Mingulay Boat Song The Factory Girl Web of Birdsong Lincoln and Liberty Caledonia From Little Things Big Things Grow Tanglewood Tree The Lost Highway Thyme it is a Precious Thing Time is a Tempest My Country 'Tis of Thee Across the Great Divide A Place Called England Benjamin Bowmaneer How Can I Miss You Stern Old Bachelor Binsey Poplars (poem) Red River Valley Ranter Parson Seventeen in Aberdeen The Hippopotamus Song Gartan Mother's Lullaby The Spider Follow the Heron Lassie Lie Near Me Whitby Fisherman The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Cold Blow and the Rainy Night Big Muddy The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow Sonora's Death Row Mrs. McGrath Shanty Town 254 Shades of Gray How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door City of New Orleans Forever and a Day Rachel Caledonia Dimming of the Day Queen of Waters Back to Broome West Texas Waltz Beautiful Noise Vive l'Amour If I Were Free Cape Breton Lullaby Blowin' in the Wind Don't Believe in a Woman Ill Wind Twa Corbies Lies Crossing the Bar Hallelujah (Wheatley) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 01:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/letters/stories that were sung/recited/read/told, in order, at the Singaround on 22/23 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Here you go: John Ball Song for Mira Roll the woodpile down Dyslexia or The Y Files (poem) Down by the River Sallia (aka Weela Wallia) Gottingen (in French) When Did You Leave Heaven? The Three Ravens Adio Querida (or Adio Kerida) (in Ladino) Now that the Buffalo's Gone I Likes a Drop of Good Beer Song of the Fugitive The Bantry Girl's Lament Scarborough Settler's Lament Surely What Does the Lord Require of You? Down the Dials Baltimore Fire Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea I Do Adore Her George Washington's letter to the Hebrew congregation of Newport (reading) Brockagh Braes Pistol-Packin' Mama William Stone Dan O'Hara Blackwaterside Cossack Lullaby (in Russian) Skibbereen My My Mama Second Class Wait Here I'm Gonna Be an Engineer Your Little Hand Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now?) Love is Kind Spirit Song The Fur Rendezvous Song Queen Elinor's Confession The Flower of Magherally, O Susquehanna The L and N Don't Stop Here Any More Snowin' on Raton Laurel Hill Deep River Blues I'm an Old Cowhand Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Queen Elizabeth and the Three Knights (joke) Bold Riley-O Voják ("Soldier", in Czech) Geritol Gypsy The White Shepherd Come Back, Liza Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Price Tag All the Fine Young Men The Green Man Bournemouth The Old Carmarthen Oak Ten Hours a Day Scarborough Fair Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (in French) If I Needed You Lay Down Beside Me White Collar Holler Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 24 Feb 21 - 12:46 PM The Czech song was called Voják which translates as Soldier. I wouldn't call it a lullaby - the first verse translates to The translation of the three verses: (1) When I didn't die in the war, I also will not die back home. (2) When I didn't die on the French meadows, I will not die by my sweetheart. (3) When I didn't die alongside the Austrians, I will not die with my lords. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 04:56 PM Thanks, SPB. I'll edit my post. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 21 - 07:58 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/told, in order, at the Singaround on 1/2 March 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Some uncertainties: I couldn't find any song called "Death and the Doctor" – is that title right? All I could find for Ring of the Nibelungen was a cycle of four operas, and I doubt that's what Joe sang. "I Wish I Had a Charm" is my guess at a title for Storm's poem, and "Where God Leads Me I Will Go" is my guess at a title for his song. Here you go: Death and the Doctor Doonaree Ring of the Nibelungen Finest You Ever Saw (aka The Finest of Them All) Treigladau (Mutations) (poem) Frobisher Bay La Más Bella Niña (in Spanish) Isn't It Grand Boys When I Can't Play Barnagh Hill Scarborough Fair Cuckoo's a Bonny Bird Bangum and the Boar Blann's Beer Red Iron Ore Miner's Lifeguard The Revel Still Scared of You Strike the Bell Second Mate Bugeilio’r Gwenyth Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat, English and Welsh) I Am a Little Collier (macaronic, English and Welsh) How Snow Got Its Color (story) The Rare Ould Times The Jack-Ass Song Ten Hours a Day Row On Murrumbidgee Water Ballad of Springhill (aka Springhill Mining Disaster) Adieu to Dear Cambria Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in German) Queen Amang the Heather Let Now the Harp Sheep Stealer The Coster's Serenade Geritol Gypsy Teannaibh Dlùth is Togaibh Fonn (in Scottish Gaelic) Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Sow Took the Measles Last Boat In I Wish I Had a Charm (poem) Where God Leads Me I Will Go Bheir Mi O The Yorkshire Couple Painting Box When Forsythia's in Bloom Witch Hazel Chinese White Air Earth (poem) The Midas Touch (poem) The Plover Catcher Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (in Yiddish and English) Young Companions (aka Bad Company, Bad Companions, I was Born in Pennsylvania, ....) Story of Taliesin (story) Avondale The Lifeboat Mona Lady Margaret It's Up to Us Drover's Dream Obedience (poem) Rose of Allendale Frog in the Well The Ash Grove (in Welsh) Maleny Washing Line When the Coal Comes from the Rhondda The Drunkard's Looking Glass Lay Down Beside Me The Poor Orphan Child The Eggplant that Ate Chicago Times are Getting Hard Boys Hob-i-derry-dando Three Ravens Process Man (aka The Chemical Worker's Song) Gentle Arms of Eden A Handful of Songs |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:08 AM The Eggplant that ate Chicago?! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Mar 21 - 04:39 PM Felipa, yes, a novelty song from the 60s. Here it is on YouTube. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Mar 21 - 10:21 PM I came to the singaround of 8/9 March 2021 late and left early, so I owe even greater thanks to others than usual. Moorley Man & Mrrzy, independently, supplied me with the performances from before my joining, and Joe sent me the chat transcript so I could reconstruct what happened after I left. Here's the list of songs, poems, and tunes – corrections eagerly solicited. In the Jailhouse Now The Dutch in the Medway Captain Wedderburn's Courtship Jolly Wagoner Les Djinnes (poem) Planxty Irwin (tune) Jamie Allen (tune) Mon Amie la Rose (in French) Willie 'ole Lad The Yellow Bittern Making Babies by Steam Keemo Kimo (aka Sing Song Kitty) The Duke's Late Glorious Success Over the Dutch Cab, Cab, Cab Sylvie A Dialogue Between a Believer and his Soul King Henry The Reaper's Revenge Rosie the Riveter Hard Times of Old England Lovely Nancy Burning Gold Boomer Johnson We Don't Need the Men The Quilting Party (aka Seeing Nellie Home) Go Tell Aunt Rhody This World Goes 'round and 'round The Lasses O' Bonnie Dundee Female Drummer Drover's Boy Darling Nellie Gray March of the Women Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms We Were There The Tryphina's Extra Hand The Curragh of Kildare (aka The Irish Lovers) Sandgate Dandling Song The Winter with His Grisly Storms Liverpool Lullaby Short Jacket and White Trousers Whup Jamboree Blackleg Miner Maid on the Shore The Last Battle People Say Strange Things Mothers Teach Your Sons Memories of Maxine (poem?) Time to Thank the Women Killing the Blues Housewife's Lament MacCrimmon's Lament All the Way Home Rosa's Lovely Daughters Harriet Tubman Bread and Roses Wall Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Welcome Idris Strike Song Streets of Five-i-o Poverty Knock Little Red Hen (Poem) John Golden and the Lawrence Strike Maid of Fyvie Northwest Passage February March Oh, Didn't He Ramble Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out Rebecca Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Mar 21 - 05:26 AM Thanks to Mrrzy for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and to Joe for the chat transcript, also to Moorley Man. Here are the songs/poems/stories/tunes from the 15/16 March 2021 singaround: Rivers of Babylon Anchor God If I Were a Duck Us Goldfish (poem) Shantyman Essequibo River (in Creolese) Can Vei la Lauzeta (in Occitán) The Private Still (aka The Gauger) In My Backyard The Flying Cloud Medley: The Fountain in the Park, Sipping Cider Through a Straw, and several others I Had An Old Coat Henry My Son (aka Green and Yellow) Our Lady of the Hospital Mountains of Mourne When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Oranges and Lemons The Dear Little Shamrock Yarns of the People (poem) Sea Change The Roving Journeyman Who Knows Where the Time Goes? A Miners Life (aka Miners Lifeguard) Moving Day My Own Dear Native Land For Just One Dime (take-off on Northwest Passage) Haul Away Snow The Kerry Dance Motherland Mull of Kintyre Where Did You Get that Hat? If You're Irish Come into the Parlor Windsong The Whitby Lad (aka Botany Bay, The Boston Burglar) Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Rockin' Robin (to the tune of All I Have to Do is Dream) San Antonio Rose The Orange and the Green The Gallant Hussar The Carter (aka Fairie Pie) I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground Lobster Salad (aka Paddy's Dream, Kelley's Dream) Story about Newfoundlanders abroad The Garden Where the Praties Grow Story in Your Eyes Raglan Road The Galway Shawl Bold Fenian Men (aka Down By the Glenside) Cameronian Cat Song for Mary Ann The Joy of Living Like the Way I Do Welcoming Paddy Home (aka Welcome Poor Paddy Home) Boolavogue (tune) The Praties They Grow Small (aka The Famine Song) An Old-Fashioned Wedding You Are Still My Boy On Yonder Hill there Sits a Hare My Own Dear Galway Bay I Wish I Were a Maid Again, or The Blackbird, or The Butcher Boy, or Died For Love Let it be a Dance Mary Ann, or The Roving Gardener Click Go the Shears Have Some Madeira, M'Dear Holla Hi Holla Ho! Old Man in His Garden Red is the Rose The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede Long Long Time The Foggy Dew (aka Down the Glen) The Youth of the Heart Penguins Do You Love an Apple Gilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Somebody Threw a Tomato at Him Hymn Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:05 AM Thanks to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half. Here are the songs/poems/riddles/tunes from the 22/23 March 2021 singaround: Ghost Riders In The Sky The Volunteer Organist Inconsonants (poem) Devinhola (in Occitan; title means "riddle") Knock a Man Down The Soldier Castle Garden On The Banks Of Allan Water 2 Original Tunes in Memory of Izzy Young Away To The Mountain's Brow 9-5 Pollution Blues It's Good To See You Lonely Person Banks Of The Sweet Primroses Bridge Guard In The Karroo New Garden Fields Willie o' Winsbury Any Dirty Work Today? Stolen Child Mary Hamilton (aka The Four Maries) Croppy Boy 'Illean Bithibh Sunndach (in Gaelic) Brennan on the Moor Library-O Ken Supiense (Ladino for Who Knows One, which is English for Echad Mi Yodea, which is Hebrew) The Devil's Courtship Yellow on the Broom Spring Song Mussels in the Corner Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Going to the West The Patriot Game New Harmony Michael, Row the Boat Ashore Over the Hills and Far Away Ballad of the Carpenter The Foggy Dew (bachelor) The Foggy Dew (bachelor, short) The Moon Going Home Moving Father's Grave The Woodbridge Dog Disaster Summer Sunlight Gartan Mother's Lullaby Swing Me Maple Sweet Our Favourite Things (parody of My Favorite Things) How Will I Ever Be Simple Again Down the Long Road Rural Lad (poem) Maple Syrup Time Sweet Rose of Allandale (aka Sweet Rose of Allendale) Je Suis Trop Jeunette (in French) The Galway Shawl A Whaler's Tale My Own Dear Galway Bay Another Train First Lullaby (partly in French) De Colores (in Spanish) The Answer's Ireland San Francisco Bay Blues John Cherokee Isle au Haut Lullaby Devil Versus the Widow (aka The Widow and the Devil, aka The Widow's Promise) Desperate Dan Angels Come and Gather Logie O'Buchan Never on Sunday The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Zog, Maran ("Tell Me, Marrano" in Yiddish) The Song Goes On |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:11 PM Thanks again to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and thanks to Joe Offer. Here are the songs and poems from the 29/30 March 2021 singaround: Circle of Song If Music Were My Life The Lost Elephants of Denbigh (poem) Pull Down Below Lo Soldat Desconegut (The Unknown Soldier, in Occitan) Rhubbub Guitare et Tambourin (in French) Paddy on the Railway The Road to Dunmoor To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) The Wheels of the World Stewball & Griselda The Meeting of the Waters The Earl Of March's Daughter Across the Blue Mountains To An Anchor God (aka Second Mariner's Song) Sheepstealer The Male Female Highwayman Donald Where's Yer troosers? The Flower Carol Theme from The Secret of Roan Innish (Mist Covered Mountains) The Gallant Shopper Mrs Murphy Mollymauk I Think of You The Pace Egging Song Look Down On Me Tennessee Goodnight-Loving Trail How Can I Keep From Purring Ode to the Little Brown Shack The Ever-Given (to the tune of The Titanic) Stand Up for Judas The Covid Blues (to the tune of If I Only Had a Brain) Norland Wind (aka The Wild Geese) Pretty Saro The Latke (to the tune of The Coo Coo) Sally Free and Easy You Singers All The Curragh of Kildare Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (in French) Nogies Creek On One April Morning Amourette (formerly known as Exercise 77) Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Vecherniy Zvon (Evening Bells, in Russian) I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am My Sweet Wyoming Home The Maid From Bunclody (aka Bunclody, aka The Streams of Bunclody; also spelled Buncloudy, Bunclaudy) Watching the Trains Come In Pointing to the Moon Chocolate Rabbit We've Got To Sail Away Blues Chase Up a Rabbit (aka Blues Jumped the Rabbit, Rabbit Foot Blues, Rabbit Blues, Jackrabbit Blues, and Cool Colorado) Go Down Moses (aka When Israel was in Egypt's Land, aka Let My People Go) Gentle Annie The Bonny Ship The Diamond Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day) When They Buy Up All the Air Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow? Man Come Into Egypt Starlight Upon the Sea Thanksgiving Eve The Flower of Magherally The Slave's Lament Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill Bonny Banks o' Fordie (aka Babylon) You Are Beautiful Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Plant a Radish Dayenu |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:19 PM Latkes was sung to the tune of "The cuckoo" rather than the "coo coo". The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies. And she never hollers "cuckoo" [coo coo?] till the fourth day of July." I learned the song before I moved to a place where I heard many cuckoos, and they holler in May. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 10:16 PM Felipa, it's a folk song, recorded by many artists, using many different titles and spellings and lyrics. I learned the song from David Holt's album, Reel And Rock, and his spelling was The Coo Coo. Clarence Ashley called it Coo Coo Bird. It was called "The Coo Coo Bird" on Doc Watson, The Vanguard Years. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:12 AM Songs & poems from the 5/6 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround. Thanks to Moorley Man, Pelagie, and Joe Offer for help with the items that preceded my joining the proceedings. Comments and corrections always welcome. Sweet Betsy From Pike Out On The Ocean The Shipping Forecast (poem by Les Barker) Staying Out All Night Nous Quittons Les Paques (in French) The Tourist's Complaint Evening Prayer from "Hansel & Gretel" Avondale Wullie's Drowned In Yarrow The Hobnail Boots That Father Wore Annan Water Click Go Your Joints (by Emma Elliott) (Wrap Me Up in My) Tarpaulin Jacket One Time and One Time Only (by Tom Paxton) The Silly Hug Song Fairy Faire Blues When Spring Comes In My Happiness Life Passes By She Was Just Going Home (to the tune of "The Grey Funnel Line") Log Driver’s Waltz I Knew You Were the One Hody hody doprovody (A Czech Easter presentation) Home on the Range Curragh of Kildare We are the Music Makers Cosher Bailey’s Engine South Wind Foggy Dew (Irish version) The Eagle and the Dove Otago Sweet Michael Molly and Tenbrooks The Mormond Braes The Banks of Sweet Mossen A Song for Our Time Bheir Mi O (in English, chorus in Irish) Moreton Bay Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in English and German) Coming Home Song Towels Turkey Reveille (aka Turkish Revelry, aka The Sweet Trinity, aka The Golden Vanity, aka The Golden Willow Tree, aka The Weeping Willow Tree, aka Sinking in the Lonesome Sea, aka The Gallant Argosy, aka The Old Virginia Lowlands, aka Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)) Aragon Mill Red is the Rose Wayfaring Stranger The Iron Moulder's Wedding Summertime I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Ainster Harbor Easter Lilies Geordie Crawdad Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men) Truth Cannot Be Silenced (to the tune of Die Gedanken Sind Frei) North Sea Holes Wonders Still the World Shall Witness Lord of the Dance Custard Creams (to the tune of John o' Dreams = Tchaikovsky's Pathetique) Isle Au Haut Lullaby (Hay Ledge Song) I'll See You in My Dreams Bonny Ship the Diamond Drunk's Express Northern Tide The Ways of Man April Fool Blow the Candles Out Michael Row the Boat Ashore Tell Old Bill Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:55 AM Songs, poems and stories from the 12/13 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite possibly in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Waltzing Mathilda (Queensland version) The Jeannie C Me To Lýchno Tou Astrou (in Greek) Captain Indecisive (poem) Frog Song Woman With a Shovel Le Soldat Mécontent (French) Weary Blues From Waitin' Dead Dog Scrumpy Three Drunken Maidens Window Cleaning Shanty / We're All Cleaning Windows The Swallow / La Golondrina (sung in English) Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy The Killer in Me Diana Hanson Will Ye Go To Flanders Lovely Agnes Lazy Bones The Minstrel My Love is Like a Dewdrop On One April Morning All Trades Advice to the Lovelorn Ballad of John Williams Animal Farm The Riley Boys Changes Tackety Boots (recitation) Come All You Virginia Girls Your Name is What? The Further Adventures Of Albert (poem) The Big 5-0 Thomas Was A Little Glutton (poem) Rum And Sailors The Coffee Shop In Pimlico Close The Coalhouse Door Ill Wind Rio Grande The Man From Luddenden Dean Mask of Life Wings of a Goney (aka The Weary Whaling Grounds) The Lone Pilgrim Lovely Nancy The Pharmacist Eli, Eli Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate City of New Orleans Wayfaring Stranger The Candlelight Fisherman House of the Rising Sun The Titanic (version at https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7052) Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Song of the Lower Classes Canning Salmon Roots Yuri Gagarin Methodist Pie The Old Woman and Her Pig (story) (aka Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!, aka The Pig Who Would Not Jump Over the Stile) (singable version at http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/277.html) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The Jews Did Not Kill Jesus The Lightship Threescore and Ten Silver Dagger Betrayed by Love Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments Unreconstructed Rebel (aka I'm a Good Old Rebel) Wave Goodbye, Wave Hello When I'm Gone Dropkick Me, Jesus Faretheewell, Titanic Side by Side |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Rusty Dobro Date: 14 Apr 21 - 02:59 PM Re ‘Woman with a Shovel’ at Monday’s singaround, I have had a chance to listen to Peter Krug’s’ ‘chainsaw’ song, so now I know where those stray lyrics came from, back in the days before internet searches. All knowledge is to be found in the Mudcat, eventually....M |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:33 PM Was Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates in Master and Commander? |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 07:21 PM Mrrzy, well-spotted! According to Wikipedia, "The song sung in the wardroom is 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates', a British Navy song written in the early 1800s and arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean from his album Of Ships... and Men." |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Apr 21 - 09:45 PM Songs, poems and stories from the 19/20 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite likely in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. "He Puts Out Fires" is a line in several songs, some squeaky clean, some smutty – I don't know which was sung, so I gave a few references. "The Flatmate and the Frying Pan" is a name I thought up for the story Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life England Green and England Grey An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (poem) He Puts Out Fires (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=31622 ? The Fireman's Song? My Brother Bill?) Library-O The Forsaken Nymph Kumbaya Hal-an-Tow And Janey Mac I'm Nearly 40 Vamos Mujer (in Spanish) The Tale of the Whale Last Remaining Tree I Knew You Were the One A Bushel and a Peck A Dog's Life The Foggy, Foggy Dew Grandpa's Advice Oh, Mr. Porter The Old Dun Cow Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain The Hippopotamus Song Silence is a Delicate Thing The Jolly Waggoners Joshua On Board the Susianna Sir Patrick Spens John Ball Ceres and Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Fisher's Brae Tom Bowling Let the Mystery Be Sonya Snell (poem) Twas On One April Morning The Women of Dundee Canadee-i-o Mother Earth All the Good Times are Past and Gone The Phantom Flasher (to the tune of "The Keeper") Thyme it is a Precious Thing (aka Bunch of Thyme) Salvation Jane Andy's Gone with Cattle The Highwayman Right Field Albert at the Hallé (poem) Row Your Boat (from Bagpuss) The King, He had a Date (to the tune of God Save the King) The Herring's Head (aka Herring Song, aka Jolly Herring, aka The Red Herring, aka The Herring) Glorious, Glorious My Land is a Good Land Shenandoah You Can't Throw Anything Away ... If (poem) Crazy The Prodigal Son Buttercup Joe Starý Mcdonald mel Farmu (Old MacDonald had a Farm, in Czech) Mrs Willis Going to Damascus Scarborough Settler's Lament Rising Green Won't You Come and Sing for Me A Bench by the Sea The Joy of Living Rainbow Warriors My Old Man Beidh Aonach Amarach (in Irish Gaelic) Look to the Rainbow The Frog and the Crow Geronimo's Cadillac The Overlander (aka Queensland Drovers) The King of Rome The Shirt Song Here is My Home The Flatmate and the Frying Pan (story) Windmills |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Apr 21 - 02:53 PM I have posted the lyrics for “Fisher’s Brae” along with a map of where it is as a Lyr Add thread. The song I sang on Monday last. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM Songs, poems and cante fables from the 26/27 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Ashes on the Sea Ancient Festival of Leafblowers (poem) And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Follow Me 'Ome The Woodpecker Filhas que Sètz a Maridar (In Occitan) Old Cape Cod A Tavern in the Town In Shame Bachelor's Complaint J'ai Passé Devant ta Porte (in Cajun French) The Deserter My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose (poem) Give Us the Vax! Privacy In the Olden Days A Rainy Night in Soho Working Class Stranger The Sailor Girl Andy Lindon's Boathouse Brother Noah Jack in the Green Cosher Bailey The Walls Have Ears Middle-Aged People Faded Coat of Blue Beware, O Take Care Down in the River to Pray (In Scots Gaelic) Shenandoah The Female Drummer Early Snow The Last Trip Home One Starry Night L. A. Freeway A' Bhean Iadach (Scots Gaelic cante fable) (other versions of this song are called A' Bhean Iadach, Bean Mhic a' Mhaoir, Bean Mhic a' tSaoir, Bean Ga Bàthadh, A' Bhean Ud(aí) Thall) The Manchester Rambler The Foggy Dew (the one about the Easter uprising) Sew on a Sequin Bold Thady Quill The Old Rebel Flag in the Rear Gracias a la Vida (in English) Blues Run the Game The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington Palace Grand (aka Lady Mary) George and the Dragon (poem) A Sailor's Life Leatherwing Bat (aka The Birds' Courting Song) Mockingbird Hill Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Mouse's Song (cante fable, aka The Cat and the Mouse) The One-Legged Cowboy A Kiss for No Reason Geese (Husy, in Czech) Old Roger Rum (aka Hi Roger Rum [and other variations], aka The Rich Man and the Poor Man) The Land Beyond the Blue The Woman in Your Life Paramedic Rescue 101 Song of Peace (to the tune of Finlandia) Lay Down Beside Me The Family of Woman and Man Dark-Eyed Sailor Anderson's Coast Cockroach in a Folk Club Waltzing with Bears The Lincolnshire Poacher Me and Bobby McGee Some Enchanted Evening Rolling Home to Old New England |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 May 21 - 06:18 PM Songs and poems from the 3/4 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Texas Rangers Learning (poem, Les Barker) A Place Called England Country Roads Common Bill Voici le Mois de Mai (in French) Banks of the Bann First of May Blues Marions les Roses (in French) Wie Lieblich ist der Maien (in German) The Gas Man Cometh Sing Us Something We Know Bring Flowers of the Rarest River of Time Someone that You Used to Know Goin’ Home All Our Love The Doctor Sportsmen Arouse (aka The Innocent Hare) Love’s Mystery Just as the Tide was Flowing Precious Friend The Lightkeeper’s Daughter Hold the Fort Herring Our Joy Bring Me Back You Weaverville The Cuckoo Hills of Isle Au Haut Down by the Brazos (Alaska version) Lava Dobby’s Farewell Braes o’ Balquidder (also Balquhidder, Balquhither) The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia The Covid Front Line (poem) by Peter Branson A Pilgrim’s Way On Mother Kelly's Doorstep Yellow Yorlin The Higler Streets of Forbes You Are Not Alone The Green Dove and the Raven Union Maid Power and the Glory Levellers and Diggers (aka The Diggers' Song) Shenandoah I Wish You Were Here Vegematic Union Cat The Brave Volunteer (aka One Morning in May, aka The Nightingales Sing) Rambler Gambler Hal An Tow Merry May Folk When May Day Comes Nightingales Sing The Rosabella The Sinking of the St. Luke Country Life Singing Land Joe Hill's Last Will Men of the Fields Rambles of Spring The Shirt Song Dance Up the Sun River |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 May 21 - 06:08 AM Songs, stories, and poems from the 10/11 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Thanks to SPB for the other title for I Wish I was Single Again. Thanks to MoorleyMan for information on "Never Turning Back"/"Keep on Moving Forward" and on "The Roses of No Man's Land". I made up the names, "The Woman Who Couldn't Speak" and "The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard" for the stories Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Living On the River England (Den Miller) Welsh Mobile Technology (recitation) Beans, Beans Taste Fine Swim, Sam, Swim Dabob Bay I'd Rather be Lonely La Finforleta (in Occitàn) I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Anachie Gordon Never Turning Back (aka Keep on Moving Forward) Peace in the Valley (If it wasn't for) The 'ouses in Between Faded Coat of Blue Falling Behind Tom Woods I Wish I was Single Again (aka I Married a Wife) Tomorrow (the apology song) Cadi Ha (in Welsh) Staines Morris Buy my Fresh Herbs The Doffing Mistress Us Poor Fellows Ashes on the Sea Tha mo Ghaol air Àird (in Scots Gaelic) Banks of Claudy The Roses of No Man's Land Tráthnóna Beag Aréir (in Irish) Jimmy Randall My Son Davey Compared with the Alternative Mrs McGrath Fires of '98 John Ball The Woman Who Couldn't Speak (story) Crawdad Before they Close the Minstrel Show Cape Ann Perfumes of Arabia Lockdown (poem) Garden Song Anti-Garden Song (in part) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right To Morrow (recitation) When Jones's Ale was New Jenny Mothers, Daughters, Wives C'est le Mai (in French) Nine to Five Pollution Blues I Ain't Never Been Satisfied (version of Little Sally Walker?) Flow Gently Sweet Afton Bold Saint George Aloysius Betrayed by Love The Gallant Hussar James Connolly Noah's Ark Shanty (aka In Frisco Bay, aka A Long Time Ago) Bogie's Bonnie Belle Cry Me a River The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard (story) Travelling Down the Castlereagh Sammy's Bar (One for the) Morning Glory Columbus Stockade Blues Senorita Mia Ballad of Patch-Eye and Meg Velcro Ode to Joy (EU lyrics) All Through the Night |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 May 21 - 08:34 AM Songs and stories from the 17/18 May 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. I made up the name, "Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth" for one of the stories Jane Nicholls told, but I came in too late to hear her other story. Comments and corrections always welcome. When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes To Our Door With God On Our Side Ballade en Novembre (in French) Come Lasses and Lads Another Time and Place Ae Fond Kiss Baltic Street The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O The Violin My Texas Girl Time to Love Again Rags and Old Iron The Rooster Ten Thousand Miles from Home A Couple of Swells It Isn’t Nice On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at Buenos Dias Argentina People Like You Free in the Harbour Crossing the Water Rosemary’s Sister Coming Hame (aka Coming Home) (Story) April Come She Will Railroading on the Great Divide Lay Down Your Weary Tune When the Breakers Go Back on Full Time Five-Foot Flirt The Ways Of Man Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room Peace Call John Barleycorn Johnny Todd Broken Down Squatter I Once Loved a Lass (aka The False Bride, aka The Week Before Easter, ....) Young Edmund Thais Lay Down Beside Me Blank Space Give Me Just a Little More Time (Acme version) Muhlenberg County (aka Paradise) Sixteen Tons Good Old Colony Times Dear Old Shepherd's Bush I Ain't Marchin' Anymore The Merry Minuet New Cut Road Freight Train (version of Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey) Thirty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago) Lonesome Valley Hinei Ma Tov Dancing at Whitsun The Wooden Spoon Lament of the Computer Widow Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth (story) Jerusalem Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (in Irish Gaelic) Dinki Di D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (parody of D-I-V-O-R-C-E) I Live Not Where I Love Orphan Train Knock on the Door (with added lyrics) Oregon or Die I Love Not Where I Live Health to the Company (Covid-safe version) Pretty Flowers All Around Across the Great Divide |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 May 21 - 08:09 PM Songs and poem from the 24/25 May 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Leaving Home (Charlie Poole's version of Frankie and Johnny) The Men of the Hood Banana Republics Giroflé girofla (in French) Let Me Breathe Plegaria a un Labrador (in Spanish) McGowan's Banshee Darlin' Corey It Would Never Have Worked Kitty Bawn O'Brien The Salt Marsh Seven Spanish Angels Stripey and Blondie Dink's Song Silver Dagger The Prophet Black Hills Waltz My Organ Recital (aka Side Effects) The Star of Bannock For Months and Months and Months The Unquiet Grave Sister, Sail! Geordie medley: Come Up And See Your Granny / Cushie Butterfield / Wherivvor Ye Gan Ye're Sure te Find a Geordie (in dialect) / Blaydon Races Masters of War The Jeannie C. Old Shep Fhir a Bhata (the boatman; sung mostly in English with a Scots Gaelic chorus) The Big Hewer Sixteen Tons The Jamestown Homeward Bound Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Sammy's Bar That's Australia House of the Rising Sun Sweet Betsy From Pike Just Like a Woman Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Overheard on a salt marsh [poem] Raggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh The Heat Detector Down By the Riverside Jutland Lay Down Your Weary Time Medley of Towing Shanties On a Monday Morning Being a Pirate A Begging I Will Go Do You Love an Orange All Among the Garlic Three Score and Ten Claudy Banks The Helium Miner's Song Let It Be a Dance The Wee Magic Stane A Maid in Bedlam Brisbane Ladies (aka Augathella Station, takeoff on Spanish Ladies) We've Got to Sail Away A Begging I Will Go (update by Grit Laskin) Who Can Sail? Wild Goose Shanty (aka Ranzo) Diamonds and Rust Blow the Candles Out Goodnight Irene Four Strong Winds |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Jun 21 - 05:08 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the 31 May, 1 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer and Rusty Dobro for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. There's a Hole in My Bucket Arnold (poem) Little Golden Hair (monologue) The Girl With The Dreamy Eyes Guitarra en Duelo Mayor ("Guitar in Mourning Major," in Spanish) Too Many Lakes Freight Train My Favorite Picture of You Amore grande amore mio (in Italian) Sugar in the Hold No Man’s Land Summer in Dublin Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out Low Bridge, Everybody Down (aka "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal," "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal," "Erie Canal Song") South London Idler (parody of Manchester Rambler) Cold Mountain O Freedom A Terceira Lamina (in Portuguese) Do You Need Another Hand? Draft Dodger Rag Battle Hymn of the Republic Bruach Na Carraige Báine ("The Edge of the White Rocks," in Irish Gaelic) General Taylor The Man who had the Dumb Wife You’ve Been a Friend to Me Darcy Farrow The Wreck of the Dandenong Soldier’s Joy Annan Water I Once Loved A Lass The Fastest Mobile Library In the West Freedom on the Wallaby Dancing at Whitsun Dancing on the Edge of Time (poem) Beat the Retreat on Thy Drum (aka "Sam, Sam, Beat the Retreat") Summer Wine Bad Man's Blunder Sweet William's Ghost Call the Lamas What are You Fighting For? No Charge (poem, parody of Harlan Howard / Mabel Montgomery work of the same name) Grandad Goes Dancing at Mayday (to the tune of Dancing at Whitsun) Banks of the Roses More Work for the Undertaker Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon Invitation to a funeral Only Remembered (For What They've Not Done) The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna (poem) Dublin Blues I've Been Everywhere Young Moon's Lament (version of Yangtze River Shanty) Send Us a Postcard What Shall We Drink to Tonight? The Weirdest Dream (to the tune of Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream) Only Remembered Buddhist Monk 1960 (recitation) There's a Grave on the Hillside Normandy Orchards Poppies The Faith of Man |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!! From: YorkshireYankee Date: 07 Jun 21 - 08:36 PM Here's a little something I wrote to mark the occasion: Mudcat Time to the tune of Summertime Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and we're all so good lookin' So mute, little 'Catters, your number's assigned Now ev'ry Monday, we all rise up singin' From around the world, we laugh and we cry For some it's mornin', and for others it's evenin' Till Joe sends us off with some sweet lullabye Mudcat time, and the helpers are busy Thanks to Casey, Mrzzy, Dave and Arlene Gayle and Gerry, et aussi cher Monique And last but not least, Dawn and Noreen Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and with gas we are cookin' So sing, little 'Catters, time to shine! |
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Subject: ADD: Help Me Make It through the Zoom (PattyClink) From: pattyClink Date: 08 Jun 21 - 11:16 AM With apologies to Mr. K, here are the extra verses sung at the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround celebration of 1 year of online gatherings. HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE ZOOM (Patty Clink) Now it's Monday on the Zoom, and I don't have my song chose, But you let me babble on, kindly cohost crew and Joe. Make my audio do right, though I have no earthly clue As I suck up all my time, help me make it through the Zoom. I don't care if I mumble, sing words you can't understand Let the devil take the title, Lord, I just love to make you guess They say folksong's dead and gone, and for us there is no room But we prove them wrong each week, help me make it through the Zoom, We're a very special group, help us make it through the Zoom. Noreen, Casey, Mrrzy, Dave; Arlene, Gerry, Monique, Gayle, Blessings on you and dear Joe, you help us make it through the Zoom. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jun 21 - 08:31 PM Songs/poems/recitations/tunes from the 7-8 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Lies The Verb to Be (poem) Yorkshire Pudden (monologue) La Mort de l’Ours (Death of the Bear, in French) John Condon The Music Makers (based on Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) Anniversary Song Darcy Farrow Can Vei la Lauzeta Mover (“When I See the Lark Beat His Wings” in Occitan) The Pride of Erin’s Isle Friends Like These The Power and the Glory The Calico Printer’s Clerk Join In Help Me Make It Through the Night (with added verses, "Help Me Make It Through the Zoom") Leytyat Utki (in Russian) Kinisalo (Macedonian) Let’s Do It (aka Ballad of Barry and Freda) Gens du Pays Siúil a Rúin (in Gaelic) Crackdown Addict Down the Dials (monologue) Lovers and Friends I Come for to Sing If Love Doesn’t Bother You, It Doesn’t Bother Me (tune) Happy Birthday to You Dink’s Song Two-Bit Cayuse Sheòl am Bàta (The Boat Sailed Over the Ocean, in Scots Gaelic) Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Sam the Skull (aka The Glasgow Cat) The World Turned Upside Down Rosemary's Sister On Again! On Again! Sixteen Tons Mockingbird Hill Big Rock Candy Mountain The Charladies' Ball Sir William Gower Abdullah Bulbul Emir The Leather Thimble (story) Lady River Sensing the Plan (poem) Heaven Stuff That Works Mudcat Time (to the tune of Summertime) Shelter at Home (poem) Sea Glass Beware of the Beautiful Stranger The Master of the Sheepfold Lament to the Moon A Noise Annoys an Oyster Yorkshire Song The Willow Tree Sea Change She Told Me to Meet Her at the Gate Boney was a Warrior Buckeye Jim The River, Where She Sleeps The Sunday Driver The Mountains of Mourne Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Kirk Soiree The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill Our Life is More than Our Work Play Friends (poem) What are You Fighting For? Don't Know the Words... (for My Favo(u)rite Things) Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (in Hebrew and English) The Oreo Song Crossing the Water |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:53 AM Songs/poems/stories from the 14-15 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and to Monique for two corrections. I don't know whether there was a title to the entry I've given as "Traditional Portuguese story". Comments and corrections always welcome. Love Call Me Home Man on the Flying Trapeze Madeira, M’Dear ? The Wee Lass on the Brae Conseils à la mariée (Advice to the Bride, in French) Ode in Praise of the City of Mullingar The Maid of Australia Romance de la Pérdida de Alhama (in Spanish) An Buachaillín Donn (The Brown Boy, in Gaelic) The Reason I Left Mullingar The Grumpy Old Men of Old England Bridges Banks of Yarrow (aka Wullie’s Drowned in Yarrow) Le Chant des Partisans (in French) Wild Rover Crazy Come Write Me Down Seán Ó Duibhir a Ghleanna (Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen, in Gaelic) The Reluctant Mariner Aces, Straights and Flushes Joshua Swimming with the Fish I Give Myself to You A Thousand Songs Traditional Portuguese story The Ballad of St. Peter (aka Pray) Calypso Sentenced to Death Amazing Grace Schooldays Over Rocking at the End of Time Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Napoleon's Farewell to Paris The Golden Vanity My Dog Sam The Crow on the Cradle Pangolins (poem) Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie Glorious Ale James Connolly Proud Maisrie (to the tune of Scarborough Fair) Know When to Move Midsummer Hymn The Southern Girl's Reply Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I'll Wander) Unwed Fathers Bang went the Chance of a Lifetime Time to Love Again Consciousness (poem) The Green Man Banjo Pickin' Girl She's Someone's Grandmother Michael Row the Boat Ashore The Two Conneeleys (chorus in Irish Gaelic) My Old Man Some Little Mice Sat in a Barn to Spin The Hunting Song The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) I Fall to Pieces Four Strong Winds Jack Ashton North Country Tragedy Must I Go Bound It's a Pleasure to Know You The Terror Time |
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Subject: RE: an Buachaillin Donn at Mudcat singaround From: Felipa Date: 23 Jun 21 - 03:06 PM I didn't attend on 14 June, but if "Buachaillin dhoun" was indeed sung in Irish, than the title should be spelled "An Buachaillín Donn" (the brown-haired lad) - "Dhoun" is an Anglicised spelling. The song also known as "Mo Bhuachaillín Donn", my brown-haired boy, which is sung mainly in English. This site mistakenly translates the title as "the fair-haired boy". Donn means brown; fair haired would be "bán" or "fionn". https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/mo-bhuachailliacuten-donn-lyrics-and-chords.html same song https://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/an_buachaillin_donn Mudcat has the same song posted as "BOUCHALEEN DHOUN" but that is not Irish spelling; it is a rough transliteration. I've now convinced myself that it was this song which was sung at the mudsing in question, a song in English with a few words in Irish Gaelic included. [I have edited the song list in accord with this post. Thanks! Gerry] |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:47 PM In my defence as a humble scribe, the title listed would have been taken directly from the chat entry... |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jun 21 - 08:22 PM I make no excuse for our imperfections. It's what makes us quaint.... |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Jun 21 - 07:33 AM Songs/poems/monologue from the 21-22 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. I'm not sure about the title, "The Forest and the Tree", given for the song by mg. Comments and corrections always welcome. Cool Water Carrying Nelson Home Hole in the Ark (monologue) Last of the Steam-Powered Trains Al the Vegetable Man Sea Fever (poem) La guignolée (The Rag Dance) I Brought My Father with Me Sammy’s Bar Casey Jones (variant of Jay Gould’s daughter) Rosebud in June Do You Have Wine? (Imate Li Vino, in Bulgarian) Country Life The Valley of Knockanure The Water is Wide (Australian version) When Father Papered the Parlour The Dance is Mine Summertime I Get a Kick out of You East Texas Red Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Blarney Roses Long Summer Day Too Old to Die Young I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal Spancil Hill Dh’ èirich mi Moch Madainn Chèitein (I Arose Early One May Morning) Great God A’Mighty (semi-sung poem) Lament to the Moon Által Mennék (I’d Like to Cross the Tisza by Boat, in Hungarian) No Place to Fall Oak and Ash and Thorn Before They Close the Minstrel Show The Forest and the Tree Vincent Bonnie Banks o' Fordie (aka Bonnie Banks o' Airdrie, aka Babylon, ....) Coil Away the Trawl Warp (aka The Smacksman) Home Remodeling Blues Touch Not the Cup (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) I'm Romeo (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) Birmingham Sunday Bachelor Ben (poem) Why I Refuse to Say Goodbye Leave Her, Johnny Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me Arky's Toast The 23rd of June (aka The Jug of Punch) Rising (poem) Sojourner Truth's Battle Hymn Until the Dark Time Ends Watching When I Have Seen The Liar (version of Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago) A-Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin update) The Express Office (aka He's Coming to us Dead, aka The Boys in Blue) Gypsy Laddie (aka Raggle-Taggle Gypsy, aka Black Jack Davey, aka Gypsy Davey, ....) The Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Cha Bhí Mí Buan (in Scots Gaelic) Shipyard Slips (aka The Island Men) Names Farewell Lazy Afternoon Hei Huomenta Suomi ("Hello, Good Morning Finland", Finnish language version of City of New Orleans) Heaven Kilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Four Wet Pigs Out of the Window (aka Our Wedding Day) Josie Henry the Accountant (to the tune of John Henry) Leader of the Band North Country Tragedy A Bench by the Sea Magnolia Wind Witch Hazel |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 06:17 AM Songs/poems/tune from the 28-29 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. John Ball The Blood Donor (poem) Silver Dagger Aly’s Waltz (fiddle tune) One Volcano Day Oleanna Wheel Your Perambulator Red River Valley It Could Have Been Me Harp Without a Crown McCaffery The Seana Waltz Early in the Morning Daisy Bell/A Bicycle Built for Two Scarborough Fair Already Dead The Flower of Magherally Salty Dog Oh Napoleon! In the Heat of the Summer Trois Jeunes Marins Porteurs de Lettres (in French) Elizabeth Mantle of Green Exile The Laird o’ Drum The Bonny Bunch of Roses Waltzing with Bears The Far Side Banks of Jordan Long Ago and Far Away The Log Driver’s Waltz The Diphthong (poem) Strictly Working Class Two Maidens Went Milking One Day The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More Unreconstructed Rebel The Last Thing on My Mind Home From the Sea I Saw Three Ships Dos Land iz Dayn Land ("This Land is Your Land", in Yiddish) Boney (aka Boney was a Warrior) Doonaree Light Woody Knows Nothing The Green Linnet Six Nights Drunk (Brian Peters update, with added Canadian touches) Isle of Eigg The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo He Got Better Things for You 254 Shades of Gray Rocky Road to Dublin My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove The Rare Ould Times Long Promised Road Raglan Road The Ballad of Harry Lewis My Home Town Walkin' By Myself I Think of You Granny's Old Armchair So Here's to You (aka When First We Met) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 30 Jun 21 - 04:33 PM "Comments and corrections always welcome." I sang Out of the Window at the 21-22 June 2021 session. I did sing the version which is in the DT under the title Our Wedding Day. It is not the same song as, is not "aka", "She Moved through the Fair". The songs have some relation, much discussed in a thread on Mudcat*. But Pádraic Colum just used one verse of Out of the Window in "She Moved through the Fair". *https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=869#3572943 Joe Offer sang the song described as "Here's to You" at this week's song circle. According to the DT, the song by the late Alan Bell is entitled When First We Met. "Here's to you," makes me think of Tom Paxton's "Ramblin' Boy". Most recordings do refer to the song as "So Here's to You". I've also heard "When First We Met" aka "So Here's to You" called "The Parting Glass"; and that could so easily be confused by a popular song of the same name ("Of all the money that e'er I spent I've spent it in good company ..." I thought it worth clarifying just which parting song Joe sang. chorus: So here's to you, and our time together. I will share with you a parting glass, And bid adieu with some smile and laughter, Our time apart will be short, and pass. There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 07:30 PM "There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was." Felipa, I sang a few lines of the Phil Ochs song, Links on the Chain, but maybe that's not what you're thinking of. If anyone can remember a full song that came after the close, I'll be happy to edit it into the list. I have made the other corrections. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:02 AM Songs/poem/reading from the 5-6 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan and Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Joe and Monique for further information. "ttto" stands for "to the tune of." Comments and corrections always welcome. Only Remembered Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (poem) O Mary Don’t You Weep The Intoxicated Rat Triste es lo cèl (in Occitan) Winds of Morning Three Score and Ten Wildwood Flower The Erie Canal The Mower Songwriter, Songmaker, and Traveller Sons of Liberty Where Did They Go? Linin' Track The Rigs of Rye Trouble in Mind Mary Had a Little Lamb Clementine ‘Arry, ‘Arry, ‘Arry Coal Town Road Ladies of the Bay Dance for the Love I Will Stand Port of Call (parody of) Sidewalks of New York Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvy Go Tell Aunt Rhody Jimmy Joe Till I’m Too Old to Die Young Teen Angel (ttto Amazing Grace) Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird a' Chuain (My Love is on the High Seas, in Gaelic) Mesmerised by You This is My Father’s World The Two Sisters (aka Wind and Rain) Hang on the Bell, Nellie The Total Eclipse of Scotland (reading) Lord Rendal I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Aunt Sue This Land is Whose Land? (ttto This Land is Your Land) Summer's End Battle of the Somme Safe Romance Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech) Nasty Nell Gathering Storm Queen of Skye Both Sides the Tweed Epistle to Derroll Amazing Grace Jimmy Crack Corn (aka Blue-Tail Fly) Way Down the Road Tumbalalaika I Wish You Were Here Johnie Cock (aka Johnny O'Breadisley, Jock o'Braidislee, etc.) Come and Go with Me to that Land Since I Laid My Burden Down Young Lady (ttto Polly Von, aka Polly Vaugh(a)n, Molly Bawn, The Fowler, The Shooting of His Dear, etc., etc.) Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Bring Me Back You River of the Big Canoe(s) Philosophers Song The King's Shilling Starfish Song Power and the Glory Last Boat In Cold Missouri Waters Lay Down Beside Me Quantum Mechanics (ttto Little Old Log Cabin on the Hill) Holio (ttto Sweet Betsy from Pike) This is My Song (ttto Finlandia) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jul 21 - 02:51 AM Songs/poems/tunes/monologue/story from the 12-13 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Fishin’ Blues The Anchor Watch (poem with sung refrains) Seasons Turn Sonia Snell (monologue) Three-Volcano Day Whiskey In The Jar The Herring Girl Hesitation Blues Kyrkløt & Polska (tunes; Waiting For A Bus) Diamantina Drover Old Men Sing Love Songs The Haying Song Two Sisters I’m an Old Deck-Hand Orange Maid of Sligo What’ll I Do Chant de l’oignon The Spring of ‘65 Windy Old Weather Joshua Gone Barbados Raven in the Storm The Mountains of Mourne Cowboy Fireman Hippopotamus Song All the Good People Oh the Dreadful Wind and the Rain Billy O’Shea The Old Orange Flute Early Snow The Green Faerie Dog (Scottish story) Old Whitby Harbor Day is Done You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louie Whitby Fisherman The Marie Depreste (poem) Otter Hunting in Ribblesdale The Green Eye of the Yellow God (poem) Three Wishes If You've Only Got a Moustache The Bold Princess Royal Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels Sweet Thang The Diggins-Oh The Farmer's Boy Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Living Planet Essiquibo River (partly in Guyanese Creole) Breed-Specific Legislation Ballad Wild Goose Nation Lessons of Time Nevada Jane Call to Song That's the Way it's Gonna Be A Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin version) Mni Wikoni (partly in Lakota) Early |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jul 21 - 07:23 PM Songs/recitations/poems/tunes/monologues from the 19-20 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and Felipa for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Let Union Be Testimony of Patience Kershaw Sarah (recitation of a testimony) Happy Days are Here Again Deep River Blues Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight Windmills Pull Down, Lads Cross the Mississippi All the Good People O’Donovan’s Daughter Not Sixteen Til Sunday (parody of Seventeen Come Sunday) Cockleshells Bonny Eloise, the Belle of the Mohawk Vale Thrift Store on the Corner Toddling Home (monologue) Land of the Bottom Line Shenandoah Please Don’t Bury Me Harvest home, Boys of Blue Hill/Lads of North Tyne (tunes) Streams of Bunclody The Irish Rover Gypsy Laddie Caledonia Fair and Free Lambeg Drummer Away with Rum/Rum by Gum (with one chorus each of S-A-V-E-D and Salvation Army/Nickel on the Plate) Brighten the Corner Where You Are Bampton Fair Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Salvation Band Have You Got any News of the Iceberg? Housewife’s Lament The Final Trawl Jamie Douglas (aka Waly, Waly) Slow Train Through Georgia The Glass of Beer (poem) A Chat with Your Mother What Will I Leave Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Safe Romance The Minstrel Paddy Lay Back Home-Grown Tomatoes The Tea-Total Society Bring Us in Hot Tea Don't Slay that Potato The Humours of Whiskey (aka Stick to the Craythur, Paddy's Panacea) The One-Eyed Cook The Handweaver and the Factory Maid Amelia Earhart's Last Flight When I'm Gone Wayfaring Stranger I Ain't a Martian Any More (one stanza take-off on I Ain't a-Marching Any More) 'Tis a Gift to be Stupid (one-stanza take-off on Simple Gifts) China and a Woman's Heart I am the Wind Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto Irish Washerwoman) New Orleans Rag Song of the Lower Classes A Bench by the Sea Hard Times Come Again No More Look Down on Me Bonnie at Morn |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 22 Jul 21 - 09:15 AM Bheir Me O should be spelled Bheir Mi O (mi not me) as Gerry listed two single-verse parodies, I think it may be worth mentioning that a chorus of S-A-V-E-D (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5573#32866) and a chorus of Salvation Army/Nickel on the Plate (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8395) were added to the song "Rum by Gum" |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jul 21 - 02:34 PM Dang! I missed some good songs. Thanks to Casey and Noreen for hosting while I was off seeing the sights of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. |
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