BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY

Subject: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 09:00 PM

Does your town or city have an official song? If it does...can it beat this?

The official song of Schenectadyis "Our Schenectady," composed by John Van Laak and sung by Judi Merriam. Adopted by Schenectady City Council Jan. 30, 1995:

Our Schenectady

What a warm and friendly place it is to be

Nestled among plains and hills

With a beautiful river that always gives us thrills

And stores and shops with all that one might need or wish to see

And legends and tales and lots of history

Oh Schenectady

Our Schenectady

Let us now plan and help to make it grow

If we will all do our best

Then others can do the rest

For places to study and learn in

Places to work and earn in

Places to live in happiness

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 09:34 PM

No, but we do have City Ordinance 8.48, which deals with illicit discharge.

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 09:37 PM

Illicit discharge of what?

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 10:00 PM

Take your pick...but firearms are covered under a different law.

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 10:32 PM

Hey, that's a pretty good song considering that it commemorates a city whose name sounds like a disease.

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:40 PM

You have to go there to fully appreciate the name.

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Cool Beans
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:47 PM

What, not "I Can't Spell Schenectady"?! This is an outrage.
I can spell Dakota,
Can handle Minnesota
But I can't spell Schenectady....

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 09:01 PM

"I Can't Spell Schenectady" is a self-defeating sentence, because you obviously can spell it. It would be better to say "I can't spell skinecktiddy".

Subject: RE: BS: the Official song of Schenectady, NY
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 09:05 PM

We have in the Library a song called "The Sweetheart Of Old Fort Hall."

No, it's not about THAT sort of "sweetheart." It's a romantic ballad of the "back in the days when we were traveling the Oregon Trail together" type.

The songwriter was from Pocatello.