Inauguration Songs

Subject: RE: Inauguration Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 02:09 PM

After seeing the thread about Odetta, I don't care what the song is so long as she gets to sing it!

Subject: RE: Inauguration Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 01:38 PM

So, any actual SONGS, you guys?

Subject: RE: Inauguration Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 02:34 PM

Wow. I'd like to see Obama do that! Omaba appaloosa? Yikes!

Subject: RE: Inauguration Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 01:57 PM

You guys have such *dull* inaugurations compared to what we used to have back in the old country...

It is interesting to note here that in Ireland one of the rites of kingship involved the new king ritually mating with a mare at his coronation. Are these chalk figures in the Sussex Downs the horse and the king carved large so all can see "... whence come the powers of just governments...?" Additionally, there is a similar ceremony performed in India in which a stallion and a woman of rank are ritually mated at a coronation. In both cases the horse is killed and eaten. The Irish king also bathed in a cauldron of horse broth made from the slain mare, thus becoming the horse by eating her and also being born of the horse by entering into the womb of her cauldron and emerging as king.

From http://www.faeryshaman.org/es93/es93art5.htm . Lots more scope for songs in that.

Subject: Inauguration Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 12:50 PM

Are there any? Are there any new ones for THIS inauguration (Barack's, that is)? FYI, barack is Apricot in Hungarian. He was apparently named for a brandy...)

Also, separate thread below the line, anybody going?