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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Leadfingers Date: 10 Oct 13 - 01:40 PM Thanks for the coments Ron - I am as happy backing 'good' singers and musicians as being 'The Star' . As for songs I did , 'Wreck of the Old 97' and 'Big Grand Cooley Dam at the Bluegrass Jam , and mucked up 'All Go Together' at Humourous songs . Saturday Concert I was responsible for Malcolm Austen's 'The Cat That Roamed' , after the beautiful treatment of the original by Colin and Rose . Bill Caddick's 'Father's Little Black Box' IS on the list I see but DONT ask me to list what I did after hours in the Peace Lodge . |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: kendall Date: 10 Oct 13 - 01:46 PM Ron, do you still want the lyrics to "She thinks I steal cars"? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Oct 13 - 03:03 PM Absolutely, Kendall. All I have a fragment. And I consider that the whole song--especially all your contributions--is one of the best parodies ever. And people can even sing along with the last line. What can I say but thanks? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Oct 13 - 03:07 PM That's right, Leadfingers. All I could think of was "I can't fly but my moggy can" . I knew that was not the title. It sure was great to have such strong, amazingly versatile musicians around. You and David set the standard on that, it seems to me. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Amos Date: 10 Oct 13 - 03:41 PM Sunday concert included "The Basque". by Tim Russell, and a tip o the hat to Captain Morse. Other workshops and free-for-all sessions included songs beyond count. The aftermath, as with every Getaway, is a head ringing with scintillating fragments of beautiful songs, and images of their beautiful singers. The magic island, Brigadoon, has a definition of "a place that is idyllic, unaffected by time, or remote from reality. " (Merriam Webster). My perception is that these intervals of solace and respite actually restore the batteries of reality, and fuel the endurance needed to walk through the cold months ahead until another Getaway becomes possible. That's one way of looking at it, anyway. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: kendall Date: 10 Oct 13 - 03:49 PM I'll PM the lyrics, Ron, since you are the only one who wants them. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: jacqui.c Date: 10 Oct 13 - 04:07 PM 'Waltzing Matilda', I think, refers to 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda', which Kendall, Claire and I did at the Saturday night concert. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: MMario Date: 10 Oct 13 - 04:31 PM Hey! Kendall and Ron - you two know better then that... Post the lyrics to a thread, or change the title of the post HERE to Lyrics Add: she thinks I steal cars.... None of this PM.... |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Jeri Date: 10 Oct 13 - 05:09 PM This is the Tonapah in the song The Basque, where the whore is from. As in "I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Hatchapee to Tonapah." I'm tempted to check out those trips on Google Maps, but that would take too much focus. Loved "The Basque", loved "And the Band Played..." Loved lots of songs. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: ranger1 Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:01 PM Really enjoyed Mark Gilston's mountain dulcimer playing, especially first thing in the morning Saturday as I was getting coffee in the retreat center. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: maeve Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:03 PM Does anyone know how the scholarship auction did? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: ClaireBear Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:09 PM Jeri, Tehachapi is southeast of Bakersfield, California. From there you'd take SR58 and turn north on SR14 to skirt the eastern Sierra, catch US 395 past Bishop, then head east on US6 to Tonopah, where I hope the Sidewinder Cafe's still open, next time I drive through on my way to Kat's...oh. Tucumcari is in eastern New Mexico, so to get there you'd take I-10 east from Tucson, head north at Las Cruces on I-25, then east again at Albuquerque on I-40. Easy peasy. Except, wait, I forgot about riding on the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed... But I digress. What an outstanding time we had this year. I feel closer to y'all than ever. And oh, the music! I wouldn't know where to begin -- but I am rich in memories, and one very happy camper. Thank you, my friends, for smiles and camaraderie; for bleary-eyed, silent companionship after a sleepless Saturday night; for giving of yourselves and putting your hearts into the music we made. And thanks so much to FSGW for hosting us and working so hard to bring our Brigadoon to life each year on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Until we meet again! |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Jeri Date: 10 Oct 13 - 06:27 PM Thanks, Claire. The only name I didn't look up is the one I blew. Maeve, they said the scholarship fund did well. That means somewhere between "meh" and "AYE CARUMBA!", but I'm not sure where. Better than average, I think. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Bill D Date: 10 Oct 13 - 07:05 PM Last I heard the scholarship fund 'almost' covered everything spent on it this year. Quite tolerable... maybe Charlie has final data.. |
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Subject: ADD: She Thinks I Steal Cars From: kendall Date: 10 Oct 13 - 07:10 PM She thinks I steal cars author unknown except for the part I wrote. Indicated by an asterisk. SHE THINKS I STEAL CARS (author unknown) Well, just because the cops were here on Tuesday, Just because they put me behind bars, Just because they found transmissions in my bath tub, She thinks I steal cars. If she's happy thinking I'm a car thief, Maybe it's because I gave her such a deal, But the cops keep asking those embarrassing questions Like, where'd you get the freshly painted Oldsmobile? *Just because I'm always out past midnight, Just because I hang around in bars, Just because I never drive one more than two days, She thinks I steal cars. Just because my attic's full of hub caps, Just because my cellar's full of tires, Just because I ground the numbers off her engine, She thinks I steal cars. * verse marked by an asterisk was written by Kendall Morse. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: kendall Date: 10 Oct 13 - 07:13 PM Can someone put this in the DT? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Leadfingers Date: 10 Oct 13 - 07:25 PM Kendall - IF I steal your lyrics , where is the best place to find the tune ? And Ron - comparing me so favourably with David is , to say the least , embarrassing - Just goes to prove the old saying that you can fool some of the people all the time ! But Thank You |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Oct 13 - 07:51 PM I can help with that. There are several Youtube versions of the original song: "She Thinks I Still Care". I strongly associate it with George Jones--can't get a better pedigree for a country song than that. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:07 PM Fortunately I guessed right--there are versions on youtube and George Jones is heavily featured. But I really should have check first (I tell Jan; never assume, and I should take my own advice.) But really, Terry; you proved your versatility in the Peace Cabin over and over--it's just great when an ensemble AKA pickup group comes together so smoothly and your whistles, etc played a huge role in that. I'm just really sorry I wasn't able to stay up til dawn Sunday--a bit under the weather late Saturday after the concert--and had to leave at the intermission of the Sunday concert. Sunday I felt better but the boom was lowered on me. And it wasn't Casey. I had a boatload of good old country songs--really wanted to do "Faded Love" for instance-- but somehow the time was never right. But I have never left a Getaway early before. And it will never happen again. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Bill D Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:19 PM "..the boom was lowered on me." It must have been, Ron...it was Clancy who originally lowered it.. ☺ |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Lonesome EJ Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:27 PM A few title corrections... "By and By" would probably be a line from Before the Deluge, Jackson Brown song I sang. 'Tomorrow it may still be there" sounds like a line from Gram Parsons' A Song for You, which I also did. "I am a Selkie" could be referring to I Come and Stand at Every Door, which I did, and we talked about it being based on the Great Selkie of Sule Kerry. Or maybe it's a different song entirely. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Janie Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:36 PM The gospel workshop is always a highlight for me. I had not heard "Angels Hovering Around" before and that was a particular delight. Also rare to hear "Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed." Who offered that one? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Fred Maslan Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:39 PM Saturday night after snack in the retreat center lounge, to get things going I started singing "In good old Colonial times". several people joined in with harmonies transforming a simple song into something amazing. I had the impression that they had never heard the song before.It was along with the songs that followed the highlight of the weekend, if it is possible for there to be a single highlight at getaway. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: maeve Date: 10 Oct 13 - 08:50 PM Jeri and Bill- Thanks. I'm glad. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: CET Date: 10 Oct 13 - 10:14 PM Thanks for posting the lyrics Kendall. Ron was definitely not the only one who wanted those lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 10 Oct 13 - 10:20 PM Got me, Bill. I knew Casey didn't look right. Better heed my instincts and check next time. No excuse for me, either--I just sang that song at Riderwood this past March: big hit. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Leadfingers Date: 10 Oct 13 - 10:39 PM For me , a lot of the 'fun' of The Getaway is the totally informal stuff - As I have said before , while I have sufficient ego to be quite happy being "The Star" , I get just as much (if not , often more) pleasure being backing to other good musicians or singers . |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: hsempl Date: 10 Oct 13 - 11:22 PM Thank you all for the corrections! And the band played waltzing matilda was incredible, brought spontaneous tears to my eyes; and I have heard that song several times before, never affected me the way it did Saturday night. The Selkie version I heard was sung by Rose in the ballad room, just beautiful. Terry, did I get the Three-legged man name right? That song was hilarious, I have a recording of it, and when you got to "you took the good'un!" we were all cracking up. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 11 Oct 13 - 12:34 AM Thanks, Kendall for the text of "She Thinks I Steal Cars". As you have noted no doubt, I wasn't the only one smitten by that song. It's great that your tastes and accomplishments range so far--from bone-dry Maine humor to the definitive version of "Lorena" to the above song. The other one of yours I really want to learn--at least the one that pops up immediately--is "$5 Fine for Whining". That one should be sung at every Getaway--just to spread the message far and wide. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Leadfingers Date: 11 Oct 13 - 08:22 AM Three Legged Man and The Freakers Ball are both from Shel Silverstein , Freakers collected from the Dr Hook recording and T L M as sung by John Prine |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 11 Oct 13 - 09:06 AM And I definitely need to add to the huzzahs for Murray Callahan. She has everything--great songs (many not very familiar), delighful voice, perfect comic timing, stage business. etc. Anybody who missed her miniconcert (should have been at least an hour) missed a wonderful time. But of course since "Betty Boop", I suspect many of you know that. That must have been in the second half of the Sunday concert---knew I didn't want to leave early; oh well, never again. At any rate, it's such a crime she does not have any CD's out--I asked her. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Bill D Date: 11 Oct 13 - 09:27 AM I sang "The Key of R" and Jean Ritchie's "Black Waters" and "The RAYCO Seatcovers Song" from a 1950s TV commercial..(Songs from the Shower workshop)...also done was Jonathan Eberhart's "Lament for a Red Planet"...and dozens more.I have some recordings I'll try to deal with after this crazy weekend of craft show. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 11 Oct 13 - 09:43 AM So they squeezed the "Key of R" out of you, Bill? And I wasn't there to hear it. Damn. Does that mean I'm not a one-man lobbying group for that song? And does it also mean I have to wait a full year before getting another chance to hear it? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,kendall Date: 11 Oct 13 - 10:33 AM I have CDs of both $5.00 fine and 3 legged man. $10.00 for both including postage. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,kendall Date: 11 Oct 13 - 10:36 AM Leadfingers, the best place to find those lyrics is on my CDs.:-) Subtle, aint I(? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,kendall Date: 11 Oct 13 - 10:42 AM Ron, did you know my version of Hank's Banks of the Pontchartrain? |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Fred Maslan Date: 11 Oct 13 - 09:15 PM At the novelty songs workshop I sang "Barney Google" and "Come Josephine in my Flying Machine". |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Ron Davies Date: 12 Oct 13 - 07:11 AM Kendall-- Sounds great--shall I PM you to get your address? Or are your CD's obtainable through CAMSCO? Since I'd like to support Mudcat this way as much as I can. Ron |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: jacqui.c Date: 12 Oct 13 - 07:31 AM The Getaway just keeps on getting better year after year. Monday morning came much too fast, as usual, and I, for one, really didn't want to leave! I'd like to say thank you to all the lovely people who volunteered, or were coerced, into taking part in the Mummers Play and who made it such a success once again. Every year I wonder if we will manage to pull together a cast and every year we do it, sometimes by the skin of the teeth but, somehow, it always seems to work so well. It was nice to have the children take part this year - they added a whole new dimension to the play. I will say a very special thank you to our St George, who took the part despite having real stage fright and who played it so well. Thank you to Claire for adding harmony to our piece at the Saturday night concert - it made it even more special for both Kendall and myself. Thanks to John Roberts for learning to play Lorena and playing on stage with Kendall during the Sunday evening concert. There were so many amazing highlights throughout the whole weekend. Lots of wonderful workshops, too many that couldn't be attended because of clashes (where's that cloning workshop!) and some terrific late night sings. Coming together with old friends and getting to know new ones a little better is part and parcel of any Getaway and so it was again this year. This year was even more special as Kendall has started performing songs on his own, which, for me, is a real move forward. All in all, I had a great time. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 12 Oct 13 - 10:30 AM ...and UK viewers saw a version of "She thinks I still care" on Transatlantic Sessions on BBC4 last night (Friday). RtS |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,kendall Date: 12 Oct 13 - 10:32 AM Ron, Folk Legacy has some of my recordings, as far as I know, Camsco doesn't. Best way is to order from me. No middle man. Address in PM. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,Dani Date: 12 Oct 13 - 11:19 AM She did, in fact, pout most adorably upon being told she had to leave Monday morning : ) One more weapon in her Most Powerful Woman arsenal. I tried the pulling-the-covers-up-over-my-head-and-refusing-to-get-up ploy, with even less success. A loud second to the thanks. All you FSGW folks who work so hard to make the programming and hospitality work, smoothing out the wrinkles and herding the cats, I am deeply grateful for your efforts. As much as mudcat and fsgw have overlapped over the years, I still feel like a pampered guest in your house at the Getaway, and try to behave just well enough to be permitted to come back : ) I did less singing and more listening and learning this year, and am committed this time in between to not 'putting the book away' until the mists of Brigadoon next part. Those songs swirling around in my head aren't going to sing themselves! Already this morning I found to my delight that the curmudgeonly tomato man at the farmer's market plays at a jam and dance deep out in the country, and has graciously invited me to the next. Have just today had a few minutes to take out and polish the memories I tucked in my pockets on the way out the camp road. Here are some: Anything at all that Lani Hermann did. Your humble and grateful servant, madam. "Hear! Hear!" to Kendall back onstage, in ever-more interesting combinations. That's one of the especial delights of the concerts, the crazy mashups of lovely voices and instruments. The campfire. Thank you all for making that magic, especially you, Phil Fox. What a delight of 'guilty pleasures'. Scraps of songs were lobbed across the flickering dark, sometimes a spark caught and anonymous voices passed it back and around with gusto. Sometimes it glowed a bit, then winked out. All fun. The best was the two ladies who did the camp song about swimming with lovely hand motions. Anyone remember? Amos' rendition of "The Basque", especially the command performance AFTER the command performance. Colin's (?) "Last Trip Home" at the concert... THAT to me is just exactly what a 'folk' song should be. With Janie, I loved the "Angels Hovering" song... would love to learn that. I was looking around at the cherished ones on our buttons (Sandy Paton accompanied me all weekend) and thinking of the angels sitting among us, singing, at the Gospel workshop. Always a highlight for me! The Parting Songs on the waterside... could it have been any lovelier? And each song better than the last. I think it was the Chorus Songs workshop when a young woman (who?) with a lovely soft voice sang "Gum Tree Canoe", which I have since learned and sing unceasingly (and probably annoyingly, to housemates : ) The mummer's play is always a highlight, and it was an honor to take part, especially with the wonderfully spirited kids. LOVED the dragon-with-translator : ) Ernie/John Boehner, I hope I didn't hurt you in my enthusiasm. It's great fun to have a sword AND a horse! SO many good things. Thank you all for being part of the indescribable magic of this reunion. Dani |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: ranger1 Date: 12 Oct 13 - 12:47 PM David Jones sang Last Trip Home at the concert, Dani. |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,dani Date: 12 Oct 13 - 01:32 PM Of course, thank you |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: kendall Date: 12 Oct 13 - 02:18 PM I would also like to thank the GWFS for this super gathering that they work so hard at causing each year. Dani, I could have taught you Gum Tree Canoe back when I was 13. :-) |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Nancy King Date: 12 Oct 13 - 02:47 PM So glad you all enjoyed the Getaway! Thanks to all of you for coming! Yes, it's true, we do put in a few hours to organize it, but what really makes it work is the people who attend. You are all fabulous, and we're so lucky to have you join us. Extra special thanks to George Rathbone, for enchanting the children, and to Jacqui for including them in the Mummers Play. Making the kids feel a part of things is the best way to ensure they will grow up loving this music. I should know. Nancy |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: GUEST,Dani Date: 12 Oct 13 - 08:58 PM And how could I forget... every blessed thing that Severn sings!! Severn, please share the words to the destroyer tune? Invaluable. And finally, a lovely Getaway memory, cornering Dick Levine in the dinner line to teach me "There's A Ram In The Thicket"; one of the goals I had going up there, fulfilled beautifully. Dani |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: KT Date: 12 Oct 13 - 09:11 PM What a delight to picture the whole wonderful weekend through your stories! Is anyone planning to post videos/audio files anywhere? I've got a hankering to learn some of these tunes! |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Charlie Baum Date: 13 Oct 13 - 03:17 PM To answer a question from earlier this week, in the final accounting, the scholarship fund actually did okay, and covered our expenses. There was one last-minute scholarship person who never showed, and we rescinded that person's scholarship, which brought things into balance. LOST AND FOUND ITEMS: There was lost stuff for Mitzi Quint, David Jones, and George Stephens, which either has been returned or will be mailed/delivered to them. In addition to that, we have a few dishes from the potluck: an 8 or 9" clear pyrex baking dish, a 9" white bowl with a grey filagree design around the rim, and a white plastic 6" storage dish with green plastic lid. Beyond the pot-luck items, we have a blue women's size 10 (petite?) corduroy Eddie Bauer jacket, a white "le-Tour-de-France" cap (with yellow streaks in the design), a plastic drinking mug from the Wammies (Washington Area Music Association), and a "Wine Monkey" sock for placing on top of a wine bottle (still in its box--probably meant as a silent auction item). Anyone wishing to claim (or release) any of the above, or who needs further description of what might be yours, should let me know by sending me an e-mail. I enjoyed the weekend very much, and there were too many highlights for me to pick one out. Believe it or not, I'm STILL catching up on sleep deficit this weekend. --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: After the Getaway -- 2013 From: Amos Date: 13 Oct 13 - 03:53 PM KT: I'll be making a recording of "The Basque" this week, I hope, and will send it to you when done. A |
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