Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS

Subject: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 10:26 AM

Tune: "Banks of the Ohio"

Took my computer, Back to the store
Like I'd done, Many times before
My CPU, Went up in smoke
Loading a thread, Named "What is Folk."

Only say, It will be fine.
And I can soon, Go back online.
I'm 'Cattaddicted, Its plainly seen
Now I can but stare, At this blank screen.

I scan the threads, Ten times a day.
So many have, So much to say.
There's lots of songs, Lyrics in full
Lots of talk, And lots of bull.

Bruce O. knows songs, From times long past
Spaw gives insults, Blows a possum's ass.
Peter T.'s, Thought for the day
Is that the heron, Will go away.

Rick picks, Mick flirts, El Swanno can dive.
And in Kat's garden, The faeries thrive.
Mario sings, Leej talks of Blake
And the Skiffler is, A total flake.

In the shower, Alice sings.
Pansy Rue, Does "other" things.
The Fair One fends, Off Micks' advance.
Alan of Oz, Wears her underpants.

Art, Joe, and Seed, Help smooth the ruts.
When gargoyle goes, Completely nuts.
The Paton's are, Like a Mom and Dad
Barbara gives her blessings, even when we're bad.

Mudcat radio, On Wednesday night
Will it crash? Well it just might.
Max must work hard, We all admit
'Cause Ol' Bert can't, Remember shit.

Computer's repaired! Pick it up at six.
Then I can get, My Mudcat fix.
Lord may it never, Go away.
Great friends all, Mudcat Cafe.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: MMario
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 10:41 AM

Hahaha! I've got to get a seat belt on this chair if you keep posting stuff like this! I about rolled off, laughing. (Didn't help my phone conversation I was trying to conduct at the time either....). "sounds" GREAT!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: A total flake
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 11:10 AM

Honoured to be included, pardner.
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 11:54 AM

And I obviously left out tons of other 'Catters, but I was running out of rhymes, cause I ain't too bright. Sorry group. Always hate to do something like this because then the "insult" is being left out!! I do love you all.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Áine
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 12:03 PM

I don't know, Spaw. I may never forgive you . . . you left me out, and aren't I the one that sang, in front of God and everybody, about you blowing the possum's ass . . . (sniff, sniff) . . . and here I was just about to mail you a nine-banded armadillo to wrap your sweet lips around . . . (sniff, sniff) . . . I guess I'll just have to blow it myself now . . . (sniff, sniff)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 12:54 PM

I was just reminded......I claim no rights here at all except that should anyone affiliated with the HFA be interested, I'll take a cool million or you can kiss my ass....Whichever you prefer.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: alison
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 08:04 PM

love it 'spaw

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From:
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 10:07 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: WyoWoman
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 12:24 AM

Brilliant, Mr. Spaw.

Pansy Rue thanks you, too.

(Have you checked your mail lately?)

WyoWoman

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 12:50 AM

BRAVO, SPAW!!! I LOVE IT! Now, who is going to sing it and send it in to Mudcat Radio??? And, yeah, Spaw, check your snailmail, will ya!?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 08:54 AM

Thank you group......

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Bert
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 10:37 AM

"running out of rhymes" indeed. He just forgot you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 12:05 PM

Ohmygawd..........Its CATCHING!!!!!

GET AWAY FROM ME BERT.........BACK...BACK!!!!!!!!

Anybody got a cross I can use?......BACK I SAY...BACK!!!!

Quick, gimmee that wooden stake...and get that hammer over there............C'MON PEOPLE...I need a little help here..........BACK BERT........GET GACK..............WOULD SOMEBODY GIVE ME THAT GAWDDAMN STAKE????.....................Not a toothpick dumbass...a STAKE!!!..........BACK..BACK.......Thanks....What the...............GIMMEE A SHARP ONE...............asshole....................BACK..BACK...................oh gawd, he gettin' closer............................

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Pasw...sSpw..Pswa..SaWP.......oy.......................

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 06:42 PM

Well I just "got" the MAIL reference above guys. I was worried that the BS was getting weary, but once again I was wrong! Tis' worthy of a thread I believe. Cleigh says thanks of course.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 07:01 PM

WHAT!?? YOU'RE NOT GONNA TELL ALL! If that don't beat all! Humph!

Oh, and Bert & Spaw, through OUT all of your aluminum cooking pans! REMEMBER!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Áine
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 08:04 PM

It's Annie Armadillo Who's arriving in the mail She'd love to run and play With Cleigh, but then he'd Have to go to jail She's a hoot from hotter than Hades Texas!

(Next????)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Áine
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 08:18 PM

This one's for all my whiney titty babies, so they can 'git' the meter;

It's Annie Armadillo
Who's arriving in the mail
She'd love to run and play
With Cleigh, but then he'd
Have to go to jail
She's a hoot from hotter than Hades Texas!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From:
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 09:17 PM

The people here all seem to have a good time. I don't understand any of this, but this site is fun and interesting at the same time.

Ruthie

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:53 PM

There we go...Just for you lamarca!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: lamarca
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 12:07 AM

It's midnight now, and I'm still on
My last braincells have finally gone,
Just one more thread, and then I'll sleep
Unless, of course, that thread doth creep...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 07:07 PM

We ought to rename this place the Mudcatspaw Café! Got a tune for your brainchild, 'spaw? I'd love to sing it in the bath!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 08:46 PM

Armadiloes eh?

Flanders and Swann wrote one about armadiloes, the chorus goes

Armadilo, armadilo all the day

and is about an armadilo falling in love with an armour plated tank.. Better be careful what Annie brings home with her....

The song is great, as a relatively new member, I can't expect to be included, once again, fame eludes me..... sniff sniff.... I'm OK about it though, I'm not worried, I've slept in the same bed as Martin Carthy and Les Barker, why should I worry about being included in a silly song...... sniff.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 08:51 PM

The tune is "Banks of the Ohio" SusSKW....I put it at the top of the lyrics.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 08:53 PM

Suzanne, it seems to me "The Banks of the Ohio" might work.

LTS, don't feel bad, he missed me as well. He's actually been rude to me here, and I'm very hurt I wasn't included...sniff... please pass the hankie...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Nov 99 - 09:01 PM

In case anyone's wondering, I wrote the above before reading Catspw's reply. (And sorry about spelling your name wrong.) AcCkkKk!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 01:05 AM

Catspaw,

Last year in October we had a series of weekends when the threads wouldn't open: Max left town and everything went to hell in his absence. Three weeks in a row I wrote songs about what it was like to be without the threads. The first (The Missing the Mudcat Blues) can be found at

MISSIN' THE MUDCAT BLUES

I got the blues 'cause the Mudcat's gone and crashed again;
My God it hurts, the Mudcat's crashed again--
Good golly Miss Molly, when will them crashes end?

I gotta have the 'cat, 'cause I got a lotta stuff to say;
Oh, I need them threads 'cause I got so much to say.
But Benjamin and Barry Finn and all the threads have gone away.

I need Barbara and Art, I need Alison and Mick,
With only silence from the swamps--I know I'm gettin' sick,
Tim and Chet and Northfolk, you're gone but what can I do?
I'd ask Joe Offer, but dammit, he's gone, too.

With no Harpgirl and no Raven I'm stuck all alone in lonesome hell;
Bill's in Alabama, and there's no Wolfgang here in
hell,
Roger, Pete, and Ewan, Mike and Murray, they're all gone as well.

There's no word out of Brisbane, and Vancouver's quiet, too;
There's no word out of Brisbane, and Vancouver's quiet, too.
You gotta get me back on line, Max, 'cause what else can I do?

I got the blues 'cause the Mudcat's gone and crashed again;
My God it hurts, the Mudcat's crashed again--
Good golly Miss Molly, when will them crashes end?

c. Charles Kratz (12/0ct/98)

The second, like yours, was a parody of Banks of the Ohio; I haven't been able to find it yet, nor the third, another blues based on the error message we'd get anytime we tried to log onto the threads.

--seed

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: Llanfair
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 03:48 AM

Liz, Both of them? At the same time? The mind boggles!!!!
I never get included in lyrics either, mind you, not much rhymes with Llanfair, specially as it is pronounced "clan-via" Welsh lesson over!! Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 06:53 PM

Catspaw, here's my Mudcat song to "Banks of the Ohio":

Missing the Mudcat on the Banks of the Ohio

I met my Baby on a thread;
Our souls are one, that's what she said.
She said she'd always be with me,
But the Mudcat's down--where can she be?

(Cho.)
Max, only say you'll bring 'em back:
Without the 'Cat, what good's my Mac?
Each time a weekend rolls around,
I'm all alone, 'cause the threads are down.

We always met, my Baby and me,
At the topmost thread just after three.
We'd play thread-tag 'til time for bed,
But not tonight, 'cause the threads are dead.

It's Friday night, and I'm alone,
All I can do is weep and moan,
All I can do is cry the blues,
My Baby's gone, nuthin' left to lose.

--seed

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: CLETUS
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 07:19 PM

Dang it all ifn them aint sum gud uns Seed. Catspaw wuzza sain thet yur a rite smart feller an he shorr iz tellin tha truth boutcha.

CLETUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 08:26 PM

Cletus, I'm amazed at your discernment. 'Spaw's been telling us all how dumb you are...I guess he's really just unequipped to judge your intelligence.

--seed

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Memory Banks of Mudcat--BS
From: --seed
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 02:19 PM

At the very least, we should have a section of the DT devoted to songs by Mudcatters (all with Catspaw's dedication and my caveat: Anyone is welcome to perform these songs in public without royalties; however, if any of them are recorded or published for profit, the writers/composers expect the usual royalties.)

And, within the Songs by Mudcatters subdivision of DT, there should be a songs about the Mudcat and Mudcatters: Áine, your kissy-poo limericks oughta be there, too. If I knew hatemail from hotmeal from hitmule, I'd be happy to edit the book. Actually, I'd be happy to do a print media book, complete with pictures of artists and artifacts: possums and hammered dulcimers, bios, maybe extracts from the threads, etc. Kat? Ya wanna collaborate?

--seed(who knows quite a few candidates* for the thirteenth position in the baker's dozen)

*hundreds?