A theme song for Mudcat ???

Subject: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 May 15 - 12:01 PM

ok.. it's the weekend let's all have some fun...

My nomination for mudcat theme song is this great classic from our distant youth.. 😜

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 May 15 - 02:54 PM

Not *my* youth, by a damn sight. What's it about?
Why not compose a Mudcat anthem?

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 22 May 15 - 03:18 PM

Sgt. Offer's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 22 May 15 - 04:01 PM

Nobody loves you (when you're down and out)?

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Bert
Date: 22 May 15 - 07:27 PM

It would go something like...

There isn't a God.
Oh yes there is.
There isn't a God.
Oh yes there is.
There isn't a God...

That isn't Folk.
Oh yes it is.
That isn't Folk.
Oh yes it is.
That isn't Folk.
Oh yes it is...
Oh yes there is

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 15 - 07:52 PM

How about The Sad Cafe?

Oh, it seemed like a holy place,
protected by an amazing grace,
and we would sing right out loud
the things we could not say.
We thought we could change this world
with words like love and freedom.
We were part of the lonely crowd
inside the sad cafe.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 May 15 - 08:42 PM

1) Neat article on music and its use to help win wars.

http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-4/thismonth/feature.php

2) The 1961 'Ghost Town' may have made its way across the Atlantic, but it did so unbeknownst to me.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Ed T
Date: 22 May 15 - 08:56 PM

BS Song:


We're here for a long time, not a good time.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 15 - 09:10 PM

"We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here."

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: cnd
Date: 22 May 15 - 10:38 PM

There are different themes for different parts of it. For situations like Bert suggested, I suggest Fuedin' Banjos, preferably the Lester Flatt version, or Don Reno's version would work as well. Of course, some of the arguments can seem to bear a similar feeling to the name of this song.

Of course, other times, this site makes me feel like a song by Mac Wiseman, called I Like Good Blue Grass; a gem which is sadly not on Youtube.

Of course, once you get on here, you can often feel yourself singing classic by Flatt and Scruggs: Loafer's Glory

And the music here is always Music (Country Style), such as sung.

When you first get on the site and leave a comment, someone comes along and says, Come On In and make yourself at home. Whatever happens, to you and me it will always be The Old Home Place, as sung by The Dillards. Once you get there you're liable to Stay All Night.

Now, by this point, you may realize your addiction. You may even say, "I Ain't Wastin' Time no more!" Maybe you're Lookin' For a Reason to stay here. But, despite your best intentions, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Sorry for the long and rambling message. Now I must say, "I'm Movin' On."

In all seriousness, though, I have no clue.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Amos
Date: 23 May 15 - 12:53 AM

I suggest Mudcat Cafe #61 or The Mudcat Schooner-O

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 May 15 - 01:25 AM

"All The Cat[ter]s Join In"

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Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Bert
Date: 23 May 15 - 01:28 AM

You won't do better than this one Blue Clicky Thing

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 15 - 05:27 AM

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 May 15 - 09:03 AM

Given our average age how about "I just don't look good naked anymore" (Kendall's version, naturally).

Rts

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 May 15 - 10:04 AM

"Mudcat Blues" by Roy Howell. Some nice slide guitar playing and a funky beat.

Or "Mudcat" by Hoodoo Drugstore - nice Cajun feel.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Musket
Date: 23 May 15 - 10:44 AM

As Chris Smither is touring The UK at present, his Train Home would be fitting..

I don't think I see
There's anything for me
In visions of the past or the ever after.
Now is what can be
All the rest is wait and see
Those prophets they don't hear that cosmic laughter.

Other than that, any folk song that has been written and copyrighted...

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 May 15 - 01:39 PM

Here we go again?

Another one bites the dust?

Should I stay or should I go?

So many to chose from!

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 15 - 10:41 PM

How about "There But For Fortune"??

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 May 15 - 09:12 AM

"Saturday Night's all right for fighting"? Or any other night? (But maybe not true of all Mudcatters.) ;-)

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 May 15 - 06:21 PM

How about

"Where have you been all day, Randall, my son?
"Where have you been then, my handsome young man?"
"I've been surfing Mudcat, mother.
"I've been surfing Mudcat, mother.
"Make my bed soon, for I'm--"

Okay, somebody take it from here. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 May 15 - 09:52 PM

...weary with folksongs and fain would lie doon.

Where's your guitar, Randall my son?
Where's your Martin, my handsome young man?
I've been trading on Mudcat, mother.
I've been trading on Mudcat, mother,
Make my bed soon for I'm weary from Mudcat, etc.

Why have you a banjo, Randall my son?
I brought you up better, my handsome young man!
Get out of my house! Mother, don't...ARGH! OUCH!
Okay, okay, I'm leaving!

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Jeri
Date: 24 May 15 - 10:34 PM

Tears for Fears: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 25 May 15 - 09:46 AM

There's plenty of fodder for a mudcat anthem in "Old Dad" or "Jawbone":

Muscat walk, Muscat talk,
Muscat eat a-with a knife and fork,
Hung my Mudcat on the fence,
Ain't seen nothin' of my Muscat since.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 25 May 15 - 09:47 AM

Autocorrect is my bane!

Joe, please make that "Mudcat" above.

Sorry! I must remember to check things even if I know I typed them correctly.

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Severn
Date: 25 May 15 - 06:08 PM

The Three Muscatelles w(h)ine "Shoop! Shoop! In the background, Bob? No, you're back to Mudcat....Good.....


How about an ode to Max?:

"But he 'Cat came back
The very next day.
We thought it was a goent,lo
But it wouldn't stay away....."

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Severn
Date: 25 May 15 - 06:11 PM

Thought it was a goner.....

My own auto correct problems.....

Subject: RE: A theme song for Mudcat ???
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 25 May 15 - 07:55 PM

My first thought: The wonderful song Woody Guthrie wrote about the Ladies Auxiliary.