Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Mysha
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 06:18 PM

Let me rephrase that:

"On Top of Spaghetti" appears to be somewhere in Rise Up Singing Again. For that entry, the melody is given as On Top of Old Smokey. This would suggest that On Top of Old Smokey is itself a well-known song, well worth singing together. But curiously, I can't seem to find the song itself anywhere in RUSA.


BTW, the internal alphabet doesn't work for me, for that page. Though they are quite nice about it, I'd prefer to not complain about another of their pages unless I'm sure I'm not the only one having a problem with it. Does anyone else have trouble jumping to a location somewhere on that page, rather than to its top?


Bye
Mysha

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Aug 20 - 03:32 PM

How about singing "If I Only Had A Brain" on Viagra???

GfS

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 07:01 AM

Joe, I'd be happy to start a Permathread on Australian songs, if I had any idea of how to start (and maintain) a Permathread.

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 02:49 AM

OK, I'm going to lay claim to a chapter tentatively called Rousers and Closers. I like songs where large numbers of people can sing in harmony.

Sing John Ball
Here's to You (Allan Bell)
Jock Tamson's Bairns
Just One More Chorus
Safe Home (johnsmith)

I'll set up a chapter soon.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 06:55 PM

Another Chapter: Cowboy Songs. Anybody want to host it?

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 03:45 PM

We can't leave out Benjamin Bowmaneer.

How about "Bramble and the Rose"?

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 02:30 PM

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 11:52 PM

Another one that could be in our online book - Where've You Been? - sung by Kathy Mattea, and I think by Nanci Griffitn.

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 May 21 - 11:55 PM

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis (Louie?)
Tennessee Waltz

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 15 May 21 - 12:54 AM

Just seen this thread for the first time.   "Where have you been, Steve?" you might ask!!!

How about a chapter of singalongable songs in other languages, one song per language?

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 12:12 AM

This putative songbook needs some songs with yelling in them:

The Baltimore Fire

The Old Dun Cow

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Cool Beans
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:44 PM

Cool category, Joe.
How about:
Hey You, Get Off of My Cloud
The Thing (Get out of here with that boom-boom-boom...)

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 04:35 PM

Jim Burrill suggests Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance." Good song.

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94177&messages=6

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 10:09 PM

"The Thing" is a parody of "The Chandler's Wife" -- which of course could not be included, but might well be relegated to my imaginary supplement, _Fall Down Singing_.

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: pattyClink
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 08:31 AM

Is there an index we could check to see if a title is not in either book? I have a copy of RUS but not the second book.   I think a lot of people assume any title they come up with is probably 'already in the books'.

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 10:15 AM

Hi, Patty -
Here are all the songs in the "Rise Up" books:

https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/lists/title

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: GUEST,Teefy
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 09:17 PM

Hello


If this will be done digitally, any advice on how to print and compile large sections of the book neatly? I try to avoid jamming or group singing with screens. I struggle to focus on back-lit things, and a lot of people see notifications or other such distracting things when looking at a phone or laptop, so I would probably end up printing songs out to use them.


Also, I would love to see

- With a Hip, Hip, Hip and a Holler,

- Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen,

- The Holmfirth Anthem (or Abroad for Pleasure, I don't know which is the proper title)

- and the other John Barleycorn (that goes 'hey, John Barleycorn/ho John Barleycorn/old and young, thy praise is sung, John Barleycorn')
because I think that version is not in either of the previous books.
I also like the presence in the other books of political songs like Bella Ciao, the Diggers Anthem, and Solidarity Forever (which I have lots of fond memories of singing with friends). If people are not opposed, I think it would be good to add others that are fun to sing with company, like

- A Las Barricadas,

- The Red Flag (hopefully sung to the tune of the White Cockade and not the dreary Tanenbaum version),

- and Ami, Go Home (not sure if that one is actually a popular folk song or just a song appropriated by a few weird folks to belt loudly).


Thank you for doing this, by the way, I know these sort of compilation books get a mixed reception, but as someone young who has not heard even a small slice of what is out there yet, they are a great jumping off point.


- Gratefully, Teef

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: GUEST,Teefy
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 09:18 PM

Oh gosh, I am not used to the spacing of posts yet, and that ended up taking up a lot of blank space, sorry.
- Teef

Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat!, RUS Volume 3 (online)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 05:03 PM

Hi, Teef - no problem with the text spacing. We've got plenty of space. you'll see that I have changed many of the songs listed in this thread to clickable links. I'll find time to do more sooner or later. To print a song at Mudcat, highlight the lyrics with your computer (hold down your mouse button at the beginning and "drag" to the end. Then right-click and select "print" and choose to print the selected text. It takes a little getting used to, but it works very well with Google Chrome and some other browsers. I enlarge the lyrics to fit the page, to make them as readable as possible for my old eyes.
-Joe-