Mudcat Worldwide Singaround-On Zoom Mondays!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: GUEST,Bradfordian
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 04:00 AM

Firstly…..HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE OFFER.
Many lovely tribute songs to NANCI GRIFFITH yesterday on Mudcat Zoom Monday, especially loved Joe’s rendition of “Across the great divide” Thank you Joe, and all the wonderful performers

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 08:54 PM

Email for Monday just went out.

Let me know if you didn't and you'd like to join us. I'll add you to our weekly email list.
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 09:45 PM

You did a fine job, Noreen. Thanks are due to you and Casey and the other volunteers.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 03:32 PM

Have fun, everybody. I'll miss you.
Joe, eating Rhode Island hot wieners

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 02:52 PM

Czech. Moravian, possibly some Silesian dialects.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Noreen
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 12:07 PM

Time again to go Mudcatting! Join singers from all over the US, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and...where else? Hear singing in English (both British and American), Irish, Scots Gaelic, Occitan, Hebrew, French, German, Breton, and… what else?

We start sing at NOON pacific daylight time, 3 PM in New York, and 8 PM in London. We sing for around five hours, depending on how many attend, and it's always wonderful. Doors open half an hour early for schmoozing and numbering the singing order. Be sure to update to the latest version of Zoom.

Through the miracle of technology, this session will be hosted by Noreen Keene (in England with Irish connections) with backup hosting from Casey Casebeer in California. And let’s have a round of applause for the wild and wooly Mudcat session assistant volunteers, without whom all would be anarchy and pandemonium. (Anarchy and pandemonium have their place, granted, but not at an event that gets through 30 to 60 singers every session!)

Joe is on vacation, and about time. He’ll be back next week.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Noreen
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 12:03 PM

Hello Emmie, it is held every Monday at the times above depending where you are in the world- or early Tuesday morning for our members in Australia and New Zealand.

You can be added to the mailing list and then you'll have the notification each week.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: GUEST,Emmie
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 11:40 AM

Hi, when is the next singaround please?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 08:23 PM

Big construction project at the Slowick-Offer household Saturday. We built a fence to keep our dogs from the neighbor's dogs (and cows).

You should have the email by now. See you Monday!!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 08:10 PM

I did not get a link for tomorrow and I'll be late, can someobe number and note?

Subject: RE: one year anniversary
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 11:37 AM

I don't know which are my best songs (if anyone wants to pmail me with advice ...?). But we also had a suggestion to sing songs about parties and celebrations, so I am hoping some singers take up that suggestion. And probably a couple of Mudcatters would be inspired to compose a ditty specifically for the occasion.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 May 21 - 08:16 PM

Another lovely gathering, the last of our first year. Our one-year anniversary celebration will be next week. Bring your best songs, even if you've sung them before.
Everybody gets two chances to sing unless they arrive very, very late.
See you next week.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!!
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 17 May 21 - 09:26 PM

As requested, here are the words of the parody I sang this evening.

Note: This is written by someone in the UK, and verse 4 (which I skipped this evening) refers to a now-infamous incident in the spring of 2020 during the UK's first lockdown, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings violated the rules he had helped to write – by driving himself and his family ~250 miles from London to Cumbria, after discovering he and his wife had clear symptoms of Covid and then about a week later drove 30 miles to scenic Barnard Castle "to test his eyesight" before returning to London (it was just a coincidence that it happened to be his wife's birthday) – and, in spite of public outrage, did not resign and was not sacked. (
More info here.)

I LOVE NOT WHERE I LIVE
A topical parody of the song 'I Live Not Where I Love'
by Colin Andrews

Come all you folks who social distance
at least two metres from your friends
Come let me tell you what I miss and
ask when will restrictions end

We're not allowed to kiss or cuddle
or give a friend a loving hug
Or even sing a song together
just in case we spread the bug

Regulations now require us
to wear a mask when in a store
To help defeat corona virus
we (must) keep our distance when outdoors

But government advice is farcical
when its adviser all the rules ignores
And takes a trip to Barnard Castle,
no apology, just a curt 'Up yours'

Around the world among all religions
folk have in their thousands died
While some leaders don't care a smidgeon
and others still the threat deny

The world has changed and life seems strange
no jet-setting to distant lands
Virtual socialising, sanitizing
and the government will wash its hands

So be aware lads be aware lasses,
if I could only have a choice
I'd fly away to safe New Zealand
far from Johnson's waffling voice
But since I'm furloughed I can't follow
my wishes or my job I'd lose
I'll stay in my pod and pray to God
for some day soon much better news

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Charmion
Date: 10 May 21 - 07:40 AM

Hi, Joe — I would like to join the Zoom singaround from Stratford, Ontario. How do I do it?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 01 May 21 - 04:17 PM

Yes Joe,

Safely received. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 May 21 - 02:53 PM

Email just went out. If one person can assure me they got the email, then I'll feel safe that it went through.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 25 Apr 21 - 02:25 AM

It sure did Joe! Thanks.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 07:12 PM

Emails for Monday's Singaround went out a couple hours ago. Email me if you didn't get an email and would like to attend.
[e-mail]

Oh, and could one person who received my email today post acknowledgement here, so I'm sure it went out?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 09:52 PM

Thanks for coming, everyone. It was another perfect gathering. Time for my nap now. This has been going for 7 hours.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!!
From: GUEST,Cathal O'L
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 12:43 PM

Only just come across this website. Would love to join Joe Offer but am unfortunately working - I'll keep an eye out for others in future.
Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 08:40 AM

That's my plan scuppered for tomorrow. I was planning to do a short (less than 5 minutes) description of a Czech traditional Easter custom instead of the first song. (Illustrated if I would be allowed to screen share).

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 06:56 PM

Joe, perhaps someone should sing this.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 06:38 PM

Come one, come all! The announcement for the April 5 Singaround just went out by email. If you'd like to be added to the list or if you didn't get your announcement, email me, [e-mail]


It happens every Monday and goes for about five hours. Doors open half an hour early.
Singing begins at Noon in Los Angeles, 3 PM in New York, and 8 PM in London. Hope you can come.

I've been asked to remind people to keep conversation and spoken song introductions to a minimum during the singing portion of our gathering - but we do appreciate it if you give us the name of the song before you sing, and a brief explanation is always welcome. Our schedule makes some people be up at ungodly hours, and they've come to sing, not talk. We stay open for conversation afterwards for as long as people want to stay.
In general, we have a five-minute time limit per person. Don't fill obliged to fill up the whole five minutes.
In short: Don't talk Too Much!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Mar 21 - 09:00 PM

Another wonderful gathering. We had something over 50 participants. That keeps us singing for FIVE hours, going twice around the circle. I think we can sustain this as long as we have twenty participants. After that, I think we should talk. But for me, every Monday has been wonderful since we began.....and then I have to take a serious nap right afterwards.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 05:53 AM

It's ok Mrrzy, it got sorted, I did the list till Gerry arrived and passed it straight on to him.
So "What'd I miss?" - Well you of course, Mrrzy!...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 05:44 AM

I'm invoking the fifth amendment. :)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 06:47 PM

"What'd I miss?"

Mrrzy, I'll be posting the list of what was performed, in the dedicated thread, some time in the next 24 hours, I expect. I know that's a poor substitute for actually being there.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 09:49 AM

What'd I miss?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 08:31 AM

I only ever had one email a long time ago, but I just look for the link here and seem to get in OK! Thanks for keeping it all going, Joe and Noreen, and Gerry for doing the songs sung lists....and Chris for suggesting it last June!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:58 AM

Yes...loud and clear Joe!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:33 AM

I sent the email out late Saturday. Did anyone get it?
Joe

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 10:07 PM

Email going out now. For you folks not yet on Daylight Savings time, remember that the Singaround will begin an hour earlier than usual. I think we go back to normal coordination on Monday, March 29.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 01:55 PM

Ides hope to hear you all today!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Mar 21 - 07:28 PM

Hi, Everyone -
Please note that because the US and UK change to Daylight Savings time on different dates, our Singaround for the next two weeks, March 15 and 22, will begin at 7 PM London time. In the US, starting times will be the usual Noon in Los Angeles and 3 PM in New York. Those of you in the rest of the world will have to figure out the starting time on your own, because you're less likely to confuse it than I would be.
We open the doors and chit-chat for half an hour before starting time, and then we sing for about 5 hours and then have an online party.

I'll post a link here about an hour before we open our doors on Monday. If you want advance notice, email me to get on the weekly email notice list. I'm sending out this week's email right now.

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GUEST,Splott Man
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 04:55 PM

Here's our contribution. For some reason Zoom wouldn't let me paste.

Bugeilio’r Gwenyth Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat)?Original Welsh words by Wil Hopcyn (1700-1741) ?English translation by David Llewellyn (2002).??Mi sydd fachgen ieuanc ffol
Yn myw yn ol fy ffansi
Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn
Ac arall yn ei fedi
And what a simple fool am I
Who loves at fancy’s pleasure
For whilst I tend the ripening wheat
Another reaps the treasure
 
Though they may lock you dungeon deep
Our love to die aborning
Upon a leaf, blood’s true words speak
Your deepest feelings for me
But I can’t stay, my heart would break
For you must take another
Though stars will fall, our love may shine?As endless time discovers
 
Then in a dream, your vows set free
And to your side I hurry
But from a heart, so torn in two
In this life you’ll not tarry
And now I lose for a second time
To He whose love is greater
For whilst I tend the ripening wheat
Another reaps the treasure
 
Mi sydd fachgen ieuanc ffol
Yn myw yn ol fy ffansi
Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn
Ac arall yn ei fedi 


Follwed by??Little Collier
 
Yr wyf i little collier, yn gweithio underground,
The rope will never tori, when I go lan y lawr.
Bara menyn when I'm hungry, cwrw when I'm dry,
Gwely when I’m tired, and Nefoedd when I die.
 
I'd like to cwrdd the manager, and siarad to him strong,
This bywyd underground might mean, I do not byw for long.
Gwrando Mister Mining Boss, us bechgyn gweithio hard
Talu decent wages or your calon will grow hard.
 
So wella our conditions, and trin my family fair,
Or dwi'n mynd i Pennsylvania, am fywyd gwell lies there.
To all bosses mawr y byd, you know chi fod yn true.?Talu living wages or no Nefoedd waits for you!
 
Repeat first verse


Tune : Pigau'r Dur )Steel Rods)

Splott Man & Dame Pattie Smith EPNS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 06:32 PM

Yeah, I've been moving posts to the overflow threads that are crosslinked at the top. Not to worry, Steve.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 06:23 PM

This thread seems to have lost the last couple of weeks' posts.

Anyway, I will be joining late tomorrow as I have a Labour Party zoom meeting to go to before hand.

Se you all around 10pm my time.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Monique
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:26 AM

I added a link to the lyrics on the "Mudcat singaround songs not in English thread" list.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GUEST,SPB COPPERATOR on mobile
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 05:13 AM

Won't be able to be here tonight as my router has died and I have to wait for the new one to be delivered. See you all next week.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 06:49 AM

Thanks, Waddon Pete. I don't think I have editing privileges here, but I'm no less grateful for corrections.

---

Editing privileges? That's a good idea. Gerry and Casey and Noreen now have editing privileges on this thread, and I thank all of them for their contribution to making this weekly singaround possible.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 05:33 AM

Just one correction from me Gerry. "She was very fond of dancing" is properly titled, "The Calico Printer's Clerk".

I also thought I should thank you for your work in generating this list every week. It's appreciated.

Pete

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 11:33 PM

Here's my list of songs and poems that were sung/recited, in order, at the Singaround on 11/12 January 2021. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go:

Here's to the State of Richard Nixon
Penny for the Ploughboys
Que Vous Etes Beau
Old King Cole
If (poem)
We Sing Hallelujah
Weeping in the Promised Land
Banana Republics
Lincoln Park Pirates
Month of January
The Shearer's Dream
The Lambton Worm
She was Very Fond of Dancing (The Calico Printer’s Clerk)
Lili Marlene (in Irish and German)
Johnny Macree (poem)
In and Around Nashville (aka Uncle Dave's Travels, Part 3)
Bring Us a Vaccine
Kissin' in the Dark
Poor Murdered Woman
Found My El Dorado in My Backyard
Remember Me
Until the Dark Time Ends
The Farm Auction
Gardening
The January June
Broken Heartland
I Ain't Nobody in Perticular
The Long Arms of Love
Ceres and Pluto and Eris
There is a Time
Power and the Glory
Reedy River
Lullaby for the Whaler's Child
Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
She's Someone's Grandmother
Nevada Jane
Jimmy Murphy
Wayfaring Stranger
Call to Song
The Dream Tree
Silver Whistle
A Stor Mo Chroi
Luckiest Sailor
Tom Paine's Bones
Let Me Down Easy
The Far Side Banks of Jordan
The Broken Token
Philadelphia Lawyer
Noah's Ark Shanty (aka A Long Time Ago, aka In Frisco Bay)
Garden Song
The Possum Song
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
Way Down in North Carolina
A Chat with Your Mother
Nobby Hall
Blank Space
The Charladies' Ball
The Demon Lover (aka The House Carpenter)
Mhairi Bhan
Rose Bay Ferry
Before They Close the Minstrel Show
Take a Chance
Lolly Too-dum
Windmills
Bonnie Wee Lassie (aka Bonnie Wee Window)
Why Does It Have To Be Me?
House of the Rising Damp
Night Visiting Song
The Knitting Song
Hobo's Lullaby

Subject: ADD: Lullaby for a Whaler's Child/Sailor's Child
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 04:33 AM

Lois Shiner sang a lovely lullaby she wrote:

Hi Joe, re the song today, well, yesterday.
Here's the music, not chords, but notations of notes.
A la Rise Up Singing
Copied below, the first verse.
Lois Shiner

>    G       G G      A    G    G
> Hush    Lit-tle    Sai-lor Boy
>
>   G       G    G      A      G    G   
> Hush    Lit-tle    Wha-ler's Boy

> (hiC)C C    B    C   D   C A G    (All C's in this line are hi C)
> Don't cry for your Dad-dy at Sea
>
>   G    A      A#   A    F    E
> He's on - the seas sai-ling
>
> D    G       A    G    E    C    (Middle C)
> He's out - there a'   wha-ling
>
> E    G    A    G    F E    D    C   (Middle C)
> But he'll be home soon, you'll see
>
> Hush Little Sailor Boy
> Hush Little Whaler's Boy
> Don't cry for your Daddy at Sea
> He's on the seas sailing
> He's out there a'whaling
> But he'll be home soon, you'll see
>


Lyrics only:

Hush Little Sailor Boy
Hush Little Whaler's Boy
Don't cry for your Daddy at Sea
He's on - the seas sailing
He's out - there a' whaling
But he'll be home soon, you'll see

Hush Little Sailor Boy
Hush Little Whaler's Boy
Don't cry for your Daddy at Sea
He's on the seas sailing
He's out there a'whaling
But he'll be home soon, you'll see

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom NOW!
From: pattyClink
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 03:04 PM

Went thru the 'join meeting' log in drill, and it still says "please wait for the host to start this meeting--start 12:00 pm Mudcat Worldwide Singaround.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 02:13 PM

Yeah, Joe got distracted. Plumbing emergency.
Fixed.

Doors are open. Y'all come.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 06:16 PM

Gerry - I learnt my song from the late Monty Parkin as ‘Marks and Spencer’, but on reflection, perhaps it should be ‘Any Title Will Do’.......

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 10:59 PM

Thanks, Moorley Man – will incorporate into my notes.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 07:48 PM

Another lovely singaround. Thank you, everyone.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!!
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 01:35 PM

Our Prime Minister is due to give a televised address at 8pm today where he is expected to announce a further lockdown, so I will have one ear on that.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 12:17 AM

Please send the link to join the Singaround. Thanks, Maureen [e-mail] Referred to me by the Seattle Folk Song Group