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Subject: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 02:46 PM We started the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround in June, 2020, and it has been a wonderful gathering every Monday since then. I don't know how long it will go on, but I hope to stay with it until it fades away. I have an ulterior motive for this singaround - to add song research material for Mudcat. Gerry Myerson has recently been compiling lists of songs such at the singaround, and many people have submitted the lyrics to the songs they sang. I'm going to use this thread to serve as a home for those lists and lyrics. Gerry will be a moderator of this thread. -Joe- |
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Subject: ADD-Don’t Know the Words.(for My FavoUrite Things) From: YorkshireYankee Date: 30 Jun 20 - 01:49 AM And here are the words for my UK vs US English parody of "My Favorite Things", as a number of people seemed interested. (I've posted it in a Mudcat thread before now, but I've revised it since then, so might as well share the updated version.) Below the lyrics, I've added a glossary, for those who may not be familiar with all the terms. Don’t Know the Words... (for My FavoUrite Things) TTO: Rodger & Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things New words: Vikki Appleton Fielden Jelly is jam here, and jello is jelly The car has a boot and my foot wears a wellie Mention “sultanas”, I think "Eastern Kings" Don’t know the words for my favourite things Summat is not where you go when you’re climbing Jumper is not someone into sky diving Bob is Your uncle, the Beeb is your aunt Don’t know the words to explain what I want If my languish causes anguish; if you think me sad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Beer’s sold by landlords instead of bartenders Don’t tell the clerk that your man needs suspenders Braces are not always worn on your teeth Rubber is nothing to do with a sheath I stand in line; over here it’s called queueing Lines are engaged but they never need wooing You stop while five while I stay until four Knob isn’t always a thing on a door If I speak, luv, like a freak, luv; if you think me mad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Biscuits are sweet but a tart can be racy, a Nice bit o’ crumpet might wear something lacy Crackers are not always eaten with cheese Folks don’t wear flannels but you can wear fleece Chips come with haddock; and crisps in a packet Soccer is football and baseball’s not cricket Stockings have ladders and Cricket has runs Baps is the word for my favourite buns If you’re thinkin’ I’ve been drinkin’; if I seem a cad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Two pints of bitter was not a bad notion Held up two fingers and caused a commotion I didn’t quack but you called me a duck Muffler’s not something to quiet a truck You call me luv; I don’t know who you are, pet But when I say shag, ducks, I only mean carpet Met a cute bloke at the Anchor & Bull Kept my hands off him but he said I pulled I get confused but I can’t ask my granny My knickers are knackered and show off my f...reckles You can go barking though you’re not a dog, Everyone goes to the loo in a swamp... (um, bog!) If my diction causes friction; if I’m misconstrued Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so rude! =========== GLOSSARY UK/Yorkshire word – US word ------------------------------------ jelly – Jello jam – jelly preserves – jam boot – (car) trunk wellie (short for Wellington) – boot sultana – raisin (sort of: raisins and a sultanas are produced from the same grape but a raisin is dried naturally, and a sultana is dipped in veg oil and acid and then dried.) summat – something (I think it's a corruption of somewhat) jumper – sweater Bob's your uncle – you're all set/in good shape Auntie Beeb – the BBC landlord – pub owner suspenders – garter braces – suspenders rubber – condom queue – line line – telephone line engaged – busy stop – stay while – until knob – dick biscuit – cookie tart – loose woman nice bit of crumpet – very attractive woman (usually young) cracker – very attractive woman flannel – washcloth fleece – warm jacket (often woolen) chips – french fries crisps – potato chips football – soccer ladder – run (as in stocking) steps – ladder baps – bread rolls holding up two fingers is like flipping the bird to someone – rudest possible gesture (but it's ok if you do it like a peace sign). meduck/ducks – dearie muffler – scarf silencer – muffler luv – darlin' pet – dear shag – have sex with pulled – successfully picked up/scored knickers – undies pants – underpants knackered – worn out fanny – pussy (as in woman's "front bottom") barking – mad bog – bathroom (Brits think we're rather silly to call it a bathroom, especially if there's not even a bath in it) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 14 Jul 20 - 06:04 AM Joe said > Feel free to post whatever you like here (especially lyrics to songs you have sung or will sing) Here's the one that I sang last night, North Sea Oil Down by the North Sea shore, a while before now, While seeking me fortune and rambling around, I met a little mermaid, very pretty as I recall And I asked this fond creature where I might find oil. "Well I know a little oil well not very far from here And I've been watching over it with the tenderest care And no-one's been near there since I was a child And I think you'd find profit to drill there a while." So I set up my rig and I made a fine stand, And this sweet little creature gave me a helping hand, Saying "Daddy, oh Daddy, it makes my blood boil When you set up your rig to go boring for oil." Well I kissed this little creature ten thousand times o'er As we toiled there together all on the sea shore, With a pillow under her fish-tail, for fear it should soil. I spat on me auger and went boring for oil. Well I hadn't been drilling three minutes or four. At a few inches depth, boys, the gusher did pour. And she wriggled and giggled, and she said with a smile "Oh bear down on that auger, for I think you've struck oil." But it was just a few days after, a thought came in me head, For the end of that auger was rusty and red. And I took it to the doctor, and he said with a smile "I think you struck shale when boring for oil." I got it from my own recording of Bert at Dingle's Folk Club in London on 4th April 1973. I have deliberately not checked the above words against the recording, so feel free to spot any folk-processing that I may have done over the years. In his introduction he refers to earlier versions, so maybe I was wrong in saying that this is one that was entirely his own work rather than his improved version of an existing song, but I suspect that in this form it is mostly his work. Then again, maybe someone would like to go looking for the earlier versions. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: YorkshireYankee Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:26 PM Here's the link I mentioned last night: FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL The intersection of folk and music hall, the songs and social history http://folksongandmusichall.com/ It's the creation of John Baxter: "This site features a collection of Songs sung in the Music Halls, the stories of those songs and the people who sang them, and how these songs relate to traditional music of the British Isles. I hope it will encourage people to sing the songs, so where possible I include videos and links to sheet music . "It also has my blog about the social history of Music Hall. I hope to comment on various ways in which it relates to the social history of folksong. I am mostly bringing together information found by others – though I occasionally delve in Victorian newspapers..." Really been enjoying these sessions; great songs, great singing! Thanks again to Joe, Noreen and Casey. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: YorkshireYankee Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:44 PM Oops, forgot to turn the link into a blue clicky... FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL: The intersection of folk and music hall... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Noreen Date: 15 Jul 20 - 05:17 AM Thanks Vikki! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Mysha Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM Folk Song And Music Hall |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom-Today!!! From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:22 PM Here are the lyrics I used for Do Youi Think That I Do Not Know. Do you think that I do not know Henry Lawson They say that I never have written of love, as a writer of songs should do They say that I never could touch the strings with a touch that is firm and true They say I know nothing of women and men in the fields where Love's roses grow I must write, they say, with a halting pen do you think that I do not know? My love-burst came, like an English Spring, in days when our hair was brown And the hem of her skirt was a sacred thing and her hair was an angel's crown The shock when another man touched her arm, where the dancers sat in a row The hope, the despair, and the false alarm do you think that I do not know By the arbour lights on the western farms, you remember the question put While you held her warm in your quivering arms and you trembled from head to foot The electric shock from her finger-tips, and the murmuring answer low The soft, shy yielding of warm red lips do you think that I do not know She was buried at Brighton, where Gordon sleeps, when I was a world away And the sad old garden its secret keeps, for nobody knows to-day She left a message for me to read, where the wild wide oceans flow Do you know how the heart of a man can bleed do you think that I do not know I stood by the grave where the dead girl lies, when the sunlit scenes were fair Neath white clouds high in the autumn skies, and I answered the message there But the haunting words of the dead to me shall go wherever I go She lives in the Marriage that Might Have Been do you think that I do not know I used a tune by Chris Kempster. Another well-known musical setting is by Slim Dusty. Best recording, for my money, was by Declan Affley. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom-Today!!! From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:30 PM Here are the lyrics I sang for Tumba-bloody-rumba. TUMBA-BLOODY-RUMBA He looked for work at muster-time, we tried him as a rider, We tried him as the rouseabout and as the cook’s off-sider. He said he'd sailed the seven seas, he’d been up in Alaska, He’d been in every western state from Texas to Nebraska. Chorus (repeat after each stanza): He said he’d shorn a sheep or two and cut a bit of lumber, And waged war on the kangaroos at Tumba-bloody-rumba. We tried him as a shearer, we tried him as a stacker, We tried him digging rabbits out. He wasn’t worth a cracker. He had a shop in Singapore, he owned a pearling lugger, He was a champ at baccarat, Australian Rules and rugger. He never showed his aptitude at jobs he was allotted, But showed his skill upon the booze, and cigarettes he blotted. He said he’d climbed the Matterhorn, he’d been a union leader, And years ago in Adelaide he was a pigeon breeder. We tried him digging fencing posts, we tried to find his caper, Until that happy pay-day when he got his piece of paper. I wonder what he's up to now, perhaps back on the lumber, Or shooting kanga-bloody-roos at Tumba-bloody-rumba. Authorship in dispute, set to music by Warren Fahey. If you want the tune, there's a recording by Warren on Youtube. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - Doors open NOW!!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jul 20 - 06:08 PM Sung by Chris Lamb today. Zoom Song By Ruairidh Greig Chorus Off we go it’s time for a Zoom, A poem, a song or even a tune. Off we go, it’s time for a Zoom, Meeting together but not in one room. Coronavirus has split us asunder But thanks to this program, it’s really a wonder We can all get together, though many miles apart And share our performances straight from the heart. Make sure you’ve selected “Original Sound” It’s quite beneficial, most people have found And try to sit with some light on your face Your grins and your grimaces might go to waste. Always remember be nice to your host If you forget, you will suffer the most And if you don’t mute when you know that you should You may well find you’ve been muted for good. Please don’t make your intro too long, It shouldn’t go on and on and on. There’s plenty of others still waiting to sing So don’t be a Zoom Hog, it isn’t the thing. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 28 Jul 20 - 11:52 AM After last week's singaround I forgot to post the words of the song that I had sung, and I've now remembered. I had folk-processed it a little, but here it is as sung by Adam McNaughtan, whose song it is. Old Annie Brown Oh Glasgow is ruthless: our town can be cruel tae its own And Glasgow's indifference left an old woman alone. Six months she lay dead, before her body was found. Fa' the Calton she came And her name It was Old Annie Brown. She had stayed in the East End o' Glasgow for all of her days. Looked after her folks when her brothers were wed and away. And Annie was fifty when she saw her mother laid down. There was never the chance o' a man For Old Annie Brown So she thought she would stay in the Calton that she knew sae well. But the city was changing, faster than Annie could tell. And the people who could moved out as the district came down. There were few neighbours there To care About Old Annie Brown Now she bought all her food in a big London Road superstore. And the manager said "We get old folk in here by the score. So how should I notice if one of them isn't around? But record my regret For the death Of Old Annie Brown". Dae you know the old woman that stays five or six doors away. What would you do if you didn't see her today? If you missed her all week would you, maybe, take a look round? Don't wait till you miss her Her name might be Old Annie Brown. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Rex Date: 28 Jul 20 - 12:49 PM Many thanks to Joe and the other hosts who set this up. Good to do something with my fellow 'Catters again. I sang the following popularly known as the Gol Darned Wheel. I present it here as written by James Barton Adams, The Cowboy and the Wheel in 1897. My version was truncated in deference to many more performers with songs to sing. The Cowboy and the Wheel - James Barton Adams From The Denver Evening Post: Thursday, April 29, 1897. I kin take the toughest broncho in the wild an' wooly West, An' kin back him an' kin ride him, let him do his level best; I kin handle any critter ever wore a coat o' hair, An' I've had a lively tussle with a 'tarnal grizzly bear. I kin rope an' throw a long-horn o' the wildest Texas brand, An' in Injun disagreements I kin play a leadin' hand; But at last I met my master, an' I shorely had to squeal, When the boys got me a-straddle of a Gol darned wheel. It was at the Eagle Rancho on the Brazos whar' I fust Run across the durn contrivance 'at upset me in the dust- Natrally up an' throwed me, stood me on my cussed head, "Trumped my ace in lightin' order," so old Ike, the foreman, said. 'Twas a tenderfoot 'at brought it; he was wheelin' all the way From the sunrise end o' freedom out to San Francisco Bay. An' he tied up at the rancho fur to git outside a meal, Never thinkin' we would monkey with his Gol darned wheel. Arizony Jim begun it, when he said to Jack McGill There was fellers fo'ced the limit braggin' o' their ridin' skill, An' he reckoned there's a puncher not a million miles away As imagined as a rider he was tolerable gay. Then he ventured the admission that same fellow as he meant Was a purty handy critter, fur as ridin' bronchos went, But he'd find he was a buckin' 'ginst a dif'rent sort o' deal Ef he'd throw his leather leggin's 'crost that Gol darned wheel. Sich a slur upon my talent made me hotter 'n a mink, An' I told him I could back it fur amusement or fur chink; That 'twas nothin' but a plaything fur the kids an' that he mout Have his idees sort o' shattered if he'd trot the critter out. Then they helt it till I mounted, an' I give the word to go, An' the shove they give to start me wa'n't unreasonably slow. But I never split a cuss-word, never made a bit o' squeal- I was buildin' repatation on that Gol darned wheel. The grade was mighty slopin' from the rancho to the creek, An' we went a galleyflutin', like a crazy lightnin streak, Went a whizzin' an' a dartin', fust to this side, then to that, The contrivance sort o' wobblin' like the flyin' of a bat. I kep' pullin' on the handles, but I couldn't check it up, Yanked an' sawed an' jerked an' hollered, but the durn thing wouldn't stop. An' a sort o' sneakin' idee through my brain begun to steal That the devil helt a mortgage on that Gol darned wheel. Holy Moses and the prophets, how we split the Texas air! The breezes made whip crackers o' my somewhat lengthy hair. An' I sort o' comprehended as, adown the hill we went, There was bound to be a smash-up 'at I couldn't circumvent. Them cow-punchers kep' a-yellin', "Stay right with her, Uncle Bill!" "Hit 'er with the spurs, you sucker!" "Turn her muzzle up the hill!" But I never made an answer; I jest let the cusses squeal- My attention was all focussed on that Gol darned wheel. I've a sort o' dim and hazy recollection o' the stop- O' the airth a spinnin' round me, an' the stars all tangled up, Then there come a intermission, which extended till I found I was lyin' at the rancho, with the boys all gethered 'round. An' a medico was sewin' on my skin whar' it was ripped, An' ol' Arizony whispered, "Wal, ol' boy, I guess yer whipped," An' I told him I war' busted from sombrero cl'ar to heel- Then he grinned an' said, "You'd orter 'see the Gol darned wheel." |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 18 Aug 20 - 08:18 AM In yesterday's singaround I sang a song that I call "The Young Promised Land", which I learnt from my recording of one of series of radio programmes narrated by Bert Lloyd under the title "Folk Songs of Australia". I have never met it anywhere else, but Google has just found me an index where the first line "I once was a station-hand, two quid a week" appears on page 943, with the title The Buckjumper. I think the tune has been used for several songs. It's perhaps best known as The Green Bushes. I've just listened to the recording and have a few small corrections that I may or may not make to how I've been singing it. I once was a station hand; two quid a week In the years that's gone by on the old Bogan Creek. I was asked by a squatter, and he says "Try your hand And break in that filly: she's a young promised land". He said "She's a wild 'un of four years or so." But he knew that of outlaws I'd ridden a few. Three days she was handled. I saddled and rode her. To grass me she tried but a failure I showed her. The antics she cut was a caution to me. I was bobbing about like a cork on the sea. She pitched and the rooted, she spun (arse?) about But in ten minutes' time, boys, she rolled her tongue out. It was pitch, root and buck like a bird on the wing. It was that sort of bucking that grassed poor Jack King. She hit the fence twice but gave never a stagger And she rooted as mad as if stabbed by a dagger. Then off came the saddle, for the girth strap was weak. And she left a hoof mark on the old saddle seat. Well she stood and she snorted: she seemed in her glee. The saddle was down and the filly was free. She ran round the stockyard, just three times or four Seeming to glory in the fray that was o'er. She came mincing up to me: I put out me hand And that was the last of the young promised land I caught the short rein that hung from her jaw And I jumped on her bare back: there was fireworks galore, Till her muscles they twitched to her heart's broken sound. She fell dead in her tracks, boys, and lay on the ground. Her jaw was all broke where her sharp hooves had struck. "Thank God." says the foreman, "That's a bit of good luck." |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 19 Aug 20 - 03:46 AM Richard, The Buckjumper is in Ron Edwards, Great Australian Folk Songs. Edwards writes, The Buckjumper is an unpublished song from the collection of English folklorist A. L. Lloyd. He sent this to me in 1972, and I gather that he collected it when he was in Australia in the late 1920s. Oddly enough I have on tape an account of an almost identical incident recounted to me by an ex-horsebreaker. It goes to the tune "Villikins and his Dinah." Richard's lyrics are almost identical to the lyrics in Edwards. The only significant differences are 2nd stanza, 1st line, Edwards has: Three days she was handled, then I saddled and rode her. 4th stanza, 5th line, Edwards has: She minced up to me "arse-about" is correct Promised Land is capitalized in Edwards; I wonder whether that was the name of some well-known racehorse. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 31 Aug 20 - 05:35 AM I'm hoping to sing Used To Be A River, written by Sydneysider Craig Edmondson. I haven't found lyrics nor video anywhere on the web, so I'll post them here. The song, as Craig sings it, is not suitable for unaccompanied singing, so I've rearranged it as a call-and-response song, with the responses in parentheses. Used to Be a River Craig Edmondson 1. This used to be a river (used to be a river) But now it is a sewer (now it is a sewer) But it used to be a river, And I wonder where the river got to go. Chorus: These changes, I have seen, I have seen To the people and the places Dear to me, dear to me. 2. This used to be a mountain (used to be a mountain) But now it is a golf course (now it is a golf course) But it used to be a mountain, And I wonder where the mountain got to go. Chorus 3. This used to be a forest (used to be a forest) But now it is a Kmart (now it is a Kmart) But it used to be a forest, And I wonder where the forest got to go. Chorus 4. You used to be my baby (used to be my baby) But now you are a stranger (now you are a stranger) But You used to be my baby, And I wonder where my baby got to go. Chorus (once or twice, as the spirit moves you) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!! From: GerryM Date: 18 Nov 20 - 11:22 PM I tried to make a list of all the songs/poems that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 16/17 November 2020. I came in half an hour into proceedings, but MoorleyMan has filled me in on what I missed (thanks!). And there were a few where I didn't get a name, just a topic. Here's what I have: Right Said Fred My Bag For Life Has Just Died (poem) Frankie's Trade I Don't Need You Les Filles des Forges (in French) Ranter's Wharf Bring Us Good Ale A Chat with Your Mother Le P'tit Bonheur Frankie and Johnny Rolling and Tumbling Viva La Quince Brigada Shocking Murders in Whitechapel Rupert the Ranger Everybody Knows Me in My Old Brown Hat Jamboree Jones Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Congo River I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free The Rains Have Come Again We'll Chant Away Until Dawn And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Thiepval [Shout Out Shop] Vegematic I Still Miss Someone Le Chinois Mary was an Only Child I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Such a Nice Girl, Too No Sun, No Moon Ballad of Dog Dually Cannily, Cannily Rock Me Baby Whaleroad Light of a Clear Blue Morning Do Me Ama Turn the Lathe Gently King of Rome The Willow Tree Sally Free and Easy Fanny Blair The Barley Mow Lie If I Want To Gray Goose Song for Vic (Borneo) The Half-Hitch Captain Kidd Eensie Weensie Spider More Hills to Climb (Parody of) Galway Bay My Own Dear Galway Bay The Shape of Things Gone Shopping Lincoln Park Pirates Beans Taste Fine [Song about masking] Shift and Spin Appliance Time Again Little Sadie Andy's Gone with Cattle Lady River The Last Adieu Irn Bru Not Spenser [Song based on The Bold/Beaux Gendarmes] To All the Cats I've Loved Before Pirate Jenny Witch Hazel |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 19 Nov 20 - 02:08 PM Noreen - I own up! It was myself who sang Song For Vic... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 25 Nov 20 - 09:05 PM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 23/24 November 2020. I came in half an hour into proceedings, so I missed maybe half-a-dozen at the beginning. I didn't get a name for the song Jerry O'Neill sang, about singing folk songs to a very noisy, non-folkie audience. Also, Steve Belsey sang a shanty, all I got was the repeated phrase, "a dollar a day". Laura Martin sang two songs in Gaelic, I only got one of the titles, Fear a Bhata. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Dido, Bendigo The Solo Sock I Haven't Told Her, She Hasn't Told Me When All Men Sing L'alouette et le pinson Lovers Heart A Dollar a Day [?] She's Someone's Grandmother River Driving Sailor's Grave Megan Murphy 254 Shades of Gray Song for Wind and Tree [Jerry O'Neill] The Key of R It Bruised Her Somewhat Thanksgiving Eve The Bergen Now I'm Easy Give Me a Man with a Nose Barbara Allen Zuleika Rose of San Antone The Barring of the Door Logs to Burn The Hawk and the Crow Thanksgiving Prayer Windmills Oor Hamlet Sammy's Bar Revisited Plains of Waterloo The Verdant Braes of Skreen Caledonia Fear a Bhata [and another Scots/Gaelic song] Here's Hoping Country Life Sweet is the Melody Midnight on the Water Gartan Mother's Lullaby For the Beauty of the Earth Ding Dang Dong Go the Wedding Bells Piano Leg [Broken Token-2] Hi Jolly the Camel Driver Uncle Dave's Grace Let's Go Where All the Crowd Goes The Rasta Masta Pretty Boy Floyd Courting in the Kitchen Dark-Eyed Daughter How Can I Keep From Purring Someday Soon (Retired version) Where Have All the Flowers Gone Crazy Amazing Grace (in Gaelic) Lay Down Beside Me Yorkshire Song She Didn't Dance, Dance, Dance Dying at Home Nancy Whiskey Ballad of Charlie David My Lady of Autumn |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 03 Dec 20 - 11:12 PM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 30 November / 1 December 2020. I came in a little late, so I missed a few at the beginning. I'm not at all sure I got the right title (is fada liom uaim I) for a song Martin Ryan sang. Ed Silberman sang a short song which I took down as Drink Canada Dry, but I'm not at all sure that's right. David Allan Coe recorded a song by that name, but I think it was a longer song than what Ed sang. I'm not sure whether Tell Me I'm Wrong is the name of the song Mel Barrett sang about a party he didn't like, so I've included some alternate possibilities. I totally missed the title of Hazel Richings' (first) song. I didn't get titles for Laura Martin's short Gaelic and Bulgarian songs. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Three Volcano Day Carol for Twelfth Day Senor Don Gato The Clouds are Gwine to Roll Away Duct Tape Bill Bones' Hornpipe The False Bride Song for the Mira A North Country Maid Bring Us In Good Ale For Ireland I'll Not Tell Her Name (in Irish Gaelic) (Ar éirinn Ní n-Eósainn) Strangely Moved Alabama John Cherokee Home on the Front Range The Ditchling Carol A Most Unpleasant Way, Sir Spare Hand Lament Cold Mountain Transformations [Promeny; Czech version of Two Magicians] Harvest Home Carefree the Bird (Rew di ranno, in Welsh) Shame and Scandal Old Woman who Lived in a Wood How Lovely are Thy Dwellings Fathom the Bowl Peaceful Harbor We Ain't Gonna Give It Back Far Side Banks of Jordan Past Carin' Bonnie Susie Cleland Arthur McBride Cold Coast of Ireland Land o' the Leal Quiet Land of Erin (Ardaí Cuain, in Irish Gaelic) [Song by Martin Ryan in Irish Gaelic] (is fada liom uaim I) (?) Give Me Your Hand [Thoir dhomh do lámh, in Scots Gaelic] Drink Canada Dry [?] Waltzing's for Dreamers Better Times Will Come The Rout of the Blues Tell Me I'm Wrong [Tell Me I Blew it Again? All that Talk About Lionel? It Wasn't My Kind of Party?] [Song by Hazel Richings] Blood, Blood, Glorious Blood [short song in Gaelic] [short song in Bulgarian] Time to Go Song of the Soul The Blizzard Kentucky in the Morning Wanderin' Appletree Wassail Rag Dance Song (La Guignolee) South Australia Lives in the Balance She was a Sweet Little Dicky Bird Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Thanksgiving Prayer Nevada Jane The Family of Woman and Man And the Band Played "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Home Among the Gumtrees Do Virgins Taste Better? Dark Island The Hielan Man Old Colony Times Dark Island (different lyrics) Give to Me Your Dark Eyes (in Serbo-Croatian) Fear a Bhata The Scotsman Safe Home Lay Down Beside Me The Farewell Shanty |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 04 Dec 20 - 06:31 PM Gerry - the first 2 songs sung were The Key Of R When All Men Sing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 09 Dec 20 - 04:27 AM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 7/8 December 2020. I came in a little late, so I missed a few at the beginning. I need help on two titles. I've written "Hamble Bums" for a song Steve Belsey sang, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Elizabeth Block sang a song I've written down as "Mary Had a Baby – Who Was the Father?" but I'm not at all sure that's right. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Green Groweth the Holly Sussex Drinking Song Carol for the Twelfth Day Little Boxes on the Monitor Twas a Month Before Christmas Sailing Down My Golden River The Thermal Vest Token Local Yokel The Fisherman's Song Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum (aka The Dwarfs' Washing Song) Fairytale of New York (in Irish) Rockin' My Baby to Sleep Hamble Bums (??) Ballad of Harry Moore The Christmas Bells are Ringing Neocortex We Three Kings are Six Feet Apart A New Year Carol (aka Levy-Dew, aka Residue) The Manchester Chambermaid (aka The Christmas Goose, aka The Cornstalk) The Stranger Hot Buttered Rum Bare-legged Kate The Fatal Lozenge (Poem) The Wine Song Carolling and Crumpets Come My Lads Walk On Boy Crudités Moreton Bay Deep River Blues An Orkney New Year's Carol (aka Queen Mary's Men) I'm Movin' On No. 2 Greensleeves The Man that Slits the Turkey's Throat at Christmas Happiness (poem) Black Clothes Mary Had a Baby - Who Was the Father? (?) Come By the Hills King of Rome Mansfield Royal Visit Mathematics Where've You Been John Ball A'Soalin' Carol of the Birds The Bergen Ashokan Farewell (instrumental) Ballad of the Carpenter Merry Christmas from the Family Circle of Steel Fourteen Million People Sally Gee The World's Worst Magician (poem) God Rest Ye (parody) Snowbird The Galway Shawl God Rest Ye Unitarians Baby Born There's a Song in the Air So Here's to You |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Dec 20 - 07:39 AM I was #3, and this is how things started: Joe Offer - On A Monday Pelagie - Deja Vu (poem) Me - Homeless Wassail after that you missed Monique and Waddon Pete, then possibly only one or two more before you got in. I'm sure someone else will be able to fill in your gaps each week if you're late to the party. Cheers! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: GerryM Date: 20 Jan 21 - 05:52 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories/speeches that were sung/recited, in order, at the Singaround on 18/19 January 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined, and thanks to SPB for some corrections. I didn't get a name for Jane Nicholls story about the elephant, nor for Storm's song which I've recorded as "To Make this World a Place where All are Free". Jane Nicholls' contribution about a bus ride in wartime London was more a reminiscing than a story, I wouldn't expect it to have a title. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Let Freedom Ring (speech) We Shall Overcome (one verse) When The Tees Ran Warm Glad to Meet You, Glad to Greet You Bridie and the Pole Babylon is Fallen Lee Hays monologue from The State of Arkansas Cottage Cheese (story) We've Come a Long Way Ballade en Novembre (in French) The Ploughboy's Dream I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground The Chevalier's Lament If it Wasn't for the Song Dragging the River When I was a Lad (Allan Sherman) Blowin' in the Wind Ella's Song Battle Hymn of the Republic The Sushi Blues Capetown The Really Strangest Dream Common Sailors I'll Go Have the New Jab Barges Steal Away There'll Come a Day Your Daughters and Your Sons Farewell to the Gold If I Were Free Early Snow Rolling Home to Old New England A Cowboy Lives The Boy and the Elephant (?) (story) The Bergen We Shall Not Give Up the Fight Stone by Stone Tatties and Herrin' A Man's a Man for a' That Flowers of Bermuda Angel from Montgomery Can the Circle be Unbroken Old Songs Home To Make this World a Place where All are Free (?) Sandwood Down to Kyle Punch and Judy Man Health to the Company Lift Every Voice and Sing Caledonia (Dougie MacLean) Ae Fond Kiss Snowy Breasted Pearl (in Irish and English) Rosa Parks Pedlar of Lidice (story) The Quaker's Cow (story) The Times They are a'Changin' I Still Breathe A Couple of Drunken Swells Thirsty Boots Ye Banks and Braes The Battler's Ballad Ballad of Maxton Field The Valiant Soldiers, aka Marching Song of the First Arkansas Colored Regiment Across the Great Divide Don't Call Me Early in the Morning Big Iron (story about a double-decker bus in wartime London) Gonna Take Us All Idlers and Skivers Java Jive Let the Good Guys Win Sailor's Lullaby Three Drunken Maidens We Shall Overcome How Can I Keep From Singing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 21 Jan 21 - 07:21 AM For the last 34 years it has just had working title Swells Parody. I suppose now is as good as any time to give it a proper title: A Couple of Drunken Swells |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 21 Jan 21 - 07:25 AM I am pretty certain that Clement's version in Manavilins which I've arranges is called Common Sailors. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 26 Jan 21 - 04:34 AM Here are the lyrics for he song HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY which I sang on 25 January zoom session. The tune is ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI. I’m not sure if this is the right place but I see you have one or two song lyrics in this thread. (Should we do a separate thread for new zoom songs? (Or maybe there is already and I didn’t find it!)) HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife we Gryffindors undergo, We don't give a damn when the term is done how many facts we know. But there is one girl, that we know for sure, will still at her studying be, We’ll drink butter beer and give a cheer to the girl Hermione. Yes her name’s Hermione, it is, Her name’s Hermione, We will win house cup, when the year is up Thanks to our Hermione Once more we fail at the Potions class, wicked recipes Snape has made, But Hermione read, and with level head, she has brewed the winning grade, While Crabb and Goyle set their hair on fire, and Malfoy makes a scowl, When Hermione reads every word she needs, She’ll be outstanding in every owl. A Ravenclaw some said she’d be, but they couldn’t be more wrong, Though her mind is sharp, she’s a lion’s heart, and her will is mighty strong, She is sometimes gruff, like a Hufflepuff, but there’s a sparkle in her eye, Though her bloods not pure, she will endure and triumph by and by. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Mrrzy Date: 26 Jan 21 - 01:32 PM Hey, can anybody tell me what keys I sing in? Longer question in the Xylo thread. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:03 PM Well, Mrr, your range is alto to high tenor, but I don't know from keys. You sing good. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 27 Jan 21 - 10:05 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 25/26 January 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined, and thanks to others who supplied me with titles. I made up a name for Jane Nicholls' story about the box in the attic, and for Charlotte Oliver's reply to Lady Franklin's Lament. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Bells of Norwich (Julian of Norwich - Sydney Carter) Now Westlin Winds Hermione (to the tune of Rolling Down to Old Maui) Backblock Shearer Parachutiste (in French) Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa' Ode to a Vegetarian Haggis (poem) Jumbo Stevens Johnny Lad Ye Banks and Braes (aka Banks O' Doon) If It Wasnae for Your Wellies Seven Faded Letters I Ain't Got No Home Slave's Lament Let's Have a Ride on your Bicycle To Daunton Me Loch Lomond Mill Mill O Night Visiting Song Bogie's Bonnie Belle Are You A Grotty Yachty Gay Spanish Maid Dumbarton's Drums Neocortex Pack Up Your Sorrows The Times They Are a-Changin' Mingulay Boat song Chemical Worker's Song Wife to a Cocky Farmer Reply to Lady Franklin's Lament (?) Andrew and His Cutty Gun On Susan's Floor Ae Fond Kiss Lowlands Heart's Home Henry Martin Flower in the Wildwood Rosario Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation (aka Parcel of Rogues, aka Rogues in a Nation) Ca' the Ewes Imagine a Girl (poem) Leave Us, Donald, Leave Us We Shall Be Renewed King of Rome A Man's a Man for A' That (aka Is There For Honest Poverty?) West Virginia Boys How Will I Ever Be Simple Again? Time is a Tempest The Bonny Earl of Moray Charlie on the MTA My Love is Like a Dewdrop Nepudem Domu (We Won't Go Home, in Czech) Till the Dance is Mine Far Side Banks of Jordan Dumbarton's Drums Whiskey in the Jar (aka Gilgarra Mountain, aka Kilgary Mountain) Sam's Gone Away Since Then The Bonniest Lass In China or a Woman's Heart In the Morning (poem) The Polished Box in the Attic (story) Scarborough Settler's Lament Jamie Foyers O Whistle and I'll Come to Ye, My Lad Braw Lads o' Gala Water Health to the Company How Can I Keep From Singing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 28 Jan 21 - 05:04 AM There's 12 keys to choose from, 24 if you count minor, 84 if you go modal, and with microtonal it stretches to infinity. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Gallus Moll Date: 29 Jan 21 - 04:42 PM Wow! Lots of Scottish songs!! Sorry I missed it, been immersed in Celtic Connections, only a few more days to go.... Still not sure if I have overcome my microphone problem,shall find out on Sunday at Glasgow Ballad Workshop session (fingers crossed) - hope to join you a week on Monday!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 31 Jan 21 - 01:59 PM Ha ha; I’ve now found the thread for posting new Mudcat zoom songs Here are the lyrics for he song HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY which I sang on 25 January zoom session. The tune is ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI. (Copied from the Mudcat worldwide sing around on zoom Monday’s — or something like that!) HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife we Gryffindors undergo, We don't give a damn when the term is done how many facts we know. But there is one girl, that we know for sure, will still at her studying be, We’ll drink butter beer and give a cheer to the girl Hermione. Yes her name’s Hermione, it is, Her name’s Hermione, We will win house cup, when the year is up Thanks to our Hermione Once more we fail at the Potions class, wicked recipes Snape has made, But Hermione read, and with level head, she has brewed the winning grade, While Crabb and Goyle set their hair on fire, and Malfoy makes a scowl, When Hermione reads every word she needs, She’ll be outstanding in every owl. A Ravenclaw some said she’d be, but they couldn’t be more wrong, Though her mind is sharp, she’s a lion’s heart, and her will is mighty strong, She is sometimes gruff, like a Hufflepuff, but there’s a sparkle in her eye, Though her bloods not pure, she will endure and triumph by and by. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 05 Feb 21 - 09:40 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 1/2 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. I didn't get a title for Fred Maslan's song, "Sailing to Victoria" is a guess. I'm guessing "Always Belay" and "In Praise of Men" as the names for Jane Nicholls' stories. "I May Not Have Long" is a guess for Storm's song. Digital Tradition has six versions of Hieland Laddie, and Tony said the one Joe put in the chat wasn't what he (Tony) was singing. I didn't catch a title for Sadie's poem for The Birthday of Francis J. Child. "Liza Jane" comes in many flavors with varying titles. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Deportee Cosmo Revisited (poem) Stone By Stone Sail, O Believer The Death of Romeo and Juliet What Will We Do Groundhog Candlelight Fisherman Candymaker Will Ye Go To the Indies, My Mary Three Score and Ten The Housewive's Shanty Ranter's Wharf Spencer the Rover Sailing to Victoria (?) (Princess Marguerite) Go to Sea Once More Mise Raifteirí an file / The End of the Winter (in Irish and English) Walkin' After Midnight Bird on a Wing I Thrive When I'm Drunk Ain't No More Cane on the Brazis The Bunch of Rushes Song for the Mira When the Boys are On Parade Always Belay (story) Billy Gray The Burning of Auchindoun Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring Rolling Down the Ryburn Wynken, Blinken, and Nod Avalon is Risen Tecumseh Valley Flower of Sweet Strabane A Dollar a Day English Country Folk Club Beeswing Lessons of Time Nevada Jane When the Green Man Walks the Forest You Tell Me Newborough Beach (poem) Wildwood Flower It's All Just Talk Spring Will Come Je Suis Trop Jeunette Crafty Maid's Policy The Lodger I May Not Have Long Let Union Be Hieland Laddie (??) Reg, the Lonely Glow Worm Trouble in the Fields McCassery The Galway Shawl Mingulay Boat Song Second Front Song 9 to 5 Pollution Blues (Poem for) The Birthday of Francis J. Child Bob the Kelpie (Goodbye) (Little) Liza Jane A Tree Song (aka Oak, Ash and Thorn) See Here, She Said Kishmul's Galley Burma Shave I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Cornflower Blue Somebody's Grandmother Windmills John Of Dreams The Human Cannonball (poem) The Field Behind the Plow If You Had a Brain You Would be Dangerous Henry the Accountant Eyes of a Painter Polwarth on the Green Left Hand Lost In Praise of Men (story) Along the Road of Time |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:31 AM re the song list for 1 Feb = should "McCasserly" be "McCafferty"? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:33 AM Yep, A Dollar A Day. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 06 Feb 21 - 06:59 PM SPB, thanks! I will edit the list. Felipa, I was wondering the same thing, but Prof Google tells me that it's done both ways, and Jim Lucas definitely sang it as McCassery.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!! From: The Sandman Date: 08 Feb 21 - 01:53 PM i am not saying i am right, but i have only ever heard it as mcCafferty in over 50 years on the uk folk scene, mcCafferty seems to be definteley the most popular name |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 09 Feb 21 - 04:43 AM First heard from Hazel Richings, she with the silky smooth to die for voice. I sang this beautiful song 08/02/21. Yorkshire Song by Anna Shanon When heather's bloom has faded long….. and turned to brown When pheasant chides his bright alarm When rolling mist the valley shrouds…. in silent arms Once more I know this place to be my home I heard the curlew cry today…. on windswept heath A plaintive call on rising wing And as I watched from ragged lines….. of weathered trees My heart stirred from her place to go with him There's not one thing I would not give…. to be as he To circle here in joyous flight And on these moors my life to live…. to simply be My spirit to go on in hill and scree I wish that I could write a song….. that had no words Of beauteous things and journeys run For many is the time I've tried….. and tales begun But with beauty such as this the words won't come When heather's bloom has faded long….. and turned to brown When pheasant chides his bright alarm When rolling mist the valley shrouds….. in silent arms Once more I know this place to be my home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Feb 21 - 04:47 AM Barrie, I'll certainly agree with that description of the "silky smooth to die for voice." It's such a pleasure to hear Hazel sing. But hey, the rest of us sing pretty good, too. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Feb 21 - 07:59 AM I just checked my records after last night's magnificent singaround, and i find that i sang Anna Shannon's Yorkshire Song there myself on the very first edition of the Singaround, 8th June last year! It's truly one of those songs that haunts you for ever. But hey, doesn't time fly?!!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 09 Feb 21 - 08:16 AM would it not be handier to have this thread be for lists of which songs are sung each week (presently given in an exceeding long discussion of everything and anything to do with the Mon night song session), with links to the lyrics in their own threads? If the lyrics are not already on Mudcat, they deserve their own threads. A group of songs with related themes would suit being together in a thread, but here we are going to have songs which have little in common apart from having been sung at the same singing circle. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM Oh, no doubt that will happen in time, Felipa. In fact, it's happening now to a great extent. But it takes time. I'm trying to keep the main announcement thread clear for announcing coming singarounds. It's fine to post other things there, but eventually they will be moved to more permanent homes. It's a very easy thing for me to move a message to another thread. For the most part, I have been starting or refreshing threads during the Singaround for songs that aren't common or that we don't have full information for, and then researching and discussing the songs over the coming week. Gerry Myerson and others started building lists of songs sung at the singarounds, so we started this thread for those lists and as a temporary resting place for lyrics. Monique is managing a thread for songs from the Singaround that are not in English. We've been trying our best to document sources for lyrics and to ensure we have correct and proofread lyrics in the "origins" and "DTStudy" threads. But until lyrics have been checked, it's nice to keep them elsewhere until they're ready for "origins" threads. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:24 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 8/9 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. As usual, I made up names for Jane Nicholls' stories, "The Flood and the Family" and "Two Lads and a Foal". "God Bless the Birds" seemed like a good title for Elizabeth Block's takeoff on "God Bless the Grass". "Are You Out There" is a guess for a song Hazel Richings sang. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Mr Rabbit, Mr Rabbit The Green Man The Nightingale Lawd, How Come Me Heah La Chanson des Vieux Amants The Jabberwonky (poem) Ancient Mariner.com (poem) Don't Fence Me In Yorkshire Song Pretty Polly Bells of Rhymney The Wild Raparee Roger's Courtship Follow the Heron Carrigdhoun Just as the Tide is/was Flowing The Rare Ould Times Innisvaddie Annie The Boys of Mullachbawn The Flowers in the Valley Tarzan of the Apes (aka Everyone Calls Me Tarzan) Be a Man, Joe The Sailor's Grave Lynn's Dream The Cat Came Back Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (funeral song from Cymbeline, set to Norwegian folk ballad Heiemo og Njkkenn) Millie's Waltz Aura Lee [with bonus Allan Sherman parody] Johnny Give Me The Pitmen Poets Seven Drunken Nights Folk Song Army Homeless Beaver The Prisoner Song (aka I Wish I Had Someone, aka I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me, aka Someone to Love Me) Springhill Mining Disaster The Flood and the Family (story) The Overflowing Catbox Blues The Bonny Broom The Barnyards of Delgaty The Hippopotamus Down the Mountainside Donal Og The Seven Wonders Painting Box Fair Weather Friends I Think of You Cape Farewell Ye Banks and Braes If You had a Brain You'd Be Dangerous Political Noncooperator (poem) Union-Busting Time in Massachusetts Bold Doherty The Queen of Tarts (poem) Maybe Someday Sally, Free and Easy The Rich Man's House Everything's Fine Right Now Sammy's Bar Shepherd O Shepherd Harwich Ladies (TTTO Spanish Ladies, aka Brisbane Ladies, aka Augathella Station, aka The Drover, ....) Slunécko (in Czech; title means "Sun") Crackdown Addict I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Just Coorie In An Empty Table Lorena Poor Boy Go Tell Aunt Rhody The Land of Bright Gold Santiana Two Lads and a Foal (story) The Olive Tree God Bless the Birds (TTTO God Bless the Grass) Little Piece of Wang John Henry Buy Broom Besoms Blind Mary (instrumental) Magic Penny Eight More Miles to Louisville Are You Out There (??) Miners Lullaby Po' Lazarus Strike the Bell 500 Miles Henry the Accountant The Final Trawl |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 12 Feb 21 - 05:25 AM The title in Czech is Slunécko, which is a diminuitive of slunce which translates as Sun. Wasn't too happy with the performance though, I think neres or tiredness got the better of me, and maybe I should do new material firth time round. The other title - according to the Sheet Music is 'Everyone Calls Me Tarzan'. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 12 Feb 21 - 06:54 AM Thanks, SPB. I've added the Czech. I went back and forth between "Everyone Calls Me Tarzan" and "Tarzan of the Apes" as I saw each given as the title by various sources, so I've edited to show both as alternatives. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST Date: 16 Feb 21 - 05:46 AM Last Night we played Can y Bugail by Geraint Jarman & Meic Stephens (There should be a To Bach/Circumflex over the 'A' in 'Can', but I can't work out the HTML!). I promised the lyrics for this morning, but I need to delve a bit deeper, so please bear with me. I have an English translation, but I will wait until I have the Welsh as well before posting. Thanks for a great evening(UK), we will be back. Splott Man and Dame Pattie Smith EPNS. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:37 PM Splott Man, it's great to post lyrics you sang to this thread, and thank you very much for that. Be aware, though, that I will eventually move such posts to other places, like Monique's "songs not in English" thread. If you posted something and can't find it, clicking on your name in any post should bring it up. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 17 Feb 21 - 03:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/tunes that were sung/recited/played, in order, at the Singaround on 15/16 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. I couldn't find any trace of a song called "Dark-haired Mary" – was that maybe a tune, not a song? I couldn't find any song called "Don't Believe in a Woman", or any version of Pretty Saro associated with Aunt Molly Jackson, or any song set on Clinch River and connected to Pretty Saro or to Aunt Molly Jackson. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Follow That Road Something in the Way She Moves Dark-haired Mary La Calha (The Quail) (in Occitan) Spinning wheel song If Love Doesn't Bother You It Doesn't Bother Me (tune) Anathea The Quiet Land of Erin (Ard Ti Cuain, chorus in Irish) River (with instrumental bridge Planxty Irwin) Plains of Kildare (aka Skewball, aka Stewball and Griselda, ....) When Black Hands Saved Me From the Blue Alabama John Cherokee Get On a Wagon Rolling West Cân y Bugail gan (Song of the Shepherd, in Welsh) Machynlleth (tune) Blarney Roses The Prince of Denmark's March (tune) Week Before Easter Catfish John Vicky's Secret Lochmaben Harper (aka The Blind Harper) Coulters Candy Mingulay Boat Song The Factory Girl Web of Birdsong Lincoln and Liberty Caledonia From Little Things Big Things Grow Tanglewood Tree The Lost Highway Thyme it is a Precious Thing Time is a Tempest My Country 'Tis of Thee Across the Great Divide A Place Called England Benjamin Bowmaneer How Can I Miss You Stern Old Bachelor Binsey Poplars (poem) Red River Valley Ranter Parson Seventeen in Aberdeen The Hippopotamus Song Gartan Mother's Lullaby The Spider Follow the Heron Lassie Lie Near Me Whitby Fisherman The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Cold Blow and the Rainy Night Big Muddy The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow Sonora's Death Row Mrs. McGrath Shanty Town 254 Shades of Gray How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door City of New Orleans Forever and a Day Rachel Caledonia Dimming of the Day Queen of Waters Back to Broome West Texas Waltz Beautiful Noise Vive l'Amour If I Were Free Cape Breton Lullaby Blowin' in the Wind Don't Believe in a Woman Ill Wind Twa Corbies Lies Crossing the Bar Hallelujah (Wheatley) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 01:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/letters/stories that were sung/recited/read/told, in order, at the Singaround on 22/23 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Here you go: John Ball Song for Mira Roll the woodpile down Dyslexia or The Y Files (poem) Down by the River Sallia (aka Weela Wallia) Gottingen (in French) When Did You Leave Heaven? The Three Ravens Adio Querida (or Adio Kerida) (in Ladino) Now that the Buffalo's Gone I Likes a Drop of Good Beer Song of the Fugitive The Bantry Girl's Lament Scarborough Settler's Lament Surely What Does the Lord Require of You? Down the Dials Baltimore Fire Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea I Do Adore Her George Washington's letter to the Hebrew congregation of Newport (reading) Brockagh Braes Pistol-Packin' Mama William Stone Dan O'Hara Blackwaterside Cossack Lullaby (in Russian) Skibbereen My My Mama Second Class Wait Here I'm Gonna Be an Engineer Your Little Hand Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now?) Love is Kind Spirit Song The Fur Rendezvous Song Queen Elinor's Confession The Flower of Magherally, O Susquehanna The L and N Don't Stop Here Any More Snowin' on Raton Laurel Hill Deep River Blues I'm an Old Cowhand Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Queen Elizabeth and the Three Knights (joke) Bold Riley-O Voják ("Soldier", in Czech) Geritol Gypsy The White Shepherd Come Back, Liza Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Price Tag All the Fine Young Men The Green Man Bournemouth The Old Carmarthen Oak Ten Hours a Day Scarborough Fair Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (in French) If I Needed You Lay Down Beside Me White Collar Holler Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 24 Feb 21 - 12:46 PM The Czech song was called Voják which translates as Soldier. I wouldn't call it a lullaby - the first verse translates to The translation of the three verses: (1) When I didn't die in the war, I also will not die back home. (2) When I didn't die on the French meadows, I will not die by my sweetheart. (3) When I didn't die alongside the Austrians, I will not die with my lords. |
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