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- |
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) |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Noreen Date: 15 Jul 20 - 05:17 AM Thanks Vikki! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Mysha Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM Folk Song And Music Hall |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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." |
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. |
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) |
Subject: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Sep 20 - 12:31 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- |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 17 Dec 20 - 09:57 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/readings that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 14/15 December 2020. Thanks to Moorley Man for filling me in on what was done before I joined. I think the only title I didn't get was for the poem Andrew wrote & read about being kicked out of a poetry society for wanting poems to rhyme. Also, I'm not sure whether Hazel's second song is called "I'll Bring the Whiskey if You'll Bring the Wine", or "Old Friends". Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: The Pickle Tree Carol Raiders of the Lost Shark (poem) The Mistletoe Bough Dunster Carol When You Are Old And Grey Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal Pastres Rintratz Vòstrei Tropèus (Shepherds, bring your flocks in tonight) Jerusalem Cuckoo (aka I Am a Donkey Driver) The Wexford Carol Do You Hear What I Hear Merry Christmas, Baby (Do) The Rock of Ages Lovers and Friends Ar Gyfer Heddiw’r Bore (For the Sake of This Very Morning, in Welsh) Come All You Jolly Mummers Carol for the Twelfth Day Of All the Birds I Must Go Home Tonight Tarry Flynn Twas a Month Before Christmas (poem) A Silent Night (Christmas 1915) (When We Go) Rolling Home The Galway Shawl The Greatest Story of All Now the Day is Over The Death or Glory Wassail Shepherds Arise Lines Suggested by a Tennessee Song (poem) Adeste, Fideles The Potato Song Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Hanerot Halalu Dark December The Trees are All Bare Auntie Julia There's a Song in the Air It's Better Than That Amourette (formerly known as Exercise 77) See Amid the Winter Snow (instrumental) Hanukah in Santa Monica (poem about free verse) Bottle O' the Best Fields of Athenry Sam Small's Christmas Pudding The Coventry Carol Albert and the Lion The Snows they Melt the Soonest Vive le Vent (French version of Jingle Bells) The Boar's Head Carol I Wish You Enough Darby Ram The Carol Singers Eibhlin a Run (Eileen Aroon) Glory Hallelujah A Christmas Carol (reading from Dickens) While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks on Ilkley Moor The Boys in the Back Room Rock of Ages (Hanukah version) The Latke Carols – First Carol Zen Gospel Singing When the Children Come Home Jolly Old Hawk Pat-a-Pan (aka Willy, Bring Your Little Drum) Old Friends (I'll Bring the Whiskey if You'll Bring the Wine (?)) Mon Beau Sapin (French version of Tannenbaum) God Rest Ye Unitarians Rollin' Down to Bethlehem The Parting Glass Circle of Song |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: MoorleyMan Date: 21 Dec 20 - 04:55 PM For GerryM, late joiner, before you ask: Tonight's starting songs: Joe Offer - Candle (poem by Micca Patterson) then Merry Christmas from the family by Robert Earl Keen Jr Pelagie Crofton - Poem: Global Warming & The Iceberg by Les Barker David Kidman - Carol - Shepherds, Arise Anne Gregson & Chris Timson - Green grows the holly (by Henry 8th) Alison from Dunoon - Cold winter Mrrzy - The Magnon, adapted from PP&M's The Magi Tony Becker - Do virgins taste better?! Noreen - Stannington (Sheffield carol) then Jim Lucas... by which time i believe you'd joined?? |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 23 Dec 20 - 09:35 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/readings that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 21/22 December 2020. I didn't get a title for Storm's song – I've given it as "Here's Hoping" which was a repeated phrase in the song. I didn't get a title for Hazel's second song – I've given it as "Here On My Island" (but it's not the song of that name from the Barbie movie that comes up on Google). Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here's what I have: Candle (poem) Merry Christmas from the Family Global Warming and the Iceberg (poem) Shepherds, Arise Green Groweth the Holly Cauld Winter The Magnon Do Virgins Taste Better? Stannington Carol Ode by a Christmas Pudding at Sea The First Franksgiving (story) Noël Still Not Dead The Jab Song (aka I've Had the Jab) The Huron Carol A Wee Drappie O't Pussywillows, Cat-tails Personent Hodie (in Latin) The Good Old Way Christmas in Jail Christmas in the Trenches Suburbs of Eden Halsway Carol Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, aka All Shall Be Well Again) My Love is a Tall Ship Christmas at Sea Clear was the Night Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Summon Up the Sun Gentle Night (From the) Lambing to the Wool Strolling Through a Summer Wonderland I'll Lick Another Stamp for You Hail Chime On The Wheels on the Fatal Bus The Wexford Lullaby Comfort and Joy The Ballad of Ben Dover Banjos Roasting on an Open Fire Angels and Shepherds Ole Slew Foot Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming Twelve Days Home for Christmas A-Soalin Eddi's Service (A.D. 687) (poem) Light a Candle (story from The Singing Tree) The Wexford Carol (aka The Enniscorthy Carol) Here's Hoping (?) Until the Dark Time Ends Carry Me Over Yorkshire Song Phantom 309 (accompanied recitation) Joseph Kinder (in German) Suffer the Children Merry Little Christmas Leavin' Liverpool Green Grow the Rushes, Ho! A Virgin Most Pure The Greatest Story of All A Time Will Come for Singing The Rose of York Christmas in Prison Leanabh an Aigh Long is the Winter 'Til the Sun's Return Dick Darby the Cobbler The Little Cradle Rocks Tonight ATale of Jesus (aka Baby Born) Brightest and Best The First Hanukah Here on My Island (?) Mojo Hannah On Christmas Day God Rest Ye, Unitarians Gingerbread Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 29 Dec 20 - 09:33 AM Another great singaround yesterday! Here for the Log-keeper (GerryM), who arrived a little later than starting-time, is a listing of the first few items performed: Joe Offer - 2020 Is Almost Over by Larry Montgomery Severn Savage - The disheartened ranger Alison - The painted veil (? by Guest, Gallus Moll ?) Pelagie Crofton - Macavity (poem by TS Eliot) David Kidman - 3 Wise Women (Stanley Accrington) Jim Lucas - You can't make a turtle come out by Malvina Reynolds Richard Adrianowicz - Sandy boy Robert Rodriquez - The holly & the ivy Casey Casebeer - Young Waters (Child ballad) I think Gerry had arrived by then... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 29 Dec 20 - 04:25 PM Moorley Man, thanks as ever for filling me in! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 29 Dec 20 - 11:16 PM Here's my list of songs and poems that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 28/29 December 2020. I think this is everything. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here's you go: 2020 is Almost Over The Disheartened Ranger The Painted Veil Macavity (poem) Three Wise Women You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out Sandy Boys The Holly and the Ivy Young Waters The End of Another Year The Lag's Song San Antonio Rose The Wabash Cannonball A Thousand Songs My Grandfather's Ferret The Banks of Sullane By the Blackthorn on Doolieve The Frozen Logger Hood 2001 (poem) Friendship Good King Wenceslas A Guid New Year to Ane an' $A' Big Mama (poem) Ode to the Little Brown Shack New Year's Eve Already Dead Good Riddance New Year's Octet (poem) Sands Please to See the King Rich Man, Poor Man The Gift of Song Drive the Cold Winter Away The Restroom Door Said, "Gentlemen" The Lowly Carpenter Ruins By the Shore Mariner's Hymn Freedom Come All Ye Spot of the Antarctic The Wexford Carol (aka The Enniscorthy Carol) Mary Had a Baby The Door of the Year My Father's Mansion Walking in My Winter Underwear I Still Miss Someone Dance With the Dragon The Miner's Dream of Home The Farmer's Carol Donny Be Gone The Rose A-Soalin' You've Been a Friend to Me Birches Safe Romance The Lady of Song The Toast Song The Innumerable Christ (poem) Poor Lazarus The Wren We Are Mary Did You Know (Jennifer Henry version) Jack the Slob and the Goddess of Love Brandenburg Gate Loud Sing the Carol The Woes Woven Through Herringbone The River Where She Sleeps The Master of the Sheepfold |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!! From: MoorleyMan Date: 04 Jan 21 - 07:24 PM For Gerry M's listings: Here's the first few items from today's Zoom Sing, before he joined: Joe Offer - Wasn't that a mighty storm? Alison - Mormond Braes Barrie Mathers - Ballad of Jed Clampett David Kidman - We'll sing hallelujah Mrrzy - Richard of taunton Monique - The will (in French) Leeneia - Stewball Noreen - (Please to see) The king Cheers! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:10 AM Here's my list of songs (no poems this time) that were sung, in order, at the Singaround on 4/5 January 2021. I didn't get a name for Patty Clink's parody of Dylan's My Back Pages. I'm not sure that Bring Me My Dull Old Pants is the right title for Rusty Dobro's take-off on a song from Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? Mormond Braes Ballad of Jed Clampett We'll Sing Hallelujah Richard of Taunton Dean The Will (in French) Stewball Please to See the King Seven Nights Drunk (aka Seven Drunken Nights, cf Our Goodman) Bring Me My Dull Old Pants (parody of Any Dream Will Do / Give Me My Colored Coat) Past Carin' Mr Fox V'chitetu Charvotam (And They Shall Beat Their Swords, in Hebrew) The Body Piercing Song (parody of I'll Tell Me Ma) The Year Turns Around Again Queen Elinor's Confession The County Line (aka We Moved the Line) The Fishfinger Song The Schmuck Song Three Score and Ten Mollymauk Brightest and Best Snow Flurry (in Russian) Bonobo Wannabe Piano Leg (Broken Token-2) The Creel Across the Great Divide Witch of the Westmoreland It's a Miracle Mary Parker's Lament Clerk Colven The Doffing Mistress The Iron-Moulder's Wedding I Fall to Pieces Da Day Dawn O Wee White Rose of Scotland Cherry Tree Carol Will the Circle Be Unbroken Rollin' Down to Bethlehem Northern Tide The Hour that the Ship Comes In The Braes O' Appin Lullaby It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Naptime Molly Bawn You Can Close Your Eyes Mary Had a Baby Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Chestnuts Blaring Through the Shopping Mall The Music of Strings If I Ever Sing a Love Song Brandy Tree Bless This House Soon May the Wellerman Come Don't Call Me Early in the Morning ? (Parody of My Back Pages) January Lullaby Alfred the Alligator The Holly and the Ivy Sancta Bega Grandma Song Homeless Wassail Old Black Joe |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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- |
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 |
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. |
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!! |
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. |
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 |
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"? |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:33 AM Yep, A Dollar A Day. |
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 |
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 |
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- |
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?!!! |
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. |
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- |
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 |
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'. |
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. |
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. |
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- |
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) |
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 |
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. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 04:56 PM Thanks, SPB. I'll edit my post. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 21 - 07:58 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/told, in order, at the Singaround on 1/2 March 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Some uncertainties: I couldn't find any song called "Death and the Doctor" – is that title right? All I could find for Ring of the Nibelungen was a cycle of four operas, and I doubt that's what Joe sang. "I Wish I Had a Charm" is my guess at a title for Storm's poem, and "Where God Leads Me I Will Go" is my guess at a title for his song. Here you go: Death and the Doctor Doonaree Ring of the Nibelungen Finest You Ever Saw (aka The Finest of Them All) Treigladau (Mutations) (poem) Frobisher Bay La Más Bella Niña (in Spanish) Isn't It Grand Boys When I Can't Play Barnagh Hill Scarborough Fair Cuckoo's a Bonny Bird Bangum and the Boar Blann's Beer Red Iron Ore Miner's Lifeguard The Revel Still Scared of You Strike the Bell Second Mate Bugeilio’r Gwenyth Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat, English and Welsh) I Am a Little Collier (macaronic, English and Welsh) How Snow Got Its Color (story) The Rare Ould Times The Jack-Ass Song Ten Hours a Day Row On Murrumbidgee Water Ballad of Springhill (aka Springhill Mining Disaster) Adieu to Dear Cambria Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in German) Queen Amang the Heather Let Now the Harp Sheep Stealer The Coster's Serenade Geritol Gypsy Teannaibh Dlùth is Togaibh Fonn (in Scottish Gaelic) Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Sow Took the Measles Last Boat In I Wish I Had a Charm (poem) Where God Leads Me I Will Go Bheir Mi O The Yorkshire Couple Painting Box When Forsythia's in Bloom Witch Hazel Chinese White Air Earth (poem) The Midas Touch (poem) The Plover Catcher Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (in Yiddish and English) Young Companions (aka Bad Company, Bad Companions, I was Born in Pennsylvania, ....) Story of Taliesin (story) Avondale The Lifeboat Mona Lady Margaret It's Up to Us Drover's Dream Obedience (poem) Rose of Allendale Frog in the Well The Ash Grove (in Welsh) Maleny Washing Line When the Coal Comes from the Rhondda The Drunkard's Looking Glass Lay Down Beside Me The Poor Orphan Child The Eggplant that Ate Chicago Times are Getting Hard Boys Hob-i-derry-dando Three Ravens Process Man (aka The Chemical Worker's Song) Gentle Arms of Eden A Handful of Songs |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:08 AM The Eggplant that ate Chicago?! |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Mar 21 - 04:39 PM Felipa, yes, a novelty song from the 60s. Here it is on YouTube. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Mar 21 - 10:21 PM I came to the singaround of 8/9 March 2021 late and left early, so I owe even greater thanks to others than usual. Moorley Man & Mrrzy, independently, supplied me with the performances from before my joining, and Joe sent me the chat transcript so I could reconstruct what happened after I left. Here's the list of songs, poems, and tunes – corrections eagerly solicited. In the Jailhouse Now The Dutch in the Medway Captain Wedderburn's Courtship Jolly Wagoner Les Djinnes (poem) Planxty Irwin (tune) Jamie Allen (tune) Mon Amie la Rose (in French) Willie 'ole Lad The Yellow Bittern Making Babies by Steam Keemo Kimo (aka Sing Song Kitty) The Duke's Late Glorious Success Over the Dutch Cab, Cab, Cab Sylvie A Dialogue Between a Believer and his Soul King Henry The Reaper's Revenge Rosie the Riveter Hard Times of Old England Lovely Nancy Burning Gold Boomer Johnson We Don't Need the Men The Quilting Party (aka Seeing Nellie Home) Go Tell Aunt Rhody This World Goes 'round and 'round The Lasses O' Bonnie Dundee Female Drummer Drover's Boy Darling Nellie Gray March of the Women Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms We Were There The Tryphina's Extra Hand The Curragh of Kildare (aka The Irish Lovers) Sandgate Dandling Song The Winter with His Grisly Storms Liverpool Lullaby Short Jacket and White Trousers Whup Jamboree Blackleg Miner Maid on the Shore The Last Battle People Say Strange Things Mothers Teach Your Sons Memories of Maxine (poem?) Time to Thank the Women Killing the Blues Housewife's Lament MacCrimmon's Lament All the Way Home Rosa's Lovely Daughters Harriet Tubman Bread and Roses Wall Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Welcome Idris Strike Song Streets of Five-i-o Poverty Knock Little Red Hen (Poem) John Golden and the Lawrence Strike Maid of Fyvie Northwest Passage February March Oh, Didn't He Ramble Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out Rebecca Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Mar 21 - 05:26 AM Thanks to Mrrzy for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and to Joe for the chat transcript, also to Moorley Man. Here are the songs/poems/stories/tunes from the 15/16 March 2021 singaround: Rivers of Babylon Anchor God If I Were a Duck Us Goldfish (poem) Shantyman Essequibo River (in Creolese) Can Vei la Lauzeta (in Occitán) The Private Still (aka The Gauger) In My Backyard The Flying Cloud Medley: The Fountain in the Park, Sipping Cider Through a Straw, and several others I Had An Old Coat Henry My Son (aka Green and Yellow) Our Lady of the Hospital Mountains of Mourne When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Oranges and Lemons The Dear Little Shamrock Yarns of the People (poem) Sea Change The Roving Journeyman Who Knows Where the Time Goes? A Miners Life (aka Miners Lifeguard) Moving Day My Own Dear Native Land For Just One Dime (take-off on Northwest Passage) Haul Away Snow The Kerry Dance Motherland Mull of Kintyre Where Did You Get that Hat? If You're Irish Come into the Parlor Windsong The Whitby Lad (aka Botany Bay, The Boston Burglar) Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Rockin' Robin (to the tune of All I Have to Do is Dream) San Antonio Rose The Orange and the Green The Gallant Hussar The Carter (aka Fairie Pie) I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground Lobster Salad (aka Paddy's Dream, Kelley's Dream) Story about Newfoundlanders abroad The Garden Where the Praties Grow Story in Your Eyes Raglan Road The Galway Shawl Bold Fenian Men (aka Down By the Glenside) Cameronian Cat Song for Mary Ann The Joy of Living Like the Way I Do Welcoming Paddy Home (aka Welcome Poor Paddy Home) Boolavogue (tune) The Praties They Grow Small (aka The Famine Song) An Old-Fashioned Wedding You Are Still My Boy On Yonder Hill there Sits a Hare My Own Dear Galway Bay I Wish I Were a Maid Again, or The Blackbird, or The Butcher Boy, or Died For Love Let it be a Dance Mary Ann, or The Roving Gardener Click Go the Shears Have Some Madeira, M'Dear Holla Hi Holla Ho! Old Man in His Garden Red is the Rose The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede Long Long Time The Foggy Dew (aka Down the Glen) The Youth of the Heart Penguins Do You Love an Apple Gilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Somebody Threw a Tomato at Him Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:05 AM Thanks to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half. Here are the songs/poems/riddles/tunes from the 22/23 March 2021 singaround: Ghost Riders In The Sky The Volunteer Organist Inconsonants (poem) Devinhola (in Occitan; title means "riddle") Knock a Man Down The Soldier Castle Garden On The Banks Of Allan Water 2 Original Tunes in Memory of Izzy Young Away To The Mountain's Brow 9-5 Pollution Blues It's Good To See You Lonely Person Banks Of The Sweet Primroses Bridge Guard In The Karroo New Garden Fields Willie o' Winsbury Any Dirty Work Today? Stolen Child Mary Hamilton (aka The Four Maries) Croppy Boy 'Illean Bithibh Sunndach (in Gaelic) Brennan on the Moor Library-O Ken Supiense (Ladino for Who Knows One, which is English for Echad Mi Yodea, which is Hebrew) The Devil's Courtship Yellow on the Broom Spring Song Mussels in the Corner Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Going to the West The Patriot Game New Harmony Michael, Row the Boat Ashore Over the Hills and Far Away Ballad of the Carpenter The Foggy Dew (bachelor) The Foggy Dew (bachelor, short) The Moon Going Home Moving Father's Grave The Woodbridge Dog Disaster Summer Sunlight Gartan Mother's Lullaby Swing Me Maple Sweet Our Favourite Things (parody of My Favorite Things) How Will I Ever Be Simple Again Down the Long Road Rural Lad (poem) Maple Syrup Time Sweet Rose of Allandale (aka Sweet Rose of Allendale) Je Suis Trop Jeunette (in French) The Galway Shawl A Whaler's Tale My Own Dear Galway Bay Another Train First Lullaby (partly in French) De Colores (in Spanish) The Answer's Ireland San Francisco Bay Blues John Cherokee Isle au Haut Lullaby Devil Versus the Widow (aka The Widow and the Devil, aka The Widow's Promise) Desperate Dan Angels Come and Gather Logie O'Buchan Never on Sunday The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Zog, Maran ("Tell Me, Marrano" in Yiddish) The Song Goes On |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:11 PM Thanks again to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and thanks to Joe Offer. Here are the songs and poems from the 29/30 March 2021 singaround: Circle of Song If Music Were My Life The Lost Elephants of Denbigh (poem) Pull Down Below Lo Soldat Desconegut (The Unknown Soldier, in Occitan) Rhubbub Guitare et Tambourin (in French) Paddy on the Railway The Road to Dunmoor To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) The Wheels of the World Stewball & Griselda The Meeting of the Waters The Earl Of March's Daughter Across the Blue Mountains To An Anchor God (aka Second Mariner's Song) Sheepstealer The Male Female Highwayman Donald Where's Yer troosers? The Flower Carol Theme from The Secret of Roan Innish (Mist Covered Mountains) The Gallant Shopper Mrs Murphy Mollymauk I Think of You The Pace Egging Song Look Down On Me Tennessee Goodnight-Loving Trail How Can I Keep From Purring Ode to the Little Brown Shack The Ever-Given (to the tune of The Titanic) Stand Up for Judas The Covid Blues (to the tune of If I Only Had a Brain) Norland Wind (aka The Wild Geese) Pretty Saro The Latke (to the tune of The Coo Coo) Sally Free and Easy You Singers All The Curragh of Kildare Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (in French) Nogies Creek On One April Morning Amourette (formerly known as Exercise 77) Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Vecherniy Zvon (Evening Bells, in Russian) I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am My Sweet Wyoming Home The Maid From Bunclody (aka Bunclody, aka The Streams of Bunclody; also spelled Buncloudy, Bunclaudy) Watching the Trains Come In Pointing to the Moon Chocolate Rabbit We've Got To Sail Away Blues Chase Up a Rabbit (aka Blues Jumped the Rabbit, Rabbit Foot Blues, Rabbit Blues, Jackrabbit Blues, and Cool Colorado) Go Down Moses (aka When Israel was in Egypt's Land, aka Let My People Go) Gentle Annie The Bonny Ship The Diamond Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day) When They Buy Up All the Air Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow? Man Come Into Egypt Starlight Upon the Sea Thanksgiving Eve The Flower of Magherally The Slave's Lament Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill Bonny Banks o' Fordie (aka Babylon) You Are Beautiful Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Plant a Radish Dayenu |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:19 PM Latkes was sung to the tune of "The cuckoo" rather than the "coo coo". The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies. And she never hollers "cuckoo" [coo coo?] till the fourth day of July." I learned the song before I moved to a place where I heard many cuckoos, and they holler in May. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 10:16 PM Felipa, it's a folk song, recorded by many artists, using many different titles and spellings and lyrics. I learned the song from David Holt's album, Reel And Rock, and his spelling was The Coo Coo. Clarence Ashley called it Coo Coo Bird. It was called "The Coo Coo Bird" on Doc Watson, The Vanguard Years. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:12 AM Songs & poems from the 5/6 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround. Thanks to Moorley Man, Pelagie, and Joe Offer for help with the items that preceded my joining the proceedings. Comments and corrections always welcome. Sweet Betsy From Pike Out On The Ocean The Shipping Forecast (poem by Les Barker) Staying Out All Night Nous Quittons Les Paques (in French) The Tourist's Complaint Evening Prayer from "Hansel & Gretel" Avondale Wullie's Drowned In Yarrow The Hobnail Boots That Father Wore Annan Water Click Go Your Joints (by Emma Elliott) (Wrap Me Up in My) Tarpaulin Jacket One Time and One Time Only (by Tom Paxton) The Silly Hug Song Fairy Faire Blues When Spring Comes In My Happiness Life Passes By She Was Just Going Home (to the tune of "The Grey Funnel Line") Log Driver’s Waltz I Knew You Were the One Hody hody doprovody (A Czech Easter presentation) Home on the Range Curragh of Kildare We are the Music Makers Cosher Bailey’s Engine South Wind Foggy Dew (Irish version) The Eagle and the Dove Otago Sweet Michael Molly and Tenbrooks The Mormond Braes The Banks of Sweet Mossen A Song for Our Time Bheir Mi O (in English, chorus in Irish) Moreton Bay Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in English and German) Coming Home Song Towels Turkey Reveille (aka Turkish Revelry, aka The Sweet Trinity, aka The Golden Vanity, aka The Golden Willow Tree, aka The Weeping Willow Tree, aka Sinking in the Lonesome Sea, aka The Gallant Argosy, aka The Old Virginia Lowlands, aka Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)) Aragon Mill Red is the Rose Wayfaring Stranger The Iron Moulder's Wedding Summertime I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Ainster Harbor Easter Lilies Geordie Crawdad Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men) Truth Cannot Be Silenced (to the tune of Die Gedanken Sind Frei) North Sea Holes Wonders Still the World Shall Witness Lord of the Dance Custard Creams (to the tune of John o' Dreams = Tchaikovsky's Pathetique) Isle Au Haut Lullaby (Hay Ledge Song) I'll See You in My Dreams Bonny Ship the Diamond Drunk's Express Northern Tide The Ways of Man April Fool Blow the Candles Out Michael Row the Boat Ashore Tell Old Bill Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) Here is My Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:55 AM Songs, poems and stories from the 12/13 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite possibly in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Waltzing Mathilda (Queensland version) The Jeannie C Me To Lýchno Tou Astrou (in Greek) Captain Indecisive (poem) Frog Song Woman With a Shovel Le Soldat Mécontent (French) Weary Blues From Waitin' Dead Dog Scrumpy Three Drunken Maidens Window Cleaning Shanty / We're All Cleaning Windows The Swallow / La Golondrina (sung in English) Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy The Killer in Me Diana Hanson Will Ye Go To Flanders Lovely Agnes Lazy Bones The Minstrel My Love is Like a Dewdrop On One April Morning All Trades Advice to the Lovelorn Ballad of John Williams Animal Farm The Riley Boys Changes Tackety Boots (recitation) Come All You Virginia Girls Your Name is What? The Further Adventures Of Albert (poem) The Big 5-0 Thomas Was A Little Glutton (poem) Rum And Sailors The Coffee Shop In Pimlico Close The Coalhouse Door Ill Wind Rio Grande The Man From Luddenden Dean Mask of Life Wings of a Goney (aka The Weary Whaling Grounds) The Lone Pilgrim Lovely Nancy The Pharmacist Eli, Eli Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate City of New Orleans Wayfaring Stranger The Candlelight Fisherman House of the Rising Sun The Titanic (version at https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7052) Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Song of the Lower Classes Canning Salmon Roots Yuri Gagarin Methodist Pie The Old Woman and Her Pig (story) (aka Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!, aka The Pig Who Would Not Jump Over the Stile) (singable version at http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/277.html) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The Jews Did Not Kill Jesus The Lightship Threescore and Ten Silver Dagger Betrayed by Love Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments Unreconstructed Rebel (aka I'm a Good Old Rebel) Wave Goodbye, Wave Hello When I'm Gone Dropkick Me, Jesus Faretheewell, Titanic Side by Side |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Rusty Dobro Date: 14 Apr 21 - 02:59 PM Re ‘Woman with a Shovel’ at Monday’s singaround, I have had a chance to listen to Peter Krug’s’ ‘chainsaw’ song, so now I know where those stray lyrics came from, back in the days before internet searches. All knowledge is to be found in the Mudcat, eventually....M |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:33 PM Was Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates in Master and Commander? |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 07:21 PM Mrrzy, well-spotted! According to Wikipedia, "The song sung in the wardroom is 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates', a British Navy song written in the early 1800s and arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean from his album Of Ships... and Men." |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Apr 21 - 09:45 PM Songs, poems and stories from the 19/20 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite likely in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. "He Puts Out Fires" is a line in several songs, some squeaky clean, some smutty – I don't know which was sung, so I gave a few references. "The Flatmate and the Frying Pan" is a name I thought up for the story Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life England Green and England Grey An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (poem) He Puts Out Fires (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=31622 ? The Fireman's Song? My Brother Bill?) Library-O The Forsaken Nymph Kumbaya Hal-an-Tow And Janey Mac I'm Nearly 40 Vamos Mujer (in Spanish) The Tale of the Whale Last Remaining Tree I Knew You Were the One A Bushel and a Peck A Dog's Life The Foggy, Foggy Dew Grandpa's Advice Oh, Mr. Porter The Old Dun Cow Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain The Hippopotamus Song Silence is a Delicate Thing The Jolly Waggoners Joshua On Board the Susianna Sir Patrick Spens John Ball Ceres and Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Fisher's Brae Tom Bowling Let the Mystery Be Sonya Snell (poem) Twas On One April Morning The Women of Dundee Canadee-i-o Mother Earth All the Good Times are Past and Gone The Phantom Flasher (to the tune of "The Keeper") Thyme it is a Precious Thing (aka Bunch of Thyme) Salvation Jane Andy's Gone with Cattle The Highwayman Right Field Albert at the Hallé (poem) Row Your Boat (from Bagpuss) The King, He had a Date (to the tune of God Save the King) The Herring's Head (aka Herring Song, aka Jolly Herring, aka The Red Herring, aka The Herring) Glorious, Glorious My Land is a Good Land Shenandoah You Can't Throw Anything Away ... If (poem) Crazy The Prodigal Son Buttercup Joe Starý Mcdonald mel Farmu (Old MacDonald had a Farm, in Czech) Mrs Willis Going to Damascus Scarborough Settler's Lament Rising Green Won't You Come and Sing for Me A Bench by the Sea The Joy of Living Rainbow Warriors My Old Man Beidh Aonach Amarach (in Irish Gaelic) Look to the Rainbow The Frog and the Crow Geronimo's Cadillac The Overlander (aka Queensland Drovers) The King of Rome The Shirt Song Here is My Home The Flatmate and the Frying Pan (story) Windmills |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Apr 21 - 02:53 PM I have posted the lyrics for “Fisher’s Brae” along with a map of where it is as a Lyr Add thread. The song I sang on Monday last. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM Songs, poems and cante fables from the 26/27 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Ashes on the Sea Ancient Festival of Leafblowers (poem) And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Follow Me 'Ome The Woodpecker Filhas que Sètz a Maridar (In Occitan) Old Cape Cod A Tavern in the Town In Shame Bachelor's Complaint J'ai Passé Devant ta Porte (in Cajun French) The Deserter My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose (poem) Give Us the Vax! Privacy In the Olden Days A Rainy Night in Soho Working Class Stranger The Sailor Girl Andy Lindon's Boathouse Brother Noah Jack in the Green Cosher Bailey The Walls Have Ears Middle-Aged People Faded Coat of Blue Beware, O Take Care Down in the River to Pray (In Scots Gaelic) Shenandoah The Female Drummer Early Snow The Last Trip Home One Starry Night L. A. Freeway A' Bhean Iadach (Scots Gaelic cante fable) (other versions of this song are called A' Bhean Iadach, Bean Mhic a' Mhaoir, Bean Mhic a' tSaoir, Bean Ga Bàthadh, A' Bhean Ud(aí) Thall) The Manchester Rambler The Foggy Dew (the one about the Easter uprising) Sew on a Sequin Bold Thady Quill The Old Rebel Flag in the Rear Gracias a la Vida (in English) Blues Run the Game The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington Palace Grand (aka Lady Mary) George and the Dragon (poem) A Sailor's Life Leatherwing Bat (aka The Birds' Courting Song) Mockingbird Hill Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Mouse's Song (cante fable, aka The Cat and the Mouse) The One-Legged Cowboy A Kiss for No Reason Geese (Husy, in Czech) Old Roger Rum (aka Hi Roger Rum [and other variations], aka The Rich Man and the Poor Man) The Land Beyond the Blue The Woman in Your Life Paramedic Rescue 101 Song of Peace (to the tune of Finlandia) Lay Down Beside Me The Family of Woman and Man Dark-Eyed Sailor Anderson's Coast Cockroach in a Folk Club Waltzing with Bears The Lincolnshire Poacher Me and Bobby McGee Some Enchanted Evening Rolling Home to Old New England |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 May 21 - 06:18 PM Songs and poems from the 3/4 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Texas Rangers Learning (poem, Les Barker) A Place Called England Country Roads Common Bill Voici le Mois de Mai (in French) Banks of the Bann First of May Blues Marions les Roses (in French) Wie Lieblich ist der Maien (in German) The Gas Man Cometh Sing Us Something We Know Bring Flowers of the Rarest River of Time Someone that You Used to Know Goin’ Home All Our Love The Doctor Sportsmen Arouse (aka The Innocent Hare) Love’s Mystery Just as the Tide was Flowing Precious Friend The Lightkeeper’s Daughter Hold the Fort Herring Our Joy Bring Me Back You Weaverville The Cuckoo Hills of Isle Au Haut Down by the Brazos (Alaska version) Lava Dobby’s Farewell Braes o’ Balquidder (also Balquhidder, Balquhither) The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia The Covid Front Line (poem) by Peter Branson A Pilgrim’s Way On Mother Kelly's Doorstep Yellow Yorlin The Higler Streets of Forbes You Are Not Alone The Green Dove and the Raven Union Maid Power and the Glory Levellers and Diggers (aka The Diggers' Song) Shenandoah I Wish You Were Here Vegematic Union Cat The Brave Volunteer (aka One Morning in May, aka The Nightingales Sing) Rambler Gambler Hal An Tow Merry May Folk When May Day Comes Nightingales Sing The Rosabella The Sinking of the St. Luke Country Life Singing Land Joe Hill's Last Will Men of the Fields Rambles of Spring The Shirt Song Dance Up the Sun River |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 May 21 - 06:08 AM Songs, stories, and poems from the 10/11 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Thanks to SPB for the other title for I Wish I was Single Again. Thanks to MoorleyMan for information on "Never Turning Back"/"Keep on Moving Forward" and on "The Roses of No Man's Land". I made up the names, "The Woman Who Couldn't Speak" and "The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard" for the stories Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Living On the River England (Den Miller) Welsh Mobile Technology (recitation) Beans, Beans Taste Fine Swim, Sam, Swim Dabob Bay I'd Rather be Lonely La Finforleta (in Occitàn) I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Anachie Gordon Never Turning Back (aka Keep on Moving Forward) Peace in the Valley (If it wasn't for) The 'ouses in Between Faded Coat of Blue Falling Behind Tom Woods I Wish I was Single Again (aka I Married a Wife) Tomorrow (the apology song) Cadi Ha (in Welsh) Staines Morris Buy my Fresh Herbs The Doffing Mistress Us Poor Fellows Ashes on the Sea Tha mo Ghaol air Àird (in Scots Gaelic) Banks of Claudy The Roses of No Man's Land Tráthnóna Beag Aréir (in Irish) Jimmy Randall My Son Davey Compared with the Alternative Mrs McGrath Fires of '98 John Ball The Woman Who Couldn't Speak (story) Crawdad Before they Close the Minstrel Show Cape Ann Perfumes of Arabia Lockdown (poem) Garden Song Anti-Garden Song (in part) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right To Morrow (recitation) When Jones's Ale was New Jenny Mothers, Daughters, Wives C'est le Mai (in French) Nine to Five Pollution Blues I Ain't Never Been Satisfied (version of Little Sally Walker?) Flow Gently Sweet Afton Bold Saint George Aloysius Betrayed by Love The Gallant Hussar James Connolly Noah's Ark Shanty (aka In Frisco Bay, aka A Long Time Ago) Bogie's Bonnie Belle Cry Me a River The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard (story) Travelling Down the Castlereagh Sammy's Bar (One for the) Morning Glory Columbus Stockade Blues Senorita Mia Ballad of Patch-Eye and Meg Velcro Ode to Joy (EU lyrics) All Through the Night |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 May 21 - 08:34 AM Songs and stories from the 17/18 May 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. I made up the name, "Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth" for one of the stories Jane Nicholls told, but I came in too late to hear her other story. Comments and corrections always welcome. When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes To Our Door With God On Our Side Ballade en Novembre (in French) Come Lasses and Lads Another Time and Place Ae Fond Kiss Baltic Street The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O The Violin My Texas Girl Time to Love Again Rags and Old Iron The Rooster Ten Thousand Miles from Home A Couple of Swells It Isn’t Nice On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at Buenos Dias Argentina People Like You Free in the Harbour Crossing the Water Rosemary’s Sister Coming Hame (aka Coming Home) (Story) April Come She Will Railroading on the Great Divide Lay Down Your Weary Tune When the Breakers Go Back on Full Time Five-Foot Flirt The Ways Of Man Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room Peace Call John Barleycorn Johnny Todd Broken Down Squatter I Once Loved a Lass (aka The False Bride, aka The Week Before Easter, ....) Young Edmund Thais Lay Down Beside Me Blank Space Give Me Just a Little More Time (Acme version) Muhlenberg County (aka Paradise) Sixteen Tons Good Old Colony Times Dear Old Shepherd's Bush I Ain't Marchin' Anymore The Merry Minuet New Cut Road Freight Train (version of Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey) Thirty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago) Lonesome Valley Hinei Ma Tov Dancing at Whitsun The Wooden Spoon Lament of the Computer Widow Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth (story) Jerusalem Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (in Irish Gaelic) Dinki Di D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (parody of D-I-V-O-R-C-E) I Live Not Where I Love Orphan Train Knock on the Door (with added lyrics) Oregon or Die I Love Not Where I Live Health to the Company (Covid-safe version) Pretty Flowers All Around Across the Great Divide |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 May 21 - 08:09 PM Songs and poem from the 24/25 May 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Leaving Home (Charlie Poole's version of Frankie and Johnny) The Men of the Hood Banana Republics Giroflé girofla (in French) Let Me Breathe Plegaria a un Labrador (in Spanish) McGowan's Banshee Darlin' Corey It Would Never Have Worked Kitty Bawn O'Brien The Salt Marsh Seven Spanish Angels Stripey and Blondie Dink's Song Silver Dagger The Prophet Black Hills Waltz My Organ Recital (aka Side Effects) The Star of Bannock For Months and Months and Months The Unquiet Grave Sister, Sail! Geordie medley: Come Up And See Your Granny / Cushie Butterfield / Wherivvor Ye Gan Ye're Sure te Find a Geordie (in dialect) / Blaydon Races Masters of War The Jeannie C. Old Shep Fhir a Bhata (the boatman; sung mostly in English with a Scots Gaelic chorus) The Big Hewer Sixteen Tons The Jamestown Homeward Bound Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Sammy's Bar That's Australia House of the Rising Sun Sweet Betsy From Pike Just Like a Woman Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Overheard on a salt marsh [poem] Raggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh The Heat Detector Down By the Riverside Jutland Lay Down Your Weary Time Medley of Towing Shanties On a Monday Morning Being a Pirate A Begging I Will Go Do You Love an Orange All Among the Garlic Three Score and Ten Claudy Banks The Helium Miner's Song Let It Be a Dance The Wee Magic Stane A Maid in Bedlam Brisbane Ladies (aka Augathella Station, takeoff on Spanish Ladies) We've Got to Sail Away A Begging I Will Go (update by Grit Laskin) Who Can Sail? Wild Goose Shanty (aka Ranzo) Diamonds and Rust Blow the Candles Out Goodnight Irene Four Strong Winds |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Jun 21 - 05:08 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the 31 May, 1 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer and Rusty Dobro for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. There's a Hole in My Bucket Arnold (poem) Little Golden Hair (monologue) The Girl With The Dreamy Eyes Guitarra en Duelo Mayor ("Guitar in Mourning Major," in Spanish) Too Many Lakes Freight Train My Favorite Picture of You Amore grande amore mio (in Italian) Sugar in the Hold No Man’s Land Summer in Dublin Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out Low Bridge, Everybody Down (aka "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal," "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal," "Erie Canal Song") South London Idler (parody of Manchester Rambler) Cold Mountain O Freedom A Terceira Lamina (in Portuguese) Do You Need Another Hand? Draft Dodger Rag Battle Hymn of the Republic Bruach Na Carraige Báine ("The Edge of the White Rocks," in Irish Gaelic) General Taylor The Man who had the Dumb Wife You’ve Been a Friend to Me Darcy Farrow The Wreck of the Dandenong Soldier’s Joy Annan Water I Once Loved A Lass The Fastest Mobile Library In the West Freedom on the Wallaby Dancing at Whitsun Dancing on the Edge of Time (poem) Beat the Retreat on Thy Drum (aka "Sam, Sam, Beat the Retreat") Summer Wine Bad Man's Blunder Sweet William's Ghost Call the Lamas What are You Fighting For? No Charge (poem, parody of Harlan Howard / Mabel Montgomery work of the same name) Grandad Goes Dancing at Mayday (to the tune of Dancing at Whitsun) Banks of the Roses More Work for the Undertaker Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon Invitation to a funeral Only Remembered (For What They've Not Done) The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna (poem) Dublin Blues I've Been Everywhere Young Moon's Lament (version of Yangtze River Shanty) Send Us a Postcard What Shall We Drink to Tonight? The Weirdest Dream (to the tune of Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream) Only Remembered Buddhist Monk 1960 (recitation) There's a Grave on the Hillside Normandy Orchards Poppies The Faith of Man |
Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!! From: YorkshireYankee Date: 07 Jun 21 - 08:36 PM Here's a little something I wrote to mark the occasion: Mudcat Time to the tune of Summertime Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and we're all so good lookin' So mute, little 'Catters, your number's assigned Now ev'ry Monday, we all rise up singin' From around the world, we laugh and we cry For some it's mornin', and for others it's evenin' Till Joe sends us off with some sweet lullabye Mudcat time, and the helpers are busy Thanks to Casey, Mrzzy, Dave and Arlene Gayle and Gerry, et aussi cher Monique And last but not least, Dawn and Noreen Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and with gas we are cookin' So sing, little 'Catters, time to shine! |
Subject: ADD: Help Me Make It through the Zoom (PattyClink) From: pattyClink Date: 08 Jun 21 - 11:16 AM With apologies to Mr. K, here are the extra verses sung at the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround celebration of 1 year of online gatherings. HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE ZOOM (Patty Clink) Now it's Monday on the Zoom, and I don't have my song chose, But you let me babble on, kindly cohost crew and Joe. Make my audio do right, though I have no earthly clue As I suck up all my time, help me make it through the Zoom. I don't care if I mumble, sing words you can't understand Let the devil take the title, Lord, I just love to make you guess They say folksong's dead and gone, and for us there is no room But we prove them wrong each week, help me make it through the Zoom, We're a very special group, help us make it through the Zoom. Noreen, Casey, Mrrzy, Dave; Arlene, Gerry, Monique, Gayle, Blessings on you and dear Joe, you help us make it through the Zoom. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jun 21 - 08:31 PM Songs/poems/recitations/tunes from the 7-8 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Lies The Verb to Be (poem) Yorkshire Pudden (monologue) La Mort de l’Ours (Death of the Bear, in French) John Condon The Music Makers (based on Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) Anniversary Song Darcy Farrow Can Vei la Lauzeta Mover (“When I See the Lark Beat His Wings” in Occitan) The Pride of Erin’s Isle Friends Like These The Power and the Glory The Calico Printer’s Clerk Join In Help Me Make It Through the Night (with added verses, "Help Me Make It Through the Zoom") Leytyat Utki (in Russian) Kinisalo (Macedonian) Let’s Do It (aka Ballad of Barry and Freda) Gens du Pays Siúil a Rúin (in Gaelic) Crackdown Addict Down the Dials (monologue) Lovers and Friends I Come for to Sing If Love Doesn’t Bother You, It Doesn’t Bother Me (tune) Happy Birthday to You Dink’s Song Two-Bit Cayuse Sheòl am Bàta (The Boat Sailed Over the Ocean, in Scots Gaelic) Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Sam the Skull (aka The Glasgow Cat) The World Turned Upside Down Rosemary's Sister On Again! On Again! Sixteen Tons Mockingbird Hill Big Rock Candy Mountain The Charladies' Ball Sir William Gower Abdullah Bulbul Emir The Leather Thimble (story) Lady River Sensing the Plan (poem) Heaven Stuff That Works Mudcat Time (to the tune of Summertime) Shelter at Home (poem) Sea Glass Beware of the Beautiful Stranger The Master of the Sheepfold Lament to the Moon A Noise Annoys an Oyster Yorkshire Song The Willow Tree Sea Change She Told Me to Meet Her at the Gate Boney was a Warrior Buckeye Jim The River, Where She Sleeps The Sunday Driver The Mountains of Mourne Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Kirk Soiree The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill Our Life is More than Our Work Play Friends (poem) What are You Fighting For? Don't Know the Words... (for My Favo(u)rite Things) Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (in Hebrew and English) The Oreo Song Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:53 AM Songs/poems/stories from the 14-15 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and to Monique for two corrections. I don't know whether there was a title to the entry I've given as "Traditional Portuguese story". Comments and corrections always welcome. Love Call Me Home Man on the Flying Trapeze Madeira, M’Dear ? The Wee Lass on the Brae Conseils à la mariée (Advice to the Bride, in French) Ode in Praise of the City of Mullingar The Maid of Australia Romance de la Pérdida de Alhama (in Spanish) An Buachaillín Donn (The Brown Boy, in Gaelic) The Reason I Left Mullingar The Grumpy Old Men of Old England Bridges Banks of Yarrow (aka Wullie’s Drowned in Yarrow) Le Chant des Partisans (in French) Wild Rover Crazy Come Write Me Down Seán Ó Duibhir a Ghleanna (Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen, in Gaelic) The Reluctant Mariner Aces, Straights and Flushes Joshua Swimming with the Fish I Give Myself to You A Thousand Songs Traditional Portuguese story The Ballad of St. Peter (aka Pray) Calypso Sentenced to Death Amazing Grace Schooldays Over Rocking at the End of Time Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Napoleon's Farewell to Paris The Golden Vanity My Dog Sam The Crow on the Cradle Pangolins (poem) Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie Glorious Ale James Connolly Proud Maisrie (to the tune of Scarborough Fair) Know When to Move Midsummer Hymn The Southern Girl's Reply Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I'll Wander) Unwed Fathers Bang went the Chance of a Lifetime Time to Love Again Consciousness (poem) The Green Man Banjo Pickin' Girl She's Someone's Grandmother Michael Row the Boat Ashore The Two Conneeleys (chorus in Irish Gaelic) My Old Man Some Little Mice Sat in a Barn to Spin The Hunting Song The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) I Fall to Pieces Four Strong Winds Jack Ashton North Country Tragedy Must I Go Bound It's a Pleasure to Know You The Terror Time |
Subject: RE: an Buachaillin Donn at Mudcat singaround From: Felipa Date: 23 Jun 21 - 03:06 PM I didn't attend on 14 June, but if "Buachaillin dhoun" was indeed sung in Irish, than the title should be spelled "An Buachaillín Donn" (the brown-haired lad) - "Dhoun" is an Anglicised spelling. The song also known as "Mo Bhuachaillín Donn", my brown-haired boy, which is sung mainly in English. This site mistakenly translates the title as "the fair-haired boy". Donn means brown; fair haired would be "bán" or "fionn". https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/mo-bhuachailliacuten-donn-lyrics-and-chords.html same song https://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/an_buachaillin_donn Mudcat has the same song posted as "BOUCHALEEN DHOUN" but that is not Irish spelling; it is a rough transliteration. I've now convinced myself that it was this song which was sung at the mudsing in question, a song in English with a few words in Irish Gaelic included. [I have edited the song list in accord with this post. Thanks! Gerry] |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:47 PM In my defence as a humble scribe, the title listed would have been taken directly from the chat entry... |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jun 21 - 08:22 PM I make no excuse for our imperfections. It's what makes us quaint.... |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Jun 21 - 07:33 AM Songs/poems/monologue from the 21-22 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. I'm not sure about the title, "The Forest and the Tree", given for the song by mg. Comments and corrections always welcome. Cool Water Carrying Nelson Home Hole in the Ark (monologue) Last of the Steam-Powered Trains Al the Vegetable Man Sea Fever (poem) La guignolée (The Rag Dance) I Brought My Father with Me Sammy’s Bar Casey Jones (variant of Jay Gould’s daughter) Rosebud in June Do You Have Wine? (Imate Li Vino, in Bulgarian) Country Life The Valley of Knockanure The Water is Wide (Australian version) When Father Papered the Parlour The Dance is Mine Summertime I Get a Kick out of You East Texas Red Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Blarney Roses Long Summer Day Too Old to Die Young I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal Spancil Hill Dh’ èirich mi Moch Madainn Chèitein (I Arose Early One May Morning) Great God A’Mighty (semi-sung poem) Lament to the Moon Által Mennék (I’d Like to Cross the Tisza by Boat, in Hungarian) No Place to Fall Oak and Ash and Thorn Before They Close the Minstrel Show The Forest and the Tree Vincent Bonnie Banks o' Fordie (aka Bonnie Banks o' Airdrie, aka Babylon, ....) Coil Away the Trawl Warp (aka The Smacksman) Home Remodeling Blues Touch Not the Cup (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) I'm Romeo (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) Birmingham Sunday Bachelor Ben (poem) Why I Refuse to Say Goodbye Leave Her, Johnny Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me Arky's Toast The 23rd of June (aka The Jug of Punch) Rising (poem) Sojourner Truth's Battle Hymn Until the Dark Time Ends Watching When I Have Seen The Liar (version of Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago) A-Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin update) The Express Office (aka He's Coming to us Dead, aka The Boys in Blue) Gypsy Laddie (aka Raggle-Taggle Gypsy, aka Black Jack Davey, aka Gypsy Davey, ....) The Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Cha Bhí Mí Buan (in Scots Gaelic) Shipyard Slips (aka The Island Men) Names Farewell Lazy Afternoon Hei Huomenta Suomi ("Hello, Good Morning Finland", Finnish language version of City of New Orleans) Heaven Kilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Four Wet Pigs Out of the Window (aka Our Wedding Day) Josie Henry the Accountant (to the tune of John Henry) Leader of the Band North Country Tragedy A Bench by the Sea Magnolia Wind Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 06:17 AM Songs/poems/tune from the 28-29 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. John Ball The Blood Donor (poem) Silver Dagger Aly’s Waltz (fiddle tune) One Volcano Day Oleanna Wheel Your Perambulator Red River Valley It Could Have Been Me Harp Without a Crown McCaffery The Seana Waltz Early in the Morning Daisy Bell/A Bicycle Built for Two Scarborough Fair Already Dead The Flower of Magherally Salty Dog Oh Napoleon! In the Heat of the Summer Trois Jeunes Marins Porteurs de Lettres (in French) Elizabeth Mantle of Green Exile The Laird o’ Drum The Bonny Bunch of Roses Waltzing with Bears The Far Side Banks of Jordan Long Ago and Far Away The Log Driver’s Waltz The Diphthong (poem) Strictly Working Class Two Maidens Went Milking One Day The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More Unreconstructed Rebel The Last Thing on My Mind Home From the Sea I Saw Three Ships Dos Land iz Dayn Land ("This Land is Your Land", in Yiddish) Boney (aka Boney was a Warrior) Doonaree Light Woody Knows Nothing The Green Linnet Six Nights Drunk (Brian Peters update, with added Canadian touches) Isle of Eigg The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo He Got Better Things for You 254 Shades of Gray Rocky Road to Dublin My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove The Rare Ould Times Long Promised Road Raglan Road The Ballad of Harry Lewis My Home Town Walkin' By Myself I Think of You Granny's Old Armchair So Here's to You (aka When First We Met) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 30 Jun 21 - 04:33 PM "Comments and corrections always welcome." I sang Out of the Window at the 21-22 June 2021 session. I did sing the version which is in the DT under the title Our Wedding Day. It is not the same song as, is not "aka", "She Moved through the Fair". The songs have some relation, much discussed in a thread on Mudcat*. But Pádraic Colum just used one verse of Out of the Window in "She Moved through the Fair". *https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=869#3572943 Joe Offer sang the song described as "Here's to You" at this week's song circle. According to the DT, the song by the late Alan Bell is entitled When First We Met. "Here's to you," makes me think of Tom Paxton's "Ramblin' Boy". Most recordings do refer to the song as "So Here's to You". I've also heard "When First We Met" aka "So Here's to You" called "The Parting Glass"; and that could so easily be confused by a popular song of the same name ("Of all the money that e'er I spent I've spent it in good company ..." I thought it worth clarifying just which parting song Joe sang. chorus: So here's to you, and our time together. I will share with you a parting glass, And bid adieu with some smile and laughter, Our time apart will be short, and pass. There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 07:30 PM "There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was." Felipa, I sang a few lines of the Phil Ochs song, Links on the Chain, but maybe that's not what you're thinking of. If anyone can remember a full song that came after the close, I'll be happy to edit it into the list. I have made the other corrections. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:02 AM Songs/poem/reading from the 5-6 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan and Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Joe and Monique for further information. "ttto" stands for "to the tune of." Comments and corrections always welcome. Only Remembered Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (poem) O Mary Don’t You Weep The Intoxicated Rat Triste es lo cèl (in Occitan) Winds of Morning Three Score and Ten Wildwood Flower The Erie Canal The Mower Songwriter, Songmaker, and Traveller Sons of Liberty Where Did They Go? Linin' Track The Rigs of Rye Trouble in Mind Mary Had a Little Lamb Clementine ‘Arry, ‘Arry, ‘Arry Coal Town Road Ladies of the Bay Dance for the Love I Will Stand Port of Call (parody of) Sidewalks of New York Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvy Go Tell Aunt Rhody Jimmy Joe Till I’m Too Old to Die Young Teen Angel (ttto Amazing Grace) Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird a' Chuain (My Love is on the High Seas, in Gaelic) Mesmerised by You This is My Father’s World The Two Sisters (aka Wind and Rain) Hang on the Bell, Nellie The Total Eclipse of Scotland (reading) Lord Rendal I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Aunt Sue This Land is Whose Land? (ttto This Land is Your Land) Summer's End Battle of the Somme Safe Romance Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech) Nasty Nell Gathering Storm Queen of Skye Both Sides the Tweed Epistle to Derroll Amazing Grace Jimmy Crack Corn (aka Blue-Tail Fly) Way Down the Road Tumbalalaika I Wish You Were Here Johnie Cock (aka Johnny O'Breadisley, Jock o'Braidislee, etc.) Come and Go with Me to that Land Since I Laid My Burden Down Young Lady (ttto Polly Von, aka Polly Vaugh(a)n, Molly Bawn, The Fowler, The Shooting of His Dear, etc., etc.) Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Bring Me Back You River of the Big Canoe(s) Philosophers Song The King's Shilling Starfish Song Power and the Glory Last Boat In Cold Missouri Waters Lay Down Beside Me Quantum Mechanics (ttto Little Old Log Cabin on the Hill) Holio (ttto Sweet Betsy from Pike) This is My Song (ttto Finlandia) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jul 21 - 02:51 AM Songs/poems/tunes/monologue/story from the 12-13 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Fishin’ Blues The Anchor Watch (poem with sung refrains) Seasons Turn Sonia Snell (monologue) Three-Volcano Day Whiskey In The Jar The Herring Girl Hesitation Blues Kyrkløt & Polska (tunes; Waiting For A Bus) Diamantina Drover Old Men Sing Love Songs The Haying Song Two Sisters I’m an Old Deck-Hand Orange Maid of Sligo What’ll I Do Chant de l’oignon The Spring of ‘65 Windy Old Weather Joshua Gone Barbados Raven in the Storm The Mountains of Mourne Cowboy Fireman Hippopotamus Song All the Good People Oh the Dreadful Wind and the Rain Billy O’Shea The Old Orange Flute Early Snow The Green Faerie Dog (Scottish story) Old Whitby Harbor Day is Done You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louie Whitby Fisherman The Marie Depreste (poem) Otter Hunting in Ribblesdale The Green Eye of the Yellow God (poem) Three Wishes If You've Only Got a Moustache The Bold Princess Royal Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels Sweet Thang The Diggins-Oh The Farmer's Boy Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Living Planet Essiquibo River (partly in Guyanese Creole) Breed-Specific Legislation Ballad Wild Goose Nation Lessons of Time Nevada Jane Call to Song That's the Way it's Gonna Be A Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin version) Mni Wikoni (partly in Lakota) Early |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jul 21 - 07:23 PM Songs/recitations/poems/tunes/monologues from the 19-20 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and Felipa for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Let Union Be Testimony of Patience Kershaw Sarah (recitation of a testimony) Happy Days are Here Again Deep River Blues Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight Windmills Pull Down, Lads Cross the Mississippi All the Good People O’Donovan’s Daughter Not Sixteen Til Sunday (parody of Seventeen Come Sunday) Cockleshells Bonny Eloise, the Belle of the Mohawk Vale Thrift Store on the Corner Toddling Home (monologue) Land of the Bottom Line Shenandoah Please Don’t Bury Me Harvest home, Boys of Blue Hill/Lads of North Tyne (tunes) Streams of Bunclody The Irish Rover Gypsy Laddie Caledonia Fair and Free Lambeg Drummer Away with Rum/Rum by Gum (with one chorus each of S-A-V-E-D and Salvation Army/Nickel on the Plate) Brighten the Corner Where You Are Bampton Fair Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Salvation Band Have You Got any News of the Iceberg? Housewife’s Lament The Final Trawl Jamie Douglas (aka Waly, Waly) Slow Train Through Georgia The Glass of Beer (poem) A Chat with Your Mother What Will I Leave Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Safe Romance The Minstrel Paddy Lay Back Home-Grown Tomatoes The Tea-Total Society Bring Us in Hot Tea Don't Slay that Potato The Humours of Whiskey (aka Stick to the Craythur, Paddy's Panacea) The One-Eyed Cook The Handweaver and the Factory Maid Amelia Earhart's Last Flight When I'm Gone Wayfaring Stranger I Ain't a Martian Any More (one stanza take-off on I Ain't a-Marching Any More) 'Tis a Gift to be Stupid (one-stanza take-off on Simple Gifts) China and a Woman's Heart I am the Wind Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto Irish Washerwoman) New Orleans Rag Song of the Lower Classes A Bench by the Sea Hard Times Come Again No More Look Down on Me Bonnie at Morn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 22 Jul 21 - 09:15 AM Bheir Me O should be spelled Bheir Mi O (mi not me) as Gerry listed two single-verse parodies, I think it may be worth mentioning that a chorus of S-A-V-E-D (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5573#32866) and a chorus of Salvation Army/Nickel on the Plate (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8395) were added to the song "Rum by Gum" |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jul 21 - 02:34 PM Dang! I missed some good songs. Thanks to Casey and Noreen for hosting while I was off seeing the sights of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Jul 21 - 08:12 PM Songs and poems from the 26-27 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. "The Most Important Rule of Life" is my guess at a title for the very short song Claire Sherman sang (it's also about half the lyric, the other half being, "Never leave your wallet on the roof of your car."). Comments and corrections always welcome. Music to Me Cosmo Revisited (poem) Morley Main The Moon is a Silver Dollar Flash Companie You Don’t Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry) The Poor Lonely Widow The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Grandfather was a Fiddler Humoresque Summerfly The Prophet King Henry Buckeye Jim On Board the Susianna Wreck of Number Nine (aka On a Cold Winter’s Night) Song for the Mira Hey Rain Plains of Waterloo Fear a Bhàta (The Boatman, Scots Gaelic) In the Heat of the Summer Worried Man Blues Turbines (poem) All the Salt Misery Farm Two Brethren Kathy’s Song Autumn to May Being a Pirate Steam Powered Aeroplane When I’m Drunk Paddy on the Railway Glorious Ale A Nice Quiet Day Will Ye Go to Flanders? Ballad of Springhill Librar-i-o The Most Important Rule of Life Close the Coalhouse Door A Mhic Mo Chroí ("Son of My Heart", in Irish Gaelic, a version of "Mrs. McGrath") Thirty-Foot Trailer Rolling Down the Ryburn Anderson's Coast Five Foot Flirt The Drowned Sailor On a Monday Morning Red-Winged Blackbird (Billy Edd Wheeler) I Believe, I Do Archimedes (The Lever) (takeoff on Leave Her, Johnny) Witch Hazel Fields of Athenry Orphan Child River Lay Down Beside Me Handful of Songs |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Aug 21 - 01:28 AM Songs/poems/tunes/monologues from the 2-3 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Dawn Berg sang a song with some overlap with "Died for Love" / "The Butcher Boy" but we don't have an accurate name for it. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Hayseed On a Sunday Guide Cats for the Blind (poem) Collapse of a Family Firm (monologue) Golden Slumbers Heigh-ho Don’t Think Twice, it’s Alright Shanandoah Paura Cigala ("Poor Cicada", in Occitan) Georgie Too Much of a Good Thing Seaview Bells Where the Morning Glories Grow Old Dolores Oakham Poachers The Dance Somebody Would Shout Out “Shop” Erin the Green Banks of Sweet Mossing Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother Candles Son Come Tell to Me The Frozen Jogger There Was an Old Piper You’re Still Gonna Die Damn Yankee Lad Bringing in the Sheaves Mathematics Rainbow Warriors The Emigrant (aka My Lovely Mountain Home, aka Carndaisy) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Wings of Song Well Well Well Never Gonna Cease My Wandering Cobweb of Dreams My Rival A Sailor's Farewell to His Horse The Bare Necessities Earl Grey (tune) Hawaiian Lullaby Jamie's Song Departure (poem) New Harmony Bitter Withy Froggy Went a-Courtin' Lincoln Park Pirates Vegematic Dear Old Shepherd's Bush Died for Love (?) (The Butcher Boy?) The False Knight upon the Road Rachel I Come and Stand at Every Door All Among the Garlic Till the Dance is Mine Tenting Tonight (aka Tenting on the Old Camp Ground) Smiling Aghado The Great Historical Bum I Used to Work in Chicago Eight More Miles to Louisville Windmills The S. S. Shieldhall Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Aug 21 - 08:43 AM Songs/poems/tunes/readings from the 9-10 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Jenny’s Gone Away The Vampire Cholera Camp Until it’s Time for You to Go Why We Wear Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer Lloraba la niña ("The girl was weeping", in Spanish) The Backblocks Shearer (aka Widgegoara Joe) I Come and Stand at Every Door Let Union Be Crabfish (aka Johnny Daddlum) Where the Wild, Wild Flowers Grow Searching for Lambs Green Grows the Laurel To Father Sheehy’s Head Town of Ole Dolores An Maidrín Rua (The Little Red Fox) The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls Sam Hall Eensy Weensy Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) Enola Gay Mary had a Little Lamb (Fenian boys parody) Fair Flower of Northumberland Joe Peel The Ring of the Nibelungs (abridged) The Mule Song One-Legged Horse (poem) Farewell to the House Four Strong Winds The Fair Haired Boy, Child Grove, Balqiddhr Lasses (whistle tunes) Sweet Inniscarra (aka The Exile’s Return) Ceres, Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Shanty Man's Life Enola Gay – The Day After (reading) Ramblin' Boy Oh Maritana August 6th and 9th, 1945 (poem) First Time/Last Time Forked Tongue Story Their Brains were Small and They Died A Ballad of Recursion (ttto Wee Willie Lost His Marley, aka Wor Geordie's Lost 'is Penka) Broken Token The Rare Ould Times Old Bangum The Sands o' the Shore Brigg Fair Black Panther The Fox Buddhist World Peace March 1982 (recitation) Walking Yankele (one verse in Yiddish, the rest in English translation) A Mhic Mo Chroí (Irish Gaelic version of Mrs. McGrath) The Great Storm is Over Interesting Times |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Aug 21 - 09:53 PM Songs/poems/readings from the 16-17 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Love at the Five and Dime Train to Glasgow (Poem) Rip Van Winkle Wind River Waltz William Taylor Armstrong (in French) Bold Riley Trouble in the Fields The Deserter When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire Ballyhoe Song of Deal Prairie Lullaby So Long Ago (aka So Long Mississippi) The Sun’s Coming Over the Hill Deep River Blues Four Strong Winds Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright I Ain’t Nobody in Perticuler The Argument of His Book I’ll Tell Me Ma Safe Romance Bridges I’m a Rover, Seldom Sober He Moved Through the Fair Home Grown Tomatoes Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Across the Great Divide Stand-up Chameleon (poem) Farewell to the Haven Augustus & Catherine Lowlands Away A Bottle o’ the Best Good Morning Starshine George Collins Wave the Ocean Lyke Wake Dirge Maidin I mBéara ("Morning in Beara", in Irish Gaelic; tune, Londonderry Air) It's All About My Cat (poem, takeoff on "All Around My Hat") Sully's Pail Yesterday's Waltz Evil-Hearted Man San Antonio Rose Sailor Fireman (aka Fire Down Below) Boots of Spanish Leather Melting Pot (recitation) Ghost in the Music Their Brains Were Small and They Died From a Distance The Old Turf Fire Row On Matterhorn The Ballad of Soulful Sam It's Only a Wee Wee Liverpool Lullaby The Poacher (poem) Nine Times a Night Palace of the Czar (aka Shootin' with Rasputin, An Intimate Friend of the Czar, The Czar Song) What a Home Is (poem) The Convict Tolpuddle Man Velcro How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Aug 21 - 05:56 AM Songs/recitations/monologues/poems from the 23-24 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Travellin’ Man Sweet Thames Flow Softly The River’s Tale (recitation) Living on the River A Bush Christening (monologue) Seven Deadly Sins O’Reilly From the County Cavan/Leitrim Bread and Gravy My Goodness, my Guinness Katie Did Hatton Woods May I Suggest Waist Deep in the Big Muddy A Song for Christy Ring The Water is Wide She was One of the Early Birds Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Pennsylvania Miss Otis Regrets Local Flowers Norland Wind Blank Space Broken Glass Rare Old Times I Love Little Baby Ducks The Four Angels Wild Side of Life (Covid version) Hard Times Come Again No More I Can’t Find my Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Rambling Irishman Winston’s New Shoes (monologue) Gluttony (to a Rossini tune) My Bonny Cuckoo Velcro A Chat With Your Mother Della and the Dealer Hang Me, Oh, Hang Me Old Wood is Best Sé fáth mo bhuartha (in Irish Gaelic) London Danny They All Walk the Wibbly Wobbly Walk An páistin fionn (English and Irish Gaelic) Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian I Like Beer The Vassar Hygiene Song Wildflowers The Sound of Sirens (parody of Sounds of Silence) Heat Detector Blodeuwedd Four Strong Winds I Still Miss Someone Log Driver's Waltz Saguaro Nobody Hugs a Hedgehog Too Darn Hot Love at the Five and Dime Interesting Times The Run of the Mill ACME Parody of Galway Bay Here's to You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Sep 21 - 12:55 AM Songs/recitations/stories/poems/tunes from the 30-31 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. "Nine Gifts" is my name for a story Robert told about a Welsh couple who wanted a son. Comments and corrections always welcome. Little Ant I’m in Love with the Nearest Mirror Song for the Mira Lock-Keeper It’s in the Last Place You Look (poem) Matt Hyland Dog in the Microwave (aka The Wife of Lincolnshire) Ambletown (aka Home, Dearie, Home) My Darling Clementine (ttto "Bread of Heaven") Refugee The Mountain Whippoorwill (recitation) Song of the Dog Days I’m an Old Deckhand (takeoff on I'm an Old Cowhand?) Cuchulainn’s Son The Sea Maid and a reel (tunes) If Wishes were Fishes Old Skibbereen I Couldn’t Exert Myself (recitation) Maid on the Shore Down by the Glenside (aka The Bold Fenian Men) Take This Hammer He’s a Cowboy Jesus Gave Me Water Ti-Jean and the Devil (recitation) See No Evil I Want to Die Easy Lava So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh Lifeboat Prayer Brindisi (in English, ttto Libiamo né lieti calici, from Verdi's La Traviata) Refugee Blues (poem) Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby Prickle Holly Bush House of the Rising Sun Grief (poem) Triceratops (poem) Mama Bake a Pie, Daddy Kill a Chicken Leisure for Cats (poem) Old Whitby Harbour Hesitation Blues Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown Banana Boat Song Watching the Trains Come In Cadgwith Anthem / Robbers' Retreat Johnny Be Fair False Lover Won Back (aka Bonnie Love) And the Band Played "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" The Whole World is a Very Narrow Bridge (Gesher Tzar Me'od, aka Kol Haolam Kulo, in English and Hebrew) Nine Gifts (story) Like the Way I Do Soolaimon The Red Corvette Paramedic Rescue 101 Sunshine and Roadsides (poem) Hurricane Blues Newborough Beach (poem) Garden Song and Anti-Garden Song When Britain Really Ruled the Waves The Good in Living |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 21 - 09:47 PM Songs/poems/monologues/stories from the 6-7 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. I didn't get a name for Jane's story/stories. Comments and corrections always welcome. Galveston Flood Last But One of the Mohicans (poem) Crossing the Bar Why Was I Always the Baddie? Uppards! (monologue) When I Go Milk ’em in the Morning Blues The Spotted Cow Home, Boys, Home A-Begging I Will Go Housewife’s Lament Which Side are You On? Montredon (in Occitan) The Vassar Hygiene Song Sin The Rose of the San Joaquin Why am I Always the Bridesmaid? The Literary Dustman Why We Wear (version of Wild Side of Life) O Kaimos (in Greek) There Was an Old Miller I’d Be a Reformer Tolpuddle Man The Duct Tape Madrigal Life Passes By White Squall The Losing of the Farm The Bells of Rhymney (stories) All the Weary Mothers of the Earth English Ale William Brown All Among the Barley Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (ttto Zorba's Dance) Accident at Bradford Colliery 1956 Brother Can You Spare a Dime James Connolly The Gasman Cometh Lay Down Beside Me Zen Gospel Singing Johnny's Practicing Zen (ttto What Can the Matter Be?) An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) John Golden and the Lawrence Strike (ttto A Little Walk with Jesus) Junk Food Junkie Here's to You Rounders Cloakmakers' Union Time has Made a Change in Me Kelly the Pirate Chicken Cordon Blues Now Westlin Winds Weary Winter Country Life Cold Mountain Tiny Fish for Japan Stitch in Time Ali: Díleachtín Gun Bhrí (in Irish Gaelic) Mayn Ru'e Platz (in English and Yiddish) Wasn't That a Mighty Storm (sometimes called "Galveston Flood") Storm Presence Hurricane Blues How Can I Keep From Eating Let the Mystery Be Joe Hill Step By Step Poverty Knock The Jute Mill Song Farewell to the House Padstow Farewell John of Dreams |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: leeneia Date: 08 Sep 21 - 10:03 AM It looks like that was good attendance, even though it was Labor Day. I'm glad the singaround is going well. I had three gatherings that day and couldn't be there. I'll be back. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Sep 21 - 01:48 AM Songs and poems from the 13-14 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Banks of Marble Peppers and Tomatoes A Love Song (poem) I Do Have My Little Bit of Pride Bold Riley King James and the Tinker Bird in the Bush/Three Maidens A-Milking/Drink Down the Moon/Three Pretty Maidens Gentleman Soldier Reconciliation Are You Lonesome Tonight + parody version All Shall Be Well Will Ye Gang Love Cycles One More Day Only Then Will Your House be Blessed My Love Comes Rolling Down Nutting Girl Wandering Star Quand les hommes vivront d’amour (in French) When I was a Lad I’m Movin’ On No. 2 Off to California My Boy Willie Follow the Heron The Kirk Soirée Limehouse Reach Sweet William’s Ghost A Seaman’s Wife Night Visiting Song Ragtime Cowboy Joe What Else Can I Do? Grey October Clouds Heights of Alma (aka Battle of Alma) When You and I were Young, Maggie I've Been Hiding My Light Under a Bushel (poem) Postcards of Scarborough The Hot Breath of a Salesman Bushes and Briars Yarmouth Town Norfolk and Good Annan Water New York Mining Disaster 1941 It's Nobody's Fault But Mine Solidarity Forever MacPherson's Rant (aka MacPherson's Lament, MacPherson's Farewell) That's Amore Crazy There is a Tavern in the Town Hruška (Peartree, in Czech) The Music of Strings There Are No Words East Texas Red Valparaiso in a Rowboat How Can I Keep From Eating? Take Your Time Parkette Alma Blank Space Sheffield Sings This is My Song (ttto Finlandia) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Sep 21 - 03:36 AM Songs and poems from the 20-21 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Eight Shillings A Week (We Are) Forced to be Contented A Pilgrim’s Way (poem) What is ’t to Us Don’t Dilly Dally on the Way Anger Moving Day On Peace Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright Farewell Johnny Miner At Ballyvaney Fair (poem) Lupin and the Poppies Your Long Journey Empty Pockets Blues (aka Barrels of Money Blues) All God’s Critters The Idle Welder Oops Jamboree Paper of Pins Old Zip Coon Price Tag Far Side Banks of Jordan Field Behind the Plow Cockleshells (version of Waly-Waly /Rue & Thyme) Lark in the Clear Air M.T.A. 3 Jolly Coachmen (aka Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl) Music in My Mother’s House Wooden Spoon Man of the Earth Mid-term Break (poem) Farewell to Grog (aka Come, Messmates, Pass the Bottle 'Round) Grumpy Old Men of Old England I Guess We’ll Go to Filey After All Pirate Jenny Going to the West Nell Flaherty's Drake So Will We Yet End of the Line Shanty Boys The Old Bog Road I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry I Wish You Were Here Paní Mámo Hosti Jedú (in Czech) A Chat with Your Mother People Say Strange Things Irish Wedding Song I'm so Glad I Got My 'Ligion in Time (aka Ain't Gonna Die, aka I'm So Glad) Poem LXV Unicorns Winds of Morning Rubber Blubber Whale River Come All You Bold United Men The Old Hearth Wall Gray Flannel Line (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Bless This House Pirate Jenny's Granddaughter Don't Know the Words (for My Favourite Things) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Sep 21 - 07:42 AM Songs, poems, monologue from the 27-28 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. I'm not sure about the one I've called The Legendary Gendarmes. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Gayle for a clarification. Comments and corrections always welcome. Let Union Be Come and be Welcome The Verb To Be (poem) Will it Fill the Till? Epitaph to the Unknown Miner (monologue) Lady of Autumn Rory O’More Ned of the Hill I’m Drunk, I’m Drunk Railway Race to the North Come Write Me Down Chat with Your Mother My Donald Lo Bailèra (in Occitan) Farewell to the Old House The Coffee Shop in Pimlico Many a Mile I Have Gone Degree of Freedom Blues Success to the Farmer The Ball Playing Song When You Get to Heaven Oregon Take a Walk Working Man Moth Dark-Eyed Molly Horse Thief Gold Watch and Chain The Family of Woman and Man Oh What a Merry Land is England! I Had an Old Coat Suzanne Grannie (poem) Rafael & Abdullah Mrs Jones' Operation Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Whiskey-O (aka Whiskey Johnny) McDonalds Kitchen (ttto Streets of London) The High Walls of Derry (aka Johnny, Lovely Johnny) The Legendary Gendarmes (?) Zen Gospel Singing The Streets of Derry (aka Derry Gaol) Abstract Horny Blues Neocortex Tear Down the Walls (not the Fred Neil song) Day We Went to Rothesay The Man in Green Daily Growin' Slow Train Through Georgia Barrett's Privateers Oedipus Rex (Mark Graham, not Tom Lehrer) Twisted My Painting Box Ulysses Keep Hauling Vaccination (ttto Fascination) Doc's Guitar Are You Going to Salisbury Town? (ttto Scarborough Fair) Side By Side Cree Prophecy Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 29 Sep 21 - 08:18 AM Clarification for the above list: Working Man was the Rita MacNeil song, not Terry Conway or either of the others with the same title... |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Oct 21 - 04:54 AM Songs, poems, monologue and recitation from the 4-5 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. I didn't get a name for Storm's French poem, and I'm not sure whether Marian and Jerry did a song near the end. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Red River Valley Administerium (poem) Beulah Land You’re a Stick in the Mud, Mate Three-Volcano Day And Something Else Lo Grand Bailèra (The shepherdess, sung in Occitan) Roll the Old Zimmerframe Along The Cliffs of Baccalieu October Roses Shrimp Boat Lulabelle Hallowe’en (Violet Jacob) Nenagh Fair Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss I Still Miss Someone October Song Spanish is the Loving Tongue Small Stage in the Corner Wild Bird in a Purple Plum The Night I Appeared as Macbeth (monologue) Galway Shawl Come, Little Leaves See No Evil The New Periodic Table Awake Ye Drowsy Sleepers (version of Silver Dagger, known by many other names) Little Sadie To a Thesaurus (poem) You are Old, Father William (poem) Coal Tattoo Albert and the Privy (poem) The Fifth Day of October My Lagan Love Byker Hill Peace Train City of New Orleans War Horse Town (poem) My Lady of Autumn You Can't Take It With You When You Go These are My Mountains Lincoln Park Pirates Badman Ballad (aka Badman's Blunder) Elsie Marley Passengers Will Please Refrain (aka Humoresque) The Witch of the West (ttto The Witch of the Westmoreland) Two Lovely Black Eyes One I Love Commandment (poem) The Four Seasons I Wanna Be a Bonobo This is Halloween Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back James James Morrison Morrison Barbara Allen Middle English and Welsh Pie (recitation) In China or a Woman's Heart Autumn Leaves Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves, in French) (poem in French) How Will I Ever Be Simple Again? (song from Marian & Jerry?) Love Call Me Home October Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 21 - 03:56 AM Songs, poems, monologue and story from the 18-19 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround [note – there was no 11-12 October singaround due to competing folk event attended by many of the regulars], probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Mary Ellen Carter Width (poem) I Fear IKEA (ttto The Wild Rover) The Seven Deadly Sins Grey October Champion at Drivin’ ’em Crazy (takeoff on Champion at Keepin' 'em Rollin', ttto The Limerick Rake) The Preacher’s Whisky Glass The Circle Game Ploughman Lads Pat Murphy’s Meadow Frog Went a Courtin’ The Village Pimp Lady of Autumn Caminito de Avilés (in Spanish) I Give Myself Very Good Advice The Devil’s Courtship (Alan Reid version) Leaves that are Green Say No to the Devil Sir Patrick Spens Life Gets Teejus, Don't It? (monologue) Valparaiso in a Rowboat Bratach Bana (in Scots Gaelic) The Deserter (sometimes called Ratcliff Highway, but there's also a very different song by that name) The Factory Lad Johnny Be Fair Now Westlin' Winds The Griesly Bride Dear Mum (poem) Bringing in the Sheaves The Battle of Trafalgar The Best of Autumn Mingulay Boat Song Drinks at the Cuba Sussex Drinking Song On One April Morning Bottle Against the Wall If I Were Free Bobby Shafto(e) A Bad Lad and a Cad (poem) Come Walk with Me Red-Haired Girl (An Cailin Rua in English) Vaccination (ttto Fascination) Marigolds Ivor the Driver An Cailin Rua (Irish Gaelic) Turning Toward the Morning The Song Goes On Carrying Nelson Home No News, or, How the Dog Died (story) Chopsticks Darcy Farrow Dance to Your Daddy What Then? (poem) Bright Sweaters in Fall Being a Pirate Johnny Todd In the Hills of Shiloh Fast Freight Take Your Time Nevada Jane In Worcester City George Collins Love Comes to the Simple Heart Hold On Jubilee |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Oct 21 - 06:43 PM Songs, poems, and stories from the 25-26 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Reuben James Suicide Town Dracula Song Madeira M'Dear Ghost Story Hang on to a Dream Bay of Biscay Wings of a Gull Heat Detector Al the Vegetable Man He Moved Through the Fair The Three Ravens Hey John Barleycorn Hallows’ Eve The Mary Ellen Carter Have You Seen the Ghost of John? Lyke Wake Dirge Lowlands Away To Die No More Twa Corbies (to tune of above) Loves the Rising Sun Jack and the Devil (story, aka Stingy Jack, Jack o' Lantern, etc.) Reedy Lagoon Down Home Blues The Blackbird’s Lament (Parody of If I Were a Blackbird) Ivor the Driver You're Always Welcome at Our House Cailleach Beara (ttto The Rose) Hey Nelly Nelly Dev'lish Mary The Wellerman (aka Soon May The Wellerman Come) Rua Dos Bobos (The House of Fools, in Portuguese) The Castle of Dromore (English, and Irish Gaelic) The Rose It Makes No Difference Now The Ghost's High Noon Old Dog Tray Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) The Headectomy Song Brahn Boots (poem) Broken-Hearted Lover's Stew (poem) Golden Slumbers Salisbury Plain (aka Flash Girls) October Roses Molly Malone Who's That Knockin' (updated version) Death and the Doctor Re: Your Brains Burning Gold Last Kiss Dark as a Dungeon Crow on the Cradle Zombie Jamboree Breaths The Hip Song La Llorona (story, in English) Bringing Mary Home Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Any More Sixteen Tons The Deathly Hallows (story) Bound for Transylvania (ttto Bound for South Australia) Early Snow Lay Down Beside Me How Woman Got Even With Man The Devil and the Farmer's Wife Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Nov 21 - 04:44 AM Songs, poems, recitations and stories from the 1-2 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Wreck of the Old 97 Three Ravens Chronology (poem) Monster Mole Song A Cappella Fella Little Orphan Annie The Saucepan Cupboard (recitation) Tam Lin (Anais Mitchell version) Church on Sunday Davy Cross Dona Dona Ballad of William Bloat The Vampire Hallowe’en The Lincolnshire Vampire Lady Margaret Tam Lin (Betsy Johnston version) Ceres and Pluto and Eris...oh my! Spoon River Homemade Haircut Wallaby Stew The Witch of the West-Mer-Land Clark Colven Wilhelmsleod (A Dying Viking Addresses His Son) Whiskey in the Jar (aka Gilgarra Mountain, Kilgary Mountain) Buffalo Boy The Height of the Ridiculous (poem) Ghosts in Deptford (poem by Cicely Fox Smith, with anonymous sequel from https://www.olddeptfordhistory.com/2014/02/ghosts-in-deptford-cicely-fox-smith.html) The Comfort of Singing Voices (aka Until the Dark Time Ends) Urge for Going The Blacksmith Sundown Logs to Burn Welcome Cold November I'll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig Warning (poem) Dust if You Must (poem) A Boring Day In Memory of My Mother (poem) When the Old Man Came Home Sober Gentle Soldier of My Soul Their Brains were Small and They Died Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Stolen Child Footprints on the Moon Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair The Nutting Girl Remember that a Poor Tramp has to Live (aka The "Crickets" Tramp Song) He's Coming to us Dead (aka The Express Office) Vampire Rag Mockingbird (aka Hush Little Baby) (filk version) Death Letter Blues (preceded by one stanza of Coffin Blues) November (poem, aka "No!") Tia Miseria (Aunt Misery, story in English) Old Time Religion (filk version) If Wishes were Fishes Rock-a-bye Baby King Henry Katy Cruel Tom Pearce (aka Tam Pierce, Widdicombe Fair) Take Your Time Sing with Me A Bench by the Sea The Sinking of the Reuben James Crazy Kathleen Mavourneen Whiskey on a Sunday (aka The Ballad of Seth Davy, aka Come Day, Go Day) Morningtown Ride |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 04 Nov 21 - 09:25 AM was Dona Dona sung in English this week or in Yiddish - or bilingually - or some other language? |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 04 Nov 21 - 02:15 PM English, as i recall. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Nov 21 - 01:42 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the 8-9 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Erie Canal Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald In Flanders Fields (poem) The Florin and the Farthing (poem) Let Me Breathe Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha ("If this Street were Mine", in Portuguese) I'm a Woman John Condon Dancing at Whitsun (Parody of) The Last Thing On My Mind Ballad of Penny Evans Taps Shenandoah Be Kind to Your Parents Shule Aroon When this Bloody War is Over The Recruited Collier Beer, Beer, Beer (aka Charlie Mopps) Bless 'em All Blowin' in the Wind Lone Star Blues Lives in the Balance Piper's Refrain Agnes at Halloween Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire Turning Toward the Morning Till We Meet Again Fire and Flame (aka When Halifax Burned) Christmas in the Trenches Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? Now I'm Easy Lost Gardeners of Heligan Back of the Bus No More Sacrifice Zones Stow Brow (aka The Drowned Lover, The Drowned Sailor, In Scarboro' Town, In Scarborough Fair Town, Stowborough Town, Washed Ashore, ....) When I'm Gone Battleship of Maine Tommy's Lot A Pacifist in Wartime (poem) Trenchant Soldiers My Mate (poem) Over the Lancashire Hills Marigolds Love Dance Between Activists (poem) Man Who Used to Be Wildwood Flower (aka I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets) Two Brothers Fiddler's Green Sinking of the Reuben James Farewell I'll Fly Away Lay Down Beside Me Sir Gav Gets Hitched The U-2 Song (takeoff on Sinking of the Reuben James) The Ball-Playing Song Frankie's Trade Watching Will Ye Go to Flanders So Long, Mom Nobody's Moggy Lands We are from Omsk Die Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers, in German and English) Crow on the Cradle Wounded in Action (recitation) Until Justice is Real Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky Early Snow (New last verse for) Will Ye Go to Flanders Ode ("We are the music-makers....") Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Nov 21 - 10:03 PM Songs and poems from the 15-16 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Hobo’s Lullaby White Poppy Mother Earth’s Green Moss Code (poem) Doodlebug Baby I Ain’t Marching Any More Faraway Places Handsome Johnny Cry Me a River The Comfort of Singing Voices (aka Until the Dark Time Ends) What Is't to Us Cantares ("Songs", in Spanish) The Handsome Cabin Boy Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate Drinks at the Cuba The Boomerang Café The Fields of Athenry Universal Soldier You Are the Reason The Strange Man (aka The Surprising Old Man) Christians at War (takeoff on Onward Christian Soldiers) Mr Fox I Know it Won't Safe Romance The Bad Girl (in the DT as One Morning in May, aka The Bad Girl's Lament, When I was a Young Girl) Beans, Bacon and Gravy Talk to Me of Mendocino Normandy Orchards Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Some Little Bug Roses of No Man's Land Danny Boy This Pretty Planet The Quiet Faith of Man The Man I Killed Hunting the Cutty Wren (poem) Bungay Roger Hunting the Wren (Golden Hind version) Oregon Country Drover's Dream Down by the Salley Gardens The Trooper and the Maid (or Sixteen Come Next Sunday, or something) Yankee Bayonet We're All Cleaning Windows Old Tyler Sally Free and Easy Find Every Ballot (ttto Climb Every Mountain) One Thousand Men are Walking Blank Space Fall River Hoedown (aka Lizzie Borden) Will Ye Go to Flanders? No Man's Land (aka Green Fields of France, Willie McBride) Lullaby from Brave (in Scots Gaelic) Rowing Song (in Scots Gaelic, English, and Old Icelandic) But Not for Me River of Love When the Roses Bloom Again The Rose of York Quantum Mechanics (ttto Little Log Cabin on the Hill) Thanksgiving Song If I Were Free When All Thy Names are One |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Nov 21 - 06:13 AM Songs, poems and monologue from the 22-23 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Funiculi Funicula The Way Through the Woods (poem) Normandy Orchards The Road Not Taken (poem) Father’s Toys Down the Drain (monologue) A Stor Mo Chroi The Castle of Dromore Pretty Polly Stuff that Works Bored of the Dance (ttto Lord of the Dance, Simple Gifts) L'orage ("The Storm", in French) The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O Bushes and Briars Green Sally Gullah children's rhymes Bye and Bye Jambalaya Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) John Blunt (aka Get Up and Bar the Door, The Barring of the Door) Duna I've Got the Crud (ttto All For Me Grog) The Queen and the Soldier Winter Turns to Spring Indian's Farewell (aka When Shall We All Meet Again) The Tryphena's Extra Hand The Town of Castle d'Oliver Housewife's Lament Away Ye Merry Lasses Coachman's Whip (aka The Coachman) Reuben's Train (aka 900 Miles) English Ale Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys The Jeannie C Walking on the Waves Buckeye Jim Ain't No Place Like Home Here in California Thanksgiving Eve Master of the Sheepfold Raglan Road The Phoenix (poem) My Turkey Song A Brief Pageant of English Verse (poem) John (aka The Loo Song) Rag Dance Song What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier Brian O'Lynn Cúnla Love is Teasing Alexander Technique Rag (ttto Alexander's Ragtime Band) Uncle Dave's Grace Ca' the Yowes Marry Me, Penelope The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on his Pasta The Bronx Bird Watcher Red is the Rose Glorious Ale Song of the Soul Wild Goose It's My Party (and I'll Lie if I Want To) (ttto It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To) Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich) Swimming to the Other Side |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Dec 21 - 04:09 AM Songs, poems and instrumental from the 29-30 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) Prospect Providence My Phone is Out of Order (poem) Ranky Tanky When Icicles Hang by the Wall Tracks in the Snow I Will Be the One La bèla de Mai (in Occitan) Your Mother is a Sociopath Jimmy Randal (version of Lord Randal) The Rosewood Casket Mexico Lindo y Querido Hunting the Hare The Darby Ram Follow the Heron Home The Bullhead Boat (aka Boating on a Bullhead) The Man in the Bed Land o' the Leal Windy Old Weather (aka Fish of the Sea) Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian Footprints on the Moon Hey There Farewell to Nova Scotia Christmas in LA Both Sides the Tweed Macpherson's Farewell (aka Macpherson's Rant, Macpherson's Lament) A Conversation with Baby (poem) Fathom the Bowl Light One Candle Christmas Caroling Ready for the Storm The Reach River Lover's Ghost (Child 248, The Grey Cock, Saw You My Father) The Boy Who Was Raised by Lemmings (poem) Lonely Little Lemming (poem) Darby Ram (nautical version) The Truth About Loch Ness The Scotsman The Apology (ttto Fathom the Bowl) Tit-Willow Ye Jacobites by Name Propane (ttto Cocaine) Row On Hal-an-Tow Blizzard of Lies When Father Papered the Parlor When Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom) Which Side Are You On? The Black Cook (aka The Black Devil, Three Jolly Black Tars, The Doctor Outwitted) Rock of Ages (Chanukah version) Ma'oz Tsur (Rock of Ages, in Hebrew) I am Cherry Alive (Throw It Out) The Window Sally Free and Easy Good King Wenceslas (in Latin) The Lochmaben Harper (aka The Blind Harper) Dimming of the Day Swimming to the Other Side Somewhere (There's a Place for Us) Dark Island Scotland the Brave (instrumental) Hands on the Wheel Hanukah in Santa Monica Hot Air Company Send in the Clowns Thanksgiving Song Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Dec 21 - 10:57 PM Songs, poems, recitation and tunes from the 6-7 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Music to Me November Drinking Song Merry Christmas, You Suckers (poem) Christmas Song (poem) A Letter to Santa Claus Compliments Returned Bring Us Good Ale The Twelve Days After Christmas The Pickle Tree Carol (aka The Pickle Carol; ttto The Cherry Tree Carol) In the Bleak Midwinter My Skies Round and Round (aka The Goldfish) Ma bòna bregada (in Provençal) Bridges In the Pines (aka Black Girl) Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (in Swedish and English) When Soldiers Die on Battlefields (recitation) We Three Kings are Six Feet Apart (ttto We Three Kings) The Ookpik Waltz (tune) Somebody Would Shout Out Shop Molly Malone I Am Cherry Alive Down Among the Bushes of Jerusalem River (Bill Staines) and Planxty Irwin (tune) Going to the West Fairytale of New York (in Irish Gaelic and English) Wild, Wild Heart Christmas in LA Solstice Song Brightest and Best Black Waters The Nightingale Bird I Am a Pizza Roseville Fair The Poor Ditching Boy Snow Falls Let Me Die a Young Man's Death (poem) The Grudge of the Old (poem) Nasty Santa Ee By Gum Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake Ave Maria River (Joni Mitchell) Starwalker I'm My Own Grandpa Wee Pot Stove Dirty Old Town Arthur McBride and the Sergeant The Women are Worse than the Men (version of Child 278, The Farmer's Curst Wife, aka The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, The Devil and the Ploughman, Lily Bulero, Killyburn Brae) Mrs Murphy The Song Goes On Sufganiyot Song Tidings of Candy and Toys (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) The Stranger (Yn Joarree, in Manx and English) Old Zeb The War Between the States Rolling Down to Bethlehem (ttto Rolling Down to Old Maui) Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda) Circle of Steel Hanukkah in Santa Monica Ding Dong Ding (Christmas song from Julie Bidou) The Twa Corbies The Faith of Man Clementine (ttto Cwm Rhondda) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Dec 21 - 03:58 AM Partial list of the songs from the 13-14 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround (I had to leave in a hurry before proceedings ended), probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list; thanks to Felipa for additional information. Anyone who has access to any items that were performed after "McCassery (to the tune of Lord Franklin)", please post your information, and I'll edit it into this post (with attribution). If you have a copy of the chat that continues past McCassery, and you don't mind sharing it with me, please send it to me. Comments and corrections always welcome.
Just One More Chorus |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Dec 21 - 08:10 PM I was unable to attend the singaround of 20-21 December 2021, but was able to put together this list of songs, recitations, monologue, video, and instrumental due to the efforts of Moorley Man and Joe Offer. As ever, comments and corrections are welcome. The Night before Christmas (aka A Visit from St. Nicholas) (ttto Sweet Betsy from Pike) I Am Christmas 12 Days of Christmas (by John Julius Norwich) (recitation) I’m a Little Fairy on the Christmas Tree The Happiest Christmas of All (by Weston & Lee) (monologue) Lorena (by H.D.L. Webster) The Beautiful Sing Kentucky Wassail The Tern and the Swallow Ay del chiquirritín (Spanish carol, in Spanish) Gettin’ in the Mood (Christmas version) Shepherds, Arise The Sailor’s Christmas Day (Richard Cotton, ttto Hearts of Oak) Gaudete Noël (On a Winter’s Night Long Ago) (by Hilaire Belloc) At the Turning of the Year (Anne Hills) Ciùin an oidhch/Silent Night (video made by Tony Becker) Halve, by yourself, that... (by Jim Burrill) Heart of My Home (by Della Mae group) Solstice Bells (by Mary Garvey) Bethlehem Charabanc Trip (by Gary Hogg) (recitation) Field Behind the Plow Wassail the Silver Apple (Mike O’Connor) Brightest and Best Chariots (by John Kirkpatrick) Christmas Memories (Evans) Old Time Religion The Mistletoe Bough Bells of Norwich Angels from the Realms of Glory (ttto Heartbreak hotel) Christmas Market (by Mike Harding) (recitation) Foxtrot Tango Calling (by Chad) Christmas Fairy (by Frances Dunlop) (monologue) Redwing Blackbird (David Francey) Mary had a Baby Santa Claus is COVID-secure (by Lancashire Hotpots) The Ballad of Robban's First Ride (Malvina Reynolds) Greensleeves/What Child is This? (piano solo) O Come O Come Emmanuel Come Walk with Me (by Steve Thomason) Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake Christmas in Killarney I Wonder as I Wander I Still Miss Someone Glory Hallelujah (Frank Turner) Jingle Bell Rock Loud Sing the Carol (by Howard Kaplan) In the Bleak Midwinter If You were Here a' Ghrian - Ode to the Sun James James Morrison Morrison (aka Disobedience) Wexford Lullaby King Herod Autumn to May Arrest these Merry Gentlemen Jeanette Isabella Pacheco A-Soalin' The Latke Ditty Long is the Winter Till the Sun's Return The American Stranger The Trees are All Bare Please to See the King Gaudy Tree |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Dec 21 - 03:54 PM Songs, poems, stories and instrumentals from the 27-28 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. For the first time, I was there from start of singing to finish, except for maybe 15 minutes when I got disconnected from the internet. Thanks to MoorleyMan for filling me in on what I missed. And I should thank, this week and every week, all the participants who are so good about giving titles and/or typing them in the chat. Comments and corrections always welcome. Christmas 1914 King John's Christmas (poem) A Snowflake from Hell (aka A Snowflake Fell) (poem) Christmas Chaos Theme Song from Red Dwarf Ned on the Hill The End of Another Year Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nelly Angels Watching Over Me The Little Husband Clementine (ttto Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer) The Banks of the Bann Here's to the Holly (variant of) Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire Zat You, Santa Claus? Yule Tide Shanty The Strange Case of the Baffled Hermit (story) The Owl who was God Flora (aka The Lily of the West) Sweet Thang (aka Sweet Thing, but there's another song by that name) Victor Rag (instrumental) Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake The January Man Ben Backstay Permission to Dance A New Year Carol (aka Levy-Dew, aka Residue) Please, Dear Lord, Forgive Cold December At the Turning of the Year Bells Over Belfast In the Month of January Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Leaving Belfast Town Journey of the Magi (story) Auld Lang Syne (instrumental) This Christmas Gonna Last All Night Music Makers Christmas at Four Winds Farm (poem) The Day After the Day After Boxing Day (poem) The Bores Head Out The Rolling English Road (poem) Global Warming Braw Sailing on the Sea Merry Christmas from the Family The Maid of Liosamanaigh Farmer's Carol The Garden Hymn Three Wishes (story) Propane (ttto Cocaine) Ale Brider Johnston's Motor Car (aka Johnson's Motor Car) Walking in My Winter Underwear Ring of Fire Mathematics The Jumblies (poem) Child Ballad Brief Eddi's Service (A.D. 687) (poem) (two versions of) Sussex Mummers' Carol Picardy (aka Jésus-Christ s'habille en pauvre; one stanza in French, remainder in English) Humpty-Dumpty Hearts Jolly Old Hawk Hello Susan Brown (aka Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees) Cearcall a'Chuain (The Ocean's Cirlce, in Scots Gaelic) Fairytale of New York Boxing Day The Christians and the Pagans Fa-Sol-La A-Soalin' Garden Song (with additional alcoholic stanza) Velcro I Bid You Goodnight |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Jan 22 - 02:32 PM Songs, poems, readings from the 3-4 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Comments and corrections always welcome. Bells of Norwich Strike Sound Nicholas Knox of Nottingham (reading) The End of Another Year Mum's Ukelele Jolly Bacchus (parody of) Any Dream Will Do (see https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163229) The Mavis They Should Have Asked My Husband (poem) The Snow Falls The Sheffield Wassail The False Lover Won Back Boney was a Warrior (aka Boney) The Tamosher (aka Gathering Rushes in the Month of May, aka Underneath Her Apron) The Fields of Athenry Friends Like These Le Chinois Early Morning Rain Precious Friend Sugar Wassail A Song for Just After Christmas Three Score and Ten Friend for Life Free Julian You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive The Lambs on the Green Hills My Get Up and Go Mariner's Hymn Snow Shanty Heavy Plant Crossing (poem) New Year's Resolution Song The Lifeboat Man Moving On Song The Loo Song My Young Man (secular version of) The Holly and the Ivy You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out Turn It Around Fiddler's Green The Music of Strings Jock o' Hazeldean Everything Possible No L Shawneetown Shutdown Blues Mo Ghille Mear (in English, with chorus in Irish Gaelic) Thirty Foot Trailer Hot Buttered Rum The Butcher Boy Vive la compagnie (covid version) When the Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom) Wild Mountain Thyme Three Wise Women The Turning of the Year To Women as Far as I'm Concerned (poem) The Grudge of the Old (poem) Soolaimon The January Woman (ttto The January Man) The January Man Let There be Morning Gloucestershire Wassail The Parting Glass Hippies and the Beatniks-o |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Jan 22 - 05:59 PM I don't remember this happening before; no poems, recitations, readings, stories, or instrumentals, just songs at the the 10-11 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround. Here they are, in the order in which they were performed. Comments and corrections always welcome. Logs to Burn The Month of January Cinderella Song (to a Lieber-Stoller tune) The Court of King Caractacus Óró mo bháidín There was an Old Piper What's the Use of Wings Green Hills of Kerry (aka Sweet Tralee) Sea Coal Bring Us in Hot Tea Wee Pot Stove (aka In the Wee Dark Engine Room) A Good New Year to One and All Volt Ikh Gehat Koyekh (Yiddish and English) Dowie Dens of Yarrow The Wildebeest Song We Have a Dream Watercress-O (and one verse of Dowie Dens of Yarrow) They Were You If I Were a Carpenter Turning of the Year The Gallant Forty-Twa The Rosabella Why We Wear (ttto Great Speckled Bird, Wild Side of Life and several other country songs) I Ride an Old Paint Moving On (Homer & Jethro parody of Hank Snow original) All Among the Garlic (ttto All Among the Barley) The Rich Man and the Poor Man The January Man Choosing the Pantomime The Sushi Blues The Buffalo Skinners (aka The Trail of the Buffalo, The Range of the Buffalo, The Hills of Mexico) My Last Cigarette If You Could Read My Mind The Bird on Nellie's Hat The Yarn of the Nancy Belle Cowboy's Barbara Allen The Tyger Safe Romance The Hedgehog's Song Broom of the Cowdenknowes Burntollet Ambush The Black Cook Bless This House Time, Gentlemen, Time Sally, Free and Easy Where the Brumbies Come to Water Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Hal-an-Tow Lone Pilgrim The Old Maid in the Garret My Grandfather's Clock Long March to Derry Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Activists (ttto Mamas ... Cowboys) Over the Rainbow My Love Come Rolling Down Kingfisher Penny for the Ploughboys The January Mom Engine 143 (aka "Wreck of the C. & O.", "The F.F.V.", "George Allen", and "The C. & O. Wreck") Enough Here's to You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Jan 22 - 03:20 AM I was on a plane from JFK to LAX and missed the entire singaround of 17-18 January 2022. Here's a go at listing the songs & poems that were performed, based on the chat. I'll be happy to make additions, deletions, and corrections as they come to hand. Edit: My thanks to Felipa, MaJoC the Filk (Fermat reincarnated?), and Moorley Man for additions, deletions, and corrections. Let Union Be A Man's a Man for A' That The Land (poem) The Epitaph to the Unknown Miner (monologue) Rambleaway Somewhere to Begin Polly on the Shore (the Lester Simpson composition) Birmingham Sunday God Rest Ye Sober Underlings Santy Anno Dark-Eyed Sailor Down in the Valley The Ballad of Knocking Nellie The Tailor's Breeches The Red Hats of Ireland Battle Hymn of the Republic Gentle Arms of Eden Still Scared of You Whitebark The Times they are a-Changin' Lullaby Baby Blues Stepstone Dollymount Strand Come by the Hills Sink the Cheerio Trouble in the Fields Singing for Our Lives Love (John Lennon) The Gipsy Trail The Everlasting Circle Green Grass Grows All Around I Once Loved a Lass (aka The False Bride) Embraceable You Legacy Here We Come a-Wassailing You Shall Go Out With Joy Dem Deer Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger) Lorna the Library Book Burglar (poem) Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich? (monologue) Way Down Low A Frog, He Would a-Wooing Go Little Rosewood Casket Elizabeth Block - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Activists Yon Green Valley O Sinner Man Vine and Fig Tree (Lo Yisa Goy) In de Vintertime 254 Shades of Gray Songs Stay Sung Unknown Blessings Nowhere in a Hurry Blues It Was Vaccination Caught in a Circle Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger Piney Wood Hills Where Teardrops Fall Thàladhainn Thu / Dream Angus (two songs, one in Gaelic, to the same tune) Once I had a Sweetheart Pretty Saro Haste Ye Back Fathers Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Scholars Kemo Kimo Farewell Here is My Home There Was an Old Soldier and He Had a Wooden Leg |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Jan 22 - 12:17 AM Songs, stories, poems, and instrumentals from the 24-25 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in, and several corrections. Comments and corrections always welcome. Night Rider’s Lament Dainty Davie Stamped Addressed Antelope (poem) The Truth About the Loch Ness Monster Today Ae Fond Kiss Atressi co·l signes fai (in Old Occitan) Somerset Wassail The Saucy Sailor (aka Jack Tar) The Gorilla Song When You're Gone I Say Your Name For He is an Englishman (dulcimer instrumental) Green Grow the Rashes-O Rolling Home (the trad one, not the John Tams one) Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast Saucy Anna Brother Moses Smote the Water White Coffins of Despair (ttto 1913 Massacre) Log Driver's Waltz When She Walks (I found many songs by that name on the net, but not the right one) Ye Banks and Braes The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Three Maritime folksongs (fragments; one of them was Seventeen Come Sunday) The Sow Took the Measles Across the Blue Mountain Satan's Jeweled Crown The Scotsman The Runcorn Ferry (recitation) Comin' Through the Rye Let There be Morning St. Paul's Song Sioux City Sue Aye Waukin-O Friends of the Cathedral (poem) Breathin' All the Poisons In Loch Tay Boat Song Tripe and Cow Heels Simple Gifts The Ways of Man Sin City Where Did You Get that Hat Like the Way I Do To a Moose (poem) Story (about deer killed on New Jersey roads) (Piano tune improvisation) I Will Stand Fast I Gave My Love a Cherry (aka The Riddle Song) MacPherson's Lament (aka MacPherson's Farewell) Lolly-Too-Dum Old Lang's Sign (ttto Auld Lang Syne) I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow The Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming) A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Lorena I Fall to Pieces Blackbirds and Thrushes / Hares on the Mountain Auld Lang Syne (piano instrumental) Ballad of Tim Evans (aka Go Down, You Murderer) We Shall Overcome Sacred Ground The Green Man The Concertina Song (ttto Hallelujah) Come See the Boys Go Round My Get Up and Go Gold Watch and Chain Mooses Come Walking If I Were a Moose |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Feb 22 - 01:44 AM Songs, stories, poems, monologues, recitations, and instrumentals from the 31 January, 1 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Man on the Flying Trapeze My Husband's Got no Porridge in Him Acupuncture (poem) Do not Disturb Magna Carta (monologue) The Man of Songs (poem) Santiano (in French) The Woodbridge Dog Disaster Gotta Travel On (aka Done Laid Around) Midnight on the Water Suffolk Miracle (aka Holland Handkerchief) Pleasant and Delightful Disaster at Sea (poem) Polly on the Shore (the Lester Simpson song, not the trad one) Mobile / Birth of the Blues Sam's Medal (poem) We Live in an Ocean of Life The Good Old Way A Dollar a Day Sloop John A Dido, Bendigo One More Minute Is Mise Raifteiri / I'm Raftery the Poet (Gaelic and English) Rolling Mills of New Jersey (takeoff on Rolling Hills of the Border) Ring of Fire Cowboy's Sweetheart The Snowdrop (story) Einstein the Genius Gabhaim Molta Bhride and Amhráin na Féidireachta (in Gaelic) The Portree Kid (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) This Old House When You and I were Young, Maggie Black Muddy River Black Jack David (recitation; Mike Heron take on trad material) Love and Lockdown A Shropshire Lad (poem) The Convict of Clonmell (aka The Gaol of Cluan Meala) Old Kimball (from the Stewball/Skewbald family, with floating verses from The Cuckoo) Thousands or More Spencer the Rover The Sow Took the Measles Spring Will Come Masochism Tango Red, Red Robin More Work for the Undertaker Brave Wolfe When I Go Benny's From Heaven (ttto Pennies From Heaven) When I'm Drunk When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin' Just a Bowl of Butter Beans Congleton Bear When I Got Born (story) Isn't it Grand, Boys John Barleycorn Midnight on the Water Three fiddle tunes, on mandolin: Rachel (aka Texas Quickstep), Spootiskerry, Silver Spear See What the Boys in the Back Room will Have Brave Wolfe (not the same as the earlier one) Piano Leg (ttto Wayfaring Stranger) Gulf Coast Highway Man Walks Among Us We'll Pass Them On The Good Old Way I'll Fly Away Early Snow Don't Let It Bring You Down Speed of the Sound of Loneliness How Can I Keep From Singing? Circle Game (one verse) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Feb 22 - 09:24 PM Songs, stories, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the 7-8 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Worried Man Blues Eight Shillings a Week (ttto Fathom the Bowl) The News Where You Are (monologue) The Water is Wide Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Love on the Line Fruit Trees Fill My Garden One Night as I Lay Upon My Bed Sing Me Back Home San Francisco (in French) Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen Won't You Come and Sing for Me They All Asked for You Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail (aka Sirey Petes) Katie Bairdie Ellan Vannin (other spellings occur) The Green Man The Moon Behind the Hill Waly, Waly Cab, Cab, Cab Look Me Over Closely Mingulay Boat Song Hal-an-Tow The Coachman Me and Bobby McGee I Hold Your Hand in Mine Victoria Dines Alone Booth Killed Lincoln Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass) Crossing the Water The H'emmer Jane Pace Egging Song The Bonny Earl of Moray The Thatcher (story) This is My Spirit World (variant on This is My Father's World) Time to Spare Dona Nobis Pacem Times are Gettin' Hard, Boys Tomorrow is a Long Time Envelopes (poem) They Came for the Mime Artists (poem) Liverpool Lullaby I Love Susie in the Supermarket Edward Fiddlers Green Iko Iko Death and the Lady Leezie Lindsay Come Haste to the Wedding (one stanza only) Calling All Angels Watching the Trains Come In Lolly-Too-Dum I Think of You How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away Ballad of Crispus Attucks Gentle Maiden Waltz (piano instrumental) Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn (aka In Good King Arthur's Days, King Arthur's Servants) Heat Detector Harriet Tubman That's the Ticket This World Goes Round and Round The Last Song The Collier Lass (aka Polly Parker) Hughie the Graeme Early The Fox and the Huntsman (story) It's a Miracle The Orphan Train The One-Eyed Cook (aka The Drummer and the Cook) Sing With Me Bay of Biscay O The White Shepherd Here's the Tender Coming Bonnie George (or, James) Campbell Jubilee |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Feb 22 - 11:43 PM Songs, stories, poems, and instrumentals from the 14-15 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. A whole lotta love songs. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. My Dog Sam The Power of the Dog Old Blue Will You Be My Valentine? Lies Country Life Scarborough Fair Valentine Haiku (poem) When Poppies Close their Crimson Eyes Happy Valentine's Day You're the Girl I Love Que serais-je sans toi? Så længe jeg lever (As Long as I Live, in Danish) Hallelujah, I Love Her So (sung as Hallelujah, I Love Him So) Tell Me Loving Emma My Inspiration is You One for My Baby Cucurrucucú Paloma (in Spanish) I Still Miss Someone They Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around (one stanza) The Elfin Knight We Never Mention Aunt Clara To the Beggin' I Will Go (aka The Begging Trade) Phoebe and Reuben (aka Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown) The Frozen Logger Riding on Top of the Car Shaggy dog story about a lorry driver Vicki's Secret My Funny Valentine Celestial Pie 's é fath mo bhuartha (The Cause of My Sorrow, in Irish Gaelic) Broom of the Cowdenknowes Waltz Across Texas Basin Street Blues An Vailintín Buan (The Eternal Valentine, in Irish Gaelic) The Rose South Wind (piano instrumental) The Bold Fisherman Song of the Soul I Never Cared for You Island in the Sun Valentine's Day Everything Possible Paradise Love Is Nelson's Battle Recipe Just You Wait The Telling Takes Me Home Souvenirs For Bobbi (as titled by songwriter, John Denver; recorded as For Baby by Peter Paul and Mary) The Bee Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes My Valentine I Live Not Where I Love Slow Romance Take Your Time Spanish is the Loving Tongue Down in the Fields where the Buttercups All Grow The Coster's Serenade Three short stories Suburbs of Eden Free Little Bird Confidence Wonderful Tonight Advice to the Lovelorn Max's Waltz Song for the Mira Mirabeau Bridge Scarlet Ribbons Sweet Violets Why Does Love Make You Stupid? The Shmuck Song Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 22 - 03:44 AM Songs, poems, and recitations from the 21/22 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. One of the participants had a birthday coming up, and suggested others might sing him unusual birthday songs. Some obliged, mostly with very short songs, for which I didn't get a title, so I've just cited them below as "Birthday song". Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. Just the Facts, Ma'am Chimes of Freedom John Barleycorn (poem) In My Little World of Doom Gunner Joe Tumbling Tumbleweeds Evening in Inishbofin (poem) To My Father (poem) A Rebus Upon Mr Anthony Hall A Sailor's Life Willie's Lady I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Ziggy (Un garçon pas comme les autres) (A Boy Unlike the Others, in French) The Music Makers (based on Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) Twenty-Third of February Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recitation) Song of the Contrabands (better known as Go Down, Moses; also, Let My People Go) Streets of London Hind Horn Fate's Decree Shingling the Rum Seller's Roof She Told Me to Meet Her at the Gate Downtown Zeno Exit The Cockle Gatherer The Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming) What You Do with What You've Got The Hippopotamus Song (sometimes called "Mud, Glorious Mud") The Midnight Special Irish Wedding Song Henry My Son (Lord Randall variant) Until It's Time For You to Go Tell Old Bill Sammy's Bar Sipping Cider Táim Breoite Go Leor (Lord Randall, in Irish Gaelic) The Only One for Me Mon Pays The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom Tommy Don't Lick That Pipe By Weary Well The Church of the Wholly Undecided (poem) Emma's Attitudes Don't Have Any More Mrs Moore Label in a Printer (ttto Little Boxes) When I First Came to This Land Still Believing The King of Ballyhooley Cadal Chan Fhaigh Mi (in Scottish Gaelic; aka Cadal Cha Dèan Mi) The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea No More Sacrifice Zones (to a tune reminiscent of Your Daughters and Your Sons) Birthday Song All Things Change Birthday Song Water is Life Birthday Song Rowing Home (ttto Rolling Home) Carry Freedom Home Sh'ma Yisrael and family song Viking Birthday Song (aka Barbarian Birthday Dirge, Mongol Hacker's Birthday Song, ttto The Volga Boatmen) Nessie, Come Up The Drunkard's Looking Glass I Wanna Be a Bonobo Rose of Allandale Yom Huledet Sameach (Happy Birthday, in Hebrew) West Texas Waltz Danville Girl Shenandoah Song for the Mira The Sheffield Apprentice If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake Birthday song (in Hebrew) This Old Man Should Go Back Home (ttto This Old Man) Birthday song (one stanza, might be called Every Moment We Are Free) Eyes of Amber Bring Me a Little Water Sylvie I Am Ready for the Storm If I Were Free A Tale of Jesus Cut the Cake Blowin' in the Wind The Parting Glass Bells of Norwich |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 22 - 01:00 AM Songs, stories, videos, and readings from the 28 February / 1 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Joe for access to information about the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Derby Ram Pancake Race Gently Down the Stream of Time Fighting for Strangers Beautiful People Battle of the Books Oor Hamlet Solo le pido a Dios (in Spanish) The Flowers of the Forest The Wild Caribee Along the Colorado Trail Sarajevo As I Roved Out (aka The Deluded Lover) The Tailor's Britches King James and the Tinker Dancing in Front of the Guns Katherine's Wedding How Stands the Glass Around? (aka Why Soldiers Why?) You are My Sunshine King John and the Bishop of Canterbury Dear Old Shepherd's Bush Witch Hazel 9-5 Pollution Blues She Midnight Special Tell Old Bill The Slender Boy Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Under the Quarter Moon When All Men Sing Eli Jenkins' Prayer (aka Sunset Poem) The Twa Corbies Little Brown Dog (aka Autumn to May) In Honor of Vedran Smailovic (story) Ojibway Country Winds of Morning Cossack Lullaby (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian National Anthem (spoken, in English) Squid Jigging Ground Sons Of Colors of the Wind Gracias a la Vida (in Spanish) Cold Days of February A Tale of Jesus The Shores of Lough Brann Never Press Nine Old Dog Tray If I Should Wake Benjamin Bowmaneer I Ain't Marching Anymore Di Sapozhkelekh (also spelled Saposhkelekh, sung in Yiddish and English) Follow the Heron Home Rushes and Roars the Wide Dnieper The Sure Hope Voják (Soldier, in Czech) How Anarchy Could Function (ttto The Leaving of Liverpool) Tennessee Dodi Li (in Hebrew) Flowers of Joy Pretty Polly Story about houses burning down on South Coast of England Aunt Sue David of White Rock (in English and Welsh) Video of Ukrainian National Anthem A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky Daisy a Day Shiny-O Hineh Ma Tov (in Hebrew) Song of Peace (ttto Finlandia) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Mar 22 - 10:07 PM Songs and poems from the 7/8 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Deportee War Song Refugees (poem) Emma's Dilemma Pensioner McGee Hillbilly Heaven Painting the Shed (ttto Greensleeves) Will Ye Go to Flanders? (with added contemporary stanzas) Freeing Our Hearts (poems) No Nukes Prayer; Play Friends; Prism Now Westlin Winds I'm Shy, Mary Ellen Walls and Windows The Water is Wide Dink's Song The Minstrel Boy Waiting for the Ferry After You Die (poem) My Grandfather's Clock Ducks Are Flying (in Russian) If Ever I Cease to Love Hangman (aka The Prickly Bush, The Prickle Holly Bush, The Maid Freed from the Gallows) Vlad the Clown (ttto Battle Hymn of the Republic) From Me to You Proper Cup of Coffee Aye, Aye, Paisano Always Forty-Two (Blowing in the Wind meets Hitchhiker's Guide) When I was a Lad Little One (better known as Turn Around, also as Where Are You Going?) Over the Rainbow Easy and Slow Maggie (version of When You and I were Young, Maggie) Lo Yisa Goy (in Hebrew) The Uist Tramping Song (in Scottish Gaelic) Braes of Balquiddr (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167177&messages=58 for relation to Wild Mountain Thyme) Evergreen Between the Lines A Song of Peace (aka This is My Song, ttto Finlandia) Andorra Somewhere to Begin Fair Weather Friends If I Were Free Light Woyaya (We Will Get There) Only a Boy Pastures of Plenty We Need Each Other Now Farewell Farewell Blackbirds and Thrushes (aka Hares on the Mountain) Rock Salt and Nails It Could Have Been Me Evening Bell (in Russian) The Lone Pilgrim Tell it on the Mountain Hop, Hop, Hop (aka Early in the Morning, same tune as In and Out the Windows, William Brown/Keep that Wheel a-Turning) Leatherwing Bat (aka The Birds' Courtship, Hawk and Crow, ....) Pointing to the Moon Circle Round for Freedom Dona, Dona Season of Peace And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (same tune as My Lagan Love) Eve of Destruction Vive la Compagnie (aka Vive l'Amour) I Like Beer Buffalo Boy (aka Mountaineer's Courtship) Let There Be Peace on Earth |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 16 Mar 22 - 07:28 PM Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, instrumentals and stories from the 14/15 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Danny Farrell Recumbent Posture (monologue) Tribute to Irving Berlin The Cottager’s Reply (recited) Red is the Rose Fields of Athenry The Old Tobacco Box (aka There Was an Old Soldier) Santy Anno Coming Home The Mountain Polly on the Shore Three Fishers Barring of the Door Bold Fisherman The Greatest Story of All High Noon (poem) Open Water I Ain’t Nobody in Particular Nell Flaherty’s Drake Cockles and Mussels (aka Molly Malone) Smiles My Father and the Moy (recitation) My Singing Bird Dick Darby the Cobbler An Páistín Fionn Our Goodman (aka Three/Four/Five/Six/Seven Nights Drunk, and other titles) The Bard of Armagh (same tune as Streets of Laredo and several other songs) Love Potion Number Nine The King's Navy Jennifer's Rabbit Abide With Me My Johnny was a Shoemaker On the Middle Ground Sweet Cootehill Town (same tune as The Parting Glass) The Devil and the Smith (ttto Cliffs of Moher) Let Her Sleep Under the Bar (aka The Lady in Red) Mullah Nas'r Ud Din and the Banquet (story) I'll Tell Me Ma The Lovers' Tasks (aka The Elfin Knight, Scarborough Fair, The Riddle Song) Spring, Spring Dublin in the Rare Old Times When the Ship Comes In White Squall Not Tonight, Josephine (poem) Men's Bits (poem) The Bard (poem) Sister Josephine Summer (poem) Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now, and other titles) The Harp Without the Crown (aka The Gals of Dublin Town) Beidh Aonach Amárach (There Will Be a Fair Tomorrow, in Irish Gaelic) Song for Ireland Innisvaddy Annie (aka Up the Noran Water) Rathlin Head Isn't it Grand Boys Nothing So Grand as a War Beautiful Dreamer Jimmie McBride The Unquiet Grave Burning Gold Our Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things) How are Things in Glocca Morra? Dóchas Linn Naomh Pádraig (Our Hope is Saint Patrick, in Irish Gaelic) Slieve Gallion Braes (also spelled Gallon, Galleon, Gallen) Foggy Dew (the Irish one) Enniskillen Fusilier Ach Du Lieber Augustin (in German) Blood Red Roses St Patrick Battalion Finn McCool and the Beautiful Woman (story) Star of the County Down My Lagan Love Pi Day (recitation) Don't Call Me Early in the Morning The Maker I Just See You Twilight Danny Boy (on piano) Here is My Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:22 AM [Originally posted 23 Mar 22 - 10:34 PM] Songs and poems from the 21/22 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Run Come See Jerusalem Barrett’s Privateers AncientMariner-dot.com (poem) Lady of Negotiable Affection Ballad of Springhill Plaisir d’Amour À Landry (in French) Fiddlers’ Green Quaker Benediction Call Me Up in Dreamland False false Gardening No Birds in the Air, No Fish in the Sea Comment vouloir qu'une personne chante (in French) Akh ty nochka (O thou night, in Russian) Teen Angel Mountains of Mourne April Morning Lowlands Away The Cuckoo Love Potion Number Nine Can a Dockyard Matey Run The Really Strangest Dream Breaths Shanty Man's Life It Ain't Necessarily So We Shall Wear Midnight Freeing Our Hearts (poems) No Nukes Prayer; Play Friends; Prism Shenandoah The Anti-Garden Song (parody of Garden Song) Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven White Collar Holler Get Your Kicks on Route 66 Rock On Rockall Key of R Shoals of Herring I Sit and Think (poem) My Grandmother (poem) Fragments of Memories (poem) Tribute to Cole Porter Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover) Beyond the Forest (in Russian) The Frozen Logger Last Kiss Ben Kenobi Nobi (ttto John Kanaka) Buain A’Choirce (Reaping the Oats, in Scots Gaelic) The Last Clydesdales Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill Nevada Jane Man Walks Among Us We Hate to See Them Go (aka The Bankers and the Diplomats, aka The Bankers and the Diplomats are Going in the Army) The Floo'ers o' the Forest (are a' wede away) All Aboard for Blanket Bay We Should Be Going Home (ttto Rolling Home) The Dormouse and the Doctor Give Me the Fishes, Give Me the Loaves Life Passes By Everything Possible Hector the Hero A Blessing for Every Day (poem) Happy Birthday (Weird Al Yankovic) Fever Old Joe Clark Spinning Wheel The Wayward Wind Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos Babbling Brook Boulder to Birmingham Custard Creams (ttto John o' Dreams (which comes from Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6)) Starlight on the Rails Windmills The Rose of Allendale/Allandale The Vicar and the Frog An Chúilfhionn (The Coolin', The Fair-Haired One, in Irish Gaelic) Round Midnight Lift Every Voice and Sing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:24 AM [Originally posted 01 Apr 22 - 07:59 PM] Songs, poems, stories, monologues and instrumentals from the 28/29 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Mole in the Ground Kilkelly, Ireland The Deckchair Man (poem) Springtime in Yorkshire The Runcorn Ferry (monologue) Streets of Laredo Mother’s Lament Le parapluie (sung in French) Spring Song Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head The Gallant Shopper The Banks of Doon Labelled with Love Redwing Blackbird (Billy Edd Wheeler) A Bushel and a Peck Sarah Won’t You Come Out Tonight? Fiddlers’ Green Sammy’s Bar Scotch and Soda The Lumberman’s Alphabet Sam Hall Dark-Eyed Sailor The Barnyards of Delgaty Joanna The Ding-Dong Blues Looking Out My Back Door Two Farmers I'm in Love with Susan Waterbound Hey Jude A Gay Spanish Maid The Tinkerman's Daughter The Goodnight-Loving Trail Kelvin Grove The Bear with no Name (story) Hang Out Your Brightest Colors (aka Ballad of Michael Collinns) Wrinklies (poem) Caring Society (poem) A Nightingale Sank in Berkeley Square (ttto A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square) Peat Fire Flame As Time Goes By Haul Away Bread and Fishes Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) Yellow on the Broom (ttto The Female Drummer/When I was a Fair Maid) Meditation Death Come Easy Satisfied Mind A Car-Washing Song John Willie Peckett (poem) Winter (reading, from Year Song) Goliath of Gath/Garth Henry My Son (version of Lord Randall) The Farmer in Cheshire (aka The Highwayman Outwitted / The Highwayman and the Farmer’s Daughter) The Fields of Athenry Hardcastle's Rake The Smoke-Off (poem) Try to Remember People Say Strange Things What I Like About Texas Jack Haggerty (aka The Flat River Girl) Golden Mansions Rambles of Spring Miss Rowan Davies (piano instrumental) Queen Elinor's Confession The Ash Grove (piano instrumental) The Freedom Come All Ye Farewell to the Gold Song for the Life Sweet Betsy From Pike Where'er You Walk Only Our Rivers Run Free Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf, not The Band) Lay Down Beside Me If I Were Free Here's to You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:27 AM Songs and poems from the 4/5 April Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Titanic (...the great ship went down) Deportees Refugees (poem) Strangers (poem) Angling Villikins and his Dinah The Irish Rover Yankee Doodle – a bit later (1846) Takin’ Old Route Pitman’s Union Lo merle (The blackbird, in Occitan) Farewell Johnny Miner Ned on the Hill Small Birds Rejoice/Chevalier’s Lament Lovely Agnes Mitcham Line Shunty Vlad the Clown Follow the Heron The Weepin’ Willer If it Wasn’t for the Song The Water is Wide Lord Saltan & Young Auchanachie God Moves on the Water Last Train and Ride Lazy Bones The Coble of Cargill The Man with the Chainsaw Breaths Neocortex The Unquiet Grave Roads and Walls At 17 King Orfeo Ballad of John Williams All my trials Ask the Cat! Old Devil Moon Take Your Time House of the Rising Sun Faded Love Roseville Fair (Bill Staines via Les Barker) Greek Tragedy (poem) At the 'round Dr Freud Spring Harvest (poem) Mr Bluebird Sing Della and the Dealer On a Monday Morning Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia Spring Cleaning For Those in Peril from UV When Your Bells Have Turned Green (ttto Fiddler's Green) True Colors I Would I Were Three Ravens Whiskey on a Sunday (aka The Ballad of Seth Davey, also Come Day, Go Day) 1952 Vincent Black Lightning Four Strong Winds The Death of Robin Hood Hineh Ma Tov (in Hebrew, two tunes) Permission to Dance Stewball Would You Like to Play the Guitar (parody of Swinging on a Star) All the Good People Smut Morningtown Ride Planting a Rainbow (poem) Maple Sweet Rainbow Warriors Meditation Parting Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Apr 22 - 07:08 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 11/12 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. [Got some more information, made a few edits.] Mr Rabbit, Mr Rabbit The Darling Song The January June (recitation) Weather Lore The Man from God Knows Where (recitation) We Zoom The Trees they do Grow High The Hippies and the Beatniks-O Johnny Burke The Bramble and the Rose “Babble” (medley and simultaneous singing of a number of gospel songs) Stamp And Go Santy Anno (As I Was a-) Practising Top of the World Leaving Train Tinkerman’s Daughter John Barleycorn Love’s Old Sweet Song Wedding Song (in Ladino) Lullaby (in Ladino) Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight The Town of Mariupol Chicago Bones In the Sidings Now Norfolk and Good A Nice Quiet Day You'll Never Know How Much I Love You Vlad the Clown Java Jive Safe Romance Still Safe on Shore The Fisherman's Song All my trials Light the Winter's Dark Isle Au Haut Lullaby The Lamplighter (poem) The Speed of Slow (poem) No Telling Wreck of the Old 97 M. T. A. Song (ttto Wreck of the Old 97) The Almond Tree, or, The King's Love (story) (variant of) Bright Morning Stars Catahoula Aragon Mill In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle It Goes Like it Goes Tonight I Await (poem) Caitlin at the Window Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Three Ravens 2020 Go Down, Moses (aka Let My People Go) The Wayward Wind Darcy Farrow Philadelphia Lawyer The Errant Apprentice The Dove of Peace (aka Oh Tell Me Where the Dove has Flown) I'm Gonna Tell (On You) Come Love Come Chain Gang Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Remember Your Name and Address Circle 'round On Children One More Minute John Hardy Rising Green Engine One-Forty-Three (aka The F.F.V., The C. & O. Wreck) Lay Down Beside Me Hard Nights Come Again No More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More) The Man in the Moon Shake and Shake the Ketchup Bottle (poem) I Eat My Peas with Honey (poem) Just Plant a Watermelon (aka Watermelon Song) When (poem) Until the Dark Time Ends (aka The Comfort of Singing Voices) Birdie Nee (aka The Eagle's Lullaby) My Mother Won't Let Me Play with You The Singer Sea Glass Buttermilk Hill (aka Shule Aroon, Siúil Rún, Shule Agra, Súil a Grá, Johnny has Gone for a Soldier, Gone the Rainbow) 'Cause He's a Cowboy Beautiful Dreamer Master of the Sheepfold May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You Some Velvet Morning |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Apr 22 - 01:06 AM Songs, recitations, poems, monologues and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 18/19 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Monique for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Days of ‘49 Sergeant William Bailey Jason & The Arguments (poem) Lolly Too Dum Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Spring (from Year Song) (recitation) George & The Dragon (monologue) Justice Among the Heather (aka Down the Moor) The Boat that First Brought Me Over Joan de la Rèula (sung in Occitan) Will Ye Go to Flanders? When Spring Comes In (aka The Spring Glee) Danny Boy Rawtenstall Annual Fair Streets of Laredo Parody Breaths Ocean of Life The Sick Note Gentle Arms of Eden Lovely Joan Na sera 'e maggio (in Neapolitan) Adir Hu (Passover song, in Hebrew) Blood Red Roses Get Away, Old Man, Get Away Mollymauk Song for Marianne Paul Revere’s Ride (poem) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Green Fields of England Brother Noah The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on his Pasta Child of Mine The Reluctant Cannibal Ranter’s Wharf Farewell Johnny Miner The Flowers of the Field (poem) The First and Last Man Zog, Maran (Tell Me, Marrano, in Yiddish) The Gallant Forty-Twa Spancil Hill Nothing to Show for it All One Time Only The Manchester Rambler Love's the Rising Sun Bread and Roses The Eagle's Gift – An Invitation (recitation) Jesus Christ (ttto Jesse James) Now is the Cool of the Day Scarborough Settler's Lament Hippopotamus Song Roses Across the Great Divide Run and Catch the Wind Lean On Me Mr Taxman (ttto Mr Sandman) Beautiful Noise On the Pulse of Morning (recitation) Crossing the Bar Hevenu Shalom Aleichem / Shalom Chaverim (medley, in Hebrew) ) Sweet Sorrow in the Wind A Seaman's Hymn Dream Plover (ttto Dream Lover) Mr Bojangles Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me The Prophet Ballad of the Carpenter The Chocolate Song Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Outside of a Small Circle of Friends (additional stanza to) Hippopotamus Song Grounds for Violence (ttto Sounds of Silence) Crazy Doney Gal Hunting the Duck That's the Way the World Goes Round The Boy Who Thought He Was a Cockerel (story) Changes |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Apr 22 - 12:02 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. My Own Grandfather (recitation) I Am My Own Grandpa It Takes a Soldier Cosmo, Prince of Denmark (poem) Strawberry Fair Disobedience Hackingham Palace Temperance A Nation Once Again Pretty Saro Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Bob Dylan’s Dream A los árboles altos (sung in Spanish) Swell My Net Full O Come Away Summertime Annan Water Blow Away the Morning Dew (aka The Lady's Policy, The Disappointed Lover, The Baffled Lover) New Garden Fields Kind Hands Dear Mr. Rogers With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (sometimes called "Anne Boleyn") Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk The Gum Tree Canoe Whisky in the Jar (aka Kilgary Mountain, Gilgarra Mountain) The Tailor & the Mouse Once I Was a Sailor The Rare Old Times Willow Weep Me No More Rio Grande (Great Lakes version) Wild Horses The Dock and the Nettle Downtown Zeno Exit Gentle Arms of Eden Now is the Month of Maying Things in Life Lullaby Isle Au Haut Lullaby We Ain’t Gonna Give it Back L’adieu de la mariée à ses parents (sung in French) Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Foggy Dew (Irish version) The Highwayman Hal-An-Tow Spot was Not Like the Rest (poem) Make You Feel My Love Singing in the May Tha mi duilich, cianail, duilich ("I am sorry, anguished, sorry" in Scottish Gaelic) No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto of See Amid the Winter's Snow) John Ball Fortitude There is Nothing Like a Dane (ttto There is Nothing Like a Dame) Moving On Mayday Carol Que Bonita Bandera (in Spanish) Annie Laurie Oor Hamlet Husy (Geese, in Czech) Shanghai Lil Jamaica Say You Will Dragon Song One Morning in May (aka The Nightingale, The Bold Grenadier) Marion les roses (All Among the Roses, in French) Waterbound The Journey Calypso The Old Gray Squirrel Masters of War The Brown and the Yellow Ale One Hippopotami (ttto What Kind of Fool am I) The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan) How Drunkenness Came Into the World (story) As If He Knows A Bench by the Sea Anachie Gordon You of Little Faith Rest Well, Old Man (poem) Day is Done (ttto Taps) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 May 22 - 09:15 PM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 2/3 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Scotch and Soda Lie Low Travel Irons (poem) Reg the Veg and the Charity Lady Ballad of Thunder Road Drunken Sailor Come Back in the Morning aka Prescription Calypso Turning Towards the Morning An druimeann donn dílís (My Dear Brown Cow) (in Irish Gaelic) The Gas Man Cometh Romance del Conde Olinos (in Spanish) Diana You Belong to Me Dandelion (by Humphrey & The Dumptrucks) Where oh Where do I Live? Malt and Barley Blues Two Brethren Rose the Riveter, Revisited Southbound Passenger Train Hard Times in the Mill Who Mowed the Lawns of Eden? Route 66 The Working Class Stranger Wait till the Work Comes Round Angel on my Shoulder Life is Music Can’t You See? Dream a Little Dream of Me Thugamar féin an samhradh linn (in Irish Gaelic) Freight Train On a Winter’s Night Dance up the Sun Kathy’s Song Blue Moon Do not go Gently (poem) Villanelle (by Berlioz, from Les nuits d’été) Roseville Fair May Time Dawns Count Me Out (poem) Hollywood Hope Lunenburg Town November Lament (recitation) Hang Them High The Book of Love (Magnetic Fields, not Monotones) Over the Rainbow Bring Them Home Union Maid Bluenose Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key The One-Legged Cowboy Buffalo Skinners Mary Ellen at the Church Turned Up The Moon Shone Bright Lean On Me My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms I'm an Old Cowhand The Blackest Crow (aka My Dearest Dear, Breast of Glass) Amazing Grace (alternating English and Scots Gaelic) Ta He Wa He La He (in Hawaiian) Japanese Garden in the Rain (recitation) St. Louis Blues The Farmer is the Man What Then (poem) The Wild West is Where I Want to Be Blue Boat Home (ttto Love Divine All Loves Excelling) Drift Away The Bedmaking Scarborough Fair Whiskey is the Life of Man (aka Whiskey Johnny) The Galway Shawl A Rìbhinn Òig Bheil Cuimhn' Agad Shiny-O Morris the Moose Think About Your Troubles Circle Round (or, Circle Chant) On Children (or, Your Children) Morningtown Ride |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 May 22 - 07:33 PM Songs, poems, monologues and riddles from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9/10 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Cornish Lads Billy Boy (Malvina Reynolds rewrite) The Unquiet Grave Sisters of Mercy Useful French Phrases (poem) Trip to Gougane Lo comte Arnaud (sung in Occitan) Mack the Knife (bilingual version, part English and part German) Asparagus (monologue) Come to the Dance Courting is a Pleasure A la una yo naci (sung in Ladino) Strontium 90 Innisvaddie Annie Down by the Railroad Track Cawsand Bay Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys Fever Resurrection Packet Forgive and Forget Al di là (sung in Italian) Knocking Nellie Sunbeam and Sunshine Eggs and Marrowbones The Armadillo We’re All Cleaning Windows Blank Space Prudence The Faithful Horse There is a Tavern in the Town (in English, then in German) Banks of the Ohio Mudcat Love Rio Grande Poor Little Liza Jane Transylvania Shanty (ttto South Australia) Bluenose (Skilling & Martin) Boys of Barr na Sráide The Morning Glory (aka One for the Morning Glory, Here's to the Morning Glory) Song of Wandering Aengus Nancy Spain Barking (poem) Brown Stuff (riddle) Rutherford Coffee Bar (ttto Sisters of Mercy) Thanksgiving Eve Sally Free and Easy Old Age Rage The Bold Fisherman The Little Sparrow Run for the Roses Down to the River to Pray (in Scots Gaelic) Shule Aroon (Siúl a Rúin) (chorus in Irish Gaelic) Drop Hammer Rolling Down the Bay to Juliana Siúl a Ghrá (in Irish Gaelic) Fare Thee Well Cold Winter The Unquiet Grave Beautiful Soul A Wee Bird Cam tae My Apron Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) The Verdant Braes of Skreen The Rambles of Spring Anathea Auprès de Ma Blonde (in French) Tomorrow Bonny Boy from Underneath My Apron Peace like a River Jerusalem The Knoxville Girl Sunny Goodge Street The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (fragment, in Middle English) (The) Colorado Trail (aka Along the Colorado Trail) You Are Beautiful Bagenal Harvey's Farewell (aka Bagenal Harvey's Lament, ttto Derwentwater's Farewell) Try to Remember (fragment) Parting Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 May 22 - 08:10 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. "Mountain Village" is a guess at a title for Jane's story. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Travelin’ man Verdant Braes of Skreen Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Door (poem) Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (or Shock Absorba the Greek) Bold Riley Nobody Knocking D’ ye Ken John Peel? Day by Day Two Sisters Los dos filhets del rei (sung in Occitan) Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women Don’t Cry Baby The Happy Zoomer (ttto The Happy Wanderer) Lichtbob Lassie Molecatcher St. Brendan’s Voyage The Mermaid Oh the Dishes A Dollar a Day Ay lu lu (sung in Yiddish) (possibly aka Shlof Shoyn Mayn Tayer Feygele? or, Unter Beymer?) Lives in the Balance The Barring of our Door Wagon Wheels A bhean úd thíos Today Scarborough Fair Rum, by Gum Bill Bailey Fresh Hops The Puppeteer (recitation) A waltz by Bob Pasquerello (may be in Fingerwaltzes collection) (solo piano) Where is our James Connolly Mountain Village (story) Earth Angel Don’t Despise the Deserter A September Song (recitation) The Dancing Teacher Wild Mountain Thyme How Could Anyone Trouble Just a Lie Queen of the Rails If I Could Be the Rain Queen of Waters I Can See Clearly Now Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Benjamin Bowmaneer The English Wedding (Le Mariage Anglais, alternating English and French) Off the Cold Coast of Iceland Bye Bye Blues First of May Blues Love Me a Little When I Have Seen I Happen to Know (poem) The Strange Case of Mr Donnybrook Boredom (poem) The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude (poem) Little Village Ordinary Man (Gordon Lightfoot, not Peter Hames) The Ballad of Minepit Shaw Diana For Tom McLean Barrett's Privateers Share the Road with Me Book of Love (Monotones) An Irish Song Follow the Heron Home Cuba Rock On Rockall Turning Toward the Morning I Think of You Take Your Time The Dandelion (poem) Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket (poem) Did You Ever Lose an Elephant Gentle Arms of Eden Angel from Montgomery |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 May 22 - 08:24 PM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Twelve Gates To The City World Turned Upside Down Questionnaire (poem) Be Gentle with my Heart Fruit Trees Fill My Garden Diga Joaneta (sung in Occitan) The Deserter She’s Like the Swallow Turtle Dove Reminds Me of You Fennario Cuchullain’s Son The Bard of Armagh Call to Song Betsy Bell & Mary Gray A Handful of Songs Farmer’s Toast Tonight He Belongs to Me Early One Morning Mrs. Fisher Dowie Dens of Yarrow Ceres, Pluto and Eris... oh my! The Seasons of the Year McCafferty The Watchman’s Gone Yorkshire Couple Going to Leave Old Texas Banks of the Nile I Pity the Poor Immigrant They Say it’s Wonderful The Snows they Melt the Soonest Mingulay Boat Song Hard Times Procrastination (poem) Where will the Last Flower Grow? The King’s Navy I will Follow Him I Fall to Pieces Where Shall I Be? I Think it's Gonna Work Out Fine Summertime The Spotted Cow (aka Crafty Farmer? Well Sold the Cow? The Crafty Ploughboy? The Yorkshire Bite?) Solid Ground Quit Your Lowdown Ways Catahoula Time to Spare Land of the Bottom Line Across the Great Divide Take Your Time Rio Grande Cherokee Bend Down Where the Drunkards Roll Will Ye Go to Flanders The Swaggering Jig (aka Bellaghy Fair) Turn, Turn, Turn Out of Nowhere I Wanna Die Easy Don't Buy the Liverwurst (ttto Down by the Riverside) The Man in the Moon What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song) Anchored in Love Nevada Jane May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You (piano solo) Hunting the Hare Caledonia Devilish Mary Walkin' on my Wheels Take Your Time Jubilee |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Jun 22 - 08:15 AM Songs, poems, recitations/readings and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Last Shanty The Earl o’ March’s Daughter I Have Blown it All Away (poem) Hard Case Cruel Sister Giving Her Away I Ain’t Marching Any More An Apartment in Sunny Spain La filha d’un païsan (sung in Occitan) A Prayer in Open D If it Weren’t For the Music Fathom the Bowl Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Woad Don Quixote Don’t Take Your Gun to School Nothing Rhymed Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recited) Old Abe Oleanna Down the Dials Death Letter Blues Sea Change Paper Houses Lili Marlene Universal Soldier Come Back Baby Promenade Terrorism (poem) Song for the Life In the Jailhouse Now I Come and Stand at the Schoolhouse Door Assault Rifles (poem) Self-knowledge (poem) Dirty Old Town Summerland (poem) Aisle After Hymn Faithless Love 500 miles Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day, also The Ballad of Seth Davey) Martin Said to his Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1952 (story) Let Union Be The One on the Right was on the Left Jutland The Water is Wide Fire and Flame And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda recitation from David Valentine Taylor Nepudem Domu (We Won't Go Home, in Czech) Lyke Wake Dirge Poor Soldier Wayfaring Stranger (secular version) Second Front Song Homeward Bound Buddhist Monk, 1960s (reading) Man Who Used to Be Calypso Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) Tim McGuire Train Trip to Guildford Run and Catch the Wind Up with People Who Am I Now Mothers, Daughters, Wives (reading) Here is My Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Jun 22 - 08:34 AM Songs, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Dancing at Whitsun June Song (parody of Dave Webber’s May Song) Partygate (poem) D-Day Song Whiskey in the Jar Down by the Sally Gardens Lamorna Bold Robert Emmet Steal my Heart Away Ratto al ballo (sung in Piedmontese) Summerfly Seeing Nellie Home Last Bus Home The Gam Georgia on My Mind Cut the Cake There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go The Old Rose & Crown Mineral Wells Coffee Shop Down in Pimlico Long Hot Summer Day Fisher Lads of Whitby Dark-Haired Gypsies Mill o’ Tifty’s Annie Transylvania Shanty Crackdown Addict For Free Big Yellow Taxi It Could be a Wonderful World Breaths Sam the Skull The Shearing’s Not for You Band o’ Shearers Kite at Sundown Trains and Boats and Planes Cumha an fhile (The Loneliness of the Poet, in Irish Gaelic) Cholesterol Get Your Butt Over Here (poem) Rosebud in June Hit the Road Jack Mary and the Seal I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Somewhere Ahead D-Day Dodgers The Frozen Logger Play Friends (poem) What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song) Who Am I Now All Hooked Up (ttto All Shook Up) Simple Gifts Give Yourself to Love Chad Looked Over the Wall (aka Shortages) When Can I Have a Banana Again The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter John o' Dreams The Blue Train The Whale Song Buckingham Palace (revised for the Platinum Jubilee) The Boy Who Thought He Was a Cockerel (story) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Forgiven The Fox Son David (variant of "Edward") Our Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things) The Old Man's Wish You Are Not Alone Shores of Avalon Circle of Friends The Guillotine Three Little Fishies Open That Can Be Prepared Fave Swings (ttto My Favorite Things) Hero (poem) Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire (updated version) Call Me the Whale We Zoom (ttto Blue Moon) Zoomiversary Song (ttto The Parting Glass) The King's Breakfast (poem) Lay Down Beside Me River |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 16 Jun 22 - 08:44 AM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list, and also to Casey. Comments and corrections always welcome. Do-Re-Mi Bright Blue Rose As I Walked Out (poem) Bert and Jane What Have They Done to the Rain The Water is Wide The Rose and the Lily (version of Cruel Brother) Hunting the Hare Romance de Isabel (in Spanish) West Texas Waltz Jesus Jesus (sung in Irish Gaelic) Three Score and Ten The Shores of Normandy The Power and the Glory Who Do You Love Derby Ram Kentucky Babe Changeling's Lullaby Wanting Memories San Antonio Rose Old Dogs A Sailor's Grave That Look in his Eye Cape St. Mary's 254 Shades of Gray The Thunderstorm Approaches (poem) Hurricane Blues Miss Otis Regrets She Was One of the Early Birds Theme from Mahogany Come Fare Away (aka "Come Fare Away With Me"; also, "Marnie" is sometimes included in the title) Lovely Agnes More Hills to Climb Hope Eyrie Annan Water Peace Train Keep on the Sunny Side Golden Mansions Caravan Selchie Feher Laszlo Stole a Stallion Roseville Fair Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Remember All Those Years Ago (poem) Why Did They Have to Get Married Bruces' Song (aka Bruces' Philosophers Song) Down in Granny's Yard (aka Johnny's Lost his Marble) She's Like a Swallow Farewell to Whiskey (aka Johnny My Man) Roy O'Brien jingle So Will We Yet Dodi Li (in Hebrew) Je suis trop jeunette ("I am too Young", in French) Rosebud in June Fantasy Lover Crazy Their Brains Were Small and They Died In Self Defense (poem) Who Shot Sam To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way Sea Glass Shallow Brown Sammy's Bar Thaïs Greensleeves (piano solo) Cold Haily Rainy Night The Dewy Ones Trouble Singing Through the Hard Times Zen Gospel Singing Makin' Whoopee (parody of) My Father's a Hedger and Ditcher A Bench by the Sea Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Jun 22 - 09:18 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list, and also to Casey. Comments and corrections always welcome. Hard Times Come Again No More Trains of Waterloo Eeyore’s Speech from “Piglet” (poem) Animal Adoption Waltzing Matilda (Queensland version) Streets of London 11th Cavalry Song Somewhere to Begin Galveston I'm Gonna be an Engineer Midsummer hymn The Young Fisherwoman Poison beer Whisky You’re the Devil Fruit Trees Fill My Garden Queen Sally Rainbow Race Designated Answerer of Questions (ttto Dedicated Follower of Fashion) Summer Lady (poem) Freight Train Bring Flowers Geordie Whitby Whaler I am Cherry Alive Six Feet of Mud Harriet Tubman Lord, How Come Me Here Scarborough Fair Wild Goose Shanty Ella’s Song (aka We Who Believe in Freedom) Oak Ash and Thorn Out of the Window (aka Our Wedding Day) Dreary Black Hills The Keelman The Broken Token Come Fare Away (aka "Come Fare Away With Me"; also, "Marnie" is sometimes included in the title) Some Little Bug Come All You Recluse Spiders Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (aka Roll Her to the Wall) The Gallowa’ Hills At the Dawning of the Day (poem) Never Turning Back A Mighty Ship was the Gundremar Long, Long Ago + I'm Romeo A Boné Fido Dog I Wish I was a Punk Rocker with Flowers in My Hair Colors of the Sun The Hounds Nellie Gray Pat Gets on an Airplane (ttto Paddy Works on the Railway) Dance with My Father The Hokey-Pokey (Shakespearean style) Rory O'Moore Already Dead On Board the Susianna Chrò Chin t-Sàile (I Will Go Home, in Scottish Gaelic) The Elements Into the Mystic Keep Haulin' Midsummer Hymn Farewell Johnny Miner The Bonny Bunch of Roses-O Every Bush and Tree (aka I Have No Mother Now) Yucky Bugs Orphan Train Lovely Agnes The Gallagher Boys (aka Lost on Lake Michigan) Dubarry Done Gone Again Some Little Bug Cockroaches on Parade A Place in the Choir After Hours John o' Dreams |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Jun 22 - 02:18 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. I didn't get a title for Elle's story about a parrot. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes To Our Door Adieu, Adieu The Folk Club Disaster (poem) Dabob Bay Annie Get Your Sun Cream Jim Keay’s Gander Katie Moray The Remote Users’ Song (ttto Wombling Song) Come Round Her Wee Pot Stove Patches The Outlandish Knight The Back Blocks Shearer L’inglesina (sung in Italian) The Last Minstrel Show Sturdy Woman In the Heat of the Summer Alice White Down Where the Drunkards Roll The Royal Forester Summertime The Ballad of Robban's First Ride Pivnicková (in Czech) When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire Rock Salt and Nails Butchie’s Tune The Sack ’em Up Boys Rainbow Race Millie’s Waltz Story about a parrot Disposal (poem) Crying Take it Easy Cha Bhi Mi Buan ("I'll Not Survive", in Scots Gaelic) The Tex-I-An Boys The Lonely Willow Tree The Old Gravy Train (poem) Sunday Afternoon in the Car Lassie wi’ the Yellow Coatie Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves Buy a Gun for Your Son Sailor Home From the Sea (aka Cock of the Morning) The Rest of the Day is Your Own (parody of A Farmer's Boy) Shallow Brown After the Gold Rush You Blood Red Roses Glenlogie (aka Jean of Bethelnie) Cadgwith Anthem Summer Sunlight Banks of Marble The Literary Dustman There is a Tavern in the Town The Rose of the San Joaquin Now and Then Morning Morgantown The Isle of Arran Kentucky in the Morning Shift and Spin The Golden Triangle An Activist's Accomplishment (reading) Not Only Bars My Body's Nobody's Body But Mine Quantum Mechanics I Think I Understand The Hippopotamus Song (aka Mud, Glorious Mud) Noah's Ark Shanty (aka A Long Time Ago, aka In Frisco Bay) Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Jul 22 - 03:21 AM Songs, instrumentals and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 4/5 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. What Did You Learn in School Today? The Last Thing on My Mind (poem, parody of Tom Paxton song) Where’s the Fuel Now? (ttto Who's the Fool Now, aka Martin Said to His Man) Goldwatch Blues Walk with Me Now / The Raucous Cry of the Gulls (poem) When I First Came to this Land I Wish I could be Nice and Warm Windmills Perrine était servante (sung in French) If I had a Hammer Mack the Knife Henry Joy (aka Henry Joy McCracken) Wade in the Water Workin’ My Way Back to You Babe What does it Matter? Patrick Spencer (Bob Coltman version of Sir Patrick Spens) My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying Early Morning Rain I Ain’t Marching Anymore Peggy Gordon Oops! Jamboree! (parody of Whup Jamboree) Night Ride Home Yankee Doodle Oh Sinner Man Battle of New Orleans An Irishman’s Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston The Rifleman's Song at Bennington Ain’t Misbehavin’ Never Turning Back At Seventeen Rolling Down to Old Maui America the Beautiful (piano instrumental) Johnson Boy America the Beautiful (sung) The Roses of Prince Charlie Columbia the Gem of the Ocean The Mermaid and the Swallow Somewhere in America East Virginia Roll On Columbia They Make the Laws (poem) Rigs of Rye A Sailor's Life Bard of Armagh A Jolly Holiday Rolling Home The Fiddle and the Drum A Kiss in the Morning Early The Star-Spangled Banner Enough May I Suggest How Anarchy Could Function Tomra's Song O What a Merry Land is England The Auld Triangle (aka The Old Triangle, The Royal Canal) Toddling Home The Wayward Wind Black-Eyed Susie But Mr Adams Pipers Refrain The Minstrel Boy Sister, Sail Ashokan Farewell (piano instrumental) Carter Blues The Battle of the Somme I Only have Eyes for You Highland Cathedral This Land Ain't Your Land (parody of This Land is Your Land) Ezekiel Saw the Wheel The Shirt Song If I Were Free Lay Down Beside Me This is My Song (aka Song of Peace) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Jul 22 - 05:34 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 11/12 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Going home (version of Frankie & Johnny) Diamantina Drover The Maid of Melrose Town (poem) Boudicea Sow Took the Measles Dark-eyed Molly Allergic to his Face (poem) Widdecombe Fair Scarborough Fair A Terrible Beauty is Born The Bold Princess Royal The Worst Day Since Yesterday I’ll be Your Baby Tonight Black is the Color Brown Baby Le roi Eugène (sung in French) If You Say Yes The Music Makers See No Evil Snakes and Ladders On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep Melting Pot (poem) Our Planet's Unfolding Star of the County Down Both Sides Now Oak Ash and Thorn The Orange Maid of Sligo The Ballad of Soulful Sam Rolling Home (to dear old England) Bread and Roses Folsom Prison Blues Zen Gospel Singing The Trees They Do Grow High (parody by Les Barker) The Seasons’ Wheel (poem) A Pirate Walked into a Bar Mind Games Early One Morning (Election Day parody) Courting is a Pleasure (aka Lovely Molly) All the Good Times are Past and Gone Power and the Glory Men of Worth My Love Comes Rolling Down Matty Groves Scotch and Soda Like the Way I Do Monday, Monday My Son John From the Isle of Man Projectionist Woes (poem) Text and Tweet (ttto Aragon Mill) Hi Lili, Hi Lo Breed Specific Legislation Ballad Drinkin' Them Beers Peat Fire Flame Ring of Fire Cotton Jenny Fare Thee Well My Own True Love (aka Ten Thousand Miles) Yesterday (parody by Dave Mann) You Gotta Have Skin (ttto Heart) Donegal Dreams The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind) When the Ship Comes In To My Old Brown Earth Kite at Sundown |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:50 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 18/19 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Just the Facts, Ma’am Now is the Cool of the Day Mrs. Groves (poem) Handweaver and the Factory Maid Rest Quiet (poem) Angling Woodturner’s Love Song Todo tiene que ver (sung in Spanish) Blackwater Side Uncle Tom Cobleigh Will Run (ttto Widdicombe Fair, Widdecombe Fair, Tom Pearce) William Archer (version of Banks of the Bann) Something Sort of Grandish Billy Bones and his Dancing Cat Ho, Boys, Ho El Paso Le grand frisé (sung in French) I Give Myself to You The Old Dance Shanghaied Ballad of Seth Davey (aka Whiskey on a Sunday) Turn Around The Castle of Dromore Down Where the Drunkards Roll Air Fa La La Lo The King’s Navy St. Brendan’s Fair Isle Mrs McGrath Ella's Song Carter’s Blues Bridge-Guard in the Karoo The Moorlough Shore Barrett’s Privateers House Carpenter Go To Work On Monday Terms & Conditions (poem) She Moved Through the Fair Cool Water Flying Song Falling in Love Lovin' Emma The Fairy Fair Blues (ttto Folsom Prison Blues) Some Enchanted Evening Blue Bayou Ten Thousand Miles (version of Turtle Dove) Lynn's Dream Beautiful Soul Plains of Waterloo Weggis Song (aka From Lucerne to Weggis) The Maker Going to the West Stand Up for Jesus The Woman in Your Life Garnet's Homemade Beer (ttto Barrett's Privateers) Jenny Wren (poem) Ice Cream Weather Brighten the Corner Where You Are In the Heat of the Summer Apprentice Song Benjamin Bowmaneer I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Pretty Saro Three Little Fishies Newborough Beach North Country Tragedy Song of the Folk Nazi (read as a poem) Blackbird The Song Goes On Skye Boat Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jul 22 - 08:56 PM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Life Gets Teejius Don’t It? (recitation) Leonardo da Thingy (poem) The Song Goes On The Good Cook Stirs in the Alli-allium Michael Row the Boat When I Go An Affectation of Conceit (=I’m in Love with the Nearest Mirror) Roll the Cotton Down (halyard version) + verses of Roll the Kaiser Down (parody) Savory fair Mia, totsants s’apròcha (sung in Occitan) Bring Me a Rose Crossing the Bar Isn’t Life Strange? Banks of Red Roses The Unquiet Grave Where Shall I Be (when the first trumpet sounds)? (including verses by Rick Pollay) If Our Lives were on Videotape 49th Birthday (story) + poem by Muriel Fisher Row On In My Life Girl from the North Country Alice White Ride Cowboy Ride Anac Cuain I’m So Glad I Got My ‘Ligion in Time Willie’s Lady The Ball Playing Song Hospice (poem) No Thanks, Thanks I’m Going Home to Georgia Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain The Wayfaring Stranger (aka Poor Wayfaring Stranger, I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger) Let There Be Morning My Eldorado Won't You Come Home, Disraeli (ttto Bill Bailey, Won't You Come Home) Mickey Mouse wears a Boris Johnson watch (poem) Too Many Icarus Moments (poem) The Magpie Joy to the World High Germany Make It, Mend It Slithering Round Eden (ttto Streets of Laredo) Pretty Flowers All Around Fatty Molesworth Jack Ashton Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) All You Need is Love Electricity If You Love Me Ratcliffe Highway I Ain't Never Been Satisfied The Ding Dong Blues San Antonio Rose After the Haircut (free verse) First You Lose the Rhyming The Lone Pilgrim The Ballad of Penny Evans Slow Train Through Georgia Hard, Ain't it Hard Parkette Skye Boat Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Aug 22 - 12:37 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 1/2 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Hallelujah I’m A Bum Both Sides Now Dipsticks & Seals (poem) Fields of Athenry (parody) Farewell He (ttto All Around My Hat) I’m the Original Chauvinist Pig The Rolling of the Stones Wind River Waltz Pack Up Your Sorrows I Wish They’d Do It Now Le Galant Indiscret (The Indiscreet Suitor, sung in French) White Cottons of Despair (ttto Woody Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre) Dink’s Song Pancho & Lefty Buck-eyed Jim You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me Swifts and Swallows Slip Jigs and Reels Elijah (ttto Delilah) Caledonia Where Did You Get That Hat? Claudy Banks (with additional verse) Mathematics Times are Not What They Used to Be The Horses of May Day Bold Riley Duncan Gray Who Woulda Thunk It? The Briar and the Rose Down Under Handsome Molly Travelling Man’s Daughter (aka Tinkerman’s Daughter) Smile The Unfortunate Rake (same tune as Streets of Laredo) I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister Jolly Roving Tar (aka Get Up, Jack; John, Sit Down) This Bit is Mine (poem) Women Always Lead Men From Behind I’m Gonna be an Engineer Darling Corey Son Come Tell to Me (cowboy version of Edward) Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech) The Bergen The King's Navy Tha mo ghaol air àird a'chuain (a broken token song in Scots Gaelic) Catahoula Give Ear to a Frolicsome Ditty The Leaving of Liverpool Crazy Green Stamps (ttto Greensleeves) Red-Haired Mary Last Words Related It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Joy of Living Scrambled Eggs (ttto Yesterday) Eilean Leodhais, tir nan gaisgeach (The Isle of Lewis, Land of Heroes, in Scottish Gaelic) The Lammas Tide See Here, She Said The Wine Song When Hippos Battle in the Mud The Wild Side of Life It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels The Kangaroo Song (aka A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak) Raise Your Voices Lisa's Freight Train Give Yourself to Love Kisses Sweeter than Wine |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Aug 22 - 02:09 AM Songs, recitations, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 8/9 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing Woodstock Remember All Those Years Ago (poem) We Are All The Souls On Earth (poem) William Brown (aka Keep That Wheel a-Turning) Drunk and Disorderly (parody ttto Lord of the Dance) I’m a Wheel within Wheels within Wheels Greasy Mac (recited) Re Gilardin (sung in Piedmontese) I Ain’t Marching Any More Willie o’ Winsbury You Belong to Me Walkie in the Garden/Parlor I’m an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Home Lads Home Song to a Seagull White Cliffs of Dover Long Summer Day The Hole in the Ark (monologue) She Moved Through the Fair Love at the Five-and-Dime Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Le Chinois The Vision (poem) Sight for Sore Eyes The Contender The Carnival is Over Catfish John Let Me Be There Son of the Earl of White Banners (sung in Scottish Gaelic) Star of the County Down Bring Back My Body to Me (parody ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) The Irish Rover Brigg Fair Pearl the Preying Mantis (poem) Red is the Rose The Ballad of Springhill Animalarkey Five Folk Songs in Thirty Seconds Adelaide's Lament When First Unto this Country Long Black Veil Aardvark Hiroshima Memorial Candlelight Vigil (poem) Changes Olivia Newton-John presente! Danny Boy Cat Parody Ballad of Lewis Mills Summerfly Black Girl (aka In the Pines) Last Song The Music of Strings You Never Know Just Who You're Going to Meet Hard Times Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More) Embraceable You I Come and Stand at Every Door Man Smart (Woman Smarter) Jazzing (poem) Dance Away Archimedes (ttto Leave Her, Johnny) Kingfisher Drowned Sailor Dreaming My Dreams with You Have You Never Been Mellow What's the Use of Wings Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Aug 22 - 01:13 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 15/16 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Early Parking At Whitby (ttto Dancing at Whitsun) Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her Raggle Taggle Gypsies Verbosity Sammy’s Bar You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out El enamorado y la Muerte (sung in Spanish) Lunenberg Town Harbo & Samuelson Skewball (recited) An Cailin Rua (The Red-haired Girl) (sung in English) The Muffin Man Song (plus medley of nursery rhymes) Where’ve You Been? The Ramona Old Times They Are a-Changin’ (parody of The Times, They Are a-Changin') On the Cat (ttto Quartermaster’s Stores) The Doctor Danny Boy Eat Bertha’s Mussels Haul Away Boys The Singer's Club in Enniscorthy (tune based on The Man who Came Home from Pretoria) One I Love Man with Blue Dolphin The Irish Rover Deep River Blues My Grandfather’s Clock The Queen and the Soldier Silly Polysyllabist The Last Battle Rosin the Bow (aka Old Róisín the Beau, and other variations) Bluenose Wild Rover (ttto Banana Boat Song) Blue Screen Broken Hearted Blues (updated to Zoom Room Blues) Ballad of Penny Evans Bonny Streets of Fyvie-o (aka The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, Peggy-O, Fennario, The Maid of Fife, ...) Where Shall We Go (poem) How Beautiful Upon the Mountain Tail Toddle Sunday Morning Coming Down Banks of Ponchartrain Marcie Scarlet Ribbons Mrs Murphy Greensleeves Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart The Blind Boy's Dog Bunessan (piano solo; tune used for Morning Has Broken) Forty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago) Charlie Porter Make and Break Harbour My Love is Like a Dewdrop Lord Franklin (Les Barker parody) Leanabh an Aigh (Blessed Child, in Scots Gaelic, ttto Bunessan) All the Way Home Swimming to the Other Side True Confessions (poem) Single Player Let Me Be There I Have a Dream ACME Where Do Dead Animals Go The Fields of Athenry Michael Row the Boat Ashore Music to Me |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Aug 22 - 06:06 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 22/23 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Cat Came Back I Wish We’d Sailed on the “Jeanie Johnston” The Civilised World (poem) Sam’s Racehorse (monologue) Suede Show Blues Barney Google Public Bar (ttto Early One Morning) False Autumn (poem) If You Love the Water, Let It Rain Cad é sin don té sin (sung in English translation) Cawsand Bay The Scotsman The Lone Pilgrim Roseville Fair (fragment) Morning Has Broken Wild Mountain Thyme Fair Maid of Islington Maginot Waltz Dink’s Song Bad Blood I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River Prairie Lullaby One More Mile Buddy Better Get on Down the Line Ukrainian Now Stewball Remember Me Who will Watch the Home Place? Bygone Days (poem) Marksman Sam (monologue) Balding April Come She Will Streets of Laredo ????? ???? (Letyat utki) (Ducks are Flying, sung in Russian) The Lord Into His Garden Comes (The Garden Hymn, extra verses from Meditations Among the Tombs) A Bottle o’ the Best A Capital Ship (aka The Walloping Window Blind) The Coils of Love The Rosabella Down Where the Drunkards Roll Billy Venero Address on Death (poem) The Laily (or Laidly, or Loathsome) Worm and the Mackerel (or Machrel) of the Sea Far from the Home I Love The Ballad of Michael Collins (aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours) What'll I Do The King's Navy The Cobbler's End Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes My, My, Mama Darling Nelly Gray Dark-Eyed Molly Braw Sailin' on the Sea Caledonia Blue Tail Fly (aka Gimme/Jimmy Crack Corn) If I Could (poem) Let's Choose Peace Let's Fall in Love When I First Came to this Land The Vampire Come to Whitby Do You Love an Orange (ttto Do You Love an Apple) She's Someone's Grandmother Dillon Bay Sing, Sugar, Sing Wild Blossoms Hobo's Lullaby |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 31 Aug 22 - 08:24 PM Songs, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 29/30 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Home Grown Tomatoes Thorneymoor Woods Aggie the Elephant (monologue, aka Little Aggie) Woodhouse Colliery (poem) Oblate Spheroids (poem) Spanish Beaches (ttto Spanish Ladies) High Germany Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer Ten in the Bed (aka Roll Over) Black is the Colour O Tell Me Where the Dove has Flown (tune is "Dove of Peace") Frozen Logger The Unquiet Grave (Jean Ritchie version) The Rare Ould Times The Countersigns The Baby Tree If it wasn’t for the ‘ouses in Between Downed and Drowned Egyptian Ella Byker Hill Till the Dance is Mine The Keys of Canterbury Ragged Old Truck Elsie Marley Our Ship is Ready Isabella (adaptation of Keats’ poem) What’s the Use of Wings? Westlin Winds Turn Turn Turn Songs Stay Sung The Mountain Slow Train Through Georgia Old Zip Coon The Rich Man and the Poor Man Doomsday Blues The Atheist and the Bears (poem) Violin Farm (monologue) Hillbilly Heaven Saucy Sailor Disco Calypso Isn't It Grand, Boys As Time Goes By In My Grandma's Garden See You In September As If He Knows Sapozhkelekh (in Yiddish; chorus only) Morning Come, Maria Gone Guilt and Shame Room for Company (aka Bartholomew Fair) Broom o' the Cowdenknowes As I Roved Out The Song of the Volga Boatmen (in Russian; "Ey, Ukhnyem!" loosely translated as "yo heave ho!") Heat Detector Sweet Thang The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Hielan Laddie (often sung as "Donkey Riding") I Heard You Sing a Song Sunday Driver Hungarian shepherds' dance (title unknown; jaw harp instrumental) Dilmano Dilbero (in Bulgarian) Awake You Drowsy Sleeper In China or a Woman's Heart One I Love When I was a Cowboy Rigs of the Time (contemporary verses) The Recruited Collier Bring Me a Boat His Name was Juel Look to the Rainbow Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Sep 22 - 01:53 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Banks of Marble Old Bones Cargoes (poem) Time to Pay the Ferryman (poem ) The Burghers of Calais (monologue) Bill the Burly Burglar Sam’s Gone Away (aka Aboard a Man o’ War) The Ballad of Chris Moser Schön ist der Morgen (Morning is broken, sung in German) September Song Brave Marin (sung in French) Bury Me in My Overalls Ludlow Massacre How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?) When I Grow too Old to Dream Mobile Bay Cold Mountain Queen Eleanor’s Confession Gambling on the Sabbath Day The Boys of Barr na Sraide My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow) Female Rambling Sailor The Boxer The Mill was Made of Marble All Among the Barley Your State's Name Here The Day After Tomorrow The Lemmings’ Reunion (poem) The Magna Carta (monologue) The Kamikaze Reunion Party (recitation) My Father Was a Driver on the Northwest Railway I Still Miss Someone Shepherd, O Shepherd Stixwould Harvest Song (aka Drink Good Ale) Little Sadie Take a Chance That's He (ttto That's Him) Try to Remember McKinley's Rag (aka White House Blues) Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill Geritol Gypsy False, False Bonny Portmore Who Built this House Farewell to Nova Scotia Logie o' Buchan Do You Need Another Hand? Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill Before the Deluge Tolpuddle Man I've Been Workin' on the Railroad I Can See Your Aura and It's Ugly Medley: In the Sweet By-and-By/The Preacher and the Slave/Joe Hill Me and My Uncle The Scarecrow Working Man A Miner's Life (aka Union Miners, Miner's Lifeguard) Satisfied Mind |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Sep 22 - 02:05 AM This website was down for a few days, which prompted me to write these verses, and to sing them at the Mudcat Singaround of 12/13 September 2022, to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme: Oh, the wintertime is here [in Australia], And Mudcat's on the fritz. How will I learn my songs? I'm about to lose my wits. Chorus: Will ye load, Mudcat, load, And we'll all browse together, Downloading lyrics From the electronic heather. Will ye load, Mudcat, load? If the website should crash, Where will I find another? Fresno State? Mainly Norfolk? Or YouTube – what a bother! Chorus |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Sep 22 - 08:47 PM Songs, recitations, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Right Said Fred September Song How To Give A Cat A Pill (recitation) Brown Boots (monologue) Plots The Bells of Rhymney Papeta Calhau (sung in Occitan) I’m Marching Inland So Handy You’ll Get By Dark as a Dungeon Song of Deal The Golden City More Work for the Undertaker Aged and Mellow Empty Pocket Blues Voodoo Queen Marie The Anti-vaxxer and the Climber My Meatless Day The Nightingale Bird Sleep on Beloved I Still Miss Someone The Iona Boat Song How Can I Keep From Singing? Roseville Fair Waltzing’s for Dreamers Happy Ever After (poem) Angel of the North (poem) Father William (recited) I Love Susie in the Supermarket Sally Free and Easy Here I Am Amongst You O Sinner Man Embraceable You Somewhere Over the Rainbow (piano instrumental) The Gallant Shopping Eppie Morrie When a Knight Won His Spurs Call the Lamas! Will Ye Load, Mudcat, Load (ttto Wild Mountain Thyme) (Parody of) Three Score and Ten Death of Queen Jane I Want to Buy Peroxide (parody of "I Wandered By a Brookside"?) (Parody of) Parting Friends Medley: Unst Boat Song and Þat Mælti Mín Móðir (My Mother Told Me) (in Norn, Old Icelandic, English, and Scottish Gaelic) Isle au Haut Lullaby The Bells What Should I Wear to the Revolution The Bold Tinker (aka Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell's Steam Engine, Making Babies by Steam) Singing Through the Hard Times Come By the Hills Golden Mansions Hills of Isle au Haut How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?) Only Remembered Bright Morning Stars |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Sep 22 - 12:15 AM Songs and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 19/20 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Railroading on the Great Divide Home Lads Home When I’m Gone (not the Phil Ochs song) Beat the Retreat (monologue) Absent Friends and You America (My Country ‘tis of Thee) L’Escriveta (sung in Occitan) Barbara Allen Little Boy Fishing off a Wooden Pier The Mountain Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk Funerals The Future Mrs ‘Awkins Vicky’s Secret Her Majesty No Woman No Cry Cheek to Cheek Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto The Irish Washerwoman) The Bergen Barroom Girls Goldwatch Blues Spanish Pipedream Charade Bright Sweaters and Fall Bonny at Morn Die Gedanken Sind Frei (sung in German) I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing (ttto "The Maids of Mourne Shore," the tune commonly used for Down By the Salley Gardens) Maybe I Won’t Turn Up For Me Death Sam Drummed Out (monologue) Love is a Chain Come All You Virginia Girls When Your Bells Have Turned Green (ttto Fiddlers’ Green) The Mary Ellen Starter (parody of The Mary Ellen Carter) I Can See Clearly Now There Is a Wall General Guinness Let’s All Go Join the Queue (ttto Let’s All Go Down the Strand) Raven in the Storm Killed by a Coconut Banana Republics San Francisco Bay Blues Isle of St Helena Medicine Wheel In Spite of Ourselves Stormy Truth Cannot Be Silenced (ttto Die Gedanken Sind Frei) The Unquiet Grave (ttto Star of the County Down) Boat of Silver Somewhere The Way I Feel Streets of London Find Me an Island Dimming of the Day Singing Through the Hard Times Lilibet's Gone (ttto Lavender's Blue) All Around My Fat (ttto All Around My Hat) Crossing the Bar |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Sep 22 - 08:24 AM Songs, poems, recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 26/27 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Old Joe Clark Hard Times The Widow’s Promise Mandalay (poem) (by Les Barker, not Kipling) Just a Little Rain Molly Malone Errol the Feral Cat The Broken-down Showman (monologue) Maiulin (sung in Italian) Sussex Drinking Song Till I’m Too Old to Die Young Feeling Good Unsaneh Tokef (recited) Who by Fire Chickens in the Garden Wabash Cannonball 75 Septembers Urge for Going Strike at the Whale! (Pique La Baleine, sung in English) Pointing to the Moon Wee Pot Stove Johnny MacEldoo Peaceful Easy Feeling Four Walls Edward/Who Put the Blood? (I Wish I had) Someone to Love Me Camden Across the Seas of Time (poem) The Key of Always (poem) Label in the Printer (ttto Little boxes) Clementine Bone Fido Sam’s Medal (monologue) Before I Gaze At You Again How to Handle a Woman The Heights of Alma Evil-hearted Man Song for Margaret (the one by Charlotte Peters Rock) Deep Settled Peace (or, There's a Deep Settled Peace in My Soul) The Isle of Eigg Light the Pipe Sweet Thames Flow Softly I'm Leaving Facebook (ttto Farewell My Friends, aka Parting Friends, aka Canaan's Land) Library-O Last Trip Home The Soldiers Story Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye One Time and One Time Only Eyes of Night Owls (ttto Eyes of Eagles) Bread and Fishes Misalliance Darcy Farrow Frances Lee Ecumenical Hora (ttto Hava Nagila) The Family of Woman and Man (When We Go) Rolling Home One With the Darkness Housewives' Shanty Circle of Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Sep 22 - 01:25 AM I sang Ecumenical Hora at the most recent singaround. The lyrics were written by Murray Porath, the tune is that of Hava Nagila. The version I sang went Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Allahu Akbar! Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Allahu Akbar! Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee. Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war. Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee. Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war. Hare! Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare, Allelu! Allelu! Kyrie Eleison, Ommmmmmmm. I don't know where I found these lyrics. Possibly on one of the Usenet newsgroups rec.music.folk or rec.music.filk, could be 30 years ago. Track 17 of https://archive.org/details/filk_ovff_concert_1 is Murray Porath singing it at the 1984 Ohio Valley Filk Festival concert, but with very different lyrics from what I've posted here. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 Oct 22 - 08:44 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 3/4 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Your Daughters and Your Sons October Song The Tryphena’s Extra Hand (poem) The Spider and the Yucca Tom Lotch (monologue) Three Wheels on My Budget (ttto Three Wheels on My Wagon) The Bard of Armagh Le roi a fait battre tambour (sung in French) We’ve Got Work to Do William-O (aka Bay of Biscay) Lifeboat Horses The Last Shanty (poem) The Minstrel Boy Neocortex Trouble Child Bells of Norwich I Wish that the Wars were all Over Urge for Going Three Rows Over, Two Seats Down Rawtenstall Annual Fair Night Rider's Lament Let Her Go Down The Book of Kevin, Chapter Five The Pub Landlord’s Labrador Faraway People (recited) Winter (poem) Buffalo Gals The Starling Jamaica Farewell Hard Time Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More) Don't Tell Mama Oró sé do bheatha bhaile ("Welcome Home", in Irish Gaelic) Arthur McBride (aka The Recruiting Sergeant, Arthur McBride and the Sergeant) Ballad of the Microwave Poodle These are My Mountains Letyat Utki ("Ducks are Flying", in Russian) The Best of Autumn Hanging Johnny Three Score and Ten The Handsome Cabin Boy The Fifth of October (ttto The Patriot Game/One Morning in May/The Nightingale) Autumn Leaves Soon It's Gonna Rain Empty-Handed Songs Stay Sung Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger) Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda ("Alasdair, Son Of Gallant Coll" in Scots Gaelic) Bridges |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:56 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 10/11 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Whitby Fisherman (ttto Blessed Quietness) The Mary Ellen Carter In Praise of VIA Rail (poem) Hector the Objector It Won't Last Very Very Long (monologue) The Sick Note Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Autumn Song Bessie’s Boil (monologue) La esposa infiel ("The Unfaithful Wife", version of Seven Drunken Nights - Our Good Man, sung in Spanish) The Sailor Fireman How Brightly Beams the Morning Star Miner’s Washing The Tale of Old Bill Blunt Reuben James The Demon Lover (aka Night Visiting Song) Steal Away and Pray In the Sidings Now The Equestrian Statue The False Knight on the Road Marching Inland Slow Train Through Georgia My Bonnie Lies Over the Oil Tank (ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) Go Rest High on that Mountain This is Halloween He Had a Long Chain On If You Know What I Mean My Country 'Tis of Your People You're Dying Living in the Stilts Wandering The Griesly Bride A Strange Way to Go to be Free (poem) Every Man Should Have a Shed New Motorway's Coming (aka Folk Song 73) (monologue) Pleasant and Delightful Red is the Rose The Street Where You Live My Lady at Tesco (ttto My Lady of Autumn) Killing the Blues Fire Down Below With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) In My Life The Long and Lonely Winter Time to Love Again Lyke Wake Dirge Zombie Jamboree The Fifth Day of October Rosh Hashanah (ttto Oklahoma!) The Siren Oedipus Rex Things We Said Today Yesterday Who Am I Now I Hate to See You Cry I Don't Know Final Trawl |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Oct 22 - 05:49 PM Songs, poems, recitations, tunes, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 17/18 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Lady of Autumn Carrying Nelson Home How They Brought the Gnus from Ghent to Aix (poem) Clancy of the Overflow (recitation) Three Fatal Females The Unquiet Grave Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover) Susanna Martin Qu’allais-tu faire à la fontaine? (sung in French) Oor Hamlet Caisleán Droma-Mhor (= Castle of Dromore) (sung in Irish Gaelic) Hobo's Lullaby When the Old Man Came Home Sober Apple Pickers’ Reel Sweet Memories Rio Grande Man Walks Among Us Silver Dagger October Song January Man Planxty Irwin (tune) Planxty Fanny Power (tune) Brother Warrior Last Trip Home Four Walls Harris and the Mare Teddy Bears' Picnic Easy and Slow (the Irish song, not the Si Kahn song) Morningtown Ride October Winds (aka Castle of Dromore, sung in English and in Irish Gaelic) Breisleach (in Scots Gaelic) The Old Chisholm Trail Mrs Ravoon (rewrite of) Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (reading) The Boys of the Chelsea School (monologue) The Headless Horseman The Owl and the Pussycat Total Eclipse of the Heart Loch Tay Boat Song (rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold Flicka från Backafall (Girl from Backafall, in Swedish) The Anti-Vaxxer and the Climber Half a Man West Coast Lullaby My Texas Girl Mexican Hat Dance (tune is called Jarabe Tapatîo) Baboon Climbs the Hill / Stellenbosch Boys Coal in the Stone Don't Fence Me In Fair the Heather Grows The Marvelous Toy Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In) We Should Be Going Home (ttto Rolling Home) Hymn Song Find a Way Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Oct 22 - 04:46 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 24/25 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list, and to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. Away Ye Merry Lasses Mr. Fox (the one by John Pole) Lucy Gray (poem) The Monster Mole We're Living At The Cloisters (monologue) The Rains Have Come Again The Ballad Of Springhill Don Quixote (fragment) Grey October Vampire Rag Didn’t I Dance? Don’t Fence Me In Sometimes I’m Calling For You Lyke-Wake Dirge Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Agnes at Hallowe’en (monologue) The Congleton Bear The Curmudgeon (recitation, parody of Poe’s The Raven) Found Dying in the Street Flirtin’ with Death Carrying Nelson Home Phantom of Samhain (poem) Bringing Mary Home Tails and Trotters Tell Old Bill The Toast Song Legacies (poem) The Reluctant Monster Albert and the 'Eadsman (monologue) The Preacher's Whiskey Flask Look for Me at Samhain (poem) The Spider The Bell-Ringing I Had an Old Coat The Griesly Bride Death and the Lady 'Illean bithibh sunndach ("Boys Be Happy", in Scottish Gaelic) Lady Margaret I Wanna Be a Bonobo Hej Bystrá Voda ("Oh Fast-Flowing Stream", in Czech) The Lowestoft Boat (ttto A-Rovin') Mr Fixit (poem) A Maiden Sat A-Weeping Why I'm Different (poem) Samhain (poem) Knoxville Girl Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, sung in English, except chorus in Hebrew) Somewhere to Begin Good Old Mountain Dew Song Sung Blue Over the Rainbow Death of Queen Jane Thíos Cois na Trá Domh (in Irish Gaelic) Revolutionary Tea Oregon or Die Bound for Transylvania King Henry (version of) Butcher Boy Light The Good in Living |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Nov 22 - 04:36 PM Songs, recitations, poems, monologues, readings, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 31 October/1 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Griesly Bride The Lover’s Ghost The Witch of Fife (recited/dramatized) She’s a Witch The Bard (recited) Three Ravens The Ballad of William Bloat (recited) A Bhean Ud Thios (= "Oh Woman Down Yonder", sung in English) Voces daba un marinero (= "The Sailor was Screaming Out", sung in Spanish) The Merry Huntsman Reinvented (parody of The Merry Huntsman) The Monster Mash (recited) The Devil’s awa’ wi’ the Exciseman Weela Weela Walya (aka Woman in the Woods) October Roses Red Samhain (sung in Russian) The Unquiet Grave Bound for Transylvania A-souling Du, du liegst mir im Herzen (sung in German) Gentle Soldier of My Soul I am Cherry Alive Hillbillies in a Haunted House (recited) Unfortunate Miss Bailey Samhain (poem) Moon over Bourbon Street Camptown Races We Sail the Ocean Blue / I'm Called Little Buttercup (bits) Hallows' Eve The Maids of the Northern Lights (poem) Blood Count Dracula Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers (monologue) Tam Lin Tragedy Le Fantôme ("The Ghost", in French) The Private Still The Brown and Yellow Ale The Widow's Promise Tam Glen Rise Again The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic) Look for Me at Samhain (reading) The Devil and the Ploughman The Stolen Child IQ Testing (story) The Vampire Mary Had a Little Lamb Tom Dooley A Witch's Words to Her Familiar on Samhain (poem) The Devil and the Smith Take Me Out(-of-sync) to the Ballgame The Kelpie's Lullaby Sentimental Journey Who were the Witches The Highwayman (Ochs setting) Zombie Jamboree Quantum Mechanics The Vicar of Bray Mr Fox All Scary Critters Got a Place in the Choir (ttto A Place in the Choir) Ghost Song from Ruddigore ("Painted Emblems of a Race") The Lincolnshire Vampire With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle (sung as The Mudcat Ladies Magical Circle) I Remember Loving You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Nov 22 - 04:45 PM Songs, stories, recitations, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 7/8 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Monique for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Mr. Fox (story) Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley) Art (recitation) Bonfire Night Don Quixote Lovely Joan Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair Banks of the Sweet Primroses Ballade en novembre (sung in French) The Devil at York Minster The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie Tavern Down by the Harbor Angels Rock Me to Sleep Broke (recited) Safe Romance To the Princess Margaret on her Arrival at Holyrood Willie McBride Rap It was All for Our Rightful King Too Stupid for Democracy Delia's Gone The Cat Came Back Crazy from the Heart Lady Franklin's Lament Palace of the Czar (aka Shootin' with Rasputin) Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger) Things in Life Almost Every Circumstance Lyke Wake Dirge The Ship Hotel (poem) Uncle Fred's Shed Streets of Laredo On the Sunny Side of the Street The Black Velvet Band The Dreadnought (rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold My Dearest Dear Burning Gold Woody Knows Nothing Thirteen Florins on the Bar Candles in the Rain Wasn't That a Time Keep on the Sunny Side of Life Crazy Sunrise, Sunset Shirley Sing with Me From Me to You Guy Fawkes (ttto Modern Major General) Wash My Eyes Manoa in the Rain The Final Trawl Song of the Weaver If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus Widows of War Don't Fence Me In Where Teardrops Fall Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In) Find Every Ballot (ttto Climb Every Mountain) Nevada Jane River of the Big Canoe Julian of Norwich |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Nov 22 - 12:20 AM Songs, poems/recitations, monologues and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 14/15 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Jabberwocky (recitation) Constant Lovers Jenkins’ Ear (poem) Home Fit for Heroes (poem) The Germans Bombed our Chippy in the War Sniper Sandy (monologue) Pensioner Magee Walk with Me (poem) Scarborough Fair In Thee is Gladness Amid all Sadness (ttto L'Innamorato; lyrics translated from the German, "In Dir ist Freude") Las fielairas ("The Spinners", sung in Occitan) (version of) Two Sisters What is't to Us Wheel of Fortune (aka Sad Experience Teaches Me) John Condon The Day We Went to Blackpool (ttto The Day We Went to Bangor) Wind River Waltz This Old World The True Haunting The Green Willow Tree (version of The Golden Vanity) If I had the Copyright on the Word $%^& Life Passes By (French original is "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit") Bríd Óg Ní Máille ("Bridget O'Malley," sung in Irish Gaelic) Somewhere to Begin The Ferrybank Piper I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog Only Remembered The Lost Words Blessing (I think the singer called it "The Blessing Song") Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella (instrumental) Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger Battle of the Somme Philadelphia Lawyer Wall of Death Number Ten (poem) Bungay Roger The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem) The Water is Wide (aka Waly, Waly) Masochism Tango Kitty Bairdie When You Wish Upon a Star Dream of a Child Our Town Seven Bridges Road Zimmerframe Blues (ttto Summertime Blues ) Thanksgiving Eve (To) Make You Feel My Love Buddy Can You Spare a Dime Downtown Zeno Exit Eyes of a Painter Cold Rain and Snow (aka Rain and Snow) Casus Belli Halsway Carol (a different version of) Two Sisters Air an Somme ("On the Somme", sung in Scots Gaelic) River of Tears Light of a Clear Blue Morning Farewell All the Good People Geritol Gypsy Their Brains Were Small and They Died (parody of) Mockingbird (aka "Hush, Little Baby") The Road is Always Easy If I Were Free Railroading on the Great Divide |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Guest Joan F Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:53 AM I sang "Wheel of Fortune", could also be called "Sad Experience Teaches Me" in the 1st round but the line your helper gives as title *isn't* in the song. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Nov 22 - 03:59 PM Thanks, Joan, I'll edit. Was this the song you sang? http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Wheel_of_Fortune_or_Dublin_City.htm |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Guest Joan F Date: 17 Nov 22 - 11:37 PM No, though it has pretty much the same tune as "Spanish Lady", Dublin City", etc. The ni Dhomnail sisters, whose name I always mis-spell, use my chorus only at the end of their "Spanish Lady". Someone at the Somerville Armory when we were having pub sings inside there told me my song was supposed to have the last verse I used so I've used it ever since. I know another song with much the same lyrics but sung to a variant of the "Willow Garden" tune. Please use the titles I gave in my earlier post. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Nov 22 - 06:53 AM Joan, done. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: leeneia Date: 19 Nov 22 - 05:01 PM Joe asked me to put the name of the original version of "In Thee is Gladness" in the chat that Monday, but there was something wrong with my Chat and it wouldn't take typing. The original version is called L'Innamorato,' and the composer was the Italian Giovanni Gastoldi, died 1622. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Nov 22 - 10:13 PM Songs, poems/recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 21/22 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo) Turning Toward the Morning Distant Hills (poem) Heart of the Heartland (poem) Brindisi The Tale of the Lonesome Prawn (monologue) All Through the Night Come Back in the Morning (ttto The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy) The Holly and the Ivy Pleasant and Delightful (spoken) I'm Called Little Buttercup Que se nos va la Pascua ("Easter is Leaving Us, Girls", sung in Spanish) Folksinger's Ring (ttto Fiddler's Green) The Old Woman Who Lived in the Wood On Your Sleeve (poem) Lobster Salad (recitation, aka Like Ya Would, Paddy's Dream, Kelly's Dream, Paddy Kelly's Dream) Three Little Birds A Friend of Mine is Going Blind Kentish Beers A Silent Lonesome Sound When I'm Drunk Worried Man Blues Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's To a Thesaurus (poem) All Mixed Up Johnny Todd In the Summer of His Years Rivers of Texas Freedom Come All Ye Changes Somos el Barco (chorus in both Spanish and English) Poor Ditching Boy The Charge of the Late Brigade I'm Not as Drunk as People Think I Am Somebody Would Shout Out Shop (poem) The Intergalactic Laxative Winter (poem) Bring Us in Good Ale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (poem) The Shape of Things I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Ain't Got the Blues Blues Nine Times a Night When I Paint My Masterpiece Urge for Going Down and Out Blues (better known as Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out) One More Minute In de Vintertime The Lady Recruit If You Say Yes Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal Dance Ten, Looks Three The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (ttto Brisbane Ladies/Augathella Station/Spanish Ladies) All the Money in the World Savage Daughter The Rose of York See Me Tweet (ttto Ain't She Sweet) Mary from Dungloe Autumn Leaves A Chat with Your Mother Thanksgiving Eve The Avant-Garden Song (ttto Garden Song) Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Nov 22 - 07:44 PM Songs, monologues and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 28/29 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. A Handful of Songs Goodnight-Loving Trail The Mission Of Saint Launderette (poem) At the Vicar's Fancy Ball (monologue) Confessions of a Songwriter Somerset Wassail Skye Boat Song Paure Satan ("Poor Satan", sung in Occitan) Will Ye Gang Love Kelly November (poem) Remember the Alamo Rich People Nobody Cares about the Railroads Any More The Lupines and the Poppies Water, Fire and Smoke The Falcon Carol (aka Corpus Christi Carol) Santa Anna Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin' 9 to 5 Pollution Blues My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying John O'Dreams (tune based on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6) Riddles Wisely Expounded (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Ninety-Nine and Ninety, Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom, ....) Billy Barlow (version of Cutty Wren) There's a Hole in the Bucket Síscéal Nua Eabhrach ("Fairytale of New York," sung partly in English, mostly in Irish Gaelic) Streets of Derry The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns Hard Times Come Again no More You are Love A Poem of Thanksgiving (poem) Here's Hoping Plenty for the Few Steady as You Go Simple Gifts Logs to Burn Until the Dark Time Ends (aka The Comfort of Singing Voices) The House on the Moor (poem) When Father Papered the Parlor (monologue) Versification Lock-keeper This Old Mouse (ttto This Ole House) Fiddler's Green The Briar and the Rose Babylon is Fallen A Circle Game The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones) Sing Me the Old Songs Rose of Desire Do You Hear what I Hear Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly) Sloop John A Come Back Liza Uncle Dave's Grace What's the Use of Wings Gathering Time (poem) Heaven Thanksgiving Prayer Nevada Jane Come By the Hills Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:30 PM At long last, songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Logs to Burn (poem and song) When the Snows of Winter Fall Christmas At Sea (poem) Rag Dance Song Father’s Christmas Toys The Innkeeper O Come Emmanuel I Saw Three Ships (refugee version) Nadal dels aucèls ("The Carol of the Birds", in Occitan) Aunt Sue My Songbird Bluejay Christmas 1914 Death or Glory Wassail Christmas Eve We've Got Work to Do The Long and Lonely Winter Jingle Bells Who Comes this Night Horniman Rag How Anarchy Could Function I'd Rather be Tending My Sheep Yorkshire Wassail Love Call Me Home You're a Mean One Mr Grinch Christmas Carol The Lambskin Carol Tennessee Martin Short Ciad turas mhic dhòmhnaill a ghlaschu (Scottish Gaelic and English, ttto Musselburgh Fair, tune also used in several Australian songs such as The Station Cook, The Great Northern Line, The Sandy Hollow Line) (story about a young boy and a sled) Follow the Heron Home In Dulci Jubilo (in Latin and German) Gaia's Lullaby Help Me to Raise 'em The Man that Slits the Turkeys' Throats at Christmas Fever Travelin' Man Awayday (ttto Gaudete. Several languages, mostly Latin) Turkeys (poem) The Turkey's Reply The Christmas Fairy The Pickle Tree Carol Mock Me (ttto Wagon Wheel) Wasn't that a Mighty Day Casey's Last Ride Annexation (version of Yankee Doodle) Lives in the Balance While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping (alternative version of) Pleasant and Delightful God Rest Ye Unitarians Innocent's Song Hard-Lovin' Loser Personent Hodie (in Latin) The Gambler The Christmas Goose Hearth and Fire Tidings of Candy and Toys (ttto God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) A Foggy Day Wayside / Back in Time Farewell to the Gold Wassail The Silver Apple Please to See the King Ballad of the Carpenter Caravan Song Take a Chance If I Needed You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:41 PM Songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Pickle Tree Carol Dark December The Lily of Arkansas Christmas Countdown (recitation) I'm a Little Fairy on the Christmas Tree Sans Day Carol (aka The Holly Bears a Berry) Crudités (ttto Gaudete) Oh, What a Merry Land is England Cantem Nadal (in Occitan) Sing the Merry (aka Christmas Song) Joe and Me (aka Joe and Mary) When a Child is Born Ordinary Town Santa Baby Fly Away The Friendly Beasts The Fields Lie Silent Just a Single Life Innocent's Song The Christmas Song (aka Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) Mistletoe Bough Ai Pepito The Baby of Mother Mary Turner Footsteps of the Faithful The Greatest Story of All Homeless Wassail and (poem) Could Be, interleaved Christ's Lullaby (in Scots Gaelic, Taladh Chriosda) The Gardener (aka Proud Maisrie) a' Ghrian (in Scottish Gaelic) I Can't Dance (New Age version of) Will the Circle be Unbroken The King's Navy Poor Johnny Pretty Boy Floyd Bethlehem Down I'll Fly Away I Count the Stars on Christmas Night (poem) Forever (poem) The Policeman's Song The Christmas Goose Calling All Angels (story about a too-tall Christmas Tree) Raglan Road Ready for the Storm Bells of St Mary's (fragment) Adeste Fideles Wexford Carol Bleached-White Jesus Permission to Dance (poem) Here's Hoping Too Much of a Good Thing The Pride of Springfield Road White Christmas Twelve Days Home for Christmas William Bloat (ttto Raglan Road) The Willow Tree A-Soalin' Christmas Memories Holiday Dinner Party (ttto Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) Down in Yon Forest Ding Dong Ding Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (ttto ...) Thanksgiving Prayer O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Dec 22 - 03:32 PM Songs and other offerings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 19/20 December 2022, mostly in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items that came after I left as the battery in my phone rapidly approached zero charge. Thanks to Felipa and Yorkshire Yankee for clearing up some of my confusion about the last few items on the list. Comments & corrections always welcome. Gaudete Homeless Wassail I've had a Glass of Ginger Wine Sozzled Santa Hacia belén va una burra ("A Jenny Goes to Bethlehem", in Spanish) Personent hodie Ocho kandelikas (in Ladino) A Solstice Prayer (poem) Could it Be? (ttto Let it Be) The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy Rock of Ages (Maoz tzur) (sung in English mostly) Zat You, Santa Claus? Talk to Me of Mendocino Doc's Guitar A Brush with Life (poem) Skillet Good and Greasy (aka Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy) In the Bleak Midwinter The End of Another Year Halve, by yourself, that... Hanerot halalu (in Hebrew and English) Light is Returning (story about too-tall Christmas tree) Innocent's Song Caught in the Coils of Love A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song) See, Amid the Winter's Snow Coventry Carol Sweet and Shiny Eyes Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen Somewhere Along the Road If I Were Free Nursie Nursie (monologue) I'll be Glad when it's All Over Good King Wenceslas (ttto White Cockade) The Summer Land (poem) Helping not Oppressing (aka Striking, ttto Good King Wenceslas) Metyelitsa ("Snow flurries", in Russian) Jingle Bell Rock Oy Chanike (in Yiddish) Drive the Cold Winter Away Song for a Winter's Night Victor Rag But I Do Good King Wenceslas (sung in Latin) Tracks in the Snow (aka Come Walk with Me) Glory Hallelujah All the World is Just a Narrow Bridge (Partly in Hebrew, "Kol ha'olam kulo") Walking in my Winter Underwear (ttto Winter Wonderland) Session on the Other Side Three Wise Women Hang Me, oh Hang Me (aka Been All Around this World) S'vivon, sov, sov, sov ("Dreydl", in Hebrew) Hot Buttered Rum No Christmas in Kentucky Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl (sung in Yiddish) Christmas in the Trenches Maoz tzur ("Rock of Ages") (sung in Hebrew) Mary's Song Blessings for lighting the Chanukiah Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Jan 23 - 08:55 AM Edited list of the items offered at the singaround of 26/27 December 2022, as scavenged from the chat and supplemented by personal communications. Additions and corrections eagerly solicited. When You and I were Young, Maggie Strike Sound Ring Out, Wild Bells (recitation) OH Winter (OH, as in Ohio) Villancico (Carol, in Spanish) Slithering Sherborne One Day After Christmas I Still Miss Someone Morrissey and the Russian Sailor The Mitcham Line Shunty Mary's Morning Song The Twelve Days after Christmas Frankie and Johnny River (Joni Mitchell, not Bill Staines) A Healing In This Night Broke (poem) The Boar's Head Carol Coventry Carol Saint Stephen The Music of Strings The Girl I Left Behind Me Malpas Wassail Chariots I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas A Shropshire Lad In The Shadows (poem) Plenty for the Few Cinderella Rock Joseph Not So Meek and Mild (recited) The Lag's Song Absent Friends The Stranger - Yn Joarree Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear The Tinkerman's Daughter Belleau Wood The Music Theory Song Good King Wenceslas Winter Song T'ord'nance Survey / Th' Ordnance at 'Burton Extraordinary Love Circle Game Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Champion at Drivin' them Crazy Doc's Guitar (instrumental) Bah, Humbug Blue Skies and Meadows of Gold New Year's Eve Why I'm Different (poem) Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Gentleman Porkers (variant of Gentleman Rankers) Someday at Christmas Unicorns The Christians And The Pagans I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas Hunting The Cutty Wren (Les Barker) Winter / When the Trees Are All Bare A Bird Without Wings Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (in German) Loud Sing the Carol Best Friends (The Unicorn Song) All Through the Night |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Jan 23 - 02:10 PM Songs, recitations, poems and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Comments and corrections always welcome. John Ball Penny for the Ploughboys The Ballad of Cosmo McGrew (poem) The Abandoned Coffee Cream Joshu-Ah The Time_Ts are a-Changing (ttto The Times They Are a-Changin') The Water is Wide Squalor The Asteroid Light (ttto The Eddystone Light) Perqué m'an pas dit (in Occitan) Do You Sing Any Dylan? (recited) Battle of New Orleans Song of the Weather Eggs and Marrowbones (aka The Old Woman from Wexford; Wikipedia and mainlynorfolk give a dozen other titles) Cottonwood Canyon Things Have Changed McBryde-Argyle Station Lowlands of Holland Baby Rose The Cold Within A Cold Wind The Coming of the Roads Mean Old Bedbug Blues It's Up to Us (I Dreamed there were) Unicorns Fire Drive the Cold Winter Away Lady Franklin's Lament (aka Lord Franklin) Friends I've Made The Month of January (aka In the Month of January, 'Twas in the Month of January, It was in the Month of January) Hearth and Fire Smeòrach Chlann Dòmhnaill (in Scots Gaelic) The Farmer's Carol Feels So Near It's Too Late Deportee (aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Rip Van Winkle Tyranny (poem) The Ladies of the January Army The Writing of Tipperary Simple Gifts Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) The Three Little Piggs, Revised (story) The January June If I had a Hammer (aka The Hammer Song) Bring Flowers Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart Follow the Heron Home Big Rock Candy Mountain Daddy, What's a Brain? (ttto Daddy, What's a Train?) Come See the Boys Go Round The Rose of the San Joaquin (refers to, and same tune as, Tramps and Hawkers) Fisherman's Luck Price Tag Someday Soon I Would I Were Drip Drop Free and Easy for to Jog Along Chì Mi'n Geamhradh (in Scots Gaelic) Out in the Catskill Mountains (ttto Big Rock Candy Mountain) Six Thousand Miles Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Dead Presidents Bright New Year Mary Ann Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Jan 23 - 05:08 AM Songs, poems, readings, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Derby Ram Will the Turtle be Unbroken? (ttto Will the Circle be Unbroken) Salmon (poem) Any Old Wind that Blows The Pensioners’ Pantomime When I First Came to This Land Reinstalling Windows (ttto When I'm Cleaning Windows) Drive the Cold Winter Away Mon père avait un p’tit champ d’ pois ("My Father had a Small Field of Peas", in French) We Shall Overcome Follow the Drinking Gourd Tá mé 'mo shuí ("I am Awake", in Irish Gaelic) (same tune as The Red-Haired Man's Wife, similar to Sisters of Mercy) Battle of New Orleans Poison Beer Mary Brown Abolitionist Molasses Capstan Bar The Turtle (poem) We Have a Dream Follow That Road Staying Out All Night Rattlesnake Mountain He Went to Sleep and the Hogs Ate Him The Franco Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (read) Mo Chailín Bán (My Comely Lass, in Irish Gaelic) (similar tune to Dawning of the Day, On Raglan Road) Flowers of the Forest Woody Knows Nothing Blackbird Rolling Home to Old New England It Isn't Matter Any More A Year, a Day, and Twice Forever The Backlegs of the Cow Scarlet Raygun Streets of Laredo MacCrimmon's Lament The Merry Golden Tree (version of The Golden Vanity) Pangur Bán (poem, "White Pangur") Doc's Guitar (instrumental) The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh Shining Down on Sennen The Old Cobbled Streets Keys of Canterbury In Contempt My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove (ttto My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove) Tomorrow The Old Churchyard Frankie and Albert Nevada Jane Pretty Saro Rosa Parks All the Pretty Little Horses (aka Hush-a-Bye) Hold On to Me Babe Homegrown Tomatoes They're Taking it Away The Boys of Barr na Sraide Worried Man Blues Honeysuckle Rose The January Woman (ttto The January Man) Cossack Lullaby (in Russian) Paradise Windmills I Am the Wind The Hard Cheese of Old England Louisiana 1927 May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You Custard Creams (ttto John O' Dreams) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Jan 23 - 12:10 AM Songs, poems, readings, stories and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Hunting the Cutty Wren (parody of The Cutty Wren, Hunting the Wren) The Granemore Hare The Song of Stars (poem) A Brief Life (poem) Two short eulogies to Les Barker (recited) The Truth about the Loch Ness Monster Long Black Veil Filking on a Sunday Afternoon untitled poem about Larry the Cat Polly Von/Vaughan Sally I’m Thinking of You (ttto That was Before I Met You) Sweet William's Ghost Woodstock La serrana ("The Mountain Girl", in Spanish) Green Grow the Rashes The Air in America Peter's Song Turtledove Done Drooped His Wings The Wendigo No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto See, Amidst the Winter's Snow) Sardines People Say Strange Things Fair and Fause The Verb To Be (reading) Sodger Laddie I'm Going to German Boozing Ballyronan Maid The Storms are On the Ocean Gil Morice (= Child Maurice) The Wendigo Case (story) My Heart's in the Highlands Toast to the Lassies (poem) Driving By Judy's Pastures of Plenty I'll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig Amnesia (poem) Scottish Food and Drink High Germany Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Tell Old Bill The Scotsman Smile You Make Me Feel Like Dancin' Green Green Rocky Road I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Month of January (same tune as Leaving Derry Quay = Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore) Dragon Song Lizzy Lindsay Sweet Thames Flow Softly Johnny Macree (poem) Goodbye Booze Geritol Gypsy It Could Have Been Me When You and I were Young, Maggie (piano instrumental) Holocaust Memorial Day (poem) Has Anybody Seen (ttto Abraham, Martin and John) Wedding Bell Blues Jaquima to Freno Amhrán Mhuinse (in Irish Gaelic) An Cailín Álainn (in Irish Gaelic, same tune as Mingulay Boat Song) Good Fish Chowder (aka Jerry Mulligan) Going Home (ttto Rolling Home) Keep Hauling Dona, Dona The Mistletoe Bough Mystery Medhel an Gwyns ("Soft is the Wind") Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 31 Jan 23 - 09:17 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. If I had a Hammer A Sailor’s Life The Royal Charter (poem) Sugar in the Hold Below The Weaver and the Factory Maid Early One Morning My Meatless Day (monologue) When Icicles Hang by the Wall The Cuckoo The Coils of Love I Can Hew Bold Riley The Shoemakers' Holiday (aka Round Boys Round Indeed) Big River I'm an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Yo Soy un Pobre Vaquero ("I'm a Poor Cowboy", in Spanish) Angels in the Snow Mother, I Climbed The Really Strangest Dream Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War (aka Susan's Adventures in a Man-of-War) With a Little Bit of Luck Zog Nit Keynmol (alternating Yiddish and English stanzas) Destroyer Benson (ttto The Sick Note = Why Paddy's Not at Work Today = Murphy and the Bricks, which was ttto The Garden where the Praties Grow) Gabhaim Molta Bhride ("I Praise Brigid", in Irish Gaelic) Amhrán ne Féidireachta ("Songs of Possibility", in Irish Gaelic) Liza in the Summertime (aka She Died on the Train) Looking for Trouble To Where You Are The Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich, All Shall Be Well) Eliza (ttto Delilah) The Photocopier (poem) Label in the Printer (ttto Little Boxes) The Parting Glass Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Anathea Way Down in the Mines Metyelitsa ("Snow Flurry", in Russian) Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal How Long, How Long Blues (aka How Long Blues, aka How Long, How Long) How to Stand Still Suburbs of Eden If I Loved You Destitution Road When You and I were Young, Maggie The Luckiest Sailor Skin (ttto You've Got to Have Heart) For the Sake of the Republic Bloody Sunday (Joe Mulheron, not U2; ttto 1913 Massacre) Goodbye Old Booze The Unicorn Song (piano instrumental) Ellan Vannin Down Among the Sheltering Palms Time has Made a Change in Me Hold on Tight |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Feb 23 - 11:11 PM Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Philadelphia Lawyer Holland Handkerchief The Four Trees (poem) Song of Wandering Aengus (poem) Spring song Please Don’t Pull Our Local Down Villikins and Dinah Hard Case Honoré, mon enfant ("Lord Randall", in French) Faded Coat of Blue You'll Get Used to It The Gay Fusilier (same tune as Waltzing Matilda) Baptism of Fire Scuppernong Day Falling in Love Uncle Joe I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) General Guinness Seven Spanish Angels San Antonio Rose Chicken Cordon Blues Up, Up, and Away Who Shall Count for Thee? I Don't Want to Get Well (aka I'm in Love with a Beautiful Nurse) Duncan and Brady Don't Sit on My Jimmie Shands Cannily, Cannily The Land Beyond the Blue Shining Dancer (poem) Angel in a Bar Pokegama Bear Sensodyne (ttto Reynardine) Annabel Lee (poem) Come Along You Drunken Bums Walk with Me (poem, aka The Raucous Cry of the Gulls) King of Scurf The I Don't Know where I'm Going, But I'm Going Nowhere in a Hurry Blues Marry the Man Today West Shore Trail (Lamentation for) Anac Cuan (aka Anach Cuan, Anach Cuain, Anac-cuain, Anacuin, ....) Willie the Weeper Land of the Bottom Line The Orange and the Green Casey ay the Bat (poem) Oh to be Back with You Now Our Meeting is Over (aka Meeting is Over, Land on the Shore) Army Life Gene-Modified Food (ttto Food, Glorious Food) You're the Girl I Love Qualification of a Scout (spoken) Smoky Bars no Longer Planxty Fanny Power (instrumental) Military Life (aka The Jerk Song) I'll be Seeing You I Could Write a Book The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones) Even a Gray Day Survivor Leave Batter Your Sole (ttto Fathom the Bowl) Last Trip Home The Ballad of Crispus Attucks Run and Catch the Wind Up With People Oh, Susannah Across the Great Divide When I'm Gone |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:45 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. One of The Roving Kind Lovers & Friends Just Another Love Song (poem) Tom Lotch (monologue) Love on the Dole My Way through the Blue Cocoon Cornflower Blue Down by the Riverside Ring of Fire La mora cautiva (aka El dio de los torneos; "The Captive Moorish Girl", in Spanish) My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (poem) Plaisir d'Amour (in French, and some English) A House is Not a Home Willie Taylor Wonderful, Wonderful Day Settling Down The Day the Piddletrenthide Jug Band Hit the Charts The Hellbound Train Dark-Eyed Molly The Ballad of Erica Levine Vicky's Secret Dark Old Waters Loch Tay Boat Song Take Off Your Old Coat In My Prime The Lovesick Maid (aka Curragh of Kildare, The Winter it is Past) Song of the Swift My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow) An Vailintin Buan ("The Eternal Valentine," in Irish Gaelic) The Dutchman (I'm in Love with) A Wonderful Guy All the Diamonds Waltzing Matilda (piano instrumental) Hal-an-Tow Changes Exercise 77 (aka Amourette) I Will Love You in the Setting of the Sun (poem) Love on the Line The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones) Have I Told You Lately The Shmuck Song (ttto Thirty Years a Princess and Never a Queen) Somewhere Gardening The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind) The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn Make You Feel My Love The Bee Blank Space Love Call Me Home Sufficiently Unique (poem) Dawning of the Day Bound for the Mountains and the Sea Geordie Oh, Boy! He Stopped Loving Her Today For All We Know You'll Never Know When You and I were Young, Maggie Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me You Are Love The Devil's Courtship (version of Paper of Pins / The Keys of Heaven / The Keys of Canterbury / etc., etc.) Slow Romance Sing with Me A Bench by the Sea Sunshine on My Shoulders Northern Tide Regretting What I Said (full title: Regretting what I said to you when you called me at 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks. Not that I wanted to go with you; I wasn't able to leave town, I'm not a very good skier, I couldn't expect you to pay my way, but after going out with you for three years, I don't like surprises.) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Feb 23 - 11:38 PM Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, aka All Shall Be Well Again) I Don’t Like Mondays Cattle Trucks (poem) It Couldn’t Happen Now (poem) Strawberry Fair Dirty Old Town Hill of Little Shoes (poem) Shenandoah Donna Lombarda (in Italian) Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (poem) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (spoken word) The Gruen Watch Song Roger's Courtship Sweet Sunny South (aka Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South) Master of the Sheepfold Bring Me Back a Banana Because Of (English version of Iranian "Baraye") Old Brown's Daughter Wade in the Water Why Walk When You Can Fly The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom As Sylvie was Walking Too Close to the Wind Turning Toward the Morning Down South Blues Won't You Help Me to Raise 'Em Where the Blarney Roses Grow (aka Blarney Roses) The Village Ladies' Pancake Race The Frozen Logger Cobweb of Dreams The Snow of Deep Midwinter (poem) Ninety-Nine and Ninety (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Riddles Wisely Expounded, ...) South Australia (aka Bound for South Australia) Clementine (aka Oh, My Darling Clementine) Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' I Love Susie in the Supermarket Vegematic The Southern Girl's Reply Isle of Hope The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan) The Shores of Avalon Maui Whales (ttto Rolling Down to Old Maui) The Trimdon Grange Explosion The Flowers of Bermuda Woody Knows Nothing Father's Grave Row On Ceres and Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My! Poor Lazarus The Great Salish Sea Gunga Din (poem) Harriet Tubman Welcome to the Store The Streets of New York He Plays the Violin Roger the Miller (aka My Father's Gray Mare) Tunnel Tigers The Ways of Man Frobisher Bay Love Makes Me Stupid I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair Farewell to Tarwathie Just the Way You Look Tonight (piano instrumental) How Woman Got Even with Man My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Iko Iko (aka Jock-A-Mo) Take Your Time Dark as a Dungeon Bubble Up Economy The Leaving of Liverpool Heartwood Side By Side |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 23 - 06:05 AM Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Down The Old Plank Road Sea Coal If Rivers Turned and Flowed Upstream (poem) Another Year of Vanished Time (poem) Mary Had a Little Bug (monologue) A Brief Pageant of English Verse (recitation) Reynardine Yesterday (parody) Spring Don’t Fence Me In Mon amant de Saint-Jean (My Lover of Saint-Jean, sung in French) Polly Wolly Doodle Concertina medley: Lament for Owen Roe, Humors of Castlecomer, Road to Lisdoonvarna Hullabaloo Belay God's Gonna Make Things Over (same tune as Cold Rain and Snow?) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Ten Thousand Miles (aka Turtle Dove, The Blackest Crow, My Dearest Dear, ....) Ashokan Farewell (guitar instrumental) A Proper Sort of Gardener Bubble Up Economy Heffle Cuckoo Fair Seminole Blues The Unquiet Grave Celia Griffin The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Dream Tree The Half-Hitch I Ain't Afraid The Handsome Cabin Boy Miracle on St. David's Day (poem) I Remember Loving You Silver in the Stubble It Was the Surprise More Than Anything (poem) The Water is Wide Gold Watch Blues Spring Cleaning The Drover's Dream Grounds for Violence (ttto Sound of Silence) Down the Back Alley The Wild Tchoupitoulas (aka Meet de Boys on the Battlefront) Folsom Prison Blues How Can I Keep from Singing? 254 Shades of Gray George Collins Los Laureles (in Spanish) Admiral Benbow (aka Brave Benbow) Passing Through Mingulay Boat Song If Ever I Would Leave You The Massacre of Glencoe At this point, something happened to close the session down. People came back, one by one, and an informal session began. We sang How Can I Keep From Eating?, Fare Thee Well Metrecal (ttto Polly Wolly Doodle), and Gopher Guts before order was restored. The Singaround proper continued: Up Where We Belong Lean on Me Iko,Iko Walker Behind the Wheel There's the Day The Green Cockade Pity the Down-Trodden Landlord When I Grow Too Old to Dream The Music of the World a-Turnin' Willie Moore Who Am I Now Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag The Gower Wash Day (ttto The Gower Wassail) February March Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat, in English, chorus in Spanish) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Mar 23 - 10:48 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. Long Tall Texan The North Wall 2 Percent (poem) The hair dryer (monologue) Springtime in Yorkshire (poem) Pleasant and Delightful Spring (poem) People are Crazy Romans and Britons The Cliffs of Baccalieu Silver Threads and Golden Needles Cecila ("Cecile", in Occitan) The Nutting Girl As I Roved Out Erin-Go-Bragh (aka Duncan Campbell) Ordinary Killers Iko, Iko The Candlelight Fisherman Turning Toward the Morning Sandwood Down to Kyle Crackdown Addict A Whaler's Tale Maginot Waltz Oregon Inlet Canadian Railroad Trilogy Lord Randall Lydia the Tattoed Lady When First Unto this Country Finnegan's Wake The Nearness of You Looky Looky Yonder A Tribute to Les Barker (poem) Heave Away Friendship As Tears Go By Dimming of the Day Angel From Montgomery Blackwaterside From the Source Down to the Sea (poem) Weather Lore The Minstrel Where Rainbows Never Die The Mardi Gras Song ("La chanson des Mardi Gras" in English, with one chorus in French) The Good in Living Ned on the Hill Spancil Hill Ain't Nobody Got the Blues Like Me Byker Hill segue into Elsie Marley Taking Flight The Prophet These are My Mountains Take Your Time Travel These Ways The Hamentashen Chorus (ttto The Hallelujah Chorus) Share the Road with Me Young Moon's Lament (ttto Yangtze River Shanty) Daddy Take a Nap The Minstrel Boy Please Don't Bury Me Fuigfidh Mise an Baile Seo ("I Will Leave this Town", in Irish Gaelic) Smile Donegal Rain If I Were Free Lay Down Beside Me Blue Boat Home The Widow's Promise A Fine Time (ttto Lucille (Kenny Rogers, not Little Richard)) Sweep Horizons Clean Jubilee |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Mar 23 - 04:57 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and thanks to Waddon Pete for a correction. Did anyone recognize the tune used for "The Cruise of the Calabar"? Comments and corrections always welcome. Time to Remember the Poor Two Magicians All Roads Lead to Rome (poem) The Fruitmachineaholic The Geebung Polo Club (poem) Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her Farewell He Rust on the Tracks The Nightingale (American version) I'll Twine Midst the Ringlets / Wildwood Flower When the Boys are on Parade Couldn’t Buy a House in San Francisco The Bluebells of Scotland The Last Minstrel Show Trouble in Mind Ain’t Got the Blues, Blues The Final Trawl I am Cherry Alive Islip, Long Island (ttto Kilkelly) Reuben Ranzo (sung in Swedish) Slieve Gallon Braes The Fox (aka Daddy Fox, The Fox Went Out, ....) Bridgid O’Malley He’s a Cowboy Believe Me, Sligo Nottamun Town Fiddler's Green Let Union Be (in All Our Hearts, aka Come My Lads) Old Brown's Daughter The Road Beside the Mill (poem) A Spring Song The Travelling Post Office (poem) Red is the Rose William Brown (aka Keep that Wheel a-Turning) Amelia Earhart's Last Flight The Lovin' of the Game Digging (poem) Who Will Watch the Home Place? Railroading and Gambling A Circle Game (Not the Song by Joni) The Jeannie C. Ballad of Lewis Mills (ttto The Handsome Cabin Boy) Song for Ireland The Cruise of the Calabar (to a familiar tune, which I couldn't quite place – help?) The Rare Ould Times In and Around Nashville Wild Rose of the Mountain Isn't it Grand, Boys Bread and Roses I Can't Depend on Love Honesty (Australian version of) Gentle Annie Aragon Mill Engine 143 (aka The F. F. V., The Wreck on the C. & O., ....) Cowboy Fireman (aka Trusty Lariat) Mothers Teach Your Sons Launderland (ttto Aragon Mill) Wreck of the Old 97 (ttto The Ship that Never Returned) Come Fare Away (aka Marnie) Run and Catch the Wind Up With People The White Shepherd Many a New Day Morningtown Ride |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:44 PM Songs, poems, monologues, instrumentals, and spoken word from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Life Is Hardest When You’re Dumb Happy Anniversary, Darling (poem) I Went To Market Herbert Jones’s Mother Balbas (monologue) Froggy Went A Wooing-O High Germany The Girl With the Waterfall The Lion Sleeps Tonight Daddy Be Gay Dear Aunt May Annachie Gordon A Sailorman’s Port In a Storm Thistle Song (Ttto Garden Song) The Working Class Stranger Lazy River Rent War Frost Diamonds Down and Out Blues Ramblin’ (aka Danville Girl) Two Lovely Black Eyes The Iron Moulder's Wedding Beans Taste Fine One of the Has-Beens Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Cold Missouri Waters The Green Bed Lobachevsky The Old Orange Flute Roseville Fair Fear (poem) Psychotherapy (ttto Battle Hymn of the Republic) Mothers, Daughters, Wives (spoken) When I First Came to This Land The Burnt-Out Old Man (An Seanduine Dôite, in English) The Kilnamartyra Emigrant Fire Down Below Step It Out, Nancy Spring Song Tom Joad (ttto John Hardy) When an Old Friend Lays Down We Irish Ashfields and Brine The One-Legged Cowboy Roseville Fair (Les Barker version) Dancers To Make You Feel My Love The Reel of Stumpie The Lakes of Pontchartrain Yellow on the Broom (ttto The Female Drummer) Rambling Irishman ("Lough Erne", in English) What Did You Learn in School Today? (with added verses) Turn the Page Over (ttto Wild Rover) My Singing Bird Stormy Winds (aka Shepherds are the Finest Men) We Hate to See Them Go All the Way Home What Makes Me Love Him? Captain Beaky (poem) Ainnir Dheas na gCiabhfholt Donn (in Irish Gaelic) Reedy River In Apple Blossom Time A Bench by the Sea Aura Lee |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Guest Joan F Date: 27 Mar 23 - 11:08 AM I read that the tune to "An Seanduine Doite" is "The Campbells Are Coming!". How you feel about this depends on how you feel about the Campbells. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Mar 23 - 01:37 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Dogs’ Party The Night Paddy Murphy Died Spot, The Eternal Dalmatian (poem) The Spear Carrier What Fortunes Guide a Sailor Le garçon jardinier (sung In French) Michael Row the Boat Beautiful People Going Home (monologue) Anything Goes Little Willie’s My Darling Return to the Land What Might Have Been Sally Free and Easy Party Lights The Week Before Easter To the Begging I Will Go How Many Need Die? Poverty Knock The Strange Tale of the Plymouth Volare (aka Ghost Driver in the Sky) Rambler, Gambler Torn Screen Door Cowboy's Dream Witch Hazel Voices, That's All Feed the Stranger (poem) Eawr Sarah's Getten a Chap Mother Always Wants to Stay at Home I'm Workin' My Way Back Home Hillbilly Heaven The Water is Wide As I Roved Out (aka The Deluded Lover) Bye Bye Baby The Girls of Glossop Road Miles and Miles of Texas Come Spend a While With Me Bali-Ha'i Shepherdess Yellow Metal (ttto Buffalo Skinners) The Greatest Story of All Roll, Alabama, Roll Walk, Shepherdess, Walk (ttto Plaisir d'Amour/Can't Help Falling in Love) Rose of Desire Holy Now Dream Angus (in Scots Gaelic and English) Ojos Azules ("Blue Eyes", in Spanish) Mary Anne Lemon Tree Friends Like These Butterfly Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Keep You in Peace The Great Storm is Over Red Marbles Keep You in Peace |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Apr 23 - 06:43 AM Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 3/4 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Flower Carol The Gas Man Cometh Farewell to Donald (Poem) This Praying Mantis (Poem) Father Forgive Them Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day The Man With the Single Hair (Monologue) Mother’s Midlife Crisis La Doncella Guerrera (sung In Spanish) Mein Herr A Mother’s Letter (Recitation) Panther In Michigan Si Me Quieres Escribir (sung In Spanish) See See Rider Hesitation Blues The Foggy Dew When I Have Seen I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal I Will Bring You Home Jesus Gave Me Water Ramble Away Guenivere and the Fire Some Little Bug The Chivalrous Shark The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face What Could I Do? (Poem) The Deserter Simple Gifts (aka The Gift to be Simple) The Society Upon the Stanislaus ‘Til I’m Dead Go to Sleepy Little Baby Pull Down Below Candy Man Blues Nine Apples of Gold Bread and Fishes Marianne Piano Man Ani Ma’anim ("I Believe", sung in Hebrew) (rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold Cows With Guns Ho Young Rider (fragment, aka The Apple-Cheeked Rider) Miller Without Care (story, aka The Wise Miller, The Carefree Miller) Ragged Old Truck Silver Dagger Already Dead The Angels Rolled the Stone Away Copshawholme Fair Way Down the Road Ho Young Rider (one stanza, see above) The Unseen Song (aka Birdsong) The Weight Foolish Questions Abdul Abulbul Amir Peace Call Friday Morning Other Side to This Life The Dolphins People Get Ready King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (version of Froggie Went Courting) The Irish Ballad Windmills Away With Rum Safe Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 23 - 02:29 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 10/11 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Jesus Christ (ttto Jesse James) Agamemnon The Book of Kevin Chapter 1 (poem) Spider by the Gwydir (monologue) Wish I Could be Nice and Warm Spring (poem) You Bash the Balrog (ttto Waltzing Matilda) Adir Hu (sung in Hebrew) Bay of Fundy La ragazza guerriera (sung in Italian dialect) Haul Away (or Sail On) Step Right this Way Chickens in the Garden Sweet William Sheep Crook and Black Dog Collier Laddie Ready for the Storm Aunt Sue Canadee-I-O When I was a Boy in Arkansas The Widow Needs a Husband You are Not Alone The Pinery Boy Sussex Shepherdess Singing Up the Sun At the Foot of Canal Street Heave Away Pitmen’s Union When I was in My Prime Desperate Dan Wood River Queen of the Silver Dollar Zog, Maran ("Tell Me, Marrano", in Yiddish ) Night Rider’s Lament When the Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom) Sweet Thyme Beacons at Beltane (poem) Heart Tattoo Llewellyn Walking Lost on the Lady Elgin Billy Riley These Sad Poems (poem) Respectable Ma Nishtanah ("The Four Questions", in Hebrew and English) The Unreconstructed Rebel (aka Good Old Rebel) So Will We Yet The Banks of the Dee I'd Pluck a Fair Rose Sea Change Herring Our King Winds of Morning Charlie Porter The Old Man's Wish Across the Hills The Blackest Crow (aka Dearest Dear) Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich, All Shall be Well Again) Harmony Road Down By the Dockyard Wall I'm the Man that Built the Bridges River |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Guest Joan F Date: 16 Apr 23 - 11:29 PM Its "Ma Nishtan*aw*". I sing Ashkenazi-Glitzianer ceremonial Hebrew, not modern conversational Israeli Hebrew. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Apr 23 - 02:02 AM Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 17/18 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Farthest Field Old Thames-side The Book of Kevin Chapter 2 (poem) Black Velvet Band (parody) Keys of Canterbury 7 Deadly Sins (redone) Sally Sluppers (monologue) Isn’t it Grand, Boys? God Moves on the Water (aka Titanic, The Sinking of the Titanic) April Morning Donzela que vai à guerra (sung in Portuguese) Funerals Rearranging Deckchairs (ttto Handsome Cabin Boy) One More Day Friendless Mary Blackwaterside The Eagle and the Hawk (Magpie, not John Denver) Their Brains were Small and They Died Cool Water The Briar and the Rose Pintame Angelitos Negros (sung in Spanish) Kol Ha'Olam Kulo ("Narrow Bridge", sung in Hebrew) Botany Bay Starbucks of County Down (ttto Star of the County Down) Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler Song) Tá Mé i Mo Shuí ("I am Awake", sung in Irish) Blackberry Picking Song (poem) These Songs Sonny’s Dream Funeral Song The Sun Goes Down (poem) Faded Rose (poem) Mercedes Benz Rest Quiet (poem) Vanity Hill of Little Shoes (recited) The No Account's Funeral (monologue) Loving Arms The Prayer of the Children Abilene Brown Skin Girl A Tale of Jesus (aka Baby Born) Solid Ground Invitation to a Funeral The Tree of Life (reading) What's the Life of a Man The Call and the Answer Black Angel Blues Blue Dink's Song Mr Taxman (ttto Mr Sandman) Last Call The Secret of Life Come Back Liza Finnegan's Wake If I Should Die Tomorrow (poem) While Passing By the Green The Ball-Playing Song My Funeral Daisy a Day Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Side-i-o) Song of the Lower Classes Crossing the Bar The Drowned Sailor My Love is Like a Dewdrop Detritus (poem) You'll Be Called Hymn Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Apr 23 - 07:00 PM Songs, recitations, poems, instrumentals, monologues, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 24/25 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and to Casey for clarification. Comments and corrections always welcome. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda The Old Figurehead Carver (recited) Hector the Objector The Deserter Hard Case The Brandy Tree Earth The Sultana (ttto Blue Mountain Lakes) La fille soldat (in French) Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire Sally Free and Easy Eleanor's Song Duncan and Brady The Cowboy's Dream Marions les roses By George! (poem) The Yellow Bittern The Gallant Shopping This Ole House The Little Moles (poem) The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta The Grand Old Dame Britannia Medley:Ae Fond Kiss, Westlin Winds, Will Ye No Come Back Again (guitar instrumentals) Don’t Fence Me In The Green Man Poets Corner (monologue) Shakespeare's Plots False Autumn (poem) I Hold Your Hand in Mine Early The Ploughboy's Dream (to the tune, Forest Green, also used for "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "O Lord of Life, To Thee We Lift", "I Sing the Mighty Power of God",....) The Wild Colonial Boy (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Will Ye Go to Flanders Now is the Cool of the Day My Funeral Remember Your Name and Address The Rainbow King (story) Here is My Home Cocaine Done Killed My Baby Am I Born to Die (aka Idumea) Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy) John-John (poem) DP Dept. (ttto Wor Geordie's Lost His Panker) All is Welcome Here Oor Hamlet Black Panther God Bless England Dumbarton's Drums Nevada Jane All Things Change Song of Patriotic Prejudice Absent Friends If I Loved You All the Fine Young Men Greenland Whale Fisheries Windmills River of the Big Canoes Talking to the Driver Call Me the Whale Custard Creams |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 May 23 - 02:32 AM Songs, poems, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 1/2 May 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Casey and Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Singing in the May Hayfield (poem) This Place (poem) The Saga of Fred and Hilda Penguins (read) Scarborough Fair Annan Water The Spotted Cow Creation Song Arise Arise (aka May Day Carol, Northill May Song, The First of May, Cambridgeshire May Carol, Bedfordshire May Day Carol, ....) Workingfolk Unite (ttto Redwing) Union Maid (ttto Redwing) Moskva (in Russian) Pussy Willows, Cattails Everybody Thanks the Driver William and Polly All Hail to Dear Mary (aka 'Tis the Month of Our Mother) How Anarchy Could Function C'est le mai joli mai (in French) One Morning in May (aka Soldier and the Lady) Would You Call it Treason Beacons at Bealtaine (poem) May Day Carol Singing Up the Sun Talkin' Nothin' Blues (read) Down Among the Heather (aka Heather Down the Moor) Rambler Gambler Who is to Blame When Spring Comes In The Red Funnel Lion (poem) Raphael and Abdulla I've had a Glass of Gin-Ginger Wine Amarillo by Morning By the Banks of the Roses Elsie Marley As I Roved Out Man Smart, Woman Smarter On the Plane Thugamar féin an samhradh linn Destroyer Benson (ttto The Sick Note; see 30/31 January 2023) Darcy Farrow The Devil and the Ploughman Bring Flowers of the Fairest (aka Bring Flowers of the Rarest) Le Chinois First of May Blues (aka Black, White, Yellow and Blues) Across the Blue Mountains (aka Good Morning, Good Morning in May) Rose of San Antone Isis The Good in Living All the Good Times are Just Begun (ttto All the Good Times are Past and Gone) Lavender's Blue Hope Glad that I Live am I (x2) Bread and Roses Come Back, Liza Medley: 1st stanza of La rosa enflorece (aka Los bilbilicos; in Ladino), 1st stanza of Tsur Mishelo (same tune, in Hebrew), A Swallow Song (same tune) A Life at Sea Rough and Rocky Eight More Miles to Louisville On the Street Where You Live One Small Star Bless This House |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 May 23 - 01:25 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 8/9 May 2023, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Most of the work was done by Casey and Moorley Man. Comments and corrections always welcome. Oak and Ash and Thorn The Seasons (poem) Halt, Who Goes There? (monologue) If I were the King Vaquí lo polit mes de mai (sung in Occitan-Provençal) I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down (aka St Louis Blues) Compliments Returned And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Poor Lazarus Railroad Blues (aka Brakeman's Blues) I Like a Good Drop of Beer Mrs McGrath Wreck of the Old 97 The Madman AI Writes Better Songs Beep Beep I Ain't Nobody in Perticular Summer Boy My Yiddishe Mama Saint Aubin Sur Mer The Sun Goes Down; Red Roses; Maybe Then I'll be a Rose (poems) Faithless Nellie Gray Love in the Launderette Blackwaterside My Favorite Words (ttto My Favorite Things) Wreck of the Dandenong The Two Brothers I'm Gonna Rise When the Rooster Crows Angeline the Baker (aka Angelina Baker) I Just Steal Away and Pray Reconciliation To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl Liberty Rag Common Sailors Thirsty Boots I Will Redwing Blackbird Thíos i dTeach an Tórraimh ("Down at the Wakehouse", sung in Irish Gaelic) Singing in the May Blue Mountain Bratach Bana ("The White Banner", sung in Scots Gaelic) An Mhaighdean Mhara (Irish language song with associated story) The Roses o' Prince Charlie Three-Legged Man The Song of the Meda Lullaby |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 May 23 - 08:27 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Let Union Be Sweet Sunny South Across the Plains of Africa (poem) Sam Small (monologue) The Barmaid and the Delivery Man Spotted Cow Handweaver and the Factory Maid L'aucèu en gabiòla ("The Bird in a Cage", sung In Occitan) The Congleton Bear I Am Australian Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) Coronation Blues I’m So Tired of Living Alone What’s Easy for Two is So Hard for One The Mushy One Deep River Blues The Man From Connemara I Hear America Singing Monday Monday Hear Lyrics Clearly Abide With Me The Lakes of Coolfin Dark Turn of Mind Husicky (Sung in Czech/Bohemian, ttto Little Goose Polka) The Isle of Eigg Pass in Time Ruins of War When My Ship Comes In I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag War Graves (poem) Two Graves (poem) Sally Simpkin’s Lament (monologue) I’m in Love with Ethel from the Cake Shop The Bonny Earl O’ Moray Father’s Whiskers Bat Masterson Theme I Know Why and So Do You We’re Not the Jet Set Turning Toward the Morning Messing About on the River Ae Fond Kiss Wine and Roses Draglines Three Fishers Buckeye Jim San Antonio Rose The Galway Shawl Fields of Gold Walking in Memphis My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying The Ballad of Minepit Shaw Farewell to the House I Must Go Home Tonight Green Grow the Rashes-O Oh, Susanna The Shepherd's Wife (piano instrumental) (The) Sunshine of Your Smile Winter Song Sweet Baby James The Morris Dancers (ttto English Country Garden) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Cool Clear Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 May 23 - 08:57 PM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for most of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dancing at Whitsun Diesel and Shale Sceptic Tank (poem) An Aisle, an Altar and a Hymn (or “I’ll Altar Hymn”) Indian Revelry (ttto Here’s to the Last to Die) Any Complaints Late Spring Garden (poem) Across the Blue Mountains C’était un petit matelot (sung in French) Diana Hey, Diana Ho (aka Hell of a Wedding) Quite Early Morning Feelin’ Good The Ghosts in the Churchyard Mathematics The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride) A Shantyman Gone Aloft Leaving the Land Rose of the San Joaquin Barbara Ellen Do Re Mi Down Where the Drunkards Roll Community Care (poem) Why Did They Have to Get Married? The Outside Track Summertown Rent (ttto Summertime Blues) The Courtyard (poem) Sweet Dreams of You Uncle Rat You Are My Flower If My Friends Could See Me Now South Wind (tune) After the Storm Yiddle, On Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime The Killer in Me Somewhere to Begin This Love Will Carry Hard Times Come Again No More Òran Beinn Lì (sung In Scottish Gaelic) Hugs Poor Old Horse Irish Waltz The Wild Mountainside Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Jug Band Music Now I Walk in Beauty Earth Angel I'll Fly Away Dreams Deferred Share the Road |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 25 May 23 - 09:10 PM I can't tell you how many times this list has stopped me from singing a song I sang just last week..... ;-) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Jun 23 - 06:12 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Day-O (aka Banana Boat Song) The Proud Man Sir John’s Fancy (poem) Crocodile Song Strawberry Fair One Each Apiece All Round (monologue) Fido Boné Come Love, Come Proud Mary O! Den Skønne, Skønne Maj! (Danish May Song) The New Diggers’ Song The Wonderful Crocodile One Simple Act Of Kindness Testimony The Garden Gate So Long Mom Ballad Of Reuben James Divin’ Duck Blues Shores Of Normandy Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Just Before The Battle, Mother The Nightingale (aka One Morning In May, The Soldier and the Lady, The Bold Privateer, The Grenadier and the Lady, To Hear the Nightingale Sing, The Fiddling Soldier, The Bold Grenadier, The Lady and the Soldier, Water Rattle) The Cuckoo Every Bush And Tree What’s Rain Got To Do With It? The Man On The Flying Trapeze Lord Franklin (Les Barker parody) Runner-Up The Wonder Horse (poem) I Remember, I Remember (monologue) Rover A Faded Coat Of Blue Jamaica Farewell A-Rovin’ Spread A Little Happiness Red Rockin’ Chair The Flowers of the Forest After Taps (poem) Man Who Used to Be Rabbit in a Log Dancing at Whitsun The Trees They Grow High (aka The Trees, They Grow So High; The Trees, They Do Grow High; Daily Growing; Long A-Growing; Lady Mary Ann; He's Young, But He's Daily Growing) Heat Detector Little Sadie Going Down to Tampa May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You (piano instrumental) The Sound of Music Summertime Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya My Dear Island (version of The Dark Island) Where Have All the Flowers Gone Forty-Five Years (with an extra verse) Coming to us Dead (aka Express Office) Little David Philosopher's Woes In the Boarding House (aka Midnight on the Ocean; Ain't We Crazy) Vaguely Remembered Daily Growing (see The Trees They Grow High, above) A Hole in the Bucket (Catie Curtis, not Trad.) Two Brothers All Through the Night |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Jun 23 - 12:46 AM Songs, poems, monologues, stories, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 5/6 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data, and to Monique. Corrections and comments always welcome. Matilda Barrett’s Privateers The First Ship (poem) The Rio Grande Her Letter (monologue) Doodlebug Baby Quare Bungle Rye (sung in Polish) Comment Vouloir Qu'une Personne Chante ("How Can You Expect A Person To Sing?", sung in French) Derby Ram (“It’s a Lie” version) Ode to Billie Joe Lo Rossinhòu Messatgier ("The Messenger Nightingale", sung in Provençal dialect) The Garden Song His Eye is on The Sparrow The Punnet of Strawberries Under the Sea Corpus Christi Carol The Wonderful World of Sex María Chuchena (sung in Spanish) Like the Way I Do Red-Tail Hawk Michalek ("Young Michael", sung in Czech) Three Score and Ten Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos Play Me a Rock’n’roll Song I’m Not Looking to See You Here (Story about a gig) South Wind ("An Ghaoth Aniar", piano instrumental) Farewell to the Gold Bonny Bunch of Roses Till the End of the World Rolls Round Your Daughters and Your Sons The Shores of Normandy Mother (poem) Crazy Man Michael November Wood (poem) An Irish Airman Foresees His Death The Germans Bombed Our Chippy in the War Reve ta stogne Dnipr shy`roky`j ("The Wide Dnieper Roars and Groans", sung in Ukrainian; see title in Cyrillic characters in next message from Monique) Robin Hood's Golden Prize (Ed McCurdy tune) Bells of Rhymney Kilroy was Here Earl of March's Daughter Vatican Rag Come Away In Caged Bird The Scottish Summer The Really Strangest Dream Northwest Passage In the Twi-Twi-Twilight The Lowestoft Boat (ttto of A-Rovin') The Cruel Brother Rust on the Tracks The Lark in the Morning Don't Call Me Early in the Morning Little Maggie (accidentally ttto Darling Corey) My Shining Star You are Beautiful Dancing in Front of the Guns River |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Monique Date: 07 Jun 23 - 02:39 AM The Ukrainian song title is "Реве та стогне Днiпр широкий" in Cyrillic. This HTML Encoder Web Tool is the one I use to encode non-ASCII characters but there are others. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jun 23 - 12:31 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 12/13 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Does anyone know the title of the song I've recorded as "(Kipper Family parody of) Polly Bawn"? As this was our third anniversary, I would have sung "Oh, how we sang when the Zoom-round began/Offer was there, and Casebeer, and Kidman..." if only I had been able to expand the two lines into several stanzas. Johnny Verbeck I Remember Morley All that Lives On are Dreams (poem) An Infinite Melancholy (poem) William Brown Come to the Ancient Places (poem) The Dancing Teacher The Field Mouse’s Ball Steamboat A-Comin’ Children of the Lord (aka The Arky Arky Song, Rise and Shine) On Broadway La femme du Président (sung in French) But I Do (Kipper Family parody of) Polly Bawn Brown Baby Billy Bones’ Hornpipe Survivor Leave The Court of King Caractacus Stormy Monday Blues When I’m Gone The Old Figurehead Carver Sweet Thing (aka Slats in the Bed) On Morecambe Bay We’re All Cleaning Windows (Window Cleaning Shanty) Green Among the Gold Lovers and Losers Lynn’s Dream Drink Drink Dem Deer My Dixie Darling Eirigh Suas A Stóirín (sung in Irish Gaelic) Carolina in My Mind Fancy Forgetting I’m an Old Cow-Hand (from the Rio Grande) Lament to the Moon Matilda (poem) Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (or Shock Absorba the Greek) The Singer’s Request Country Life I'm a Woman I Don't Need Anything More King of the Road Wings of a Gull (or, Wings of a Goney) Stranger Blues Go to Work on Monday Miss Otis Regrets The Coffee Shop in Pimlico Bread and Fishes Roll On, Columbia If (poem; Boris Johnson party remix) Glory Hallelujah Casey at the Bat (poem) Lone Pilgrim Maid of Culmore June is Bustin' Out All Over Lassie Wad Ye Loo Me (aka Gin I Were a Baron's Heir) Ramblin' Round Ella's Song (aka We Who Believe in Freedom) Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (poem) Time is a Tempest Lovely Willie We Zoom (ttto Blue Moon) Zoomiversary Song (ttto The Parting Glass) Voices in the Spaces (ttto The Outback of Bohemia) (reworking of) Icarus Detour Dumbarton's Drums How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Jun 23 - 09:03 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 19/20 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Hang on the Bell, Nellie The 18th Day of June Death by Daffodils (poem) Magna Carta (monologue) Ballroom Dancing God Rest Ye Merry Underlings (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) Land of the Silver Birch What Can We Do? Going, Gone Wait Until I Put On My Robe / The Doorbell Song Spanish Pipe Dream Dance the Shores of Jordan Summer to Autumn to Winter to Spring to Summer (poem) The Gipsy Warned Me Bleached White Jesus The Back Block Shearer Let My People Go (aka Go Down Moses) Brown Eyed Girl (version of) Our Good Man The Water Lily Summertime Wade in the Water On Board the Susiana Little Boxes in the Bathroom Steal Away Sally Free and Easy My Old Kentucky Home (piano instrumental) Oleanna My Romance I’m Gonna be an Engineer Carlisle's Haul Song of the Fugitive Rambler, Gambler Shady Grove River Rising Voices (poem) Ballad of John Putnam Detour (aka There's a Muddy Road Ahead) No More Auction Block (aka No More Auction Block for Me) Love Will Linger On Dawn Star (poem) I Can Touch the Night Sam Goes to It (monologue) The Suede Shoe Blues Who Put the Bomp Halelu Avdei Adonai ("Praise, O Servants of the Lord", sung in Hebrew) Ragged Old Truck Jock O' Hazeldean Sing with Me The Chain (poem) Liar's Lullaby Alabama John Cherokee Bye Bye Baby Song for the Mira Summer Sunlight Farmer's Toast (aka Godspeed the Plow) The Diggins-O Summertime, Summertime Radcliffe Highway (aka The Deserter ) Ballad of Springhill (aka Springhill Mining Disaster) Paper Planes The Folker (ttto The Boxer) Ways of the Lodge (poem) Gas Bill Blues Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Love Call Me Home Turning Toward the Morning |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Jun 23 - 04:56 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 26/27 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Yellow Bird Lealholm Anthem (aka Bonny Hawthorn) The Book Of Kevin, Chapter 3 (poem) Gunga Din (recited) Blow The Man Down Walk With Me (or The Raucous Cry of the Gulls) (poem) The Plunge Kilbogie Roll Out! Heave That Cotton! Roll the Cotton Down L'aquila (sung in Italian) One Meat Ball Another Time and Place After Life Cancer (poem) Fire And Rain Ring Around the Moon Simple Simon (ttto Yankee Doodle) The Doctor The Moon Song The Song of the Sea When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes Thru Our Door Spancil Hill The Rare Old Times Waterloo Sunset Legacy (poem) Mandalay (Recitation) The Summer Lady (poem) Plaisir d’Amour (sung partly in French) Sauce Upon the Ceiling Robin Hood and Maid Marian Sammy’s Bar It All Depends on You Sweet Nora Lee Broke (poem) Testimony The Oakham Poachers (aka The Bold Poachers) Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth October Roses Windy Harbour Un Canadien Errant (sung in French) (parody of) My Favorite Things Impossible / It's Possible Stone Circles Nancy from London City of New Orleans Wooden Boat Thanks for the Song Jug of Punch Will Ye Go to Flanders Hippies and the Beatniks (ttto Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies) Detour (aka There's a Muddy Road Ahead) Once I Had a Sweetheart (or, Once I Had a True Love / I Once Had a True Love / A Maiden Sat A-Weeping / As Sylvie Was Walking / Bunch of Green Ribbons) We Are One (English version of Korean song, Ulineun hanaya?) Hillcrest Mine River Run When Jones' Ale was New Unforgettable Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Foggy, Foggy Dew Windmills Oak and Ash and Thorn Midsummer Hymn The Great Storm is Over |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 Jul 23 - 05:49 AM Songs, recitations, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 3/4 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data, and to Felipa for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Power and the Glory C’est L’aviron (sung in French) Tommy (recitation) Tribute to Irving Berlin Sisters of Mercy Simple Gifts If I Had a Hammer L’amitié ("Friendship", sung in French) The Drowned Lover Canada Day Up Canada Way Rock Island Line The Last Bus Home The Physician Let Freedom Ring Peace Round Let’s Talk About the Weather Coming Home Song Bored Of The Dance (ttto Lord of the Dance) (Come and Take) Tea in the Arbour Pirates’ Battle of New Orleans (ttto The Battle of New Orleans) American Tune Cold Mountain The Wibbly Wobbly Walk Old Blevins Air An Somme (sung in Scots Gaelic) Einstein the Genius Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill All the Salt Gethsemane (recitation) Tribute to Cole Porter Designated Answerer Of Questions (ttto Dedicated Follower of Fashion) The Courtyard (poem) Crossing the Border Rocky Top I Get a Kick out of You Buttermilk Hill (version of Siúl a Rúin) The Bramble and the Rose Raise Your Voice Hardcastle's Rake I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes California We Have a Dream Non ho l'età ("I'm Not Old Enough", sung in Italian) Sing! When Coal Seam Gas was New (ttto When Jones's Ale was New) Last Trip Home Konícky ("Horses", sung in Czech) The Rope Battle of the Somme Your State's Name Here We Shall All Be Reunited The King's Navy Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Going Home All Things Change The Mill Roseville Fair |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Jul 23 - 08:37 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 10/11 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Goldwatch Blues A Housekeeper's Tragedy (poem) The Sons of Martha (poem) Holidays A Sailor's Life The Trees They Do Grow High She Moved Through the Fair Until it's Time for Me to Go / T’es pas un autre (sung in English and French) Bridge Over Troubled Water Still On the Bridge Carolina (sung in French) The Snake I's So Tired of Llving All Alone Bay of Fundy An Old Man's Advice South Australia Medley with Take Me Down the Harbor King Orfeo Pointing to the Moon Once I was a Sailor (ttto Three Jolly Rogues of Lin) Catfish John All the World is One Spanish is the Loving Tongue Will the Roses Bloom Where She Lles Sleeping? When I get to Heaven Sweet Thyme The Boy who was Raised by Lemmings (poem) Bungee Jumping for Lemmings (poem) Municipal (poem) Angling Villikins and his DInah Label in the Printer (ttto Little Boxes) If We Never Meet Again this Side of Heaven Goodbye Yellow Brick Road The Bold Princess Royal Tous les garçons et les filles (sung in French) The Orange Maid of Sligo I've Got the Crud Bound for Glory I'm Going Home Believe Me, Sligo Johnny Booker Farewell to the Gold Louise Fire Down Below Going to Damascus The Weepin' Willer Gas Food and Lodging Sheffield Sings I Wish You Were Here New Harmony Happy Birthday If I were a Blackbird The Old Orange Flute I'd Like to be a Cowgirl Highway in the Wind My Eldorado I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Lovely Agnes Next Big River I'm Gonna Cross The Master of the Sheepfold |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jul 23 - 12:34 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 17/18 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Bed of Straw Going Down to the Well with Maggie (recited) Puck's Song (poem) The Masochism Tango When I First Came to This Land La lettre francaise (The French Letter (or The Condom), sung mostly in English) The Foggy Dew One, I Love Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini Gee But I Want to Go Home (aka Army Life) Joan the Leather Queen (ttto Jim the Carter Lad) Cheerly, Men Cold Missouri Waters Grand Coulee Dam Norton New Bell Wake Funeral Song Dirty Old Town The Black Fox Downtown Zeno Exit Mary Eloise Island Song Hazel's Hips Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Wanderin' Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy) This Just Doesn't Seem to be My Day I'm Looking For a Hole to Put Nirex In (poem) Health and Beauty (monologue) High Germany Lovely Joan Voulez-vous promenade avec moi? (sung mostly in English) There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder Farewell to Nova Scotia So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya The Cat Song Nice Work if You Can Get It The Hungry Sea Detour Colin The Dog Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky? The Moorlough Shore When 'omer Smote 'is Bloomin' Lyre (poem) General Guinness Weyhill Fair Do Virgins Taste Better? (ttto Irish Washerwoman) The Fields of Athenry A Hunting Song I Give Myself to You So Far Away The Ramblin' Rover Mister Noah I Wonder Where You are Tonight Across the Hills of Home (Jimmy's Song) Bottle of Wine (with one chorus in French) Do You Know the Way to San Jose? All Things Change You are Beautiful Worried Man Blues |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Jul 23 - 05:59 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 24/25 July 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data and clarifications. Corrections and comments always welcome. Our House The Black and Bitter Night The Ghost in Clapham (poem) Mrs. Fisher All Around My Hat The Last of the Light Brigade (poem) La Place Pigalle (in English) Cordova Roll Alabama Roll Summer of My Dreams In the Hills of Shiloh My Baby Just Cares for Me The Moonshiner's Lament The Railway Porter's Song (aka Willie Lee) Old Smokey Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Santy Anno/The Plains of Mexico Neocortex When (poem) Low Income Retirement Blues (fragment of Saxon alliterative poem) Kubla Khan (subtitle: A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment. Poem) Tom of Bedlam She was One of the Early Birds Walking My Baby Back Home The Long and Winding Road House Carpenter (aka Daemon Lover) Frankie's Trade L-O-V-E Bring Me A Boat Die Gedanken sind Frei ("Thoughts are Free", sung in German) Salvation Band The Road To Tomorrow (poem) Spanish Beaches (ttto Spanish Ladies) Ernie Dunn (monologue) Mange Tout (in English) No John No What is Jennie Weeping For? Chemical Worker's Song (aka Process Man) A Silent, Lonesome Sound The Memory Stealer Cottonwood Canyon The Ballad of Johnny and Gertrude Newell Highway Sirey Petes (aka Tying a Knot in the Devil’s Tail) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Oge) The Equestrian Statue Years After (poem) Your Friendship's My Comfort The White Hare (aka Howden Town) Hostí ("Guests", sung in Czech) Velcro (ttto Sweet Hour of Prayer) Wish I'd Met You Yesterday (ttto Yesterday) Heat Wave The Night Owl Homeward Turns Put On a Happy Face When First I Went to Caledonia (aka When First I Came to Caledonia) Old Man Time Holland's Meat Pies (ttto Ebony Eyes) Do Your Ears Hang Low? ACME Ukulele (ttto Hallelujah) How Can I Keep From Singing? |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Aug 23 - 04:29 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 31 July / 1 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl Fare Thee Well, South Yorkshire I Want to be a Bitch (poem) Goldwatch Blues Carry My Song (poem) Slawit Sam (monologue) Shaun the Short-sighted Sheep Shearer Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy) Pass Around the Bottle The Bitter Withy It's a Beautiful Day Todo Cambia ("It All Changes", sung in Spanish) The Loss of the Bay Rupert The Cuckoo Isabel Makes Love upon National Monuments Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend Alfie (recitation) Untrue Blues The Groovy Decade Blood Red Roses Going Home The Minstrel Sunrise, Sunset Three-legged Man I'm an Old Cowhand Ten in the Bed Travelling Man Green to Grey Blue Anchor Lane (recitation) The Rio Grande Th' Lesser Evil (monologue) The Cornet and the Flugelhorn I'm an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) What Put the Blood Botany Bay I'm Moving On The Friar in the Well Morning Train Tatjiana Cocktails Hold the Woodpile Down Mrs. Murphy Good Ale (aka O Good Ale, aka Oh Good Ale, aka Good Ale Thou Art My Darling) The Maid of Australia Banks of Sicily Tin Soldier Come Sing a Song With Me Sing With Me In My Life Queen of the Silver Dollar Soon Cad é sin don té sin ("Nobody's Business", sung in Irish Gaelic) You Won't See Me The Sun's Comin' Over the Hill Bright Morning Star Blackjack Davy The Murderous Toy (ttto The Marvelous Toy) All the Salt Lessons of Time Windmills Changes |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Aug 23 - 06:27 AM Songs, poems, recitations, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 7/8 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Garden Song Temple Cloud (poem) May You Never The Bard (recited) Cliches Streets of Laredo The Leaving of Liverpool Aiken Drum Take It To The Limit Compère Guilleri ("Fellow Guilleri", in French) The Very Model of a Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) (Story/Anecdote re Fred Park) Somewhere to Begin Carnivale (poem) The L & N Don't Stop Here Any More The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry After You, Who? Auckland to the Bluff Lazy Bones Randy Dandy-O Cockney Alphabet (poem) London Transport Prayer (poem) Disobedience (aka James James Morrison Morrison) Serving Girl's Holiday The Lady Mary Sails I Come and Stand at Every Door Rolling Home Brigg Fair False Alarm (poem) The Press (poem) I'm A Silly Polysyllabist Beware of the Beautiful Stranger The Minstrel I am Stretched on Your Grave Freight Train Here is My Home The Lichtbob's Lassie Rolling Home (to Merry England) Brian O'Lynn (aka Brian O'Lynne, Briney Ole Lynn) Enola Gay (Utah Phillips) Hiroshima Memorial Candlelight Vigil (poem) The Age of Uranium (ttto The Age of Aquarius) The Little Girl of Hiroshima (aka I Come and Stand at Every Door; recited) Enola Gay (Andrew McCluskey) Down by the Embarras Summertime The Impossible Dream Keep Hauling Yellow Bird Damnyankee Lad (or, Damn Yankee Lad) Every Stranger Might Well Become Your Friend (poem) Why Not Say Hello Before We Say Goodbye Precious Years Back Home In Derry Blue Moon Cearcall a' Chuain ("The Ocean's Circle", in Scots Gaelic) Bridge Over Troubled Water Blue Mountain Dreams Deferred Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Aug 23 - 09:46 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 14/15 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Way Down Yonder in a Minor Key The Weight Jason and the Arguments (poem) My Classical Concoction Sam's Sturgeon (monologue) April Come She Will A Day Out of Time (poem) Roving Gambler Le Sire de Framboisy (sung in French) Up on Cripple Creek Old Rosin the Bow/Beau The Clearing Place Simpl Templ (poem) My, My, Mama It Makes No Difference Talkin' Guitar Blues Cripple Creek Darlin' Corey Midsummer Hymn Paddy Lay Back Old Men Sing Love Songs Sea Walls (poem) Advice to Poets The Convalescent (poem) Blow the Man Down Waiting Moonlight on the Highway Daniel and the Sacred Harp Roll, Alabama, Roll John o' Dreams One Misty Moisty Morning You Come Singing (poem) Aces, Straights and Flushes The Satnav (poem) Slow Train Comin' Bonny Portmore Three-Indictment President (ttto Purple People-Eater) The Scotsman The Good Boy The Last Words The Big Ship Sails On The Alley-Alley-O Changes Alabama's Crew (ttto Roll, Alabama, Roll) Sam's Medals (monologue) Dreams Have I Told You Lately If I had a Son The Portree Kid (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Peterloo Massacre You're So Indicted (ttto I'm So Excited) Blue Diamond Mines Pollution Bonny at Morn On a Monday Morning The Earth is Burning Love Call Me Home Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, Cornish Farewell Shanty, 'Tis Our Sailing Time) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Aug 23 - 05:02 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 21/22 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Texas Rangers The Rain on the Mountainside London (poem) A Classical Concoction The Convalescent (poem) Day Trip from Barnehurst (ttto Day Trip to Bangor) Sweet Thames Flow Softly The Outlandish Knight Ophelia Rambling Soldier Two Good Arms The Britannia Whatever Song Hanohano Hanalei (sung in Hawaiian) This Morning A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter The Coils of Love The Great Salish Sea Saturday Night Fish Fry If I had a Son Rolling Down to Old Maui The Cremation of Sam McGee (poem) Into the Sun I'll Follow the Sun Lockdown (poem) Bill the Burly Burglar Mules (poem) Michael Row the Boat Rawtenstall Annual Fair Could It Be?! (ttto Let It Be) Lady Franklin's Lament Isn't It a Lovely Day Today to be Caught in the Rain Peace on Earth Darlin', I Can't Love You Any More Roll the Cotton Down Fire in the City A Blacksmith Courted Me Shuttle and Loom Flutist (poem) Ukulele Lady To Althea from Prison Barrett's Privateers Tea (aka The Alcoholics' Anthem, ttto Men of Harlech) Thaïs (Alexandria) Run and Catch the Wind Garnet's Home Made Beer (ttto Barrett's Privateers) Now Westlin Winds (aka Song, Composed in August) Kaona o Lahaina (sung in Hawaiian, ttto Kawaipunahele) These Coal Town Days Hang Out Your Brightest Colours (aka Ballad of Michael Collins) Georgia on My Mind Farewell Rubber Blubber Whale Red River Valley I'll Fly Away Long Lost Friends Believe Me, Sligo Down on Penny's Farm Crazy Who Am I Now Little Brown Dog (aka Autumn to May) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Aug 23 - 12:12 AM Songs, poems and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 28/29 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Good in Living Smuggler The Stealth Comma (poem) Wait Till the Work Comes Round (monologue) Springhill Mine Disaster The Ferryman Granville Willy Crossing the Bar Les Belles Etrangères (sung in French) Turpin Hero The Argo From Marble Arch to Leicester Square The Lass of Mohee Jumbo Stevens God Bless the Human Elbow Chairs to Mend White Coral Bells Once in a Very Blue Moon Help Me to Raise 'Em Bottle Against the Wall Queen of Waters Fred the Fireman Maggie Blues Raglan Road Community (If You Love the Water Let it Rain) All the Way Home Turning Toward the Morning Drugstore Truck Drivin' Man Talking About Norwich (poem) She Were Nobbut a Lass (poem) Early One Morning Mr. Nicotine Man (ttto Mr Tambourine Man) It Makes No Difference Our House Going and Staying Amazing Grace Making Up the Miles Quantum Mechanics Grey Funnel Line Sewing Shanty (Grey Flannel Line) (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Nancy Lee Highland Harry (ttto The Highlander's Lament) Three Fishers Light the Pipe The Dreadnought Julian of Norwich This World Goes Round and Round Fisherman's Wife Windward Away Hard Travelin' Stealin' For Sale by Owner The Minstrel Saints and Sinners The Song Goes On |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 23 - 10:55 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey much help. Corrections and comments always welcome. Free and Easy Words (poem) Places (poem) Testament (recitation) The Original Chauvinist Pig Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo) Summer's End (poem) Donkey Riding Sin (ttto The Parting Glass) See How the Winds Do Blow (aka Candlelight Fisherman) Life Passes By (sung in English, with one verse in French; "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit") Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) Heritage (poem) Geronimo's Cadillac The Yellow Yorlin Old Fid O Sinner Man Light From the Lighthouse Bread and Roses Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Slaggy Island Farewell Harbors of Home Rocks and Trees Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? Early to Rise Another Life (poem) Queen Matilda (monologue) Come Along You Drunken Bums I Hold Your Hand in Mine The Summer Land (poem) The Deaf Woman's Courtship (aka Old Woman; Old Woman's Courtship) I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) The Dancing Years Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass, aka The False Bride) More Than Enough Inner-body Travel (poem) Jolly Mon Sing Joe Hill (aka I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night) Joe Hill's Last Will Sailor's Prayer Frankie's Trade Old Fastnet The Topman and the Afterguard Came to See Me Yesterday Midsummer Hymn Lucy Your Name is Light Einstein the Genius Brother Can You Spare a Buck? (ttto Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?) Man of Extinction (poem) Bunessan (piano instrumental; tune used for Morning has Broken) Jimmy's Song (aka Sing for the Boys) There is Power in a Union (ttto There is Power in the Blood) They're Taking it Away Interesting Times |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Sep 23 - 08:55 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. No More Fish The Last Chance Saloon (poem) Recumbent Posture (monologue) An Affectation of Conceit Sister Josephine False Autumn (poem, from Year Song) Come Monday Joan Walker Tesco Shanty (aka The Housewife's Shanty) Why I'm Different (poem) Morning Blues Come Away In The Texas Rounder Strike the Bell Buckeyed Jim O, Cinnabon Geordie Black My Father's Song (poem) Little Sadie The Blackbird Goodbye to My Stepstone Ballad of Springhill Death (poem) Hector Cramp (monologue) Baldy The Bard of Armagh Hillbilly Heaven Pencil Thin Mustache Who Knows where the Time Goes? It's for You A Brush with Life (poem) Can't Get that Stuff No More I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Mail Myself to You Clear Away in the Morning Mullaghbawn Cosher Bailey I Wanna be a Bonobo Sweet Carnlough Bay I Can Hew The Barring of the Door (aka Get Up and Bar the Door) The Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I Wander) Generations of Change (tune resembles Streets of Laredo) As Tears Go By Joyce the Librarian Pay Me My Money Down The Shipkeeper Roll on Columbia There are No Words Your State's Name Here Velcro Follow the Heron |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:58 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Bringing in the Sheaves Obedience (poem) Diary of a Church Mouse (poem) The Barmaid and the Drayman Redemption Song Lily the Pink Liverpool Lullaby Birmingham Sunday Didn't I Dance? Silver Tassie Urge for Going Jack o' Diamonds is a Hard Card to Play The Rising of the Moon (the Kate Wolf song by this name) MacPherson's Rant Tomorrow Susannah's Footsteps It Rains Everywhere I Go The Hippopotamus Song The Boogeyman (ttto The Wellerman) September 11th The Cuckoo Do You Hear the Music? (poem) Coming Home Cold Rain and Snow The Ballad of Accounting The Outside Track Ride On The Secret God (poem) Safe Haven (poem) Sonia Snell (monologue) The Comic Song Purple People Eater Pleasant and Delightful Carry My Song (poem) September in the Rain The Anti-Shanty (Hose Me Down) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Bobby Shaftoe The Dundee Cat Humming to Myself Across the Western Plains (aka All For Me Grog, ttto Across the Western Ocean) The Dummy Line (fragment) Elsie Marley The Vinney Den Love Call Me Home We will Not Bow Down to Genocide James Cook Sophronie I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Epithalamium (song for the bride) (poem) Melting Pot (poem) Immigrant Eyes Granny's Old Armchair Pretty Polly Heave Away Cheerily, O Librar-i-o I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Moon River Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max (ttto Dear Old Donegal) Generations of Change Locks and Bolts Sae Will We Yet |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Sep 23 - 03:03 AM Songs, poems, instrumentals, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 25/26 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Sound of Singing The Return of Albert (monologue) Confessions of a Song Writer Molly Malone The Irish Rover La Blanche Biche (The White Hind, sung in French) The Earl of March's Daughter E-Sorrows Away (ttto Sorrows Away) A Sailor's Life Sonnet #29 (ttto Clerk Saunders) Fall is Here For the Grandchildren (poem) I Will Stand Fast The Really Strangest Dream Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac The Good In Living The Journey Dan, An Honest Working Man Spirit Song Three Ha'pence a Foot (monologue) The Ark (poem) The Poor Budgie's Dead Dirty Old Town Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Somebody's Wrong (ttto Rosin the Bow) Mr Sandman Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) (ttto Pretty Polly) Sweet Thyme Aardvark Song Boney Was A Warrior Flying High, Flying Free More Wood Poor Lily, aka What A Waste 9-5 Pollution Blues I Wanna Be A Dog In Tall Buildings Cailín Deas Cruíte na mBó ("The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow", in Irish Gaelic) Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) The Banks of Inverurie The Minstrel Boy Hills Of West Virginia Hold On To Me, Babe An Chéad Mháirt de Fhómhair (The First Tuesday of Autumn, sung in Irish Gaelic)) Sir Roger is Dead The Belle of Broughton Two Hornpipes: Harvest Home & The Boys Of Bluehill (guitar instrumentals) Settle Down (aka I'm Going Down That Highway) Pack Up Your Sorrows Never Tire Of The Road Padstow Farewell (aka Farewell Shanty, aka Padstowe Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Oct 23 - 05:39 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 2/3 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Life of a Man He's Not My Child (poem) The Battle Of Hastings (monologue) My Uncle Stan Irwinton La bèla Marion se'n va al molin ("Marion Went to the Mill," sung in Occitan) La Cárcel de Cananea ("Cananea Jail," sung in Spanish) Dogging Calling Me Home Bury Me Beneath the Willow When I'm Drunk October Song Changes Bonnie St. Johnstone Two Sisters Barbary Allen Grey October Jonah & The Grampus (monologue) My Brother Len Farewell to Tarwathie Things About Comin' My Way Spread A Little Happiness Fall Down Me Billy Answer to Weeping Willow Factory Girl So Early, Early in the Spring Our Town Must I Go Bound? Silver & Gold Polegnala e Todora ("Theodora is Dozing," fragment, sung in Bulgarian) Must I Go Bound? (fragment) Far From Their Home (with one verse in French) Skyscraper Wean (aka The Jeely Piece Song) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy On Top of Spaghetti (ttto On Top of Old Smokey) The Town I Loved So Well I Think Of You Annie McKelvie You Are My Sunshine You Are The Sunshine Of My Life |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:57 PM Songs, poems, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 9/10 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. October Song Summer's End (poem) My Brother Len The Widow at Windsor (poem) Marion jos un pomiò (sung in Occitan) Fair and Tender Ladies The Two Hunchbacks (story) Cheap Flights The Leaving of Liverpool Mean Old Bedbug Blues The Cliffs of Baccalieu Old Father Fall Answer the Knock at the Door Pointing to the Moon Skulkin Huntin' (story) We Gets Up in the Morn (aka Harvest Song) Frobisher Bay Shawnee Town Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Knoxville Girl Few Days (I Can't Stay in These Diggings) Where There's a Will There's a Way I Can't Find My Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Weekend Cowboy Slawit Sam (monologue) Will the Turtle Be Unbroken? Fire Down Below Johnny Be Good on the Concertina Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Weeping Willow Sailor's Prayer Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ("Hooray, You Are Coming Home", verses in English, chorus in Irish Gaelic) Permission to Dance Whoa Back Buck Lord Rothchild Blackwaterside Turtle Dove Whenever I See You Keep on the Sunny Side Goin' to the Zoo With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) I Remember You Where Are You (Tonight I Wonder) The Border The Sound of Music Dimming of the Day |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Oct 23 - 04:59 AM Songs, poems, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 16/17 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos Sniper (poem) Soldier (poem) The Widder's Reekin' (monologue) I'm In Love With Ethel from the Cake Shop River Drivin' (My Girl's Waiting for Me) Listen to the Darkness Library Shanty Somewhere to Begin A l'ombreta d'un rosièr ("In the Shade of a Rosebush," sung in Occitan) Taking Nelson Home No More Tears All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies (Danish song, "Alle sømænd er glade for piger," sung mostly in English) Give Yourself to Love My Love Come Rolling Down Safe Romance Thorneymoor Woods East Virginia Blues Captain Kidd Sonny's Dream Westlin Winds Oseh Shalom ("Who Makes Peace", sung in Hebrew) Benjamin Bowmaneer Let Her Go Down Numbers (reading) The Poppy & The Inquisitive Mind of the Child (poem) Knockin' on Heaven's Door Earth Dancing in Front of the Guns Seaman's Hymn The Magpie I Love Suzie in the Supermarket The Rose 1805 (poem) Man Walks Among Us Freeborn Man Saucy Sailor Slow Train Through Georgia Doodle Let Me Go Freight Train Universal Soldier Awake, Awake (aka Drowsy Sleeper) Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) If I Were Free Dillon Bay Don't Fence Me In But Not for Me Cradle of the Dawn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM Songs, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 23/24 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Man of the Earth Gunner Sam (monologue) Woodland Pursuits Night Walk (poem) Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Trim Rigged Doxy Autumn Song Dog in the Microwave As the Bombs Rain Down Vilikins and his Dinah Spanish Ladies When I Can't Play The Brandy Tree Blue Ghost Blues The Music of Strings Freight Train Gallipolis Come Away In Make You Feel My Love Going to the West (Three poems) Is This 1938 Again?; The Training Exercise; Mariupol You've Got a Friend Let There Be Angels My Last Farewell to Stirling Substitute Time We Made a Start (poem) Little Bit of Pride Song to a Seagull Champion at Drivin' 'Em Crazy (ttto Champion at Keeping Them Rolling) Scarborough Settler's Lament I Put a Spell on You The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic) The First Storm of Autumn (poem) The Castle of Dromore/Caislean Droim an Oir (aka October Winds; sung in English and Irish) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Óg, Eileen Oge) Calling Doon the Line The Ballad of Sammy's Bar (aka The Last Boat's a-Leaving) Skin and Bone The Postman (ttto The Coachman) The Sinking of the Reuben James (ttto Wildwood Flower) The Nutting Girl Einstein the Genius Killing the Blues The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) Al Kol Eleh (in Hebrew) The Darby Ram A Place in the Halloween Choir Between the Wars Hearth and Fire |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Nov 23 - 10:44 PM Songs, poems, recitations, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 30/31 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan Frankel for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley) Graveyard (poem) Rest Quiet (poem) With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn; recited) The Monster Mole The Unquiet Grave Crazy Man Michael Away Ye Merry Lasses The Holland Handkerchief The Egg Plant that Ate Chicago Maggie's Farm She Moved Through the Fair Black Annis's Lair The Bergen The Goblins in the Churchyard I Am Cherry Alive Steam Packet A Family Story (story) The Body in the Bag Naughty Child (poem) Happy Halloween The Wind and the Rain King Henry The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer Hallow's Eve Procrastination (poem) The To-Do List (poem) The Tale of Stingy Jack (monologue) The Reluctant Monster Look For Me at Samhain (poem) Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Hard Travellin' Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret and Sweet William) Drink, Drink Duncan and Brady A Bhean Úd Thíos: ("The Woman Down Under" or "Fairy lullaby", sung in English) The Teddy Bears' Picnic Pokarekare Ana (Maori song, sung in English) St. Swithin's Day Sherry's Song In the Bath The Ash Grove Already Dead The Road to Dundee (aka The Road and the Miles to Dundee) Bilge Pump's Birthday Song (one verse only) Autumn (poem) Under My Bed Yuppies in the Sky (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) The Grey Cock Pop Goes the Weasel The Highwayman (Ochs setting) A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song) The Cat Came Back Casper the Friendly Ghost Child Ballad Brief King Henry Scarborough Fair John Condon Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda, Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, Bread of Heaven, God of Grace and God of Glory) Calon Lân ("A Pure Heart", ttto Pokarekare Ana) Greenwood Side-i-o (aka The Cruel Mother, Fine Flowers in the Valley, The Lady of York, Weelia Wallia) Molly Malone Lay Down Beside Me ACME Bound for Transylvania (ttto South Australia) How Long Will I Love You Dem Deer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:01 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 6/7 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dem Deer Spencer the Rover Dear Passenger (poem) The Poppy or The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem) Three Fatal Females Ae Fond Kiss Spider In the Bath Roll Alabama Roll Eency Weency Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) The Gown of Green Sussex Drinking Song Seaview Bells The Place I Am Bound My Friend Robert Bradley The Life of a Man Frankie's Trade Bring Flowers Dark-eyed Sailor Vicky's Secret Letyat utki ("Ducks are Flying", sung in Russian) Make You Feel My Love As the Bombs Rain Down The Half-Hitch Percy's Song Dreary Black Hills Spencer the Rover Come Into the Fire How Many Need Die? Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire Don't Think Twice, It's Alright The Circle Game When the Shanty Boy Comes Down Conversation The Roving Kind Brandy-O Rawtenstall Annual Fair Lucrezia My Town Irving the Rover (ttto Spencer the Rover) Blowing in the Wind South Australia (and one verse of Take Me Down the Harbour) What if God Smoked Cannabis The Old Dance Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (ttto "Cranbrook") Randwick Races (ttto Galway Races) Every Bush and Tree Where Ravens Feed I Ain't a-Marching Any More Bruach na Carraige Báine ("The Brink of the White Rocks", sung in Irish Gaelic) Sometimes When We Touch Threw It Out the Window Run and Catch the Wind Froggie Went a-Courting Last Trip Home How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:39 PM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 13/14 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. New River Train Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lament; Gethsemane (1914-18); To His Love (3 poems) Homeward (poem) Trenchant Soldiers What Have They Done to the Rain? Fighting for Strangers The Tracks of my Tears False Knight on the Road It Could've Been Me New York Girls (with added verses; aka Can't You Dance the Polka) I'll Never Fall in Love Again The Faith of Man Racketeer Blues The Thorn Upon the Rose A Frog He Would A-Wooin' Go Fosterling (poem) Always Forty-Two (ttto Blowing in the Wind) How to Give a Cat a Pill... and a Dog Too (recitation) Would You Like to Play the Guitar? (ttto Swinging on a Star) Sojourn to the Countryside (poem) Apple Picker's Reel Freeborn Man of the Traveling People Dear Harp of My Country (ttto The Ash Grove) You've Been a Friend to Me Common Sailors The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride / The Week Before Easter / I Once Loved a Lass / I Courted a Wee Girl) Lentil Soup Funiculi Funicula Lie Low Living in East Coker (poem) The Poppy (poem) A.I. Tripe and Cow Heels Carry My Song (poem) Keep the Customer Satisfied Benjamin Bowmaneer ?? ????? (Za liesom, "Beyond the Forest," sung in Russian) Na sera 'e Maggio ("One Evening in May," sung in Neapolitan) Hunter's Moon The Dancing Secret Love Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (sung in Irish Gaelic) Pilgrimage Have You Ever Been Lonely? Froggie Went A-Courtin' I Still Miss Someone White Collar Holler Farewell, Farewell The Folksinger's Lament (ttto The Limerick Rake) Goodbye to My Stepstone Meet Her at the Gate November (poem) Long A-Growin' (aka Daily Growing, The Trees They do Grow High, The Bonny Boy, Lady Mary Ann) Paper Of Pins The Two Brothers Normandy Orchards Deportees Farewell (about Kindertransport) My Blue Heaven The Halsway Carol Back tae Berwick, Johnnie If I Were Free Dillon Bay Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Aug 23 - 12:12 AM Songs, poems and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 28/29 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Good in Living Smuggler The Stealth Comma (poem) Wait Till the Work Comes Round (monologue) Springhill Mine Disaster The Ferryman Granville Willy Crossing the Bar Les Belles Etrangères (sung in French) Turpin Hero The Argo From Marble Arch to Leicester Square The Lass of Mohee Jumbo Stevens God Bless the Human Elbow Chairs to Mend White Coral Bells Once in a Very Blue Moon Help Me to Raise 'Em Bottle Against the Wall Queen of Waters Fred the Fireman Maggie Blues Raglan Road Community (If You Love the Water Let it Rain) All the Way Home Turning Toward the Morning Drugstore Truck Drivin' Man Talking About Norwich (poem) She Were Nobbut a Lass (poem) Early One Morning Mr. Nicotine Man (ttto Mr Tambourine Man) It Makes No Difference Our House Going and Staying Amazing Grace Making Up the Miles Quantum Mechanics Grey Funnel Line Sewing Shanty (Grey Flannel Line) (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Nancy Lee Highland Harry (ttto The Highlander's Lament) Three Fishers Light the Pipe The Dreadnought Julian of Norwich This World Goes Round and Round Fisherman's Wife Windward Away Hard Travelin' Stealin' For Sale by Owner The Minstrel Saints and Sinners The Song Goes On |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 23 - 10:55 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey much help. Corrections and comments always welcome. Free and Easy Words (poem) Places (poem) Testament (recitation) The Original Chauvinist Pig Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo) Summer's End (poem) Donkey Riding Sin (ttto The Parting Glass) See How the Winds Do Blow (aka Candlelight Fisherman) Life Passes By (sung in English, with one verse in French; "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit") Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) Heritage (poem) Geronimo's Cadillac The Yellow Yorlin Old Fid O Sinner Man Light From the Lighthouse Bread and Roses Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Slaggy Island Farewell Harbors of Home Rocks and Trees Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? Early to Rise Another Life (poem) Queen Matilda (monologue) Come Along You Drunken Bums I Hold Your Hand in Mine The Summer Land (poem) The Deaf Woman's Courtship (aka Old Woman; Old Woman's Courtship) I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) The Dancing Years Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass, aka The False Bride) More Than Enough Inner-body Travel (poem) Jolly Mon Sing Joe Hill (aka I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night) Joe Hill's Last Will Sailor's Prayer Frankie's Trade Old Fastnet The Topman and the Afterguard Came to See Me Yesterday Midsummer Hymn Lucy Your Name is Light Einstein the Genius Brother Can You Spare a Buck? (ttto Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?) Man of Extinction (poem) Bunessan (piano instrumental; tune used for Morning has Broken) Jimmy's Song (aka Sing for the Boys) There is Power in a Union (ttto There is Power in the Blood) They're Taking it Away Interesting Times |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Sep 23 - 08:55 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. No More Fish The Last Chance Saloon (poem) Recumbent Posture (monologue) An Affectation of Conceit Sister Josephine False Autumn (poem, from Year Song) Come Monday Joan Walker Tesco Shanty (aka The Housewife's Shanty) Why I'm Different (poem) Morning Blues Come Away In The Texas Rounder Strike the Bell Buckeyed Jim O, Cinnabon Geordie Black My Father's Song (poem) Little Sadie The Blackbird Goodbye to My Stepstone Ballad of Springhill Death (poem) Hector Cramp (monologue) Baldy The Bard of Armagh Hillbilly Heaven Pencil Thin Mustache Who Knows where the Time Goes? It's for You A Brush with Life (poem) Can't Get that Stuff No More I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Mail Myself to You Clear Away in the Morning Mullaghbawn Cosher Bailey I Wanna be a Bonobo Sweet Carnlough Bay I Can Hew The Barring of the Door (aka Get Up and Bar the Door) The Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I Wander) Generations of Change (tune resembles Streets of Laredo) As Tears Go By Joyce the Librarian Pay Me My Money Down The Shipkeeper Roll on Columbia There are No Words Your State's Name Here Velcro Follow the Heron |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:58 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Bringing in the Sheaves Obedience (poem) Diary of a Church Mouse (poem) The Barmaid and the Drayman Redemption Song Lily the Pink Liverpool Lullaby Birmingham Sunday Didn't I Dance? Silver Tassie Urge for Going Jack o' Diamonds is a Hard Card to Play The Rising of the Moon (the Kate Wolf song by this name) MacPherson's Rant Tomorrow Susannah's Footsteps It Rains Everywhere I Go The Hippopotamus Song The Boogeyman (ttto The Wellerman) September 11th The Cuckoo Do You Hear the Music? (poem) Coming Home Cold Rain and Snow The Ballad of Accounting The Outside Track Ride On The Secret God (poem) Safe Haven (poem) Sonia Snell (monologue) The Comic Song Purple People Eater Pleasant and Delightful Carry My Song (poem) September in the Rain The Anti-Shanty (Hose Me Down) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Bobby Shaftoe The Dundee Cat Humming to Myself Across the Western Plains (aka All For Me Grog, ttto Across the Western Ocean) The Dummy Line (fragment) Elsie Marley The Vinney Den Love Call Me Home We will Not Bow Down to Genocide James Cook Sophronie I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Epithalamium (song for the bride) (poem) Melting Pot (poem) Immigrant Eyes Granny's Old Armchair Pretty Polly Heave Away Cheerily, O Librar-i-o I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Moon River Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max (ttto Dear Old Donegal) Generations of Change Locks and Bolts Sae Will We Yet |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Sep 23 - 03:03 AM Songs, poems, instrumentals, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 25/26 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Sound of Singing The Return of Albert (monologue) Confessions of a Song Writer Molly Malone The Irish Rover La Blanche Biche (The White Hind, sung in French) The Earl of March's Daughter E-Sorrows Away (ttto Sorrows Away) A Sailor's Life Sonnet #29 (ttto Clerk Saunders) Fall is Here For the Grandchildren (poem) I Will Stand Fast The Really Strangest Dream Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac The Good In Living The Journey Dan, An Honest Working Man Spirit Song Three Ha'pence a Foot (monologue) The Ark (poem) The Poor Budgie's Dead Dirty Old Town Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Somebody's Wrong (ttto Rosin the Bow) Mr Sandman Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) (ttto Pretty Polly) Sweet Thyme Aardvark Song Boney Was A Warrior Flying High, Flying Free More Wood Poor Lily, aka What A Waste 9-5 Pollution Blues I Wanna Be A Dog In Tall Buildings Cailín Deas Cruíte na mBó ("The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow", in Irish Gaelic) Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) The Banks of Inverurie The Minstrel Boy Hills Of West Virginia Hold On To Me, Babe An Chéad Mháirt de Fhómhair (The First Tuesday of Autumn, sung in Irish Gaelic)) Sir Roger is Dead The Belle of Broughton Two Hornpipes: Harvest Home & The Boys Of Bluehill (guitar instrumentals) Settle Down (aka I'm Going Down That Highway) Pack Up Your Sorrows Never Tire Of The Road Padstow Farewell (aka Farewell Shanty, aka Padstowe Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Oct 23 - 05:39 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 2/3 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Life of a Man He's Not My Child (poem) The Battle Of Hastings (monologue) My Uncle Stan Irwinton La bèla Marion se'n va al molin ("Marion Went to the Mill," sung in Occitan) La Cárcel de Cananea ("Cananea Jail," sung in Spanish) Dogging Calling Me Home Bury Me Beneath the Willow When I'm Drunk October Song Changes Bonnie St. Johnstone Two Sisters Barbary Allen Grey October Jonah & The Grampus (monologue) My Brother Len Farewell to Tarwathie Things About Comin' My Way Spread A Little Happiness Fall Down Me Billy Answer to Weeping Willow Factory Girl So Early, Early in the Spring Our Town Must I Go Bound? Silver & Gold Polegnala e Todora ("Theodora is Dozing," fragment, sung in Bulgarian) Must I Go Bound? (fragment) Far From Their Home (with one verse in French) Skyscraper Wean (aka The Jeely Piece Song) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy On Top of Spaghetti (ttto On Top of Old Smokey) The Town I Loved So Well I Think Of You Annie McKelvie You Are My Sunshine You Are The Sunshine Of My Life |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:57 PM Songs, poems, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 9/10 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. October Song Summer's End (poem) My Brother Len The Widow at Windsor (poem) Marion jos un pomiò (sung in Occitan) Fair and Tender Ladies The Two Hunchbacks (story) Cheap Flights The Leaving of Liverpool Mean Old Bedbug Blues The Cliffs of Baccalieu Old Father Fall Answer the Knock at the Door Pointing to the Moon Skulkin Huntin' (story) We Gets Up in the Morn (aka Harvest Song) Frobisher Bay Shawnee Town Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Knoxville Girl Few Days (I Can't Stay in These Diggings) Where There's a Will There's a Way I Can't Find My Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Weekend Cowboy Slawit Sam (monologue) Will the Turtle Be Unbroken? Fire Down Below Johnny Be Good on the Concertina Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Weeping Willow Sailor's Prayer Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ("Hooray, You Are Coming Home", verses in English, chorus in Irish Gaelic) Permission to Dance Whoa Back Buck Lord Rothchild Blackwaterside Turtle Dove Whenever I See You Keep on the Sunny Side Goin' to the Zoo With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) I Remember You Where Are You (Tonight I Wonder) The Border The Sound of Music Dimming of the Day |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Oct 23 - 04:59 AM Songs, poems, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 16/17 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos Sniper (poem) Soldier (poem) The Widder's Reekin' (monologue) I'm In Love With Ethel from the Cake Shop River Drivin' (My Girl's Waiting for Me) Listen to the Darkness Library Shanty Somewhere to Begin A l'ombreta d'un rosièr ("In the Shade of a Rosebush," sung in Occitan) Taking Nelson Home No More Tears All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies (Danish song, "Alle sømænd er glade for piger," sung mostly in English) Give Yourself to Love My Love Come Rolling Down Safe Romance Thorneymoor Woods East Virginia Blues Captain Kidd Sonny's Dream Westlin Winds Oseh Shalom ("Who Makes Peace", sung in Hebrew) Benjamin Bowmaneer Let Her Go Down Numbers (reading) The Poppy & The Inquisitive Mind of the Child (poem) Knockin' on Heaven's Door Earth Dancing in Front of the Guns Seaman's Hymn The Magpie I Love Suzie in the Supermarket The Rose 1805 (poem) Man Walks Among Us Freeborn Man Saucy Sailor Slow Train Through Georgia Doodle Let Me Go Freight Train Universal Soldier Awake, Awake (aka Drowsy Sleeper) Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) If I Were Free Dillon Bay Don't Fence Me In But Not for Me Cradle of the Dawn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM Songs, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 23/24 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Man of the Earth Gunner Sam (monologue) Woodland Pursuits Night Walk (poem) Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Trim Rigged Doxy Autumn Song Dog in the Microwave As the Bombs Rain Down Vilikins and his Dinah Spanish Ladies When I Can't Play The Brandy Tree Blue Ghost Blues The Music of Strings Freight Train Gallipolis Come Away In Make You Feel My Love Going to the West (Three poems) Is This 1938 Again?; The Training Exercise; Mariupol You've Got a Friend Let There Be Angels My Last Farewell to Stirling Substitute Time We Made a Start (poem) Little Bit of Pride Song to a Seagull Champion at Drivin' 'Em Crazy (ttto Champion at Keeping Them Rolling) Scarborough Settler's Lament I Put a Spell on You The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic) The First Storm of Autumn (poem) The Castle of Dromore/Caislean Droim an Oir (aka October Winds; sung in English and Irish) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Óg, Eileen Oge) Calling Doon the Line The Ballad of Sammy's Bar (aka The Last Boat's a-Leaving) Skin and Bone The Postman (ttto The Coachman) The Sinking of the Reuben James (ttto Wildwood Flower) The Nutting Girl Einstein the Genius Killing the Blues The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) Al Kol Eleh (in Hebrew) The Darby Ram A Place in the Halloween Choir Between the Wars Hearth and Fire |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Nov 23 - 10:44 PM Songs, poems, recitations, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 30/31 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan Frankel for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley) Graveyard (poem) Rest Quiet (poem) With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn; recited) The Monster Mole The Unquiet Grave Crazy Man Michael Away Ye Merry Lasses The Holland Handkerchief The Egg Plant that Ate Chicago Maggie's Farm She Moved Through the Fair Black Annis's Lair The Bergen The Goblins in the Churchyard I Am Cherry Alive Steam Packet A Family Story (story) The Body in the Bag Naughty Child (poem) Happy Halloween The Wind and the Rain King Henry The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer Hallow's Eve Procrastination (poem) The To-Do List (poem) The Tale of Stingy Jack (monologue) The Reluctant Monster Look For Me at Samhain (poem) Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Hard Travellin' Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret and Sweet William) Drink, Drink Duncan and Brady A Bhean Úd Thíos: ("The Woman Down Under" or "Fairy lullaby", sung in English) The Teddy Bears' Picnic Pokarekare Ana (Maori song, sung in English) St. Swithin's Day Sherry's Song In the Bath The Ash Grove Already Dead The Road to Dundee (aka The Road and the Miles to Dundee) Bilge Pump's Birthday Song (one verse only) Autumn (poem) Under My Bed Yuppies in the Sky (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) The Grey Cock Pop Goes the Weasel The Highwayman (Ochs setting) A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song) The Cat Came Back Casper the Friendly Ghost Child Ballad Brief King Henry Scarborough Fair John Condon Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda, Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, Bread of Heaven, God of Grace and God of Glory) Calon Lân ("A Pure Heart", ttto Pokarekare Ana) Greenwood Side-i-o (aka The Cruel Mother, Fine Flowers in the Valley, The Lady of York, Weelia Wallia) Molly Malone Lay Down Beside Me ACME Bound for Transylvania (ttto South Australia) How Long Will I Love You Dem Deer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:01 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 6/7 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dem Deer Spencer the Rover Dear Passenger (poem) The Poppy or The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem) Three Fatal Females Ae Fond Kiss Spider In the Bath Roll Alabama Roll Eency Weency Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) The Gown of Green Sussex Drinking Song Seaview Bells The Place I Am Bound My Friend Robert Bradley The Life of a Man Frankie's Trade Bring Flowers Dark-eyed Sailor Vicky's Secret Letyat utki ("Ducks are Flying", sung in Russian) Make You Feel My Love As the Bombs Rain Down The Half-Hitch Percy's Song Dreary Black Hills Spencer the Rover Come Into the Fire How Many Need Die? Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire Don't Think Twice, It's Alright The Circle Game When the Shanty Boy Comes Down Conversation The Roving Kind Brandy-O Rawtenstall Annual Fair Lucrezia My Town Irving the Rover (ttto Spencer the Rover) Blowing in the Wind South Australia (and one verse of Take Me Down the Harbour) What if God Smoked Cannabis The Old Dance Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (ttto "Cranbrook") Randwick Races (ttto Galway Races) Every Bush and Tree Where Ravens Feed I Ain't a-Marching Any More Bruach na Carraige Báine ("The Brink of the White Rocks", sung in Irish Gaelic) Sometimes When We Touch Threw It Out the Window Run and Catch the Wind Froggie Went a-Courting Last Trip Home How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:39 PM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 13/14 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. New River Train Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lament; Gethsemane (1914-18); To His Love (3 poems) Homeward (poem) Trenchant Soldiers What Have They Done to the Rain? Fighting for Strangers The Tracks of my Tears False Knight on the Road It Could've Been Me New York Girls (with added verses; aka Can't You Dance the Polka) I'll Never Fall in Love Again The Faith of Man Racketeer Blues The Thorn Upon the Rose A Frog He Would A-Wooin' Go Fosterling (poem) Always Forty-Two (ttto Blowing in the Wind) How to Give a Cat a Pill... and a Dog Too (recitation) Would You Like to Play the Guitar? (ttto Swinging on a Star) Sojourn to the Countryside (poem) Apple Picker's Reel Freeborn Man of the Traveling People Dear Harp of My Country (ttto The Ash Grove) You've Been a Friend to Me Common Sailors The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride / The Week Before Easter / I Once Loved a Lass / I Courted a Wee Girl) Lentil Soup Funiculi Funicula Lie Low Living in East Coker (poem) The Poppy (poem) A.I. Tripe and Cow Heels Carry My Song (poem) Keep the Customer Satisfied Benjamin Bowmaneer ?? ????? (Za liesom, "Beyond the Forest," sung in Russian) Na sera 'e Maggio ("One Evening in May," sung in Neapolitan) Hunter's Moon The Dancing Secret Love Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (sung in Irish Gaelic) Pilgrimage Have You Ever Been Lonely? Froggie Went A-Courtin' I Still Miss Someone White Collar Holler Farewell, Farewell The Folksinger's Lament (ttto The Limerick Rake) Goodbye to My Stepstone Meet Her at the Gate November (poem) Long A-Growin' (aka Daily Growing, The Trees They do Grow High, The Bonny Boy, Lady Mary Ann) Paper Of Pins The Two Brothers Normandy Orchards Deportees Farewell (about Kindertransport) My Blue Heaven The Halsway Carol Back tae Berwick, Johnnie If I Were Free Dillon Bay Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Nov 23 - 09:04 PM Songs, poems, monologues and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 20/21 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. John Ball Masters of War Flying (poem) Sam, The Famous Name of Small (monologue) Shortages (or Chad Looked Over the Wall) Telling the Bees Edward (aka What Put the Blood, Son Come Tell it Unto Me, My Son David, Henry) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recitation) All I know The Keys of Canterbury (aka The Keys of Heaven, Paper of Pins, If You Will Walk With Me) Strike the Bell, Landlord (ttto Ring the Bell, Watchman! – also used for Click Go the Shears, etc.) Grimm the Collier of Croydon A Song of the Weather Haul Away Ceres and Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My! Swallow Song (same tune as Hebrew Tsur Mishelo, and Ladino Los Bilbilicos (which is also called La rosa enflorece)) Remember Me Where Did You Get That Hat? That Was the President Lily the Pink Lady of Autumn Queen of Waters The Last Hedgehog (poem) The Sniper (poem) When We All Sing (variant of When All Men Sing) Mrs McGrath Foolish, Incredibly Foolish (with added verse) Still Believing November Wood (poem) We Will All Go Together When We Go The Bird on Nellie's Hat People Get Ready In the Summer of His Years Thanksgiving Eve Lucky The Dormouse and the Doctor (poem) Mezi Horami ("Between the Mountains", sung in Czech) The Lily of the Net (ttto The Lily of the West, aka Flora) Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Making Babies by Steam (aka The Bold Tinker, Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell's Steam Engine) Uncle Dave's Grace (recitation) How Can I Keep from Eating (ttto How Can I Keep from Singing) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Nov 23 - 08:37 PM Songs, poems,monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 27/28 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Jack was Every Inch a Sailor Annachie Gordon Family: Mary, and Joseph (poems) When Dacey Rode the Mule (monologue) Kilroy was Here Harvest Home & The Boys of Blue Hill (=The Lads of North Tyne) Winter (poem) Oh Shepherd, Oh Shepherd (aka The Sheep are in the Wilderness) I Would I Were Away in a Manger Mothers, Daughters, Wives The Fox (aka Old Daddy Fox) Racketeer Blues Time to Love Again The Orange and the Green (ttto The Wearing of the Green) Summertime Ghost Riders in the Sky The Ant and the Grasshopper A Poem of Thanksgiving (poem) Here's Hoping Flushed from the Bathroom of My Heart (ttto Great Speckled Bird) Fathom the Bowl Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, All Shall be Well Again) She Belongs to Me The Good Morning (poem) Greasy Mac (recited) Girlfriends Waiting (poem) You Bash the Balrog (ttto Waltzing Matilda) Do You Hear what I Hear? Parting Friend Heave Away My Johnnies Two Young Brethren Sail Away, Ladies Holiday Dinner Party (ttto Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) Pigs Can See the Wind Lassie wi' the Yellow Coatie Bound for Glory Unchained Melody Boats to Build Dragon Song The Dreadnought Threads Widely Expanded (ttto Stormy Winds) Terrorism (poem) How Many More? Bill Bones' Hornpipe Bristlecone Pine The Power and Glory (Young) Rambleaway Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (in Irish Gaelic) Autumn Leaves Turkey in the Straw Field Behind the Plow Too Close to the Wind Ring them Bells Why Don't You Go Home? (ttto Sloop John B) Gold Watch and Chain God Bless the Grass The Outside Track Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Dec 23 - 04:37 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Pretty Boy Floyd A Snow Shanty Relationship Self-Assessment Form (poem) The Innkeeper (monologue) Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wynde Somerset Wassail (aka Ashen Faggot Wassail) O Come, O Come Emmanuel Mary Had a Baby (People keep a-comin') Pickle Tree Carol (ttto Cherry Tree Carol) The Thermal Vest (ttto The Cuckoo's Nest) On the Sunny Side of the Street The Gentleman Soldier It's Probably Coincidence Sea Change Ode by a Christmas Pudding at Sea Waltzing with Bears The Bitter Withy (aka Mary Mild, Holy Well) Joe and Me (aka Christmas Eve) Mary Rocked the Baby The Land Beyond the Blue (aka Tell My Mother) A Pair of Brown Eyes El Do Re Mi Wild Side of Life (ttto Great Speckled Bird) Po' Lazarus The Trees They are All Bare (The Coppers' Christmas Song) The African Eloquent (poem) Christmas Day in the Workhouse (monologue) Father's Toys Wearyall (poem) Santa Klutz is Coming to Town (ttto Santa Claus is Coming to Town) God Rest Ye Dour Diplomats (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Could also be called Gambit and Ploy, or A Carol for UN Diplomats) A Carol for Sheltered Shut-ins Aunt Sue I Think it's Gonna Work Out Fine Birds Ships of Light Over the Hills and Far Away Fhir a Bhata (The Boatman, chorus in Scots Gaelic)) The Drummer and the Cook Walkin' After Midnight Jock o' Hazeldean The Big Society (ttto Fairytale of New York) Bubble-Up Economy Jingle Bells Before They Close the Minstrel Show Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls) Down in Yon Forest (aka Castleton Carol) The Man at the Nore I Fall to Pieces The Great Missoula Floods While Shepherds Watched (ttto Ilkla Moor / Cranbrook) Awayday (ttto Gaudete; mostly unconnected Latin phrases) S'vivon Sov Sov Sov (sung in Hebrew and English) Freedom Come A' Ye Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (ttto Northfield) Chariots Logs to Burn Carolan's Receipt for Drinking (instrumental) Captain O'Kane (instrumental) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Dec 23 - 08:56 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Hang on the Bell, Nellie Three Wise Women Knot (poem) The Happiest Christmas of All (monologue) When Icicles Hang by the Wall The Cutty Wren The Ballad of Five Fingers Donkey Riding (Xmas version) The Christmas Goose Miss Otis Regrets The Sailor's Christmas Day (ttto Hearts of Oak) Steamboat Bill Story about her brother's presents Turning Toward the Morning Crackdown Addict Moonlight on the Highway Violets of Dawn There Was a Chump Thought He Was King (ttto Good King Wenceslas) A Faded Coat of Blue The Christmas Goose (again) Go Go Pogo Hard Times The Caregiver's Wassail (ttto Gower Wassail) A Puppy Called Puberty (poem) The Recumbent Posture (monologue) Global Warming Ocho Kandelikas (sung in Ladino) Do the Rock of Ages Virgin Mary had One Son Must be Santa Carol of the Birds Dear Departed (ttto Velveteen) Annan Water Reflections in a Crystal Wind Song for a Winter's Night Haul Away, Joe God's Surprise (ttto Scarlet Ribbons) Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls) A Place in My Heart The Mission Hall Hymn Song The Old Dope Peddler Thanksgiving Prayer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Dec 23 - 03:47 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Joe for the data. Thanks to Joan F for reminding me that Complainte pour Ste-Catherine was sung in English. Corrections and comments always welcome. Anybody know what Joe sang at the end as a "lullaby"? Gaudete Chariots Advent 1955 (poem) The Shortest Day (poem) Yorkshire Pudden! (monologue) Foxtrot Tango Calling Boar's Head Carol I Saw Three Ships Sussex Mummers' Carol Complainte pour Ste-Catherine (sung in English) Shepherds, Arise The Court of King Caractacus Noel A Nortonville Christmas, 1900 Eddi's Service (poem) My Old Man Is That You, Santa Claus? The Greatest Story of All There's a Song in the Air Peter Amberley (ttto Tramps and Hawkers) I Think That I've Been Here Before Long is the Winter Till the Sun's Return A Child Ballad Brief I'm Not Looking to See Them Here.(aka A Sight for Sore Eyes) The Innumerable Christ (poem) Candlelight Carol When I'm Gone Mary Did You Know I am Christmas Gaia's Lullaby Santa Baby Far Side Banks of Jordan Rebirth/Ascension (poem) Here's Hopin' Tommy Don't Lick That Pipe Gabriel's Message Snow and Snow (poem) The Christmas Fairy (monologue) Dear Santa Coventry Carol A Solstice Prayer (poem) Huron Carol In the Bleak Midwinter While Shepherds Watched (ttto Cranbrook) The Rattlin' Bog Black Clothes Nu er det Jul igen ("Now it's Yule Again," sung in Danish and English) Santa Lucia (sung in Danish and English) O Come, O Come Emmanuel Someday at Christmas Mary had a Baby The Friendly Beasts (The Children's Carol) Oreos The Christmas Driver The Frozen Logger A'Ghrian ("The Sun", in Scottish Gaelic) Light the Winter's Dark I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Drinking them Beers Velcro Christmas (poem) Ring Out, Solstice Bells Hymn Julian of Norwich |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jan 24 - 04:04 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 8 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for making a spreadsheet, and to MaJoC for spotting a typo. Corrections and comments always welcome. Days of '49 Tar Barrel in Dale Winter Poem (poem) The Sick Note New Year's Resolutions (poem) Christmas Hangover Ring Out, Wild Bells (poem) Proper Pluck The Battle of New Orleans (ttto Eighth of January) All My Trials Alle sømænd er glade for piger ("All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies", in Danish and English) Yule Tide Shanty Mr. Wonderful Diga Joaneta (in Occitan) Hot Asphalt Wayfaring Stranger Fiddlers' Green I Believe in You Seaman's Wife 254 Shades of Gray Ballad of Accounting Ee By Gum but I'm Cowd People Holding Hands Haul Away/Sail On They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around (aka Quit Kickin' My Dog Around, Kickin' My Dog Around, aka The Hound Dog Song) Winter Song (the one by Alan Hull) Deja Vu (poem) Blow the Man Down Saturday Morning (poem) Cinderella Condensed His Answer to Her Letter (monologue) Planxty Irwin, Farewell to Govan (guitar instrumentals) The Ways of Man We're Off to See the Wizard Lament for Owen Rowe, Humors of Castlecomer, Road to Lisdoonvarna (three tunes on concertina) Wee Pot Stove Lady Gethin , Up in the Air (dulcimer instrumentals) Lady Margaret Frobisher Bay All the Tunes in the World The View from Home Just Like John Barleycorn The Electric Blanket Calypso Moonlight on the Highway Trip Through Holyhead Morgan Megan, Pigtown Fling (dulcimer instrumentals) The Sneeze (poem) In the Bleak Midwinter (pro-Hamas version) Solstice Song (Long May it Shine) West Coast Lullaby A'Soalin' Lay Down Beside Me Stepstone (aka Goodbye to My Stepstone) You've Been a Friend to Me Trill, Ye Carolers, Trill (ttto Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill) Farewell Take this Hammer Bridges |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jan 24 - 06:11 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals, monologues, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to MaJoC for additional information. Corrections and comments always welcome. Love Call Me Home The January June (ttto The January Man) Get Your Butt Over Here! (poem) The Ballad of Long Gone Jones (recited) Better Get Your Body Warmer On We Have Got a Power Cut (ttto Mary Had A Baby) The Rio Grande The Green Willow Tree (aka Turkey Reveille, aka Turkish Revelry, aka The Sweet Trinity, aka The Golden Vanity, aka The Golden Willow Tree, aka The Weeping Willow Tree, aka Sinking in the Lonesome Sea, aka The Gallant Argosy, aka The Old Virginia Lowlands, aka Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)) Sowing on the Mountain Skuld gammel venskab rejn forgo ("Should old friendship be purely forgotten?", sung in Danish ttto Auld Lang Syne) La finforleta (sung in Occitan) Hole in the Ground Pretty Boy Floyd Peace in the Valley The Minstrel and the Bear Here Comes the Sun The Leaving of Liverpool The Ball-Playing Song Keep Your Hands on the Plow (aka Gospel Plow, aka Hold On, with Civil Rights verses) Captain Wedderburn's Courtship Water from a Stone Battle Hymn of the Republic The Wind in the Wires The Shores of Old Blighty If We Only Have Love Changes Fifty Miles of Elbow Room The Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Side-i-o, aka The Rose And The Lindsey O') Miss Rowan Davies (piano instrumental) Power and the Glory Now Westlin Winds Deportees Sand and Water Frozen Tears (poem) The Night Charlie Tended Weir (monologue) Wish I Could Be Nice and Warm The Drummer and The Cook A Bottle o' the Best How Do You Sleep at Night? Lay Down Beside Me A Change is Gonna Come Thirty Years Ago (ttto Twenty Years Ago) My Name is Morgan (but it Ain't J.P.) (aka Bill Morgan and His Girl) In the Month of January You Remember Me Victor Rag (guitar instrumental) We Have a Dream Dem Deer Hatikvah ("The Hope", in Hebrew) Rosa Parks Come See the Boys Go 'Round The Frozen Logger At the End of a Pointed Gun (ttto Erev Shel Shoshanim) Quotations from Martin Luther King (read) Tor House of Robinson Jeffers (poem) Lulu Walls I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (piano instrumental) The Highwayman Outwitted (aka The Highwayman and the Farmer’s Daughter, aka The Farmer in Cheshire) All the Answers Eight More Miles to Louisville Early Snow If I Were Free The January Woman (ttto The January Man) Poverty Knock Never Turning Back Follow the Drinking Gourd Somewhere to Begin Lyke Wake Dirge Love Call Me Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Jan 24 - 11:13 PM Songs, monologues, poems, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data, and to Felipa for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Quite Early Morning Lang May Yer Lums Reek The Acknowledged Expert (monologue) Teaching My Worm How to Swim (recited) Where Will the Last Flower Grow? The Lakes of Killin The First Storm of Autumn (poem) A La Tor De Marmanda (In The Tower of Marmanda) (in Occitan) Try to Remember Three Craws Crossing the Bar Cordova Bridges For Margaret Ann (concertina instrumental) Times are Getting Hard, Boys Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa' New Sounds in a Hard Rain (variation on A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall) The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Did She Mention My Name? A Song for My Father Good Riddance (aka Time of Your Life) Lonesome Pine Special (The Sinking of the Good) Reuben James Ae Fond Kiss The Health Forecast (poem) Address To A Haggis (poem) The Weather Lore The Frozen Logger The Courtyard (poem) Erev Shel Shoshanim (Hebrew & English translation) Marching Inland Breaking Up is Hard to Do The Minstrel Boy Funiculi, Funicula Winter Wonderland Wait Till I Put on My Robe The Rigs o' Barley (aka Corn Rigs, aka Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs) Declaration (poem) Toast to the Lassies The Recruited Collier The Silver Tassie Waltz Into Winter Cawsand Bay (same tune as Molly Malone) The Cruel Mother Unseen Song Burning Gold The Natural Girl for Me Railroading on the Great Divide Such a Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation (aka Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation, aka Rogues in a Nation, aka Parcel o' Rogues) The Minstrel (amended version) The Garden Song Dark as a Dungeon We Shall Overcome The Procrastinator I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy Absentee January Lullaby Pianomaster (poem) Predicting in the Mainline The Isle of St Helena Aye Waukin' O (in Scottish English) / Cadal Cha Déan Mi (in Scottish Gaelic) Knitting Song (ttto Garden Song) Pretty Saro Windmills The Bonny Wee Thing The January Mom (ttto January Man) Quite Early Morning (reprise) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jan 24 - 04:17 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Put it on the Ground Brave General Wolfe Forefathers (poem) Hauf Measures (monologue) Plots Granny's Old Armchair Innisvaddy Annie A Bottle o' the Best Lay Down (aka Candles in the Rain) Probably Probably Not (ttto Poverty Knock) I Know Why and So Do You Little River Trouble In Mind Old Dogs I Will Be the One Ring Around the Moon / Ring the Living Bell / Shine the Living Light Up in the Mornin' Early When I Have Seen Mon Vieux ("My Old Man", sung in French) Take These Chains from My Heart St. Patrick Battalion Prophecy of Love There was an Old Soldier (aka Old Tobacco Box; ttto Turkey in the Straw / Old Zip Coon) Hospice (poem) Dying at Home My Texas Girl Pride of Man We Never Mention Aunt Clara Octopus's Garden A Most Peculiar Man Leave Her Johnnie (traditional tune, with lyrics by Cicely Fox Smith) The Ballad Singer (poem) Song for Ireland The Quiet Life (poem) T'Owd Brahn Hen Pseudonyms La Pique (aka Flash Frigate, The Fancy Frigate, Don Pedro, The Liverpool Packet) Lovely Nancy Metyelitsa ("Snow Flurries", sung in Russian) Look what They've Done to My Song, Ma Soldier, Soldier A Lover's Heart Lily the Pink Glory of Love Blank Space I Still Miss Someone Shuttle Pantomime (poem) Shuttle Game Give Me the Roses Sorry the Day I was Married Young and Healthy The Cruel Mother Shelter Dreams Deferred How Woman Got Even with Man The Lost Words Blessing Heart of Gold The Quiet Faith of Man |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Feb 24 - 10:07 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 5/6 February 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Casey and Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Fiddler's Green Cold Days of February The Day is Done (poem) I Remember the First Time I Tried It (monologue) The Suede Shoe Blues The Water is Wide Dirty Old Town Hal-an-Tow Carrickfergus Alexander Beetle The Broom of the Cowdenknowes An Acappella Fella Que la tortilla se vuelva / Qué culpa tiene el tomate / La hierba de los caminos (in Spanish) (It's All Part of) Being a Pirate Old Clothes Father Was a Fiddler Fiddler's Green (Cavalry) (poem) The Working Class Stranger Young Waters The Banks of the Nile Lonesome Robin Blythe was She (aka Andrew and His Cutty Gun) Before They Close the Minstrel Show Davy Lowston Queen of the Silver Dollar Join Now (poem) I Ain't Afraid Our Love is Here to Stay Seeräuber-Jenny ("Pirate Jenny", in German and English) Safe Harbour Song The Forsaken Maiden (poem) In My Little World of Blue Waiting (poem) Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Sammy's Bar Someone to Watch Over Me The Night Visiting Song (aka The Cocks are Crowing, Adieu unto All True Lovers) William Taylor: The True Story (ttto William Taylor) Sammy's Bar Revisited (ttto Sammy's Bar) The One-legged Cowboy Green Grow'th the Holly Bold Riley The Bunch of Thyme (aka Thyme, It is a Precious Thing) Harvest of the Homeland All Things Shall Perish / Music Alone Shall Live Dillon Bay (song about Winnie the Pooh; no title supplied) Lachend, lachend kommt der Sommer ("The Summer comes Laughing", in German) Rise Her Up from Down Below (version of "Whiskey, Johnny") Gold Watch and Chain The Mother's Story Goin' Back to Where I Come From Swimming to the Other Side Aragon Mill No Nukes Prayer (poem) Go Where We Have Not Gone Very Very Short Sea Song The Blacksmith River Road Early Snow Too Much of a Good Thing A Goldsmith Courted Me (ttto The Blacksmith) Side By Side |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Feb 24 - 06:21 PM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 12/13 February 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. But the Cat Came Back Black Clothes If Life were Dreams (poem) Harbour (poem) The Key of Always (poem) Sonnet 216 Love on the Line Pleasant and Delightful The Spindle's Thread (poem) For Baby (aka For Bobbi) ¿Qué dirá el Santo Padre? (in Spanish) Turn it Around Tomorrow is a Long Time The Failure of a Pickup (ttto Lucille) The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn Fiddler's Green Vicky's Secret Weed with Willie Isle of Eigg I Will Put My Ship in Order (aka I Will Set My Ship in Order, I Drew My Ship into the Harbour) Cold Winds Booth Shot Lincoln Wedding Dress Jenny's Gone Away The Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair I Just Lost My Heart (poem) Faded Rose (poem) Joshua The Pancake Race Liverpool Lullaby Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Tell Old Bill One I Love The Streets of Calgary The Maid of (or, "from") Bunclody (or, Buncloudy, or The Streams of Bunclody) After Taps (poem) As the Bombs Rain Down High Sheriff Blues Land of the Bottom Line Så Længe Jeg Lever ("As Long as I Live", in Danish) Hesitation Blues Song for a Winter's Night You're the Girl I Love What'll We Do with the Baby-O? (I'll Be with You) In Apple Blossom Time Both Sides the Tweed As Time Goes By Somewhere Along the Road Fading (poem) Woman for Me This Love Will Carry My Valentine My Funny Valentine Iko Iko (aka Jock-A-Mo) Slow Romance Sing with Me A Bench by the Sea The Rose Spanish Oranges Faith of Man (aka Quiet Faith of Man) Bird on a Wing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Feb 24 - 10:57 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide singaround of 19/20 February 2024, in the order in which they were presemted. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Ram in The Thicket The Big Fella Learning (poem) Borrowing the Bard The Frisco Ship Nursie Nursie (monologue) Polly Oliver Early One Morning Cordova House Carpenter Oh My Love is Gone (aka The Constant Lovers, The Lover's Lament for Her Sailor, The Drowned Lovers, The Forsaken Mermaid) Lifeboat Horses (Twitchett) Square By Square (ttto Side by Side) Paddy and the Whale Lifeboat Horses (McKay) Whale Song (aka Where in the World are the Whales?) Haul Away Joe Bustles and Bonnets Melting Pot (poem) The President Sang "Amazing Grace" The Rose of the San Joaquin The Antarctic Fleet Hippopotamus Song (aka "Mud, Glorious Mud") Roving Gambler Sloop John A (ttto Sloop John B) Your Daughters and Your Sons The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan) I Stand on Tiptoe (poem) Aiken Drum Jonah and the Grampus (monologue) American Tune Supermarket Susie In The Pines (aka Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, aka Black Girl) All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough (occasionally known as Jolly Ploughboys) Yes We Have No Bananas Gaudeamus Igitur (in Latin) Troubles of Erin Lady Gethin (mountain dulcimer instrumental) Save the Whales Call the Lamas! Spring of '65 Follow the Drinking Gourd Sea Coal How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field Rubber Blubber Whale Dream Dolphin (poem) Song of the World's Last Whale Farewell to Tarwathie Little Boxes 2020 (ttto Little Boxes) Ookpik Waltz (guitar instrumental, aka Canadian, Eskimo, Eskino, The Oak Pick, Ook Pick, Ookpick, The Ookpick, The Ookpik, Ootpik, The Snowy Owl, Uptick, Utpick) Come Along Girls (and Sing for Joy) Hail To The Chief Call Me The Whale (ttto Greenland Whale Fisheries) More Little Boxes (ttto Little Boxes) It's Your Birthday A Shanty for Barry Finn My Get Up and Go Old Love Far from Home (hammered dulcimer instrumental) Gwerhall (hammered dulcimer instrumental) Circle Game Earth Angel Sea Glass True Love Nothing Beats a Tug on the Line The Marvelous Toy Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head We are the Music Makers (setting of the poem "Ode") Parting Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Guest Joan F Date: 23 Feb 24 - 12:25 PM I sang "In the Pines". Aka "Little Girl", if you like (I don't, I like "In the Pines"), *not* "Black Girl". |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 24 - 12:54 AM Joan, the purpose of these posts is to give any readers wandering by some idea of what was done at these singarounds. For that reason, I try to use the titles by which people are most likely to recognize the songs (poems, monologues, instrumentals, ...). I think "Black Girl" is going to ring a bell for many more people than "Little Girl", so that's what I use. Titles aside for the moment, and looking at lyrics, I know that you chose to sing "Little girl" and not "Black girl", and that you have good reasons for doing so, reasons to which I cannot object. I think Leadbelly recorded it both ways – here is a recording where he sang "Black girl": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KEs9xq6X0 It occurs to me that the song also goes by the name, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, so I'm going to edit that in as an aka. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Mar 24 - 01:37 AM Songs, readings, recitations, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 26/27 February 2024, in rthe order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Trusty Lariat Blackleg Miner Blackleg Mining Man Sarah (reading) The House that Jack Built My Father was a Driver on the Northwestern Railway Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend? (recitation) Theme from Bat Masterson My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose I Believe in You Seize 'em, squeeze 'em (ttto Leave Her, Johnny) (Oh, My Darling) Clementine Oh What a Beautiful Morning Come By the Hills La Vièlha de Pibrac ("The Old Woman from Pibrac", sung in Occitan) The Reason We are Here Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Papa's on the Housetop The Frog's Wedding How Can I Keep from Purring? (ttto How Can I Keep from Singing) To Althea From Prison Why am I Painting the Living Room? Hi Ho Jerum Play Friends (poem) Ukrainian Now The Ballad of Tim Evans Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers The Gallant Forty-twa Aragon Mill Rising for the Moon Dachshundia (poem) Shower Song Henry the Seventh (monologue) Theme from Tombstone Territory Ten Thousand Miles (aka Fare Thee Well My Own True Love, The Turtle Dove) The Shipyard Apprentice (aka TheFairfield Crane) It Ain't Necessarily So Pancho and Lefty Darcy Farrow The Snow it Melts the Soonest Al Writes Better Songs She Was Poor But She Was Honest (aka It's the Same the Whole World Over) Part-time Wages (poem) Miner's Blues Roddy McCorley Their Way (ttto My Way, which was ttto Comme d'habitude) Tecumseh Valley Ceol an phíobaire ("The Music of the Piper", in Irish Gaelic) Blackleg Miner The Sounds of Silence The Black Ball Line A Handful of Songs Spread Your Wings Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Mar 24 - 11:13 PM Songs, recitations, monologues, instrumentals, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 5 March 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Goodbye Murshin Durkin Spring 1919 Song of the Shirt (recitation) A Sailor's Life Strawberry Fair One Each Apiece, All Round (monologue) Leap Year Liaison Johnny I Hardly Knew You À Paris y'a une vieille ("In Paris there's an Old Woman", sung in French) You Tell Me that I'm Falling Down Come Inside You Silly Fellow The Power and the Glory Delia How Anarchy Could Function (ttto Leaving of Liverpool) Syv Roser ("Seven Roses", concertina instrumental) Taking Stock (poem) They're Taking it Away A Chat with Your Mom (aka The F-word Song) Old Sydney Town The Recruited Collier Les Trois Maries (The Three Marys, sung in French and English, ttto "The Wren") Mole in the Ground Old King Beer The Rose of Tralee I Sang to Her Softly with my Guitar You Wonder Why I'm a Hobo The Black Seam Spring (poem) The Rest of the Day is Your Own (takeoff on Farmer's Boy) Saucy Sailor The World Turned Upside Down (recited) Spring Song Galway Bay (parody) Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive The House of the Rising Sun The Owl and the Pussycat (poem) Buddy Better Get On Down the Line Farewell tae the Haven The Wind Blows Wild You are Not Alone Rory O'More Parameter Perimeter (poem) Money and Corruption / I am Your Man Byker Hill / Elsie Marley (medley) Theme from Mister Ed Us Poor Fellows To the Begging Lone Pilgrim If We Only Have Love Marnie (aka Come Fare Away with Me) Lovely Agnes Mr Taxman (ttto Mr Sandman) Brown Lung Blues From a Distance Let There Be Peace on Earth Reconciliation Prairie in the Sky Lay Down Beside Me If I Were Free Spread Your Wings Housewife's Lament Bread and Roses A Plea for One World / Peace of the River (medley) Freedom Crossing the Bar |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Mar 24 - 07:32 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and spoken word from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 March 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Brandy Tree (aka The Otter's Song) Diesel & Shale Old (poem) No 1, Horizon Parker Shaft Bottom, 1948 (monologue) Ballad of Springhill Hillcrest Mine Lives in the Balance Dark as a Dungeon Herbert Jones's Mother The Yellow Bridge (poem) Miner's Blue Blues Paddy West Love is Teasing West Virginia Mine Disaster Los esclòps ("The Clogs", sung in Occitan) ) Way Down in the Mine Dancing in the River False Lover Never Won Back Best Friend (aka The Unicorn Song) Working at the Coalface Attention All Passengers (poem) Don't Send My Boy to Prison (monologue) Goliath of Gath Midnight on the Water, People Say Strange Things Blackleg Miner Mother Always Wants to Stay at Home Could Be (poem) Eleanor Rigby You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out Ale, Glorious Ale Balmain The South Coast Top of the World San Francisco (sung in French) Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 4 + 20 The Gallant Forty-Twa Go Tell Aunt Rhody One for Winter / Colrain Christmas in Killarney (ttto Theme from Mister Ed) Rake and Rambling Boy You Come Singing (poem) Easy to be Hard Tor House of Robinson Jeffers (spoken) Carrickfergus Holy Ground Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus Parting Song The Irish Ballad Oreos Keep You in Peace Give Yourself to Love La Di Dum Start It All Over Again |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Mar 24 - 07:15 PM Songs, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 March 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan F for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Woad (ttto Men of Harlech) So Early in the Spring Trip to Morrow (monologue) The Song of Wandering Aengus (poem) Song for Ireland The Wild Colonial Boy Lily the Pink Any Complaints? There Was a Lady in Her Father's Garden (closely related to The Young and Single Sailor) Spike Driver Blues Hind Horn The Rains have Come Again Dancing in the River Three Score and Ten God Save the King All the Tunes in the World The Call and the Answer Shoals of Herring Planting a Rainbow (poem) The Irish Jubilee Medley: Five Hundred Miles; It's Raining, It's Pouring; Gypsy Laddie; Crawdad Song Bluey Brink A Hundred Years from Now Digging (poem) The Ash Grove Who's Next? Little Brown Dog (aka Autumn To May) Medley: Walk Right Back; When Will I be Loved? The Living Proof (poem) The Cure for Ageing (poem) We're Living at the Cloisters (monologue) Whiskey in the Jar Lovesick Blues Viola Lee Blues Arnold the Armadillo (poem) The Rocks of Bawn Wanderin' From a Distance The Bramble the Rose The Good Boy A Circle Game (but not the song by Joni) Love/Poem (poem) Maine to Phoenix H_2SO_4 on KClO_3 I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore American Tune Chunk of Coal Hunting the Hare Will His Love be Like His Rum? Winds of Morning Come Kiss Me, Love (same tune as Peggy Gordon) Jimmy McBride Froggie Went a-Courting. Younger than Springtime City of Chicago The Bonnie Braid Do You Love an Orange (ttto Do You Love an Apple) London Derrière (ttto Londonderry Air) 'S é Fáth Mo Bhuartha ("The Cause of My Sorrow", in Irish Gaelic) O'Connell's Steam Engine (aka Making Babies by Steam) I Wanna be a Cat |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Mar 24 - 07:44 AM Songs, poems, recitations, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 25/26 March 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Felipa for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Pretty Boy Floyd The Banks of Sweet Mossing A Waste of Time (poem) Gone but not Forgotten (poem) Aunt Bridie Goes to Heaven (poem) An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (poem) None'ya Davant Bordèu son los batèus ("In Front of Bordeaux are the Boats", in Occitan) Gardening Lobster Salad (recitation) Mathematics Forever is the Season for Killing The Twa Brothers The Carousel Requiem Part-time Wages (poem) Neither Spin nor Weave Pretty Peggy-O (aka Fennario) The Leaves of Life Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl The Farmer's Curst Wife (aka The Devil and the Farmer's Wife) Nassau Bound When You and I were Young, Maggie Sweet is the Melody Walk with Me (The Raucous Cry of the Gulls) (poem) To Morrow (monologue) Follow Me up to Carlow Lo rossinhòu messatgier ("The Messenger Nightingale", in Provençal) Coal Tattoo The Congleton Bear (set to the tune, Swaggering Boney) Austin Potholes and Possibilities You've Been a Good Old Wagon Feasgar ciùin an tùs a' Chèitein (Tha mo Ghaol air Àird a' Chuain) ("On a Quiet Evening at the Beginning of May", in Scots Gaelic) Cry Me a River In My Life Follow the Heron Why Did You have to Go, My Friend? The Magpie An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) Union Busting Time in Massachusetts Would I Dare? Queen of Waters Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man (aka An Old Man Came Courting Me) I Live Not Where I Love Armed with a Broken Heart When You Wish Upon a Star Anderson's Coast Who Knows All the Time Zones? (ttto Who Knows Where the Time Goes) Chocolate Chip Cookies The Contender Ballad of the Carpenter Let Peace Prevail Foolish Questions Ordinary Man Banks of the Roses How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 28 Mar 24 - 12:38 PM thanks for keeping these lists. It helps newcomers see what goes on at a zoomsing and it helps regulars avoid repeating the same songs too often. note "The Carpenter" at the end of this week's list was The Ballad of the Carpenter, by Ewan MacColl. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Mar 24 - 04:44 PM Felipa, thanks. Correction made. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Apr 24 - 10:37 PM Songs, poems, recitations, monologues, and recitative from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 1/2 April 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Regretting what I Said 'Twas on One April Morning A Dish Best Served Cold (poem) The Full English (poem) You Don't Speak For Me (recited) Spring Season Teaser (poem) Long Long Time The Bitter Withy Said Judas to Mary The Ship, the Sea and the Olive Tree (poem) Father Forgive Them Peter Cottontail La noiriça ("The Nurse", in Occitan) The Water is Wide Alfie (monologue) Nine Times a Night A Thousand Years Open Up Your Eyes The Doctor Edward (aka My Son David, Henry, What Put the Blood; guinea pig version) Jesus Gave Me Water Degree-of-Freedom Blues Philosopher's Woes (poem) Eddie Baker's Muckspreader And the Band Played "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (ttto And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda) Are You Still Alive, Are You There Inside? Isle au Haut Lullaby Otago I Can Hew Christ lag in Todesbanden ("Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death", in German) Christ Arose Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu, aka Salaam (sung in Hebrew) Singin' in the Rain Daniel chapters 1 to 3 (recitative) The Loneliest is Man Zen Gospel Singing Just Like a Woman A Day Out of Time (poem) The Ballad of the White Seal Maid (recited) Confessions of a Song Writer (recited) You Can Close Your Eyes Lord of the Dance (uses tune of Simple Gifts) An Easter Shanty (ttto Boney was a Warrior) Walking to Compostela (poem) A Froggy Would A-Wooing Go The Streets of Baltimore Medley: Red River Valley, Red River Valley square dance calls Foolish Questions I'll Fly Away Windmills A Million Dreams Their Brains Were Small and They Died The Grey Funnel Line Copshawholme Fair The Plan (poem) How Can I Keep From Swinging? (ttto How Can I Keep From Singing) Last Words (sung ttto Rosin the Bow) Lu Y'hi ("Let it Be", in Hebrew and in English) All I Have to Do is Dream Walk Right In Peter Cottontail Bright Blue Rose If I Were Free Lay Down Beside Me ACME The Flower Carol (tune later used for Good King Wenceslas) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Apr 24 - 02:29 AM Songs, poems, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 8/9 April 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Moonshadow Confidence Thirty Rules for Midlife Rebellion (poem) The Twins (poem) Confessions of a Songwriter Frankie's Trade Reinstalling Windows Praying at the Tomb (poem) The Gallery The Cape Canción del Jinete ("Rider Song", sung in Spanish) Delia L'aquila (The Eagle, sung in Italian) The Clear Dales Air The Greatest Story of All Ukulele (ttto Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah) The Hippopotamus Song For Children (poem) Folllow the Heron Sam Hall Empty Pockets Blues She Moved Through the Fair Roustabout Here Comes the Sun Beans, Bacon and Gravy Child's Growth (poem) Oh Do It Now Dancing in the River Julian of Norwich Bored of the Dance (ttto Simple Gifts) Balding (poem) Dean and Dawn (poem) The Making of Tipperary (recited) Spring Cleaning Embracing the Saint (poem) Leavetaking (poem) Beautiful People The Tee-total Society Turtle Dove Done Drooped Her Wings World Turned Upside Down Eency Weency Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) Come By The Hills Crazy Lay Down (aka Candles in the Rain) The Elfin Knight Swing and Turn Jubilee Starfall The Jews Did Not Kill Jesus (subtitle: Answer to "Lord of the Dance") Walk Like a Champion The House Carpenter River What a Wonderful World medley: Captain O'Kane, Poppy Leaf Hornpipe (hammered dulcimer instrumentals) You are Beautiful Clear Away in the Morning Preacher and the Slave (aka Pie in the Sky) Remember Me (poem) Stay Down Here Where You Belong An Expression of Boundless Love The Catalpa Mirabeau Bridge Greenwood Side (aka The Cruel Mother) medley: Rafael, Rowena (fiddle instrumentals) medley: An Comhra Donn ("The Brown Box"), Byrne's (instrumental duets, fiddle and mountain dulcimer) Sing With Me We Rise I'll Fly Away |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Apr 24 - 07:08 AM Songs, poems, recitations, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 April 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Titanic (When the Great Ship Went Down) Medley: I've Got You Under My Skin; Skin Summer End (poem) Carry My Song (poem) If Music be the Food of Love (recitation) The Rain it Raineth Every Day (Feste's final song) The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1877 (ttto Camptown Races) Garden Waste (poem) The Waters of Tyne Tell Old Bill Russian Bots and Racist Trolls (ttto Byker Hill) Something's Coming Medley for the Eclipse: Corona Corona (ttto Corrina, Corrina), You Know Who I Am, Lucky Old Sun, Ain't No Sunshine, Rocket Man, Here Comes the Sun, Moonshadow, That Great Day, Total Eclipse of the Heart Parle-moi de ta vie (Tell Me About Your Life, sung in French) Fair and Tender Ladies Rapunzel The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Dance With Me Jock o' Hazeldean Mama Don't Allow Tonight I Await (poem) Singing Through the Hard Times Bring Flowers Wearyall (poem) Treading the Labyrinth (poem) Give Me the Roses While I Live Rolling Home (To Caledonia) Farndale Daffodils The Good Ship Attenborough (poem) I'm Not a Spring Chicken High Germany Shake, Mulleary and Go-Ethe (monologue) Mon père m'a donné un mari (My Father Gave Me a Husband, in French) Let It Be Me Goodnight, Irene Noah's Ark Shanty Scarborough Fair Dancing in the Dark Scarborough Settler's Lament If I Loved You What a Wonderful World Peace of the River Shir LaShalom (Song for Peace, in Hebrew) Groundhog Don't You Leave Me Here Zog Maran (Tell Me, Converso, in Yiddish) Feel So Near You are Not Alone The House of Buried Memories Falling in Love Let Me Touch You (poem) 4-15-13 Little Boxes Revisited (ttto Little Boxes) Mister Taxman (ttto Mister Sandman) Peace Call Button Up Your Overcoat The Witch Doctor Hard Travelin' Pastures of Plenty Doggy Doggy Doo (ttto Foggy, Foggy Dew) Only Our Rivers Run Free Eyes of a Painter Lolly-Too-Dum Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Apr 24 - 07:41 PM Songs, poems, recitations, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 April 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. An S-O-N-G (Among the Green Hay) Smoke over Belfast Dancing on the Edge of Time; The Ashes of Time; Earth (poems) My Youngest Son Came Home Today (recited) Bone Fido On Solid Ground Across the Blue Mountains Il m'a vue nue ("He saw me naked", sung in French) Nina (from Argentina) Elsie Marley Heat Detector Whose Garden Was This? Blood Island Style Planting a Rainbow (poem) Threatened Planet (ttto Drunken Sailor) The Green Man The Eggplant that Ate Chicago My Love is a Well I'm Gonna Mail Myself to You Linden Lea The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre (poem) Voice of the Chelsea School (monologue) Rover By the Rivers of Babylon A los árboles altos ("The Tall Trees", sung in Spanish) I Get a Kick out of You When the Old Man Came Home Sober Man Walks Among Us The Grey Funnel Line Dance with Me Misty Mountain Homeward Bound (Marta Keen) Superstition No Nukes Prayer (poem) Baby's Warning Blues A Pilgrim's Way Cottonwood Canyon On the Street Where You Live Lonesome Pine Special Meditation Liverpool Lullaby Time is Winding Up Sweet Thyme Drinks Round/The Faggot Cutter/Harvest Song Cindy's Cryin' On a Monday Morning Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Child 4; aka The Outlandish Knight, False Lover John, ....) Ani V'Atah ("You and I", sung in Hebrew) Hind Horn Let My People Go / Go Down Moses The Elfin Knight (Child 2; aka Scarborough Fair, ....) Take Your Time Farewell Shanty (aka Padstowe Shanty, Padstow Farewell, Cornish Farewell Shanty, 'Tis Our Sailing Time....) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Apr 24 - 07:48 PM Songs, recitations, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 April 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Merry Minuet Witch of the West-mere-lands Witch ot the West (recited) The Handweaver and the Factory Maid Mistress of the Land (poem) Witch Song The George and the Dragon (monologue) Mr. Fox Dayenu ("It would have been enough", sung in Hebrew) All the Good Times La Photographie (The Photograph, sung in French) Rolling Down the Bay to Julianna King Jamie and the Tinker La Bruja (The Witch, sung in Spanish) Wheel Your Perambulator, Joe Fashioned in the Clay I Sang to Her Softly with My Guitar How Anarchy Could Function Mercy Now Packrat Philosophy Wishes for a May Wedding (poem) While Passing By the Green The Frog's Wedding (Here's to Cheshire/Cheese version) The Florence Whale Song Who's the Fool Now? By George! (poem) Queen of Waters Singing in the May The Scotland Man (version of Young Hunting) Pastures of Plenty The Green Man My Bag for Life has Just Died (poem) Hard Case Come to the Ancient Places (poem) No Spring Chicken Misalliance (recited) Adir Hu (sung in Hebrew) Country Life (sometimes called I Like to Rise) If Love Doesn't Bother You, Then it Doesn't Bother Me (concertina instrumental) Thugamar Fein An Samhradh Linn (We brought the summer with us, in Irish Gaelic) When the Right One Comes Along Guantanamera (sung in Spanish) An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) You Ain’t Done Nothin’ If You Ain’t Been Called a Red Lay Down Your Weary Tune There Goes My Voice Again (ttto Diamonds and Rust) Till the Dance is Mine It's a Miracle The Hermit The Politician Song (recited) The Entwife Keep Haulin' Solidarity Forever (uses tune of John Brown's Body) Skip to My Lou The Faith of Man |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 May 24 - 07:24 PM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 6/7 May 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Gladiator Song (ttto Entry of the Gladiators) The Last of Grand Moff Tarkin's Crew (ttto Barrett's Privateers) The Courtyard (poem) The Cottager's Reply (poem) I'm 85 Three Maids a-Milking (aka The Bird in the Bush) Pretty Polly Now is the Month of Maying Beloved of the Deer (poem) You're So Vain Ben veni magg ("Let May Come Well", sung in Piedmontese) Banks of the Ohio The Wee Wee Man Where Oh Where Do I Live? Love Comes to the Simple Heart The House Song Remember Your Name and Address Talking to the Driver Change the Paradigm (ttto Brother Can You Spare a Dime) An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) Fire in the Wind Winin' Boy Blues Liba Ariel Shallow Brown Out on the Weekend Damned Old Piney Mountains A Little Bitty Tear When the Curtains of Night The Final Trawl In the Jailhouse Now A World Without Love Sorcerer's Apprentice (poem) The Traveller (poem) Old Age Rage Owd Sither Hal-an-Tow The Race is On The Highwayman (Phil Ochs setting) My Father The Hermit's Miracle Le Chinois Love Dance Between Activists (poem) Kent State Massacre Michael from Mountains Invitation to a Funeral Young Moon's Lament (ttto Yangtze River Shanty) Loving Arms Blue Skies and Meadows of Gold Before the Deluge Swing Boys Swing L'estaca (sung in Catalan); Belle Hirondelle (sung in Quebecois French); I Believe in You Wear Your Crown Love Call Me Home Side by Side medley of O'Carolan tunes on the hammered dulcimer: Captain O'Kane, Carolan's Welcome medley of trad hammered dulcimer tunes: Far From Home, The Wren (aka Gwerhall) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 16 May 24 - 07:21 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 13/14 May 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Sam Hall Bill Norrie Summer/The Summer Lady (poem) Till I'm Dead Bill's Trombone (monologue) The Herring's Head Leave Her Johnny Leave Her Summer's End (poem) Dancing at Whitsun You're So Vain Old Singer's Blues (ttto Deep Elem Blues) Pawn Shop Blues Banks of Claudy The Mower Mon père (My Father, sung in French) Death is not my Friend Short Jacket and White Trousers The Really Strangest Dream I Can't Make You Love Me Red-Winged Blackbird Willie's Lady The Burning of Auchindoun Dublin Blues Softly Sighing to the River Thais What a Wonderful World Satisfied Mind Nancy Spain Violin Left on Train and Violin Left onTrain (Part Two) (poems) Oh Dear Me Tortoises Always Come Last (recited) Young Girl Anticipation Shake Sugaree My Prayer Back to the Borders The Lag's Song Lach Yerushalayim ("For You Jerusalem", sung in Hebrew) Before the Parade Passes By (one verse) The Bonny Earl of Moray Suburbs of Eden We Hate to See Them Go Silver Dagger Willie Moore Nevada Jane If I Were Free Bonnie Teviotdale Red Wine Choo'n Gum Debra Sampson Going Home (ttto Rolling Home) Circle of Song I Ain't a-Marching Any More |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 May 24 - 05:04 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 20/21 May 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. '"Outfit" parody of Streets of Laredo Ted Briggs' Lament for HMS Hood The First Ship (poem) Health and Beauty (monologue) The Leaving of Liverpool A Day out of Time (poem) Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl (aka Three Jolly Coachmen) When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along Lonesome Robin Before They Close the Minstrel Show My Grandmother's Washburn Parlor Guitar Tin Angel Cold Mountain Just You Wait, Henry Higgins Crossing the Bar Prism (poem) Not Only Bars Don't Rock the Boat The Bergen Spancil Hill One Morning in May (The Nightingale) Mariner's Hymn Minutes Roget's Thesaurus (poem) Book Group (poem) Her Letter (monologue) Lovely Joan Gently to Rest (poem) Jutland The Lady Came From Baltimore Brown Sugar Factory Lad I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart Footprints on the Moon Bonnie Lass of Anglesey Istanbul (not Constantinople) Michael from Mountains A Week Before Easter (aka The False Bride, I Once Loved a Lass, etc., etc. done ttto Dancing at Whitsun) Alle sømænd er glade for piger ("All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies," sung in Danish and English) Dreary Black Hills Bell, Book, and Candle What a Wonderful World The Springtime it Brings On the Shearing Girl Scouts Together Alouette (one verse only, in French) Al 'n' Yetta (ttto Alouette) You Gotta Have Skin (ttto You Gotta Have Heart) If I Were Free Windmills Way Down the Road Jenny's Gone Away |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 May 24 - 08:21 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 27/28 May 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Waltzing Matilda The Tinkerman's Daughter Princess Clothing (poem) Weather Lore Bill McCluskey (Stuttering Song) The Wild Colonial Boy The Sailor Loves His Bottle, O 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) Lo curat del Casterà ("The priest from El Castera", in Occitan) I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows Let's Do It The Saltmarsh Like the Way I Do The Boys from Mullaghbawn Before I Met You The Hippopotamus Song I Am Voting for the Worm After Taps (poem) Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire Faded Coat of Blue Sweet Sunny South The Shelves of Herring (ttto The Shoals of Herring) The Point (poem) Where Will the Last Flower Grow? My Mate (monologue) The Servant of Rosemary Lane Sunny I Get the Blues When it Rains In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning Blowin' in the Wind Downtown Zeno Exit The Derby Ram Your Cheating Heart Mary and the Lamb (ttto The Battle Cry of Freedom) Hobo's Lullaby Join Now (poem) The Businessmen are Happy Spanish is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair) I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart Across the Great Divide If I Were Free The Man in the Moon Bashana Haba'ah ("Next Year", in Hebrew) Bag Down in the Alley-o (ttto The Rattlin' Bog) I'll Fly Away Rambleaway The Road is Always Easy The Concrete Road Windmills Eight More Miles to Louisville Who Will Sing Me Lullabies? Raggedy, Raggedy (ttto: How Beautiful Heaven Would Be) The Methody Parson Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Spares or Repair Satisfied Mind |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Jun 24 - 07:49 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 3/4 June 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Somos el Barco Coming Home I Hear America Sighing (poem) The Greatest.President America Never Had (poem) His Answer to "Her Letter" (monologue) Doodlebug Baby Hieland Laddie William Brown (Keep that Wheel a-Turning) Singing in the Time of Hunger (poem) Fever Don't Know what was the Last Thing on my Mind (ttto The Last Thing on my Mind) But They Got it Fixed Right On The Tailor and the Mouse Amphitrite’s Warning The Lancashire Vampire (poem) Every Stranger Might Well Become Your Friend (poem) Slave No More Hielan' Laddie (Jacobite version) Summer Day Reflection Song The Hills of Isle Au Haut Crawdad Song Down and Out Blues The Faith of Man Morley Main The Very Angry Caterpillar (poem) Consequences (poem) There's None So Blind (poem) Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword & Gold The Starbucks of County Down (ttto Star of the County Down) Whisky You're the Devil Careless Love Circus of Sour Don't Go Into the Lions' Cage Tonight Blue Boat Home Corpus Christi Carol Along the Road What a Wonderful World This Morning Down the Road (poem) Byways, Highways The King of Ballyhooley The D-Day Dodgers (ttto Lili Marlene) Blue Skies and Meadows of Gold The Court of King Caractacus Gimme that Old Time Religion (Ecumenical version) I Am Willing Barbara Allen My Romance Dead Dog Cider Some Little Bug Crazy from the Heart Darcy Farrow Run and Catch the Wind Dol-Li-A Slán agus Beannacht ("Goodbye and Farewell", in Irish Gaelic and English) Today Ballad of Bethnal Green Who am I Now? Welcome into the House Here's to You |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Jun 24 - 08:22 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 10/11 June 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Crossing the Bar Lament to the Moon Aimless Sloth (poem) Nothing More (poem) Election Morning (Too) (ttto Early One Morning) 80 Years On (Remembering D-Day) (poem) Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun? When Can I Have a Banana Again? Queuing For Ice Cream (poem) Farewell to the Gold Wedding Bell Blues Big Rock Candy Mountain When You Walk On La Java des Bombes Atomiques ("Atomic Bomb Java", sung in French) ) Farewell Shanty (adapted in tribute to Laura Martin) Videotape Five Jewish Philosophers Don't Think Twice, It's Alright Frankie and Johnny Debauchery (poem) Elegy (Justice For Sale) (ttto Cottage For Sale) Green Grow the Lilacs A Horse Named Bill Here is My Home After the Goldfish Blue Moon And Now for the Weather (poem) Today's Climate Forecast (poem) The Water is Wide Goliath of Gath The Germans Bombed our Chippy in the War Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (monologue) Farther Along Looking For Trouble A Jug of Punch Under the Quarter Moon Follow the Heron Bird on a Wire Hippopotamus Song Factory Girl Anach Cuan (in English) Haul Away Joe Every Stranger Might Well Become Your Friend (poem) Somewhere to Begin Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other (short parodies of Molly Malone, Auld Lang Syne, Billy Boy, ....) I Wish You Were Here Last Trip Home Do Virgins Taste Better? Anach Cuan (in Irish Gaelic) The Judge that Liked to Gamble (ttto The Court of King Caractacus) The Snows of France and Holland Hunting the Duck Laura Martin (ttto Henry Martin) Nell Flaherty's Drake I Am Thesaurus ((ttto I am the Walrus) The Least We Can Do Song in memory of Laura Martin, no title given Sea Glass Lovely Agnes If Teardrops were Pennies Come Fare Away (aka Come Fare Away with Me, aka Marnie) Love Call Me Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jun 24 - 02:15 AM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 17/18 June 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Tijuana Jail Song for Crofty Mandalay (poem) Which Switch is it, Miss, for Ipswich? (recitation) Irving Berlin Gather the Family The Cuckoo Moonlight Shadow Jock o' Hazeldean Mon amie la rose ("My friend the rose", sung in French) Patrick Spencer Blood Red Roses Summer Sunlight Young Moon's Lament (ttto Yangtze River Shanty) Naughty Child (poem) Graybar Hotel (ttto Heartbreak Hotel) Mad Tom o' Bedlam I'm Gonna be a Country Girl Again The Auld Triangle So Long, it's been Good to Know You I Want You If (poem) If (different poem) Slough (poem) Swept Away Father's Whiskers (They're Always in the Way) The Pride of Petravore People Say Strange Things Rolling of the Stones Stern Old Bachelor Risin' Voices (poem) Crying Cole Porter The Humours of Whiskey 26 Miles The Galway Shawl All Over the World A Little Bit of Everything Song for Laura Somewhere to Begin The Parodies of Mordern Major-General (ttto Modern Major-General) The Telling Takes Me Home Shawneetown A Journalist in Gaza Wayside/Back in Time Mama You Been On My Mind Echoes Please Don't Bury Me Time has Made a Change in Me |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Jun 24 - 11:04 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 24/25 June 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Fish and Whstle Napoleon's Farewell to Paris The Road Goes Ever On (poem) Steal with a Kiss Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe (monologue) Busy Line All I Want Heat Detector Fisherman's Song Rising Voices (poem) Those Three are on My Mind Makin' Coffee (ttto Makin' Whoopee) Rosebud in June Travelin' Man June Song (ttto May Song) Marriage Vows for the Uncommitted (poem) Famous Last Words (poem) Tribute to Leonard Bernstein Napoleon Bonaparte (monologue) Teach Me Tonight Let's Do It I Give Myself to You Oak and Ash and Thorn Sunrise/Sunset (poem) She Could Have Been a Rodeo Mama I skovens dybe stille ro ("In the deep quiet tranquility of the forest," sung in Danish) On the Amazon Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Love Call Me Home It's My Lazy Day Impeached, Indicted and Convicted (ttto Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered) Slow Train to Georgia Vandy Vandy Singing Through the Hard Times Scarborough Settler's Lament Bridges Pollution Bill Jones Talkin' Nuthin' Blues Daddy, What's a Train? Three Maidens to Milking did Go Banks of the Condamine (possibly ttto Banks of the Nile) Midsummer Hymn The Jug of Punch The Music of Healing Rocky Road to Dublin |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Jul 24 - 07:28 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 1/2 July 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Big Rock Candy Mountain Night Mail 2 (poem) Me Dad, Sam the Whirling Dervish (poem) The Spaghetti Song (ttto Largo al factotum) We Live in an Ocean of Life A Fresh Wind Waves Intry Mintry Betty and Dupree I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair La Pinotta (Josie) (sung in Italian) Chasing the Albatross The Soul of the Child (poem) The Working Class Stranger Adieu False Heart The Last Saskatchewan Pirate I, The Phoenix, Rise (poem) Affirmation Song Once I Had a Sweetheart Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Eyes of Faith Hallelujah I'm a Bum Deja Vu (poem) Ballad of the White Seal Maid (monologue) Mocking the Old Masters #GE2024 (ttto Bonnie Dundee) Don't Go in Them Lions' Cage Tonight, Mother One More Pull Faithless Love The Owl and the Pussycat (ttto Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender) Fair Maid of Islington Cat and Mouse When (poem) Pick and Choose My Dixie Darling Roll, River, Roll Band of Gold Apples and Bananas You Left a Note on My Pillow The One-Legged Cowboy Where Ravens Feed Klaybt zikh tsunoyf ("Gather Together", sung in Yiddish) The Last Battle Death is Not My Friend El Condor Pasa (two versions, one English, one Spanish) River (Bill Staines) You are Beautiful Oak and Ash and Thorn Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Interesting Times If I Were Free Run and Catch the Wind |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jul 24 - 08:18 PM Songs, monologues, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 8/9 July 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Stealin' Sorrows Away Cliches Jack Kendal's Pigeons (monologue) Early One Morning (2) (parody ttto Early One Morning) Come to the Ancient Places (poem) The Jeannie C Bullies The Book of Love La Cabra Perduda / Ga* Lemosin (The Lost Nanny Goat, in Provençal) A Handful of Songs Empty Pockets Blues Excerpts from the historical ballad "Niels Ebbesen" (recitation) Neocortex To a Thesaurus (poem) Hallelujah (poem) Wand'rin Star Waking Up (poem) Enough Already! Fuirich an diugh gus a màireach (Wait today until tomorrow, in Scots Gaelic) In and Around Nashville Impeached, Indicted and Convicted (ttto Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered) Battle of the Somme Aragon Mill Whatever You Say, Say Nothing The Tories' Final Curtain (ttto My Way) I'm a Silly Polysyllabist The Night Charlie Tended Weir (monologue) Jabberwocky (poem) Carry My Song (poem) True Love You're Strolling Out the Door Seven Days By Way of Preface (poem) Modesty Poem (poem) Too Darn Hot Vandy Vandy Parting Friend My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove Getting Wed Men's Room, L.A. Song Cycle (poem) There's a Whole Lotta Heaven The Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party Priosún Chluain Meala (The Gaol of Clonmel, in Irish Gaelic)) The Surf and the Silver Fishes What Did You Learn In School Today? (with additional verses) Waterbound Summertime The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry Git Along Little Dogies (aka Whoopee Ti Yi Yo) Dumbarton's Drums Quantum Mechanics Pack Up Your Sorrows |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Jul 24 - 06:57 PM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 July 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Master of the Sheepfold Gweebarra Shore Earth (poem) A Year, a Day and Twice Forever (poem) The Land (poem) We Sold Our Auntie Mabel for a Table Riding Down from Bangor Black Velvet Band (variant) The Green Man Eric's Song 4th July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Votre fille a 20 ans ("Your daughter is 20 years old", sung in French) I Feel Lucky The Crayfish A Water Over Stone Sea Change GAHD if I could just (poem) Still Jail-Free After All These Years Freedom Toast Song of the Working Classes (ttto Troika) Empty (poem) The Dry Waltz Little Arrows Too Stupid for Democracy Gaoth Barra na dTonn (sung in Irish Gaelic) The Bold Princess Royal Einstein the Genius (Albert, Dance Around) We'll Pass Them On Tired of Waiting for You From the storybook of Vidal, chapter 6 vs 11-14 (poem) Not in the Book (recited) Baldy Captain Nipper The Summer Lady (poem) Designated Answerer of Questions (ttto Dedicated Follower of Fashion) Tombe degli avi miei (Tombs of my fathers, sung in Italian) Horrors of War Mayn Rue Plats ("My Resting Place", sung in Yiddish, then English) So Will We Yet The Summer Knows 150 Days Out from Vancouver Kelvingrove (ttto The Shearing's Not For You) Roustabout (aka Rolling Down to Cairo Town, Rolling and Flowing) Battle Hymn of the International Subversives (ttto Battle Hymn of the Republic) Naughty Child (poem) Making America Great The Defaulter By the Banks of the Roses Sìos Dhan An Abhainn (Down in the Valley to Pray, aka Down to the River to Pray, in Scots Gaelic) The Dodger Song If I Had a Hammer Orphan Train Edelweiss A Chat with Your Mother (aka The F-Word Song) Don't Know the Words for My Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things) Atlanta is Burning 2020 Children Summer of `46 If I Were Free Early Snow Summer Country Life Country Boy (parody of Country Life) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Jul 24 - 03:18 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 July 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? O, Good Ale Soldier (poem) The Jewish Girl and the Nazi (poem) The White Rose (poem) The Dragon of Wantley (monologue) La lettre française (or L'enfer d'une au pair en Angleterre) The Time_T They Are a-Changing (ttto The Times They are a-Changing) False Autumn (poem) Al, The Vegetable Man Knight William and the Shepherd's Daughter Summertime Il suffirait de presque rien ("It would take almost nothing", sung in French) Bold Doherty President Number 45 (ttto 9 to 5) King David (song about King David, translated from the Danish) Crackdown Addict The Blue Skirt Waltz (original Czech title: Sukýnka) Tonight I Await (poem) What Do You Think? The Faith of Man Mary Hamilton Loves the Rising Sun Mercy Now Going Home Big Rock Candy Mountain The Chainsaw Song Day of Rest (poem) The Day After (poem) Mrs Jones's Operation (monologue) La Place Pigalle When I First Came to This Land Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover) Pat and Mike (A Newfoundland Story) (monologue) Haul Away (Sail On) Oldsmobile My Baby Just Cares For Me When the Wagon was New Rachel Miracle of Miracles Diamonds and Rust Pretty Sylvia (aka Sovay, The Female Highwayman) The Sick Note Waltzing with Bears The Music of Healing The Star of the County Down Strangely Moved Foolish, Incredibly Foolish The Starbucks of County Down (ttto Star of the County Down) John Barleycorn Scandalize My Name (aka Do You Call that Religion) Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay Home Grown Tomatoes Roseville Fair |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 31 Jul 24 - 08:06 PM Songs, monologues, poems, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 July 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Here Is My Home Goodnight-Loving Trail The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" (monologue) Disdain in Spain When My Morning Comes Around Paradise If You Love Me ("Hymne de l'amour", sung in English) A-Rovin' Vance, VP (ttto Dancing Queen) Compliments Returned Where Did They Go? The Humming Song Sailing Prison (poem) We Shall Be Renewed (ttto I Shall Not Be Moved) This Land Ain't Your Land (ttto This Land is Your Land) There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight Circle Of Song Johnny B. Goode (ttto Daddy Fox) The Writing of "Tipperary" (recited) Annie get Your Sun... Cream (ttto There's no Business Like Show Business) Wild Rover Calypso (ttto Banana Boat Song) You're the Girl that I Love Midnight at the Oasis Jug Band Music You Don't Know Me I Love You Just the Way You Are Send Me to Heaven in a Glad Bag The Griesly Bride The Flower of the County Down Wicked Game The Ball-Playing Song San Francisco Bay Blues Foolish, Incredibly Foolish Dark Swift and Bright Swallow Let's Make America Great Again Cabaret Liam's Patriot Game Buffalo Skinners Cruacha Glas' na hÉireann ("The Green Mountain Stacks of Ireland", sung in Irish Gaelic) Spirit Song Maybe There's a Road Waterlily You Ain't Going Nowhere My God, How the Money Rolls In (ttto Dick Darby, the Cobbler) Old Dun Cow Here is My Home You'll Be Called Medley of tunes: Carolan's Cup, Carolan's Draught (played on mountain dulcimer) Enough The Farthest Field |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Aug 24 - 06:44 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 5/6 August 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan F for a correction, and to Felipa for additional information. Corrections and comments always welcome. You Never Even Call Me By My Name Old Fid John Barleycorn's Lament (poem) Legacy (poem) Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Etiquette (monologue) Robin Hood and the Beggar Knight Alice White Weela Weela Walia Willie o' Winsbury The Spindle's Thread (poem) Spanish Beaches (ttto Talcahuano Girls) When Peculier Ale was New (ttto When Jones's Ale was New) Glad to Meet You Sam's Medal (monologue) An excerpt from The Ballad of Niels Ebbésen (translated from the Danish) The Pride of Pimlico Damn the Glaciers That Look in His Eye A Letter to Death (poem) I Heard the Angels Crying Over Hiroshima Come By the Hills We Are Each Other's Angels The Squirrel Story (story) Cearc Agus Coilleach ("The Hen and The Rooster", sung in Irish Gaelic, preceded by a verse of Tá 'n Coilleach ag Fogairt an Lae, "The Cockerel is Announcing the Day") Satisfied Mind Rhymes (poem) Status (aka Kick the Cat) Not to Mention the Readers (poem) French Dressing Blame (monologue) Mr Fox Samanthra Past Carin' Lyke Wake Dirge Lonesome Yodel Blues Child's Growth (poem) All My Exes Changed Their Sexes (ttto All My Exes Live in Texas) Hard Times Come Again No More I Do Adore Her Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain I Come and Stand at Every Door Borsht (sung in Yiddish) Folksinger's Blues Edelweiss Lay Down Beside Me Are We Human? Cable Street Library-O Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Aug 24 - 08:06 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 12/13 August 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. You Wonder Why I'm a Hobo Jolly Waggoner A Small Restructuring (poem) The King (poem) Captain Reece (monologue) Love on the Line Ballad of Springhill The Masochism Tango Hope Autumn to May Quand l'herbe est verte ("When the Grass is Green," sung in French) Paddy West Caught in the Coils of Love Never Turning Back Bubble-Up Economy Summer of My Dreams The Troubles Your Daughters and Your Sons The Cool of the Day Another Time (poem) Another Place (poem) Poet's Corner (monologue) Folk Club Song Bound for Transylvania (ttto South Australia) Lily the Pink The Seine The Ballad of Sammy's Bar To Make You Feel My Love The Power and the Glory I am Cherry Alive Greek Lightning Derby Ram/Didn't He Ramble? The Widow's Promise Heart Like a Wheel Mama Look a Boo Boo Creased Self-Portrait (poem) Moments Tears in Heaven Swimming to the Other Side The May Morning Dew Peggy Gordon First You Lose the Rhyming You Don't Know Me Are You Missing Me Could Be (poem) Somebody's Daughter Can't Help Falling in Love Singing Through the Hard Times Bullgine Run (aka Let the Bulgine Run, aka Margaret Evans, aka Clear Away the Track) I Will Go There'll Be No Church Tonight Be the Man Here is My Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Aug 24 - 08:28 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 19/20 August 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Love Call Me Home Spare Hand The Land (poem) Drought & Doctrine (monologue) Holidays Scarborough Fair The Quiet Woman (poem) The Pirates' Training Day Boda y bautizo ("Wedding and Baptism", sung in Spanish) My Backyard You've Got to be Carefully Taught River of the Big Canoe The Driver that Stole Cargo Here's the Tender Coming Faded Relationships (poem) Time Slips Away Can't Help Falling in Love Song of the Lower Classes (ttto Prokofiev's Troika) That Lucky Old Sun If I Needed You Northern Tide Another Time (poem) Another Place (poem) A Bush Christening (momologue) Lullaby Blow the Man Down The First Storm of Autumn (poem) Lullaby of Ragtime Princess and Vagabond (Danish ballad, sung in English) Fair Flower of Northumberland The Shipyard Slips Fire in the City Child's Growth (poem) Did Jesus have a Sister? Talk to Me of Mendocino Ol' Man River The Ballad of Michael Collins It's a Pleasure to Know You Annie McKelvie One Man's Hand Only a Hobo The Old Man of the Sea |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Aug 24 - 05:14 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 26/27 August 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan F for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Trusty Lariat Long Black Veil Radio Dross (poem) The Shooting of Dan McGrew (momologue) Crazy Man Michael The Recruited Collier Dream Dramas The Nutting Girl Corrina Corrina 'Ouses in Between Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My! Knowing (poem) Way Up Here Recombobulated: The Song of the Help Rejecting Complainer Angels Rock Me to Sleep The Land The Old Man's Wish (The Old Man's Song) Nancy Whisky Kamala (ttto Handy Man) I Wish I Knew how it would Feel to be Free Never Grow Old May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister Cumha an Fhile ("The Poet's Loneliness", sung in Irish Gaelic)) If I Fell At the Eleventh Hour (poem) The Cremation of Sam McGee (monologue) Plaisir d'Amour The Green Cockade Confessions of a Songwriter The Old Rose and Crown Grizzly Bear Bad Blood Shenandoah Somewhere to Begin The Old Bachelor (Stern Old Bachelor) O Waly, Waly Come Healing Lover's Invitation (poem) It's All My Fault Wait Till I Put On My Robe The Highland Muster Roll Je suis trop jeunette ("I am very young", sung in French) Ard Ti Chuain ("Quiet Land of Erin", sung in English) The Brown Girl The Drift from the Land Walzing with Tim (ttto Waltzing with Bears) Child Ballad Brief Here Comes the Sun Eliza Lee (aka Let the Bulgine Run) Roll the Woodpile Down Hakol Patuach ("Every Thing is Still Open", sung in Hebrew) The Luckiest Sailor Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Here is My Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Sep 24 - 01:45 AM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 2/3 September 2024, as gleaned from the chat. Thanks to Joe for additional information. Corrections and comments always welcome. McKinley's Rag The Ballad of Soulful Sam (recitation) Fairy Song Tower of Strength The Trees they Grow so High Hippies and the Beatniks Harvest Moon We're Tory (ttto This is Me) Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys Who is to Blame? (to an old Russian melody) Father Les trois mineurs ("The three miners", in French) Spotted Cow Hands Three Ravens Weave Room Blues I'll Fly Away When I'm Drunk A Working American (poem) Low Income Retirement Blues A Visitation (recitation) Zen Gospel Singing I'm Retired Now Medhel an Gwyns ("Soft is the Wind," in Cornish) Donegal Danny Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor Everything Possible (recitation) Bottom Song Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue This Old Mouse The Water is Wide Diamonds and Rust The Lawyer or the Conman (ttto The Farmer and the Cowman) Because he's a Cowboy Dead Dog Cider (aka Dead Dog Scrumpy) Prince Heathen Field Behind the Plow Aird a' Chumhaing (in Irish Gaelic; various spellings exist) The Piper's Refrain When did You Stop Loving Me? The Disability Blues in 3/4 Time Medley; The Eight Hour Day (ttto British Grenadier), Step by Step Wayfaring Stranger (secular version) Part-time Wages (poem) Miner's Blues Life is Hardest when You're Dumb Nine Gold Medals The Battle Hymn of the New Soialist Party (ttto The Red Flag, which was ttto Tannenbaum, which was ttto Lauriger Horatius, which was ttto Es lebe hoch der Zimmermannsgeselle, "Long live the journeyman carpenter") Both Sides Now The John Birch Society The Jealous Lover Roll on the Day The Road is Always Easy Time has Made a Change in Me |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Sep 24 - 12:40 AM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 9/10 September 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill I Don't Like Mondays Drinking Starbucks' Coffee Causes Global Warming (poem) World Turned Upside Down (recited) Dinghorn the Dane Sally Free and Easy Don't Rock the Boat Dance with Me I Got it Wrong An Acappella Fella Ballad of Springhill Clementine When I was a Cowboy World Turned Upside Down Fantasy Lover Harbo and Samuelson Glory Hallelujah Field Behind the Plow Jackson Tonight I Caught a Glimpse (poem) Abe Carman The Poor Young Man (aka The Fatal Glass of Beer) Love Doesn't Die The Last House in Our Street Beyond Compare (poem) Mules (poem) Bert and Jane Blood The Ballad of Sammy's Bar I skovens dybe stille ro (sung in Danish) Little Willie's My Darling Ben Kenobi (ttto John Kanaka) Song of the Dog Days (set to the tune of The Four Marys) Sweet Song from Yesterday No More Songs Always The Foggy Dew Licko Kolo (sung in Serbian) Lynn's Dream (story and song) Song Cycle (poem) The Old Songs' Home Saint Patrick's Battalion Moon River Only You The Final Trawl Fiddling Dan (set to the tune of Turkey in the Straw) Teddy Bears' Picnic Kuglesburg Bank (aka She's Someone's Grandmother, ttto Mountains of Mourne) Nevada Jane When Irish Girls Grow Up Tennessee Stud Tolpuddle Man I'll Fly Away Early Snow Parting Song |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Sep 24 - 06:49 AM Songs, recitations, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 16/17 September 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Felipa for additional information. Corrections and comments always welcome. Union Maid Past the Point of Rescue Madeira, My Dear (recited) Raphael and Abdullah Sam's Guggle Box (monologue) Cold Rain and Snow Where Go the Boats Sur la route de Dijon ("On The Road To Dijon", sung in French) Home, Dearie, Home I Trusted You The Funeral Song Norland Wind The Frozen Logger Carry My Song (poem) Banks of the Nile Kitty Bairnie (Scottish mouth music) The Barnyards of Dalgety Vicky's Secret Home on the Range Remember Me (poem) Every Night and Every Day Two-Bit Cayuse Daddy Fox Aragon Mill A Life of Piracy Torchlight Procession (poem) Bill the Burly Burglar By George! (monologue) Whisky in the Jar Scotch and Soda It's All in the Cards You're Strolling Out that Door Sovay Mistress of the Land (poem) The Lakes of Killin (=Coolfin) Scarborough Fair Four Strong Winds You are Not Alone All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies (translated from the Danish "Alle sømænd er glade for piger") On Languishing An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) Mercy Now Blackwaterside Can't Help Falling in Love Mo Mhadadh Beag ("My Little Dog", sung in Irish Gaelic) Foggy Mountain Top London Homesick Blues Peace Like a River Love Call Me Home All the Salt The Salt Leaving London There but for Fortune Rosh Hashanah (ttto Oklahoma!) Yes Sir, That's My Baby Bless My Soul |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Sep 24 - 10:08 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 23/24 September 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Buffalo Skinners Peaceful Easy Feeling Not to Mention the Readers (poem) The Spaghetti Song The Lady in Riches or The Press Gang Seven Hundred Elves The Ballad of the Three Waves (monologue) I Sang to Her Softly with My Guitar The Turning of the Year (poem) Sister Josephine Brandy Tree The Best of Autumn Three Ravens Simple Man, Simple Dream Portland Town Dauna de la maison ("Mistress of the house", sung in Occitan) By and By Billy Johnson's Ball The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) Red River Valley - Square Dance Call Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies (aka Little Sparrow) Safe Romance Our Hearts Awaken (poem) Pull Me Up out of Bed The Green Man The Telling Takes Me Home Pie in the Sky (aka Preacher and the Slave) Goodbye to the Sea Sweet Potatoes Follow Me 'Ome Stories from Another Country (poem) Give Me that New Fast Food A Dalesman's Litany (recited) There Goes My Voice Again (ttto Diamonds and Rust) K.C. Whistle Blues Rag Dance Song (La Guignolée) My Lady of Autumn (begun) London Homesick Blues (Home to the Armadillo) Coal in the Stone The Well Below the Valley Bobby Put the Kettle Down/Bobby Stop Your Kettling (ttto Polly Put the Kettle On) My Lady of Autumn (finished) Heartache Tonight Hullabaloo Balay (in Danish and in English translation, ttto Hullabaloo Belay) Rose of Desire Already Dead The Eagle's Gift (poem) Till I See You Again Mary Ellen Carter Springhill Mine Disaster (aka Ballad of Springhill) Breed-Specific Legislation Ballad Vigilante Man Ballad of Charlie David My Lady of Autumn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Oct 24 - 05:45 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 30 September / 1 October 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Me and Bobby McGee Take a Giant Step Please Hold (poem) Kubla Khan (poem) Do Not Disturb Faithless Love Sam's Gone Away Malaika Cry Me a River Railway Race to the North Lily (sung in French) Choucoune (Haitian love song) September (translated from the Danish) The Lighthouse London Homesick Blues (Home To The Armadillo) Help Me Make it Through the Night Every Stranger Might Well Become Your Friend (poem) Ramblin' Jack Children of Palestine Isle Au Haut Lullaby (Hay Ledge Song) September Song Mary and the Soldier Funland (poem) No, You're Not Going Down Kirkby Pit, Lad (monologue) The Dancing Teacher Me and Bobby McGee A Foggy Day in London Town Across the Sea Strike the Bell, Landlord (ttto Ring the Bell, Watchman) I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) If I Should Die Tomorrow (poem) Seven Spanish Angels Cearcall a Chuain ("The Circle of the Seas", sung in Scottish Gaelic) Turning Toward the Morning Don't Fence Me In Requiem for the Giants Dido, Bendigo Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom (Riddles Wisely Expounded, Devil's Nine Questions) Shift and Spin Boys of Bedlam (aka Tom o' Bedlam) Ode to Joy (new lyrics) Hanging in the Balance After the Rapture The Music of Healing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Oct 24 - 12:05 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and tunes from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 7/8 October 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Peter Tommerup for a clarification. Corrections and comments always welcome. Walk Right In Annachie Gordon An Ordinary Poetry Reading (poem) The Terrible Outside (poem) Sam's Medal (monologue) Boadicea Avinu Malkeinu ("Our Father, Our King", sung in Hebrew) The Bellringing Boney was a Warrior Julian of Norwich John Barleycorn Cross the Mississippi Berceuse pour un petit loupiot ("Lullaby for a Little Kid", sung in French) The Maid of Australia Autumn Leaves Tomorrow Ah (poem) Where Do I Go Bluey Brink The Storms are on the Ocean The Banks are Made of Marble Anarchy in the UK The Badge of Shame (poem) The Fair Rosamond (monologue) Lucrezia Psalm 92 From the North Abbey Ruins (poem) Reflection (poem) The Handweaver and the Factory Maid The Physician Bully in the Alley El Malei Rachamim ("Merciful God", chanted in Hebrew, then recited in English) The Cliffs of Baccalieu The Story of Isaac One Hand, One Heart Denmark 1943 It's All in the Cards, I Swear The Equestrian Statue Song Cycle (poem) A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing The Land Beyond the Blue (aka Tell My Mother) B'rosh Hashanah ("On Rosh Hashanah", sung in Hebrew) Medley of tunes: Farewell to Govan, Buchall an Erin, Harvest Home, Boys of Blue Hill Medley of tunes: Saddle The Pony, Up In The Air, and another with unknown name Medley of tunes: Carolan's Draught, Carolan's Concerto I'll Fly Away October Roses She's Like the Swallow Wake Me, Shake Me The Rose Medley of tunes: Waiting for Peter, Raphael Medley of tunes: Munga Låten, Eddie's Reel Oak and Ash and Thorn Sheffield Sings They're Taking it Away If I Were Free My Lady of Autumn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Oct 24 - 12:55 AM Thank you, Gerry. I don't know how we keep having such a good time every week. I think a lot of the credit goes to David Kidman and you and Gayle and Arlene and the other hosts. We're almost at 4-1/2 years, and we're still having fun. |
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