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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 18 Nov 22 - 06:53 AM Joan, done. |
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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 |
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