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Subject: BS: Ballad of Robert's Rules From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 21 - 04:01 AM Michael Hanson sang this at the Portland Singtime Frolics Saturday night. Anybody got the lyrics? The Ballad of Robert's Rules George Flynn (lyricist) Based on: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Tune used or parodied) https://www.massfilc.org/filkindex/nesfa2_first.xml |
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Ballad of Robert's Rules From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 21 - 04:27 AM Ballad of _Robert's Rules_ Copyright 1987 by George Flynn Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home (During the Civil War, Captain [later General] Henry M. Robert was assigned to preparing the defenses of New Bedford, Massachusetts against possible enemy attack. For some reason the Confederates never did show up....) When Henry M. Robert went to war, hurrah, hurrah He really did find his job a bore, hurrah, hurrah New Bedford wasn't quite the place Where Rebel armies one might face There was _lots_ of time for Robert to write his Rules. He'd joined ev'ry civic group in town, hurrah, hurrah But meetings began to get him down, hurrah, hurrah The clubs were all so badly run That Hank cried, "Something must be done!" And 'twas that in-spi-red Robert to write the Rules. Wherever he later was assigned, hurrah, hurrah The very same problem he would find, hurrah, hurrah The rules were diff'rent everywhere, Which made the meetings hard to bear; That's why Robert felt there had to be standard rules. So General Robert's bag of tricks, hurrah, hurrah Was published in eighteen-sev'nty-six, hurrah, hurrah Now meetings could be run just right, And members didn't have to fight Just as long as someone brought along _Robert's Rules_. Although we still honor Robert's name, hurrah, hurrah The rules that we use aren't quite the same, hurrah, hurrah For Robert's heirs are hardly fools, And each few years they change some rules, So we'll all buy more revisions of _Robert's Rules_. |
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Ballad of Robert's Rules From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 21 - 04:32 AM That was Michael Hanson posting the lyrics. Thanks a lot. I go to a lot of meetings where people are slavishly devoted to The Rules. They're great at moving through an agenda, but difficult for allowing meaningful discussion. |
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Ballad of Robert's Rules From: leeneia Date: 30 Mar 21 - 11:13 PM I'm secretary of a club which has grown sloppy about the rules, and I can see the disadvantage. I feel we have meaningful discussion, but without a motion and a vote, it can be left fuzzy whether we decided to do a thing or not. Was it still up in the air or was it clinched? And who would do what tasks? At the last meeting I raised a question and I had three people barking at me that "We already decided that!" I'm not going to put up with that kind of treatment, and I'm going to insist that we make motions so that plans are clear. |
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