Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook

Subject: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 10:58 AM

(Starting a new 'Additions' thread since Part III has exceeded 50 messages)

I've added a wonderful song to the Mudcat Songbook by Bev and Jerry, 'Rosa, Oh, Rosa' about a very important woman in US history, Rosa Parks. Please check it out. Thank you Bev and Jerry!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 11:05 AM

's not there yet...

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 11:08 AM

Try again -- sometimes it takes a few minutes to show up on the Yahoo/Geocities server, depending on how busy it is.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 11:15 AM

Good song -- elegant, and stirring. Thnaks for it, Bev and Jerry!

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 10:34 PM

troll just posted a "Cat Farts" parody

url=http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=15247&messages=79#180442

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 10:57 AM

Refresh. There will be a song coming but I didn't want this thread to fall off the 'edge of the world'. Without the 'super search', I don't know how to get it back again?

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:00 PM

In the late 50s early 60s, The Ace Café on London's North Circular road, was the place to be and be seen, if you were into 'bikes' and 'bikers'. Nearly all the British made ones like Triumph, Norton BSA and AJS and such like, could be seen but the occasional Harley would receive admiring glances. The early Japanese machines were looked upon as a passing fad., ah, those were the days. I used to go there by bus (oh the shame of it). It seemed then to me, that things would always be the same but….

This song is warmly dedicated to ........? With thanks.

Going up the 'Ace'.

Well, you can keep all of your 'fancy' restaurants
Right here, are all of the things that a man could want
Good 'Old Gerry Lee's', never gonna change his tune
And they'll never take away, this 'Greasy Spoon'

Now the night is filled with such a 'Triumphant' noise
Roaring in from Windsor, it's the 'Bonneville' boys
The leather girls, they really don't want to leave those boys alone
They're busy choosing, who is the one who's gonna take them home

I'm going up the 'Ace'
Weaving in the chase
Two up and held in a pillion embrace
I'm going up the 'Ace'
Keeping up the pace
Burning up the road with the wind in my face

See the 'ton-up' vicar, all dressed in PVC
Preaching salvation, says God is reaching out to me
His congregation, they just stand and stare
No need to promise me Heaven, for I'm already there

Hear the juke-box blearing out, 'Leader Of The Pack'

Sandy limps in, and she's still dressed in black
I see her trying to hold back a tear, as she joins the queue
She's there on her own, but she's still orders for two

I'm going up the 'Ace'
Weaving in the chase
Two up and held in a pillion embrace
I'm going up the 'Ace'
Keeping up the pace
Burning up the road with the wind in my face

There's a bike here from each and every part of the land
There's a guy here that's riding one that's even 'made in Japan'
All this 'hot metal' just waiting to explode
Getting ready to 'burn-up' the North Circular Road>>

Well, you can keep all of your 'fancy' restaurants
Right here, are all of the things that a man could want
Good 'Old Gerry Lee's', never gonna change his tune
And they'll never take away, this 'Greasy Spoon'

I'm going up the 'Ace'
Weaving in the chase
Two up and held in a pillion embrace
I'm going up the 'Ace'
Keeping up the pace
Burning up the road with the wind in my face

Of course they did take it away

Roger Gall.>

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:04 PM

Good good good! Captures the very sounds and smells of the dive. As tho' I'd been there.

Love it.

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:29 PM

Great song, Roger! Let me know when you get a taker on the dedication.

-- Áine

Subject: Lyr Add: ANGUS AND THE KILT^^
From: Molly Malone
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:44 PM

Any chance you'd like to add this one in as well?

ANGUS AND THE KILT
Written by Lolly Foy
Performed by Wench Works

Now Angus was a happy man for soon he would be wed.
He'd found a brisk and bonny lass to take unto his bed
But happier still his mother was that he had found a wife
For truth be told she'd often feared to be stuck with him for life.

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
For truth be told she'd often feared to be stuck with him for life.

In honor of the grand affair that wedding day would be,
She set about to weave a kilt the finest ever seen.
The night before the wedding when the kilt was finally done,
She called young Angus over and she tried it on her son.

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
She called young Angus over and she tried it on her son.

She wound that kilt around him, and she wound and wound and wound,
But when she finished winding it was still 8 yard too long.
Oh, never fear me bonny boy, we'll simply cut it off.
And to your blushing bride we will give the extra cloth.

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
And to your blushing bride we will give the extra cloth.

Well Angus was so please you know his heart had swelled with pride.
He thought that he was rush right out and show it to his bride.
'Twas rainin' so he grab a cloak to shield him on the moor
But in his haste to be away his kilt slammed in the door.

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
But in his haste to be away his kilt slammed in the door.

Well Angus was in such a rush to show off for his bride
He never really noticed that he'd left his kilt behind
He knocked upon the door, cried let me in I pray
I've something that you've got to see before our wedding day.

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
I've something that you've got to see before our wedding day.

Well Brigit lets him in you know but says you cannot stay
I've got to get me beauty sleep before our wedding day
I'll only be a moment love, but it's so grand my dear
You've really got to see what I've a hiding under here

Well it's a fine thing, a bonny thing the grandest ever seen.
You've really got to see what I've a hiding under here

Now, when the cloak was thrown aside and Angus stood quite bare
We must admit, she was impressed and tried hard not to stare
Oh, love I ne'er seen finer, though far and far I've roamed.
Why lass he cries that's nothing. I've got eight more yards at home.

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Molly Malone
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:51 PM

or this as well?

Danny Boy-Rest in Pieces

I met him in a pub one night,
In a crowd of Well-to-do's
He had a claudagh (sp?)on each finger
And a shamrock on each shoe.
And when he said Top o' the Mornin'
My heart was filled with dread.
Well he said his name was Danny Boy
So I shot him in the head.

Raise up a cheer and lift your pints
and hold them way up high.
And sing a song of tragedy beneath the irish sky.
From the glen the pipes are calling,
But he never will reply.
For I buried Danny Boy beneath
the fields of Athenry.

Tu-ra-lu
Tu-ra-lu
Tu-ra-lay
Tu-ra-Lay
I thought I might drop him in Gallway Bay.
Tu-ra-lu
Tu-ra-lu
Tu-ra-lye
Tu-ra-Lye
Well I buried Danny Boy beneath
the fields of Athenry.

Well the guarda, fell upon me
And they took away my gun.
And a hush fell o'er the crowd
When they saw what I had done.
Said the guardah, "God forgive me,
For I'm sure in hell to burn."
Then he shot poor Danny once again
To make sure he won't return.

Chorus

Well, some call me a hero
And some call me a fiend.
But they still sing his sad ol' song
While drinking beer dyed toxic green.
But my sentence, it was commuted.
It seems I'm off scott free.
Well, I think I'll have another pint
And wait for Michael Flatly.

Chorus

Copyrighted 1998 Shay Vino
The Clare Voyants

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:51 PM

I'll be glad to put in -- But, is Lolly Foy a Mudcatter? If not, then I need to have Lolly's permission to post the song in the Songbook. It's a great song!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Molly Malone
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 04:51 PM

I'm not sure if they should go in the song book or the Database, but I thought you guys would appreciate them...

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 05:08 PM

The Mudcat Songbook is for the original songs and music by the folks at the Mudcat.

To get information on the what, where and how to add songs to the Digitral Tradition Database, please send a personal message to 'dick greenhaus', and he will give you all the info you need.

Thanks, Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 05:38 PM

I think Angus and the kilt already made it in, I know it was a thread topic, and I posted the words as well as I remember them after getting Lolly's permission.

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Molly Malone
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 05:40 PM

MMario

I seched for it and couldn't find anything...let me know if you have any luck. Her baby is BEAUTIFUL! We nicknamed her Nada...can you figure out why?

As a matter of fact, I'm doing Angus and the Kilt at ARF this year!

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 06:02 PM

Molly M ... I was wrong, it isn't in the DT - but it is in a thread right about here

I haven't seen the baby yet, drat! Missed Lolly a lot this summer; and have missed seeing Wench Work since they left KRF. I used to love to sit and listen to their unofficial "quiet show"

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Molly Malone
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 06:03 PM

They broke up....oh, let take this to Wench Works Thread.

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 06:21 PM

I've just added another masterpiece by Micca to the Mudcat Songbook. It's 'Paean To Cleigh', a soleful(!) hymn to possum brothers everywhere. Check it out and enjoy -- just no blowing anything while your inside the Songbook, OK?

Thanks for the heads-up on that Mr. P.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 02:06 AM

To The Keepr Of The Book

Could you dedicate the song to Amos and yourself, in thanks for all of your fine contributions to The Mudcat?

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 11:36 AM

Dear Lodger,

I've placed your dedication to Amos on 'Going Up The Ace'. That was a nice thing for you to do, and may you be the receiver of many smoles today!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 12:02 PM

Sure made me smole, Shambles! No-one ever done that fer me befur!!

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 00 - 01:59 PM

Sure made me smole, Shambles! No-one ever done that fer me befur!!

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 09:49 AM

I've just added a song by Calach entitled 'The Panda Hall/Tait' on the Mudcat Songbook. It's a charming song about a panda, a girl, and a dictionary. You can find it in the Thread Songs category. Check it out and have a giggle over your bagle this morning! Thanks Calach, for this your first submission to the Songbook.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 09:53 AM

Áine:

Aren't you about twenty pages behind here? You need an admin assistant? Get me a grant and I'll start packing! :>))

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:25 PM

This started out to be a harsh comment on the 'art' world but ended up being a tribute to an individual artist. It is also about how to achieve a kind of immortality and a good excuse for a lot of heavy name-dropping.

A Little Titian

If you want your portrait done
Go to the man who's number one
Where do I place my commission?
Do I ask Picasso?
Or Michaelangelo?
No, Venice is the place to go
For a little Titian

Don't want to appear, in no Vermeer
Or the 'Laughing Cavalier'
Idiot grin, frozen in, one position
Poor Franz Hals
He should ask his pals
As to just how?
You get a little Titian

I could have asked Van Gogh
But he took the (y)ear off
Well surely, there was a man with a mission?
But a year in Provence
Is not the Renaissance
When all one wants
Is a little Titian

Well I'm no prude
But to be painted in the nude
To stand up and shed my inhibitions
Like 'The Venus Of Urbino'
In a cold studio
Is that why she shows?
Just a little Titian

Don't want to hang in the Louvre
I'd prefer to be on the move
Go around the world in a travelling exhibition
But The Uffitzi?
Would maybe suit me?
For there I could see
A room full of Titian

Among kings and heads of state
Amongst the good and the great
Philosophers and mathematicians
You, won't want my face
Hanging around your place
But you'd find the space
For a little Titian

Roger Gall.

Don't forget, for a small donation to The Mudcat, there is still the opportunity for you or your loved ones, to be immortalised, in a song to be commissioned from our Amos. I would not bet against him being able to paint your portrait also?

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:28 PM

Dang, shambles, that is one hell of a song. I love it. Perhaps our own local Titian Texan will post it with a Gold Border for Extra Excellence!

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:52 PM

Newest additions to the Mudcat Songbook are:

The Endless Roads by McGrath of Harlow, one of our Mudcat Mastersongwriters. A very moving song that came up on the 'Refugees' thread.

We Can't Take It Anymore by Mary G, another great song that surfaced on the same 'Refugees' thread.

A Little Titian by The Shambles, a song that, as he says himself, involves some 'heavy' name dropping!

As for the latest SONG CHALLENGE! Winners, here's the list:

Spam by Barky
This Is My Cheese by Hyperabid
You're Making Me Hungry!! by Callie
Built For Flavor by Praise
Food Of You by Amos
Bring That Big Ole Can Of Spam Home, Dad by Áine
How The Salty Dog Got That Way by Hardiman the Fiddler's "Best Wife" (a/k/a Praise)
I Draw The Line by Troll
What I Flay? by Áine
Montee, The Pasta Dog by katlaughing
My Hotdog Had Puppies by Mbo
Oh Bulgur! by Mbo
The Day My Ice Cream Fell by Jeri
Today The Chocolate Left Me Brown by Callie
Ghost Custard by Micca
Leftoverture by Lonesome EJ
Mother Hubbard's Blues by McGrath of Harlow
Po' Food Blues by Praise
Sub-Chef Food Poisoning Blues by Amos
The SPAM Blues by Barky

There's lots of new songs to enjoy and contemplate -- So, what are you waiting for?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Mbo
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:54 PM

Aw, c'mon Shamb..lay off us artists. We're not that bad...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 02:02 PM

Mbo:

In your case the problem is that you won't admit how good you are, not that you're anyway bad.

I believe Spaw has some mycoxafalin in a renewable prescription if you need to resort to it, just to keep your pecker up. (BG! BG! Just joshin' ya, man!)

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 02:05 PM

Apologies to Mary G!! I typed the title of her new song in the Songbook incorrectly. The name should be: We Can't Take Any More.

-- Áine (The Beeper of the Kook again)

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 02:10 PM

Áine

Thank you again for making this merry mass of madcap marvels behave like real artists. What a crop of genius and inspiration. What a crew!

You are really something.

A

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Troll
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 02:17 PM

Re. Titian

As Titian was mixing rose madder,

His model climbed up on the ladder.

Her position, to Titian,

suggested coition.

So he climbed up the ladder and had her.

apologies to The Shambles. You wrote a danm fine song but I can never resist a good straight line.

troll

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 05:25 PM

Sorry about the delay in uploading these two songs on the Songbook; but, my computer cable keeps going out on me.

Here are the latest additions to the Mudcat Songbook: Down On Barky's Farm by Bert and There Was A Panda by Praise.

Go forth and enjoy! -- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 07:52 PM

Master Songwriter McGrath of Harlow has done it again -- this time with a political song entitled The Once And Future Ken. My favorite lines are "He's a pestilential newt, Thomas Becket in a suit." Have a look, he's even offering to sing it for ya!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 10:04 PM

This evening's additions to the Mudcat Songbook are a couple of ditties by two relative newbies to the 'Cat. Will That Be Broadcast Or Cable, Sir? by Praise, singing the 'praises' of Mudcat TV, and No Bullshit From You by Amos, singing the 'praises' of our own dear Catspaw (with a response by the latter included).

Keep playing, singing, and writing! -- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 11:23 PM

I want to go on record that Spaw's scurrilous attack was unfounded, without merit and meretricious, as I explained in the reply to his post, which should also be included in the thread. The idea that I would do something disrespectful to one of our old, fat Community Elders is totally slanderous.

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 09:59 AM

Just added a song by Mbo entitlted The Brigade to the Mudcat Songbook. Call it youthful exuberance, revolutionary spirit, or 'don't mess with us' in song, it's a jolly little marching song that will start your day off right!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 06:54 PM

Just added a song by Lin in Ozland entitled 'Crayon-Colored World', a nostalgic stroll and a lovely song. Please go see Lin's first submission to the Mudcat Songbook! Let's hope this is just the firts of many!

Keep playing, singing, and writing, Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 07:22 PM

Nice song! So...you're still in Kansas? And to think the phrase was coined just to rile 'Spaw...

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 10:53 PM

Thanks for the kind words, Aine and Amos. And yep, I'm still in Kansas, looking forward to tornado season all too soon.

Lin

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 11:02 PM

Hey LIN....That is really a fine piece....you made Ol Spaw cry......Lovely, and a sentiment I often feel.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 11:25 PM

Dear 'Spaw...Your colors are still there -- just turn yer head a tad, a bit to the left...there.. you'll see 'em....

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 11:28 PM

Only a few pages in my coloring book are colored in...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 26 Feb 00 - 06:39 PM

This evening's additions are My Bodhrán Is Too Tight by Troll (the title says it all, doesn't it?) and The Anna Grace by Willie-O, a song about a fishing boat, and to quote the man himself -- My daughter just told me this was her favorite lullaby when she was little. I think its my best work. It's not really about fishing, or boats, at all. It's about the inevitability of aging and the whims of fate.

They're both as good as they look, so check 'em out. It's rumoured that Willie-O will be sending in a recording of his song to Max for the Mudcat Radio soon. Let's hope so! Well done, the both of you!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:31 AM

Good morning! Well, the 'Catters over on the SONG CHALLENGE! Part 10 thread kept themselves busy and out of trouble (except for Barky!) last night, and they came up with a couple of songs that I've added to the Mudcat Songbook. Why Barky's Not At Work Today by Mbo and The Night That Young Barky Got Busted by Amos, Áine and Mbo. (No, she didn't go to the pokey! Daddy Amos caught her posting to the Mudcat from someone else's computer). Also added to the Songbook was Mudcat Cafe Number 61 by Amos, a ponderment on the origins of the 'Cat -- very deep.

Well done, everyone! -- Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:01 AM

Why thank you again Aine. Said daughter grabs the internet connection on the upstairs computer every time I get disconnected...she'd developed a severe habit of Harry Potter message boards. I'm not much in a position to lecture her, just have to demand my turn!

I'm sure glad the Songbook exists as a place to put up old works--I just can't seem to get the hang of any of these challenges--I can't write to order, at least not at the drop of a challenge. I tend to turn things over in the cranium for a long time before writing about them--except I usually forget to ever get around to it!

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:11 AM

But when they do come out, they're done just right!

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 07:55 AM

What better way to start a new week -- Hike up yer skirt and kick up yer heels with The Schmielzo Polka by Praise!! This wonderful song should get yer blood pumping and yer toupee flapping -- go forth, dance and enjoy! Thank you, Praise, for a great new song and here's hoping there'll be lots more where that came from!

Keep playing, singing, and writing (and dancing!), Áine

Subject: RE: Part IV - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 09:30 AM

And the winners for the SONG CHALLENGE! Part 10 (a/k/a Freedom For Furry Ferrets!) are:

I Fought For Ferrets by Lonesome EJ
Patrick Wright's Ferret by McGrath of Harlow
Patty Wright's Crazy Life by Barky
The True Story Of Patrick Wright's Wrong-Doing by Amos Ferretman's Lament by Áine

Poignant, yes. Funny, without a doubt. Have fun and enjoy the funny frittery of The Ferret Freedom Fighters! You can find them all on the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE.

-- Áine (F.F.F. Local 69)