Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 09:33 AM

Wow -- that gets the Imagination cluster for sure, Sham. Thought provoking indeed.

Mebbe the problem is, when you're a dinosaur, you tend to make friends only with other dinosaurs. While this works well for the management of IBM, it probably is not a recipe for Pleistocene survival. Lesson: be friendly with the species you meet on your way up the food chain...you may need them if the weather changes! :>)

A

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 10:01 AM

Great song, Roger, and it's been added to the Songbook. I do hope that you'll be sending that one in to Max for the Mudcat Radio Show. I'd love to hear it! Thank you for sharing this one with us!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 03:38 PM

THE RAINBOW PROMISE

When all the world was water, and nowhere was dry land
God made us a promise, and sealed it by His hand.
An arc of light across the sky, in multi-coloured hue
A covenant, forever, He made to me and you

Chorus:
Remember the Rainbow promise, the skies aren't always grey
But it's up to us to cherish, the world we have today

When the foosteps in the sand are marchin' single file
When problems hover 'round us, and nothin' seems worthwhile
When it seems if all our dreams are nightmares of our mind
Reach out and take the comfort, left for us to find

chorus:

There'll always be another dawn, the rain will always end
And if we only will believe, we'll always have a friend
Remember we are not alone, no matter how it seems
But we must choose the way to go, not drift along life's stream

chorus

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 04:13 PM

That's a beautiful song, MMario, and I've placed it in the Mudcat Songbook. Thanks so much for sharing it with us 'Catters. And it's also a wonderful thought for the day!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Mar 00 - 04:35 PM

It is news, such as the latest mass 'suicide' of up to 470 members of a cult in Uganda, that confirm my belief that we have created God, in our image and not the other way round.

Such Is The God

You will find, in the finest of gardens
Some small place, where the wild flowers grow
And you can't train children, like a gardener trains roses
You can't thin out, you just reap what you sow

Inquisitions and witch-hunts and final solutions
Moral pollution, that defeats it's own ends
The obvious answer, is it always the best one?
It's wise to question, both your foe and your friend

The rose and the thorn, fine fruit and the poison
The soldier's warning? Just a young man, afraid
Through the eyes of the uncertain and the cries of believers
Such is the god in whose image we're made
The body of man, the heart of a woman
Songs of bright morning and the cool evening shade
Through the eyes of the poets and lies of deceivers
Such is the God, in whose image we're made

Do you join in the song, that everyone's singing?
Do you follow the path, just because it's well-trod?
Is faith just a way, to avoid hard decisions?
For religions are man-made, not made by God

The rose and the thorn, fine fruit and the poison
The soldier's warning? Just a young man, afraid
Through the eyes of the uncertain and the cries of believers
Such is the god in whose image we're made
The body of man, the heart of a woman
Songs of bright morning and the cool evening shade
Through the eyes of the poets and lies of deceivers
Such is the God, in whose image we're made

Roger Gall 1996

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 21 Mar 00 - 08:21 PM

I'm honored to add your song to the Songbook, Roger. Your talent amazes every time I see another of your songs. Don't ever stop writing them, please.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 05:17 AM

Jason is my nephew and exactly the same age as this song.

Jason's Song

Home is where the heart is
The end is where the start is
Round and round and round we go
Love is sometimes faking it
Life is what you're making it
The more you learn the less you know

All that glitters, is not gold
Passions hot, can run cold
Things agreed, on a calm day may
In a breeze, blow away

Home is where the heart is
The end is where the start is
Round and round and round we go
Love is sometimes faking it
Life is what you're making it
The more you learn the less you know

The only ones, who know for sure, are the young
Listen to the words I have sung
They may prevent your certainty
From hurting those who cannot be (so sure)

Home is where the heart is
The end is where the start is
Round and round and round we go
Love is sometimes faking it
Life is what you're making it
The more you learn the less you know

What me is there, I can say?
To help you on your way
Just listen to all that you are told
But remember, all age makes you is old

Roger Gall 1995

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 09:30 AM

Thank you so much, Roger! I've just placed Jason's Song on the Mudcat Songbook.

If you have an original song that you'd like to add to the Songbook, please post it here or send it to me at [e-mail]. You'll be in some great company -- Check out the Songbook and see for yourself!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 02:19 PM

This song was commissioned by our own MAG in exchange for some support flow to the Mudcat, as promised on a couple of threads. It is a slow, rolling barrel-house blues reminiscent of Bessie Smith's "Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer", or her "Ain't Done Runnin' Around" blues. Dedicated to Mary Ann, and to women everywhere who wish men could be just a little different...

Affectionately,

Amos

---

Mary Ann's Walla Walla Woman Blues

Words and music by Amos Jessup, dedicated to Mary Ann

 E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 You know, flakie cats just want to stone you
 B7~~~~~~~~
 And big cowboys they just want to own you
 A~~~~~~~~~~~~A7
 For a reg'lar jelly roll
 ~~C#m~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 And the losers want you to roll them
 ~~C#7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 And beg you to control them
 F#7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~F#6~~~~~~~~~~~~~B7~~
 And grind 'em til they find they souls , oh,
 E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~E7
 I 'm not about  to start contraction
 B~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~B7~~~~~~
 From  a masculine reaction
 ~~~~~~~~~C#m~~~~~~~~~~G#7~~~~~~A~~
 Cuz I'm a real woman right down to my shoes,
 A7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 But I'm getting those
 E7~~~~~~~~~~~~C#7
 Walla Walla's wasting
 F#7~~~~~~~B7~~B7aug(?) E
 A Walla Walla Woman blues

 Big bikers want to play you
 And maybe want to flay you
 Hey, wouldn't you rather burn a bra?
 Then the SNAGS want easy living
 Got no-o-o sense of rhythm
 And  can't figure out just who they really are
 Mister big iron pumper
 Got a motion, like a bumper
 AIn't got enough  plain soul to shine my shoes

 But I'm gettin those
 Walla Walla's wastin'
 A Walla Walla Women blues.
 

      Bridge:
      ~~~~~~G#7~~~~~~~~~~C#m
      I like to do that hootchie kootchie thing
    ~~~~~~G#7~~~~~~~~~~C#m
      But no-one here to kootchie  me
      ~~~~~~F#~~~~~~~~~F#7
      I like to run a nice strong coffee grinder
      ~~~~~~~~~B~~~~~~~~~~Bm~~~~~~~~B7~~~~~~~
      And the men around here drink tea, cold tea, oh

 I got three hot kitties
 Begging, pretty pretty,
 Just to go out on the town at night
 Jes' see how they carry on
 Hear them whine an' moan
 They don' believe its right
 Sometimes I turn a my back
 And they slip through a crack
 And those pussies down town
 Get more than I do

 Leaves me them
 Walla Walla's wastin'
 A Walla Walla Women blues.
 
 

      Bridge:
     ~~~~~~G#7~~~~~~~~~~C#m
      I'm not not excessively demanding
      ~~~~~~G#7~~~~~~~~~~C#m
      That's no way for a good woman to be
      ~~~~~~F#~~~~~~~~~F#7
      All I want is some plain understanding
      ~~~~~~~~B~~~~~~~~~~Bm~~~~~~~~B7~~~~~~~
      And some con-geni-ality, Oh,
 

 I don't want a man on booze
 They always seem to lose
 Except for that one out Chicago way
 Cuz I can still recall
 He would play that Cannonball
 And that was what he did to steal
 My heart away
 I'm gonna move it, yes move it
 Til someone finds that groove,
 Go out in whitebread city and cruise
 Gonna shake them Walla Walla....
 Wasting a Walla Walla....
 A Walla Walla Woman Blues....oh, yes.
 

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 03:24 PM

Well, it's great to see some more wonderful songs in the Mudcat Songbook! This morning I added four great new songs, (including Amos' song above) and I hope that everyone will go and have a look at them. Here's the list --

Radio Song by Spider Tom
A Soldier's Lament by Irish sergeant
Mary Ann's Walla Walla Woman Blues by Amos (which you can hear Amos perform on the archive file of the April 19th Mudcat Radio Show!)
The Chestnut Ward by McGrath of Harlow

Thank each of you for sharing these songs with us. Well done!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part V - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 12:45 AM

thread song alert! from Kelida....

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