FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three

Subject: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 12:57 PM

I'll say farewell to FFCII with "Leave her Johnny Leave Her"

Bert.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bill in Alabama [Bill Foster]
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 01:17 PM

I'll do "You Ain't Talkin' to Me."

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 01:36 PM

Once again, yet (for the third time)

If you selection for the fantasy folk circle is a song that ISN'T in the Digital Tradition Database, PLEASE post the lyrics here and it WILL be in the Digital Tradition Database. Please.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bob Landry
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 04:45 PM

The List from FFC I and FFC II.

It's a good thing I don't have to answer to anyone but me for my computer time. Here are the begats:

From the first Fantasy Folk Circle thread.

Angus McSweeney, 03-Jun-97: I Never Will Marry
Frank Phillips, 03-Jun-97: The Lilac and the Apple
cleod, 04-Jun-97: The Cruiskeen Lawn
Bert Hansell, 04-Jun-97 Suzanna's a funnicle Man"
Bill D, 04-Jun-97 I've rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late
Bob Landry, 04-Jun-97 Fisherman's Wharf
Les Blank 04-Jun-97 "The Cat Came Back", "Ramblin' Boy" and "Delia's Gone"
Scott Swinney 04-Jun-97 One Time Only
Mountain Dog, 04-Jun-97 Hard Times Come Again No More
LaMarca, 04-Jun-97 The Land
Dave Murphy, 04-Jun-97 Sweet Williams Town
Jack, 05-Jun-97 Schoolday Over
Joe Offer, 05-Jun-97 Our House
Peter Timmerman 05-Jun-97 Skye Boat Song
Angus, 05-Jun-97 The Bloomin' Bright Star of Belle Isle
Bill D, 05-Jun-97 Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet
Scott Swinney, 06-Jun-97 Changes
Frank in the swamps, 06-Jun-97 Billy Venero
OLD FOLK, 06-Jun-97 CAN THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
cleod, 07-Jun-97 Greensleeves…
rich r 07-Jun-97 "Coal Tatoo" and "Sheepdog Song"
Big Dave, 08-Jun-97 Bright Morning Star
Angus, 08-Jun-97 Thirsty Boots
Jack, 08-Jun-97 Coats off for Britain
Frank Phillips 08-Jun-97 The Jeannie C
Bill Foster, 09-Jun-97 "Old Shep" and "Meeting in the Air"
Bert Hansell, 09-Jun-97 While London Sleeps
[e-mail], 09-Jun-97 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Susan-Marie 09-Jun-97 The Lass of Glenshee
Will 09-Jun-97 Northwest Passage
Bill 10-Jun-97 "Early" and "Love Is Little"
Peter Timmerman, 10-Jun-97 The Lady Came from Baltimore
Angus, 10-Jun-97 Black Sheep Boy
Steffan, 10-Jun-97 "Dark Woman of the Glen" and "Ewe with the Crooked Horn"
Angus, 10-Jun-97 Long Time Blues
Bill D 10-Jun-97 The Keys of Canturbury
Annie 10-Jun-97 "star spangled banner" everyone, as loud as you can
Martin Ryan 11-Jun-97 The Traveller all over the World
Susan of California 11-Jun-97 This Land is Your Land
Bob Landry 11-Jun-97 "Ragtime Annie" and "The French Two-Step"
SSWINNEY, 12-Jun-97 Late in the Day
Peter Timmerman, 12-Jun-97 Alberta
Jack, 12-Jun-97 Old Peculier Ale
Mountain Dog 12-Jun-97 The Jug of Punch
Bert Hansell, 13-Jun-97 Beer, Beer, Glorious Beer
dani: 13-Jun-97 How can I keep from singing?
Alan of Australia 14-Jun-97 "Dancing at Whitsun" and "Staines Morris"
Jerry Friedman, 14-Jun-97 Look Sharp
14-Jun-97 Soldier, Soldier"
SSWINNEY, 14-Jun-97 Hobo's Lullaby
Bill, 15-Jun-97: "Hobo's Lullaby" and "Old Buddy Goodnight"
Joe Offer 15-Jun-97 take a beer break and let Jerry recite Kipling's "The Land."
Frank in the swamps 15-Jun-97 Give the fiddler a dram.
Frank Phillips 16-Jun-97 Pocheen
Bob Schwarer 16-Jun-97 Four Wet Pigs
Mountain Dog 16-Jun-97 The Scotsman
Peter Timmerman 16-Jun-97 Campfire legend
B ert Hansell 16-Jun-97 Manura Manya?
SSWINNEY 16-Jun-97 Wild Mountain Thyme
Bob Landry 16-Jun-97 The Mermaid
ron k 16-Jun-97 City Of New Orleans
Les Blank 16-Jun-97 Tennessee Flattop Box.
ron k 16-Jun-97 Cape St. Marys
OLD FOLK 17-Jun-97 Day Is Done
Bill 17-Jun-97 The Song of the World's Last Whale
Mike Miller 17-Jun-97 "Rocky Top" and "Come In Stranger"
Bob Landry 17-Jun-97 "The Moonshine Can", "The Moonshiner" and "Mountain Dew"
LaMarca 17-Jun-97 George's Son
ron k 17-Jun-97 Let's also do the Irish "Mountain Dew" and "Bold O'Donoghue
Peter Timmerman 18-Jun-97 Ghost Riders in the Sky
Suzanne Wilkins 18-Jun-97 I'll fly away
Mountain Dog 18-Jun-97 Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
Susan of DT 19-Jun-97 the False Bride
rich r 19-Jun-97 "The Sheepdog Song" and "Pretty Saro"
Alison, 19-Jun-97 get Alan of Oz to sing "The Diamantina Drover" and I on my tin whistle.
Angus McSweeney, 19-Jun-97 The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
Suzanne Wilkins, 20-Jun-97 The Lambton Worm
Alan of Australia 20-Jun-97 The Travelling Salesman
Joe Offer, 21-Jun-97 There Is Power in the Blood
Peter Timmerman 21-Jun-97 Ashokan Farewell
Helen, also of Oz 22-Jun-97 "Freeborn man of the Travelling People", "Goodbye to the 30 Foot Trailer"
Big Dave 22-Jun-97 "Pulling Down Song" and "The Drover's Dream"
Helen, from Oz 22-Jun-97 "South Australia" and "Waltzing Matilda"
OLD FOLK 23-Jun-97 "Mississippi Mud"
Bob Clayton, 23-Jun-97 "World of Time", "Angelina Baker", "Robin Hood and the Tanner"
Bert Hansell, 23-Jun-97 Bob, your "Summer" song; and my "4th. of July songs"
len langevin, 24-Jun-97 "dear abbey", "souvenirs" and "hello in there
Sharon Day 24-Jun-97 Do you mind if I join in - quietly of course - with my hammered dulcimer
SSWINNEY 24-Jun-97 The Carlton Weaver
kiwi 24-Jun-97 "Over the Hill" and "The Chandler Shop"
Blake 24-Jun-97 Last Thing On My Mind
ron k 24-Jun-97 Don Quixote
[e-mail] Mile Marb'haisg Air A'ghoal (A Thousand Death Shrouds Upon Love)
Laoise, Belfast 27-Jun-97 Bold Fenian Men
Doc 28-Jun-97 The Hills of Greenmore
Jerry Friedman, 28-Jun-97 The poem "Speak", "To Celia", and an even shorter piece from the Jewish liturgy for the High Holy Days--"Hu elohenu, hu avinu, hu malkenu, hu moshienu, v-hu yashmienu b-rachamav sheynis l-eyney kol chai
Bert Hansell 30-Jun-97 The Cornish Nightingale
Bob Landry 30-Jun-97 "Farewell to Nova Scotia" and "Alberta Bound"

From FFC II:

Kiwi 30-Jun-97 "Slaves Lament".. the words of Burns as done by Dougie MacLean.
Angus McSweeney 30-Jun-97 "Daddy Roll'em" and "San Francisco Bay Blues".
SUZIE 30-Jun-97 BILL STAINES' "RIVER.".
kiwi 30-Jun-97 "Tears In Heaven".. I feel like ripping out a few hearts. *smiles*.
Alison 30-Jun-97 "The Star of the County Down".
Joe Offer 30-Jun-97 - How about a rousing chorus of "Chantilly Lace"?.
Bill 01-Jul-97 "I Knew this Place" by Dave Mallett.
Mountain Dog 01-Jul-97 - I'd like to offer up "The Old Changing Way", Richard
Rick 01-Jul-97 "All the songs in the World.
Bob Landry 01-Jul-97 Buddy Whasisname & the Other Fellers' version of Londonderry Aire.
LaMarca 01-Jul-97 "Down Where the Drunkards Roll" - BYOP (Bring your own Prozac)
RICKY RACKIN 01-Jul-97 - Shari Ajemain's "Staying Out all Night".
Helen in Oz 01-Jul-97 just to make you feel better I'll sing Dirty Old Town,
Laoise. 02-Jul-97 a Dougie MacLean song "the Mairie Bhan".
Rick 03-Jul-97 - "I Could Hew" (Ed Pickford?) and "You won't get me down in your mines
Sheye 03-Jul-97 Auld Lang Sine. Could we play it once, for the little people?.
Peter Timmerman 03-Jul-97 Dylan's "A Simple Twist of Fate" without the dreaded (!) parrot verse.
Angus McSweeney 06-Jul-97 - How about Bill Staines "Roseville Fair"?.
Bob Landry 06-Jul-97 Michael Stainsbury's "Bluenose" and Lennie Gallant's "Nellie J. Banks".
Frank in the swamps 07-Jul-97 "The Cruel Mother." A cappella,.
Kiwi 07-Jul-97 "The Cruel Sister" Er, it's also known as "The Bonny Swan" (McKennitt)
Henrik W 08-Jul-97 "51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily".
Angus McSweeney 08-Jul-97 - "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" by Woody Guthrie.
Alan of Australia 09-Jul-97 - Gordon Bok's "The Hills Of Isle Au Haut".
Wolfgang Hell 10-Jul-97 - "DAVY LOWSTON".
Sharon 10-Jul-97 Carrikfergus on hammered dulcimer.
Whippoorwill 10-Jul-97 "Froggy Went a-Courting" and "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"
Bill in Alabama 10-Jul-97 "The Knoxville Girl" and "Mary of the Wild Moor."
Alice in Montana 10-Jul-97 - "Silent O Moyle" and "The Pretty Maid Milking The Cow".
Whippoorwill 11-Jul-97 "They're Diggin' Up Father's Grave to Build a Sewer"?
Henrik 11-Jul-97 "The bonny ship The Diamond"
Les Blank 11-Jul-97 - Hoyt Axton's "Lightin' Bar Blues" and use a cheese cutter for a slide.
Barry Finn 11-Jul-97 - MacColl's "Big Hewer". Great mining songs.
Kiwi 13-Jul-97 - "The Pound a Week Rise"
ron k 13-Jul-97 - Tie Me Down.
Alison 15-Jul-97 - "Carolan's Welcome" and "Carolan's ramble to Cashel
Mountain Dog 15-Jul-97 - "Carolan's Receipt for Drinking".
Bert Hansell 15-Jul-97 - 'The Nutting Song' which is in DT as 'Nutting Girl'.
Country Bob 15-Jul-97 - "The Men Behind the Wire".
Alison 15-Jul-97 "Sing Irishmen Sing". Pity I don't know the tune.....we'll invent one,
Bob Landry 16-Jul-97 "V'la le bon vent".
Kiwi 16-Jul-97 "Reinventing the Wheel"
Whippoorwill 17-Jul-97 Spanish Ladies
Jack 17-Jul-97 - Roll the Woodpile Down.
Alan of Oz 17-Jul-97 - "The Night Visit" and "Spatter the Dew".
Bob Landry 18-Jul-97 - "The Ryans and the Pittmans" (in DT as We'll Rant and We'll Roar).
Bill D 18-Jul-97 "The Twa Corbies"...(acapella, of course).
Joe Offer 19-Jul-97 Mingulay Boat Song?.
Frank Phillips 19-Jul-97 - "Un Canadien Errant" and "Aupres de ma blonde."
Frank in the swamps 22-Jul-97 Lovely Annie..
Bert Hansell 22-Jul-97 sneak in a 'home brewed' song. - Silicone Cindy -
Kiwi 22-Jul-97 - I'll contribute "Canadee-i-o".
Whippoorwill 23-Jul-97 - "Wee Cooper o' Fife" and "letherin' me ain sheepskin."
Bill 24-Jul-97 - "No Hiding Place,"
Wolfgang Hell 24-Jul- "Belfast Town"
Bill D 27-Jul-97 - "99 folk song posts on a thread …" and "The Good Peanuts"

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Kiwi
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 05:18 PM

Wow! Bob - thanks for doing the dirty work that I didn't take the time to do.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 08:08 PM

All together now, on "Give My Love to Nell". By the way, Dick there are two errors in the dt lyrics for this song. (In the second verse, it is Joe who leaves for home after 3 years, and then in the last verse, it should say "Joe" again instead of "Jack" who says,"you selfish elf".) One more time on the chorus at the end!! Always reminds me of Irish miners who came to the gold rush towns like Butte. Alice

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bob Landry
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 08:15 PM

Kiwi - Maybe it's time I got a life. OK, let's sing. I'm gonna bring along my buddy Garry with his mandolin and fiddle and we'll do some tunes from your country - "Take Me Back to Tulsa", then "Listen to the Mocking Bird". We could use some good bluegrass harmonies.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 02:31 AM

Alice- Corrections noted and accepted. Thanx.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Jack
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 10:06 AM

One of my favorites is Bob Franke's The Great Storm Is Over. Plenty of harmony on the chorus please!

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Whippoorwill
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 10:14 AM

Just to get you youngsters in the mood to return to school, let's "Take Down That Old Silver Goblet" and quaff one to the ladies. It's sung to the tune of "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet."

Dick, I didn't find this one in the files. Here 'tis:

Take down that old silver goblet,
With the (your fraternity) upon it,
And we'll open up another keg of beer;
For it's not for knowledge that we came to college,
But to raise hell while we're here.

Now, the dean of the college
says we should have come for knowledge,
And we mustn't ever take another drink;
for all our likker is a dang sight thicker
Than you get from out of the sink.

Oh, they took away our whiskey,
and they took away our beer,
And they're gonna take our cigarettes, too;
But we thank the Lord above us,
that we still have to love us
The co-eds of old Phi Mu (or whatever rhymes).

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 10:20 AM

Good one Whip.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Kiwi
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 08:57 PM

Bob, I'm not actually familiar with a lot of the folky songs from my home country, except for the ones I was taught as a child.. so I can't really help you much on the bluegrass. However, I can give you a rollicking bawdy song from the local neighborhood. I don't know the title, just most of the verses.. but it's rather infectious. >:) So for now I'll simply call it "Get it in, get it out."

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Kiwi
Date: 09 Aug 97 - 08:26 AM

Gagh... where'd everybody go? This thread had dropped WAY down... So, whose turn is it?

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alice
Date: 09 Aug 97 - 12:28 PM

Kiwi... "Get it in, Get it Out"?? ok, well, I'll keep it going by standing up and singing "Easy and Slow", with the lyrics from the female point of view. "... in city or country a girl is a jewel, and well built for grippin' the most of us are. But any young man would be really a fool, if ever he tried to go a bit far." Alice

Subject: Lyr Add: WESTERIN' HOME
From: steve t
Date: 09 Aug 97 - 02:31 PM

A bit of joy:

WESTERIN' HOME
Traditional (or at least one Scot indignantly told me that Robbie Burns did NOT write it)

As interpretted from the Cories' recording.

Best sung in a tin boat heading EAST down the lake to the cottage long before you've ever thought there might be anyone else who loves to sing.

Choose any key you like: If you like "G"...
Chorus: G - C G / C G C D / G - C G / G D C G
Verse: G - D - / G - C D / G - D - / C D C -

Westerin' home, with a song in the air
Light in her eyes, and it's good-bye to care
Laughter or love, and a welcome in there
Isle of my heart, my own land
(alt: Heart of my heart, my own one)

Tell me o' lands of the Orient gay
Speak of the riches and joys of Cathay
Hey! but it's grand, to be wakin' each day
And find ye'self nearer to Isla

Repeat chorus

Where are the folk, like the folk of the West?
Canty* and coothy* and kindly: the best!
There, I must hie me, and there, I must rest
At haim with my own folk in Isla

Repeat chorus twice
Fade out with dum, de,de,da...

Close pronunciations. Another Scot told me what they meant once and they were fine qualities for a friend...though I forget exactly what they were.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 29-May-02.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 13 Aug 97 - 12:18 PM

Well Kiwi,

Everyone was waiting for you to post the words to "get it in, get it out" ;-)

I didn't want to butt in again so soon, but seeing as you've started the bawdy stuff, let's all sing "Oh Sir Jasper".

The chorus we used to use is different to the one in DT. It goes....

She wears her silk pajamas in the Summer when it's hot
She wears her Winter Woolies in the Winter when it's not
but glory hallelujah in the Springtime and the Fall
when she sleeps between the sheets with nothing on at all.

TTFN Bert.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Aug 97 - 01:42 AM

I could go for a nice Tin Pan Alley cowboy song about now. How about "Cool Water"?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 14 Aug 97 - 08:41 AM

Joe,

As long as we've ambled into technicolor cowboy territory, I'd like to follow up with that touching and informative ballad from the Riders in the Sky, "That's How the Yodel Was Born".*

I know I can't sustain those high notes as long or as well as the inimitable Ranger Doug Green, but it should give all of us yodelers and wannabes out there a chance to ululate to our hearts content. (Might even get the coyotes to join in...)

*For those not familiar, the tune tells the tale of a singing cowboy who roped and rode a mean bronc as best he could, until:

"The bronco went up and the cowboy came down,

They met at the old saddle horn.

It made a deep impression, you could say it changed his life,

And that's how the yodel was born!"

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Whip
Date: 14 Aug 97 - 11:25 AM

Joe, while we're doing Sons of the Pioneers songs, how about "Blue Shadows on the Trail"?

Bert, I remember the chorus to that one as
"Glory, glory, what's it to ya,
Glory, glory, what's it to ya,?
Glory, glory, what's it to ya,
If she jumps between the sheets with nothin' on at all?"

Subject: Lyr Add: HOME BY BÉARNA
From:
Date: 14 Aug 97 - 02:06 PM

Well, well, I seem to have missed a few songs while I was out... Anyway, I'll do a song that I picked up at the regular Monday night sessions in Leeds a few years ago (and it's not in the DT database, so I'll give you the words as well):

HOME BY BÉARNA (trad.)

In Scartaglen there lived a lass
And every Sunday after mass
She would go and take a glass
Before goin' home by Béarna

We won't go home along the road
For fear that you might act the rogue
We won't go home along the road
We'll go home by Béarna

We won't go home across the fields
The big thornins could stick in our heels
We won't go home across the fields
So we'll go home by Béarna

We won't go home across the bog
For fear we might meet Kearney's dog
We won't go home across the bog
But we'll go home by Béarna

We won't go down the milk boreen
The night is bright we might be seen
We won't go down the milk boreen
But we'll go home by Béarna

We won't go home around the glen
For fear your blood might rise again
We won't go home around the glen
We'll go home be Béarna

(Then repeat two first verses).

A great songs. One of these days I might just put together a MIDI file with the tune.

Who's next?

Regards,
Henrik

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Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Laoise, Belfast
Date: 15 Aug 97 - 07:19 AM

Henrik,

Is the tune anything like "Follow me up to Carlow".

If not then that'll be my contribution to the magical mysteries of the third Fantasy Folk Session. IF you are really nice to me I might even play it on the mandolin.

Laoise.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From:
Date: 16 Aug 97 - 06:17 PM

Back from Burque, and since this is the Wild West I'll continue the Hollywood cowboy songs with "Don't Fence Me In". Complete with the verse about Outlaw Kelly. It's not in the DT and it should be, but sorry, Dick, I'm fantasizing not only that I can sing but that I know the words. R. Paul Tyler, where are you?

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Peter T.
Date: 16 Aug 97 - 06:42 PM

Perhaps, as a change of pace, the Beatles "I Will" (in D), or (for the banjo/violin adepts among us) the beautiful version done by Alison Kraus. Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Henrik
Date: 17 Aug 97 - 05:07 AM

Laoise,

I don't know "Follow me up to Carlow", so I'm afraid I can't tell you whether the tune is the same. I'd love to hear you play it though.

Henrik

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alison
Date: 17 Aug 97 - 09:26 PM

Hi

It fits very well to "follow me up to Carlow".

Couldn't let the cowboy theme roll by without a rousing chorus of "Rawhide."

All together now

"Rollin', rollin', rollin'..............."

slainte

alison

(I'm sorely tempted to add "The wild colonial boy" to the tune of "Ghost Riders" , but I don't want to offend however wanted to ditch it!)

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Jack
Date: 18 Aug 97 - 04:10 PM

I know this is presumptuous, so please forgive me.

But it seems the FFC 3 has slowed down considerably, so I'm going to make as suggestion for a new FFC. I would like to see a session of only parody, humourous, and risque songs with a folk flavor.

There are plenty of these in the DT, but I'm always interested in new ones. I especially encourage people to share funny songs that they have created themselves or have learned from local people.

I have started this idea in a thread titled

Parody Folk Circle I

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Bill
Date: 23 Aug 97 - 03:29 PM

Howdy All,

I hope all of you want to keep singing, too. Since I just posted "The Girl in the Wood" for another thread, that seems like a great song to do here. The chorus will be done twice between each verse to allow everybody a chance to do some singing. I'll play this minor tune in a DAC tuning on fretted dulcimer here and at the Emerald City Folk Festival in Cleveland this weekend. I love a lot of accompaniment and others joining in the vocals. I'll probably play it through once first on the dulcimer to help everyone get the tune.

Allinkausay,
Bill

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alice
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 11:05 PM

This was such a fun thread that I have resurrected it from a year ago for all the Mudcat newbies to enjoy.

Starting again with "Westering Home"...

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 11:39 PM

Well, summer camp season hasn't quite ended - how "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea"? Real fast, now:

There's a hole
on the wing
on the flea
on the fly
on the tail
on the frog
on the bump
on the log
on the bump
on the log
in the hole
in the bottom of the sea.

There's a hole,
There's a hole,
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: BSeed
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 01:13 AM

In a similar vein:

There was a little girl,
Just the cutest little girl,
Just the sweetest little girl in the whole wide world.
The girl was on the seat,
The seat was on the Ford,
The Ford was on the wheels,
The wheels were on the ground,
And the motor in the Ford made the wheels go round.
Match in the gas tank, boom-boom!

There was a little curl,
Just the cutest little curl,
Just the sweetest little curl in the whole wide world.
The curl was on the girl...

There was a little hat...

There was a little feathe

There was a little fly...

There was a little wing...

There was a little microbe...

--seed

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Annecat
Date: 01 Sep 98 - 04:45 PM

Don't really know what title this song is under, but I heard it sung once as:

I wear my silk pajamas in the summer when it's hot I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not And sometimes in the springtime, and sometimes in the fall I jump right in between the sheets with nothin' on at all!

Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, what's it to ya? Balmy breezes flowin' through ya With nothin' on at all.

Subject: Lyr Add: COMING OF THE SNOW (Rod McDonald)
From: steve t
Date: 01 Sep 98 - 11:27 PM

So nice to see the restart with Westerin' Home. I feel like no time has past since I've been away.

K. Normally I stick to songs with choruses, but here's a nice change from the mega-chorus songs:

COMING OF THE SNOW by Rod McDonald, 1991

I use capo 3 with: (G) D D G G / D D G G / C C G G / D D GG

(When you de)cide to return again to the land that raised you
You find yourself travellin' back to your New England home
And you're passin' through and you run into somebody I used to know
Tell her I've been thinkin' about her in the comin' of the snow

And when you're standing on the pier by the empty harbor
And the fishin' boats are lying quiet until the spring
And you need a fire to sit beside while the winter weaves out its blow
Tell her I've been thinkin' about her in the comin' of the snow

And if you awaken with her long hair spread across your shoulders
And the day outside is as dark as her eyes
Take care to hold her close into the morning
And she will be true to you if you love her more than I

And if you're travellin' in the woods I used to walk along
And you find a rock a there standin' in the fallen leaves
And a chill should pass through the arms that cradle her longin'
You know that you can take her hand one more time for me

Instrumental

When you decide to return again to the land that raised you
You find yourself travellin' back to your New England home
And you're passin' through and you run into somebody I used to know
Tell her I've been thinkin' about her in the comin' of the snow
Tell her I've been thinkin' about her in the comin' of the snow
Tell her I've been thinkin' about her in the comin' of the snow

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alice
Date: 02 Sep 98 - 08:08 PM

steve, the sentiment reminds me of "Four Strong Winds" (Ian Tyson), which was sung to overkill in the 60's, but is probably unfamiliar to youngsters these days. Well, since you mentioned fishin' boats, I'll start "The Squid Jiggin' Ground", but it's out of character for a soprano, so one of you baritones will have to pick it up for me.

Alice

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Ron K
Date: 02 Sep 98 - 08:36 PM

Alice, good job on Squid Fishin' Ground. While we're in Newfoundland, lets do Kelligrews Soiree.

Subject: Lyr Add: GET IT IN, GET IT OUT
From: Kiwi
Date: 02 Sep 98 - 09:42 PM

Looking back, I realize that I never published the lyrics that I was asked to. (embarrassed blush) Sorry! I don't know all of them, but I'll post what I know. I don't actually know the title, so I guess y'all can keep calling it "Get It In, Get It Out." :) It's bawdy.. I picked it up at a RenFaire.

I put my hand upon her toe, yo ho, yo ho
I put my hand upon her toe, yo ho, yoho
I put my hand upon her toe,
She said, "Hey sailor you're much too slow,
Get it in, get it out, quick fuckin' about,
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho."

I put my hand upon her knee, yo ho, yo ho
I put my hand upon her knee, yo ho, yo ho
I put my hand upon her knee,
She said, "hey sailor, quit teasin' me,
Get it in, get it out, quit fuckin' about,
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho."

I put my hand upon her tit, yo ho, yo ho
I put my hand upon her tit, yo ho, yo ho
I put my hand upon her tit,
She said, "hey sailor, quit squeezin' it,
Get it in, get it out, quit fuckin' about,
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho."

I put my hand upon her (censored), yo ho, yo ho,
I put my hand upon her (censored), yo ho, yo ho,
I put my hand upon her (censored),
She said, "Hey sailor, you know what I want,
Get it in, get it out, quit fuckin' about,
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho."

(There are some other body part verses I can't remember)

(More Slowly)
And now she lies in a wooden box, yo ho, yo ho
And now she lies in a wooden box, yo ho, yo ho
And now she lies in a wooden box...
(faster)
From suckin' too many English cocks,
Get it in, get it out, quit fuckin' about,
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho!

HTML line breaks added. Also, angle brackets converted to parentheses. --JoeClone, 11-Apr-03.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: JVZ
Date: 02 Sep 98 - 10:41 PM

Well, if you folks don't mind, I'm feeling nostalgic. I find that certain songs cause me to feel the very emotions that I felt at a time in my life when I often heard or sang the songs. So let's go back, a little less than three decades, to a time when I had hair on my shoulders, (Back then it was still attached to my head) and we'll do "Me & Bobbie McGee" starting slow and building to a rousing finish with a lot of la-da-da-da-da's.

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: steve t
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 12:01 AM

Gads, Alice! Nobody's done 4 Strong Winds yet? I learned it from a Harry Belefonte record and almost never heard it again until I started singing it at jams around 8 years ago. Love that song. You can go get yourself a fresh cup of Earl Grey or something if it's just too painful to join in. (hehehe)

Subject: Lyr Add: TOE-TAPPER
From: JB3
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 04:19 AM

Since we've had some cumulative songs, here's one that reminds me of the one "sung" by Kiwi. Learned it in a folk club in England (Nuneaton, I believe). An unsuspecting young lass was induced to climb up on a chair (no, not yours truly!) and the song-leader demonstrated the song on or at her.

TOE-TAPPER

Touched her on the toe, that be my share
That be my toe-tapper 'n you can play there
Toe-tapper loves my dear
The more I loves, my dear draw near

Touched her on the knee, that be my share
That be my knee-knacker, you can play there
Knee-knacker, toe-tapper loves my dear
The more I loves, my dear draw near

Touched her on the thigh, that be my share That be my thigh-thacker, you can play there
Thigh-thacker, knee-knacker, toe-tapper loves my dear
The more I loves, my dear draw near

Touched her on the "a-hem"...
That be my funny-thinger...

Touched her on the navel...
That be my navel-stringer...

Touched her on the breast..
That be my breast-plate...

Touched her on the chin...
That be my chinny-chops...

Touched her on the lips...
That be my chatter-box...

Touched her on the nose...
That be my snot-box...

Touched her on the eyes...
That be my out-lookers...

Touched her on the head, that be my share
That be by brain-box, 'n you can play there
brain-box, out-lookers, snot-box, chatter-box, chinny-chops, breast-plate, navel-stringer, funny thinger, thigh-thacker, knee-knacker, toe-tapper
loves my dear
The more I loves, my dear draw near

This is the way I remember it, would appreciate corrections.

Cheers, June

Subject: Lyr Add: SPANISH IS THE LOVING TONGUE (variant)
From: Alice
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 12:00 PM

I love Ian Tyson's voice, and Four Strong Winds reminds me of "Spanish is The Loving Tongue". I sing my own variation from a woman's point of view, but last year when I sang it at a small circle in a coffee shop, an old folk singer from Wyoming asked, "Where did you learn that?" It turned out he knew the original songwriter.

original is in the database
Alice Flynn's version, "Spanish is the Lovin' Tongue"

Spanish is the loving tongue

Soft as music, light as spray;
There was a boy I learned it from
Living down Sonora way.
I don't look much like a lover,
Yet I say his love words over.
Mostly when I am alone
"Mi amor, mi corazon".

On the nights when he would ride
I would listen for his spurs,
Throw the big door open wide,
He'd raise those Latin eyes of his.
How those hours would get to flyin,
All too soon I'd hear him sighing,
In his sad and loving tone,
"Mi amor, mi corazon"

Well, I've not seen him since that night,
He can't cross the line, you know.
They want him for a gamblin fight,
Like as not it's better so.
Yet I've always sort of missed him,
Since that night that I last kissed him,
I lost my heart, and he left to roam,
"Adios, mi corazon."

Now, let's have an upbeat song.... anyone have a fast singalong?

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Alice
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 12:04 PM

ooops, there was an extra blank line I inserted after the first line of the first verse, Spanish is the Loving Tongue.
alice

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 07:47 PM

Kiwi, how close is the tune of "Get it in, Get it Out" to "Hinky Dinky Parly Voo"?

Subject: Lyr Add: A CARRION CROW SAT IN AN OAK
From: Barbara
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 08:32 PM

Okay, Alice, this version of carrion crow has a repeat line, so limber up your tongues, and pay attention.. (and it has a major, not minor tune)(can't you tell?)
A CARRION CROW SAT IN AN OAK

A carrion crow sat in an oak,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray
Watching a tailor mend his coat,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray

cho: Hey folero, gilt in a garrow
Hey folero, gilt in a gay
Up jumps John a-ringing on his bell,
With me inkum kitty come kymo ray

Bring me my arrow and my bow,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray,
Till I go shoot that carrion crow,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray.

The old man fired; he missed his mark;
He shot the old sow through the heart,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray.

Bring me some 'lasses in a spoon,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray,
Till I go heal that old sow's wound,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray.

Oh, now the old sow's dead and gone,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray,
Her little ones go squealing on,
To my inkum kiddy kum kymo ray.

Blessings, Barbara

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: jeff s
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 09:40 PM

Witch of the Westmorland - Archie Fisher

digitrad has it as Witch of the West-mer-land.

jeff s "now if I could just play the fiddle part"

Subject: RE: FFC III, Fantasy Folk Circle Three
From: Kiwi
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 08:38 AM

Jerry - Couldn't tellya how close the two tunes are.. I don't know "Hinky Dinky Parly Voo". Sorry! :)

If I get a moment (it won't be for a while, I have to pack for college today, lock 'n load tomorrow and move in Sunday), I'll ATTEMPT to ABC post the melody. :)

Slán, Kiwi