Positive songs for Mbo

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:21 PM

Mbo! A spark of interest! Good. See the light at the end of the tunnel?
Re: Lysistrata. I read it in the original and it was hysterical. Mt. Holyoke updated it with some really funny results. EG: The messenger came in dressed as a FEDEX man complete with sign in board and a wad of gum. The highlight of the evening was the appearance of the whore, played by a professor from the Art Department who also teaches exotic dancing. She did not have on a stitch of clothes and was pierced and shaved. The phallic scene looked like "Pigs in Space" - shiny, glittery...Anything but tasteful but that was the point - no?

Actually I had a hard time holding my brother down during the "gourd ritual" scene. His little girl looked to him to be having too much fun.

Did you ever see that dreadful cowboy musical done in the 40s based on "Lysistrata"? All I can remember is a chorus of gingham clad Annie Oakleys screaming "Lysistraaaaaata, Lysistraaaaaaata" at the tops of their lungs. Smiling now?

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:27 PM

Thanks for the imagery Sins...excuse me while I go get some Pepto-Bismol.

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: DougR
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:33 PM

Seems ther's no pleasing the lad. DougR

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:42 PM

Lysistrata is FARCE Mbo. It is supposed to be "over the top" earthy and gross. It's a wonder you hated it if you didn't know that going on. I give up.

Mary, off to Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:44 PM

The one we did was translated as overtly rauchy. A movie version probably would have scored a NC-17 rating. The language and graphic descriptions were really over the top. Even our vetern Drama teacher was skipping lines because he didn't agree with the gratuitousness of it. The one redeeming feature of it, was that the version had the Athenians portrayed as English, while the Spartans were Scots. All the Spartans' lines were written in Broad Scots, which is why I took all the minor Spartan parts, cause I was so much fun to read. And it was all Spartan patriotism stuff, an awesome break from the smut. Every one admitted it I hadn't read those parts (doing the right accent too) they wouldn't have understood a thing I was saying. One guy wanted to know if I had been brought up in Scotland (!) Another neat thing was that there are several pariotic Spartan odes at the end of the play that the translators had chosen to arrange to the tunes of popular Scottish folk songs, like Blue Bonnets Over the Border, Scotland The Brave, and Scots Wha Hae. I actually sang those. HA HA no one was expecting that! Fag an Bealach!

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:47 PM

Um....all those "I"s that seem out of context should actually be "it"s.

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: hesperis
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:53 PM

Well, Mbo, you do have friends. Here at Mudcat anyway.
And I'm not a mousy person anymore, or I wouldn't be hanging around with Little Hawk! He'd eat me.

Have you heard of power animals?
They can make really good friends for when you feel you don't have anyone to care...

Blessings,
hesperis

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Genie
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 02:24 AM

How about, "Jug Band Music?"

Someone mentioned "People Got To Be Free" above. Can someone post those lyrics, please?
Genie

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 03:38 AM

Genie it might be better to make a new thread to request the lyrics you want.
Otherwise the people who may be able to help will see this thread title and may ignore the thread altogether
I think Mbo has had a name change since this thread started anyway and the context of the thread has long since past

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 09:32 AM

genie, Roger is quite right, but in this case and since I doubt that we have any intention of adding this one to the DT, Click Here For Lyrics.

A lot of pop lyrics are available easily on the net by simply entering a phrase (accurately) into a search engine such as Google.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 09:49 PM

Thanks, spaw and roger,

Sometimes the google thing works or I can find lyrics at lyrics world, etc., but I've struck out on this song. And sometimes, google searches produce everything that contains a trace of what I entered --e.g, everything that has the word "people" or the word "free" in it.
PS, I know the thread is old, but the thought and purpose behind it are not--namely, thinking of songs to lift a sagging spirit.
Genie

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 10:03 PM

Poor Genie. Damned if you do and damned if you don't! Create a new thread and get sent to an old; revive an old and get told to start a new. And by Spaw, no less.
It was good to see Mbo back or Matt_R.
Suggestion - go to the Radio Episode Archives and pull up the night with Bill Sables, Ian S. and Sam P. It will make you feel better. Or try the night AllanC and Bill Sables finished up the Great Adventure in Mudcatville. Happy people/ simpler times.

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 10:08 PM

Ah Sins......I wasn't kicking up no fuss. I just know that the best way to get lyrics is to start a thread with Lyr,Req. and the name of the song in the title. But if you feel like I was putting the poor girl down, then I'm gonna' have to apologize........

Sorry Genie.

Spaw, the Beaten, Submissive, and Downtrodden

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:32 PM

The Lyrics to "Jug Band Music" along with many other feel good songs have already been posted here:

 Jug band music lyrics and chords

JAB

Subject: RE: Positive songs for Mbo
From: Genie
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 12:29 AM

Aw, spaw, I don't feel put down.
But was that a smile I saw on your face when you thought of yourself as "beaten, submissive ... ?"

BTW, if GutBucketeer hadn't posted they lyrics to Jug Band Music, I would probably have started a new thread. (I could have sworn I looked for them in the forum and DT search!)

Genie