Sing With Me

Subject: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 01:53 AM

At my last song circle, before the 11th, I was the only one who showed up. I can't make it to the Getaway or any of the other gatherings of Mudcatters, so here's a virtual circle, if anyone wants to join in. It's hard to know what to choose for a starter... this may seem an odd choice, but I'll begin with

AS TIME GOES BY.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 02:04 AM

Down By the Old Mill Stream.

~S~

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 02:17 AM

Alice, I'm currently watching the BBC 'As Time Goes By' show and enjoy it. But a different tune just popped into my head: 'Those Were the Days'.

As Time Goes By, Down by the Old Millstream, Those Were the Days... Is this a theme night?

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 03:24 AM

Good Night, Ladies.

~S~

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Kerstin
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 03:59 AM

Good morning again. I am trying to find songs to my own liberary with Scottish songs. I will send you a couple with only the names and no lyrics. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance Kerstin

SCHIEHALLION LADS AMONG THE HEATHER MONTROSE THE BATTLE´S OVER LIBERTY RECONCILIATION

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 09:41 AM

Lakes of Pontchartrain

(Kerstin, did you try searching the forum and the DT with those titles?)

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Big Mick
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 12:10 PM

I can't wait to sing with you in person, Friend Alice, but for now and here, let me do The Death of Queen Jane.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: breezy
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 12:25 PM

row on row on another day

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: breezy
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 12:29 PM

forgot to mention tomorrows song session at the bull redbourn herts, there will be more than just me there.every monday. come and share songs with us.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 12:29 PM

Time has made a change in me

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Mudlark
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 01:09 PM

Crow on the Cradle has been running thru my head a lot these last few days....that's my song to add to the circle....

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 02:10 PM

AR FOL LOL LOL O
"... and whether the skin be black
or white as the snow
we're kith and we're kin
We're one..."

our voices join the chorus of song...

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 03:54 PM

None But One (maybe no one knows it, but it's apt) Jean

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 04:03 PM

Dakota's Cross, just learning it, really old cowboy tearjerker. Thanks, Alice.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Bert
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 04:05 PM

When they sound the last All-Clear

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 05:33 PM

LIZZIE LINDSAY

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 06:36 PM

On Orders from God (it's been kicking around my head since members of a local cult were accused of starving a 10-month-old boy to death, but seems appropriate to the times and I'd love to sing it with a circle.)

When they cut off the world,
I didn't blame 'em at all
Cause it made 'em feel cheap,
and it made 'em feel small
But the voice that they heeded
Was just their own pride
And a little boy suffered
That little boy died

Aw, give 'em a sign
Bring sight to their eyes
Show them that love
Is the light of your way
Please do it soon
Aw, do it today
They're sayin' a baby died on orders from God

On orders from God
On orders from God
The devil I say when you tell me your orders from God

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 06:49 PM

Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew
Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads
Here's to witty girls who went to our beds
Here's to them and here's to you!

Drink with me to days gone by
Can it be you fear to die?
Will the world remember you
When you fall?
Can it be your life
Means nothing at all?
Will your death be one more lie?

Drink with me to days gone by
To the life that used to be
At the shrine of friendship, never say die
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
Here's to you and here's to me

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 11:10 PM

Sorry, I can't seem to bring myself to stay with the theme ...(if, indeed there is one) because I am feeling far too playful just now.

HAVE SOME MADEIRA, M'DEAR?

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: DonMeixner
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 11:15 PM

"I'll Be Seeing You" would be my choice if we are sticking with the theme. Otherwise, "It'll Never Do To Give It Up So"

Don

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Sep 01 - 11:32 PM

My Gal Sal and Brother, Can You Spare A Dime. No special reason, just feel like it.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Kerstin
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 02:39 AM

Thank you Alice! Yes I think that I have looked everywere, but I am a new member, and maybe I do not get it right. I have to work a little bit harder as Swedish is my language. I have my hart and soul in Scotland, and next month I will be back in Edinburgh. Love Kerstin

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 03:57 AM

I'll harmonise with breezy:

Row on, row on, another day
May shine with brighter light
Ply ply the oars and pull away
There's dawn beyond the night...

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 08:48 AM

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City

And I don't know why

Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one...

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
As the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I have known
It's the world I have known

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: alanww
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 09:34 AM

Please may I join your harmony, Breezy & Noreen?

"Clouds are upon the summer sky ... "
Alan

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 03:03 PM

no theme really, just songs, anything you like...

ROLLIN' DOWN TO OLD MAUI

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 03:22 PM

Oh, good!

CHILLY WINDS

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: MMario
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 03:41 PM

Mingulay - and if I can go again ---'Lullaby for a Borrowed Child'

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Deda
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 04:29 PM

How about "Drink, Drink, Drink" from the old musical "The Student Prince."

And then "Landlord fill the flowing bowl until it doth run over" Great for a little harmony.

The wonderful thing about virtual singing is that you don't have to be able to sing! (;o>

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: JenEllen
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 04:47 PM

Harmony on Lullaby, and then Fisherman's Lassie

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Dave (the ancient mariner at work)
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 07:03 AM

TIREE LOVE SONG

Horee horo my bonnie wee girl
Horee horo my fair one
Will you come away with me love
To be my own my rare one

All together down by the sea
Down by the sea in the gloamin'
Stepping it lightly with dancing feet
And then together homin'

Smiling the land, shining the sea
Sweet was the smell of the heather
Would we were younger both you and me
The two of us together

and
COME BY THE HILLS
(Music: Traditional Gaelic [Buachaill On Eirne];Words: Gordon Smith)

Come by the hills to the land where fancy is free
And stand where the peaks meet the sky and the lochs meet the sea
Where the rivers run clear and the bracken is gold in the sun
Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Oh, come by the hills to the land where life is a song
And sing while the birds fill the air with their joy all day long
Where the trees sway in time and even the wind sings in tune
Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Come by the hills to the land where legend re-mains
Where stories of old fill the heart and may yet come a-gain
Where our past has been lost and the future has still to be won
Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Ending: repeat first verse

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 08:31 AM

This is the new song by Michael Jackson, from his new album to be released soon:

Cry

Somebody shakes when the wind blows
Somebody's missing a friend
Hold on
Somebody's lacking a hero
And they have not a clue
When it's all going to end

Stories buried and untold
Someone is hiding the truth
Hold on
When will this mystery unfold?
And will the sun ever shine
In the blind man's eyes when he cries?

Chorus:
You can change the world (I can't do it by myself)
You can touch the sky (I'm going to need somebody's help)
You're the chosen one (I'm going to need some kind of sign)
If we all cry at the same time tonight

People laugh when they're feeling sad
Someone is taking a life
Hold on
Respect to believe in your dreams
Tell me, where were you
When your children cried last night?

Faces fill with madness
Miracles unheard of
Hold on
Faith is found in the winds
All we have to do
Is reach for the truth

Chorus

And when that flag blows
There'll be no more wars
And when all calls
I will answer all your prayers

You can change the world (I can't do it by myself)
You can touch the sky (I'm going to need somebody's help)
You're the chosen one (I'm going to need some kind of sign)
If we all cry at the same time tonight

Change the world.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:09 AM

MORNING HAS BROKEN

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Troll
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:18 AM

DANNY BOY and BARBRY ALLEN

troll

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:24 AM

I'm seeing a few songs come up that I don't know. Jean, I couldn't find "None But One" in the DT. Haven't searched the forum yet, but I'd be interested in knowing more about it.

Here's my version of GREEN FIELDS OF AMERIKAY.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: 53
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:26 AM

why don't you start your session off with, GLOOM DESPAIR AND AGONY ON ME, that was an ole hee haw favorite. bob

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:30 AM

The Snow it Melts the Soonest

Kristin

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:41 AM

Rosemarys Sister

AWM

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Deda
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 11:44 AM

Just a Closer Walk with Thee

We shall overcome

And, since that old thread was refreshed, how about Molly Malone?

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: MMario
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 11:47 AM

Molly would be upset to be refered to as an "old thread"

John Cumber's Maiden

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: 53
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 01:13 PM

why don't you do where oh where are you tonight? bob

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,PeteBoom (at work)
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 02:01 PM

Depends on the mood I'm in and the number of times 'round we go -

possibly Yarmouth Town - Beaches of St. Valery Tippin' it Up to Nancy

Pete

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 03:10 PM

RIDIN' DOWN THE CANYON

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Roger
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 04:44 PM

Star O' the Bar, for Derek Moffat and my wife with whom I've both stravaiged the Royal Mile and fought and swore in the pubs.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 04:52 PM

Alice, "None But One" is the title song for the CD, "Non But One/High Hills and Mountains, which is a combo of two albums. NBO is just a little poem I made and set to an sdaptation of the melody, "Nonesuch."

Across the fields there moves a sway,
It moves with human sound;
And some do walk and some do run-
Some fall upon the ground...
And some do stop to help the weak,
Some trample on the others;
And some do laugh and some do weep
And all of them are brothers.

And sounding all around a sound
Around and everywhere-
And none but one can understand,
And none but one can hear...
I mine and I thine, father, mother, son,
I me and I thee, and all of us are one.

I saw four travellers in a dream,
All in the wind and weather.
The chain they carried in their hands
It bound them all together.
And one was yellow, one was red
And older than the others,
And one was black and one was white-
And all of them were brothers.

And sounding all around a sound (etc.- use this as chorus- it is higher in the scale than the verse, and not part of the regular,"Nonesuch" tune). Love to all, Jean

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Noreen
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 05:03 PM

Some powerful harmonies in this circle!

Alice and all, as I've just learned it, please help me out singing Hard Times Come Again No More.

Feels just right for now...

Noreen

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 05:09 PM

Think I'll sing Remember Me, unless the person who wrote it wishes to sing it.

Jean, I have got to get that CD - that song is incredible!

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 05:34 PM

BECAUSE ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 05:39 PM

Clayton Delaney
Peace - Steve

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: 53
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 06:34 PM

Bob put in his $.02 earlier. Here is mine: "This Land is Your Land"

Glenda (At HOME)

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 03:01 AM

Guest(s),
Thanks for posting the lyrics of "Drink With Me" from Les Miserables and Michael Jackson' new song.

How about,
"We come from the mountain, Living On The Mountain, Go back to the Mountain, Turn the World Around"?

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 02:35 PM

Jean, thanks for posting the lyrics to None But One.

Noreen, here is another Stephen Foster song:

GENTLE ANNIE

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 03:52 PM

OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY (There's a nice intrumental break in this if anyone would like to do that part.)

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From:
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 11:40 PM

Come o'er the stream Charlie and dine with MacLean..mg

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,HON
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 01:02 AM

How about an old favorite WHISPERING HOPE?

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 05:12 PM

A post in the "Pancakes" thread reminded me of the line in THE LOUSY MINER (my next song) that mentions, "...flapjacks swimming round in grease..."

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Gloredhel
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:00 PM

Raglan Road

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:18 PM

Here..I guess I'll sing one of my own....Solace because I am in that mood....

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Robin
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 09:14 PM

Wonderful thread Alice!
THE MIST COVERED MOUNTAINS OF Home
for everyone far away.
Alleluia, The Great Storm Is Over
such great voices here for the chorus!

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 12:34 AM

Hey, Robin, I was thinking of Mist Covered Mountains, too. So I'll go with:
WESTERING HOME

and

CRUISKEEN LAN

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 05:53 PM

How about a round of How Can I Keep From Singing? or John Hartford's I'm Still Here....

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 08:36 AM

TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE

If you don't know this one, you can hear part of a good version here.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 07:13 AM

Obviously, that one was too obscure. (No Gene Autry or Tex Ritter fans out there, I guess.) If I may do a second one, I'd like to sing BARD OF ARMAGH.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 01:54 AM

A

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 02:01 AM

[Spatulate digits hit the wrong key---see previous abortive posting!] ALAN C. --I think you mean "LEEZIE Lindsay" in your first suggestion.Just a wee nudge!!! Guest Dave---a man of tastes similar to my own----great songs. My own contributions to the song-circle-- " The Laird o' Cockpen" and "Lassie wi' the Yellow Coatie".

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 07:58 PM

Boab, your spelling, according to a poster in one of the threads about this song, is in agreement with a Child spelling. The spelling seems to vary somewhat, depending upon the source. (See the DT, for instance.) It was pointed out in one person's post in one of those threads that the important thing was to pronounce it correctly - with the double E sound. I am an outlander and can only plead ignorance.

Having said that, please allow me to try to not mangle the Gaelic in SHULE AROON.

Subject: RE: Sing With Me
From: Alice
Date: 01 May 02 - 09:46 AM

What are the songs that you sing when washing the dishes? For many years, Wild Mountain Thyme would automatically come out whenever I did the laundry or wash dishes. Now when I do chores around the house, the song that seems to pop out is Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me". Or sometimes, if I'm warmed up, "Vilia" from the Merry Widow, or "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera.

Alice