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Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Schantieman Date: 04 Jan 03 - 12:58 PM And then there was the dog that fell overboard at Cowes a few months ago and swam 10 miles or so back up the Hamble. Did you ever see a wild goose sailing 'cross the ocean? Jolly difficult pulling on all those ropes using your wings. Steve |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 04 Jan 03 - 11:55 AM Chicken on a raft, by Cyril Tawny. Also, The Hartlepool Monkey was a seafarer before he washed ashore. Keith |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 03 - 11:45 AM Rich- Nice version of "Old Horse" and I'm sure your "bark" pun is worse than the "bite" the poor dog was buried in. Cheerily. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: raredance Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:41 AM The of course there's the dog in Sailor's Burial at Sea. "Our bark was out far, far from land..." rich r |
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Subject: Lyr Add: OLD HOSS From: raredance Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:37 AM Here's a variant to Old Horse. It is from the manuscript "Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" recalled by William H Smith of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Mr. Smith was born in 1867. The lyrics were taken down and typed by his son in 1940. The first verse is similar to the Martin Carthy version. The sailor's ration of usually salt beef or pork was known as "salt horse" to the sailor's. A mocking jest to be sure, but who is to say it was never true. Maybe the modern day equivalent was the "McDonald's uses kangaroo meat in their burgers" rumor some years ago. Doerflinger has commented that before the meat was cooked it sas "soaked for days in the 'harness cask' on deck, to make it edible.". According to Edith Fowke, verses like these were often chanted when the meat was served and were sometimes called "The Sailor's Grace". OLD HOSS Old Hoss, old hoss, how came you here? You've carted poles for many a year. With kicks and cuffs and sore abuse, You're salted down for sailor's use. From the foremast to the pump You'll find me salted down in junks; Now I think i'm donw at last, But if you think I lie, You'll find my hoof in the bottom of the harness cask. rich r |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: SINSULL Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:08 AM Charlie, Didn't you sing the song about a cow falling out of the sky and landing on a Japanese fishing boat? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:56 AM I suppose I should post at least one verse of the Lovett song: If I had a boat I'd go out on the ocean And if I had a pony I'd ride him on my boat And we could all together Go out on the ocean Me upon my pony on my boat. Cheerily, Charley Noble, who has nothing better to do this day but shovel snow |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:33 AM Not a bad harvest considering the challenge! Dead Horse- "Darby Ram": a shanty? "Donkey Riding": a fine traditional shanty "Ol' Moke": "moke" IS slang for a mule but I suspect the reference is to a black man playing on the banjo "Hog Eye": a bit of a stretch "Wild Goose Shanty": well, sure, why not? Mary- good catch on "Wild Rover"! Fogie- you certainly deserve major credit for cotributing a traditional sea song featuring 1800 sheep on the deep! Wow! Any clue to the tune? Ship'scat- Never knew that "The Wild West Show" ever made it out to sea. I expected someone to mention Lyle Lovett's song about "the pony in the boat" Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Dead Horse Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:15 AM And there are always *Black Sheep* the euphomism for the slave trade. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Ship'scat Date: 04 Jan 03 - 06:58 AM Sparkey asks "Where we goin', boys?". The mate replies "Oh, we're bound for the Hamburg show [off to the Hamburg Zoo] [wild west show], To see the elephant and the wild kangaroo, An' we'll all stick together In fair or foul weather, For we're going to see the damn show through!" "And in this corner we have the lion, the only pussy that eats you", etc Definately found at sea by John Dos Passos in 1920 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: greg stephens Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:34 AM This is a bit vague, but a famous cow got dropped in the sea off a ferry in the outer hebrides a while ago, and swam ashore some considerable distance away. And someone definitely wrote a song about it. More than that I cant remember. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: fogie Date: 04 Jan 03 - 04:10 AM I know one about sheep at sea which might be Clare ,but I'm afraid I'm the worst at organising and remembering. I heard it sung in Oswestry I think ten years or so ago and it became a firm favourite. It has an eery quality which makes me think of all those mid-europeans going to concentration camps. Excuse my lines, and I can't put down the music either. Once when I was down in Baltimore, A man came round to me and cried, See I have 18,hundred sheep, And we must sail on the morning tide, And if you'll sail with me young man, 50 guineas I'd lay down, These 1800 sheep I take , From Baltimore to glasgow town. He paid me 5o gns down, I sailed with 1800 sheep, And soon we'd left the harbour ground , And rolled upon the endless deep. The first night we were on the sea, Those sheep were peaceful in their minds The second night they cried for fear, They smelt no pastures on the wind. They cried poor things for their dear green hills, They cried so loud I couldn't sleep, For 50 thousand guineas now, I wouldn't sail again with sheep rept 1st vs. I think this qualifies |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Genie Date: 04 Jan 03 - 02:44 AM How about that *%!@*! "Unicorn" song that all the Irish groups hate? "...the waters rose up and just floated them away...". And, Charley: "Dead Dog Cider" doesn't rise to the top of this list. GROOAANNNNN!! ¤'-) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Dead Horse Date: 04 Jan 03 - 12:56 AM What flavour is it? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: mg Date: 03 Jan 03 - 11:45 PM Has anyone ever put some of the verses to the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner to music? There's the Albatross. mg |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Dead Horse Date: 03 Jan 03 - 11:13 PM Derby Ram (there's ya sheep, Bluey) Donkey Riding Old Moke (Pickin on a Banjo) Hogs Eye Wild Goose Any number of *Bullies* ......and does a Mermaid count as half a fish? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: mg Date: 03 Jan 03 - 09:58 PM one more river.. Irish Rover..dog drowns |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Jan 03 - 09:20 PM Maybe we need to write some new ones for all the missing beastie mariners! I do seem to remember a long poem about a circus steamer that went down in Penobscot Bay back in the 19th century. How 'bout the two weevils meeting each other in the middle of a sea biscuit; we could write a song about the lessor of the two. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Leadfingers Date: 03 Jan 03 - 09:03 PM I know its NOT at sea song but the Drover's Dream gets a fair few Australian Beasties in,though NOT a kangaroo.So Clancy where the hell are the flaming Sheep? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SEA COWS From: Amos Date: 03 Jan 03 - 08:53 PM Well, Charlie, here's a tale for you, although it may be disqualified as "regular" nautical animals....
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Jan 03 - 07:58 PM Bruce- Thanks for your suggestion. Maybe you'd like to set up the query for "Animals at Sea" with the qualifications above. Genie- Nice to hear from you again, and "Dead Dog Cider" doesn't rise to the top of this list. Glad to hear that Cousin Marguerite is still attending song swaps. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Jan 03 - 07:40 PM You can get all the animal related songs in the DT by going to the "Lyrics and Knowledge Search" box and typing in "@animal". Bruce |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Genie Date: 03 Jan 03 - 07:06 PM Charley, how can you omit "Dead Dog Cider?"!! I know, it's not about the sea, but it IS about a large body of liquid, after all! *BG* Genie PS,[thread drift] got to spend New Year's Eve with Marguerite and other folkies in a jam-session party. Lots of fun. |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Animals at Sea Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Jan 03 - 06:24 PM Dear Mudcatters- To while away the winter season I thought I'd make a list of animal songs, where the animal in question, wild or domesticated, is the principal focus. Although I recognize that humans are animals I'm not really interested in them, nor in the regular nautical animals. Here's my personal list, most of which I've posted previously on Mudcat in some fashion: 1 "Cowardly Act" by Charlie Ipcar 2 "Dead Horse Shanty" by TRAD 3 "Hen Overboard" by Peter Tristam Coffin 4 "Long Time Ago" (Noah's Ark) by TRAD 5 "Mollymauk" by Bob Watson 6 "Old Horse" by TRAD 7 "Owl & the Pussycat" 8 "Rescue of Ship's Cat" by Charlie Ipcar 9 "Rodent Mariners" by Hamish Maclaren Note, there appear to be no songs staring sheep, pigs, geese, turkeys, turtles, llamas, snakes or other reptiles, insects, kangaroos, bats, wombats, raccoons, dinosaurs, lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, just to name a few. Yes, I'm aware that a few songs have animal titles such as "Aboard the Kangaroo" but a kangaroo is not featured as an animal in the song – no credit for such submissions! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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