Origin: Barges

Subject: History Needed -- Song
From: bluefrog
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 10:46 PM

I am trying to find out information on the history of the song "Barges". If anybody has any info or knows of any sites that I can check out, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 11:14 PM

BARGES!!! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BARGES!!!

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: bluefrog
Date: 19 Oct 98 - 07:12 AM

Thanks for the laugh, Art. I needed it this A.M. Anywhay, a friend is looking for history -- and anything anyone can provide would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: Nathan
Date: 19 Oct 98 - 10:29 AM

I believe it may have been in the Girl Scout songbook. My wife remembers singing it in scouts back in the sixties.

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: Jerry
Date: 19 Oct 98 - 11:21 AM

My 12 year old daughter sang this song in music class in 3rd grade, but she shared no history of it. It does seem to be a children's song. The image of pirates boarding a barge on the "ocean blue" is rich, don't you think?

Jerry

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: rich r
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 10:33 PM

Ok so I have a scruffy beard and yah I I have a weight problem. But I still take issue the notion that the image of a pirate boarding a barge is "rich"

Rich r

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: Animaterra
Date: 21 Oct 98 - 01:28 PM

I also sang it in the 60's in Girl Scouts- maybe that's all there is to the history! And, I do confess, I teach it to 3d and 4th graders because it has such a great descending major scale pattern in in (" I would like to go with you...")

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: BAZ
Date: 21 Oct 98 - 05:23 PM

Ther's a cracking song by Ralph McTell called Barges but I don't suppose that's the one?
Baz

Subject: RE: History Needed -- Song
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Oct 98 - 05:34 PM

On the Mississippi River a group of barges filled with pigeons went aground and the entire tow was stuck fast blocking the river traffic. The Capt. was adept with a bullwhip and he'd crack his whip and get the birds to flying. That lightened the load and they easily backed off the sandbar. Of course, that was a pigeon-tow.

Barges filled withy Tic-Tac candy would be a tic-tac-tow.

Hammers would be a hammer-tow, but they'd need to be removed surgically!

(rim shot!)

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-Joe Offer-