SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 10:03 AM

Enquiring minds need to know the answers to those questions......

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 10:40 AM

I slept over at Deborah and Tom's on a very comfortable sofa in front of a fireplace. Someone over served me and Tami said I could not drive. (So did I).

Wonderful music and as usual incredible food.

I started the evening with "You Are My Sunshine' - hadn't heard it in a while. Deborah did some 70s folk rock. Charlie introduced a new song and I left the lyrics on a coffee table. Tom had a brain problem and couldn't remember Foggy Foggy Dew so he sang - I don't remember. Someone help out here. Judy performed Kitty Kane and shared the lyrics. Maybe we need a night of lovable whore songs. This one is a winner. Linn and Tom were unusually quiet. What did Linn sing?

Now for a nap.
Many thanks to Deborah and Tom for a wonderful evening. John Roberts is next.

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:02 AM

Jeri-

We certainly missed you in between bites of quice, sauteyed chicken in a wonderful white sauce, sald, small red potatoes, and key lime pie and my baked cheesecake. The cheesecake was lighter than I usually make but it seemed to go down well, and we left enough for the breakfast gang.

I sang C. Fox Smith's "Lumber" without messing up the 4th verse and now I feel much better. Judy and I also tried a song ("I'll Say Good-Bye") we've been working on alternatively for a year. Our verses don't exactly correlate but the plot is the familar one of the sailor being called back to the sea, leaving his love behind, or so it begins and then switches tacks. I'm not sure whose version is more warped but both include the "pierhead leap." The tune and chorus came in a dream and it's a very pleasing tune. I'm less sure about the verses.

John Warner's "Kitty Kane" certainly deserves more attention. I wish I could more reliably figure out the tune but JudyB does a fine job of leading it.

Maybe because Barry Finn wasn't there we felt free to put together a collaborative "London Julie." I also was asked to sing my original version of "Yangtse River Shanty."

It certainly was just nice to sit around the bright fireplace chatting and swapping songs.

Thanks again, TRUBRIT and Tom, for hosting this song party!

Will we see you at the next Shanty Sing in Portsmouth (NH) in two weeks?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:58 AM

It was a small but fun gathering. But we did miss Jeri and Jacqui. I was kind of hoping to get Jeri to sing "When I Go," but I guess it can wait.

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:09 PM

Well, I've still got a bit of a headache, but while you were finishing up whatever you had for breakfast, I wrote a waltz. It was for Clancy, and is for Seamus and will be for Bandit - called The Yellow Dog.

I have a webspot someplace, but I don't know where I left it. If you're interested in hearing it (2K MIDI), either pm me with your e-mail address, or e-mail me. I haven't written a tune for around 4 years...

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:43 PM

Oh, let's see, what DID I sing?

I think I started out with "The Maid Gae To the Mill", a sweet country love song I learned from a Ewan MacColl recording.

Then I started "Backside of Nantucket Point" but my voice (the bitch) wouldn't stay. The dry air hits all of a sudden and when least expected. Sigh.

But I recovered. Hmm... The Watersons' "Chickens In the Garden", a bit of '60s doo wop " Told Every Little Star" (strictly traditional...), started the chorus and verse on "London Julie", a bit of "Gin, Gin Was Mother's Ruin".

Can't remember what else (if anything) off hand.

Good conversation, too! A delightful evening.

Thanks, Deborah and Tom, for hosting it!

Linn

Linn

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:40 PM

A lovely evening -- AND I think I sold a house today....yahoo!!!! We all get to eat for another month....

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 07:53 AM

I just started listening to the tapes this morning -- we shouldn't forget Charley's "The Landlord's Lullaby".

I also regaled the crowd with the story (and photograph that my sister had just sent me) of my parents' first apartment in Colby, Wisconsin in 1947. For $17 a month they got a second floor apartment with the bathroom down an outside stairway to a garage in the back. And then...the landlord sold the garage and they had to avail themselves of the facilities in the Mobil gas station (alsoin the photo) across the street (Hwy. 13) from them.

Just found this http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/PaceEgging.htm this morning, which ties in with the Watersons' song Deborah sang early in the evening. (Been meaning to learn that one for years.)

Linn

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 08:05 AM

"The Landlord's Lullaby" was one of the songs I was surprised to find on the Mudcat DT when I first joined. I was intrigued about how it got here but never was able to identify who added it. I co-authored it back in the early 1970's when I was directing a tenant/landlord counseling center in the university town of East Lansing, Michigan. It commemorates an incident when a downtown rooming house had to be evacuated because of leaking gas. We enjoyed this kind of gallows humor in those days gone by.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM

Oh, and Deb and I (with help from everyone else) did "Long Black Veil."

Ah, shucks, Jeri, ya got me all weepy-eyed again!

Subject: RE: SONG CIRCLE at TRUBRIT's Maine
From: kendall
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 08:34 AM

Of course we want to hear it!