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17 Dec 11 - 10:27 AM (#3275453) Subject: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: wysiwyg Leif Ericson Day: October 9th Looking for material suitable for a nursing home. Songs? Parodies that would fit a tune to the old folks? ~Susan |
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17 Dec 11 - 11:45 AM (#3275484) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: open mike better yet....Saint Brendan voyaged to the new world 500 years prior to Leif...and the song St. Brendan's Fair Isle is a good one...by Jimmy Driftwood... youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DndF93ztvUQ lyrics and chords here http://www.blackthorn1.com/music/lyrics/Brendan%27s%20Fair%20Isle.txt and here http://www.thedance.net/~roth/SONGS/brendan.html and in the D.T. http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5139 |
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17 Dec 11 - 12:58 PM (#3275520) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: wysiwyg :~) I'm specifically looking for Leif songs. ~S~ |
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17 Dec 11 - 04:19 PM (#3275590) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: Paul Burke You'd need to ask someone like Inger Johannson about that sort of song. |
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17 Dec 11 - 08:44 PM (#3275710) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: kendall Would you settle for a story? Leif returned from one of his long voyages, and it was voting day, so he went to the town hall to vote. The clerk looked at the register and couldn't find his name, so he was told he couldn't vote. He went home and told his very assertive wife what happened. She got quite huffy and went to the town clerk to ask why her famous husband was not allowed to vote. The clerk went through her voter registry again, and suddenly she drew in her breath and said, "It's my fault, I must have taken Lief off my census. |
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17 Dec 11 - 09:48 PM (#3275750) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leif Ericson Day Songs? From: open mike when we celebrate Lief Erickson day in our VASA lodge, we have the national anthems of Sweden, Norway,Iceland,Denmark and Finland as the music for the celebration. |