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06 Jan 13 - 07:17 PM (#3462348) Subject: What is that song? From: Bert You know, you get in the car and start driving and before you know it you are singing. With me it usually starts, "'twas in the year of Forty Four on March the second Day, our gallant ship her anchor weighed...." So what is that song that YOU start singing? |
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06 Jan 13 - 07:34 PM (#3462354) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: McGrath of Harlow It'd vary - but I tried it now, just seeing what might come to the surface and it was Abroad for pleasure as I was a-walking On one summer summer's evening clear There I beheld a most beautiful damsel Lamenting for her shepherd swain. The Holmfirth Anthem. Nice choice, but not a choice I consciously made, nor one I'd have expected to make. |
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06 Jan 13 - 08:34 PM (#3462380) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Elmore Joan of Arc. |
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07 Jan 13 - 07:44 AM (#3462554) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: McGrath of Harlow What a singularly tongue tied mob... |
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07 Jan 13 - 07:48 AM (#3462556) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: greg stephens I often find Frankie and Johnny springs unbidden in these circumstances. |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:00 AM (#3462561) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: GUEST,Lighter Yesterday it was "The Wild Colonial Boy." A few days earlier it was "Bless 'em All." Frequently it's "The Bonnie Bunch of Roses." Did anyone say it had to make sense? |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:15 PM (#3462927) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Helen Come By the Hills I don't hear it very often. I first heard an Irish bloke called Mick O'Brien singing it and playing it on his accordion, at a session at my place about 30 years ago. Loved it! For some reason it is the primary song-data in my brain: the song my brain conjures up at the oddest of moments, usually apropos of nothing. |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:21 PM (#3462931) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Joe_F I don't have a car, so for me it is a question of what song springs up to accompany my exercises in the morning. It varies a great deal. It may be one that I've listened to recently, or one that I inserted yesterday into my Magical Songs book. Probably, tomorrow, it will be Poor Lil. |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:27 PM (#3462934) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: GUEST Starlight on the rails |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:31 PM (#3462938) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Tattie Bogle well tonight it was "Dirty old Town" - on the way home from my songwriters' session. Iain Anderson played the Pogues' version on BBC Radio Scotland but then gave all the correct attributions - who wrote it and which "Dirty Old Town" it referred to! |
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07 Jan 13 - 08:33 PM (#3462939) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Bobert "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl" by the Barbarians... Jus' funnin'... B;~) |
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08 Jan 13 - 06:50 AM (#3463049) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Georgiansilver This is the one I start to sing in the car..... |
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08 Jan 13 - 06:52 AM (#3463050) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Georgiansilver Tattie... Dirty Old Town was written by Ewen McColl in 1949... it's about Salford (where I went to Uni) |
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08 Jan 13 - 06:53 AM (#3463051) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Georgiansilver OOps sorry.. I thought you were asking...LOL :) |
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08 Jan 13 - 03:02 PM (#3463232) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Elmore Today, it's "The Rare Ould Times." |
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08 Jan 13 - 03:21 PM (#3463242) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: GUEST,Lightfoot, no not that one The Weight, St. James Infirmary, Sporting' Life Blues... And about 20 others! |
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08 Jan 13 - 03:34 PM (#3463254) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Georgiansilver the latest sing song in the car! |
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08 Jan 13 - 03:35 PM (#3463256) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Rumncoke I'm still trying to write down all the folk songs I know - so that when I forget them I can still sing them - so far I have never forgotten the tunes. Every time I think I have got to the end of them I find myself singing another one. I suppose I could list all the songs I sing eventually. The last song to surface spontaneously was Silent Night in the original German. |
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08 Jan 13 - 04:21 PM (#3463281) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Genie Starlight on the Rails for me too, in recent days. Specifically, the refrain, "Each year is like some rolling freight train and cold as starlight on the rails." |
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08 Jan 13 - 07:36 PM (#3463375) Subject: RE: What is that song? From: Tattie Bogle Tonight it's Ellis Island (Isle of Hope): someone sang it in the session but no-one else seemed to know it except me, so I've been Googling it since I got home. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxIdYbKu7Q |