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20 Jul 01 - 02:02 PM (#511298) Subject: Pencil Sharpening Shanty^^ From: Mr Red PENCIL SHARPENING SHANTY (Cresby) or Nude I Mention
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20 Jul 01 - 02:36 PM (#511334) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: MMario bravo! |
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20 Jul 01 - 06:00 PM (#511548) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble You got a tune? |
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20 Jul 01 - 06:10 PM (#511552) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mark Cohen Charley, I presume that the tune is The Farewell Shanty. Unfortunately, there's no MIDI file in the DT. It was recorded by The Boarding Party in the 80's, but I don't know of any other recordings. I'll be happy to make a MIDI when I have time...but that could be a very long time, so anyone else who knows the tune is welcome to add it and also post it on this thread. Wonderful song! I love the original, but I'm also an inveterate parodist, so I think this is great. Aloha, Mark |
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21 Jul 01 - 09:38 AM (#511916) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble Thanks, Mark. I'm familiar with "The Farewell Shanty" but missed the tune reference above in my excitment. I wonder if anyone ever came up with a "Watching Paint Dry Shanty"? |
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21 Jul 01 - 09:48 AM (#511926) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Farewell Shanty is a great leaving shanty. Will have to pass this one on! Thanks. |
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23 Jul 01 - 09:18 AM (#512513) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: MMario Farewell Shanty has been submitted to DT - it should be in the next release or so - |
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23 Jul 01 - 02:37 PM (#512701) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red "Watching Paint Dry Shanty"? - Isn't that a lullaby? Please don't challenge me, I might fall asleep writing it Oh I don't know though. Let me see, the chorus izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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23 Jul 01 - 02:57 PM (#512724) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble Back when I used to work at our village marina in Maine, we used to have a lot of "painter" extended discussions, why the bow line on skiffs was called "the painter", the problems of applying paint wrong side up or was it wrong side down? I also remember being chewed out by the owner for polishing brass fittings on the boats tied up at the float: "You idiot," he roared, "Now they'll expect us to do that every day!" Mr Red, you still listening? |
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23 Jul 01 - 04:43 PM (#512818) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca MMario, the Farewell Shanty IS in the DT. However, I passed this on to a fellow who sings the Farewell Shanty, who says this doesn't scan right, with that tune. Can someone confirm that this song is sung to that song or is it a different song with the phrase "It's Time To Go Now"? |
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23 Jul 01 - 04:55 PM (#512834) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: jacko@nz For what it's worth I've just sung it through to myself. I can fit it very comfortably to the Farewell Shanty tune Jack |
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23 Jul 01 - 05:21 PM (#512861) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble Sure, the Farewell Shanty tune works just fine. You do have to cram in a few words here and there, but when you turn the crank, the tune is still recognizable. |
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23 Jul 01 - 09:16 PM (#512991) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: MMario I meant the midi had been submitted. it was one of the "missing tunes" |
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24 Jul 01 - 05:25 AM (#513205) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mark Cohen There's a bowling shanty, too, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the DT. I thought I'd posted it once but the supersearch didn't find it, and I don't have time to type the words out now... Aloha, Mark |
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24 Jul 01 - 08:30 AM (#513275) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble The Bowling Shanty is at least in the threads but I could paste it in anew if someone is really frustrated, and pleads appropriately.;-) |
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24 Jul 01 - 04:50 PM (#513741) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca SuperSearch found it for me, Mark. |
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24 Jul 01 - 05:56 PM (#513784) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red Charley Noble I hear you. I was only joking about the "paint drying shanty" but were you suggesting "All on the Bow Line"? I was mildly interested but was having difficulty with the primer viz "being given the brush-off", drips and non-drips (anyone got a rhyme for thixatropy?) towns like Brighton, Cromer (ha) and Paignton came to mind but I sort of dried-up (oh a funny and I didn't realize). I haven't made a vynil decision, but if the motivation kicks-in who am I to gloss-over it or let it varnish without trace? Its not as if we have to walk on egshell is it? Artex - but not as we know it. Here, I hand the batten on - oops I think I dropped it. I knew a guy who sold equipment to test the "dryness" of paint - more sort of the residual hardness - very important QA in the automotive industry. Now he sells colour measuring devices but in the same market. Fortunately he had a patient sense of humour - had to I guess. "Pencil Sharpening Shanty". As for the tune/word fit - it is a bit contorted particularly the important mood-setting first line and "Girlfriend" but I took the route that I had to let go the song for it to live so left it for the singer to choose. |
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24 Jul 01 - 05:58 PM (#513786) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: pavane What about the contraceptive discarding shanty? Heave away me Johnny Oh |
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24 Jul 01 - 10:21 PM (#513968) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Amos I'm sure it'll oil turn out fine and you'll have acrylic good product in the end! A |
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24 Jul 01 - 11:33 PM (#514001) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: GUEST You Brits seem to have a sharp point. Only wish I could pun as badly/goodly? as you all. Seems to be a British strongpoint. Probably a leaden issue though, after all you invented the language. On second thought, erase all the above....and I'll just pencil in my true comment. Knowing Mr. Red personally, and having composed various folk ditties together, I can vouch for his sharpened intellect and endless witty scribbling. He always draws upon the most and least obvious. Sometimes on the same page! Even if his puns can be wooden, he gets A for effort. Watch yer backs....he won't give up until he has the point made, and the picture is complete. A friendly voice from across the Atlantic, Mutton Chops (well peppered)
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25 Jul 01 - 09:33 AM (#514172) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Charley Noble Skim over to the "Nonesense Sailor Song" thread if you haven't done so, for the ultimate nonesense song, "A Sailor's Yarn";-) |
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26 Jul 01 - 04:58 PM (#515266) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red Thanks Cousin Mutton Chops (well peppered) for the fulsome praise the cheque's in the post the geneticists amongst us will have spotted that we share common paranomasia genes on our mothers' sides |
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27 Jul 01 - 02:15 AM (#515669) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: GUEST,Mutton Chops (well-peppered) Mr. Red, What the hell is paranomasia? Is it a Huxley invention? Or just J.B.Priestly amazing us (as always) with his command of the language? Don't see the common genes clue either. I've never heard of red mutton chops! Still, I like the asymmetry of thre pencil sharpening shanty. Is it possible there is original music for it......to come? (ps - still waiting for some guesses about the origin of my handle......Mr.Red excluded from participation on basis of inside information) Mutton Chops (extra-peppered, due to recent meal)
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27 Jul 01 - 07:33 AM (#515789) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Wilfried Schaum yeah, what is paranomasia? There is a Greek terminus paronomasia, denoting a rhetorical trick: repeating a sentence or part of it with variations. Has nothing to do with Huxley, Priestley et al.; Demosthenes and Cicero used it some millenniums ago. |
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28 Jul 01 - 11:02 AM (#516643) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: GUEST,Mutton Chops Mr. Red...........? Please reply to questions above. Or is your pencil tip broken? (if so, it's a good thing you have a sharpening shanty!) Chops (p.s. - is no-one going to take a run at guesssing the origin of my handle? Clue 1 - It has nothing whatsoever to do with hair.) |
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28 Jul 01 - 11:41 AM (#516659) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mutton Chops (well-peppered) I just became a member of Mudcat. I am now trying to figure out how to make use of it. There's a lot of info! Can someone please tell me how I find a thread without have to scroll down the list, squinting? Also, where do I go to access the membership benefits? Thanks Mutton Chops |
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28 Jul 01 - 12:34 PM (#516674) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Welcome, Mutton Chops. 1 - Benefit 1 - Personal Messages. 2 - Tracing of Specific Message Threads of Interest 3 - Personal Bookmarks Those are some of the benefits. As to keeping threads of interest, it ties in with item 2 above. By Clicking on Trace, you can see the threads later . |
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28 Jul 01 - 12:42 PM (#516676) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Have a look at the FAQ and the Site Map for details. Links are at the top of the list of threads. Also here: |
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28 Jul 01 - 01:11 PM (#516682) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: wildlone welcome Mutton Chops, dave[with a full set] |
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02 Aug 01 - 02:38 PM (#519844) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red Paronamasia - wordplay must be a recessive gene - can't think of any in the "Ingram family" who were lyricists. MC - your Grandma wrote a bit of poetry though and the opera training but no songs as far as I knew. |
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02 Aug 01 - 03:22 PM (#519873) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mark Cohen Actually, gentlemen, the word is spelled paronomasia. But what of it? Grammar and spelling aren't all that important, after all. As Mark Twain said, "I once heard a student in Heidelberg say he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective." Aloha, Mark |
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02 Aug 01 - 05:04 PM (#519948) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red Er....... perhaps I was demonstrating the effect. Or was I just being lazy? Or too clever for my own good? tick on of the above. Mark Cohen - two German drinks eh? Never the Twain? What was his one adjective? |
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08 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM (#523699) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mutton Chops (well-peppered) clues for handle: summer 1815 boatride down the Thames to Lechlade major Romantic poet onboard from a commentary by Thomas Love Peacock about the poet |
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08 Aug 01 - 02:53 PM (#523700) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mr Red hi PAL, we meet in cyberspace again. I still think this is a tough one cousin |
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09 Aug 01 - 06:24 PM (#524692) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mutton Chops (well-peppered) Mr. Red,,,,,,er......um....paaaaallllll Tough it may be, but the story is worth it. Where are the literary cats when ya need 'em? Come on you Romantics!
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04 Sep 01 - 08:12 AM (#541429) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Pencil Sharpening Shanty From: Mutton Chops (well-peppered) Anyone out there? Is this thread still going? Is the pencil sharpening shanty done? Mr. Red.......? somebody? |