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shanty cabin

18 Nov 01 - 12:45 PM (#595136)
Subject: chanty cabin
From: GUEST,Paul & Linda Sirman


18 Nov 01 - 12:50 PM (#595138)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Sorcha

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18 Nov 01 - 12:59 PM (#595142)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: John Routledge

Is this subliminal advertising gone wrong?


18 Nov 01 - 01:05 PM (#595146)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: SINSULL

It's only a shanty in Old Shanty Town
The Roof is slanty, it touches the ground
Just a tumbled down shack
By an old railroad track...


18 Nov 01 - 04:02 PM (#595227)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Mudlark

Nifty song...also pretty apt description of MY shack, except sans RR.....


18 Nov 01 - 06:33 PM (#595286)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Snuffy

www.chanteycabin.co.uk


18 Nov 01 - 11:26 PM (#595421)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: GUEST,Joe_F

There's a shanty in the town
On a little plot of ground
Where the green grass grows all around, all around.
The roof's so worn,
So badly torn,
That it tumbles to the ground.
It's a little old shack
That's set right back
Twenty-five feet from the railroad track,
Linger in my mind
Most all of the time,
Keeps calling me back
To my little old shack.

Feeling just as sassy
As Haile Selassie --
If I was a king,
'Twouldn't mean a thing --
Put my boots on tall,
Read the writing on the wall,
And it wouldn't mean a thing, not a goddamn thing.
There's a queen waiting there
In a rocking chair,
Blowing her top on some gator beer.
Looking all around
And a-trucking on down,
How I want to get back to my shantytown!

Where does that come from, anyway? I've sung it for 50 years, and I've never known.


19 Nov 01 - 03:51 AM (#595467)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Peter Kasin

Welcome to the Mudcat, Paul and Linda! Why don't you sign up as members? It's easy, it's free. Obviously you've run into a technical problem on using this site, but if you type a message in the blank box at the bottom of this thread and then click on "submit," it should go through.


19 Nov 01 - 03:59 AM (#595470)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Mudlark

Guest Joe...I've heard that as a sort of fast riff added on to Shanty in Old Shanty Town. The words are a take-off of the original song, and were sung by what sounded like the members of the band, very up-tempo.... circa late 40's, I think.


19 Nov 01 - 10:14 AM (#595575)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: Liam's Brother

The couple that run The Chantey Cabin are very friendly people and they stock a good range of maritime recordings. Furthermore, their prices are quite reasonable.


19 Nov 01 - 05:23 PM (#595819)
Subject: RE: shanty cabin
From: GUEST,whiskey

Hi Chanteyranger...glad to see you're back in circulation after The Captain Cook festival on Teeside. What's the weather like Stateside? Will you ever forget the journeys around Teeside with Keepers Lock?