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09 Jul 02 - 11:52 PM (#745562) Subject: Would YOU Die Singing? From: GUEST Singer Honored
The United States Medal of Honor was bestowed on Army Captain Rocky Versace 37 years after he was executed by the Viet Cong. The last time they (fellow prisoners of the Viet Cong) heard his voice, he was singing, "God Bless America" at the top of his voice. |
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10 Jul 02 - 01:48 AM (#745595) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST,Al I think Tiny Tim died while singing Tiptoe through the Tulips. But I don't think he was making quite the statement that Captain Versace was. He deserves the medal. Al |
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10 Jul 02 - 04:58 AM (#745642) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST,Brian I've had a few death threats while singing. Is that what you mean. :-) Brian |
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10 Jul 02 - 06:14 AM (#745668) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: greg stephens Anybody know the words of "There'll always be an England". Or the tune? I think I need some practise. |
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10 Jul 02 - 06:18 AM (#745671) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: greg stephens My God, I'm not even English, what was I thinking of? And I already know "And shall Trelawney die?".Come on, Charlie, I'm ready for you. |
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10 Jul 02 - 06:20 AM (#745673) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Shouldn't that be "And shall Trollawney die"? |
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10 Jul 02 - 06:29 AM (#745682) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Gervase Reminds me of the closing moments of the superb film Breaker Morant. I haven't seen if for years, but I remember, as Morant (played by Edward Woodward) was being shot, 'Soldiers of the Queen' was sung by Woodward - I don't know whether it was an overdub or sung by Morant himself but it was a wonderful piece of cinema. |
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10 Jul 02 - 06:42 AM (#745692) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: ozmacca Singing, no - probably. Shouting and screaming and resisting mightily, yes - probably. And at risk of stating the obvious, if they say that you can't take it with you with when you go - then I'm staying. |
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10 Jul 02 - 07:26 AM (#745708) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Catherine Jayne I will probably be smiling.....ready to come back and annoy evryone who is still living!!!LOL!!! cat |
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10 Jul 02 - 09:08 AM (#745747) Subject: Lyr Add: OH DEATH From: annamill Yea! Oh death, Oh death, please spare me over for another year The children prayed, the preacher preached The time of mercy is out of reach Death I come to take the soul Leave the body and leave it cold Take the skin right off of the frame Earth and worms have their claim Oh death, oh death, please spare me over for another year Mother, mother come to my bed Place a cold towel upon my head head's so hot, my feet's so cold Death's moving in upon my soul Oh death, Oh death, please spare me over for another year. My wealth is all at your command If you'll remove your icy hand No wealth, no money, no silver or gold Nothing satisfies me but your soul Oh death, Oh death, please spare me over for another year. |
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10 Jul 02 - 11:20 AM (#745830) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Little Hawk Well, I might...if there's a big tidal wave coming my way, and I know there's no escape, then I might sing one of my favourite songs in order to go out in the most dignified and appropriate fashion possible. American Indians often sang their "death song" in their final moments as a way of going out gloriously, and making peace with their spiritual sources at the same time. - LH |
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10 Jul 02 - 11:27 AM (#745839) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: C-flat A wonderful British comedian, Tommy Cooper, died(literally) on stage during a live television broadcast. Famous for clowning-around, the audience(myself included) thought it was part of the act and were still laughing went the curtain was quickly brought down. I think Tommy would have liked that. |
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10 Jul 02 - 11:30 AM (#745844) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: MMario if I'm lucky. only one better way I can think of going...and that's not fair to your partner. |
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10 Jul 02 - 11:35 AM (#745845) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar When I saw the expression "American Indians" in one of the above posts, I thought: Uh-oh, hand out the asbestos suits. But maybe Black Hawk might just get away with it. |
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10 Jul 02 - 01:48 PM (#745932) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Ebbie If I can't sing on my way out, I want others to sing for me. Last week that's what we did for my sister- and she passed on ahead (made up my own euphemism!) gently and sweetly. (No condolences needed. We are glad for her sake that she was able to go.) |
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10 Jul 02 - 01:59 PM (#745940) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Don Firth I used to die when I first started out, but I got better. Actually, to literally die while you're singing wouldn't be a bad way to go. Kind of a downer for the audience, though. Don Firth |
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10 Jul 02 - 02:02 PM (#745944) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: greg stephens Make sure you have a laptop with you at all times, and use it to contact Masato who will find you a suitable song in no time. |
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10 Jul 02 - 02:16 PM (#745949) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Emma B I thought it was only swans who went out that way Anyone know the origin of that belief? there must be a good folk tale in there. |
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10 Jul 02 - 03:04 PM (#745971) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Hawker Don Firth, I had the same thoughts myself - I did once or twice as a beginner!!! If I had to die singing, I'd like to be able to finsh the song and make my exit on the repeated last chorus of something very rousing, joined in singing by all company present! at least then I'd think I was in heaven for a little while!!!! Cheers Lucy |
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10 Jul 02 - 03:24 PM (#745982) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: wysiwyg I think it's silly to think we can control or plan our deaths, so I dunno if I will die singing, but I have always thought that if I got some bedridden disease I would sing, lying down, till my head came off. Of course AFTER I die I will be singing for quite some time. ~Susan |
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10 Jul 02 - 03:39 PM (#745992) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Ebbie "Then to my 'raptured ear Let one sweet song be giv'n Let music charm me last on earth And greet me first in heav'n" From Sing to Me of Heaven Nice thought, eh? |
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10 Jul 02 - 03:47 PM (#745999) Subject: Lyr Add: SING TO ME OF HEAV'N From: Burke Ebbie beat me, but here's the whole thing.
Oh, sing to me of heav'n, Lyrics: Mary Stanley Bruce Dana, 1840 Sacred Harp p. 312t by John Massengale Another version by Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice a includes chorus but I'm not sure of the words.
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10 Jul 02 - 04:19 PM (#746011) Subject: Lyr Add: THE DIRGE (Rev R. S. Hawker ) From: Hawker Then there is THE DIRGE By Rev R.S. Hawker of Morwenstow, Cornwall...... Sing from the cradle to the grave Thus did the dead man say A sound of melody I crave Upon my burial day Bring forth some tuneful instrument And let your voices rise My spirit listened as it went To music of the skies Sing sweetly as you travel on And keep the funeral slow The angels sing where I am gone And you should sing below Sing from the threshold to the proch Until you hear the bell And sing you loudly in the church The psalms I love so well Then bear me gently to the grave And as you pass along Remember, 'twas my wish to have A pleasant funeral song So earth to earth and dust to dust And though my flesh decay My soul shall sing amongst the just Until the judement day. Hawker wrote of this poem..... 'The first line of these verses haunted my memory and the lips of a good and blameless young farmer who died in my parish some years ago. It was as I conceived, a fragment of some forgotten dirge of which he could remember no more. But it was his strong desire that the words should be put upon his headstone and he wished me also to write some other words to make it complete. I fulfilled this entreaty and the stranger who visits the churchyard will find this dirge carven in stone in sweet remembrance of the just and to the praise of the dead Richard Cann.' I have heard it sung to a beautiful tune by Tony & Miranda Truscott of Cornwall. Cheers, Lucy |
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10 Jul 02 - 04:29 PM (#746018) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Ebbie Burke, the chorus Ginny Hawker uses is:
There'll be no sorrow there |
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10 Jul 02 - 05:00 PM (#746028) Subject: Lyr ADD: Oh, Sing to me of Heaven From: Burke Ebbie, thanks. I remembered ln. 1,2,4 but could not come up with 3 in a hurry. I've heard this same version during a break at a Sacred Harp singing. It was sung by 4 women all related to each other & from Sand Mountain in Alabama, in 4 part harmony. I left out a line break in my credits above. This is for the harvester:
Lyrics: Mary Stanley Bruce Dana, 1840 Oh, Sing to me of Heaven II
Oh, sing to me of heav'n, etc.
Recorded by Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice on "Come All You Tenderhearted"
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10 Jul 02 - 05:44 PM (#746056) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Hollowfox {slight thread creep} When some idiot almost sideswiped my van full of teenagers on the way to the Old Songs festival, my brain screamed, "I do not want to die with Wierd Al Yankovic as the last thing I hear!" I like his stuff, but.... |
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10 Jul 02 - 07:46 PM (#746130) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Jerry Rasmussen My Father wasn't much of a singer, but he loved to tell jokes and stories. After he hit his 90's, he started having small strokes which would pass in a minute or so. When he was almost 94, he was in the apartment in the residence where he and my Mother lived and woke up early in the morning having a lot of problems. My Mother called the ambulance and a couple of the nurses who were on duty in the health care center in the next building came to sit with my Father and Mother. My Father was sitting in his favorite chair, regaling the nurses with jokes, while everyone waited for the ambulance. And then the Big One hit him, he pitched forward out of his chair onto the floor and was dead. He is the only person I ever heard of who actually may have died laughing. Knowing him, he would have gotten a big kick out of going, right in the middle of a hardy laugh. My Mom's going strong and just had three birthday parties for her 95th birthday. :-) Jerry |
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10 Jul 02 - 10:41 PM (#746211) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Little Hawk To die laughing...now that is a GRAND way to go! Styrbjorn was reputed to have died laughing...a spear took him in the throat as he threw back his head in laughter at the sight of the opposing forces during a battle between 2 Viking armies. He was the greatest warrior of his time, feared by all, and his death came very suddenly and unexpectedly. It was truly the end of an era when he died. American Indians = Native Americans = Amerindians = whatever-the-hell-else you want to call the original people of the Americas. Everybody, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, called them "Indians" back in the 60's. Darned right I can get away with it. These names change just like clothing styles and almost as often, and it doesn't mean a darned thing which one somebody chooses to use. The meaning is obvious. "Native American" is like "Afro-American". It will have its brief day of political correctness and then be replaced by some other term that supposedly offends no one. - LH |
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10 Jul 02 - 11:02 PM (#746219) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Ferrara It's a fine image. I'm sure I'll give it a try. After my heart transplant, I was supposed to blow into this smelly blue tube to get my lungs working again. I said, "Hell with that," and sang. And sang. In a teensy tiny voice at first, but I sang things that took lots of breath. (My favorite was "Deck the Halls." It really moves along.) When the lady came back 2 days later and said, "Have you been working on your breath exercises?" I said yes and she made me blow into the tube to see if I had improved. She said, "Well, you don't have to do that anymore, your breathing is pretty strong now." So I guess if I could sing for hours while I was freshly stitched and stapled up, I'll sing as long as I can.... Rita |
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11 Jul 02 - 12:56 AM (#746262) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: X HA Little Hawk, I agree with you on the "What do we call them American Indians debate." I'm an American, Native American etc...but not an Indian. That name belongs to another people. And I do have my Death Song. |
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11 Jul 02 - 02:44 AM (#746295) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Benjamin Me personally? No. I plan to live forever!! or die trying! (dang Blakes 7 thread!) |
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11 Jul 02 - 08:25 AM (#746400) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Okay man I like gfigger t die eevenshually bu t frist I gotta marry Shania Twain eh? Anyways, the way I figger to die is this... I am gonna die singin all 99 verses of 99 Bottles of Beer on theWall eh? I will croak just after chuggin the 99th beer! Descent eh? Make it Molson Canadian eh. BDiBR |
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11 Jul 02 - 08:51 AM (#746422) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: HuwG Little Mo, in the front of a book of Irish tunes I have, is a quote:
Swans sing before they die Book not immediately to hand, so I can't for the life of me remember who wrote it. Blake? Coleridge ?
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11 Jul 02 - 09:36 AM (#746446) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: fogie When death has closed our eyelids , and or race on earth is run, Will you miss me when I'm gone. |
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11 Jul 02 - 11:20 AM (#746527) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Jimmy C My father loved to joke and sing, never being really serious about anything. When he died he just looked at the family, gave the thumbs up, smiled and closed his eyes. I have heard hares dying, sounds like a baby wailing. |
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11 Jul 02 - 11:32 AM (#746544) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Jerry Rasmussen Jimmy C: There's a scene in the movie, The Defiant Ones, when Tony Curtis is talking with Sidney Portier. They hear a cry at night out in the woods, and Curtis asks what it is. Portier says that it's a rabbit dying, and that's the only time in their life when they make a noise. Curtis makes some comment about that being a Hell of a way to live. Abviously, us Catter's would never live that way.. :-) Jerry |
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11 Jul 02 - 12:11 PM (#746573) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: BanjoRay After listening to Tom, Brad and Alice's latest CD (Tom Sauber, Brad Leftwich, Alice Gerrard) I'm going to die in the pig-pen fighting. Cheers |
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11 Jul 02 - 09:49 PM (#746893) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: mack/misophist Yes. There is a very good chance I'll die singing. Since I love to sing, and given the "earthy" quality of my voice. I do expect to die singing. Probably a drive by shooting or a bludgoning. |
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11 Jul 02 - 10:30 PM (#746907) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Capt. Rocky Versace recieved the first Medal of Honor given to an Army POW for actions taken during captivity in Southeast Asia.
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11 Jul 02 - 10:32 PM (#746908) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST,CBJames Yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes ! Because I just got on my Travelin' Shoes. (Not really - I am about as agnostic as they come but if there actually are Pearly Gates, I would check out the choir - they can't spend their whole time singing from the Anglican Hymnal)
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12 Jul 02 - 12:05 AM (#746941) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Little Hawk Yes, well, life after death is not contingent on Pearly Gates...but an afterlife would certainly not be complete without music and song. Lots of songs, I figure... - LH |
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12 Jul 02 - 01:32 AM (#746965) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: GUEST Could Capt. Rocky Versace become the Horst Wessel of the Patriot Act Movement? Joe Offer would appear to agree from a another thread. |
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15 Jul 02 - 06:24 AM (#748187) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Hrothgar That wonderful singer, Alan Forshaw, died from a heart attack while playing the piano at an old people's home at Tenterfield in northern New South Wales. Can't think of a better way to go. |
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15 Jul 02 - 09:35 AM (#748258) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Little Hawk Horst Wessel! LOL! What an inspired parallel. These things are always so subjective, aren't they? - LH |
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15 Jul 02 - 10:28 AM (#748286) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: cyder_drinker I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather - not screaming in terror like the passengers on the bus he was drivin' at the time.... |
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15 Jul 02 - 05:32 PM (#748501) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Burke I do know of someone who collapsed at a contra dance & died a few days later. It had to be bad for the other dancers, but I think that's how she wanted it. |
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16 Jul 02 - 06:29 AM (#748765) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Dave Bryant I'll probably die because someone smothers me to STOP me singing ! |
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16 Jul 02 - 07:28 PM (#749314) Subject: RE: Will YOU die Singing? From: Gareth David of the White Rock did !
"David the bard for his harp softly cried
Last night an angel called softly to me Though personally I suspect that my awful singing might precipitate my death Gareth
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