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happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)

24 Oct 05 - 08:43 AM (#1589591)
Subject: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: GUEST

On this day, October 24 in 1901, Anna Taylor (1858-1921) became the first person to ride a barrel over Niagara Falls & nevertheless live. She did not acquire fame or fortune by it, though.

Today, she is a well-noted renditioner of Scottish folksong. She currently lives in Haddington, Scotland with husband President Taylor, another well-noted folk-bearer and ABC programmer & Bronson Project coordinator.

Well done Sid!


          cho: Roll out the barrel
               We'll have a barrel of fun
               Roll out the barrel
               We've got the blues on the run.
               Zing! Boom! Tar-rar-rel
               Ring out a song of good cheer!
               Now's the time to roll the barrel
               For the gang's all here.
  
                  DigTrad filename[ BEERBRRL 
  
  OR:
          My first trip dawn old Lake Erie,
          With some sailors to explore;
                  A-singing, way, Niagara,
                  Below Niagara Falls.
          Then I met Rosy O'Flannagan,
          Best of all the Buffalo whores.
                  A-singing, way, Niagara,
                  Below Niagara Falls.
  
                  Text recorded by Ivan Walton 1934.  See Windjammers: Songs 
                  of the Great Lakes Sailors.  New tune & chorus by Lee Murdock.

24 Oct 05 - 07:25 PM (#1590067)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: Desert Dancer

Is there a missing paragraph??

24 Oct 05 - 10:07 PM (#1590185)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: GUEST

Mmmmmmm.
No. That's all.

24 Oct 05 - 11:34 PM (#1590242)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: GUEST,Desert Dance on Dan's machine

"Anna Taylor (1858-1921) .... Today, she is a well-noted renditioner of Scottish folksong. She currently lives in Haddington .... Well done Sid!"

If no missing paragraph, certainly a mysterious temporal (and nomenclatural) discontinuity in the narrative... or is it really just me being thick?

25 Oct 05 - 10:12 AM (#1590470)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: Abby Sale

Well, I may be being odd, don't blame yourself. I can assure you that Ann Taylor (aka 'Sid') lives in Haddington, near Edinburgh and has show dogs and sings excellently (well, to be strictly accurate - always a goal of the Happy File - I haven't actually heard her sing in 30 years but she was excellent then and still sings - I firmly believe still excellently). I got an e-mail from her just today so I know she's in good humo(u)r. President Taylor is also alive and well and sings excellently, too. And plays guitar & other stuff. He stopped by Florida for a visit 15 or 20 years ago.

25 Oct 05 - 11:09 AM (#1590502)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: Splott Man

I'm confused too.

If she died in 1921, how is she still alive?

I wouldn't have posted, but I do a song about barrels and Niagara.

26 Oct 05 - 02:37 PM (#1591007)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: GUEST

(headslap!) Oh! He's being clever! Connecting two unrelated Anna Taylors... (it's like the Sherlock Holmes episode on PBS the other night -- if the suspect was in two places at once, maybe there are two of them...)

~ B in T
getting back to it finally

26 Oct 05 - 05:47 PM (#1591186)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: Abby Sale

:-)

27 Oct 05 - 05:35 AM (#1591600)
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 24 (over Niagara Falls)
From: Wolfgang

And then of course there is that recent Irish song of resistance: Over the fall, over the fall, it's hard to believe they went over the fall

Folfgang