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29 May 06 - 11:15 AM (#1749447) Subject: the seed boat's a comin' From: GUEST,alan My wife's gran sang a song in the early 1950's.She thinks the first lines are. "The seed boats are a comin' the sails are in sight The seed boats are a comin' there'l be dancing tonight" We think it refer's to potato seed's being shiped between Western Scotland and Ireland .Column Sands and Magie MacInnes sing a song with the same title and theme writen by Colum, first performed last year (2005) |
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29 May 06 - 11:26 AM (#1749452) Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin' From: John MacKenzie There was a hit song sung by, I think, Jo Stafford called Shrimp Boats are a Coming, which is obviously the seed that your song sprang from. Giok |
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29 May 06 - 11:28 AM (#1749453) Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin' From: John MacKenzie There ya go G.. |
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29 May 06 - 11:34 AM (#1749459) Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin' From: GUEST Thank's that must be it. alan. |
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29 May 06 - 04:34 PM (#1749591) Subject: RE: "Ahoy Cap'n! I seed a boat's a-comin'!" From: Severn Is "Seed Shanties" the past tense? (if not-sow what?) "Thar she grows! Sprouting off the starboard bow!", he wailed.... Or are they bringing much needed seed for reseeding hairlines, seeding territories by treaty,ex-seeding some limit or being de-seedful in planting-rumors of some other manor?... Or is it Dick Greenhaus in his Seedy Boat with affordable pleasures for us all?... Or are they related to the PIT songs the miners sing? Just what ARE we pitted against here? We're more to be pitted than scolded, I guess.... "You haul sixteen stones, and whaddya get?....." (I know that if you cut a pitman in two, you get a miner-in-fraction) Maybe the song's descended from the old Brittish Nautical Ballad "Prawn Packets Are 'Proachin"", but the Digital Tradition has no sign of it, for some reason. Try the Digital Ex-tradition, which's their rubbish bin/"has bin". I'm so confused...... |
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29 May 06 - 04:48 PM (#1749595) Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin' From: Amos "Shrimp Boats Are a Coming" is a hit song from the 50's but I was sure it was also a piece from a musical such as "Showboat" or some similar Broadway hit or singing movie from that era. Am I crossing things up again? A |
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29 May 06 - 05:10 PM (#1749605) Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin' From: Big Al Whittle perhaps its a Jewish or Rastafarian variant - they have this thing about shellfish, or so I'm told. |