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22 Mar 99 - 06:47 AM (#64921) Subject: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: The Shambles Can you help me please with this song, that I heard played on St Patrick's Night. I think the title is The While, Drover. I managed to write down the beginning of it, maybe you could help me with rest. I did try the title in the DT but it was not there?
Ivor Bean, a while, drover,
Andy Now, armoury, turning,
Hand, tits, know, neigh, neither, This poses a number of interesting questions: Where is this 'spooky' sounding Gnome Moor to be found and who is this, 'Risky' Anne Bier and why should we honour her? I'm not too sure if the word, play is correct, in the last line, I could have misheard that. It was getting late. |
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22 Mar 99 - 06:56 AM (#64925) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: AlistairUK I once knew a risky Anne but it was without the e and I rather enjoyed the risk (if you want to know what the risk was..never will this secret pass my lips...but it was fun). Gnome Moor is part of Over Fell in Cumbria, a weirder and more desolate spot you will never find in the North west of England. Andy Now had a famous chip shop in Bridlington, and was famous for his generous 'scrumps'. Manny Goodyear is still a gentleman's outfitters (Bespoke) in Whitechapel. There I hope that cleared that up. |
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22 Mar 99 - 06:58 AM (#64926) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Banjer Could this possibly No Nay Never, aka Wild Rover as found in the DT? I would allow after a few drafts, especially on St. Paddy's Day it could sound like that....The later into the evening it gets the more the possibility! What did St. Patrick say to drive the snakes out of Ireland? He said, "Snake, the other white meat, tastes like chicken" |
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22 Mar 99 - 09:21 AM (#64988) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: DonMeixner Banjer, See if "Wild Shepards washed their socks by night" is there too. Don |
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22 Mar 99 - 10:30 AM (#65012) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Roger the zimmer Not to mention "Gladly (the cross-eyed bear)"[ Nurse, the screens!!] Sorry, but why should Steve Parkes get all the English midlands bad jokes?! |
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22 Mar 99 - 05:46 PM (#65111) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: The Shambles Is someone going to attempt the other verses for me? Alistair I liked Over Fell. We do however have a Came Down, here in Dorset. Have you come across Ronnie Biggs over there in Brazil? |
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22 Mar 99 - 05:49 PM (#65113) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: AlistairUK Ronnie is alive and well and showing tourists around Copacabana as far as I know. |
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22 Mar 99 - 06:47 PM (#65127) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Alice Shambles, you are hilarious. What were you drinking, uh, I mean thinking that night?
Ok, here goes
Eye wind to a Yale house
oh, don't get me started... I have work to do, and this is as addictive as that one about the orange, flea, and bicycle seat. alice in montana
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22 Mar 99 - 07:56 PM (#65136) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: The copy of "The Wild Rover" in John Ashton's 'Modren Street Ballads' is a bit different than that in DT. |
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22 Mar 99 - 08:31 PM (#65140) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: A Celtic Harper Actually, St. Patrick used a broom to rid Ireland of all them serpents - that's where they got the Irish Sweepsnakes..... |
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22 Mar 99 - 10:05 PM (#65156) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Barbara I fulcrum I bucket tensor burns bride End a dandlings size append white Whidbey blight Chase a dive with key unwinds undervest Ander wards at icepick sherbert tony ingest |
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22 Mar 99 - 11:00 PM (#65170) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: He chassd them pesky sarpents ova hea. |
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23 Mar 99 - 02:13 AM (#65209) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: alison Hi, Loving this so far.. came in here thinking I'd find an obscure aussie song........ very pleasantly surprised to find that you are all as deranged as usual **grin** slainte alison |
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23 Mar 99 - 03:13 AM (#65216) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Helen Hey Alice,
Did you mention a flea, an orange and a bicycle seat? Wanna get me started again with another literary and humourous challenge???
Helen |
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23 Mar 99 - 07:00 AM (#65251) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Banjer Deranged as usuall, GUILTY as Charged.....I resemble that remark! |
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23 Mar 99 - 08:45 AM (#65262) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Vixen Deary Me-- You're all writing in ANGUISH. I have a collection of short stories and songs with titles such as "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut," "Guilty-Looks Under Tree Bares," and "Hormone Derange" I have a similar collection in FRANGLISH, called "Mots l'heure gousses rames" Ice hood Ave. noon eyed fined kin dread soles hear. V |
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23 Mar 99 - 01:22 PM (#65360) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: steve in ottawa Then out of my pocket I took soverigns bright And spun them and waved them to gleam in the light The landlady frowned, snarled, now if I'm right This is Canada, not England, keep your soverigns, Good night!
...my parents...
That's my take on a song that gets too holy. Thanks so much to the Shambles. I haven't grinned like that in quite a while.
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25 Mar 99 - 10:52 AM (#65849) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Wolfgang Vixen, give us one or more of the Franglais (though I'm not sure, whether my Franglais will suffice for understanding). here's the start of a German translation of the While, Drover: Alf Biene, weil Troja formen hieáe Ghia.. It shows beautifully how all those names tend to get lost or culturally adapted in a translation which is what makes research on folksongs so difficult. Wolfgang |
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25 Mar 99 - 09:46 PM (#66000) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Brakn Anyone been asked for The valley of Apple Pie? |
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22 Dec 99 - 03:12 PM (#153001) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: The Shambles I found this on my travels and it made me smile. |
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23 Dec 99 - 12:09 PM (#153406) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Shimbo Darktree Anyone care to try the hymn about the Russian Greek? Rokov Aegis (clever me). Shimbo |
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23 Dec 99 - 03:24 PM (#153479) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Lonesome EJ Ass eye-wash,glowing clover The forkin' carry mountains Eye met twit Cap n'ferret Andy's monkeys he was mounting I farced produce and rape yer I then seduced my fist-hole Sane Stan and his liver Four-eyed hamster, baldy Seever with a ring-comma-do comma-da... excerpt from Witch Key in the Shower |
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23 Dec 99 - 09:08 PM (#153625) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Kahlan_Amnell The song is actually called "The Wild Rover"... As I heard it was... "Well, I've been a wild rover for many a year, And I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer. But now I'm returning with gold in great store, and I never will play the wild rover no more..." There are more lyrics.... bluejeanjane@hotmail.com |
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23 Dec 99 - 09:18 PM (#153635) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: alison Kahlan...... they are deliberately making a parody of it... the original and various versions are here in the database. Welcome to mudcat... home to some very friendly people, many with a twisted sense of humour *grin* slainte alison |
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24 Dec 99 - 02:19 AM (#153746) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: Shimbo Darktree Alison, you have shattered me. I thought this was serious. Back to my guitar for a verse of Wal's in Matt Hilder. Seasoned gratings from the land of the roos. |
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17 Jul 05 - 10:59 AM (#1522941) Subject: RE: Help with song - The While, Drover ? From: The Fooles Troupe refresh |