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From: buesinnj@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Neil Buesing)
Subject: Lyrics to Book of Days?
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:18:14 GMT

I am new to this newsgroup, and I hope this hasn't been requested before.

I was curious if anyone could post the English Lyrics to "Book of Days"
to this newgroup or send it to me directly.  I have The Engish version
of "Shepard Moons," but the [partial] lyrics inside the CD cover are not.  

I am having difficulty figuring them all out just by listening to them.

Thanks in advance,

Neil

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From: acw4@quads.uchicago.edu ("The Wan-ster")
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Enya's Nationality
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:53:17 GMT
Reply-To: acw4@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


  We were listening to Enya's Sherpherd Moons on CD a while
back and I asked the question, "Where is Enya from?"
and "What is her real name?"  There were several answers..
from "South Africa" to "IReland" (my guess since there seems to be
Gaelic lyrics on the Watermark album.

Does anyone have an FAQ on Enya's background that they can send me?
If not, please email the information you have on her.
Thanks.

Anne. (acw4@quads.uchicago.edu
 
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Newsgroups: alt.music.enya,alt.cascade,alt.religion.kibology
From: msu@rieska.oulu.fi (Mikko Ariel Suomela)
Subject: Re: Explanation Needed
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
	<1992Oct9.022029.1343@genghis.borland.com>
	<1992Oct10.034658.16085@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:07:20 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.034658.16085@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:

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> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 03:46:58 GMT
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> In article <1992Oct9.022029.1343@genghis.borland.com> phw@genghis.borland.com (Peter Weyzen) writes:
> >In article <1992Oct8.154051.18709@tamsun.tamu.edu> eckert@geordi.tamu.edu (Stephen Eckert) writes:
> >>As a recent subscriber to this newsgroup, I
> >>am confused by the rhyming thread.
> >>
> >>Could someone please tell me the point of the
> >>messages which read like:
> >>
> >>> Enya was on ABC.
> >>>> Enya was cholestorol free.
> >>> Enya made a plea.
> >Because it was meant to be
> What?  Can't you see?
 YES! I have very nice car too, but what is alt.cascade?

--
Mikko Suomela  <msu@rieska.oulu.fi>
University of Oulu, FINLAND
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
From: buesinnj@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Neil Buesing)
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:48:32 GMT

In article <JayPsB1w163w@spec> spec!spec (Tom Freeman) writes:
>
>Here's another thing about the song:  I heard a LONGER version on the radio.
>My version on the CD runs 2:32.  Does anyone out there have a longer version?
>Is the single version longer?  Is the version that appears on the Far and Away
>movie soundtrack a longer or different version that the one that appears on the
>Shepherd Moons CD?
>
>If anyone can find these alternate versions, PLEASE let us know where they
>appear and how to get them!   Thanks!
>

 My version of "Book of Days" on the "Shepard Moons" CD is identical to
my verion on the "Far and Away" CD.  Both, I believe, run for 2:48; they
definately run longer than 2:32.

 I will get my CD out and see what information is on it that may make it 
unique from the other "Shepard Moons" out there.  (I ordered mine from
Columbia House Records)

Also, is there Any other songs that are different between the versions of
Shepard Moons besides Book of Days??  

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 UMM P.O. 597              |   have ever done before.  A far better resting
 Morris, MN 56267          |   place I go to than I have ever known."
 (612) 589-1963            |  "Is that a poem?"
                           |  "No, Something Spock was trying to tell me,
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From: oub@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Dances With Wolves)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:24:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona

In article <92279.180201MDJ102@psuvm.psu.edu> MDJ102@psuvm.psu.edu (Mike Jung) writes:
>What's so different between the _Shepherd Moons_ and the _Far and Away_
>version of "Book of Days?" I have not heard the latter version.

The FAR AND AWAY version is a lot better!  :-)

Seriously, it has English lyrics (at least on the little parts I can pick
up), and the last parts sings: "Far and Away...Far and Away...".


Brandon
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University of Arizona         Tucson, Arizona
Internet:  bsou@caslon.cs.arizona.edu 
           oub@gas.uug.arizona.edu  
" It's up to YOU... "  - Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, "JFK"
From: oub@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Dances With Wolves)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Re: 1492 - Discovery of Paradise
Keywords: Colombus, Vangelis, Soundtrack
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:48:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona

In article <1992Oct13.101606.3413@ugle.unit.no> borud@solan.unit.no (Bj|rn Borud) writes:
>OK, this may not be the right place to post this question, but since I couldn't
>find a more relevant newsgroup I'll just post it here.
>
>I guess some of you have seen "1492 - Discovery of Paradise" (or something
>like that) and have noticed that the soundtrack of this movie was written
>by Vangelis. Has this soundtrack been released on CD yet ? It's 
>probably the best soundtrack I've heard this year !!
>

There's a soundtrack mailing list called soundtracks@....something,
over at Finland or Netherlands or somewhere around there.
It is a group devoted to talking about soundtracks.  I don't have
the address right now, but I can post it when the next message comes in.


Brandon  
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Brandon S. Ou  ~{E7Ji:j~}     Computer Science    
University of Arizona         Tucson, Arizona
Internet:  bsou@caslon.cs.arizona.edu 
           oub@gas.uug.arizona.edu  
" It's up to YOU... "  - Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, "JFK"
From: mock@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Kenrick Mock)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:01:04 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

>The _Far and Away_ version has the actual line "Far and Away", while the
>other says something else which I can't remember.

Moreover, the original version is in Gaelic while the movie version is
in English.  The lyrics are different, too (i.e., not a direct
translation).

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From: msu@zombie.oulu.fi (Mikko A. Suomela)
Subject: Re: Explanation Needed
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:43:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.154051.18709@tamsun.tamu.edu> eckert@geordi.tamu.edu
(Stephen Eckert) writes:

> Could someone please tell me the point of the
> messages which read like:

> > Enya was on ABC.
> >> Enya was cholestorol free.
> > Enya made a plea.

Stupid people nothing else to do. :(
Are we still talking about enya or what???
I don't like to press D all the time reading
News with Gnus. :(

--
Mikko.Suomela@phoenix.oulu.fi
University of Oulu, FINLAND
From: eckert@geordi.tamu.edu (Stephen Eckert)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Explanation Needed
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:40:51 GMT
Reply-To: eckert@geordi.tamu.edu (Stephen Eckert)
Organization: Department of Statistics, TAMU

As a recent subscriber to this newsgroup, I
am confused by the rhyming thread.

Could someone please tell me the point of the
messages which read like:

> Enya was on ABC.
>> Enya was cholestorol free.
> Enya made a plea.

An explanation would be
greatly appreciated,

Stephen Eckert
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya,alt.cascade
From: harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harry Platypus)
Subject: Re: Explanation Needed
Organization: Big Bulging Buffalo Bladders -R- Us
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 06:05:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.022029.1343@genghis.borland.com> phw@genghis.borland.com (Peter Weyzen) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.154051.18709@tamsun.tamu.edu> eckert@geordi.tamu.edu (Stephen Eckert) writes:
>>As a recent subscriber to this newsgroup, I
>>am confused by the rhyming thread.
>>
>>Could someone please tell me the point of the
>>messages which read like:
>>
>>> Enya was on ABC.
>>>> Enya was cholestorol free.
>>> Enya made a plea.
>Because it was meant to be
And Enya sucks weenies that are sugar free
From: ccsdra@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Dave Allum)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: New Release (Japan): BOOK OF DAYS 6 Track CD5
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:45:43 GMT
Organization: BUCS, University of Bath, U.K.

Thanks to Joel Robertson (robertson@ewir-wr.wr.aflc.af.mil) for the following
information:

Japan	BOOK OF DAYS

	Book Of Days (English Lyric Version) / As Baile / Angeles /
	Oriel Window / 'S Fagain Mo Bhaile / Caribbean Blue

	CD5 WEA WMC5-519

ANGELES and CARIBBEAN BLUE are from the SHEPHERD MOONS album; BOOK OF DAYS
has appeared as a single and is reported to feature on recent US pressings of 
SHEPHERD MOONS in place of the Irish lyric original; AS BAILE, ORIEL WINDOW
and 'S FAGAIN MO BHAILE have been previously released on various singles.
From: waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Loreena McKennitt - "The Visit"
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:29:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hi!  I just bought my first Loreena McKennitt tape recently, after seeing
her so highly recommended here.  It's "The Visit", apparently her second
album.  She says (on the album cover) that the title refers to the 
visit of the creative urge, as well as the Celtic idea that our life is
simply a visit in this world.  

I enjoy the music and her haunting voice, though I was surprised that
both were quite different from Enya's, after what I had read here.  To
shamelessly use somebody else's words, Enya's music is often like "a wall
of sound";  her songs are diverse, but often have an undercurrent of energy,
and give the impression of soaring, or running free, or just drifting.
The exceptions to this are usually my least favourite songs.  On the other 
hand, Loreena's music and songs on this tape are simpler, but more wistful 
and haunting.  Both, however, seem to have what I like to think of as
that Irish/Celtic "feel": the beauty and joy of life tinged with sorrow 
and nostalgia.  One of my favourite songs on "The Visit" is Loreena's
rendition of "Greensleeves" which is one of my favourite tunes.  The lyrics
are apparently due to Henry VIII, but it is the first time I have seen
them.

Regards,
             Wayne.

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Wayne J. Broughton                 Take the road less travelled by.  
waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu    
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA  91125

Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;  
they think I'm working right now...
Organization: Junior, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 1992 08:33:34 -0400 
From: Ann Laurel Kopchik <amergina+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
	<1992Oct9.022451.288@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>

uh oh... here we go :-)

On 09-Oct-92 in Re: "Book of Days"           
user Dances With Wolves@heliu writes:
>In article <92279.180201MDJ102@psuvm.psu.edu> MDJ102@psuvm.psu.edu
(Mike Jung) 
>writes:
>>What's so different between the _Shepherd Moons_ and the _Far and Away_
>>version of "Book of Days?" I have not heard the latter version.
> 
>The FAR AND AWAY version is a lot better!  :-)
> 
>Seriously, it has English lyrics (at least on the little parts I can pick
>up), and the last parts sings: "Far and Away...Far and Away...".
> 
> 
>Brandon

Bleah... sorry, but I like the Album version better.  It just seems to
flow much better as o song.  I mean, the music was origianlly written
for the Irish (gaelic) lyrics.  Maybe it's because I grew up listing to
music in other languages, but I don't care if it isn't in English.  The
music and the tone of the voice give the song meaning to me.

-Ann
From: spec!spec (Tom Freeman)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:59:55 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: spectrum bbs


> I, too, just recently purchased Shepherd Moons, and it does indeed have the
> English version on there.  I was wondering why the lyric sheet had all those
> Irish words...
> Now I have to go find the original...  :^(

I can hardly hear the lyrics in my version of "Book of Days" from my Shepherd
Moons CD.  The music is very loud and the backing vocals are mixed in softly,
but it sort of sounds like English.  The lyrics in the book though are not.

Here's another thing about the song:  I heard a LONGER version on the radio.
My version on the CD runs 2:32.  Does anyone out there have a longer version?
Is the single version longer?  Is the version that appears on the Far and Away
movie soundtrack a longer or different version that the one that appears on the
Shepherd Moons CD?

If anyone can find these alternate versions, PLEASE let us know where they
appear and how to get them!   Thanks!

                                        freeman@wvurtc.wvnet.edu
From: waynebro@romeo.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
Newsgroups: alt.music.enya
Subject: Re: "Book of Days"
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:13:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: romeo.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bw4yL3.4Dy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes...
>Anyone interested in Enya should also check out Clannad.  She was originally
>a member, and her brother and sister were also in the group.  It has since
>become somewhat erratic as Maire Brenna has left to do her own thing, and has
>an album out, and Cirian and Pol did music for a BBC special called Atlantic
>realm.  Noel and Padraig Duggen did some music for Patriot Games with Maggie
>Doyle I think.  Clannad also did the music for Robin of Sherwood.  The first
>season music is on a tape called Legend.
> 
Can anyone tell me what they think of Maire Brennan's album?  Is her music
at all similar to Enya's?  I was thinking of buying it, but would appreciate
some feedback first.  Comparison to Loreena McKennitt or Sarah MacLachlan
would also be useful.  

Thanks!!

Wayne.

**********************************************************************

Wayne J. Broughton                 Take the road less travelled by.  
waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu    
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA  91125

Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;  
they think I'm working right now...
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: rah rah songs 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:59:05 +0000

Ex-KEWZE me, but what's a fight song?  From a *Brit*, don't y'know...

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Bardic Wish List
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:11:45 GMT

In article <1bc124INN3b9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.) writes:
>
>One thing about food: avoid milk and milk products for the filk room. It's got
>nothing to do with kosher... but it does have to do with imparing singing. 
>Milk products tend to coat the throat and make singing more difficult. (eggs
>sometimes have the same effect)

Yes, milk products can coat the throat, but DON'T totally take them OUT of
the filk room!  SOME of us NEED those products because a) we can't tolerate
non-dairy creamer and can't stand black coffee and b) we need the protein,
fat, and carbohydrate combination found in foods like cheese to keep from
going into insulin shock because we can't get the small, frequent meals we
need out of the hotel restaurant.

--Lynn
From: Shadow.Spear@f236.n271.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: A Poem...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  02:21:00

       The Ocean


It has been said, "The ocean is
  The mirror of the sky.";
The water turns a leaden gray
  When clouds are passing by.

The water is a deep blue-green
  When skies are clear and bright,
The sun is shining on the sand,
  And seagulls are in flight.

The ocean has so many moods 
  It's hard to tell them all;
The waves are rough and boisterous
  When storms come in the Fall.

The water on some days is calm,
  Peacful, and serene;
As if an artist, with his brush,
  Had frozen this whole scene.

The ocean changes moods so fast
  It seems that overnight;
It goes from gently rolling swells,
  To waves of awesome height.

It has been said, "The ocean is
  The mirror of the sky."
The waters turn a leaden gray,
  When clouds are passing by.


Robert G. Haid Jr. 

Please feel free to distribute this, as long as my name stays with it, and it
is not altered in any way. Also, please send any comments.

... "You keep saying that, I don't think it means what you think it means"  
--- FMail 0.90
From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Peter Lorre
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  06:46:00

 On 10-04-92 Jeffrey Klein wrote to All... 
 
 JK> Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting 
 JK> From: klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) 
 JK> Message-ID: 1992Oct5.041942.29059@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu 
 JK> Newsgroups: alt.music.filk 
 JK> 
 JK> I _need_ the lyrics to "I Want to Grow Up to be Peter Lorre"... 
 JK> 
 JK> ...because I do! 
 
Sorry, Tom Smith copyrighted these - and besides, he's a U of M man... 
 
Seriously, you can get the tape from Tim Ryan in Ann Arbor... I think 
it's $10... or you could come to ConClave at the Southfield Days Hotel 
on the 16-18 of this month... 
 
 
...PKZip 3.05 messed up my system; illegal hack alert! 
 
... OFFLINE 1.40 

--- DCQwk/T.A.G.  1.4a
From: William.Hughes@f255.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Hello
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  14:36:00

HF>My name is Harold Feld, aka in the SCA Yaakov HaMizrachi (hello all
  >you fellow SCAdians!).  Put me on the list of people for whom it is
  >o.k. to reproduce/post stuff (I saw a request for my Horsetammer's
  >Daughter filk a little while ago which I'll be happy to respond to if
  >there is still interest.)

There is. :-)


 * SLMR 2.1a * St. Dismas' Infirmary for the Incurably Informed

--- MsgToss 2.0b (r)
From: Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Unending songs
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:46:13 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

In a message of <Oct 01 13:43>, J-Mag (1:106/100.16) writes: 
 >100 buckets of bits on the bus
 >100 buckets of bits
 >Take one down, short it to ground,
 >FF buckets of bits on the bus....

YES!  I love it!

 

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: roking@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (robert king)
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" Filks
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:53:28 GMT

*Darn* I missed it!  Could someone please send me a short note if they
would be willing to send me a copy of "Robbing the Graveyard"???

Please do not send me the file (so hopefully, my meager quota will not
explode in my face :)

Bob King
roking@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu
From: Mike.Liebmann@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Robert Coleman
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  00:29:22

For those who have read about Robert not coming to ConChord because of an
operation, it saddens me to report that he died on the operating table
sometime between 7 and 7:30 PM (PT) Friday night.  The doctors evidently could 
get to the first aneurism, but not the second.
 
We'll miss you, Robert. 

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From: Joel.Polowin@p4.f107.n249.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: A tongue twister
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:37:48 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

In a message of <09 Oct 92>, Kettlingurr writes to Dave Aronson:

 DA>> Si six scies scient six saucissions,
 DA>> six cent six scies scieront six cent six saucissions.
 DA>> (If 6 saws saw 6 sausages, 606 saws will saw 606 sausages.)

 K> Now..... can anyone make a FILK out of this mess?  :>

Well, a while back my friend Jake Hodgson suggested the following as a
potential start for a filk:

  Tweedle beetle went to town
  Carrying a paddle
  Whacked his buddy on the head
  And called it tweedle battle

--- GoldED 2.31
From: rible@vorpal.dell.com (Max "Religious Viscous Liver Johnny Carson Lookalikes" Rible)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" filks
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:29:59 GMT

Joel.Polowin@p4.f107.n249.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>In a message of <01 Oct 92>, Mary Creasey writes to Glendon Todd:
> MC> How about Rennie Levine's SICK "Robbing The Graveyard"?
>Sounds like someone-or-other's parody of Kathy Mar's "Velveteen".

One summer I was working at a place near the Pacific Ocean, and some
brave souls went out at lunchtime most days to go swimming.  I would
usually serenade them with "Courtin' pneumonia, courtin' pneumonia..."
as they went out to immerse themselves in cold water.  Never tried
expanding on that, but I might inspire something horrible by mentioning
it...
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