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From: canton@robinson.ilog.fr (Eric Canton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Silly Wizard Lyrics
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:13:04 GMT
Distribution: rec.music.folk
Organization: ILOG S.A., Gentilly, France


Thanks to the people who posted/emailed me the lyrics
  of Bridget O'Malley. Somebody emailed me a request to post
  other Silly Wizard lyrics, so here's The Banks of the Bann
  which I myself got throught the mail along with Bridget 
  O'Malley (thank you, Elaine).
If somebody has the time and courage to type more Silly Wizard
  songs (or already has them in electronic form), I'm sure
  I wouldn't be the only one to enjoy getting them, so please
  post them !

Eric



The Banks of the Bann
Silly Wizard (Kiss the Tears Away)

When first unto this country a stranger I came, 
I placed my affections on a maid that was young, 
She being young and tender, her waist small and slender, 
Kind nature had formed her for my overthrow.

On the banks of the Bann is where I first beheld her, 
She appeared like great Juno, the fair Grecian queen, 
Her eyes shone like diamonds or stars softly shining, 
Her lips were like roses or blood dropped on snow.

It was her cruel parents who first caused our variance, 
Because she was rich and above my degree, 
But I'll do my endeavours to gain my love's favours, 
Although she is born of a high family.

My name it is Delaney, that's a name that won't shame me, 
If I had had money I would never have roamed, 
But the drinking and sporting, night rambling and courting, 
Are the cause of all my ruin and absence from home.

But now that I have gained her, I am happy for ever, 
With rings on her fingers and gold in her ear, 
And now by the banks of the lovely Bann waters, 
In peace and contentment, I'll live with my dear.
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From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Subject: Lyric request: Foolish, incredibly foolish
Reply-To: jonb@ingres.com
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:55:56 GMT

Anyone remember this one?  For some reason, I think it was sung by,
and perhaps composed by, Heather Wood of Young Tradition fame, but I
could be totally off base about that.  The chorus is, approximately:

   Foolish, incredibly foolish,
   Foolish, incredibly foolish,
   Foolish, incredibly foolish,
   Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

The verses describe some sort of encounter between the female narrator
and a young man.

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From: soc3@quads.uchicago.edu (paul  socolow)
Subject: Rockford Folk Fest?
Reply-To: soc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:38:57 GMT

Does anyone know about a folk festival in Rockford, IL this weekend? 
   I heard something, but I don't have any real info. For that matter, does 
anyone know about any festivals in the Chicago area this summer?

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From: rivk@quads.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Wanted: Lyrics to "Willie McBride" (?) "No Man's Land" (?)
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: rivk@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Jul29.040525.17500@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes) writes:
>I tried to send this once, but I get an indication that it didn't go out, so
>I'll try again.
>
>"The Green Fields of France is by Australian Eric Bogle, who also wrote another
>powerful song called "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda."  

Wrote a few of them, actually -- try "My Youngest Son Came Home Today"
from off of the album *Scraps of Paper*, and "When the Wind Blows" from
off the album of the same name.

>I don't know who
>the female singer you heard might have been, but Bogle recorded it on an album
>called "Now I'm Easy."  The lyrics are:

Bogle recorded "No Man's Land" on about every album he every did. I think
the best version is from *Plain and Simple* with John Munro.

There is also a version (minus one verse and IMO not very good) off of
the 1990 Peter, Paul and Mary album, whose name I forget.

>TH

	-Nora
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From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Subject: Re: Lyrics: "It's a Pleasure to Know You" (or something like that)
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:18:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.214020.14246@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> rjw@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Robert Wilson) writes:

   I'm trying to get the lyrics to a song that's called something like
   "It's a Pleasure to Know You."

   The chorus is along the lines of
	   It's a pleasure to know you, a pleasure to see you smile
	   a comfort to know we'll share the road a while
	   but pleasure is fleeting and comforts are far between
	   it's a pleasure to know you, and the comforts you bring

   I've heard various people sing it at sing-alongs I've been to, 
   but only recently gotten the interest to do it myself.

   If anybody knows the song, or knows where I might find the lyrics,
   I'd appreciate it.

   Post or e-mail is fine.

Written by Karl Williams (you got the title right).  It appears on
When Howie Met Sally - Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen, with lyric sheet and
Short Tape - Short Sisters, without lyric sheet.  I'm surprised it's 
not in Rise Up Singing - is it too new?


--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Hartford on the river
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:35:37 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Jul22.154222.12937@henson.cc.wwu.edu> lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert) writes:
>Isn't he [John Hartford] actually a licensed river boat pilot?

Yes, he is.  I interviewed him back in '77 on the deck of the Julia Belle
Swain, a paddlewheel riverboat based in Peoria, and we spent quite a bit of
time talking about the fading glory of the big riverboats.  If I get a chance
one of these days, I'll type in a transcript.
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: as081@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve R. Smith)
Subject: The Darlins (of Andy Griffith show...)
Reply-To: as081@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve R. Smith)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:37:56 GMT


Are there any recordings available by the band that appeared from
time to time on the Andy Griffith show as the "Darlins"?  Mom says
that at the end of the episodes they're listed in the credits, with
the real name of the group, but it seems none of the hillion jillion
episodes Mom has on video tape have both the Darlins and the credits
on 'em.  (Mom has a habit of shutting off the VCR before the credits
roll...)

If not, does anyone have suggestions of similar-sounding (hillbilly
juggin' and pickin' type things) groups?  Thanks in advance...

						5+e\/e
-- 
Harry's got a box of thumbs,    /'''         It's elephants all the way down!
He keeps it in his closet.      c-OO          SmoothP is Steve R. Smith,
And every thumb that Harry finds   \          as081@cleveland.freenet.edu
He carefully deposits...          -    I think I'm agnostic, but I'm not sure.
From: zippy@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Michele M. Batter)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Bodhran lessons
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:22:06 GMT
Distribution: pa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


I just got a bodhran as a wedding gift, and I would really like to learn
to play it.  Does anyone know of any instructors in or near the Philadelphia
area?


							Zippy
From: thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Wanted: Lyrics to "Willie McBride" (?) "No Man's Land" (?)
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:55:38 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Jon,

There may be another meaning of 'The Last Post.'  The military expression
for being assigned to a specific billet is to be posted there.  'Post,' in
this respect, is both a noun and a verb, i.e., one is posted to a place of
duty, and that place is the post to which he is assigned.  The last post
would be a soldier's final duty station.  Thus a military funeral could be
considered a soldier's final post.

As to the last line, I do not have the printed lyrics.  I sometimes perform
this song in a show that I do on the folk song traditions within the military
establishment.  I learned the lyrics from the Bogle recording, and had
assumed the phrase was "and chorus."  In listening again to the record, Bogle's
Aussie accent makes all the "ins" and the "ands" the same, so it could be
either one.  Your explanation makes more sense, because I don't think that
a bugle call would have a separate chorus.  Thanks for pointing that out;
I'll change it.

TH
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From: cozzlab@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Looking for music to "We Can't Find"
Date: 27 Jul 1992 16:32:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Jul25.205414.13734@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
>
>I'm looking for the music (and/or a recording) and complete
>words to "We Can't Find", a song by Jane A. Robinson ...

It appears on a tape called "Wackademia," which you can get from
Thor records, P.O. Box 40312, Downey CA 90241.  I forget how much it
cost, but you can write & ask them.
From: wdh@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (W. David Higgins)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Indigo Girls tour (Dates?)
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:40:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

While I expect the Indigo Girls aren't _strictly_ folk, they aren't
too far away.  They are currently on tour.  Anybody have a list
of where and when?  (Their concert here in Ft. Lauderdale was last
weekend, and was *excellent*...)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith)
Subject: John Renbourn, John Renbourn Group
Originator: irilyth@fenris
Organization: HMC Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:16:37 GMT

I have an album labeled as from "The John Renbourn Group", titled "A Maid In
Bedlam", which I like very much. I'm interested in finding additional similar
albums, but had the impression that other John Renbourn albums might be
significantly different. I particularly liked the vocals on "Maid", and so
am not sure whether I'd really be interested in Renbourn's solo guitar work.
I wondered if folks could help identify the styles of the music on the
various albums labeled "John Renbourn", or point me to a discography, or
somesuch. Thanks much!
-- 
original text by Josh Smith    ::   Comments, questions, etc. welcomed
irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu   ::   #include <std.disclaimer>
"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll
look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
From: wsanders@ffeine.corp.sun.com (Wiley Sanders)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,sun.junk
Subject: Austin Lounge Lizard Tickets - Tonight!
Date: 31 Jul 1992 16:15:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
Distribution: ba
Reply-To: wsanders@ffeine.corp.sun.com (Wiley Sanders)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ffeine.corp.sun.com

I've got three (3) extra tickets to the early 7 PM
show the Lizards will be putting on at the Country
Store in Saratoga. $10 ea, you should reply by email
to wsanders@ffeine.corp.sun.com if you are inter-
ested.
   Come sing the Anahuac song with the rest of us
Crazies!

-w
--
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to
have a mind as being wasteful. How true that is."     -Dan Quayle
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: ellene@microsoft.com (Ellen Mitsue Eades)
Subject: Re: Vancouver Folk Festival
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:21:06 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <1992Jul28.162705.7033@pony.Ingres.COM> jonb@ingres.com writes:
>that can only be described as regrettable, such as the time when Robin
>Williamson was booed into silence by a contingent of women who didn't
>approve of his song "First Girl I Loved".  

This is just plain rude.  I think I'd advise both Greg *and* the
booing women to get up and leave if they don't like the music,
rather than ruining it for everyone else.  Obviously the person
who posted liked Saffire; I don't think snide comments from the
peanut gallery add a great deal.

>On the other hand, it's interesting that Greg mentions jam sessions.
>This may have changed, but my experience has been that the first
>few times I went to Vancouver, I brought along an instrument or two,
>and after that I didn't bother because I never had occasion to take
>them out of their cases. 

Yes, this is my major beef about Vancouver also. I had exactly the
same experience as Jon; I brought along my guitar and dulcimer in
great anticipation the first time, expecting a scene very much like
that of the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, where there 
are pickers and jammers all over the lawn, and was crushed to find
that this just wasn't possible at Vancouver.  Tell you what, Jon,
maybe we can arrange a little guerilla picking at the next one?
Anyone else want to join in?  I gave it a miss this year (I usually
go one year, get annoyed, skip the next, get lonely, go the next,
and so on) but could be talked into next summer.

Ellen Eades
-- 
Ellen Eades					Microsoft Corporation
"Just call me F.G.M.  I hate excess verbiage."  _Twice Upon a Time_
From: rm4@st-andrews.ac.uk (Rosa Michaelson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: lyric: Joy of My Heart
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:08:53 GMT
Organization: not really St. Andrews University

Just to be very pedantic - Joy of My Heart is yet another
slightly daffy translation of a real gaelic song. It is NOT BY
the Corries. In fact I am fairly certain that they use as source the
strange music books issued to primary schools in scotland of 'Songs
from the Isles' which probably date from the 50s. I was given these
songs in my primary school in edinburgh as standard musical stuff
in 1963....
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Lyrics to "Willie McBride" (?) "No Man's Land" (?)
Reply-To: james@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:23:25 GMT

jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger) writes:

>>         Did the pipes play 'The Fleurs of the Forest?'

I think this is the Scottish slow air "Flowers of the Forest."

-- 
James Moore                            /|\                        james@wrs.com
Wind River Systems                     \|/                  Alameda, California
	 "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half
			  didn't mean anything at all"
From: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com (Doug Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Mamas & Papas Question needs an answer
Date: 25 Jul 92 19:07:47 GMT
Reply-To: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com
Organization: General Electric

Please help settle a source of confusion and possible marital discourse. This means that my wife and I have been having this on-going discussion about a Mamas and Papas song. We've been married for 9 years and I know this has come up *every* time the song is played. I heard it this morning on the way to work and decided to "Ask The Experts".

The song in question is "I Saw Her Again Last Night".  The background to the question is:

   Near the end of the song you hear the singers go, "I saw her a..." and then
   the drumming picks up (as if to find the beat?) and then the singers start
   again with "I saw her again last night, etc".

And the question (I won't give info on who feels which way) is:

   Was this a mistake or was this an intentional part of the song?

I don't usually subscribe to this newsgroup, so I'd appreciate answers via email, but I'll check the group for a week or so just in case... 

Thanks,

doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com
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From: cab@jezebel.wustl.edu (Christopher Butler)
Subject: Androgynous
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:55:51 GMT


I am trying to find out who originally sang the song "Androgynous."  I have
a version by the Crash Test Dummies, and they refer to the writer as Paul
Westerberg, but I can't for the life of me figure out what other band(s)
have performed this song.  If anyone could provide some information, I would
be very thankful.
 
 
Christopher Butler
(cab@jezebel.wustl.wuvmd.edu)
 
PS  Does anyone know where I can find out a concert schedule for Luka Bloom?
From: bowers@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music
Subject: !least used phrase in the music business!
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:26:12 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.


Last night on VH-1, Glenn Frey was hosting the Top 21 Countdown for
music videos.

"I'd like to close with the least used phrase in the music business:
That is the banjo player's Porsche..."

:-)

--
...ignoring the fact that most Alfas spend their time cruising for
chicks, most Datsuns being washed and most Porsches in parking spaces
marked "Doctor"...              -Henry N. Manney III, Road and Track
Al Bowers                                 bowers@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov
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From: <ntaib@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Loreena McKennit interview on Morning Edition
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:52:22 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

Did anyone else get to listen to this this morning? The clock radio
went off and there was Loreena McKennit singing and playing harp...
I can think of worse things to wake up to. It was on PBS's Morning 
Edition.

She says she plays a Troubador - a large folk harp, which she plays
because it has more of a low end than most folk harps.


Iskandar
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From: holtslander@skyfox.usask.ca
Subject: RE: joni mitchel
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:56:24 GMT

There is a live Joni Mitchell with jaco pastorius, pat metheny and the
persuasions called  "Shadows and Light".  By the way she's from this hick-
town

G Holtslander                   Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada
Holtslander@Skyfox.usask.ca
From: thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Wanted: Lyrics to "Willie McBride" (?) "No Man's Land" (?)
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:44:32 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Jul30.235449.4769@newshost.anu.edu.au> gerry@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.175538.9230@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes) writes:
>
>[Discussion of No Man's Land, deleted]
>
>>In listening again to the record, Bogle's
>> Aussie accent makes all the "ins" and the "ands" the same, so it could be
>> either one.
>
>Bogle does NOT have an Aussie accent, it's pure Scots (although he has lived
>in Oz some 20 years now). Also, I think the next line is about "flowers," not
>"fleurs."
>
>> TH
>
>Gerry Myerson

SORRY about that!  All I have is the record, not the documented research or
an in-depth familiarity with Eric Bogle. I was just trying to answer the
request for lyrics.  But while I may not recognize accents, I do hear rather
well, and on the Bogle record he definitely says 'fleurs.'  'Fleur is, I
believe, at least the French word for 'flower,' and a similar sounding word
may be equivalent in other languages.

TH
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From: judym@col.hp.com (Judy Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: shel silverstein pot song
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:05:05 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

johne@vcd.hp.com (John Eaton) writes:
>Shel has a knack for writing interesting songs. He did "Boy Named Sue" and
>the "Unicorn Song".

Is this the same shel silverstein as the poet who wrote the
children's book "The Missing Piece"?

If so, I don't know of his song writing.  Does he also perform?
Does had have any albums out?  Musically, are they any good?

Judy
From: dnd@ee.man.ac.uk (Darryl Davis (RA))
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Loudan Wainwright III
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:15:36 GMT
Reply-To: dnd@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk (Darryl Davis (RA))
Organization: Dept Electrical and Electronic Eng, Manchester University, UK

I hope this is the right newsgroup.
I was cycling across Manchester the other day, and suddenly burst into song (like
you do). To my amazement it was A L.W.II song (Schooldays.. "great hungers"). Now
can anyone tell me what the guy is up to these days, last I heard he was 
disaffected with his native country(USA) and living in London.

Also does anyone have a discrography, I have/know of
1. First Album (schooldays etc)
2. Second Album (very similar stuff)
3. attempted Mustache (Dead skunk etc)
4. Love Songs?

Email will do, tho this may be of wider interest.
From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:38:41 GMT


did anyone see the program last nite (sunday, 9.30-10.309 channel 4,
UK) on Gentleman Jim Reeves?

it contained an exceprt from the duet between La Cline and Monsignor
Reeves, re-mixed from 2 separate recordings mirculasously in the same
key and tempo, postumously for both singers...as they both died in air
crashes a year or two previous...

jon 

oh, the song title? "I fall to pieces"

:-)
From: canton@robinson.ilog.fr (Eric Canton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: lyric: Joy of My Heart
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:22:53 GMT
Distribution: rec.music.folk
Organization: ILOG S.A., Gentilly, France


There are the lyrics as sung by the Tannahil Weavers
in Cullen Bay :

 Joy of My Heart

Sing ye o'the Cuillins o'Skye, Harris,
Dunvegan, Fair Iona,
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh
Whether I wander east or west, waking
or dreaming, you are near me.
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh.

Peat and heather, how they call me,
little wee bothan by the hillside,
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh.
Whether I wander east or west, waking
or dreaming, you are near me.
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh.

Friendly hearts are waiting to greet me,
welcoming arms are there to hold me.
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh.
Whether I wander east or west, waking
or dreaming, you are near me.
Joy of my heart, Eilean Mulligh.