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From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:20:54 GMT

In article <BzG075.I74@chinet.chi.il.us> roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper) writes:
>In article <n11ddt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
>Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>> 
>>Duh, it seems that a large percentage of filk is re: conventions, other 
>>filksongs, other filkers, and even mundane politics.  And, other than a 
>>few crossover artists, most of the Horror filks stay at Horror cons, 
>>from what I've seen/heard. 
> 
>Um, I don't know how things are commonly outside of the midwest,
>but most filk here is not self-(or fandom) referential.  Not for
>the last 15 years anyway...

Oh well...I guess artists like Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
("Stairway to Fandom" and many other such tunes) and Naomi Pardue ("My
Thousand Closest Friends") don't come out of the midwest, then.

--Lynn
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Xenofilkia
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:44:51 GMT

In article <n1223t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Sherman.Dorn@p6.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>On <10 Dec 92  17:17>, Lynn Gold scribbled the following to All:
>
> LG> Of course, if you send her material for Xenofilkia, you get a free
> LG> issue every time something of yours appears in it.
>
>Can she use sheet music if I send it in (neatly, done by my printer), or just 
>lyrics and chords?

If the song is to a well-known tune, you can get away with lyrics and
chords, but if the tune is original, you need to send her sheet music.

--Lynn
(no relation)
From: Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:35:17 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992

From  ucivax!pathmac.med.cornell.edu!cumc.cornell.edu!phydeaux
From: phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu ("The person your mother warned you about" )
To:   filk@ofa123.fidonet.org
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:34:37 EST

In message <3401.2B288342@ofa123.fidonet.org> "filk.ml-error" writes:
> Hi.  I'm pretty new to the idea of filksongs.  I've only heard a few
> of them, and most of the ones I've heard of deal with books I haven't
> read...but I'm a bit confused as to what exactly constitutes a filk
> song.  They're not really parodies, because many of the songs I have
> heard aren't humorous.  I'd like to start writing some of my own, but
> figured I ought to have a better grasp of what I'm getting into.


Oh my stars, where to start.  First off, WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF FILK!
(Turn back before it's too late!).  Best definition of filk I've heard
is this one (I think it's British in origin, but don't hold me to that):

FILK:  That which is performed at a filksing
FILKSING:  A group of of people performing filk.

Circular, isn't it?  B{)  But fairly accurate.  At this past Philcon, we
managed to get "real" filk, Tom Lehrer, folk, and a roomful of fen
doing "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati."  I've heard poems, Irish
Jigs, drum solos and seen belly dancers.  I've heard filk about books,
movies, plays, poems, childbirth, science, school, computers, space,
mainstream rock 'n' roll (I've found Hawkwind lyrics via FTP...look out!)
etc., and I've only been seriously involved in filk for a decade or less.
So what is it?  Whatever the group will put up with.

> Besides <Grin>, I don't play guitar.  I play keyboard.  I've heard
> that's...er...a bit frowned upon as a "non-tradition" or something.

Pah!  At least one East Coast filker brings a large electric keyboard to
filksings at cons and I know of another local filker who brings his to 
our First Monday filksings here on Long Island, and nobody complains at all.
Guitars are for the most part _easier_ to carry (unless you're like me and 
bring an electric with an amp), and if you only know how to play half a
dozen chords or so, it sounds better (IMHO) on the guitar than the piano, but 

that could just be me and my marginal incomptence.


In other words, dive right in...the water's fine.



--
Dave Weingart   KB2CWF      In the event I am captured or killed, the Cornell
phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu   University Medical College and the Office of 
phydeaux@src4src.linet.org  Academic Computing will disavow any knowledge of
                            my opinions.


--- Squish v1.01
From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Date: 18 Dec 1992 20:10:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold) says:

>In article <BzG075.I74@chinet.chi.il.us> roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper) writes:
>>In article <n11ddt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
>>Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>>> 
>>>Duh, it seems that a large percentage of filk is re: conventions, other 
>>>filksongs, other filkers, and even mundane politics.  And, other than a 
>>>few crossover artists, most of the Horror filks stay at Horror cons, 
>>>from what I've seen/heard. 
>> 
>>Um, I don't know how things are commonly outside of the midwest,
>>but most filk here is not self-(or fandom) referential.  Not for
>>the last 15 years anyway...
>
>Oh well...I guess artists like Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
>("Stairway to Fandom" and many other such tunes) and Naomi Pardue ("My
>Thousand Closest Friends") don't come out of the midwest, then.
>
>--Lynn
>

Hmmm, looking at the indexes for "Paradox" and "Escape From Mundania", out of 
thirty songs, I see exactly  4 that re: fandom or filk. Possibly 5, if you
include "Relativity Paradox Calypso" that only mentions fandom briefly. The 
others are "Con Man Blues", "Flying Island Farewell", "Mundania", and
"Stairway to Fandom". 

Four out of thirty doesn't exactly sound like it's a major component of their
work. Sure, there are a lot of self-referential songs out there, but as Bill
said, at least here in the Midwest, it's not a dominant aspect of Filk.
-- 
 Joe Ellis  o/~ The Synthetic Filker o/~    |     TesserAct Studios
     Internet:   usr6184a@cbos.uc.edu       |       P.O. Box 18577
        GEnie:   J.ELLIS22                  |     Fairfield, OH 45018
    All filked up and no place to sing!     |   New Dimensions In Filk!
From: Allan.Burrows@f338.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: three more kings
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  05:21:15

JR> The version I heard went like this:
JR> We three Kings of oil and tar

        You know, that must be the most parodied carol of the bunch! How
many rubber cigars can three oriental kings smoke? (-: Not to mention the
visual puns; Frankenstein's monster must have gotten to know Murry pretty
well. (So, at least one of them got it right.)

                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
Xref: sparky alt.music.filk:3910 rec.music.folk:8683
From: eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eli Brian Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk,rec.music.folk
Subject: Banjo thank-yous...
Date: 19 Dec 92 10:00:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4fArxfW00WB_J9k21a
Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I finally picked up a bnajo for $270 (with $100 for a case, a few books,
picks, capo, etc) at House of Musical Traditions; I love it!

Thanks again to all of the people who responded to my query for help; your
knowledge was invaluable!
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: London Bridge
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  08:52:05

Er... this thread is getting rather off the subject.  (Well, at least it isn't 
falling down. :->)  Please to cool it, thanks.


              \ ! /
               _ _ 
         O %==(_^_)       
        \!/     O         
         !     \!/  
        / \     !   
               / \

       KABONGGGG!!

This thread has been officially KABONGED by reason of being off topic.  Feel
free to continue this discussion via netmail, but keep it off the echo.  Thank 
you for your consideration!

          Ye Moderator, and El Kabong impersonator, Kay Shapero

 

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From: Allan.Burrows@f338.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Wet Christmas
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  10:28:07

  AB> (re)joined the echo just a little too late to catch Wet Christmas.
  AB> Would you repeat it, pretty please with sugar plums?

MMM> Why, shore.
MMM> Subject: christmas filk?
MMM> Wet Christmas

        You're a friend, Major. I owe you one.
                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: rhiannon@netcom.com (The Lady R)
Subject: Modem filk
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:10:33 GMT

I saw a fortune cookie on one of the Suns at work today, which prompted 
me to filk the fortune cookie:

(to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby")

Ah, look at all the busy modems!
Ah, look at all the waiting users!

Callers are waiting -
Sitting at keyboards
 and waiting for lines on their screens
Living in dreams.
Looking for newsgroups
Finding some code
 that will make the machine slow down more
What is it for?

All the lonely users
Where do they all come from?
All the busy phone lines
Why does it take so long?

My apologies if it doesn't scan properly - I'm working from memory to
expand on the fortune cookie.

Rhia
(one of the lonely users waiting for a modem to answer)

Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: Bob.Hirschfeld@p2.f74.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: azclu follies 1993
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  18:42:00

> DMN> WHOOOF!  I WANT IT!  If Joe doesn't mind, that is . . . and I don't
> DMN> care if it's pro- or anti-gun.  Is OK to post it, Joe?
JB> Sure! Lemme look in my files for it...tho it's in one of the FFILK*.ZIP
JB> files, in all probability.
Here it is, Joe, as you sent it to me (it was worked on a bit to fit, but sung 
pretty much the way you wrote it, as I recall)
Date: 04 Apr 92  12:11:00
From: Joe Bethancourt
  To: Bob Hirschfeld
Subj: ACLU parody.....here it be!
____________________________________________________________________________
 
 Herewith the filk for your ACLU Follies....mebbeso I gonna re-write from
 here and make it into a better (and more original) song, but this should
 be easy enough for quick learning......<evil grin!>
 
             GUN CONTROL COME
                 -Joe Bethancourt
            (Tune: "The Banana Boat Song")
 
 Day-o...Day-ay-ay-o!
 Gun control come, they'll be raiding our homes!
 
 We all support the Bill of Rights!
        Gun control come, they'll be raiding our homes!
 Except that part that we don't like!
        Gun control come, they'll be raiding our homes!
 
 Those evil guns should all be barred!
 Except the cops and the Army and the Kennedy bodyguard!
 
 We attack the symptom, that's the answer!
 Like giving asprin for lung cancer!
 
 Take away the guns, we have no crime!
 (And we've lived in Oz for a very long time!)
    [note: singer should get a cockeyed and very vague look on his/her
    face on this verse .... Fuzzy Liberal sort of thing]
 
 We can trust the government American!
 Just ask a whale or an Indian!
 
 Freedom of Choice for your daughters and sons!
 Except when they want to own a gun!
 
 The ultimate defense of the laws of the land:
 Is educated citizens with weapons at hand!
 
 The truth is pretty self-evident to me:
 The right to bear arms is the right to be free!
 
 (stop suddenly, and say, in a thick German accent:)
 
 "So! All of you are nodt zinging! Vell! Ven -one- piece of der
 Bill of Rights goes avay, maybe pretty soon the rest follows,
 nicht wahr? Der Jews didn't haff guns either.....but der -SS-
 did! Und ven der -lawyers- don't haff guns.....heheheh!"
 
 (not in German accent:)
 
 Of course, that can't happen here........or can it?
 
 Day-o...Day-ay-ay-o!
 Gun control come, they'll be raiding our homes!

--- DB 1.38/911162
From: Snake@f113.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: more juvenile Christmas ditties
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  15:57:49

 -=> J-Mag after the arraignment hearing said to Suzanne Buck <=-

 J-> Sunday December 06 1992, Suzanne Buck writes to All:
 
 SB> Deck the halls with gasoline
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la
 SB> Strike a match and watch it gleam
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la

 J-> Okay so far.
 
 SB> Break a window, pop a tire
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la
 SB> Set your old man's pants on fire
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la

 J-> Burn the school down to ashes
 J-> Fa la la la la la la la la
 J-> Aren't you glad you play with matches
 J-> Fa la la la la la la la la

 J-> (from my 4th grade son -- I swapped him "Randolf the Red-haired
 J-> Cowboy") 
 J-> - J-Mag

I'm impressed...ask 'im if he minds if ol' Snake strikes up a chorus?

Hang your teacher with 'er stocking
Fa la la  la la la  laa laa laa
Take the chance when it comes knocking
Fa la la la laaa  la laa laa laaa



... I LOVE encouraging the young to fulfill their edcational ambitions...
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.10 [NR]
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris)
Subject: Re: The 12 days of Clinton
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:26:28 GMT


Could someone please repost the 12 days of clinton?
-- 
Mike Morris   WA6ILQ   | This space intentionally left blank.
PO Box 1130            | 
Arcadia, CA. 91077     | All opinions must be my own since nobody pays
818-447-7052 evenings  | me enough to be their mouthpiece...
From: Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: My last two songs...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  18:48:00

 On 12-14-92 Scott Malcomson wrote to Harry Smothers... 
 
 SM>  Harry Smothers denied allegations of involvement with All over My 
 SM> last two songs...: 
 SM>  HS> It has been a week and a half since I posted my last two songs, 
 SM>  HS> Hopeless Warren (-or- Spaceship Down) and Temperature of Roast 
 SM> Filk. 
 
Thanks so much for the verification.  I've lost a lot of messages at 
my end and didn't want my first filks since 1969 to be as lost in the 
ozone as I am. 
 
 SM> I liked both of them...I didn't get most of the "in-jokes" on 
 SM> Temperature, but 
 SM> it was nicely done nonetheless! 
 
Hmmm, I don't think there were any in-jokes (although Tom tried to fry 
me when he heard it); mostly just Tom and the two songs referenced, with 
a bit of Julia thrown in. 
 
BTW, I found out that if I break briefly between "Julia" and "Child", 
it has more effect - and is damned hard to sing, too! 
 
On the recording I have of "Temperature of Revenge" Tom makes a couple 
of comments on Julia's feelings about his song - that might be the 
in-joke ... Don't buy "Who Let Him In Here" unless you can't get a copy 
of "Songs By Tom Smith" -- the latter tape has all the songs on the 
former and more (actually, Songs By was sort of a demo tape recorded by 
Tim Ryan). 
 
... OFFLINE 1.41 * Dyslexic Christian sells soul to Santa! News at 11! 

--- DCQwk/T.A.G.  1.5
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris)
Subject: Re: All these x-mas filks are making
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:11:18 GMT

Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>On <Dec 06 21:57>, Mike Liebmann (1:102/524) wrote to Deborah Weiss:

> ML>Just FYI, Deborah, I don't believe there are any Hanukkah filks.  

>???  Well, I suppose 'Deck The Halls With Matzoh Balls' DOES use the tune of a 
>Christmas Carol, but the contents are certainly Hanukkah filk.  I'm
>handicapped by not knowing any authentic Hanukkah songs myself, but someone in 
>here was doing something along the lines of "Hanukkah oh Hanukkah, light the
>Menorah, (something like) oops, there goes the Torah" awhile back. 


Please repost both of these - I missed them.


-- 
Mike Morris   WA6ILQ   | This space intentionally left blank.
PO Box 1130            | 
Arcadia, CA. 91077     | All opinions must be my own since nobody pays
818-447-7052 evenings  | me enough to be their mouthpiece...
From: Allan.Burrows@f338.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: What Song Is This?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  10:35:42

KS> Moreta, Pern Weyrwoman
KS> Rode a lovely golden queen
KS> Charmed all the folk who saw them
KS> Gliding through the air serene

        AAAAAAUUGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!
        Kay, that's perverted! (i love it)

                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
From: Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Cementine -- Take 3
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  13:52:40

 J> The bear went left
 J> The bear went right
 J> The bear went through the traffic light
 J> The car was black
 J> With doors of white
 J> It chased me nearly half the ni-i-ight.
 J> What a horrible night!

 J> (The tune is "Black and White" -- who wants to do the next part?)

Taking a turn for the ose:

 The kid was black,
 The cops were white,
 The jury decreed who was wrong or right.
 The sky was black,
 By firelight,
 Los Angeles rioted through the night.
 What a horrible night!

On a lighter note:

 The zebra's black,
 Or is he white?
 How does he look in UV light?
 The board is black,
 The chalk is white,
 The sound it makes gives some folks a fright,
 Even if school's at night!

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: The Twelve Bugs of Christmas
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  14:04:00

 Charles Jacob Cohen denied allegations of involvement with All over The
Twelve Bugs of Christmas:

 CJC> Had this sent to me by a friend. - Chuck

 CJC> Twelve Bugs of Christmas 

Tell your friend he has a definite future in filking. Then, when he's done
having his nervous breakdown, give him a nice bowl of chicken soup and have
him lie down for a while. :)


---LCD


... Sanity is relative... but not one of mine!
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10
From: Kihe.Blackeagle@f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Fish Stories
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  20:37:58

 KB> (And I may slip in an occasional comment 'tween now and 
 KB> then for the hallibut!)
 BF> I'd say that this sounds fishy, but the joke would 
 BF> flounder...  Sorry, I didn't mean to be piscine you off 
 BF> -- don't gill me!  Why, no, moderator, I thought scales 
 BF> would be on topic.  I'd certainly roe running out of 
 BF> these lines (I'm reelly hooked); as they say in Latin, 
 BF> Caviar Empty.
 BF> That's all; finny.

And there I thought you were gonna hang me out to fry...

Pax ... Kihe

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: contact request
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 06 Dec 92  11:51:00

 -=> Deborah Weiss said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-05-92  00:37 <=-

 DW> Paul Gibson met you at CC8.  Lady friend of his, Anne Friend, gave you
 DW> a hardcopy of one of her songs (title unknown to me & somehow he didn't
 DW> give it to me--will post it if/when he calls back).  Paul has since
 DW> lost his copy of the song and you now own the only known hardcopy of
 DW> said song.  Would you forward him a copy of this song, please?  Either
 DW> snailmail or ASCII file via Fido (help, Kay?) would be OK.

I'll need the song title...but I'll go thru the files & see if I can pick it
out. She mostly gave me several verses for ROTR.


... You can get dressed Deborah Weiss...the doctor has had enough laughs.


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Scientific explanations of warp drive
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 11 Dec 92  07:23:25

ROFL!

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: scadian children...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 08 Dec 92  08:30:00

 -=> Kate Herdt said to All on 12-04-92  22:13 <=-

 KH> Does anyone know the words to "Faraway Places with
 KH> Strange-Sounding Names"?  I am attempting (upon having the tune and
 KH> title run through my head incessantly) to filk it (see Subject: for
 KH> further info.) Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks in
 KH> advance... Kate

All I can remember is what my Father sang:

        Far away places with strange sounding names
        Far away over the sea
        Far away places with strange sounding names
        Are calling, are calling to me.

I think this is the chorus of it...hope that helps.

... Are you going to NecronomiCon this year?


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: rnakkula@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robin J Nakkula)
Subject: Re: Pagan yule carols
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:00:19 GMT

In article <n113bt@ofa123.fidonet.org> Julie.Rhodes@f120.n226.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>J->For filk stuff, check out the huckster room next Marcon.  (You just
>
>Will do.  I recall seeing some music there, hopefully there will be some with 
>multi-choral parts to make it really interesting work.
>
>J->Did you ever hear about the Funniest Computer Songs tape I took to my
>
>Sorry to hear you lost it.  I've sometimes thought about sending off for that 
>kind of thing, but somehow I just never do...


I'm a source for this tape (and others from the WailSongs production line).
E-mail me to exchange snailmail addresses, if you want one.


@@@---Robin Nakkula
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: All these x-mas filks are making
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  07:49:03

On 12/11/92, Mary Kay Kare said to Sherman Dorn concerning All these x-mas
filks are making: 

  MK> And I just remembered that last year about this time we ran across a
  MK> new Tom Lehrer song (at least one we'd never heard before) about
  MK> spending Hannukah in Santa Monica.  JOrdin has a tape of it around,
  MK> but it's never been transribed. So what am I offered to transcribe and
  MK> post?

Ooooo!  Perchance, is that to the tune of "When Veronica Plays Her Harmonica
Down by the Pier at Santa Monica"?

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: Pete.Granzeau@f236.n271.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Mathoms, Gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 15 Dec 92  13:47:00

MMM>As I recall, it's a present that never gets unwrapped, but is given back
an
MMM>forth to various people over the years...I think somebody wrote a sea
chant
MMM>about the custom once, called "Forty Mathoms Down" or something like
that..
MMM>(grinning, ducking and running)

My wife was a schoolteacher, and she used to get little presents from
her kids at Christmas--often, they were things like handkerchiefs in
little flat boxes, many more than she would ever use.  When our own
kids started going to school, some of those same gifts got recycled.

--- FMail 0.90
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: All these x-mas filks are making
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 11 Dec 92 09:36:26

Sounds like you're looking for the "Ecumenical Hora", which as
far as I know was written by Murray Porath (I could be wrong on
that one). Anyone here who can ask Murray for permission to post?


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