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From: roh@gmd.de (Peter Rohleder)
Subject: Re: Looking for German lyrics of "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:05:38 GMT

In <92352.151533U15289@uicvm.uic.edu> <U15289@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>For some time, I've been trying to track down the original German lyrics of
>the old university song, "Die Gedanken Sind Frei," of which Pete Seeger re-
>corded an English-language cover years ago.  Would anyone be able and will-
>ing to either email them to me, or post them?

Here comes the whole text:

        ---- Die Gedanken sind frei ----

Die Gedanken sind frei! Wer kann sie erraten?
Sie fliegen vorbei wie naechtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen,
kein Jaeger erschiessen
mit Pulver und Blei.
Die Gedanken sind frei!

Ich denke, was ich will und was mich begluecket,
doch alles in der Still und wie es sich schicket.
Mein Wunsch und Begehren
kann niemand verwehren,
es bleibet dabei:
Die Gedanken sind frei!

Und sperrt man mich ein im finsteren Kerker,
das alles sind rein vergebliche Werke,
denn meine Gedanken
zerreissen die Schranken
und Mauern entzwei.
Die Gedanken sind frei!

Ich liebe den Wein, mein Maedchen vor allen,
sie tut mir allein am besten gefallen.
Ich bin nicht alleine
bei meinem Glas Weine,
mein Maedchen dabei:
Die Gedanken sind frei!

Drum will ich auf immer den Sorgen entsagen
und will mich auch nimmer mit Grillen mehr plagen.
Man kann ja im Herzen
stets lachen und scherzen
und denken dabei:
Die Gedanken sind frei!

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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Makem & Clancy, Waltzing Mathilda
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:32:36 GMT

In article <1gktt3INN3m0@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> mg@dagoffice.cs.uni-sb.de (Michael Greim) writes:

>If my memory serves me correctly, the word is australian and means
>a kind of dead-end branch of a river or creek. Or was that dried-up branch?

Geomorphologists would call it an "oxbow lake".




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From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: June Tabor query
Date: 19 Dec 1992 02:51:43 GMT
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In article <1992Dec18.210359.540@hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
>Would someone familiar with June Tabor's discography tell me if I'm likely
>to enjoy her 1980 Topic recording with Martin Simpson?  (It's been rereleased
>on CD).  

June Tabor is one of my absolute favorites, and I bought the
recording with Simpson -- and on first couple listens have
not enjoyed it all that much.

>I liked Airs and Graces, was lukewarm about Ashes and Diamonds and
>didn't care at all for Abyssinians or Aqaba.

But to put things in perspective, Abbyssinians and Aqaba have
some of my favorite Tabor material -- I particularly like the
songs Scarecrow, The Barmaid's song, The Smiling Shore (this
one really highlights Tabor's idiosyncratic voice and penchant
for depressing material), Where have you been, and Aqaba.

The Simpson/Tabor recording might have material you
would like, given what you describe about yourself.
Certainly Tabor's singing is excellent on any of the above.

Steve
From: koppes@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (Rosaine Koppes)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:40:11 GMT
Subject: Van Morrison Tickets at Cost
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk


Posting for a friend.

For Sale at cost:

   Two tickets to VAN MORRISON in San Francisco
   Thursday, December 17th.
   Reserved seats - Center section, 12th row!
   For sale at cost, $34.25/ticket.

Respond via phone or e-mail(not this account).


Tom Jack       408/447-4239       taj@cup.hp.com
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From: pavlovic@ehsc.orst.edu (James Pavlovich)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Waltzing Mathilda
Keywords: waltzing_matilda
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:55:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: ehsc.pavlovic.18.724618557
Organization: Environmental Health Sciences Center, Oregon State University
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I have a question.
I once heard the tune of "Waltzing Matida" sung  with different words.
The singers claimed that the tune originally went to an English recruiting 
song.  Instead of waltzing matilda the chorus was:

Who'll come a'------.

And that is all I can remember.  Any Ideas?  I would like the Lyrics if 
anyone knows them.

Thanks

James
(pavlovij@ucs.orst.edu)
From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: June Tabor query
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:03:59 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

Would someone familiar with June Tabor's discography tell me if I'm likely
to enjoy her 1980 Topic recording with Martin Simpson?  (It's been rereleased
on CD).  I liked Airs and Graces, was lukewarm about Ashes and Diamonds and
didn't care at all for Abyssinians or Aqaba.

Thanks much . . . and e-mail's fine.
From: helper@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Songs by Stewart Macgregor
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:06:13 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Edinburgh University

I recently bough a CD by Archie Fisher called "Sunsets I've galloped
into".  On the CD there are a couple of songs by Stewart Macgregor.  I
would like to get a hold of some more of his songs, can anyone give me a
list of his songs and where I could get recordings?

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From: archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
Subject: Re: And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 00:10:28 GMT

In <1992Dec15.221609.8030@pony.Ingres.COM> jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger) writes:

*
*Hmm, obviously there's some controversy here.  I've always thought it
*was "For to hunt, tent, and beg".  That is, to do the stuff the narrator
*did before he joined the military: carry his pack, live the free life
*of a rover, and generally waltz his Matilda.
*

Wouldn't surprise me.  The only recording I have is the Pogues, which
as I warned, is probably not the most accurate.

-- archer
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Shawn Colvin in Seattle, 12/14/92
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:33:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

Shawn Colvin is a GREAT live performer! I've seen her quite a few
times over the years and she has ALWAYS given a great show.
  Her new CD is *nice* but live she is GREAT.
(running out of adjectives here) move over Springsteen!
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From: rls@sequent.com (Robert Sleator)
Subject: Re: Stephen Foster
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:28:24 GMT

In article <1gml9bINNm4r@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
>gusky@hamlet.phyast.pitt.edu (Norton Gusky) writes:
>
>>I'm trying to put together a feature for WYEP's Calliope Edition that
>>would include contemporary renditions of Foster tunes.  Hard Times, for
>>example, has been recorded by the Red Clay Ramblers, Bob Dylan (most
>>recently) and others.  
>>What are other tunes and artists that I could use?
>
>By far the most important recorded version of a Stephen Foster
>song in the last decade is Mary Black's version of Hard Times,
>on DARA-CD-010 (Mary Black Collected).
>
>Steve

Most important to whom ?  

Dedannan also did Hard Times, but I forget which album.

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From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Subject: Re: Where to buy a Bohdran (bay area)?
Reply-To: jonb@ingres.com
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company
Distribution: ba
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:22:17 GMT

In article <1gijdrINNqud@agate.berkeley.edu>, sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.174852.12817@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
>kelleher@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Joseph Kelleher) writes:
>> In article <1gdkk5INN37h@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu  
>(Steve Pope) writes:
>> >Where's a good place to shop for a bohdran (sp?)
>> >in or near Berkeley or SF?
>> 
>> There's an Irish goods store on Geary and Taylor in downtown SF.  I  
>can't
>
>Reading this reminded me that there is a music store in the Haight Ashbury  
>area that might carry bohdrans.  They had a rainmaker for sale there, and  
>if they have instruments that obscure, they may have a bohdran.  Sorry I  
>don't know the name, but it's clearly the largest music store in the  
>Haight.

I believe it's prosaically named The Haight-Ashbury Music Center.  It used
to be Chickens That Sing Music, but that was a long time ago when it was
considered cooler to sound creative than corporate.  They _might_ have
a bodhran, but I wouldn't take the rainmaker as much of an indicator one
way or another; those thing have been popping up in every whale-encrusted
cutesy-artsy-gift store in the world, right next to the coffee cups
with endangered-species handles and the CDs of Pachelbel's Canon in D
overdubbed with crashing-surf sounds.  (Can you tell what kind of mood
a weekend of Christmas shopping puts me in?  Thought so.)

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From: boarjas@elof.iit.edu (Jason Boardman)
Subject: **QUICK SINEAD SURVEY PLEASE ANSWER**
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:04:53 GMT


*****  SIMPLE SURVEY -- PLEASE READ *****

I have seen much talk about Sinead on the net lately, 
and was wondering what the general opinion of Sinead
was.  Please take the 20 seconds it takes to reply to
this question and answer it.  (A simple Y or N will do).
Please use your newsreader's reply option or regular
email to submit votes -- do not post your answer.

Question:
Do you still support (or have a general good opinon of)
Sinead O'Connor?

If you wish to send detailed replies as to why or why not,
please do, but they are not required.  Thanks in advance!

Jason Boardman
boarjas@elof.iit.edu
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Folk Radio Threatened Again
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:41:25 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

1) WGBH also airs Rocky Mountain Stage on Sundays from 7-9 pm
2)  Just personally, I can't get too upset about this because Saturday
afternoon is, I suspect, THE lowest audience time of the week. Except
for  WERS and WUMB, most of the folk shows in Boston are aired at this
 useless time. I for one am NEVER around on Saturdays. If they had the
folk on at a decent hour, I would be more interested, but by putting
the shows on Saturday afternoon they are already in the graveyard. 
   Flame me if I'm wrong :-) I just wish someone would run a WEEKDAY 
EVENING folk music show.




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From: positron@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anjen Chen)
Subject: Re: Shawn Colvin in Seattle, 12/14/92
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:49:36 GMT

oops, sorry, the header of the previous message should have been,
"Shawn Colvin in SanFrancisco, 12/11/92"

duh....

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From: cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl)
Subject: Fairport dates
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:39:55 GMT


Okay, just so nobody will mail me as I am going away for Christmas...here
are the Fairport Convention dates fro February 1993:

FEBRUARY:
Mon 1		BANBURY  Mill Theatre
Tues 2		BANBURY  Mill Theatre
Wed 3		BURNLEY Mechanics Theatre (watch your cars, it's where PJ 
                                            Harvey got their stuff nicked)
Thurs 4		SUNDERLAND  Empire Theatre
Fri 5		TUNBRIDGE WELLS  Assembly Hall
Sat 6		BIRMINGHAM  Town Hall (see ya there...)
Sun 7 		CAMBRIDGE  Corn Exchange
Mon 8		CANTERBURY  Marlowe Theatre
Tues 9		SWINDON  Wyvern Theatre
Wed 10		CULLOMPTON  Verbeer Manor
Thurs 11        GRAVESEND  Woodville Halls
Fri 12 		HIGH WYCOMBE  Wycombe Swn
Sat 13		LEAMINGTON SPA  Royal Spa Centre
Sun 14		YORK  Barbican Centre
Mon 15		LOWESCROFT  Marina Thetre
Tues 16		LEICESTER  Uni
Wed 17		SOUTHPORT  Arts Centre
Thurs 18	CHESTERFIELD  Winding Wheel
Fri 19 		BRADFORD  St Georges Hall
Sat 20		RHYL  New Pavillion
Sun 21		OXFORD  Apollo
Mon 22		CARDIFF  St, David's Hall
Tues 23		YEOVIL  Octagon
Wed 24		LONDON  Royal Festival Hall
Thurs 25	CANNOCK  Prince of Wales Centre
Fri 26		COLCHESTER  Leisure Hall
Sat 27		ST. ALBANS  Alban Arena
Sun 28		MILTON KEYNES  Woughton Centre

And that's about it...phew!!!

Love and vibes
Joolz
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From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: A Winter's Night Tour - Pittsburgh
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:10:57 CST

I just heard on the radio that the Winter's Night Tour with Christine
Lavin will be in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Lecture Hall on January 28.
I also heard that Cheryl Wheeler will be joing them this year.

I went last year, and it was Christine Lavin, John Gorka, Patti Larkin,
and Cliff Eberhardt performing. It was WELL WORTH IT.

More info can be received by calling WYEP radio at 412-661-9100

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From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: WYEP Radio Pittsburgh
Keywords: Folk Radio
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:15:38 CST

This is just to inform anyone who enjoys folk or singer/songwriter
music that if you are in the Pittsburgh area, tune in to WYEP
at 91.3 FM. You will not be disappointed. No commercials either!

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From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Subject: Re: words to I'm my own grandpa
Reply-To: jonb@ingres.com
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:12:15 GMT

In article <17DEC199213303295@rigel.tamu.edu>, jdh9308@rigel.tamu.edu (HOOD, JONATHAN DAVIS) writes:
>	One of my favorite old folk songs is I'm my own Grandpa but I don't
>remember the words to the song.  I would be grateful if anyone could send me
>the words to the song.

Here's what I've got stashed away, courtesy of Jeff Osier of SCO, and
complete with handy performance tips:

    Many, many years ago when I was seventeen I was married to a widow who
    was pretty as could be This widow had a grown up daughter who had hair
    of red My father fell in love with her and soon they, too, were wed

    This made my dad my son-in-law and it changed my very life
    For my daughter was my mother though she was my father's wife
    To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
    I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

    This little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad
    And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
    For if he was my uncle then it also made him brother
    To the widow's grown up daughter who, of course, was my stepmother

	 *** Note: I find it's generally a good idea to pause at this point
		   to allow the listeners time to process the ramifications
		   of that last stanza!

    Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
    And he became my grandchild 'cause he was my daughter's son
    My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
    Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too

    And if my wife is my grandmother, I am her grandchild
    And everytime I think of it, oh, it nearly drives me wild
    For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
    As husband to my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw,... oh ...

    I am my own grandpaw
    Yes, I am my own grandpaw
    It sounds funny, I know
    But it really is so
    I am my own grandpaw

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From: wgreene@oldblev.lonestar.org (Wayne Greene)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Nightrider's Lament
Keywords: Garth Brooks
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 10:36:18 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Old Blevins Productions

> didn't catch the name of the other performer.  The three of them did a
> creditable job on Nightrider's Lament, a favorite song of mine.  The song
> was introduced on international television as being a Utah Phillips song.  I
> think Utah Phillips is a terrific writer and performer, but didn't Michael
> Burton write Nightrider's Lament?  I've heard the song from any number of
yes, Michael Burton did write Nightrider's Lament.

   Wayne G.

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From: brookeb@ksg1.harvard.edu (BRIAN BROOKE)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:15:11 GMT
Organization: Kennedy School of Government

Well, I tried to post something last week, but am told that I only responded 
to someone else.

Bela Fleck has been in two other bands (other than doing his fine 
solo albums on Rounder).  They are Spectrum (one album, I think); and the 
New Grass Revival (Sam Bush and that bunch).  He may have been in on others 
but I can't remember, or don't know.  There should be a new album (on 
Rounder) coming out in January (or so Tony said).  This is a solo project 
with Tony Trishka (yes, solo project with someone else is an oxymoron).  
They both do a Beatles medleys.  I heard Tony T's one, but am interested to 
see what Bela's consists of.
From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Laura Nyro - unreleased songs
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:23:56 GMT



 >Would like to start a thread on Laura Nyro.  Any info out there on what she's
 >up to these days would be most appreciated.

no idea - but thread appreciated...

New York Tenderberry or however its spelled is my fave...

i reckon she picked up where Joni Mitchell got lost after Cactus Tree
but with some great broadway musical and soul and torch add ons...

captain st lucifer - what a title,. what a song!

 jon
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From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Subject: Re: And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda
Reply-To: jonb@ingres.com
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company
Distribution: usa
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:20:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.130311.26822@devildog.att.com>, jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.143626.15649@hemlock.cray.com> robd@cherry09.cray.com (Robert Derrick) writes:
>>Ugo Piomelli (ugo@eng.umd.edu) wrote:
>>: 
>>: For I'll go no more Waltzing Mathilda
>>: All around the green bush far and near
>>: ... a man needs both legs
>>  ^^^ For to hunt, tent and pegs,...
>>: No more Waltzing Mathilda for me
>>
>It's: "For to hump tent and pegs."  "Hump" is vernacular for "carry."

Yup, so it is.  I went back and listened very carefully to both
recordings I have, Bogle's and June Tabor's, and that's what they're
saying, right enough.  Obvious when you know what to listen for.

In the process of checking it out, by the way, I discovered that Tabor,
and consequently I, got one of the preceding lines wrong.  She sings "For
I'll go no more waltzing Matilda, all among the green bush far and near."
It's actually "...far and free", which should have been obvious since it's
necessary for the rhyme scheme.  I didn't have time to check the entire
song for more inconsistencies, but I will before I sing it in public next.

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From: ccsdhd@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Dennis Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: The Great Selkie of Sule Skerrie
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:09:31 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK

In the referenced article, jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost ) writes:
>Its got to be in any Joan Baez songbook worth its salt,
>if what you want is chords & such;
>if you've actually never heard it (hard to believe)
>its on: Joan Baez Vol 2, Vanguard VSD-2097.
>This is *the* version.

This is, of course a matter of personal preference.  I'm rather
fond of the version by the Scottish folk singer Ray Fisher.
Unfortunately it isn't on her CD "Traditional Songs of Scotland"
but is probably on some long-deleleted vinyl LP.  I only have a
copy on tape.
-- 
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk
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From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
Subject: Re: Autoharp?
Keywords: anything related to
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:55:06 GMT

In <85229@ut-emx.uucp> dschatz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dan Schatz) writes:
   [much very helpful info deleted]

>Speaking of tuning, I reccomend that you invest in an electronic tuner.  It's somuch quicker and easier than tuning by hand.  You could also purchase a pickup
>or a "tuning clip" which would allow you to plug directly into the tuner and
>tune in a noisy room.  My tuner is a Korg AT-12, and I love it.  Oscar Schmidt
>makes a fine-tuning system that adds to tuning ease.  I realize this is probablymore of an investment than you're prepared to make at this time, but now you
>have the information.


Say more about electronic tuners if you like?  When my wife got her
autoharp, I said "now what I'd really like is an electronic tuner."

Especially one that can tell _me_ if I'm singing on key; do they do voice?

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