... GRINNNNN! I thought *I* was the only one who did that ;-) Elishava got a great picture at Boar's Head; I'll have to see if I can upload a copy here. ...
All great and silly minds think alike!! (hee hee!) Love to see the pic!) (you can also off line email me one !!! - Jen - more below - Kathi <kcoutinho@...>...
Greetings, I am pleased to announce that the Mid-Realm Bardic community now has a website to call its own. Take a look at http://midbards.net. There you'll...
Hey everyone!! I know some of you Kingdom Bards indicated that you will be attending Estrella War. Could you please email me offlist if you are still planning...
Does anyone have the lyrics to "Rant and Roll" -- a friend wrote me with "It's an old English sailing song, but that's all I know about it." He knows several...
Um.. maybe he means "Rant and Roar"? Great Big Sea does a Newfoundland version of "We'll rant and we'll roar like true English sailors.." -- ... From: Cat...
I Google'd the phrase "like true english sailors" (which was the only other line I could remember and spell correctly) and got a lot of hits. The song's...
I found this interesting posting from 1992 that mentions this song. BTW, the Dutch were great seafarers before the English were, perhaps you can find some...
I know this song very well -- we used to sing it when I worked as a patron/performer at the PA Ren Faire near Lancaster. Anjuli McDonald of Clanranald...
As you know, the Whiskey Bards will be at Estrella. Tonis ... Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP....
Great post, Gregory. Very informative. Spanish Ladies has been recorded by several contemporary groups including Great Big Sea (mentioned in an earlier post)...
And just to add a dot dot dot... I'm in dire need of some pirate songs that are quick to learn. Our 12th night is Pirate themed, and I was named Kingdom Bard...
If periodicity is not a major requirement, Saucy Sailor is fairly easy and comic to boot. Steeleye Span covered it. And it's easy to "dramatize" as well....
I'm pleased as punch that it appears Mistrss Marian of Heatherdale <MKA Heather Dale> will be playing at Estrella!!! She and her backup fella, Ben Deschamps,...
http://www.contemplator.com/sea/sladies.html Stupid trivia: versions of "Spanish Ladies" are sung by a very drunk Quint (Robert Shaw) in the 1975 Spielberg...
My opinion varies on this issue depending how close you follow the 10' rule. when your songs start to mention the potato famine of ireland I think you may have...
Thanks, Jehanne...I needed a smile today. *G* Tonis ... the wider SCA Bardic community thought on this issue. Tonis, you KNOW what I think. ;-> Jehanne ... ...
Gyric, you can find lots of pirate styled songs at www.chivalry.com (cantaria) many of them with MP3s. Our latest CD was all pirate/sea song themed but as this...
... I aim to serve. What happens to GET served, well.... ;-> Jehanne de Wodeford, waiting to hear back from the A&S coordinators for Estrella about doing a...
Greetings Everyone! I'm SO jealous of you members of the Western states that are getting ready for Estrella! Us MidWesterners just have to wait for Pennsic, I...
... Sorry, I can't. Didn't like it in the 60's, didn't like it in the 80's.... Constitutionally impossible. I must now cleanse my ears with the dulcet stylings...
... filk that perhaps isn't widely known (or maybe it is! i've not been in the SCA all that long!). Yep. You've lost all sense of feeling has been around a...
Gyric noted:
> I'm in dire need of some pirate songs that are quick to learn. Our 12th
night is Pirate themed, and I was named Kingdom Bard to the King and...
The RAMONES! Now THERE'S some music to filk! Oh no, what have you done, Jehanne?!?!? You've released my inner filker again! -=Arsieu, searching through...
... join in... ... OK, so what part of "Oh, the year was 1778" do people not realize is inappropriate? Bloody pirates. Hang the lot of 'em. God damn them all. ...
... You're running into that grey area that's the overlap of songs that people like to sing, and songs that are period appropriate. I think the context of...
... people ... It's got a date in it. That makes it the aural equivalent of walking around the event in modern clothing swilling Bud from a can. Sorry if that...
