SOTU #326 (Lonnie & Rose )

Here's another David Allan Coe version of Calypso from the late 70's. Super fun tune I think.

Are you sure that David Allen Coe and Jimmy Buffet are not brothers from different mothers :)
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – Leonardo da Vinci
 
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Wrap up vid for Season #325 is up in that seasons thread and the playlist. Thanks to everyone who participated.
 
This one was recorded by Van, and Lonnie , and Chris Barber, harking back to their skiffle days.
Point of interest that I didn't know, but many others may know, the Mr Howard referred to in the song is the pseudonym JJ was using when hiding out and contemplating retirement.

 
This one was recorded by Van, and Lonnie , and Chris Barber, harking back to their skiffle days.
Point of interest that I didn't know, but many others may know, the Mr Howard referred to in the song is the pseudonym JJ was using when hiding out and contemplating retirement.

Nice one Rusty. The Skiffle sessions Live from Belfast is a gem of a record, and it is great to
hear the pioneers of Skiffle getting together and putting a new twist on old songs. Van the Man
always wants to put a gospel vocal inflections on everything he sings. I think he wishes he
was born on the Mississippi delta. Good stuff and mightily played. Thanks.

 
Are you sure that David Allen Coe and Jimmy Buffet are not brothers from different mothers :)
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – Leonardo da Vinci


I am quite sure they're not. lol It was just a phase for Coe, but he was pretty good at it.
 
Not sure why this Hank Locklin song is on the Skiffle list, but it is, and I've always loved it, so here it is...

 
*WARNING*
PROUD MOMENT!



Congratulations. She is a wide awake beauty. Welcome to the world.

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
 
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Hard to follow a new bub.Congrats!
Here's a Calypso from Wilmoth Houdini. I've enjoyed going down this rabbit hole. I've now realised how much good stuff is in the genre.Bit hard to cover though.But this is a fun one from the '30's.Universal fare of infidelity and revenge.This guy is well worth investigating.
I bunged on my best Trinidadian accent.Hope I don't get a visit from the cultural appropriation thought police!
I've also included the lyrics as they are fun and are not on the net so I wrote them down for anyone to use.

Johnny take my wife

after johnny eat me food, after Johnny wear me clothes
after johnny drink me rum
johnny turned around and he take my wife
chorus
ah look a misery, whenever I meet johnny
people,people will be sorry to see
the grave for johnny and the gallows for me

my wife was so very nice, so I used to treat her right
johnny come with his sweet mouth
and chat up me wife till he knock her out
chorus
I went in the house to get me gun, me wife sees me coming and
she starts to run
but let me tell you where I lose me head
that johnny was hiding underneath the bed
chorus
This mr Johnny must be very nice,
for me wife call Johnny in her sleep last night
From today I intend to go,
on a hunt for mr Johnny that gigolo
chorus
johnny you should never do a thing like that
to bite papa houdini in the back
but the judge and jury going to see my face
for this thing going to end in a murder case
 
Ahoy
Since I tried Calypso yesterday then I am trying Skiffle today.
I am doing a song by an Icelandic band from... the 60s or 70s called Ríó Tríó. From what I have heard of skiffle in the past 2 days makes me think that they are skiffle (or at least skifflesque)
Here is Verst af Öllu, or the Worst of All.
I subtitled the video
 
Johnny take my wife

after johnny eat me food, after Johnny wear me clothes
after johnny drink me rum
johnny turned around and he take my wife
chorus
ah look a misery, whenever I meet johnny
people,people will be sorry to see
the grave for johnny and the gallows for me

my wife was so very nice, so I used to treat her right
johnny come with his sweet mouth
and chat up me wife till he knock her out
chorus
I went in the house to get me gun, me wife sees me coming and
she starts to run
but let me tell you where I lose me head
that johnny was hiding underneath the bed
chorus
This mr Johnny must be very nice,
for me wife call Johnny in her sleep last night
From today I intend to go,
on a hunt for mr Johnny that gigolo
chorus
johnny you should never do a thing like that
to bite papa houdini in the back
but the judge and jury going to see my face
for this thing going to end in a murder case

Now that is an absolute gem. I enjoyed that one very much.
It had just the right amount of wry and dry humour. Being
Australia I thought you might have gone for some Cricket Calypso.
 
Ahoy
Since I tried Calypso yesterday then I am trying Skiffle today.
I am doing a song by an Icelandic band from... the 60s or 70s called Ríó Tríó. From what I have heard of skiffle in the past 2 days makes me think that they are skiffle (or at least skifflesque)
Here is Verst af Öllu, or the Worst of All.
I subtitled the video

Hey have you been reading my autobiography? :-?
That was a rollocking piece of music. I bet Mr Donegan
would have recorded it if he had heard it. From the subtitles
it reminds me of any of the many Charles Bukowski poems.
It has the women and the drinking... all that is missing
is the gambling and the fighting.
 
This song came up in one of the singalong sessions at GNUF last weekend, and I decided to do it then. But since then it seems to have become this week's theme tune, including Ryan's version with added Nathan. I really can't compete with that, but here it is anyway.

 
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