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This is a test. It is only a test. Should there have been a real emergency, you would have been notified.

I saw Esau,
Sitting on a seesaw.

Also, trying to locate the words to '...the breeze and I are waiting with a sigh...." Lovely song and verses in minor key, but bridge in major.

Hi everybody.....just wanted to say hi. The jewelry business is going better than expected. We're having lots of fun. I'll try to get by more often, however I'm behind in my work all the time. I'm off to Florida on Friday, maybe I'll have some time then. Otherwise, I miss you all.

Lola, great to see YOU back, gal. I had no idea that you were in the jewelry business, honey. We miss you and wondered how you and that mountie were doing.

Where in Florida are you going?

I'm going to Sarasota, where ever that is. I failed Geography. I hear the fishing is grand there. I'm meeting my children there for a week of harrassment...oh, I mean fun relaxation.

Sarasota is on the Gulf coast, Lola. Have a wonderful time with your kids, and watch out for that seemingly mild water.

Thanks for the picture of caution. I'll try to tell my children about it......but I don't know if they'll listen. They are still full of it. We have to wait a few more years before they'll talk sense.

Ok, folks. Let's play a song for our Lola: (if those kids see a fin, they'll listen)

Now is the hour,
When you must say goodbye.
Soon you'll be flying
Down to the Gulf sea.

While you're away,
Oh, please remember me,
When you return you'll find us
Waiting here.

Had to alter that one a bit. <smile>

Thanks for the song everybody. Now I'm off to work. I'll whistle as I go.

One of my all time favorite songs Walter. The style is Cajun from Louisiana, but the author and band (Mungo Jerry) was from San Francisco!

Lola,

Have a great vacation !

georgeob1, it is really great to see you here, buddy. I would like to take this opportunity to commend you on your great rhetoric and ability to calm things during a storm of controversy. That ain't an easy thing to do.

Besides that, you know good music when you hear it. <smile> Stick around, ok?

:wink:

Of course I know about the Cajun style and his background.

'Lady Rose' and 'Pushbike Song' are quite similar but aren't remembered so well.



So I dedicate this song by Mungo Jerry especially to George


I got the blues from my baby down by San Francisco Bay,
She took an ocean liner she's gone so far away,
Well I didn't mean to treat her so bad,
She was the best looking girl I ever had,
She said goodbye, made me cry, I'm gonna lay down and die

Well I ain't got a nickel, I ain't got a lousy dime,
If she don't come back I think I'm gonna lose my mind,
If she ever comes back to stay, there's gonna be a brand new day,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay

I'm sitting down and looking through my back door,
Just a wondering which way to go,
Woman I'm so crazy for says she don't love me no more,
Think I'll take me a freight train because I'm feeling blue,
Ride on the track to the end of the line,
A-thinking only of you,

Well meanwhile I'm sitting in the city, just about to go insane,
The woman I'm so crazy 'bout, wondering if she call my name,
If she ever comes back to stay, there gonna be a brand new day,
A walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay

Thanks,

I'm listening to it right now!

of course you are, George. You're on the radio, right? <smile>

Great song, Walter, even though I am not familiar with Mungo Jerry.

Now here is a question for everyone:

What is the difference between a cajun and a creole? I think I know the answer without researching it.

same difference as between a french heritage and a native american heritage. Zydigo (squeeze box) Cajun (fiddle) Or so i believe.
Cajun from Acadian.

Creole is a word used variously to refer to the mixed race population throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and the Gulf regions of North and South America. The word had different specific references in the U.S., Mexico, Colombia & Venezuela, and the islands. Cajun, a corruption of Acadian, refers to the Louisiana French settlers forcibly displaced from the maratime provinces of Canada bt the British following the Seven Years War.

Thanks, dys and George. I knew about the cajun part from reading Evangeline by Longfellow, one of my favorite narrative poems, and now you have both clarified my conception of creole.

How about some dixiland jazz, then.

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong

Way down yonder in new orleans
In the land of the dreamy scenes
There's a garden of eden...you know what I mean

Creole babies with flashin' eyes
Softly whisper their tender sighs
Then stop....won't you give your lady fair...a little smile
Stop..ya bet your life you'll linger there...a little while

We've got heaven right here on earth
With those beautiful queens
Way down yonder in new...orleans

(instrumental break)

You're gonna find heaven right here on earth
With all them beautiful queens
Way down yonder in new or.....

I goin' down yonder to new orleans

It's way down yonder in new orleans

Love it!

Great song!

In that vein how about Gary "US" Bonds' version of "New Orleans"

C'mon everybody, take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi, down to new Orleans
...

George, the only one that I can think of in that vein is...


Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong

Won't you come and go with me
Down that mississippi
We'll take a boat to the land of dreams
Come along with me on, down to new orleans

Now the band's there to greet us
Old friends will meet us
Where all them folks goin to the st. louis cemetary meet
Heaven on earth.... they call it basin street

I'm tellin' ya, basin street...... is the street
Where all them characters from the first street they meet
New orleans..... land of dreams
You'll never miss them rice and beans
Way down south in new orleans

They'll be huggin'.... and a kissin'
That's what I been missin'
And all that music....lord, if you just listen'
New orleans....i got them basin street blues

(instrumental break)

Now ain't you glad you went with me
On down that mississippi
We took a boat to the land of dreams
Heaven on earth...they call it basin street.

Louis made that a bit more pc. <smile>

Good-bye Joe, he gotta go, me oh my oh
He gotta go-pole the pirogue down the bayou
His Yvonne the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Thibodaux, Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
A Kin-folk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style the go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
For tonight, I'm a-gonna see my my-my cher a mi-o
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Settle down far from town get him a pirogue
And he'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Swap his mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Diggy Diggy La and Diggy Lo fell in love at the Fais Do Do
The pop was cold and the coffee chaud (hot)
For Diggy Diggy La and Diggy Diggy Lo

Bridge:
Diggy Diggy La and Diggy Lo
Everyone knows he was her beau
No one else could ever show
So much love for Diggy Diggy Lo

That's the place they find romance
Where they do the Cajun dance
Steal a kiss with every chance
Show their love with every glance

Finally went and seen her paw
Now he's got himself a papa in law
Move out where the bayou flows
And now he's got himself a little Diggy Diggy Lo