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And from the film Rio Bravo take it away:

My Rifle Pony and Me
Duet w/ Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson

Sun is sinking in the west
The cattle go down to the stream
The redwing settles in the nest
It's time for a cowboy to dream

Purple light in the canyon
that is where I long to be
With my three good companions
just my rifle pony and me

Gonna hang my sombrero
on the limb of a tree
Coming home sweet my darling
just my rifle pony and me

Whippoorwill in the willow
sings a sweet melody
Riding to Amarillo
just my rifle pony and me

No more cows to be ropin'
No more strays will I see
'round the bend shell be waitin
For my rifle pony and me
For my rifle my pony and me

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Thanks to our Eva for the happy trails wish last evening, and to Boston Bob for continuing the theme with the Rio Bravo music.

Tomorrow is St.Patrick's Day, so our jjorge will be tasting some Irish coffee, but as of now, mine is just plain old stuff. <smile>

Good morning Miss Letty, have a nice day.


Artist: Bing Crosby Lyrics
Song: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate - The Positive Lyrics

You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

(To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark)

Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between
Do you hear me, hmm?

(Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear
About the elininatin' of the negative
And the accent on the positive)
And gather 'round me children if you're willin'
And sit tight while I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right

(You've gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between)

You've got to spread joy (up to the maximum)
Bring gloom (down) down to the minimum
Otherwise (otherwise) pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate (well illustrate) my last remark (you got the floor)
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they say (what did they say)
Say when everything looked so dark

Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative

Good morning, Try. My word, buddy. That's a Johnny Mercer song. Like O Henry, I think he wrote to repay his father's debts, but I'm not certain of that, so I will have to check.

For our etymological folks:

From whence comes the expression..."a little under the weather"?

Well, thank you, Francis. That makes sense. Idioms are interesting things as are colloquialisms, no?

As my mom used to say: Lawd, darlin' it depends on how the weather is, and she meant that as the weather affected her mood.

It's a beautiful day here today, however, so perhaps Letty will get her "second wind."

Where are Walter and McTag?

Here's a song that just popped into my head, listeners:

In my little red school house,
With my book and slate,
In my little red school house,
I was always late.

I long to be back there when I was a scholar,
In the days of yore.
And I'd stand right up and holler,
Two and two makes four,

When I should have been learnin'
About the golden rule.
My little heart was yearnin'
For the swimming pool.

Oh, how we'd wait for the 4:00 bell,
When it would ring we would run like hell.

Oh, gee, I'd love to be,
In the little red school house.

Don't ask, folks, I have no idea where that came from.

All men on deck, Letty! :wink:

(Actually, I'd never that expression being maritime-connected: but may that's because I didn't spent my naval career on cruise ships but did some tenthousands of nautical miles on ships/boats, where swaying around was normality I know that expresion from my migraine.)

How about this one:
"Hi Sailor, want to have some fun?"

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time

Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poorself together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me.

All I do is pray the lord above will let me walk in the sun once more.
Can't go on, ev'ry thing I had is gone
Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time

Sweet ladies of Plymouth we're saying "Goodbye",
Ro-o-oll down.
But we'll rock you and roll you again bye and bye,
Walk around m' brave boys and roll down.

Chorus:
And we will Ro-o-oll down,
Walk around m' brave boys and roll down.

Our anchor's a-weigh and the sails are unfurled,
And we're bound for to take her half way round the world,

In the wide Bay of Biscay the seas will run high,
And those poor seasick Transports will wish they could die.

When the Cape of Good Hope it is rounded at last,
The poor homesick Transports will long for the past.

And when we arrive off Australia's strand,
The poor weary Transports will long for the land.

And when we set sail for old England's shore,
Those poor stranded Transports we'll see then no more.

Then sweet ladies of Plymouth we'll pay all your rent,
And go roving no more 'til our money's all spent.

Well, there's our Walter. Welcome back, buddy. Love Stormy Weather(the song only)<smile>

Hey, George. I've heard that expression before.

"Hey there mister; you better watch your sister 'cause the fleet's in.."

In Portland Town there lived a maid
Bless you, young maidens!
In Portland Town there lived a maid
Now mind what I do say!

In Portland Town there lived a maid
And she was mistress of her trade

I'll go no more a rovin'
With you, fair maids

A rovin', a rovin'
For rovin's been my ru-i-in

I'll go no more a rovin'
With you, fair maids!

Love that one, George. I can hear the melody in my head.

Well, folks, as much as I hate to do so, I have a multitude of stuff to do around here, so................................

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio.

Question? Did Robert Shaw sing this one in the movie, JAWS?

WE'LL RANT AND WE'LL ROAR
My name it is Robert, they call me Bob Pittman;
I sail in the Ino with Skipper Tim Brown.
l'm bound to have Dolly or Biddy or Molly
As soon as l'm able to plank the cash down.


chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders,
We'Il rant and we'll roar on deck and below
Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers,
When straight through the Channel to Toslow we'll go.
l'm a son of a sea-cook, and a cook in a trader;
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main-boom;
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room.
chorus:
If the voyage is good, then this fall I will do it;
I wants two pound ten for a ring and the priest,
A couple o' dollars for clean shirt and collars,
And a handful o' coppers to make up a feast.
chorus:
There's plump little Polly, her name is Goldsworthy,
There's John Coady's Kitty, and Mary Tibbo;
There's Clara from Bruley, and young Martha Foley,
But the nicest of all is my girl in Toslow.
chorus:
Farewell and adieu to ye fair ones of VaIen,
Farewell and adieu to ye girls in the Cove;
I'm bound to the westward, to the wall with the hole in,
I'II take her from Toslow the wild world to rove.
chorus:
Farewell and adieu to ye girls of St. Kyran's,
Of Paradise and Presque, Big and Little Bona,
l'm bound unto Toslow to marry sweet Biddy,
And if I don't do so, I'm afraid of her da.
chorus:
I've bought me a house from Katherine Davis,
A twenty-pound bed from Jimmy MeGrath;
I'll get me a settle, a pot and a kettle;
Then I'll be ready for Biddy - hurrah!
chorus:
O, I brought in the Ino this spring from the city,
Some rings and gold brooches for the girls in the Bay;
I bought me a case-pipe - they call it a meerschaum -
It melted like butter upon a hot day.
chorus:
I went to a dance one night at Fox Harbour,
There were plenty of girls, so nice as you'd wish;
There was one pretty maiden a-chawin' of frankgum
Just like a young kitten a-gnawing fresh fish.
chorus:
Then here is a heaIth to the girls of Fox Harbour,
Of Oderin and Presque, Crabbes Hole and Bruley.
Now let ye be jolly, don't be melancholy,
I can't marry all, or in chokey I'd be.
Recorded by Alan Mills (Folkways), A. L. LLoyd

Quint's Song (Spanish Ladies)

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain.
For we received orders for to sail back to Boston
And soon never more will we see you again.

Letty, your song is about Newfoundland, where me dear Gran hailed from.

Eddie Foy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edwin Fitzgerald Foy (March 9, 1856-February 16, 1928) was an American vaudeville actor and comedian.

Foy had seven children and they sometimes performed with him as The Seven Little Foys. The most famous was actor Eddie Foy, Jr. (1905-1983). Bob Hope portrayed Foy in a feature film called "The Seven Little Foys" (1955), while Eddie Foy, Jr., portrayed Foy, Sr., in the George M. Cohan biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. Foy is notable as a survivor of the December 30, 1903 fire that erupted in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois, claiming the lives of 602 people. Foy was a star in the theater troupe performing Mr. Bluebeard, Jr. at the time, and rescued several people from the blaze.

Eddie Foy was saved by Wyatt Earp in Dodge City.

"Sometimes traveling theatrical repertoires rolled into town. An amusing incident took place one night when Wyatt was awakened to gunfire in the streets. Outside, he found a shaken comedian, Eddie Foy, huddled in an alley while fellow actor Charles Chapin was taking pot shots at Foy for stealing his girl. Wyatt easily disarmed the drunken thespian and sent the players home to "sleep it off"".

Foy also was a friend of Doc Holliday in Dodge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Foy

Ah, George. That's the one. Now I am beginning to wonder about the song that I read; sang; whatever. <smile> the melody seems to fit both, listeners.

Back later with breaking news.

Will Geer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Will Geer (born March 9, 1902 in Frankfort, Indiana - died 22 April 1978) was an American actor. Geer's real name was William Auge Ghere. He is best known for his portrayal of the character "Grandpa" Zebulon "Zeb" Walton, in the popular 1970s TV series The Waltons.

Geer was heavily influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native Indiana. He started out to become a botanist, studying the subject and obtaining a master's degree from Columbia University. But he eventually succumbed to the allure of acting.

He began his career touring in tent shows and on river boats. He eventually made his way to Broadway, and in 1964 received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for 110 in the Shade.

He was married to the actress Herta Ware, best known for her poignant performance as the wife of Jack Gilford in the original movie, (Cocoon). Geer and Ware had 3 children, including actress Ellen Geer. Although they eventually divorced they remained close. Ware also had a daughter, actress Melora Marshall, by another marriage.

Geer had an early romantic relationship with late noted gay activist Harry Hay.

Geer was also a social activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie. In the 1950s he was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. During that period, he built the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California, which he and Herta Ware helped to found. He combined his acting and botanical careers at the Theatricum, by making sure that every plant mentioned in Shakespeare was grown there.

As Will Geer was dying on April 22, 1978, of a respiratory ailment at the age of 76, his family sang Guthrie's This Land is Your Land on his deathbed, and recited poems by Robert Frost. Geer was cremated, and his ashes buried at the Theatricum Botanicum in the "Shakespeare Garden."

INTERESTING NOTE: In the German dubbing version, the first name of Zeb Walton was altered to Samuel "Sam" Walton because "Zeb" sounded too similar to "Sepp", a Bavarian short form of the name "Joseph", which was considered clichéd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Geer

Oops, George, missed your answer. Well I'll be, George. Isn't music amazing. Newfoundland? Love it.

Please continue, Boston Bob.