From owner-ballad-l@miagra.ucs.indiana.edu Thu Jul 10 23:59:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mizar.usc.edu (mizar.usc.edu [128.125.253.135]) by almaak.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc) with ESMTP id XAA06970 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miagra.ucs.indiana.edu (miagra.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.5.181]) by mizar.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc) with ESMTP id XAA16961 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by miagra.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/1.2skh) id BAA24777 for ballad-l-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:59:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (cayman.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.5.187]) by miagra.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/1.2skh) with ESMTP id BAA24770 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:59:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from almaak.usc.edu (almaak.usc.edu [128.125.253.166]) by cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/1.13IUPO) with ESMTP id BAA12506 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:59:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (cray@localhost) by almaak.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc) with SMTP id XAA06944 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:59:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Cray To: ballad-l@indiana.edu Subject: Re: The Titanic Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ballad-l@indiana.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 21:59:44 From: Paul Woodford To: Ed Cray Cc: ZiPpy Subject: Re: Greetings Hi, Ed! Thanks for checking in. How's your book going? Roosevelt, was it? Please let me know, because I do plan to buy and read it once it's published - since I've been in my 50s, history is unaccountably more interesting to me than it was before. Do you have any knowledge of the campfire song about the Titanic? I've been trying to dig out the original song for a couple of years now, and haven't gotten anywhere. I'll attach the version I know, but I'm sure it's nowhere close to the original. Might be a good song to unearth if we can get to it before the movie comes out. Retirement has been berry berry good to me so far - I'm praying the money will last long enough that I'll be able to accept a job I want, rather than one I must accept to keep food on the table. If you know anyone in the flight safety business, please let them know there's a foul-minded pilot looking for a job! Sincerely, Paul Woodford woodford@wizard.com THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Melody--Itself There are many versions of this song; not all are written down. This one contains some home-made verses--F.B. Oh, they built the ship Titanic, to sail the ocean blue, And they thought they'd built a ship the water couldn't get through. But an iceberg on the wave, sent it to its watery grave, It was sad when that great ship went down. Chorus: It was sad, (so sad), it was sad, (too bad), It was sad when that great ship went down, To the bottom of the . . . HUSBANDS AND WIVES, LITTLE CHILDREN LOST THEIR LIVES! It was sad when that great ship went down. Oh, they sailed from Plymouth, England, and were halfway to the shore, When the rich refused to associate with the poor. So they put the poor below, where they were the first to go, It was sad when that great ship went down. (Chorus): UNCLES AND AUNTS, THEY PISSED RIGHT IN THEIR PANTS! Oh, that ship was full of sin, and the sides about to burst, When the captain shouted, "Women and children first!" Then he tried to send a wire, but the wires were all on fire, It was sad when that great ship went down. (Chorus): CHILDREN, THEY CRIED, AS THE WAVES SWEPT O'ER THE SIDE! Oh, the crew was not afraid, as they tried to lower boats, But the waves were cruel, and nary a boat would float. So they put on their lifevests, and prepared themselves for death, It was sad when that great ship went down. (Chorus): LADY ASTOR IN HER GOWN, HAD TO WATCH HER HUSBAND DROWN! Oh, the captain was at fault, and was just about to flee, When the band struck up with "A-Nearer My God to Thee!" And the steerage passengers, were left to drown like curs, It was sad when that great ship went down. (Chorus): HOW THEY DID PLEA, AS THEY SLIPPED BENEATH THE SEA! (Special verse): But in the captain's cabin, the spirits they did find, And they began to swill, as they floated in the brine. And the liquor in their veins, kept them warm upon the main, It was glad when that great ship went down! (Special Chorus): It was glad (so glad), it was glad (so glad), It was glad when that great ship went down, To the bottom of the . . . CHAMPAGNE AND WHISKEY, THEY WENT DOWN FEELING FRISKY! It was glad when that great ship went down. Oh, the moral of this story is very plain to see, You must wear your life preserver when you are out to sea. Or you may find yourself aswim, facing fate that's all too grim, It was sad when that great ship went down. (Chorus): MIGHTY OR MEEK, YOU CAN'T TREAD WATER FOR A WEEK! ----------------------------------- At 11:06 PM 7/4/97 -0700, you wrote: >Paul: > >I was wasting time, looking up bawdy+songs on HotBot, and got your home >page -- number 30, with a 92 percent assurance your were foul minded. > >For a lark, I decided to download "Hymns." I got 177K, and with >ostensibly 2:04 left to go tho' it is much faster, the download stalled. >Froze up tight. > >Otherwise, congratulations on your retirement. The nation is once more >protected. > >Ed > > >