Why do they call it Christmas "Eve"? Is there also a Christmas Adam??

[renomarvinm]

I just wanted to know.

[saasher2012]

Oh dear! What can I say about your poem, how about, don't give up your day job just yet, says it all really! To soften the blow I send you another poem, not by Spike, but very apt I thought. Nothing personal I promise.

THE PIG.
It was an evening in November ,
As I very well remember,
I was strolling down the street in drunken pride, but my knees were all a- flutter,
And I landed in the gutter, and a pig came up and lay down by my side.

Yes, I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
When a Colleen passing by did softly say
" you can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses'-
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.


Boom! Boom!!. Sorry I've no idea who the poet is. Sam.


it was a

[cee-dee]

It was a what????

[saasher2012]

?

[cee-dee]

At the end of your post at #181 you've got "it was a"..........

A WHAT?

[saasher2012]

Aah with you! Sorry, Gremlins.

[cee-dee]

What happened there? More gremlins?

[saasher2012]

I'm saying nuffin!

[cee-dee]

I heard that! You said "nuffin".

[saasher2012]

I wuz miming!

[renomarvinm]

Hi  Saasher!   I know that one!  That was an old song titled "The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away," sung by one of my heroes, Rudy Vallee!  Before my time, that was.  I mean that one is old!  Still, that was a great song!!!!

(Pause) Here's my obligatory bow to my original subject ---  that song was often sung on the Christmas holidays, usually after the singers (a truly riotious raffish bunch) had consumed copeous quantities of rum, tequila, and other forms of alcohol.  Now, back to what I was saying, hee, heee

Rudy Vallee had many great hits.  He did the Whiffenpoof Song, and he did the Old Sow Song.  Now that was a song with lyrics..... It was, to put it mildly, earthy.  Crude would probably be a better appelation, but earthy will do in a pinch.  The Old Sow Song had all of the restraint and class of an overworked tuna boat filled with drunken sailors, desperately trying to make harbor (any harbor) before the DT's kicked in and the steering failed..

Let nobody ever think that I am not a fan of culture......   (whatever it is)

[saasher2012]

That surprises me, Rudy Vallee doesn't sound very Irish, I am going by the mention of the word Colleen . But hey! I bow to your superior knowledge. I found the poem or song in an old book I had &thought it was rather funny!
My father was in the Navy, that goes along way to explaining why apart from the obligatory Sea Songs , he would never tell us about the ones the Sailors made up in their spare time. lol. Sam.

[renomarvinm]

Hi Sam!!    So. as we gather around the table to celebrate the holidays (note my subtle effort to stay on topic here, hee, hee). we may contemplate the wonderful songs created and sung by sailors.   I remember standing on the shore in Oregon once, at a town named Morrow Bay.  There was a huge storm at sea, wind blowing past us, around us, and through us, so it seemed at the time.  Impossibly huge waves wereblowing through the small channel leading to their harbor, pounding the earth ferrociously.  Windswept spray was all over us, even though we were back a long ways from the shore.  No way, I thought, would I ever venture out into that....far, far too dangerous.  Sailors were always a brave and hearty lot.

You can actually hear Rudy Vallee and his people singing the pig thing if you run up the title and name in You-Tube.  That one was always one of my favorites, and I am much grateful to you for reminding me of it!!  But for sheer rude and crude effort, nothing beats the Old Sow Song!!!  Personally, I think it should be sung by all of the members of our congress before every session!  Teach them a bit of humility.....Or at least it will set the proper mood for what they choose to do after.....hee, hee.

As always,  Bob up here in EUGENE where it is still raining!!

[saasher2012]

Hi, did as you asked & listened to The Old Sow song, Cyril Smith, Rudy Vallee. I thought it was hilarious not crude at all. Perhaps It was not the one you meant? Glad to hear it hails from the Old Country.
As to Sailors, " well you know what Sailors are !" Sam.

[renomarvinm]

Hi Sam!   That was the one!  Well, OK, perhaps it wasn't that crude at all - but I agree that it was funny!  I tend to exaggerate for dramatic affect a lot.  But here' are two more songs, and I don't know if they are on you-tube.  I haven't looked,  Here's the story:

In 1950, when I was a little kid living in Los Angeles, California,   my family took a vacation, a holiday I guess you'd call it.  We drove to Vancoover, British Columbia.  Near the Canadian border, we we were listening to our car radio when an incredible song came on.  It was "Knees Up Mother Brown," a British song on London Records, I think it was.  The reverse side was "Roll Me Over in the Clover and Do It Again."  This was also known as the "Bowling Alley Song," though I suspect it's not bowling they were discussing.  We discovered the reverse side after we got home and sent off for a copy of the record.  I believe I still have it somewhere, but its been a long time.

They were both WW2 British songs to lift up moralle.  Very nicely done!  Good, wonderful memories!!!!

[saasher2012]

Hi, don't need to look those up, know em both, the first is still popular along with " my old man says follow the van" old cockney songs. The second is still on the go, not sung in mixed company unless your a student, & yes your right it isn't anything to do with bowling.
If you want to hear oldies try some old British hunting songs, but you'll probably need an interpreter ! lol. Sam.

[bankhaunter]

Back then the family used to go to what were known as 'socials' a sort of large party come dance held in a hall.

The evening would usually end with everybody forming a large circle doing the Hokey Cokey followed by Knees up Mother Brown coupled with Oh My What a Rotten Song.

The music would speed up towards the end everyone having to 'knees up' like mad to keep in time, no doubt hence the saying "Gor blimey we 'ad a right ole knees up last night."

[saasher2012]

Yes those were the days when you had proper family parties, they used to take turns at the old Joanna & really have fun, I do remember as a child especially at Xmas parties in the hall the climax was the arrival of Santa. Then the kids went to another room & the adults really got down to some serious knees up including solo singing.

[ronnybabes]

Reno and saasher,

I may stand to be corrected, or are you indeed talking cross purposes. 

The Pig got up and slowly walked away was a song recorded by Frank Crumit, whereas "The Old Sow Song by Rudy Vallee was something entirely different..

[ronnybabes]

This is "The Old Sow Song".......  ????