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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Thrawn on July 06, 2002, 03:37:21 AM
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Stan, your poetry, and music are well missed sir.
Well missed.
Harris and the Mare, by Stan Rogers.
Harris, my old friend, good to see your face again
More welcome, though, yon trap and that old mare
For the wife is in a swoon, and I am all alone
Harris, fetch thy mare and take us home
The wife and I came out for a quiet glass of stout
And a word or two with neighbors in the room
But young Clary, he came in, as drunk and wild as sin
And swore the wife would leave the place with him
But the wife as quick as thought said, "No, I'll bloody not"
Then struck the brute a blow about the head
He raised his ugly paw, and he lashed her on the jaw
And she fell onto the floor like she were dead
Now Harris, well you know, I've never struck an angry blow
Nor would I keep a friend who raised his hand
I was a conscie in the war, cryin' what the hell's this for?
But I had to see his blood to be a man
I grabbed him by his coat, spun him 'round and took his throat
And beat his head upon the parlor door
He dragged out an awful knife, and he roared "I'll have your life"
And he stuck me and I fell onto the floor
Now blood I was from neck to thigh, bloody murder in his eye
As he shouted out "I'll finish you for sure"
But as the knife came down, I lashed out from the ground
And the knife was in his breast and he rolled o'er
Now with the wife as cold as clay I carried her away
No hand was raised to help us through the door
And I've brought her half a mile, but I've had to rest a while
And none of them I'll call a friend no more
For when the knife came down, I was helpless on the ground
No neighbor stayed his hand, I was alone
By God, I was a man, but now I cannot stand
Please, Harris, fetch thy mare, take us home
Oh, Harris, fetch thy mare, and take us out of here
In my nine and fifty years I've never known
That to call myself a man, for my loved one I must stand
Now Harris, fetch thy mare take us home
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y'know in a just world, towering talents like Stan Rogers (and about 100 more i could list here) wouldn't be 'obsure' and the britneys and n'sync's would be husking in street corners for quaters.
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Absolutely.
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damn, I can't believe I've never heard of him, sounds like just the kind of stuff I like.
btw anybody else here like John Prine?(not to hi-jack but their work sounds kind of similar)
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" and the britneys and n'sync's would be husking in street corners for quaters."
Why is it necessary to degrade other artists in order to promote your favorite?
BTW, Stan Rogers is an excellent folk singer.
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""Why is it necessary to degrade other artists in order to promote your favorite?""
because IT GETS ME OFF! :p
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n'sync's...artists? :confused: I must be missing something...
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I think his point was people with little or no creative talent are raking in massive bucks (well, their labels are raking in massive bucks, I've no clue what contracts the entertainers have) while some creative geniuses are widely unknown and not making a whole lotta money.
but hey, that's life.
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Originally posted by Nifty
I think his point was people with little or no creative talent are raking in massive bucks (well, their labels are raking in massive bucks, I've no clue what contracts the entertainers have) while some creative geniuses are widely unknown and not making a whole lotta money.
but hey, that's life.
And nothing new. How many of the writing team from SNL can anyone name. Not a quiz, just making a point. The "creative person" and the "performer" are rarely the same person. When they are the same person it is unusual enough to create the mega stars, like the Beatles, or Milli Vanilli.
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Maybe that's because its hard to club-dance to Stan Rogers' tunes.
Here's a beat that'll sell a million records:
Boomp bitty boomp bitty boomp bitty boomp bye bye bye bye boomp bitty boomp bitty boomp.
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Originally posted by gofaster
Maybe that's because its hard to club-dance to Stan Rogers' tunes.
I don't know...
Put some cowbell and some upbeats into "Barretts Privateers" and you'll be packin em in!
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I always thought Oliver Hardy was funnier anyway.
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True MT, a lot of the SNL actors go off of scripts... but they still have the talent to make the scripts funny.
'nsync has to have a dance choreographer (sp?) to make them look good on stage, and their voices might as well be dubbed- it's such horrid noise they make, you KNOW it's only looks that are selling them.
and Britney Spears... pfffftttt... again, all looks, no talent, sounds like someone's raping a goat and skinning a cat at the same time. Sure, she's hot... but talent? pffffttttt.
-SW