Oolite Bulletins

Call it, light drunkenness, call it massive sentimentality. But I had a thought the other hour about spacer sea shanties. I feel there is a lot of corresponding emotional states between fishermen, traders and people of the sea and spacers.

Given the shared psychology I feel there would be a rich musical culture, expressing the disparity between space , station, planet and home.

Feel free to add your own, but I made up a short. I find it easier to write when I'm comfortable with the world. Singing makes me comfortable.
How is your world when the world is relaxed? Well it's like this:

Where the fight is met on silent void,
with lasers cutting clean,
when darkness calls a spaces soul
to rest at fiddles green

To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
your trader fast as dream.
To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
seat set on fiddlers green!

of oath and boast and stories told;
of horror seldom seen.
for them with were withall to sour.
a birth to station clean.

To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
your trader fast as dream.
To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
seat set on fiddlers green!

so, rail against hard black me boys
turn twist and aim your beam
a place for you and all when done.
will land at fiddles green.

To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
your trader fast as dream.
To the green fine sir!
To the green fine sir!
seat set on fiddlers green!

If you post the score, we could all rehearse and start the Oolite Spacers' Choir...

vals got a violin, I'll see what I can do.

I've got a clarinet... send me the score!

Cheers,

Drew.

And we'll sing it at the December meet!

Good job Clym!

drew wrote:

I've got a clarinet... send me the score!

Cheers,

Drew.

Turns out (according to her teacher) that Milly (my 10 yr old) is a natural with the clarinet - she never practices (except the morning before her weekly lesson) and is apparently tearing through the basics of learning to play. Very annoying as I have no musical ability at all...

Ah the hallmarks of a good shanty are that they can be sung, so one man can relay the tale.
Accompaniment is of course wonderful embellishment on, what is in effect, a very simple thing.
A certain amount of beer crashing and foot stomping is of course inevitable.
I'll have to find a tune worthy of the words........

I'm seeing a duplicated line in in the chorus that lends itself to Irish melody. OK speed fix the original post....

ClymAngus wrote:

Ah the hallmarks of a good shanty are that they can be sung, so one man can relay the tale.
Accompaniment is of course wonderful embellishment on, what is in effect, a very simple thing.
A certain amount of beer crashing and foot stomping is of course inevitable.
I'll have to find a tune worthy of the words........

I'm seeing a duplicated line in in the chorus that lends itself to Irish melody. OK speed fix the original post....

Due to my late work nights of late I've been listening to Mike Harding on Radio 2 in the evening - I'm enjoying it immensely - Folk music is an genre that has, until recently, completely passed me by...

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

If you post the score, we could all rehearse and start the Oolite Spacers' Choir...

The coriolis quartet.

Cheers,

Drew.