New song

This is all there is so far.  It’s very bluegrass.

 

Well my pa don’t say much but he don’t like none of my suitors

and my ma never stops like a wasp in a winderpane

My sisters they fume and they tell me it’s my duty

Though I don’t want to wed, suitors come to me again

Crowdin’ round, night and day

crowdin’ round, braggin’ and laughin’

Crowdin’ round, beggin’ kisses sayin’

When you gonna marry me?

I have sent them all off down the road in dusty twilight

and in peace I can pull down and play my mandolin

in the dark by the gatepost I hear a banjo twangin

And he’s far enough away that my pa can’t call it sin

Crowdin’ round, night and day

crowdin’ round, braggin’ and laughin’

Crowdin’ round, beggin’ kisses saying

When you gonna marry me?

All my life I’ve looked after my sisters and my brothers

now they tell me to marry and move out my trousseau

I’m worn out with this fam’ly and now must start another

Ne’er to sail foreign seas now, or hike in mountain snow

Crowdin’ round, night and day

crowdin’ round, braggin’ and laughin’

Crowdin’ round, beggin’ kisses saying

When you gonna marry me?

Some nights after my suitor let the banjo introduce him

He appears and then shyly asks me for my hand

He’d not press me with children, as having the impression

It was something a husband and wife jointly planned

Chorus

Oh you speak to my heart, but what other chains are hiding

Shall I spend all my days by a stove and a sink

Shall I gasp in a fact’ry or wait upon your presence

While you gamble in brothels and spend your health in drink

 

 

 

 

 

 

Into the Woods

Saw the wussified, bowdlerized, defanged and diznified version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods last night with Sue.  I enjoyed it.  Chris Pine ripppppping his shirt off in the Agony song was pretty funny, and Emily Blunt was bloody marvellous, but really all the cast was good, and I enjoyed it.  I’m actually glad I saw it on the big screen as it is quite pretty.

Also I ate poutine and drank beer (except for parties I’m not keeping it in the house anymore).  Now I’m going to get up, make coffee and get stuff done.  Since there is literally no more episodic tv to watch unless we’re rewatching SG1, which is okay too I guess.