h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

BOAT, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July--

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear--

Long has paled that sunny sky;
Echoes fade and memories die;
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Ever drifting down the stream--
Lingering in the golden gleam--
Life, what is it but a dream?

["Life is but a Dream" from The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses: Lewis Carroll, 1903.]

Are you in the right thread Jabs? Just checking

Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward, the sailors cry
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunder clouds rend the air;
Baffled our foe's stand on the shore
Follow they will not dare

Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep
Ocean's a royal bed
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head

Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore could wield
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden's field

Burned are our homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men
Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath,
Charlie will come again.

Sir Harold Boulton, 1884 (Composer)

'Twas on a Monday morning,
Right early in the year,
When Charlie came to our town,
The young Chevalier.

Oh, Charlie is my darling,
My darling, my darling;
Oh, Charlie is my darling,
The young Chevalier.

Scottish song - Robert Burns

Twas on a Monday morning
When I beheld my darling,
She looked so neat and charming
In ev'ry high degree.
She looked so neat and nimble, O,
A-washing of her linen, O,
Dashing away with the smoothing iron, dashing away with a smoothing iron, dashing away with a smoothing iron,
She stole my heart away.

trad.

No I wasn't, LadyC. Must have been dreaming

She woz as ba-u'ifull as a bu''erfy an' peraud as a Queen
Woz pre''y li''le Polly Perkins of Paddin'ton Green

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair
I came upon Mother Goose - so I turned her loose
she was screaming.
And a foreign student said to me
was it really true there are elephants and lions too
in Piccadilly Circus?

Jethro Tull - Mother Goose

Are you going to Strawberry Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

Simon and Garfunkel
(The Graduate)

Wasn't your age this time then Jabs

Not this time, LadyC - but isn't it Scarborough Fair?

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page let every stage
Advance Australia fair,
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

I did it again didn't I? I give up!

Love that song Bedmechanic

It's one of my fave's also and seemed to fit in nicely

Don't give up on us, baby
Don't make the wrong seem right
The future isn't just one night
It's written in the moonlight
Painted on the stars
We can't change ours

Don't give up on us, baby
We're still worth one more try
I know we put a last one by
Just for a rainy evening
When maybe stars are few
Don't give up on us, I know
We can still come through

Don't give up on us baby (David Soul)


There was no way I was gonna do

Oops I did it again!

Baby, please dont go
Baby, please dont go
Baby, please dont go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please dont go


[Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters]

Come on everybody take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
The honey suckle is bloomin on the honeysuckle vine
And love is blomin there all the time.
Every Southern elle is a Mississippi queen,
Down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.


Gary US Bonds

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico


[Johnny Horton: Battle of New Orleans]

Haven't heard that for donkey's years!

One day Started walkin’
On the street We started talkin’
Downtown I were movin’
In the rain I were groovin’
She smiled Nothin’ hurtin’
So fine The bees were workin’
I knew Honey, honey
She’d be mine Easy money

Postcard from Mexico
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin

I love this song - you can hear it (and see why I've laid it out like this) on the following link.

http://www.compassrecords.com/ecards/kane_welch/index.html

Layout hasn't actually turned out the way I'd hoped lol

Lay Lady Lay, Layout On Your Big Brass Bed


Bob Dylan

Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John.

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

Johnny Cash