joo Hey Sabine, thanks for hosting. Great theme! Here is one about hunting for herring by Ewan MacColl. My version is based on Oscar Isaac's version for the film Inside Llewyn Davis. You can see the lyrics in the YT description. There was a little interesting mistake i made. Instead of "caught ten million fishes" I sang "fought ten million fishes". I thought that was a good error. Thanks to Jon for filming.
UkeCan1 redpaul1 LimousinLil According to Graham Roberts in his 'The Discovery Of France' (2007): "To many foreign travellers [in the autumn of 1789], the characteristic sound of the French Revolution was the constant crepitation of muskets in the countryside exterminating the animals that had once enjoyed aristocratic immunity." Are we saying they had a reputation for crepitation?
UkeCan1 When I first saw the theme, this was the only song I could think of, and it hasn't let me alone since. "Hungry Like the Wolf" - Duran Duran
Bystander Thanks for hosting Sabine, a bit of Elton John for you with a much abridged end of verse section for obvious vocal reasons.
MsBean Bystander I would love to listen, but the video is currently 'private', Graham. Or are you reworking it?
jon an original lil' dose of silly for the season! thankfully, it's the kind of song that takes 10 minutes to write, 90 seconds to play, you cringe at while you're listening and afterwards, everyone forgets ever happenedā¦ "The Huntin' Shootin' Fishin' Song" with apologies to the good taste police š
UkeCan1 I canāt believe I forgot about this one. Recommended to me by Jim P @uke4ia for a long-ago Rabbit Season he hosted. Iāve done it a few times for the Seasons, and performed it many times. Itās all one chord shape. āRabbit Slayerā by Ozzy Fudd (Mark McCollum), Elmer Fuddās punk nephew.
jon a lovely old folk song for children we filmed on our walk yesterday along the Coningham foreshore š "And We Hunted And We Hunted"
jon was listening to the Seeger family album, "Animal Folk Songs for Children" when i was making dinner last night and this song came along it's a pretty dark one to be on a kiddos rekkid lol so i gave it my own spin and made it even darker "Who Killed Poor Robin" the clip i made w/ some random films i've taken over the last month or so
uke4ia In 2013, a couple of Water Department guys in a small town near here were caught in their side hustle, hanging deer carcasses for hunters in a town well pumphouse. This was not considered to be a terrific sanitary practice. I was inspired to write this short song called "Pumphouse Deer". (Sitting behind the uke, I always hear the electric output, which is coming out of speakers to my left, as much louder compared to the acoustic sound than it turns out to be in the video.)
UkeCan1 Apparently when I suggested there might be a lot of Grateful Dead songs this week, I meant from me. Iām not even a big Dead fan, though I spent my formative uke years playing every Thursday in a jam group run by people who were. Hence I have tons of their songs in my Dropbox that Iāve played more times than I could count. Hereās a one-take āquickieā of a simple one we did probably every single week, narrated by someone whoās the object of a manhunt, āFriend of the Devilā.
Barbablanca As I am fiercely anti-hunt, it was difficult for me to choose one of my songs to present to this Season. Then it struck me that there was one kind of hunt that I already had a song about: a Witch Hunt. I don't believe I have recorded and posted it to YouTube before (but with 900+ songs of mine on my channel, it's hard to keep track š). It is certainly a new recording. So, here is the story of poor Mistress McGowan, charged with being a witch and paying the penalty for it at the hands of a mob. I hope you like it:
uke4ia You may seek it with thimblesĀāand seek it with care; Ā Ā You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; Ā Ā You may charm it with smiles and soapā Ā But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, Ā Ā If your Snark be a Boojum!Ā For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, Ā Ā And never be met with again!
