Seasons of the Ukulele

A weekly song challenge for ukulele players - all welcome. Find out more here

Season 752 - Flock, Pack and Huddle

Bystander

LimousinLil No Val, we're talking 1966 and refusing to leave the pitch after being sent off, google is your friend.

dr_mitch

A final one from me this week. The operative word here is "herd" in the second line of the first verse. Thanks for hosting Ylle!

Xamar25

A Team by Ed Sheeran

Thanks so much for the topic. It inspired me to learn this song which I have always admired. Listen to all the long A words in the chorus (A team. Wasting. Eighteen. Pastry)

A in the song refers to class A narcotics.

potmo

"Talking Blues" Bob Marley & The Wailers

I am invoking @Threebird 's "Rule of Three".

"Bed" (clams, cocides, cockles, florists, flowers, mussels, oysters, snakes, swingers)
"Cold ground was my bed last night"
"Screw" (a "scew" of hawks - marginal but it is listed)
"I seem to wear a permanent screw"
"Church (of squirrels)
"... I feel like bombing a church..."

This is my absolute favorite Bob Marley tune.

potmo

UkeCan1 Good one! That one was on my short list.

potmo

"It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry" -Bob Dylan

thrill (fans)
hill (beans ruffs)
sea (bishops)
down (hares)
frost(dowagers)

OnlyUkeThatMatters

According to wiktionary's English collective nouns list, we should refer any group of turkeys, bison, bikers, buffalo, weasels, slaves, hoodlums, convicts, thieves, labourers, thugs, or elk as a gang.

So here's "Last Gang in Town" by the Clash!

MsBean

A song about a Piet Hein and the raid on a Spanish treasure fleet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein

https://www.liedjeskist.nl/liedjes_a-z/z-liedjes/zilvervloot.htm

kolibri

In Hawaii the Sunday passed, so the Season 752 is now over.

Final Team Huddle (and Wrap): Thank you for investigating the collective nouns, thank you for your splendid songs and comments! 🥳

Before this Season started, I thought that "family" and "couple" will be the most popular words. But it turned out that "band" was the most popular collective noun. There were a couple of couples, companies, families, charms and wells as well. I have not scrutinized all song lyrics to find all possible collective nouns in them, but I can say that 19 Seasonistas provided 39 songs with over 40 different collective nouns in them. 🎆

Thank you so much, dear Seasonistas! It's always fun to host and listen to your submissions. Again I learned about new songs and songwriters and was reminded of some old favorite tunes.

Season 753 will be even bigger (and weirder?), so let's see what the new week brings. 🙂

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