A new MySpace site

[Joe]

Hi all,

Announcing the creation of an ALL-NEW Cottars MySpace site!

It has FOUR full-length tracks of:

• Miss Casey Set
  
• Trippers Set
  
• Byker Hill
  
• The 23rd of June
  
• The Peace Carol
  

www.myspace.com/cottarsmusic

[faerie]

yay!
this means a new cd soon? hopefully??
I know the 23rd of june by the jug of punch, from the clancy brothers, didnt know it had another name, it sounds more proper

Tia

[Northern_Lights]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to go to another computer to listen though!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joe]

Mar 9, 2008 23:18:00 GMT -5 faerie said:

I know the 23rd of june by the jug of punch, from the clancy brothers, didnt know it had another name, it sounds more proper

Tia

Hi Tia and everyone,

Here are the lyrics from "The 23rd of June" heard on The Cottars' MySpace page:

THE TWENTY-THIRD OF JUNE

It bein' on the twenty-third of June, as I sat weaving all on my loom
It bein' on the twenty-third of June, as I sat weaving all on my loom
I heard a thrush singin' on yon bush
And the song he sang was the jug of punch

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

What more hardship can a b'y endure, than to sit him down, oh, behind the door
Oh, what more hardship can a b'y endure, than to sit him down, oh, behind the door
And in his hand no jug of punch
Aye, and on his knee no tidy wench

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

When I am dead, all my drinking's o'er, I will take one drink and I'll drink no more
When I am dead, all my drinking's o'er, I will take one drink and I'll drink no more
In case I mightn't get it on that day
I will take it now and I'll drink away

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

When I am dead, aye and in my mould, at my head and feet leave a flowing bowl
When I am dead, aye and in my mould, at my head and feet leave a flowing bowl
And every young man that passes by
He can take a drink and remember I

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

Diddley-I-um-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

Diddley-I-um-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

©2002 Makem.com
©2007 The Cottars

[jason22]

Jun 21, 2008 12:11:25 GMT -5 Joe said:

Mar 9, 2008 23:18:00 GMT -5 faerie said:

I know the 23rd of june by the jug of punch, from the clancy brothers, didnt know it had another name, it sounds more proper

Tia

Hi Tia and everyone,

Here are the lyrics from "The 23rd of June" heard on The Cottars' MySpace page:

THE TWENTY-THIRD OF JUNE

It bein' on the twenty-third of June, as I sat weaving all on my loom
It bein' on the twenty-third of June, as I sat weaving all on my loom
I heard a thrush singin' on yon bush
And the song he sang was the jug of punch

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

What more hardship can a b'y endure, than to sit him down, oh, behind the door
Oh, what more hardship can a b'y endure, than to sit him down, oh, behind the door
And in his hand no jug of punch
Aye, and on his knee no tidy wench

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

When I am dead, all my drinking's o'er, I will take one drink and I'll drink no more
When I am dead, all my drinking's o'er, I will take one drink and I'll drink no more
In case I mightn't get it on that day
I will take it now and I'll drink away

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

When I am dead, aye and in my mould, at my head and feet leave a flowing bowl
When I am dead, aye and in my mould, at my head and feet leave a flowing bowl
And every young man that passes by
He can take a drink and remember I

Ladly-fol-da-dee, ladly-fol-da-diddley-I-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

Diddley-I-um-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

Diddley-I-um-dlum,
Skiddery-I-da-diddle-dlum, skiddery-I-da-diddle-um-dum-dee

©2002 Makem.com
©2007 The Cottars

It sounds like some kid's song. I laughed at the pure sillyness of it. Don't know if that's what they wanted me to do. But those are the cheesiest lyrics I've ever read.

[Joe]

Those lyrics sound much better sung than written!

[Ginny]

A lot of older songs like that do have some silly/cheesy lyrics that sound better sung than written...who knows, maybe it was originally a children's song or something

Cheers,
Ginny

[faerie]

Jun 24, 2008 8:40:45 GMT -5 Ginny said:

A lot of older songs like that do have some silly/cheesy lyrics that sound better sung than written...who knows, maybe it was originally a children's song or something

Cheers,
Ginny

haha, I would hope it wasnt a childrens song originally,
and it deffinitly sounds better when sung,

Tia ;D

[jason22]

It was originally an Irish drinking song. www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/Jug_Of_Punch.shtml Of course overseas children do drink before we do. ;D