Tornaod - Paddy's Lamentation (By the Hush)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBc2kVBN7g
Well meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er
Our fortunes to be made we were thinkin'
When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands
Saying "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"
Chorus
Here's to you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin
This week's #AlternateFridayMusic word is #Yank, either as a verb or as an abbreviation for Yankee. My first thought was Hoagy Carmichael‘s Cranky Old Yank (In a Clanky Old Tank) but some of the language might be a bit culturally outdated, so I went with this ditty about another earlier war.
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
https://youtu.be/jREUrbGGrgM
Bonus #AlternateFridayMusic 🎉
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #yank
Song: Thank You America
By: Celibate Rifles
Link: https://youtu.be/Q7RZd_KL20g
From deep in 1984, Damien and the boys saw the future through the bong smoke & amphetamines:
🎶 Whatever happened, to an endless summer
When it was always Saturday night
Boredom was some kind of stylish import
...and deep inside the White House
the keepers heard a murmer
and armed with clean amphetamine guns
they went to the gates of Dreamland 🎶
5/4
Alternate Friday Music this week alternates between the theme "yank" as a verb and "Yank" as a word for Americans.
Taking "yank" as a verb and stretching it a bit to yanking on the rope to ring church bells.
"Who rings the bells?
Who rings the bells?
Who pulls the rope? …"
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Theme: Yank
Song: "Who Rings the Bell" (2014)
Performed by: Brian Eno and Karl Hyde
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVFZFCMT5FU
This week's #AlternateFridayMusic word is #Yank, either as a verb or as an abbreviation for Yankee.
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans 🙀
This week's #AlternateFridayMusic word is #Yank, either as a verb or as an abbreviation for Yankee.
Camper Van Beethoven – "Yanqui Go Home"
https://song.link/s/0lRwOQZ9ENtBOi24WFuZMT
Alternate Friday Music this week alternates between the theme "yank" as a verb and "Yank" as a word for Americans.
Back to the lower 50 from a Canadian point-of-view …
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Theme: Yank
Song: "America Woman" (1970)
Performed by: The Guess Who
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uf6EY2BZBw
Alternate Friday Music this week alternates between the theme "yank" as a verb and "Yank" as a word for Americans.
The verb, in the vernacular, rhymes with another word, as in "yank one's strap". I'll let Tom explain.
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Theme: Yank
Song: "Intro To Better Off Without A Wife" and "Better Off Without A Wife" (1975)
Performed by: Tom Waits
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU-sCw1xnLU
Alternate Friday Music this week alternates between the theme "yank" as a verb and "Yank" as a word for Americans.
"And Sharkey says, "Deep in the heart of darkest America, home of the brave."
He says: "Listen to my heart beat."
Paging Mr. Sharkey, white courtesy telephone please."
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Theme: Yank
Song: "Sharkey's Night" (1984)
Performed by: Laurie Anderson, with William Burroughs
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k8KGcRUREs
#AlternateFridayMusic #Yank #LaurieAnderson #WilliamBurroughs
Yet more #AlternateFridayMusic 🎉
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #yank
Song: The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)
By: Flight of the Conchords
Link: https://youtu.be/9jLDZjMF3tk
Pull is a synonym for yank. Pull could mean either masturbate or getting laid. Kiwi's can't pull but they can kinda sing about both at once, smoooth:
🎶 It's twelve-oh-two
Just me and you
And seven other dudes
Around you on the dance-floor
I draw you near
Let's get out of here
Let's get in a cab
I'll buy you a kebab 🎶
4/4
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