"Dag" <f98dawa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Yea, I don't really mind the locals showing up (and paying) for the
bands.
I am intrigued, puzzled, and vaguely dismayed by this concept.
> The problem arises when they start to try to crash 'our' other parties.
well as long as it doesn't snow, but it's probably all for the good.
> That being said I'm not sure how to successfully seperate the two. But
> keeping local ****nuts out of the hotel bar, lobby and room parties in
> general would be rather nice.
I didn't have that much of an appetite anyway, possibly would have fallen
asleep while I was talking, and probably would have coughed on you thus
bringing on the end times
>
mk5000
----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil.roads,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:44 PM
Subject: meet the
>I never heard of thunderbird a year ago, or else was not paying
attention.
>
> not sure which
>
> Shame I don't live in Roanoke any longer, I'd
> have had plenty of spare rooms for my neighbor's kids who came to visit.
>
> In the meantime, I've got a condo now
>
>
> mk5000
>
>
> "The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly") is an English folk
> song that has been sung since the 1600s and has seen considerable
> popularity through to the 21st century. It is related to Child Ballad
> 204 (Roud number 87), Jamie Douglas, which in turn refers to the
> ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of
> Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine...
> Originally entitled "O Waly, Waly", the ballad's author remains
> unknown,no one really knows when, to the best of my knowledge.
> Contemplator.com states it was published in 1724. The tune "Lord Jamie
> Douglas", which would refer to the Douglas Erskine marriage did not
> come along until 1776, with the instruction that it be sung to the
> tune of "O Waly Waly" (see www.contemplator.com).
>
> It is also doubtful that the ballad is English, although it is
> popularly considered so. The oldest lyrics which exist (to the best of
> my knowledge), show it to be of Scottish origin. Here they are, taken
> from www.bartleby.com. It's written in Scots language, I have
> translated some of the more difficult words for you....
> The oldest lyrics are written in the Scots language.
>
> O WALY, waly,(a lament - "woe is me")up the bank, And waly, waly, doun
> the brae (hill), And waly, waly, yon burn-side (riverside), Where I
> and my Love wont to gae (go)! I lean'd my back unto an aik (oak),I
> thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd and syne (soon) it
> brak (broke)- Sae my true love did lichtlie (lightly)me.
>
> O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie (beautiful), A little time while it
> is new! But when 'tis auld (old) it waxeth cauld (cold), And fades
> awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid (adorn my
> head),Or wherefore should I kame (comb)my hair? For my true Love has
> me forsook,And says he'll never lo'e me mair (more).
>
> Now Arthur's Seat (landmark located in Edinburgh,
> Scotland)sall(shall)be my bed (burial place), The sheets sall ne'er be
> 'filed by me; Saint Anton's (Anthony)well (close to Arthur's Seat -
> Edinburgh)sall be my drink; Since my true Love has forsaken me.
> Marti'mas (11th of November) wind, when wilt thou blaw (blow), And
> shake the green leaves aff the tree? O gentle Death, when wilt thou
> come? For of my life I am wearìe.
>
> 'Tis not the frost, that freezes fell, Nor blawing snaw's (snow)
> inclemencie, 'Tis not sic cauld (the cold)that makes me cry; But my
> Love's heart grown cauld to me. When we cam in by Glasgow toun, We
> were a comely sicht(sight)to see;My Love was clad in the black velvèt,
> And I mysel in cramasie (crimson).
>
> But had I wist (known), before I kist (a coffin = died), That love had
> been sae ill to win,I had lock'd my heart in a case o' gowd (gold),
> And pinn'd it wi' a siller (silver) pin. And O! if my young babe were
> born, And set upon the nurse's knee; And I mysel were dead and gane,
> And the green grass growing over me!"
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Is_Wide_(song)
>
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