Ah Foxy… The House of the Rising Sun … great song… and I saw Eric Burdon on ABC some months ago, he was recognizable, packing a few more pounds, like many of us.

Actually I have a small problem, hence to answer US question about my delay commenting on catching up with Polycarp. My problem is an IT one, I cannot get youtube to work on my current notebook PC and I wanted to hear the song before I posted.

I have installed a flash drive but still cannot get the darn thang to function and cannot remember how to turn java-scripting on. This is a 2 year old PC, running XP and Inet 7 - I have been all through the internet options off but think I am in the wrong part of the software… any ideas what I am doing wrong?

I did have it running but had to do a restore and since then have had problems.

sugar
oh honey honey
you are my candy girl
and you got me wanting you

I just cant believe the lovliness of loving you
I just cant believe its true
I just cant believe the wonder of this feeling too
I just cant believe its true

Sugar
oh honey honey
you are my candy girl
and you got me wanting you

honey
oh sugar sugar etc

when I kissed you girl
I knew how sweet a kiss could be
let the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me

oh pour a little sugar on me honey
pour a little sugar on me baby
when you make love so sweet
hey hey hey
pour a little sugar on me honey
etc

...still HAPPENING in the NAUGHTIES

Dear Polycarp,

This will put a smile on your face,
guaranteed:

Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera.
I'm just a man who is trying
To do some good before dying,
To ask each man and his brother,
To bear no ill toward each other.
This life will never be hollow,
To those who listen and follow.
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera.

Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera.
I write my rhymes with no learning,
And yet with truth they are burning,
But is the world waiting for them?
Or will they all just ignore them?
Have I a poets illusion,
A dream to die in seclusion?
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera.

Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
A little brook on a mountain,
The cooling spray of a fountain,
Arouse in me an emotion,
More than the vast boundless ocean.
For there's a wealth beyond measure,
In little things that we treasure,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera,
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera.

Hi Foxy. I'll see your Little Egypt, and raise you a Lydia.

(The 1961 Stubby Kaye version, of course).

"Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
She has eyes that folks adore so, and a torso even more so.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia. Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it, The Wreck of the Hesperus too.
And proudly above, waves the red, white, and blue.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

When her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world, if you step up and tell her where.
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paris, or Washington crossing The Delaware.

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
When her muscles start relaxin', up the hill comes Andrew Jackson.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of them all.
For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz, with a view of Niagara that nobody has.
And on a clear day, you can see Alcatraz.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso.
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso.
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon.
Here's Godiva, but with her pajamas on.

Here is Grover Whelan unveilin' the Trylon.
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Isle-on.
Here's Nijinsky a-doin' the rhumba.
Here's her social security numba.

Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia, the champ of them all.
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet.
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet,
for he went and married Lydia!

I said Lydia... (He said Lydia...) They said Lydia... We said Lydia, la, la!"

Those rhymes - "Amazon" with "pyjamas on", "Trylon" with "Treasure Isle-on", not to mention "Lydia' and "encyclo-pidia" - crack me up every time.

And hey - what a gal!

I'll see Pericles' "Lydia" with the Kinks' "Lola" - just because I know it's right up Boazy's alley, so to speak...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsnqQHOwFg

"I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola
C-o-l-a cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
L-o-l-a Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola

Well I'm not the worlds most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said dear boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the worlds most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola

I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola

Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man

Well I'm not the worlds most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola"

(Ray Davies, 1970)

I reckon an "OLO Kareoke Night" would be something not to miss...

Maybe Polycarp could start it off.. his own rendition on youtube...

Foxy to follow, etc...

Throw in a few classics like

Trail of the lonesome pine (Laurel & Hardy)

and

Blues Skies (Willie Nelson)