Singer Songwriter

[Robert Vaughn]

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“I have a friend who writes music about sewing machines. He’s a Singer songwriter. Or sew it seams.”

Cheers,

Robert Vaughn 

Mount Enterprise, TX

http://baptistsearch.blogspot.com 

Ask for the old paths, where is the good way

http://mtcarmelbaptist.blogspot.com 

For ask now of the days that are past...

http://oldredland.blogspot.com 

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.

[Will Fitzgerald]

This should be an interesting thread. 

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On Jan 25, 2022, at 9:24 PM, 'Robert Vaughn' via Fasola Songwriters <fasola-so...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



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“I have a friend who writes music about sewing machines. He’s a Singer songwriter. Or sew it seams.”

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[Linda Sides]

While I’m beginning to see a pattern here, I gather that I am just not cut out to contribute additional material...

Linda J. Sides

“...tune my heart to Sing Thy Grace!”

On Jan 25, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Will Fitzgerald <will.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Annie Grieshop]

It is warped, certainly, but perhaps we can selvage something from it…..

Annie

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[David Olson]

funny.

in my "songomics" brain, the punniness triggers "songs about sewing" wondering

"Dortn iz mayn rue plats" (Yiddish sweatshop song) comes to mind

"my proper place is here [at the sewing machine]" 

bilingual lyrics are here: <watch?v=UwRc3mdWuds>

(add <https://www.youtube.com/> to the front of that)

song only mentions "machine" (not "sewing machine"), nevertheless Mister Recommendation Algorithm immediately linked this to "So juchazt mei Bua" (So yodels my boyfriend), so it must be sew. 

there is also 40s sweatshop musical starring Betty Hutton </watch?v=999ph8iRT4o>

2:11

Lots of churches have quilting circles. Are there any quilting songs? 

Novelist Amy Tan -- in Kepler's Bookstore (Menlo Park, CA) in 1990s I heard her speak about a jade ring her mother took off her finger and gave to her daughter. "But Mother, how could you afford this working in the sweatshop?" 

" I want to look at something beautiful while I did this (gesture of hand guiding cloth through sewing machine) all day long."

Amy could not say this without tears coming to her eyes.

We sing. We don't "see the world differently" -- we hear the world differently. 

And hey! We love puns!

Thanks Robert!

David Olson

Los Angeles, California

P.S. another good recording 

(another good recording of "Dortn iz mayn rue plats" : <watch?v=LP1_3FdA8mg> ; other recommendations are too heavy on the instrumentals, or singing is too clunky)

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[Wade Kotter]

What immediately came to my mind is the gospel song "We are Sowing," which found it's way into the current LDS hymnbook:

https://archive.org/details/purediamondschoi00murr/page/94/mode/1up 

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/we-are-sowing?lang=eng

Now I can hear myself singing: "We are sewing, gently sewing, countess clothes of good and ill"

That nutty professor from Utah.

Wade Kotter

South Ogden, UT

"Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord"

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[David Olson]

Athena was a textile goddess. 

The goddess of the Wisdom of dressing for the occasion

In a patriarchal culture, this turns into "goddess of armor for battle" 

In the Homeric Hymns (2nd ed., trans. Athanassakis) both hymns to Athena are about armor. 

#11

I begin to sing of Pallas Athena, defender of cities,

awesome goddess, she and Ares care for deeds of war,

cities being sacked and cries of battle.

And she protects an army going to war and returning. 

Hail, O goddess, and grant me good fortune and happiness.

17-13-10-15-14 

in hymnary.org this meter does not yield any results.

<https://hymnary.org/search?qu=%20meter%3A17.13.10.15.14%20>

Nothing to do with sewing, but I'm attaching a setting for W.B. Yeats "The Second Coming" 

(adapted from "Epiphomena" in ShH). 

The sixth line is 11 syllables, and that throws a wrench into the sewing machine.

Not very many tunes with 10s (Finlandia, Yorkshire, Morecambe). 

It's interesting to sing Second Coming with Morecambe, but that 11th syllable -- very jarring. 

The teaching about "don't put new wine into old wineskins" is followed by one of the few Biblical references to sewing. 

"Babel's garments we've rejected" 

An interesting handicraft to brood about for the rest of the day...

David

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