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New Wassail!! All join in!!
Lovely rendition, JKJ
And spelling police -the grammar police are watching you and they've caught a couple a' bloomers!!
Viz long PJs -When I was preggers I just bought regular sizes and pulled 'em up to my ears -comfy and just long enough! I was almost 5'2'' in HS...
Tres cool dragon wren!!! JKJ your wassail has made me misty. How luvly.
The Carol of the Critters --
Bok-bok bok-bok, quack-quack quack-quack
Gobble gobble gobble, honk-honk honk-honk
Nyeah-nyeah nyeah-nyeah, maaa-maaa maaa-maaa
oink-oink oink-oink, hee-haw hee-haw
Cacaphony, all merrily
with joy they sing, while carolling
one seems to hear beasty good cheer
from everywhere filling the air.
Neigh-neigh neigh-neigh, moo-oo moo-oo
Chrik-chik, chik-chik, huru-lu hulu
Gaily they chime, nature sublime
Songs in the air from critters everywhere
Hairy, feath'ry, furry Good Wishes
For a hairy, feathery, furry Christmas
On, on they send, on without end
Their joyful tone to every home
(Cooo-oo, coo-ooo, turu-lululu)
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I totally adore the last stanza especially cousin nut!!! Luvly!!!!
I was tempted to put in the other parts -alto and baritone- but it's a bit much to read...lol
Hijack from Dahlia and another mission:
Yes Cousin I think a Wassail is definitely in order. mi mi mi♪♪♪
Hark the herald three short peeps
Glory to the chimpmunk pipp
Peace on earth and merry mild
Roos and hens are reconcilled
Joyful all ye hatchlings rise
Join in peeping to the skies
With pipperifinous pecks aloud
Hatchlings are born in bators with crowds
Hark the herald troups do dance
Glory to the the newborn hatch
♪♪♪
Isn't my cousin nut just the bestest thing to move this over for me ^_^
The nut family must be very proud.
I never knew I had a long lost cousin nut until I joined DG. It's it just wild catscan? ok now I'm all misty.
Have you done your geneology yet? One branch of my Swedish family went to Canada and took one name--the other came to the States and took another. It will be much easier for you because you are all nuts!
Yes Catscan we have. Alot of the nuts weren't luved and understood and unfortunately ended up in the nuthouse. We nuts don't like to talk about it because its too sad. There are 3 branches of our family: nuts, rocket scientists and rocks. Cousin Grownut can expain the diverse branches of our family better.
I wonder if we tie in anywhere? I have a great great grandfather who wandered around Tennessee in a kilt and another who traveled with a wolf. Then there is my immediate family--all strong indicators of nuttiness.
I'll get back to it after I've done some research...
Half of one side of my family worked at a nut farm and the other half where inmates. LOL
I am just perfectly insane!!!! and that is my motto.
Wren the epi nut.
The kilted nuts in my father's side of the family did pass through Tennessee on their way to L.A. (which was at the time early 1900s) still part of this country. Do you know when your family dropped the nut? Went in the closet?
(to the tune of Jingle Bells)
Dashing thru the coop....
Wearing rubber pink flip flops...
Squishing thru the poop..
Laughing all the way....
Feathers on hens are ruffled
Roosters flap and crow
Oh what fun it is to gather
All those beautiful eggs.
OOOHHHHH
Gather eggs, gather eggs
Brown and blue and green
Oh what fun it is to find
Those beautiful round eggs
Gather eggs gather eggs
Brown and blue and green
Oh what fun to incubate
And hatch those tiny peeps.
Wren--I have a Puritan family line that were Peacocks. Maybe we are distantly related. My ancestress' name was Submit Peacock. Those Puritans were cruel.
Fla_Chick--you have perfectly caught the happy Poultry Yuletide spirit!
Thanks, Catscan, the Poultry Yuletide spirit is catching, Im afraid!
Never be afraid--Fly the Crazy Chicken Flag Proudly!
We never looked that far back-to many skeletons in the closets. LOL
Catscan. Submit Peacock? REALLY? Wow, that's a fun piece of family history.
Who is designing the Crazy Chicken Flag? We don't have a Chief Design Officer. Oh my goodness gracious me, what do we do now?
Rosie the half beaked chicken,
had a very funny face
and when the others saw her,
they said "go some other place"
All of the other chickens
used to laugh and call her names
They never let poor Rosie
join in any chicken games.
Then one snowy Christmas Eve
Claire came out to say
Rosie I have no eggs left,
No eggnog, I'm so bereft...
Then how the chickens loved her
as she pushed one out with glee
Rosie the half beaked chicken,
You'll go down in history!!!
Another wonderful "lay" Moxon!
I have another ancestor named "Lowly Foote". Yep, a Puritan.
Boop-boop be-doo!! I'm singin' again...
Submit Peacock?! Are you still trying to live it down?!! It's been a long loong time....
I am skipping the whole "Coffin" line.
You are getting closer drop the "in" and add a "man" to the end of the above name and you have me.
Maybe I will! It sounds much less ominous.
Now somebody sing something--cause I can't!
Oh, boy. Do not tell me that!! I'm of Willoughby, Pinckney, and Etheredge. Norfolk and Ghent. The First Thanksgiving at Berkeley. Polar Opposites.
We wish you a happy chicken
We wish you a happy chicken
We wish you a happy chicken
And many good eggs.
Good tidings we bring
Of fine layin' hens
Good tidings of chickens
And many good eggs.
Now bring us some yummy custard
Now bring us some yummy custard
Now bring us some yummy custard
And a hot buttered rum!
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it out here
We wish you a happy chicken
We wish you a happy chicken
We wish you a happy chicken
And many good eggs.
Got any Barnetts or Bethunes, grownut? Those are my Tennessee kin.
I love custard! I forgot I can make it with my eggs.
Sing it again, grownut. Sing it again!
Country Coops built, busy shoveling poop
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling
Of Christmas
Chickens bauking, roosters squauking
Meeting feather after feather
And on every coop corner you'll hear
Silver chicks
Silver chicks
It's Christmas time in the country
peep-a-ling
Hear them ping
Soon it will be Christmas Day
The Tennessee batch were Lewis and Kraw (later Crowe of that countertenor bro's link) They're the newbies to this continent and there are few names to the list yet. Bethune sounds familiar but I'd have to ask bro. Pretty much went straight from Scotland to Ca.
Mine went straight from Scotland to Tennessee. The others came over on the sister ship of the Mayflower--the Speedwell. They both left port at the same time. No one knows about it because it started to sink part way out and had to turn back.....pretty much the story of my family:0)
Where is Elbridge, sewincircle? I used to live in Victor between Rochester and Canandaigua.
Sewincircle! Perfect song! Love it!
Grownut - your song is making me hungry.
I have Moxons and Drakes for the most part. A few Jones (from Wales of course) and some other names I forget. We have a very tiny family tree. My closest living Moxon relatives besides my parents have an ancestor in common with me that is 9 generations back. They live in Australia.
Wren - is it Coffman or Kaufman?
First Thanksgiving at Berkeley. Some people who know me well here have told me that I should live in Berkeley because it would be the perfect fit for me. I do not know if that is an insult or not. I almost took a job in Eugene, OR once.
Is your Moxon line Scots? Or Yorkshire? Or....?
Yorkshire - the first ones we can find are in 1608. They came to Yorkshire to help with draining the fens.
Elbridge is between Auburn and Syracuse.
Not far from Victor.
My family is full of Miles and Jolly My hasbands family... Bigness
I love fens! They are so dangerous and watery.....probably where you get your Pagan tendencies.
I would like to be a Jolly--beats being a Coffin.
Yes, Sewincircle -sorry I meant to thank you too. Been meaning to do Silver Bells....
We've got a Welsh Jones. Not that that narrows anything down!!
The Berkeley thing, and Coffman v Willoughby et al -goes waaay back. We Virginians know that the first Thanksgiving was at Berkeley Plantation in 1619. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Plantation
Essentially we are derived of rival factions -and actually remember!!
(Moxon is an interesting name,btw. What is it?)
Edited to add -just caught up! Yup Cats my family on that side came over between 1607 and the early 1620s. there's even a Pocahontas brag that I can't entirely believe. And yes this is the snobby side! I'm of the throwback line, snobby side.
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