There once was a man from Nantucket
If he saw it had strings, he would pluck it.
The first banjo he played
Well, it launched a tirade,
“I'd rather carry my tunes in a bucket!”
There once was a man from Nantucket
If he saw it had strings, he would pluck it.
The first banjo he played
Well, it launched a tirade,
“I'd rather carry my tunes in a bucket!”
...saw a neat t-shirt once... all it said was...
"I'm the man from Nantucket"
;-)
"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." -Bob Dylan
nudge, nudge,wink, wink, know what I mean, say no more...Originally Posted by (mandodude @ Mar. 15 2003, 11:00)
Here on the board Django Fret,
Could make a limerick out of anything I bet.
We started with Haiku,
But to that he said "Pooh-Pooh"!
And Scott has not shut us down yet!
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
Can’t Haiku and Limericks share the same thread?
Aren’t both simply words coming out of our head?
Saying that, let me state
To avoid the same fate,
No controversial topics, stick to mandos instead.
Untalented hack
Makes beautiful music
I love my f2
M'Dude!
I thought you once played in a young band from Nantucket...
(Sheesh! I'm amazed nobody else beat me to that one...)
There once was a band from Nantucket
Couldn’t get any gigs worth a ducat.
“Maybe we could attract fame
If we keep changing our name?”
Perhaps their Mando player can’t buck it?
In these unsure times
I am thankful for my wife
and my mandolin
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Clouds obscure the moon!
New strings on my mandolin,
straying out of tune!
I pick the triplets
with down-up-down down-up-down
Such sweet simple songs
- Benig
Licks hot as summer,
I hurl against the silence
hoping for others.
Sung to the tune "Would You Like To Swing on a Star"
Would you like to play Mandolin?
Instead of dreamin "what might of been"
Ya know you've wanted too right from the start
Or would you rather surf the web?
The web is an animal that eats all your time
Searchin for a mando that will play sublime,
Your eyes are a achin and your butt is numb
You wish you could hear how the darn thing strums,
But if you want to play for real
You're gonna have to fret the steel!
Or would you like to sit and pretend
Getting nowhere in the end,
Logging hours just on the web
Or would you rather "Buy it Now"
Oh look, there's a Gibson and a Kentucky too
Lebeda and a Weber just to name a few,
I'm dying for a mando, I'll just bid what I can
U.P.S. delivers, life is gonna be grand.
And if by chance I find a Loar
I'm gonna have to bid some more!
Because I want to play Mandolin
To hear those notes just can't be a sin.
So I've spent all of my savings dough
And now I'll learn to play Monroe!
Cause all those Mando Players are cool
Grisman, Marshall, Hokkanen too.
I'm off the web now, just for a few
But I'm tempted to take in a view
No! I've got better things to do,
I'm gonna play my Mandolin!
I wrote this when I was searching for my first mando.
Char Howser
just got home...so tired
ice cold beer, mando in hand
now its wind down time
Look up (to see whats comin down)
I pick, pluck and strum
Good mando tone eludes me
Now I'm a drummer!
Changing mando strings
Lost one of the old string ends.
Barefoot stroll -- found it!
laying back in bed
mando rests soft against me
sweet mid-mo slumber
(Ode to Monday nights when I go to work at 5am and don't get home from school until 10pm. I tried to get some mando practice in Monday after class and before bed, but got sucked into playing single deep notes just to feel the vibration through my whole body until I fell deep asleep)
Life is too important to be taken seriously - Oscar Wilde
Admiring Snakeheads.
And wishing I had one to
Help improve my scales!
Must be one for sale
Look, a great deal in Asia
A million seems high
<span style='color:red'>New</span> Rigel CT!
Work??? What work? (Aw rats. Day Gig...)
Pickin's so much fun.
"Long time no write" here.
Go for months without Haiku,
now a torrent flows.
Thomastik Infeld:
soon I will be trying them -
I can hardly wait!
Indonesian scams:
Comic relief every day;
Let bidders beware.
EBay is the best:
Navigate through all the crap,
find some real gems!
F-style mandolins
look like painted prostitutes.
"Guy thing", I suppose.
"Barin' down on it!"
"Boy, you're comin' in on 'er!"
(Oh, my, how they talk...)
Fretboard extensions?
Phallic symbolism, at best.
"Florida", my eye!
The song lyrics thread
reminds me why I prefer
the instrumentals.
No "chop chords" for me:
bratsches' after-beats galore
make me sick and tired.
"Mid Mo is so plain!"
Yes, beauty needs no makeup...
Hush, open your ears!
Flatback, round hole bliss:
Ringing tone simplicity.
Who needs gaudiness?
Strap? Nyet. Tone-Gard? Nein.
I only play 'em nekkid.
(Mandos, not me, perv!...)
Shameless plug time now:
Have you picked with ivory yet?
(No, not "Burma Shave!")
Hope you 'preciate
my humor, without offense.
All meant in good fun!
bratsche
"There are two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
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"Fretboard extensions?
Phallic symbolism, at best.
"Florida", my eye!"
Ah...ha! I was wondering why they film "Girls Gone Wild" in Florida. #
Methinks Bratsche doth
protest too much, to her size
does not matter, eh?
We few, we happy few.
Mandolins are small,
mandocelli much too big,
mandolas just right.
bratsche
"There are two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
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The girl that went wild in Fla. was Bratsche....she's gone haiku crazy!
Look up (to see whats comin down)
Girls Gone Wild film crew
Upon seeing bratsche yell:
“Hey, show us your picks!”
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