Winter Carols

[Stratos Ferric]

I'll be Freddie, Shuggee can be Shaggy, you can be Scooby, Weather Beaten can be Daphne, and we could have John Holmes as the evil disused fairground owner issuing misleading severe forecasts so people stay indoors allowing him to get away with his dastardly activities.

Such is the tedium of avoiding doing a project plan for a client combined with lacklustre weather as we wait for November to outturn around average that, whilst making my 11 o'clock cuppa, I did get around to imagining Net Weather - The Musical.

Hopefully this is sufficiently off-topic that Os will move it to a thread of its own, but I started with - for no good reason - My Fair Lady.

So - to the score of "All I want"...

All I want is a high somewhere,

far away in the Greenland air;

cold hands, cold feet, cold nose,

oh would - n't it, be luverly, luverly...

Followed by "get me to the church on time"

I'm getting snowfall in the mor-ning,

"Ding dong" Eye-in-the-Sky will say,

I'm getting snowfall,

oh I'm getting snowfall,

yes let it snow and snow all day.

There's a nice passage where Eliza is practicing her consonants, marbles in mouth, using the phrasing:

'In Abingdon, Aylesbury, and Ludlow, arctic events 'ardly hever 'appen': something's not quite right in there...have to work on that.

And, to the tune (such as it is) of 'Why can't a woman (be more like a man)'

Why can't our weather, be more like japan;

why can't it just snow down all the time?

Those pesky synoptics, that I view through my optics,

just don't want to do the right thing.

With an Easterly, you know where you are (Siberia);

with a westerly it's just too mild by far;

Well I blame lady luck , for serving up this muck,

and leaving all that pooling too far east.

Oh why can't our weather, be more like Japan?

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Do you do requests?

[Hairy Celt]

Do you do requests?

yes. sausages please.

[johnholmes]

love it SF, a song writer of our very own.

How about some new words to carols as it cannot be that long to Christmas?

[jemtom]

SF - I suggest you stick with the current medication for now, but I also urge you to seek a 2nd opinion at your earliest convienience..... :lol:

Having said that I've just caught myself singing them out loud for the 3rd time...

[jemtom]

love it SF, a song writer of our very own.

How about some new words to carols as it cannot be that long to Christmas?

How about... To the tune of Good King W.

Good Queen Elizabeth will look out, on the feast of Stephen.

To see the snow across her Kingdom, deep and crisp and even.

Everywhere from Wick to Poole will be bloody freezing.

Which I think we all agree, will be very pleee, eeess, ingggg.

I'll get my coat...

Edited November 12, 2007 by jemtom

[Stratos Ferric]

How about... To the tune of Good King W.

Good Queen Elizabeth will look out, on the feast of Stephen.

To see the snow across her Kingdom, deep and crisp and even.

Everywhere from Wick to Poole will be bloody freezing.

Which I think we all agree, will be very pleee, eeess, ingggg.

I'll get my coat...

Betcha can't get Oldham in there: I gather the odds are slightly higher on the west Pennine foothills.

[Weather-history]

To Johnny Matthis's "When a Child is Born" ala "When an easterly is born"

A ray of hope flickers in the charts

A Scandi high is in our hearts

All across the land dawns a new morn

This comes to pass when an easterly is born

A silent wish sails the seven charts

The winds of change whisper in our hearts

And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn

This comes to pass, when an easterly is born

Spoken

And all of this happens, because the UK is waiting.

Waiting for one easterly; strong, weak, no one knows...

but an easterly that will grow and turn rain to snow,

water to ice, green to white and children to their sledges

and mild and Bartlett will be words to be forgotten forever

It's all a dream and illusion now,

It must come true sometime soon somehow,

All across the land dawns a new morn,

This comes to pass when an easterly is born.

Edited November 12, 2007 by Mr_Data

[Osbourne One-Nil]

To the tune of Hark The Herald Angels Sing;

CET, let's take some punts.

I'll finish it after some coffee.

[johnholmes]

How about... To the tune of Good King W.

Good Queen Elizabeth will look out, on the feast of Stephen.

To see the snow across her Kingdom, deep and crisp and even.

Everywhere from Wick to Poole will be bloody freezing.

Which I think we all agree, will be very pleee, eeess, ingggg.

I'll get my coat...

so you should

its going downhill, led by OON, but then what should we expect.

My songwriting ability is much worse than even my pc ability!

so to quote above,

I'll get 'me coat

try not to be nasty OON

[Osbourne One-Nil]

I'll try, but did you mean for it not to rhyme John?

[johnholmes]

oh dear does'nt it!!!!!!!????????

[grab my graupel]

I remember doing this last year and there were some really good ones.

I'm going to have a think and see what I can come up with.

Maybe OON might sing them all for us and post a video :lol:

[Osbourne One-Nil]

You never know....although I'm sure you can take an educated guess.

[johnholmes]

talk to PotttyProf he could arrange it!

[abruzzi spur]

Here's one:

Oh little town of Abingdon

How still we see thee lie

Above thy deep yet snowless sleep

The storm clouds pass you by

Yet in thy dark streets shineth

The orange hued street light

At which you gaze for all your days

In hope for falls of white.

There is also scope for something along the lines of In The Bleak Mi(l)d Winter.

And as for The Bore's Head Carol, well, too dangerous don't you think?!

[johnholmes]

brill

keep em coming folks

our mad hatter from Luton should 'sniff' this link out and post something perhaps?

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Here's one:

Oh little town of Abingdon

How still we see thee lie

Above thy deep yet snowless sleep

The storm clouds pass you by

Yet in thy dark streets shineth

The orange hued street light

At which you gaze for all your days

In hope for falls of white.

Excellent, although I fear people will make their own last line up.

[MAF]

Silent site, quiet site,

All is lost though the FI might

Forever keeping hopes up high

Never showing any snow in the sky

TEITS is dreaming of easterlieeeeees

Reading charts through smokey haze

Winter has gone agaaaaaain

Winter has gone again

already got my coat on before i posted

Edited November 12, 2007 by Mick

[Osbourne One-Nil]

We wish you a merry Greenland High

We wish you a merry Greenland High

We wish you a merry Greenland High

And a Happy New Lots of Snow

[johnholmes]

sort of err repetitive, but then who am I to criticize?

perhaps

we wish you a very white christmas

times 3

final line

and a snowful new year?

must get the ironing done

Edited November 12, 2007 by johnholmes

[shuggee]

To the tune of Jingle Bells

Snowy skies

Snowy skies

White precipitation all around

Oh what fun it is to watch

In my centrally heated double glazed flat on high

Repeat ad nauseum

[crimsone]

Anybody going to try their hand at "mary's boy child"?

[PersianPaladin]

In the bleak mid winter, frustrated cold rampers moan,

The Euro High stood hard as iron, the jet stream cut through stone;

Drizzle and sleet had fallen, rain on rain, rain on rain,

In the bleak mid winter, hardly long ago.

Our Lord of models, Heaven cannot hold its crap;

ECMF and GFS - us forumers fall into thy trap.

In the bleak mid winter a hard place sufficed,

The Lord God, Almighty Atlantic.

[grab my graupel]

Here is a quick one I thought of

WHEN A NEW WEST IS BEST IS BORN

A ray of hope flickers in the sky

cause every chart shows a Greenland High

All accross the UK Dawns a brand new morn.

This comes to pass when a new West Is Best is born