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:music: What the heck I'll bite....

Who's that knocking at my door

Who's that knocking at my door

Who's that knocking at my door

Said the Fair Young Maiden.....

WELLLLLLLL???????????????? ............ :music:

It's me, it's me from over the sea,

Cried binnacle Bill the sailor

.......my volume of 'Naughty' songs uses the binnacle in all variations

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Very good Mike, only a couple of corrections. When the words to "Garbarina" were first put together by 4 members of the Corps while on their way to a contest in Philadelphia back around 1951-52 when "Oklahoma" was all the rage on Broadway, the phrase was:

"We're from New York,

and we will always sing "OUR" praises loud and clear."

Another phrase that has been corrupted over the course of time is:

"Our drum line's the best in the land

and our horn line, it plays "JUST" as grand."

These corrections were told to me by Bill Boerner back in 1993 during one of the Skyliner Alumni Chorus rehearsals. I'm not sure if Bill was one of the 4 people in the car that day when the words were put together, but I DO know that one of them was a gentleman by the name of Bobby Booth who was a charter member of Garbarina. He later married a girl from Philly, moved down there and joined Archie where he spent the rest of his Drum Corps career.

I guess everyone here is to young to remember the Cabs song sung to the tune of "Lady of Spain".

Hawthorne you gay caballero,

Hawthorne with greasy sombrero,

Bell bottom trousers don't fit,

Hawthorne you big bag of ****.

Solo sopranos are cracking,

Drums with talent are lacking,

Hawthorne you big bunch of fools,

Hawthorne you play with you tools.

And what of the Reilly Raiders.

Have you seen the Reilly Raiders,

Have you seen their latest capers,

As they dance and prance,

Around the God ###### field.

Their a bunch of ballerinas,

and you'll know when you have seen,

A bunch of crazy mixed up kids,

That simply suck.

Oh their hornline is so blasty,

And their drummers are so nasty,

That they look and sound like ####.

(Forgot the next stanza)

Let them go right on a dancing,

Not a soul at all is listening,

While the fans are wildly cheering for the

MUS-KE-TEERS!!!!

Yes, this song was originally sung by Archie, NOT the Skyliners. But I pretty sure Swan won't let you believe that.

well, now Mike......you did good on corrections to Garbarina, but I yam compelled to make corrections to your rendition of "Have You Seen":

Have you seen the Reilly Raiders,

Have you seen their latest capers,

As they spin and dance and prance,

Around the field.

(Rum-dum-digga-da-rum-dum-digga da-bum)

They're a bunch of ballerinas,

and you'll know when you have seen,

A bunch of crazy mixed up kids,

That simply smell.

Oh their drummers they are nasty,

and their bugles they are blasty

And you simply cannot tell

Just what tune that they are playing

as they do their corney swaying

'cause they look and sound like ####

Let those fools keep right on a dancing,

Not a soul around is glancing,

'cause the crowd is wildly cheering for the

MUS-KE-TEERS!!!!

and then we wrote:

Oh we're here and we're waiting for Reilly

In their suits of black and green.

They are rough and they are tough

And they play like crazy too,

But their style simply will not do.

They are light hearted sons of old Erin

And with their dog we'll make a stew

Arthur Murray in a hurry

Taught them how to dance it's true

Reilly Raiders don't you know you're through.

As you know Mike we've got a million of 'em.

Jimbalaya

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