Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: GUEST,Wa Ban Zhou
Date: 31 Dec 02 - 10:37 PM

I'm looking for the words to this song: Washington,Washington,
                                        Come to the land
                                        of the Rhododendron
                                        They've got the goeduck.   
                                        The mountain rain
                                        The apple, the volcano
                                        And the hydroplane.
I only heard it maybe twice             ( it goes on)
on KRAB in Seattle
years ago

but of course it's my favorite calypso about my adopted home

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Deckman
Date: 31 Dec 02 - 10:56 PM

"HMMMMM"? says Bob, scratching his head.It doesn't wring a bell and i didn't find it in my first 30 books. So ... give me another clue. WHO sang it on KRAB years ago? A whole bunch of us did that, maybe we'll find it yet. And, by the way, who are you? CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: mg
Date: 31 Dec 02 - 11:05 PM

oh but please unless some legal agency is after you, sing the original words, which are the "applet and the cotlet and the hydroplane." At least that is how we originally knew it. not sure they wrote it that way. it just is a perfect line.

mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: mg
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 02:14 AM

I can't find it on google.

But it is a great song...we can piece it together..I don't really know it but I'll put in some words that might not be right.

Washington, Washington come to the land of the rhododendrun
we got the goeduck and the mountain range
the applet and the cotlet (candies) and the hydroplane

they built a rotunda
everybody went unda
our fathers and mothers with vision clear
named it after their favorite beer (Olympia)



....no Irish stew
Whatever you don't want we don't got it too

a considerable portion lies to the east??

well, someone knows more..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: GUEST,Wa Ban Zhou
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 10:28 AM

There was another line " No annoying sunshine to spoil the view
                         Whatever you don't want, we don't want it
                         too."

Subject: Lyr Add: WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON (Vinikow, Hughes)
From: Stewart
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 12:49 PM

Here it is, from Linda Allen's "Rainy Day Song Book"

WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON
Words & music by Joseph Vinikow & Glann Arthur Hughes
copyright 1978

Washington, Washington,
Come to the land of the Rhododendron
We got the geo-duck and the mountain range
The aplet and the cotlet and the hydroplane!

They built a great rotunda (clap, clap)
Everybody go under (It's raining!)
The founding fathers, with vision clear
Named it after their favorite beer!

Over the mountains and the waters blue,
The founding fathers and the mothers, too,
Singing, "Soon as we get off the trail,
We gonna build us a zoo and a monorail." CHORUS

They built a great rotunda,
Everybody got under.
The founding fathers, with vision clear,
Named it after their favorite beer! CHORUS

(Spoken at end of line) Chehalis! Copalis! Cle Elum! Queets!

A major portion, to say the least,
Of our fair state lies to the East,
A substantial peninsula to the West,
Completes the state that we love best. CHORUS

A land devoid of the alligator,
No tse-tse fly, and no tornado,
No pyramid, no Irish stew,
Whatever you got, we don't want it, too. CHORUS

A land devoid of the mango tree,
Flamingo, or dingo, or killer bee,
No pesky sunshine to spoil the view,
Whatever you want, we don't got it, too. CHORUS

Tag: South of the border, down Washington way. South of the border, down Washington way.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Deckman
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 01:06 PM

Good going Stewart. I found Linda's "Washington Songs and Lore," but I hadn't located my copy of "Rainy Day" yet. (this year I MUST get organized)! CHEERS and Merry New Years. Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Genie
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 03:00 PM

Thanks, Stewart. This song gets done with full chorus often at Seattle Song Circle, but I haven't learned it yet, so now I can.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: GUEST,Wa Ban Zhou
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 03:34 PM

Thank you so much!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: johnross
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 10:44 PM

A warning to anybody who plans to sing "Washington Washington":

"geoduck" is pronounced "gooey-duck".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Haruo
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 12:25 AM

Is Wa Ban Zhou your name or is it faux chinois for "WA banjo"? Just curious. And thanks for reminding me of a song I hadn't thought of in years!

Haruo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 04:06 AM

Joe Vinikow plays a mean swing mandolin. He also used to (still does?) teach a class at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop called "Party Guitar."

Which reminds me, if anybody's listening and has some of the song sheets from Joe's Party Guitar class, I'd love to get copies...because there's a monthly music party here where we play exactly those kinds of songs: old and semi-old rock 'n' roll and old "folk-type" standards, loud and fun. One of the several musical reasons I'm glad I made the move from the Big Island to the crowded island. Although I still wish there was something like the Seattle Song Circle. But I'm starting to think about starting a shanty group. Visitors welcome, of course!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: GUEST,Wa banZhou
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 08:30 PM

My Chinese name means Wa (to dig) banzhou (help)i.e. I'll help you dig(understand)it. I picked it up while teaching in Luoyang, China for two years.The banjo pun is intentional. I tried to use Ban Jiu, but that just made people laugh, because it is the name of a bird with a terrible song! Native Chinese speakers may comment as they wish on my transliterated Chinese. I had a great experience there with my banjo, there are very few of them around, so if you have one, instant celebrity. Of course, then people will ask you to play "My Heart Will Go On" and other string band favorites.
                                                 Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Haruo
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 12:36 AM

Thanks, Wa. I'm Haruo for the much more mundane reason that I was born in the spring.

Haruo
born Seattleite (Group Health Baby, class of '54, yet!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 02:19 AM

Update on the songs in my posession: I've cleared out my garage enough so I can park my truck in it. In order to do this I moved and organized stuff. I brought three boxes of Dad's (John Dwyer's) books into the house, and there are 10 more boxes of music stuff in the garage that will be moved in in the next couple of weeks. Lots and lots of papers, so I'm sure he'll have had some song verses and versions of the sorts people are looking for. And I'm looking forward to organizing this. I expect lots of Washington stuff. (I know he had Linda's book.)

SRS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 03:35 AM

Haruo, I was born in '54 also (in Philly), AND I used to be a Group Health physician. Now is that amazing or what?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Washington State Calypso Song
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 11:12 AM

Mark,
I'm also of that class of '54, but born east of the mountains. East, that is, for Seattle. It was the Wild West for my friends from New York City. I once asked a Brooklynite if he'd ever been out west, and he said yes, he'd been to Pennsylvania. I suppose my hospital would have been Group UnHealth (being one associated with the Hanford Plant, making me a glow-in-the-dark Downwinder).
Maggie