1st July 2014 - Of Vegetables and Virtuosity...

Thought for the day :
"Nobody knows who has the patent for the fire hydrant as the patent office where it was held was burned down"

Start of a new month...   Time to change the profile picture..

Seems appropriate for a new theme for the week ...

Meanwhile in the Plotment things are growing and food is arriving on the table....  Rather takes me back to the early days of evening television and "That's Life" and the "Naughty Vegetables"..

So a small collection of "stuff" grown in the Plotment. The Runner beans should not be this far advanced according to this month's copy of Home Farmer, but it seems that good soil and good husbandry are providing the results...   though the carrot seems to dress to the left!

And so - another day and another song under way...... 
today I achieved over 53,000 hits on Youtube... I did not think that I had visited it that much !! Maybe someone lse is also having an occasional look at the site...

And to celebrate I decided that it was time I started writing bi-lingual songs for Germany and Mythodea... and since "40 Shillings on the Drum" seems to be a universally popular tune - it lent itself to adaptation...

Durch das Siegel

Here's forty silver on the drum,
To those who'll volunteer to come,
To fight the Ratio, today
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg.

Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg
Wir Kommen Jetz, we're not afraid
The Archon calls and we obey,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

When evil stalks upon the land
I'll neither hold nor stay me' hand
But fight to win a better day
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

When duty calls me, I must go
To stand and face the Ratio,
But part of me will always stray,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Then fall in lads, behind the drum,
With colours blazing like the sun,
Along the road to come what may,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Through smoke and fire and shot and shell
Unto the very walls of hell
We shall fight both night and day
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

If I should fall to rise no more,
As many comrades did before,
Then ask the pipes and drums to play,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

He that is forc'd to go and fight,
Will never get true Honour by't,
While Volunteers shall win the Day,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Now though I travel far from home
A part of me shall never roam
For you are with me night and day
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Let Kings and tyrants come and go
I'll stand ajudged by what I know
A soldier's life I'll ne'er gainsay
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Then fall in lads, behind the Boar,
The oathsworn march as oft before,
March with Zeno come what may,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg
Wir Kommen Jetz, we're not afraid
The Archon calls and we obey,
Durch das Siegel - auf den Weg

 
 May try recording later......   or may practise a little first .... May sound better with a beer ...  Cheers!!

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