# Count To A Million Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 211
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4205 "2021-01-26T02:57:15Z")
3753 All spring, now, we’ve been with her on a barge lent by a friend. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4206 "2021-01-26T06:11:37Z")
3754 Three dives a day in hard-hat suit and twice I’ve had the bends ---
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3755 Thank God it’s only sixty feet and the currents here are slow Aside: **Panache** , here’s a video you may enjoy: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fT-aEcPgkuA/hqdefault.jpg "Stan Rogers performs "The Mary Ellen Carter" in One Warm Line documentary") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA) Found it just recently. Great practice tune for my spoons! How are you on the Barra MacNeils, the Rankin Family, and other Maritime musicians? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4208 "2021-01-26T11:18:15Z")
3756 **Panache** , if I recall correctly, you’re a member in a men’s chorus. I don’t know if your choir has ever done these, but you might want to consider them. They’re _a capella_, and I’ve sung them in a TTBB chorus. The first is “Coaltown Road,” by the Barra MacNeils: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u6yJD8e38IU/hqdefault.jpg "The Barra MacNeils - The Coaltown Road") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6yJD8e38IU) The next is “Vimy,” by Tanglefoot. Again, a TTBB. This one was hard to get through when we sang it, but we had to get through it, just because: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IflFxq8sCYc/maxresdefault.jpg "Vimy by Tanglefoot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IflFxq8sCYc) I’d like to hear your chorus sing. Do you have a link to you guys singing somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4209 "2021-01-28T00:56:01Z")
Thanks so much, **Spoons** , for these recommendations. I really like these songs, but I don’t see them fitting into any of our concerts. We generally do three concerts a season: A holiday concert in December, a themed concert in March, and a Pride concert in June. The themed concert can be just about anything, like “Broadway Our Way” or an irreverant version of “The Sound of Music” or with a guest performer like Bernadette Peters. It can also be songs by a specific composer, like Sondheim. Our concerts also contain several dance numbers. We have a professional choreographer. Another thing about your songs is that they seem to be better suited to a small group like a barbershop quartet. We had this same problem when planning our Sondheim concert. So many of his songs are for a soloist or duet, and they really don’t make sense when sung by a chorus. But with a lot of work we pulled it off. It was the most difficult concert we ever gave. I wish our chorus had more of an online presence. We’ve put out five CDs (I designed all of them), but they’re not online. Other similar choruses, which you can Google, are The Turtle Creek Chorale, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and my favorite, Seattle Men’s Chorus. They sing the same types of songs that we do. I’ll look into getting our CDs online. I’d really love that. Oh, and before I forget: 3757 Or I’d never have the strength to go below ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4210 "2021-01-28T01:14:15Z")
Thanks, **Panache**. I’ll look into those choirs, and I hope you can get some of your stuff online. Yes, I’m more used to singing in a small group. The largest I’ve sung in was our church choir, which was never larger than 16 people. Other than that, it was SATB and as you know, TTBB, quartets. Okay, continuing on… 3758 But we’ve patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and porthole down ---
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3759 Put cables to her fore and aft and girded her around ---
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3760 Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and then take up the strain ---
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3761 And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again ---
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3762 Rise again, rise again ---
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3763 That her name not be lost to the knowledge of men ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/4216 "2021-01-28T22:52:28Z")
3764 All those who loved her best and were with her till the end ---
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3765 Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again ---
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3766 For we couldn’t leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale ---
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3767 She’d saved our lives so many times, living through the gale ---
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3768 And the laughing, drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave ---
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3769 They won’t be laughing in another day ---
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3770 And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow ---
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3771 With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go ---
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