Yes week 13 and Chris and I should have gone on holiday on Monday for a month after the Concert. Oh well at least the weather is as bad over in France as it is here at the moment.
I hope you all managed to see the revisited Concert on YouTube. Thank you for all of the kind messages on Whatsapp and emails that people sent. I woke up one morning about five weeks ago and asked Chris if he thought it was possible. He was less than enthusiastic but said he would see. Well he did get into and enjoyed doing it in the end. We were only able to use the material that we had at home as we hadn’t had all of Martins videos that he has left to NMM in his will. But Chris did find some videos that Mon’s son had given us (I thought I had taken them up the lock up) and Doreen Macklin had sent me lots of programmes that were very useful to find peoples names so it was great that we could find some of the old songs. I was delighted that we found ‘Pick a Bale of Cotton”.
I sent the link out to everyone that I had emails for that had been in the choir and were in the Concert and have had replies from several of them saying how much they had enjoyed their time with the NMM. We have had 123 hits so far.
We have one birthday this week Michael Ward is on the 13th. For a very tall man he makes himself very small when people are taking photographs but here is one that he managed to poke his head into at last years concert and one of him playing that stupid frog game (my opinion – some people liked it).
I think you are winning mike!!! Or is it dead?? Happy Birthday Mike.
Thanks everyone who joined last week zoom especially the ones dressed in gold and did my Quiz I never had any emails back so I quess nobody beat Maggie and Chris’s score.
This week we are going to go into the locked room not sure if that is what it is called and then we will have a bit of a sing song.
At the end of last week we asked you to sing along to GOLD and Chris made a youtube of it to watch we called it ‘Hideous but Great” which was the last thing that Marg said after we had finished it. Even more funny my Chris has just heard that the recording it has been rejected by YouTube because of “inappropriate content”. I didn’t think our singing was quite that bad – actually it probably was. He is trying to appeal it. Maybe they don’t like you killing a song
Hopefully see you Thursday night 7.15pm
Do have a try if you haven’t done it before it is good fun and lovely to see new people. Just click on the link just before 7.15pm enter the password Gold and you should be in. If I can do it anyone can.
Don’t forget the Password ‘Gold’
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https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474
Meeting ID: 667 379 474
Chatanooga Choo-Choo
Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo
Track twenty nine
Boy you can gimme a shine
I can afford to board the Chatanooga Choo choo
I’ve got my fare and just a trifle to spare
You leave the Pennsylvania Station bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner – nothing could be finer
Than to have your ham n eggs in Carolina
When you hear the whistle blowin eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in – gotta keep it rollin‘
Woo Woo Chattanooga there you are
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace – I used to call funny face
She’s gonna cry until I tell her that I’ll never roam
So Chatanooga Choo Choo – won’t you choo choo me hom
A Million Dreams
I close my eyes and I can see
A world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I’ve lost my mind
I don’t care, I don’t care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
‘Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
There’s a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds
I don’t care, I don’t care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you’ll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
For the world we’re gonna make
You Raise Me Up
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
There is no life ‘ no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
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