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Beryl Jukes attended the St Audries Holiday Week in 2011 and wrote this poem for the last night concert. It is reproduced here with her kind permission.
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Activities at St Audries 2011 (With apologies to Lord Tennisplayer)
Key
bat = crotchet rest
demented = diminished
tree = 3
noodling = making horrid noises when someone is speaking
turnip = Turlough, as in Turlough O'Carolan
Half a bar, half a bar, all of you wade in
Play sixty pages for Rod and Aidan
Scorn not the humble bat nor the occasional double flat.
All players should be contented even if the chord's demented.
Fiddles to right of them, whistles to left of them
Boxes in front of them volleyed and thundered
O the great sound they made, were those women dismayed
Playing their bats while all the rest wondered
No one cared if somebody blundered
Questions to right of them, comments to left of them
Broadsides in front of them volleyed and thundered
Hark to the clarion call, sounding above them all.
Don't let your spirits fall. Brave Rod and Aidan.
When will their patience fade, O what control arrayed
No sign of ire displayed. Great Rod and Aidan
Deedily to right of them, deedily to left of them
Deedle infront of them by everyone muttered
Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to ratify
Non-western music and everyone gutted.
BUT; Swing with your right arm, swing with your left arm
Massage your lugholes to strengthen the brain
Signs of infinity, all done in unity
Made in the hope of relieving all strain.
Half a mark half a mark, then add on tree
This is the music quiz and hard you'll agree
Just look at the list, is it Brahms, is it Liszt?
With cheese and wine we're all feeling...... quite intoxicated!
Half a spin, half a step, set and turn single
Take to the dance floor to mix and to mingle
There's Fawkes's Folly with the Tythe Pig
The Brawling Washerwoman and Spanish Jigg
The Fumbler and the Bashful Swain,
The Happy Pair and Lovers Lane
Jenny Pluck Pears a dance so pretty
Delivered by Graham with Synchronicity
Half a note, half a note, rendered so well
Brian's not just an accordion, he has feelings as well!
Half an hour, half an hour, here's the finale
Items by Jill, Turnip and Sally
There's many a noodle and many a stamp
Many a clap and many a stamp
Half a song, half a song, can it be modal
Has it a chorus? Yes, but please yodel
Madeleine's clogs are getting an airing
Please harp on and the fun we're sharing
Half the night, half the night,
Half the night onward. Still playing music
Shattered not sundered
Fantastic Levi is sound asleep
Soon we'll all be counting sheep
Snores by the hundred
In the morning it's up the steep track
Hoping that next year we all will be back
For another dose of wicketty whack
With Rod and Aidan
Beryl Jukes
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