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Mcfirefly2

Thanks, Enos. I will give it a listen--also that "Highwayman" video.

Mcfirefly2

Wikipedia: Aintree "Aintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. Historically in Lancashire, it lies between Walton and Maghull on the A59 road, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Liverpool city centre, in North West England. ..."

Mcfirefly2

My dad was based somewhere else, first, but Aintree was the one he talked about the most, so it is the one I remember.

Mcfirefly2

Aintree is a suburb of Liverpool, I believe. An air base existed there during WWII--look it up. It's hard to find, but a small one was there. I know about the Grand National, having seen National Velvet on the late show as a kid. I hate sports AND cruelty to animals OR humans, so I don't think that is justified, either. You just seem to want to hate me, but I am having a hard time, so I ask you to refrain from hate bombing me anymore. Hey, I know & love the songwriter, right? This gentle song?

EnosEverything

Great story but I really think you should check a map of England or Great Britain as Liverpool can hardly be classed as nearby, especially in terms of U.K. distances... Maybe in Russia or here in Australia is 200 miles considered nearby but not England.. If you are unaware, Aintree is far more famous for its annual horse race The Grand National ..A race to see which of the multitude of horses can be put down first, and I don't mean dissed.

EnosEverything

In that case I apologise Linda as I think Jimmy Webb is one of the true greats... I just thought you being a tad pernickity and precious but anyway, I'm sorry for the offensive remark... Paddy is a very talented chap songwriting wise himself... Check out his new album CRIMSON/RED on which he plays everything under the Prefab Sprout name... Considering he's lost most of his hearing and his sight it's quite magnificent.

Mcfirefly2

Don't beat up on people.

Mcfirefly2

The redneck lineman would probably be of Scots-Irish descent (maybe mixed with German in Kansas!). The song is not ashamed of that, and it is not shaming him for the relaxed, American, common people way he talks.

Mcfirefly2

By the way, Paddy Chayefsky got his name "Paddy" from his WWII Army drill instructor. I never met PC, although the songwriter knew him! My dad was in England in WWII, in Aintree & in another airbase before that. My dad loved London, not so much nearby Liverpool. but he remembered the kids asking "Got some gum, chum?" He traveled around seeing England & Scotland, but Ireland was off-limits. Finally he & a bud caught a boat to Ireland, & both got busted from master sergeant to private!

Mcfirefly2

Another example of "correction": when MOST singers of the Bahamian or Caribbean Christmas song "Mary's Boy Child Jesus" correct the English, it sounds absurd, fussy, pretentious and definitely "pedantic"! What they do to "found no place to born she child" is a disgrace, but no doubt they feel like they are upholding standards. It sounds bad, not good, and the standards they uphold are pretentious and insulting. Nothing wrong with the original.

Mcfirefly2

In other words, if his name had been chosen for reason of the situation I mentioned, I wanted to say something about it, but if not, nobody would know about it who doesn't know about it. It's that simple and that complicated. But for crying out loud, why all the rudeness online?

Mcfirefly2

I had a reason to ask. There are actually situations in which it might have been the other, just as there are real Irishmen who are named Patrick/Paddy and whose last name is McAloon. I wouldn't have asked ordinarily, but have been running into those kinds of situations for awhile, now, and I just thought I would ask, partially as a way of saying that I don't want that kind of situation, IF that was the case...you'd have to know about it. & no big deal about "doesn't look like rain".

Mcfirefly2

I wasn't being pedantic; I think it sounds pedantic to "correct" the grammar! I mean, that's by definition "pedantic", isn't it? Take it as it is; the lineman talks that way, although the songwriter does/did not. In the spiritual "Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head", it says "you has got a manger bed"; to hear a white guy singing "you have got" sounds pedantic, as if he was rapping the original's composer and all the singers who sang that on the hand with a ruler. That's pedantic!

Mcfirefly2

I meant the concurrence of Paddy and McAloon, whether it was his actual name or maybe was chosen for that unfortunate reason. But I have to say, I am so tired of the nastiness of YouTube and of society in general. You think bullying me is some kind of victory for yourself, because you have accepted this evil society's rules, as if they were necessary and not an abomination. I have shown that it was you who were ignorant; what you want to be is up to you. It is a gentle, loving song, by the way.

Mcfirefly2

Also, Paddy Chayefsky has a particular significance for the writer of the song. The _rare_ name McAloon has an unfortunate" (to put it mildly) "significance" for me, one that could be linked in an "unfortunate" way, and I was curious whether the concurrence of Paddy (Patrick, I know) and Chayefsky was an accident of birth and naming, or chosen for that particular reason, which it unfortunately might have been. Really.

Mcfirefly2

The "improved" version sounds pretentious and insulting, which matches the spirit of the times, but is in no way an improvement. The song, written that way, implied an affirmation of people who speak that way, not an insult to them. "Correcting" the speech implies an insult, which may seem natural to people who soak like a frog in the saucepan of these times, but it is insulting to the original, too, including the songwriter, a very intelligent man.

Mcfirefly2

I'm not an ignorant turd. The song was written by my childhood friend, the love of my life. I was being friendly, but I guess a little mocking of the strutting pompous pretentiousness that people look up to, & ought not to. My name is Linda, and I apologize for offending you, but the lyric was written "don't look like rain", not "doesn't look like rain". Lots of examples of this exist, where people dress up verancular expressions that were meant to be that way, thinking they are improving them.

EnosEverything

What an ignorant turd you are.... Paddy is a contraction of Patrich which is his name... You're probably called Chuck which is a contraction of Vomit.

strofi100

mcfirefly2-why be such a pedantic arse?? If every word of every song that was ever written was sung exactly the same-what a boring old world this would be. Haven't got a clue what' name/nick' means in ENGLISH but Mr Mcaloon's first name is a simple derivation of Patrick-so no nod to the american playwright.

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