7/11/2010 Fayetteville GA Rotary - Song of the W… Song of the Week Welcome Welcome 2009- 2010 print this page Welcome 2009 and earlier PLANNING GUIDE Meeting Information Meeting Schedule SEND YOUR SONG REQUEST TO PAUL ODDO AT [email protected]. We've got 50 years of the Meeting Makeups music Rotary loves best! President's Message Officers & Directors How Singing came to Rotary, and Club Members Off-Color Jokes did not! Four Avenues of Service Paul Harris Fellow Almost everyone who is a member of a Rotary club for more than a year knows that Rotary member Newsletter No. 5, Chicago printer Harry Ruggles, brought singing to Rotary meetings. What almost no one knows Photo Album is why, and most don’t know how important it was to the life of Rotary. Calendar Harry Ruggles was a very moral man. He detested off-color language, About Rotary malicious innuendo and classless humor. He argued in club meetings for Becoming A Member clean language. Little more than a year after Rotary had been formed, at an Useful Links evening meeting in 1906, the guest speaker began a story. Having heard it before, Harry also had heard the off-color ending, and felt it was Contact Us inappropriate for the club, so hejumped up in the middle of the joke and Site Map yelled, “Come on boys, let's sing!” He then led the club in the singing of “Let Guest Speaker Me Call You Sweetheart.” District 6900 Conference This was not only the first time that members had ever sung in Rotary, but apparently, also the first Sporting Clay Event time that a group of businessmen ever sang at a business meeting, anywhere. By his surprising Golf Tournament actions at this evening meeting, Harry demonstrated that demeaning activities and off-color stories were not welcome at Rotary gatherings. “It was reported at the time that the would-be speaker was Star Award Winner embarrassed and sore,” and so Harry Ruggles apologized, but the club backed him up. Right then and Song of the Week there, it was decided that all subsequent Rotary meetings should be conducted so that any woman SotW Archives could attend without being embarrassed. This has been the unwritten rule ever since, just as the Rotary Moment tradition of singing has endured. Annual Donations WHS Interact Club For more information, visit http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/ruggles/ FCHS Interact Club Click here for the Monmouth Rotary Singers http://www.galesburgrotary.org/rotjava/Glad2Be.rm GSRP Student Literacy New Member Profile Scrapbook For more songs, from the Song of the Week - see the Song of Memorial the Week Archives For members... NEXT WEEK'S FOLLOWS: SONG FOR JULY 12, 2010 Administration Login YANKEE DOODLE DANDY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1jiVcIGcg I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Yankee Doodle do or die. A real life nephew of my Uncle Sam, Born on the 4th of July. I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart. rotaryfayettevillega.com/SongoftheWe… 1/52 7/11/2010 Fayetteville GA Rotary - Song of the W… She's my Yankee Doodle joy. Yankee Doodle came to London Just to ride the ponies. I am that Yankee Doodle boy! SONG FOR FLAG DAY JUNE 14, 2010 The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics By Francis Scott Key 1814 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? SONG FOR JUNE 7, 2010 TEQUILA By THE CHAMPS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzTsQAI-9Hk&feature=related Verse 1: Da da, da da da da, da da Da da, da da da da, dum. Da da, da da da da, da da Da da, da da da da, dum. Verse 2: Da da, da da da da, da da Da da, da da da da, dum. Da da, da da da da, da da Da da, da da da da, dum. Chorus: Da da da daaaa dum. Da da da daaaa dum. Da da da daaaa dum. Da da, da da da da dum, Tequila! Repeat Verse 2 and the Chorus rotaryfayettevillega.com/SongoftheWe… 2/52 7/11/2010 Fayetteville GA Rotary - Song of the W… SONG FOR MAY 24, 2010 God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life. And I had to start again, with just my children and my wife. I'd thank my lucky stars, to be livin here today. ‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away. And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I wont forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. And I gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today. ‘Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA! SONG FOR MAY 17, 2010 IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY! (See May 11, 2009 for lyrics) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQAn0SGDf0M&NR=1 SONG FOR APRIL 26, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWymh80z5T0 CHATTANOOGA SHOE SHINE BOY! Have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand, Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand? People gather round and they clap their hands he's a great big bundle of joy. He pops a boogie woogie rag the Chattanooga shoeshine boy! He charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe. He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new. You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through. He's a great big bundle of joy. He pops a boogie woogie rag the Chattanooga shoeshine boy! It's a wonder that the rag don't tear the way he makes it pop. You should see him fan the air with his hoppity hippity hoppity hippity hop hop hop. He opens up for business when the clock strikes nine. He likes to get 'em early when they're feelin' fine. Everybody gets a little rise and shine with the great big bundle of joy. He pops a boogie woogie rag the Chattanooga shoeshine boy! SONG FOR APRIL 19, 2010 KENNY ROGERS - THE GAMBLER rotaryfayettevillega.com/SongoftheWe… 3/52 7/11/2010 Fayetteville GA Rotary - Song of the W… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60HUtTATw8c On a warm summers evening, on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a gambler, we were both too tired to sleep. So we took turns at staring out the window at the darkness. The boredom overtook us and he began to speak. He said, son I've made a life out of reading people's faces And knowing what the cards were, by the way they held their eyes. So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces For a taste of your whiskey, I'll give you some advice. Chorus: You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away and know when to run You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done. SONG FOR APRIL 12, 2010 (See below. It i the same song as the SONG OF THE WEEK: 04-13-09 The TAX Thing! =============) SONG OF THE WEEK FOR MARCH 29, 2010 EASTER PARADE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3nzrA-Ot4 In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade. I'll be all in clover. and when they look you over, I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade. On the avenue.... 5th Avenue.... the photographers will snap us. And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure. Oh I could write a sonnet, about your Easter bonnet, and the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade! rotaryfayettevillega.com/SongoftheWe… 4/52 7/11/2010 Fayetteville GA Rotary - Song of the W… SONG OF THE WEEK FOR MARCH 22, 2010 ~ MANANA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ikUCavp2yA My brother took his suitcase and he went away to school. My father said he only learned to be a silly fool. My father said that I should learn to make a chili pot. But then I burned the house down the chili was too hot! Manana Manana Manana is soon enough for me. The window it is busted and the rain is coming in. If someone doesn't fix it I'll be soaking to my skin. But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away, And we don't need a window on such a lovely day! Manana manana manana is soon enough for me. Manana manana manana is soon enough for me. SONG FOR MARCH 15, 2010 WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjXpGXgzU8 When Irish eyes are smiling, Sure it's like a morn in spring. In the lilt of Irish laughter you can hear the angels sing.