Joy Hilbert via Shane B. on the Ansteorran listserv wrote:
If anyone attempts to teach you a tune titled "JOIN THE CREW", do not listen. This is NOT a traditional
jig or a reel but is a 13/8 Balkan v*irus form whose insidious counter-Celtic rhythms will erase all
tunes in your memory and the memory of any one who hears it and replaces ALL OF THEM with the theme
from Gilligan's Island! Please, send this message to as many musicians as you can ... this is a new
v&irus and not many people know about it!
This information was received this morning from IRTRAD, please share it with anyone that might access
the tradition. There are concrete reports of sessions in pubs in as many as 42 cities (so far) being
destroyed by this v*irus, with up to 300 former session musicians able only to sit and vacantly stare
at their instruments while reciting "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale..."
The horror ... the horror ...
Pass this message along to all of your friends, relatives and the other readers of the newsgroups
and mailing lists which you are on so that they are not hurt by this dangerous v*irus!!!! STOP THE INSANITY!!
Erland on the Ansteorran listserv responded with this:
Isn't the tune from Gilligan's Island Celtic? Or was it one of the 5 Irish tunes.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a wail,
A wail for a Celtic clique.
That started from a southern land
I'm bored with writing it!
A Celts a ferocious fighting man
Though spelling he can't do
Five passages will tell the tale
Though three I'd rather do.
The music that the Celtic hear
Is ringing in their ears
From banging with their heads upon oak trees
'cause their 'visions' they hold dear.