We had a music thread a while back and it died with a good friend, so I am going to start a new one since we have been doin' this on and off in other threads.
This one I first heard one late night out riding around in the winter of 75-76, it awed me then, it still does but a lot of Al Stewarts music has a historical bent.
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
Moving in lines through the day
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away
Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolyensk and Viyasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Closer and closer to Moscow they come - riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
Standing in the wings like an avenger
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise
You'll never know, you'll never know
Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night
You'll never know, you'll never hear us
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
The morning road leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming
Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
At home it'll almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
And all that I ever was able to see
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time
That I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
They turn and listen closer
I'll never know, I'll never know
Why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers
"Never"
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever
This one is so blue I had to get a pair of Dockers and some dark sunglasses...........yeah right
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
'Cause - 'cause - 'cause I remember when a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we have lost
Along the way, yeah!
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh. Yeah!
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry. Eh, yeah!
A little darlin', don't shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry. Eh!
Said - said - said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown, yeah!
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
I seh, logwood burnin' through the nights, yeah!
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge, say,
Of which I'll share with you, yeah!
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on through.
Oh, while I'm gone,
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, yeah!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, yeah!
Everything's gonna be all right!
So no, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
I seh, O little - O little darlin', don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry, eh.
No, woman - no, woman - no, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
One more time I got to say:
O little - little darlin', please don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
I love that one! It's a great song already, but Peter Rowan plays it well in his style.
this one was always a good drinking song in days gone by ;D
Everybody's sings the blues sometimes and
Everybody knows the tune.
And everybody knows the way I'm feelin', 'cause
Everybody's had the blues.
A lonely, song someone is gone,
A story old as time.
Love, hate, or want and wait
Till misery fills your mind.
And everybody knows the way I'm fellin',
'Cause everybody's had the blues.
--- Instrumental ---
A lonely, song someone is gone,
A story old as time.
Love, hate, or want and wait
Till misery fills your mind.
And everybody knows the way I'm fellin',
'Cause everybody's had the blues.
Everybody's had the blues...
T for Texas, T for Tennessee
T for Texas, T for Tennessee
T for Thelma
That gal that made a wreck out of me.
YODEL: O-de-lay-ee-a-lay-ee-o-lay-ee
If you don't want me mama
You sure don't have to stall
If you don't want me mama
You sure don't have to stall
'Cause I can get more women
Than a passenger train can haul.
YODEL
I'm gonna buy me a pistol
Just as long as I'm tall, Lawd, Lawd
I'm gonna buy me a pistol
Just as long as I'm tall
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma
Just to see her jump and fall.
YODEL
I'm going where the water
Drinks like cherry wine, sing 'em boy, sing 'em
Lawd, I'm going where the water
Drinks like cherry wine
'Cause the Georgia water
Tastes like turpentine.
YODEL
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun
With a great long shiny barrel
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun
With a great long shiny barrel
I'm gonna shoot that rounder
That stole away my gal.
YODEL
Rather drink muddy water
Sleep in a hollow log
Rather drink muddy water
And sleep in a hollow log
Than to be in Atlanta
Treated like a dirty dog.
YODEL
Here's an interesting site, this fella went through the Ozarks, Ark and Missouri and recorded all these people singing all the songs they could remember from years ago,
one of my relatives sent it to me because my Grandmothers Uncle has some recording on it.
Fred High is his name, if you listen to you'll see why he ran the Post Office instead of singing fer a living.
http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/singerfj.html#anchor3
I think most of them were recorded back in the 50's
Uhhh. OT, is he by chance related to the Highs of the High's ice cream chain? If he is, can I have some free ice cream? ;D ;D
Ok Del, I'm not sure why this one just popped into my head, but:
I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me
{REFRAIN}
They call me mellow yellow
Quite right, Slip
They call me mellow yellow
Quite right, Slip
They call me mellow yellow
I'm just mad about Fourteen
Fourteen's mad about me
I'm just mad about Fourteen
She's just mad about me
{REFRAIN}
Gonna have forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Born high forever to fly
If you want your cup I will fill
{REFRAIN}
So mellow, he's so yellow
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
is bound to be the very next phase
(REFRAIN)
Do we know the artiist? I do.
Some guy named Donavin. ;D
Russ T maybe it's cause
He turned 35 last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way.
So he grows a little garden
In the backyard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing
Nowadays in self defense
He gets out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense.
He gets off on country music
'Cause disco left him cold
And he's got young friends and a new way
But he's just to frickin old.
And he dreams at night of Woodstock
And the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy
And the silence made him cry
Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why.
Chorus:
'Cause he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new.
He's and old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust.
He was sure back in the sixties
That everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to vietnam
On his senior trip.
And they forced him to become a man
While he was still a boy
And behind each wave of tragedy
He waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
But he just can't change no more.
Chorus:
'Cause he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new.
He's and old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust.
Well, he stays away a lot now
From the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's jogging round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs.
'Cause him and his kind
Get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species
Will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo
Just up and fade away.
Chorus:
'Cause he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new.
He's and old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust.
Now they make new movies in old black and white
With happy endings, where nobody fights
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
Honey, jump right up and show your age
Chorus:
I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of andy devine
I remember bein buck-toothed and skinny
Writin fan letters to sky king and penny
Oh I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too
Then its bandstand, disneyland, growin up fast
Drinkin on a fake i.d.
Yeah, and rama of the jungle was everyones bawana
But only jazz musicians were smokin marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too
Then its flat top, dirty bob, coppin a feel
Grubbin on the livin room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score
Yeah, but now Im gettin old, dont wear underwear
I dont go to church and I dont cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be
Chorus:
Thats why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two-toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of andy devine
Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
Maybe suave errol flynn or the sheik of araby
If I only had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could do some cruisin too
Coda:
Yeah, bryl-cream, a little dabll do yah
Oh, I could do some cruisin too
;D Sky King use to be one of my favorite shows ;D was in lust with Penny long fore ole Mary Ann on Gilligans
Tenzzz, you made me put a Jimmy Buffet CD in the truck.............Here's anutha Pagain Ritual song of his
Chorus:
Now i don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Let me say now i don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Ground she's movin' under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Chorus:
Let me hear ya now i don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not
Chorus:
Let me say now i don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
-- spoken: "mr utley..."
No time to count what i'm worth
'cause i just left the planet earth
Where i go i hope there's rum
Not to worry mon soon come
Chorus:
Now i don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
One more now i don't know (ah he don't know)
I don't know (he don't know, mon)
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
But i don't want to land in new york city
Don't want to land in mexico (no no no)
Don't want to land on no three mile island
Don't want to see my skin aglow (no no no)
Don't want to land in commanche sky park
Or in nashville, tennessee (no no no)
Don't want to land in no san juan airport
Or the yukon territory (no no no)
Don't want to land no san diego
Don't want to land in no buzzards bay (no no no)
Don't want to land on no ayotollah
I got nothing more to say
Chorus:
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Just a one more, i don't know (he don't know)
I don't know (i don't know, man)
I don't know where i'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home
Oh, Mama, I can hear you ah cryin' you're so scared and all alone
Hangman is comin' down from the gallows and I don't have very long
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man
Oh Mama, I've been years on the lam and had a high price on my head
Lawman said 'Get him dead or alive' and it's for sure he'll see me dead
Dear Mama I can hear you cryin', you're so scared and all alone
Hangman is comin' down from the gallows and I don't have very long
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
The judge'll have revenge today
On the wanted man
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man
Oh boy that brought back memory's of early 1979 and a certain body shop and an old beat-up radio. :)
I love Harry Chapin music, the man knew how to tell a good story and make it rhyme.
It was an early morning bar room,
And the place just opened up.
And the little man come in so fast and
Started at his cups.
And the broad who served the whisky
She was a big old friendly girl.
And she tried to fight her empty nights
By smilin' at the world.
And she said "Hey Bub, It's been awhile
Since you been around.
Where the hell you been hidin'?
And why you look so down?"
But the little man just sat there like he'd never heard a sound.
The waitress she gave out with a cough,
And acting not the least put off,
She spoke once again.
She said, "I don't want to bother you,
Consider it's understood.
I know I'm not no beauty queen,
But I sure can listen good."
And the little man took his drink in his hand
And he raised it to his lips.
He took a couple of sips.
And he told the waitress this story.
"I am the midnight watchman down at Miller's Tool and Die.
And I watch the metal rusting, and I watch the time go by.
A week ago at the diner I stopped to get a bite.
And this here lovely lady she sat two seats from my right.
And Lord, Lord, Lord she was alright.
"Well, she was so damned beautiful she could warm a winter's frost.
But she was long past lonely, and well nigh onto lost.
Now I'm not much of a mover, or a pick-em-up easy guy,
But I decided to glide on over, and give her one good try.
And Lord, Lord, Lord she was worth a try.
"Tongued-tied like a school boy, I stammered out some words.
But it did not seem to matter much, 'cause I don't think she heard.
She just looked clear on through me to a space back in my head.
And it shamed me into silence, as quietly she said,
'If you want me to come with you, then that's all right with me.
Cause I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere's a better place to be.
Anywhere's a better place to be.'
"I drove her to my boarding house, and I took her up to my room.
And I went to turn on the only light to brighten up the gloom.
But she said, 'Please leave the light off, for I don't mind the dark.'
And as her clothes all tumbled 'round her, I could hear my heart.
The moonlight shone upon her as she lay back in my bed.
It was the kind of scene I only had imagined in my head.
I just could not believe it, to think that she was real.
And as I tried to tell her she said 'Shhh.. I know just how you feel.
And if you want to come here with me, then that's all right with me.
'Cause I've been oh so lonely, lovin' someone is a better way to be.
anywhere's a better way to be.'
"The morning come so swiftly as I held her in my arms.
But she slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm.
I did not want to share her or dare to break the mood,
So before she woke I went out and brought us both some food.
"I came back with my paper bag, to find that she was gone.
She'd left a six word letter saying 'It's time that I moved on.'"
The waitress she took her bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes.
And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh.
She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind.
And I wish I weren't so doggone fat, I wish that you were mine.
And I wish that you'd come with me, when I leave for home.
For we both know all about emptiness, and livin' all alone."
And the little man,
Looked at the empty glass in his hand.
And he smiled a crooked grin,
He said, "I guess I'm out of gin.
And know we both have been so lonely.
And if you want me to come with you, then that's all right with me.
'Cause I know I'm goin' nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be."
Somehow I figgered ya'd use this one for Harry:
At first I did not think it could be you.
But you're the only one that got off the train.
So you must be my wife Miss Annie Halsey
Yes, I guess I am your husband, Hello I'm Harry Crane.
Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life.
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come to be my wife.
You know you're not as pretty as I dreamed you'd be,
But then I'm not no handsome fancy Dan.
And out here looks are really not important.
It's what's inside a woman when she's up against the land.
Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life.
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come to be my wife.
You know it's not no easy life you're entering.
The winter wind comes whistling through the cracks there in the sod.
You know you'll never have too many neighbors.
There's you Girl, and there's me, and there's God.
You know I'm just a dirt man from the North Dakota plains.
You're one girl from the city who's been thrown out on her own.
I'm standing here not sure of what to say to you
'Cepting Mail Order Annie, lets you and me go home.
Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life.
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come to be my wife.
Lyrics > Harry Chapin Lyrics > Harry Chapin Mail Order Annie Lyrics
I like that one also, but heck, I like most everything he did. Saw hin in 1977, one of the best shows I ever saw.
Like John Prine also.
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own
Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve
Well, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-coo
Yeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own
Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place
When just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face
I said "You must know the answer."
"She said, "No but I'll give it a try."
And to this very day we've been livin' our way
And here is the reason why
We blew up our TV threw away our paper
Went to the country, built us a home
Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own
At a truck stop in San Angelo
I saw a billboard 'bout this rodeo
Last weekend out in El Paso
So I signed up to ride
I drew a bull called Original Sin
I heard he'd killed a couple of men
I figured this was somethin' I could win
Cause the devil was on my side
I was havin' myself one hell of a ride
But I ended up disqualified
That danged old bull just up and died
Before they blew the whistle
When I got them north Texas blues
Thought I'd paid all my dues
Then them south Texas blues
Told me son you ain't through
Had them east Texas blues
And them west Texas too
I've done all I know to do
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose
These lone star blues
Got laid off at Brown & Root
Then on my way back to Cut and Shoot
Lost my wristwatch and my boots
Shootin' dice with a dude from Houston
Ain't no jobs here workin' cattle
So I got on part time haulin' gravel
With some outfit from Seattle
Down here buildin' custom homes
When I got them north Texas blues
Thought I'd paid all my dues
Then them south Texas blues
Told me son you ain't through
Had them east Texas blues
And them west Texas too
I've done all I know to do
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose
These lone star blues
Gassed my truck and packed my clothes
Turned in my key and hit the road
I said Cowtown's where I'll go
You never know I might get lucky
Got a friend there turning knobs
At a place called Billy Bob's
He said he could get me a job there
Workin' as a bouncer
First night on the job was just insane
Some ol' boy got all deranged
Hit me in the head with a Harley chain
To this day my ears still ring
When I got them north Texas blues
Thought I'd paid all my dues
Then them south Texas blues
Told me son you ain't through
Had them east Texas blues
And them west Texas too
I've done all I know to do
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose
These lone star blues
Sung after gittin' caught buyin' ah new gun when ya sed ya woodn' do it ;)
Don't be angry with me darling if I fail to understand
All your little whims and wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm dumb I guess like any foolish man
And my head stays sorta foggy 'cause you're mine.
Well, I recall the first time that I flirted with you dear
When I jokingly said come and be my bride
Now the time has turned the pages it's the sweetest joke on earth
That I have you dear forever by my side.
Maybe someday you're gonna hurt me I've been hurting of before
Only God can know and time alone will tell
But in the mean time I'll be loving you with all my heart and soul
And pray God to let it last if it's his will.
So don't be angry with me darling if I fail to understand
All your little whims and wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm dumb I guess like any foolish man
And my head stays sorta foggy 'cause you're mine...
;D
saved to favorites...so for the next time I get caught ;D ;D ;D
This ole house once knew his children (Still does.)
This ole house once knew a wife (Ditto.)
This ole house was home and comfort (It's been here since '73)
As we fought the storms of life (Smashed by Izzybell)
This old house once rang with laughter (Might as well laff)
This old house heard many shouts (Yeah, still does)
Now she trembles in the darkness (Naw. Looks better in the dark)
When the lightnin' walks about (Not that either. Just loses 'lectricity)
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer (I wish....)
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles (Still under warranty)
Ain't a-got time to fix the floor (Never sell it if I don't.)
Ain't got time to oil the hinges (Ballistol. Wife loves the fragrance)
Nor to mend no windowpane (Arcey breaks down 'n cries. Got a big one ta replace)
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
She's a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
This ole house is gettin' shaky (Just the screens.)
This ole house is gettin' BEEN old
This ole house lets in the rain (See shinges)
This ole house lets in the cold
On my knees I'm gettin' chilly (New furnace liked ta ran me out the back bath this mornin')
But I feel no fear nor pain (Hell, everythin' hurts)
'Cause I see an angel peekin'
Through the broken windowpane (WHERE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?)
This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms (Naw. Too dumb)
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings out its arms (Naw)
This ole house is gettin' feeble
This old house is needin' paint (Yeah. Damn it)
Just like me it's tuckered out ('Me' is burnt out)
Spent so much on this thing the past month it's gonna be a longgggggggggg time 'fore I buy another gun. Need ta replace the bay window in the breakfast nook next. That's gonna be REAL cheap. Phooey.
Teenage ... had a race for the nighttime ...
Spent my cash on every high I could find ...
White punks on ......
Wasn't MY theme song, but I liked it - saw them - still like them
And the song they wrote that was the 1972 "Country Music's Most Requested Song"
I'm proud - to be an American ...
I'm proud ... had a good time bein' one ...
And so on.
Any guesses? They're obscure - MUCH more so than John Prine ;) Who isn't REALLY obscure. ;D
I was a highwayman, along the coach roads I did ride,
With sword and pistol by my side.
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade.
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five:
But I am still alive.
I was a sailor, I was born upon the tide.
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico.
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow.
And when the yards broke off, they said that I got killed:
But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide;
Where steel and water did collide.
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado,
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound:
But I am still around.
I'll always be around,.
And around and around and around and around.
I fly a starship across the Universe divide.
And when I reach the other side,
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can.
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again.
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain;
But I will remain.
And I'll be back again,
And again and again and again and again
Always liked that one.
Heard this one a while back by the guy who wrote it, George Strait, George Jones and Allan Jackson have all recorded it, but don't seem to make a hit out of it, wonder why? ::)
Nobody saw them running
From 16th Avenue
They never found the fingerprints
Or the weapon that was used
But someone killed country music
Cut out its heart and soul
They got away with murder
Down on music row
The almight dollar
And the lust for worldwide fame
Slowly killed tradition
And for that, someone shouldhang ("Ahh, you tell 'em Alan")
They all say "Not Guilty!"
But the evidence will show
That murder was committed
Down on music row
For the steel guitars no longer cry
And the fiddles barely play
But drums and rock 'n' roll guitars
Are mixed up in your face
Ol' Hank wouldn't have a chance
On today's radio
Since they committed murder
Down on music row
They thought no one would miss it
Once it was dead and gone
They said no one would buy them ol'
Drinkin' and cheatin' songs ("Oh, but I still buy 'em")
Well there ain't no justice in it
And the hard facts are cold
Murder's been committed
Down on music row
For the steel guitars no longer cry
And you can't hear fiddles play
With drums and rock 'n' roll guitars
Mixed right up in your face
Why the Hag wouldn't have a chance
On today's radio
Since they committed murder
Down on music row
Why they even tell the Possum
To pack up and go back home
There's been an awful murder
Down on music row
here's one ain't cowboy related in any sorta way, but I heard it on the oldies station today, yanked me right back to the Fall of 1967, Marlyin Smith and finding out how much fun them brown eyed girls were. ;D
Print: Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl Lyrics print version
Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and sliding
All along the water fall, with you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da
So hard to find my way,
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My how you have grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometime I'm overcome thinking 'bout
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
A D
Well now early one day I was on my way to my favorite fishin' hole
E
I was thinking I could sure use another bottle of booze
A
My baits a' runnin a little low
Man a box of 12 gauge would be all the rage
D
I'm all liquored up and I'm feelin' good
E
Well just down the road there was a place called Bubba's
A
Man he's got the goods...
(chorus)
A
And the sign said beer, bait, and ammo yeah
D
They got everything in between
E
Yeah they got anything any old beer drinkin
A
Hell raisin, bonified redneck needs
They got your fishin hooks, they got your dirty books
D
They got your rebel flag on the wall
E
Sign said beer, bait, and ammo yeah
A
You ask me they got it all
A
Well now when I walked in I cain't even begin
D
To describe just what I smelled
E
Lord was it the catfish bait or something Bubba had ate
A
Was it those pickled eggs on the shelf
Yeah with a toothless grin he said boy step right on in
D E
Make yourself right at home, I said no, no, no thank you man
A
With a 12 pack of cans and I'll be good to go
And the sign said...
(repeat chorus)
solo
(repeat chorus)
That's when she 'n I were datin' 'n she's brown-eyed. Both daughters brown-eyed too.
She hated Susie-Q by Credence.
Quote from: Arcey on November 14, 2007, 03:33:10 PM
She hated Susie-Q by Credence.
Every time I hear that song I think of two slices of Devil's Food cake with cream filling inbetween in a plastic wrapper, I think I had the muchies first time I heard it.
lets see, 1967, I'm sure I ate something during that time but the only things I remember are the cars and the girls ;D ;D
Whut I remember most about '67 was thinkin' 'bout how badly I wanted out of school 'n I had two more years.
I was too miserable ta eat, Del.
Quote from: Arcey on November 14, 2007, 05:33:16 PM
Whut I remember most about '67 was thinkin' 'bout how badly I wanted out of school 'n I had two more years.
I was too miserable ta eat, Del.
Oh I didn't realize that song was that old, didn't hear it till about 1971 or so, or least that I 'member.
got one of them new fangled 4 track tape players for ma car that year, couple of years later moved up to 8 track. ;D
Funny how ya remember stuff by music. Ordered my first new car. '71 Mercury. New car manager hauled ass with my, 'n several other folks', deposits without orderin' the cars. Best I know they n'er did find 'im. It was a mess ta get straight. Took all the paperwork with 'im.
When it finally did come in I fired it up 'n put the radio where I wanted it. First song was 'It Don't Come Easy'. Thought ta myself, 'ain't that the damned truth!'
Quote from: Delmonico on November 14, 2007, 05:34:56 PM
Oh I didn't realize that song was that old, didn't hear it till about 1971 or so, or least that I 'member.
I remember it in the high school dances 68-69-70
here's the top 100 songs of 1967, lots of good one's in there, several good memories ;D
Top 100 Hits of 1967 / Top 100 Songs of 19671. To Sir With Love, Lulu
2. Happy Together, The Turtles
3. Windy, Association
4. Ode To Billie Joe, Bobby Gentry
5. I'm A Believer, The Monkees
6. Light My Fire, The Doors
7. Somethin' Stupid, Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
8. The Letter, Box Tops
9. Groovin', Young Rascals
10. Kind Of A Drag, Buckinghams
11. Little Bit O' Soul, Music Explosion
12. I Think We're Alone Now, Tommy James and The Shondells
13. Respect, Aretha Franklin
14. I Was Made To Love Her, Stevie Wonder
15. Come Back When You Grow Up, Bobby Vee and The Strangers
16. Sweet Soul Music, Arthur Conley
17. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli
18. Never My Love, Association
19. Soul Man, Sam and Dave
20. Expressway To Your Heart, Soul Survivors
21. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie, Jay and The Techniques
22. Come On Down To My Boat, Every Mothers' Son
23. Incense And Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock
24. Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones
25. It Must Be Him, Vicki Carr
27. For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield
28. Gimme Little Sign, Brenton Wood
28. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, Supremes
29. The Happening, Supremes
30. All You Need Is Love, Beatles
31. Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), Engelbert Humperdinck
32. Your Precious Love, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
33. Somebody To Love, Jefferson Airplane
34. Get On Up, Esquires
35. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
36. Jimmy Mack, Martha and The Vandella
37. I Got Rhythm, Happenings
38. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum
39. Don't You Care, Buckinghams
40. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Casinos
41. Reflections, Diana Ross and The Supremes
42. On A Carousel, Hollies
43. Please Love Me Forever, Bobby Vinton
44. Alfie, Dionne Warwick
45. San Francisco, Scott Mckenzie
46. Silence Is Golden, Tremeloes
47. My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames
48. Up, Up And Away, Fifth Dimension
49. The Rain, The Park And Other Things, Cowsills
50. There's A Kind Of Hush, Herman's Hermits
51. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Buckinghams
52. This Is My Song, Petula Clark
53. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Jackie Wilson
54. I've Been Lonely Too Long, Young Rascals
55. Penny Lane, Beatles
56. You're My Everything, Temptations
57. Georgy Girl, Seekers
58. Western Union, Five Americans
59. Baby I Love You, Aretha Franklin
60. A Little Bit You, A Little Bit Me, The Monkees
61. California Nights, Lesley Gore
62. Dedicated To The One I Love, Mama's and The Papa's
63. How Can I Be Sure, Young Rascals
64. Carrie Ann, Hollies
65. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet, Blue Magoos
66. Friday On My Mind, Easy Beats
67. Soul Finger, Bar-Kays
68. Gimme Some Lovin', Spencer Davis Group
69. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out), Hombres
70. Let's Live For Today, The Grass Roots
71. Close Your Eyes, Peaches and Herb
72. Groovin', Booker T and The MG's
73. Funky Broadway, Wilson Pickett
74. Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees
75. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), Aretha Franklin
76. Tell It Like It Is, Aaron Neville
77. Cold Sweat, James Brown and The Famous Flames
78. She'd Rather Be With Me, The Turtles
79. 98.6, Keith
80. Here We Go Again, Ray Charles
81. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane
82. Here Comes My Baby, Tremeloes
83. The Beat Goes On, Sonny and Cher
84. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron, Royal Guardsmen
85. Society's Child, Janis Ian
86. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon, Neil Diamond
87. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Electric Prunes
88. Mirage, Tommy James and The Shondells
89. Bernadette, Four Tops
90. Everlasting Love, Robert Knight
91. I Dig Rock And Roll Music, Peter, Paul and Mary
92. Litle Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright), Bill Cosby
93. Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
94. Daydream Believer, The Monkees
95. Thank The Lord For The Night Time, Neil Diamond
96. I Take It Back, Sandy Posey
97. Green, Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones
98. I Can See For Miles, The Who
99. Don't Sleep In The Subway, Petula Clark
100. Baby I Need Your Lovin', Johnny Rivers
Lots of motown back then
Since LR's submission mentioned Fishing Holes, here is one that you all ought to remember. The lyrics to the Andy Griffith Show theme song:
Well, now, take down your fishin' pole and meet me at The Fishin' Hole,
We may not get a bite all day, but don't you rush away.
What a great place to rest your bones and mighty fine for skippin' stones,
You'll feel fresh as a lemonade, a-settin' in the shade.
Whether it's hot, whether it's cool, oh what a spot for whistlin' like a fool.
What a fine day to take a stroll and wander by The Fishin' Hole,
I can't think of a better way to pass the time o' day.
We'll have no need to call the roll when we get to The Fishin' Hole,
There'll be you, me, and Old Dog Trey, to doodle time away.
If we don't hook a perch or bass, we'll cool our toes in dewy grass,
Or else pull up a weed to chaw, and maybe set and jaw.
Hangin' around, takin' our ease, watchin' that hound a-scratchin' at his fleas.
Come on, take down your fishin' pole and meet me at The Fishin' Hole,
I can't think of a better way to pass the time o' day.
You translated all that whistling?
:o
that's pretty good, I never understood a word, they was whistling sa loud.
Quote from: litl rooster on November 14, 2007, 06:38:46 PM
You translated all that whistling?
You didn't know there were words, huh?
How about this one:
Want you to meet the family that's known as The Real McCoys.
From West Virginee they came to stay in sunny Californi-ay.
That's Grand Pappy Amos and the girls and the boys of the family known as the Real McCoys.
Livin' like good folks should live, as happy as kids with toys.
Ol Grand Pappy Amos is head of the clan, he roars like a lion, but he's gentle as a lamb.
His grandson Luke keeps beaming with joy, since he made miss Kate Missus Luke McCoy.
What a house keeper Kate is, she's doin' what she enjoys.
No gal can beat her when it comes to looks, the same can be said about the way she cooks.
For Grand Pappy Amos and the girls and boys of the family known as the Real McCoys.
Sharing each others sorrows, enjoyin' each others joys.
Like all other families they quarrel and fuss, but it ain't never serious,
With Grand Pappy Amos and the girls and boys of the family known as the Real McCoys.
I remember that one, seen about all them real McCoy's shows ;D
Po folks with a illeagal hired hand and a housekeeper........... ;D
We chased lady luck, 'til we finally struck Bonanza.
With a gun and a rope and a hat full of hope, planted a family tree. We got hold of a pot of gold, Bonanza.
With a horse and a saddle, and a range full of cattle, how rich can a fellow be?
On this land we put our brand, Cartwright is the name, fortune smiled, the day we filed the Ponderosa claim.
Here in the West, we're livin' the best, Bonanza, if anyone fights any one of us, he's go a fight with me, Bonanza.
Hoss and Joe and Adam know every rock and pine, no one works, fights, or eats, like those boys of mine. Here we stand in the middle of a grand Bonanza.
With a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope, we planted our family tree, we got hold of a potful of gold, Bonanza.
With a houseful of friends where the rainbow ends, how rich can a fellow be?
On this land we put our brand, Cartwright is the name, fortune smiled, the day we filed the Ponderosa claim. Here in the west we're livin' the best Bonanza.
With the friendliest, fightingist, loving band, that ever set foot in the promised land, and we're happier than them all.
That's why we call it Bonanza...Bonanza...Bonanza...
And the version NBC shot down.
(Little Joe solo) I've got a flair for women everywhere---Bonanza!
(Hoss solo) Bonanza! (Barks and howls)
(All three) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza! Bonanza!
But when I give a kiss to any little miss, She'll learn a lot from me
(Ben solo) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza!
(All three) Bonanza!
When I give a kiss to any little miss
She'll learn a lot from me
Hair of brown, hair of gold
I'll take what I see
We're not a one to saddle up and run--Bonanza! Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
Knows he can count on me
One for four, four for all
This we guarantee
We got a right to pick a little fight--Bonanza! Bonanza!
If anyone fights any one of us
He's gotta fight with me!
(Little Joe solo) I've got a flair for women everywhere---Bonanza!
(Hoss solo) Bonanza! (Barks and howls)
(All three) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza! Bonanza!
But when I give a kiss to any little miss, She'll learn a lot from me
(Ben solo) I'm not afraid of any pretty maid--Bonanza!
(All three) Bonanza!
When I give a kiss to any little miss
She'll learn a lot from me
Hair of brown, hair of gold
I'll take what I see
We're not a one to saddle up and run--Bonanza! Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
Knows he can count on me
One for four, four for all
This we guarantee
We got a right to pick a little fight--Bonanza! Bonanza!
If anyone fights any one of us
He's gotta fight with me!
Del, you is just a fount of little known knowledge.................... 8) ;D
Y'all gonna start makin me start thinkin I'm a kid again. Shame they can't make good shows like that any more. Mebbe they should bring em all back whilst tha writers strike is goin on. Be a whole lot more decent that tha reality shows they's plannin on foistin on ya!
The lyrics of one of my favorites:
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Quote from: Arcey on November 15, 2007, 01:02:33 PM
The lyrics of one of my favorites:
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Slim
For theme songs, I find this one hard to beat, only the first have was sung on the show.
Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire heeds the calling wind.
A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
Paladin, Paladin Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin, Far, far from home.
He travels on to wherever he must
A chess knight of silver is his badge of trust
There are campfire legends that the trailmen spin
Of the man with the gun
Of the man called Paladin
Paladin Paladin Where do you roam?
Paladin Paladin Far, far from home
Far from home. Far from home.
;D
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/TV%20Movies/richard-boone-c2.jpg)
Batman? ;D
Quote from: Arcey on November 15, 2007, 01:02:33 PM
The lyrics of one of my favorites:
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
Batman
;D
and Robin
and I know litl rooster wouldn't want to forget catwoman ;D
I haven't ;D
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on November 16, 2007, 08:25:59 PM
;D
Does
PUK know your passing his card out (PUK who loves Paladine)
check out his card, inquiring minds want to know, was his first name Wire ??? :o
They called him that because he was so skinny. ;D
ya know they always called Barney Fife skinny, but he always said he was wirey ;D
November is nearly done and we forgot this one
; The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called gitche gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of november turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the edmund fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of november came early.
The ship was the pride of the american side
Coming back from some mill in wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the north wind theyd been feelin?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
Twas the witch of november come stealin.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of november came slashin.
When afternoon came it was freezin rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin.
Fellas, its too rough to feed ya.
At seven p.m. a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, its been good tknow ya
The captain wired in he had water comin in
And the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald.
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say theyd have made whitefish bay
If theyd put fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
May have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Lake huron rolls, superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old michigan steams like a young mans dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below lake ontario
Takes in what lake erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of november remembered.
In a musty old hall in detroit they prayed,
In the maritime sailors cathedral.
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the edmund fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call gitche gumee.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of november come early
The local news had info on it on the anniversary.
Slim
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on November 18, 2007, 09:24:52 PM
ya know they always called Barney Fife skinny, but he always said he was wirey ;D
Used to know a guy who took a lot of little white pills, he was kinda wirey. ;D
Sad from Ian Tyson.....
Ian Tyson, M.C. Horses Lyrics
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Artist: Tyson Ian
Song: M.C. Horses
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We were having a drink at Stockman's,
Listenin' to the guitars ring.
Jesse said "You know,they sold the M.C. horses."
"I'll be damned.When was that?" I hadn't heard a thing.
"Back in August--100 head and more."
Yeah, the people they come from everywhere
Just to bid on 'em high and low
And thereby own a piece of the legend.
With the cow herd all dispersed the old cavvy she had to go.
Back in August--100 head and more.
Chorus:
So come on boy, run 'em in. We're gonna let this sale begin.
Last of the big remudas of the mightly M.C.
There's horses here for everyone.
Saddle 'em kids let's get her done.
By the time that Oregon sun goes down
This outfit's history--this outfit's history.
So the M.C. crew they rode 'em all
And the people all gathered 'round.
One ol' boy gave two grand for Banjo.
Banjo took his trailer apart
When he tired to load him up for town
Back in August-- 100 head and more.
If you ever have beer at the Aydell Store
Say hi to Chuck and Annie.
They'll show you them big ol' steer heads up there hangin'.
When you ask where have they gone?
Hell, they're gone like the M.C. cavvy
Back in August--100 head and more.
Repeat Chorus
We were having a drink at Stockman's
Way out on the sagebrush sea.
Jesse said "You know, they sold the M.C. horses."
One of my favorites from Ian, but I guess they are all favorites from him.
I was going through a divorce when the Fitz went down, that was a nasty November storm......Buck 8) ::) :o
Seen Ian a time or two always has the same two men accompany him, the Gordons... Ian, being much older than them claims, they were conceived during the Gordon Lightfoot era.
Love to hear Ian sing.
Jaquima To Freno Lyrics (Ian Tyson)
Jaquima to freno
he's an old vaquero from another time hands as fine as the dealers of reno
he's been to the ocean he's been to the sea big long tapaderos hangin' both sides of an old visalia tree
Hey mr. vaquero put a handle on my pony for me teach me the mystery
Jaquima to freno
he's an old amansador still hangin' on just about gone like the california condor
he been down to the rodear ground
seen him on the movie screen ah but sometimes i think he's like america only see him in your dreams
did they sing all day did they dance all night
did they ride their spade bit ponies through the golden light
did they find true love was it all a bunch of lies
quien sabe, maybe it was paradise
Another from Ian
The Wonder Of It All Lyrics (Ian Tyson)
There's this place we're gonna ride
Up where the rimrock meets the night
We'll go hand in hand
Ridin' through the purple star light
And the coyote on the wind
Sends his lonely lover's call
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
The golden west has come and gone
Right before our very eyes
But they will never count the stars
And they will never fence the skies
All i know is i love you
And i won't let you fall
We're rollin' down the milky way
Into the wonder of it all
Bridge:
Life gets harder every day
And sometimes it seems the dream almost dies
But love will find a way
It will show us the way through the canyons of the stars
And the endless midnight sky
Come on girl we're gonna ride
Where the rimrock meets the night
We'll go hand in hand
Ridin' through the purple starlight
And the coyote on the wind
Sends his lonely lover's call
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
One more by Ian Tyson an' I'll quit
Albertas Child Lyrics (Ian Tyson)
Ian Tyson - Albertas Child Lyrics
Well, them ol' boys in Texas chew copenhagen
Wash it all down with that Coors
Ain't a bit bashful about speakin' their minds
They'll tell you what's theirs and what's yours
There's Waylon and there's Willie,
they own about half the state
And sing of her glories all in song
Talk about your lovers and your fighters
wild brahma bull riders
The whole thing takes a holt and goes on
Ride with me Jesus, help me pull this heavy load
Don't let her slip, don't let her slide
You answer all our questions further down this muddy road
Old cowboys cross the Great Divide
Well up north it's saddle broncs and it's hockey and honkytonks
Old Wilf Carter 78s
Dumb stuff like chores when it's twenty below
They're the things that a country boy hates
Too much damn wind and not enough whiskey
Drives them ol' northern boys flat wild
And he may go to Hell or even Vancouver
He'll always be Alberta's child
Got Ian on now, loaded the Christmas music so Terry will have it friday, but went to all Ian tonight.
In old St. Louis over in Missouri
The Mighty Mississippi it rolls and flows
A son was born to Mary Russell
And it starts the legend every cowboy knows
Young kid Russell he was born to wander
Ever westward he was bound to roam
Just a kid of sixteen in 1880
Up in wild Montana he found his home
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
God hung the stars over Judith Basin
God put the magic in young Charlie's hand
All was seen and all remembered
Every shining mountain every longhorn brand
He could paint the light on horsehide shining
Great passing herds of the buffalo
And a cowcamp cold on a rainy morning
And the twisting wrist of the Houlihan throw
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
When the Lord called Charlie to His home up yonder
He said Kid Russell I got a job for you
You're in charge of sunsets in old Montana
Cause I can't paint them quite as good as you
And when you're done---we'll go out and have a few
And Nancy Russell will make sure it's just two
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
Even if I didn't really like Ian's music, any one would would fault a man that wrote a song about Charlie Russell must be some kind of a heathan.
How To Sing the Blues: A Primer...
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something hard in the next line like,"I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple.
After you get the first line right, repeat it.
Then find something that rhymes... sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues is not about choice.
You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch--ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks.
Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles.
Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a Southbound train, Blues NEVER go on the Northbound train.
Jet aircraft and state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running.
Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle.
So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers cain't sing the Blues - they ain't fixin' to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues.
In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or anyplace in Canada.
Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression.
Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues.
You cannot have the Blues in any place that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues.
A woman with male pattern baldness is.
Breaking your leg cause you were skiing is not the Blues.
Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is.
9. You cain't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall - the lighting is wrong.
Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be a old person, and you slept in it for the last 6 months..
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes, if:
a. you older than dirt
b. you blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you cain't be satisfied
Not if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund
13. Blues is not a matter of color - it's a matter of bad luck.
Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues - Sonny Liston could.
Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues.
14. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. nasty black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast
15. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death.
Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die.
So is the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken down cot.
You cain't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Debbie, and Heather cain't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
19. Make Your Own Blues Name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc..)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi,etc..)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc..)
For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Jakeleg Lemon Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")
20. I don't care how tragic your life is - if you own even one computer, you cannot sing the Blues.
(DAMN!)
Vaya,
Scouts Out!
You forgot the line about the GAP being out of "Dockers"
Now where'd I leave my walking shoes?
Thank You my friend, love it. I have a friend who is a professional musician, which means he's never had a real job, he is a good Bluesman, finally has made enough money doing studio work for others to buy some teeth, the original ones fell out when he was still drinking. He's doing fairly well now. We were driving one night in my old Plymouth Fury, a white one, looked like a cop car, so it has to count. ;D Anyway he looked at me and said, "You know I love that Hank Sr. you have on, it's just the Blues with an Upright Steel and fiddles." I then realized how wise my friend really was. ;)
Lyrics
Me and my old lady
Ain't been getting along
If things don't get better
I'll soon be long gone
The situation is driving me insane
Somebody fetch me my hat and coat
And hand me my walking cane
(CHORUS)
Gotta put on my traveling shoes
Gotta put on my traveling shoes
Gotta put on my traveling shoes
Gotta put on my traveling shoes
.
I'm trying to tell you, boys
These hard headed women these days
The way they treat a man
Ain't nothing but a doggone shame
I talked and talked and talked
She didn't hear a word I said
Gonna get somebody's baseball bat
And send her out again
(CHORUS)
this morning is one of them Blues writing days, verse at a time. ;D
went out this morning, hat in ma hand
turkeys kicked S*** all on me, before going into the pen. (dang birds)
went out this morning, hat in ma hand
turkeys kicked S*** all on me, before going into the pen.
DANG BIRDS!
Ya give me mine this mornin'
Yer gonna git yer's tamarra ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on November 21, 2007, 09:00:50 AM
went out this morning, hat in ma hand
turkeys kicked S*** all on me, before going into the pen.
DANG BIRDS!
Ya give me mine this mornin'
Yer gonna git yer's tamarra ;D
And tommorow if the sun do still rise,
I'm gonna only axe you once, to be my prize. ::)
got them mean Turkey blues.............. ;D
From my head ta my shoes
Tammara I don't have to pick no cotton
I can spend it singin' the Blues.
Got them mean out in the field, blues
Just found out Mama got arrested.
I just done saw it on the news.
>a little dobro riff here<
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Blind Lemon Jefferson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Lemon_Jefferson)
Slim
I can hear Tex Ritter when I read tha words....
I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler,
I'm a long way from home;
And if you don't like me,
Just leave me alone.
I'll eat when I'm hungry,
I'll drink when l'm dry,
If the hard times don't kill me,
I'll live till I die.
Rye whisky, rye whisky,
Rye whisky, I cry,
If you don't give me rye whisky,
I surely will die.
For work I'm too lazy,
Investment's too slow
Train robbin's too risky,
It's gamblin' I'll go.
I'll tune up my fiddle,
And I 'll rosin my bow,
I'll make myself welcome,
Wherever I go.
Beefsteak when l'm hungry,
Rye Whiskey when I'm dry
Greenbacks when I'm hard up,
And religion when I die.
They say I drink whisky,
My money's my own;
All them that don't like me,
Can leave me alone.
Sometimes I drink whisky,
Sometimes I drink rum,
Sometimes I drink brandy,
At other times none.
But if I get boozy,
My whisky's my own,
And them that don't like me,
Can leave me alone.
Jack o' diamonds, jack o' diamonds,
I know you of old,
You've robbed my poor pockets
Of silver and gold.
Oh, whisky, you villain,
You've been my downfall,
You've kicked me, you've cuffed me,
But I love you for all.
If the ocean was whisky,
And I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom
To get one sweet suck.
But the ocean ain't whisky
And I ain't a duck,
So I'll play Jack of Diamonds
And trust to my luck.
My foot's in my stirrup,
My bridle's in my hand,
I'm leaving sweet Lillie,
The fairest in the land.
Her parents don't like me,
They say l'm too poor;
They say I'm unworthy
To enter her door.
Sweet milk when l'm hungry,
Rye whisky when l'm dry,
If a tree don't fall on me,
I'll live till I die.
I'll buy my own whisky,
I'll make my own stew,
If I get drunk, madam,
It's nothing to you.
I'll drink my own whisky,
I'll drink my own wine,
Some ten thousand bottles
I've killed in my time.
I've no wife to quarrel
No babies to bawl;
The best way of living
Is no wife at all.
Way up on Clinch Mountain
I wander alone,
I'm as drunk as the devil,
Oh, let me alone.
You may boast of your knowledge
An' brag of your sense,
'Twill all be forgotten
A hundred years hence.
In my little log cabin,
Ever since I been born,
Dere ain't been no nothin' -
'Cept dat hard salt, parched corn.
But I know whar's a henhouse,
De turkey he charve;
An, if ol' Massa don' kill me
I cain't never starve.
Rye whisky, rye whisky,
You're no friend to me;
You killed my poor daddy,
God**** you, try me.
I guesss I have always been a rock n roller (listening to LA Woman as I type) but I always like them Cowboy songs,.....Cowboy or Country and Western, < a word that has been dropped completely down in Nashville.
heres another MMM does I like
Way high up in the Sierry Peaks
Where the yellow-jack pines grow tall,
Old Buster Jiggs and Sandy Bob
Had a round-up camp last fall.
Well they took along their running irons
Maybe a dog or two,
And they 'lowed thy'd brand every long-eared calf
That came within their view.
Now every little long-eared dogie
That didn't push up by day,
Got his long ears whittled and his old hide scorched
In a most artistic way.
One fine day, says Buster Jiggs,
As he throws his seago down,
"I'm tired of cowpiography
And I think I'm a goin' into town."
Well they saddled up, and they hit a lope
For it warn't no sight of a ride,
And them was the days that a good cow-punch
Could oil up his insides.
Well they started in at Kentucky Bar,
At the head of Whisky Row,
And they wound her up at the Depot House
About forty drinks below.
Well they sets 'em up and they turns around
And they started in the other way,
And to tell the God-forsaken truth
Them boys got drunk that day.
They was on their way, goin' back to camp
A-packin' that awful load,
When who should they meet but the Devil himself
Come a-traipsin' down the road.
He says, "You ornery cowboy skunks
You better go hunt for your holes,
'Cause I've come up from Hell's rim rock
Just to gather in your souls.
"The Devil be damned," says Buster Jiggs,
"Us boys is a little bit tight;
But you don't go gatherin' no cowboys' souls
Without one helluva fight."
Now Buster Jiggs could ride like hell
And throw a lasso, too,
So he threw it over the Devil's horns
And he took his dallies true.
Now Sandy Bob was a reata man
With his gut-line coiled up neat;
But he shook her out and he builds a loop
And he roped the Devils hind feet.
Well they stretches him out and they tails him down
While the running-irons were getting hot,
And they cropped and swallow-forked his ears
And they branded him up a lot.
Well they trimmed his horns way down to his head
Tied ten knots in his tail for a joke,
Then they went off and left him there
Tied up to a little pin oak.
Now when you're high in the Sierry Peaks
And you hear one hell of a wail,
Well you know it's just the Devil himself
Yellin' 'bout them knots in his tail.
Here's some Texas Blues
; Well theres floodin down in texas....all of the telephone lines are down
Well theres floodin down in texas....all of the telephone lines are down
And Ive been tryin to call my baby....lord and I cant get a single sound
Well dark clouds are rollin in....man Im standin out in the rain
Well dark clouds are rollin in....man Im standin out in the rain
Yeah flood water keep a rollin....man its about to drive poor me insane
Well Im leavin you baby....lord and Im goin back home to stay
Well Im leavin you baby....lord and Im goin back home to stay
Well back home I know floods and tornados....baby the sun shines every day
These two have always had a spooky connection to me. I've posted this before somewhere. If it's a dupe, opps.........
The Old Cow Man
I rode across a valley range
I hadn't seen for years
The trail was all so spoilt and strange
It nearly fetched a tear
I had to let ten fences down
The fussy lanes ran wrong
Each new line would make me frown
On this morning song
Ummmm Ummm
Hear 'em stretchin' out the wire
The urban brand is on the land
I reckon I'll retire
While progress toots its greedy horn
Makes its motor buzz
I thank the Lord I wasn't born
No later than I was.
It was good to live when all the sod
Without no fence or fuss
It belonged in partnership with God
Mother Nature and to us
And where skylines bound from east to west
Room to go and come
I liked my fellow man the best
When he was scattered some.
Ummmmm Ummmmm
Closer 'n closer crawls the wire
Why there's hardly play
To step away
To call a man a liar
Their house has locks on every door
Their land is in a crate
These ain't the plains of God no more
It's only real estate
When my ole soul hunts range 'n rest
Beyond the last divide
Plant me in some strip of west
Sunny, lone 'n wild
Let cattle rub my tombstone round
Let coyotes mourn their kin
'N let horses come and paw the mound
But don't you fence it in
Ummmm Ummmmm
Far 'n farther flings the wire
To crowd 'n pinch another inch
Is all their hearts desire
The world is overstocked with men
Some will see the day
When each must keep his little pen
But I'll be far away
Ummmm Ummmmm
While progress toots its greedy horn
Makes its motor buzz
I thank the Lord I wasn't born
No later than I was.
*********
Kindah fast forward many years. The reincarnated cow man looks over the same land........
*********
Pleasant Valley Sunday
The local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn their song
Serenade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care
See Mrs. Gray she's proud today because her roses are in bloom
Mr. Green he's so serene, He's got a t.v. in every room
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Mothers complain about how hard life is
And the kids just don't understand
Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul and make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray, to places far away
I need a change of scenery
Ta Ta Ta...
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday...
didn't know'd JR covered it but I found it today one of them Ian tunes I like
; Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
I got some friends that I could go to working for.
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we've been through this a hundred times or more.
Chorus: Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may.
If all the good times are all gone
Then I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are lookin' good
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But, by then it would be winter
Not too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow cold 'way out there.
Chorus: Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may.
If all the good times are all gone
Then I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
; Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you
Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Evryone come on
Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Evryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When youre evrywhere
Come and get your share
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
When life seems full
Of clouds and rain
And I'm full
Of nothin' but pain
Who soothes my thumpin', bumpin' brain?
Nobody
When Wintertime comes
With its snow and sleet
And me with hunger
And cold feet
Who says "Here's two bits, go and eat"?
Nobody
Well, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
When Summertime comes
All warm and clear
And my friends see me
Drawin' near
Who says "come on in and have a beer"?
Nobody
Well one time when things was
Lookin' bright
I started to whittlin' on a stick one night
Who said "Hey! That's dynamite!"?
Nobody
Mmmm, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
after reading all them posts about the cold weather, I be singing this song somewhere, heading south. ;D
On a highway headed south somewhere to Dixie
Where the cotton blooms in spring and snow don't fly
I'm gonna rest these chilly bones in southern sunshine
And live where the weather's warm until I die
North Dakota you've got my better years Montana you've got five years of my life
But your subzero wind will never touch me again
Southern folks can't live on snow and ice
On a highway headed south...
When I cross the Dixie line I'll throw away my coat
And my goose down underwear will have to go
I'll never live again where the weather chills you to the bone
I'm tired of livin' like an Eskimo
On a highway headed south...
On a highway headed south...
Gonna follow OT ;)
"Hey Porter" by Johnny Cash
Hey porter! Hey porter!
Would you tell me the time?
How much longer will it be till we cross
that Mason Dixon Line?
At daylight would ya tell that engineer
to slow it down?
Or better still, just stop the train,
Cause I wanna look around.
Hey porter! Hey porter!
What time did ya say?
How much longer will it be till I can
see the light of day?
When we hit Dixie will you tell that engineer
to ring his bell?
And ask everybody that ain't asleep
to stand right up and yell.
Hey porter! Hey porter!
It's getting light outside.
This old train is puffin' smoke,
and I have to strain my eyes.
But ask that engineer if he will
blow his whistle please.
Cause I smell frost on cotton leaves
and I feel that Southern breeze.
Hey porter! Hey porter!
Please get my bags for me.
I need nobody to tell me now
that we're in Tennessee.
Go tell that engineer to make that
lonesome whistle scream,
We're not so far from home
so take it easy on the steam.
Hey porter! Hey porter!
Please open up the door.
When they stop the train I'm gonna get off first
Cause I can't wait no more.
Tell that engineer I said thanks alot,
and I didn't mind the fare.
I'm gonna set my feet on Southern soil
and breathe that Southern air.
several songs remembering Dixie, ain't they?
All the stations up here don't sign off with Dixie,
The way they did in sweet home Alabama,
The people here don't sip Jack Daniels whiskey,
The way they do in that Tennessee mountain land.
I've always heard lots about the big apple,
So I thought I'd come up here and see,
But all I've seen so far is one big hassle,
Wish I was camped out on the Okachovee.
If this is the promised land,
I've had all I can stand,
And I'm headed back below that Dixie line
Well I just don't fit in,
And I'll never come back again,
I'm busted here with Dixie on my mind,
Oh, I'm stuck up here and I got Dixie on my mind.
These people never smile or say a word,
They're all too busy tryin' to make an extra dime,
Oh I'd love to haul 'em all down around Spartanburg,
And show 'em how to raise hell in Carolina.
Oh, the things you know that I miss most of all,
Is the freedom of the rivers and the pines,
They don't do much huntin' and fishin' up here ya know,
But I have met a few squirrels and one porcupine.
If this is the promised land,
I've had all I can stand,
Wish I was down in Houston town tonight,
Well I just don't fit in,
And I'll never come back again,
I'm busted here with Dixie on my mind,
Oh, I'm stuck up here and I got Dixie on my mind.
Let's all stand up and sing
O, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land where I was born in
Early on one frosty mornin'
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Chorus:
O, I wish I was in Dixie! Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
|: Away, away, away down south in Dixie! :|
2. Old Missus marry Will, the weaver,
William was a gay deceiver
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But when he put his arm around her
He smiled as fierce as a forty pounder
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Chorus:
3. His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaver
But that did not seem to grieve her
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Old Missus acted the foolish part
And died for a man that broke her heart
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Chorus:
Well dad gum, I think when ya played Dixie, everybody thought we was signing off for the evening ;D
we'll play another snappy one to get things going.
The stars at night - are big and bright
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The prairie sky - is wide and high
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The Sage in bloom - is like perfume
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Reminds me of - the one I love
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The cowboys cry - ki-yip-pie-yi
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The rabbits rush - around the brush
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The coyotes wail - along the trail
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The doggies bawl - and bawl and bawl
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Guess this is the wrong time for " Beautiful Ohio" :o ::) ;D
Tried to find a rip roarin' song 'bout tha midwest er great plains....
no luck! ;)
::)
Here's my favorite song of the south
You Ain't Just Whistling Dixie (1979)
The pines trees grow so tall in the bright sunshine
A young boy steals his daddy's fishing line
Alligator lays on the banks of the river bed
And if you did not know any better you'd swear he's dead
Now these are a few things I'm in love with
A small part of the reasons I go back
To Carolina, Mississippi, Florida gorgeous Georgia
Now if you think I'm happy down there you�re on the right track
And you ain't just whistling Dixie you ain't just slapping your knee
I'm a grandson of the Southland and heir to the confederacy
You ain't just whistling Dixie cause the cattle calls calling me home
So put me down there where I want to be, plant my feet with Robert E. Lee
Bury my bones under a cypress tree and never let me roam
The cotton balls gleam and the cows give cream for the baby's sake
And pa comes in full of gin and he's mean as a rattlesnake
And the well runs dry and we cry and cuss the garden hose
And mama draws a bucket full of creek water just to wash our cloths
Now these are a few things I'm in love with
A small part of the reasons I go back
To Carolina, Mississippi, Florida gorgeous Georgia
Now if you think I'm happy down there you�re on the right track
And you ain't just whistling Dixie you ain't just slapping your knee
I'm a grandson of the Southland boys and heir to the confederacy
You ain't just whistling Dixie cause the cattle calls calling me home
So put me down there where I want to be, plant my feet with Robert E. Lee
Bury my bones under a cypress tree and never let me roam
Quote from: Tensleep on December 02, 2007, 06:43:55 PM
Tried to find a rip roarin' song 'bout tha midwest er great plains....
no luck! ;)
::)
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Grand old badger state!
We, thy loyal sons and daughters,
Hail thee good and great.
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Champion of the right,
"Forward!", our motto -
God will give thee might!
FYI,
"On, Wisconsin!" was the cry that Arthur MacArthur, Jr. used in the Battle of Chattanooga at Missionary Ridge, in the Civil War. He seized the regimental colors, and rallied his regiment with "On, Wisconsin!", for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.Slim
Quote from: Tensleep on December 02, 2007, 06:43:55 PM
Tried to find a rip roarin' song 'bout tha midwest er great plains....
Brand new state!
Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters,
Pasture fer the cattle,
Spinach and termayters!
Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,
Plen'y of room to swing a rope!
Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma,
Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine,
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma,
Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine,
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.
CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA
by James Bland
Carry me back to old Virginia,
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginia, the state where I was born.
CHORUS: Carry me back to old Virginia,
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.
Carry me back to old Virginia,
There let me live 'till I wither and decay,
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darkey's life will pass away.
Massa and missis have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore,
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.
Oh the hinges are of leather, the windows have no glass,
And the north wall lets the howlin' blizzard in.
But I'm happy as a clam, here on the land of Uncle Sam,
In my little Ol' Sod Shanty on the plain.
;D
Here's one I like to listen to out in the shop
She was a level-headed dancer
on the road to alcohol
I was just a soldier
on my way to Montreal
Well, she pressed her chest against me
About the time the jukebox broke
She give me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke
Blow Up Your TV,
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden,
eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own
I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
Cause I knew that topless lady,
she had something up her sleeve
She danced around the room awhile
and she did the hoochy cooch
Yea sing a song all night long tellin' me what to do
Blow Up Your TV,
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden,
eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own
But I was young and hungry
and about to leave that place
Just as I was going she looked me in the face I said "You must know the answer"
She said "No, but I'll give it a try"
And to this day we've been livin' our way
Here is the reason why
We blew up the TV,
threw away the paper
Went to the country,
built us a home
Had a lotta children,
fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own
another of the John Prine CD
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.
Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
Repeat Chorus:
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
Repeat Chorus:
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
OT I love that song, don't know how it got the name Spanish Pipdream though. ;D With John Prine, who knows, I have his Christmas album though. ;)
Del, I think I got the CD from my son, don't remember, but it sure has got a lot of good songs. a little different but good ;D
just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars
Every time I sit and look at pictures of used cars
She'll turn on her radio and sit down in her chair
And look at me across the room, as if I wasn't there
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
Something, somewhere, somehow took my Linda by the hand
And secretly decoded our sacred wedding band
For when the moon shines down up on our happy, humble home
Her inner space gets tortured by some outer space unknown.
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
Now I ain't seen no saucers 'cept the ones upon the shelf
And if I ever seen one I'd keep it to myself
For if there's life out there somewhere beyond this life on earth
Then Linda must have gone out there and got her money's worth.
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
Yeah, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
from the Ipod now
There is a young cowboy he lives on the range
His horse and his cattle are his only companions
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons
Waiting for summer, his pastures to change
And as the moon rises he sits by his fire
Thinking about women and glasses of beer
And closing his eyes as the doggies retire
He sings out a song which is soft but its clear
As if maybe someone could hear
(chorus)
Goodnight you moonlight ladies
Rockabye sweet baby james
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose
Wont you let me go down in my dreams
And rockabye sweet baby james
Now the first of december was covered with snow
And so was the turnpike from stockbridge to boston
Lord, the berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting
With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go
Theres a song that they sing when they take to the highway
A song that they sing when they take to the sea
A song that they sing of their home in the sky
Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep
But singing works just fine for me
- chorus -
Now that's Cowboy ;)
On this day in 1982 Marty Robbins heeded the masters call. Fond memories of the man myself, not only his music, but remember the days when I watched NASCAR and you could count on two things, if Richard Petty hadn't blown up an egine or wrecked he was out near the front and if he made it that day Marty was runnin' way back just a havin' fun.
When I was but a young man I was wild and full of fire
A youth within my teens, but full of challenge and desire
I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad
I know it grieved them so to think their only boy was bad
I fell in with an outlaw band, their names were known quite well
How many times we robbed and plundered, I could never tell
This kind of sinful living leads only to a fall
I learned that much and more the night I heard my Master call
One night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or so
And started them out on the trail that leads to Mexico
But a norther started blowing and lightning flashed about
I thought someone was calling me, I thought I heard a shout
Then at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from me
And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree
And this time I knew I heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strange
A voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my name
So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done
I failed to see the thousand head of cattle start to run
The cattle they stampeded, were running all around
My pony ran but stumbled and it threw me to the ground
I felt the end was near, that death would be the price
When a mighty bolt of lightning showed the face of Jesus Christ
And I cried oh Lord forgive me, don't let it happen now
I want to live for you alone, Oh God these words I vow
My wicked past unfolded, I thought of wasted years
When another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steers
And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live
The Master had a reason, life is his to take or give
A miracle performed that night, I wasn't meant to die
The dead ones formed a barricade least six or seven high
And right behind it there was I, afraid but safe and sound
I cried and begged for mercy kneeling there upon the ground
A pardon I was granted, my sinful soul set free
No more to fear the angry waves upon life's stormy sea
Forgiven by the love of God, a love that will remain
I gave my life and soul the night the Saviour called my name
Back in the day, Richard always worried about a red 'n white Mercury showin' up.
My favorite tale of Marty 'n racin' happened in the mid seventies at Taladega. He was way down. Stopped 'n the hood went up. He told the crew to take the plate off. Went back out 'n waved at the leaders while he passed 'em in that godawful lookin' purple 'n yellow Dodge if his.
NASCAR caught on quick 'n parked 'im. He didn't care. The laughs he had were worth the expense.
Sad. Today, with inspectors all over everything, he wouldn't have left the pits like that.
Hard to believe he's been gone 25 years.
Arcey, I don't know myself but did Marty ever win a race? No matter, the man had fun. His car was cool, had a lot less stickers clutterin' it up. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on December 08, 2007, 10:32:04 AM
On this day in 1982 Marty Robbins heeded the masters call.
Has it been that long?
I will dig out my copy of "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" by Marty and play it today.
I don't really believe in ghosts, but about 5 minutes after I posted that this mornin' the CD player on random grabbed it and played it. 'Course Terry and I call it HAL 9000 sometimes.
Quote from: Delmonico on December 08, 2007, 04:06:10 PM
Arcey, I don't know myself but did Marty ever win a race? No matter, the man had fun. His car was cool, had a lot less stickers clutterin' it up.
He had one top 5 'n 6 top 10s in 35 races in cup. No wins. Never finished on the lead lap. In today's world that really wouldn't be all that shabby.
Don't hold me to it, it's been a long time. What I think he did was lease cars from Buddy Arrington. For Marty it was a hobby.
I only saw him run a couple times. Both at Charlotte I think. I remember well when his name was called durin' the intros the places almost came apart with fans cheerin'.
(http://www.martyrobbins.net/photos/martycar.jpg)
Oh yeah, BIG iron ;)
They have one of Marty's cars in the museum at Talladega Speedway. That purple and yellow coloe scheme was definitely unique.
When he was racin' we only got 3-4 races here on TV a year. Not as well known, but James Garner used to "hobby" race the Baja 500.
Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.
I blew in town I week ago, I ain't seen a lotta girls since then.
If I could find 'em I could get 'em, but as yet I haven't met 'em,
That's why I'm in the shape I'm in Ohh
Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.
Another fella told me, he had a sister that looked so fine.
Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strong resemblance to a
Cat named Frankenstein Ohh
Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.
It's hard for a fella, when he don't know his way around,
If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money,
I'm gonna have to blow this town Ohh
Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.
Sam Cooke. Shot to death under questionable circumstances. This date, 1964.
sneakin' out the back door..... the way I heard it.
probably been more than we know bought the farm going out the back door or window.
Salute to a Switchblade Knife Tom T. Hall
Me and Yates an army buddy o'mine were doin' three years in Germany at the time
We came upon these Frauleins in the bar
Yates said darf isch zee be-gleit-en they said ya
(And darf isch zee be-gleit-en means can we sit with you all)
Oh we must have drunk ten quarts of German beer
My conscience and my sinuses were clear
I asked that Fraulein if she was a spy she said nein but do bis ain bissel high
(A condition not uncommon to the American soldier)
Well later on I went to be excused when I returned I was a bit confused
Yates and his Fraulein had hit the air another guy was sittin' in my chair
(A young soldier whom we shall get to know better)
I said excuse me Mister that's my seat I'd like to have it back sir if you please
That girl's a nurse and I've been awful sick the man looked up at me and said mox-nix
(Which means that he was not overly concerned with my health)
Next thing I knew he had a switchblade knife
Lord I didn't know that Fraulein was his wife
I took off through that Gasthaus like a fool behind me I heard the crashing stools
(As the police would say he was in hot pursuit)
Well the waitress yelled there's MPs on the way
That's one more reason I didn't want to stay
As I went out the window somethin' went switch
And I giggled all the way home knowin' he missed
(At the time it seemed like a laughing matter)
But next morning my coat was lyin' there on the bunk
And when I saw that coat it made me jump
That man had cut my coat right down the back
A little bit more and they'd been playin' me taps
(And knowin' the sad nature of that song I would decline it)
Well later on I heard that guy got stabbed
They sent him home and didn't that make me glad
On love and marriage I want to say one thing oh lady if you're married wear that ring
(And the army has a new policy if you can't move it paint it
If it has a switchblade knife salute it
Not necessarily an incident one would want to write Mother about
Germany being full of good soldiers good people)
Sam was robbed by a prostitute and shot by her PIMP.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 11, 2007, 08:26:50 PM
Sam was robbed by a prostitute and shot by her PIMP.
Kindah the way the story sounds ta a couple ole lawdawgs. Ain't it, Tex?
At least he didn't stop at his Dad's on his Birthday for a couple of shots..............re. Marvin
I heard it thru the carbine.
Sorry, ain't funny...............
Quote from: Arcey on December 12, 2007, 07:34:05 AM
I heard it thru the carbine.
Sorry, ain't funny...............
izzzz tooooo
Quote from: litl rooster on December 12, 2007, 07:28:37 AM
At least he didn't stop at his Dad's on his Birthday for a couple of shots..............re. Marvin
Speaking of Rock and roller with a history of domestic abuse, I seen a post on the Lab Forum that Ike Turner died, he was 76.
Was up workin' on a quilt today and played some real oldies, late 1920's stuff, little Misissippi Blue Yoldler in fact, to bad they didn't have no good antibiotics back then to cure Jimmy's TB.
I'll tell you a story of JIMMIE THE KID
He's a brakeman you all know
He was born in Mississippi, a-way down south
And he flagged on the T&NO
He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main
The Wabash and the TP
From the old Grand Trunk to the Cotton Belt
He yodeled on the Santa Fe.
YODEL
On the Lehigh Valley, he yodeled awhile
Then he went to the Nickel Plate
From the old Lake Shore and the Erie Line
He yodeled to a Cadillac Eight.
YODEL
He yodeled his way to the C&A
The Lackawanna and IC
He rode a rattler called the Cannon Ball
Then he yodeled on the MK&T
YODEL
Now the story goes that JIMMIE THE KID
Has a yodeling mama so sweet
They go "Cadillac-ing" every night
And they yodel up and down the street.
YODEL
He rode freight trains from East to West
He's fixed himself up nice
He's got a beautiful home, all of his own
It's the yodeler's paradise.
YODEL
They've treated him good, they've treated him bad
He never done any wrong
He yodels a yodel that ever'body knows
Is the yodeling brakeman's song.
YODEL
Still see a few of the old cars around with some of those names still on them on the locals, but they be gettin' few and far between.
used to yodell along with this en till Jackie made me quit ;D
All around the water tank
Waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Sleeping in the rain.
I walked up to a brakeman
To give him a line of talk
He says if you've got money
I'll see that you don't walk.
I haven't got a nickle
Not a penny can I show
He said get off you railroad bum
And slammed the boxcar door.
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh.
He put me off in Texas
A place I surely love
Wide open spaces 'round me
The moon and stars above.
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from 'Frisco
Goin' back to Dixieland.
My pocketbook is empty
And my heart is filled with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train.
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh.
I had a friend named Campbell
He used to rob, steal and gamble
He tried ev'rything that was low-down
He was out tom-cattin' one night
When he started a big fight
Then a big policeman came and knocked him down.
He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
I told him over again
To quit drinking whiskey
Lay off of that gin
He's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)
Campbell broke jail one day
Decided he'd go away
But the police met him at the train
The cop says I've come for you
Campbell says that this won't do
Because Campbell never my name.
He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
Yes, he broke out
All over town the fool walked about
He's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)
I met his old gal Sadie
'She said, "Have you seen my baby"
I told her he was downtown in the can
She went down to the jail
Just to go his bail
She said, "I've come down here to get my man."
She's in the jailhouse now
She's in the jailhouse now
So you can understand
Why old kid Sadie's in the can
She's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)
Tennessee Waltz by Roy Acuff
I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced him to my loved one and while they were dancing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me
I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Only you know how much I have lost
Yes I lost my little darling the night they were playing
That beautiful Tennessee Waltz
Slim
BTW, the Yodeling lesson is at 6:30 pm. ;D
Slim
Ranger Doug says the yodel was invented by a cowboy who went up and lit back down on the horn. :o
Del, I know from personal experience about a collision with the saddle horn. It took the air out of me, I couldn't have yodeled if I wanted to.
Quote from: Tensleep on December 14, 2007, 06:25:55 PM
Got 6 minutes ta git ready :o
Drink some lemon juice. It opens up the throat. ;)
Slim
Here one ta warm up on. ;)
Slim
MY LITTLE SWISS MAIDEN
Way out in Switzerland , far, far away
I fell in love with a Swiss maid one day
I heard her yodel a Swiss lullaby
As she sang in her Swiss yodel way.
Her song thro' the mountain so softly did ring
No sweeter than she, could the whippoorwill sing
We met on the mountain 'neath the bright silv'ry moon,
This sweet little Swiss maid and I.
O lee ay lee o
So softly she sang
O dee lay ee dee o, dee lay ee
That's how she won my heart on the mountain side high
O dee lay ee dee o, dee lay ee.
We planned the day that we'd sail far away
She whisper'd softly, my bride she would be
In a little white cottage beneath the bright sky
So happy this Swiss maid and I.
In a little white church 'neath an old willow tree
I made her my bride, ever more she would be
And soon from the side of a small trundle bed
Came a yodeling Swiss lullaby.
Didn't listen to no Yodelin' today while quiltin', listened to Rock and Roll, Buddy Holly to be exact, a 36 song set, then listened to one of his friends to here the song the friend wrote about him.
People talk about you after all this time
Was it really years ago,it seems like only yesterday
The last time that i saw you laugh at me and fly away
I remember all the good times and the songs we used to sing
Old friend we sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
Lord you should of heard the music and all the changes it's gone through
But the funny thing is lately it keeps an easing back to you
But there's always something missing,it'll never be the same
Old friend we sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
They've been writing books about you and the stories that they tell
Make you look like some kind of angel but we both know you as mean as hell
I've had my share of hard times but i lived through the strain
Old friend I sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
People talk about you after all this time
You were many things to many people but you were a friend of mine
I've been thinking about how long you've been gone,the things you've never seen
Old friend I sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
Old Buddy we sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
You were many things to many people but you were a friend of mine
I've been thinking about how long you've been gone,the things you've never seen
Old friend I sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
Old Buddy we sure have missed you,but you ain't missed a thing
Waylon's joke about the plane crashin' haunted him the rest of his life. :(
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.
But february made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn't take one more step.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock 'n roll,
Can music save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you're in love with him
`cause I saw you dancin' in the gym.
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.
I started singin',
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone,
But that's not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from james dean
And a voice that came from you and me,
Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while lennon read a book of marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.
We were singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
We started singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack flash sat on a candlestick
Cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
And they were singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
They were singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die."
Quote from: Delmonico on December 14, 2007, 08:01:35 PM
Waylon's joke about the plane crashin' haunted him the rest of his life. :(
Folks what knew 'im personal say he never got over it to his dyin' day but he's with Buddy now.
Never was 'n ain't now inta Country. Waylon was an exception. When 'e died, I realized I didn't have anything of his on CD. Went ta Plant Music 'n picked up a 'Best Of' thing. Unwrapped it 'n stuck it in the truck's stereo 'n headed home.
The thing hit the Dukes of Hazard cut. There was a verse in there I'd never heard before – maybe I hadn't been payin' attention.
I'm just a good ole boy
Ya know my Momma loves me
But I don't understand
They keep showin' my hands
'N not my face on TV
I almost fell out the truck laffin'.
They never had time for it on the show, like the theme for Have Gun Will Travel, the record version had another verse. Got some of Waylon's stuff on 33, the old Nashville stuff, one of the cuts has Grahmn Nash on it.
The theme from DOH was one of the songs that website played when I was gettin' my test the other day.
The number of Dodge Chargers was certainly reduced by that show. ;D Drove the value of them up quite a bit. My boys loved that show, think it had something with the way they drove once they got their licenses, though :o
Somebody up the road from Black Creek has one all painted up. Ain't never been by when it weren't sittin' in the same place. Prolly don't run.
Seen at least one they wrecked in the show that was a 4 door Cornet painted that way. ;D They had one at a car show round here in maybe 79 that was 'spossed to have been the one or one of the ones from the show. Bondoed up old POS with a orange 'nemal paint job and a stock 383 with headers and a chrome air cleaner. Beetle I drove at the time most likey could a whooped that one on windy roads. ;D
My Grandma drove a red '68 Charger in the early ta mid '70's. It was actually my uncle's but she drove it. I think it had a 318 in it.
Slim
Slim, I reckon this would'a been her song.
Its the little old lady from pasadena
Its the little old lady from pasadena
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Got a pretty little flower bed of white gardenias
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
But parked in her rickety old garage
Is a brand new shiny red super-stock dodge
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner
Than the little old lady from pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
Shes a terror out on colorado boulevard
Its the little old lady from pasadena
You can see her on the street just gettin her kicks now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
With her four speed stick and her four-twenty-six now
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Shes gonna get a ticket now sooner or later
cause she cant keep her foot off the accelerator
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner
Than the little old lady from pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
Shes a terror out on colorado boulevard
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner
Than the little old lady from pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
Shes a terror out on coloradooulevard
Its the little old lady from pasadena
If you see her on the street dont try to choose her
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
You may have a goer but youll never lose her
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
The guys come to race her from miles around
But shell them a length and shell shut em down
And everybodys saying theres nobody meaner
Than the little old lady from pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
Shes a terror out on colorado boulevard
Its the little old lady from pasadena
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Granny go
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Granny go
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Granny go
Go granny, go granny, go granny go
Granny go
;D
I remember see had to sit on a pillow to see over the dash.
Slim
My Grandma had a 1970 Chevy Impala in her later years, she'd drive it to church on Sunday, you's see her going down the road about 25 with the brake lites shinning, she always kept that left foot on the brake :)
Well we can't forget this one.
Now me and my wife and my brother Joe,
took off in my Ford from San Pedro.
We hadn't much gas 'n' the tires was low,
but the doggone Ford could really go.
Now along about the middle of the night,
we were rippin' along like white folks might,
when a Mercury behind he blinked his lights,
and he honked his horn and he flew outside.
We had twin pipes and a Columbia butt,
you people may think that I'm in a rut,
but to you folks who don't dig the jive,
that's two carburetors and an overdrive.
We made grease spots outta many good town,
and left the cops heads spinnin' round 'n' round.
They wouldn't chase, they'd run and hide,
but me and that Mercury stayed side by side.
Now we were Ford men and we likely knew,
that we would race until somethin' blew,
and we thought it over,
now, wouldn't you?
I looked down at my lovely bride,
her face was blue, I thought she'd died.
We left streaks through towns about forty feet wide,
but me and that Mercury stayed side by side.
My brother was pale, he said he was sick,
he said he was just a nervous wreck.
But why should I worry, for what the heck,
me and that Mercury was still neck-and-neck.
Now on through the deserts we did glide,
a-flyin' low and a-flyin' wide,
me an' that Mercury was a-takin' a ride,
and we stayed exactly side by side.
Now I looked in my mirror and I saw somethin' comin',
I thought it was a plane by the way it was a-runnin'.
It was a-hummin' along at a terrible pace,
and I knew right then it was the end of the race.
When it flew by us, I turned the other way,
the guy in the Mercury had nothin' to say,
for it was a kid, in a hopped up Model-A.
And the follow up.
You've heard'a the guy an' his brother Joe,
who took off in their Ford from San Pedro,
an' how they raced through deserts wide,
with a Mercury that stayed right by their side.
Now I'm the guy who was in that Merc,
an' I'm callin' myself all kind of a jerk,
for ever tryin' that kind've a race,
I might have known I'd lose my face.
But the road was straight 'n' the road was wide,
'n' me 'n' that Ford stayed side by side.
I stuck to him through thick an' thin,
but I knew all the time I's riskin' my skin.
When the hopped-up Model-A blew a'past,
I wondered then how long it would last,
but I didn't have too long to wait,
to see what would happen, to learn my fate.
The cop's heads, who spun in fright,
got on their bikes an' took to flight.
They came up behind me with a siren blast,
I knew right then my fun had passed.
The guy in the Ford kept racin' on,
he was tryin' to catch that son-of-a-gun,
who was drivin' that hot rod Model-A,
but I didn't have a thing to say.
Now I'm sittin' here alone in the klink,
with plenty of time to wonder and think.
I pace the floor, I frume an' fret,
I don't even have a cigarette.
Oh, why did I ever get in that race,
to end up here in this awful place?
Should have had more sense, is all I can say,
don't ever race with a kid in a hopped-up Model-A.
And the follow-up to the follow up.
Well you've heard the story of the hot-rod race that fatal day,
when the Ford and the Mercury went out to play.
This is the inside story I'm here to say,
I was the kid that was a-drivin' that Model-A.
It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up,
and that Model-A body makes it look like a pup.
It's got twelve cylinders, and uses them all,
with an overdrive that just won't stall.
It's got a four-barrel carb and dual exhaust,
4-11 gears, she can really get lost.
Got safety tubes and I'm not scared,
the brakes are good and the tires are fair.
We left San Pedro late one night,
the moon and the stars were shining bright,
everything went fine up the Grapevine hill,
we was passin' cars like they was standin' still.
Then all of a sudden, like a flick of an eye,
a Cadillac sedan had passed us by.
The remark was made "there's the car for me,"
but by then the taillights were all you could see.
Well the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind,
so I started to make that Lincoln unwind.
I took my foot off the gas and man alive,
I shoved it down into overdrive.
Well I wound it up to a hundred and ten,
twisted the speedometer cable off the end.
I had my foot keyed clear to the floor,
said "that's all there is, there ain't no more."
I went around a corner and I passed a truck,
I whispered a prayer, just for luck.
The fenders was clickin' a guardrail post
the guys beside me were white as a ghost.
I guess they'd thought I'd lost my sense,
the telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said "slow down, I see spots,"
the lines on the road just looked like dots.
Smoke was rollin' outta the back,
when I started to gain on that Cadillac.
I knew I could catch him, and hoped I could pass,
But when I did, I'd be short on gas.
We went around a corner with the tires on the side,
you could feel the tension, man what a ride!
I said "hold on, I got a license to fly,"
and the Cadillac pulled over and let me go by.
Then all of a-sudden, the rods started knockin',
when down in the dip, she started a-rockin'.
I looked in my mirror 'n' red lights was blinkin'.
The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln.
Well, they arrested me, and put me in jail.
I called my pop to go my bail.
He said "son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."
And many variations of all three over the years. ;)
Hot Rod Lincoln
( Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen )
My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace?
That story is true, I'm here to say
I was drivin' that Model A
It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup
It's got eight cylinders, uses them all
It's got overdrive, just won't stall
With a four-barrel carb and a dual exhaust
And four-eleven gears you can really get lost
It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared
The brakes are good, tires fair
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night
The moon and the stars was shinin' bright
We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they was standing still
All of a sudden in a wink of an eye
A Cadillac sedan passed us by
I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me!"
By then the tail light was all you could see
Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind
So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind
Took my foot off the gas and man alive
I shoved it on down into overdrive
Wound it up to a hundred and ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end
My foot was glued like lead to the floor
That's all there is and there ain't no more
Now, the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!"
The lines on the road just look like dots
Took a corner; sideswiped a truck
Crossed my fingers just for luck
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts
The guy beside me was white as a ghost
Smoke was comin' from out of the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac.
Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass
Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas?
We had flames comin' from out of the side
Feel the tension, Man! What a ride!
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly!"
And that Caddy pulled over and let us by
Now all of a sudden she started to knockin'
And down in the dips she started to rockin'
I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln!
They arrested me and they put me in jail
And called my pappy to throw my bail
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"
Asleep at the Wheel was inspired by Commander Cody. They do a Western Swing version of Hotrod Lincoln. I miss all those great car songs of the 60's. 409, Hey,Little Cobra, Little GTO, and Deadman's Curve. Waylon played bass guitar with Buddy Holly. Waylon was from Littlefield, Texas. He was sick and decided to travel back to Texas on the Tour bus instead of flying back. We have been fortunate to have so many great singers from Texas.
TLD now them was some car song days, Little Deuce Coupe, Drag City, Bucket T, too many to remember :)
I was gonna ask if anyone remembered this one 'n who was responsible for it. But it popped right up on Google.
Forget about your Hemi's and your GTO's
I've got a new machine, and she really gos.
When I pass you up on the drag strip you'll know darn well
You've been beat by a porcupine V8 Chevelle
Taching it up now, you better be quick
Cus' nothing can outrun my SS 396.
There's lots of chrome goodies sitting under the hood
She looks real pretty, like a tough one should.
On the redline tires, she sits real mean
She's the coolest hot one... you've ever seen
Crusing the highways, getting my kicks
Everyone's checking out my SS 396
Look at her go (look at her go)
She sits real low (she sits real low)
Dealer tires grip the road
Her deep breathing fours (deep breathing fours)
And they'll never settle short (never settle short)
Feel the rear end grab the load
Take you for a ride man, it's really a treat
Strap yourself into a bucket seat.
The four speed tranny is starting to whine
You'll know about the Super Sport
Once we get off the line
Crusing the highway, getting my kicks
Nothing can match my...SS 396
Look at her go (look at her go)
She sits real low (she sits real low)
Dealer tires grip the road
Her deep breathing fours (deep breathing fours)
And they'll never settle short (never settle short)
Feel the rear end grab the load
Take you for a ride man, it's really a treat
Strap yourself into a bucket seat.
The four speed tranny is starting to whine
You'll know about the Super Sport
Once we get off the line
Nothing can match my...SS396
SS 396
SS 396
SS 396
SS 396
Remember that one well Arcey, had a 67 Chevelle SS 396, cam went flat about a year after I got it, we put back an L-88 solid lift cam, ran like a stripped ape. I can remember them red line wide oval tires, best smoking tires I ever had, hard rubber. loved the street racing on Friday and Saturday nights. used to go up to Tulsa over to the ritzy part of town, lots of kids with really hot cars, everything you could buy was on em, but they never did take the time to learn how to use it. just pop the clutch and give it the gas, they didn't seem to know how to ride the clutch a little and keep them tires from going up in smoke, just loved beating em. ;D
Paul Revere and the Raiders did a song about the GTO and you could get a copy of the 45 at your local Pontiac dealer. I remember that song about the SS396 that Arcey was talking about. I had a 66 GTO with the small 389 and automatic when I was in college. My Dad was a mechanic most of his life, until he got elected Sheriff of our County in the Texas Panhandle. We had a wrecking yard, a garage, a radiator shop, a parts store, and a battery/electric shop, all during my childhood. He was Service Manager for the Ford dealership in the early 50's. There wasn't anything better than a Ford flathead to him.
My copy came from Wilkin's Chevrolet in Norfolk. It didn't get much, if any, air play. Only had two rock stations back then. I'm thinkin' Mark Lindsay (sp) may have wanted to forget the flip side – Corvair Baby.
The Raiders were a hit here. I always enjoyed their stuff that came up in rotation like everyone elses' releases. Never understood why that one was kinda ignored. Maybe because it was given away by Chevrolet dealers they considered it advertising. I dunno.....
you fellas remember how back in the 50's and 60's all the dealerships were pretty much just one brand of car, and they always had the week they showed all the new cars for that year, used to we'd go to Tulsa, you could go up 11th street and their was one of every dealer you wanted to see, didn't have to travel a couple of miles see all the years new cars.
We cheated with the Fords. Had family and friends workin' the plant that'd arrange for the ole man 'n me to get on the storage lots as soon as they started comin' off the line.
The indoor I shoot at was Cavalier Ford. The third floor where the range is was service. The buildin' is on Granby Street in Norfolk. If the streets were numbered there it would sorta be at 8th 'n Granby, downtown.
Monticello Ave. parallels Granby. If ya went north on those two streets up to 21st Street then go west a few blocks on 21st, ya could look at any new car ya wanted ta look at. All the premieres were on the same day late in September. I used ta get soooooo excited.
Ain't any there now. They all moved to the 'burbs. Gone by the mid-seventies.
here's one of my favorite car songs...ironically I always preferred FORDS
Mr. Smith had an Oldsmobile
Baby-blue with wire wheels
I took her home the day she was advertied
He said she would leak when it would rain
Sounded like an aeroplane
but I knew she was jewel in disguise
She had a 455 rocket
The biggest block alive
I couldn't hardly wait just to take my turn
She was made for straight-a-ways
She grew up hating Chevrolets
She's a rocket
She was made to burn
Well, who's junk pile piece of Chevelle is this?
Did you boys come here to race or just kiss?
mmm don't ya want to know what I got underneath my hood
I know she might sound like she's missin
but buddy she could teach you a lesson
in just a quarter mile i could smoke you good
In my 455 rocket
The kind the police drive
I couldn't hardly wait to just take my turn
She was made for straight aways
She grew up hating Chevrolets
She's a rocket
She was made to burn
I'm telling you and i ain't ashamed
I cried when that wrecker came
As we skid i thought i heard angels sing
Sounded like the Beach Boys
Hit the curb then began to sail
Took out most of the safety rail
Even the cop asked me, "Man what'd you have in that thing?"
I had a 455 rocket
Tthe very kind you drive
You wanna watch yourself when you take that turn
She was made for straight aways
She grew up hating Chevrolets
She's a rocket she was made to burn burn
Ohh she's a rocket she was made to burn burn
Didn't Patty Loveless do that one, Roo? I liked it too. Always been a Ford guy, have had some other marks, but keep going back to the Fords. Guess I understand them better.................Buck 8) ;)
take two
Kathy Mattea did it.
I like both her and Patty Loveless.
I don't know if I understand them FORDS [just got off phone with mechanic] but like you I keep going back to 'm
If I had money tell you what I'd do
I'd go downtown and buy a Mercury or two
I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury, I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
The girl I love, I stole it from a friend
He got lucky stole her back again
Cuz' She knew he had a Mercury, she knew he had a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
Hey now mama you look so fine
Ridin' round in your Mercury 49
I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury, I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
My baby went out she didn't stay long
She bought herself a Mercury, came a cruisin' home
I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury, I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
If I had money tell you what I'd do
I'd go downtown and buy a Mercury or two
I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury, I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road
Mustang Sally uh-huh
Guess you better slow your Mustang down
Oh Lord what I said now
Mustang Sally now baby
Oh Lord guess you better
Slow your Mustang down hu-oh yeah
You been runnin´ all over town now
Oh I guess I have to put your flat feet
On the ground
Hu! what I said now
Listen!
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride) huh
All you wanna do is a ride around Sally
Alright (ride Sally ride)
Well listen to this
One of these early mornins´
Hey Wow! gonna be wipin´ your weepin´ eyes
Huh! what I said now-look-a-here
I bought you a brand new Mustang
A nineteen sixty-five huh!
Now you come around
Signifyin´ a woman
That don´t wanna let me ride
Mustang Sally now baby oh Lord!
Guess you better slow that Mustang down
Huh! oh Lord! Look here
You been runnin´ all over town
Oow!
I got to put your flat feet on the ground
Huh! what I said now hey-a
Let me say it one more time y´all
Now all you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally) hu! (ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
FADES-
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna...
Was a workin' upstairs again today, guess who managed to show up on my CD player, Ol' No Show Hhmself. ;) Listened to sad songs for about 3 hours, this one is perhaps the saddest cause it's so true. >:(
You know this old world is full of singers
But just a few are chosen
To tear your heart out when they sing
Imagine life without them
All your, radio heros
Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse's dream
No, there will never be another
Red-headed stranger
A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues
The Okie from Muskogee
Or Hello Darling
Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes
Who's gonna fill their shoes
Who's gonna stand that tall
Who's gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball
Who's gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you
Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes
God bless the boys from Memphis
Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis
Much too soon he left this world in tears
They tore up the Fifties
Old Jerry Lee and Charlie
And old Go Cat Go still echoes through the years
You know the heart of country music
Still beats in Luke the Drifer
You can tell when hew sings I Saw the Light
Old Marty, Hank and Lefty
Why I can feel them right here with me
On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night
Who's gonna fill their shoes
Who's gonna stand that tall
Who's gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball
Who's gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you
Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes
that en thar is a gooooood one.
I like this one by Old George too
They sent him to Asia to fight in a war
He came back home crazy and asking, What for?
They had him committed, oh, medals and all
To a mental hosipital with rubber walls.
They cut off the funding, oh, they cut off the lights
He hit the street runnin' that cold winter night
Now the streets are the only place he can call home
He seems oh, so lonely, but he's never alone.
He lies there holding his wild irish rose
This crazy old fool in the smelly old clothes
He could have had something much better, God knows
Than a half-empty bottle of Wild Irish Rose.
A baby named Scarlet with laughing blue eyes
(Spoken)
Has been in his wallet, ah! way back since '65
(Sang)
So much was forgotten, oh, so far back in time
Way down in the bottom of a river of wine.
(Spoken)
You know, they found him at Clarkstreet, West 25th
They can't even find a hearbeat, Lord, his fingers are stiff
Just like they're all frozen, he's holding her tight
(Sang)
But the habit, oh, it's broken, this is Roses' last night.
He lies there holding his Wild Irish Rose
But his soul's in a place where a real hero goes
Now he's got something better, much better, God knows
Than a half-empty bottle of Wild Irish Rose...
Of course this one is just plain one of the greatest songs in real country music.
He said I'll love you 'til I die
She told him you'll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind
He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she'd come back again
Kept some letters by his bed
Dated 1962
He had underlined in red
Every single I love you
I went to see him just today
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away
First time I'd seen him smile in years
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today
(Spoken)
You know she came to see him one last time
Oh and we all wondered if she would
And it kept running through my mind
This time he's over her for good
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today
Here's one about a little soiree that's only 122 years old (The party, not the song) ;) down in Anson, Texas
Way out in Western Texas, where the Clear Forks waters flow
Where the cattle are "a-browzin'," an' the spanish ponies grow;
Where the Northers "come a-whistlin'" from beyond the neutral strip;
And prairie dogs are sneezin', as if they had "The Grip";
Where the coyotes come a-howlin' round the ranches after dark,
And the mocking-birds are singin' to the lovely "medder lark";
Where the 'possum and the badger, and rattle-snakes abound,
And the monstrous stars are winkin' o'er a wilderness profound;
Where the lonesome, tawney prairies melt into airy streams,
While the Double Mountains slumber, in heavenly kinds of dreams;
Where the antelope is grazin' and the lonely plovers call-
It is there that I attended "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball."
The town was Anson City, old Jone's county seat,
Where they raise Polled Angus cattle, and waving whiskered wheat;
Where the air is soft and "bammy," an' dry an' full of health,
And prairies is explodin' with agricultural wealth;
Where they print the Texas Western, that Hec. McCann supplies,
With news and yarns and stories,uv most amazin' size;
Where Frank Smith "pulls the badger," on knowin' tenderfeet,
And Democracy's triumphant, and mighty hard to beat;
Where lives that good old hunter, John Milsap from Lamar,
Who "used to be the Sheriff, back East, in Paris, sah!"
Twas there, I say, at Anson, with the livly "widder Wall,"
That I went to that reception, "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball."
The boys had left the ranches and come to town in piles;
The ladies- "kinder scatterin"- had gathered in for miles.
And yet the place was crowded, as I remember well,
'Twas got for the occasion, at "The Morning Star Hotel."
The music was a fiddle an' a lively tamborine,
And a viol came imported,"by the stage from Abilene.
The room was togged and gorgeous-with mistletoe and shawls,
And candles flickered frescoes, around the airy walls.
The "wimmin folks" looked lovely- the boys looked kinder treed,
Till their leader commenced yellin'; "Whoa! fellers, let's stampede,"
And the music started sighin', an' awailin' through the hall,
As a kind of introduction to "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball."
The leader was a feller that came from Swenson's Ranch,
They called him "Windy Billy," from "little Deadmans Branch."
His rig was kinder keerless," big spurs and high heeled boots;
He had the reputation that comes when a "fellers shoots."
His voice was like a bugle upon the mountain's height;
His feet were animated, an' a mighty, movin' sight,
When he commenced to holler, "Noew fellers, stake yer pen!
"Lock horns ter all them heifers, an russle 'em like men.
"Saloot yer lovely critters; neow swing an' let 'em go,
"Climb the grapevine 'round 'em- all hands do-ce-do!
"You Mavericks, jine the round-up Jest skip her waterfall,
" Huh! hit wuz gettin' happy, "The Cowboys Christmas Ball!"
The boys were tolerable skittish, the ladies powerful neat,
That ol bass viol's music just got out there with both feet!
That wailin', frisky fiddle, I never shall forget;
And Windy kept a singin'- I think I hear him yet-
"O Xes, chase your squirrels, an' cut 'em to one side
" Spur Treadwell to the center, with Cross P. Charley's bride,
"Doc Hollis down the middle, an twine the ladies chain "
Varn Andrew's pen the fillies in big T Diamonds train.
"All pull yer freight tergerther, neow swallow fork an' change,
"Big Boston' lead the trail herd, through little Pitchforks range.
"Purr 'round yer gentle pussies, neow rope 'em! Balance all!"
Huh! hit wuz gettin' active - "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball!"
The dust riz fast and furious, we all just galloped 'round,
Till the scenery got so giddy, that Z Bar Dick was downed.
We buckled to our partners, an' told 'em to hold on,
Then shook our hoofs like lightning, until the early dawn.
Don't tell me 'bout cotillions, or germans. No sir 'ee!
That whirl at Anson City just takes the cake with me.
I'm sick of lazy shufflin's, of them I've had my fill,
Give me a frontier break-down, backed up by Windy Bill.
McAllister ain't nowhar! when Windy leads the show,
I've seen 'em both in harness, and so I sorter know- Oh,
Bill I shan't forget yer, and I'll oftentimes recall
That lively gaited sworray-"The Cowboys' Christmas Ball."
I love that, so glad Murph put it and Corn, Water and Wood back to back.
Listened to a little Johnny Cash today also, momma has this one on a 45.
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He laughed and kissed his mom
And said your Billy Joe's a man
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
I'd gun nobody down
But she cried again as he rode away
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He sang a song as on he rode
His guns hung at his hips
He rode into a cattle town
A smile upon his lips
He stopped and walked into a bar
And laid his money down
But his mother's words echoed again
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
And tried to tell himself he had become a man
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mothers words
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
Filled with rage then
Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired
Before he even saw
As Billy Joe fell to the floor
The crowd all gathered 'round
And wondered at his final words
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
Wanted man in California,
Wanted man in Buffalo
Wanted man in Kansas City,
Wanted man in Ohio
Wanted man in Mississippi,
Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne
Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man
I might be in Colorado,
Or Georgia by the sea
Working for some man who may not know at all who I might be
If you ever see me coming and if you know who I am
Don't you breathe it to nobody 'cause you know I'm on the lamb
Wanted man by Lucy Watson,
Wanted man by Jeannie Brown
Wanted man by Nellie Johnson,
Wanted man in this next town
I've had all that I wanted of a lot of things I've had
And a lot more than I needed of some things that turned out bad
I got sidetracked in El Paso,
Stopped to get myself a map
Went the wrong way in Pleura with Juanita on my back
Went to sleep in Shreveport,
Woke up in Abilene
Wonderin' why I'm wanted at some town half way in between
Wanted man in Albuquerque,
Wanted man in Syracuse
Wanted man in Tallahassee,
Wanted man in Baton Rouge
There's somebody set to grab me
Anywhere that I might be
And wherever you might look tonight
You might get a glimpse of me
Wanted man in California,
Wanted man in Buffalo
Wanted man in Kansas City,
Wanted man in Ohio
Wanted man in Mississippi,
Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne
Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man
OT, that sounds like another feller I know of...
I was toting my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road
When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load
If your goin' to Winnemucca, Mack with me you can ride
And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, "Listen! I've traveled every road in this here land!"
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been to:
Reno
Chicago
Fargo
Minnesota
Buffalo
Toronto
Winslow
Sarasota
Wichita
Tulsa
Ottawa
Oklahoma
Tampa
Panama
Mattawa
LaPaloma
Bangor
Baltimore
Salvador
Amarillo
Tocapillo
Barranquilla
And Padilla
I'm a Killer
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been to:
Boston
Charleston
Dayton
Louisiana
Washington
Houston
Kingston
Texarkana
Monterey
Ferriday
Santa Fe
Tallapoosa
Glen Rock
Black Rock
Little Rock
Oskaloosa
Tennessee
Tinnesay
Chicopee
Spirit Lake
Grand Lake
Devil's Lake
Crater Lake
For Pete's Sake
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been to:
Louisville
Nashville
Knoxville
Ombabika
Schefferville
Jacksonville
Waterville
Costa Rica
Pittsfield
Springfield
Bakersfield
Shreveport
Hackensack
Cadillac
Fond du Lac
Davenport
Idaho
Jellico
Argentina
Diamantina
Pasadena
Catalina
See What I Mean
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been to:
Pittsburgh
Parkersburg
Gravelbourg
Colorado
Ellensburg
Rexburg
Vicksburg
Eldorado
Larimore
Atmore
Haverstraw
Chatanika
Chaska
Nebraska
Alaska
Opelika
Baraboo
Waterloo
Kalamazoo
Kansas City
Sioux City
Cedar City
Dodge City
What A Pity
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been everywhere
I had a friend I grew up with when we were in Jr. High, he could sing that song and get every word in the right place ;D
he went on to become a disc jokey, Steve Goddard is his name, he has a couple of synidicated shows out of Arizona, one of them is country and the other is a 60's gold show.
Many years ago, saw Hank Snow and Johnny Cash do that on TV as a duet, Hank got to goin' so fast Johnny lost it a busted out laughin'. Like Ray Benson doin' it the best.
This one from his 96 album Unchained has become a favorite in our household. Rita and I have let the kids know it is to be played at our funerals.
We saw houses falling from the sky Where the mountains lean down to the sand We saw blackbirds circling 'round an old castle keep And I stood on the cliff and held your hand
We walked troubles brooding wind swept hills And we loved and we laughed the pain away At the end of the journey, when our last song is sung Will you meet me in Heaven someday
Can't be sure of how's it's going to be When we walk into the light across the bar But I'll know you and you'll know me Out there beyond the stars
We've seen the secret things revealed by God And we heard what the angels had to say Should you go first, or if you follow me Will you meet me in Heaven someday
Living in a mansion on the streets of gold At the corner of Grace and Rapture Way In sweet ecstasy while the ages roll Will you meet me in Heaven someday
In sweet ecstasy while the ages roll Will you meet in Heaven someday
git ya all in the Christmas spirit
The blues come fallin', they fall like drops of rain
The blues come fallin', they fall like drops of rain
I've got to spend my Christmas locked up in jail again
In jail on Christmas day again, ain't that a pain!
Oh baby, baby, baby, ain't that a pain!
Oh Santa, Santa, Santa, come here to me in jail
Oh Santa, Santa, Santa, come here to me in jail
Bring me a Christmas present, someone to go my bail
Jail on Christmas day, again ain't that a pain!
Oh baby, baby, baby, ain't that a pain!
This food here, Santa, it ain't fit to eat
This food here. Santa, it ain't fit to eat
Won't you come and bring me a plate of turkey meat?
In jail on Christmas day again, ain't that a pain!
Oh baby, baby, baby, ain't that a pain!
The jailhouse blues have got me, they've got the best of me
The jailhouse blues have got me, they've got the best of me
My baby doesn't love me, I got no Christmas tree
In jail on Christmas day again, ain't that a pain!
Oh baby, baby, baby, ain't that a pain!
This one always gets me in the Christmas Spirit. It's sung by a l'il girl.
THE CHIMNEY SONG
Bob Rivers Comedy Corp.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all night long.
Well, I waited up for Santa all Christmas night
But he never came and it don't seem right.
And there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't make a sound,
But I wish you Merry Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all week long.
Well, the dog keeps barking up the chimney flue
And we don't know what we're going to do.
Cause there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't move around,
And it's been a week since Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all month long.
Well, it's jammed up tight above the fireplace
Now the house smells funny, such a big disgrace.
That there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't talk at all,
And it's been there since last Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all year long.
I'll been waiting up for Santa like I did last year
But my brother says, "He's already here."
And he's stuck up in the chimney
And he doesn't say a word
And he'll be there every Christmas.
And we'll have him every Christmas.
Bob Rivers can sure come up with some off the wall stuff.
'nother heart warmer.
Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
Chipmunks roasting on an open fire
Hot sauce dripping from their toes
Chipmunks: Oh! That tickles!
Yuletide squirrels fresh filleted by the choir
They poked hot skewers through their nose
Chipmunks: Ow! Wrong end, cowboy!
Everybody knows some pepper and a garlic clove
Help to make them seasoned right
Tiny rats with a crisp golden coat
Will really hit the spot tonight
And now when Santa sees his tray
Santa: Ho ho ho ho ho
There'll be some homemade chipmunk jerky for his sleigh
Santa: Mmmm...Hey, look at that!
And every hungry child is gonna spy
To see if chipmunks really sing when they fry
And so I'm brushing on some honey glaze
To keep them crisp and juicy too
Let's hope they get served many times many ways
Tasty Chipmunks; good food
Dave: On that, Mr. Cole
Mr.Cole: Yes, sir, Mr. Seville?
Dave: Would you mind handing me the barbeque sauce? I am starved!
Mr.Cole: Oh,no problem Dave. Hey listen, you best be havin' two of those drumsticks, because they're oh-so-tiny and there ain't much meat on 'em
Melvin: What about animal rights, Dave?
Dave: Put a sock in it Melvin. You know, for years people said you over-rated hamsters were my meal ticket. Now I guess you could just say you're my meal!
That's a good one, Dave...I always knew you was the funny one in the group!
Dave: Damn straight!
And so I'm offering some recipes
From chipmunk pie to chipmunk stew
I'm not really sad that it ended this way
Furry chipmunks screw you
Dave: Did you hear that Melvin? Melvin? Melllllllllllviiiiiiiiiiiin?
Mr. Cole: Why, I'm sorry Dave, did you want Melvin? There's plenty of Thagadore left though...
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Where did ya find that one, Arcey?
Slim
Here it is Slim, it's been a long standing Bob Rivers parody!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyu9jppjIAA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyu9jppjIAA&feature=related)
Thanks, Tom.
Slim
do a Lime Wire search and he's probably got 50 different ones he's done over the years.
Was listenin' to some kinda non-cowboy Michael Martin Murphy today.
Hey daddy, I've got a problem
Last night I took my girlfriend for a ride
And the way she touched my hand dad
I got this funny feeling deep inside
So I leaned over and I kissed her
I put my arms around her and then
Well she reached out and she slapped me
She said, "You're just like all the other men"
Son you're talking to the wrong man
If you wanna know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
Still ain't got your mama figured out
By the way son, I've got a problem
I wonder could you talk with me a while
You see lately your mama she ignores me
Hardly ever gives me a little smile
So I was thinkin' maybe you could show me
The way you younger fellas comb your hair
Think I need to change my style son
Could you show me something really cool to wear?
Dad you're talking to the wrong man
If you wanna know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
Still ain't got my girlfriend figured out
So I guess we'll just go fishin'
Or maybe head out to that old golf course today
When our buddies ask us about women
I think I know exactly what we'll say
Boys you're talking to the wrong man
If you wanna know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
Still ain't got them women figured out
Still ain't got them women figured out
Sun is sinking in the west
The cattle go down to the stream
The redwing settles in the nest
It's time for a cowboy to dream
Purple light in the canyon
that is where I long to be
With my three good companions
just my rifle pony and me
Gonna hang my sombrero
on the limb of a tree
Coming home sweet my darling
just my rifle pony and me
Whippoorwill in the willow
sings a sweet melody
Riding to Amarillo
just my rifle pony and me
No more cows to be ropin'
No more strays will I see
'round the bend shell be waitin
For my rifle pony and me
For my rifle my pony and me
Deno and Ricky, got that on a CD here at work, it has an introdution by The Duke.
From the movie"Rio Bravo" in 1959, almost 50 years ago. My, how time flies.
been listening to them oldie but goodies, this one just keeps sticking. ;D
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.
(Chorus:)
Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free;
Take a load off Fannie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide;
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side.
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."
he said, "I gotta go, but m'friend can stick around."
(Chorus)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke, and Luke's waitin' on the Judgement Day.
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an' keep Anna Lee
company?"
(Chorus)
Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.
He said, "I will fix your rags, if you'll take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can."
(Chorus)
Catch a Cannonball, now, t'take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time.
To get back to Miss Annie, you know she's the only one.
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.
I have trouble getting this one by Don Edwards outta my head.
In the lobby of a big hotel in New York town one day
Sat a bunch of fellows telling yarns to pass the time away
They told of places where they'd been and different things they'd seen
Some preferred Chicago town while others New Orleans
I can see the cattle grazing o'er the hills at early morn
I can see the campfires smokin at the breaking of the dawn
I can hear the bronco's neighing I can hear the cowboy sing
I'd like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.
In a corner in an old armchair sat a man whose hair was gray
He listened to them eagerly to what they had to say
They asked him where he'd like to be his clear old voice did ring
I'd like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring
I can see the cattle grazing o'er the hills at early morn
I can see the campfires smokin at the breaking of the dawn
I can hear the bronco's neighing I can hear the cowboy sing
I'd like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.
They sat and listened carefully to each word he had to say
They knew the old man sitting there had been a top hand in his day
They asked him for a story of his life out on the plains
Slowly he removed his hat then quietly began.
I've seen em stampede o'er the hills till you'd think they'd never stop
I've seen em run for miles and miles until their leader dropped
I was a foreman of a cow ranch, the calling of a king
I'd like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.
I can see the cattle grazing o'er the hills at early morn
I can see the campfires smokin at the breaking of the dawn
I can hear the bronco's neighing I can hear the cowboy sing
I'd like to be in Texas for the round-up in the spring.
I'd like to sleep my last long sleep with mother earth for bed
My saddle for a pillow, the bright stars overhead
Then I could hear the last stampede, the songs of rivers sing
Way back down in Texas for the round-up in the spring.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 06, 2008, 11:21:19 AM
From the movie"Rio Bravo" in 1959, almost 50 years ago. My, how time flies.
I was just a boy ;D not mucher shorter than I am now ;D ::) :o
Sleep i like that one..... OT you must be listening to the same station I was listening too... I heard it on the way to work Sat morning
I was search'n, Ricky's "Garden party" when I found the other...just thought it was good one to post here
Quote from: litl rooster on January 06, 2008, 10:53:18 PM
S OT you must be listening to the same station I was listening too... I heard it on the way to work Sat morning
Most likely gettin' it off the same pewter in the home office. :P With a good radio on a hill round here you can get 3-4 stations, all playin' the same music, just different ads. ;D
They say a man should always dress for the job he wants
So why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant
It's all because some hacker stole my identity
Now I'm stuck here every evenin' servin' chowder 'n iced tea
Should have gone to free credit report dot com
Yee Haww!
I could have seen this comin' at me like an atom bomb
They monitor your credit and send you e-mail alerts
So you don't end up sellin' fish to tourists in T-Shirts
:D :D I love that commercial.
Quote from: Trinity on January 07, 2008, 08:20:14 PM
:D :D I love that commercial.
seen it for the first time lastnight... 8)
Here's the link to it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnUmpQhiOw
Slim
Quote from: Delmonico on January 07, 2008, 05:56:09 PM
With a good radio on a hill round here you can get 3-4 stations, all playin' the same music, just different ads.
Seems I'm stuck with the ever excitin' 'thump squeak' of Virginia Tech basketball damned near every evenin'. If it ain't ten guys runnin' 'round in oversized underwear it's a bunch of announcers wantin' ta talk 'bout it. They bust in right in the middle of regular programmin'. Taken ta puttin' the 26 outtah reach sos I don't blow the stereo away. I'm wonderin' how the crowd follows it. Gottah interfere with the game shows they watch on TV.
Ennyways, I know where the streamin' audio is 'n I listen via the computer. It's funny when ya hear a nationally syndicated host doin' local commercials.
Well the eagle's been flying slow and the flag's been flying low
And a lot of people are saying that America's fixing to fall
But speaking just for me and some people from Tennessee
We got a thing or two to tell you all
This lady may have stumbled but she ain't never fell
And if the Russians don't believe that they can all go straight to hell
We're gonna put her feet back on the path of righteousness
And then God bless America again
And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again
From the sound up in Long Island out to San Francisco Bay
And ev'ry thing that's in between them is our home
And we may have done a little bit of fighting amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone
Cause we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank
That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks
You just go and lay your hands on a Green Bay Packers fan
And I think you're gonna finally understand
And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again
O, the weather outside is frightful, but my dear it's so delightful, so long as we have any place to go, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.
Quote from: Arcey on January 17, 2008, 07:29:09 PM
Well the eagle's been flying slow and the flag's been flying low
And a lot of people are saying that America's fixing to fall
But speaking just for me and some people from Tennessee
We got a thing or two to tell you all
This lady may have stumbled but she ain't never fell
And if the Russians don't believe that they can all go straight to hell
We're gonna put her feet back on the path of righteousness
And then God bless America again
And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again
From the sound up in Long Island out to San Francisco Bay
And ev'ry thing that's in between them is our home
And we may have done a little bit of fighting amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone
Cause we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank
That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks
You just go and lay your hands on a Green Bay Packers fan
And I think you're gonna finally understand
And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again
That's a great line. ;D
Slim
When Charlie was 'ere it the Hampton Coliseum he replaced that with a 'Washington Redskins fan'. Got so loud I thought the place was gonna fall in.
Thinkin' most of us are fans of The Pack this weekend. Can't hardly wait.
Back ta werk.
This is definitely Packer weather for the game with the Giants. My favorite Charlie Daniels song is one of his early ones. This one was done when no one knew who he was. It's called "The Un easy Rider". It was probaly done in the late 60s or early 70s.
TLD, I think it was 72, seems back in my mind it came out when I was a Sophmorein HS. Got a MMM album from somewhere around the same time, 4 basic unknowns on on cut doin' a cover of Hank's Mansion on the Hill. MM as he was then, Charlie, Willie and some guy named John who decided to sing about somethin' that time besides Colorado. ;)
Hear ya go, Texas Lawdog. ;)
Slim
THE UNEASY RIDER
Recorded by Charlie Daniels
SPOKEN:
[C] I was takin' a trip out to L.A.
[F] Toolin' along in my Chevrolet
[G7] Tokin' on a number and diggin' on the radi-[C] o ...
[C] Just as I crossed the Mississippi line
[F] I heard that highway start to whine
[G7] And I knew that left rear tire was about to [C] go.
Well, the spare was flat and I got uptight
'Cause there wasn't a fillin' station in sight
So I just limped on down the shoulder on the rim
I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car
It was right in front of this little bar
Kind of redneck lookin' joint, called the Dew Drop Inn.
Well, I stuffed my hair up under my hat
And told the bartender that I had a flat
And would he be kind enough to give me change for a one
There was one thing I was sure proud to see
There wasn't a soul in the place, 'cept for him and me
And he just looked disgusted and pointed toward the telephone.
I called up the station down the road a ways
And he said he wasn't very busy today
And he could have somebody there in just 'bout ten minutes or so
He said now you just stay right where you're at
And I didn't bother tellin' the durn fool
I sure as hell didn't have anyplace else to go.
I just ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar
When some guy walked in and said; "Who owns this car?
With the peace sign, the mag wheels and four on the floor?"
Well, he looked at me and I damn near died
And I decided that I'd just wait outside
So I layed a dollar on the bar and headed for the door.
Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin
These five big dudes come strollin' in
With this one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth
And I was almost to the door when the biggest one
Said; "You tip your hat to this lady, son."
And when I did all that hair fell out from underneath.
Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson, Mississippi on a Saturday night
'Specially when there was three of them and only one of me
They all started laughin' and I felt kinda sick
And I knew I'd better think of somethin' pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked old green-teeth right in the knee.
He let out a yell that'd curl your hair
But before he could move, I grabbed me a chair
And said; "Watch him folks, 'cause he's a thouroughly dangerous man."
"Well, you may not know it, but this man's a spy
He's an undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan."
He was still bent over, holdin' on to his knee
But everyone else was lookin' and listenin' to me
And I layed it on thicker and heavier as I went
I said; "Would you beleive this man has gone as far
As tearin' Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars
And he voted for George McGovern for president."
"He's a friend of them long-haired, hippie type, pinko fags
I betcha he's even got a Commie flag
Tacked up on the wall, inside of his garage
He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys
He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise
He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage."
They all started lookin' real suspicious at him
And he jumped up an' said; "Now, just wait a minute, Jim
You know he's lyin' I've been livin' here all of my life."
"I'm a faithfull follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife."
Then he started sayin' somethin' 'bout the way I was dressed
But I didn't wait around to hear the rest
I was too busy movin' and hopin' I didn't run outta luck
And when I hit the ground, I was makin' tracks
And they were just takin' my car down off the jacks
So I threw the man a twenty an' jumped in an' fired that mother up.
Mario Andretti woulda sure been proud
Of the way I was movin' when I passed that crowd
Comin' out the door and headin' toward me in a trot
And I guess I should-a gone ahead and run
But somehow I couldn't resist the fun
Of chasin' them all just once around the parkin' lot.
Well, they're headin' for their car, but I hit the gas
And spun around and headed them off at the pass
I was slingin' gravel and puttin' a ton of dust in the air
Ha Ha, well, I had 'em all out there steppin' and fetchin'
Like their heads were on fire and their asses was catchin'
But I figured I oughta go ahead an split before the cops got there.
When I hit the road I was really wheelin'
Had gravel flyin' and rubber squeelin'
And I didn't slow down 'til I was almost to Arkansas
Well, I think I'm gonna re-route my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to L.A. - via Omaha.
Hey!! Let's hear it for the ol drunk chick and the fella with green teeth!! :D :o ??? :-\ :-[ ;)
Charles Edward Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American country music, Southern rock, and jazz singer, fiddler, and guitarist.
Daniels began writing and performing in the 1950s. In 1964, Daniels sold a song "It Hurts Me" to Elvis Presley. He worked as a session musician, including playing on three Bob Dylan albums during 1969 and 1970. Daniels recorded his first solo album, Charlie Daniels, in 1970. His first hit, the novelty song "Uneasy Rider", came off his 1972 second album, Honey in the Rock, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1974, Daniels organized the first in a series of Volunteer Jam concerts based in or around Nashville, Tennessee. Except for a three-year gap in the late 1980s, these have continued ever since.
In 1975, he had a top 30 hit as leader of the Charlie Daniels Band with the Southern rock self-identification anthem "The South's Gonna Do It". "Long Haired Country Boy" was also a minor hit in that year.
Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached #3 on the charts.
Subsequent Daniels pop hits included "In America" (#11 in 1980), "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" (#31 in 1980), and "Still in Saigon" (#22 in 1982).
In the late 1980s and 1990s several of Daniels' albums and singles were hits on the country charts. Daniels also released several gospel and Christian records.
Charlie Daniels has never shied away from politics. "The South's Gonna Do It" had a mild message of Southern cultural identity within the Southern rock movement. Daniels was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter's presidential bid and performed at his January 1977 inauguration.
"In America" was a reaction to the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united America where "we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank / That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks." In contrast, "Still in Saigon" was an effective portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam veteran ten years after the war; it was part of an early 1980s wave of attention to the subject, which resulted in similar treatments such as Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and "Shut Out the Light", Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon", and somewhat later Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road".
In 1990, Daniels' country hit "Simple Man" seemingly advocated a Biblical form of vigilantism; lines such as "Just take them [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest," got Daniels considerable media attention and talk show visits.
In 2003, Daniels published an Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch in defense of George W. Bush's Iraq policy. His 2003 book Ain't No Rag: Freedom, Family, and the Flag contains this letter as well as many other personal statements. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Daniels acknowledged that having never served in the military himself, he did not have the right to criticize John Kerry's service record.
Daniels now resides in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, where the city has named a park after him.
Recently, he has made a cameo appearance along with Larry the Cable Guy, Kid Rock, and Hank Williams, Jr. in Gretchen Wilson's music video for the song "All Jacked Up", whose album has been released.
Charlie Daniels "What This World Needs Is A Few More Rednecks"
What this world needs is a few more rednecks
Some people ain't afraid to take a stand
What this world needs is a little more respect
For the Lord and the law and the workin' man
We could use a little peace and satisfaction
Some good people up front to take the lead
A little less talk and a little more action
And a few more rednecks is what we need
I was raised on beans and cornbread
And I like my chicken fried
Yes, I drive a pickup truck
And I'm full of American pride
I keep a Bible on my table
I got a flag out on my lawn
And I don't believe in mindin'
No one's business but my own
And I love them Rambo movies
I think they make a lot of sense
And it's a shame ole John Wayne
Didn't live to run for president
And I'm a catfish connoisseur
And I love the Lynyrd Skynyrd band
And I'm crazy about the NFL
And I'm a diehard NASCAR Fan
And I don't care what nobody says
I don't trust ole Gorbachev
And I don't know who turned him on
But it's time to turn him off
Now they're tryin' to take my guns away
And that would be just fine
If you take em away from the criminals first
I'll gladly give ya mine
And I don't mind payin' taxes
But it makes my temper itch
When my hard earned money goes
To make some politician rich
What most people call a redneck
Ain't nothin' but a workin' man
And he makes his livin'
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
Now you intellectuals may not like it
But there ain't nothin' that you can do
Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks
Then there ever will be of you
That's what we need
And a few more rednecks is what we need
Ah, Mr. Daniels, God bless him ;D My favorite is "The Devil Goes Down To Georgia".........Buck 8) ;)
Charlie carries on the proud tradition of Tennessee. The volunteers from Tennessee are an important part of Texas History. Sam Houston, the first President of the Republic of Texas was from Tenneessee. Another Vol, with buckskins and a coonskin cap helped us out in a squabble down in San Antonio with a fella named Santa Anna. If there had not been a Tennessee, there wouldn't have a Texas. Thank you Tennessee Vols, God Bless Texas!
TL, Houston was a Virginian, born just outside what is now Lexington.
His birthplace isn't far from where The Blue Ridge Roundup is shot.
Houston is the 9th President born in Virginia. ;)
Sleep, Houston did not live in Virginia for very long after his birth. The family moved to Tennessee and he later was elected to Congress. He was also elected Governor of Tennessee in 1827. I think he also spent some time in Arkansas and what is now Oklahoma. No matter where he was born, Texas would not be Texas without him.
I think the time in Arkansas and Oklahoma was around 3 years, he marriied a Cherokee woman during that time, the group of Cherokee he lived with was called the "Old Settlers" because they came West before the forced movement (trail of tears), this is the group my family came with, the woman Houston married was a relative along my Indian line. Houston built and ran a trading post (Wigwam Neosha) just a few miles North of Ft. Gibson, between the Grand Neosha and the Verdigras Rivers where they dump into the Arkansas River in the old Cherokee Nation.
When his Indian wife died, to Honor Houston, she was buried in what is called the Officers Circle in What is now Ft. Gibson National Cemetary in Ft. Gibson, Ok. he had already moved on to Texas by that time.
Near Blue Ridge
Sam Houston moved to Huntsville and died there. A few years ago, they erected a large statue of him on I 45 south of Hubtsville, Texas. They light it at night.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 21, 2008, 09:14:48 AM
Sam Houston moved to Huntsville and died there. A few years ago, they erected a large statue of him on I 45 south of Hubtsville, Texas. They light it at night.
It should be ;D
Now, I thought ol' Sam was borned in Houston. Aint' that why he's called Sam of Houston? ;D
Here's one in memory of John Stewart, songwriter of "Daydream Believer" and others, who passed away on Saturday:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGO97U870NfzEZkeXyVuAM1i7vAAD8U9RR700
Daydream Believer
By John Stewart
Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings.
The six o'clock alarm would never ring.
But it rings and I rise,
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes.
My shavin' razor's cold and it stings.
Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
You once thought of me
As a white knight on a steed.
Now you know how happy I can be.
Oh, and our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend.
But how much, baby, do we really need.
Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
[Instrumental interlude]
Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
[Repeat and fade]
Thanks pard hadn't heard he'd passed.
Yep on my homepage yesterday
Every time I hear Sleepy Jean, I think of Davy Jones and the Monkees. He was up at one of the Indian casios in Oklahoma last summer. He's gettin old like the rest of us. I always wanted the Monkeemobile. I love them Gtoes.
When I work 3rd shift security, had an old pfart, worked with me for a few months, retired and worked for gamblin' money. Came back to the guardshack one night, Gene was asleep and when I opened the door it scared him, always thought it was funny cause the radio was playin' Sleepy Jean. ;D
All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart
Every western hero on the screen's
Been with me from the start
Ridin' high and showin' me the way
And they've been there with me through my toughest times
We'd ride out to the boundries but we never crossed those lines
And that's a code that I'm still livin' by today
The code of the west was black and white
Good guys and the bad
You would always know who's wrong or right
By the color of their hat
Now there aren't so many happy trails
I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see
You don't go off into the sunset
And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea
And it's good to see the bad guys on the run
While our modern day heroes show 'em how the west was won
On their trail 'til they bring the last one down
We could use a few more cowboys here today
A few more days of reckoning and a lot more hell to pay
Where that debt is owed there ain't no middle ground
The code of the west was black and white
The good guys and the bad
You would always know who's wrong or right
By the color of their hat
Now there aren't so many happy trails
I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see
You don't go off into the sunset
And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea
The code of the west was black and white
The good guys and the bad
You would always know who's wrong and who was right
By the color of their hat
Now there aren't so many happy trails
I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see
You don't go off into the sunset
And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea
All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart
Good song lyrics, Sodbuster. The way life used to be, too bad it's not that way anymore.
this one's Arcey fault
Away, away, away rode the rebel, Johnny Yuma.
Johnny Yuma, was a rebel,
He roamed, through the west.
And Johnny Yuma, was a rebel,
He wandered alone.
He got fightin' mad,
This rebel lad,
He packed his star as he wandered far
Where the only law was a hook and a draw, the rebel.
(Away, away, away rode the rebel.)
Johnny Yuma, was a rebel,
He roamed, through the west.
And Johnny Yuma, was a rebel,
He wandered alone.
He searched the land,
This restless lad,
He was panther quick and leather tough
Cause he had figured that he'd been pushed enough, the rebel.
(Away, away, away rode the rebel.)
Johnny Yuma.
Johnny Yuma, was a rebel,
He roamed, through the west.
And Johnny Yuma, the rebel,
He wandered alone.
He was fightin' mad,
This rebel lad,
With a dream he would hold until his dying breath
He would search his soul and gamble with death.
Away, away, away rode the rebel, Johnny Yuma.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 27, 2008, 03:56:35 AM
Good song lyrics, Sodbuster. The way life used to be, too bad it's not that way anymore.
Thanks. In case anyone is interested, it is "Code of the West" by Clint Black from his album "Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic".
"The Cowboy Way" explained by the "Riders in the Sky" is another one of my favorites.
Tom Petty. Sounds like sumthin' a hard-nosed cowboy would say....
Well I wont back down, no I wont back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I wont back down
Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around
And Ill keep this world from draggin me down
Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down
Hey baby, there aint no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down.
Well I know whats right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin me around
But Ill stand my ground and I wont back down
Hey baby there aint no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down
No, I wont back down
with all the anniversary's on the Coffee board and mine and Jackie's coming up, This is what I always tell her when she asks what I do if she left. makes for a good chuckle. ;D
Yeah, Daddy said, "Son I'm sorry
You and Sheila ain't getting along
And if she's so dead set on leaving you, boy
Why ain't she already gone
Yeah, you better break out some sweet talking
'Cause I promise you you're gonna miss her
And I know what I'd do
If my baby left me
Pack up my things and go with her."
CHORUS:
You don't stay with the one you can live with
It's the one that you can't live without
It's the one that's got you tore up in pieces, boy
It's the one you keep talking about
Pride's a tough pill to swallow
It'll leave you lonely and cold and bitter
So what you need to do
If she's gonna leave you
You better pack up and go with her
Daddy said, "Son, I'm through preaching
I've said all I'm gonna say
Now if you love her as much as I think you do
You're a fool if she gets away
She can go anywhere that she wants to
Don't give up, no don't quit her
Do like I did when your momma left me
Hell, I just packed up my bags and went with her."
CHORUS:
You don't stay with the one you can live with
It's the one that you can't live without
It's the one that's got you tore up in pieces, boy
It's the one you keep fretting about
Pride's a tough pill to swallow
It'll leave you lonely, cold and bitter
What you need to do
If she's gonna leave you
Pack up your things and go with her
CHORUS:
You don't stay with the one you can live with
It's the one that you can't live without
It's the one that's got you tore up in pieces, boy
It's the one you keep crying about
Pride's a tough pill to swallow
It'll leave you lonely, cold and bitter
What you need to do
If she's gonna leave you
Better pack up and go with her
Yeah, I know what I did
When my baby left me
I packed up my things and went with her
Dang, OT. That sounds like she needs to file a restrainin' order. ;D ;D
I was listenin' to some ELO and thought this would be a good one to post:
Wish I was, yeah, a wild west hero.
Sometimes i look up high and then I think there might
just be a better life.
Away from all we know, that's where I wanna go,
out on the wild side
and I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Ride the range all the day till the first fading light,
be with my western girl round the fire, oh, so bright.
I'd be the Indians friend, let them live to be free,
ridin' into the sunset, I wish I could be.
I'd ride the desert sands and through the prairie lands,
try'n to do what's right.
The folks would come to me, they'd say, we need you here.
I'd stay there for the night.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Ride the range all the day till the first fading light,
be with my western girl round the fire, oh, so bright.
I'd be the Indians friend, let them live to be free,
ridin' into the sunset, I wish I could be.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Wish I was, o-o-oo-o-o-o-oo, a wild west hero.
sounds like maybe she should have ;D ;D
Noticed one of my vinyl records in the closet when I was at home. Cheated and found a copy on tape cause a song was goin' through my head.
I took a walk (he was walkin' up and down Broadway)
I was hungry (had an eye out for a swell cafe)
I was searchin' (he was soundin' for a bite to munch)
I found a spot (he took a table at the Merchants Lunch)
Oh the Merchants Lunch, it was an ocean of gloom
It looked like half past midnight in the afternoon
Down by the bar (a rat-faced manager was pouring suds)
For the boys (Trailways cowboys in their Good Will duds)
And the girls (a pride of peddle-pushin' pinball queens)
Chewin' gum (in sweaty combat at the Wizard machines)
But the queen of them all, lookin' big as a fort
Was Broadway Brenda and her derelict court
I ordered a blue plate special and peered out through the room
Just to see what kind of citizens inhabited this gloom
And the hapless visages I saw were innocent of cheer
Though mirthless laughter filled the air inspired by wine and beer
From these helpless accidents of Fortune's careless aim
Broadway Brenda rose upon her queen-sized six foot frame
I looked away to shun her eyes but I knew it was too late
A hand fell on my shoulder as my gaze fell on my plate
I looked her up and over (and she did the same to me)
Her teeth were green (as green as garden peas)
She shaped her hair (with dishpan fingertips)
An earthquake of excitement shook her Krakatoan hips
Her hands went to her bosom, a hush fell on the crew
An acre of Brenda lay exposed to view
These fevered words she whispered as I gazed upon the scene:
It's the custom here at Merchants Lunch to entertain the queen
I grabbed my hat (and in an instant he was on his feet)
I was sober as a judge down at the county seat
I kept my diesel up to 80 way past Baton Rouge
Made it back to Beaumont for the "Evening News"
I own a wide-load rig (he pays thousands in tax He's gonna keep it it Texas)-- I ain't leavin' for snacks
(He's a driving fool) the interstate belongs to me
But I'm never going back (into the state of Tennessee)
Oh the Merchants Lunch, it was an ocean of gloom
It looked like half past midnight in the afternoon.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on February 11, 2008, 07:52:31 PM
sounds like maybe she should have ;D ;D
mebbe she should be sing'n this one
{Two, three, four}
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo) [throughout the whole song]
Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking.
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
I felt a little fear upon my back
He said "Don't look back, just keep on walking."
When the big black horse said, "Hey lady!" {When the big black horse said, "Look this way"}
Said, "Look this way, will you marry me?" {Said, "Hey, lady, will you marry me?"}
But I said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me
And my heart hit a problem, in the early hours,
So I stopped it dead for a beat or two.
But I cut some cord, and I shouldn't have done it,
And it won't forgive me after all these years
So I sent it to a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
Now it won't come back, 'cause it's oh so happy
And now I've got a hole for the world to see
And it said no, no, no, no-no-no
Said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no-no
Said no, no, you're not the one for me
{Not the one for me}
Said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
You're not the one for me
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You're not the one for me
(do, do, do, do)
Well I was
Big black horse and a cherry tree
I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
Big black horse and a cherry tree
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
No, no, no, no
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
No, no, no, no
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
I can't quite get there cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
All the talk of trains in the other thread made me did out some Guy Clark tunes. ;)
I played the Red River Valley
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
And wonder, "Lord, why has every well I've drilled gone dry?"
We were friends, me and this old man
We's like desperados waitin' for a train
Desperados waitin' for a train
He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells
He's an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like, some old Western movie
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominos
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Just like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well to me he was a hero of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Jus' like desperados waitin' for a train
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
The day 'fore he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone.
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang one more verse to that old song
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'
We're desperados waitin' for a train
Was like desperados waitin' for a train
And this one also.
Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before,
so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.
Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels,
bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels
Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four,
but everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more. . .
. . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war.
This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before.
And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day.
somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way.
Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars,
and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars.
Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch,
and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop.
So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time'
you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line.
'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back,
But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
she's a fast-rollin' streamline
come to show the folks.
Look out here she comes, she's comin'
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
. . .Lord, she never even stopped.
She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars,
and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
and how it got this far.
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
by a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
Quote from: Trinity on February 11, 2008, 07:44:34 PM
Dang, OT. That sounds like she needs to file a restrainin' order. ;D ;D
I was listenin' to some ELO and thought this would be a good one to post:
Wish I was, yeah, a wild west hero.
Sometimes i look up high and then I think there might
just be a better life.
Away from all we know, that's where I wanna go,
out on the wild side
and I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Ride the range all the day till the first fading light,
be with my western girl round the fire, oh, so bright.
I'd be the Indians friend, let them live to be free,
ridin' into the sunset, I wish I could be.
I'd ride the desert sands and through the prairie lands,
try'n to do what's right.
The folks would come to me, they'd say, we need you here.
I'd stay there for the night.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Ride the range all the day till the first fading light,
be with my western girl round the fire, oh, so bright.
I'd be the Indians friend, let them live to be free,
ridin' into the sunset, I wish I could be.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Oh, I wish I was, o-oo-o-oh, a wild west hero.
Wish I was, o-o-oo-o-o-o-oo, a wild west hero.
Here's a video ta go along with the lyrics.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqCKcQ6fSl0
Slim
Howdy the Fire
We are rapidly approaching the two year mark...I can't believe it has been 2 years...I haven't posted to this thread, and I will remedy that soon, I just noticed that John Stewart has passed....I also didn't know (or forgot) that he wrote Daydream Believer..
that doesn't have much to do with anything, except that Miz Lee would have commented on that, and probably quoted Daydream Believer immediately...
I am thinking of "You have to suffer to sing the Blues" by David Bromberg...I would write it down but I can't remember the words, and am at work..so, we just will have to think the song thru....
Peace to all
Curley
Seeing your post, Curley, made me remember the date is coming up....... :-[ :'( 8)
I will be celebrating 34 years of wedded bliss on the 16th of March. My wife derserves a commendation or a medal for having to put up with me and all my BS.
Curley, do stop by once in a while.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 24, 2008, 08:12:24 AM
I will be celebrating 34 years of wedded bliss on the 16th of March. My wife derserves a commendation or a medal for having to put up with me and all my BS.
It's a few days late - and I have NO relevant song, but congratulations on that 34 years. And a BIG hoo-rah for Mrs. Lawdog! ;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 24, 2008, 08:12:24 AM
I will be celebrating 34 years of wedded bliss on the 16th of March. My wife derserves a commendation or a medal for having to put up with me and all my BS.
I'm still thinkin'. ;D
Thank you Sir. I married a fine Irish lass with ivory skin and red hair, and we got married the day before St. Paddy's Day. Sa Looot.
OK, is this one OK? ;D
Hey daddy I've got a problem
Last night I took my girlfriend for a ride
And the way she touched my hand dad
Got this funny feeling deep inside
So I leaned over and I kissed her
Put my arms around her and then
Well she reached up and she slapped me
Said you're just like all the other men
Son you're talking to the wrong man
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
I still ain't got your mama figured out
By the way son I've got a problem
I wonder could you talk with me awhile
See lately your mama she ignores me
Hardly ever gives me a little smile
So I was thinkin' maybe you could show me
The way you younger fellas comb your hair
Think I need to change my style son
Could you show me something really cool to wear
Dad you're talking to the wrong man
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
Still ain't got my girlfriend figured out
So I guess we'll just go fishing
Maybe head out to that old golf course today
When our buddies ask us about women
I think I know exactly what we'll say
Boys you're talking to the wrong men
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong men
Still ain't got them women figured out
Still ain't got them women figured out
Del
Thank you for the invite....On the way to work I was playin Roy Bucannon (sp), since there ain't no words to his down and dirty version of Green Onions..which I hit the repeat button about 10 times...here is an oldie from long time ago. It was the B side of a mild single hit quite a few years ago...any ideas:
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise, each and every day
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise
ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y day
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away your darkness everyday
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y day
curley
Del, that song says it all.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 29, 2008, 02:23:19 AM
Del, that song says it all.
Ol' Murph hit that one right.
Couldn't find the Grandpa Jones one I was lookin' for. Sumthin' 'bout "they'll wait till yer wed and then they'll beat ya till yer dead with the bald headed end of a broom." ;D
You always sleep lightly with one eye open.
The Blues is Cryin Today..
I just heard that Jeff Healey died....age 41, finally lost his battle with cancer.
Last time I saw him was with ZZ Top, whoa, what a night that waz...
RIP
(I geuss it is true, no body gets outta life alive...)
Curley
He played his guitar in the Movie"Roadhouse" with Patrick Swayze. He had an unusual playing style. He played it like a dobrough.
and good at it too
While my Guitar Gently Weeps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw&feature=related
Lest un not forget that Mr. Healy was blind as well. First saw him on Johnny Carson jus as I was gettin into guitar--half inspired me an half made me consider packin it in. Angel Eyes has always been one of my favorites from the "See the Light album.
Leo
damn YouTubes. just watched the one with Jeff Healy and Stevie Ray......damn they both gone now
That's a great version and a great video montage, but I still like Harrison's best. Also gone. :(
Accoustic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKy73uTOhDc
'Lectric:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c
LR, Now you are Talkin'. SRV and Double Trouble. I went to High School with SRV's bass guitarist, Tommy Shannon.
here's one from another we lost not too long ago
E B A
Iâm a man whoâs goinâ to hell with heavenâs blessing
E B A
The judge said Iâm not fit to live with men
E B A
Theyâre building me a gallows in the courtyard
E B A
To make sure I donât pass this way again
E B A
My first taste of killinâ was at Vicksburg
E B A
I must have shot me a hundred men
E B A
I learned to make my livinâ with a six-gun
E B A
Iâm an outlaw now but I was a hero then
Chorus:
E B A
Lord if I had only known the misery
E B A
That gloryâs somethinâ not worth killinâ for
E B A
I wish now I had never touched the handle
B E
Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44
E B A
I was a hunted desperado
E B A
A wanted man with a price on my head
E B A
I thought that I could steal a taste of freedom
E B A
I got me a hangmanâs noose instead
Repeat Chorus
E B A
Undertaker write on my tombstone
E B A
A killer finally killed and nothinâ more
E B A
I wouldnât be here if it hadnât been for Providence
B E
And a Hairtrigger Colt .44
Repeat Chorus 2x
Didn't spect him to last long after June went :'(
That is if it's who I'm rememberin it to be--I've been known to get confused in these matters.
Leo
We've got a radio station in the MetroPlex called Lone Star. They play alot of music from Texas artists like SRV, ZZ Top, Willie, Waylon, David Alan Coe, Guy Clark, and Billy Joe Shaver. They also play Skynard.
Kind of the Austin City limits of Radio? Ohio and Ky must of run David Allen Coe off. ;D
Leo that's not from JR Cash
Told ya I got cunfused now an then.
Now I'll be thinkin on it the rest of the day ::) An I also got DAC's "The Ride" stuck in my head as well.
Leo
It's really agood station to listen to. It's not the kind of station that you would expect an Ol' redneck Cowboy Cop to listen to.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 08, 2008, 07:31:43 PM
It's really agood station to listen to. It's not the kind of station that you would expect an Ol' redneck Cowboy Cop to listen to.
I ain't no LEO either, been known to Cowboy some, but I shock people with my taste in fiddle and piano music...Rack full from Across the Pond to Detroit City to Austin and many others along the way. You mentioned Billy Joe Shaver watched a Outlaw show on one of the Country stations featured him and Merle, David Allen Coe and some other guy from OKalhoma. Billy Joe getting up there in age and to be quite Honest, I'm surprized alcohol ain't killed him
Who would have thought that Willie would live this long?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 09, 2008, 07:09:12 PM
Who would have thought that Willie would live this long?
maybe he used just the right combination of alcohol and drugs to preserve hisself permanet like. :o
I believe he has been well preserved by his hatred for the IRS. ;D
Willie was a bass player for Ray Price and living in Nashville(years ago) and his house caught fire. He went back into the house while it was burning. A firefighter asked him why he went back inside. Willie told him that he didn't want his stash to burn up. Willie ia a big time poker player. He comes to Fort Worth quite a bit. He drove home late one night and stooped to sleep in his car for a while. The police found him and found some grass in his ashtray and arrested. He was also arrested in Louisana last year with some grass on his tourbus.
TL
Do you remember (sure ya do) when all the hippies got into Merle? He put out "Oakie From Muskogee" to really isolated his self from them...forever. I've always admired him for that--turnin down record sales jus to not be associated with the folks he moraly stood against.
Good Man. I can almost see that bobber dancin ;)
Leo
When Merle recorded the Okie from Muskogee album, he was at the Muskogee Civic Center, a friend and I went that night, it sold out a long time before everyone got a ticket that wanted one, we stood outside with about 2 or 3 thousand others, They set up speakers on the front side of the building so everybody outside could hear everything,
we all got a kick out of it, seeing as how most all of us there had been born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA ;D
Ah was borned in McComb. What does that make me? ;D
Quote from: Trinity on March 09, 2008, 09:11:45 PM
Ah was borned in McComb. What does that make me? ;D
wall that must make ya bout half related, my Granny was a MaComb afore she was married. ;D ;D
Leo, I was a Sophomore in College when Okie from Muskogee came out. About that sme time the State of Oklahoma came out with an "Okie" lapel pin. I wish that I could find mine. I am verry proud of my Oklahoma heritage from the Cherokee Indians and my education from Panhandle State in Goodwell, Oklahoma.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on March 09, 2008, 08:40:51 PM
When Merle recorded the Okie from Muskogee album, he was at the Muskogee Civic Center, a friend and I went that night, it sold out a long time before everyone got a ticket that wanted one, we stood outside with about 2 or 3 thousand others, They set up speakers on the front side of the building so everybody outside could hear everything,
we all got a kick out of it, seeing as how most all of us there had been born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA ;D
My co-worker Terry was on the paper down there and was there that night.
Quote from: Trinity on March 09, 2008, 09:11:45 PM
Ah was borned in McComb. What does that make me? ;D
Could be related to Jerry Clower. ;)
Yazoo City has a Jerry Clower Blvd. I never got to see Jerry in person but the "Coon Hunt" is a classic. I even had some of his albums on 8 Track. The "Coon Hunt" was my Dad's favorite.
The coon hunt and his talkin chainsaw was some good ones
I had a freind that mananged the local farmers Co-op, he went to a meeting they had and started telling us about this guy they had there for entertainment, he had bought a couple of tapes from him and let us listen, wasn't too long before we started hearing it on the radio's,
Jerry settled in Yazoo City, but was from McComb.
Was quiltin' today, put on some John Prine, love the guys lyrics, sometimes you have to say huuuuhhh, till you listen to them a time or two, then they make sense. ;D
All the snow has turned to water
Christmas days have come and gone
Broken toys and faded colors
Are all that's left to linger on
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs
Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me
Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this mornin'
Always look the same to me
I hate reading old love letters
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my sweetheart's souvenirs
Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me
John Prine was great.
This is one a my favorites from CCR, though it never got much airplay. If I hear it at just the right moment ma allergies start actin up.
First thing I remember was askin' papa, "Why?",
For there were many things I didn't know.
And Daddy always smiled; took me by the hand,
Sayin', "Someday you'll understand."
CHORUS:
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young,
'Cause, "Someday" Never Comes."
Well, time and tears went by and I collected dust,
For there were many things I didn't know.
When Daddy went away, he said, "Try to be a man,
And, Someday you'll understand."
CHORUS
And then, one day in April, I wasn't even there,
For there were many things I didn't know.
A son was born to me; Mama held his hand,
Sayin' "Someday you'll understand."
CHORUS
Think it was September, the year I went away,
For there were many things I didn't know.
And I still see him standing, try'n' to be a man;
I said, "Someday you'll understand."
CHORUS
Mmmm-mmmm-mmmm....
Leo
Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Quote from: Delmonico on March 10, 2008, 05:18:19 PM
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Could be related to Jerry Clower. ;)
Whooooooooooooooooooo-wheee! ;D
John has a whole lot of good en's
Spanish Pipedream (AKA Blow Up Your TV)
© John Prine
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke
Chorus:
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own
Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve
Well, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-coo
Yeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do
Repeat chorus:
Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place
When just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face
I said "You must know the answer."
"She said, "No but I'll give it a try."
And to this very day we've been livin' our way
And here is the reason why
We blew up our TV threw away our paper
Went to the country, built us a home
Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own
Here's one of by one of my Favorites, he co penned Navajo Rug with Ian
Tom Russell
Get "Tonight We Ride"
Panco Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen
The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream
Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven bride
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits
When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit
It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit
Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair
Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car
Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars
I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars
Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold
And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest
If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride.
My Grandpa was an Army muleskinner during that time and served under Gen. Pershing while they chased Pancho Villa down in Texas. I've got his discharge paper with a photo of him at age 18 (in uniform.)
Back to the singin' an' the songs. ;)
Somehow or another John Prine got me thinking about this guy.
About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store
In the general store, when I was thirteen
I thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen
So l asked if I could have one someday when I grew up
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up
She really blew up, and she didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
Me very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Shoots as fast as lightnin' but it loads a mite slow
It loads a mite slow, and soon I found out
It'll get you into trouble but it can't get you out
So about a year later I bought a Colt 45
Called a peacemaker but I never knew why
I never knew why, I didn't understand
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
Got into a card game in a company town
I caught a miner cheating, I shot the dog down
I shot the dog down, I watched the man fall
He never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw
The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
Asked me how I pleaded, not guilty I said
Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
Have heard this one 3 times in the last couple days, even made it my ringer for my wife on my phone.
Listened to the original by Hank the Father, (Take yer hat off when you meantion his name.) Heard one where his voice track was dubbed over a new track, and the 1973 Leon Russell version, like all three. ;D
I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by all the people say
Just another guy on the lost highway
Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman's lies makes a life like mine
O the day we met, I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway
I was just a lad, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord I paid the cost, on the lost highway
Now boy's don't start to ramblin' round
On this road of sin ,or you're sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
You started rollin' down that lost highway
Most folks only know of Steve Goodman cause David Allen Coe mentioned him in a song.
Steve is now gone, but he wrote some really good stuff, City of New Orleans is one.
VEGEMATIC
by Steve Goodman
Fell asleep last night with the T-V on. Oh, what a dream I had.
I dreamed I answered every single one of those late night mail order ads.
And four to six weeks later, much to my surprise,
The mailman came to my front door, and I couldn't believe my eyes
When he brought the Vegematic, and the Pocket Fisherman too,
Illuminated illustrated history of life,
And Boxcar Willie with a Ginzu knife,
A bamboo steamer, and a Garden Weasel too,
And a tie-dyed, dayglow souvenir shirt from Six Flags Over Burbank.
The doorbell rang all morning and into the afternoon.
I shook with fright as it rang all night to the light of the Master Card moon.
There was Parcel Post in the pantry, and UPS in the hall,
C O D's to the ceiling, and I just couldn't pay for it all.
I got the egg scrambler, with a Seal-a-Meal carrying case,
A set of presidential commemorative plates
So I could eat my eggs off the President's face,
A Minute Mender, and a needle that'll knit or crochet,
And an autographed photograph of Rin Tin Tin at Six Flags Over Burbank.
I remembered I was dreaming, so I gave a mighty cheer.
When I awoke, it was no joke, 'cause all that sh*t was here.
So if you fall asleep with the TV on, let me tell you what to do:
Tear the telephone out of the wall unless you want it to happen to you.
You'll get the Vegematic, and the Pocket Fisherman too,
Illuminated illustrated history of life,
And Boxcar Willie with a Ginzu knife,
A bamboo steamer, and a smokeless ashtray too
And an all expenses paid weekend for three at Six Flags Over Burbank.
Del
with hat in hand, I pay tribute to Hank Senior the way his son saw fit. I bet he laughed his a** off when he heard this from the other side...
Well in 1950 I took a little nip
Along with Mr. Williams on the
Way to Mississipp'
We was stacked 8 deep in a Packard limousine
And we met this promoter in the town of New Orleans
Now the man told Daddy that he had what it took
And he liked the way he sang
And he liked the way he shook
He said pretty soon he'd make us all rich
And we started believin'
that fat son of a bitch
Now the man told Daddy if you wanna make some dough
Take a little money and book me on a show
And we played them dates and we filled the places well
But Hank, he'd done blowed the profits all to hell
Cause he'd run through a 10 and he'd run through a 20
And he'd run through a 100 just as fast as it would go
Like a big dose of sauce to a little bitty fella
He'd spend a $1000 dollars on a $100 dollar show
Hank looked at me with a funny lookin' grin,
Said "I've been to the Opry and I'm goin' back again"
We met the owner in a little office there
And a big fat fella with some artificial hair
He told Hank he wanted half of everything he made
Or he'd have to tell Audrey 'bout
Some women Hank had laid
And you told Daddy he'd better get smart,
Get rid of them fellas and make a new start
So he fired my ass and he fired Jerry Rivers
And he fired everybody just as hard as he could go
He fired old Cedric and he fired Sammy Pruitt
And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Well, every song he made it went to number one,
Y'all was workin' like hell and you was havin' fun
We was ridin' every day and playin' every night
And every 20 minutes some of us had a fight
Now, Daddy he was makin' money hand over fist,
And y'all was getting' screwed but
You wasn't getting kissed
Yeah, I told him to pass a little bit around
But he said he'd rather send it
To his folks in Alabam'
So he fired my ass and he fired Jerry Rivers
And he fired everybody just as hard as he could go
He fired old Cedric and he fired Sammy Pruitt
And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Now the owner of the Opry, he's a-doin' pretty good,
He's got a music company that they call Cedarwood
And Hank played nothing but sold out halls
And I was pumpin' gas in greasy overalls
Cause he'd run through a 10 and he'd run through a 20
And he'd run through a 100 just as fast as it would go
Like a big dose of sauce to a little bitty fella
He'd spend a $1000 dollars on a $100 dollar show
Leo
In preparation of the festivities this weekend: ;D
The Leprechaun (You're No Irish Laddie!)
words and music by Marc Gunn
There's a Leprechaun in me head, and I wish that I were dead
For I don't think he'll e'er let me be.
Oh, he tempts me with his gold, and if I were e'er so bold,
I'd strangle him and leave him in the street.
Well, he says to me, "Ah, you're no Irish Laddie!
And ye call that thing a harp?"
But each time I share the lore that I am learning.
He hides in shame while my friends they chant.
La ta tee, da diddley dee, la ta tee ta tee da
La ta tee, da diddley diddley dai
La ta tee, da diddley dee, la ta tee ta tee da
La ta tee, da diddley diddley dai
There's a leprechaun in my room. He swats me with a broom.
That's the reason I forget the words of this song.
Well, he shows me a four-leaf clover, and before me song is over,
It's buried in a bowl of Lucky Charms.
Ther'es a leprechaun on the floor, and he says that I'm a bore.
He yawns aloud as I sing my song.
He feigns one last breathe stolen, but I see his eyes are open.
And he's watching me with envy deep inside.
There's a leprechaun on a hill, and his gold is buried there.
So I grab him by the neck 'fore he gets away.
The pot's too heavy, he giggles, so I pinch me just a little,
And he thinks he's fooled me as I run away.
Hear it here:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/streamm3u.m3u?id=3406519&q=lo
Jerry was from Route 4, Liberty, Mississippi, in Amite County. Jerry was a fertilizer salesman and he started telling his stories to his customers.
Hey Trin,
Here's another one for us Micks ;)
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Hey! A turbaned Turk who scorns the world
May strut about with his whiskers curled
Keep a hundred wives under lock and key
For nobody else but himself to see
Yet long must he pray with his Al Koran
Before he can love like an Irishman
Long may he pray with his Al Koran
Before he can love like an Irishman
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
The gay monsieur, a slave no more
The solemn Don and the shocked Senor
The Dutch Mynheer, so full of pride
The Russian, Prussian, Swede beside
They all may do whatever they can
But they never, never love like an Irishman
They all may do whatever they can
But they never, never love like an Irishman
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Now the London folks themselves beguile
And think they please in a capital style
But let them ask as they cross the street
Of any young girl that they happen to meet
And I know she'll say from behind her fan
Nobody loves like an Irishman
I know what she'll say from behind her fan
Nobody loves like an Irishman
He-ey! Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
(Instrumental Break)
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
So I want you to know just how much I care
And the rest of my life with you I'd share
I love your face, your hair, your smile
It's just as sure as I come from the Emerald Isle
It must be clear to your lovely eye
No boy will love you better than I
It must be clear to your lovely eye
No boy will love you better than I
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
Might not be a good time to mention almost all my ancestors were English with a bit of Sotch-Irish in the mix. ;D
Never fear, they kicked us out in the 17th century and the black sheep of the American part of the family moved to Canada in the late 18th century. :o
Fine a time as any Del ;)
E'ry one is entitled to a little pride in theys history now an again. There's some blurry lines there these days, but I don't see no reason for em.
My sweet Lil is Scotts Irish an a bit of Germanian ta boot. We're all good folk :)
my Scotish part comes in with the Indians, Great Great how ever many grandparents.
Ludovic Grant: born in 1696 in Scotland and died in 1758 at Tellico Tennessee.
Ludovic, 2nd Baronet of Dalvey, was captured at the battle of Preston during the Jacobite Rebellion in 1715. The focus of the rebellion was to restore the descendents of James VII of Scotland to the British throne.
After his capture his lands were confiscated and his title revoked. He was then banished to the "American Plantations", leaving Liverpool England on May 7, 1716 aboard the SUSANNAH.
Around 1725 Ludovic was an established trader in the Cherokee Nation where he married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan by the name of Elizabeth Tassel Coody or "Eughioote".
Being of "good" family and well educated, he became the agend and coorespondent of the Governors of South Carolina. His letters keeping the governors informed of the happenings within the Cherokee Nation are published in the Chronicles of that state. He was one of the few traders who were honest and well respected among both the whites and the Cherokee.
OT, I wouldn't tell anyone down there you have the name Grant in the family, some folks are still a little touchy about it. ;)
Always got ta be a Black Sheep in the family. ;D
One of the songs I'll play Monday.
And come tell me Sean O'Farrell tell me why you hurry so
Husha buachaill hush and listen and his cheeks were all a glow
I bare orders from the captain get you ready quick and soon
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon
And come tell me Sean O'Farrell where the gath'rin is to be
At the old spot by the river quite well known to you and me
One more word for signal token whistle out the marchin' tune
With your pike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
With your pike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon
Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night
Many a manly heart was beating for the blessed warning light
Murmurs rang along the valleys to the banshees lonely croon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon
All along that singing river that black mass of men was seen
High above their shining weapons flew their own beloved green
Death to every foe and traitor! Whistle out the marching tune
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, 'tis the rising of the moon
'Tis the rising of the moon, 'tis the rising of the moon
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, 'tis the rising of the moon
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday DEARrrrrrrrrrrr
Happy Birthday To Youuuuuuuuuuuuu
And KeeP Off Da Lawn...............
Curley
My wedding anniversary is the 16th of March, so I will celebrate it and St Paddy's on the 17th. I have the pleasure of being married to an Irish beauty whose name is Colleen. We'll have a toast with some Bushmillsmand look forword to another year. This year makes 34. I would like to visit Ireland and Scotland nest year for our 35th.
Congrats, Texas Lawdog.
Slim
Congrats, TLD. Your anniversary and my Susie's birthday coincide...........Buck 8) ;)
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on March 14, 2008, 06:41:29 PM
Always got ta be a Black Sheep in the family. ;D
Wouldn't that be a
BLUE sheep? ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D (Sorry - I couldn't resist) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It's not in song, but my wife IS from Scotland. She says that
Grant is a FINE Scottish name. And my Nephew's name. And he's a fine
Scottish lad. Of 21 years. (
not Scotch - Scotch is a drink)
Back to our regularly scheduled song reviews
In honor of the holiday I'll keep playin Lonnie.
I'd love ta know what he's singin where the question marks are, but apparently I aint the only one that can't make em out :-\
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find.
When you play the game of life
You've got trouble, you've got strife
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
Life is like a game of cards
But it's very, very hard
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Met a girl and lost my heart
Lack of money made us part
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
She said life ain't just a bet
But I've never won it yet
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
(Instrumental Break)
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
So if you throw diamonds back (?)
You will never look back
Jack o' diamond is a hard card to find
You'll have learnt your lesson
But you may ??? ??? ???
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
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Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find
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Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find.
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find
Jack o' diamonds, Jack o' diamonds
Diamonds is a hard card to find.
Diamonds is a hard card to find.
Funny, I didn't mean for all them confused cowboys, the sofware converted them all on it's own. Kinda fitting I guess.
Now here's a little story
To tell it is a must
About an unsung hero
That moves away your dust.
Some people make a fortune,
Others earn a mint;
My old man don't earn much:
In fact he's flippin' skint.
Oh, my old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
He looks a proper nana
In his great big hobnail boots,
He's got such a job to pull them up
That he calls 'em daisy roots.
Some folks give tips at Christmas,
And some of them forget,
So when he picks their bins up
He spills some on the step.
Now one old man got nasty
And to the council wrote,
Next time my old man went round there
He punched him up the throat.
Oh my old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
Lonnie: I say, I say, Les.
Les: Yes?
Lonnie: I, er, I found a police dog in my dustbin.
Les: Well how do you do know he's a police dog?
Lonnie: He had a policeman with him.
Though my old man's a dustman,
He's got an 'eart of gold,
He got married recently
Though he's eighty-six years old.
We said "'Ere, hang on, Dad,
You're getting past your prime";
He said "Well, when you get to my age
It helps to pass the time."
Oi! My old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
Lonnie: I say, I say, I say!
Les: Huh?
Lonnie: My dustbin's full of lilies.
Les: Well throw 'em away then!
Lonnie: I can't: Lily's wearing them.
Now one day whilst in a hurry,
He missed a lady's bin:
He hadn't gone but a few yards
When she chased after him.
"What game do you think you're playing?"
She cried right from the 'eart,
"You've missed me, am I too late?"
"No, jump up on the cart!"
Oi! My old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
Lonnie: I say, I say, I say!
Les: Not you again!
Lonnie: My dustbin's absolutely full with toadstools.
Les: How do you know it's full?
Lonnie: 'Cos there's not mushroom inside.
He found a tiger's head one day
Nailed to a piece of wood
The tiger looked like miserable,
But I suppose he should.
Just then from out a window
A voice began to wail,
It said "Oi! Where's me tiger's head?"
"Four foot from his tail."
Oh my old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
Next time you see a dustman
Looking all pale and sad,
Don't kick him in the dustbin:
It might be my old dad.
Leo
Nuther Favorite Irish tune.
As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting.
I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier.
Said stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver,
musha ring dumma do damma da
whack for the daddy 'ol
whack for the daddy 'ol
there's whiskey in the jar
I counted out his money, and it made a pretty penny.
I put it in my pocket and I took it home to Jenny.
She said and she swore, that she never would deceive me,
but the devil take the women, for they never can be easy
I went into my chamber, all for to take a slumber,
I dreamt of gold and jewels and for sure it was no wonder.
But Jenny took my charges and she filled them up with water,
Then sent for captain Farrel to be ready for the slaughter.
It was early in the morning, as I rose up for travel,
The guards were all around me and likewise captain Farrel.
I first produced my pistol, for she stole away my rapier,
But I couldn't shoot the water so a prisoner I was taken.
If anyone can aid me, it's my brother in the army,
If I can find his station down in Cork or in Killarney.
And if he'll come and save me, we'll go roving near Kilkenny,
And I swear he'll treat me better than me darling sportling Jenny
Now some men take delight in the drinking and the roving,
But others take delight in the gambling and the smoking.
But I take delight in the juice of the barley,
And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early
Oh and one for the Scots. ;D
Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar on evening fair
And one could tell by how we walked that he drunk more than his share
He fumbled round until he could no longer keep his feet
Then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street
About that time two young and lovely girls just happend by
And one says to the other with a twinkle in her eye
See yon sleeping Scotsman so strong and handsome built
I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt
They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman quiet as could be
Lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see
And there behold, for them to see, beneath his Scottish skirt
Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth
They marveled for a moment, then one said we must be gone
Let's leave a present for our friend, before we move along
As a gift they left a blue silk ribbon, tied into a bow
Around the bonnie star, the Scots kilt did lift and show
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
Around the bonnie star, the Scots kilt did lift and show
Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call and stumbled towards a tree
Behind a bush, he lift his kilt and gawks at what he sees
And in a startled voice he says to what's before his eyes.
O lad I don't know where you been but I see you won first prize
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
O lad I don't know where you been but I see you won first prize
Del, Alex Beaton always sings that song when comes to Arlington in June for our Highland Games.
It's a great piece! ;D
Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on March 17, 2008, 02:37:05 PM
It's a great piece! ;D
The song or what the Scotsman had under his kilt? ::)
i TOOK MY WIFE OUT TO DINNER FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY LAST NIGHT. WE WENT TO A COZY ITALIAN BISTRO AND HAD A WONDERFUL DINNER. WE REALLY HAD A GREAT TIME LAST NIGHT. I COULDN'T STAY UP TOO LATE, HAD TO GET UP AT 0430.
Good for you TL.
Dining out at nice places is one of me an Lil's passions when we can afford it. I've got her tryin new things (gor-met like) an it's always a good time. Congradulations again.
We aint set nothin up firm for our april celebration, but I'm sure we'll do fine. (suma yous probably readin that wrong and need to stop ::) )
Leo
Last year all we did for ours is I went to the hospital and bailed out Rita, guess that was enough. Missed 3 or 4 of them because of one of us or ther other. Maybe we'll do something this year, like stay well. ;D
TLD, congradulations to you and the Mrs.
Jackie and I have one coming up on the 22nd, hopefully I'll remember this year, forgot a coupla years ago, but I was saved, Jackie forgot too. ;D
be 11 years this time.
Thanks OT, I hope you and Jackie can go out on the 22nd for a night out on the town. I am hoping that when I retire The Moose and I can visit Ireland and Scotland to see the beautiful country over there. I will do my best to sample some fine Irish and Scottish whiskeys while I am over there.
in honor of Mz. Scarletts return and all y'll with roots in Tejas
There only two things in life that make it worth livin'
That's guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
I don't need my name in the marquis lights
I got my song and I got you with me tonight
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love
Chorus:
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain
So baby let's sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high socitey you cry all day
We've been so busy keepin' up with the Jones
Four car garage and we're still building on
Maby it's time we got back to the basics of love
Chorus:
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain
Texas Lawdog, here's a belated congratulations and wishes for many more happy times with your Lovely Bride.
You'll never be sorry about visiting Scotland (Ireland, too.) My wife is from Scotland (Glasgow) and in our many trips to visit family, I have found the country beautiful, the food better than in England, the ahem ... adult beverages tasty, and the people very caring and friendly - but hard to understand. ("WE don't have an accent ... you Yanks do!") When I was stationed in Germany - and while there I met my Lovely Bride 20 + years past - it was basically a 15 hour drive (with a short swim in the middle ;) ) to visit her home. If you know your history, or don't, Scotland is relatively proud of being part of Great Britain, but hates being called English. (There are similarities between Ireland and Britain, but religion - and formerly English "actions/policies" - often gets in the way of true harmony, even in Northern Ireland, which IS part of Great Britain. [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]) Anyway, many of the Scottish folk I met are VERY friendly to Americans and they often mention that they have relatives here. I've even been told several times that since we (Americans/Yanks) have beaten England TWICE in wars that they feel friendlier to us than to their English brethren.
When my wife was stationed in Northern Ireland (during her time in the British Army (WRAC - Women's Royal Army Corps - no longer in existence) and when she was able to get "out of uniform" and visit AWAY from the troubled areas, she said the Irish folk are quite nice and have a VERY beautiful country.
Remember, Scotch is a drink, not the term for Scottish people or Scots. ;D (I had to include that for my Mrs. ;) )
And now, we can all mentally hear the wonderful Scottish Hymn, Scotland the Brave on Bagpipes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuq_mMDg20
Which is basically Scottish Blues!
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Yes, I'm a hard core old time country music, but have been liking a lot I'm hearing from this guy, that is till the radio plays it to death. I was in the Work Dept, with out the music under my control and heard this one, twice in less than an hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqqynfqE_0
When you see a deer you see Bambi
And I see antlers up on the wall
When you see a lake you think picnics
And I see a large mouth up under that log
You're probably thinking that you're going to change me
In some ways well maybe you might
Scrub me down, dress me up oh but no matter what
remember I'm still a guy
When you see a priceless French painting
I see a drunk, naked girl
You think that riding a wild bull sounds crazy
And I'd like to give it a whirl
Well love makes a man do some things he ain't proud of
And in a weak moment I might walk your sissy dog, hold your purse at the mall
But remember, I'm still a guy
I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by
I can hear you now talking to your friends
Saying, "Yeah girls he's come a long way"
From dragging his knuckles and carrying a club
And building a fire in a cave
But when you say a backrub means only a backrub
Then you swat my hand when I try
Well, now what can I say at the end of the day
Honey, I'm still a guy
And I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by
These days there's dudes getting facials
Manicured, waxed and botoxed
With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands
You can't grip a tacklebox
Yeah with all of these men lining up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized
I don't highlight my hair
I've still got a pair
Yeah honey, I'm still a guy
Steel Horse, I have a BS in History and three Minors, PE, General Science, and Military Science. Medeivel History was my favorite. My wife and l went to see Braveheart, After the movie she told me "Now I know why you are the way you are", It's your ancestors. She been to England several times. I've never been to Ireland or Scotland. I am getting kilts made while we are there. The Clan castle of my Clan was sold many years ago. They have a Clan museum near the castle.
This one is for Slim, played to death, but kinda cute.
The Declaration of Independence
Think I could tell you that first sentence
But then I'm lost
I can't begin to count the theories
I've had pounded in my head
That I forgot
I don't remember all that Spanish
Or the Gettysburg address
But there is one speech from high school
I'll never forget
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Ain't it son?
Hey y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I'll be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Well now that I'm a father
I'm scared to death one day my daughter
Is gonna find
That teenage boy I used to be
That seems to have just one thing on his mind
She's growin' up so fast
It won't be long before
I'll have to put the fear of god into
Some kid at the door
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y'all go out and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Now it's all for show
Ain't nobody gonna get hurt
It's just a daddy thing
And hey, believe me, man it works
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y'all run along and have a little fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Son, now y'all buckle up and have her back by te- let's say about nine...thirty.
Drive safe.
Del, I have a couple of XM Satellite radio receivers. I have one at my house and another that rotates between my pickup and my Sheriff's unit. Channel 13 is called Willie's Place. They play old time country music. That is what I listen to every day.
Happy Anniversary, TLD. We're kinda like Del and Rita, seems like something always comes up to mess up plans to go out. Maybe one of these days we'll get to go out again....................Buck 8) ::) :-\
Del,
I've been through an am in the process of raisin four girls, an have actualy done the gun cleanin ;D It works well with them boys as well as unsavory neighbors. Sometimes there's just not enough light in the house to get the job done correct an only the front porch'll do. ::)
Leo
Quote from: Delmonico on March 19, 2008, 07:03:38 PM
This one is for Slim, played to death, but kinda cute.
The Declaration of Independence
Think I could tell you that first sentence
But then I'm lost
I can't begin to count the theories
I've had pounded in my head
That I forgot
I don't remember all that Spanish
Or the Gettysburg address
But there is one speech from high school
I'll never forget
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Ain't it son?
Hey y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I'll be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Well now that I'm a father
I'm scared to death one day my daughter
Is gonna find
That teenage boy I used to be
That seems to have just one thing on his mind
She's growin' up so fast
It won't be long before
I'll have to put the fear of god into
Some kid at the door
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y'all go out and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Now it's all for show
Ain't nobody gonna get hurt
It's just a daddy thing
And hey, believe me, man it works
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That's what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y'all run along and have a little fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Son, now y'all buckle up and have her back by te- let's say about nine...thirty.
Drive safe.
Great song. ;D
Slim
My wife and I never had any kids. My wife said that we would probably have had girls. My wife said that the girls would have hated me. I would have been intimidating to the suitors. I am a rather large man and being a LEO would be intimidating also. Cleaning a handgun when they come to pickup the daughter is a nice touch.
I've got a coach gun hanging from the support beam in the dinning room. ;D
Slim
Howdy!
Texas Lawdog, my wife and I are curious: what is your clan and where is the museum and castle you mentioned?
Clan Donnachaidh and Clan Robertson. Atholl in Perthshire. The museum is in Bruar Falls which is NW of Pithlochry in Perthshire.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 22, 2008, 02:08:26 AM
Clan Donnachaidh and Clan Robertson. Atholl in Perthshire. The museum is in Bruar Falls which is NW of Pithlochry in Perthshire.
Thanks. When Mrs. B gets home, I'll ask her if she's been there - I haven't and I'll have to get a map to find Pithlochry in Perthshire. She's from Glasgow, and that's where I'm most familiar with - from Glasgow to Edinburgh and in between. Lowlands. I'll bet you even know how to pronounce Edinburgh correctly! ;D
SHB... kinda like my hometown which used to be spelled ...borough, but was simplified in the late 1800's. ;D
Yep! Very close.
Here ya go, sing this to the regular Garry Owen music. ;)
David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic, I advise givin' them a listen to, good stuff.
You've seen him on the silver screen
With his yellow hair a-flyin'
Calmly he surveys the scene...
A good day for a-dyin'.
Standing on the battlefield
His pistols just a-smokin'...
They say he was the last to yield
But they must have been jokin'.
Like ants they swarmed on his command
Like bees, the bullets hummin'.
No time for a final stand,
Custer died a-runnin'.
They chased him up the hillside
Into bullets and confusion.
The overwhelmin' landslide
Brought it to a quick conclusion.
Just who fell first and who was last
There's no way to be knowin',
But surely through the gates of Hell
He knew he was a-goin'.
The devils danced as he went down
In the hail of arrows comin'
Out on the wild Montana ground,
Custer died a-runnin'.
Sioux 1 Yellowhair 0
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 22, 2008, 03:14:38 PM
Sioux 1 Lakota 1 Yellowhair 0
This will make you more friends up here. ;)
I had a GG uncle on my Dad's side of the family that was a Capt. in the Cav. during the Indian Wars. He took part in the Powder River campaigns. I have his Navy Colt and most of it's original holster.
Got some Lakota customers, one I knew fairly well is like me, hates the Kevin Costner movie with the Henry, says the dummy who wrote it don't know the differance 'tween hostiles and friendlies. Says his people would a had costner's hair hangin' on a tepee pole, have to agree with him. He's one of the editors of the local paper.
Dances with Wolves is just like most of Costner's epics(Waterworld, The Postman). Boring and Too long.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 23, 2008, 09:37:33 AM
Dances with Wolves is just like most of Costner's epics (Waterworld, The Postman). Boring and Too long.
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My alltime favorite movie is "HotRods to Hell".
I dunno TL.
That Billy the Kid versus Dracula was pretty good. Maybe a double feature is in order.
Leo
Night of the Lepus, the one about the giant rabbits.
What frosts me the most about DWW is Fort Sedgewick at that time was manned by the 1St Newbrassky Cav. They never deserted the post, I am a member of the recreated unit. T'is an insult to a fine unit. >:(
Del, That's Hollywood for you.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 24, 2008, 05:35:49 PM
Del, That's Hollywood for you.
They could have made up a fictitional fort, called it Fort Laccanowkey and I might not hate it quite so bad.
That's kinda the way I felt about Walker Texas Ranger. They started out filming in Fort Worth and then theymoved to Dallas and still called it Tarrant County. Dallas Is in Dallas County and Fort Worth is in Tarrant County.
Can you imagine the rage though if they made a show where the Texas Rangers decided not to do there duty?
Del, There are only about Rangers for the entire state. They are broken into Companies which are in different parts of the state. We have 254 counties in Texas, so there re not enough to cover the entire state. "One Riot One Ranger". They are the Criminal investigators of our State Police. They assist small with investigations that the small dept. don't have the manpower or resources for.
The Texas Rangers Division consists of 160 members, including 134 commissioned officers, 1 Forensic Artist, 1 Fiscal Analyst and 24 civilian support personnel.
On September 1, 2007, the size of the Ranger force was increased from 118 to 134 commissioned members by the Texas Legislature. These Rangers are supervised by a Senior Captain (Chief), Assistant Chief, a Headquarters Captain and Lieutenant, seven field captains and fourteen lieutenants. The force is organized into seven companies, "A" through "G". A Captain, Lieutenant and from two to four Rangers are located at each of the seven Company Headquarters. The seven field Headquarters offices are located in Houston, Company "A"; Garland, Company "B"; Lubbock, Company "C"; San Antonio, Company "D"; Midland, Company "E"; Waco, Company "F"; McAllen, Company "G". Other Rangers are stationed in various towns and cities in the state, with each Ranger having responsibility for a minimum of two to three counties, some with even larger areas.
Thanks, i knew it was something like that.
If they take a historical person or place in a movie, make the story right, otherwise make something up for a person(s) or place and I don't care. >:(
Folks in Hollywood like to make it up as they go along.
If they didn't make it up they would have to do actual research. Most of em don't have the brains for that. In almost every modern movie you will see scenes where the hero's shirt gets ripped or his hat flies off and in that very next shot it's back to normal. If they can't keep simple things like that straight, how are they ever going to deal with actual facts? ???
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on March 25, 2008, 08:06:30 AM
If they didn't make it up they would have to do actual research. Most of em don't have the brains for that. In almost every modern movie you will see scenes where the hero's shirt gets ripped or his hat flies off and in that very next shot it's back to normal. If they can't keep simple things like that straight, how are they ever going to deal with actual facts? ???
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Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 24, 2008, 11:37:54 PM
Folks in Hollywood like to make it up as they go along.
Why should they let a little thing like facts or details stand in the way of takin' our
ca$h? ::) ??? ;)
Looks better on film. If they stuck to the facts, people wouldn't go to see the movie.........Buck 8) ::)
Buck it don't seem to improve the plot or make the movie any more exciting to show some guy getting shot in slow motion from 75 different camera angles.
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 25, 2008, 03:57:44 PM
Looks better on film. If they stuck to the facts, people wouldn't go to see the movie.........Buck 8) ::)
it's the truth to it. I don't about y'll but in school History was boring, all them facts and dates and names and such
You and Susie think the same way, lR. She gives me a lot of grief when I watch the History Channel. Usually have to go in the other room to watch it..................Buck 8) ::)
I don't even watch TV on the same floor as Rita. ;D Don't expect a Dock-you-ment-tree out of a movie, just don't want history changed. Like Larry M. in Dead man's Walk, Big Foot Wallace gets and black bean and is shot, funny somewhere I have a picture of him as an old man holdin' and 1886 Winchester, good trick sine LM killed him off in the late 1840's. ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 25, 2008, 06:30:10 PM
You and Susie think the same way, lR. She gives me a lot of grief when I watch the History Channel. Usually have to go in the other room to watch it..................Buck 8) ::)
I love to watch the history channel. In order to retain any facts, however, I have to watch a show about five times. The first two times for entertainment, and the next three in the hopes that some of the facts/details will stick in my sieve of a brain. ::) :D
I agree with you about the movies. Life is just too boring to pay money to go watch it. ;D
I s'pose I could write a song 'bout it (note thread name ;) ) but I got real excited watchin' the History Channel today! It was a Modern Marvels piece from 2004 about Civil War weapons. I watched a feller actually loading a Henry (repro) the RIGHT WAY! :o
Usually, it seems the "experts" pull up the follower, DROP in the cartridges, then let the follower slam down! I usually duck away from the TV screen when that happens! ::) ::)
It was really cool watchin' this feller do it safely!
(to the tune of "Yankee Doodle":)
The History Channel got it right -
While loading up a Hen - ry ;
They put the rounds into the tube -
And did it very safely.
(chorus)
Load it up and have some fun -
Load it up real safe-ly;
Do it right and you'll be glad -
'Cause you'll be here to-mor-row!
;D
;D ;D ;D ;D :o 8) ;)
Good vocalizin SHB ;D
Watched a show years back that showed clips of old westerns depicting negotiations tween white men an tribe members. Someone got a trasnlator an subtitled what the Indian words really meant. Can't recall exacts from memory but it was akin to supthin like this...
Calvery Captain: "You must leave this land and come with us to the reservation".
(insert tribe) Chief: "Our toes will swim lizzard"
Talk about the movies not given a damn...sheesh ???
Leo
An I left out the standard third line where the Calvery tracker tells the Captin, "He says he is honored to be in your presence and will do as you please"...
Quit goin' to theaters years ago. Did see Open Range with a pard but it was part of a business meeting. Do have the DVD set, it was a Christmas present. The other disc shows how the special effects were done. That was more entertaining than the flick for me.
The made-for-TV thing Duval 'n Church did I watched. There's a scene where a whore is talkin' 'bout gettin' hit in the head with a bottle 'n thrown outside. Said her hair froze to the ground. Then she smiles 'n her teeth are perfect 'n whiter than white. Just doesn't seem to fit.
I can't look at Church without thinkin' of him as a goofy aircraft mechanic.
Quote from: Arcey on March 25, 2008, 09:26:33 PM
I can't look at Church without thinkin' of him as a goofy aircraft mechanic.
It may be his best role!
But - giving him a break, he's not TOO bad. I liked his acting in
Tombstone. (says Doc) "You know: Stephen ....ing Foster!" I enjoy that part and later when Doc says (to IKE) "I know ... we'll have a spelling contest!" Doc has the best lines, but Church played the fool well.
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 25, 2008, 06:30:10 PM
You and Susie think the same way, lR. She gives me a lot of grief when I watch the History Channel. Usually have to go in the other room to watch it..................Buck 8) ::)
Buck, I watch movies for the entertainment value, I know Del's fort the men all run off cuz they was scared of being scalped..Got 2 books to back it up so it's got to be correct. ;D ;D<<< If I want the facts I go to the
Internet (intended as sarcasism) or watch Discovery or History Channel. You read 2 books on the same subject or event and you have 2 different outcomes.
I enjoyed Church in the Westerns but I am like Arcey, I still picture him as the Goofey mechanic in "Wings"
Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on March 25, 2008, 11:58:23 PM
It may be his best role!
But - giving him a break, he's not TOO bad. I liked his acting in Tombstone. (says Doc) "You know: Stephen ....ing Foster!" I enjoy that part and later when Doc says "I know ... we'll have a spelling contest!" Doc has the best lines, but Church played the fool well.
I love that line! That portrayal/version of Doc is my hero. ;D
I loved Church in Broken Trail, but I agree, I also keep seeing Lowell whenever I look at him or hear his voice. ;D ;D
Great song, SHB. ;D
Slim
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on March 26, 2008, 08:43:43 PM
Great song, SHB. ;D
Slim
Thanks, - Slim, Leo, and Buck!
I've decided that songwriting is my hidden talent. Last night after my successful songwriting debut here on CAS City, I decided to go all the way, so I got out my Phillips cassette recorder, recorded me singin' my first song, and sent copies to Garth Brooks, Bette Midler, Neil Sedaka, Brooks & Dunn, Elton John, Tupac Shakur, Rascal Flatts, Michael Jackson, Toby Keith and several record company executives.
I can't WAIT to hear back from all of them!!!
Whaddya think?
::) ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
SHB, I'm sure you'll be hearing from them very soon. If not directly, then from their representation. :o ::) ;D
Here's one for litl rooster. It's your fault it's stuck in my head! ;D
I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes
I want a girl with the right allocations
Who's fast and thorough
And sharp as a tack
She's playing with her jewelry
She's putting up her hair
She's touring the facility
And picking up slack
I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnng jacket......
I want a girl who gets up early
I want a girl who stays up late
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who used a machette to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass
She is fast and thorough
And sharp as a tack
She's touring the facility
And picking up slack
I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnng.... lonnng jacket
I want a girl with a smooth liquidation
I want a girl with good dividends
And at the city bank we will meet accidentally
We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen
She wants a car with a cupholder arm rest
She wants a car that will get her there
She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen
She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler La Baron
I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnggggggggg jacket
smoothe liquidations........................ ;D
word smiths
Here Rooster.
I sing this'un to Lil...
My Dixie darlin' listen to this song I sing
Beneath the silver moon
With my banjo right in tune
My heart is ever true, I love no one but you
My Dixie darlin' my Dixie dream
A way down below the Mason-Dixon Line
Down where the honeysuckles are entwined
There's where the southern winds are blowin'
There's where the daisies growing
Girls of the North in their gay finery
Whirling around in their high society
Singing a song of Dixie darlin'
Where I long to be
My Dixie darlin' listen to this song I sing
Beneath the silver moon
With my banjo right in tune
My heart is ever true, I love no one but you
My Dixie darlin' my Dixie dream
I'm going down south to have a big time
See my gal in ole Caroline
I'll drink my booze and do as I please
All them gals I long to squeeze
Singin' the song of Dixie darlin'
There's where I long to be going
Down where the jelly roll's rollin'
With my Dixie dream
My Dixie darlin' listen to this song I sing
Beneath the silver moon
With my banjo right in tune
My heart is ever true, I love no one but you
My Dixie darlin' my Dixie belle
Actualy this is the version I meant.
It's gettin to be a pain in the a** to find lyrics on the innernet anymore...
My Dixie Darling
Listen to the song I sing
Beneath the silvery moon
With a banjo right in tune
I love no one but you
My heart is always true
My Dixie Darling
My Dixie Belle
Well I just got back from out of town
I've been rambling round and round
I met lots of Southern belles
But I've no romance to tell
I've been as true as true can be
I swear that on my bended knee
There is no one half as swell
As my Dixie Belle
CHORUS
I like whisky I like gin
I like the horses when they win
Gambling at Kentucky races
I meet lots of pretty faces
But there is one thing I will bet
My Dixie belle is the prettiest yet
There is no one half as swell
As my Dixie Belle
CHORUS
I'm gonna marry, settle down
Settle down in a southern town
Buy myself a small homestead
Live in peace until I'm dead
There is no one half as swell
Listen here, I wanna tell
There is no one half as swell
As my Dixie Belle
CHORUS
Lowell did not inspire me to want to fly on SandPiper Airways.
Tex the pilots would have kept me off the plane...At least Lowell was funny
here's a song for no paticular reason other than I felt like it.
Look over yonder what do you see
The sun is a-risin' most definitely
A new day is comin' people are changin'
Ain't it beautiful crystal blue persuasion
Better get ready gonna see the light
Love, love is the answer and that's all right
So don't you give up now so easy to find
Just look to your soul and open your mind
Crystal blue persuasion, mm-hmm
It's a new vibration
Crystal blue persuasion, crystal
Blue persuasion
Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
Every green field and every town
All of his children every nation
There'll be peace and good brotherhood
Crystal blue persuasion
Tommy James and The Shondels!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 29, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
Tommy James and The Shondels!
GREAT song, LR!
You win the stuffed toy, TL!
I wonder what ever happened to them?
Mebbe his baby's dad finally caught them doin the hanky panky :o
What about Draggin the Line and Mony Mony.
There was also "I think we're alone now" and of course this one...
Ah, now I don't hardly know her
But I think I could love her
Crimson and clover
Ah when she comes walking over
Now I've been waitin' to show her
Crimson and clover over and over
Yeah, my, my such a sweet thing
I wanna do everything
What a beautiful feeling
Crimson and clover over and over
Crimson and clover over and over
Crimson and clover over and over
Crimson and clover over and over
Crimson and clover over and over
Pretty progessive for it's time--Leo
Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on March 29, 2008, 03:04:07 PM
GREAT song, LR!
You win the stuffed toy, TL!
I wonder what ever happened to them?
Watch the County fair listings He still tours
Local Radio station is doing a "Under the Covers Weekend" songs you know by different folks
R.E.M. has cyrstal Blue on their new release...Well done if I might add, IMHO
Here's another from back in them days
It's the time of the season
When the love runs high
In this time, give it to me easy
And let me try
With pleasured hands
To take you and the sun to
Promised lands
To show you every one
It's the time of the season for loving
What's your name?
(What's your name?)
Who's your daddy?
(Who's your daddy? He rich?)
Is he rich like me?
Has he taken
(Has he taken)
Any time
(Any time to show)
To show you what you need to live?
Tell it to me slowly
Tell you what?
I really want to know
It's the time of the season for loving
What's your name?
(What's your name?)
Who's your daddy?
(Who's your daddy? He rich?)
Is he rich like me?
Has he taken
(Has he taken)
Any time
(Any time to show)
To show you what you need to live?
Tell it to me slowly
Tell you what?
I really want to know
It's the time of the season for loving
BTW majority of the songs covered were by the Beatles Stones Hendricks or Dylan. However Van Morrison and Tommy James held their own as far as others covering them. All the Tommy James songs listed here were remade by others
You can stream the station at 947theglobe
Rooster pulls out the Zombies :D I think Santana covered that one a few years later.
Leo
I've got two remastered CD's from the day: Purple Haze and Abraxas. They sound better than ever.
Here's one from the WAY BACK machine:
<intro instrumental and whistling>
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
The moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
<instrumental and whistling>
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
Oh, the moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues
-the # 4 song of the 1955-1959 rock era
-was # 1 for 10 weeks in 1956
-competing version by Marty Robbins hit # 17
I always like to listen to Marty's western songs like El Paso and many others. I 've his CD of gunfighter ballads which is a classic.
Quote from: Sod Buster on April 04, 2008, 09:00:12 PM
Here's one from the WAY BACK machine:
<intro instrumental and whistling>
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
The moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
<instrumental and whistling>
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear, why'd you do me this way?
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you, you got me singin' the blues.
Oh, the moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)
Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you, you got me singin' the blues
-the # 4 song of the 1955-1959 rock era
-was # 1 for 10 weeks in 1956
-competing version by Marty Robbins hit # 17
Got that one here at work by Don Edwards on his tribute album to Marty, most folks when they here it thinks it be him instead of Don, good by either.
Del, Don Edwards! Now you're talkin. Fort Worth's best kept secret.
Some of us know, I sell a lot of his CDs. ;)
Quote from: Delmonico on April 05, 2008, 09:30:20 AM
Got that one here at work by Don Edwards on his tribute album to Marty, most folks when they here it thinks it be him instead of Don, good by either.
I guess I am the odd man out. When I think of that song, I think of Guy Mitchell.
Quote from: Sod Buster on April 05, 2008, 12:49:18 PM
I guess I am the odd man out. When I think of that song, I think of Guy Mitchell.
Well, I also think of Black Oak Arkansaw and Leon Russell. ;D BTW Leon's version of "Lost Highway" is almost as good as Hiram "Hank's" version. (Always take yer hat off when you talk about "Hank the Father." ;))
For those who have not heard it, this frrom 1971 is a Country Music masterpiece.
http://www.epinions.com/content_16744287876
Does anyone remeber the Marty Robbins sequel "Return to El Paso"?
I can't find the lyrics but it was about a modern man flying over the spot of the incident at the cantina and having memories of his past life. Nothing like the original but much better than Jimmy Deans attempt to follow up "Big John". That was a train wreck.
Leo
It's called "El Paso City."
From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor I see it there below
A city with a legend, the West Texas city of El Paso
Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl
And a little place called Rosa's where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl
I don't recall who sang the song but I recall a story that I heard
And as I look down on this city I remember each and every word
The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun
To kill another cowboy, then he had to leave El Paso on the run
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
The cowboy lived and rode away but love was strong he couldn't stay
He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
I try not to let you cross my mind but still I find
There's such a mystery in the song that I don't understand
My mind is down there somewhere as I fly above the badlands of New Mexico
I can't explain why I should know the very trail he rode back to El Paso
Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time
And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think that you yourself lived in that other time
Somewhere in my deepest thoughts familiar scenes and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long, but I have never told
Like everytime I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below
I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
Could it be that I could be the cowboy in the mystery
That died there in that desert sand so long ago
El Paso City
By the Rio Grande
A voice tells me to go and seek, another voice keeps telling me
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso
El Paso City
Thanks Del. ;)
Gotta a feelin if given the opportunity we could while away quite a few hours bouncin music back an forth. This is the Jimmy Dean mess I was talkin about. It's even more tongue in cheek when ya hear it than it reads. Prolly when he decided his future lay in sausage an not makin records :-\
She kinda breezed into town from New Orleans,
And said, "Boys, I'm Big John's Cajun Queen,
Now I didn't come here to argue or waste anbody's time,
I just came to get my man from your dirty old mine,
'Cause he moves me!
Now where you give up's where old Queenie's gonna start,
'Cause I got a powerful love in my heart,
So just show me the hole way down in the ground,
And tell the whole wide world Big John's been found,
And he's livin'!"
So down in the mine without a sign of a light,
Old Queenie went a-lookin' for John that night,
She found him there at the bottom of the pit,
And placed a red hot kiss on those cold blue lips!
He started breathin'!
She waited a minute and then she kissed him again,
And old John got the power of a hundred men,
Up he come a-clawin' and a-diggin' like a mole,
And said, "Come on Queenie, we're gonna leave this hole!"
They started walkin'!
Now a roar from the crowd greeted this fine pair,
As they both walked out in that cool night air,
And up for silence went Big John's hand,
And the Queen said, "I told you I'd get my man,
'Cause he moves me!"
You can find them today, they're down in New Orleans,
Big Bad John and his Cajun Queen,
They're a little bit wrinkled from the strain of time,
But their love's just as strong as that night in the mine,
A hundred and ten grandchildren!
Now the moral of this story has a real clear omen,
Don't you ever underestimate the power of a woman!
What's weird about that the lyrics came from a site called Leo's Lyrics Database. Sure as hell ain't my database.
Leon Russell was just at the Birchmere a week or so ago.
Leon is a little wierd, but he can tickle those horse teeth. "Up on the Highwire".
Is it jus me or does Leon Russel have the same voice as Leon Redbone? Mebbe some kinda alter ego thing goin on there...
Wierder things have happened in the music world.
Leo
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 05, 2008, 03:04:05 PM
Leon is a little wierd, but he can tickle those horse teeth. "Up on the Highwire".
He might be weird but he's made a living for 40 years being it....If any of you got a LP copy of the origanol OUTLAWS Willie Waylon TomPaul Jessie, I believe Leon was also in the credits on most of the cuts
Now Leon Redbone is weird and sounds nothing like Leon Russell
You got three guys that sound alike and are a little wierd, Leon Russell, Dr. John, And Mr. Redbone.
Quote from: litl rooster on April 05, 2008, 03:17:21 PM
He might be weird but he's made a living for 40 years being it....If any of you got a LP copy of the origanol OUTLAWS Willie Waylon TomPaul Jessie, I believe Leon was also in the credits on most of the cuts
All I can remember is "The Highway Man" which had Cash in it too. That was a great collaberation.
Leo
Leon has done a lot behind the scenes that most don't know about. The Hank Wilson was one of the first on his Shelter label, he was thumbin' his nose at Nashville and Top 40 Rock at the same time. ;D Leon has helped a lot of good musicians through the years, including a good friend of mine Sean Bengiman, does a lot of studio work but is a danged good bluesman on his own.
The Highwaymen came along after the Outlaw album. The Highwaymen are Johnny Cash, Kris Kristopherson, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. The OUtlaw album was Willie, Waylon, and Tom Paul Glazer and the Glazer Brothers.
I forgot about Mrs Waylon, Jessie Colter.
Jessie also played with Leon's band. Heck I thought he was a rock n roller in the 70's He's done blues gosphel bluegrass rock and country recordings
I have an old record from the '60's, it was either Vern Goshin or Gene Clark (after the Birds) anyways on the back up list, it has Leon Russel on keys and Glen Campbell on guitar.
I love readin credits on albums and even the movies, unbelieveable what ya see there. One of the most prolific makers of album covers was Dean O. Torrance...(of Jan and Dean fame) everybody from the Dirt Band on...If you have some old vinel (sp) look at the backs and see who was playing and who made the covers...very entertaining reading...
Curley who today was hitting the repeat button on Them doing Gloria, and Here Comes The Night...
Quote from: Curley Cole on April 05, 2008, 09:46:13 PM
Curley who today was hitting the repeat button on Them doing Gloria, and Here Comes The Night...
2 good ones worthy of hitting replay
Whoa, here it comes
Here comes the night
Here comes the night
Whoa-whoa-whoa-yeah
I could see right out my window
Walkin down the street, my girl
With another guy
His arm around her
Like it used to be with me
Whoa, it makes me want to die-i
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Well, here it comes
Here comes the night
Here comes the night
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-yeah
There they go
Its funny how they look so good together
Wonder what is wrong with me?
Why cant i, accept the fact shes chosen him
And simply let them be?
Whoa-whoa-whoa
Well, here it comes
Here comes the night
Here comes the night
Whoa-whoa-whoa-yeah
Shes with him hes turning down the lights
And now hes holding her
The way I used to do
I could see, her closing her eyes
And tellin him lies
Exactly like she told me, too
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Well, here it comes
Here comes the night
The long, the long and lonely night night, night, night, night, night, night
Fades-
Whoa, here comes the night
The long, the long, the long and lonely night
Quote from: Curley Cole on April 05, 2008, 09:46:13 PM
I have an old record from the '60's, it was either Vern Goshin or Gene Clark (after the Birds) anyways on the back up list, it has Leon Russel on keys and Glen Campbell on guitar.
I love readin credits on albums and even the movies, unbelieveable what ya see there. One of the most prolific makers of album covers was Dean O. Torrance...(of Jan and Dean fame) everybody from the Dirt Band on...If you have some old vinel (sp) look at the backs and see who was playing and who made the covers...very entertaining reading...
Curley who today was hitting the repeat button on Them doing Gloria, and Here Comes The Night...
Curley, I have a 33 of old Waylon nashville stuff, one cut has Grahmn Nash on it, pre-Woodstock stuff. Also Glen Cambell was with Tex Williams for a while.
I'm sure glad that I am not as old as you guys and that classic music.
Strangest credit I ever saw is one of Harry Chapin's songs, "Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails." Starts out with a car startin' yep someones in the credits gets credit for 57 Chevy. ;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 06, 2008, 02:41:51 PM
I'm sure glad that I am not as old as you guys and that classic music.
Trinity can I have the paper towels back?....LOL
I'll have 60's classic's rock for $200. Alex
OK, for $200 litl rooster, name the most famous pee song from the era. ;D
I am readin a book right now called "Laural Canyon" (It is the third in my own trilogy, I didn't write them I just read them in this order) The first was Riot on Sunset Strip (i Almost was on the strip the night of the riots, but last minute went to a drive in movie, after all I was on a first date. But I went to school with Jim McGrew that was in the band WW3 prerroming at the Pandoras Box) Then I read Hotel California, and they all three talk about the musicians around the strip in that era..And the pictures are outstanding. There is one pix of Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Eric Clapton sitting out in Mama Cass back yard. And a bit of trivia"
Stephen Stills tried out for the part that Peter Tork got in the Monkees....hmmmm, wouldn't that have changed the world of music a bit.
Anyways cool books and gives a bit of insight in that world..
Curley who sometimes wishes he could wander down Sunset Strip, and meet up with Old Top at the Rocky and Bullwinkle statue...
ps: the pee song has me wonderin' hit us with it..
Quote from: Delmonico on April 06, 2008, 04:15:02 PM
OK, for $200 litl rooster, name the most famous pee song from the era. ;D
Come on LR, I know ya can get it.
Bonus points fer namin the album that depicted the band members waterin a wall. (that ones prolly way too easy fer you guys).
Leo
Leo gets the buzzer,
WRONG!
Way off track there.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 06, 2008, 04:43:05 PM
Come on LR, I know ya can get it.
Bonus points fer namin the album that depicted the band members waterin a wall. (that ones prolly way too easy fer you guys).
Leo
To add another clue to Leo's: I don't know
Who is waterin' the Wall. But it ain't no guy named Floyd.
Del's question is about a pee-pee song, not an album cover.
That wasn't a guess, jus a bonus question on a related topic. The album I's referrin to is from a different group an didn't come around until '72.
Gotta give Rooster his fair shake at answerin the first question ;)
Leo
I listened to mostly country back then on my 8 Track player. Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Marty Robbins. Leo, you would have to have been an infant in 1972.
Come on Roo I know you can get it. Us old farts is pulling for ya! ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 06, 2008, 04:43:05 PM
Come on LR, I know ya can get it.
Bonus points fer namin the album that depicted the band members waterin a wall. (that ones prolly way too easy fer you guys).
Leo
That was the 70's
damn Del, you really making me sweat this one glad it'ss not the daily double
What is, Frank Zappa's "Don't eat the Yellow Snow" (not the real title0
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 07, 2008, 12:09:55 AM
I listened to mostly country back then on my 8 Track player. Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Marty Robbins. Leo, you would have to have been an infant in 1972.
Yes TL, I was. Thas the magic of recordings an used record shops. When the other kids were listenin ta metal or cheesy pop music I was expandin my horizons. I've got a well worn collection that takes up a lot of space 8)
Leo
Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on April 06, 2008, 05:03:12 PM
To add another clue to Leo's: I don't know Who is waterin' the Wall. But it ain't no guy named Floyd.
Del's question is about a pee-pee song, not an album cover.
Steelhorse gave you the answer right here Leo. Not hard to figure out.
Hint:
It really isn't ABOUT pee-pee:
It's really more about when the DJ has to go to the "Little DJ's Room."
;D ;D
Metallic Beautiful Insect
Clearly a mis readin of some posts here. :D
My fault fer stackin another question atop a Del's. I'm aware a both answers, jus was pushin fer Rooster to get 'em. ;)
Another case a too many Trebbeks spoilin the pot ;D (I wouldn't look good with that hair anyhow).
I'll leave the quizmasterin to Del from here outs ::)
Leo
Think a popular song that was over the standard 3.5 minutes, esp the album version, hint, not American Pie, that is second. ;D
Ya could get away with alot more than jus peein durin all them solo breaks :P
I'm sure some DJ's did ;D
Leo
I have XM satellite radios in my pickup and my county unit. My county unit has a cassette player but I don't have any cassettes. I have a bunch of CD's but I don't listen to them in the pickup. I still listen to them at home.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Iron Butterfly. Studio, long version.
Quote from: Arcey on April 07, 2008, 07:35:42 PM
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Iron Butterfly. Studio, long version.
WE HAVE A WINNER
Never thought of it that way, but the DJ the other night played American Pie and said they liked when it cam out cause they had another song to hit the restroom besides that one. ;D I thought it was funny.
Quote from: Arcey on April 07, 2008, 07:35:42 PM
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Iron Butterfly. Studio, long version.
I've got the LP somewhere. One of my favorites. Love that drum solo.
I believe it clocks in at 17 mins 31 secs. Can't be fer sure as the wife has burried my album collection. It's the entire second side of the record. I have the first self titled album and the third called "Ball". The 16 year old guitar player was great but as the fumbled lyrics in afore said song demonstrate, they was jus too messed up.
I did here a first person story of a DJ who got a call from a gal who was a bit hot under the collar so ta speak about him an he put that one on, drove to her house, did his buisiness an got back 'fore the song was over.
Leo
Reckon that trumps Arlo comin' back from the can 'n findin' he'd locked his self outtah the studio.
Mustah been 35 years ago 'n the old fool is still DJin' taday. Got ta know 'im pret good. Ain't seen 'im in well over 20.
Speakin a Arlos, I imagine a guy could lock up shop fer a bit with Alice's Resturaunt playin.
If ya feel like an honerary member of the group W bench... well, have fun playin with the pencils. (an yes TLD I's born in 1971 ;D them record stores was plentiful).
Leo
Awww man.
Sittin' here fiddlin' around. Run across this.
(http://www.1069thefox.com/images/WCEvents/arlo%20and%20chapin.jpg)
On the right my past acquaintance, Mike Arlo. On the left...... Del, you tell 'em. Sad.
Prolly mid-seventies at either Chrysler Hall or The ODU Field house. Good times all gone.
Good times ain't gone so long as ya remberem em Arcey.
Small consolation, but it's got me thru.
Leo
Quote from: Arcey on April 07, 2008, 07:35:42 PM
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Iron Butterfly. Studio, long version.
Had thought that was in the 70's but didn't related it to the question
Drum Solo on "Wipeout".
Harry Chapin???????? 8) ::)
Quote from: Arcey on April 07, 2008, 08:43:54 PM
Awww man.
Sittin' here fiddlin' around. Run across this.
(http://www.1069thefox.com/images/WCEvents/arlo%20and%20chapin.jpg)
On the right my past acquaintance, Mike Arlo. On the left...... Del, you tell 'em. Sad.
Prolly mid-seventies at either Chrysler Hall or The ODU Field house. Good times all gone.
Hey Arcey, who's the guy with the handlebars? Isn't that Rollie Fingers who used to play for the As? ;D
Quote from: Trinity on April 08, 2008, 05:46:45 AM
Hey Arcey, who's the guy with the handlebars? Isn't that Rollie Fingers who used to play for the As? ;D
The A's!?!?! >:(
(http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/magazine/where.fingers/031681.jpg) ;D
Yes, he played fer the A's, too. ;)
(http://www.checkoutmycards.com/CardImages/Cards/011/798/04F.jpg)
Slim
So Snidely Whiplash did play Baseball! ::)
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on April 08, 2008, 07:37:38 AM
So Snidely Whiplash did play Baseball! ::)
Heck I thought it was Geraldo Rivera ;)
Quote from: Delmonico on April 06, 2008, 04:15:02 PM
OK, for $200 litl rooster, name the most famous pee song from the era. ;D
I still think the answer should be "The Pee Song" by Donovan
You didn't ask the most famous song to pee during its play time.
The original of this Donovan track is great. Love the way the gittars work together :)
The Vanilla Fudge version however leaves much ta be desired :-\
When I look out my window,
Many sights to see.
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
That it's strange, so strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
Mm, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look over my shoulder,
What do you think I see ?
Some other cat looking over
His shoulder at me
And he's strange, sure he's strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
Beatniks are out to make it rich,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
The rabbits running in the ditch,
Beatniks are out to make it rich,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look.
When I look out my window,
What do you think I see ?
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
It's strange, sure it's strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
The rabbits running in the ditch,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look, when I look
Yes Buck that's Harry, one of the good ones, both in music and as a person, saw him twice, wither was the best concert I've been to. Worked in a body shop when we found out he was gone. Local Rock and Roll station would not play anything by him that morning, I cussed out the DJ and got drunk at lunch. My radio was the only one in the shop, I unplugged it that day. >:(
Good ta see one of us didn't grow up. Arlo does classic rock on The Fox. He's older than I am.
That was Chapin with him. She 'n I made an evenin' outtah his concerts. No kids then. Nice dinner somewhere. The show. Stop for a couple drinks before we went home. He'd book Norfolk every year. Always a sellout and a short flight from New York. The city screwed him one year so he booked with ODU the next. Packed the house while Chrysler Hall sat silent. The city found the light for the followin' year.
The boy showed up for one in a three piece suit. His main thing was hungry kids. He'd gotton off the plane from DC where he'd testified before congress on the subject 'n straight to the stage. Had the flu 'n sicker'n a dog. The show went on as scheduled.
Hell of a story teller. Findin' an equal is gonna be difficult.
There was no BS and everyone makin' money of Harry's causes like some. I've heard about 3/4 of his concerts were for free to help his causes. He was going to one when the semi crossed lanes and snuffed him out. Was looking in an old photo album a while back, still have the clipping from the Lincon paper on his death. I can't think of another musican that I would get that upset over.
The city had a vendor's contract with one of council's favorite dependants. The contract contained a provision allowin' the vendor a percentage of the profits of anything sold on premises by anyone. They went after Chapin's souvenir sales. Best I recall all that was for the charities he supported 'n he was pissed.
The whole thing caused a real big stink here, The Field House was smaller 'n it sold out early. He sat on stage 'n told us his side of it. Said the city could shove Chrysler Hall up their asses.
Quote from: Arcey on April 08, 2008, 06:40:10 PM
The city had a vendor's contract with one of council's favorite dependants. The contract contained a provision allowin' the vendor a percentage of the profits of anything sold on premises by anyone. They went after Chapin's souvenir sales. Best I recall all that was for the charities he supported 'n he was pissed.
The whole thing caused a real big stink here, The Field House was smaller 'n it sold out early. He sat on stage 'n told us his side of it. Said the city could shove Chrysler Hall up their asses.
Good for him.
That's what I said.
Hard to pick a favorite of his, Cats in the Cradle is the one a lot like. Worked at a place when it creeped on the charts that the radio played it every towo hours and it burnt out on me.
Something about this one I always liked.
It was an early morning bar room,
And the place just opened up.
And the little man came in so fast and
he Started at his cups.
And the broad who served the whisky
She was a big old friendly girl.
Who tried to fight her empty nights
By smilin' at the world.
And she said "Hey Bub, It's, It's been awhile
Since you been around.
Where the hell you been hidin'?
And why you look so down?"
Well the little man just sat there
like he'd never heard a sound.
The waitress she gave out with a cough,
And acting not the least put off,
She spoke once again.
She said, "I don't want to bother you,
Consider it's understood.
I know I'm not no beauty queen,
But I sure can listen good."
And the little man took his drink in his hand
And he raised it to his lips.
He took a couple of sips.
And then he told the waitress this story.
"I am the midnight watchman down at Miller's Tool and Die.
And I watch the metal rusting, I watch the time go by.
A week ago at the diner I stopped to get a bite.
And this here lovely lady she sat two seats from my right.
And Lord, Lord, Lord she was alright.
You see, she was so damned beautiful that she could warm a winter frost.
But she looked long past lonely, and well I on to lost.
Now I'm not much of a mover, or a pick-em-up easy guy,
But I decided to glide on over, and give her one good try.
And Lord, Lord, Lord she was worth a try.
Well I was "Tongued-tied like a school boy, I stammered out some words.
It did not seem to matter much, 'cause I don't think she heard.
She just looked clear on through me to a space back in my head.
It shamed me into silence, as quietly she said,
'If you want me to come with you, then that's all right with me.
Cause I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere's a better place to be.
Anywhere's a better place to be.'
Well I drove her to my boarding house, and I took her up to my room.
And I went to turn on the only light to brighten up the gloom.
But she said, 'Please leave the light off, oh I don't mind the dark.'
And as her clothes all tumbled 'round her, I could hear my heart.
The moonlight shone upon her as she lay back in my bed.
It was the kind of scene I only had imagined in my head.
I just could not believe it, to think that she was real.
And as I tried to tell her she said 'Shhh.. I know just how you feel.
And if you want to come here with me, then that's all right with me.
'Cause I've been oh so lonely, lovin' someone is a better way to be.
anywhere's a better place to be.'
Well The morning come so swiftly I held her in my arms.
And she slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm.
I did not want to share her or dare to break the mood,
So before she woke I went out to buy us both some food.
"I came back with my paper bag, to find that she was gone.
She'd left a six word letter saying 'It's time that I moved on.'"
You know The waitress she took her bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes. And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh.
She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind.
And I wish I weren't so goddamn fat, I wish that you were mine.
And I wish that you'd come with me, when I leave for home.
For we both know all about emptiness, and livin' all alone."
And the little man, Looked at the empty glass in his hand.
And he smiled a crooked grin, He said, "I, I guess I'm out of gin.
And I know we both have been, so lonely. And if you want me to come with you, then that's all right with me. 'Cause I know I'm goin' nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be."
One more for Harry.
Now he was a man who worked with his hands
Only in a motor he found peace
He could make an engine sing like a bird
He could find his only lind of release
When he was up to the elbows in the grease.
She dreamed of a time for painting
As she was cleaning up his stains from the rug
She'd play all day with their children
And try to meet him with a welcome and hug
As he came shuffling through the house with a shrug
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails
And hate gets under the skin
But a dream got a way of getting down to the bone
and the heart of a body that it's in.
While he was making magic with his piston machines
She was cleaning up the mess he'd left behind.
She was trying to make it through to the end of the day
With a little empty time
And do the painting that meant peace of mind.
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails
And hate gets under the skin
But a dream got a way of getting down to the bone
and the heart of a body that it's in.
Well one day she didn't bother 'bout making his bed.
She hurried all the children out the door.
And she let the bills and the marketing go.
And she went and almost bought out an art supply store.
It just so happened that day he got to thinking.
Of the grease that always covered up his skin.
So he left the garage a little early
He got a shave and a manicure and trim
Came out clean as a plaster maniquin.
He came home in a hurry
But he almost didn't recognize the place.
It looked like it'd been hit by a hurricane.
There was canvas filling every open space.
And she had paint all over her face.
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails
And hate gets under the skin
But a dream got a way of getting down to the bone
and the heart of a body that it's in.
They both stood stunned into silence
Then their laughter exploded like a shout
And he went out to make some magic in the kitchen
The clean man learning what cooking was about.
And the dirty girl painting her messy heart out.
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails
And hate gets under the skin
But a dream got a way of getting down to the bone
and the heart of a body that it's in.
More than happy ta give im a nod ;)
I picked this one cause it seemed right fer here...
The kid heard the word up in Brooklyn.
It was his second year of medical school.
He went and stashed some jeans into his guitar case,
His father said, "You're a fool".
But the boy jumped on board a Greyhound bus,
It took him two days to get to Mobile,
And though it took two weeks to track the old man down,
He never doubted that the rumor was real.
But there the old man stood by the store front,
With his white cane hanging from his belt.
And he was bending the steel of his guitar strings
So it seemed like the metal had to melt.
He was the last of the street corner singers
Paying his final years of dues
The voice in his throat was like a bullfrog croak
Yes it's he who invented the blues.
"To play the blues, boy, you got to live 'em
Got your dues, boy, you know you got to give 'em
Got to start sweet like a slow blues rhythm
Like a heartbeat you'll always be with 'em
When you're married to the blues, boy,
Your guitar is your wife.
It's like that fine old woman
Who you're faithful to for life."
Well the kid walked up as the blind man finished
And was bent to put his guitar away.
The old man heard him and said, "Who are you?"
"I'm the kid you're gonna teach to play."
The old man laughed but the kid kept talking 'bout
How he'd help him get around
That's when the old man said,
"I don't need no fool to get me where in the hell I'm bound"
The kid nods his head with a great big grin and says,
"When do we begin?"
That's when the old man said,
"If You're staying with me
This is how it's got to be..."
"To play the blues, boy, you got to live 'em
Got your dues, boy, you know you got to give 'em
Got to start sweet like a slow blues rhythm
Like a heartbeat you'll always be with 'em
When you're married to the blues, boy,
Your guitar is your wife.
It's like that fine old woman
Who you're faithful to for life."
"You know I ain't no guru,
I'm just a blind black preacher man.
My guitar is my gospel, boy,
And I preach with my picking hand
And I preach with my picking hand
I ain't gonna be your wet nurse,
Or black father to an albino son."
"That's O.K.," the kid up and say,
"I just wanna pick like a son of a gun!"
"Whoa, boy, that ain't no damn typewriter you're playing, now.
You've got to caress it like a woman, slow and easy"
"Like this, old man?"
"No! A fool plays the blues like Machine Gun Kelly,
Five hundred notes to the bar,
And if you're going to stick with me
You've got to learn what the blues really are
You learn to pick with me and you can stick with me
But it's time to blow this town.
We gots a gig to preach in a gaming house
We're Alabama bound"
So the kid took the hand of the old blues man
To lead him all around the south
Now it's the old man's turn to make the white boy learn
"You don't play guitar with your mouth"
To play the blues, boy, you got to live 'em
Got your dues, boy, you know you got to give 'em.
Got to start sweet like a slow blues rhythm
Like a heartbeat you'll always be with 'em.
When you're married to the blues, boy,
Your guitar is your wife.
It's like that fine old woman
Who you're faithful to for life.
All right, son, let's hear some guitar.
I want you to play it funky like your uncle's carbuncle.
That's right, son, play it sassy like your sweet mama's pajamas.
That sounds pretty good for a New York boy!
Oh, son that sounds so sweet.
Taxi 'n WOLD. Didn't like Sniper at all.
Three in the mornin'. Rainin' out. Ridin' in circles 'round Ghent. No one on the streets. Only a fistful of businesses to watch. Deader'n a door nail. Against the rules, had a transistor radio in my brief case. Put the ear plug in.
Taxi would come on 'n I'd ride past the radio station 'n hit the red lights. The DJs werked inna glassed in studio they called the carousel. I'd met 'em all. They knew it was me sayin' thanks.
Just for you, Leo...
Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.
And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best.
But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes.
He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows.
His friends and neighbors praised the voice that poured out from his throat.
They said that he should use his gift instead of cleaning coats.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
His friends kept working on him to try music out full time.
A big debut and rave reviews, a great career to climb.
Finally they got to him, he would take the fling.
A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing.
And there were plane tickets, phone calls, money spent to rent the hall.
It took most of his savings but he gladly used them all.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
The evening came, he took the stage, his face set in a smile.
And in the half filled hall the critics sat watching on the aisle.
But the concert was a blur to him, spatters of applause.
He did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws.
But the critics were concise, it only took four lines.
But no one could accuse them of being over kind.
(spoken) Mr. Martin Tanner, Baritone, of Dayton, Ohio made his
Town Hall debut last night. He came well prepared, but unfortunately
his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards.
His voice lacks the range of tonal color necessary to make it
consistently interesting.
(sung) Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order.
He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends.
Then he smiled and just said nothing and he never sang again,
excepting very late at night when the shop was dark and closed.
He sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clothes.
Music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
:) :D ;D
Thanks Arcey, that was cool.
Leo
I ain't been by for a couple o days so gotta catch up.....(humour me please...heheh)
My wife went to high school with Rollie Fingers (Upland CA class of 1964) Went to her reunion, Rollie showed up in a bright RED sports coat, after he hugged her and put her down, and I was introduced, I said now?? she said ok, so I drug out a bb card for him to autoygraph, and of course I brung one WITHOUT mustache...he laffed, and then a half dozen guys brung out cards..
My brother and I were both big Stevie Ray fans, we live in SoCal, he worked in Hollywood, and would call up KROQ every day and request SRV, and they wouldn't play him. The day he died, they played him non stop, p/o'd my brother so bad, he unplugged the radio (Del, that made me think of my brother...)
Anybody remember a guy in the '60's named Dave Ray....he had an album that on side one was only one song..."Electric Blend" lasted about 17 minutes, side 2 only had 2 songs, which I can't remember right now...I heard he died in the mid 80's of a herion o/d...
And finallly I was/am a big fan of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I met them at a concert in Glendale CA in 1966. Had a sticker they gave me in my car window. Met a lady in Monrovia, that was Les Thompsons Aunt, but the thing that I didn't know, or totally forgot, was that On their first or second album, one of their band mates was.......Jackson Browne...
thanks for indulging my ramblings tonite...ON the way to work today it was Rory Buchanon playing his version of ..."Green Onions"
Curley
Quiz question: does anyone remember the song/album "the Eggplant that ate Chicago".....for 5 points can you name the band? and for 10 points, who was the lead singer (actually he was the band, sorta like John Forgaty on the Blue Ridge Rangers..)
clock is tickin'............
Dr West's Medicene show Norman Greenbaum
Norman also did Spirit in the Sky.
"When I die an they lay me ta rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best"
Leo
Man that was too easy, I gotta work harder now....But, actually it was "Dr Wests Medicine Show and Junk Band..Still how many folks know that song, let alone who done it...what a group!!!<g>
curley
Quote from: Curley Cole on April 08, 2008, 11:29:12 PM
Man that was too easy, I gotta work harder now....But, actually it was "Dr Wests Medicine Show and Junk Band..Still how many folks know that song, let alone who done it...what a group!!!<g>
curley
It was tough enough however you are right with the Junk Band......Leo, Spirit in the sky had a record it's self being on the top 10 as long as it did. I like the Kentucky Headhunters cover of it.
lr<who needed the xtree points after blowing the pee question
Well - Since this is a "song" I like that I'll bet FEW know about, here's your stumper, I'll bet. I'll give you the name of the selection, complete with hints.
I used to play this when I was still working in the music business (record manufacturing and distribution) and NO ONE had ever heard it, but the group made at least one album (the vinyl kind ;) ) on the RCA label. RCA was not known to record
"no-talent" new groups - but I guess THAT could be debated. :D Anyway, this selection would be a good "gotta pee-pee" song, as it was the entire side 2 of the album. The group was kind of a mix of Styx, Emerson-Lake-&-Palmer, jazz, and some Allman Bros thrown in. Ready?
(I'll save ya some time: Mr. Google knows nothing about it. That I could find.)
"It'sNotaSonotaButIt'sClose"
<----*looks side to side at the other contestants then scratches his head* Sonata?
THIS NOT A GUESS :P (the clues don't match a bit)
Weren't many pieces that took up both sides of an LP so-- I hope you don't mind if I sit this one out... ;D
Good luck Rooster, it wouldn't suprise me ta see Del pull an answer outta his hat. (Are side bets appropriate here?)
Leo
No Del until tomorrow some time. He doesn't work today..............Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 09, 2008, 05:09:47 PM
No Del until tomorrow some time. He doesn't work today..............Buck 8) ::)
Leo eyes his phone an considers how much HE hates bein called on his day off ;D
Temptin, very temptin
Rollie also played for the Padres when they wore those ugly yellow and brown uniforms.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 09, 2008, 05:35:51 PM
Rollie also played for the Padres when they wore those ugly yellow and brown uniforms.
Ya mean before they exchanged em fer them uglier ones. I think about em everytime I see a box a Froot Loops.
Leo
Quote from: litl rooster on April 09, 2008, 01:36:41 PM
<----*looks side to side at the other contestants then scratches his head* Sonata?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/niemoller/hyundai_sonata_embera.jpg)
??? ??? ??? ;D
Quote from: Trinity on April 09, 2008, 06:32:57 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/niemoller/hyundai_sonata_embera.jpg)
??? ??? ??? ;D
It'sNota
MusicalSonotaButIt'sClose
;D
The worst thing is - when I DO tell "all" STILL Nobody will be really any wiser. It's not gonna bring about
Whirled Peas World Peace or an end to hunger.
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;D
SHB, I see that you are a MASTER BLASTER. I had a buddy that I worked with was a MASTER BLASTER in the 49th Armor Reserve. KLANK! KLANK! I'M A TANK!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 09, 2008, 07:20:30 PM
SHB, I see that you are a MASTER BLASTER. I had a buddy that I worked with was a MASTER BLASTER in the 49th Armor Reserve. KLANK! KLANK! I'M A TANK!
Proud to say that yes, I am. Was. ;) Haven't been called that in a while - thanks. ;D
He don't care what you play on the radio either Tex, as long as you play it loud ;D
I'm still looking at all the clues.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 09, 2008, 04:04:05 PM
THIS NOT A GUESS :P (the clues don't match a bit)
Weren't many pieces that took up both sides of an LP so-- I hope you don't mind if I sit this one out... ;D
Good luck Rooster, it wouldn't suprise me ta see Del pull an answer outta his hat. (Are side bets appropriate here?)
Leo
Or Curley Cole or Four Eyed Buck.
Quote from: litl rooster on April 09, 2008, 11:31:10 PM
He don't care what you play on the radio either Tex, as long as you play it loud ;D
I'm still looking at all the clues.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
"Somebody answer that phone and get rid of that damned Bird!" ;) :D ::) ;D
Boy doing a Google search on this one is coming up Zip...Hope Del has better luck. Maybe Alex Trebbec's Teleprompter has the right answer.
Better buy a couple vowels and a couple consonants!
(That was a 4-letter HINT)
Quote from: litl rooster on April 10, 2008, 03:19:03 AM
Boy doing a Google search on this one is coming up Zip...Hope Del has better luck. Maybe Alex Trebbec's Teleprompter has the right answer.
Another search (I hate cheating like that) came up with a piece that was written for trombone and techno synthasizer ??? By a guy named Ken Davies. Didn't hear any clips but saw the sheet music--weird stuff.
Quote from: litl rooster on April 09, 2008, 11:35:56 PM
Or Curley Cole or Four Eyed Buck.
An yer right, there are many here that have quite a musical prowess ;D
Leo
SHB, LR is right I have to play it LOUD. I carried a Colt ACP for about 15 years. Shot them alot without ear protection. I tuned on race cars, again no ear protection. We need to talk about the CAF. Maybe we can, I am planning on coming to the Muster. My Dad was a B25 pilot in WWII. He started in B17s before the War started. He was switched to 25s and sent to Florida. He would have been flying one of those B17s that tried to land at Hickman on the 7th. He was a Eglin field in Fla. while Doolittle's Raiders were training to take off from the Hornet. They didn't tell anyone until it was over. The Group was reorganized and put in the 12th Air Force and sent to North Africa just before the Battle od Cazarine Pass. He spent 42 through 45 overseas, North Africa and the Med. They had modified some 25s with 75 mm howitsers mounted in the nose to attack German E Boats.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 10, 2008, 05:08:09 PM
SHB, LR is right I have to play it LOUD. I carried a Colt ACP for about 15 years. Shot them alot without ear protection. I tuned on race cars, again no ear protection. We need to talk about the CAF. Maybe we can, I am planning on coming to the Muster. My Dad was a B25 pilot in WWII. He started in B17s before the War started. He was switched to 25s and sent to Florida. He would have been flying one of those B17s that tried to land at Hickman on the 7th. He was a Eglin field in Fla. while Doolittle's Raiders were training to take off from the Hornet. They didn't tell anyone until it was over. The Group was reorganized and put in the 12th Air Force and sent to North Africa just before the Battle od Cazarine Pass. He spent 42 through 45 overseas, North Africa and the Med. They had modified some 25s with 75 mm howitsers mounted in the nose to attack German E Boats.
What'd ya say? :o :o ::)
I asked in my IM what yer pa flew and here's the answer. I'll bet those '75s in the B25s would rattle yer fillings!!! See you at the Muster ... I hope.
Hey Tex.
My Great Uncle Joe was a B 17 tailgunner. I inherited his dogtags an carry em in my pocket everyday fer luck. He flew missions over North Africa chasin Rommel around an then on in to Europe. His brother Nick was a tank driver and covered the same territory all the way to Berlin. Both made it back and were large influences in my life growing up.
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Leo
An no, the upper chain is not original but the short one is.
He was a self taught mechanic most of his adult life. We had a wrecking yard and wrecker service along with the garage. Later on we had a body shop, an auto parts store, a radiator shop, and a battery and electric shop. He was elected sheriff of our county just before he turned 50. He was Sheriff for almost 9 years before he died of cancer.
litl rooster, here is those lyrics I told you about this mornin' the guy who name will not be mentioned, but the one with the whinny wife. ::)
If the boy would do more like this and less of the poop he's done up till now I might even decide I like his music, course he didn't write it. He'd have to also give up them straw hats spray painted black with Krylon. :-X
just walked in and you were gone
To your Mama's I suppose
It looks like you won't be back so I thought you ought to know
I found that note you left today it only took you half a page
I'm gonna grab my old guitar take a pencil from the jar and fill in the empty space
I'm gonna tell you how I feel, straight up genuine and real
Open a bottle of ninety proof and write a song for you like Kristofferson would do
In each line you're gonna hear it's my fault and I miss you
I know it won't be in time it may not even rhyme
But it has to be is true
I'm gonna tell you how I feel, straight up genuine and real
Open a bottle of ninety proof and write a song for you like Kristofferson would do
I'm gonna tell you how I feel, straight up genuine and real
Open a bottle of ninety proof and write a song for you like Kristofferson would do
I'm gonna drink this bottle of ninety proof and sing this song for you
Like Kristofferson would do
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I think I'm going to get one for "Special" matches. ;D ;D
Quote from: Trinity on April 11, 2008, 07:25:21 PM
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I think I'm going to get one for "Special" matches. ;D ;D
Call my work #, but use extension 179 instead. ::)
'S far as I know we already got two tiny tims. One played the you-ka-lay-lee an the other had a crutch ;D
God bless us every one.
Leo
Don't them black straw hats get hot in the summer and under all them lights on stage, maybe it cooked his brain.
TLD, My Dad was at Kasserine Pass. 19th Army Engineers. That was a nasty one for the U.S., but at least Ike decided to remove some of the ineffective commanders because of it...............Buck 8) :-\
I've heard this song the last couple of times I've went to town. it always makes me think how much things have changed through the years.
Well, I grew up wild and free
Walkin' these fields in my barefeet
There wasn't no place I couldn't go
With a .22 rifle and a fishin' pole
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know it's a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh, Lord, have mercy on a country boy
When I was young I remember well
I'd hunt the wild turkey and bobwhite quail
The river was clear and deep back then
Had fishin' lines tied to the willow limb
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know it's a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh, Lord, have mercy on a country boy
Well, they damned the river, they damned the stream
They cut down the Cyprus and the Sweetgum trees
There's a laundromat and a barbershop
And now the whole meadow is a parking lot
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know it's a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh, Lord, have mercy on a country boy
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know it's a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh, Lord, have mercy on a country boy
Oh, Lord, have mercy on a country boy
Only sonata's I know are Bach and Brahms, oh yeah, the Kia's.That thing had to be done in the '70's, and how many of us even remember them? Only things I can think of that'd maybe be that long is The Who's rock opera "Tommy" or maybe Pink Floyd's "THe Wall"...............Buck 8) ::) :o
Don fergett Quadrophinia Buck...Much better than Tommy.
OT, that song sounds alot like the town I grew up in. Don't even visit anymore cause I get lost.
We seem ta be at a stalemate with the current game. It definately is the stumper. If anybody wants an easier chicken ta catch, I left a clue a few pages back 'bout another whole album song. There are deviding grooves in the record but no "real" names fer the tracks. HINT I guess we can read about it in the paper. Hope they don edit anything ;)
Well, I guess "the Stumper" it is. I thought this ol' former Music Ed major and DJ might be able to get ya. But I'm easy to stump, too - with some of the bluesy and folk bands - and country from back then. I had have pretty odd and varied tastes in music. I can happily listen to: Herb Alpert, Classical - 'specially Bach, Big Band, Cream/Iron Butterfly/ELP/Styx, Led Zeppelin. Frank Zappa!!, Alabama, Salsa, did I mention Cream??, Eagles, Marching Bands, Barbershop quartets (SPEBSQSA), Alan Parsons, (some/most) Pink Floyd, the Association, Blood-Sweat & Tears, Chicago ... and so on, ad nauseum. ;)
The "stumper" group's name was:
Zazu.
I'm plannin' on takin' a picture of the album cover jus so's y'all don't think I wuz pullin' yer laigs! This weren't NO local band, either - that none would have known about. They actually toured as the lead-in band for some big name groups.
If ya like the early Styx and ELP sound, you'd likely like Zazu. All my buddies back then did. And still do! Zazu were rockers who obviously had some classical and jazz training along the way. Like me. ('Tho the only money I ever made at playing was classical music. Twice. ;) )
SHB, Your tastes run like mine. Rap is definately off my list, as well as some of the newer stuff they've got out now. Love the Big Band stuff, played that in my younger days as a lead trumpet. Not enough wind now, plus the lip is pretty flabby ::) :o..........................Buck 8) ;)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 13, 2008, 07:35:08 AM
SHB, Your tastes run like mine. Rap is definately off my list, as well as some of the newer stuff they've got out now. Love the Big Band stuff, played that in my younger days as a lead trumpet. Not enough wind now, plus the lip is pretty flabby ::) :o..........................Buck 8) ;)
Buck, I played first chair horn in a Big Band in Jr High.
Second chair always got the solos but loved hitting that last note in "In the Mood". I don't do nomore either--got lost in the guitar.
Steel, ya just described my record collection ;D I've got a Herb Albert & the Tiajuana Brass "Going Places" with a picture of hime in a bi-plane on the cover. I think its right next to the Ten Years After ;) (Alvin Lee was somethin else!)
Leo
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 13, 2008, 07:35:08 AM
SHB, Your tastes run like mine. Rap is definately off my list, as well as some of the newer stuff they've got out now. Love the Big Band stuff, played that in my younger days as a lead trumpet. Not enough wind now, plus the lip is pretty flabby ::) :o..........................Buck 8) ;)
My best buddy in HS was the 1st chair trumpet. He had a
beautiful Getzen trumpet. The Doc Severinson Model. We (our band) had the great pleasure/honor of playing a concert with Doc as the featured guest! It was cool! Dennis (my pard) got to do a trio with Doc! I wished I played trumpet that day, not clarinet!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 13, 2008, 10:43:10 AM
Buck, I played first chair horn in a Big Band in Jr High.
Second chair always got the solos but loved hitting that last note in "In the Mood". I don't do nomore either--got lost in the guitar.
Steel, ya just described my record collection ;D I've got a Herb Albert & the Tiajuana Brass "Going Places" with a picture of him in a bi-plane on the cover. I think its right next to the Ten Years After ;) (Alvin Lee was somethin else!)
Leo
Leo - please 'splain sumpthin' ... around here us 1st chairs got the solos - your 2nd chairs got them? Nuttin' wrong wid that, just dif'rent, IMHO. Our 2nd chair (Stanley) was nearly as good as my pal Dennis, so he often got featured. Like playing as #3 in the trio with Doc S!
;D ;D ;D Yep! Ive got BOTH albums - and more! (I sure remember the cover to HA's
Whipped Cream and Other Delights album!! A classic!)
All that cover needed was crushed pecans and a cherry!
If I remember it had a crimson red background. Gal was brunette. Very nice pose ;)
Steel, most big band sheet music has 2nd trumpet as the soloist. I was told the idea was to let the 1st save his chops. It bummed me out after doin all that work an we usualy switched around ta make it fair. I got to do the solo in "String of Pearls" when we recorded it. I had just got braces and it weren't so good. :( The wife loves listenen to it anyway, but she is biased.
Leo
CD player just tossed this one out from the early 70's, MMM is the are-teeeest. ;D
Well they put Geronimo in jail down south
Where he couldn't look the gift horse in the mouth
Sergeant, sergeant, don't you feel
There's something wrong with that automobile
Governor, governor, isn't it strange
They didn't have no cars on the Indian range
Warden, warden, please listen to me
Be brave and set Geronimo free
Whoa boys, take me back
I want to ride in Geronimo's Cadillac
Whoa boys, take me back
I want to ride in Geronimo's Cadillac
Let me ride, let me ride
Warden, warden, don't you know
Prisoners have no place to go
They took old Geronimo by storm
Ripped off the feathers from his uniform
Jesus tells me I believe its true
The red man is in the sunset too
Took all his land, now they won't give it back
And they sent Geronimo a Cadillac
Whoa boys, take me back
I want to ride in Geronimo's Cadillac
Whoa boys, take me back
I want to ride in Geronimo's Cadillac
Let me ride, let me ride
SHB, I got to play the Doc model for a little while when my regular horn was being refinished. Mine wasn't anywhere's near the caliber of that.(Bore was too small, I kept overblowing it). The hot horns at that time were the Conn 360's and Bach Stradavarious. I had a Stradi for awhile after I was working on my own and married. It was a large bore, no way I could over blow it, plus it had such a dark rich tone. I absolutly loved that horn, but family finances got in the way and I had to sell it. I still miss that thing ::) :-\ I've got a Pro-grade Yamaha here now that's a little dinged up, but plays fine. Just doesn't have that rich, dark tone ::)My SIL has a Bach coronet that she picked up used two years ago, not the same grade as a Stradi, but a nice instrument nonetheless. One of these days I hope to find a good used Stradi and am able to snap it up.
Leo, I did String of Pearls, too. Picked up the Bobby Hacket solo off of a Glen Gray album. Took me a little time and a lot of writing down as I wasn't an ad-libber. Got to use it a few times at dances. Had a nice solo on Stormy Weather and Clyde McCoy's Sugar Blues as well. My senior year, I had a solo in Fawcett Stadium for our home coming game, the Shadow of Your Smile from The Sand Pebbles. Two years after that while working afternoons at Hoover's, I had a younger girl come up to me after she found out that I was in the Timken Band. I mentioned the solo and she said she remembered it. Thought it was a really good one ;D My hat didn't fit for about two weeks ;D...............Buck 8)
:D I had an Olsen in silver an brass. Traded it fer a mandolin some years later :o. The Bach was a hot ticket but I think only one kids parents could afford it. The one he had was all silver an man it sounded great. Smooth valve action as well.
I got ta thinkin about Ten Years After earlier, so I had to pull it out an put it on.
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Once there was a time I'd rob my mama
For a good meal and a smoke
Once there was a time I'd sell my brother
For a dollar when I was broke
But I'd never sell my guitar
And my strings were always sharp
'Cause if I don't have a guitar
I'll be strumming on some angels harp
And if I don't get to heaven
And I go down there below
Better be a guitar when I get there
Or, I will refuse to go
Once there was a time I was hungry
And I'd find my food in some bin
But I'd never, never sell my guitar
'Cause that would, darling, that would be a sin
Mine was tu-tone, Leo. The Yamaha is silver plate, can't remember what the Severensen was. Think it was nickled.......Buck 8)
My regular horn in school was a Reynolds, it replaced a Getzen student model..............Buck 8)
Wait a minute ???
It wasn't an "Olsen" but an "Olds". it was given to me by a friend of my fathers after I had learned on a rental an the folks had it refinished as a Christmas preasant. My band teacher gave me an ancient Harmon mute for the swing band an I used a toilet plunger head fer a wah mute in Dixieland band. It worked great fer "Frankie and Johnny" an "St James Infirmiry".
I haven't thought about this stuff in YEARS ;)
Leo
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 13, 2008, 07:08:05 PM
Mine was tu-tone, Leo. The Yamaha is silver plate, can't remember what the Severensen was. Think it was nickled.......Buck 8)
My regular horn in school was a Reynolds, it replaced a Getzen student model..............Buck 8)
The Severinson Model was Sterling Silver (plated.)
Olds was a BIG seller around here, Leo.
My clarinet is an oddity. I wanted the new Mark 10 Selmer from Paris. I also wanted the Sterling keys and such like my teacher, Mr. Achille Rossi. Went to the Selmer factory here in Indiana (Saxes and horns made here, Oboes & Clarinets in Paris) but they didn't have any 10s with Sterling. I was crushed. I was trying out several horns when I spied a rack over in the corner and
one of the 20 or so clarinets on the rack had tarnished keys. ONLY Sterling or pure,
not nickel, tarnishes. I said to the representative - "What about that one?" He said, "It's used - but good. I'll have it taken into the factory and made ready and we'll check it out after lunch." That THEY bought. (This was pretty heady stuff for a 17 year old!) To make a long story short, this was the prototype horn that they made which became the Mark 10 horns. It had a big bore with a big, rich tone - not equaled by the Mark 10s, by the way. I won't bore ya with details, but among other things, it's serial #4. (There WAS no 1,2 or 3) I've met 4 professional musicians who've heard about MY horn - it got something of a reputation for outstanding quality while it was being tested. I still have it and have toyed with selling it - but even 'tho I quit playing back in '72, I can't bear to part with it, and none of my kids was interested in it much. I could probably buy a Shiloh Sharps (or 2) if I ever decide to sell it! It deserves a real good home,
Not some run-of-the-mill rich kid, though - which is why I haven't tried to sell it.
I don't blame you one bit................Buck 8)
Sounds like one fine liquerice stick Steel.
I've notcied sentimentality over instruments is about the same as good guns (even though I traded the Olds). It's hard ta let em go an when they do, you have ta know it's the RIGHT home.
Leo
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 14, 2008, 05:15:02 AM
I don't blame you one bit................Buck 8)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 14, 2008, 10:47:55 AM
Sounds like one fine liquorice stick Steel.
I've noticed sentimentality over instruments is about the same as good guns (even though I traded the Olds). It's hard ta let em go an when they do, you have ta know it's the RIGHT home.
Leo
Yep! I also still have my Dad's Buscher "Reedcutter" Tenor Sax. I always wanted to play it - and can, to a point, but ...
My best friend back then and to this day played clarinet and tenor sax.
It was cool cause both our horns were in B flat (alto sax is in E or A or sumpthin) an we could jam together lookin at the same piece of music whithout transposin. He don't play anymore either but we still spend hours on the phone talkin music. :)
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 14, 2008, 11:34:10 AM
My best friend back then and to this day played clarinet and tenor sax.
It was cool cause both our horns were in B flat (alto sax is in E or A or sumpthin) an we could jam together lookin at the same piece of music whithout transposin. He don't play anymore either but we still spend hours on the phone talkin music. :)
Leo
Ahhh ... good times. Music makes most of life ... bearable. ;)
It's in E, Leo ::) the tenors are in b-flat as are clarinets and the normal trumpets/coronets. My wife plays flute/piccolo, and is still active via her school alumni band. They do parades and concerts during the summer. I also have a spare horn, but can't remember what brand it is at the moment. Probably dates back to the '50's I think..........Buck 8) ;)
Fun theme we've hit here :D
Easy question fer y'all.
Who sang about a gal who dreamed she received a diamond car with platinum wheels? ;D
That was a great band.
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on April 14, 2008, 11:41:58 AM
It's in E, Leo ::) the tenors are in b-flat as are clarinets and the normal trumpets/coronets. My wife plays flute/piccolo, and is still active via her school alumni band. They do parades and concerts during the summer. I also have a spare horn, but can't remember what brand it is at the moment. Probably dates back to the '50's I think..........Buck 8) ;)
Buck,
I recalled it being one of the two. Flute/piccolo is in concert C right? I used ta know all this stuff. :-[ It's good yer wife is still active. The flute is a great instrument.
Leo
Steel
Great story, I wouldn't sell it either, about being sentimental over instruments:
I have a Yamaki acoustic guitar that I bought in 1971..after I broke my old one in an argument with the ex wife (part of the reason she is the ex) anyways, I got that guitar for $100 (my house payment at the time was only $150...) anyways I had pro musicians play it and say it was the closest thing to a Martin that Japan had ever put out....I had the action set at the old Fret House in W. Covina anyways fast foward to last year. It started to fuzz...took to local music store with decent repair reputation, guy gave it back only saying "its not worth fixin"...I started to foam at the mouth. Took it to the Fret House, and their service guy is even older than I am...said Well, he is right...but gave me and explaination. This guy even knew the kind of glue the Japanese used back then. long story short, he said that it was a fish based glue and would only last about 30 years, and would cost about %500 to fix if i could find a luthier that would do it...He said I got my moneys worth, and on a good dry day, it still played hot...
That guitar has lasted me thrui 3 marriages and a host of other things...It still looks great, and most days plays way better than I can.....
Well, that is my story for the day
Good shootin and playin
curley
And a good story at that :)
I remeber havin ta put little folded up pieces of paper in the head nut of my first guitar to stop it from buzzing or to use a slide. I since gave that one to my Dad and his local music shop owner says it's a great guitar. I paid (you guessed it) 100 bucks fer that one. Can't remember the brand name, but it weren't one of the big ones. Got a Fender DG now and am way out of practice. Keep tellin maself (an the wife) that if I get my hands on a resonator the desire will come flooding back ;D
Leo
I had a Martin D18 from around the time I was 19 up until about 1998, roughly 28 years. Had some problems and hadn't played it in years, wound up selling it for twice what I paid for it. Nowadays I kinda regret doing it. I am thinking about picking up a Yamaha acoustic to plink around on. I have a cheap electric that I pull out of the closet every once in a while. I am so out of practice my fingers start to hurt after a few songs. That Martin and what I could play at the time got me into quite a few parties and free food and drink to boot.
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on April 14, 2008, 06:15:55 PM
I had a Martin D18 from around the time I was 19 up until about 1998, roughly 28 years. Had some problems and hadn't played it in years, wound up selling it for twice what I paid for it. Nowadays I kinda regret doing it. I am thinking about picking up a Yamaha acoustic to plink around on. I have a cheap electric that I pull out of the closet every once in a while. I am so out of practice my fingers start to hurt after a few songs. That Martin and what I could play at the time got me into quite a few parties and free food and drink to boot.
;D ;D ;D
Guitars have a way of doin that fer ya. I didn't really hit my stride until I got inta Travis picking. Started with an obsession of learning "The Chain" as played by Lindsey Buckingham. You could easily get tableture off the innernet then and that was the first I copied along with some Travis basics.
I know what ya mean about the left hand fingers gettin sore. My callouses have long since worn away.
Leo
I played the trombone in HS. I still have it in the garage. Pull it out once in awhile to see if I can still play it. Can't hit the high and low notes like I used to 'cuz the lips are outta shape. ::)
Slim
Right after high school, me and a pard used to go down and sit on the beach and play and sing (he played and sang better, I just sorta backed him up) for the girls....sometimes they would feed us, some times they would even take us home...
Slim, I played the trombone briefly in 8th grade. couldnt reach 7 position, and I would take my shoe of and pull the slide out...bandmaster told me I couldn't do that, I said why not wasn't plannin on playin in the marchin band...end of that career.
When the Yamaki went down, I got a Brownsville acoustic, and then my dad gave me the Sigma I helped him pick out in 1988 after my mom died...sweet guitar...
soon as I get retired, gonna try to hit a few licks, maybe go try singin on the beach again........hehehe
curley
Well the only thing I can play is a jaw harp. ;D
I played Safety 'n right field...........
Can ya hum a few bars , Arcey? ;D 8) ::) ;)
Quote from: Arcey on April 15, 2008, 03:03:11 PM
I played Safety 'n right field...........
I always thought you was comin outta left field ;D ;D ;D ;D
Sorry, it were right there in front a me ::)
I can play my XM Satellite radio and I played outfield in college.
News from the Boardwalk of New Jersey
http://www.comcast.net/music/articles/2008/04/18/Obit.Federici/
RIP, Danny
Dang.
Well i guess he'll fit right in with that perfect band in the sky.
I was gonna put up lyrics but can't fer the life of me remember that one. Anyhow, I'm sure he was extremely well received.
Leo
There is a band in the sky for everyone's taste in music. Western Swing is my all time favorite kind of music. Bob Wills is the inventor of what we call Western Swing. All his band members should be in that band. Red Stegall does a song called "Bobs Got A Swing Band In Heaven", names all of the members of Bob's band and the instrument they played. Western Swing music grew up in Texas and Oklahoma during the Depression and it is till going strong almost 80 years later. Thanks to bands like Asleep at the Wheel the tradition of Western Swing music lives on.
Red Stegall is one of my favorite Cowboys
"Booger" Red Stegall is the Cowboy Poet Laurelate of Texas besides being a purty good sanger. "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music" is one of amy favorites and the album that he did as a tribute to Rodeo riders.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 19, 2008, 11:11:17 AM
"Booger" Red Stegall is the Cowboy Poet Laurelate of Texas besides being a purty good sanger. "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music" is one of amy favorites and the album that he did as a tribute to Rodeo riders.
One of my favorites also. He's purt good with a rope too, and in the past couple of years he's been comentating the NCHA finals. This is why I said Cowboy and not Cowboy Sanger ;D
Had the pleasure of MC'ing a show of his in Montana 10- 12 years back, He and and a couple of others, myself, sat and watched a jackpot roping together before his show and shared stories. Great guy to chat with.
Red is a Cowboy. He grew up on the Waggoner Ranch around Wichita Falls, Texas. He's a pretty good team roper.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 19, 2008, 11:11:17 AM
"Booger" Red Stegall is the Cowboy Poet Laurelate of Texas besides being a purty good sanger. "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music" is one of amy favorites and the album that he did as a tribute to Rodeo riders.
Also one of my favorites!
I believe I've put it up before, either here or on the other music thread:
My yellow rose of Texas packed up and left this mornin'
I don't know where she's gone and most of all I don't know why
I only know I've got the blues I've never been this lonesome
It's enough to make a man lay down and die
Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills music
When I hear Faded Love I feel at home
Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills music
Have kept my heart alive since you've been gone
[ steel - fiddle ]
Got a pocket full of quarters to feed to that old jukebox
Bob Wills music helps to keep that woman off my mind
Bartender kept that Lone Star comin' long as I got money
Cause I plan to being here till closing time
Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills music...
Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills music
Have kept my heart alive since you've been gone
A little Cab fer yer listenin enjoyment...he was fun if nuthin else 8)
Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher; she was a red hot hoochie
coocher.
She was the roughest toughest frail; but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
Hi de hi de hi de hi
Ho de ho de ho de ho
Hee de hee de hee de hee
Ho oo waooo waoooo
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey; She loved him though he was kokey.
He took her down to Chinatown and showed her how to kick the gong around.
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi
Ho-whooooaaaa-ahhhh-ohh
He-de-he-de-hee-de-he
Ho-oh-ho-oh
She had a dream about the king of Sweden; he gave her things, that she was
needin'.
He gave her a home built of gold and steel, a diamond car, with the puh-latinum
wheels.
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi
Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-oh
Skeedle-a-booka-diki biki skeedly beeka gookity woop!
A-booriki-booriki-booriki Hoy!
He gave her his town house and his racing horses; each meal she ate was a dozen
courses.
She had a million dollars in nickels and dimes; she sat around and counted it
all, a million times.
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi
Ho-oh-whoaa-oh-oh-whoa
He-de-he-de-hee-de-hee
Poor Min! Poor Min! Poo-oor Min
I love Cab Callaway, also love the Cadilllac flower car he had in The Blues Brothers. ;D
Cab Calloway. He was a legend!
(http://www.jazzhouse.org/jpg/mephisto/Calloway_Cab_1987.jpg)
"Man whats the matter with that cat there?"
"must be full of reefer"
"full of reefer?!"
"yea man"
"you mean that cats high?!"
"sailing"
"sailing"
"sailing lightly"
"get away from here
Man is that the reefer man?"
"thats the reefer man"
"I belive hes losing his mind"
"I think hes lost his mind!"
Oh have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man
have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man
If he said he swam to china, and he sell you south carolina
then you know your talkn to that reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he said he walks the ocean, any time he takes the notion
then you know your talkn to reefer man.
Have you ever met this funny reefer man reefer man
oh baby baby baby reefer man reefer man
If he trades you dimes for nickles
and calls watermellons pickles
then you know your talkn to that reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he takes a sudden mania
he'll want to give you pennsylvaina
oh you know your talking to the reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he said one sweet is funny
because he wont sell me atlantic
then you know your talkin to that reefer man
Hiddy Hi Hoddy Ho
Leo's reminded me of this one.....
Mississippi Queen, If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
Way down around Vicksburg, Around Louisiana way
Lived a cajun lady, we called her Mississippi Queen
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine
While the rest of them dudes were'a gettin' their kicks,
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was getting mine!
Mississippi Queen, If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
This lady she asked me, If I would be her maaan
You know that I told her, I'd do what I can
To keep her looking pretty
Buy her dresses that shine
While the rest of them dudes were making their bread
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was losing mine!
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine
While the rest of them dudes were'a gettin' their kicks,
Brotha, beg your pardon, now I'm getting mine!
Yeeeaaaaah, Mississippi Queen!
This one here always bring a grin to ma face. I remember well the night I was out hunting a woman who had jumped bail on us, my wife had written the bond and the woman didin't know who I was, so I went down to the downtown bar and there she was, drinking and dancing with all the ole boys. well I waited ma turn bought her a beer visited a little and asked her to dance with me. well this was the song that came on and I danced her around the floor a couple of times and on one pass we just danced right out the open back door, I slapped the handcuffs on her and hurried right on out to the pickup, put her in and made a good escape.
took her on down to the jail and checked her in.
but this song always gives me smile or 2 ;D
Well, I was raised in a sophisticated kind of style.
Yeah, my taste in music and women drove my folks half wild.
Mom and Dad had a plan for me,
It was debutantes and er-symphonies,
But I like my music; I like my women wild.
Yeah, an' I like my women just a little on the trashy side,
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick an' er too much rouge,
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused.
An' I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Shoulda seen the looks on the faces of my Dad and Mom,
When I showed up at the door with a date for the senior prom.
They said: "Well, pardon us son, she ain't no kid.
"That's a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig.
I said: "I know it dad, ain't she cool, that's the kind I dig."
Yeah, an' I like my women just a little on the trashy side,
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick an' er too much rouge,
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused.
An' I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Instrumental break.
I like 'em sweet, I like 'em with a heart of gold.
Yeah an' I like 'em brassy, I like 'em brazen and bold.
Well, they say that opposites attract, well, I don't agree
I want a woman just as tacky as me.
Yeah, I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Yeah, an' I like my women just a little on the trashy side,
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick an' er too much rouge,
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused.
An' I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Yeah, I like my women an' I like 'em on the trashy side.
One of my fav-o-rytes! Ol' Jerry Jeff can sing 'em.
Great story of yours too. ;D
That is a great one ;D ;D ;D
I think of that one alot when I think of my prom--best friend of mine got a date from who knows where who knew alot more about life than we did ;) My date ended with a "thank ya mam" 'n' a peck on the cheek and his went well into the night! I'll have ta look up his number and ask him where he found that one. If she was lookin ta relive her youth, well I guess she did just that ;D
Again, great song.
Leo
In celebration of Leo's anniversary gift:
Rubber Duckie, you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you;
Woo woo be doo
Rubber Duckie, joy of joys,
When I squeeze you, you make noise!
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend, it's true!
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yellow and chubby
Rub-a-dub-a-dubby!
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you.
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yellow and chubby
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of -
Rubber Duckie, I'd like a whole pond of -
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you!
Doo doo, be doo
Which might accidentally lead you into this one.
"Breaker, Breaker One Nine"
"This is the Rubber Duck"
"You got a copy on me Pig Pen, Come on."
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
And a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We's headin' for bear on Eye-one-oh
'bout a mile outta Shakeytown
I says "Pigpen, this here's Rubber Duck"
"And I'm about to put the hammer down"
('cause we got a little ole convoy rockin' thru the night)
(Yeah, we got a little ole convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)
(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)
By the time we got into Tulsa-town we had 85 trucks in all
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears 's wall-to-wall
Yeah, them smokeys 's thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck"
"We about to go a-huntin' bear"
('cause we got a great big convoy rockin' thru the night)
(Yeah, we got a great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)
(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)
Well, we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four
Like a rocket-sled on rails
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that "Chi-town"
Them bears was a-gettin smart
They brought up some reinforcements
From the "Illinoise" National Guard
There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps
'n' rigs of ev'ry size
Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies
Well, we shot the line, we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey Shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I says "Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck"
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll"
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I says "let them truckers roll, ten-four"
('cause we got a mighty convoy rockin' thru the night)
(Yeah, we got a mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)
(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)
I sorta like "Wolfcreek Pass" by Mr. McCall.
Thanks fer the sar-o-nade Arcey ;D Lil an me got a huge kick outta that one. She won't stop humming it now...
My favorite CW McCall song...
Now arnold jones an' marybeth jensen's in a 'vette down by the deep rock
Had john denver on the 8-track, gettin' high
Marybeth's wig was on the floor
An' arnold's feet was out the door
When we shined our flashlight in arnold's startled eyes
I says "what chew doin' boy?
Don't chew know that's against the law?
We just gonna hafta get this situation under control
Now my name is fairweather lewis an' this here's willard clark
We the pottawattamie county love patrol."
Then two hippies in a chevy's puffin' grass an' sippin' wine
'bout fourteen mile south-east a' council bluffs
They's passin' 'round the peace-pipe
When we caught 'em with our flashlight
An' willard's hairy hands applied the cuffs.
I says, "boys you got some trouble
You committin' herb-i-cide.
We just gonna hafta get this situation under control
'cause i'm fairweather lewis, an' this here's willard clark
We the pottawattamie county weed patrol."
Then we spied ol' marvin kline a-headin' south on twenty-nine
Like a midnight auto ac-cessory store on wheels
His trunk was full a' hub caps
An' his back seat full a' tires
When we picked him up and made him spread his heels
I says, "hands up-on the wall, boy
You allowed t' make one call
We just gonna hafta get this situation under control
Cause, see, i'm fairweather lewis, an' this here's willard clark
We the pottawattamie county rip-off patrol."
Then orval hinkle left the go-go club on his brand-new motor-sickle
Runnin' stop-lights, raisin' hell an' causin' accidents
His brain was doin' wheelies
An' his blood was three-two beer
When we nailed him in his driveway at his residence
I says, "orval, you're in trouble boy
But if you'll blow this here balloon up
We gonna get your situation under control
Now i'm captain fairweather lewis an' this here's willard clark
We the pottawattamie county juice patrol."
Then we's passin' by the dew drop inn when he heard this woman scream
So we pulled on in an' parked an' got the guns out
Well we bashed on through the lobby into unit seventeen
There's twenty-eight folks in there without no clothes on.
I says "everbody up against the wall; show us yer identification.
We just gonna definitely get this situation under control
'cause my name is fairweather lewis, an' this here's willard clark
We the pottawattamie county sin patrol."
C'mon, willard, let's go sneakin' 'round in the dark some more, never know what yer gonna find.
I 'member before he was on national radio, seein' the Old Home Bread ads on TV. ;D Couple of local boys, the singer was a truckdriver and the producer and the guy in charge of the band is named Chip Davis, course he's inta Fresh Aire and some kinda German Steam Roller that makes Christmas music now. ;D
Ya mean the Manheim one?
Is there any music you ain't heard? ;D ;D ;D
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 25, 2008, 05:22:50 PM
Ya mean the Manheim one?
Is there any music you ain't heard? ;D ;D ;D
Leo
Yep that one, don't think Chip wants to admit he got his start producing CW, he was a adman in Omaha at the time. ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 25, 2008, 05:22:50 PM
Ya mean the Manheim one?
Is there any music you ain't heard? ;D ;D ;D
Leo
Del's heard a LOT!
But he'd never heard of
Zazu !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I like them Mannheim-ers.
Yep they got some good music, especially around the Holiday season.
Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas with out Mannheim Steamroller.
OK,
This is gonna take up some space. It's one of the few other whole album songs I know of. If ya have a minute (or 20) it's worth a run through. If ya have alot more time and strum the cue-stick geetar it's worth learnin ta play :D With that said...
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper -- your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter -- your love's in the sink.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
you make all your animal deals and
your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in
the tidal destruction
the moral melee.
The elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncovers
the newfangled way.
But your new shoes are worn at the heels and
your suntan does rapidly peel and
your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
And the love that I feel is so far away:
I'm a bad dream that I just had today -- and you
shake your head and
say it's a shame.
Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.
Draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth.
Spin me down the long ages: let them sing the song.
See there! A son is born -- and we pronounce him fit to fight.
There are black-heads on his shoulders, and he pees himself in the night.
We'll
make a man of him
put him to trade
teach him
to play Monopoly and
to sing in the rain.
The Poet and the painter casting shadows on the water --
as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea.
The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other --
as the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed.
The home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling --
but the master of the house is far away.
The horses stamping -- their warm breath clouding
in the sharp and frosty morning of the day.
And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.
And the youngest of the family is moving with authority.
Building castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside.
The cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the river
where the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea:
the builder of the castles renews the age-old purpose
and contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his need.
The young men of the household have
all gone into service and
are not to be expected for a year.
The innocent young master -- thoughts moving ever faster --
has formed the plan to change the man he seems.
And the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword.
And the oldest of the family is moving with authority.
Coming from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.
What do you do when
the old man's gone -- do you want to be him? And
your real self sings the song.
Do you want to free him?
No one to help you get up steam --
and the whirlpool turns you `way off-beam.
LATER.
I've come down from the upper class to mend your rotten ways.
My father was a man-of-power whom everyone obeyed.
So come on all you criminals!
I've got to put you straight just like I did with my old man --
twenty years too late.
Your bread and water's going cold.
Your hair is too short and neat.
I'll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me.
You curl your toes in fun as you smile at everyone -- you meet the stares.
You're unaware that your doings aren't done.
And you laugh most ruthlessly as you tell us what not to be.
But how are we supposed to see where we should run?
I see you shuffle in the courtroom with
your rings upon your fingers and
your downy little sidies and
your silver-buckle shoes.
Playing at the hard case, you follow the example of the comic-paper idol
who lets you bend the rules.
So!
Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super crooks
and show us all the way.
Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you?
Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day.
You put your bet on number one and it comes up every time.
The other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line.
And so you finally ask yourself just how big you are --
and take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.
And you wonder who to call on.
So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall --
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.
LATER.
See there! A man born -- and we pronounce him fit for peace.
There's a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease.
We'll
take the child from him
put it to the test
teach it
to be a wise man
how to fool the rest.
QUOTE
We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional
God is an overwhelming responsibility
we walked through the maternity ward and saw 218 babies wearing nylons
cats are on the upgrade
upgrade? Hipgrave. Oh, Mac.
LATER
In the clear white circles of morning wonder,
I take my place with the lord of the hills.
And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured (in neat little rows)
sporting canvas frills.
With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention,
while queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
Saying -- how's your granny and
good old Ernie: he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win.
The legends (worded in the ancient tribal hymn) lie cradled
in the seagull's call.
And all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun,
and signal for the crack of dawn.
Light the sun.
Do you believe in the day? Do you?
Believe in the day! The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun.
Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one.
Do you believe in the day?
The fading hero has returned to the night -- and fully pregnant with the day,
wise men endorse the poet's sight.
Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!
Let me tell you the tales of your life of
your love and the cut of the knife
the tireless oppression
the wisdom instilled
the desire to kill or be killed.
Let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by.
The pavements ar empty: the gutters run red -- while the fool
toasts his god in the sky.
So come all ye young men who are building castles!
Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus.
Mark the precise nature of your fear.
Let me help you pick up your dead as the sins of the father are fed
with
the blood of the fools and
the thoughts of the wise and
from the pan under your bed.
Let me make you a present of song as
the wise man breaks wind and is gone while
the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose and
the nursery rhyme winds along.
So! Come all ye young men who are building castles!
Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus.
Mark the precise nature of your fear.
See! The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you
and the hour of judgement draweth near.
Would you be
the fool stood in his suit of armour or
the wiser man who rushes clear.
So! Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super-crooks and
show us all the way.
Well! Make your will and testament.
Won't you? Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day.
So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through?
They're all resting down in Cornwall -- writing up their memoirs
for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual.
OF COURSE
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
you make all your animal deals and
your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
I studied and worked at a bar in Mannheim. ;D
did you take the BAR exam?
I got my PhD in heartaches and misery
And a BSM in barstool philosophy
You're my inspiration for higher education
Now the final test is right in front of me.
I'm taking the bar exam
Under a neon sign
I'm gonna graduate
When you're off my mind
In this honky tonk school
We got a hell of a band
Drink by drink I'm taking the bar exam.
I know beer, wine whiskey and gin
I studied every glass and bottle they come in
I pass with flying colors, so high above the others
So set 'em up I'm ready to begin
Cuz I'm taking the bar exam
Under a neon sign
I'm gonna graduate
When you're off my mind
In this honky tonk school
We got a hell of a band
Drink by drink I'm taking the bar exam."
;D ;D ;D
Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I guess I did. ;D
I think that was a large part of my college experience and my years in the military and being a rookie cop in the early 70's.
Hmmmm, that might explain why the early seventies is sort of a fuzzy memory in my mind. Only thing that seems to be clear from that period is that mass quantities of various types of alcohol products had severe bodily consequences the next day! :o
What he said!
Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I'd been picking.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking.
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken.
And Lord, it took me back to something that I'd lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way.
On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.
In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughing little girl that he was swinging.
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the songs they were singing.
Then I headed down the street,
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing,
And it echoed through the canyon
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.
On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.
Tomorrow morning is Monday and Man I'm feelin low, Please Mr. Bartender I need a six-pack to go.
Sundays always get me down like that too. :(
For Steel Horse, from a telly-phone conversation earlier today. ;D
DAC again.
He came from Kentucky least ways that's what I've been told
Me and fate had left that state before his corpse got cold
He'd been killed for gold when California could be sold
To any fool who had been told about the Punkin Center Barn Dance
Mama had the fever and my daddy sold his soul
To someone called the devil that he'd met along life's road
Dad would stop to drink a toast and mom was looking like a ghost
Was gonna beat us to the coast and the Punkin Center Barn Dance
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance that's where everyone would be
Dancing to Virginia's reel and the waltz of Tennessee
When the roll is called up yonder you can hear the angels sing
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance God is gold the grass is green
[ fiddle ]
Yeah I left California just before the Grateful Dead
Told the truth about the gold I'd searched for in my head
Like my Dad I'd roamed the land and Mom could never understand
How Lucifer could bring a man to the Punkin Center Barn Dance
Well times are changin' poets say since mom and dad both passed away
But some things in this life will never change
The poets write of things to come the earth will melt into the sun
And you and I will be the ones at the Punkin Center Barn Dance
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance...
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance...
:)
Now when I was young my
momma read me nursery rhymes beside my bed
though they sounded mighty fine they made no sense to me
now that i am all grown up it seems my nights have changed such
so i went out and made me up a nursery rhyme for me
Chorus
It goes barlight bar bright
first bar that i see tonight
wish i may wish i might
find someone to hold me tight
hey diddle diddle a man with a fiddle and the
girls sings along with the tune
just a one more dance til you turn off the lights and
you can shut down this saloon
Well I never understood
how a big ole gal could raise no kids in a shoe
and any old jack that goes jumping a candle
needs to find something better to do
rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub sure sounds kinda funny to me
so I made up a honky tonk nursery rhyme
and it's the only one I'll sing
Repeat Chorus
Well i never understood
how a big ole gal could raise no kids in a shoe
and any old jack that goes jumping a
candle needs to find something better to do
rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub sure sounds kinda funny to me
so I made up a honky tonk nursery rhyme
and it's the only one I'll sing
It's been stuck in my head for a day or so....another one of them Texas fellas
Was talkin' with daughter number two yesterevenin'. She was goin' on 'bout a kid she's havin' problems with in school. Sounded ta me like he was seekin' his own direction. Ain't believin' I sang 'er a song, Ain't done that since she was a l'il thing.
Flowers are Red
by Harry Chapin
The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw
And the teacher said.. What you doin' young man
I'm paintin' flowers he said
She said... It's not the time for art young man
And anyway flowers are green and red
There's a time for everything young man
And a way it should be done
You've got to show concern for everyone else
For you're not the only one
And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen
But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
Well the teacher said.. You're sassy
There's ways that things should be
And you'll paint flowers the way they are
So repeat after me.....
And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen
But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one
The teacher put him in a corner
She said.. It's for your own good..
And you won't come out 'til you get it right
And are responding like you should
Well finally he got lonely
Frightened thoughts filled his head
And he went up to the teacher
And this is what he said.. and he said
Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen
Time went by like it always does
And they moved to another town
And the little boy went to another school
And this is what he found
The teacher there was smilin'
She said...Painting should be fun
And there are so many colors in a flower
So let's use every one
But that little boy painted flowers
In neat rows of green and red
And when the teacher asked him why
This is what he said.. and he said
Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.
Was kindah surprised I remembered most the lyrics. It's been a long time.
O momma I am in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.
Law man has put in end to my running and I am so far from my home.
Oh momma I can hear you a crying you are so scared and all alone.
Hang man is coming down from the Gallows and I do not have very long...
:D ;DPR
"Well Miss Lippy, I colored my duck blue cause I never saw a blue duck before and I always wanted to see a blue duck"
--Billy Madison
Yeah it's a movie that's made up of nothing but foolishness, but Arcey's song brought that part directly ta mind :)
PR--The jig is is up, they finaly found me... ;)
Leo
one of them bluegrass homesick tunes
When I was young and in my prime (in my prime!),
I left my home in caroline.
Now all I do is sit and pine, for all those folks I left behind.
I got the blue ridge mountain blues, and I sat right here to say,
"my grip is packed to travel, and I'm back to ramble,
To my blue ridge far away."
I'm goin' to stay right by my pa, I'm goin' to do right by my ma,
I'll hang around the cabin door, no work or worry anymore.
I got the blue ridge mountain blues, goin' to see my old oak tree,
Gonna hunt the possum where the corn cob blossom,
In my blue ridge far away.
Woo!
I see a haze of snowy white, I see a window with light,
I seem to hear them both sigh, "where is my wand'rin boy tonight? "
I got the blue ridge mountain blues, and I stay right here to say,
"every day I'm countin' 'til I climb that mountain,
In my blue ridge far away."
Quote from: Pony Racer on April 30, 2008, 09:38:38 AM
O momma I am in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.
Law man has put in end to my running and I am so far from my home.
Oh momma I can hear you a crying you are so scared and all alone.
Hang man is coming down from the Gallows and I do not have very long...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YVS3zgTHOsw
OK,
Need some help here ::)
I was thinkin about a song that came out in the late 80's that I thought was called "The Box" It was about a father who passed on but none of the family realized how much he loved them until they found and opened a box he kept all his special things in. I did a search and had no luck. If any y'all know the song, I'd be much obliged ta ya.
Leo
Quote from: Pony Racer on April 30, 2008, 09:38:38 AM
O momma I am in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.
Law man has put in end to my running and I am so far from my home.
Oh momma I can hear you a crying you are so scared and all alone.
Hang man is coming down from the Gallows and I do not have very long...
:D ;DPR
Got that on my ringtone on my phone for the folks I do livin' history with.
Every one from Cas-City is Waylon's "I've always been crazy." ;D
I've always been crazy, but it keeps me from goin insane.
Quote from: Arcey on April 30, 2008, 11:56:43 AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YVS3zgTHOsw
I saw them once about seven years ago here in Greensboro. The crowd wasn't nearly as large, though. They partitioned the coliseum "special events center" (not even as large as the main coliseum) and they still only filled half of the seating capacity. It was still good music, though.
I hear on the news today that Dr Huffman, the inventor of LSD has passed on, age 102....makes me what else he was spearmintin' with ??? :o ??? ::)
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just dont seem the same
Actin funny, but I dont know why
scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Dont know if Im comin up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
[faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]
Hammerin
Talkin bout heart n...s-soul
Im talkin about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, {click} ahhh,
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Dont know if its day or night
You got me blowin, blowin my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
Ooo
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Purple haze, tell me, baby, tell me
I cant go on like this
Purple haze
Youre makin me blow my mind...mama
Purple haze, n-no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby
Kinah loses sumthin' without Jimi's guitar.
Damn. What that man couldah done with taday's synthesizers 'n electronics is a scary thought.......
Quote from: Arcey on April 30, 2008, 07:39:48 PM
Kinah loses sumthin' without Jimi's guitar.
Damn. What that man couldah done with taday's synthesizers 'n electronics is a scary thought.......
Never thought about that, is a bit scary.
Quote from: Arcey on April 30, 2008, 07:39:48 PM
Kinah loses sumthin' without Jimi's guitar.
Damn. What that man couldah done with taday's synthesizers 'n electronics is a scary thought.......
they got programs now, you could play and sound like him
Do they involve twelve steps? ;D
I have got a remastered CD of the Purple Haze album. It sounds even better than the original, especially the National Anthem.
Got in the mood for som Hoyt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Axton that is. ;D
Most folks have heard songs he wrote, but little he sang, wrote a lot the onesThree Dog Night and Steppenwolf did.
BTW his Mama wrote Heartbreak Hotel. :)
It was Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo,
Left the city in a pick-up truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, they rolled out west where the wild sun sets,
And the coyote bays at the moon.
Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Down Tucson way there's a small cafe,
Where they play a little cowboy tune.
And the guitar picker was a friend of mine,
By the name of Randy Boone.
Yeah, Randy played her a sweet love song,
And Della got a fire in her eye.
The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun,
And the cat had a shot of rye.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Yeah, the Dealer was a killer; he was evil and mean,
And he was jealous of the fire in her eyes.
He snorted his coke through a century note,
And he swore that Boone would die.
And the stage was set when the lights went out,
There was death in Tucson town.
Two shadows ran for the bar back door,
But one stayed on the ground.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Two shadows ran from the bar that night,
And a dog and a cat ran too.
And the tires got hot on the pickup truck,
As down the road they flew.
It was Della and her lover and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
Left Tucson in a pickup truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Course I think we can all relate to this one by the Bellamy Brothers to some degree or another. ::)ourse the song itself is over 20 years old. :o
He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He get's out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense
He gets off on country music
Cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
But he's just too friggin' old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip
And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy
And in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
But he just can't change no more
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
Well, he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
Reminds me, I need to go out and put some Round-Up out in my backyard, by the fence. :o
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Quote from: Trinity on May 01, 2008, 06:23:36 PM
Do they involve twelve steps? ;D
I started to post this in group therapy ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on May 01, 2008, 06:44:03 PM
Course I think we can all relate to this one by the Bellamy Brothers to some degree or another. ::)ourse the song itself is over 20 years old. :o
I remeber Willie Nelson doin that one with some friends a his.
Leo
Del, Some of us are not as old as you are, I personally was too young to remember those songs.
;D
I've trying to find a copy of NBC's miniseries about the 60's, too young to remember anything about it.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 03, 2008, 10:43:58 AM
I've trying to find a copy of NBC's miniseries about the 60's, too young to remember anything about it.
If you find it, burn me a copy I love History ;D
heard a couple good ones on the Sirrus radio today...One from the Queen of the Blues
"Cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Honey, welcome back home.
I know she told you,
Honey I know she told you that she loved you
Much more than I did,
But all I know is that she left you,
And you swear that you just don't know why,
But you know, honey I'll always,
I'll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh honey, welcome back home.
Don't you know, honey,
Ain't nobody ever gonna love you
The way I try to do ?
Who'll take all your pain,
Honey, your heartache, too ?
And if you need me, you know
That I'll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh daddy, like you always saying to do.
And when you walk around the world, babe,
You said you'd try to look for the end of the road,
You might find out later that the road'll end in Detroit,
Honey, the road'll even end in Kathmandu.
You can go all around the world
Trying to find something to do with your life, baby,
When you only gotta do one thing well,
You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe.
You got a woman waiting for you there,
All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman
And that'll be the end of the road, babe,
I know you got more tears to share, babe,
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
And cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby.
And if you ever feel a little lonely, dear,
I want you to come on, come on to your mama now,
And if you ever want a little love of a woman
Come on and baby baby baby babe babe baby now
Cry baby yeah."
too bad she was so self destructive along with so many others since her
this one I have been feeling lately that it's about me, before you start asking not in marital life.
I been run down, I been lied to,
I don't know why I let that mean woman make me a fool.
She took all my money, wrecked my new car.
Now she's with one of my goodtime buddies,
They're drinkin' in some crosstown bar.
Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I been tied to the whipping post,
Tied to the whipping post,
Tied to the whipping post,
Good lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.
My friends tell me, that I've been such a fool,
And I have to stand by and take it baby, all for lovin' you.
Drown myself in sorrow, and I look at what you've down.
But nothin' seems to change, the bad times stay the same,
And I can't run.
Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I been tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post,
Tied to the whipping post,
Good lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.
Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I been tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post,
Tied to the whipping post,
Good lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.
just one of them days I needed to hear some blues
Try ta hear the original Screamin Jay when this goes thru yer head. CCR was great, but, well the original is best.
I put a spell on you
'cause you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'
You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You're mine
I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
If you don't want me
I'm yours right now
You hear me
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
Without John Fogerty, It aint CCR.
Local Sunday olies show played this one today, more Coe, a favorite of mine.
(Removes hat.)
Well, I was thumbin' from Montgomery
I had my guitar on my back
When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac
Well he was dressed like 1950
Half drunk and hollow-eyed
He said "Its a long walk to Nashville
Would you like a ride, son?"
And well I sat down in the front seat, he turned on the radio
Them sad old songs comin' out of them speakers was solid country gold
And I noticed the stranger was ghost-white pale
When he asked me for a light
And I knew there was something strange about this ride
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
Then he cried just south of Nashville
And he turned that car around
He said "This is where you get off boy,
Cause I'm goin' back to Alabam'"
As I stepped out of that Cadillac
I said "Mister, many thanks"
He said "You don't have to call me Mister, Mister.,
The whole world called me Hank
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
He said "Drifter can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, its a long, hard ride"
"The Ride".
Remember the phantom whistling? :o
And yes TLD, I actualy member that one when it first came out ;D I think it was '82 or so an my Pop listened to the country station.
Leo
1983, late winter, early spring. ;D Worked in a Body Shop at the time, I'd heard it, no one else had, heard it come on and told everyone it was on. No hammerin' no sander runnin', dead silence. After about a minute of that the boss came out to see what the heck was wrong, we were just standin' there around my radio. He asked what's wrong, told him to sushhh for a bit. ;D
"The Ride" and the "Perfect Country and Western Song" are my favorite David Alan Coe songs.
Another by Alan Jackson in the same vein.
(removes hat)
Midnight in Montgomery, silver eagle, lonely road
I was on my way to Mobile for a big New Year's Eve show
I stopped for just a minute to see a friend outside of town
Put my collar up, I found his name, and felt the wind die down
Then a drunk man in a cowboy hat took me by surprise
Wearing shiny boots, a Nudi suit and haunting haunted eyes
He said 'Friend it's good to see you, it's nice to know you care'
Then the wind picked up and he was gone
Was he ever really there
'Cause it's midnight in Montgomery
Just hear that whipporwill
See the stars light up the purple sky
Feel that lonesome chill
Cause when the wind is right, you'll hear his songs
Smell whiskey in the air
Midnight in Montgomery
He's always singing there
Well, I climbed back on that eagle, took one last look around
Through red tail lights a shadow moved slow across the ground
And off somewhere a midnight train is slowly passing by
I could hear that whistle moaning
I'm so lonesome I could cry
'Cause it's midnight in Montgomery
Just hear that whipporwill
See the stars light up the purple sky
Feel that lonesome chill
Cause when the wind is right, you'll hear his songs
Smell whiskey in the air
Midnight in Montgomery
He's always singing there
He's always singing there
Oh Hank's always singing there
Alan does some good Tradition country songs, especially his new one. I don't remember the title, but I've seen the video a couple of times.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 04, 2008, 12:39:38 PM
"The Ride" and the "Perfect Country and Western Song" are my favorite David Alan Coe songs.
I'm kinda partial to this one, got it on the ringtone fer my messages on my phone.
COUNTRY DEEJAYS KNOWS THAT I'M AN OUTLAW
THEY'D NEVER COME TO SEE ME IN THIS DIVE
WHERE BIKERS STARE AT COWBOYS
WHO ARE LAUGHING' AT THE HIPPIES
WHO ARE PRAYING' THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE
LOUDMOUTH IN THE CORNER'S GETTING' TO ME
TALKIN' 'BOUT MY EARRINGS AND MY HAIR
I GUESS HE AIN'T READ THE SIGNS THAT SAY I'VE BEEN TO PRISON
SOMEONE OUGHT TO WARN HIM
'FORE I KNOCK HIM OFF HIS CHAIR
'CAUSE MY LONG HAIR JUST CAN'T COVER UP MY REDNECK
I'VE WON EVERY FIGHT I'VE EVER FOUGHT
AND I DON'T NEED SOME TURKEY TELLING' ME THAT I AIN'T COUNTRY
SAYING' I AIN'T WORTH DAMNED
OLD TICKET THAT HE BOUGHT
'CAUSE I CAN SING ALL THEM SONGS ABOUT TEXAS
AND I STILL DO ALL THE SAD ONES THAT I KNOW
THEY TELL ME I LOOK LIKE MERLE HAGGARD
AND SOUND A LOT LIKE DAVID ALLAN COE
AND THE BARMAID IN THE LAST TOWN THAT WE PLAYED IN
KNEW THE WORDS TO EVERY SONG I'D WROTE
SHE SAID JIMMY RABBIT TURNED HER ON TO MY LAST ALBUM
JUST ABOUT THE TIME THE JUKE BOX BROKE
YEAH, JOHNNY CASH HELPED ME GET OUT OF PRISON
LONG BEFORE RODRIGUEZ STOLE THAT GOAT
I'VE BEEN THE RHINESTONE COWBOY FOR SO LONG I CAN'T REMEMBER
AND I CAN DO YOU EVERY SONG
HANK WILLIAMS EVER WROTE
AND I CAN SING ALL THEM SONGS ABOUT TEXAS
AND I STILL DO ALL THE SAD ONES THAT I KNOW
I CAN'T HELP IT, I LOOK LIKE MERLE HAGGARD
AND I SOUND A LOT LIKE DAVID ALLAN COE
BUT THE COUNTRY D.J.'S ALL THINK I'M AN OUTLAW
AND THEY'D NEVER COME TO SEE ME IN THIS DIVE
WHERE BIKERS STARE AT COWBOYS
WHO ARE LAUGHING' AT THE HIPPIES
WHO ARE PRAYING' THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE
THE LOUDMOUTH IN THE CORNER'S GETTING' TO ME
TALKIN' 'BOUT MY EARRINGS AND MY HAIR
Also like this one, he opened his show in Lincoln in Dec 1976 with it.
CAN'T SEE NOTHING' BUT SPOTLIGHTS
SPOTLIGHTS SEE NOTHING' BUT ME
ALL OF MY MUSIC IS LONELY
YEA, ALL OF MY HEARTACHES WERE FREE
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR YOUR FLASH BULBS
TOO MANY HEROES ARE DEAD
YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN THE CITY
YEA, I LIKE TO LIVE IN MY HEAD
SOMEBODY SHOOT OUT THAT SPOTLIGHT
SPOTLIGHTS AIN'T NOTHING' BUT JIVE
ROLL ME A SMOKE, AND GIVE ME SOME COKE
TREAT ME LIKE I AM ALIVE
TELL ALL THE LADIES I'M SINGLE
TELL LONE STAR BEER THAT I'M DRY
EVERYONE'S LYING' BOUT LIVING'
I'M TIRED OF LIVING' A LIE
I SPEND MY NIGHTTIMES IN MOURNING'
I SPEND MY MORNING'S ALONE
YOU SPENT YOUR YOUR MONEY TO SEE ME TONIGHT
YEA, I SPENT ALL MINE GETTING' STONED
NOW THAT THEY'RE BOTH KINDA BUSTED
DOESN'T IT SEEM KINDA STRANGE
THAT I LAY DOWN KNOWING WE'RE TWO OF A KIND
AND YOU'LL LEAVE HERE KNOWING MY NAME
You never seen such a shocked crowd, he opened for Willie, Willie was not as well known then, but a lot of Willie fans, I and my friends were there to see Coe. ;D
Willie was a well kept secret everywhere but Texas. I saw him in the 60s when he had a crewcut and wore a turtleneck and a sportcoat.
I'll start this one off the toppa ma head...hope I don screw it up ::)
Well the old man was covered in tattoos and scars
some he got in the war and other in bars
some he got workin on old junk cars...in the daytime :D
I understand if we can't do this one here ;)
Leo
Not me, I never posted that one or several others of his for reasons. ;D
Maybe we ought to do this one instead first to see if slips by the moderator. ;)
I MET HER IN ATLANTA
SHE WAS A-DANCING IN A CAFE
WITH A PRICE TAG ON HER BODY
AND A TOMBSTONE IN HER EYE
YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS NOT HAPPY
BY THE WAY SHE KEPT ON STARING
PAST THE OTHER SIDE OF NOWHERE
AT A MAN SHE'D LIKE TO TRY
AND THE MAKE-UP SHE HAD PAINTED
COULD NOT HIDE THE YOUTHFUL MOTIONS
OF HER BODY
FROM THE MUSIC OR THE CROWD
I STARED LIKE ALL OTHERS
WITH MY RIGHT HAND IN MY POCKET
WHILE SHE SHOWED US
EVERYTHING THE LAW ALLOWED
TWENTY BUCKS AN HOUR LATER
MY ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENT
I WAS FEELING WEAK
FROM ALL THE SEEDS I'D SOWN
SHE WAS SWEET, SHE WAS GENTLE
AS SHE INTRODUCED MY BODY
TO SOME PLEASURES
IT HAD NEVER EVER KNOWN
WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE MORNING
SHE WAS A-LAYING THERE BESIDE ME
LIKE A KITTEN
WITH HER FACE TURNED TO THE SUN
AND A LOOK OF SATISFACTION
ON HER LIPS THAT MADE ME WONDER
IF SHE EVER FELT ASHAMED
OF WHAT WE'D DONE
SO I LEFT HER IN ATLANTA
SHE WAS A-DANCING IN CAFE
WITH A PRICE TAG ON HER BODY
AND A TOMESTONE IN HER EYE
AND I GUESS SHE STILL AIN'T HAPPY
BY THE WAY SHE KEEPS ON STARING
PAST THE OTHER SIDE OF NOWHERE
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 04, 2008, 12:58:18 PM
Willie was a well kept secret everywhere but Texas. I saw him in the 60s when he had a crewcut and wore a turtleneck and a sportcoat.
Now that's funny........
"Hello. Is this Fly-By-Night Record marketing? My name is, (?) and I think my act may need a make over."
Yeah, I fergot about one a the words he used in there. I was concerned about the obvious one an the one about his sister--but the other won't do. Didn't look up the song til just now ::)
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 04, 2008, 01:52:56 PM
Yeah, I fergot about one a the words he used in there. I was concerned about the obvious one an the one about his sister--but the other won't do. Didn't look up the song til just now ::)
Leo
Well he's got some that ain't good to post here. but this one will pass. ;D Coe spend a lot of years in the slammer afore he pulled his head out, he's got
a bit quite a potty mouth at times. ::)
I'd heard The Burritos out in California
could fly higher than The Byrds
Roger McGuinn had a 12 string guitar.
It was like nothing I'd ever heard
And The Eagles flew in from the west coast
Like The Byrds they were trying to be free
While in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws
Like Willie and Waylon and me.
Hey!
Well they say Texas music is in the make
And we've been making music that is free
Doing one night stands and playing with our bands
Willie, Waylon and me
Oh Mad Dog!
They say The Beatles were just the beginning
of everything music could be
Just like The Stones I was rolling along
Like a ship lost out on the sea
And Joplin would die for the future
And Dylan would write poetry
And in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws
Like Willie and Waylon and me
Hey!
My name is David Allen Coe and I'm from Dallas Texas.
They say Texas music is in the make
And we've been making music that is free
Doing one night stands and playing with our bands
Willie, Waylon and me
Big Jim!
I'd heard The Burritos out in California
could fly higher than The Byrds
Roger McGuinn had a 12 string guitar.
It was like nothing I'd ever heard
And The Eagles flew in from the west coast
Like The Byrds they were trying to be free
While in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws
Like Willie and Waylon and me.
The Flying Buritto Brothers, hadn't thought about them in a long time. Who could forget the Geezenslaw Brothers?
CAN FEEL YOUR ARMS AROUND ME
LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY
I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARING NEXT TO ME
AND HEAR YOUR LAUGHTER GAY
YOU TRIED TO TELL ME WHAT WAS RIGHT
AND I TOLD YOU WHAT WAS REAL
ALL I EVER LIVE FOR NOW
IS THIS PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
IN A WORLD THAT'S FULL OF TROUBLE
A WORLD THAT'S FULL OF PAIN
LORD, MANY FALL BESIDE THE ROAD
AND THEY NEVER RISE AGAIN
MANY MORE ARE BENDING LOW
OR BROKEN AT THE WHEEL
ALL I NEED TO CARRY ON
IS THIS PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
I WAS BORN MY MOTHER'S ONLY SON
SHE LOVES ME ALL SHE CAN
BUT THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SAY TO HER
SINCE I BECAME A MAN
AND I OFTEN MET THE DEVIL
BUT I NEVER MADE A DEAL
I JUST THANK THE LORD FOR HANDS TO PLAY
THE PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
IT'S FACE IS SCARRED AND BEATEN
LIKE THE RAGGED CLOTHES I WEAR
LIKE THE BODY THAT GOD GAVE ME
I MIGHT GIVE IT BETTER CARE
BUT I PLAY IT FOR THE LADIES
AND I PLAY IT FOR A MEAL
I PLAY THE STRINGS JUST TO HEAR 'EM RING
ON THIS PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
I'M GROWING TIRED OF SEARCHING NOW
THERE'S NOTHING MUCH I CRAVE
GIVE OR TAKE A LITTLE TIME
AND YOU CAN WRITE IT ON MY GRAVE
THERE'S NOTHING MORE I CARE TO OWN
NOTHING LEFT TO FEEL
ALL I EVER WANTED
WAS THIS PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
IN A WORLD THAT'S FULL OF TROUBLE
A WORLD THAT'S FULL OF PAIN
LORD, MANY FALL BESIDE THE ROAD
AND THEY NEVER RISE AGAIN
MANY MORE ARE BENDING LOW
OR BROKEN AT THE WHEEL
ALL I NEED TO CARRY ON
IS THIS PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
I WAS BORN MY MOTHER'S ONLY SON
SHE LOVES ME ALL SHE CAN
BUT THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SAY TO HER
SINCE I BECAME A MAN
AND I OFTEN MET THE DEVIL
BUT I NEVER MADE A DEAL
I JUST THANK THE LORD FOR HANDS TO PLAY
THE PIECE OF WOOD AND STEEL
I'LL BE PLAYING THIS GUITAR TILL THE DAY I DIE
This one covers a lot of Greats...
There are winds of changes blowing
Gathering leaves up in its path
And the people who are the leaves
Will remain in our hearts
With love, till eternity
King Elmore was born,
So was Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll made love
Bessie Smith was created in heaven above
Robert Johnson sang the blues
Shick Webb did those things that only he could do
Charlie Christian started a new thing
And, oh my, how Billie Holiday could sing
Alan Freed rock and rolled,
Joe Turner's voice was very low
B.B. King wailed
Charlie Parker cried
Louis Jordan smiled
Ray Charles moaned,
Chuck Berry rock and rolled
Fats Domino made me feel good
Elvis Presley did things that no one thought he could
Then came the Beatles, Rolling Stones
Whole new thing was going on.
Frank Zappa zapped
Mamas and Papas knew where it was at
They all listened to Ravi Shankar.
Now that we got Jimi Hendrix
We know where we are (and Louis Jordan smiled)
And the winds of change go on blowing, blowing,
Gathering more and more leaves in its path,
As time goes past
Winds of change keep on blowing,
Winds of change keep on blowing,
Bob Dylan sang about the winds of change
Blowing, it's all blowing, the winds of change.
Willie was better known as a songwriter than a singer in the beginning of his career. He played bass for Ray Price.
Ol' Willie once asked my mother to dance at a honky tonk in the hill country outside of SA. My mother, being the snooty one that she is, turned up her nose at the unkempt guy talking to her and walked away. She didn't know who he was until her friends told her.
She dated a senator for a while. That was more her style. I was too young and don't remember his name, but I do remember that he drove a Cadillac with power windows. ;D
She'd turn her nose away from if he like he was when I encountered the fool.
He was scheduled to play the Norva 'n his bunch were takin' their instruments inside. He was standin' on the sidewalk beside his tour bus talkin' to two normal lookin' guys. I walked past them 'n he stunk sumthin' awful. Don't even wanna think what the inside of that bus smelled like. Bet the little grease ball ain't seen a change of clothes, bar of soap or a shower inna week.
Quote from: Arcey on May 05, 2008, 07:32:51 PM
She'd turn her nose away from if he like he was when I encountered the fool.
He was scheduled to play the Norva 'n his bunch were takin' their instruments inside. He was standin' on the sidewalk beside his tour bus talkin' to two normal lookin' guys. I walked past them 'n he stunk sumthin' awful. Don't even wanna think what the inside of that bus smelled like. Bet the little grease ball ain't seen a change of clothes, bar of soap or a shower inna week.
Funny, I always has a sneakin suspicion bout that.
If you look at any footage of his shows, the band is standin WAY back. ;D ;D ;D
am I wrong?Leo
Quote from: Arcey on May 05, 2008, 07:32:51 PM
She'd turn her nose away from if he like he was when I encountered the fool.
He was scheduled to play the Norva 'n his bunch were takin' their instruments inside. He was standin' on the sidewalk beside his tour bus talkin' to two normal lookin' guys. I walked past them 'n he stunk sumthin' awful. Don't even wanna think what the inside of that bus smelled like. Bet the little grease ball ain't seen a change of clothes, bar of soap or a shower inna week.
He kind of gives off that impression. He is, after all, a hippie. BO and Cannabis are no doubt the prevailing odors on his bus. I do like his music though. Leastways as I hear it. I also like how he doesn't let anybody pigeon-hole him. I'm not saying he's a "good" singer, but at least he'll sing almost
any style as badly as another. ;D
Willie is "On the Road Again" all the time and doesn't have time for a bath. Willie lived in Nashville for awhile years ago. The house caught fire. Willie was standing outside and suddenly ran back inside the house. He came back out with a small box. One of the firefighters asked him why he went back in. Willie didn't want his Marihuana to burn up.
OK, mystry tune, no fair usin' Google, tell me who wrote it and did it. Might surprise you if you is only used to what they played on the radio. BTW he was not allowed to sing this one on Carson, story is at the filming Carson bout rolled out of his seat, but the suits said "No Way." ;D
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket,
Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket.
Let the drum and bugle corps play taps while cannons roar
And sixteen liveried employees sell souvenirs from the funeral store.
I want to go simply when I go,
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know,
With a casket lined in fleece
And fireworks spelling out "Rest in Peace."
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn, they understand there.
They have a heavenly choir and a military band there.
Just put me in their care, I'll find my comfort there
With sixteen planes in a last salute they'll drop a cross in a parachute.
I want to go simply when I go,
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know:
With a hundred strolling strings
And topless dancers with golden wings!
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Oh, come, come, come, come,
Come to the church in the wildwood,
Kindly leave a contribution in the pail.
Be as simple and as trusting as a child would
And we'll sell you the church in the dale.
To find a simple resting place is my desire;
To lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher.
My likeness cast in brass will stand in plastic grass
While hidden weights and springs tip its hat to the mourners filing past!
I want to go simply when I go.
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know.
I'll lie beneath the sand
With piped in tapes of Billy Graham.
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
For a slightly higher fee!
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn!
I've heard the song, Del, but for the life of me can't remember the artist's name..............Buck 8) ::) :o
Forest Lawn is the famous cemetary in Los Angeles where the movie stars are buried.
And there be lots of others with the same name. ;D
I believe I've heard John Denver do it. We've got a Forest Lawn here, too........Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on May 07, 2008, 06:42:14 PM
I believe I've heard John Denver do it. We've got a Forest Lawn here, too........Buck 8) ::)
Bingo, you have it. ;D
Don't remember, did he have a big fancy funeral?
Believe it was fairly sizeable, but don't remember where they planted him...........Buck 8) ::) :-\
I could hear the voice in my head, but couldn't match it with a name for awhile there 8) ::)
We've got a Forrest Lawn here too. ;D
I like John Denver, but that usually gets stares when I admit it. I guess I would get even stranger stares if I told folks that I own John Denver and the Muppets album: A Christmas Together. 8)
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Trinity, Folks don't think that you're any more strange than the rest of us.
;D ;D ;D
We'ze strange? ??? I thought alla them other folk was! ::)
People are strange when you're a stranger,
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down.
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain.
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange,
When you're strange,
When you're strange.
All right, yeah!
People are strange when you're a stranger,
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down.
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
Alright yeah
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
;D
For Trinity:
Grandma's Feather Bed
Recorded by John Denver
Lyrics and music by Jim Connor
When I was a little bitty boy,
just up off the floor
We used to go down to Grandma's house,
every month end or so
We had chicken pie and country ham,
and home made butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
was her great big feather bed
Chorus:
It was nine feet tall and six feet wide,
soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of forty-leven geese,
took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
It'd hold eight kids and four hound dogs
and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lotta fun
on Grandma's feather bed
After supper we'd sit around the fire
the old folks'd spit and chew
Pa would talk about the farm and war
and Granny'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
till the cobwebs filled my head
Next thing I'd know, I'd wake up in the mornin'
in the middle of the old feather bed
Repeat chorus
Well, I love my Ma, I love my Pa
I love Granny and Grandpa too
I been fishin' with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
and I even kissed Aunt Lou - ooh!
But if I ever had to make a choice
I guess it oughta be said
that I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road
for Grandma's feather bed
Repeat chorus
I used ta sing that song in the shower when I was a kid. ;D
That an thank God I'm a Country Boy. Mom got the album fer a birthday or somethin an we listened to it everyday.
Leo
OK, now my wife that passed away had been a Jehovah Witness, before I met her, she said the JW's hated John Denver and his music, something to do with his wife being one and the things he said about them after his divorce. she always used to say that John Denver music was to the JW's like a cross to a Vampire ;D ;D
I always thought about walking out on the porch singing thank God I'm a Country Boy when some of the Jehovah Witness's showed up. ;D
don't mean to offend anyone, just a true story. ;D
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on May 08, 2008, 12:18:24 PM
OK, now my wife that passed away had been a Jehovah Witness, before I met her, she said the JW's hated John Denver and his music, something to do with his wife being one and the things he said about them after his divorce. she always used to say that John Denver music was to the JW's like a cross to a Vampire ;D ;D
I always thought about walking out on the porch singing thank God I'm a Country Boy when some of the Jehovah Witness's showed up. ;D
don't mean to offend anyone, just a true story. ;D
Thanks fer the tip!!! ;D Who'd a ever thought John Denver of all music...
(also not meanin ta offend--just like ta sleep in on Sundays with no knockin at the door)
Leo
FREAKY!!!
While I was posting that Lil was on the porch talkin ta someone--figgered it was the mail lady. Guess who it was? :o It's been years since a visit and just then...
Very strange how things happen ::)
Leo
You involuntarily psychicly summoned them Leo! ;D
Must have ;) Gotta watch doin that in the future. I'm still scratchin ma head over that one :-\ It's true, life ain't nothin but a funny funny riddle ;D
Well life on the farm is kinda laid back
Aint much an old country boy like me cant hack
Its early to rise, early in the sack
Thank God Im a country boy
Well a simple kinda life never did me no harm
A raisin me a family and workin on a farm
My days are all filled with an easy country charm
Thank God Im a country boy
Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy
When the works all done and the suns settlin low
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow
The kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low
Thank God Im a country boy
Id play sally goodin all day if I could
But the lord and my wife wouldnt take it very good
So I fiddle when I could, work when I should
Thank God Im a country boy
Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy
Well I wouldnt trade my life for diamonds and jewels
I never was one of them money hungry fools
Iid rather have my fiddle and my farmin tools
Thank God Im a country boy
Yeah, city folk drivin in a black limousine
A lotta sad people thinkin thats mighty keen
Son, let me tell ya now exactly what I mean
Thank God Im a country boy
Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy
Well, my fiddle was my daddys till the day he died
And he took me by the hand and held me close to his side
Said, live a good life and play my fiddle with pride
And thank God youre a country boy
My daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
Taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle
Taught me how to love and how to give just a little
Thank God Im a country boy
Well I got me a fine wife I got me a fiddle
When the suns comin up I got cakes on the griddle
Life aint nothin but a funy funny riddle
Thank God Im a country boy
Thank God Im a country boy
Another satisfied customer from the phyisick network!
gotta admit that is a little strange, gonna havta get that music piped out on the porch. ;D
Not ta beat it inta the ground, but it was wierd.
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains
We were just beginnin', it was such an easy way
Layin' back up in the mountains, makin' songs for summer days
She got tired of pickin' daisies, cookin' my meals for me
She can live the life she wants to, yes, it's alright with me
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains
I'd rather live on the side of a mountain
Than wander through canyons of concrete and steel
I'd rather laugh with the rain and the sunshine
Then lay down my sun down in some starry field
Oh, but i miss her in the morning, when i awake alone
The absence of her laughter, is a cold and empty sound
But her memory always makes me smile, and i want you to know
I love her yes i love her, just enough to let her go
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love the lady's chains
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the reigns
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down and love lady's chains
Had a as Paul would say, a strange with those folks one time. Was at the farm, pickin' cherries, thought I heard a car door down by the trailer. Headed over there, saw strangers gettin' out of a car, 2 men, two wimmin, out a state plates. Grabbed the dogs collar, (my last Lab) the hair stood up on his neck and he growled at them, unusual for him.
Oh I had on a pair of bibs, snubby 38 in the poket, bare feet and a bandanna on my head. Two pick-ups with 3 hole gun racks full up sittin' by their car. The trailer can hardly be seen from the road and there is no mail box. They told me what they were and what they wanted. Told them I was a Druid and every one around there was one also and didn't welcome outsiders. ;D
Last I seen them they had topped the hill 3 miles away and were headed for the highway. ::)
A Druid?
;D :o ::)
Lady who showed up at our door started goin on ta Lil about a pagan woman she had run into recently an started spoutin Revelations an how the end was near. Lil jus said, "yes it is, an much sooner than ya think"
Damn, that woman's somethin else :D
Leo
So here's ta Lil...
You fill up my senses
Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
Let me give my life to you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
You fill up my senses
Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 08, 2008, 05:21:07 PM
A Druid?
;D :o ::)
Lady who showed up at our door started goin on ta Lil about a pagan woman she had run into recently an started spoutin Revelations an how the end was near. Lil jus said, "yes it is, an much sooner than ya think"
Damn, that woman's somethin else :D
Leo
you think that woman had a story, just think if you'd been the one that run into Del out there with his overall's and bare feet, bandana & growling dog, you've seen his picture, I'd a like to have heard that story dodwn to the JW's hall. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 08, 2008, 05:21:07 PM
A Druid?
;D :o ::)
Lady who showed up at our door started goin on ta Lil about a pagan woman she had run into recently an started spoutin Revelations an how the end was near. Lil jus said, "yes it is, an much sooner than ya think"
Damn, that woman's somethin else :D
Leo
Leo, come down to the Newbrassky thread on the summer or winter solstice, we're all Druids in that thread. :o :o :o :o
Dang! You feller's are going to make me dig out my John Denver album. Besides the Christmas album, I'm sure I've got one or two others.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on May 08, 2008, 12:18:24 PM
OK, now my wife that passed away had been a Jehovah Witness, before I met her, she said the JW's hated John Denver and his music, something to do with his wife being one and the things he said about them after his divorce. she always used to say that John Denver music was to the JW's like a cross to a Vampire ;D ;D
I always thought about walking out on the porch singing thank God I'm a Country Boy when some of the Jehovah Witness's showed up. ;D
don't mean to offend anyone, just a true story. ;D
Well, I guess that means you won't buy a magazine from me when I come a-callin'. What a shame, because I just got litl trinity in a suit with his hair all plastered down. ;D
Kinda a surprise to read that your visitors didn't have a kid with them Del. I had thought that childless ones were issued them for their sales calls. :)
Well they were in the wilds of johnson County Newbrassky, over 4 miles from a paved road, might have decided not to risk it. Wonder what would of happened if I'd a told them I'd make them squeal like a pig. BTW Forty Rod, your folks are welcome to come by any time, they are nice and polite. When the CLS come by, I end up sittin' around talkin' history with them. They have always been more than polite.
BTW ol' Louey LaMaour (sp) is responsible for my Druid thing, anyone ever read "The Walking Drum."
Howdy Gang
I waz readin' back a few pages (have been outta town for a while) and noted the trivia question on "Forest Lawn", well, before good ol JD did it, it was done by the Chad Mitchell Trio....(before JD joined up with the Trio..) I found some Early Chad on a CD recently in a Virgin store, but back to the Chad Mitchell Trio, JD joined up with the trio after Chad left and took over the responsibility of $65,000 in debts and he paid it all off...
I recently told Miz Debbie of EMF to go back and read some of the old Kumbuya Part Deaux pages, told her she would get a little laff outta it...
anyways I got to see old JD in concert here in SoCal once, excellent show, he played til intermission time, his band left the stage, then he played solo til they came back, and they played anothe 45 minutes or so....cool concert..
take care all
curley
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on May 08, 2008, 04:55:03 AM
We'ze strange? ??? I thought alla them other folk was! ::)
They are
Guilty by association.
This guy is burried at a Forrest Lawn.
One of his early little known songs...
jelly bean, jelly bean
well that's the name we picked for you
and it fits you to-a-t
and now i tell you why it's true
'cause you're sweet 'n' swell 'n' round
and a-penny to the pound, jelly bean
there's a guy who lives in our block
his name is curly carr
each night he comes around the street
packin' his guitar
stops at jelly bean's house
that pretty little thing
bows his head and bends his knees
you oughta hear him sing
jelly bean comes to the window
and she listens for a while
never even blinks her eye, always in a smile
tosses up her pretty curls and turns to go
packs his guitar on more time
and sings his tale of woe
cain't believe y'lll didn't mention Eddie Arnold passin' on yesterday
I hadn't heard that. The "Tennessee Plowboy".
always enjoyed Eddie Arnold,
my mom and dad would always tell the story or going to Nashville, to see the Grand Old Oprea and going back to their Motor Inn, where you just pulled your car up to your own little room. anyway, they went back after the show and were setting out on the porch smoking when the car pulled up the next cabin over, a fellar got out and came walking over to their porch and asked if he could bum a cigarette, sat down there on the dark porch and started visiting with em. Dad said he told him he farmed, the guy told him he had followed a mule many a mile, said they set there about an hour before Mom went in and got em something to drink and turned on the porch light, said it was Eddie Arnold, They set there near all night talking with him, smoking and telling stories. They said ya never seen anybody so friendly and ready to vist. said he was gone next day when they came back, but they told that story a zillion times.
I forgot when I got to the OWS. :'(
Thank You Eddy.
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Woo - hoo - ooo - oop - i - de - de
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Yod-el - od-el- lo - ti - de.
The cattle are prowlin' the coyotes are howlin'
Way out where the dogies bawl
Where spurs are a-jinglin', a cowboy is singin'
This lonesome cattle call.
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Woo - hoo - ooo - oop - i - de - de
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Yod-el - od-el- lo - ti - de.
He rides in the sun 'til his days work is done
And he rounds up the cattle each fall
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Singin' his cattle call.
For hours he will ride on the range far and wide
When the night winds blow up a squall
His heart is a feather in all kinds of weather
He sings his cattle call.
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Woo - hoo - ooo - oop - i - de - de
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Yod-el - od-el- lo - ti - de.
He's brown as a berry from ridin' the prairie
And he sings with an ol' western drawl
Woo - hoo - woo - ooo - ti - de
Singin' his cattle call.
Think that's my favorite one of his, Del
RIP, Eddy :( :'(
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on May 09, 2008, 06:56:38 PM
Think that's my favorite one of his, Del
RIP, Eddy :( :'(
I think that's everyones favorite of his....Have to admit i am partial to Emmy Lou's cover of it.....Course then I'm kinda partial to Emmy Lou
LR, One of my wife's friends dad was in the Marines in WW11 and after. He was one of Pappy's Black Sheep,and he once broke Pappy's leg in a wrestling match. Her dad was in the Marines with Bill Jordan and Emmy Lou's dad. She and Emmy Lou went to school together.
I didn't know of his passing until Del said something about it on the phone today. He was a good one.
Slim
"The Tennessee Stud" and "Anytime".
Was in WD most of the afternoon Thurs, stupid local so call country station never meantioned it. Nuff said, low lifes. Listened to WSM some Fri night, ion-o-sphere was good, they meantioned Eddy a lot. Said thurs evening they are gonna have a 5 hour tribute to hime in the evening, will see if the air is right.
Del, What Freq is WSM?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 11, 2008, 11:24:48 AM
Del, What Freq is WSM?
650 Kilocycles on the AM dial. (No one called the Hertzs when I learned radio.)
Hertz? Ain't that a rental place?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 11, 2008, 11:30:53 AM
Hertz? Ain't that a rental place?
I've heard that.
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::) :o ;D ;D ;D 8)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on May 11, 2008, 01:38:55 PM
::) :o ;D ;D ;D 8)
Buck knows, probally rented one a them for a Sunday afternoon when he was a might younger. ::)
Funny how things run on...
I didn't know about Eddy Arnold passing,but mentioned another guy buried in Forrest Lawn. His name was Eddy (Eddie) too.
Jus one more member joinin the best band in the sky. (Don wanna die but can't wait ta see the show :D )
Leo
GT-350H. 306 snortin' ponies and the suspension to handle. Sometimes known as the rent-a-racer..........Buck :o ;D 8)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on May 11, 2008, 02:34:58 PM
GT-350H. 306 snortin' ponies and the suspension to handle. Sometimes known as the rent-a-racer..........Buck :o ;D 8)
Well if ya could not afford to rent one the first time around here ya go. ;D
http://www.mustangmonthly.com/featuredvehicles/mump_0608_2006_hertz_shelby/index.html
As I remember you had to be at least 25 to rent one. I have a friend that is a reserve police officer that has an original Shelby GT 350 that he found in a chicken coop in Alabama. It's got 60,000 original miles on it and all original. He doesn't drive it, it's a trailer queen. It's sorta different because it's solid red with white stripes. I think it's a 66 model.
Mustang Sally uh-huh
Guess you better slow your Mustang down
Oh Lord what I said now
Mustang Sally now baby
Oh Lord guess you better
Slow your Mustang down hu-oh yeah
You been runnin all over town now
Oh I guess I have to put your flat feet
On the ground
Hu! what I said now
Listen!
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally ride) huh
All you wanna do is a ride around Sally
Alright (ride Sally ride)
Well listen to this
One of these early mornins
Hey Wow! gonna be wipin your weepin eyes
Huh! what I said now-look-a-here
I bought you a brand new Mustang
A nineteen sixty-five huh!
Now you come around
Signifyin a woman
That dont wanna let me ride
Mustang Sally now baby oh Lord!
Guess you better slow that Mustang down
Huh! oh Lord! Look here
You been runnin all over town
Oow!
I got to put your flat feet on the ground
Huh! what I said now hey-a
Let me say it one more time yall
Now all you wanna do is ride around Sally
(Ride Sally) hu! (ride)
All you wanna do is ride around Sally
FADES-
(Ride Sally ride)
All you wanna
Here, it's Mustang Susie................. 8) ::) ;D
If ya love good music
YA HAVE TA SEE THIS
The Killer, Ray an Fats all jammin tagether. Paul Schaefer must a been in Heaven.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe5w0_ray-charles-jerry-lee-lewis
Someone will have ta confirm this fer me but after watching it again, I think Carl Perkins is in there too :o
What a show!
Leo
Yep Carl was therat the end. Paul Shaefer is no hack on the ivory either
Great video
Do you think the audience may have had a drink or 6? ;D ;D ;D
Paul's got hair!!!!! :o :o
Man, that was some good viewin' an' listenin'!
Jambalaya is one of my favorite songs ever along with Sally Goodin and her cousin Cotton Eyed Joe. All three of those songs I have obsessed over and have multiple recordings by different artists. I usually gravitate towards one version of a song, but I love these songs and really like the individual "flavor" that each person or group gives.
Glad you enjoyed :D
My father sent that one to me over the weekend. Watched again taday maself ;)
Leo
The guy in the red shirt playing bass is not Carl. I do believe that the audience has been there for a while.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 14, 2008, 12:36:58 AM
The guy in the red shirt playing bass is not Carl. I do believe that the audience has been there for a while.
I imagine just bein in that room with the stage set that close would give ya drunk feelin ;)
I'm a huge fan of all three of them, specially The Killer.
Leo
Ain't much fer country music. Much more of a rocker. This guy was an exception.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=scArjnTcw1M
Thinkin' Paul Schafer can burn a keyboard down with the best of 'em.
who was the guy playing the guitar and singing ::)
another vid with Mr Schafer with hair
I think the white guy played with the Stones. I don't know who the black guy is.
Quote from: litl rooster on May 15, 2008, 11:04:17 PM
who was the guy playing the guitar and singing
He's the guy what told the guy what wrote the song he hoped 'is plane crashed. 'N, it did...
Quote from: Arcey on May 16, 2008, 07:53:43 AM
He's the guy what told the guy what wrote the song he hoped 'is plane crashed. 'N, it did...
Ouch :o
No slice a American Pie fer him but mebbe a Wurlitzer Prize ;D
Unless acourse he was talkin ta the Big Bopper--then he can have his pie...
Leo
Heard it said that l'il jokin 'round session with Buddy Holly bothered 'im 'til the day he died. Never could let it go...
Well then, with a nod ta Mr. Holly, Mr. Valenz and one Mr. J P Richardson, Jr...
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn't take one more step.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
So bye-bye, Miss American Pie.
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock 'n roll,
Can music save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you're in love with him
`cause I saw you dancin' in the gym.
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.
I started singin',
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone,
But that's not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me,
Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while Lennon read a book of Marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.
We were singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
We started singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
Cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
And they were singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
They were singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die."
Waylon would have been on that plane had he not been sick.
No, The Big Bopper was sick so Waylon gave him his seat.
Waylon! The Pride of Littlefield, Texas.
And as Monty Python says, "and now for something completely different."
Line Dancin' Bugs. ;D
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Out in the country past the city limits sign
Well there's a honky tonk near the county line
The joint starts jumpin every night when the sun goes down
They got whiskey women music & smoke
It's where all the cowboy folk go to boot scootin' boogie
I've got a good job I work hard for my money
When it's quittin time I hit the door runnin'
I fire up my pickup truck & let the horses run
I go flyin' down that highway to that hide-a-way
Stuck out in the woods to do the boot scootin' boogie
Yeah, heel, toe, docie doe come on baby let's go boot scootin
Cadilac black jack, baby meet me outback we're gonna boogie
Oh get down, turn around go to town boot scootin' boogie
The bartender asks me says son what'll it be
I want a shot at that redhead yonder lookin' at me
The dance floors hoppin' & it's hotter than the fourth of July
I see outlaws, inlaws crooks & straights all out makin' it shake
Doin' the boot scootin' boogie
Yeah, heel, toe, docie doe come on baby let's go boot scootin
Cadilac black jack, baby meet me outback we're gonna boogie
Oh get down, turn around go to town boot scootin' boogie
Yeah, heel, toe, docie doe come on baby let's go boot scootin
Cadilac black jack, baby meet me outback we're gonna boogie
Oh get down, turn around go to town boot scootin' boogie
I said get down, turn go to town boot scootin' boogie
oooh get down turn around go to town boot scootin boogie
A little Brooks & Dunn................. 8)
Quote from: Delmonico on May 17, 2008, 03:43:13 PM
And as Monty Python says, "and now for something completely different."
I just pictured John Cleese in western garb ;D ;D ;D
Fawltry Towers is one of my wife's favorite British comedy. John is so tall and slender. His body movements are so inimated.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 17, 2008, 04:28:32 PM
I just pictured John Cleese in western garb ;D ;D ;D
I see the makings of another Mel Brooks Western!
Maybe a parody of Brokeback Mountain ---------
FLAMING SADDLES
Ever since II first saw Monty Python on PBS, I have been a big John Cleese fan.
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on May 18, 2008, 04:11:49 PM
I see the makings of another Mel Brooks Western!
I think a lot of the script has been wrote down in Newbrassky. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on May 18, 2008, 04:43:10 PM
I think a lot of the script has been wrote down in Newbrassky. ;D
That would have ta be much more than one movie.
One a them epic deals like Lord of the Rings er Star Wars ;D
Leo
This guy could do the theme music.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1881700
Note the amount of hair on Paul's head in this one.
(remember the title mentions "any durn thing ya want" ;D
Del, There is definitely a lot of great material there.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 17, 2008, 04:28:32 PM
I just pictured John Cleese in western garb ;D ;D ;D
Just go back and watch "Silverado". A very proper Englishman Sheriff Langston, who was not from "around these parts"!
I was thinkin more like B western garb.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 18, 2008, 07:49:08 PM
I was thinkin more like B western garb.
Yeah, he could do the thing with the bright red shirt with the white pipin an a pitcher of four aces stitched on the breast pocket. I jus don see him goin spegetti style.
Well mebbe in the third installment when he goes evil an such.
I see him carrying something like Arcey's buntline. he draws it for a gunfight and it's touching the other guys nose!
The red shirt would go good with zebra skin chaps! ;D
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on May 19, 2008, 03:45:44 PM
The red shirt would go good with zebra skin chaps!
The Village People Posse?
Quote from: Arcey on May 19, 2008, 03:49:54 PM
The Village People Posse?
Wouldn't go over well in that part of Newbrassky, folks out there just refer to you know what as "that movie I won't watch." :)
Might fly in the city a bit.
I haven't seen anyone post any of these hits!
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Why, there are true classics on this album. Which? You may ask. Well, for one, there was the already classic Belafonte hit that he improved upon:
Mama Look A Boo Boo
I wonder why nobody don't like me
Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?
I wonder why nobody don't like me
Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?
I leave my whole house and home
My children don't want me no more
Bad talk inside de house dey bring
And when I talk they start to sing:
Mama, look a boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey
I couldn't even digest me supper
Due to the children's behavior
John (Yes, pa)-come here a moment
Bring de belt, you're much too impudent
John says it's James who started first
James tells the story in reverse
I drag my belt from off me waist
You should hear them screamin' round de place
Mama, look at boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
So I began to question the mother
These children ain't got no behavior
So I began to question the mother
These children ain't got no behavior
They're playing with you my wife declared
You should be proud of them, my dear
These children were taught too bloomin' slack
That ain't no kind of joke to crack
Mama, look at boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away
I gotta put this here.
Statler Brothers were much better, but this guy did it too an I grew up listenin to it...
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keep hearin' you're concerned about my happiness
But all that thought you're givin' me is conscience I guess
If I was walkin' in your shoes, I wouldn't worry none
While you 'n' your friends are worried about me I'm havin' lots of fun
Countin' flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do
Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town
As long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down
So please don't give a thought to me, I'm really doin' fine
You can always find me here, I'm havin' quite a time
Countin' flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do
It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright
Anyway my eyes are not accustomed to this light
And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete
So I must go back to my room and make my day complete
Countin' flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do
Don't tell me I've nothin' to do
I guess after Robert Mitchum sang the theme song for Thunder Road, he thought he was some sort of singer.
I really like Monty Python and Faulty Towers. ;D
Slim
Well if we got Python fans here, this must be done ;D ;D ;D
I'm a lumberjack
And I'm ok
I sleep all night and I work all day
(He's a lumberjack
And he's ok
He sleeps all night and he works all day)
I cut down trees
I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatry'
On Wednesdays I go shopping
and have buttered scones for tea
(He cuts down trees
He eats his lunch
He goes to the lavatry'
On Wednesdays He goes shopping
and has buttered scones for tea
I cut down trees)
I'm a lumberjack
And I'm ok
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on womens' clothing and hang around in bars
(He cuts down trees
He skips and jumps
He likes to press wild flowers
He puts on womens' clothing and hang around in bars?)
I'm a lumberjack
And I'm ok
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I wear high heels
Suspendies' and a bra
I wish I'd been a girly
Just like my dear pa-pa
(He cuts down trees
He wears high heels?)
(He's a lumberjack
And he's ok
He sleeps all night and he works all day)(x2)
There's another Monty song that's my favorite, but I can't post it here. ;D
Any call that comes inta my cell phone that the number is not on the caller ID, it plays The Spam Song. ;D
BTW Cas-City folks, it plays "I've always been crazy" by Waylon. ::)
Del, That applies to most of us around here! ;) :D ;D 8) ::) :P
Quote from: Trinity on May 22, 2008, 06:30:54 PM
There's another Monty song that's my favorite, but I can't post it here. ;D
Trin,
I have a sneakin suspiciun I know which one yer talkin about :o ::) ;D
Leo
Fawlty Towers is one of my wife's favorite British comedies. Her two favorite episodes are "Basil the Rat" and "The Germans". And who could forget Manuel from Barcelona.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 23, 2008, 11:39:54 AM
Trin,
I have a sneakin suspiciun I know which one yer talkin about :o ::) ;D
Leo
I'd wager you're thinking of the same one. ;D
From Monthy Python in "The Holy Grail"
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http://www.stmoroky.com/sirrobin/meeting~~.au
In honor of a passing legend, I give you this. There were many ta choose from, but somethin about watchin the 45 go round an round struck me as just right.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TEfRJ8DzUks&feature=related
Leo
I always thought his square guitar was COOL!
The origonal one he built using a TV tuner knob for volume control. According to the Hard Rock Cafe commerical
Yeah, that square one was truley homemade. Cranked up the reverb and it was magic.
It is definitely a one of a kind as was the gentleman that played it.
This one shows him very young before he built the square one. It's at the end and cuts off too soon, but the whole video is neat ta watch. As far as I know, Chuck Berry is still rockin.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQBFP2EqGzY
Leo
As far as I know, the"Duck Walker" is still out there "reelin' and a rockin', rollin' till the break o day".
Dug this one out taday an gave it a spin.
Nothin ta do with Bo er Chuck, I was jus in the mood...
I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
She's bin lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
I can picture ev'ry move that a man could make;
Gettin' lost in her lovin' is your first mistake.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again.
I can see her lookin' fast in her faded jeans;
She's a hard lovin' woman, got me feelin' mean.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sundown you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again.
Don't if there are many Diamond fans, but "The Jazz Singer" was on DISH today, and I think this represents what "Legal" immigration was and is all about!
AMERICA
Written by Neil Diamond
Far
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star
Free
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream
On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America
Home, don't it seem so far away
Oh, we're traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm
Home, to a new and a shiny place
Make our bed, and we'll say our grace
Freedom's light burning warm
Freedom's light burning warm
Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Every time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, today, today, today, today
My country 'tis of thee
Today
Sweet land of liberty
Today
Of thee I sing
Today
Of thee I sing
Today
I love that song! Yes, I'll admit it. I'm a Denver fan AND a Diamond fan. 8)
I might have to to put that soundtrack on....
Well it ain't the 22 of June yet, but ponder this one.
to Moscow
Al Stewart
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
Moving in lines through the day
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away
Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolyensk and Viyasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Closer and closer to Moscow they come - riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
Standing in the wings like an avenger
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise
You'll never know, you'll never know
Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night
You'll never know, you'll never hear us
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
The morning road leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming
Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
At home it'll almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
And all that I ever was able to see
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time
That I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
They turn and listen closer
I'll never know, I'll never know
Why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers
"Never"
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever
well it may not be the 22nd but here's one a day early for the 6th of June.
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon
Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon
Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down
Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here
By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear
Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten
Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus
Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git
Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4
Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...
That song just seems to fit in with every mood we're in. ;D
I actchaly have a copy of Year of the Cat on Vinyl :D Al was good.
Wonder if CW knew 6th a June was D-day when he wrote Convoy--wondered that fer a long time.
Had Lil watch Jazz singer fer her first time last weekend. She dug it.
Last few posts really seem ta have struck some chord er other with me ;)
Leo
Sod Buster recent me a PM to tell me Ian is coming to the area, when we seen him the last time this Guy opened the show, He is a wordsmith in his own rights (navjo rug) and others.
Panco Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen
The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream
Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits
When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit
It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit
Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair
Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
[solo]
When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car
Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars
I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars
Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold
And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest
If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
[solo]
...Tonight we ride, tonight we ride.
Pour me another Tequila, Sheila. I'm off to chase Ol' Pancho Villa!
Quote from: Trinity on June 05, 2008, 06:23:35 PM
I love that song! Yes, I'll admit it. I'm a Denver fan AND a Diamond fan. 8)
I might have to to put that soundtrack on....
While I was in Basic/AIT in the Army (Mar. or so in '78) John Denver put on a big concert in Louisville. He was a big military supporter and donated a couple thousand tickets to Ft. Knox. I was one who got to go.
I am NOT a big concert goer - I hate the stoopids who show up in any BIG crowd - but this was an awesome concert!
On a related note. I just saw ZZ Top at Ft. Knox a couple weekends ago. It wasn't free, but it started out mostly unadvertised so the Military could get 1st crack at the tickets, then went public closer to the concert date. It was a hum-dinger.
I really enjoyed their "self truthfullness" when Billy Gibbons, in that gravelly voice of his said:
"We want to thank y'all for supporting us these last 35 years.
Same three guys.......
Same three chords!"I 'bout fell over laughing! ;D ;D ;D ;D
As a "musician," I appreciated their candor. But they DO rock! (Just don't look for them in the 'technically difficult' group of musical writers.)
;D
hey Del....
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/491408?trk=ssp
when later in the same week
http://www.jerryjeff.com/tour/
Ian Tyson has come a long way since Ian and Sylvania. Jerry Jeff Walker! Viva Terlingua is one of my favorite albums, "Up Against The Wall RedNeck Muthers!"
Darn! I think I need to get in my car and head nawth!!!
One of the few tickets I have hanging around waz from the old Golden Bear in Huntington Beach CA. Was about 1966. I flipped the ticket over and it was stamped "Ian and Sylvia"....I remember seeing them, and Sylvia was wearing a short black dress. that is about all I still remember, however they did sing my favorite: These Friends of Mine...
curley
Curley, Now you're tellin' everone how old you are. There's some of these folks that may have been in diapers back then or maybe not even born yet. One of my favorite stories is about the Miniseries on NBC about the 60s. One of the young officers asked if I saw the show. I said, Hell, why would I watch that on TV, I was there during the 60s.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 23, 2008, 04:39:22 PM
Curley, Now you're tellin' everone how old you are. There's some of these folks that may have been in diapers back then or maybe not even born yet. One of my favorite stories is about the Miniseries on NBC about the 60s. One of the young officers asked if I saw the show. I said, Hell, why would I watch that on TV, I was there during the 60s.
Well gee whiz Tex. Guess us guy's readin an learnin about the 60' would be about the same as you guys doin the same on the 1860's ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Scuze me while change ma Pampers ::)
Jus funnin Pard ;)
Leo
There's a few of us that remember the '60's, but don't remember much of the early '70's, Leo ::) :o 8)
Leo, I've already had my 40th HS reunion(3 yrs ago) and in 2 more years I'll have my 40th College reunion. I'm wondering what happened to the 70s, 80s, and the 90's. Next year I'll eligible for SS. If I'd known that I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 23, 2008, 06:41:41 PM
Leo, I've already had my 40th HS reunion(3 yrs ago) and in 2 more years I'll have my 40th College reunion. I'm wondering what happened to the 70s, 80s, and the 90's. Next year I'll eligible for SS. If I'd known that I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
My 20th reunion is commin up. Hard ta baleive.
I remeber just about everything from the 80's an 90's but I have ta say it mostly sucked. Music was bad, everyone was afeard a diseases and nuke wars. Now when me an my old buddies get tagether an recount things, we have some great stories that the wifes just love. I guess we had some great times, we just didn't know it then. Heck, we were board ta tears at the time.
Leo
My 35th is in two years.
Del, It will be here before you know it. After I turned 50, it seemed like the next 10 years past in a short time.
Well I guess I can merge the recent conversation with the thread. This don fit us all, but came ta me as right song ta sing fer everyone here one way or the other :D
So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolder
Than you used to be
So you used to shake 'em down
But now you stop and think about your dignity
So now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one
You get to feelin' weary when the work days done
Well all you got to do is get
up and into your kicks
If you're in a fix
Come back baby
Rock and roll never forgets
You better get yourself a partner
Go down to the concert or the local bar
Check the local newspapers
Chances are you won't have to go too far
Yeah the rafters will be ringing
cause the beat's so strong
The crowd will be swaying and singing along
And all you got to do is get in into the mix
If you need a fix
Come back baby
Rock and roll never forgets
Oh the bands still playing it loud and lean
Listen to the guitar player making it scream
All you got to do is just make that scene tonight
Heh tonight
Well now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one
Feel a little tired feeling under the gun
Well all Chuck's children are out
there playing his licks
Get into your kicks
Come back baby
Rock 'n Roll never forgets
Said you can come back baby
Rock 'n Roll never forgets
Leo
My 40th is coming up in 09,
I've got 2 or 3 of those people I'd like to see, a few don't matter and at least 2 who's gone on, that will be missed, one of the best friends I had in High School was killed by lightning in 1990,I think, he was getting ready to ship out for Dessert Storm, was at a going away party at the lake. The people that I talked to at the funeral said they never even heard it thunder, just kinda came outa the sky all at once.
Ya know OT, the way I like ta think of incidents like that is like what The Bible says about the Rapture. Folks too good ta see all the bad that's comin get grabbed right up inta the sky.
I hesitated on posting this, but if he was your best friend, I'm sure you'll understand my intention. Musta been the best of the best.
Leo
My 40th next year too.
Was fairly rude to the woman who called me 'bout the 10th. Stuck up l'il b*tch in school.
Never went to a reunion. Ain't heard from 'em in years. Reckon I've been dropped from the list.
I was so glad to leave, why should I go back and relive days that are no more? ??? ::) ;D
I've always gone along with that "only the good die young" theory, course if that's true, I may live to 140 :o :o
I always think about Jim, Jim Wisdom was his name when I hear Sprit in the Sky, they played that one at the services.
I think he would'a liked it, as a matter of fact I know he would'a liked it ;D
I'm a reunion reject too :D
Never even been notified. Lil's been wantin me ta look inta the 20th, but can't get her ta understand that I didn't care fer the ones I don't talk to on the phone an visit with. My best friend to this day I met on the 2nd day of 7th grade. Talk ta him regular, and have occasional contact with others. She's almost convinced me ta do it over the past few months but I always give it quick thought an think, "the rest of em can kiss my a** :o " Best reunion I went ta was the 7th grade guys weding last September. That was a blast!
Now, some Norman Greenbaum fer OT
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
Prepare yourself you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He's gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the place that's the best
Never been a sinner I never sinned
I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He's gonna set me up with
The spirit in the sky
Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
Go to the place that's the best
Leo
My 40th is next year also, dang we sure got a bunch a old f--ts on this thread! ;D
I resemble that REMARK!
Guilty as charged ;D Our 40th would've been in 2007. After the 35th bombed, I think they gave up........Buck 8) ::)
They had my 10 year reunion at the Country Club which is located in the county. My dad had been elected Sheriff in 1970. The folks got drunk and wound up in his jail. He called on Sunday morning to tell me. We both got a big laugh about it. I really missed the opportunity to be there and put them in jail. I had already left the Panhandle and was an officer in the Dallas area.
My 10th was held at a local hotel and a large "Reunion Company" was hired to track us all down. They wanted a few hundred dollars for a person to have the "privilege" of attending. I guess there's no need to tell y'all whether I went or not.
My 20th will be in 2011. ;D
Brings to mind an old scene from Taxi. The l'il short fart wanted to go but he didn't wanna be laughed at. He sent the actor instead. He runs into a school snob 'n asked what he did.
I'm a waiter at the country club.
A waiter?
The snob goes on...... Yes. I make thirty thousand but I get well over a hundred thousand a year in tips I don't report. What do you do?
I'm an auditor for the IRS.
The snob passes out.
I almost wet my drawers 'n sprayed beer all o'er the den.
My 25th is next month. Not goin. Three hour drive one way. Besides my brother is comin fer a visit then. ;D
Slim
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on June 24, 2008, 04:33:30 AM
My 40th is next year also, dang we sure got a bunch a old f--ts on this thread! ;D
Ah, yes.
The Great class of '69. Even upside down, we're still the same. ::) ;)
SHB, My wife is a Class of 69 person, too..........Buck 8)
I didn't have much in common with those folks anyway. I live about 400 miles from my hometown and really don't have any reasons to go back. I keep in touch with some guys that I went to college with.
Slim... did you Graduate when you were 10?
Slim's one of them child prodigys.
Ah, a whole batch of '69ers out there! My wife has been getting notices of her 40th (not going). Nothing from my school yet. The only way I'd go is if I happened to be back in Wisconsin when it was scheduled, so I guess I can say I won't make it. Bt the way the theme of our prom was:
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
I just dropped by to see ol' Bill Doolin
Shot down from ambush lastnight
Heck Thomas led the posse
A twelve-guage took his life
They took ol' Bill into Guthrie this mornin'
Followed by his little boy and wife
Then they put him in a store window
For the folks of Guthrie that night
No I won't forget ol' Bill Doolin
Tulsa Jack,Little Dick or Dynamite
They may have been outlaws
But they never ambushed at night
What ever happened to the 5th Demension? Did they go "Up Up and Away" in their beautiful BALLOON?
As I understand it, their stuff sounded dull. They wouldn't do rap or hip hop with filthy lyrics. The bookings and album sales dropped. Weary of touring and set financially for life they broke up.
I really enjoyed their work. I laughed my hind parts off every time I heard the Rainmaker.
Marilyn McCoo, I thought, had a most remarkable vocal range. Her performance of 'Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes' was a knock out.
She's in my top three of female vocalist in an almost dead heat with Ann Wilson for number one.
Mama Cass.
Michelle Philips was good too, but man, the big lady could sing. Dream a Little Dream of Me sung by her is amazing. She was just as good in live recordings as studio work.
Leo
Did enjoy Mama Cass. Rest her.
Matter of taste I reckon. Just me but I'd rather listen to Ann Wilson scream than most others try ta sing. She's as good as of last year as she ever was. Saw her 'n her sister, Nancy, doin' 'Crazy on You' with another named Gretchen Wilson, no relation, I'm not familiar with on some sort of TV show.
Funny. Ann has an eatin' disorder she can't control. She's gone to extremes tryin'. In the TV thing she looked as full-bodied as Mama. I'm between them in age, Nancy bein' the younger. Nancy is as slim as ever. She can still tear a guitar to pieces, kick over her head 'n jump all o'er the stage durin' a song. Her voice is miles from bad ('These Dreams' – Heart) just isn't as powerful as her sister's. Blood sisters, same parents, strange 'n sad.
Arcey, Gretchen Wilson sings country. She had a song out called "Redneck Woman" a couple of years ago. I really enjoy Nancy Wilson singing, she has a sultry voice.
Awwwwww, hell yeah! I found that. Pretty good. She's about a cute l'il Tom-Boy. See where she's covered a few Heart songs but the videos aren't very good. Did do 'Barracuda' with a rock band 'n it looked like Nancy Wilson was on stage too. The girl may be country but she can rock too if that video's any indication. Wanna look at that one again when I got the time.
Thanks for the tip on 'Redneck Woman', Tex. I enjoyed the heck outtah it.
Arcey, I have been told by musicians that I have the musical tastes of a musican. Opera is about the only thing I don't like. I can't play any instrument and I do well to tune my radio. I like most any thing.
Quote from: Arcey on June 26, 2008, 12:08:25 PM
Awwwwww, hell yeah! I found that. Pretty good. She's about a cute l'il Tom-Boy. See where she's covered a few Heart songs but the videos aren't very good. Did do 'Barracuda' with a rock band 'n it looked like Nancy Wilson was on stage too. The girl may be country but she can rock too if that video's any indication. Wanna look at that one again when I got the time.
Thanks for the tip on 'Redneck Woman', Tex. I enjoyed the heck outtah it.
Arcey she's just a fustrated Rock n Roller like so many of them in Nashville these days
LR, I think you're right. Apparently that's what sells in Nashville these days.
Can't say I blame 'er. Apparently she has marketable talent. If she didn't sell in one market, try another.
The big mouthed l'il girl NASCAR was usin' last season I unnerstand ain't doin' too well. Supposed ta have won a talent contest on TV or sumthin'. She aggravated me just lookin' at 'er.
There's a lot of them bimbos out there. Wendy Ventarini is the only one with any kind of racing background. Her dad, Bill Ventrini ran in the ARCA series. He had a all girl pit crew at one time.
Oooo... Love Wendy ta pieces. Wish half the guys were as good as she is in the pits. Ain't no bleach blonde bimbo either. That's all real 'n all woman I'm thinkin'.
Remember when they pulled the publicity stunt with Shawna Robinson 'n an all female crew in the truck series? That was a good chuckle. Don't think Shawna thought 25 second stops very funny...
Can't think of the singer's name I was talkin' 'bout. She was doin' pre-race concerts 'n the 'how bad have you got it' thing.
I figure that Wendy can hold her own with any of those Yahoos she has to work with.
That was Kelly Clarkson, Arcey. Show was called "American Midol" or somethin like that.
Leo
If It was Kelly Clarkson. I apologize for that. She is from one of the towns south of Fort Worth. All this pubilicity has given her the"Big Head". She is trying be like Janet Jackson and some of the black female artists. "Bumpin' and Grindin" more than singin.
Marilyn McCoo had an AWESOME voice and I miss the 5th Dimension. They had SERIOUS talent and wouldn't give in to the typical, ahem ... type music.
As far as Ann & Nancy Wilson ... sigh. Ann sings like an angel Nancy looks and sings like one! And they're Military Brats ta boot. (Daddy was a Marine Colonel.)
Quote from: litl rooster on June 27, 2008, 07:43:51 AM
Arcey she's just a fustrated Rock n Roller like so many of them in Nashville these days
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 27, 2008, 09:47:25 AM
LR, I think you're right. Apparently that's what sells in Nashville these days.
One reason I won't call 90% of what is on "Country Music', most ain't bad, but call it what it is and put it on a different station so my 10 hours a week in the work dept don't drive me nuts.
When Rita was in the hospital last fall, she had CMT on one time, the short time I was there, one video was shot on Coney Island, another was shot drivin' down some suburb with million dollar type houses, seemed real country to me. ::)
Most of it today sounds like 70's Top 40.
BTW there is a Brooks and Dunn concert in Omaha in Aug, guess who's opening, ZZ Top, sounds Rock and Roll to me, both their music and the fact ZZ Top is the opener. :o
There sure sumpn about a Sharp Dressed Man!
In one way, it makes me think of how it must of been when the original rockabilly started. Carl Perkins hit no. one on all three charts simultaniously. On the other hand, that was the birth of somthin new, and eventualy they did get their own radio station. I can see some Hank Senior fans (yes, hat in hand) lookin at the radio an spittin nails back then. By the time Gene Vincent an Eddie Cochrane came around, it was it's own format, with The Killer fittin in somewhere in between (scuse me fer not metionin that other guy).
I like rock n roll, an I like old country but this new stuff just don get it fer me. 80 percent of it seems ta be about female empowerment in one form or another. I'm not against it, it's just a tired theme in "country" music these days. Yes we know yer sassy and party with the girls and god help the fella that messes around behind yer back. Oh, an don ferget all the ones that are basically a laundry list of what a man has ta be/do ta have the honor of yer presance.
I hope I didn't offend anyone here, but it had ta be said.
Rant out
Leo
Leo, ya 'sposse that's what Brad's tryin' to tell us 'bout wimmin. ;D
When you see a deer
You see Bambi
And I see antlers up on the wall
When you see a lake
You think picnics
And I see a large mouth up under that log
You're probably thinkin' that you're gonna change me
In some ways well, maybe you might
Scrub me down, dress me up
Oh, but no matter what
Remember, I'm still a guy
When you see a priceless French painting
I see a drunk naked girl
You think that ridin' a wild bull sounds crazy
And I'd like to give it a whirl
Well, love makes a man do some things he ain't proud of
And in a weak moment I might
Walk your sissy dog
Hold your purse at the mall
But remember, I'm still a guy
And I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around
Knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by
I can hear you now talkin' to your friends
Sayin' yeah girls he's come a long way
From draggin' his knuckles and carryin' a club
And buildin' a fire in a cave
But when you say a backrub means only a backrub
Then you swat my hand when I try
Well now what can I say at the end of the day
Honey, I'm still a guy
And I'll pour out my heart
Hold your hand in the car
Write a love song that makes you cry
Then turn right around
Knock some jerk to the ground
'Cause he copped a feel as you walked by
These days there's dudes gettin' facials
Manicured, waxed, and botoxed
But with deep spray on tans and creamy lotioney hands
You cain't grip a tackle box
Yeah, with all of these men linin' up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized
But, I don't highlight my hair
I've still got a pair
Yeah, honey I'm still a guy
Oh, my eyebrows ain't plucked
Theres a gun in my truck
Oh Thank God, I'm still a guy
Yeah boy
Well I love her
But I love the fish
I spend all day out on this lake
And hell is all I catch
But today she met me at the door
Said I would have to chose
If I hit that fishin' hole today
She'd be packin' all her things and she
be gone by noon
Well I'm gonna miss her
When I get home
Right now I'm on this lakeshore
And I'm sittin' in the sun
I'm sure it will hit me
When I walk through that door tonight
Ya I'm gonna miss her
Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite
Now theres a chance
If I hurry
I could beg her to stay
That waters right
And the weathers perfect
No tellin' what I might catch today
So I'm gonna miss her
When I get home
Right now I'm on this lakeshore
And I'm sittin' in the sun
I'm sure it will hit me
When I walk throught that door tonight
Ya I'm gonna miss her
Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite.
;D ;D ;D ;D
That's a good one. He did a duet with Hank jr at the CMT awards--wasn't half bad.
Leo
"I wanna check you for TICKS!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 28, 2008, 01:55:55 PM
There sure sumpn about a Sharp Dressed Man!
Legs..........
I've got XM radio in my GMC P/U. Channel 13 is called "Willie's Place, they don't play music recorded after about 1968. They play alot of Hank SR, ET, Merle, Possum, Willie, and Lefty. That's about the only channel I listen to. We have a local station in DFW called Lone Star 92.5. They play Willie, Southern Rock, ZZTop, SRV and Double Trouble, and a lot of 60's rock.
All I listen to on the air durin' the week is talk. Weekends when the talk isn't interestin' I program my own stuff with CDs. Couple pards went satellite. I went on line 'n looked at the line ups. I wouldn't use it so I ain't bought it. Saw the NASCAR talk shows but it's all the same news 'n rumors I read everyday on the 'net 'n it would conflict with my other listenin' habits.
sometimes when we're out in the shop, I'll tune over to the talk radio, I like to hear some of em, makes Jackie mad as hell sometimes, she'll be mad at em the rest of the day. ;)
Quote from: Arcey on June 28, 2008, 07:28:40 PM
All I listen to on the air durin' the week is talk. Weekends when the talk isn't interestin' I program my own stuff with CDs. Couple pards went satellite. I went on line 'n looked at the line ups. I wouldn't use it so I ain't bought it. Saw the NASCAR talk shows but it's all the same news 'n rumors I read everyday on the 'net 'n it would conflict with my other listenin' habits.
Got free satellite for a year with the Car, it's about to run up. I like it but don't want to pay the fee, I am sure I'll be out voted by the principle driver of the car. ::) If I don't like what I am hearing there's always Raw Dog or Blue Collar Comedy channels or Marquritaville cafe
I like the satellite radio when I'm on the road driving by myself. I really like Willie's Place on XM cause I like old country and western swing.
Here Tex one Willie cover of Ole Bob Willis
My window faces the south I'm almost halfway to heaven
Snow is falling but still I can't see fields of cotton calling to me
My window faces the south and though I am far from the Swanee
I'm never frownin' or down in the mouth my window faces the south
[ fiddle - ac.guitar ]
My window faces the south...
My window faces the south
I'd like sattelite for that reason, but I can use that money elsewhere.
Here's a great one:
Hold tight with a leather fist
Watch out when he starts to twist
What their daddies' used to tell them boys
How to ride them bulls
I got a jingle in my jeans
Sore places in between
And I'm leavin' on a saw blade
With a push and a pull
10-4 buddy come on back
A horse trailer on a Cadillac
Yeah we're talkin' to the cowboy
In the Coupe De Ville
Chug-a-luggin' up one side
Slidin' down the other
Well I'm a lover of the other side of the hill
Turn up that radio
Don't wanna think about a rodeo
Don't wanna think about a round-up
Up in old Cheyenne
Well it's a crazy circuit
Ahh but still you work it
Turn down that sound, boys
Let's get up and check the scan
10-4 buddy come on back
A horse trailer on a Cadillac
Yeah we're talkin' to the cowboy
In the Coupe De Ville
Chug-a-luggin' up one side
Slidin' down the other
Well I'm a lover of the other side of the hill
Bandana hangin' on the mirror
Still wet from ear to ear
Well I guess it's true then
What the wise men say
When you ride your last one
Make sure he's the best one
Jump while he's movin'
Tip your hat boys and walk away
10-4 buddy come on back
A horse trailer on a Cadillac
Yeah we're talkin' to the cowboy
In the Coupe De Ville
Chug-a-luggin' up one side
Slidin' down the other
Well I'm a lover of the other side of the hill
10-4 buddy come on back
A horse trailer on a Cadillac
Yeah we're talkin' to the cowboy
In the Coupe De Ville
Chug-a-luggin' up one side
Slidin' down the other
Well I'm a lover of the other side of the hill
Well I'm a lover of the other side of the hill
sure miss Chris
I was listening to his CD today - very enjoyable! Since I heard Jerry Jeff sing that song first I always think of him.
I heard a sure nuf good one today, I always enjoy it.
The year was '67, National Finals Rodeo
December 1's the Friday night that all bull riders know
There's cowboy heroes made & born at rodeos like this
Cause the cowboys are the toughest & the stock's the best there is
And then Pete announced that in chute 2's a cowboy we all know
He's a young man now, he's 46 and he's made him a mighty draw
His bull is from Jim Shoulder's string, Tornado's how he's known
Yes, Freckles Brown has drawd a bull no one has ever rode
And tonight bullridin' history's made a cowboy, gained a crown
His bull was called Tornado and the cowboy, Freckles Brown
He lowered himself on dark red hide and pulled his bull rope tight
He wrapped her twice and jerked her hard, made sure he pulled her right
Then two big ole' shiny horns looked Freckles in the eye
Then a snort 'n a nod, the chute gate swung, as Freckles yelled, "Let's ride!"
Two thousand pounds of boilin' hell was turnin' wrong-side out
And showin' four feet to the Lord and givin' Freckles hell
Eight thousand fans were on their feet, but he couldn't hear a lick
Cause the only sound he listened for was the buzzer, then he quit
And tonight bullridin' history's made a cowboy, gained a crown
His bull was called Tornado & the cowboy, Freckles Brown
It seemed the world exploded, as Freckles hit the ground
He swung his hat around his head and he shouted with the crowd
A cowboy hero was born that day and Freckles totes the load
Two hundred times that bull had bucked, the first time he'd been rode
Now, while we're givin' credit, cause we know the credit's due
Freckles is a hero, but Tornado gets some, too
Cause without that bull to show him off, no cowboy's got a call
And the only time he'll ever win is to get lucky in the draw
So, if bull's have got a Heaven and somehow we're sure they do
I hope Tornado's up there and that the Lord has let him through
I hope his pasture's the greenest and his stock tank's never dry
And I hope he lives forever on bunch grass, belly high
My wife's cousin is an old rodeo rider from the 50s and 60s. He was one of Freckles's pallbearers. He did some stunt work in the movies. He was Duke's double in the COWBOYS. He was in a bunch more movies. He used to travel with Casey Tibbs when they Rodeoed together. He's got a ranch out in AZ but we haven't seen him in a whiles. He's probably in his 80s. His name is George Williams.
Heard the Freckels Brown song the other day on the radio, there is an oldies show from somewhere on sundays. Last night the theme was "songs with strange titles" Like "You Can't Roller Skate in a buffalo Herd" and "Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone." ;D
OK, her's a blast from the past, open to discussion, yes I know the story. Used to listen to this played by Charlie Douglas onWWL New Orleans late night. :)
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/lester.jpg)
Sorry, that was the best picture I cound get, had to search like heck for that.
Weren't Roadhog and the Cadillac Cowbows realy the Statler Bros? Can't be sure, but I remember somethin about it.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on June 30, 2008, 03:19:38 PM
Weren't Roadhog and the Cadillac Cowbows realy the Statler Bros? Can't be sure, but I remember somethin about it.
Yer pretty sharp for someone your age. ;D :)
Actually, It's Lester Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys with Ol' Roadhog and Wichita.
The Statlers came out with that album in about 74 or 75. Riders in the Sky came out with their own version of a Sat. morning radio show.
Leo, found this blub on the internet:
"The scoop is that back in the '70s The Statler Brothers got together and created this spoof on old school, southern, redneck radio hosted by the brilliant, and ficticious, radio DJ Lester "Roadhog" Moran, and his band The Cadillac Cowboys broadcasted on W.E.A.K."
Del probably has more background.
"Bout it, except the album never said Statler Brothers anywhere on it. Sponsored by Ernie's Eagg market, "Get yer eggs at Erinie's." ::)
The did a best of Lester in 95. ;D
Here is that one Leo.
Cherokee fiddle, written by MMM made a hit by Johnny Lee
When the train pulled into the station
He'd open up his case and rosin up his bow
He'd play upside down the Orange Blossom Special
Cause if you want to make a living you've got to put on a good show
And when he'd smell the smoke and the cinders
He'd slick back his hair, and open up his case
He'd play the Cherokee Fiddle, he'd play it for the whiskey
Cause good whiskey never let him lose his place
He was always there, playing for the miners
The Devil's Dream was a song they understood
And then he'd go out to Oklahoma
But he'd wait till the trains were running and the weather was good
And when he'd smell the smoke and the cinders
He'd slick back his hair, and open up his case
He'd play the Cherokee Fiddle, he'd play it for the whiskey
Cause good whiskey never let him lose his place
Now the Indians are dressing up like cowboys
And the cowboys are putting leather and turquoise on
And the music is sold by lawyers
And the fools who fiddled in the middle of the stations are gone
Some folks say they'll never miss him
That old fidNow the Indians are dressing up like cowboys
And the cowboys are putting leather and turquoise on
And the music is sold by lawyers
And the fools who fiddled in the middle of the stations are gonedle squealed like the engines brakes
The Cherokee Fiddle is gone forever
Like the music of the whistle that the old locomotives made
So when you smell the smoke and the cinders
Slick back your hair, and open up your case
Play the Cherokee Fiddle, you can play it for the whiskey
Good whiskey will never let you lose your place
Good whiskey will never let you lose your place
Jack Daniel's will never let you lose your place
True story of a Cherokee from Okalhoma that played in the station for the narrow gauge in Durango Colarado in the 1930's.
Back in about 59 or 60 Mom and Dad drove me up to Durango and we rode that Train up to Silverton. It was small back then.
OK, Del turned me on ta this guy. This is what he calls rock n roll medely.
Ya got ZZ top, Zep, Chuck Berry, an Hendrix in one jam. Give it a spin, the man is phenomenal.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jonJu6-XpWU
I'm listen ta the "surf medely" right now. The link is on the same page. This is good stuff!!!
Leo
Tripped o'er one when I was lookin' for another awhile back. Micheal McDonald doin' 'nther band's song with 'em. Man, when he's outta his voice range he's really bad...........
Told ya, also told ya my friend Sean who played with him down in Kansas told me i'd like Jr. ;D
Quote from: Arcey on June 30, 2008, 06:45:57 PM
Tripped oer one when I was lookin for another awhile back. Micheal McDonald doin nther bands song with em. Man, when hes outta his voice range hes really bad
..
I wa jus listen ta that guitar. Not often ya see a guy do Heartbreaker wearin a suit an a western hat :) Haven't heard enough of his singin ta make a judgement. McDonald has a set a pipes that's hard ta beat.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on June 30, 2008, 06:58:43 PM
I wa jus listen ta that guitar. Not often ya see a guy do Heartbreaker wearin a suit an a western hat :) Haven't heard enough of his singin ta make a judgement. McDonald has a set a pipes that's hard ta beat.
Jr has a twangy 60's country singer voice that can really carry.
Junior got his start in Austin, Texas playing at a place on 6th st. called the Contiental Club. I saw him on an episode on Austin City Limits. I've seen him at Billy Bobs a couple of times. My favorite is Highway Patrol, Moose's favorite is You're wanted by the Police and my wife thinks you're dead. I like the surf medley. I've got all his CDs.
I've listened ta all them taday.
I like his voice, he woulda fit in well way back. Voice is a little low in "My Wife Thinks Yer Dead" but it's classic none the less. Hiway Patrol is good too. I want ta give him my money ::) We need more of this.
Leo
Thinkin on it, I'd pay a fat dollar ta hear him do Santo an Johnny's Sleepwalk on that special guitar of his.
That tune always gets me, an I think he would do it justice. He prolly has, I jus haven't found it yet.
Leo
Jr's wife plays guitar with him. They have a guy that plays a stand up bass and a guy that plays a snare drum. That's all the band. Jr has gotten a new "guitsteel" that is bigger and it is red, he plays both of them during the concert. Jr sounds kinda like Dave Dudley. I've seen him twice at Billy Bobs in Fort Worth and once at Gilley's in Dallas. I hope I can go down to Austin and hear him play at the Contiental Club.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on June 30, 2008, 06:39:17 PM
I'm listen ta the "surf medely" right now. The link is on the same page. This is good stuff!!!
Leo
Leo
Just listened to the surf medley. Brought back memories of going to hear Dick Dale and the Deltones at the Blelly Up in Solana Beach CA.
That was when I lived in Oceanside, and was going though my conversion form Beach Dude to Cowboy. Still like Surf music now and then.
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on July 01, 2008, 11:03:02 AM
Leo
Just listened to the surf medley. Brought back memories of going to hear Dick Dale and the Deltones at the Blelly Up in Solana Beach CA.
That was when I lived in Oceanside, and was going though my conversion form Beach Dude to Cowboy. Still like Surf music now and then.
Yeah, but the lap steel really makes it. ;D
Dick Dale King of the Surf Guitar. What about the "Ventures"?
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on July 01, 2008, 11:03:02 AM
Leo
Just listened to the surf medley. Brought back memories of going to hear Dick Dale and the Deltones at the Blelly Up in Solana Beach CA.
That was when I lived in Oceanside, and was going though my conversion form Beach Dude to Cowboy. Still like Surf music now and then.
Funny you mention him. He came up in conversation yersterday. He's still out there jammin. The last album of his I bought is called Tribal Thunder and is most well known fer a tune called Nitro, but the coolest thing on it is a slow acoustic version of Miserlou at the very end. He named it something else, but ya know it when ya hear it.
Leo
Got this off his website this morning after you got me thinking about him:
"I want to thank all my music lovers for supporting me these last 3 months
with your Wonderful heartfelt letters praying for my speedy recovery
as I battle this demon that Attacks so many other friends and their loved ones.
So for now, no touring for a while.... I have rectal cancer....
I had to undergo 6 weeks of chemotherapy and radiation
every day, Monday through Friday.
Now I have rested and healed another 6 weeks from the Radiation and Chemotherapy.
April 4, 2008 my surgeon Dr Hoffman and 2 other surgeons
will cut out the tumor at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center Hospital in Hollywood, Ca.
I will have chemo afterwards to finish up.
Then I will kick back and heal....
Then I will go back into reconstructive surgery and more Chemo.
Then go to Hawaii and surf....
I again, thank all of you from my deep within and promise me, keep smiling.... D"
Hope he pulls through! He's a definite legend!
I got a good feeling that he will.
Here's some Dick Dale trivia...
Which of his songs did he actualy sing in. It's old, not well known, and it ain't "King of Surf Guitar". That was some ladies but not him. This song has full vocals by Dick. Good luck ;D
Leo
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 01, 2008, 12:57:12 PM
Dick Dale King of the Surf Guitar. What about the "Ventures"?
About a month or so ago I downloaded their Greatest Hits album off the Internet. One of my favorites was Telstar, but prefer the original by the Tornados.
Another cut was Wipe Out, which brought back memories of a girl that used to dance, in a white fringed dress, at a Milwaukee bar called The Sawmill Saloon, when the house band played it. Boy, that was more that 25 years ago.
There's some great surf music on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Comanche stands out in my mind as well as Bustin Surfboards. Can't remember who did Comanche, but that sax was smokin'.
Leo
My p arents always watched Lawrence Welk's show on Sunday night. Ithink it was about 66, I was a Freshman in college. He introduced a group who played an instrumental called PIPELINE, the group was The Shantays.
Pipeline's a good one Tex. Can't imagine them an Larance Welk. Did they use the bubble machine? An what was that lotion they was always sellin on the in studio commecials. Remember the lady doin the spots, just not the product. I think those were the last on show commercials ever.
BTW, it was the Revels that did Comanche--had ta look it up, it was driving me crazy.
Leo
if ya watch the remake of the beach blanket bingo movies, with Annette and Frankie (in the 70-80's sometime) there is Dick playing Pipeline with Stevie Ray Vaughan....very cool, altho I feel the definitive is the Chantays...
in 1983 I went to a concert billed as "Surf City" headlined by Jan and Dean. along with them was"
Chantays: Pipeline
Surfaris: Wipeout, Surfer Joe
Ventures: Hawaii 5-0
Challengers: K-39
Dick Dale: Miserlou
Dick did outstanding set, and during one song, the rest of the band sat out, and he went around and played every instrument on the stage....VERY WELL!
I thought Jan and Dean would be fluff, but they really sang, and the audience was on their feet. I think that was the peak of Jan's recovery
Trivia: look at some of your old record albums during the 60-70's and even early 80's and you will see album cover design by:
Dean O. Torrance (of Jan and ...) Only ones I can think off top of my head was Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's My Dog Teddy and the first Circle unbroken album....but he was very prolific...
Curley who was a surfer in them days....used to go see Bruce Browne movies, and in those days he did the naration live..
Because Del put it in my head. I love Chuck Berry!
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybelline in a coup de ville
A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five
She's bumper to bumber rollin' side by side
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
Pink in the mirror on top of the hill
It's just like swallowin' up a medicine pill
First thing I saw that Cadillac grille
Doin' a hundred and ten gallopin' over that hill
Offhill curve, a downhill stretch
Me and that Cadillac neck by neck
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It then got cloudy and it started to rain
I tooted my horn for a passin' lead
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that was doin' my motor good
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The Cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybelline at the top of the hill
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do
All I can say is "Flatheads Forever" wish I could afford to own one, course a 53 Coupe De Ville would be nice also, make it black with dark red leather inside. ;D
Fact is I'll take the one Chuck ordered. ;D
As I was motivatin'
Back in town
I saw a Cadillac sign
Sayin' "No Money Down"
So I eased on my brakes
And I pulled in the drive
Gunned my motor twice
Then I walked inside
Dealer came to me
Said "Trade in you Ford
And I'll put you in a car
That'll eat up the road
Just tell me what you want
And then sign on that line
And I'll have it brought down to you
In a hour's time"
I'm gonna get me a car
And I'll be headed on down the road
Then I won't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford
"Well Mister I want a yellow convertible
Four - door de Ville
With a Continental spare
And a wide chrome wheel
I want power steering
And power brakes
I want a powerful motor
With a jet off - take
I want air condition
I want automatic heat
And I want a full Murphy bed
In my back seat
I want short - wave radio
I want TV and a phone
You know I gotta talk to my baby
When I'm ridin' alone"
Yes I'm gonna get that car
And I'm gonna head on down the road
Yeah, then I won't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford
"I want four carburetors
And two straight exhausts
I'm burnin' aviation fuel
No matter what that cost
I want railroad air horns
And a military spot
And I want a five - year guarantee
On everything I got
I want ten - dollar deductible
I want twenty dollar notes
I want thirty thousand liability"
That's all she wrote
I got me a car
And I'm headed on down the road
No money down
I don't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford
'Nother Berry classic with very suggestive lyrics. :o :o :o ;D
Riding along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity running wild
Cruising and playing the radio
With no particular place to go
Riding along in my automobile
I was anxious to tell her the way I feel
So I told her softly and sincere
And she leaned and whispered in my ear
Cuddling more driving slow
With no particular place to go
No particular place to go
So we parked way out on the cocamo
The night was young and the moon was gold
So we both decided to take a stroll.
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn't unfasten her safety belt
Riding along in my calaboose
Still trying to get her belt unloose
All the way home I held a grudge
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Cruising and playing the radio
With no particular place to go
Love that one. ;D
I like "Too Much Monkey Business".
Not a big hit, but it gets me movin. Hail Hail Rock n Roll is the same as No Particular Place to Go, but I enjoy the lyrics in both.
Drop the coin right into the slot
Gotta hear sumthin that's really hot
Can ya imagine the way I felt
Couldn't unfasten her safty belt
Deliver me to days of old...
Leo
After some scroungin' around, I finally found a greatest hits and am listening right now. :)
His ultimate greatest hits is called "The Great Twenty Eight". Got it around here somewhere, perty much his entire catalog.
Leo
Johnny B Goode! My Dingaling!
thinking back about all that Rock and Roll reminds me of the sock hops they used to have at school after the football and basketball games after games on Friday nights, pull off yer shoes, roll up a cuff on yer levi's and cut loose. ;D
One song I can remember being played there and at the skating rink, a lot, The lion sleeps tonight, seem like it was awful popular.
when our school intergated in 1966, the sock hops ended, They weren't gonna take no chances of mixed couple dancing.
Nothan could outrun my V8 FORD!
Se la vie say the old folks, it goes ta show ya never can tell.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 02, 2008, 07:05:27 AM
thinking back about all that Rock and Roll reminds me of the sock hops they used to have at school after the football and basketball games after games on Friday nights, pull off yer shoes, roll up a cuff on yer levi's and cut loose. ;D
One song I can remember being played there and at the skating rink, a lot, The lion sleeps tonight, seem like it was awful popular.
when our school intergated in 1966, the sock hops ended, They weren't gonna take no chances of mixed couple dancing.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Tokens
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Near the village the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
With variation on the lyrics it's now a cat flea killer commercial
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on July 02, 2008, 01:29:50 PM
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
With variation on the lyrics its now a cat flea killer commercial
I remember hearing it the first time around 1958 at the skateing rink, just think what awesome songs some of these we're talking about, been around for 50 years and they still use em.
The good stuff never dies OT.
Wolf Man Jack might of spit at the idea of usin the music ta sell kitty products, but at least they're still out there. We been talkin alot of surf an rockabilly, but there's a lot ta be said fer the doo-wop as well. My favorite part of the entire Woodstock movie (and album) is when Sha-Na-Na came out and did The Hop. It was originally a Danny and the Juniors song but ole Bowser and the guys ripped it up. They were so out of place amongst all the hippies, but it was CLASSIC :D ;D 8)
Leo
Never did care much for the lion song but that's just me.
Funny thing. My oldest 'n I were out in the sticks one evenin' takin' a top down ride. Had a fifties tape in the stereo. That came on 'n she reached o'er 'n turnt it up. Reckon she was 13 or 14 back then.
Quote from: Arcey on July 02, 2008, 03:10:55 PM
Never did care much for the lion song but that's just me.
Funny thing. My oldest 'n I were out in the sticks one evenin' takin' a top down ride. Had a fifties tape in the stereo. That came on 'n she reached o'er 'n turnt it up. Reckon she was 13 or 14 back then.
My oldest used to get all excited when she was about 6-7 when the Beach Boys came on.
I still like The Beach Boys, they just don't do all the car songs they did when they first started.
They got cut out of the ad budgets years ago. ;)
Well mebbe if they was still sellin 409's they'd be in business ;D
Leo
You have be wealthy to afford and original 409. An original 409 air cleaner is worth more than a good used car, especially if it's chrome.
back in 66, had a friend that had a 63, 409, that thing would haul, when he went to Nam in 67, he sold it, if I remember right he was asking $1200 at the time, wish I could go back and buy a warehouse full of em at that price. ;D
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 02, 2008, 07:05:27 AM
thinking back about all that Rock and Roll reminds me of the sock hops they used to have at school after the football and basketball games after games on Friday nights, pull off yer shoes, roll up a cuff on yer levi's and cut loose. ;D
One song I can remember being played there and at the skating rink, a lot, The lion sleeps tonight, seem like it was awful popular.
That song has an interesting history. It evolved and had several names. From Wikipedia:
"Mbube" (Zulu for "lion") was first recorded by its writer, Solomon Linda, and his group, The Evening Birds, in 1939. Gallo Record Company paid Linda a single fee for the recording and no royalties. "Mbube" became a hit throughout South Africa and sold about 100,000 copies during the 1940s. The song became so popular that Mbube lent its name to a style of African a cappella music, though the style has since been mostly replaced by isicathamiya (a softer version).
Alan Lomax brought the song to the attention of Pete Seeger of the folk group The Weavers. It was on one of several records Lomax loaned to Seeger.[1] After having performed the song for at least a year in their concerts, in November, 1951, they recorded their version entitled "Wimoweh", a mishearing of the original song's chorus of 'uyimbube' (meaning "you're a lion"). Pete Seeger had made some of his own additions to the melody. The song was credited exclusively to Paul Campbell.
Pete Seeger explains in one recording, "it refers to an old legend down there, [about] their last king, who was known as Chaka The Lion. Legend says, Chaka The Lion didn't die when Europeans took over our country; he simply went to sleep, and he'll wake up some day." (See "Senzenina / Wimoweh" on Seeger's With Voices Together We Sing (Live).)
It was published by Folkways. Their 1952 version, arranged by Gordon Jenkins, became a top-twenty hit in the U.S., and their live 1957 recording turned it into a folk music staple. This version was covered in 1959 by the The Kingston Trio.
New lyrics to the song were written by George Weiss, Luigi Creatore, and Hugo Peretti, based very loosely upon the meaning of the original song. The Tokens' 1961 cover of this version rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and still receives fairly frequent replay on many American oldies radio stations. In the UK, an up-tempo rendering of this version was a top-ten hit for Karl Denver and his Trio. In 1971, Robert John did a cover of this version, and it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Since then, "Wimoweh" / "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has remained popular and frequently covered.
Just so everyone knows, this has been going through my head since yesterday:
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Back in 1975 as a Sr. I was lookin' for a car to work on in Body Shop class at tech school, guy I worked with had a junk yard of sorts, went up too look at a 41 Merc coupe, didn't buy it, a bit rusty. He tried to sell me a 64 Impalla SS ragtop with a 409 dual quad, hit in the rear quarter, plus was gonna toss another 64 @DHT, non SS for parts, $500, I passed cause gas prices were goin' up. ::)
you are a mean man. now i'll have that in my head for a week.
trail boss
Ya all got me thinkin about all the Chess label records.
Remember "Rocket 88, or Delta 88 which ever. "Cruisin an boozin along..."
They also recorded that guy that could sing like a girl an a frog, "I'm a lonley frog, an I aint got no home..."
Leo
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry.
Limbaugh used to use that for theme music to his homeless updates. As he used Up And Away in My Beautiful Balloon for the condom updates.
Limbaugh called 'n talked to 'im on the air about recordin' somethin' for 'im 'n the ole fella yelled out, 'I TAKE DA GIG! I TAKE DA GIG!'
Three Cheers for "The Frogman"!
ANGELS CAN DO NO MORE
By Andy Wilkinson
We laid young Sammy to his rest,
Dug a deep hole, then we did our best
To say the right things as we knocked the dirt from the shovel.
So far from God and so near to a life of trouble.
No more than a boy when he died like a man,
We stood around his grave with our hats in our hands,
Leanin' first on one foot and then on the other.
Wishin' we'd a-knowed what to say to write to his mother.
But there ain't much to say when a man dies young,
Before he can do what he should have done.
Leastways, the cowboys that knowed him swore,
"Sammy done his damnedest, angels can do no more."
We stared at our boots, and nobody spoke
'Til the trail boss coughed, and cleared his throat,
And said to the cook, "Tear a plank off the chuckwagon
And bring it here to mark the grave of our young companion."
So the wranglers made a fire out of dry prairie coal,
The wind fanned the flames 'til the brandin' irons glowed,
Then we burned in the wood the words we should'a been sayin',
Down on our knees like a bunch of growed men a-prayin'.
But there ain't much to say when a man dies young,
Before he can do what he should have done.
Leastways, the cowboys that knowed him swore,
"Sammy done his damnedest, angels can do no more."
Now, Sammy rode hard and he never complained
Two long years on the Rockin' Chair range,
Chasin' them strays down the Salt Fork of the Red River;
Angels' and cowboys' work, it goes on forever.
And as for myself, when it's my turn to die,
I hope there's a cowhand or two standing' by
To pack down the dirt and carry the news to the family,
And say over me what we should'a said over Sammy.
But there ain't much to say when a man dies young,
Before he can do what he should have done.
Leastways, the cowboys that knowed him swore,
"Sammy done his damnedest, angels can do no more."
And Hoyt Axton.
It was Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo,
Left the city in a pick-up truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, they rolled out west where the wild sun sets,
And the coyote bays at the moon.
Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Down Tucson way there's a small cafe,
Where they play a little cowboy tune.
And the guitar picker was a friend of mine,
By the name of Randy Boone.
Yeah, Randy played her a sweet love song,
And Della got a fire in her eye.
The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun,
And the cat had a shot of rye.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Yeah, the Dealer was a killer; he was evil and mean,
And he was jealous of the fire in her eyes.
He snorted his coke through a century note,
And he swore that Boone would die.
And the stage was set when the lights went out,
There was death in Tucson town.
Two shadows ran for the bar back door,
But one stayed on the ground.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Two shadows ran from the bar that night,
And a dog and a cat ran too.
And the tires got hot on the pickup truck,
As down the road they flew.
It was Della and her lover and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
Left Tucson in a pickup truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
And one of Hoyt's best, Steppenwold did a well know cover of it. :)
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'till next Monday
But he spent it all on comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?
Someone should call his parents or a sister or a brother
And they'll come and take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
And he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
Dyin' slow
Blinded by snow
Some Ed Bruce:
This is the last cowboy song the end of a hundred year waltz
Voices sound sad as they're singing along another piece of America's lost
He rides a feed lot and clerks in a market on weekends selling tobacco and beer
His dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here
He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And eyeball to eyeball Ol' Wyatt backed down
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down
This is the last cowboy song...
Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
And Louie L'Amore has told us his tale
And Willie and Waylon and me sing about him
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail
The Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete now
And they truck 'em to market in fifty foot rigs
They blow by his market never slowing to reason
Like living and dying was all he did
This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song...
[ guitar ]
This is the last cowboy song...
And a couple by Cowboy Junkies, not well know but durn good.
Mining for Gold
We are miners, hard rock miners
To the shaft house we must go
Pour your bottles on our shoulders
We are marching to the slow
On the line boys, on the line boys
Drill your holes and stand in line
'til the shift boss comes to tell you
You must drill her out on top
Can't you feel the rock dust in your lungs?
It'll cut down a miner when he is still young
Two years and the silicosis takes hold
and I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold
Yes, I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold
Misguided Angel
I said "Mama, he's crazy and he scares me
But I want him by my side
though he's wild and he's bad
and sometimes just plain mad
I need him to keep me satisfied"
I said "Papa, don't cry cause it's alright
And I see you in some of his ways
Though he might not give me the life that you wanted
I'll love him the rest of my days"
Misguided angel hangin' over me
Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a Lucifer, black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you 'til I'm dead
I said "Brother, you speak to me of passion
You said never to settle for nothing less
Well, it's in the way he walks,
it's in the way he talks
His smile, his anger and his kisses"
I said "Sister, don't you understand?
He's all I ever wanted in a man
I'm tired of sittin' around the T.V. every night
Hoping I'm finding a Mr. Right"
Misguided angel hangin' over me
Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a Lucifer
Black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you 'til I'm dead
He says "Baby, don't listen to what they say
There comes a time when you have to break away"
He says "Baby there are things we all cling to all our life
It's time to let them go and become my wife"
Misguided angel hangin' over me
Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a Lucifer
Black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you 'til I'm dead
And some Townes Van Zant. Couple other covers of this, but his is the best. :)
Living on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
You weren't your mama's only boy
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams
Pancho was a bandit boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
Wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
That's the way it goes
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him hang around
Out of kindness I suppose
Lefty he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
There ain't nobody knows
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness I suppose
The poets tell how Pancho fell
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
So the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true,
But save a few for Lefty too
He just did what he had to do
Now he's growing old
A few gray federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him go so wrong
Out of kindness I suppose
And some Guy Clark:
Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before,
so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.
Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels,
bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels
Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four,
but everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more. . .
. . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war.
This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before.
And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day.
somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way.
Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars,
and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars.
Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch,
and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop.
So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time'
you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line.
'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back,
But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
she's a fast-rollin' streamline
come to show the folks.
Look out here she comes, she's comin'
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
. . .Lord, she never even stopped.
She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars,
and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
and how it got this far.
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
by a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone
Wow Del :o
You should a got DJ pay fer that set. Hell, station manager is more like it. Great play list. I liked Waylon an Willies Poncho an Lefy. Er was that Merle with him that time?
Remeber the Cowboy Junkies from 92 or so, loved em, wonder what happened sometimes. They actualy got play on MTV and Saturday Night Live.
Leo
Ridin'
There's some that like the city grass that's curried smooth and green
Theaters, stranglin collars waggons run by gasoline
For me it's horse and saddle every day without a change
And the desert's suns a blazing on a hundred miles of range
Ridin' Ridin' desert ripplin in the sun
Mountains blue along the skyline
Who could envy anyone when we're ridin'
When my feet is in the stirrups and my horse is on the bust
And his hooves a flashin lightnin from a cloud of golden dust
And the bawl-in of the cattle is a come-in down the wind
Then a finer life than riden' would be mighty hard to find
Ridin' Ridin' splitn long cracks through the air
Stirrin up a baby cyclone rippin up the prickly pear
When we're ridin'
Don't need no art exhibits when the sunset does her best
Painting everlasting glory on the mountains to the west
And your opry looks so foolish as the night-bird starts his tune
And the deserts silver mounted by the touches of the moon
Ridin' Ridin'
Who could envy kings and czars
When the coyotes down the valley their singin to the stars
When we're ridin'
When my earthly trail is ended and my final bacon curled
And the last great roundups finished at the home ranch of the world
Don't want no harps nor halos robes nor other dressed up things
Just ride those starry ranges on a pinto horse with wings
Ridin' Ridin' nothin I like half so well
As a roundin up the sinners that have wandered out of hell
When we're ridin'
Ridin' Ridin' desert ripplin in the sun
Mountains blue along the skyline
Who could envy anyone when we're ridin'
'Nother good un!
Now, the old Double Diamond lay out east of Dubois
In the land of the buffalo
And the auctioneer's gavel, how it rapped and it rattled
As I watched the old Double Diamond go
Won't you listen to the wind
Mother Nature's violin
When I first hired on the old Double Diamond
I was a dammed poor excuse for a man
I never learned how to aim when the spirit was tame
Couldn't see all the cards in my hand
And the wind whipped the granite above me
Blew the tumble weeds clean through my soul
Well I fought her winters and I busted her horses
And I took more than I thought I could stand
But the battles with the mountains and cattle
Seemed to bring out the best in a man
I guess a sailor, he needs an ocean
And a mama, her babies to hold
I need the hills of Wyoming
In the land of the buffalo
Now shes sellin' out, I'm movin' on
But I'm leavin' with more than I came
'Caus I've got this saddle and it ain't for sale
And I got this song to sing
Find a new range to ride, new knots to tie
In a country where cowboys are king
I turn my tail to the wind and the old Double Diamond
Disappeared into the sage
Good one sleep, the CD player chose that one 'bout an hour ago. I know it's rough havin' nearly 100 Western CD's in the player at work that you are forced to play, but I can handle it, any requests? :)
The Double Diamond ain't played in a couple days that I've heard.
'Nother from Ian Tyson ;D
We were having a drink at Stockman's,
Listenin' to the guitars ring.
Jesse said "You know,they sold the M.C. horses."
"I'll be damned.When was that?" I hadn't heard a thing.
"Back in August--100 head and more."
Yeah, the people they come from everywhere
Just to bid on 'em high and low
And thereby own a piece of the legend.
With the cow herd all dispersed the old cavvy she had to go.
Back in August--100 head and more.
Chorus:
So come on boy, run 'em in. We're gonna let this sale begin.
Last of the big remudas of the mightly M.C.
There's horses here for everyone.
Saddle 'em kids let's get her done.
By the time that Oregon sun goes down
This outfit's history--this outfit's history.
So the M.C. crew they rode 'em all
And the people all gathered 'round.
One ol' boy gave two grand for Banjo.
Banjo took his trailer apart
When he tired to load him up for town
Back in August-- 100 head and more.
If you ever have beer at the Aydell Store
Say hi to Chuck and Annie.
They'll show you them big ol' steer heads up there hangin'.
When you ask where have they gone?
Hell, they're gone like the M.C. cavvy
Back in August--100 head and more.
Repeat Chorus
We were having a drink at Stockman's
Way out on the sagebrush sea.
Jesse said "You know, they sold the M.C. horses."
More Ian Tyson ;D
If I could roll back the years
Back when I was young and limber
Loose as ashes in the wind I had no irons in the fire
I could ride them wild young broncos
The adrenaline came quickly
And Juanita down at Mona's
Was my only hearts desire
We were living for the moment
And the sunlight on my silver bits
The ringing of my jinglebobs
Was the music of my soul
In the alley back of Mona's I held Juanita in the shadows
How we held on to each other
And the lovin' that we stole
And the sighing of the pines
Up here near the timberline
Makes me wish I'd done things different
Oh, but wishing don't make it so
Oh the time has passed so quick
The years all run together now
Did I hold Juanita yesterday
Was it fifty years ago
If I would have quit them broncos
She might have quit that business
But that was back in the fast days
You know before the wire
I bet I could still find her
Bet she's still as pretty
As when she's Juanita down at Mona's
And my only heart's desire
Ian again
There's this place we're gonna ride
Up where the rimrod meets the night
We'll go hand in hand
Ridin' through the purple star light
And the coyote on the wind
Sends his lonely lover's call
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
The golden west has come and gone
Right before our very eyes
But they will never count the stars
And they will never fence the skies
All i know is i love you
And i won't let you fall
We're rollin' down the milky way
Into the wonder of it all
Bridge:
Life gets harder every day
And sometimes it seems the dream almost dies
But love will find a way
It will show us the way through the canyons of the stars
And the endless midnight sky
Come on girl we're gonna ride
Where the rimrod meets the night
We'll go hand in hand
Ridin' through the purple starlight
And the coyote on the wind
Sends his lonely lover's call
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
We'll hold each other close
In the wonder of it all
Now ya did it Sleep, I took over and took it off random, got Ian on for the next hour. :)
This one from MMM is kinda special for me an' a few others
There's a lost river that flows
In a valley where no on e goes,
Where the wild water's rush
Rumbles deep in the hush.
Gone far from there now,
Lord I'll be back somehow
To where the lost river winds
In the shadow of the pines
Oh, lost river, now I'm coming back
To the pot-belly stove, where the firewood's all stacked
Oh quebec girl, go with me,
Oh my bell, my fleur de lis,
Where the lost river winds
In the shadow of the pines
Now every body knows
Where that lost river flows
It's someplace he's lost
Behind bridges that he's crossed
Well, he'd like to return,
But his bridges are all burned
And he's much too far down
To return to higher ground
Oh, lost river, now I'm coming back
To the pot-belly stove, where the firewood's all stacked
Oh quebec girl, go with me,
Oh my bell, my fleur de lis,
Where the lost river winds
In the shadow of the pines
Oh lost river, far over ther ridge
Now is it too late for me to build me a new bridge?
To the bright golden time
When her love was still mine
And the world was still wild
Like the heart of a child
Oh, lost river, now I'm coming back
To the pot-belly stove, where the firewood's all stacked
Oh quebec girl, go with me,
Oh my bell, my fleur de lis,
Where the lost river winds
In the shadow of the pines
Where the lost river winds
In the shadow of the pines
Quote from: Delmonico on July 06, 2008, 04:03:22 PM
Now ya did it Sleep, I took over and took it off random, got Ian on for the next hour. :)
;D ;D ;D
Irivin Berlin is a 100 years today, ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on July 06, 2008, 04:10:40 PM
;D ;D ;D
This will play just before close, I got "All the Good Un's" on now:
In old St. Louis over in Missouri
The Mighty Mississippi it rolls and flows
A son was born to Mary Russell
And it starts the legend every cowboy knows
Young kid Russell he was born to wander
Ever westward he was bound to roam
Just a kid of sixteen in 1880
Up in wild Montana he found his home
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
God hung the stars over Judith Basin
God put the magic in yound Charlie's hand
All was seen and all remembered
Every shining mountain every longhorn brand
He could paint the light on horsehide shining
Great passing herds of the buffalo
And a cowcamp cold on a rainy morning
And the twisting wrist of the Houlihan throw
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
When the Lord called Charlie to His home up yonder
He said Kid Russell I got a job for you
You're in charge of sunsets in old Montana
Cause I can't paint them quite as good as you
And when you're done---we'll go out and have a few
And Nancy Russell will make sure it's just two
God made Montana for the wild man
For the Peigon and Sioux and Crow
But He saved his greatest gift for Charlie
Said get her all down before she goes---Charlie
You gotta get her all down cause she's bound to go
Del is playing that good Cowboy music!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 06, 2008, 04:38:15 PM
Del is playing that good Cowboy music!
The only time my Dept has anything else is when there is very severe weather, then I change to the radio, but might not even do that again. Last bad storm the stupid radio took calls from the public that said there were tornaders on the ground in Lincoln, t'was pure BS. Both major station groups did it, said the one was just south of us, if it was I could have seen it.
Poed me to know end since the boss put me in charge of deciding when to lock the one open door and send everyone to shelter. ::)
(Rant off)
Ah, some Rob Quist w/ Great Northern out of Kalispell, MT...Kid Russell, great stuff, glad to see it pushing past the Big Sky borders.
I kinda like the Sons of the San Jaquin. I like Riders in the Sky too.
Quote from: shieldsmt on July 06, 2008, 05:56:30 PM
Ah, some Rob Quist w/ Great Northern out of Kalispell, MT...Kid Russell, great stuff, glad to see it pushing past the Big Sky borders.
Many of our Pards here Like Cowbgoy music, but most here haven't heard Rob Quist nor Ken Overstreet or Tim Ryan..All 3 out of Northern Montana
Where was this ultimate radio program when I was out stackin wood the last few hours?
Sure coulda used it. The guy I was stackin fer is a little off in the head, an it woulda been great stuff ta drown him out ;D
Leo
These Cowboy Music artists are able to have their music played at these festivals of the West, Cowboy Poetry, and and other venues to promote Cowboy music to all parts of the country, not just the West. There is a little "Cowboy" in all of us.
All right, here's a wierd story/rant/babble.
I jumped in the car ta grab some smokes taday, an someone had screwed with the radio. I started pushin buttons an fell across a station playin Billy Joel. Fergot I liked him, but was diggin it all the way ta the store. Got home an went on with other things. Got another Joel song stuck in ma head and couldn't remember which one I had heard on the radio ta save ma life. So housrs later, I was gettin a beard trim from Lil an still tyin ta remember the song from the radio an Lil starts whistlin somethin. Asked her what it was and it was some bad country pop from the 80's (not worth mentionin here) then she says, "it got stuck in my head, don't ask me why".
"Don't ask me why" was the song I had heard earlier an she answered ma question fer me jus like that :D Coincidental nonsense, but it was perty cool.
So without further BS, here's one of ma favorites, though I haven't thought of him in a while...
All the waiters in your grand cafe
Leave their tables when you blink
Every dog must have his everyday
Every drunk must have his drink
Dont wait for answers
Just take your chances
Dont ask me why
All your life you had to stand in line
Still youre standing on your feet
All your choices made you change your mind
Now your calenders complete
Dont wait for answers
Just take your chances
Dont ask me why
You can say the human heart
Is only make-believe
And I am only fighting fire with fire
But you are still a victim
Of the accidents you leave
As sure as Im a victim of desire
All the servants in your new hotel
Throw their roses at your feet
Fool them all but baby I can tell
Youre no stranger to the street
Dont ask for favors
Dont talk to strangers
Dont ask me why
Yesterday you were an only child
Now your ghosts have gone away
You can kill them in the classic style
Now you, parlez vous francais
Dont look for answers
You took your chances
Dont ask me why
Dont ask me why
Leo
Cowboy music has always been a favorite of mine. I grew up listening to Roy and Gene. These new atrists are carrying on the tradition. My dad was a big Bob Wills fan, so I grew up listening to Western Swing. Wstern Swing has strong roots in Texas and Okla. If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Asleep at the Wheel is carrying on that tradition. I've been an ASAW fan since about 72 0r 73. The first album of their's that I bought was an 8- track.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 08, 2008, 06:56:26 AM
Cowboy music has always been a favorite of mine. I grew up listening to Roy and Gene. These new atrists are carrying on the tradition. My dad was a big Bob Wills fan, so I grew up listening to Western Swing. Wstern Swing has strong roots in Texas and Okla. If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Asleep at the Wheel is carrying on that tradition. I've been an ASAW fan since about 72 0r 73. The first album of their's that I bought was an 8- track.
My favorite one is Ride With Bob
Ride with Bob is one of my favorite ones. I think I have most of their albums and I've seen them live several times and on Austin City Limits. I saw ASAW in Ft. Worth at an outdoor concert in the Park. The opening act was an unknown female group named "The Dixie Chicks".
The Dixie Chix got perty big fer awile, until the lead gal said some "unpatriotic" things at a show in Texas. The backlash was huge an aint heard of em since.
Leo
Actualy, I think it was an awards show, not sure which one.
Natalie Maines was just bein' a good l'il brainwashed socialist who thought she'd get a cheap pop by sayin' something before a British crowd she wouldn't have said on stage in Texas. I reckon she didn't think werd would get across the pond.
Quote from: Arcey on July 08, 2008, 06:40:29 PM
Natalie Maines was just bein' a good l'il brainwashed socialist who thought she'd get a cheap pop by sayin' something before a British crowd she wouldn't have said on stage in Texas. I reckon she didn't think werd would get across the pond.
Didn't she also make some referance to Toby Keith's "Angry American" song, not a big Toby fan, but my hand is out for him on that one. Someone told me he owns a resteraunt somewhere and feeds active and former servicemen for free.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 08, 2008, 06:49:09 PM
Didn't she also make some referance to Toby Keith's "Angry American" song, not a big Toby fan, but my hand is out for him on that one. Someone told me he owns a resteraunt somewhere and feeds active and former servicemen for free.
OK, it's slow so I looked it up.
http://www.tobykeithsbar.com/restaurant-menu/american-soldier-special
Rather a nice deal. Course he got some award from the USO last week for the tours he's done overseas, wonder what whould happen to the Dixie Chimps if they went on a USO tour, figure if the other two were upset about the comments they'd a kicked her out, far as I know the local CW station will still not play their music, heard others did the same.
That was the FTK t-shirt thing?
Quote from: Arcey on July 08, 2008, 07:07:57 PM
That was the FTK t-shirt thing?
Had something to do with it, heard an interview with him a while back, said there are more important things than fighting with a liberal twit, said he could care less what she thought, he knew what he believes in.
http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1473071/06202003/dixie_chicks.jhtml
What she forgot is freedom of speech gives folks the right to dislike you for it, very important.
OK, I was all wrong on the venue, but that's what happened. Lost 3 girls a good career preenin to the appropriate crowd.
The Brits also sunk The Killer, but he didn't know he done anythin wrong. At least he can still book a state fair.
I don listen ta Toby but I'd buy his stuff jus ta give him the royalties.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 08, 2008, 07:22:37 PM
OK, I was all wrong on the venue, but that's what happened. Lost 3 girls a good career preenin to the appropriate crowd.
Leo
Guess they didn't realize we celebrate on the 4th of July not havin' to bow down to the Brits no more. :)
Quote from: Delmonico on July 08, 2008, 07:16:41 PM
What she forgot is freedom of speech gives folks the right to dislike you for it, very important.
This is a very profound statement and needs rememberin.
Leo
From what I've heard it was a very expensive lesson.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 08, 2008, 07:36:36 PM
This is a very profound statement and needs rememberin.
Leo
The part few realize, just 'cause you have a right to say it, I have a right to dislike it.
Got into a discussion with an aini-gun person one time, meantioned the Bill of Rights and the 2nd, they drug out the 1st and freedom of speech. Said yep, and I'd defend their right to that with my guns, told him I thought he ought to do the same for me and defend my right to guns with his mouth. :)
One of the few I've ever discussed it with, don't know many, don't have no
"FRIENDS" that are anti-gun.
Quote from: Arcey on July 08, 2008, 07:39:40 PM
From what I've heard it was a very expensive lesson.
Yeah, when I am around a CW station I hear lots of Toby, don't here no Dixie Twits, never seen no FUTC T-Shirts on anyone, saw several FUDC ones though.
You know when the Spin Doctors start trying to explain what the letters on a t-shirt mean, then they mean exactly what you thought they did.
Del, that would be:
F reedom
Understanding
Democracy
and
Courage
right! ::)
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on July 08, 2008, 07:52:20 PM
You know when the Spin Doctors start trying to explain what the letters on a t-shirt mean, then they mean exactly what you thought they did.
Del, that would be:
F reedom
Understanding
Democracy
and
Courage
right! ::)
Yer good Irish, yer good.
Leo
Ain't buyin' it, cuz.
If that's it, it would have 'nother D 'n an S in it. Diversity 'n Sensitivity.
Ain't been that long since I went to an in service session.
Ah! Cultural Diversity, we get 8 hrs of that every 2 years at the academy.
heard this one yesterday, had almost forgotten it.
She's a railroad lady
Just a little bit shady
Spendin' her days on the trains
She's a semi-good looker
But the fast rails they took 'er
Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get home again
South Station in Boston to the stock yards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail p.a.c.s (1)
Have taken the best tracks
She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again
She's a railroad lady
Just a little bit shady
Spendin' her life on a train
Once a pullman car traveller
Now the switchmen(2)won't have 'er
She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again
Once a high ballin' loner he thought he could own 'er
Bought her a fur and a big diamond ring
She hocked 'em for cold cash
in a town on the Wabash (3)
Never thinkin', never thinkin' of home way back then
But the rails are now rusty
The dinin' car's dusty
Gold plated watches have taken their toll
Yeah the railroads are dyin'
And the lady she's cryin'
On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal
She's a railroad lady
Just a little bit shady
Spendin' her life on a train
She's a semi-good looker
But the fast rails they took 'er
Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get home again
Coda:
Yes on a bus to Kentucky and home once again
Pardon Me Boys, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 10, 2008, 11:37:53 AM
Pardon Me Boys, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO?
Ya'd have ta go ta Tuxedo Junction ta catch that one ;)
Leo
How about an "E" ticket on the "A" Train?
Okay guys.
Not to derail your train of thought, but out here in the West we have two out of three of these. What we need now is the RAIN!!
THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA
Now way out here they have a name for rain and wind and fire
The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe and they call the wind Maria
Maria blows the star around and sets the clouds a-flyin'
Maria makes the mountains sound like folks was out there dyin'
Maria, Maria
They call the wind Maria
Before I knew Maria's name and heard her wail and whinin'
I had a gal and she had me and the sun was always shinin'
But then one day I left my gal, I left her far behind me
And now I'm lost, so goldurned lost, not even God can find me
Maria, Maria
They call the wind Maria
Now here they have a name for rain, for wind and fire only
But when you're lost and all alone there ain't no name for lonely
Now I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me
Maria blow my love to me, I need my gal beside me
Maria (Maria), Maria (Maria)
They call the wind Maria
Maria....Maria....Maria
They call the wind Maria
Sounds like you need Starbuck "The Rainmaker".
If the rain comes
they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes
If the rain comes
When the sun shines
they slip into the shade
and sip their lemonade
When the sun shines
When the sun shines
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
I can show you
that when it starts to rain
everything's the same
I can show you
I can show you
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
Can you hear me
that when it rains and shines
it's just a state of mind
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
You guys on the West Coast also might think about hiring a Native-American to do a "Rain Dance". OT and I are part Okla. Cherokees. I don't know if he has any experience in this venue. I certainly do not.
It might be worth lookin inta, but truth of the matter is that rain jus dont happen this time a year round here. It's normal fer summer, don't 'spect nuthin til October, but it could wait til January.
Just the way it is in sunny CA.
Leo
They got the Green Corn festivals coming up this month, they'll be doing all kinds of dances and ceremonies. I've been to a couple of em, they get down serious. I can remember several years, when there would be droughts or heat waves, sometimes it'd rain sometimes not.
go over around Tahlequah, Oklahoma and you can find any kind of medicine or spells or rain makers, all ya got to do is ask the first person in town ya see and they'll probably know somebody. mostly Cherokee over there. or if yer so inclined, go to Okmulgee, Ok. same thing only there you'll get a Creek Indian.
Thanks for the info, OT.
here's some interesting reading about the Cherokee spells and info on the shamans
http://cherokeeregistry.firstlightonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=130
OT, I really enjoyed reading the info.
That website has a lot of information about Cherokees, seems like you can go back several times and find something new.
Thanks again OT for showing me that website. I always enjoy reading about my noble ancestors.
I showed that site ta Lil an she stole the computer from me. She's been lookin fer stuff like that for quite awhile now. Saved ta favorites!
Since this is the music thread, I'll throw this one out ta Tex ;)
They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan
Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die
They took the whole Indian nation
Locked us on this reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still part redman deep inside
Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die
But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee nation will return, will return, will return, will return, will return
Mark Lindsay without the RAIDERS!
For Leo, in the words of Chief Dan George, "They called us one of the civiliazed tribes because the white man could sneak up on us." :)
Ya Gotta Love Chief Dan in "Outlaw Josey Wales."
Well I guess he knew how ta call it.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 11, 2008, 06:46:23 PM
Ya Gotta Love Chief Dan in "Outlaw Josey Wales."
No ya got to love him in any movie, where would "Little Big Man" have been with out him. ;D
He could do very serious parts also.
I'll never ferget in LBM when he was all set ta die. Wanted ta go up ta the hilltop ta do it. Layed there all serene like, then the rain started hittin him in the face :) One of my favorite scenes. Wasn't his time.
Leo
LR sneaks in while everyone is sleeping and hits the buttons on the tuner
I want a new drug
One that wont make me sick
One that wont make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug
One that wont hurt my head
One that wont make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
One that wont make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when Im with you
When Im alone with you
I want a new drug
One that wont spill
One that dont cost too much
Or come in a pill
I want a new drug
One that wont go away
One that wont keep me up all night
One that wont make me sleep all day
One that wont make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when Im with you
When Im alone with you
Im alone with you baby
I want a new drug
One that does what it should
One that wont make me feel too bad
One that wont make me feel too good
I want a new drug
One with no doubt
One that wont make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
One that wont make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when Im with you
When Im alone with you
ohhhhhh......that's much better............... a Love song
Huey Lewis pops up in the strangest places.
At least the heart of rock'n'roll is still beatin...
Mine's beatin' kinda slow this mornin', hadn't had my first cup of coffee. Miss Victoria kept me up last night. She kept hearin' boogers in the night.
Tex, Montana and I seen Asleep at the Wheel preform that one, with Huey playing the harmonica on stage with them. Then of course we watched their Tour bus roll out of Huey's drive that afternoon, on the way to the Show. think Huey is a good ole boy down deep, Hunts fishes goes to Rodeo's ;D
LR, I'm seein' Huey in a new light. Didn't know he was a "good ole boy" at heart. Ol Ray Benson is a big guy. He's got a pair of white boots with black wingtips, they gotta be about size 14 or 15 with real pointy toes. You know the kind, real "cockroach stompers".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 12, 2008, 08:56:48 AM
LR, I'm seein' Huey in a new light. Didn't know he was a "good ole boy" at heart. Ol Ray Benson is a big guy. He's got a pair of white boots with black wingtips, they gotta be about size 14 or 15 with real pointy toes. You know the kind, real "cockroach stompers".
Got a CD with AATW and many guests, Huey sings "Hubin' it" .
Asleep at the Wheel and Junior Brown are two of my favorite groups to listen to.
Just a little trivia:
What song was banned in England because it mentions Coca-Cola?
Hint: it was done by the Beetles
Come Together on Abby Road ;)
Leo
Hey, The original Coca Cola was made with Coca leaves down in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 12, 2008, 11:47:16 AM
Hey, The original Coca Cola was made with Coca leaves down in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Still is made with coca leaves, they just take the good stuff out now. :)
That song was written as Timothy Leary's campaign song.
I sure if he got elected he would have had them put "the good stuff" back in. That er LSD.
Leo
AH! The 60s, I remember them well!
I've been humming this one all day. don't know why it popped up. ;D
PHILADELPHIA LAWYER (AKA "RENO BLUES")
(WOODY GUTHRIE) (1937)
Way out in Reno, Nevada,
Where romance blooms and fades,
A great Philadelphia lawyer
Was in love with a Hollywood maid.
"Come, love, and we will wander
Down where the lights are bright.
I'll win you a divorce from your husband,
And we can get married tonight."
Wild Bill was a gun-totin' cowboy,
Ten notches were carved in his gun.
And all the boys around Reno
Left Wild Bill's maiden alone.
One night when he was returning
From ridin' the range in the cold,
He dreamed of his Hollywood sweetheart,
Her love was as lasting as gold.
As he drew near her window,
A shadow he saw on the shade;
'Twas the great Philadelphia lawyer
Makin' love to Bill's Hollywood maid.
The night was as still as the desert,
The moon hangin' high overhead.
Bill listened awhile to the lawyer,
He could hear ev'ry word that he said:
"Your hands are so pretty and lovely,
Your form's so rare and divine.
Come go with me to the city
And leave this wild cowboy behind."
Now back in old Pennsylvania,
Among those beautiful pines,
There's one less Philadelphia lawyer
In old Philadelphia tonight.
nutha Love song ;D
Quote from: litl rooster on July 12, 2008, 09:46:18 PM
nutha Love song ;D
Fer you, Roo ;)
Youd think that people would have had enought of silly love songs.
But I look around me and I see it isnt so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And whats wrong with that?
Id like to know, cause here I go again
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I love you,
I cant explain the feelings plain to me, say cant you see?
Ah, she gave me more, she gave it all to me
Now cant you see,
Whats wrong with that
I need to know, cause here I go again
I love you, I love you
Love doesnt come in a minute,
Sometimes it doesnt come at all
I only know that when Im in it
It isnt silly, no, it isnt silly, love isnt silly at all.
How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?
(I love you)
How can I tell you about my loved one?
(I love you)
[repeat and fade]
Can you feel the LOVE?
Sir Paul, before the settlement....Silly Love Song
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 13, 2008, 05:02:09 AM
Can you feel the LOVE?
I say that quite a bit at work, when the guys are pissin an moaning at each other
My all time fav-or-ite love song.....
You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you yes it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gonna soar
I don't care for any casanova thing
All I can say is
Love stinks
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
I've been through diamonds
I've been through minks
I've been through it all
Love stinks
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
I've always been sorta partial to"If you're not with the one you love, Honey, love the one you're with". The Moose doesn't think that's funny. Redheads have no sense of humor.
will refrain from making redhead remarks since Montana sometimes visits here...... :o
LR, The Moose is Irish and Cherokee Indian, a leathal combination. I always say Yes Maam and No Maam, and besides she's better lookin' and makes more money than I do. She has put up with me for almost 35 years.
I kind a like this on, Ian again, kinda a slow Wlaz, I sell a lot of that CD when a couple is in wantin' my suggestion for some music they both would like. ;D Play that and if they are cowboy types the'll most the time walk out with the CD, and hand in hand. ;D
Have complained enough that some Wedding dance DJ should have it sometime, heck they play most times C&W at the ones I go to, might ought to slip the CD in Rita's purse next time. ::)
Take a walk with me- he said
Down by the river
i've got something to show you
Something I want you to see
What the hell for she said
That just leads to more grievin'
I see yer packed and you're leavin'
On the Rodeo Road.
One more time please walk with me
To the bridge on the river
Where we through down our pennies
Where we wished on the stars
And she - hesitated
Too many nights she had waited
It got so she hated
The rodeo road
He said I brought my riggin' bag
My spurs my chaps and saddle
For I know the time has come to let' em go
So hold on to me my darlin'
As I lean out of this trestle
And he dropped 'em into the waters down below
They stayed for a long long time
Till the spell it was broken
Then they walked to the Antler Bar
Hand and Hand in the rain
Outside the wind sighed
inside the jute box cried
He'd made his last ride - on the rodeo road
There will always be the other
His first lover - the rodeo road
I may have put this up before....But has Chris told Toby in the duet cover that is a Love Song
Copenhagen
It makes me feel so good
Copenhagen
The way I know it should
I put a lil' chew in my mouth
Go spittin' and a slobberin' all around the house
That Copenhagen it makes me feel so good
Well I took a chew just the other night
It made me feel just fine
I grabbed my honeybaby and I pinched her ol' behind
She said you better spit out that chewing terbaccer
If you wanna kiss me on the big ol' smacker
That Copenhagen
It makes me feel so good
Copenhagen
It makes me feel so good
Copenhagen
The way I know it should
I put a lil' chew in my mouth
Go hackin' and a gaggin' all around the house
That Copenhagen it makes me feel so good
Well I was sitting in a bar room when I took a lil' dip
Drinkin' beer and talkin' but I had no place to spit
So I spit a stream out on the floor
The bouncer flung me out the door
That Copenhagen it makes me feel so good
Copenhagen
It makes me feel so good
Copenhagen
The way I know it should
I put a lil' chew in my mouth
Go spittin' and a slobberin' all around the house
That Copenhagen it makes me feel so good
Well it's a cure-all too
Cures fits, warts, freckles,coughs,colds, runny nose
Guaranteed not rip, run or snag
Make conception a wonder and childbirth a pleasure
That's Copenhagen
Copenhagen it makes me feel so good Yeah
Well, whatcha know 'bout that? Wildcat Will tell the ole feller what used ta co-own the gas station I werked for when I was a kid that was a a love song?
I'd rather feel good with sumthin' like this:
Did I tell you about my baby
Well, she comes around
Five feet four
From her head to the ground
Comes around here
Just about midnight
Makes me feel so good
Makes me feel alright
And her name is G . L . O . R . I . A
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every day
Oh, oh, oh midnight, midnight, midnight
She come around here
She makes me feel alright about midnight
Walking down on the street
Come knock on my door
Knock, knock on my door
Then come in my room
Make me feel alright
Feel, feel, feel, feel
Feel, feel, alright, alright
She's a sender, she's a lover
She's a sender, she's a killer
What's her name?
Her name is Gloria
G . L . O . R . I . A
G.L.O.R.I.A
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every day
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
I wanna shout it every night
I wanna shout it every day
And every day, and every day
And every day child
And every day child, every day
Makes me feel good
Feel, feel
Mamma look, feel, feel, so good
Gonna grab my Van Morrison CD 'n go load summore shotshells.
Arcey, that brings back some memories of old Gloria, a girl in our school, when the women went to protesting and burning bras, back in the mid 60's, one day she just left hers home, sure made us sit up and take notice, that was the first time we'd ever seen anything like that, the principal made her wear her sweater the rest of the day and told her not to come back like that, but I sure remember that 1st hour English class that day. :o :o ;D ;D
"Course in the late 60's there was also this classic by Charrlie Walker:
My friend - he fixed me up
With a girl he said he knew
He guarenteed we'd get along just fine ...
And when I went to pick her up
I found out what he meant
He knows that strange and weary things
Are a hobby of mine.
I wouldn't take her to a dog fight
Or any other place I've ever been ...
I wouldn't take her to a dog fight
Not even if she had a chance to win.
Cu-ri-os-i-ty; They say killed the cat
And I've been the curious sort all of my life
I hung around convinced; She couldn't really look that bad
She got me drunk and when I woke up; I found I had a wife.
wouldn't take her to a dog fight
Or any other place I've ever been ...
I wouldn't take her to a dog fight
Not even if she had a chance to win.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 13, 2008, 12:53:21 PM
Arcey, that brings back some memories of old Gloria, a girl in our school, when the women went to protesting and burning bras, back in the mid 60's, one day she just left hers home, sure made us sit up and take notice, that was the first time we'd ever seen anything like that, the principal made her wear her sweater the rest of the day and told her not to come back like that, but I sure remember that 1st hour English class that day. :o :o ;D ;D
Hmm, 'bout that time, the doom and gloom folks said we was gonna have an Ice Age, now the same ones say Global Warmin' always wondered why it changed 180 degrees, now I know, was them burnin' bras that caused the change. ::)
Gloria's a great one.
Them got screwed on airplay because of one line sayin she comes in his room an makes hhim feel alright. Shadows of Night covered it with a few changes an got rich. Good thing it's the original that gets all the recognition these days.
Leo
OT, I bet that was an eye-opener in First Period English class.
Quote from: litl rooster on July 13, 2008, 06:32:40 AM
I say that quite a bit at work, when the guys are pissin an moaning at each other
Ask 'em if then need a hug. ;)
Awwwww. Ain' that just touchy-feely of you, Sod Buster? ;D
It makes me feel all "Warm and Fuzzy".
LR, I do feel the LOVE! I wanna buy the world a COKE and live in HARMONY!
Better watch buyin' that hominy, it's made from corn an' corn prices has skyrocketed! :o
Does that mean corn cobs will be in short supply?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 14, 2008, 08:17:30 AM
Does that mean corn cobs will be in short supply?
Nope, gonna be plenty o' cobs... them feeders an' alky-hall plants jist want tha grains ::)
No shortages fer tha outhouse er pipe factories. ;D
or brass tumblers
Whoo, I can sleep better at night now!
Quote from: Tensleep on July 14, 2008, 07:42:04 AM
Better watch buyin' that hominy, it's made from corn an' corn prices has skyrocketed! :o
Now, theyhs a true southunuh. Ain' no difference twixt hominy what a body makes grits from or music from. ;D
GRITS! It's a southern thing!
Quote from: Delmonico on July 13, 2008, 01:02:01 PM
Hmm, 'bout that time, the doom and gloom folks said we was gonna have an Ice Age, now the same ones say Global Warmin' always wondered why it changed 180 degrees, now I know, was them burnin' bras that caused the change. ::)
Ya want a chuckle for the day, Google up kidney stones global warming.
Thinkin' if ya do a l'il diggin' yer gonna find a federal grant behind that one.
Arcey, do you get kidney stones from eatin' Grits? What effect does "Global Warming" have on kidney stones and Grits? Inquiring minds want to know.
Couldn't tell ya. I just been eatin' 'em since birth. No stones yet.
Now, whatcha could do is run on o'er to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. They did the research on the thing. I'm sure if ya bring 'nuff money they'll put 'nuff spin on it ta give ya any outcome ya want like I suspect they did with that one.
Coffees gone. Got things ta do. Talk folks gettin' ready ta interview 'Cooter'. Played Waylon doin' 'Rainey Day Woman' as bumper music. Gottah get my CD off the shelf.
Arcey, I try to stay away from that place, that's where the ME's office for Dallas County is. I spent enough time over there when I worked as a cop in Dallas County and the funeral home that I worked part-time at. I guess I'll conduct my own experiments by eating plenty of grits. I have heard that having kidney stones is like child birth.
Local radio or Syndicated? 'Cooter' had a little roadside resturant not far from here couple years back, use to have some Bluegrass pickers in there on the weekends. I understand he sold it now, to pursue Politics.
Local. He's in Norfolk for a book signin' at Prince Books downtown where I used ta order the Titanic books I have. Prolly stayin' at the Marriot next door. Nice place. Just across the street from the radio studio. Five minute walk
He was a one term congressman representin' some district in Jo-Ja. Said he didn't get re-elected due to illness. The voters were sick of 'im. Sez he's livin' in Sperryville these days.
Talked about growin' up in Portsmouth. Said some things I know to be factually inaccurate. Never lived there, don't wanna. It's the worse place in South Hampton Roads to be. But I've been all over it as a grown man. Ya ever see a shoppin' mall fail to the point it was torn down? Happened in Portsmouth.
Appears to me he's an actor 'n a failed politician.
Outa work politicans are like fish outa water. If the book deal don't pan out, maybe the royalty checks from the "Dukes of Hazzard" can help with cash flow.
A favorite Fary Tale
Once upon a time
There was a very handsome, very lonely young cowhand who had just finished a long cattle drive to one of the well known cowtowns of the old west. It just happened to be that the day was Sunday and the soloon was being used for Sunday worship ( ther being no church building in the area).
The young man, having nothing better to do decided to attend the service. During the singing of a hymn he happened to notice a very pretty young woman about four seats down from where he was seated.
After services he attempted to introduce himself to her but she was no where to be found.
The next day he inquired about her at the general store and learned that she was the schoolteacher and had come from Philadelphia this was her first teaching job.
Well it took almost no time at all for the young man to find a job at the town resturant and become a regular citizen of the town.
After which he began courting the schoolmarm. They courted for a long time--- eighteen months, before he mustered up the courage to ask for her hand.
Well, to shorten a long story; she refused him!
And the young cowhand lived happily ever after, going to the town frolics, hunting, fishing, and drinking as much beer as he wanted when he wanted!
The End
Yep Sperryville....His wife has something to do with Tall Ships that tour the ports along the coast here
We got one of those Tall Ships anchored at Galveston. The Elyissa made the trip up the east coast for the big celebration a few years ago. It's a beautiful thing watching those ships at full sail.
Let's hear it for David and Howard!
Just finished watching RIO BRAVO:
The sun is sinking in the west
The cattle go down to the stream
The red wing settles in her nest
It's time for a cowboy to dream
Purple light in the canyons
That's where I long to be
With my three good companions
Just my rifle, pony and me
Gonna hang my sombrero
On the limb of a tree
Coming home, sweetheart darlin'
Just my rifle, pony and me
Whippoorwill in the willow
Sings a sweet melody
Riding to Amarillo
Just my rifle, pony and me
No more cows to be roping
No more strays will I see
Round the bend, she'll be waiting
For my rifle, pony and me
For my rifle, my pony and me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2OHR0F5GIo
Deano and Ricky made a great pair in that film. Haven't clicked the youtube link yet but I will soons as I get the chance :D :D
Leo
Got it goin now. Loved that scene, loved that song. Thanks SB.
Leo
While The Rollin' Rio Bravo rolls a long.
Haven't seen that one in a while. Maybe one day this week... :)
To this day I still don't believe I was drunk 'nuff ta get on stage with Lucky Bill 'n do the Martin/Nelson duet of 'My Rifle, My Pony 'n Me' in front of a dinin' room fullah strangers. They were nice 'nuff to applaud. They mustah been drunk too.
Lucky Bill can sing. I can't.
Quote from: Arcey on July 21, 2008, 02:44:41 PM
To this day I still don't believe I was drunk 'nuff ta get on stage with Lucky Bill 'n do the Martin/Nelson duet of 'My Rifle, My Pony 'n Me' in front of a dinin' room fullah strangers. They were nice 'nuff to applaud. They mustah been drunk too.
Lucky Bill can sing. I can't.
That weren't tha only time you was onstage singin' brother... lots o' witnesses ;D
'Member "Sons o' tha Dead Pioneers"? ;)
True. But them times was 'round pards what knew I couldn't carry a note in a slop bucket.
Seem ta recall the Sons of the Dead Pioneers ya were involved in....
Quote from: Arcey on July 21, 2008, 03:00:20 PM
True. But them times was 'round pards what knew I couldn't carry a note in a slop bucket.
Seem ta recall the Sons of the Dead Pioneers ya were involved in....
Yeah,
WE were ;D
Then o' course, there were a few times that it was jist you, me an' Lucky Bill.
Me too? Damn. What always bothers me 'bout them banquets. What I don't remember.
Do remember that damned bartender it Raphine don't fergit nothin'.
Quote from: Arcey on July 21, 2008, 03:19:55 PM
Me too? Damn. What always bothers me 'bout them banquets. What I don't remember.
Do remember that damned bartender it Raphine don't fergit nothin'.
All I 'member is that Trampas, WyldeChild an' Vertical Bob paid $9 each fer 5 double Bushmills an' I near expired :o
Thems ain't never had good sense. I ever tell ya Trampas always hid his shine from me 'til after I retired 'n swore I wasn't totin' a badge anymore?
Somethin' I remember.
On stage 'n between songs LB told me 'e didn't want no more beer 'n asked if I could slip 'im some the stuff I had in my room. No problem.
We go onta singin' 'n I kindah adopted one his empty Bud bottles. Acted like it was mine with somethin' in it. Werked the crowd, shakin' hands 'n makin' small talk 'til I got ta the back door then snuck out. Went to my room 'n filled it with...... bottled water. Snuck back in 'n up on stage like I'd never left. Put it on an amp 'n give Lucky Bill a wink.
Few months later. I guess we were there for a WASA shoot, same bartender. Walk up 'n order a beer. He sez, 'Fine. But don't leave the room with an empty bottle 'n bring it back filled with sumthin' else like ya did last time. Ya could get me in trouble.'
Over a hunnert folks in that room. The boy was good.
Quote from: Arcey on July 21, 2008, 03:58:13 PM
Thems ain't never had good sense.
LOL!! You ain't wrong, that's fer shore, they shore knowed how to have ah LARGE time! ;D
Are there any audio or videos of any of this singin'? I'm thinkin' American Idol or Nashville Star! I'm willin' to cut myself in for 10 percent as an agent. What ya say?
Lawd, I hope not....
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 21, 2008, 04:10:54 PM
Are there any audio or videos of any of this singin'? I'm thinkin' American Idol or Nashville Star! I'm willin' to cut myself in for 10 percent as an agent. What ya say?
If ya know who yer lookin' for ya might find 'em ;D
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081892_JPG.htm
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081897_JPG.htm
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081886_JPG.htm
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081905_JPG.htm
One of my favorite pics from that night.
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081881_JPG.htm
One of Arcey's favorite pictures from that night ;D
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081874_JPG.htm
I am a trained observer. I have met Bro. Sleep in person and I recognize Arcey from his avatar. I think sometime, you just gotta take a chance. I'm gonna have a lota time on my hands when I retire.
Don't recognize the dude sittin' by hisownself with the beer. Sher is a handsome feller.
The last IS an mighty pretty picture, bro.
That bathtub looks one I had at a homicide school in EL PASO one time.
Bro. Sleep, Any picture with good lookin' women in it , is okay with me.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 21, 2008, 04:46:33 PM
Bro. Sleep, Any picture with good lookin' women in it , is okay with me.
;D
Quote from: Tensleep on July 21, 2008, 04:24:48 PM
One of Arcey's favorite pictures from that night ;D
http://www.kimandbarrymckenzie.com/Cowboy%20Action/BlueRidgeRoundUp_2006/Banquet/pages/P4081874_JPG.htm
Shoooooo! That one is my fav-o-ryte too! ;D
There's nuthin better than cold BUD LIGHT, unless it's a couple of cases of BUD LIGHT!
Gonna have ta go back an hit all them links afore they get buried under a dozen more pages. Gettin back inta field work sure is gettin ma way readin here.
Normaly I would have posted a somewhat appropriate song here but noooooooo.
Leo
When you say the best, you say BUD, The King of Beers!
(ST sneaks in)
If you see me walkin down the line
With my favrite honky tonk in mind,
Well, Ill be here around suppertime
With my can of dinner and a bunch of fine.
Beer drinkers and hell raisers, yeah.
Uh-huh-huh, baby, dont you wanna come with me?
The crowd gets loud when the band gets right,
Steel guitar cryin through the night.
Yeah, tryn to cover up the corner fight
But evrythings cool cause theys just tight.
Beer drinkers and hell raisers, yeah.
Huh, baby, dont you wanna come with me?
Ah, play it boy.
The joint was jumpin like a cat on hot tin.
Lord, I thought the floor was gonna give in.
Soundin a lot like a house congressional
cause were experimental and professional.
Beer drinkers, hell raisers, yeah.
Well, baby, dont you wanna come with me?
(ST sneaks out)
do I smell a pipe?
Do you wanna drink? Do you wanna party? This is rockin' Randall Hank, ready to get tha thing started.
I got ketchup on my blue jeans, I just burnt my hand
Lord, it's hard to be a bachelor man
I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean
I got girls that can do anything in between
I got to get ready, make everything right
Cause all my rowdy friends are comin over tonight
Do you want a drink, hey, do you want to party
Hey, honey, this is ole Hank, ready to get the thing started
We cooked the pig in the ground, got some beer on ice
And all my rowdy friends are comin over tonight
Now, my party pad is out in the woods
It's a long, long way from here to Hollywood
But I got some natural queens out on the floor
And ole Miss Mississippi just walked through the door
Got a little wirlpool just made for ten
And you can jump out and you can jump in
You can do anything that you wanna do
But, uh-uhh, don't you step on my cowboy boots
Do you want to drink, hey do you want to party
Hey, this is ole Hank, ready to get this summer started
I cooked a pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice
And all my rowdy friends are comin over tonight
Do you want to drink, hey, do you want to party
Hey, hey, this is rockin, Randall Hank
Ready to get the summer time started
We cooked the pig in the ground
We got some beer on ice
All my rowdy friends are comin over tonight
That's right, come on in
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2008, 07:10:52 AM
Do you wanna drink? Do you wanna party? This is rockin' Randall Hank, ready to get tha thing started.
Know it's been a day or two, thought I'd throw it out to the Texas folks.
Mid ta late sixties, a disk jockey with WTAW-AM, Bryan, Texas. Boy by the name of Randy Neal? Anyone remember him?
Quote from: litl rooster on July 22, 2008, 06:40:28 AM
do I smell a pipe?
If it was Borkum Riff vanilla cavendish ya might have. ;D
Arcey, Bro Sleep might remember, cause he went to TAMU.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 21, 2008, 10:04:28 PM
Gonna have ta go back an hit all them links afore they get buried under a dozen more pages. Gettin back inta field work sure is gettin ma way readin here.
Normaly I would have posted a somewhat appropriate song here but noooooooo.
Leo
OK, I got a little time and remembered the Irish Rovers...
Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party
Someone took a grapefruit
Wore it like a hat
I saw someone under my kitchen table
Talking to my old tom cat
They were talking about hockey
The cat was talking back
Long about then every-thing went black
Wasn't that a party
I'm sure it's just my memory
Playing tricks on me
But I think I saw my buddy
Cutting down my neighbour's tree
Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party
Billy, Joe and Tommy
Well they went a little far
They were sittin' in my back yard, blowing on a sireen
From somebody's police car
So you see, Your Honour
It was all in fun
The little bitty track meet down on main street
Was just to see if the cops could run
Well they run us in to see you
In an alcoholic haze
I sure can use those thirty days
To re-cover from the party
Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party
Keeping the party trend.
From the "same three guys, same three chords"
I found an empty house in my neighborhood,
I knew that wer shouldn't but I thought we could.
Knew it wouldn't be hard to slide into the backyard,
Called all my friends and slipped a hundred to the guard.
We turned on the radio and had a party on the patio.
Betty's in the sauna and she's getting kind of hot,
Mary's in the icebox wishin' she was not.
Connie's in the whirlpool, Jimmy's tryin' to be cool,
Libby's in the bushes 'cause she's nobody's fool.
We turned the lights down low and had a party on the patio.
Heard the cops are coming so we tried to jump the fence,
Mary didn't make it and we haven't seen her since.
Connie had another drink, Jimmy simply couldn't think,
Billy G. was passed out underneath the sink.
But everybody's gonna show for another party on the patio.
ZZ Top is very appropriate fer this. :D
Leo
Police in general really don't like to be "messed with" by drunks or the general public. Folks are more likely to be put in jail when they stick their feet in their mouths. It's always a good idea not to be too "mouthy" when you're around cops. It will probably keep you out of jail. When drunks get out in public, they better get ready to meet the cops and probably end up in jail.
Well here's Eric Burden tellin us how ta avoid that trouble...
When I think of all the
good times that I've wasted
having good times
When I think of all the
good time that 's been
wasted having good times
When I was drinkin'
I should've been thinkin'
When I was fighting
I could've done the right thing
All of that boozin'
I was really losin'
Good times
Good times
When I think of all the
good time that's been
wasted having good times
When I think of all the
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/ovg ]
good time that's been
wasted having good times
All of my lying
I remember her crying
My useless talkin'
I couldv'e been walkin'
Instead of complainin'
I couldv'e been gainin'
Good times
Yes, here we all are having
a jolly good time
And everything is working out
fine, ha ha ha ha ha
Useless talkin'
All that walkin
All of my sinnin'
I could've been winnin'
I have it too easy
And its a beginning of good times
Good times
I said good times
Talking bout good times
If more drunks took his advise, I might not have a job anymore. I don't see that happenin, It hasn't happened in 38 years and I don't think anything will change.
well if we're gonna mention Eric, we got to include this one.
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
[Organ Solo]
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
Good one OT. First song I taught maself ta play on the guitar.
Ever hear their version of Paint it Black? They have an electric fiddle doin the sitar part. I think it came from the Monteray Pop soundtrack. That fiddle player was amazing.
Leo
But your selection was the ultimate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRV9QCXLtHQ&NR=1
I was a teenager back in the 60's all them songs that are the classics, we used to hear everyday on them old AM car radio's, we liked em, didn't know theyd stay around this long. ;D ;D
OT, You're lettin' everyone know how old we are.
Trust a youngin pushin 37 OT, they stayed around.
When I was in jr high an high school that's all I listened to while everyone else was either boppin around ta Madonna er bangin their heads ta metal. Music was the most important thing ta me back then, and that was a huge part of the music I chose. Listened ta mine on LP, but I'm probably one of the last ta remember AM radio being mainstream.
Leo
OT, We listened to KOMA on Fri and Sat. nights to all the Top 40. We could pick it up loud clear up in the Texas Panhandle. The only other station that strong at night was WBAP out of Fort Worth. Later on after I became a cop I listened to Bill Mack on his all-night radio show.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2008, 09:05:45 PM
Later on after I became a cop I listened to Bill Mack on his all-night radio show.
WBAP was a good one that's for sure. Bill Mack was a top DJ, he was known coast to coast.
we could tune in Bill Mack, listened to him lots of nights, we used to listen to Billy Parker on KVOO outa Tulsa too.
Bill's got a show on XM satellite radio now. It's more of a talk show than playin' music.
here's one from the same era from the other Eric and a couple yanks we all know
Well, I'm sittin' here wonderin', would a matchbox hold my clothes.
Yeah, I'm sittin' here wonderin', would a matchbox hold my clothes.
I ain't got no matches, but I got a long way to go.
Well, I'm an ol' poor boy, and I'm a
long way from home.
Yeah, I'm an ol' poor boy, and I'm a
long way from home.
Guess I'll never be happy, everything I do is wrong.
Well, If you don't want my peaches honey,
please don't shake my tree.
Well, If you don't want my peaches honey,
please don't mess around my tree.
I got news for you baby, leave me here in
misery.
Well, let me be your little dog, till your
big dog comes.
Well, let me be your little dog, till your
big dog comes.
And when the big dog gets here,
show him what this little puppy done.
I'm sittin' here wonderin', would a matchbox hold my clothes.
Yeah, I'm sittin' here wonderin', would a matchbox hold my clothes.
I ain't got no matches, but I sure got a long way to go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGF6WPuSpM It's old footage but i enjoyed it figger'd the rest of you would also
Was exposed to a semi-lastin' sixties AM radio 'classic' this mornin' shortly after raidin' the ice box for a midnight snack makin' security rounds.
Returned to the security desk to dig inta Fritos 'n dip make my log entries 'n the talk show was playin' 'Puff the Magic Dragon' for bumper music.
It was horrible. Dark, couldn't find the remote ta shut it off.
I want one of them suits like Carl's. I don't have enough hair left to have a "duck's tail".
Ok "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is one song that easily sticks in my head, but this one only took a segment on Gary Cooper movies, to be stuck since last night.
"Do Not Forsake Me:
The Ballad of High Noon"
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
On this our wedding day.
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
Wait, wait along.
The noonday train will bring Frank Miller.
If I'm a man I must be brave
And I must face that deadly killer
Or lie a coward, a craven coward,
Or lie a coward in my grave.
O to be torn 'twixt love and duty!
S'posin' I lose my fair-haired beauty!
Look at that big hand move along
Nearin' high noon.
He made a vow while in State's Prison,
Vow'd it would be my life or his and
I'm not afraid of death, but O,
What will I do if you leave me?
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
You made that promise when we wed.
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
Although you're grievin', I can't be leavin'
Until I shoot Frank Miller dead.
Wait along, wait along
Wait along
Wait along
Let's hear it for TEX RITTER!
Some times, a mans gatta do what a mans gatta do.
The COOP!
One of the classic scenes they were showing was Coop trying to get out from under the arm of Walter Brennan (Roy Bean) after having a little too much "hair of the brush" in "The Westerner". All it took was the high crane shot of him walking alone down main street, and it's still being whistled aloud, and sung in my head. (Then it still sounds like Tex singing it.)
O to be torn 'twixt love and duty!
S'posin' I lose my fair-haired beauty!
Look at that big hand move along
Nearin' high noon.
For those that like the '60's here is a link to a person that spent a lot of time on Sunset Strip (and hung with the names)
http://www.hollywoodhangover.com/part_7.htm
I used to go to a place called "Pandora's Box" which was the center of the Riot on Sunset Strip (from the b movie of the same name....I would have been there that nite but waz on a first date, and we went to a drive in movie instead.
Used to go to the Sea Witch, Gazarries, The Whiskie (a gogo) Every time I hear Buffallo Springfield doing "Nowadays Clancy Can't even Sing" and oh crap I just forgot the name....."Someone's standin over there, etc" ..."For What its Worth"
anyways the link has alot of stuff to see on the left side...it is quite a trip especially ifn ya been there..
curley
Here are the lyrics for "for what its worth"
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Reminds me of the days..
cc
CC, Sounds like you've achieved Senior Citizen status. I had a Johnny Rivers "Live at Whiskey A GO GO " on 8-track. "Secret Agent Man" and "Poor Side of Town" were my favorites. I'm sure Calif. was wild back then. I spent the 60's in the South and Southeast.
I can't remember the 60's
or Buffalo Springfield
" Somethings' happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear"!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2008, 02:09:35 PM
Police in general really don't like to be "messed with" by drunks or the general public. Folks are more likely to be put in jail when they stick their feet in their mouths. It's always a good idea not to be too "mouthy" when you're around cops. It will probably keep you out of jail. When drunks get out in public, they better get ready to meet the cops and probably end up in jail.
Well, listening to music won't get you drunk. And I almost don't drink.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2008, 10:15:23 AM
" Somethings' happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear"!
Maybe it wouldah been if they weren't stoned...........
What's a Grateful Dead fan say when they're sober at a 'concert'?
Hey, Man! Where's Jerry? Bummer! DEAD HEADS!
Quote from: Arcey on July 25, 2008, 11:14:11 AM
What's a Grateful Dead fan say when they're sober at a 'concert'?
What the hell is that awful noise?!?!?!?!?!?
Did they awaken from their drug-induced stoopers after all these years to find out how really bad the Greatful Dead sound?
Don't think so. Barrack 'Barry' Hussein Obama is leadin' in the polls 'n the heads still don't bathe.
Arcey, I may need to move to Canada after this next election.
lil Rooster:
they say: If ya remember the '60's ya wasn't there!"
curley who remembers some bits and pieces..
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2008, 04:22:22 PM
Arcey, I may need to move to Canada after this next election.
Stop by duh beach. May hafta go with ya..
We could get Nascar goin' better in Canada. I just don't know ab out them tough winters. We will probably need to learn French.
Me thinks ya better stand your ground.
I'm not worried about myself, It's that big UNKNOWN factor that I'm worried about.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 27, 2008, 10:16:22 AM
I'm not worried about myself, It's that big UNKNOWN factor that I'm worried about.
That UNKNOWN factor is sorta world wide. And you are better than most from the start.
Even so, I'm still not real excited about the possibilites.
Well, OT put another great one in my head...
Where's that gal with red dress on some folks called her Dinah
Stole my heart away from me way down in Louisiana
Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry
Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry
Little bee sucks the blossom big bee gets the honey
Poor man raise the cotton rich man makes the money
Take me back to Tulsa...
Walk and talk to Suzy walk and talk to Suzy
Walk and talk to Suzy walk and talk to Suzy
Take me back to Tulsa...
We always wear a great big smile we never do look sour
Travel all over the country playing by the hour
Take me back to Tulsa...
Take me back to Tulsa...I'm too young to wed thee
Bob Wills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjBXrvBdiU
*old* Asleep at the Wheel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYfLSuhMA1g
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 27, 2008, 11:57:49 AM
Even so, I'm still not real excited about the possibilites.
In America"
We'll the eagle's been flying slow, and the
flag's been flying low, and a lot of people's
saying that America's fixing to fall. But
speaking just for me and some people from
Tennessee, we got a thing or two to tell
you all. This lady may have stumbled but she
ain't never fell. And if the Russians don't
believe that they can all go straight to hell.
We're gonna put her feet back on the path
of the righteousness and then God bless America
again.
And you never did think that it ever would
happen again. In America, did you? You never
did think that we'd ever get together again.
Well we damn sure fooled you. We're walking
real proud and we're talking real loud again in
America. You never did think that it ever would
happen again.
From the sound up in Long Island out to San
Francisco Bay, and ev'ry thing that's in between
them is our home. And we may have done a little
bit of fighting amongst ourselves, but you outside
people best leave us alone. Cause we'll all stick
together and you can take that to the bank.
That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels
and the yanks. You just go and lay your head on a
Pittsburgh Steeler fan and I think you're gonna
finally understand.
And you never did think that it ever would
happen again. In America, did you? You never
did think that we'd ever get together again.
Well we damn sure fooled you. We're walking
real proud and we're talking real loud again in
America. You never did think that it ever would
happen again.
There's no place that I'd rather be than right here
With my red necks, white socks and blue ribbon beer
The barmaid is mad 'cause some guy made a pass
The juke box is playin' there stands the glass
And the cigarette smoke kind-a hangs in the air
Red-necks, white socks and blue rib-bon beer
A cow-boy is cussin' the pin-ball ma-chine
A drunk at the bar is get-tin' noisy and mean
And, some guy on the phone says ill be home soon dear
Red-necks white socks and blue ribbon beer
CHORUS:
No we don't fit in with that white collar crowd
We're a little too rowdy and a little too loud
There's no place that I'd rather be than right here
With my red-necks white socks and blue ribbon beer
The semis are passing on the highway outside
The four thirty crowd is about to arrive
The sun's go-in' down and we'll all soon be here
Rednecks, white socks and blue ribbon beer
REPEAT CHORUS
There's no place that I'd rather be than right here
With my red-necks, white socks and blue ribbon beer
Lots a good songs there. Bob Wills is still the King. Asleep at the Wheel is carrying on the Western Swing tradition. Johnny Russell done some good songs too.
Charlie Daniels always does a good song. I liked his first hit called "The Uneasy Rider." I like his patriotic songs. Porter Waggoner did a song about an old black hat. I don't remember the title or the words to it. I like to be able to find the CD with the song on it.
Old Porter did some good ones.
I was sittin' in a coffee shop - Havin' a cup and passin' time
Swappin' rodeo stories - With this cowboy friend of mine
When some motorcycle rider - Started snickerin' in the back
And started pokin' fun at my friend's hat.
One ol' boy said: "Hey Tex! - Where'd you park your horse?"
My friend just pulled his hat down low - But they couldn't be ignored
One husky dude said: - "Maybe I'll just rip that hat right off your head."
And that's when my friend turned around and said.
CHORUS
"You'll ride a black tornado - Across the western skies
You'll rope an ol' blue norther - And milk it 'til it's dry
Bulldog the Mississippi - And pin its ears down flat
Long before you take this cowboy's hat."
He said "Pardner this ol' hat - Is better left alone
It used to be my daddy's hat - But last year he passed on
My nephew skinned the rattler - That makes up the hatband
But in sixty-nine he died in Vietnam.
I got this eagle feather - From an Indian friend of mine
Somebody ran him down - Close to the Arizona line
And a real special lady - Gave me this hat pin
And I don't know if I'll see her again."
CHORUS
"Now if your leather jacket means to you - What this old hat means to me
Then we understand each other - And we'll just let it be
But it you still think it's funny - Then my back's against the wall
But you touch my hat - And you'll have to fight us all."
Well I caught a little sadness - In that gangleader's eyes
Then he turned back to the others - And they shuffled on outside
And when my friend turned back towards me - I noticed that his brim
Was turned up like a big ol' Texas grin.
OT, That's it! Thanks! :) :D ;D ;) :o 8) ::)
TL
It's on "Classic Chris Ledoux" and is available from Amazon.com for about 14.00 new.
Thank you Sir.
I was just listenin' to Chris sing that song the other day. ;D
Quote from: Trinity on July 28, 2008, 06:53:21 PM
I was just listenin' to Chris sing that song the other day. ;D
It was written and first released in the 1970's by Johnny Paycheck.
Oh boy! The man who sung the working man's most favorite song: ;D
(Chorus:)
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
As im a walking out the door.
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
Ive been workin in this factory
From now on fifteen years
All this time I watched my woman
Drowning in a pool of tears
And Ive seen a lot of good folk die
Who had a lot of bills to pay
I'd give the shirt right off of my back
If I had the nerve to say
(Chorus)
Well that foreman, hes a regular dog
The line boss, hes a fool
Got a brand new flat-top haircut
Lord, he thinks hes cool
One of these days, Im gonna blow my top
And that sucker, hes gonna pay
Lord I cant wait to see their faces
When I get up the nerve to say
(Chorus)
Quote from: Trinity on July 28, 2008, 06:59:31 PM
Oh boy! The man who sung the working man's most favorite song: ;D
(Chorus:)
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
As im a walking out the door.
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
Ive been workin in this factory
From now on fifteen years
All this time I watched my woman
Drowning in a pool of tears
And Ive seen a lot of good folk die
Who had a lot of bills to pay
I'd give the shirt right off of my back
If I had the nerve to say
(Chorus)
Well that foreman, hes a regular dog
The line boss, hes a fool
Got a brand new flat-top haircut
Lord, he thinks hes cool
One of these days, Im gonna blow my top
And that sucker, hes gonna pay
Lord I cant wait to see their faces
When I get up the nerve to say
(Chorus)
Written by David Allen Coe though. :)
In the mood for some Hoyt Axton.
know a man as rich as a king
Still he just won't give his neighbors a thing
His day will come, I'll make a bet
He'll get to heaven and here's what he'll get
A rusty old halo skinny white cloud second hand wings full of patches
A rusty old halo skinny white cloud robe that's so wooly and it scratches
Some people have them big shiny cars
Swimming pools fur coats and diamonds in jars
Real silver gates real golden doors
They'll get up to heaven and trade them all for
A rusty old halo skinny white cloud...
While you're on earth you should shine like a star
Brighten up the corner wherever you are
Doing each day the best you can do
That way you're saure that they'll never hand you
A rusty old halo skinny white cloud...
A rusty old halo skinny white cloud...
Nuther one by Hoyt, he also let some other guys sing it. ;D
Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
must be real it feels so good
Oh, feels so good
Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter
Whoa, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter
Hoyt was a nice fellar, he let other folks sing a lot of his songs. ;D
You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday
But he spent it on some comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?
Someone should call his parents, a sister or a brother
And they'll come to take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
Yeah he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted Heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
Flyin' low
Dyin' slow
Along the same lines, my favorite one by Kristoferson.
See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile--
Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams,
Which he spent like they was goin' outa style--
And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or the worse,
Searchin' for a shrine he's never found--
Never knowin' if believin' is a blessin' or a curse,
Or if the goin' up was worth the comin' down--
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today--
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way--
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around--
From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down--
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home.
Called The Pilgrim Chapter 33, was the theme some for Cisco Pike, a very low budget film with him and Gene Hackman, from maybe 1971 or 72.
Quote from: Trinity on July 28, 2008, 06:53:21 PM
I was just listenin' to Chris sing that song the other day. ;D
It's on one to the Chris CD's in my car.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068384/
Trinity, since yer the king of bad movies, ;D here's another one to try. ;D
Got some good lines in it like,
"You look pregnant' "No, I'm just holding it for a friend." ::)
"Do you want to smoke some of it?" "Don't need to, the nose knows." ;D
I haven't seen Kris star in many winners. Netflix had it, so I put it in my list and bumped it to the top to watch next. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on July 28, 2008, 06:54:45 PM
It was written and first released in the 1970's by Johnny Paycheck.
Chris was the only one I ever heard do it.
35 Years ago today, these fellas took the stage at Watkins Glen..
Virgil caine is the name, and I served on the danville train,
til stonemans cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of 65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
By may the tenth, richmond had fell, its a time I remember, oh so well,
(chorus)
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin. they went
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
Back with my wife in tennessee, when one day she called to me,
Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!
Now I dont mind choppin wood, and I dont care if the moneys no good.
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.
(chorus)
Like my father before me, I will work the land,
Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a yankee laid him in his grave,
I swear by the mud below my feet,
You cant raise a caine back up when hes in defeat.
Quote from: Trinity on July 28, 2008, 07:59:01 PM
I haven't seen Kris star in many winners. Netflix had it, so I put it in my list and bumped it to the top to watch next. ;D
What was the title to the really long one, about the Johnson County Wars with him?
Quote from: litl rooster on July 28, 2008, 11:11:34 PM
What was the title to the really long one, about the Johnson County Wars with him?
"Heaven's Gate"
Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on July 29, 2008, 04:05:27 AM
"Heaven's Gate"
It was way too long to be really good ;D
Thanks Scattered Thumbs....I went brain dead when I posted that Last nite
AH! Joan Biaz! Did I miss an anti-WAR protest? Karen Black and Harry Dean Stanton, now that's a PAIR to draw to.
Chris did a movie about a desert lawman who finds evidence regarding the assasination of JFK burried in the middle of nowhere. I believe it's called "Flash Point". In my reccolection it wasn't bad.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 28, 2008, 07:11:24 PM
Nuther one by Hoyt, he also let some other guys sing it. ;D
Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
must be real it feels so good
Oh, feels so good
Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter
Whoa, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter
I always associated that one with Three Dog Night. Did a pretty good job fer a bunch a hippies ;D
Oklahoma! My second Home and the land of my Cherokee ancestors.
Leo, most of what Stepenwolf and Three Dog Night did was by Hoyt Axton.
Saw him on a TV show one time, might have been Ralph Emory, think it was, was talking 'bout Hoyt's Mama bein' a song writer also, Mae Boren Axton, co-writer of HeartBreak Hotel and lots of other songs. "Bout then the old lady rode a big Harley up on stage. ;D
Okie boy, related to the Boren's down in west Texas.
Some he wrote that others made famous.
"Greenback Dollar" covered by The Kingston Trio
"The Pusher," covered by Steppenwolf on their debut album in 1968
"No-No Song," which became a #3 hit for Ringo Starr in March 1975
"Never Been To Spain", covered by Three Dog Night, Waylon Jennings, and Elvis Presley
"Joy to the World", the Three Dog Night hit from April 1971 which held US #1 for six weeks
"Snowblind Friend" (1971), covered by Steppenwolf
"Lightning Bar Blues" (1973) covered by Brownsville Station (also a big hit for the Finnish band Hanoi Rocks in the '80s)
"Sweet Misery" (1974) covered by John Denver
Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on July 29, 2008, 04:05:27 AM
"Heaven's Gate"
Yep, that one was a bit long. I enjoyed it, but kept dosin' off. If I recall correctly, I hated the ending though.
The Cat was cool, and he never said a mumblin' word.
ST sneaks in, sees no one around and leaves a song he heard on his way to work today.
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?
ST sneaks out
I love ya for your Pink Cadillac!
Till the cows come home at Cadillac Ranch
Great song, ST.
Slim
There parkin' cars in the ol' pea patch. Till the cows home at Cadillac Ranch.
What can I say?
It ain't the years, It's the miles.
;D
Sorta like my Sheriiff's unit, fairly new but lots O miles!
Here's one from another guy who was nice enough ta let a couple other artists make some dough off his stuff.
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
My baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine
Man my baby's long, great god she's mighty she's tall
you know my baby's long, great god she's mighty my baby she's tall
Well my baby she's long, my baby she's tall
she sleeps wiht her head in the kitchen and her big feet out in the hall
And I'm still crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine
Well I love my baby, she's so fine
I wish she'd come and see me some time
If you don´t believe I love her,
Look what a hole I'm in
If you don't believe I'm sinking,
Look what a shape I'm in
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
Well my baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman-
hardheaded woman of mine
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 31, 2008, 02:09:17 PM
Here's one from another guy who was nice enough ta let a couple other artists make some dough off his stuff.
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
My baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine
Man my baby's long, great god she's mighty she's tall
you know my baby's long, great god she's mighty my baby she's tall
Well my baby she's long, my baby she's tall
she sleeps wiht her head in the kitchen and her big feet out in the hall
And I'm still crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine
Well I love my baby, she's so fine
I wish she'd come and see me some time
If you don´t believe I love her,
Look what a hole I'm in
If you don't believe I'm sinking,
Look what a shape I'm in
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
Well my baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman-
hardheaded woman of mine
But do you know what the Katy was? ;D
M-K-T
Missouri Kansas Texas
Quote from: Tensleep on July 31, 2008, 03:01:43 PM
M-K-T
Missouri Kansas Texas
I figured you knew what it was. ;D
Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line? :)
Quote from: Delmonico on July 31, 2008, 02:56:55 PM
But do you know what the Katy was? ;D
Sleep beat me to it ::) Do you know who's song that orignaly was afore Taj recorded it?
Quote from: Delmonico on July 31, 2008, 03:03:02 PM
I figured you knew what it was. ;D
Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line? :)
Never heard of "The Jerk Water Line" but there were "Jerk water" towns and stops on every line that ran under steam because the water always ran out before the fuel.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 31, 2008, 03:03:02 PM
Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line? :)
Can't say I have ??? but Sleeps explination of "jerk water town" was interesting, never knew where that came from.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, same background, also said in the early days the jerked it out of creeks or any place they could get it.
Pardon Me boy, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO! ?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2008, 03:45:45 PM
Pardon Me boy, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO! ?
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Rail%20Road/IM000685.jpg)
No it's the UP 3985 on a durn cold day. ;D
might as well take a ride with Mr. Acuff. all aboard
Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar as she glides along the woodland
ore the hills and by the shore
hear the rush of the mighty engine hear the lonesome hobos call
he's riding through the jungle on the Wabash cannon ball
VERSE
now the western states are dandies so the southern people say from Chicago
and St. Louis
and Peoria by the way
to the lake of Minnesota where the rippling waters flow no chances to be
taken on
the Wabash cannon ball
VERSE
she pulled in to the station one cold December day
as she rolled up to the platform you could hear all the people say
now theirs a gal from Birmingham she's long and she's tall she came down
from Georgia
on the Wabash cannon ball
VERSE
now heres to daddy claxton may his name forever stand
and always be remembered in the courts of all the land
his earthly race is over and as the curtain around him falls
we'll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash cannon ball
on the Wabash Cannonball
I've got it by A.P. Cater, think he wrote it. :)
Can't forget about Hank Snow.
From old Montana down to Alabama
I've been before and I'll travel again
You triflin' women can't keep a good man down
You dealt the cards but you missed the play
So hit the road and be on your way
Gonna board the Golden Rocket and leave this town
I was a good engine a runnin' on time
But baby I'm switchin' to another line
So honey never hang your signal out for me
I'm tired of runnin' on the same old track
Bought a one way ticket and I won't be back
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away
[ guitar ]
Hear that lonesome whistle blow
That's your cue and by now you know
That I got another true love waitin' in Tennessee
This midnight special is burnin' the rail
So woman don't try to follow my tail
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away
Hear her thunder on through the night
This Golden Rocket is doin' me right
And that sunny southland sure is a part of me
Now from your call board earse my name
Your fire went out you done lost your flames
And this Golden Rocket is rollin' my blues away
[ guitar ]
That old conductor he seemed to know
That you done me wrong I was feelin' low
For he yelled aloud we're over that Dixon Line
The brakeman started singin' a song
Said you're worried now but it won't be long
This Golden Rocket is leavin' your blues behind
Then the porter yelled with his southern drawl
Let's rise and shine good mornin' y'all
And I sprang to my feet to greed the new born day
As I kissed my baby at the station door
The whistle blew like it never before
Of the Golden Rocket that rolled my blues away
(Hat off) And Hank the Father:
I have heard your stories about your fast trains
But now I'll tell you about one all the southern folks have seen
She's the beauty of the southlands listen to that whistle scream
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that
whistle whine
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
your on that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
Mississippi, she's Louisina Bound, of the trains in the southland
this one is the queen, all the way from Cincinnati
down to New Orleans.
If your ever in the south lands and want to see the scenes
Just get your self a ticket on that Pan American Queen
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam
You pass right through then all when your New Orleans bound.
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that
whistle whine
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
your on that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 31, 2008, 04:39:59 PM
I've got it by A.P. Cater, think he wrote it. :)
Nope...
"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.
Got any more of them smoky train pics, Del???? 8) ::)
Hear that long lonesome train
Whistle crying in the wind
Hear that long lonesome sound
That's become my only friend
When it whispers out my name
That's when the tears begin to roll
Because the world out there awaits me
And I know it's time to go
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind
There's a place on the horizon
And it holds a fate for me
When I hear that lonesome sound
Then I know it's time to see
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind
Hear that long lonesome train
Whistle crying in the wind
Hear that long lonesome sound
That's become my only friend
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind
In the wind, in the wind
In the wind, in the wind
Hank Snow "The Singin' Ranger" came to us via Canada.
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on July 31, 2008, 04:48:29 PM
Got any more of them smoky train pics, Del???? 8) ::)
Smelled like fuel oil after it went by.
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(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Rail%20Road/IM000682.jpg)
Servicin' it near Hastings
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Lot a folks showed up to watch them lube it.
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Quote from: Tensleep on July 31, 2008, 04:47:33 PM
Nope...
"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.
Thanks, wasn't sure, but I have a 1929 recording of it by AP.
Del, Do you have anymore info on the steam engine and does it run on a regular basis.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2008, 05:07:33 PM
Del, Do you have anymore info on the steam engine and does it run on a regular basis.
Go here:
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up3985.shtml
It was down yer way a few days before those pictures were talen on Feb 10 2004, it was in Houston at the Supper Bowl, will be in ST. Paul and Denver for the polly-ticks conventions this year, most times its at Cheynne.
Was that one of those really big ones that were some of the last steamers developed? Forget what they called them.......Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on July 31, 2008, 05:26:20 PM
Was that one of those really big ones that were some of the last steamers developed? Forget what they called them.......Buck 8) ::)
Yep, build just before WWII, was built as a coal burner, changed to oil after WWII. The Big Boys were bigger and a couple back east were about the same, these were for fast freight and fast passangers service across plains where they could open it up. The Big Boys were just to haul coal from Utah to Cheynne, more power, but much slower. This one is a 4-6-6-4, the Big Boy was a 4-8-8-4.
I don't know where the pictures at, but my grandmother had a picture of a big train she and Grandpa had ridden back from California just after WW2 began, when they came back to Oklahoma, she said there were thousands of soldiers on the train and it was the longest train she had ever seen.
I go up to Cheynne sometimes in the summer for Frontier Days. I didn't the engine was up there. I will go by the depot. Thanks for the info Del.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2008, 06:51:04 PM
I go up to Cheynne sometimes in the summer for Frontier Days. I didn't the engine was up there. I will go by the depot. Thanks for the info Del.
Most times it's in the roundhouse.
Judging from that black smoke, they oughta put it back to a coal burner. Probably be cheaper to run now that way than burning oil...................Buck 8) ::) ;)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on July 31, 2008, 07:17:16 PM
Judging from that black smoke, they oughta put it back to a coal burner. Probably be cheaper to run now that way than burning oil...................Buck 8) ::) ;)
Don't ussually run that smokey it had a problem with the cold, warmed up enough after that is was much better.
They can't go back to coal, a lot of cities would not let it go through.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 31, 2008, 05:34:16 PM
Yep, build just before WWII, was built as a coal burner, changed to oil after WWII. The Big Boys were bigger and a couple back east were about the same, these were for fast freight and fast passangers service across plains where they could open it up. The Big Boys were just to haul coal from Utah to Cheynne, more power, but much slower. This one is a 4-6-6-4, the Big Boy was a 4-8-8-4.
The 4-6-6-4 is called the Challenger.
ST (who likes steam locomotives)
And...Just to keep on tracks. ;D
Look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special
Bringin' my baby back
Well, I'm going down to Florida
And get some sand in my shoes
Or maybe Californy
And get some sand in my shoes
I'll ride that Orange Blossom Special
And lose these New York blues
"Say man, when you going back to Florida?"
"When am I goin' back to Florida? I don't know, don't reckon I ever will."
"Ain't you worried about getting your nourishment in New York?"
"Well, I don't care if I do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die."
Hey talk about a-ramblin'
She's the fastest train on the line
Talk about a-travellin'
She's the fastest train on the line
It's that Orange Blossom Special
Rollin' down the seaboard line
another Train song.
I'd play the Red River Valley and he'd sit in the
kitchen and cry And run his fingers through
seventy years of livin' And wonder Lord has every
well I drilled gone dry We was friends me and this
old man We're like desperados waiting for the
train like desperados waiting for the train
He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells and an
old school man of the world He taught me how to
drive his car when he's too drunk to And he'd wink
and give me money for the girls And our lives was
like some old western movie Like desperados
waiting for the train like desperados waiting for
the train
From the time that I could walk he'd take me with
him To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe And there
was old men with beer guts and dominos Lyin' bout
their lives while they'd play And I was just a kid
they all called his sidekick Like desperados
waiting for the train like desperados waiting for
the train
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty And
there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well to me he's one of the heroes of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' moon and forty-two Like
desperados waiting for the train like desperados
waiting for the train
And the day before he died I went to see him I was
grown and he was almost gone So we just closed our
eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen And sang another
verse to that old song Come on Jack I swear this
time it's comin' And we're like desperados waiting
for the train like desperados waiting for the
train Like desperados waiting for the train like
desperados waiting for the train
Might as well add this one right now, ;D The long version
On one cloudless morning I stood on the mountain,
Just watching the smoke from below,
It was coming from a tall, slim smokestack
Way down on the Southern railroad.
It was 97, the fastest train
Ever ran the Southern line,
All the freight trains and passengers take the side for 97,
For she's bound to be at stations on time.
They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia,
Saying, "Stevie, you're way behind time.
This is not 38, but it's Old 97,
You must put her into Spencer on time."
He looked 'round and said to his black greasy fireman,
"Just shovel in a little more coal,
And when I cross that old White Oak Mountain
You can just watch Old 97 roll."
It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville,
And the line was a three-mile grade,
It was on that grade that he lost his air brakes,
And you see what a jump that she made.
He was going down the grade making 90 miles an hour,
When his whistle began to scream,
He was found in that wreck with his hand on the throttle,
He was scalded to death by the steam.
Did she ever pull in? No, she never pulled in,
And at 1:45 he was due,
For hours and hours has the switchman been waiting
For that fast mail that never pulled through.
Did she ever pull in? No, she never pulled in,
And that poor boy must be dead.
Oh, yonder he lays on the railroad track
With the cart wheels over his head.
97, she was the fastest train
That the South had ever seen,
But she run so fast on that Sunday morning
That the death score was numbered 14.
Now, ladies, you must take warning,
From this time now and on.
Never speak harsh words to your true loving husband.
He may leave you and never return.
here's one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KOZMIhz1g&feature=related
Thanks Roo,
I've been a huge Brian Setzer fan since the first time I heard em. I'll see if I cant find some old highschool pictures of me with the greased hair and cuffed jeans. The Stray Cats played a small venue around the corner from my house twice an I never missed em. The metal heads and teeny boppers didn't get it, but I sure did. Good stuff ;D
Leo
Ridin' on tha "City Of New Orleans" with 3 conductors and 25 sacks o' mail.
I like Johnny Cash's verison of this
Now this here's a story about the Rock Island Line
Well the Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleans
There's a big tollgate down there and you know
If you got certain things on board when you go through the tollgate
Well you don't have to pay the man no toll
Well a train driver he pulled up to the tollgate
And a man hollered and asked him what all he had on board and said
I got livestock I got livestock I got cows I got pigs I got sheep
I got mules I got all livestock
Well he said you're all right boy you don't have to pay no toll
You can just go right on through so he went on through the toolgate
And as he went through he started pickin' up a little bit of speed
Pickin' up a little bit of steam
He got on through he turned and looked back at the man he said
Well I fooled you I fooled you I got pigiron I got pigiron I got old
pigiron
Down the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride you got to ride it like you finally get your ticket
At the station for the Rock Island Line
Looked cloudy in the west and it looked like rain
Round the curve came a passenger train
North bound train on the southbound track
He's alright a leavin' but he won't be back
Well the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride you got to ride it
Like you finally get your ticket
At the station for the Rock Island Line
Oh I may be right and I may be wrong
But you gonna miss me when I'm gone
Well the engineer said before he died
There were two more drinks that he'd like to try
The conductor said what could they be
A hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea
Well the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride you got to ride it
Like you finally get your ticket
At the station for the Rock Island Line
Then there is this one from Marty Robbins
Way out west an Arizona cowboy tends the herd
The dessert lies beneath a sky of blue
Far away, in brightest day, a ghostly sound is heard
The phantom of the rail comes into view
Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
On his lonely ear is fallin'
Loud and clear, just hear that lonesome wail
But it's just the ghost, the phantom of the rail
Little did he know the train was wrecked in '84
After it had crossed the Great Divide
Every year it tries again to make it just once more
If only to the California Line
Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
On the barren dessert fallin'
Loud and clear, just hear that lonesome wail
But it's just the ghost, the phantom of the rail
Clickity-clack along the track, it's boiler showin' red
As on it comes along the rusty rails
People that are ridin' in the cars have long been dead
Lost in time along the Phantom Trail
Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
On the barren dessert fallin'
Is it real to feel the very ground beneath him shake
As on it comes, the only run it ever makes
Cross here comes the phantom, as his eyes in wonder gaze
His pony shys and heads in for the brush
And as it comes upon him terror grips his heart, amazed
Leapin' to avoid it's onward rush
Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
On the barren dessert fallin'
Thought he saw the engineer, thought he heard him once more wail
As on he went, forever bent, on stayin' on the ghost train rail
Quote from: Tensleep on August 01, 2008, 01:49:50 PM
I like Johnny Cash's verison of this
I believe Ledbelly wrote it. Rumor has it that the original was a metaphore fer the underground railroad and that pigiron was reffering to the escaping slaves.
Lonnie Donnegon's version was popular, but I agree with you on Johnny's bein the best.
Leo
My ex wife used ta listen ta what was considered "modern rock" in the late 80's an early 90's. I couldn't stand 99 percent of it, but this one sticks out in my memory as bein perty cool.
Had a dream...
I was riding on a train that wasn't bound for glory
Riding on a train, the train was bound for hell
Riding on a train that wasn't bound for glory, that's for sure
Riding on a train that's bound for hell
The engine with human blood was damp
The headlight was her brimstone lamp
And then for fuel I shoveled in bones
and the furnace roared with a thousand groans
The tank was filled with lager beer
The devil himself was engineer
The passengers were a mixed up crew
Churchmen, atheists, Baptists too
The rich in broadcloth, poor in rags
Handsome girls, wrinkled hags
Black men, yellow, red and white
Chained together, fearful sight
The train rushed on at an awful pace
The sulfer fumes burned hands and face
Wilder and wilder the country grew
Faster and faster the engine flew
Loud and terrible thunder crashed
Whiter brighter lightning flashed
Hotter still the air became
So clothes were burned from each shrinking frame
There came a fearfull ear-splitting yell...
Yell Satan: "Can't stop, next stop's hell"
Twas then the passengers shrieked with pain
And begged the devil to stop the train
Stop this train
He shrieked and roared, and grinned with glee
And mocked and laughed at their misery
"My friends you've bought your seats on this road,
I've got to get through with a complete load"
You've bullied the weak, you've cheated the poor
The starving tramp, you turned from the door
You've laid up gold till your purses burst
You've given way to your beastly lust
You've balked at god in your hell blown pride
You've killed and you've cheated, and plundered and lied
You've double crossed men and you've swore and you've stole
Not a one in body and soul (that is virgin?)
Body and soul
So you've paid full fare and I'll carry you through
If there's one don't belong I'd like to know who
And here's the time when I ain't no liar
I'll land you all safe in a land of fire
And your flesh will scorch in the flames that roar
You'll sizzle and burn from rind to core
And I awoke with a shrilly cry
My were clothes were wet, my hair stood high
And I prayed as I've never until that hour
To be saved from hell and the devil's power
At present my vows were not in vain
That I payed no fare on that hellbound train
Never heard that about the underground railroad...
From John and Alan Lomax who co-wrote with Lead Belly after hearing in sung by a prison work gang.
The verses tell a humorous story about a train operator who smuggled pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock.
Quote from: Tensleep on August 01, 2008, 03:11:18 PM
Never heard that about the underground railroad...
From John and Alan Lomax who co-wrote with Lead Belly after hearing in sung by a prison work gang.
The verses tell a humorous story about a train operator who smuggled pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock.
Well I'd believe them over anyone else for sure.
I don't remember where I read the other story, but you know how speculation leads ta rumors 'specialy when it comes ta the meaning of songs and stories. It might have been when I was looking things up about Lonnie Donegon a while back. In that case it was probaly written by someone across the pond.
Leo
AH! Lonnie Donegan! "Does your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight"?
Jack 'O Diamonds was big one fer him too. Ta this day no one seems ta know what the heck he's singin in the last two verses when he's really wound up. You search any lyric site and all ya get is hash marks in place of words. Ta me that's one of the charms of most of his songs, they start out at an easy pace an then kind of crank up as it progresses.
Skiffle is definately not fer everyone ;D
Leo
The wreck of Old 97:
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Wonder if the Blues Brothers ever learned it, they said they would. ;D
Grandpa Jones did a good Rock Island Line, I got peeeg iron all peeeg iron.
One they used to play on Kaptian Kangaroo: ;D
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
The trains all come through the middle of the house
Since the company bought the land.
They let us live in the front of the house
They let us live in the back
But there ain't no living in the middle of the house
'Cause that's the railroad track.
When a bill collector comes to the house
He knocks and bangs on the door
So we sit him right down in the middle of the house
And he never comes back no more
No, he never comes back no more.
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
It comes and goes through the middle of the house
And the trains are all on time
And here comes the 5:09.
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
The in and out of the middle of the house
Right smack dab through the middle of the house
Where the parlor used to be.
There's a great big door in the front of the house
There's a little old door in the back
But we can't have doors in the middle of the house
'Cause that's the railroad track.
A relative came to visit the house
He liked to scream and fuss
So we sat him right down in the middle of the house
And he never more bothered us
No, he never more bothered us.
Oh, the railroad comes through the middle of the house
The railroad comes through the middle of the house
It comes and goes through the middle of the house
Since the trains are all on time.
I'm singing this song in the middle of the house.
I hear it was Mr. Greenjean's favorite ;D
I posted some lyrics earlier from a band my ex listened to. This was the only song I liked from them, of course it was the only one she hated ;D Nothing else they did sounds like this, but if you like rockabilly, you may enjoy this one.
The quality sucks, but ya get what ya get on You Tube. Was suprised ta even find it on there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPr9ZAr43gg
Leo
Quote from: Delmonico on August 01, 2008, 05:13:40 PM
The wreck of Old 97:
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Rail%20Road/Old97Wreck.jpg)
Wonder if the Blues Brothers ever learned it, they said they would. ;D
Jake an Elwood give their humblest 'pologies fer not gettin to it. Leastways Elwood does. Sure Jake would concur :(
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 01, 2008, 03:34:18 PM
AH! Lonnie Donegan! "Does your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight"?
One my dad use to sing he only knew 2 songs Camptown Races was the other
This was on the radio this morning:
He was an old-time cowboy, don't you understand
His eyes were sharp as razor blades his face was leather tan
His toes were pointed inward from a-hangin' on a horse
He was an old philosopher, of course.
He was so thin i swear you could have used him for a whip
He had to drink a beer to keep his britches on his hips
I knew i had to ask him about the mysteries of life
He spit between his boots and he replied
"It's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money"
He smiled and all his teeth were covered with tobacco stains
He said, "it don't do men no good to pray for peace and rain.
Peace and rain is just a way to say prosperity,
And buffalo chips is all it means to me.
I told him I was a poet, I was lookin' for the truth
I do not care for horses, whiskey, women or the loot
I said I was a writer, my soul was all on fire
He looked at me an' he said, "you are a liar."
"It's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money"
Well, I was disillusioned, if I say the least
I grabbed him by the collar and I jerked him to his feet
There was something cold and shiny layin' by my head
So I started to believe the things he said
Well, my poet days are over and I'm back to being me
As I enjoy the peace and comfort of reality
If my boy ever asks me what it is that I have learned
I think that I will readily affirm
"It's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money" (repeat 2x)
AH! One of Tom T's better songs.
The train is rolling down the track,
Listen to the wheels go clickety clack,
Over the bridge, around the bend,
Taking me for a ride.
The engine's up at the front of the train,
Pulling all the cars through the sun and the rain,
Over the bridge, around the bend,
Taking me for a ride.
When the engineer pulls the throttle down,
And the whistle starts to blow,
You can hear that sound for miles around,
And it lets all the people know,
That the train is rolling down the track,
Listen to the wheels go clickety clack,
Over the bridge, around the bend,
Taking me for a ride.
Now we sit here in the passenger car,
And the freight car's next in line,
And way in back is the little caboose,
Rolling along behind.
And people stand by the railroad side,
And wave to us as we go by,
Over the bridge, around the bend,
Taking me for a ride.
The train is rolling down the track,
Listen to the wheels go clickety clack,
Over the bridge, around the bend,
Taking me for a ride.
Love that one Sod Buster.
Heard this one this mornin' afore work, heard it last Sunday on a show where they were talkin' to Ian Anderson, that one was a live version from about a year ago, Ol' boy still sounds good and so does his flute.
In the shuffling madness
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
"Oh" He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down. "OhooOh"
He sees his children "jumping" off
at the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
in bed and having fun.
"Oh" He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down. "Heaheya"
He hears the silence howling --
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
"Oh" He picks up Gideons Bible --
open at page one --
I "THINK" God "he" stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
"no way to slow down
no way to slow down
no way to slow down
no way to slow down"
Ain't but 3 things thats' worth a solitary dime, but Ol'Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine.
Del, that's the best song on Aqualung. They have a live album called "Bursting Out" with a great version. They also do "A New Day Yesterday" at that concert, my other JT favorite.
Leo
Irony...i heard it on the way to work today and was going to post it tonight.....Love the lead in to it.
I had a friend that past away a couple of years ago. He was a big JT fan. He claimed to have most of their albums(LPs). He really the flute playiin' in the songs.
Quote from: litl rooster on August 02, 2008, 11:09:04 PM
Irony...i heard it on the way to work today and was going to post it tonight.....Love the lead in to it.
Ahh, the concert piano switching to blues with guitar accomaniment then on the last note that distortion kicks in.
Bouree' on Stand Up was a great one for the flute. The band members were all classicly trained and would switch instraments in mid concert just to show all of then could all play everything equaly as well.
Leo
Quote from: litl rooster on August 02, 2008, 11:09:04 PM
Irony...i heard it on the way to work today and was going to post it tonight.....Love the lead in to it.
Our station has been playin' a bit more lately, think they're comin' to the US this fall if I 'member what they said in that show right, was sewin' so I didn't hear it all. Saw them in 1979.
The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.
Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.
He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.
Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.
So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.
And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.
Although I never could sing worth a lick, I always felt close to this one.
Charlie and Band
Old Rock 'n' Roller
He's just an old rock 'n' roller playing music in a backstreet bar.
He sings a little flat and he never learned to play the guitar.
But he keeps on belting out them rhythm and blues,
"Long Tall Sally" and "Blue Suede Shoes".
He never faced the fact that he's never gonna be a star.
He's just an old rock 'n' roller playing music in a backstreet bar.
He had a record in the sixties, it was big enough to go Top Ten.
And though he tried and he tried he never could make it happen again.
He's been living twenty years on bourbon and pride.
Jerry Lee went crazy and Elvis died.
Then his third wife left him but he never really thought it would last.
And now she ain't nothing but another little blast from the past.
But sometimes at night when the music and the crowd is having fun,
He steps up on the mike with a gleam in his eye and once again he's twenty-one.
And then it's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and "Heartbreak Hotel" and "That'll Be The Day"
Then the Sweet Bird of Youth just flies away.
He's an earthbound eagle that never did learn how to fly.
He ain't never gonna make it but he sure did give it a try.
So go dye your hair and turn the music up loud,
And when it's time to go at least you'll go down proud.
You ain't never gonna be nothing but what you are
Just an old rock 'n' roller playing music in a backstreet bar.
Just an old rock 'n' roller playing music in a backstreet bar.
I like this one and as I get older I kinda identify with it
Pencil thin mustache
By: jimmy buffett
1974
Now they make new movies in old black and white
With happy endings, where nobody fights
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
Honey, jump right up and show your age
Chorus:
I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of andy devine
I remember bein buck-toothed and skinny
Writin fan letters to sky king and penny
Oh I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too
Then its bandstand, disneyland, growin up fast
Drinkin on a fake i.d.
Yeah, and rama of the jungle was everyones bawana
But only jazz musicians were smokin marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too
Then its flat top, dirty bob, coppin a feel
Grubbin on the livin room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score
Yeah, but now Im gettin old, dont wear underwear
I dont go to church and I dont cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be
Chorus:
Thats why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two-toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of andy devine
Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
Maybe suave errol flynn or the sheik of araby
If I only had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could do some cruisin too
Coda:
Yeah, bryl-cream, a little dabll do yah
Oh, I could do some cruisin too
I can identify with a lot of those lyrics except that part about not wearing underwear. I gotta have my SUPPORT!
off ta work. ;)
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 03, 2008, 05:16:04 PM
I can identify with a lot of those lyrics except that part about not wearing underwear. I gotta have my SUPPORT!
So yer not a member of the elite commando squad? ;D
NO SIR! OT, "Here"s ya sign"!
They were showing a lot of Randold Scott movies on the Westerns channel this weekend, so this one popped into my head:
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RANDOLPH SCOTT
(Don Reid / Harold Reid)
The Statler Brothers - 1973
Everybody knows when you go to the show
You can't take the kids along
You've gotta read the paper
And know the code of GPG and R and X
And you gotta know what the movie's about
Before you even go
Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead
And the screen is filled with sex
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Ridin' the train alone
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex
And Roy and Rex, The Durango Kid
Oh, whatever happened to Randolph Scott
His horse plain as could be
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the best of me
Everybody's tryin' to make a comment
About our doubts and fears
True Grit's the only movie
I've really understood in years
You gotta take your analyst along
To see if it's fit to see
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry
Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown
And Alan Rocky Lane
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue
I'd love to see them again
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnette
Tim Holt and Gene Autry
Whatever happened to all of these
Has happened to the best of me
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry
I think that Randolph Scott is playin' with Lester Moron and his Cadillac Cowboys at the dance at Johnny Mack Brown High School Gym this Sat. night.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 04, 2008, 12:18:56 PM
I think that Randolph Scott is playin' with Lester Moron and his Cadillac Cowboys at the dance at Johnny Mack Brown High School Gym this Sat. night.
;D ;D ;D
Still like the ole train songs:
There's an elephant on the engine he's headed down the track
With a goose on the caboose and a chicken ridin' in back
There's a horse upon a handcar and zebras in the railyard
Oh, the fun has just begun when the animals ride the train
There's a bullfrog on a boxcar with a lizard and a snake
A gorilla on a gondola how much more of this can i take
There's a hippo on a hopper and a hog in a helicopter
Oh, the fun has just begun when the animals ride the train
There's a whale in the water tower just swimming 'round and 'round
There's monkeys on the crossing gate just hanging upside down
There's a tiger and a mouse and a seal in the station house
Oh, the fun has just begun when the animals ride the train
There's a turtle on a tanker, he's thinking he's found a friend
There's a lion on the loading dock and a bear just around the bend
There's donkey on a dumper and a pony on a pumper
Oh, the fun has just begun when the animals ride the train
Oh, the fun has just begun when the animals ride the train
Me too, and I love this one by Guy Clark
Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before,
so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.
Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels,
bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels
Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four,
but everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more. . .
. . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war.
This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before.
And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day.
somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way.
Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars,
and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars.
Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch,
and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop.
So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time'
you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line.
'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back,
But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
she's a fast-rollin' streamline
come to show the folks.
Look out here she comes, she's comin'
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
. . .Lord, she never even stopped.
She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars,
and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
and how it got this far.
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
by a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train
Heck, it ain't about trains, but I love Guy Clark's music.
He's a wino, tried and true.
Done about everything there is to do.
He worked on freighters, he worked in bars.
He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars.
It was white port, that put that look in his eye
That grown men get when they need to cry
And he sat down on the curb to rest
And his head just fell down on his chest
He said "Every single day it gets
A little bit harder to handle and yet. . ."
And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
And the words just rolled off down in the gutter
Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
He's old in years beyond his time
Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine
So he says "Son," he always called me son
He said, "Life for you has just begun"
And he told me a story that I heard before
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
Well he could cut through the years to the very night
When it ended, in a whore house fight
And she turned his last proposal down
In favor of being a girl about town
Now it's been seventeen years right in line
And he ain't been straight none of the time
Too many days of fightin' the weather
And too many nights of not being together
So he died. . .
Well when they went through his personal affects
In among the stubs from the welfare checks
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
An address in Dallas, and nothin' more
The welfare people provided the priest
A couple from the mission down the street
Sang Amazing Grace, and no one cried
'Cept some woman in black, way off to the side
We all left and she was standing there
Black veil covering her silver hair
And 'ol One-Eyed John said her name was Alice
And she used to be a whore in Dallas
Let him roar, Lord let him roll
Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
Lord, let him roll, Lord let him roar
He always said that heaven
Was just a Dallas whore.
By Hank Snow
That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high, for my little old sky
So I'm movin' on
That big loud whistle as it blew and blew
Said hello to the southland, we're comin' to you
When we're movin' on, oh hear my song
You had the laugh on me, so I've set you free
And I'm movin' on
Mister fireman won't you please listen to me
'Cause I got a pretty mama in Tennessee
Keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll
And keep movin' me on
Mister Engineer, take that throttle in hand
This rattler's the fastest in the southern land
To keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
You gonna ease my mind, put me there on time
And keep rollin' on
I've told you baby, from time to time
But you just wouldn't listen or pay me no mind
Now I'm movin' on, I'm rollin' on
You've broken your vow, and it's all over now
So I'm movin' on
You've switched your engine now I ain't got time
For a triflin' woman on my main line
Cause I'm movin on, you done your daddy wrong
I warned you twice, now you can settle the price
'Cause I'm movin on
But someday baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep movin' on, you stayed away too long
I'm through with you, too bad you're blue
Keep movin' on
Roger Miller.
Engine Engine #9
Engine Engine #9, coming down the railroad line
How much farther back did she get off?
Old brown suite case that she carried,
Ive looked for it everywhere, it just aint here among the rest and
Im a little upset yes tell me Engine Engine #9
Coming down the railroad line,
I know she got on in Baltimore,
110 miles aint much distance
But it sure do make a difference,
I dont think she loves me anymore.
I warned her of the dangers,
Dont speak to strangers,
Did by chance she find a romance?
Warmer lips to kiss her? Arms to hold her tighter
Steering new vibes inside her,
How I wish that it was me instead
He just stands beside her
Engine Engine #9, coming down the railroad line
I know she got on in Baltimore
110 miles aint much distance
But it sure do make a difference,
I dont think she loves me anymore.
No, I dont think she loves me anymore
I dont think she loves me, I dont think she loves me anymore.
'N rubber tired vehamahickles:
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All through the town.
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish"
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish"
All through the town.
The door on the bus goes open and shut
Open and shut, open and shut
The door on the bus goes open and shut
All through the town.
The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep"
The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep"
All through the town.
The bio-diesel on the bus goes "Glug, glug, glug
Glug, glug, glug, save the planet"
The bio-diesel on the bus goes "Glug, glug, glug"
All through the town.
The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink"
The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink"
All through the town.
The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!"
The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!"
All through the town.
The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh,
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh"
The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh"
All through the town.
The mommy on the bus says, "I love you,
I love you, I love you"
The daddy on the bus says, "I love you, too"
All through the town.
'nother Roger Miller
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road
Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes
I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found
Short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road
I know every engineer on every train
All of their children, and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked
When no one's around
I sing
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
My favorite Roger Miller piece:
My uncle used to love but she died
A chicken aint chicken til hes licken good and fried
Keep on the sunny side
My uncle used to love me but she died
Who'll bid me quarter, thirty cents for a ring of keys
Three sixty-five for a dollar bill of groceries
I'll have me a car of my own someday but til then I need a ride My uncle used to love me but she died
My uncle used to love but she died
A chicken aint chicken til hes licken good and fried
Keep on the sunny side
My uncle used to live me but she died
Hamburger cup of coffee lettuce and tomato
Two times a dime to see a man kiss the alligater
One more time around free on the ferris wheel ride
My uncle used to love me but she died
My uncle used to love but she died
A chicken aint chicken til hes licken good and fried
Keep on the sunny side
My uncle used to live me but she died
Apples are for eatin and snakes are for hissin
I've heard about huggin and Ive heard about kissin
I read about it free in a fifty cent illustrated guide
My uncle used to love me but she died
My uncle used to love but she died
A chicken aint chicken til hes licken good and fried
Keep on the sunny side
My uncle used to live me but she died
Well my uncle used to love but she died
A chicken aint chicken til hes licken good and fried
Keep on the sunny side
My uncle used to live me but she died
Heard this Tom T Hall one yesterday, always got a chuckle from it.
"Salute To A Switchblade"
Me and Yates an army buddy o'mine were doin' three years in Germany at the time
We came upon these Frauleins in the bar
Yates said darf isch zee be-gleit-en they said ya
(And darf isch zee be-gleit-en means can we sit with you all)
Oh we must have drunk ten quarts of German beer
My conscience and my sinuses were clear
I asked that Fraulein if she was a spy she said nein but do bis ain bissel high
(A condition not uncommon to the American soldier)
Well later on I went to be excused when I returned I was a bit confused
Yates and his Fraulein had hit the air another guy was sittin' in my chair
(A young soldier whom we shall get to know better)
I said excuse me Mister that's my seat I'd like to have it back sir if you please
That girl's a nurse and I've been awful sick the man looked up at me and said mox-nix
(Which means that he was not overly concerned with my health)
Next thing I knew he had a switchblade knife
Lord I didn't know that Fraulein was his wife
I took off through that Gasthaus like a fool behind me I heard the crashing stools
(As the police would say he was in hot pursuit)
Well the waitress yelled there's MPs on the way
That's one more reason I didn't want to stay
As I went out the window somethin' went switch
And I giggled all the way home knowin' he missed
(At the time it seemed like a laughing matter)
But next morning my coat was lyin' there on the bunk
And when I saw that coat it made me jump
That man had cut my coat right down the back
A little bit more and they'd been playin' me taps
(And knowin' the sad nature of that song I would decline it)
Well later on I heard that guy got stabbed
They sent him home and didn't that make me glad
On love and marriage I want to say one thing oh lady if you're married wear that ring
(And the army has a new policy if you can't move it paint it
If it has a switchblade knife salute it
Not necessarily an incident one would want to write Mother about
Germany being full of good soldiers good people)
I was gonna do King of the Road, but got busy round here.
Arcey deserves some kind a trophy fer doin Wheels on the Bus ;D Used ta take ma oldest ta Mommy an me classes when she was young. Only man there. I'd use a fake Brooklyn accent jus fer fun..."All tru da town" Funny memory.
Leo
OT, I had forgotten about "Ode to a switchblade". Arcey, I'm sora partial to "You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd". Ol'Guy Clark and Billy Joe Shaver, now there's a pair to draw to. A couple more of the Outlaws from Texas.
Roy Clark once said he used to hang around with Roger Miller until the health department told 'em to cut it out. I'd pay good hard cash to see the two of 'em in their prime on stage together.
I feel some Ray Stevens comin' on.
I was over in the Stockyards one weekend and happened in to the "White Elephant Saloon" late at night. Roy Clark had finished playin' over at Billy Bob's. Don Edwards played at the Elephant on the weekends regularly before he became famous. Roy joined Don on the stage and they played till after 2 am. The White Elephant is the bar the used as CD's in Walker, Texas Ranger.
The boy used ta be fat. There's no way that much talent could be in a thin body. My mistake was years ago buyin' a ticket to his concert at Scope. Could've werked security 'n got invited to his back stage party like the others did. They had a blast, I went home. The guy is a cop groupie. This song seems fittin'.
"It seems the love I've known,
has always been the most destructive kind.
I guess that's why now,
I feel so old before my time."
Yesterday, when I was young,
The taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue,
I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand,
I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day,
And only now, I see, how the years ran away
Yesterday, when I was young,
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me,
And so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time, and youth at last ran out,
I never stopped to think, what life, was all about,
And every conversation, I can now recall,
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
Yesterday, the moon was blue,
And every crazy day, brought something new to do,
I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,
And never saw the worst, and the emptiness beyond
The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,
And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died,
The friends I made, all seemed somehow to drift away,
And only I am left, on stage to end the play
There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue,
The time has come for me to pay,
For yesterday, when I was young
( Roy Clark sang this song at Mickey Mantle's funeral in 1995. Mickey had heard Roy sing it before and thought it depicted his life so well that he specifically asked Roy to someday sing it at his funeral )
My favorite Roy Clark song has to be "Thank God and Greyhound, You're Gone".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ_H4jlPNqM
Thankee, Arcey.
Certainly.
Have you guys seen this kid???
http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/sungha-jung-no-larger-than-the-guitar/
(he is only 11 years old!!)
Makes me just want to throw my guitar right out the winder.....
Curley
That was great.
He musta gave Mama Cass a sammich in another life. Made me throw my guitar out the winder too. Spent six months learnin much easier stuff, I bet this kid just got it. I wonder where that talent comes from sometimes.
Leo
I just shot mine full of .45 holes....damn he's good
That Sheep game otta be a good way to releave all that pent up hostility that you aquire during the work day.
This one should be called "While My Ukelele Gently Weeps" The man tears this thing up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
Leo
It has been said that there is a link with mathematical skills and musical skills. Well, we all know that Asians are mathematical wizards, so I guess that video should come to no surprise. :D
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of my favorites.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 06, 2008, 05:01:47 PM
This one should be called "While My Ukelele Gently Weeps" The man tears this thing up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
Leo
Almost figgered it would be Tiny Tim. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on August 06, 2008, 06:33:23 PM
Almost figgered it would be Tiny Tim. ;D
Now there's a wierdo that I'm glad we don't have to hear from anymore. ::) ::)
Quote from: Trinity on August 06, 2008, 06:34:59 PM
Now there's a wierdo that I'm glad we don't have to hear from anymore. ::) ::)
A bit weird, but was a big push in the preserving of old music before the records went ka-put.
Remember, there is no such thing as a worthless human being, it's just some of them ain't good for anythin' but bein' a cadavar in a med school. ;D
Well while you all's tip toein through the tulips...
I look at you all
See the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look at you all see the love there that's
sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all...
Still my guitar gently weeps.
CD player decided to play my favorite song Don Edwards does.
Pushin' horns weren't easy like the movie said it was
And I don't recall no dance hall girls
Or hotel rooms with rugs
You worked hot and tired and nasty
Rode your pony's head too low
There were all the nights you couldn't sleep
'Cause it was too damn cold
And you'd sing 'Strawberry Roan' and 'Little Joe'
Like the time we hit the river
And the rains began to fall
And the water was risin' so damn fast
We thought it'd drown us all
We lost a lot of steers that day
And four to five good mounts
But when all the boys rode into camp
We knew that's what counts
And we sang, yippie ti yi yay and 'Amazing Grace'
Or the night they broke behind us
And then took us by surprise
I whistled out to Bonner, I seen the terror in his eyes
And he rode for all his horse would ride
And I know he done his best
But he crossed over Jordan ridin' Dunny to his death
And we sang 'Bringing in the Sheaves' and 'The Rugged Cross'
So when you see the cowboy, he's not ragged by his choice
He never meant to bow them legs
Or put that gravel in his voice
He's just chasin' what he really loves
And what's burnin' in his soul
Wishin' to God that he'd benn born a hundred years ago
Still singin' 'Strawberry Roan' and 'Little Joe'
Ahhh, them horse songs. They strike a chord.........
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house,
To Grandmother's house, to Grandmother's house.
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving Day.
My brother's riding with us too,
He said I'd like to race with you.
Let's go fast, through the woods.
Ready, set, GO!
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house,
To Grandmother's house, to Grandmother's house.
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving Day.
My sister rides along with us,
She wants to leave us in the dust.
Let's go fast, down the road.
Ready, set, GO!
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house,
To Grandmother's house, to Grandmother's house.
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving Day.
My daddy's riding in the lead,
He said he has the faster steed.
Let's go fast through the fields.
Ready, set, GO!
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house,
To Grandmother's house, to Grandmother's house.
Riding on a horse to Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving Day.
Back about eighteen and twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud
Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fudd
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
Drifted on down into no man's land
Across the river called the Rio Grande
Raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe
Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold
Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud
And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
I rode right back across Arkansas
I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
She was riding on a Tennessee Mare
Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
Little horse colt playing round the door
I loved the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
That song kinda reenergized Eddy Arnold's music career. He just passed away within the last couple of months.
A classic.....
A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mister Ed.
People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say
A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.
You never heard of a talking horse?
Well listen to this: "I'm Mister Ed."
B Western movie actor Allan"Rocky" Lane did Mr. Ed's voice.
Saw Rocky this morning on the Westerns Channel. There wasn't a Palomino in sight. ::) ::) ;D ;D
The horse wasn't really talkin', huh? The next thing yer gonna be sayin' is George Reeves couldn't fly......
The strange thing about George, was you could shoot bullets at him all day long and get no reaction, but when the gun was empty and the bad guy threw it at him he would flinch! :o ::) ;D
Quote from: Arcey on August 07, 2008, 11:17:18 AM
The horse wasnt really talkin, huh? The next thing yer gonna be sayin is George Reeves couldnt fly
While were outing these heartbreaking revleations, I feel it's my duty ta tell ya that The Monkeys didn't really play their own instraments.
what is all this crazy talk, Mr. Ed not talking, George Reeves couldn't fly :o somebody must be on crack spreading stories like that, next thing ya'll be saying is Jeannie didn't really live in that bottle and the Clampetts didn't really move to Beverly Hills :o :o :o :o
Yeah, right. Elizabeth Montgomery, God rest 'n keep 'er, wasn't a real witch either......
Quote from: Arcey on August 07, 2008, 11:58:34 AM
Yeah, right. Elizabeth Montgomery, God rest 'n keep 'er, wasn't a real witch either......
She had enough powers ta change her husband mid-stream without nobody noticin ;D Always thought it was funny that if ya put the two Darrins last names tagether ya get Seargent York.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 07, 2008, 12:06:26 PM
She had enough powers ta change her husband mid-stream without nobody noticin ;D Always thought it was funny that if ya put the two Darrins last names tagether ya get Seargent York.
Yes but they were both Dicks. ::) :D Maybe she couldn't tell the difference, like Lois Lane couldn't tell the difference between Clark Kent and Superman just because of a pair of glasses. ::)
My she rest in peace, but she also was Lizzie Borden in a previous incarnation.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) (TV)
Not really a song, but more of a rhyme:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one. Just thought I'd try and put this back on thread. ;)
Lois Lane was Lizzy Borden?
Who'd ah thought...
Quote from: Arcey on August 07, 2008, 01:28:46 PM
Lois Lane was Lizzy Borden?
Who'd ah thought...
Well Margot Kidder did end up nekkid in a tree stalkin some folks out in Beverly Hills. Mebbe there is somethin ta this Miss Lane thing ::)
Sorry Russ, the thread is on a wanderin path fer the time bein ;D
Leo
The last time I saw Margot Kidder she looked OLD! Sure wouldn't want to see her NEKKED!
Seen stills. She'd look good after a six pack. Sober, a decent average. Castin' couch werked well for the girl I guess.
I would have to sneek in some shots of tequila on top of that BEER!
Bout the same time Margot flipped her lid, Carrie Fisher went off her rocker too. Definately have ta pass the takillya fer that one. There was some strange casting agents in the late '70s.
Guess all them wimmins is good, fine an rehabbed now an been replaced by a fresh batch of loonies.
Sorta had my bubble busted when Mary Poppins snatched 'er shirt off in SOB. They's all whores.
Stills on Google images.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 07, 2008, 02:39:14 PM
The last time I saw Margot Kidder she looked OLD! Sure wouldn't want to see her NEKKED!
And you ain't old. ;D
Well, I guess I am, come to think of it.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 07, 2008, 07:07:19 PM
Well, I guess I am, come to think of it.
Not that it is that bad, just sayin'. :)
I am really lookin' forward to meetin' you and Slim at the GAF muster. I will bring some dog pictures.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 07, 2008, 07:18:48 PM
I am really lookin' forward to meetin' you and Slim at the GAF muster. I will bring some dog pictures.
We'll have fun. ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on August 07, 2008, 08:31:16 PM
::)
Better take yer walkman TLD
I think Tex carries a Victrola around :D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 07, 2008, 08:40:58 PM
I think Tex carries a Victrola around :D
Ya might be right! ::)
I was thinking his instrement of choice was the Jaw Harp :o
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on August 07, 2008, 08:47:17 PM
I was thinking his instrement of choice was the Jaw Harp :o
Better watch him, he has ah kazoo an' slide whistle too ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on August 07, 2008, 08:49:55 PM
Better watch him, he has ah kazoo an' slide whistle too ;D
His humble beginnins were jus a comb an a piece a wax paper. From little acorns grow mighty oaks ;D
I gots me a jews harp. Make The Cat run from the room every time I play it. :o
You guys are givin'me much too credit for my musical ability. I gotta a lot of CD's.
I think this'n his best tune
I struck the trail in seventy-nine
The herd strung out behind me
As I jogged along my mind went back
To the gal I left behind
If I ever get off the trail, boys
And the Indians don't find me
I'll make my way straight back again
To the gal I left behind me
CHORUS:
That sweet little gal, that true little gal
The gal I left behind me
That sweet little gal, that pretty little gal
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/pGD ]
The gal I left behind me
The wind did blow and the rain did flow
The hail did fall and blind me
And I thought of that gal,
that sweet little gal
That gal I'd left behind me
She wrote ahead to a place I said
And I was glad to find it
She says "I'm true, when you get through
Ride back and you will find me"
CHORUS
When we sold out I took the train
I knew that I would find her
When I got back, we had a smack
And that's no gol-darned liar
CHORUS
Way down yonder in the Indian Nation, Rode my pony on tha reservation, In the Oklahoma hills where I was born. A Cowboy's life was my occupation, in those Oklahoma hills where I was born.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 07, 2008, 09:08:30 PM
Way down yonder in the Indian Nation, Rode my pony on tha reservation, In the Oklahoma hills where I was born. A Cowboy's life was my occupation, in those Oklahoma hills where I was born.
Arlo's daddy shore could write ah song! ;)
I heard em talking about Oklahoma Hills one time on TV, said the year it came out, during the depression, it was the most requested song in California. guess them Okies couldn't ferget. ;)
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on August 07, 2008, 09:32:04 PM
I heard em talking about Oklahoma Hills one time on TV, said the year it came out, during the depression, it was the most requested song in California. guess them Okies couldn't ferget. ;)
The oak and blackjack trees kiss the playful prairie breeze ;D
In them Oklahoma Hills where I was born (in 1950 at Muskogee, Ok USA.) ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 07, 2008, 11:46:39 AM
While were outing these heartbreaking revleations, I feel it's my duty ta tell ya that The Monkeys didn't really play their own instraments.
They weren't allowed to in the begining, but played a lot later on. Saw them in concert in the 80's and they were kick AAAs. Also, look up Micheal Nesmith and see what songs he is responsible for writing. One of my favorites was "I still miss someone". Of course then he got nuts and did "One Ton Tomatoe".....anybody remember what that was a play off....
I picked up Nesmiths early records on a cd a couple of years ago....Joanne, and a bunch of others...way cool.
curley
Quote from: Arcey on August 07, 2008, 11:17:18 AM
The horse wasn't really talkin', huh? The next thing yer gonna be sayin' is George Reeves couldn't fly......
Christopher Reeves...He couldn't ride a horse either..............ooop's I'm bad
Flyin' into Los Angleze, Bringin' in A coupla A keys, Don't check ma bags, if you pleeze, Mr. Customs Man.
I don't want a pickle, I just wanna ride my motorsickle,
I don't wanna die, I just wann ride my motorcyyyy-cle
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice.
Where tha black oil rolls an' flows
an' tha snow white cotton grows....
In those Oklahoma hills where OT was born!
;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 08, 2008, 03:27:50 PM
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice.
Once upon a time, me an a pard managed ta remember every word ta that one. We had half a heat on an sat there on a bench (acourse we named it the Group W Bench) an did the whole thing through. In harmony ;D
Leo
Remember my face to face conversion with one of my two true to life first cousins a few years back.
Said my late uncle was takin' 'em to California ta start his non-military life drivin' a Rambler Marlin. Ran outtah gas 'n money in Tulsa 'n there they stayed.
Arcey, what year did they go to Tulsa, it was nice place to go growing up, not nearly as big as it is now.
2 real life first cousins, :o I had 41 first cousins and 32 of em lived within 5 miles of us. ;D the rest weren't much further.
OT, I'm guessin' '66 or '67. They spent some time with my grandparents before they left. My uncle had just bought the Rambler new.
Cousin Erika spent the summer with my mother. That was in '69. She 'n I had graduated that year. She was a week older than me. Erika died in her early thirties, leukemia.
Uncle John flew in '87 when my grandfather died. Cousin Johnny came in when Momma died. I ain't seen 'im since. Don't expect to.
Told me he owned an irrigation company. Tried to find it on the 'net. Ain't there. Could've gone outtah business or sold it.
Ain't seen nor heard from cousin Gwen since I saw her last at my grandparents' house before they left. She was a baby then.
It woulda been pretty nice back then, all the little towns around it hadn't grown together and combined like they are now. I used to spend a lot of time up there from 68 on, my first wife lived up there, so I was up there as much as possible.
Man, I got scattered family everywhere.
Now an again I do a search on ma last name ta see what pops up. Found out a year ago that a cuzzin of mine had become a real estate tycoon in LA. Got killed by a drunk driver. We spent time tagether as kids, but hadn't seen him since. Nobody told me, I found out on the innernet.
Gotta sister out there. Couldn't tell ya much about her. We had no fight, just parted ways nice and easy. She ran the show at my Mom's funeral, an from the info the pastor got from her ya'd think me an my family never existed. Folks saw me an Lil were sittin in the front row an later asked, "who are you?" Wanted ta say, "the last person that ever spoke ta her". True as that was, I kept my decorum an just said, "I'm her son". At that folks were confused that I had not been givin the opportunity to speak or even be mentioned.
Don't harbor no ill will against sister, just know how it is.
I never had no brothers or sisters, just all them cousins, wasn't no babysitters back in them days I'm guessing at least I never stayed with nobody but family. ;D
I'm like you OT... never stayed with nobody but Cole, Willis er Jenkins kin...
I remember the first time I ever heard about hiring people ta take care of their kids, didn't know if we'd been deprived or blessed. ;D
you got any Willis relatives in Arkansas, Levi, that raises the garden out here with his mule is a Willis.
Only first cousins I have/had are those in Tulsa. But second 'n thirds, the neighborhood was slam full of 'em. Gottah two still there, right where they were when I left the place in '70.
We didn't know what a baby sitter was either.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on August 08, 2008, 06:16:18 PM
I remember the first time I ever heard about hiring people ta take care of their kids, didn't know if we'd been deprived or blessed. ;D
you got any Willis relatives in Arkansas, Levi, that raises the garden out here with his mule is a Willis.
If his folks come from 'round Elkton KY then I bet he's kin.... ;D
When I was about 4, we had a neighbor girl came over a couple times when the folks had to go somewhere and my Aunt that lived in town couldn't watch me.
Got a lot of cuzzin's, 15 or 16 I think with out counting, all live within 60 miles of me, most down in Johnson County where the folks were from, had two more but they are now gone.
Had 32 first cousins an' God only knows how many second and third cousins planted all around us.
Reckon that's why there were over ah hunnert at tha last family get together... that weren't near all o' them.
Quote from: Tensleep on August 08, 2008, 06:31:22 PM
Had 32 first cousins an' God only knows how many second and third cousins planted all around us.
Reckon that's why there were over ah hunnert at tha last family get together... that weren't near all o' them.
Dad was an only child so those are all on Mom's side.
Ya know they's a whole clan of Coles out in California, went out there around the depression. My Mom and Uncle went out there for it once. it was held up around Dos Palace, Calif. they said there were more people turned out for it than would come out around here, and we always had an awful lot of people.
my Dad had 2 sisters, 6 cousins there, Mom had 9 brothers and Sisters lots and lots of cousins ;D
My section of Coles are from Boston area. Pop went to Wyoming and met my ma, then they moved to Tulare CA (where they got worms right now.....) they came in the early 40's. Pop was in Army. Served at Pearl Harbor for 6 years. Was cookin hot cakes durin the attack. A 2Looy came in and said "don't stand there Do something" My father reportedly replied: What am I supposed to do throw my hot cakes at them??? He used to bump from pvt to sgt and back on a fairly regular basis. I have a bunch of photos of him and friends while at Pearl during that time...very interesting.
curley
My Dad was a B25 pilot, he was originally assigned to B17s. He joined before the War started. The B17 outfit that he was in was part of the squadron that was sent to Pearl on the day of the attack. He was sent to McDill early in 42. While he was there the Doolittle Raiders were training but no one knew it at the time. After the Raid, the old Raider Squadron was reorganized and made part of the 12th AF. They were sent to N. Africa and sent the rest of the War in the Med area.
Friend from the Lab Forum sent me this link, I thought you folks might like it.
http://www.accident-report.com/index.html
Del, That's a neat link, Del, Thanks
Heard this one for the first time tonight. Don't know how I missed it before. ???
You were born by a railroad track
Never knew your ma and your pa ain't comin' back
Had to make your way the best you can
But you didn't have to steal from another man
Run boy run boy run boy run; they're gonna get you boy run boy run
They're gonna catch you boy run boy run; run boy run boy run boy run
Think you're a man cause you're twenty one
Shot a man for nothin' and away you run
Wanted in most every state from here to Tennessee
If you're caught you'll do your runnin' hangin' from a tree
Run boy run boy run boy run...
Storm clouds lookin' down from the sky
And hangman's noose swingin' on a tree near by
The words on that tombstone that won't be read by you
Says his runnin's done at twenty one he won't see twenty two
Run boy run boy run boy run...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61NaV_KxT4
Lee Hazelwood was a better songwriter than he was a singer.
Heared this'n t'other day. Gottah be good. There's a dog, cat 'n a pickup truck in it.
It was Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo,
Left the city in a pick-up truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, they rolled out west where the wild sun sets,
And the coyote bays at the moon.
Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Down Tucson way there's a small cafe,
Where they play a little cowboy tune.
And the guitar picker was a friend of mine,
By the name of Randy Boone.
Yeah, Randy played her a sweet love song,
And Della got a fire in her eye.
The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun,
And the cat had a shot of rye.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Yeah, the Dealer was a killer; he was evil and mean,
And he was jealous of the fire in her eyes.
He snorted his coke through a century note,
And he swore that Boone would die.
And the stage was set when the lights went out,
There was death in Tucson town.
Two shadows ran for the bar back door,
But one stayed on the ground.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Two shadows ran from the bar that night,
And a dog and a cat ran too.
And the tires got hot on the pickup truck,
As down the road they flew.
It was Della and her lover and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
Left Tucson in a pickup truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Some a those wimmins ya jus can't trust, though it sounds like Mr Cokehead got what was comin.
Heres a simalar story bout a decent guy got in a gunfight over a gal.
Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of dakota
There lived a young boy named rocky raccoon
And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young rocky in the eye, rocky didnt like that
He said Im gonna get that boy
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon
Rocky raccoon checked into his room
Only to find gideons bible
Rocky had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival it seems had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was magil and she called herself lil
But everyone knew her as nancy
Now she and her man who called himself dan
Were in the next room at the hoe down
Rocky burst in and grinning a grin
He said danny boy this is a showdown
But daniel was hot - he drew first and shot
And rocky collapsed in the corner
Now the doctor came in stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said rocky you met your match
And rocky said, doc its only a scratch
And Ill be better, Ill be better doc as soon as I am able
Now rocky raccoon he fell back in his room
Only to find gideons bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good rockys revival
Quote from: Arcey on August 13, 2008, 03:39:17 PM
Heared this'n t'other day. Gottah be good. There's a dog, cat 'n a pickup truck in it.
It was Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo,
Left the city in a pick-up truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, they rolled out west where the wild sun sets,
And the coyote bays at the moon.
Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Down Tucson way there's a small cafe,
Where they play a little cowboy tune.
And the guitar picker was a friend of mine,
By the name of Randy Boone.
Yeah, Randy played her a sweet love song,
And Della got a fire in her eye.
The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun,
And the cat had a shot of rye.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Yeah, the Dealer was a killer; he was evil and mean,
And he was jealous of the fire in her eyes.
He snorted his coke through a century note,
And he swore that Boone would die.
And the stage was set when the lights went out,
There was death in Tucson town.
Two shadows ran for the bar back door,
But one stayed on the ground.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
Two shadows ran from the bar that night,
And a dog and a cat ran too.
And the tires got hot on the pickup truck,
As down the road they flew.
It was Della and her lover and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
Left Tucson in a pickup truck.
Gonna make some dreams come true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell,
About Della and the Dealer and the dog as well.
But the cat was cool,
And he never said a mumblin' word.
One of my Favs from Hoyt Axton, off his Rusty Halo album from 1979 I think, could a been 78.
It was on a WKRP re-run Sunday. Second time I heard it. First time was when the episode was new.
Personally, think the cat kept shut up cuz it had a book planned but got run over by a pump truck.
I 'member that now, watched the show because Hoyt was gonna be on it.
My fav by him is his version of "Snowblind Friiend" wasn't as hit for him but the guys who made it a hit paind royalties, like a lot of songs he wrote. Love Hoyt's version of Panch and Lefty, one he didn't write but covered real good.
"Work your fingers to the bone. what doyou get, boney fingers."
Hoyt like many of the good ones left us way to soon. :'(
Hoyt doin songs on TV. Heres one I remember but if I'm wrong feel free ta chuck eggs an tamaters (Leo doesn't Google).
When Flo left Mel's Diner ta open Flo's Yellow Rose wasn't it Hoyt that sang the song originally. He was sittin on a counter stool with his guitar and sung the song fer Flo. I'd go ask Alice but that's goin in a whole nother direction.
Leo
Leo, thinkin' ya like ta watch the tube no matter what's on. I'm 20 years older'n you 'n ain't never heard of Flo's Yellow Rose.
Watch soap operas, do ya?
I have been a fan of Hoyt's since about 1961. Saw him in a club with only 4 other people in the house. Still heck of a show.
Snowblind Friend was a personal and painful song. A friend was in accident in Mexico and badly hurt, wife came to Hoyt asking for help and he was too loaded to do anything, next day when the fog cleared the friend had died.
Also the scene in "Star is Born" with Kristofferson riding the bike into the recording studio, that was taken from Hoyts life.
Honeysuckle Rose was the name of Hoyt's tour bus (long before Willie used the name) and Hoyt bought the bus from Commander Cody (and also stole their bass player Bruce Barlow.) Hoyt had a big old rockin chair bolted in the place of the front seat, and would often sit there. It was a cool old bus. Me and my ex wife were going to go see him after a concert (the place didn't have a back stage) and we were walkin up to the bus and the bouncer was gonna stop us, but Hoyt grabbed my ex and hugged her, and he was about twice the size of the bouncer, so he just backed off..
one of my favorite songs was "I dream of Highways" (especially as sung by Susan St James and Peter Fonda in Outlaw Blues ) find that movie, and harder still find the sound track. It took me 15 years to get another copy after my ex grabbed it in a divorce.
Hoyt was THE MAN
curley
One thing straight, K. I got a wiered memory fer all things 20th century. Don't wanna keep it all in there, but there it stays.
When Flo left Alice (and Vera and Mel) she got her own show whereins she opened her own truckstop. This was about the same time As Sheriff Lobo (from BJ and the Bear--told ya I'm a freak). I'll swear ta ya that Hoyt Axton was the first ta sing the song "Flo's Yellow Rose". The show its self may have just been called "Flo". But the diner was the Yellow Rose.
No Googlin, I remember this stuff. Or I just fell out of the tree house an bumped ma head an invented my own little world.
Leo
Naw Leo, yer not rememberin wrong, The series "Flo" din't last very long after the premier an yer right about Hoyt singin tha song, That was how Flo figgered out what ta name her new place. Funny how some wierd stuff stays in yer brain but Ya can't remember what Ya had fer lunch yestidday ;D ;D
Weird or wired work? Don't understand 'wiered', don't speak Kalifornian. Sorry.
Sheriff Lobo? BJ 'n the bear? Reckon I wasted a lot of time not lookin' at real entertainment while readin' books.
Nows ya just out ta pick on me ;D I readed lots a buks too.
Thanks Maj fer vindicatin me. Knew I weren't completely over the rainbow yet.
Fer lunch yesterday I had...ah dang.
Whut ya like best? Jeopardy er Wheel of Fortune? Got thit sexy girl on the wheel thing.
I've always like Jeopardy myownself
Give me 26 girls in Deal or No Deal....Number 4 has my heart forEVER...Little redheaded Irish girl.. Loved it when they the "spring break" still have that one on the DVR
curley
Girls ta look at are a dime a dozen.
Seein' a bald headed guy with chin whiskers portrayed as a wise man when he used to pull a latex glove over his head 'n blow it up with his nose 'til it flew off then ask 'What?' is a bit more stupid than I can take.
Al Franken used to be funny too. Now he's a socialist runnin' for the US Senate.
Al Franken was never funny.
Hoyt was one hell of a songwriter. It's shame I don't where Al is runnun' for the senate. It would give me a chance to vote against him.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 14, 2008, 03:54:40 AM
Hoyt was one hell of a songwriter. It's shame I don't where Al is runnun' for the senate. It would give me a chance to vote against him.
Isn't T-Bone Burnett runnin' down Texas way?...Or was it Kinky Friedman?
Hoyt's last few years were spent in a Wheel chair. This didn't stop him he still got out did a bunch of charity stuff and was a good member of the community. Even with a few posession charges. He didn't git out driving under the influence or starting fights or shootin' folks. His neighbors in Western Montana adored him.
Kinky ran for Governor of Texas in 2006.
We had the cable shut off about a year ago, myself I haven't missed it much.
I try to keep up with the news headlines on the computer.
Google News. Look for stuff out of the UK. They ain't as politically correct as sources here.
UK courts showed Owlgore's film as a fraud. Ours didn't. Their news outlets reported it. Ours didn't.
Mebbe the Brits were the only ones able ta stay awake through it.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 14, 2008, 06:52:42 PM
Mebbe the Brits were the only ones able ta stay awake through it.
That's cause their used to watchin' the BBC shows. ;D
British comedy is a little different from ours.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 14, 2008, 07:44:42 PM
British comedy is a little different from ours.
The comedy I like, the other shows, naw.
There's a penguin on the Telly :o :o
Monty Python did some good 'uns. Benny Hill I could do with out.
There was a bit I believe was Python that had ta do with an English talk show about cigarettes. I'm bein real careful here, but someone out there is bound ta know what I'm talkin about. I about die laughin everytime I hear it.
I'm proud of em fer lookin inta Tipper's husband. Aint suprised we didn't.
Leo, What goes around, comes around.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 13, 2008, 06:27:13 AM
Lee Hazlewood was a better songwriter than he was a singer.
I haven't heard everything of his, but I thought he sounded good.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 14, 2008, 02:43:14 AM
Al Franken was never funny.
I disagree. I don't care what a person's politics are. Funny is funny.
He just never made me laugh, even when he had that partner. Acourse he was surrounded by lots of other talent at the time so mebbe I just din't pay him much attention.
If Franken gets elected,he will be in good company, a liberal and full of BS.
All politicians are full of BS and other kinds of S as well.
Politicans are always telling people what they want to hear just to get their vote.
Another great one ;D
I married a woman who talks like Jerry Reed
God just didn't bless her with the vocal chords she needs
She looks like Cindy Crawford, but that ain't the way she sounds
When we make love, I keep hearin' "East Bound And Down"
I work sixty hours a week, and I bring home my check
She says, "Son you're gonna have to take me out
and put some groceries down my neck"
So I took her to a fancy restaraunt - she looked down her nose and said
"Why didn't we stop at a choke and puke, for some grilled cheese sandwiches"
I married a woman who talks like Jerry Reed
Oughta be on the cover of Playboy,'cause that body's garaunteed
She talks just like that guitar man, that crawled out of the swamp
That Lousiana law gonna save you, when I knock ya in the head with a stump
Shethinks my name is Amos, when she ain't callin' me son
"Amos, son, I'm under stress. Let's go somewhere that's fun"
So I flew her to Europe and spent ten-thousand bucks
She said, "I'd have had more fun thumbin' a ride on a overloaded poultry truck"
I married a woman who talks like 'you know who'
Got a brand new pair of earplugs, stuck in with Elmer's glue
Bought all the lamps that K-Mart had, 'cause there's one thing I don't need
Is to be in the dark with a woman who sounds just like Jerry Reed
It's hard to be romantic, when she whispers in my ear
"You got a long way to go, and a short time to get here"
She talks like that trucker, whether I like it or not
"We're loaded up and truckin', and when you're hot - you hot"
Every Man's nightmare.
That calls for this....
A few minutes before the church services started, the congregation was sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church.
Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.
Soon the church was empty except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God's ultimate enemy was in his presence.
So Satan walked up to the man and said, 'Do you know who I am?'
The man replied, 'Yep, sure do.'
'Aren't you afraid of me?' Satan asked.
'Nope, sure ain't.' said the man.
'Don't you realize I can kill you with one word?' asked Satan.
'Don't doubt it for a minute,' returned the old man, in an even tone.
'Did you know that I can cause you profound, horrifying AGONY for all eternity?', persisted Satan.
'Yep,' was the calm reply.
'And you are still not afraid?' asked Satan.
'Nope,' said the old man.
More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, 'Why aren't you afraid of me?'
The man calmly replied, 'Been married to your sister for 48 years.'
SA LOOT !
;D ;D ;D
If she really looks like Cindy Crawford, so what if she talks like Jerry Reed.
Tex, it jus aint worth it Man. They's the worst kind.
Tensleep, ya just made me spray spit all over this confuzer screen. Paper towels please.
Leo
;D ;D ;D
Ya gotta admire that man's GRIT!
Here's something for you Frank Sinatra fans http://www.animatronics.org/strangers/strangers.htm
Leave it to Howard Sterns to come up with that one....now to wipe up the coffee. ;D
Howard aint allowd in Texas no more.
That was great Tex, the guy really sounded like Frank
I;m glad my sick sense of humor is somewhat appreciated.
Oh, I think we'd get along just fine ;D
Here, have a chilli dawg.
Could ya make that 2! , with lotsa chili, red onions, and extra sharp cheddar cheese.
I'll give ya good tune instead.
This is the full version with neat pictures ta go with it. There is another one on there much shorter but ya get ta see Buddy beat the hell outta them drums an Benny wailin on the liquerice stick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPMotEYk2-I
That was an eye opener this early in the morning.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 23, 2008, 01:24:02 AM
I'll give ya good tune instead.
This is the full version with neat pictures ta go with it. There is another one on there much shorter but ya get ta see Buddy beat the hell outta them drums an Benny wailin on the liquerice stick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPMotEYk2-I
In Racine WI they had a post prom for high school graduation, The three public high schools in town had a prom on each school site, then , around midnight, everyone went to City Hall, that had a large ballroom size area, for what was called Post Prom. This went until the sun came up. Buddy Rich and his band were the performers at our post prom (1969). Could not believe how fast he could beat those drums!!
Sing, Sing, Sing!
Damn....
Wonder what's up with this. Music is more than a l'il similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA&feature=related
Quote from: Arcey on August 23, 2008, 12:30:32 PM
Damn....
Wonder what's up with this. Music is more than a l'il similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA&feature=related
One of the posters on Kid's says Sweet Home Alabama...but I'd have to agree with Werwolves
Ain't that the truth.
I need a couple of Bud Lights to cool me down after watchin' all those HOT WOMEN!
I guess Kid Rock has penty of lawyers guns 'n munny ta pull somethin like that ;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 23, 2008, 01:24:12 PM
I need a couple of Bud Lights to cool me down after watchin' all those HOT WOMEN!
This one always caused me to chew the wall paper off the dinin' room........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA
Quote from: Arcey on August 23, 2008, 12:30:32 PM
Damn....
Wonder what's up with this. Music is more than a l'il similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA&feature=related
The "Kid" rips of Warrren Zevon.
Lawsuit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5puAN1PGQw
Arcey, You gotta love those BABY DOLLS!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 23, 2008, 05:44:15 PM
Arcey, You gotta love those BABY DOLLS!
this one did it for me ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbhfI8f_Ek
No fair Roo, ya dang near made feel guilty fer watchin that.
Jist cas yer on a diet don't mean ya cain't look at the menu
Them Kalifornia things are outtah my pay grade.
Quote from: Arcey on August 23, 2008, 07:23:35 PM
Them Kalifornia things are outtah my pay grade.
there's a few of them in dc and virginny that way too
LR, I tell my wife that, but she doesn't think that it's funny. She doen't care for this one either, "If you not with the one you love, love the one you're with".
Quote from: litl rooster on August 23, 2008, 07:30:52 PM
there's a few of them in dc and virginny that way too
My lunch time walks downtown were't totally for my health......
Remember that song, "Music to watch Girls go By"?
Dang ya all are makin me jealous. I can't look at anyof this until I get home. Work computer blocks it.
I waz lookin at a site talkin about the old Golden Bear (a club at Huntington Beach CA) little hole in the wall that all the greats played at. I even still have a ticket from a concert with Ian and Sylvia. and I sat right at her feet at the stage, and I fell in love that nite. I still remember the little black dress she wore...yup. and the song: "These friends of mine", still knocks me out.
anyways, I will go home in a couple of hours and see what the fuss was..
curley
What ever happened to Sylvia?
Here she is :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXw9PJ9ww4
Good one Leo, I was 10 years old back then.
Werewolves of London is one of my favorites and Centerfold ranks high on my list. Great songs.
Kidd Rock is something else. Think what you will, but very few people have succeeded in what he has. Heavy Metal/Rap/Country/Rock... I'm waiting for him to try his hand at Opera. ;D
The David Lee Roth video really got me worked up in the sixth grade. Whew!!!
Trinity, Let's no get too HOT and BOTHERED!
Always loved the guitar in that song. Somethin differnt about those licks that catches my attention everytime I hear it.
Leo
Always have liked guitars ever since I heard the VENTURES for the first time!
I love the sound of surf guitar! Great stuff.
Listenin' to JR Brown doin' his "Surf Medley" brought back all those memories of the surf music in the early 60's .
Jimi Hendrix 'n Eric Clapton..
As long as we're talkin' premium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFMD6ybP2E&feature=related
Good'un Arcey.
Surf guitar got only one name--Dick Dale. Love the stuff an always will.
Leo
all them surf songs brings back a lot good memories, went to Florida when I was around 30, with the wife and son, went out to the beach and rented me one of surf boards and gave it a try, wasn't gonna let it pass with at least trying, the board had one of them rubbery straps to hook to your ankle, man when ya fall off, if it's a pretty good wave, that board kinda launches back at ya. :o :o
but I had a good time singing all them old tunes and playing with that surf board. ;D
DIck Dale was proclaimed as "The King of Surf Guitar", along with his combo, The Daletones.
Quote from: Arcey on August 24, 2008, 03:40:54 PM
Jimi Hendrix 'n Eric Clapton..
As long as we're talkin' premium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFMD6ybP2E&feature=related
;D ;D ;D
I didn't hear no music but see a good lookin' woman with some clothing issues.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 24, 2008, 05:21:30 PM
DIck Dale was proclaimed as "The King of Surf Guitar", along with his combo, The Daletones.
Sa far as I know there are only two Dick Dale songs with words in em. One of them is "King of the Surf Guitar" sung by a bunch a wimmin an the other one is the only song I know of Dick singing himself. Him and his Deltones were the best,
Leo
http://www.quartette.com/sylvia.htm
Here is Sylvia today..
cc
Thanks for the update, Curley.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 24, 2008, 07:10:07 PM
I didn't hear no music but see a good lookin' woman with some clothing issues.
Now yanno that's kindah funny.. Ain't never noticed there weren't no music to it..
I think she was a pole dancer in another life.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 25, 2008, 08:24:21 AM
I think she was a pole dancer in another life.
no she was in entertainment... ;D
LR, I thought that pole dancin' was entertainment.
She's a professional rassler. Also been a Playmate of the Month in Playboy.
She puts the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR in Rasslin'.
I think I mentioned this before, But I used to go down to Solana Beach and listen to Dick Dale and the Deltones every time they played at the Belly Up!
Now it's the Comstock Cowboys in Virginia City I go to see. Took the MIL up yesterday , and got her to have her picture taken with David (The Leader of the band) taken. Still get to dress up and carry even though we're half way between shoots.
I never heard of the Comstock Cowboys until you mentioned them. I don't get out to Virginia City, just Vegas and Reno/Tahoe.
Girl you taught me how to hurt real bad and cry myself to sleep
You showed me how this town can shatter dreams
Another lesson bout a naive fool that came to Babylon
And found out that the pie don't taste so sweet
Now it's guitars Cadillacs hillbilly music
And lonely lonely streets I call home
Yeah my guitars Cadillacs hillbilly music
It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on
There ain't no glamour in this tinseled land of lost and wasted last
And painful scars are all that's left of me
Oh but thank you girl for teaching me brand new ways to be cruel
And if I can find my mind now I guess I'll just leave
Now it's guitars Cadillacs hillbilly music...
Oh it's guitars Cadillacs hillbilly music...
It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on
It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on
And now some Brenn Hill:
Talk about the weather
And the prices of cattle
Your wife's worthless brother
And his brand new saddle
Talk about women
The heart-breakin' kind
And lay it all on the table
Get it off your mind
Down at the Pickup Truck Cafe
We drink coffee here every day
We sit and talk the morning away
Down at the Pickup Truck Cafe
'Cross the county line
And out on the very edge of town
You'll never see the sign
Facin' down on the ground
The world's movin' on
The mornin' radio
Twenty years long gone
Nobody knows where they go
Down at the Pickup Truck Cafe
We drink coffee here every day
We sit and talk the morning away
Down at the Pickup Truck Cafe
It don't matter what you wear
It don't matter who you are
Cuz most things they don't care
But don't you dare drive a car
Down to the Pickup Truck Cafe
We drink coffee here every day
We sit and watch the time just fade away
Down at the Pickup Truck Cafe
And some Ed Bruce"
This is the last cowboy song the end of a hundred year waltz
Voices sound sad as they're singing along another piece of America's lost
He rides a feed lot and clerks in a market on weekends selling tobacco and beer
His dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here
He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And eyeball to eyeball Ol' Wyatt backed down
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down
This is the last cowboy song...
Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
And Louie L'Amore has told us his tale
And Willie and Waylon and me sing about him
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail
The Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete now
And they truck 'em to market in fifty foot rigs
They blow by his market never slowing to reason
Like living and dying was all he did
This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song...
This one is a favorite of all time:
[Nelson:]
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride.
With sword and pistol by my side.
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade.
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five.
But I am still alive.
[Kristofferson:]
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide.
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico.
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow.
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed.
But I am living still.
[Cash:]
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide.
Where steel and water did collide.
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado.
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound.
But I am still around.
I'll always be around, and around, and around, and around, and around.
[Jennings:]
I fly a starship across the Universe divide.
And when I reach the other side,
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can.
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again.
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain.
But I will remain.
And I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
Didja know they all recorded that song in differnt cities an then it was all just mixed tagether. Would have loved ta see em all puttin it tagether in one place.
I miss Johnny, he was the king of cool. Everytime Lil hears "I Walk the Line" she looks at me an smiles, an I swear there's a little tear in her eye. Mine too.
Leo
I keep my pants up with a piece of twine, because you're mine, please pull the twine.
The ole boy Del listens ta late it nights been runnin' a lot of Cash for bumper music. He'll let almost the whole song play out. Cuts down on the minutes he has ta be talkin' o'er the length of the talk show.
Likes 'Some Velvet Mornin''. I hear it start I pick up the remote 'n shut it off for a couple minutes. Don't see how anyone sober can claim they actually like that.
Quote from: Arcey on August 24, 2008, 03:40:54 PM
Jimi Hendrix 'n Eric Clapton..
As long as we're talkin' premium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFMD6ybP2E&feature=related
;D ;D ;D ;D
Here's one fer all them workin overtime on home repairs. Aint the 'riginal but at least the composer is part of th group. Just downsized I guess ya could say...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE
Leo
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 25, 2008, 03:15:09 PM
I never heard of the Comstock Cowboys until you mentioned them. I don't get out to Virginia City, just Vegas and Reno/Tahoe.
If you get to Reno/Tahoe then VC tain't that far. The Cowboys play at the Bucket of Blood Saloon most weekends. If you're ever going to be in the area, send me a PM and I'll let you know if they are playing!
The Bucket of Blood sounds like my kind of place. where a man could get a shot of red eye and enjoy the show.
I'll save the one I was going to post, but Del reminded me of one i always like to hear
I came here in looking for somethin'
I couldn't find anywhere else
Well, I don't want to be nobosy,
Just want a chance to be myself.
I've done a thousand miles of thumbin',
Yes, I've worn blisters on my heels
Trying to find me something better
On the streets of Bakersfield.
Chorus:
You don't know me but you don't like me,
You say you care less how I feel
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?
--- Instrumental ---
Spent some time in San Francisco,
Spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell,
I took fifteen dollars from that man.
I left him my watch and my old house keys,
I don't like folks thinking that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as he was sleeping,
And I headed out for Bakersfield.
Chorus:
You don't know me but you don't like me,
You say you care less how I feel
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield...
Buck and Dwight The Bakersfield Connection.
Lil loves Virginia City. We gotta Bucket of Blood bumper sticker around here somewhere.
Leo
If I ever get to Virginia City, The Bucket of Blood will be first on my list of places to visit. I heard that the Bonanza set isn't open anymore. That was going to be Number 2 on my list.
Been closed a few years now. :'(
Well, I guess that means that I''ll get to spend more time at the Bucket Of Blood.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 26, 2008, 01:20:58 AM
Buck and Dwight The Bakersfield Connection.
Almost posted that one too. ;D
OK, OK. Since we're on a Bakersfield kick... (thanks for makin' me listen to it again. I have always loved it)
I was the youngest boy in a family of four
We lived in Oklahoma the wind whistled thru our door
We scratched out a living in the dirt and the clay
I never will forget it until my dying days
The dust storms they came at us the sky turned cold and black
We packed up our belongings and never looked back
We rode out west towards the sun just a heartbeat away
I never will forget it Until my dying days
We were Bakersfield Bound and the California dream
Down the road lay the promised lands our fields would all turn green
We were Bakersfield bound like so many gone before
Just to cross our River Jordan and reach the other shore
When we first laid eyes on The San Joaquin was like a friend we always knew
The gates swing open so far & wide even God could drive through
We worked the crops from dawn to dust shared along the way
I never will forget it until my dying days
We were Bakersfield Bound and the California dream
Down the road lay the promised lands our fields had all turned green
We were Bakersfield bound like so many gone before
Just to cross our River Jordan and reach the other shore
Crossed our River Jordan to reach the other shore
I have walked the streets of Bakersfield. It sorta reminds me of Texas or Oklahoma.
I've always wanted to visit Bakersfield. I understand some good music can be heard there.
Ok, the song I was originally going to post.
Man you better let go
You can't hold on to
What belongs to me
And don't belong to you
I caught you looking
With your roving eye
So Mister you don't have to act
So surprised
If it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
I grew up lonesome
On the open range
And that cold North wind
Can make a man feel strange
My John B. Stetson
Was my only friend
And we've stuck together
Through many a woman
So if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
My mama told me
Son to be polite
Take your hat off
When you walk inside
But the winds of change
They fill the air
And you can't set your hat down
Just anywhere
So if you plead not guilty
I'll be the judge
We don't need no jury
To decide because
I wear a seven
And you're out of order
'Cause I can tell from here
You're a seven and a quarter
But if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
If it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
No it never complains
And it never cries
And it looks so good
And it fits just right
But if it's her you want
I don't care about that
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
You can have my girl
But don't touch my hat
Buck Owens owned a big CW club out there called the Crystal Palace, where him and Dwight played at alot.
I was thinking more on the lines of Lyle Lovett
And his Large Band. Lyle is another Texas sanger.
Bakersfield always reminds me of this story that Merle told on one of his albums and the song
Bakersfield
An oil town that really had it's boon during the heart of the depression
And Bakersfield also destined to become somewhat of a center for country music
And even as back as the early 50's it began to gain national recognition
For the popularity of songs like Dear John Letter Ferlin Husky's Gone
And a string novelity hits from Leonard Sipes or better known as Tommy Collins
Country music is a profession in Bakersfield
And like all other professions whether it be that of a Doctor
Or a Scientist or a steady ditch digger
Everyone seems to have a particular someone who offered that helping hand
At the right time
And country music is no exception
But in Bakersfield that same helping hand kept reachin' out time after time
To different people such as Jeanne Sheppard Ferlin Husky Tommy Collins
Buck Owens Billy Mize Herb Henson Merle Haggard and also Red Simpson
Who saw reason to compose this song called Bill Woods From Bakersfield
Bill here's to you
Let me tell you all a story bout a guitar pickin' man
To me he is the greatest picker in the land
He's taught me how to play in G and he taught me how to sing in key
Bill Woods from Bakersfield the Bakersfield guitar man
Well Bill gave old Buck the first job he ever had
Bill must've been a good teacher cause old Buck didn't do too bad
He sets up there chewin' his ole cigar playin' Wildwood Flower on his guitar
Bill Woods from Bakersfield the Bakersfield guitar man
Well Bill never hit it big but he didn't miss it far
And in my book he'll always be considered a star
I followed him and he taught me guitar pickin' and harmony
Bill Woods from Bakersfield the Bakersfield guitar man
When the roll is called up yonder and we've all met our quest
I bet he'll be chosen to pick there with the best
Up there with his gold guitar well things're right Bill will be a star
Bill Woods from Bakersfield the Bakersfield guitar man
Well everybody loves old Bill cause he's quite a man
And if anybody should need some help well he'll sure lend you a hand
There's one more thing I'd like to say before my story's through
Bill Woods from Bakersfield we're all proud of you
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 26, 2008, 07:23:11 PM
And his Large Band. Lyle is another Texas sanger.
Mmm hmm... and a good one too. This one wasn't made with his large band, though. I've got that one floating around here somewhere. I need to search it out.
OT, which Merle was that?
it was on one of Merle Haggard's albums.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on August 26, 2008, 08:00:43 PM
it was on one of Merle Haggard's albums.
I like his music, but don't have that many of his albums. I wasn't sure if you were talking about him, Travis or Watson. ;D
I used to have a lot of Merle Haggard, lost most of them in a divorce years back. :o >:(
Dernit. I think I've got one or two greatest hit, but no real album. I've often wondered how an artist can have two greatest hits albums. If they call it "Vol. I" and "Vol. II" then that's understood, but many of them have five songs that are the same, but then a few different songs. That just leaves me asking... which are really the "greatest" hits? ;D
Which e'er ones yer standin' it the check-out with...
saw a blurb on the news the other day, said vinyl records were makeing a small comeback, said the production had doubled since 2005 and would double again this year.
Most folks don't have record players anymore.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 27, 2008, 05:07:36 AM
Most folks don't have record players anymore.
I think the turntables will cost you more than a CD player these days, but I know my younger brother still has a couple and still buys LP's along with CD's.
They were saying that some of the singers would like to go back to records and not use CD's at all, they say they lose a lot of money on CD's, too easy to reproduce, they think they're not as likely to reproduce a record.
They got too many them music pirates other copyin' their music.
The 'arteets' ain't gettin' nowhere with that. When a kid can download a single for ninety nine cents, drag 'n drop it to their iPods then let their friends copy it, the groove yard is in the grave yard.
They are looking for a different demographic...Old Hippies like us ::)
now back to the love songs
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's a-made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Around the town I use a rattlesnake whip, take it easy baby don't you give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
I've got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I'm just twenty-two and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Now Arlene took a-me by my hand, she said "Lonesome George you don't understand,
who do you love?"
The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway a house wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should've heard what I'd seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Yeah, I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine, just twenty-two baby I don't mind dying
Snake skin shoes baby put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me child, tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Thergood?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 27, 2008, 09:16:16 AM
Thergood?
and many others....But I like the way ole George streches them strings
I wonder how much smokin' and drinkin' he did to get his voice to sound that way?
Bo Diddley did that one first, but Thourgood made it famous. I still like Bo's version best.
All George ever wanted ta do was be a minor league pitcher. Playing guitar and singing was just a goof fer him and it made him a very rich man.
Leo
BO and his Guitar were definitely BAD TO THE BONE!
Target has a really cool deal for a turntable. They are the old tyme Crosley...You can get one for a C-note that is turntable and a cd player. for about 299.00 you can get a turntable and a cd recorder, and it is a good un. Comes with a remote, and you just push a button and it inserts the track breaks, so when you finish your cd...it has all the tracks on it. Much easier that recording thru the computer like I used to do.
Also, I checked my Hoyt Axton stuff and I don't have that album..dang it.
And Bakersfield, I grew up 63 miles north of Bakersfield. We used to see the old Cousin Herb show, with The Collins Kids, Billy Mize and a bunch of others. Cousin Herb would go out and advertise cars, and smack the car on the hood, and I swear a couple of them the bumpers almost fell off. That sure was a different time and place.
curley
Always enjoyed goin' out to Bakersfield on extraditions. I've all around up there Visalia, Fresno all up and down 99 and I 5.
You don't wanna be in Bakersfield taday, it's about a million an two in the shade down there. We's havin a heat wave.
Leo
Yeah 'n NASCAR in its infinite wisdom schedules a race in Fontana. Paramedics treated, reportedly, a thousand fans there last year for heat related illnesses. The racin' stinks on that track 'n the crews 'n drivers are miserable in that heat.
NASCAR, bring the Labor Day race back to South Carolina where it belongs.
AH! Darlington,SC, "The Lady In Black"! No place else to be on Labor Day.
Each night I leave the bar room when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closing time
But tonight your memory found me much too sober
Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind
Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down
I've always had a bottle I could turn to
And lately I've been turnin' every day
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And I'm hurtin' in old familiar ways
Tonight the bottle let me down
and let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down
another drinking song....Tex probably knows this one and his brother
Now when I was young my
momma read me nursery rhymes beside my bed
though they sounded mighty fine they made no sense to me
now that i am all grown up it seems my nights have changed such
so i went out and made me up a nursery rhyme for me
Chorus
It goes barlight bar bright
first bar that i see tonight
wish i may wish i might
find someone to hold me tight
hey diddle diddle a man with a fiddle and the
girls sings along with the tune
just a one more dance til you turn off the lights and
you can shut down this saloon
Well I never understood
how a big ole gal could raise no kids in a shoe
and any old jack that goes jumping a candle
needs to find something better to do
rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub sure sounds kinda funny to me
so I made up a honky tonk nursery rhyme
and it's the only one I'll sing
Repeat Chorus
Well i never understood
how a big ole gal could raise no kids in a shoe
and any old jack that goes jumping a
candle needs to find something better to do
rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub sure sounds kinda funny to me
so I made up a honky tonk nursery rhyme
and it's the only one I'll sing
LR, That's classic Merle! Ised have that one on 8-track. Bar Light, Bar Bright, I don't remember where I've been tonight!
I wuz sobbin' uncontrollably. But the race started 'n I had ta quit............
Arcey, I got me a drinkin' THING!
Then you might be going to the Honky Tonk Heaven ;D
The Lord loves the drinkin' man
Sends honkey tonk angels to the promise land
I hear that he can turn water to wine
Any man that can do that is a good friend of mine
I've been baptized in beer, I'm here to testify
I was speaking in tongues when I came home last night
Some folks say I'm livin' in sin, but I know
(chorus)
The Lord loves the drinkin' man
The Preacher man he told me boy you ain't no good
The devils gonna getcha, better start actin' like you
should
All the cold beers and bright lights, stayin' out all
nightThe good book it tells me boy your soul's gonna burn
My mamma said son you're headin' down the wrong road
They don't let honkey tonkers up in heaven I've been
told Don't you worry mamma I'll see you up in heaven
I've been thinking 'bout it and I've come to this
conclusion now,
(chorus)
My daddy says son you're living your life all wrong
Lighting's gonna strike you down before too long
That man upstairs he don't like what you do
When you reach those pearly gates you ain't getting
through
Well I've been thinkin', I've got a brand new plan
I'm gonna start a little church down at the Stumble
Inn
Yea that's right I'm gonna start my own religion
We'll be drinkin' and dancin' at the church of Hank
Williams yea,
(repeat chorus)
Oh, yea I know
The Lord loves, I hope he does, the Lord loves the
drinkin' man
"RED Necks, White Socks, and Budweiser Beer!
One more drinkin song
It's my favorite
Wanna tell you a story,
About the house-man blues
I come home one Friday,
Had to tell the landlady I'd-a lost my job
She said that don't confront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent,
And out the door I went
So I goes to the landlady,
I said, "You let me slide?"
I'll have the rent for you in a month.
Next I don't know
So said let me slide it on you know people,
I notice when I come home in the evening
She ain't got nothing nice to say to me,
But for five year she was so nice
Loh' she was lovy-dovy,
I come home one particular evening
The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?",
I said, "No, can't find no job"
Therefore I ain't got no money to pay the rent
She said "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"
Said "I seen you today you was standin' on a corner,
Leaning up against a post"
I said "But I'm tired, I've been walkin' all day"
She said "That don't confront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday"
Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent,
And out the door I went
So I go down the streets,
Down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man I'm outdoors you know,
Can I stay with you maybe a couple days?"
He said "Let me go and ask my wife"
He come out of the house,
I could see it in his face
I know that was no
He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, you know"
I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"
So I go back home
I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
She said "Yeah?" I said "Oh yeah"
And then she was so nice,
Loh' she was lovy-dovy
So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go,
I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-howlin' about the front rent, she'll be lucky to get any back rent,
She ain't gonna get none of it
So I stop in the local bar you know people,
I go to the bar, I ring my coat, I call the bartender
Said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
So what you want?
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when,
I've been drinking bourbon, whiskey, scotch and gin
Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose,
Need me a triple shot of that juice
Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
But I'm sitting now at the bar,
I'm getting drunk, I'm feelin' mellow
I'm drinkin' bourbon, I'm drinkin' scotch, I'm drinkin' beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
I said "Look man, come down here"
So what you want?
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No I ain't seen my baby since the night before last,
Gotta get a drink man I'm gonna get gassed
Gonna get high man I ain't had enough,
Need me a triple shot of that stuff
Gonna get drunk won't you listen right here,
I want one bourbon, one shot and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Now by this time I'm plenty high,
You know when your mouth a-getting dry you're plenty high
Looked down the bar I say to my bartender
I said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
So what you want this time?
I said "Look man, a-what time is it?"
He said "The clock on the wall say three o'clock
Last call for alcohol, so what you need?"
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No I ain't seen my baby since a nigh' and a week,
Gotta get drunk man till I can't even speak
Gonna get high man listen to me,
One drink ain't enough Jack you better make it three
I wanna get drunk I'm gonna make it real clear,
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Please Mr. Bartenderm dontca be so slow, I got time for one more round and a six-pack to go. I dun spent my whole pay check just honky tonkin' round. Ta morrow mornins' Monday and I'm goona be feelin' low. Pleaze Mr. Bartender I need a six-pack to go.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 02, 2008, 07:05:01 AM
Please Mr. Bartenderm dontca be so slow, I got time for one more round and a six-pack to go. I dun spent my whole pay check just honky tonkin' round. Ta morrow mornins' Monday and I'm goona be feelin' low. Pleaze Mr. Bartender I need a six-pack to go.
I was still drink'n pretty heavy when I moved to montana years back, started hanging out in one of the 2 bars. At closing time the Barkeeper would give you a plastic to go cup and point to the door. In both bars :o Needless too say Open container wasn't high on the list
LR, I've had a few of them to-go cups when I lived in Oklahoma.
Ahhhh man. Jerry Reed has moved on. Brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of folks. Thankee, Jerry.
Ole boy, keep 'er 'tween the ditches. Shiney side up 'n the dirty side down. Upbound.
Godspeed, Jerry. Godspeed.
Ole Jerry was an entertainer, always have enjoyed a good Jerry Reed tune.
I think 'bout e'ery one here can appreciate his classic "She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft".
Leo
I like Amos Moses and When you're Hot You're Hot.
There ain't no doubt, he was ah good 'un....
Eastbound and down, Loaded up and Truckin, We gonna do what say can't be done. Keep Travelin' East cousin Jerry. Texas Lawdog J R Reed.
He and CW McCall were two of a kind. Both of em made folks laugh but used real music ta do it. Been through a few situations where I was gonna get PO'd and one of their songs would come ta mind an make me chuckle.
Leo
I always hoped that Jerry and I were distant cousins, seein' as how we got the same last name. Any of you guys in Virginia got kin folks with the last name of King or Jarrett?
Another of the good old ones gone. Loved it when he ran over the bikes in SATB.
No comment.
Weren't much of a truck driver. Huh, Leo?
Tell ya what, gotta give respect where it's due. I was on 2 wheels headed up ta Canada and got caught in a downpour for two days through Oregon and Washington. Used a truck as a shield for miles and miles. Got off the bike at a truck stop and a great guy bought me a cup of coffee. Asked him why, and he said, "I just watched you follow me in that $%&* fer 60 miles. Thought ya could use it".
I still wish him well ta this day and always will ;)
Leo
Heck of a guitar picker...... Hope Trinity is at home when he hears this, Reed was one of his favorites
That Swingin' LiL Guitat Man! I always liked FRED in the movies.
We have lost that Bandit Jerry Reed at age 71! :'( :'(
Jerry died in a hospice of complications from lung cancer and enfazema.
I also found that Paul Newman has lung cancer and is not expected to live much longer.
Don't know how much more of this kinda news I can take.
Paul? Lil is going to lose it.
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed,
Nothin' seems to fit
Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'
So, I just did me some talkin' to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he got things done,
Sleepin' on the job
Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'
But there's one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long 'til happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Cryin's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothin's worryin' me
(trumpet solo)
It won't be long 'til happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Cryin's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothin's worryin' me
They talk about Newman on the open wheel board. Sayin' he's stayin' home until he passes on. Only seein' family 'n close friends.
Back in 1984, they had a sports car race over in Dallas. They laid out a race course around the Texas State Fair grounds. Paul and Scott Sharp's dad(Bob) raced 300Z Datsun coupe #33. I got tickets and pit paces for the race for my self and the Moose. I didn't tell her that Paul would be driving. She is a big Newman fan. We were walking through the pits and saw this guy giving an interview to a local newswoman. Moose says, That guy looks like Paul Newman. I said Honey, that is Paul Newman. He finishes the interview and gets on a minibike to ride to the stating line. He almost runs her down as he is leaving, wearing those mirrored sunglasses. He is grining and she is tryin' to get a picture of him. She can't get the lens cover off in time and doesn't get the shot. She has nevered forgotten that day. The day Paul Newman almost ran her down on this minibike.
I think I saw a movie he was in.
There was a picture of him and his dear wife in Life Magazine. It was black and white and just a shot of them cooking tagether in the kitchen. I always wanted ta find it again and get a copy ta frame and put in my kitchen fer Lil. No luck so far.
Leo
It's on the third page of a Google search. It wouldn't let me copy the full size image.
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:VoXn4lAIgyxjQM:http://bp0.blogger.com/_Cr3eftbZPZk)
He ran some laps in a Prototype At the 24 Hours Of Daytona in 2005. Paul was about 78 at the time. He sold his GT1 Corvette a while back but he took it out for one last time.
Thanks Arcey.
I think they did a whole series of shots cause one of em looks like they're dancin in that same kitchen. I saw it in a book called The Best of Life that my Gramma had. Would stare at the pages of that book for hours everytime we went ta visit. I've found other similar books since but not the same one. It was the best history lesson I could ever have had.
Leo
Life brought the World to your doorstep.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 03, 2008, 03:12:02 PM
Thanks Arcey.
I think they did a whole series of shots cause one of em looks like they're dancin in that same kitchen. I saw it in a book called The Best of Life that my Gramma had. Would stare at the pages of that book for hours everytime we went ta visit. I've found other similar books since but not the same one. It was the best history lesson I could ever have had.
Leo
Leo
Not musch detail, but might this be the book? If'n you remeber the author!
http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Best-of-Life_W0QQprZ804472QQtgZdetails
RT, I clicked on "other editions" and there is one from 1973 with a dust jacket. Good odds that's the one. I think I'll gamble my $1.99 and find out. :D
Thanks fer the link!
Leo
Sounds like a bargain. Even if it's not the right one, you can bet that there will be some great pictures in there.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 02, 2008, 08:17:37 PM
No comment.
Now Leo, if they'd a not been mean to Ol' Jerry he'd a never done it. ;D
My friend the now retired Sherriff of Keith County (Ogalla) was sherriff for a long time, stories I've heard about him he was a pistol. One of his friends tell me back in the early 70's he was at some resteraunt along I-80, some bikers guys came in and were calling him Pig. He let it slide for then, guess he got a call and left in a hurry. On the way out he noticed the guys had not parked proper where they was 'spossed to and bein' in a hurry to make the call he sorta bumped one with his bumper and dominoed the whole bunch. :o
Del, Good for him. "What goes around, comes around".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 03, 2008, 06:15:22 PM
Del, Good for him. "What goes around, comes around".
Heard they tried to sue, but got no where, danged cowboy court don't take well to outsiders messin' with the law and bein' in the way when offical duty calls. ;D
Got a County Att. out that way in a county i-80 runs through, helped build him a "Scare the City Slicker Lawyer outfit" Frock coat, vest, tall tops boots, a CAS band-quit type outfit, complete with a Colt Clone in a Huckleberry rig. ;D
Some folks that get in trouble try to bring in their lawyer from the city. :)
Sad news indeed about ol' Jerry. I did do love his music. :(
I couldn't stand a lot of em either. Just hated ta see all them sickles go down.
When I met Lil she was convinced that a lot of them was genuine friends. Had ta splain ta her that they was only after one thing. Time went by and the truth came out. They don't like me much anymore an that's OK.
Leo
Del, Has the Attorney let you know if the outfit works? You might get him a Doc Holliday Hat.
Now, why is it that I just knew Del would have a pard what run down motorcycles?
LOL!!!
AH, tha 70s, back when bein' a COP was really FUN!
Aint nobody been singin in a while o'er here. Somethin must be askew.
When I look out my window,
Many sights to see.
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
That it's strange, so strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
Mm, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look over my shoulder,
What do you think I see ?
Some other cat looking over
His shoulder at me
And he's strange, sure he's strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
Beatniks are out to make it rich,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
The rabbits running in the ditch,
Beatniks are out to make it rich,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look.
When I look out my window,
What do you think I see ?
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
It's strange, sure it's strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch,
You've got to pick up every stitch,
The rabbits running in the ditch,
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look, when I look.
Some great guitar work in there, even fer a hippy.
Leo
Dr. John! Dr. John! You're My Medicine Man!
Donovan did it first but Dr. John was OK. Avoid the Vanilla Fudge version at all costs. It'll make yer ears bleed.
No joke :-X
Leo
This is ah good un!
Well I woke up this mornin'
Looked outdoors
I can tell my milk cow
I can tell by the way she lows
If you see my milk cow
Please drive her on home
Cuz I ain't had no milk and butter
Since That cow been gone
Well you gotta treat me right honey
Day by Day
Get out your little prayer book
Get down upon your knees and pray
Cuz you're going to need me
You're gonna need my help someday
Lord you're going to be sorry
You treated me this way
Ooh now take it away boys
Sail on, Sail on, Sail on milk cow, Sail on
Sail on, Sail on, Sail on milk cow, Sail on
You're gonna keep right on to sailing
Till you lose your happy home
Well good evening
Don't that sun look good going down
I said well good evening
Don't that sun look good going down
Don't that ol' army cot look lonely
When your lover ain't no place around
Well I tried everything baby
To get along with you
Now I'm gonna tell you
What I'm gonna do
I'm gonna stop my cryin'
Gonna leave you alone
And if you don't think I'm leavin big momma
Just count the days I'm gone
You ain't gonna see me
You ain't gonna see my sweet face no more
Lord you gonna be wondering honey
Where in this world I've gone
Milk cow blues
Bob Wills and the TEXAS Playboys with Tommy Duncan on vocal.
Elvin Bishop and Comander Cody both covered it
Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay, He ain't good lookin' but he sure can play.
There's ZZ Top an ya can't ferget
Old brother Robert's gettin soakin wet.
I believe we gotta stop right here Tex ::) ;D
Leo
They're all diggin' Barefoot Jerry and the CDB.
Ya can never go wrong with Charlie.
The devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind 'cos he was way behind: he was willin' to make a deal.
When he came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot.
And the devil jumped upon a hickory stump and said: "Boy let me tell you what:
"I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
"And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
"Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil his due:
"I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul, 'cos I think I'm better than you."
The boy said: "My name's Johnny and it might be a sin,
"But I'll take your bet, your gonna regret, 'cos I'm the best that's ever been."
Johnny you rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard.
'Cos hells broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals it hard.
And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold.
But if you lose, the devil gets your soul.
The devil opened up his case and he said: "I'll start this show."
And fire flew from his fingertips as he resined up his bow.
And he pulled the bow across his strings and it made an evil hiss.
Then a band of demons joined in and it sounded something like this.
When the devil finished, Johnny said: "Well you're pretty good ol' son.
"But if you'll sit down in that chair, right there, and let me show you how its done."
Fire on the moun, run boys, run.
The devil's in the house of the risin' sun.
Chicken in the bread pin, pickin' out dough.
"Granny, does your dog bite?"
"No, child, no."
The devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat.
He laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet.
Johnny said: "Devil just come on back if you ever want to try again.
"I told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best that's ever been."
And he played fire on the mount, run boys, run.
The devil's in the house of the risin' sun.
Chicken in the bread pin pickin' out dough.
"Granny, does your dog bite?"
"No, child, no."
I've been listenin' to Charlie since he came out with "The Uneasy Rider" in about 73.
Did I hear the mention of Dr. John?? He's my Cajun hero!
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd of said the right thing
But I must have used the wrong line
I been in the right trip
But I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a bad place
And I'm wondering what it's good for
I been the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
My head was in a place
But I'm having such a good time
I been running trying to get hung up in my mind
Got to give myself a little talking to this time
Just need a little brain salad surgery
Got to cure this insecurity
I been in the wrong place
But it must have been the right time
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong song
I been in the right vein
But it seems like the wrong arm
I been in the right world
But it seems wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
Slipping, dodging ,sneaking
Creeping hiding out down the street
See me life shaking with every who I meet
Refried confusion is making itself clear
Wonder which way do I go to get on out of here
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing
But I must have used the wrong line
I'd a took the right road
But I must have took a wrong turn
Would have made the right move
But I made it at the wrong time
I been on the right road
But I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a good place
And I wonder what it's bad for
Dr. John played at our Senior prom. Man! He must be a real Old DUDE!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 17, 2008, 05:12:10 PM
I've been listenin' to Charlie since he came out with "The Uneasy Rider" in about 73.
Got a MMM album from I think 71 or 72, he does a cover of Hank's (Removes hat) Mansion on the Hill, has Charlie and Willie and Johnny Denver doin' instuments and background vocals on it.
Did someone say Commander Cody ;D
I'm sittin alone, Saturday night, watching the Late Late Show.
A bottle of wine, some cigarettes, I got no place to go.
Well, I saw your other man today; he was wearing my brand new shoes,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Well, I met my old friend Bob today from up in Bowling Green;
He had the prettiest little gal that I'd ever seen.
But I couldn't hide my tears at all, cause she looked just like you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too
Now everybody tells me there's other ways to get high.
They don't seem to understand I'm too far gone to try.
Now these lonely memories, they're all I can't lose,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Well my dog died just yesterday and left me all alone.
The finance company dropped by today and repossessed my home.
That's just a drop in the bucket compared to losing you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Got the Down to Seeds and Stems again Blues.
Never let it be said that Commander Cody can't come up with some unusual songs.
Ain't found much of their lyrics yet, one I always like had the chours:
Take me back to those old Kentucky hills of Tennasee,
Let that Alabama moon shine it's light on me
Way back in those old Kentucky hills of Tennasee.
::)
Was from "Hot Licks and Cold Steel" their truck drivin' album. ;D
I've gotta dig out my Cowboy music CD's for the trip to the Muster. Don Edwards, Ian, Sons of the San Jaquain, ASAW, Chris, Riders in the Sky, and maybe a little R W Hampton.
Ahhh, The Lost Planet Airmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQA9HdmKeoo
Sorry Del, I ferget that ya can't listen at work.
My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln"
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace?
That story is true, I'm here to say
I was drivin' that Model A
It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup
It's got eight cylinders, uses them all
It's got overdrive, just won't stall
With a four-barrel carb and a dual exhaust
And four-eleven gears you can really get lost
It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared
The brakes are good, tires fair
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night
The moon and the stars was shinin' bright
We was drivin' up Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they was standing still
All of a sudden in a wink of an eye
A Cadillac sedan passed us by
I said, "Boys, that's a mark for me!"
By then the tail light was all you could see
Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind
So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind
Took my foot off the gas and man alive
I shoved it on down into overdrive
Wound it up to a hundred and ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end
My foot was glued like lead to the floor
That's all there is and there ain't no more
Now, the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!"
The lines on the road just look like dots
Took a corner; sideswiped a truck
Crossed my fingers just for luck
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts
The guy beside me was white as a ghost
Smoke was comin' from out of the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac.
Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass
Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas?
We had flames comin' from out of the side
Feel the tension, Man! What a ride!
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly!"
And that Caddy pulled over and let us by
Now all of a sudden she started to knockin'
And down in the dips she started to rockin'
I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln!
They arrested me and they put me in jail
And called my pappy to throw my bail
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"
I like the ASAW version. Ray Benson patterned alot of his early stuff after Commander Cody. I think Johnny Bond was the first to come out with Hot Rod Lincoln.
Follow up song to The Hot Rod Race.
The Hot Rod Race was released in November, 1950. It sold 200,000 copies. It was written by George Wilson and recorded by Arkie Shibley and the Mountain Dew Boys. Hot Rod Lincoln came out in 1955. It was written and recorded by Charlie Ryan. Johnny Bond recorded it in 1960 and Commander Cody in 1972.
Gonna have ta track down those older recordings.
Thanks Tex, I always loved that song.
Leo
There is another that fits in the middle, but can't 'member the name right now, Grandpa had it on a 45. Tis the guy from Hot Rod Race tellin' about how bad beat-up his car was.
Always like them car songs.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 20, 2008, 04:16:20 PM
Always like them car songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2LUz5Fhsc&feature=related
I want to know where the last 30 years went?
Wrong Cars.
But good cards nonetheless. ;D
This is my favorite most memorable car song. Think I was just nine er ten when I first heard it. Prolly in the garage werkin' on a car with the ole man.
Tommy and Laura were lovers he wanted to give here everything
Flowers presents and most of all a wedding ring
He saw a sign for a stockcar race a thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn't get Laura on the phone so to her mother Tommy said
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late I've something to do that cannot wait
He drove his car to the racing ground he was the youngest driver there
The crowd roared as they started to race
Around the truck they drove at a deadly pace
No one knows what happened that day how his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath they heard him say
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry my love for her will never die
Now in the chapel Laura prays for her Tommy who passed away
It was just for Laura that he lived and died alone in the chapel she can hear him cry
Tell Laura I love her...
My love for her will never die
Remember right, I spent the rest of the day kindah sick. Don't have much of a tolerance fer stupid, never did. To this day if I'm listenin' ta the oldies station 'n that comes on – instant station change.
Yes an oldie but goody, can't 'member who did the original, but Sha-Na-Na did a cover and I also think Flash Cadilac did also.
Written by Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh. It was first recorded by Ray Peterson in 1960.
I always thought the Everly Bros did that one. Funny how the memories get scattered.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 21, 2008, 01:33:05 PM
I always thought the Everly Bros did that one. Funny how the memories get scattered.
Leo
We have a Scattered Thumbs and several Scattered Brains. ;D
Ilike to refer to those scattered brains as just having a SENIOR moment.
http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM03212
One of my favorite "one hit wonders" was Hearts and Flowers. In 19and66 they did a song "Rock and Roll Gypsies"...I found a rerelease of their album, plus the second album I didn't know they had plus a bunch of other stuff and it was a site I had forgotten all about. Check them out...They even have the Kingston Trio's Christmas album...I could have spent a whole lotta money on that site....guess I will have to go back again, and again and.....
check it out...
Curley
Who could forget the Burrito Bros.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howEAqstkzQ
OK everyone sing in key, the boss is checin' up on us. ;D
HUD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1TOWhU7dik
Well, HUD is something I know a little about. It was filmed in Claude, Texas which is in the Texas Panhandle. It was filmed in 1963 and I was an extra in some od the outdoor scenes. One scene is unloading horses at the rodeo and the scene where the cattle are shot. I'm one of the guys in the rain suits and hat. I got paid $50. which was pretty good for a 16 year old kid.
Don't know why, but this one has always struck me. It come ta me taday an I been listenen to it all morning.
I am just a poor boy and my storys seldom told
Ive squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station, runnin scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters, where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Li la li...
Asking only workmans wages, I come lookin for a job, but I get no offers
Just a comeon from the whores on 7th avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Now the years are rolling by me, they are rockin even me
I am older than I once was, and younger than Ill be, thats not unusual
No it isnt strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same
Li la li...
And Im laying out my winter clothes, wishing I was gone, goin home
Where the new york city winters arent bleedin me, leadin me to go home
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him
til he cried out in his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains
Yes he still remains
Li la li...
I 'member when that was new. ;D
So do I! :o
Well I rember when I was a kid (sorry guys) an my Mom was cleanin the house with the station tuned inta KLOK. That song would come on an I'd set in front of the stereo, one of them big old cabinet units that have gone the way of the dodo, an just listen. Guess I got a kick out of the crashing noises.
Pulled it up taday after Lil said she had "Sounds of Silence" stuck in 'er head. Glad I did.
Leo
well dad gum, tell Lil she's not the only one that came to that song, it's the first one I thought of when I read yours. saw em in Stillwater, Ok, at the college in 1968, singing alll them oldies, cept they was brand new then.
then ma mind wandered off to Here's to you Mrs. Robinson ;D
Bad news, bad news!
I heard you're packing to leave!
I come arunning right over;
I just couldn't believe it,
I just couldn't believe it.
Oh, baby, baby
You must be out of your mind.
Do you know what you're kicking away?
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby,
We've got a groovy thing.
I never done you no wrong,
I never hit you when you're down,
I always gave you good loving,
I never ran around,
I never ran around.
Oh, baby, baby
You must be out of your mind.
Do you know what you're kicking away?
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby,
We've got a groovy thing.
There's something you ought to know
If you're fixing to go,
I can't make it without you;
No no no no, no, no,
No no no no, no, no, no.
Oh, baby, baby
You must be out of your mind.
Do you know what you're kicking away?
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby,
We've got a groovy thing.
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby,
We've got a groovy thing.
Back in High School, I could write these down from memory. I remember one girl in English class thought I made them up! Too honest to take advantage of the opportunity.
PATTERNS
The night sets softly
With the hush of falling leaves,
Casting shivering shadows
On the houses through the trees,
And the light from a street lamp
Paints a pattern on my wall,
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Or a child's uneven scrawl.
Up a narrow flight of stairs
In a narrow little room,
As I lie upon my bed
In the early evening gloom.
Impaled on my wall
My eyes can dimly see
The pattern of my life
And the puzzle that is me.
From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death,
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath.
Like a rat in a maze
The path before me lies,
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies.
And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell,
And it's fitting that it should,
For in darkness I must dwell.
Like the color of my skin,
Or the day that I grow old,
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on October 01, 2008, 05:02:57 PM
well dad gum, tell Lil she's not the only one that came to that song, it's the first one I thought of when I read yours. saw em in Stillwater, Ok, at the college in 1968, singing alll them oldies, cept they was brand new then.
then ma mind wandered off to Here's to you Mrs. Robinson ;D
The Graduate was a great flick. Older women do make beautiful lovers :D
Leo
Doan know why, But I've always liked this one
We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see.
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as wellve been closed
She said, Im home on shore leave,
Though in truth we were at sea
So I took her by the looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying, you must be the mermaid
Who took neptune for a ride.
But she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love
Then laughter is its queen
And likewise if behind is in front
Then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
Seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
And attacked the ocean bed
Someone did that before Procal Harem? Great song.
Leo
sorry, I came into this thread late :-[ :-[
Don't know of anyone doin' A Whiter Shade 'fore Procol Harum.
Felt like throwin' this'n in here........
I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
In worn out shoes
With silver hair, a ragged shirt, and baggy pants
The old soft shoe
He jumped so high, jumped so high
Then he lightly touched down
I met him in a cell in New Orleans I was
down and out
He looked to me to be the eyes of age
as he spoke right out
He talked of life, talked of life, he laughed
clicked his heels and stepped
He said his name "Bojangles" and he danced a lick
across the cell
He grabbed his pants and spread his stance,
Oh he jumped so high and then he clicked his heels
He let go a laugh, let go a laugh
and shook back his clothes all around
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance
He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs
throughout the south
He spoke through tears of 15 years how his dog and him
traveled about
The dog up and died, he up and died
And after 20 years he still grieves
He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks
for drinks and tips
But most the time I spend behind these county bars
'cause I drinks a bit
He shook his head, and as he shook his head
I heard someone ask him please
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles, dance..
The words just seemed a little differnt. Thought maybe I missed somethin.
Maj, it's never too late ;)
Leo
LOL!!!!!!!
I'll admit I don't listen to country. Cowboy ain't country BTW. Hell, I ain't listened to any broadcast music except classic rock in prolly twenty years.
Heard this one mentioned on a talk show 'n looked it up. Geezzzzzz it's funny.
She used to call me baby... I thought she was such a lady
But my how things have changed since times moved on
I give her my last dollar... And now all she'll do is holler
Oh my life has become a country song
I've learned she can resist me by the way she always disses me
And comes to bed at night, with that cold cream on
Sometimes I might feel frisky but these days it's just too risky
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That
Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
All day Long
It goes on and on
If a tree fell in the forest, She didn't
hear it, would I still be wrong
I guess I should admit it
She ain't ever gonna quit it
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That
Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
Man I remember when her eyes used to be so blue and shiny
God you oughtta see what's happened to her hiney
(Her what?) her hiney
Man that thing is big enough to land a small plane on.
(Small plane?) I'm tellin' ya
I used to roll her in the clover, (mmm mmm)
but think god those days are over
(Hallelulia!)
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That
Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
All day Long
She naws on and on
If some day they drop the big one,
I'd say sweet Jesus, She's gonna finally leave me alone
It's alright if we say it
'cause the radio won't play it.
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That
Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That
Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSoYhJ9NkE
Vince and Rodney living in Hell........ ;D both had some Rock n Roll roots
but Rodney carrington had more problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WCbbyChJ4
My oh my.....
From the looks ah them two videos I'd say the boys got a thang fer cross dressers........
I think it is time for some of Mason Williams (remember him??) Them Poems:
so here for your edification and enjoyment is:
Them Lunch Toters
How about Tjem Lunch Toters,
Ain't them a bunch?
Goin' off to work
A-totin' they lunch
Totin' them vittles
Totin that chow
Eatin it later,
but a totin' it now.
Look at Them Lunch Toters
Aint they funny?
Some use a paper sack
Some use a gunny
Them food-frugal Lunch Toters
Ain't they wise?
Totin they lunch
Made by they wives
How to be a Lunch Toter?
Iffa may emote it,
Gitchy wife to fix it
Go to work and tote it....
Anyone remember these, and have any of the others???
(I was diggin thru my desk at work and found a couple printed out...heheh)
curley
Didn't Mason Williams do Classical Gas?
If so, that's the only one I know.
Leo
Yup ol Mason did do Classical Gas. He also wrote the "Bus Book", you open it and it is a 36' image of a grayhound bus. He also did a song called "sunflower" and it plays to an airplane skywriting a flower at sunrise in the desert.
He also was a comedy writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour....and
he wrote Them Poems....a bunch of them. The shortest was on a Kingston Trio record in the '60's and was called:
Them Hor Douvers
by Mason Williams
How about them Hor Douvers
A little piece of cheeze
and a little piece of meat.
He was quite a talented nutcase...
curley
Classical Gas ... I sure wish the Classic Rock stations would play THAT more than once a year rather than some of the great songs they repeat over and over and over and over and ... It's a great song, but I'm kinda tired of hearing Bob See-gar singing "Love the way she walks."
Quote from: Arcey on October 03, 2008, 12:00:21 PM
My oh my.....
From the looks ah them two videos I'd say the boys got a thang fer cross dressers........
Learned it from David Bowie....
Use to Love watchin' Smothers Bros. (maybe more than Rowen and Martin) Remember Mason Williams being on there.
Quote from: Curley Cole on October 04, 2008, 08:37:21 PM
I think it is time for some of Mason Williams (remember him??) curley
It is, indeed. Who could forget...
Them Toad Suckers How about Them Toad Suckers,
Ain't they clods?
Sittin' there suckin'
Them green toady-frogs.
Suckin' them hop-toads,
Suckin' them chunkers,
Suckin' them leapy types,
Suckin' them plunkers.
Look at Them Toad Suckers,
Ain't they snappy?
Suckin' them bog-frogs
Sure makes'em happy.
Them huggermugger Toad Suckers,
Way down south,
Stickin' them sucky-toads
In they mouth.
How to be a Toad Sucker?
No way to duck it.
Gittchyself a toad,
Rare back and suck it!
I drove up the Muster in Nebraska last week. It turned out to be a all nighter. I'm glad I had a lot of good Cowboy music for my CD player in the truck. Don Edwards, Ian Tyson, R W Hampton, Riders In The SKY, and Sons of The San Jaoquin. It made the trip mor enjoyable.
Funny thing this mornin.
Lil had the TV on in the background, it was that swindlin lady who cooks an does home decoratin stuff. Well she had some other lady on there teachin the world how ta make halloween costumes fer the kids. When I looked up, she was doin a Little Red Riding Hood get up. I looked at Lil and "Sam the Sham and the Pharohs!" popped outta ma mouth. She asked the heck I was talking about, so I dug this up. Hadn't heard it in years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZUfsmwaNoA
Leo
Thank you Leo, for that trip back to the 60's. I really enjoyed it.
Talk about taking a body back. ;D
Thanks Leo, I was hearing the song in my head before I ever got to the link.
when I hear Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, I always think of a guy in our high school, was always playin wooly bully down at the diner, where we ate dinner , to this day I think he thought he WAS Sam the Sham ;D
Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs
WOOLY BULLY (Domingo Samudio)
Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance."
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you."
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Heard a story once that his cat was the inspiration fer that one. That's why fer the "hey dog hey dog" that's mixed in there.
Leo
I heard a DJ say couple years ago that he is a Preacher now.
I think Sam was from Shreveport, Louisana.
Dang that Martha Stewart.
Now I'm thinkin about The Troggs and early Kinks tunes.
This was one of my favorites. Got nothin ta do with haloween costumes, but simalar sound ta the last one.
I'm not content to be with you in the daytime.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time.
The only time I feel alright is by your side.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time,
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
I believe that you and me last forever.
Oh, yeah, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never.
The only time I feel alright is by your side.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time,
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
Oh, come on!
[ Instrumental break featuring electric guitar. ]
I believe that you and me last forever.
Oh, yeah, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never.
The only time I feel alright is by your side.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time,
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
Dern it, now I'm thinkin of the Kingsmen. There was some controversy over this one, but it was just an old song that the guy mumbled through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-8_GI4d2c
Leo
Great party piece. Every garage band in town knew it. Didn't have to know the werds or how to play the drums or guitar ta do it. Just make noise.
The Halloween song I liked best - Dennis Yost and the Classics IV
In the cool of the evening when ev'rything is gettin' kind of groovy,
I call you up and ask you if you want to go and meet and see a movie,
First you say no, you've got some plans for the night,
And then you stop, and say, "All right."
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
You always keep me guessin', I never seem to know what you are thinkin'.
And if a fella looks at you, it's for sure your little eye will be a-winkin'.
I get confused, 'cause I don't know where I stand,
And then you smile, and hold my hand.
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
Spooky!
If you decide someday to stop this little game that you are playin',
I'm gonna tell you all what my heart's been a-dyin' to be sayin'.
Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams,
So I'll propose... on Halloween.
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
Spooky,
Spooky,
Spooky,
Oh-whoa, all right,
I said Spooky!
Here's the song that pops into my mind at Halloween - Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did the mash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son
The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"
They played the mash
They played the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
They played the monster mash
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in a flash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you can mash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI&feature=related
It/s nice to take a trip back to the 60's when we were young, didn't pay taxes, didn't have kids, or a mortgage.
Just moved in my new house today.
Movin' was hard but I got squared away.
Bells started ringin' and chains rattled loud.
I knew I moved in a haunted house.
Still I made up my mind to stay.
Nothin' was a-gonna drive me away.
When I seen somthin' that give me the creeps,
Had one big eye and-a two big feet.
I stood right still and I did the freeze.
He did just stroll right up to me.
Made a noise with his feet that sound like a drum.
Said "You be here when the mornin' comes?"
Say yes I'll be here when the mornin' comes.
I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run.
I bought this house and you know I'm boss.
Ain't no haint gonna run me off.
In my kitchen my stove was a-blazin' hot.
Coffee was a-boilin' in the pot.
The grease had melted in the pan.
Had a hunk a-meat right in my hand.
From outer space there sat a man
On the hot stove with the pots and pans.
"Say that's hot I began to shout."
He drank a-hot coffee right from the spout.
He ate the raw meat right from my hand.
Drank the hot grease from the frying pan.
Looked at me said "You better run."
"And don't be here when the mornin' comes."
Say, yes I'll be here when the mornin' comes.
I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run.
I bought this house and you know I'm boss.
Ain't no hain't gonna run me off.
http://www.brownielocks.com/hauntedhouse.html
Enjoyin the Halloweeny songs but we still got 21 days go, better pace ourselves ;D 'Fore ya know it we'll be forced ta bust in ta the Alice Cooper :o
Meanwhiles, I'll go on with the early 60's. Anybody 'member the McCoys. They was from Ohio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubb6o9szZY&NR=1
Leo
Saw this on the same You Tube site. Had a '62 Buick Special in high school, and used to crank the sound way up when this came on the radio. ::) ::) Long before sub woofers and all that stuff they have crammed into cars nowadays, but I'm sure I disturbed a few people at stop lights! ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7mIOKGM00&feature=related
I'm lost in the 60's tonight.
Lotta memories running rampant through my mind.
Well LIT, this sure aint a rocker but the band made me think of ya. Or you made me think of it i guess ::)
A long time ago, when the earth was green,
There were more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
They'd run around free while the earth was being born.
And the loveliest of them all was the unicorn.
There were green alligators and long-necked geese.
Some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, as sure as you're born.
And the loveliest of them all was the unicorn.
Now, God saw some sinning, and it gave him pain.
So he said, "Stand back, I'm going to make it rain."
He said, "Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do:
Build me a floating zoo.
And take some of them green alligators and long-necked geese.
Some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, as sure as you're born.
And don't you forget my unicorn."
Old Noah was there to answer the call.
He finished up making the Ark just as the rain started falling.
He marched in the animals two by two,
And he called out as they went through,
[ Irish Rovers Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
"Hey Lord, I got your green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn.
I just can't see no unicorn."
Then Noah looked out through the driving rain.
Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games.
Kicking and splashing while the rain was pourin'.
Oh them silly unicorn!
There were green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Noah cried, "Close the door, cause the rain is pourin'
And we just can't wait for no unicorn."
The Ark started moving, it drifted with the tide.
The unicorns looked up from the rocks, and they cried.
And the waters came down and sort of floated them away.
And that's why you've never seen a unicorn, to this very day.
You'll see green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephant, but sure as you're born,
You're never gonna see no unicorn.
Leo
AH! The Irish Rovers!
Can't let the frat party end yet! Hired another band whiles I was out pickin up that last keg ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQhSeEm5Ecc
There are better versions on there, but this one seemed ta fit.
Leo
PR and the Raiders came to Amarillo in about 66 or 67 and I saw them live.
course we all remember one of our favorites by Paul and the boys
They took the whole Cherokee Nation
And put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
They took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan
Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die
They took the whole Indian Nation
And locked us on this reservation
And though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still a red man deep inside
Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die
But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee Nation will return
Will return
Love that one OT. That group had a perty good run.
Leo
The group has been around since about 64 0r 65. Mark had a solo career for a while.
Time ta hold yer lighters in the air an wave em 'round.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-P8Fgfhvk
Now I don't hardly know her
But I think I could love her
Crimson and clover
Ah
Well if she come walkin' over
Now I been waitin' to show her
Crimson and clover
Over and over
[Instrumental break]
Yeah
My mind's such a sweet thing
I wanna do everything
What a beautiful feeling
Crimson and clover
Over and over
[Instrumental break]
Crimson and clover, over and over
[Repeat to fade]
One group I saw around '66-7 in a real small club waz:
Sir Douglas Quintet.... I think when I saw them they had stopped wearin they English duds....Saw PR and the Raiders at the same club.
There also was a topless bar that a couple of dancers really favoured "The Nation", and we really favoured them....hehehe
man them was the days/years....Wish I could remember the whole thing..
Curley
The Sir Doulas Quintet was really an American group. Sir Douglas was Doug Sahm who later became part of the Texas Tornados with Freddie Fender.
That waz why I brought them up. I had noticed a passel of Texans on, and thought I would impress ya all with my post...
you guys ain't that easily impressed....<g>
But them topless dancers would have got ya' s attention.."might even got the vibrator goin off" (suttle reference here...heheh)
night all
curley
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 15, 2008, 01:00:40 AM
The Sir Doulas Quintet was really an American group. Sir Douglas was Doug Sahm who later became part of the Texas Tornados with Freddie Fender.
Damn Tex, yer right said on a regular basis :D
Thinkin about them guys from Boston now that sung that song about frustrated womens an the dirty water.
Leo, I keep with Texas music and Texas musicans. I have been blessed with a remarkable memory for details and I have good retention. Also, I've been around a long time.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 15, 2008, 02:06:22 AM
Also, I've been around a long time.
Yep, TLD probably has some of the original dirt from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. ;D
Yep, on the soles of my Harness Boots.
Tex, I'm really startin ta think I'm yer illegitimate son. ;D
I got that memory too, an sometimes it really freaks the wife out. Wear harness boots as well.
Song I was referrin to earlier was from the Standells. Aint Texas music, but good stuff.
Leo
We have been fortunate to have some great musicans from Texas. The types of music goes from one end of the spectrum to the other. For the most part, I like it all.
This is what I were talkin about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8
I always have wanted a Gibson 335 in cherry finish. I'll have ta win the lottery ta get one. It's one a them wish list things.
Leo
I never played the guitar, always wanted to learn how though. I love guitar music, Roy Clark, SRV, Carlos Santana, Willie, Junior Brown, Dick Dale, and the Ventures.
With tableture ya can learn quick. Used ta be a bunch of sites that had thousands of songs, but they all got shut down over copywrite infringement.
Tab is a method of notation that just shows you what string and what fret ta hit throughout the song using numbers. Now that ya got some time on yer hands, mebbe ya should pick up a cheap acoustic an give it a try. I have tons of tab that I'd be happy ta send ya.
PS
Sounds ta me like your a Stratocaster man, other than Carlos, who played the Gibson.
Leo
I'd be interested in some of those tabs Leo!
Haven't picked up my git fiddle in years, probably make my fingers bleed till I built up some callous again.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on October 16, 2008, 01:18:17 AM
Sounds ta me like your a Stratocaster man, other than Carlos, who played the Gibson.
Leo
You mean there is another type of guitar ;D
This just seemed to fit at this point.
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played 'til my fingers bled
It was summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far
Oh when I look back now
That seems to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
(CHORUS)
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive in
And that's when I met you
Standin on a mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was no or never
Those were the best days of my life
(Chorus) Back in Summer of '69
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever, no
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Somethimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Standin' on a mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
(Chorus) Back in summer of '69
Willie plays a Martin, "Trigger".
looks like it may be hard ta get a band together with no more practicing than we're doing, may just have to make it a jug band. ;D
I see they are having tryout for the local festival here. http://www.oleapplegateplace.com/musiclineup.asp
OT, I'm versitile, I can play the jug and the washboard.
I do pretty well with a piece of wax paper and a comb ;D
Irish, I'll PM ya the stuff I got and then scan an email ya the pages. Fer alot of the stuff I have, it's good ta have practice at Travis picking. I was obsessed with it fer awhile.
Leo
OT, I got a new pair of overalls, a new red undershirt, a new pair of brogans, and a slouch hat. I'm ready to play.
With enough practice we can be ready fer the Founde'rs Day parade here in CAS City.
Got me a new comb that don't have the teeth all clogged up with ma hair yet. She plays like a Stratovarious :)
Leo
Arcey would probably be good with a wind instrument! :o
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on October 16, 2008, 05:27:08 PM
Arcey would probably be good with a wind instrument! :o
He could play the
"Beef and Barley Bass"LOL!!!!
:o
I can play a jaw harp. ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on October 16, 2008, 05:32:11 PM
He could play the "Beef and Barley Bass"
LOL!!!!
Arcey retired after the last concert...........
Well now, I think we got a band. Del twangin on that mouth thing will round it out nice.
Williy and the Poorboys will have nuthin on us.
Leo
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on October 16, 2008, 05:27:08 PM
Arcey would probably be good with a wind instrument! :o
Might that be a well placed hand under an armpit!!!! ::) :o ;D ;D
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on October 16, 2008, 07:39:23 PM
Might that be a well placed hand under an armpit!!!! ::) :o ;D ;D
Quote from: Tensleep on October 16, 2008, 05:32:11 PM
He could play the "Beef and Barley Bass"
LOL!!!!
:o
I think 10Zzzz has somethin' else in mind. ;D
I will say that is very insensitive for Tensleep to be pokin' fun at Arcey, just because Beef and Barley does not get along well with Arcey's digestive system, perhaps some sensativity training would be in order here. ;D
Sensitivity trainin in here, ya gotta be kiddin.
We're the crew that beats the crap out of each other then sits back and laughs while we wipe the blood off. ;D
Leo
Quote from: Delmonico on October 16, 2008, 07:43:56 PM
I think 10Zzzz has somethin' else in mind. ;D
I will say that is very insensitive for Tensleep to be pokin' fun at Arcey, just because Beef and Barley does not get along well with Arcey's digestive system, perhaps some sensativity training would be in order here. ;D
YOU wasn't there for tha first concert.... ::)
nothin' sensitive 'bout it :o
well ya know to be good at it, ya got ta put yer all in it. :o
Arcey is an Ol' Cop like me and we both have had plenty of sensitivity training in our day.
Quote from: Tensleep on October 16, 2008, 07:56:38 PM
YOU wasn't there for tha first concert.... ::)
nothin' sensitive 'bout it :o
Well a proper sense-a-tive trained friend would have got Arcey some Beano,
or a cork.
Quote from: Delmonico on October 17, 2008, 05:04:53 PM
Well a proper sense-a-tive trained friend would have got Arcey some Beano, or a cork.
You say that bein' 1200+ miles away....
We woulda been glad to let you git
"up close an' personal."
Del sure is on this sensitivity kick lately. Mebbe we should all follow his example an try a little tenderness.
Naaaa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI6inAglMJA
Leo
This "sensitivity" nonsense is another batch of liberal hogwash...
It can very well keep you from "councilling" and then laying off or firing non productive employees
along with many other things.
<GROAN>
::)
I have found that BEANO does not work for me.
Quote from: Tensleep on October 17, 2008, 05:25:18 PM
This "sensitivity" nonsense is another batch of liberal hogwash...
It can very well keep you from "councilling" and then laying off or firing non productive employees
along with many other things.
<GROAN>
::)
I'm tryin' not to kill one of them. ;D
How about chokin' a sense into them.
That was my drill instructor's method in boot camp!
Don't think it would work with this one, doubt I'd stop quick enough. :o
"A man's gotta know his limitations".
"What we have here, is a failure to communicate" :o
Leo
"Forgive them, they know not what they do".
Quote from: Leo Tanner on October 18, 2008, 12:51:02 AM
"What we have here, is a failure to communicate" :o
Leo
Wrong, what we have is lazy and stupid, not a good combination. ;D
a little Ray Wilie Hubbard for ya:
I come down from Oklahoma with a pistol in my boot
A pair of dice, a deck of cards and a bible in my suit
I come her as the cause of tears, I am a crying shame
Seven stud or eternal blood, just looking for a game
I double crossed the State of Texas and they give me a little time
I taught myself to doublecut the cards and hold scriptures in my mind
I learned to love the tumblin dice and to believe the word
Tombstones or rolling bones, beats anything I ever heard.
Patience is a virtue that I don't possess
And I can't deny that heavan lies beneath a cotton dress
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
I'm lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
I have walked through God's green pastures and seen the rich blue skies
I have seen the fall of man and the kingdom hidden from his eyes
I have heard the roar of thunder and felt the lightening bolt
And when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take along
Samuel Colt
Every night I kiss the cards and hold them to my breast
And when I see the king of hearts I know that I am blessed
And though my eyes are blind sometimes, I know there's something there
And when the times at hand and I kill a man, I say a little prayer.
I come down from Oklahoma with a pistol in my boot
A pair of dice, a deck of cards and a bible in my suit
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
I'm lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
Lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
A little MMM:
Hey daddy I've got a problem
Last night I took my girlfriend for a ride
And the way she touched my hand dad
Got this funny feeling deep inside
So I leaned over and I kissed her
Put my arms around her and then
Well she reached up and she slapped me
Said you're just like all the other men
Son you're talking to the wrong man
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
I still ain't got your mama figured out
By the way son I've got a problem
I wonder could you talk with me awhile
See lately your mama she ignores me
Hardly ever gives me a little smile
So I was thinkin' maybe you could show me
The way you younger fellas comb your hair
Think I need to change my style son
Could you show me something really cool to wear
Dad you're talking to the wrong man
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong man
Still ain't got my girlfriend figured out
So I guess we'll just go fishing
Maybe head out to that old golf course today
When our buddies ask us about women
I think I know exactly what we'll say
Boys you're talking to the wrong men
If you want to know what girls are all about
You're talking to the wrong men
Still ain't got them women figured out
Still ain't got them women figured out
Some Kris:
See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile
Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams,
Which he spent like they was goin' outa style
And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or the worse,
Searchin' for a shrine he's never found
Never knowin' if believin' is a blessin' or a curse,
Or if the goin' up was worth the comin' down
He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around
From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down
He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home.
One by Guy Clark:
He's a wino, tried and true.
Done about everything there is to do.
He worked on freighters, he worked in bars.
He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars.
It was white port, that put that look in his eye
That grown men get when they need to cry
And he sat down on the curb to rest
And his head just fell down on his chest
He said "Every single day it gets
A little bit harder to handle and yet. . ."
And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
And the words just rolled off down in the gutter
Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
He's old in years beyond his time
Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine
So he says "Son," he always called me son
He said, "Life for you has just begun"
And he told me a story that I heard before
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
Well he could cut through the years to the very night
When it ended, in a whore house fight
And she turned his last proposal down
In favor of being a girl about town
Now it's been seventeen years right in line
And he ain't been straight none of the time
Too many days of fightin' the weather
And too many nights of not being together
So he died. . .
Well when they went through his personal affects
In among the stubs from the welfare checks
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
An address in Dallas, and nothin' more
The welfare people provided the priest
A couple from the mission down the street
Sang Amazing Grace, and no one cried
'Cept some woman in black, way off to the side
We all left and she was standing there
Black veil covering her silver hair
And 'ol One-Eyed John said her name was Alice
And she used to be a whore in Dallas
Let him roar, Lord let him roll
Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
Lord, let him roll, Lord let him roar
He always said that heaven
Was just a Dallas whore.
Some Jr. Brown:
Junior Brown, My Wife Thinks You're Dead Lyrics
Looking for Junior Brown tabs and chords? Browse alphabet (above).
Artist: Brown Junior
Song: My Wife Thinks You're Dead
Album: Guit with It Junior Brown Sheet Music
Junior Brown CDs
Send "My Wife Thinks You're Dead" Ringtone to Cell Phone
It's good to see you baby it's been a long long while
We're both a whole lot older and seen a lot of miles
But thing are different now since the good ol days
And youve been in some trouble
Since we went our separate ways
Well have to say hello maybe some other time instead
Cause youre wanted by the police
And my wife thinks youre dead.
Somebody spread the rumor that you had lost your life
Least thats the way I heard it and what I told my wife
Now here youre showing up again and talk is getting round
And I can see that one of us will have to leave this town
If you think that I want trouble
Than youre crazy in your head
Cause youre wanted by the police
And my wife thinks youre dead.
You never called or wrote me just up and disappeared
Nobody knew what happened
Where you been for all these years
Now troubles what youre lookin like
Cause troubles where you been
And I can see the kind of trouble you could get me in
You better pay attention to every word I said
Cause youre wanted by the police
And my wife thinks youre dead.
So goodbye to you baby Im glad weve got to talk
But Im faithful to my wife and I dont ever break the law
I dont know where youre headed for
But I know where you been
Were reminisced now lets just go our separate ways again
Go find another ex-sweetheart to hang around instead
Because youre wanted by the police
And my wife thinks youre dead.
An end with some Hoyt Axton:
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
He was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine.
Singin' joy to the world, now
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
Everybody sing it: Joy to the world, now
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
If I were the King of the world
Tell you what I'd do
Throw away the cars and the bars and the wars
And make sweet love to you
Just make sweet love to you.
Singin' Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea.
Joy to you and me.
--- Instrumental ---
You know I love the ladies
Love to have their fun
I'm a high night flier and a rainbow rider
A straight-shootin' son of a gun.
Yeah, I'm a straight shootin' son of a gun.
Singin' joy to the world, now
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
Everybody sing it: Joy to the world, now
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
Ah, yeah. It'll be all right...
Del, Those are all great songs, each one has a special story to tell.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 18, 2008, 12:59:20 PM
Del, Those are all great songs, each one has a special story to tell.
Yeah and i got's a loaded sixgun for anyone who says about the last one: "That's a Three Dog Night song." ;D
So all I gotta do is say them magic words an you'll give me a pistol? With ammo?
Sweet deal, but I just can't bring maself ta do it ;) It aint right.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on October 18, 2008, 02:13:07 PM
So all I gotta do is say them magic words an you'll give me a pistol? With ammo?
Sweet deal, but I just can't bring maself ta do it ;) It aint right.
Leo
Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang
(It was safe, I used a New Model Ruger. ;D
Well can I at least get some bullits if I hum a few bars of Shambala?
Leo
Ah! Those great lyrics of the 70's.
Quote from: Delmonico on October 18, 2008, 01:01:35 PM
Yeah and i got's a loaded sixgun for anyone who says about the last one: "That's a Three Dog Night song." ;D
Just like "Never Been to Spain"......right...
Did ya all know what Hoyt named his record company? that's an easy one...hehe
curley who was the all time Hoyt Axton fan. been listenin to his stuff since 1962. Saw him perform at a coffee house in Balboa CA, and there were only 4 other people in the audience. (before some one says there was a reason, I saw him in a sold out show at The Trubador in Hollywood the week before...
The cat was cool and he never said a mumblyin' word.
Funny, there was only about 4 people in the audience when I went see Gremlins back in 80 somethin. The man's talents were overlooked too often ;D
Seriously, who ever was in charge of postin the fliers fer the coffee house show must a dropped the ball. Had ta have been cool ta see him that up close an personal.
Leo
what is? Bullfrog records
Here's a cover of one that chute'm ups
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzBSBTs-Lk
Cowboys to girls
I remember when I used to play shoot em up
(Shoot em up, bang, bang baby)
I remember when I chased the girls and beat em up
But I was young and didn't understand
But now I'm a grown up man
I know girls are made for kissing
Never knew what I was missing
Now my life is not the same
My whole world has been rearranged
I went from (cowboys to girls)
Oh yes I did
(Cowboys to girls)
I remember when I used to see you jumping rope
(Jumping rope up and down baby)
And I remember when you got your first baby coat
But you were young and didn't understand
Now you want me that I'm a man
And it's me that you're kissing
Ain't it fun reminiscing
Now our lives are not the same
Our whole world has been rearranged
You went from (Pretty dolls to boys)
Oh yes you did
And I went from (cowboys to girls)
Oh yes I did
Still it's me that you're kissing
Ain't it fun reminiscing
Cause our life is not the same
This whole world has been rearranged
I went for (cowboys to girls)
Oh yes I did
You went from (pretty dolls to boys)
That song brings memories.
Girl across the street. Name was Michelle. I socked her once when we were kids and felt awfull instantly. I wanted ta take it back so bad. Years later I ran inta her at a dance, an all was fergivin. We had a great time dancin ta "I Saw Her Standing There".
Whoa, just jumped in the Wayback machine with Sherman an Peabody fer a second there.
Anyhow, great song :)
Leo
Hoyt was one of a kind.
Hoyts record company was: Jeramiah Records...but had a frog in a top hat and tie..
It was cool seein him at the coffee house with me, my date, and 4 other people. Hoyt said we ought to move the show to his apartment....it was cool. We used to see him at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, right at the stage, and then we'd go back stage and visit. Once we went to see him at another club, and they didn't have a "backstage", just a back door. We were gonna follow him out to his bus, (the owner of the club said it waz ok, ) bouncer thought about stoppin us. ONly thing was Hoyt was about twice his size...Bus was cool...he bought it from Commander Cody...
curley
Hoyt Axton and Commander Cody, Now there's a pair to draw to!
Yup he bought the bus from Commander Cody, and he named it "The HoneySuckle Rose", long long before Willie got holt of the name...Heck, I once got to sit in the old recliner Hoyt had bolted to the "shotgun" seat position....
Hoyt also said he "stole" Commander Cody's bass player ...Bruce Barlow...I think it was a mutual move, since CC wasn't recording anymore.
It was fun seein Hoyt with a backup band. But when I first started seein him, it was just him and a squeeky old wooden chair. (I thought it belonged to the Trubadour, until I saw him at the next place with that same old chair.
You were right Hoyt was one of a kind...
curley
It's a shame that more people were not exposed to Hoyt and his music before he passed away.
when I was in High School, our principal was a cousin to Hoyt. he had tapes of Hoyt's, he'd have it playing when we got to school in the mornings over the PA. always did like ole Hoyt.
never ever understood a werd he said..........but I help'd him drink his wine ;D
he always had some mighty fine wine....
I can name that tune in two notes......
with them old songs, Jackie's always surprised how fast I can tell what it's gonna be, them first coupla notes tell it all. heard em sa many times
Me too, OT. The Moose calls me a Musiclogist.
I do that ta Lil all the time. I even hear bits of music in mechanical equipment sometimes. When I turn on my scanner I swear it plays the first two notes ta Summer in the City by the Lovin Spoonfull. It's uncanny.
Leo
The Moose calls me up when she can't remember the title to a song. She humms the tune and I give her the title.
All right Tex, we'll forego the DNA tests, an I officialy declare you my true father. (sorry dad)
Got 10 bucks I can borrow? ::) ;D
Leo
No Problem, I got ya covered. Do ya need the keys to the truck?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 25, 2008, 08:29:31 PM
No Problem, I got ya covered. Do ya need the keys to the truck?
Fergot tha part 'bout bein' back by 2130 didn' ya TLD? ;)
Quote from: Tensleep on October 25, 2008, 08:30:54 PM
Fergot tha part 'bout bein' back by 2130 didn' ya TLD? ;)
Well, we'll jus see if I am a chip off the old block ;D
Hey! Nice ride :D
Leo
Because It's Sat. night, I'm extending the curfew till 10 pm.
Well my mom and pop told me, "Son you gotta make some money,
If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday"
Well I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick
"Well you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a lick"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Rememberin' old stuff kin be a bad thing. Watchin' them boys werkin' on the lines this mornin' brought ta mind Wichita Lineman. Had that drag-on-forever POS stuck in my head all mornin'
Needed ta get some provisions tagether fer this afternoon so I grabbed a Jimi Hendrix CD 'n headed fer Wawa. Got inta the store 'n Sam Cooke was Twistin' the Night Away. In my mind's eye, I saw a Foxy Lady strollin' thru a Purple Haze on the way back.
Glen Campbell took a hike. Fliushed the ole boy slam out.
Always wondered why if the stretch done south would never hold the strain if it snowed, why the der fool didn't go fix it while the weather was nice rather than waitin' till the weather was nasty and the lines were down. ::)
Guess thats what ya 'spect out of a Limestone Cowboy. ::)
Quote from: litl rooster on October 26, 2008, 06:58:26 AM
Well my mom and pop told me, "Son you gotta make some money,
If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday"
Well I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick
"Well you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a lick"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I love Eddie. Gotta a collection of "early years" (afore he was famous) stuff and another one with a bunch of radio interviews.
If ya ask me, him an Gene Vincent blew that other guy outta the water, the one that ended up in Vegas (I never speak his unholy name aloud) :o
Leo
"Send some red roses for a blue lady".
Ah dang, I went an sinned on a Sunday. I mentioned Gene and Eddie an left out The Killer. Just won't do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KppbrMb95w
Leo
"If I'm goin' to HELL, I'm goin' playin' the PIANO"!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 26, 2008, 04:14:59 PM
"If I'm goin' to HELL, I'm goin' playin' the PIANO"!
:D :D :D
Remember alot of skool dances hear'n Sam Cook- Sam and Dave and the Killer-Eddie Cockhran
It took all of em to bring it all together, all them sock hops. with the grown ups complaining about that Rock & Roll, we was all going ta Hell, in a hurry listening to that music.
do you remember
Little Richard sang it and Dick Clark brought it to life
Danny and the Juniors hit a groove, stuck as sharp as a knife
Well now do you remember all the guys that gave us rock and roll
Chuck Berry's gotta be the greatest thing sthat's come along
(Hum diddy waddy, hum diddy wadda)
He made the guitar beats and wrote the all-time greatest song
(Hum diddy waddy, hum diddy wadda)
Well now do you remember all the guys that gave us rock and roll
(Hum diddy waddy doo)
Elvis Presley is the king
He's the giant of the day
Paved the way for the rock and roll stars
Yeah the critics kept a knockin'
But the stars kept a rockin'
And the choppin didn't get very far
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Nothin's really movin till the saxophone's ready to blow
(Do you remember, do you remember)
And the beat's not jumpin' till the drummer says he's ready to go
(Do you remember, do you remember)
Well now do you remember all the guys that gave us rock and roll
(Do you remember)
Let's hear the high voice wail (oooooooooo)
And hear the voice down low (wah-ah ah-ah)
Let's hear the background
Um diddy wadda, Um diddy wadda
Um diddy wadda, Um diddy wadda
They gave us rock and roll
Um diddy wadda, Um diddy wadda
They gave us rock and roll
Um diddy wadda, Um diddy wadda
They gave us rock and roll
Well the Killer's still out there. Eddie bought it in a car wreck and Gene died in the late 80's of a medical condition. Sam cook went down under some strange circumstances. Motel owner blew 'im away when he was with a white gal.
There was a group what Tipper Gore founded in the 80's called the PMRC. Thier goal was ta show parents that rock was the devil's music. They made up booklets with some of the most absurd reading I have ever seen. Most of it was just plain comical, but what got me real annoyed was the section at the end wherein they made a list of all the rock 'n' rollers who died in an untimely manor and said it was cause they were bound fer hell.
I imagine Al is only allowed ta listen ta polka music ;D
Rant out.
Leo
Leo, the guy that shot Sam was the white girl's pimp. She had stolen Sam's pants and was tryin' to get away from him.
Methinks some folks might wanna do a l'il more research on the killin' of Sam Cooke......
I thought my version was a lot more interesting.
Guess I could look inta it. Don't wanna be startin no false rumors. ::)
I believe it was my Gramma that told me the motel owner story many years ago when she gave me one of Sam's records. Never crossed ma mind ta doubt her, I was about 10 at the time.
Leo
No matter what version is the correct one, Sam was in the wrong place at the right time.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 27, 2008, 04:03:32 PM
No matter what version is the correct one, Sam was in the wrong place at the right time.
Kind a like Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter. He didn't die though, just went ta prison. I aint gonna form an opion based on what Bob Dillian wrote in his song (aint no fan a Bob) but that guy was definately in the wrong place at the right time.
Leo
That was back in the day. Before digital tuners. In my cars 'n trucks anyways. All mechanical.
Had us two decent stations, WNOR 'n WGH. Whenever the Ballard of Hurricane came on – zip - straight to the competition. 'Course that ain't quite fair ta put it that way. Did that whenever any Dylan song came on.
Never been a Dylan fan myself either. He always sounds like he's stoned on DOPE!
I think he more than just sounds that way TLD. I have seen him on a couple of shows over the years and he always appeared to be chemically enhanced!
It's really suprising how long some of these dopers from the 60's have lived. Look at Dennis Hopper. He's another good example.
Keith Richards.
He is there patron saint.
Leo
I guess there maybe something to be said for "SEX, DRUGS, and ROCK and ROLL"!
I guess I'm screwin up by skippin' the "drugs" part.
I got the other two down, was hopin' that would be enough ::)
Leo
nowdays, just some of them advill will have to make do. ;)
Especially in the mornin'.
I honor of the Halloween weekend (should have posted this yesterday):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsfw9CEQITA
As an Old retired Cop, I really appreciated this video I found on YouTube. It is over 1,500 Filipino inmates dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dressed in their orange prison uniforms. Hopefully Arcey and everybody else will appreciate it also. Just type in Prisoners Dance "Thriller" at the top of the YouTube website.
Jeez Pop, now yer makin us work :P
Leo
Not really a halloween song, but it sure as heck could be.
Please remove yer hat before you click:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yp3AY4zbRwU
Del, after that I had to find "The Ride" by David Alan Coe.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 01, 2008, 01:28:13 PM
Del, after that I had to find "The Ride" by David Alan Coe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxcVS9B4GgE
After those two I'm gonna have ta leave ma hat off all day.
BTW Del, yer resizing tip worked perfect. Thanks ;)
Leo
I hope he realizes he needs to constantly research these old westerns.
Prisoners....... Dressed in orange....... Me? Naw......
I caused 'em to be in orange. Once they were in orange I didn't mess with 'em. They're yucky.
They was atchaly prolly cleaner while they was in orange than when you handled em.
Leo
The video is funny though.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 01, 2008, 07:10:09 PM
They was atchaly prolly cleaner while they was in orange than when you handled em.
Leo
We kept a case of Lysol.........
Ask cousin Trina 'bout 'em. She's a jailor. Ahhh wait. On second thought, she don't like the subject brought up if she ain't werkin'. 'N she's good 'nuff ta shoot yer eyeballs out.
Orange or street clothes, 'I wanna call my lawyer!'
'Not from my phone, ya ain't. I gottah use it then go home 'n kiss my wife 'n kids. Ain't gottah clue as ta whut kindah creepy crud ya got. Ya call yer lawyer from the pay phone in tha bammer.'
Contrary ta movies, TV 'n crime novels, there is no 'one phone call' right.
Our inmates got one phone call after they were processed in the jail.
Back when I was a bail bondsman, I got about 90% of them first calls, worked out well, if they or their family had any cash money, we'd get it before the lawyer could get his mitts on it ;D ;
That's the pay phone in the bammer deal. A jailor's problem, not mine. A courtesy, not a right.
If it was a big case I'd let 'em use mine. Especially for an attorney in the middle of the night. They'd get an answerin' machine. Then I'd start on the attorney not carin' gor 'em 'n I did. I wanted 'em to get their story on record. All the attorney was gonna do was tell 'em not to talk to me. If they didn't, as much as I hated it, I was gonna have ta charge 'em 'em put 'em in jail.
Nine out of ten fell for it. Never had a problem in court.
Lesson to the criminals readin' along, free for tonight. But, never trust me.
They ain't real bright, OT.
Guys I know up here who been in the pokey tell me they got phones, but theys 5 bucks a minute ta use an ya gotta have someone outside set up an account. Tolt one of em, "next time ya blow it ya better learn telepathy cause no one is gonna pay 5 bucks a minute ta listen ta you whine".
Anyhow, this is a music thread so...
I had a friend named Ramblin' Bob
Who used to steal gamble and rob
He thought he was the smartest guy in town
But I found out last Monday
That Bob got locked up Sunday
They've got him in the jailhouse way down town
He's in the jailhouse now he's in the jailhouse now
I told him once or twice quit playin' cards and shootin' dice
He's in the jailhouse now
Yodel...
He played a game called poker pinoccle with Dan Yoker
But shooting dice was his greatest game
Now he's downtown in jail nobody to go his bail
The judge done said that he refused a fine
He's in the jailhouse now he's in the jailhouse now
I told him once or twice quit playin' cards and shootin' dice
He's in the jailhouse now
I went out last Tuesday met a gal named Susie
Told her I was the swellest guy around
We started to spend my money
Then she started to call me honey
We took in every cabaret in town
We're in the jailhouse now
We're in the jailhouse now
I told the judge right to his face
We didn't like to see this place
We're in the jailhouse now
Yodel...
The jail gets the revenue that these generate. There are private phone companies that cater to jails and cut out the regular phone company.
Hear tell they're chargin' Ko-Whammy Kilpatrick $48.00 a day for his accommodations 'n fine dinin' in Detroit for the next hundred or so days.
Judgin' by what we pay for meals 'n motels fer big out-of-town shoots, that sounds like a deal to me.
Arcey, Does that include a turndown at night and an Andies mint on the pillow?
<snicker>
He'd prolly 'preciate it. After a week er so ah spendin' 23 hours a day in a 12x14 cell, he's gonna appreciate anything he kin get.
I only got one thing to say to him, "DON'T DROP THE SOAP"!
Quote from: Arcey on November 01, 2008, 07:05:03 PM
Prisoners....... Dressed in orange....... Me? Naw......
I caused 'em to be in orange. Once they were in orange I didn't mess with 'em. They're yucky.
They doan dress em in orange enny more Cuzzin, now they dress em up like tha Hamburgeler.
People in tha jail go robble, robble, robble when they walk past jest ta mess with em.
Our Trustees wear the black/white stripes, the rest wear green coveralls.
Think cuzzin Trina's are still orange. Last I seen of 'Sheriff McCabe's Werk Force' they was in orange too.
The trustees, the ones what were gophers 'n basically roamed free, wore dark colored work clothes. Looked like subcontractors er sumthin'.
You can't tell one from another without a program. I refer to the Trustees as Riskees.
They still have orange here fer the regular population. Good boys and girls get ta live in dorms and wear blue an co-mingle in the day room. Last guy I talked to who had been in the blue section said they had pool tables and ping pong. I thought he was pullin ma leg, but others confirmed it.
The bad boys in orange get the little cells and decks of cards that are missin a few. I had no trouble believing that part.
Leo
Those folks who can't follow the rules get special treatment.
One of the plumbers I was supervisin' last spring went on and on about how everytime he'd take a book off the book cart and back ta his cell he'd get half way through it an there'd be a bunch of pages missin'.
Mebbe it's just me, but I thought it was perty funny. I told him, "at least they tore out the middle 'stead of lettin' ya get through the whole thing and rippin out the end. Made sense ta me.
Leo
They were probably using the pages for cigarette papers.
...or to stop the toilets up with..
That's prolly more like it.
OK, now that we've established how dumb I am in various other threads, I'm gonna go out on a limb and ask why the hell they'd wanna stop up the john? ??? Seems like one ammenity ya wouldn't want ta mess with.
It couldn't be the ciggarette thing, cause they aint allowed ta smoke here.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 03, 2008, 05:59:10 PM
OK, now that we've established how dumb I am in various other threads, I'm gonna go out on a limb and ask why the hell they'd wanna stop up the john? ??? Seems like one ammenity ya wouldn't want ta mess with.
It couldn't be the ciggarette thing, cause they aint allowed ta smoke here.
Leo
Even I know that one, they like causin' trouble and that's the reason they're in there in the first place. ;D
That crossed ma mind, but screwin with other folks is one thing. Makin yer ownself uncomfortable is just stupid.
But I guess that just proves yer point Del.
Leo
some folks are on the strange side, just look at some of the major riots over the last 30 or 40 years, somebody starts a riot and what do they do burn and destroy their own community, thier own people.
duh, hello :o
Good point OT.
I've often wondered what was goin through them peoples heads. I guess the answer is (drumroll please).........
NOTHING
"Oh, I'll get the Man good this time. I'll loot an burn that store ma neighbor owns! I'm a genious!"
Leo
nope nobody will ever have to worry about being accused of being smart in some of them places
This kinda fits, mebbe not quite but it is the music thread.
Daddy was a cop
On the East Side of Chicago
Back in the USA
Back in the bad old days
In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
And they talk about it still
When a man named Al Capone
Tried to make that town his own
And he called his gang to war
Against the forces of the law
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was
Brother, what a fight it really was
Glory be
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night the people saw
Brother, what a fight the people saw
Yes, indeed
And the sound of the battle rang
Through the streets of the old East Side
'Til the last of the hoodlum gang
Had surrendered up or died
There was shouting in the street
And the sound of running feet
And I asked someone who said
'Bout a hundred cops are dead
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was
Brother, what a fight it really was
Glory be
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night the people saw
Brother, what a fight the people saw
Yes, indeed
Then there was no sound at all
But the clock up on the wall
Then the door burst open wide
And my daddy stepped inside
And he kissed my momma's face
Then brushed her tears away
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was
Brother, what a fight it really was
Glory be
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night the people saw
Brother, what a fight the people saw
Yes, indeed
The night Chicago died
The night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was
Brother, what a fight it really was
Glory be
The night Chicago died
The night Chicago died
Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town!
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on November 03, 2008, 07:10:35 PM
nope nobody will ever have to worry about being accused of being smart in some of them places
Ones I used ta chuckle at ya'd see from time ta time in bookin'. Deputy'd tell 'em ta do sumthin', take out an ear ring 'n put it in the property tray, as an example, 'n they'd refuse. Deputy might try ta explain easy or hard to 'em, might not. But the ear ring came out.
Just the idea of em takin ma wedding ring off is enough ta keep me outta mischief. And it ain't just cause I'm sentimental.
Leo
this one ole gal I had got out before, always had a ring in her nose and a little chain ran around to a ring in her ear. she got into a scuffle going to jail one night and something hung on the chain and ripped out both ends.
I always knew that thing looked dangerous.
Trust me OT, there are worse piercing/chain combos out there. I will not go further than that.
People have become very very strange, an be sure ta tell Jackie she is very very lucky ta be out there.
Saw one of the guys with the ear/nose thing once an thought, "buddy, ya better hope ya never get in a real fight". Then I kinda hoped he would. But again, thas just me ::) The guy was at a temp agency applying fer a corporate security job. I guess McDonalds told him no. He didn't wanna do construction.
Leo
Most employers don't want employees with those items in plain sight. Folks need to project a good image with their employer. They can wear that crap when they are away from work. I wouldn't hire anybody that came dressed that way for a job interview.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 04, 2008, 04:14:39 AM
Most employers don't want employees with those items in plain sight. Folks need to project a good image with their employer. They can wear that crap when they are away from work. I wouldn't hire anybody that came dressed that way for a job interview.
ditto that( but the exclusions are foriegn persons..)<yeah some times they have more freedoms than hard working Americans :o Were not allowed visable ink.. or piercing woman must refrain to one in a ear or non visable.
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
I been a workin' man dang near all my life
I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I'll drink my beer in a tavern,
Sing a little bit of these working man blues
I keep my nose on the grindstone, I work hard every day
Might get a little tired on the weekend, after I draw my pay
But I'll go back workin, come Monday morning I'm right back with the crew
I'll drink a little beer that evening,
Sing a little bit of these working man blues
Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be
Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little beer in a tavern
Sing a little bit of these working man blues
Sometimes I think about leaving, do a little bummin around
I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town
But I go back working I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
Yeah drink a little beer in a tavern,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues
Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be
Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little beer in a tavern
Sing a little bit of these working man blues
Yeah drink a little beer in a tavern,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues
I guess having a wife who loves Merle has payed off
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 04, 2008, 04:14:39 AM
Most employers don't want employees with those items in plain sight. Folks need to project a good image with their employer. They can wear that crap when they are away from work. I wouldn't hire anybody that came dressed that way for a job interview.
Dunno 'bout the appearance 'n pokin' holes things.
Back in the day, they make us take physicals 'n get stitched up at Public Health if they were open when we needed treatment. We'd be bleedin' all over everythin' at 1300 'n stick it out 'til 1700 'fore we decided we needed treatment so we could go to a real ER.
Anyways, we were real happy when the city doctor retired. They hired a new one. An Indian, as in India, female. First time I saw her I was in pickin' up paperwork. She was wearin' a robe, sandals, a sheer veil 'n had a red dot or ruby or sumthin' stuck to her forehead.
The diversity trainin' thing didn't sink in well at all with me. Racist, bigoted, sexist, whatever, she weren't gonna werk on me. I'd quit first. Far as I knew she'd have me havin' sex with a cow or somethin' ta treat a busted finger..
Quote from: Arcey on November 04, 2008, 08:44:51 AM
. She was wearin a robe, sandals, a sheer veil n had a red dot or ruby or sumthin stuck to her forehead.
ya know them red dots are just temporary when they are teenagers, that way when they get married, the husband gets to scratch it off and see if he got a convience store or a motel :o
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on November 04, 2008, 08:57:48 AM
ya know them red dots are just temporary when they are teenagers, that way when they get married, the husband gets to scratch it off and see if he got a convience store or a motel :o
See there? I knew sumthin' weren't right. She had ta be in her forties at the time 'n it ain't been scratched off yet.
Those Indian and Pakastanny folks have flooded the hotel and motel business, especially in smaller towns.
I associate motel offices where ya check in with the smell of curry.
It's perty much a standard anymore. At least they're cheap when yer out on the road an just wanna lay yer head down. If ya want more than the little two cup packet of coffee in the mornin, the trick is ta cage it off the maid while she's pushin her cart around. Ask the manager fer some an it's usualy a no go. Ferget about askin fer a late checkout.
Leo
Leo, you learn quick about the motels. That's another part of my job that I don't miss, the staying in motels and hotels.
Back in 2007 when I went to the Horsepistol, when my Doc was out of town, the horsepistol Doc was a guy from Inia or such, told him what was wrong and he was the first hospital doc that listened, he went off duty and in the mornin' I got a dumb arse white guy and ended up tellin' him to leave and not come back, lucky my Doc got back to town a bit later, the turd I fired was gonna kick me out. My Doc got on the phone, got a good surgeon and we got the proble fixed, again.
But I must say I wasn't sure of him at first.
It's good not ta judge right off the bat, specialy when it comes ta doctors.
Just make sure ya don't look at a magazine unless ya plan on buyin it.
Leo
However a doctor the city hired or the company you work for might need more thinkin'. ;D
For awhile the County had Kaiser Permanante Insurance, You never who you were going to get for a PCP. Hate them HMO's.
HMO's on PCP? Things er gettin wierd around here.
Careful usin' the hate word 'bout them, they might sue ya.
Leo
I;m on a fixed income and that ain't much.
This just goes ta show ya ain't never too old. I swear it sounds like the original recording. I have no idea what got me thinkin about the Fleetwoods, but I'm glad I did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclkm6nsnWY&NR=1
Leo
Leo, Everytime I hear that song by Fleetwood Mac, It makes me think of Slick Willie and Hillary. Then I get sick at my stomach.
Fleetwood Mac and the Fleetwoods er two differnt animals entirely.
I hated that Don't Stop song way before Bill used it. It's just lame.
Leo
This is a facinating thread. Never thought I'd really want to shoot long range with my '73 24" 44WCF, but it is grabbing me now. Also have something to add here. Should interest those who've been hesitant to hunt with the 44wcf, thinking it is wimpy.
we looked over the ballistic charts in the Speer Manual and guesstimated the BC of the stubby bullet at .12 and the velocity at 1300 and looked at drop stats. Shot at a 12" steel plate at 50, 100, 150, 200. Then decided we needed to go every 20 yards because these bullets drop like a shotputt. Once we had a basic idea of where it was shooting, my son took it out for antelope on our ranch.
He took one at just over 200 yards, don't know who was more shocked, the antelope or him! Kind of a semi-educated Hail Mary shot.
Of interest to hunters or potential hunters - the bullet was 20-1 soft, .430 dia. to fit the rifles .429 bore, lubed with SPG, case filled with as much FFFg Goex (32 year old can of powder that saw Montana cold and heat every year) and compressed at least 1/8", Winchester Mag primer and Winchester brass. Assuming 1300 fps or slightly less? The bullet crashed through the center of a rib on one side, ripped up that sides lung, destroyed the top of the heart and aorta, went through the off side lung,went through the center of another rib and kept on going to points unknown. The animal dropped in its tracks, kicked for a while and expired.
Two days later,I took a mule deer buck, around 220 pounds body weight. 95 yards distant. Again, full through and through penetration through the rib cage breaking ribs going in and out. Bullet kept on going. It walked off 10 yards and dropped.
Don't hesitate to hunt with your 1873 or 1892.
That there song I don't remember it all.........
Me thinks it may be on the wrong thread.
He saw. It's copied o'er in the den. Was a good huntin' story.
Done it once er twice myownself. Go back later 'n wonder why yer post ain't there.
I thought I had lost it there fer a moment.
Glad ta know I'm OK. Stuff like that happens on a site as big as this one ;)
Leo
I'm OK! You're OK!
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A Fleetwood Mac song by the Dixe Chimps. :P :P :P :P
We used to have a Rock and Roll station here called KFMQ, started out doin' album rock in the Good FM days, slipped and slided, back when "Rumors" was on top of the album chart, the koke was the FM stood for Fleetwood Mac cause every other song was from Rumors. ::)
That station pretty well cured me of FM and Steely Dan, they had other music, but seldom playedit. :o
That Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow song makes me think of Hillary and Slick Willie. I get sick!
I despise Steely Dan >:(
Can't talk about it here, but groin' up, I knew where their name came from. I always gave 'em a point fer gettin away with it even though I couldn't stand the music.
Leo
Them folks can keep their Fleetwood Mac, I'll take some Southern Rock anytime.
Just ta make it clear, that link I posted wasn't a Fleetwood Mac song. It was the Fleetwoods. Kinda cheesy, but I was amazed how good they sounded all those years later.
Oh, an if yer inta guitar ya know Lindsey Buckingham of FM is one hell of a Travis picker. "Never Goin Back Again" is a work out fer the hands.
Leo
The guy is the original member, the two ladies are not. They still sound pretty good for old people.
Yeah I noticed one of the gals seemed ta have gained a foot on the other.
Leo
Those Top 40's of 40 to 50 years ago are refered to as OLDIES! Now.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 08, 2008, 04:09:47 PM
Those Top 40's of 40 to 50 years ago are refered to as OLDIES! Now.
yep and so are we >:(
Well I'll take one a them "oldies" over just about any of the crap that is out there now.
Leo
Amen, Brother Leo ::) ;D
This is for youm Leo. Sit back and relax:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHH2SNlvMEw&feature=related
Thankya Sir.
Was surprised ta hear Buddy Knox on there. Didn't know he made it ta number one.
That was great :)
Leo
Leo, Buddy Knox and the Rythem Orchids were from my home town of Dumas, Texas. Jimmy Bowen( later became a biggee in Nashville record production), Buddy Knox, Donnie Laneare, and I don't remember his first name but his last name was Steele. "Party DoLL" Jimmy's dad was our Chief of Police at the time ("Ace" Bowen). They had an Orchid and White 57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser contvertible and matching covered two wheel trailer.
When I was a youngin I had a copy of the American Grafitti soundtrack. I played Party Doll over an over. I thought he shoulda been remembered up there with Eddie Cochrane and Gene Vincent (neither of of which had a song in the movie). Everytime I hear it now I think of the Wolfman and his melting popsickles.
Leo
L'il girl's ole Daddy had a car set up ta drive.
Stole they keys one night 'n took me for a ride.
Turned up the music just as loud as it would go.
Blew out the speakers in a '47 Ford.
She was.............
OK. I messed with the lyrics. Saw a car with two street squirrels in it when I was at the grocery. Reminded me of the song. Betcha good money it belonged ta a Daddy. Them in it didn't have the talent or sense ta build it.
Who did the song 'n what was he in trainin' for when he decided ta try rock as an occupation?
A l'il Google diggin' should find it. Or ya might just know.
I doan need no Google ta answer thet one, It was sung by Eddie Money an He was a NYcity Police Officer befer he became a famous Singer
Right on the Money! :D
Leo
I remember that the Rythum Orchids made at least one appearence on the Ed Sullivan Show. I would have been about 10 years old.
"shaking"
LR, I went to a good rodeo yesterday afternoon in Dallas at the AA Center. The Stampede is the last PRCA rodeo before the NFR. They held the first NFR in Dallas 50 years ago. Moose's cousin George Williams was a saddle bronc rider back then. He traveled with Casey Tibbs and was one of Freckles Brown's pallbearers. They had a group picture of them back then on the Jumbo Tron and she saw him in the picture. We're tryin' to get a copy of it.
Quote from: litl rooster on November 10, 2008, 07:02:48 AM
"shaking"
..snappin' 'er fingers
Movin' up 'n down 'n round 'n round
That girl was shakin'
Good call, Maj.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 10, 2008, 09:46:56 AM
LR, I went to a good rodeo yesterday afternoon in Dallas at the AA Center. The Stampede is the last PRCA rodeo before the NFR. They held the first NFR in Dallas 50 years ago. Moose's cousin George Williams was a saddle bronc rider back then. He traveled with Casey Tibbs and was one of Freckles Brown's pallbearers. They had a group picture of them back then on the Jumbo Tron and she saw him in the picture. We're tryin' to get a copy of it.
scan it if you get a copy, I would sure like to see it....one of my former bosses was also runnin' with Freckles Brown. Use to be the last rodeo before the NFR was the Cow Palace. The NFR is only reason we keep a cable hook up.
After George quit ridin' he did some stunt work and doubled JW in the "Cowboys" and some other movies.
This don't make no sense...
A bunch of folks in the music biz were asked ta vote the top one hundred singers of the rock'n'roll era. Though I was pleased ta see that Vegas Jumpsuit Boy didn't make number 1, the results are strange. I'll give it up fer Ray Charles, but there's a lot in here that just aint right.
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61852568
I have no interest at all in seeing the complete list that is coming out on Friday. They can keep it.
Leo
Michael Jackson is 50? That's SCARY!
is that his age or the age of some of the parts he's using?
It's a great country. Only in America can a poor, cute, l'il black boy grow up to be a rich, ugly, ole white woman.
dang it got clean the monitor off again
Gonna start today with one o' my favorites ;D
Listened to it on the way home.
God Must Be A Cowboy
A campfire, some coffee from a tin cup
In my hand
Sure warms the fingers when it’s cold
A’playin’ an old guitar, a friend I
Understand
Sure smooths the wrinkles in my soul
A’sleepin’ in the moonlight, a blanket for
My bed
Leaves a peaceful feelin’ in my mind
Wakin’ up in the morning with an
Eagle overhead
Makes me want to fly away before
My time
(Chorus)
And I think God must be a cowboy at heart
He made wide-open spaces from the start
He made grass and trees and mountains
And a horse to be a friend
And trails to lead old cowboys home again
Night life and big cities is alright
For awhile
Sure makes you feel good when you’re there
But the country’s so pretty it goes
On and on for miles
Takes away my troubles and my cares
(Repeat chorus)
And trails to lead old cowboys home again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UP26qH9Jc
always liked Dan Seals
That's a good un! Looks like maybe Wyo. on Montana. Pretty country though. Some old hands in those pictures.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 13, 2008, 03:31:56 PM
That's a good un! Looks like maybe Wyo. on Montana. Pretty country though. Some old hands in those pictures.
at the .49 second mark there is a contraption known and a Beavehead hay stacker. they are the what ya'll see and remember in the Big Hole river country of Montana, that and the hugh hay stacks dotting the pastures. While your staring at em keep one eye on the road since cattle free graze there
I believe that was taken somewhere near Wisdom and Jackson Mt.
I've spent a little time in Montana and a lot of time in Wyo. Beautiful country in the Summer and early fall, no place to be in winter time.
This song has ties to that area also
Country music singers
have always been a real close family
but lately some of my kin folks
have disowned a few others and me
i guess its because
i kinda changed my direction
i guess i went and broke the family tradition
they get on me wanna know Hank
why do you drink?
(Hank) why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
over and over
everybody made my prediction
so if i get stoned
I'm just carryin'
on an old family tradition
I am very proud
of my daddys name
although his kinda music
and mine ain't exactly the same
stop and think it over
put yourself in my position
if i get stoned and sing all night long
it's a family tradition
Don't ask me Hank
why do you drink?
(Hank) why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
If I'm down in a Honky-Tonk
Some ol' slicks tryin to give me corrections
I'll say leave me alone
I'm singin all night long
it's a family tradition
Lordy, I have loved some ladies
and I have loved Jim Beam
and they both tried to kill me
in 1973
when that doctor asked me
Son how did you get in this condition
I said hey sawbones I'm just carryin on
an old family tradition
So don't ask me Hank
why do you drink?
(Hank) why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs you wrote?
Stop and think it over
Try and put yourself in my unique position
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition!
LR, I've drank a lot of Jim Beam, but never enough to want climb no mountain.
The power of a good buzz :o
That mountain is located there
I woke up with this song going through my head...wonder what that means?
I wish a buck was still silver and it was back when the country was strong.
Back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
Before the Beatles and yesterday when a man could still work and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good ?
Are we rollin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the flag or the liberty bell?
I wish a Ford or a Chevy would still last ten years like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.
Before Microwave ovens when a girl could still cook, and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good ?
Are we rollin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the flag or the liberty bell?
I wish a Ford or a Chevy would still last ten years like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good?
Stop rollin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell.
Standup for the flag, and let's all ring the liberty bell.
Let's make a Ford and a Chevy that'll still last ten years like they should...
The best of the free life is still yet to come and the good times ain't really
But Major, don't ya know all the Obama crew is singin this one.
There's a big, brown cloud in the city,
And the countryside's a sin.
An' the price of life is too high to give up,
Gotta come down again.
When the world wide war is over and done,
And the dream of peace comes true.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' that rainbow stew.
When they find out how to burn water,
And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel,
And the satellite heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up,
And the sun comes shinin' through.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
An' eatin' that rainbow stew.
Eatin' rainbow stew in a silver spoon,
Underneath that sky of blue.
All be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
An' eatin' that rainbow stew.
Instrumental break.
You don't have to get high to get happy,
Just think about what's in store.
When people start doin' what they oughta be doin',
Then they won't be booin' no more.
When a President goes through the White House door,
An' does what he says he'll do.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' that rainbow stew.
Eatin' rainbow stew in a silver spoon,
Underneath that sky of blue.
We'll all be drinkin' that free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' some rainbow stew.
Eatin' rainbow stew in a silver spoon,
Underneath that sky of blue.
All be drinkin' that free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' rainbow stew.
And something more light hearted:
He's free as the breeze
He's always at ease
He lives in the jungle and hangs by his knees
As he swings through the trees
With a trapeze in his B.V.D.s
He's got a union card and he's practicing hard
To play, the guitar, gonna be a big star
Yeah, he's gonna go far
And carry moonbeams home in a jar
He ordered Chet's guitar course C.O.D.
Like A and E and he's working on B
Big W&W and R&B and even the chimpanzees agree
That someday soon he'll be a celebrity
Get it, get it, get it.
Gitarzan, he's a gitar man
He's all you can stand
Give him a hand, gitarzan
He's got a girl named Jane
With no last name
Kinda homely and plain
But he loves her just the same
Cause she kindles the flame
And it drives him insane
When he hears her say
She really does her thing
It's her claim to fame
Come on sing one Jane
Baby, baby, oh baby
Baby, oh baby
(How about that folks)
They've got a pet monkey who likes
To get drunk and sing boogie woogie
And it sounds real funky
Come on your turn boy
Sing one monkey
Let's hear it for the monkey
On Saturday night they need some excitement
Jane gets right and the monkey gets tight
And their voices unite
In the pale moonlight
And it sounds all right
Yeah, it's dynamite, it's out of sight
Let's hear it right now
Baby, baby oh baby
Yeah, shut up baby, I'm trying to sing
Get it, get it, get it
Gitarzan, he's a gitar man
He's all you can stand
Give him a hand, gitarzan
You guys have picked some good songs, Hank JR, Merle, and Ray Stevens. I've been lucky enough to see them in person. I've seen Hank JR and Merle a couple of times. I saw Ray at Branson.
here's one I heard on my trip to the Doc's today hadn't heard in a while
Darlin´Companion
Come on and give me understandin´
And let me be your champion
The hand to hold your pretty handin´
Darlin´Companion
Now you know you´ll never be abandoned
Love will always light our landin´
I can depend on you
Darlin´Companion
Heaven knows where we´ll be landin´
Just as long as we keep laughin´
Keep in mind just what´s worth havin´
Darlin´Companion
I´ll tell the mountains and the canyons
As long as I got legs to stand on
I´m gonna run to you
Mmm, a flossy mare like you should have a steed
Mmm, a little bridlin´down with me is what you need
Darlin´Companion
Come on and give me understandin´
And let me be your champion
The hand to hold your pretty handin´
Darlin´Companion
Now you know you´ll never be abandoned
Love will always light our landin´
I can depend on you
LR, that's pretty good. Everybody needs a bridlin' down once in awhile.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 18, 2008, 06:26:15 PM
LR, that's pretty good. Everybody needs a bridlin' down once in awhile.
ya know this is what ya end up with if ya get to much inta that gettin bridlin down
They say to have her hair done Liz flies all the way to France
And Jackie's seen in a discotheque doin' a brand new dance
And the White House social season should be glittering and gay
But here in Topeka the rain is a fallin'
The faucet is a drippin' and the kids are a bawlin'
One of them a toddlin' and one is a crawlin' and one's on the way
I'm glad that Raquel Welch just signed a million dollar pact
And Debbie's out in Vegas workin' up a brand new act
While the TV's showin' Newlyweds a real fun game to play
But here in Topeka the screen door's a bangin'
The coffee's boilin' over and the wash needs a hangin'
One wants a cookie and one wants a changin' and one's on the way
Now what was I doin' Jimmy get away from there darn there goes the phone
Hello honey what's that you say you're bringin' a few ole buddies home
You're callin' from a barn get away from there
No not you honey I was talkin' to the baby wait a minute honey the door bell
Honey could you stop at the market and hello hello well I'll be
The girls in New York City they all march for women's lib
And Better Homes and Gardens shows the modern way to live
And the pill may change the world tomorrow but meanwhile today
Here in Topeka the flies are a buzzin'
The dog is a barkin' and the floor needs a scrubbin'
One needs a spankin' and one needs a huggin' Lord one's on the way
Oh gee I hope it ain't twins again
Hey, Loretta, I love you more than my irish setter.
I usually turn off my radio and heater when I pull in Ranero del Doublewide...but the live version of this with Eric Clapton playing the lead in was on,
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
this could be heaven or this could be hell
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the captain,
please bring me my wine
He said, we havent had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the masters chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just cant kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
Classic Eagles!
Have ta agree with the last two lines.
Instead of a bear on the state flag it should show a bear trap.
Leo
The long version of that song is great.
Ask Slim if we can post that one word here. ;D ::)
Hey Del, What's the word?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 21, 2008, 05:46:32 PM
Hey Del, What's the word?
Check yer PM's, I ain't gonna get my mouth washed out with lye soap. ;D
I see what you mean!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 21, 2008, 06:09:24 PM
I see what you mean!
Maybe we should all hit the "Report to Moderator" button. ;D
I don't wanna overload the circuits.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 21, 2008, 06:12:59 PM
I don't wanna overload the circuits.
It would go to Cammie also, she'd either kill us or litl rooster. ;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 21, 2008, 05:46:32 PM
Hey Del, What's the word?
Don't you know? Haven't you heard? Everybody knows...
Sorry, had ta do that. ;D
cut n paste and you can still get in trouble......
Now that I know the dreaded word, I will not mention it again. I don't wanna upset the Moderator or anybody else.
Well it tis a medical term, kinda like the V and P words. ;D
I recieve no residuals for the lyric's...
don't shoot me I'm just the pi-anny player
I think there is gonna be a lot of residue when Slim sees what ya posted. ;D
litl rooster posted a naughty word
tad L tail :P
Shes totally committed
To major independence
But shes a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle
All that they can handle
Shell bruise some
Shell hurt some too
But oh they love to watch her strut
Oh they do respect her but
They love to watch her strut
Sometimes theyll want to leave her
Just give up and leave her
But they would never play that scene
In spite of all her talking
Once she starts in walking
The lady will be all they ever dreamed
Oh theyll love to watch her strut
Oh theyll kill to make the cut
They love to watch her strut
Yeah love to watch her strut
Watch her strut
Quote from: Delmonico on November 22, 2008, 09:49:27 AM
I think there is gonna be a lot of residue when Slim sees what ya posted. ;D
litl rooster posted a naughty word
Never mind, close, but wrong spelling. ;D
See now, ZZ Top knew how ta make a good play on words. They knew how ta get the point across and still make the airwaves.
Leo
yes i realize it now...made me watch Zorro again..............like seein' Katherine Zita-Jones is wrong
I may go blind tomorrow but what a way to go!
Leo, take it from fellas that been watchin that sort of stuff fer as long as you are old, you won't go blind, but you may need glasses when ya get older. ;D now where's ma readin glasses.
Off Topic, but the little woman is taking me to see Alan Jackson and Trace Adkins tomorrow nite.
And don't tell her but I bought her Neal Diamond tix for Christmas. (don't ask it is a looooong story) but the other nite one of them jewlery store commercials was on talking about getting Diamonds for Christmas, I turned to her and said" well, you might be gettin Diamonds for Christmas!" I thought that was pretty funny...
now I gotta keep my trap shut til Christmas...
curley
Curley!
How dare ya go off topic in a Tall Tales thread :o
Hope that Neil Diamond thing works out fer ya. He's always had a way with the ladies, I hear he's one heck of a performer live. Enjoy the Allan Jackson show, I hear he's great on stage as well.
Leo
Leo
The story behind the Diamond tickets, is that when GramaPhylls and I were just starting to date (some 21 years ago) I had already gotten Tix to seen ND. (I had promised the girl i was dating I would take her to see him. I went to a ticket agency and put a deposit on a concert that hadn't even been booked (this was a year in advance.) well, I honored my commitment to take her and of course GP was pretty jealous, but she down deep understood that I was honoring a prior commitment.) So now 22 years later I am making good on it.(But back then he was appearing at the Greek Theatre in LA (for those not familar with it the Greek is an outdoor shell in Griffith Park. ) It was where they did most of "Hot August NIte"....
So, will let ya know how ol Alan is. (I am wishin that he would bring Ol Jimmy Buffet out...but that is probably wishful thinkin)
nite to the fire
curley
Cracklin rosie, get on board
Were gonna ride till there aint no more to go
Taking it slow
Lord, dont you know
Have made me a time with a poor mans lady
Hitchin on a twilight train
Aint nothing here that I care to take along
Maybe a song
To sing when I want
Dont need to say please to no man for a happy tune
Oh, I love my rosie child
You got the way to make me happy
You and me, we go in style
Cracklin rose, youre a store bought woman
You make me sing like a guitar hummin
So hang on to me, girl
Our song keeps runnin on
Play it now
Play it now, my baby
Cracklin rosie, make me a smile
Girl if it lasts for an hour, thats al right
We got all night
To set the world right
Find us a dream that dont ask no questions, yeah
Oh, I love my rosie child
You got the way to make me happy
You and me, we go in style
Cracklin rose, youre a store-bought woman
You make me sing like a guitar hummin
So hang on to me, girl
Our song keeps runnin on
Play it now
Play it now
Play it now, my baby
Cracklin rosie, make me a smile
Girl if it lasts for an hour, thats all right
We got all night
To set the world right
Find us a dream that dont ask no question, yeah
Pack up the Babies and grab the Ol' Ladies!
This was a favorite in my batchelor days. Chris Issac does a good job on it too.
Melinda was mine
'Til the time
That I found her
Holding Jim
Loving Him
Then Sue came along
Loved me strong
That's what I thought
Me and Sue
But that died too
Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man
I've had it to here
Bein' where
Love's a small word
Part-time thing
Paper ring
I know it's been done
Havin' one
Girl who'll love me
Right or wrong
Weak or strong
Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man
Mr. Cash does a good cover of it also, from about 1999.
Curley, I hope you had a good time at the Alan Jackson/Trace Atkins show. You'll score big points with your better half with the Neil Diamond tickets.
heard a good en this morning, hadn't heard it in a while
How old was I when I first seen old Rivers?
I can't remember when he weren't around
Well, that old fellow did a heap of work
Spent his whole life walking plowed ground.
He had a one-room shack not far from us
And well, we was about as poor as him
He had one old mule he called Midnight
And I'd trailed along after them.
He used to plow them rows straight and deep
And I'd come along near behind
A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet
Old Rivers was a friend of mine.
That sun'd get high and that mule would work
Till old Rivers'd say, ''Whoa!''
He'd wipe his brow, lean back on the reins
And talk about a place he was gonna go.
Chorus:
He'd say, one of these days
I'm gonna climb that mountain
Walk up there amoung the clouds
Where the cotton's high
And the corn's a-growin'
And there ain't no fields to plow.
--- Instrumental ---
I got a letter today from the folks back home and
They're all fine and crops is dry
Down at the end my mama said, ''Son
You know old Rivers died.''
Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth
Trying to find me a little shade
With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see
That mule, old Rivers and me.
Chorus:
Now, one of these days
I'm gonna climb that mountain
Walk up there amoung the clouds
Where the cotton's high
And the corn's a-growin'
And there ain't no fields to plow.
With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see
That mule, old Rivers and me...
Well i used to wake the morning
before the rooster crowed
searchin for soda bottles, to get myself some dough
run em down to the corner
down to the country store
cash em in and give my money to a man named curtis lowe
old Curt was a black man
with white, curly hair
when he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care
he used to own an old dobro
used to play 'coss his knee
I'd give old curt my money and he'd play all day for me
Chorus:
Play me a song Curtis Lowe, hey Curtis Lowe
I got your drinkin money,
tune up your dobro,
people said he was useless, them people all were fools,
'cause Curtis Lowe was the finest picker to ever play the blues
He looked to be sixty, and maybe i was 10
Mama used to whoop me, but i'd go see him again
I'd clap my hands and stomp my feet just tryin to stay in time
he'd play me a song or two then take another drink a wine
Chorus
On the day old Curtis died nobody came to pray
old preacher said some words and they chunked him in the clay
well he lived a lifetime playin the black man's blues
and on the day he lost his life that's all he had to lose
Play me a song Curtis Lowe, hey Curtis Lowe
I wish that you was here so everyone would know
people said he was useless, them people all were fools
'cause Curtis Lowe was the finest picker to ever play the blues
Walter Brennan and Lynard Skynard, now that's both ends of the spectrum!
let's add one more to the mix. it's Trinity's favorite
[chorus]
Mama said, "Don't go near that river"
"Don't be hanging round old Catfish John"
Come the morning I'd always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Take me back to another morning
To a time so long ago
When the sweet magnolia blossomed
Cotton fields were white as snow
Catfish John was a river hobo
Lived and died by the river's bend
Looking back I still remember
I was proud to be his friend
[chorus]
Born a slave in the town of Richmond
Traded for a chestnut mare
Lord, he never spoke in anger
Though his load was hard to bear
[chorus]
[chorus]
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Alan Jackson show was great. New forum here in Ontario CA. Not a bad seat in the house. At the end of the show, he did a video of all the local sites (the In and Out burger stand got a hoot.) and the Okland Raiders helmet got a boot! It was a neat touch I had never seen in a concert.... This was the last show of the tour, and he had something like 5 tractor-trailer rigs, and about 5 tour buses....they waz traveling in style.
anyways a good show. Now gotta worry the old lady don't decide to buy us Diamond tickets...
curley
Well if ya end up with two pairs give a holler. I'm sure we can move the extras right fast.
Leo
Curtis Lowe is my favoritizes Syknrd song
Leo
now that can work. I was sitting at the concert, and while my wife was gone I waz chattin with a cute blond sitting next to me (on the other side) Anyways I guess you can tell I am married.....she and I were talkin about ways to surprise the wife with the concert tix. But, it sure had her guessin when she came back and I waz laffin it up with the girl next to me. (course in my "yout" I got in a good deal of trouble thata way.
and now ai gotta get out a Skinner cd, and play it....
nite all
curley
I believe Curtis Lowe is on Second Helping. Could be wrong, but it seems right.
Beware them random blondes Curley, more trouble than they's worth ;D
Leo
Ya can't go wrong with Skynard anytime. Good Ol' southern ROCK!, with a little ZZ Top on the side.
Well then we'll do another favorite a mine.
Life is so strange when its changin, yes indeed
Well Ive seen the hard times and the pressures been on me
But I keep on workin like the workin man do
And Ive got my act together, gonna walk all over you
(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put em back where they belong
Aint foolin around cause I done had my fun
Aint gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back my bullets
Sweet talkin people done ran me out of town
And I drank enough whiskey to float a battleship around
But Im leavin this game one step ahead of you
And you will not hear me cry cause I do not sing the blues
(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put em back where they belong
Aint foolin around cause I done had my fun
Aint gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh, put em back... where they belong
Been up and down since I turned seventeen
Well Ive been on top, and then it seems I lost my dream
But I got it back, Im feelin better everyday
Tell all those pencil pushers, better get out of my way
(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put em back where they belong
Aint foolin around, cause I done had my fun
Aint gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh put em back where they belong
Gimme back my bullets
OH YES! Gimme back my bullets!
And yer side dish.
Well I was rollin' down the road in some cold blue steel,
I had a bluesman in the back, and a beautician at the wheel.
We're going downtown in the middle of the night
We was laughing and I'm jokin' and we feelin' alright.
Oh I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Yes I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Easin' down the highway in a new Cadillac,
I had a fine fox in front, I had three more in the back.
They sportin' short dresses, wearin' spike-heeled shoes,
They smokin' Lucky Strikes, wearing nylon too.
Welcome back, we're nationwide.
Yeah we bad, we're nationwide.
Well I was movin' down the road in my V-8 Ford,
I had a shine on my boots, I had my sideburns lowered.
With my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed,
Nobody give me trouble cause they know I got it made.
I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Girl I'm bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, I'm nationwide
OH YES!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 25, 2008, 12:16:28 PM
OH YES! Gimme back my bullets!
from the same group that sang "Saturday night special"?
Gimme sumpin' to shoot with besides a Saturday Night Special.
Got yer carry permit under 218 yet?
Ain't shot the baby Glock in I don't remember when. Gottah requalify in January 'n that's comin' up quick.
I gotta go to the range and qualify for 09. I had a CCP at one time , but I let it expire. I'm thinkin' about goin' back and gettin' it renewed. The renewal lasts for 5 years.
Look o'er 218. Ya gottah requalify at a DCJS approved facility e'er year but it exempts ya from all state 'n local laws. Ya can carry anywhere in the US 'n possessions. It's federal.
I need to check with Training anyway to get a certificate for my update classes.
Here's a new... er... classic
They wanna hear the thanksgiving song! all right...
This is uhh, this is the thanksgiving song
I hope you enjoy it.
[starts playing]
Love to eat turkey
Love to eat turkey
Shout from crowd: I love you adam!
Adam sandler: ohhh, I love you!
Love to eat turkey
cause its good
Love to eat turkey
Like a good boy should
cause its turkey to eat
So good
Adam sandler: that clappin's messing my head up man. I appreciate it. but I was trying to think of the next line and all I hear is clapping. here we go... thanks anyways
Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Lets eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe
Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With betty grable
Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million elvis fans
Cant be wrong
Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey
Then I take a nap
Thanksgiving is a special night
Jimmy walker used to say dynomite
Thats right
Turkey with gravy and cranberry
Cant believe the mets traded darryl strawberry
Turkey for you and
Turkey for me
Cant believe tyson
Gave that girl v.d.
White meat, dark meat
You just cant lose
I fell off my moped
And I got a bruise
Turkey in the oven
And the buns in the toaster
Ill never take down
My cheryl tiegs poster
Wrap the turkey up
In aluminum foil
My brother likes to masturbate
With baby oil
Turkey and sweet potato pie
Sammy davis jr.
Only had one eye
Turkey for the girls and
Turkey for the boys
My favorite kind of pants
Are corduroys
Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel
Oh I love turkey on thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving everybody!
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Trinman, pushin the envelope with the Adam Sandler.
Trinster, gettin risque on the song thread.
Triner Van Trinerstien...
Be sure to give us the Hannaka <sp?> song in about a month. It's a hoot too.
An yes, I have permission ta do Rob Shnieder impressions.
Leo
For Thanksgiving we ought to put up the following:
You can get anything you want at Alices Resturant
But I dont think I am up to transcribing all them verses..
But you get the idea, sitting on the group W bench...
Happy Turkey day
curley
CC back in the day it was penned,we transcribed. Nowadays we cut n paste...but what the heck what woulf Thanksgivin' be without Arlo
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our's down.
That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."
And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.
Came to talk about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Didn't feel too good about it.
Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.
With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.
So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.
We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.
All right now.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Da da da da da da da dum
At Alice's Restaurant
Such is Life, according to Arlo. LR, What about asking Arlo to be your running mate in 2012.
Curley, I think the Tall Tales board IS the group W bench.
The words er a a little different in Roo's post than the one I got. I imagine it's hard ta do that one the same way everytime. How he could remember all that in first place is beyond me. Definately a Thanksgiving classic.
Leo
Just remembered, the local radio station plays it at noon every thanksgiving. Think I'll tune in :D
Leo
Leo, That will give you some time to listen in between Lunch and Dessert.
Yep. It's over now, they have the same version I do where they was playin with the pencils at the group W bench. Some channel usualy shows the movie taday too but I never enjoyed it as much as jus hearin the song.
Poor ole officer Obie doin all that investigatin an gettin nowhere.
Leo
We ARE the Group W bench, hehehehe I LIKE that.
The version I know was the original recording, as I still have the original recording, and I have the movie soundtrack...
Thanksgiving just aint right without Arlo.
Happy Turkey day
curley
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I stand corrected.
I musta skimmed right over that the first time around. Got distracted by all that food ::)
Leo
Leo, You are excused.
BTW, most don't know it, but Arlo and Officer Obie became very good friends that lasted till Officer Obie passed on.
The church where Alice and Ray lived, now owned by Arlo and used as a museum and a meeting place for public events.
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The Resteraunt.
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Arlo is gettin' old.
Today:
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Then.
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Wow, neat pitchures Del. I'm sure Woody is very proud a his son even though he did that song 'bout flyin inta Los Angeleese.
The man an his story of the masacre are now ferever icons in Americana.
Leo
I heard Arlo talkin on something about Woody once, he said when they got money and moved to New York, he went to a school where they sang this land is your land every morning, one morning the teacher asked Arlo why he wasn't singin, she asked him if he didn't know the words or what was the matter,
he told her yes he knew the words, his father had written the song, teacher didin't believe him, sent him to the principal, Principal didn't believe him, almost kicked him out of school before they finally found out the wasn't lying.
but ma favorite of Woody's is Oklahoma Hills, saw once where it was the most requested song in California in 1932, lots of Okies went west durin the Depression.
Many a month has come and gone
Since I've wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills
Where I was born
Many a page of my life has turned
Many lessons I have learned
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong
CHORUS:
Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ridin' my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
Way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born
But as I sit here today
Many mile's I am away
From the place I rode my pony
Through the draw
Where the oak and black-jack trees
Kiss the playful prairie breeze
And I feel back in those hills
Where I belong
CHORUS
Now as I turn life a page
To the land of the great Osage
In those Oklahoma hills
Where I was born
Where the black oil rolls and flows
And the snow white cotton grows
And I feel like in those hills
Where I belong
Del, It's one of my favorites as well. Hank Thompson does a purty fare rendition of it too. I got to meet Hank years ago when I was working off-duty at a CW club that was opne on the weekends. Hank lived up in Okla. somewhere just north of the Red. He would used the house band at the club. I still like to hear those old songs about Oklahoma even though I'm not an Okie by birth. The term OKIE was dubbed because of all of them that migrated to CA. during the "Dust Bowl".
My ex wife's granma was from OK. She said in her day bein called an Okie was just as bad as any other racial slur. Sometimes when we'd be out in public she'd think she overheared someone sayin it an get real mad. It took some convincin ta get her calmed down.
Leo
some of my mom's side of the family, Coles, went out there, some of em came back years later, several of em stayed and prospered, they have a big Cole gathering every summer out by Medesto. I think my Uncle said last year there were 400 -500 people there.
That's where they shot American Grafitti. You can still recognize alot of it from the movie.
Leo
I was out there years ago to see their farms, I think there's only one of the ones I know still alive, one of my Mom's cousins. years and years ago, he and his mother would come back to visit my grandmother, he used to come ever year back to Oklahoma and visit, guess he got just too old to make the trip. Bullet Cole was his name, don't remember what his real first name was, never heard em call him anything but Bullet, he raised onions and what ever other vegatables, just outside Dos Palace
OT, Gene just sang Oklahoma Hills on my tune box, (Radio cut) Also told me to chew Wrigleys Spearmint gum. :)
Gene was born in Texas but spent a lot of time in Oklahoma before he became famous. They named a town after him and they have a museum for him and they have a Gene Autry festival every year. One time when I was on a trip to LA, I went to the Western Heritage Museum that he opened. It was great.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on November 29, 2008, 04:44:29 PM
Gene was born in Texas but spent a lot of time in Oklahoma before he became famous. They named a town after him and they have a museum for him and they have a Gene Autry festival every year. One time when I was on a trip to LA, I went to the Western Heritage Museum that he opened. It was great.
Bruce Dillman, the guy in charge of the feasable was a friend and customer till he passed on about two years ago.
It's really not that far from here to go up there. I am ashamed to say that I have never been. I am planning to go this coming year, now that I'm retired. Del, Would you look at my signature and see if I got that Lyric from Ian's song right.The one we talked about at the Muster
I had no irons in the fire
They have a Jamboree up there in June and a Film Festival and Cowboy poetry in September near Gene's Birthday(29th?). It only takes a couple of hours to drive up there. I may go up there in June and September.
Ozark Traker
Do any of your Cole kin hail from the Mass. area? My real name is Anthony Cole. All my kin are from Lynn and Peabody Ma. My pappy was named Willard Cole, and he sorta "got around"
My daughter in law has done a lot of research and we got the Coles back to about 1780. And some of them were from New York...
small world.
Its a small world its a small small world......Now that tune will be stuck in yer head all day....
nite
curley
My real name is Bill Cole and I'm from Texas but have no relatives we ever talked about from Mass.
My great grand parents moved to Texas from Alabama, story is the earlier ones had moved there from Georiga and before that from Virginia.
There is a big family of Coles in Maryland so I'm told.
Really strange thing is Ozark Tracker and my family have the same picture of a relative.
Curley, most of my Coles were in Missouri by the later 1800's then on in to Oklahoma by the turn of the Century, I don't remember any from Mass.
I remember reading in one of the books that my uncle researched, some of the first of our Coles, had a brother I think that was in New Jersey, I'd have to get the book out to see for sure what the names and years were.
OT, What part of Texas?
Ten, this is the picture we were talkin about isn't it?
My Granddad Cole is on the horse in the back on the left.
That's the one OT.
You Cole's get around.
is the guy standing behind the wagon releiving himself?
:o may be, that may be the reason everybody's lookin over this way, givin him some priviacy ;)
That's mighty thoughtful of them.
I'm sure my drive home had some inspration to this one
Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
C'mon stink!
You got it!
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven
LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 02, 2008, 07:06:15 AM
LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.
Like this one from one of yer fella Texicans
Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick
But back again it grows.
Well, ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick,
But back again it grows.
When its cotton picking time in texas,
Boys, its booger picking time for ben.
Hed raise that finger mean and hostile
Stick it in that waitin nostril,
Here he comes with a green one once again.
All right, pick it, eric!
Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick,
But back again it grows.
Everybody!
Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose,
He picked and picked till it made you sick
But back again it grows.
This should put a smile on Delmonico face today, and make him happier contending with the Hliday cheer at work
LR, I can identify with Ol' Ben Lucas when I get up in the morning.
Fer some reason, Dead Skunk reminded me of this one from Spade Cooley. I have no idea why. I think the station my dad listened to when I was a kid had a program that played em both. Haven't thought of it in years...
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign
Headed down life's crooked road, lots of things I never knowed
Because of me not knowin', I now pine
Trouble got in the trail, spent the next 5 years in jail
Should have read (should have read) that detour sign
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign
When I got right to the place where it said "About Face"
I thought that all my worries were behind
But the farther I go, more sorrow I know
Should have read (should have read)
That detour sign
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign
When I got stuck in the mud all my hopes dropped with a thud
I guess that my heart strings are made of twine
Have no willpower to get from the hole that I'm in yet
Should have read (should have read) that detour sign
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign
Should have read that detour sign
Should have read that detour sign (that detour sign)
Leo, Did you know that Spade did some B Westerns back then?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 02, 2008, 07:06:15 AM
LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.
The Dead Skunk guy Louden Wainwright the III was also the guy with the guitar on the first season of MASH. Wrote and did some really good songs, but that is te one he's known for. ::)
He sings another one in some of the episodes about Tokyo.
My oh my. One the talk shows used this fer bumper music. Bet I ain't heard it since I was a kid.
Rain dripping off the brim of my hat
Sure is cold today
Here I am'a walking down sixty-six
Wish she hadn't done me that way
Sleeping under a table at a road side park
A man could wake up dead
But it sure seems warmer than it did
Sleepin in our king size bed
Is anybody goin to San Antone
Or Pheonix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her
Wind whipping down the neck of my shirt
Like I aint got nothing on
But I'd rather fight the wind and rain
Than what I've been fighting at home
Yonder comes a truck with the US Mail
People writing letters back home
Tomorrow she'll probably want me back
But I'll still be just as gone
Is anybody goin to San Antone
Or Pheonix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her
Anyplace is alright as long as I
forget I've ever known her
I had a Charlie Pride 8 Track with that one it that played till I wore the tape out.
Get a sydicated oldies show on the one station Sundays 7-10 both amm and pm, they run it twice. Can't think of the guys name, but he runs that one once in a while.
I can remember when they'd have a Charley Pride song, he'd be introduced as cousin Charley Pride, not quite sure who's cousin he was, but I always liked his singing.
we got a tractor with a cab in 73, it had a radio, so 8 or 10 hours a day I'd listen to it, knew all the words to all those songs during that time, just drive and sing along ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on December 02, 2008, 06:20:56 PM
Get a sydicated oldies show on the one station Sundays 7-10 both amm and pm, they run it twice. Can't think of the guys name, but he runs that one once in a while.
Big John...cain't think of his last name Montana use to listen to him
Del your right about MASH... I think even play bit parts in it.
I've got XM in my wife's car and one of my pickups. We've got Sirius on the DishNetwork in the house. I enjoy listening to the old country music.
I like putting on Willie's Stardust album now an again. It aint old country, but it's Willie doin old standards the way only he can. It come out in the early 80's sometime, dern good stuff.
Leo
Willie's "Stardust" album was one of his better selling ones. I've been listenin' to Willie since the early 60's when he wore a turtleneck and a sportcoat. He had a crew cut back then too.
Whereas the first time I saw him he had long dirty hair with braids an dressed like a bum. First time I saw him perform his guitar had a ragged hole punched in it. Still sounded good. That was either when the first Waylon an Willie came out er Poncho an Lefty, whichever one came first.
Leo
Before I retired he played the Norva. I was out walkin' at lunch 'n he was standin' on the sidewalk on Monticello Ave. watchin' the roadies unload gear. The man was filthy 'n stunk ta high heaven.
The tax man musta takin away all his change fer the coin-op washateria. ::)
Sorry Willie, it's just too easy.
Leo
More Arlo: ;D
Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight
And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight
What the dollar used to get us now won't buy a head of lettuce
No the economic forecast isn't right
But amidst the clouds I spot a shining ray
I can even glimpse a new and better way
And I've devised a plan of action worked it down to the last fraction
And I'm going into action here today
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker
What they did for Iacocca
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a million grand out
I'll be standing with my hand out
Yes sire I'll get mine
When my creditors are screaming for their dough
I'll be proud to tell them all where they can all go
They won't have to scream and holler
They'll be paid to the last dollar
Where the endless streams of money seem to flow
I'll be glad to tell them what they can do
It's a matter of a simple form or two
It's not just renumeration it's a liberal education
Ain't you kind of glad that I'm in debt to you
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker
What they did for Iacocca
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a million grand out
I'll be standing with my hand out
Yes sire I'll get mine
Since the first amphibians crawled out of the slime
We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it's sad that failure is an awful crime
Well it's been that way for a millenium or two
But now it seems that there's a different point of view
If you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic
Down to congress there's a safety net for you
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker
What they did for Iacocca
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a million grand out
I'll be standing with my hand out
Yes sire I'll get mine
What year did that one come out Del? He coulda wrote it last week.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 03, 2008, 06:41:22 PM
What year did that one come out Del? He coulda wrote it last week.
Leo
Late 70's, when ever they bailed Chrysler out then. ;D
Leo, Willie's guitar is named "Trigger" and it is a Martin. He's just played it for so long that he wore a hole it. The extra hole in the guitar gives it a distinctive sound.
I was always surprised that after all his years in the country genre he never switched ta a steel string guitar an kept the classical style nylon. It is a big part of his sound, but unusual in his field. The classicals have the strings spaced much wider apart and are easier on the left hand fingers for a beginner. They aint made ta be played with a pick, but I don't think I ever saw Willie break a string.
Leo
Willie's style is distinctly unusual. I can always tell when it's him playing.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kDPiVlO5BFs&feature=related
Enjoy, besides, MMM and Suzy Boggus, you'll see Don Edwards and Waddie Mitchell.
Shouldn't that read MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm...Suzy Bogguss :o :o :o
Well, Maj, it's good ta see them glasses a yers er workin fine ;D
Leo
It's hard to tell Waddie Mitchell from Too Slim of "Riders in The Sky".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 06, 2008, 06:28:48 AM
It's hard to tell Waddie Mitchell from Too Slim of "Riders in The Sky".
T'ain't either, Waddie always wears a black hat with white ribbon and binding, never saw Too Slim with one. :)
good pic Del....mainstream nashville don't wanted push 'm to the radio stations..
Nuthin' wrong with the majers eyes......... Suzie is up there with Emmy Lou....and they sing like angels too
Del, I was talkin' about their voices. Leo, One of my wife's teacher friend went to school together with Emmie Lou. Her dad and Emmie Lou's dad were in the Marine Corps together. Her dad knew Bill Jordan also. Bill was an Ol ' Marine.
Ahh, the air is filled with Christmas music...
So I'm gonna duck in here an hide ;D Go ta my happy place 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BGc416XdM
Leo
Leo, I like the Brian Setzer version better ;D
Quote from: Major E A Sterner on December 17, 2008, 06:48:10 PM
Leo, I like the Brian Setzer version better ;D
Saw him do it live when the Stray Cats were still tagether. Don't think he ever recorded it til he got his orchastra. I was a HUGE fan. What bugged me when I saw him do it with the Cats was that he used a flanger pedal. We were there ta see a rockabilly show an it just kinda didn't sit right.
If ya look at that Youtube, there's a guy who does it accoustic--plays both parts all on his lonesome. You can tell where it's a bit tough fer him, but it sounds sweet. Worth a look if you love that tune.
Leo
Quote from: Delmonico on December 05, 2008, 07:07:47 PM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kDPiVlO5BFs&feature=related
Enjoy, besides, MMM and Suzy Boggus, you'll see Don Edwards and Waddie Mitchell.
I always wanted to grow me a handlebar mustache. I tried once, but lost patience. That and the stupid bare spot right in the middle. ::)
Yep, Suzy Bogguss is right purty. This was the first time that I got to put a face to the voice and I was not disappointed.
Yeah, but just so you know, that is the 1992 model Suzy. ;D
Heck, I thought it was older than that. I wonder what the 2008 model looks like. ;D
It depends on how the bail out goes. ;D
I'm really not sure if that was mean er not. Weren't supposed ta be.
Leo
Quote from: Trinity on December 17, 2008, 07:30:34 PM
Heck, I thought it was older than that. I wonder what the 2008 model looks like. ;D
Ask and You shall receive
http://bogguss.com/2008/Photos/RME_p0808/
Thankee Majer. She's still right purty.
Brian Setzer is one of my favorites..heard this other night on the radio...Good ole Youtubes had it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyQdolNop0
thanks for the Suzy Boguss
Thank ya, Boys!
Here's my favorite right now, very poetic in what it says. First time I heard it I cried in my truck, not very "manly" but you know what, something like that deserves it. I've brought home a few friends to that rolling field, to Fiddler's Green, and played TAPS at their funerals, since I was/am the trumpet player. Here's hoping I won't have anymore, that'd be the best Christmas gift I could ever hope to ask for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB76cYS8Ehw
Arlington by Trace Adkins
never thought that this is where I'd settle down,
I thought I'd die an old man back in my hometown,
They gave me this plot of land, me and some other men,
for a job well done.
There's a big white house sits on a hill just up the road,
The man inside he cried the day they brought me home,
They folded up a flag, and told my mom and dad, 'We're proud of your son'.
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones,
I made it to Arlington.
I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight,
We searched all day to find out where my granddad lay,
And when we finally found that cross,
He said, 'Son this is what it cost, to keep us free'.
Now here I am a thousand stones away from him,
He recognized me on the first day I came in,
And it gave me a chill, when he clicked his heels, and saluted me.
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
And I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones,
I made it to Arlington.
And every time I hear, twenty-one guns,
I know they brought another hero home, to us.
We're thankful for those thankful for the things we've done,
We can rest in peace, 'cause we were the chosen ones,
We made it to Arlington, yea, dust to dust
Don't cry for us, we made it to Arlington.
Quote from: Willie Dixon on December 18, 2008, 10:28:12 AM
Here's my favorite right now, very poetic in what it says. First time I heard it I cried in my truck, not very "manly" but you know what, something like that deserves it.
We're all prone ta fits a allergies e'ry now an again. Specialy with stuff like that. Trace sure has talent.
Leo
Reckon it's time fer us ta share carrols. This'n always wells me up........
Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
Chipmunks roasting on an open fire
Hot sauce dripping from their toes
Chipmunks: Oh! That tickles!
Yuletide squirrels fresh filleted by the choir
They poked hot skewers through their nose
Chipmunks: Ow! Wrong end, cowboy!
Everybody knows some pepper and a garlic clove
Help to make them seasoned right
Tiny rats with a crisp golden coat
Will really hit the spot tonight
And now when Santa sees his tray
Santa: Ho ho ho ho ho
There'll be some homemade chipmunk jerky for his sleigh
Santa: Mmmm...Hey, look at that!
And every hungry child is gonna spy
To see if chipmunks really sing when they fry
And so I'm brushing on some honey glaze
To keep them crisp and juicy too
Let's hope they get served many times many ways
Tasty Chipmunks; good food
Dave: On that, Mr. Cole
Mr.Cole: Yes, sir, Mr. Seville?
Dave: Would you mind handing me the barbeque sauce? I am starved!
Mr.Cole: Oh,no problem Dave. Hey listen, you best be havin' two of those drumsticks, because they're oh-so-tiny and there ain't much meat on 'em
Melvin: What about animal rights, Dave?
Dave: Put a sock in it Melvin. You know, for years people said you over-rated hamsters were my meal ticket. Now I guess you could just say you're my meal!
That's a good one, Dave...I always knew you was the funny one in the group!
Dave: Damn straight!
And so I'm offering some recipes
From chipmunk pie to chipmunk stew
I'm not really sad that it ended this way
Furry chipmunks screw you
Dave: Did you hear that Melvin? Melvin? Melllllllllllviiiiiiiiiiiin?
Mr. Cole: Why, I'm sorry Dave, did you want Melvin? There's plenty of Thagadore left though...
Arcey, ya just set my heart all aglow as usual :D
Leo
I never had fixed that way, I always deep fried mine and served em with bisquits and cream gravy.
Chipmonk drippins (not droppins) make some mighty fine gravy I'll wager.
Leo
Yessir!
Quote from: Willie Dixon on December 18, 2008, 10:28:12 AM
Here's my favorite right now, very poetic in what it says. First time I heard it I cried in my truck, not very "manly" but you know what, something like that deserves it. I've brought home a few friends to that rolling field, to Fiddler's Green, and played TAPS at their funerals, since I was/am the trumpet player. Here's hoping I won't have anymore, that'd be the best Christmas gift I could ever hope to ask for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB76cYS8Ehw
Arlington by Trace Adkins
never thought that this is where I'd settle down,
I thought I'd die an old man back in my hometown,
They gave me this plot of land, me and some other men,
for a job well done.
There's a big white house sits on a hill just up the road,
The man inside he cried the day they brought me home,
They folded up a flag, and told my mom and dad, 'We're proud of your son'.
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones,
I made it to Arlington.
I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight,
We searched all day to find out where my granddad lay,
And when we finally found that cross,
He said, 'Son this is what it cost, to keep us free'.
Now here I am a thousand stones away from him,
He recognized me on the first day I came in,
And it gave me a chill, when he clicked his heels, and saluted me.
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
And I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones,
I made it to Arlington.
And every time I hear, twenty-one guns,
I know they brought another hero home, to us.
We're thankful for those thankful for the things we've done,
We can rest in peace, 'cause we were the chosen ones,
We made it to Arlington, yea, dust to dust
Don't cry for us, we made it to Arlington.
Wille Dixon, that is such a good one for this thread. Read the first post if you have not. The friend I refer to is there also. :'(
Del, Do you know which album of Trace's that song is on?
Songs About Me.
Leo
another one of Bob Rivers great Christmas songs
(Parody of Aqualung by Jethro Tull)
Sitting in a department store
Bribing little kids with peppermint
Sweat on his bulbous nose
Rubber boots and silly velvet clothes
Hey, Santa Claus
Steaming like a roast duck
Spitting out of pieces of his bearded fluff
Hey, Santa Claus
Do what you're told and mind your dad and mommy
And I'll put a little puppy 'neath your tree
Santa Claus my friend
Did you think this job was easy?
You poor old sod,
You jolly S.O.B.
In the first week of December
They'll come to crush his knees
When the kids are tugging upon his beard,
He screams in agony
Schnapps'll stick on his dog breath
His belly's big and round
And he'll dress up like a rabbit in the spring
Ho ho ho ho
Fa la la la
Fa la la la la la la la
Fa la la la la la la
Fa la la la
Sitting in a Wal-mart
Giving out canes of peppermint
Spitting out his ho ho ho's
Sticky fingers smearing rented clothes
Hey Santa Claus
Dying in that hot suit
Ho ho ho ho Santa Claus
I had a friend at the Sheriff's Dept. that was a big JT fan. He had all their Albums on vinyl.
I have Thick as a Brick with the whole goofy newspaper inside. It's an interesting read :o
Leo
I never was much of a Tull fan, thought it was unsusual for a flute in rock music. At the Highland games, they have Celtic Rock Bands that use fiddles and bagpipes, go figure!
Worked with a guy that solid inta blues. He followed Eric Clapton since the early days. Then sometime in the 90's Clapton put out a song that was filled with bagpipes an a fife an drum core. My buddy 'bout spit rocks when he heard it. "What the %&^* is this $&^* ?!?" THIS AINT BLUES" The guy really through a fit. I reminded him that Cream didn't do much blues either, but he weren't havin it.
Leo
Today I waz listenin to an old David Bromberg album.....glad they finally put it on cd, so I wouldn't have to..anyways the words to
"You gotta suffer to sing the blues" are sooooo true.
may have to go home and listen to it again after work.
long night at the asylum...(especially since I only have 11 days left to retirement. dang good thing, too since our beloved Govinator had decreed that all state employees will have to have 2 furlough days (that is work for no pay) per month from 2-09 til JUNE 2010!.......now that is sufferin'
curley
I'm sure that sounded like a good idea to somebody up there high in goberment, but that don't sound too good for the working fella's
what asylum.. do you work in out there?
Quote from: Curley Cole on December 19, 2008, 09:14:09 PM
long night at the asylum...(especially since I only have 11 days left to retirement. dang good thing, too since our beloved Govinator had decreed that all state employees will have to have 2 furlough days (that is work for no pay) per month from 2-09 til JUNE 2010!.......now that is sufferin'
curley
"Ya werk sixteen tons an whatta ya get..."
Sounds like a real drag CC >:(
Leo
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on December 19, 2008, 09:26:10 PM
I'm sure that sounded like a good idea to somebody up there high in goberment, but that don't sound too good for the working fella's
what asylum.. do you work in out there?
I works at Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona CA. It is for the developmentaly disabled. I been here since 19and66. I have worked most of my career with the adult male population, with moderate to severe behavorial problems. And I got the scars to show for it. I have to say that the retirement is excellent. I am goin out with 43.7 years and my wife had 33 years. Combined with SS we will be getting by pretty good. Actually nothin to sing the blues about....except for the pain from all the injuries over the years...
and yup the workin joe is really gonna hurt havin to cough up 2 days pay per month.
curley
Curley, with all the time you and your wife have put in, sounds like you've earned a little break, hope retirement treats ya well. ;D
I've almost got 3 months of this retirement made come the 30th of Dec., it ain't too bad.
Six years 'n countin'. Seein' some the stuff what's goin' on now I'm glad I'm out.
CC, don't take this the wrong way but there's still a bright side ta it fer the pards yer leavin' behind. They still have a job.
Enjoy retirement.
Quote from: Curley Cole on December 19, 2008, 09:14:09 PM
Today I waz listenin to an old David Bromberg album.....glad they finally put it on cd, so I wouldn't have to..anyways the words to
"You gotta suffer to sing the blues" are sooooo true.
Curley, don't know if ya ever heard of this fella, good friend of mine.
Been though the mill, sober drunk like me. He's got a tatto that say's "Born Blue." Was born one a them 'blue babies' with heart trouble. Thank Godfor modern medicine. Good fella, makes most of his livin' doin' studio work, but has some good CD's of his own.
Del, I'm glad you're out and about this morning. I hope the weather ain't too nasty up your way. I'm sorta a new comer to this retired business, but so far it ain't been that bad. I was really glad this week not having to get out on the ice and have to drive around.
Buisiness here has been slow enough that some days I feel retired. I'm sure it'll pick up again, but in the mean time I got good practice fer the future ;D As long as ya keep an eye on the budget it's perty nice ta have time ta do the things ya can't when yer out diggin the figuative ditches everday. Got plenny ta keep me busy when when nobody needs ma services or a contract falls through. Good think me an the wife get along, cause we spend a lot of time tagether recently.
Leo
Here's another christmas classic I like
Janie Santa's got a gun
Ho ho ho, Santa, what have you done
Ho ho ho, he's got a machine gun
Ho ho ho, Santa, what have you done
Ho ho ho, he'll shoot you, he'll shoot you
Ho ho ho Ho ho ho Ho ho ho Ho ho ho
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
Kris Kringle's come undone
He musta had too much sun
What did the children do
Chimney's hard to get through
They say when Santa was arrested
They found dead reindeer by his sleigh
But man, he had it comin'
Watch out,Santa's got a gun
Christmas never will be quite the same
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
His rampage just begun
Now Father Christmas, he's just no fun
You wish it was untrue
What did the children do
He shot at all those people nearby
Oh, Santa's got to be insane
He found the Christmas trees, hid under
Sleigh sounded just like thunder
This year he will inflict lots of pain
Run away, run away from Santa
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
Run away, run away from Santa
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
Run away, run away, run, run away
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
His rampage just begun
Now Father Christmas, he's just no fun
What did the children do
Oh, Santa wants to shoot you
They had to stun him and book him
"Cause he had really gone insane
Now Santa's shooting time is done, sure
The man caused so much hurt
Christmas never will be quite the same
Run away, run away from Santa
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
Run away, run away from Santa
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
Run away, run away run, run away
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
All his elves are now on the run
Santa's got a gun
Oh this just is no fun
Now everybody's on the run (Santa, Santa, what's his problem)
"Cause Santa's got a gun (I know it's not right)
Santa's got a gun (And he did a lot of robbin')
Live reindeer on the run (He lost his mind tonight)
Santa's got a gun
His elves are on the run
Now everybody's on the run
Santa's got a gun
Aerosmith parodies are always fun no matter what season! The local radio station did one years ago called "Cleanin out the Fridge" to the tune of "Livin on the Edge". Instant classic I tell ya.
Leo
Quote from: litl rooster on December 20, 2008, 08:12:29 PM
Santa's got a gun
Santa's got a gun
Kris Kringle's come undone
He musta had too much sun
What did the children do
Chimney's hard to get through
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Hey, it made the web...
There's something growin' in the fridge today
I don't know what it is
It's bringin' tears to my eyes
There's an old milk carton with a picture of
The missin' Lindbergh kid
It's been there quite a while
I'm cleanin' out the fridge
Cleanin' out the fridge
I'm cleanin' out the fridge
There's fungus growin' in the fridge today
The light bulb's on the fritz
Somethin's drawin' flies
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you can tell its meatloaf
By the color of its skin
Then, mister, you're a braver man than I
I'm cleanin' out the fridge
(You can help yourself, I'm full)
(Somethin's growin)
Cleanin' out the fridge
(You can help yourself, I'm full)
(A science project)
Cleanin' out the fridge
(You can help yourself)
(Somethin's growin')
Tell me if you think is potato salad
Kinda dated, kind of foul
And it's getting to you
An open can of tuna fish from last weeks' callin'
Eat it and you'll wind up on the cold floor crawlin'
Gaggin' again back to your porcelain friend
You're gaggin' again, and again and again and...
There's something growin' in my fridge today
And everybody knows it's bad
And you can heat it up, or you can serve it cold
But I would rather just throw it out
Cleanin' out the fridge
(You can help yourself, I'm full)
(Somethin's growin')
Cleanin' out the fridge
(No thanks, help yourself, I'm full)
(A science project)
Cleanin' out the fridge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
YUCK!
parody's always get my seal of approval
Arcy:
Yes it is true they that I leave behind still have a job, and for that we are grateful (altho, we do a job that most would not want to be doing) but the problem, is that most of them are average Joe's working from paycheck to paycheck to begin with so losiing 2 days a month is a hard hit to start with, but then they also have to pay the "preposed" 13 cents a gallon additional gas tax and the 2.5 % additional "surcharge" on their state taxes at the end of the year. So the state worker will be double punished...
Del
What is the name of that person?
Well I am down to 10 days now, and it seems like forever...I am sure lookin foward to it. After all this rain we had I think I may go do a bit of gold panning up in Azusa Canyon.
later
curley
Head north Curley, this is gold panning central ;) Has been since the first strike. Dredges an sluice boxes welcome too.
Leo
There's GOLD in them thar HILLS!
Curley:
http://www.nebrocks.org/sean.htm
Forgot the link, was in a hurry to post cause a customer walked in. Allowed to play as long as I don't let customer service suffer. :)
This classic is a heart warmin' storey of a l'il girl waitin' for Santa. She sings her tale in this sweet l'il song. One of my all time favorites. Keep the box of tissue close by...........
THE CHIMNEY SONG
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all night long.
Well, I waited up for Santa all Christmas night
But he never came and it don't seem right.
And there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't make a sound,
But I wish you Merry Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all week long.
Well, the dog keeps barking up the chimney flue
And we don't know what we're going to do.
Cause there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't move around,
And it's been a week since Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all month long.
Well, it's jammed up tight above the fireplace
Now the house smells funny, such a big disgrace.
That there's something in the chimney
And it doesn't talk at all,
And it's been there since last Christmas.
There's something stuck up in the chimney
And I don't know what it is,
But it's been there all year long.
I'll been waiting up for Santa like I did last year
But my brother says, "He's already here."
And he's stuck up in the chimney
And he doesn't say a word
And he'll be there every Christmas.
And we'll have him every Christmas.
LOL
That sounds like the episode of NCIS where the inspector falls down the chimney at the Naval Base and "smoked". A working crew discovers him when they tear out the old chimney.
Del
Very cool and interesting link...Will have to look into some of his stuff.
Me and Old Top were driving to a match today, and I was playing Peter Paul and Mary in Concert. He said he hadn't heard it in 20 years, but we still knew all the songs, and of course.....Paul Talk
"There they are,....Don't look at 'em"
"We have been drivin around for 7 hours"
"He never races anybody, he just scares the hell out of them"
and of course there is the sweet voice of Mary....We listened to it twice....I only wish I had brought along disk 2.
Merry Christmas you all and I hope you get what you want, and want what you get.....
curley
The Moose and I decided not get each other a bunch of gifts this year. I think we're goin' to Sam's and get a new flat screen TV and one of those Bose 123 systems for it. It's only supposed to be 32 today, a good day to get into the Christmas spirit with the cold weather.
Quote from: Curley Cole on December 21, 2008, 10:04:27 PM
Merry Christmas you all and I hope you get what you want, and want what you get.....
curley
That's much better than sayin "I hope ya get what ya deserve an deserve what ya get" ;D
Merry Christmas ta ya all as well :)
Here's a song of inspiration an hope I learned in the 5th grade ...
Randolph the bow legged cowboy
had a very shiney gun
and if you ever saw it
you would turn around and run!
All of the other Cowboys
used to laugh and call him names
they never let poor Randolph
join in any poker games.
Then one foggy Saturday night
the sheriff came to say
Randolph with your gun so bright
won't you shoot my wife tonight?
Then how the cowboys loved him
as they shouted out with glee
Randolph the bow legged cowboy
you'll go down in his-tor-y.....
Leo
Sounds like the Sheriff needs to be indited for conspiracy to commit murder.
Better turn it over ta Arcey, he was IA.
Leo
We might as well file on Randolph for murder 1. Book em Danno! Murder 1!.
Hey Curly,
Is tha goobernator giving up 2 days of pay a month, along with all the other polytishins, I think they should step up and set the example.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 22, 2008, 02:29:37 PM
Better turn it over ta Arcey, he was IA.
Criminal matter. Goes ta the Detective Bureau. IA is Admin.
I think Randolph might be spending Christmas in Jail.
when I was bailbonding, I had one Judge that I could call at home and get a bail set anytime day or night. we'll just call him and see what he says.
OT, I guess I could go get em if he took off.
Sounds like the sherrif is gonna coast on that conspiacy charge. ::)
Leo
TLD, you know we used to have a lot people that would run off down to the Dallas area, I knew one fella there in Dallas that just kept up with the people going to jail and where their home town was, made 2 or 3 calls a day to see if it might be a bond jumper, if he was, he'd call the bondsman and for a fee tell him where the skip could be found. somtimes they'd show up on NCIC, sometimes it had been entered yet. he always made a few bucks extra every month for his trouble. ;D
Somethin fer the boys over seas this Christmas. 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXVdgqVbTGc
Leo
OT, It's nice to have contacts in the right places.
Well, I gotta bow ma head ta Eartha Kitt. Kinda ironic that she'd go taday of all days.
As Catwoman, she weren't no Julie Newmar, but that voice, dear Lord. Used ta listen ta "Santa Baby" as a kid and imagine some blonde layin on a piano singin that. Sure got ma attention.
Wish the best fer her loved ones.
Leo
I loved her as Catwoman...Madonna and a bunch of others have covered Santa baby, but not like her. Fox news says she was 81
Yanno, I heard that. Rest in peace, Ma'am.
I watched Batman when I was a kid 'n I sure as hell remember Julie Newmar. Don't see how a horny 14 year old couldn't.
(http://feastofnemesis.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/newmar_catwoman-133.jpg)
Mustah missed the episodes with Ms. Kit. Reckon those could have been run when we was out playin' baseball in the evenin'.
been over 40 years since I was 14....I will not forget that picture for a long time now...... Mebbee (can wish) for another 40 years ;D
Ol' Julie was something else in those spandex jumpsuits. She has gotta be 6 ft. tall. Eartha was a good Catwoman also. Lee Meriwether played Catwoman in the Batman movie made in 1966. Halle Berry ain't bad either as the new Catwoman.
(http://www.starman-imaging.com/mar05/batcdtk882a.jpg)
Slim
Eartha would have been in her early 40s then, My Oh My, how time flies!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 26, 2008, 12:17:39 AM
Halle Berry ain't bad either as the new Catwoman.
I liked the blonde gal that played her in 90's bafore Halle. Bigatime actress, I just can't remember her name.
Leo
Michele Pfieffer was in Batman Returns in 92.
Bingo. HB was a disapointment after her. Meow.
Leo
I liked Michele in"The Fabulous Baker Brothers".
Great flick, kinda brings me full circle ta the blonde on the piano.
Kinda wierd how stuff works out like that sometime.
Leo
The scene with her on the piano reminds me of Rita Hayworth in "Gilda".
need some music in here it's too quite.....
Wakey waky ;D
I have a mansion but forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me its nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
They say I'm crazy but I have a have a good time
I'm just looking for clues at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far
My Maseratti does one-eighty-five
I lost my license, now I don't drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait
They write me letters, tell me I'm great
So I got me an office, gold records on the wall
Just leave a message, maybe I'll call
Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far
[Instrumental Interlude]
I go to parties sometimes until four
It's hard to leave when you can't find the door
It's tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody's so different, I haven't changed
They say I'm lazy but it takes all my time
I keep on goin' guess I'll never know why
Life's been good to me so far
Well, LR, That's one of getting the morning off to a good start!
The live version has an extra verse bout him hiding in the trunk of his limo when he's drunk.
Gotta say, lifes been good ta me so far too ;)
Leo
Los Lonely Boys: Outlaws, hehehehe love this song:
[Henry]
I'm remembering ol' Waylon and good ol' Johnny Cash
Man they're an inspiration to what I am
But don't get me wrong, I'm still Texican to the bone
Lord I'm passin on the song just like my Daddy to his sons, aw that's right
This one's for the outlaws before me
[JoJo]
You know Indians and outlaws don't mind breaking rules
We'll gladly take your money now if you play us for a fool
You can't make us run and you know you can't make us hide, oh no
You know we have our fun and we don't quit without a fight
So this one's for the outlaws before me
[Chorus]
Well outlaws are forever running wild and free
Kickin in all the doors they didn't even need no key
They don't let nobody tell 'em how it's 'posed to be
This one's for them outlaws
This one's for the outlaws before me
[Enrique]
Well I've seen that Folsom prison
been down that lost highway
You ain't never heard of me
'cause I do things my way
I sing my song and my boys they follow me they follow me
We carry on through it all we still believe, we still believe
This one's for the missing outlaws just like me
Oh yeah, let's do it Willie
[Willie Nelson]
I've always made a living
making music with my friends
out on the road again
Lord knows where I've been
Sometimes the man doesn't like the way I am
so I'll put it in a song
Just take you some and pass it on
This one's for the outlaws just like me
[Chorus]
Well outlaws are forever running wild and free
Kickin in all the doors and don't even need no keys, that's right
They don't let nobody tell us how it's 'posed to be
This one's for the outlaws
This one's for the outlaws
This one's for the outlaws
This one's for the outlaws before me
<br>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjveFIbIhk
InLaws! Outlaws! Hell! Everyone's welcome here at CASCITY!
did you click on the Youtube link? Man do they wail!!! I love that song.
I have to wait until my wife is not home because I play Youtube LOUD!
LOL
I hear you, and trust me, you'll want to play Los Lonely Boys loud. that vidcap is kinda ehh, but you get the gist of the song. It's live and well, live. with all the extra noises and overdrive on the recorder, etc.
check out some other youtube videos of them to get a better idea of their sound, they're amazing.
Since is it New Year's Day:
U2 - NEW YEARS DAY
All is quiet on New Year's Day.
A world in white gets underway.
I want to be with you, be with you night and day.
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.
On New Year's Day.
I... will be with you again.
I... will be with you again.
Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it's true, it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one.
I... I will begin again
I... I will begin again.
Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh.
Oh, maybe the time is right.
Oh, maybe tonight.
I will be with you again.
I will be with you again.
And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzLWLFTPPI
Maybe this one is better for those that have partied a bit too much:
Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
I'd smoked my brain the night before,
On cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid,
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking.
Then I crossed the empty street,
'n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken.
And it took me back to somethin',
That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.
On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
Makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin',
Half as lonesome as the sound,
On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
Sunday mornin' comin' down.
In the park I saw a daddy,
With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin'.
And I stopped beside a Sunday school,
And listened to the song they were singin'.
Then I headed back for home,
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'.
And it echoed through the canyons,
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.
On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
Makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin',
Half as lonesome as the sound,
On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
Sunday mornin' comin' down.
Do do do do do do do do,
Do do do do do do do,
Do do do do do do do do,
Do do do do do do do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLiuPRMJy8
Let's hope that didn't happen to the Trin Man last night and this morning.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 01, 2009, 04:15:26 AM
Let's hope that didn't happen to the Trin Man last night and this morning.
It's in profile signature
SB thanks for the Cash and Kris
Well. At least I got back home in time to partake of the Cheyenne marathon on the Encore Westerns Channel. So in honor thereof:
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Cheyenne.html
It's good to see Cheyenne on TV again.
Yeah, Jonny and Kris was awesome.
I think I found a great outlaw group that sounds amazing... blends country, jazz, rock, and blues (so basically old school blues!!!) into a "Texican Rock" been a fan for years. Los Lonely Boys
I know I already put up "Outlaw" by them, but the first one on their new album (just got it! It ROCKS!) is sooo blues, had to post it up!
"Heart Won't Tell a Lie"
I don't get around much like I used to.
I don't cry, not unless I want to.
Might be somethin' in the air.
Might be that I just don't care.
Might be cuz I lost my baby,
Or it might be my mind, yeah.
Well, you might think that I'm talkin' crazy.
Might even believe its true,
Cuz right now my life's a little hazy.
Can't even put on my shoes.
Might be cuz the worlds gone crazy, darlin',
Or it might be my mind.
Search your soul and you will find
That your heart won't tell a lie.
I can't lie even if I want to.
My momma didn't raise no fool.
Hey, I seen what you go believin',
And I know about the Golden Rule.
Might be cuz I'm a dreamer, baby,
Or it might be my mind
Search your soul and you will find
That your heart won't tell a lie.
Search your soul and you will find
That your heart won't tell a lie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3Ulf867K0
Got a little Texas style Motown on........Cowboy's to Girls.......................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzBSBTs-Lk&feature=related
R.I.P. Chris
LR, Is he any kin to Michael Gaffney the Bull rider?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 02, 2009, 08:06:50 AM
LR, Is he any kin to Michael Gaffney the Bull rider?
I believe so
Searched and found this one, from 1992, back when CMT was all video and some of it was even good. ;D
Love the road trains in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_qy6PXVgQ
Quote from: Delmonico on January 02, 2009, 06:08:49 PM
Searched and found this one, from 1992, back when CMT was all video and some of it was even good. ;D
Love the road trains in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_qy6PXVgQ
LOL
no kidding. although you gotta admit, Big Redneck wedding, Country Fried Home Videos, and Gone Country are pretty darn funny... poor city slickers!
Quote from: Willie Dixon on January 02, 2009, 06:47:48 PM
LOL
no kidding. although you gotta admit, Big Redneck wedding, Country Fried Home Videos, and Gone Country are pretty darn funny... poor city slickers!
Country music has became City Music. ::) Most of it is 70's Pop Rock, a type I didn't like in the 70's. ;)
Now the Indians are dressing up like cowboys
And the cowboys are putting leather and turquoise on
And the music is sold by lawyers
And the fools who fiddled in the middle of the stations are gone
Several who try to keep Country music where it should be have covered this one, but don't get much air play, although I here it's one of Alllan Jackson's most requested live.
Guess the guy who wrote it did it best. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS0cGQ6k2mQ
I see I have to defend myself now... my favorite country singers in order:
Garth Brooks, his old stuff, mainly No Fences and Ropin' the Wind
Hank William Jr, Any!
favorite: country boy can survive
Trace Adkins, any
George Straight, any
Alan Jackson, any
Martina McBride, before her new hair, and pop'iness
Brooks and Dunne, any
Big and Rich, any that aren't singles... those are okay, but waaay tooo mainstream
and last but certainly not least
Jimmy Buffet
so there! hA!
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on January 02, 2009, 07:06:16 PM
Now the Indians are dressing up like cowboys
And the cowboys are putting leather and turquoise on
And the music is sold by lawyers
And the fools who fiddled in the middle of the stations are gone
OT, love that! Tim McGraw has a song called "who are they" pretty good lyrics, but set to a pretty standard pop-style country...
I either have to listen to my CD collection or "Willie's Place" on XM to hear my kind of music, Taditional country, Western Swing, and Cowboy music.
yeah, I'm not too much of a fan of that new country either. Taylor Swift is not country. Nor is anyone else now. I think we can blame Shania for all the problems. After her, even Trisha, Faith, and Martina went pop. And Jessica Simpson is "trying" country. It isn't country. I loved that about Gone Country. Stupid girl from American Idol thought that pop and country were the same, you just add a twang to it. Jon Rich nailed her for it, and nailed her to the cross hard! He was pissed. Just adding a steel guitar and slide isn't country. It's the lyrics, is the beat, it's the sound. Adding some blues or rock, that's fine, they originated, everything originated with a banjo and a harmonica. Bout time people remembered that. Be nice to have a new kid go old school.
Was in the WD yesterday helpin' a guy I know, don't know what the heck was on the so called country station, guy looked at me funny and asked when the put the Oldies Rock staion on there. ::)
Quote from: Delmonico on January 02, 2009, 07:12:16 PM
Several who try to keep Country music where it should be have covered this one, but don't get much air play, although I here it's one of Alllan Jackson's most requested live.
Guess the guy who wrote it did it best. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS0cGQ6k2mQ
Great song, Del. ;D
Slim
I don't like all this Loud Techno-country stuff, Give me Traditional country, Cowboy music, and Western Swing.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 05, 2009, 09:09:56 AM
I don't like all this Loud Techno-country stuff, Give me Traditional country, Cowboy music, and Western Swing.
Well give this one a try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgj7z11ksu8
Please remove yer hat afore clickin' on thelink please. ;)
Let's give a hand to Hank the Father! SA LUTE!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 05, 2009, 07:18:20 PM
Let's give a hand to Hank the Father! SA LUTE!
Tis said that only Jesus is mentioned in more songs than Hank The Father.
It's unfortunate that Hank died at such an early age, 29, He was idol to the poor and the working class people.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 05, 2009, 07:23:55 PM
It's unfortunate that Hank died at such an early age, 29, He was idol to the poor and the working class people.
But the good thing is he went out when he was riding high, (no pun intended) look at all the great ones who the system forgot about when they were done with them.
Going out when he was on top is something the %$#%^^$%$ can't take away from him. The fact his song "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" was starting to chart well only adds to they mystic.
Wow. now THAT was country!
here's another good one, the one that made him actually...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmp9K8RTcc
his favorite too
Garth Brooks: From Yukon, Oklahoma. He threw the javelin in HS good enough to get a track scholrship to Oklahoma State University.
Garth Brooks is what got me into country as a little kid. I was only about 5 or 6 when Thunder Rolls came out and I was hooked from then on. My Dad brought me up proper, Garth Brooks, Hank and Hank Jr, George Straight, Travis Tritt, Randy Travis and the "trediest" of the group Clint Black... wow and people back then were complaining that Clint Black was too "trendy"...
I bought Garth's first album on cassette, before CD's came along. He did a song on that album about an Old Texas Ranger which I really liked. There's another Okie that's not too bad, Toby Keith.
Toby Keith is amazing. I love "Red White and Blue," and "Beer for my Horses." I mean yeah, his are great! Which song is about the old Texas Ranger? I love "Lonesome Dove" on Ropin' the Wind. But what's on his first album?
The album is his first, "Garth Brooks" and the name of the song is "Cowboy Bill". The album came out in 89.
cool
thanks I'll have to listen to it now. I have all of his CDs thanks to that Wal-Mart special that my Dad got me that year for Christmas... he's so proud of his country lovin' son!
I had heard a couple of cuts off that first album before I bought. I sorta thought he had a chance at being a star. Garth ain't a Texan, but being an OKIE ain't so bad. I was one for almost 5 years.
LOL
boy, you guys and your "Texas" LOL
although I have to admit, you are your own country!
This is the song that blew ma voice out doin that kareoke. It's special ta me an Lil so I thought I'd suprise her. I was halfway into it when I remembered how the "yeah" part goes--no way ta fake yer way around it :-\ I shoulda just stuck with Green Eyed Lady. ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFP5afPweVI
Leo, CCR is classic rock for us old folks. "Run through the Jungle" is my personel favorite.
I get the Garth fans at work all up-set when I'm in the part of the store that plays the heathen radio. They'll play "Callin' Baton Rouge" and I'll mention that it would have saved him a bunch a money if he'd called Sandy instead. ;D
Beer for My Horses is one of my favorite Toby's. I've got the DVD of the video he made for it. love to crank that'un up............Buck 8) ;)
Toby made a movie with Willie and Rodney called "Beer for My Horses". Toby and Rodney are Deputies in Jackson County Oklahoma. Toby played football at OU and some semipro ball in Oklahoma besides working on oil rigs like his dad.
This ones been stuck in my head since I heard it. May not be everyones cup of tea, but I really enjoy these guys.
Look at earth from outer space
Everyone must find a place
Give me time and give me space
Give me real don't give me fake
Give me strength reserve control
Give me heart and give me soul
Give me time give us a kiss
Tell me you're a Politik
And open up your eyes
open up your eyes (x3)
Give me one cause one is best
in confusion confidence
Give me peace of mind and trust
Don't forget the rest of us
Give me strength reserve control
Give me heart and give me soul
Wounds that heal and cracks that fix
Tell me you're a Politik
And open up your eyes
Open up your eyes (x3)
Just open up your eyes
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
I really love some of that stuff Johnny did on the Amerika label, the liner nots for the :Unchained" albums are a hoot. He talks about in LA you get veggie burgers at recording sessions and how they can be eaten if you put enough mustard on them. ;D
I have been ungrateful I've been unwise Restless from the cradle Now I realize It's so hard to see the rainbow Through glasses dark as these Maybe I'll be able From now on, on my knees
Oh, o-o-oh I am weak Oh, I know I am vain Take this weight from me Let my spirit be Unchained
Old man swearin' at the sidewalk I'm overcome Seems that we've both forgotten Forgotten to go home
Oh, have I seen an angel Or have I seen a ghost Where's that rock of ages When I need it most
Oh, o-o-oh I am weak Oh, I know I am vain Take this weight from me Let my spirit be Unchained...
That's a good one. Woula liked ta set down an chat with Johnny fer a bit.
Here's one I like.
Wanted man in California,
Wanted man in Buffalo
Wanted man in Kansas City,
Wanted man in Ohio
Wanted man in Mississippi,
Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne
Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man
I might be in Colorado,
Or Georgia by the sea
Working for some man who may not know at all who I might be
If you ever see me coming and if you know who I am
Don't you breathe it to nobody 'cause you know I'm on the lamb
Wanted man by Lucy Watson,
Wanted man by Jeannie Brown
Wanted man by Nellie Johnson,
Wanted man in this next town
I've had all that I wanted of a lot of things I've had
And a lot more than I needed of some things that turned out bad
I got sidetracked in El Paso,
Stopped to get myself a map
Went the wrong way in Pleura with Juanita on my back
Went to sleep in Shreveport,
Woke up in Abilene
Wonderin' why I'm wanted at some town half way in between
Wanted man in Albuquerque,
Wanted man in Syracuse
Wanted man in Tallahassee,
Wanted man in Baton Rouge
There's somebody set to grab me
Anywhere that I might be
And wherever you might look tonight
You might get a glimpse of me
Wanted man in California,
Wanted man in Buffalo
Wanted man in Kansas City,
Wanted man in Ohio
Wanted man in Mississippi,
Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne
Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man
Sex, Drugs, and Rockabilly!
Big and Rich
"Live This Life"
Met a man on the street last night
Said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
Thought he was crazy till I watched him heal a blind man
Watched him heal a blind man now I see
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Met a girl in a chair with wheels
But no one else would see her
Met a girl in a chair with wheels
Everyone was so afraid
To even look down on her
And she just spread her little wings and flew away yeah
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Met a kid on a bridge last night
Contemplating freedom
Met a kid on a bridge last night
And he said
I'm tired of this maddening life
And I'm ready to go meet Jesus
And I said he's a friend of mine
Met him just last night
And it's alright
Yeah it's all right
Yeah
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Live here anymore
Met a man on the street last night
Said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
... always think of you Leo and Tex, when I hear this song, thank you so much. Now I see, thank you.
Willie, I made several trips out to Prescott on extradition trips, Heck , a couple of times we drove out there from Fort Worth. My wife and I spent the night in the Vendome Hotel. We ate in some of the restaurants on the old downtown part. I also went to Flagstaff a bunch of times. We ate at a little place called the Cochina Doll. They had some hot food. I flew into the Flagstaff airport one time and even went to the movies a couple of times.
Well, c'mon back out here then Tex!!
Cochina Doll is pretty good, there's also a nice old diner called "The Place: Mike and Rhonda's" Love it. hmmmmhmmmm.
really good chili burgers and bbq beef and chorizo and omelets, and well, yeah anything. Still cheap coffee too!
Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too
I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this
I'm the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck
Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The s!&* has hit the fan
Send lawyers, guns and money...
Them lawyers are just gonna take all your money. Send more guns and ammo!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 23, 2009, 07:49:48 AM
Them lawyers are just gonna take all your money. Send more guns and ammo!
hear hear!! maybe some military friends too, lawyers won't do a bit of help in that situation!
Ya need a "FEW GOOD MEN".
Warren's version makes it all sound so fun ::) Jr.s comes off a bit more serious.
Here's one that I have always enjoyed and I knew that if I ever broke up with a girl, this is how I would feel.
Well I broke up with my girl, and this is exactly how I feel! ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKkmaiWtYA
It's really over, you made your stand
You got me crying, as was your plan
But when my loneliness is through, i'm gonna find another you
You take your sweaters
You take your time
You might have your reasons but you will never have my rhyme
I'm gonna sing my way away from blue
I'm gonna find another you
When i was your lover
No one else would do
If i'm forced to find another i hope she looks like you
Yeah and she's nicer too, yeah
So go on baby
Make your little get away
My pride will keep me company
And you just gave yours all away
Oh, now i'm gonna dress myself for two
Once for me and once for someone new
I'm gonna do some things you wouldn't let me do
Oh i'm gonna find another you
Willie, I gotta say that guy is singin' the BLUES.
yep, I love John Mayer. If you haven't heard him before you really should check him out. He's amazing. Him and Jonny Lang are my two favorite modern blues singers. here's one of Jonny's:
"Give Me Up Again"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uihnK4C5cgY
Make up your mind take me or leave me
I'll be doing fine with or without you
I'm wasting my time letting you deceive me
The truth is in your eyes but I deny what I see
Time and time again
I let you get back under my skin
I let you break me down again
I let you get close way too close
But I see through it
You gave me that smile and I gave in
And you knew that I would
Time and time again you pulled me in
Just to give me up, gime me up again
What is a dream if it doesn't come true
I believe I'll find love but will it be with you
I never would have thought such a pretty little face could
offer me so much and take all that I had
Well I want it back
I let you get back under my skin
I let you break me down again
I let you get close way too close
But I see through it
You gave me that smile and I gave in
And you knew that I would
Time and time again you pulled me in
Just to give me up, gime me up again
Time and time again you pulled me in
Just to give me up, give me up, give me up
here's some more of Jonny shredding some blues on his Telecaster Thinline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOdE5IYU_c
Willie, That looks like a performance of "Austin City Limits". I don't watch it on a regular basis anymore. I used to watch it alot in the 90s which Stevie Ray Vaughn was still alive.
found another awesome one of Jonny Lang. Thought I'd post up the link. I love this song, and it's from his original album when he was 15!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uETsOtparg
A good morning little schoolgirl,
can I go home with you?
tell your mama and your daddy,
that I'm a little schoolboy too.
Baby I love you,
I just can't help help myself.
You're so good looking pretty babe,
I don't need nobody else.
Good morning little schoolgirl,
Can I go home with you?
Uh, Uh, Uh...
I'm gonna leave you baby,
about the break of day
on account of the way you treat me,
I've got to stay away.
A good morning little schoolgirl,
can I go home with you?
tell your mama and your daddy,
that I'm a little schoolboy too.
Come on pretty baby,
oh you know I can't help myself.
Uh, Uh, Uh...
I'm gonna buy me an aeroplane,
to fly all over your town.
And tell everybody baby,
Lord knows you've been putting me down.
I can't stand it babe,
just cannot help myself
Your're so young and pretty,
But you're lovin' somebody else
A good morning little schoolgirl,
can I go home with you?
Uh, uh, uh...
Oh babe what you do to me,
I can't help myself.
Listen to Alvin Lee do it (Ten Years After). He was an amazing speed guitarist. Oh, and he played one of those cherry 335 Gibs too.
LEO, That guy in your avatar has got taps on his shoes. I can remember when the principal outlawed them in school. He said they made too much noise in the halls.
I remember the tap outlawin in school, had to be early, early 60's, course everybody had toe taps and heel taps, remember the horseshoe taps, you could slip and fall just as easy as if you were walking on ice ;D
Ot, That usta hurt. I didn't have much padding back then.
I can remember after they got wore down too much it was worse, I can remember toe taps cost ten cents each, the horseshoe taps were 25 cents. you never wore down your heel or toe but it was like skatin on ice. especially in the hall at school, it was always heavily waxed.
you could sure make some noise with them babies.
Yessir, Clip Clop! Just think what it would sound like with a set of spurs with jingle bobs!
Reckon spurs'd be wheelie bars..............
Mule Train! Clip CLopin' along!
Ah yes, the horse shoes on the Cordovans! ;D And yes they were noisy, but you were sooooo cool ::) ;D
I saw the demise of the taps when I was a kid. Fergot all about em. I had em on my Patton leather church goin shoes. They did spare the wear an tear one the soles but not on the floors. There's a trip down memory lane :D
Leo, It's been a long time since I saw a Lucky Lager beer can. You needed an opener to open those things. Back in the old days, Coors and Bud were that way too.
We used ta call those openers a church key. Those cans were a little before my time. I grew up with the pop tops that some folks would drop in the can after openin em an end up chokin on the things. Droppin a razor sharp piece a metal in my soda never seemed like a good ider ta me ::)
We made chains out of the pull tops and used them to decorate the Christmas tree at our trailer houses after I moved off campus.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 26, 2009, 01:44:51 PM
We made chains out of the pull tops and used them to decorate the Christmas tree at our trailer houses after I moved off campus.
:D
My sister an her friends made "fashionable" belts outta em.
We used empty beer cans and beer bottles for ornaments on the trees.
I can faintly remember the non-pull top cans. As a matter of fact, I can remember Dad getting Old Dutch occassionally in the capped cans. Those were the ones that resembled bottles..............Buck 8) ::)
Falstaff used to come that way.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 26, 2009, 05:46:15 PM
Falstaff used to come that way.
So did Black Label,
kinda like ah brake fluid can.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 26, 2009, 01:34:22 PM
Those cans were a little before my time. I grew up with the pop tops that some folks would drop in the can after openin em an end up chokin on the things. Droppin a razor sharp piece a metal in my soda never seemed like a good ider ta me ::)
"I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top."
Never wore flip-flops but stepped on a few of them. ;D
I've seen the capped cans in collections, but Fallstaff was not usin' them by the time I started drinkin' it. Popular with a lot of farmers around here till they shut down.
Ma Grampa had some old Eidleweis tin cans that he had removed the entire lids from an used ta store nuts an bolts. Now that's an old beer company.
I think Pabst used them too.
In the late 80's Blue Ribbon was still considered the premium beer in Iowa. It's been second shelf out here for as long as I can remember. But then agin, Hamms an Oly were also considered "the good stuff" right along side Bud an Coors. Miller High Life too bafore they started up with that Genuine Draft slop.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 26, 2009, 06:01:18 PM
I think Pabst used them too.
Back in 1978, my cuzzin' put new walls on the basement of the house he lived it. Borrowed a couple a steel beams, on Friday night we got a casea beer and jacked the house up enough to get it off one wall. Sat he bought a keg and we tore out the wall. During the week a block layer he knew put in the block. Was old beer cans stuffed down in the holes of the block we removed. figgered it was some sort of Pagan ritual and the house would be cursed if'n we didn't do the same. ::)
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 26, 2009, 06:20:05 PM
In the late 80's Blue Ribbon was still considered the premium beer in Iowa. It's been second shelf out here for as long as I can remember. But then agin, Hamms an Oly were also considered "the good stuff" right along side Bud an Coors. Miller High Life too bafore they started up with that Genuine Draft slop.
Here ya go Leo:
http://www.buzzardbillys.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4522d85b32144
That's great Del.
Reminds of some years ago when some college kids I knew had what they called "rich man poor man" parties. Had ta bring beer ta get inta door, but no middle of the road stuff. Had ta be either really pricey or the cheapest. Couldn't understand the guys that would pick up the Guiness or other expensive ones ta get in when all ya needed was six pack of swill. It all got dumped into the same cooler. Sure did appreciate the snobs, felt like we was doublin our money ;D
ya'll ever get a song stuck in yer head can't get it out?
it's just barely tuesday
TUESDAY'S GONE
Train, roll on, on down the line.
Won't you, please, take me far away.
Now I feel the wind blow outside my door.
Means I'm, I'm leaving my woman at home.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Oh, my baby's gone with the wind.
And I just don't know, oh, where I'm going.
I just want to be left alone.
Well, when this train ends I'll try again
oh, but I'm leaving my woman at home.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone with the wind.
Train, roll on, Tuesday's gone.
Train, roll on many miles from my home.
See I'm, I'm riding my blues away, yeh.
Tuesday, you see, she had to be free.
Lord, but somehow I've got to carry on.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone with the wind.
Train, roll on 'cause my baby's gone..
I'm riding my blues away, baby
turn around my blues
ride on, train, ride on, train
ridin' my blues, babe
come back to me, babe
come back to me
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh train..
- Allen Collins & Ronnie Van Zant
When I was a kid, the parents always had WTAR on in the mornin' while they were gettin' ready fer werk 'n me fer school, Then it was on in the car. Didn't play the music I was wantin' ta hear.
This come up as bumper music on a talk show. I was surprised. Knew damned near every werd. Bet I ain't heard it in forty years.
Guess there's no use in hangin' 'round
Guess I'll get dressed and do the town
I'll find some crowded avenue
Though it will be empty without you
Can't get used to losin' you no matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life thorough-loving you
Called up some girl I used to know
After I heard her say "Hello"
Couldn't think of anything to say
Since you're gone it happens every day
Can't get used to losin' you no matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life thorough-loving you
I'll find somebody, wait and see
Who am I kiddin', only me
'cause no one else could take your place
Guess that I am just a helpless case
Can't get used to losin' you no matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life thorough-loving you
I can't get used to losin' you no matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life thorough-loving
AH! Andy Williams! The Moose and I saw his show at Branson a few years ago.
Funny. It sounds right good now. Reckon it comes with age. The dude has a voice. The orchestra in the background.
Found it on the tube. Fer the kiddies what ain't never heard it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUeaqHHq2II
Quality ain't half bad.
Flirted with the all white fer court days. Never did it.
Back in the 60s all them Andy Williams songs were big at tha school "sock hops"
grab ah gal an' hold her tight...
Growin up Mom listened ta Andy, Tony Bennet, the Letterman Brothers and all that good stuff. It's funny how the words get filed away in yer head without ya even knowin it an stay there over a lot of years.
Here's Andy and Tony tagether with a great big band orchestra backin em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoV0q_q6VCk
LEO, That was a long time ago, I was a Senior in HS.
The Oldies Show we listen to on Sunday had this one, their theme was Critters in Country Music, Pirates of the Mississippi from the early 90's. Always liked it, ain't heard it in years, one mainstream forgot:
I'm standin' at the crossroads in life
And I don't know where to go
You know you've got my heart, babe
But my music's got my soul
Let me play it one more time
Tell the truth and make it right
And hope they understand me
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soulto keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Now Broadway's like a sewer
Bums and hookers everywhere
Winos passed out onthe sidewalk
Doesn't anybody care?
Some say "He's worthless, just let him be!
"I for one would have to disagree
And so would their Mama's
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soulto keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Now if you get an ear pierced
Some will call you gay
But if you drive a pick-up
They'll say "No, you must be straight!
"What we are and what we ain't
What we can and what we cain't
Does it really matter?
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Also found the original video on Youtube, you might want a hanky, the video is sad. But it does have a Lab in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzXCb3EalI
I've been booted over ta the dinosaur machine so Lil can use the laptop fer a bit. No speakers in here but I'll be sure to give it a spin when I can. Besides, this is the confuser that Angel keeps pushin the keyboard drawer under the desk everytime i type >:(
see. now you guys are really going up my alley! Big Band style!
here's a great one from one of my generation, Michael Buble'... again shows hope for my generation that yes, there are instruments and yes, we should play them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqauFhM4f_I
Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
River running free
You know how I feel
Blossom on a tree
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Willie, My wife has got a couple of his CDs. My personal favorites are Harry Connick Jr. and Diana Kraull.
Got this one goin' in my head today, and can't get it out:
DUST IN THE WIND Kansas
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the momen't gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
The wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbdP7sq0w8
That one was a fun workout ta learn on the guitar the right way. Many an hour put inta it. Ask me ta play it taday an I'll proll just give ya a blank stare ;D
Leo, I envy you guys that play. I never got around to learning and besides I'm left-handed.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 29, 2009, 06:23:55 PM
Leo, I envy you guys that play. I never got around to learning and besides I'm left-handed.
If ya don't wanna invest in a lefty guitar, you can just buy a cheapo an string it upside down. If it's an accoustic an doesn't have a cut out the only difference will be the lack of a pick gaurd under the strings. If you want to finger pick that won't mean a thing. There are a coulple of other small things I'd reverse like the bidge and the top nut, but it's easy. You could be on yer way fer $100 bucks er less.
I say go for it! I'd be happy to answer any questions if you are really thinking about it.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 29, 2009, 06:23:55 PM
Leo, I envy you guys that play. I never got around to learning and besides I'm left-handed.
Ya just need ta string yar geetar in the reverse order, and play it back'ards!!! ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D
Paul McCartney is left handed. Don't look like it bothered 'im none. Did a damned good Super Bowl half time.
This year won't be werth watchin'. Bruce Springstein, the mumbler. I'll be happy. Won't be missin' nuttin' while I'm checkin' the plumbin' 'n gettin' 'nother beer.
Can't stand Paul much anymore, he should a back-handed his late wife for the comments she made about us heathens that eat meat, 'cept he gave it up and was makin' another fortune in that fake food they peddaled. :-X
Don't werry. You'll get o'er it......
Saw somethin on Yahoo taday that Miller is going to run one second commercials in some parts of the country fer the Bowl.
Never liked Paul much outta the group. Good voice an music but somethin about him never appealed ta me. Ta each his own. More of a George fan maself.
One second ads? Yeah.............
Thirty second ad, thirty millon.........
Quote from: Arcey on January 29, 2009, 07:55:00 PM
One second ads? Yeah.............
Thirty second ad, thirty millon.........
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11763121&ch=4543756&src=news
Don't read the yahoo stuff. Quit when the racin' news wasn't credible. It's garbage.
I don't generaly "read" it either but that's an ABC news clip that atchaly shows the commercials an a couple of the regular ones comin out.
here's another great John Mayer song that I think you guys will like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiG-YRUcMds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1nRwtI77KQ
it's called "In Repair"
Too many shadows in my room
Too many hours in this midnight
Too many corners in my mind
So much to do to set my heart right
Oh it's taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
I am in repair, i am in repair
Stood on the corner for a while
To wait for the wind to blow down on me
Hoping it takes with it my old ways
And brings some brand new luck upon me
Oh it's taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
I am in repair, i am in repair
And now i'm walking in the park
All of the birds they dance below me
Maybe when things turn green again
It will be good to say you know me
Oh it's taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
Oh i'm never really ready, yeah, oh, i'm never really ready
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
I'm in repair, i'm not together but i'm getting there
Quote from: Arcey on January 29, 2009, 07:26:17 PM
Paul McCartney is left handed. Don't look like it bothered 'im none. Did a damned good Super Bowl half time.
This year won't be werth watchin'. Bruce Springstein, the mumbler. I'll be happy. Won't be missin' nuttin' while I'm checkin' the plumbin' 'n gettin' 'nother beer.
Rumors are he is going to have a wardrope malfuntion
Hendrick played his upside down
ya'll let this one slip by
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-01-28/story/lynyrd_skynyrd_keyboard_player_bill_powell_dead_at_56
Billy Powells real talent can be seen at aroun 2:40 in this video....RIP Billy Powell you and the others are missed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTZkIInYNw
In Rock and Rol Heaven, Ya know they got a Hell of a Band!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 30, 2009, 06:22:26 AM
In Rock and Rol Heaven, Ya know they got a Hell of a Band!
Amen to that Tex. RIP Bill, you'll be missed by all.
These band members are getting older just like I am. Most of the Bands from ny Era are in their late 50s to their late 60s and folks get old and die. It's just the cycle of Life. It's fortunate that this talent has been preserved in their music and videos.
I don't know that there will ever be bands and groups like back in the 50's and 60's, everybody had a record player and 45's were spinning everywhere you went, so many groups comin and goin, sock hops, bands on tours, when you were in the car it was playin on the AM stations, that's all we had to listen to back then, you knew every song comin on, sang along with all of em, saw the groups on American Bandstand, it sure was a different time and place than any other time.
Yep, AM radio was it. I listened to KOMA out of OKC on the weekends at night. It was 50,000 clear channel watts back then. We received it good and strong in the Panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. Bandstand came on in the afternoon after school and I watched it while I did my homework.
TLD, we channel surfed radio, and listened to KOMA some nights, some night WLS out of Chicago, sometimes KAAY Little Rock, most often KAAY late because they had Becker Street with Clyde Clifford, first learned about David Allan Coe, Allhman (sp) Brothers, Black Oak Arkansa and others of the like includin' John Prine and Harry Chapin on tat show.
We're all gettin' to be "Oldies" around here, some more than others.
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on January 31, 2009, 06:22:15 AM
I don't know that there will ever be bands and groups like back in the 50's and 60's, everybody had a record player and 45's were spinning everywhere you went, so many groups comin and goin, sock hops, bands on tours, when you were in the car it was playin on the AM stations, that's all we had to listen to back then, you knew every song comin on, sang along with all of em, saw the groups on American Bandstand, it sure was a different time and place than any other time.
yeah, there really isn't much out there now that I can call myself proud of my generation's music... not at all. Thank God for John Mayer and Jonny Lang, and of course those good ones in Country, but even then some of them, they aren't even Country even more...
Willie, I figgered you would be sleeping on the weekends.
This come ta me tanight. Always a favorite, but hadn't heard it in years.
In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well, well, well, so I can die easy (x2)
Jesus, gonna make up my dyin bed.
Meet me, jesus, meet me. meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, lord. please meet me with another pair
Well, well, well, so I can die easy (x2)
Jesus, gonna make up.. somebody, somebody...
Jesus gonna make up... jesus gonna make you my dyin bed
Oh, saint peter, at the gates of heaven... wont you let me in
I never did no harm. I never did no wrong
Oh, gabriel, let me blow your horn. let me blow your horn
Oh, I never did, did no harm.
Ive only been this young once. I never thought Id do anybody no wrong
No, not once.
Oh, I did somebody some good. somebody some good...
Oh, did somebody some good. I must have did somebody some good...
And I see them in the streets
And I see them in the field
And I hear them shouting under my feet
And I know its got to be real
Oh, lord, deliver me
All the wrong Ive done
You can deliver me, lord
I only wanted to have some fun.
Hear the angels marchin, hear the marchin, hear them marchin,
Hear them marchin, the marchin
Oh my jesus... (repeat)
Oh, dont you make it my dyin, dyin, dyin...
I only wanted to have some fun I think that's what get's me on this one.
Leo, do you know who wrote/performs that song?
I'd love to check it out for you, I've got some resources here at school (including old vintage record store!) that I may be able to find something for you.
Tex, I do sleep on the weekends! LOL but yeah, that's also when I have the most fun!
Dad always said, work hard, play hard and you gotta be tough to be dumb!!
Willie, Good words to live by!
Willie, that version was done by the Mighty Zep on Physical Graffiti. The song is much older than that, but that's the one that was in my head. Great slide work by Mr. Page.
Think it was writ by Blind Willie Johnson.
Leo, I'm sorta partial to "John The Revelator". Blind Willie was born and died in Texas.
Well – Yeeeeeee Hawwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mandrell, Clark, McCoy join Country Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Barbara Mandrell, Roy Clark and Charlie McCoy will become the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The CMA announced the selections Wednesday in Nashville. All three will be formally inducted in a ceremony this spring.
Mandrell's hits include "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool."
Clark's hits include "Tips of My Fingers" and "Yesterday When I Was Young." He co-hosted the long-running TV show "Hee Haw" with Buck Owens.
McCoy was chosen for his skill as a musician, especially on harmonica. He was one of Nashville's top session players in the 1960s and '70s.
Inductees are chosen by more than 300 voters appointed by the CMA's board of directors.
Ain't inta country. But Clark, I think, is one hell of a talent 'n a great entertainer. I stumbled o'er this just now 'n I'm thrilled for 'im!
Barbra had two sisters who kinda got left by the wayside. They had a lame variety show in the 80's.
Don't remember it. '80s is 'bout when I got sick of TV 'n quit watchin'.
Quote from: Arcey on February 04, 2009, 04:30:45 PM
Don't remember it. '80s is 'bout when I got sick of TV 'n quit watchin'.
As the Yardbirds said, "Mister you're a better man than I".
My folks watched it. Always felt bad fer the yougest one, they made her play stupid all the time. Prolly smater than the whole batch of em, but they thought id be a gimmick. Think her name was Louise. Cute little blonde an had a voice.
Other one was Erlene, all 3 of them were gifted musicians, Barbara was just the most marketable.
Toured with the Statlers for a while.
They used ta have Louise give a vocabulary lesson at the end of the show. I gotta weird memory, but that's where learned the meaning of "demeanor". Then they'd have her say somthin dumb.
Erlene had dark hair if I recall. They'd do them spirituals and it was like listnin ta angels.
Got a vinyl album from the middle 60's, Roy Clark and his guitar, instumental, called "The Lightning fingers of Roy Clark." In the day he could playas well as any of them, he makes my top 10 for geetar men.
This is the song I always think about when I think about Roy.
I've made a small fortune and you squandered it all
You shamed me till I feel about one inch tall
But I thought I loved you and I hoped you would change
So I gritted my teeth and didn't complain.
Now you come to me with a simple goodbye
You tell me you're leaving but you won't tell me why
Now we're here at the station and you're getting on
And all I can think of is thank God and Greyhound you're gone
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone
I didn't know how much longer I could go on
Watching you take the respect out of me
Watching you make a total wreck out of me
That big diesel motor is a-playing my song
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone
That load on my mind got lighter when you got on
That shiny old bus is a beautiful sight
With the black smoke a-rolling up around the taillight
It may sound kind-a cruel but I've been silent too long
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.
Thank God and Greyhound you're gone...
It is Irlene... sorry for the misinformation.
Look here
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/5424/aaindexa.htm
This is good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7GL78g37s
First time I heard 'Greyhound' I made it all the way up ta the tail lights part 'fore I busted a gut laffin'.
heard today on the radio that Roy is going into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year.
he could sure play.
Louise is the brunette and Erlene is a blond. Louise is an avid skeet shooter and puts on a celebrity shoot every year for charity.
Well I had ta foul it up somehow ::) Not too bad fer a 25 year old memory though. I had a thing fer that Erlene. Sounds like someone Tinity would date.
I saw Louise perform over at Billy Bob's in the early 80s(front row seats). She wore this western outfit with chaps to match. She got my attention. Somebody that good lookin', and she's a shooter.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 04, 2009, 06:49:34 PM
I saw Louise perform over at Billy Bob's in the early 80s(front row seats). She wore this western outfit with chaps to match. She got my attention. Somebody that good lookin', and she's a shooter.
I've seen training videos she's made.
Didn't care for their music that much, but that don't matter, I like that she's one of us.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 04, 2009, 05:49:04 PM
Louise is the brunette and Erlene is a blond. Louise is an avid skeet shooter and puts on a celebrity shoot every year for charity.
Reckon I might have to check on that, I can think of several celebrities I'd like to shoot!
LIT, I bet your right, they could make a lota money on a deal like that. ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 04, 2009, 06:36:52 PM
Well I had ta foul it up somehow ::) Not too bad fer a 25 year old memory though. I had a thing fer that Erlene. Sounds like someone Tinity would date.
There's only one 'lene for Trinity and that's Sherlene. ;D
I wasn't into country at a young age, so I never watched the Mandrell's show, but I do remember that one of them (I think Barbara) did the White Rain commercials. ;D
Good video, 10zzzzzzzzzzz.
Yep, then she got in a car wreck an started doin seatbelt commercials.
I was in LAX several years ago and I saw Barbara and her husband coming through security. She was wearing a brown full-length mink. They were probably headed by to Nashville because Minnie Pearl had died in Nashville the day before.
Not ta sound crass, but I always wondered if they burried Minnie with a price tag hangin off her hat.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 05, 2009, 11:46:37 AM
Not ta sound crass, but I always wondered if they burried Minnie with a price tag hangin off her hat.
I'm sure they did, at her request.
BTW in the early years she did it on stage by axe-e-dent and it became part of her act. ;D
Minnie was a close friend of Hank the Father too.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 05, 2009, 05:21:37 PM
Minnie was a close friend of Hank the Father too.
Yes she was, she always wondered if there was anymore she could have done for him. :'(
I'm sure a lot of folks back then felt that way.
Here's a strange touchy feely sort a deal.
What was the first song ya can remember that made yer eyes leak? Happens ta the best of us. This one got me hard when I was a kid an it came ta mind taday. Still chokes me.
Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees
Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along
Goodbye papa it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 05, 2009, 06:12:37 PM
Here's a strange touchy feely sort a deal.
What was the first song ya can remember that made yer eyes leak? Happens ta the best of us. This one got me hard when I was a kid an it came ta mind taday. Still chokes me.
Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees
Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along
Goodbye papa it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
Sorry pard, it caused me to hit the next button on the radio in my 49 Ford.
And good thing yer out there, don't want you touchy feeling me. :P
Mebbes ya just need some sensitivity classes. Hear the nurse is ready fer ya ;D
It was the only thing Terry Jacks was known fer, he had talent.
Plus, ya didn't answer the question at hand. Don't try an tell me no song ever got ta yer gut.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 05, 2009, 08:37:21 PM
Plus, ya didn't answer the question at hand. Don't try an tell me no song ever got ta yer gut.
now doan go there Leo.....
Leo, Don't get your feelins' hurt, some of us just ain't into that warm and fuzzy feelin'.
Atcualy, that was more of a cold prickly than a warm fuzzy.
It twere a joke fer ma friend Del. Ma sense a humor sucks ;D
It's a wEST cOAST THING.
hey guys,
gotta question for you, that I figure would fit well within this topic:
I'm auditioning for a Trumpet performance major part within the NAU School of Music and I have to have:
1 technical piece
1 melodic piece
all major and minor scales
well, all in all, not too scary, but what I'm looking at is if you think doing a blues melodic piece would be a good idea or if I should go with the traditional "classical" piece designed for Trumpet.
my ideas were either Miles Davis or Louis Armstrong, probably the song "Ain't Misbehavin'" since I'm going to only join the Jazz ensemble along with the marching band.
what do you guys think?
also, the trumpet instructor is the jazz ensemble lead instructor so he appreciates jazz. here's his website
http://www4.nau.edu/trumpet
Willie, You're speakin' in tongues now! Just go for it!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 05, 2009, 08:37:21 PM
Plus, ya didn't answer the question at hand. Don't try an tell me no song ever got ta yer gut.
I done answered the question before ya done asked it. ::)
Quote from: Delmonico on January 27, 2009, 06:20:49 PM
The Oldies Show we listen to on Sunday had this one, their theme was Critters in Country Music, Pirates of the Mississippi from the early 90's. Always liked it, ain't heard it in years, one mainstream forgot:
I'm standin' at the crossroads in life
And I don't know where to go
You know you've got my heart, babe
But my music's got my soul
Let me play it one more time
Tell the truth and make it right
And hope they understand me
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soulto keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Now Broadway's like a sewer
Bums and hookers everywhere
Winos passed out onthe sidewalk
Doesn't anybody care?
Some say "He's worthless, just let him be!
"I for one would have to disagree
And so would their Mama's
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soulto keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Now if you get an ear pierced
Some will call you gay
But if you drive a pick-up
They'll say "No, you must be straight!
"What we are and what we ain't
What we can and what we cain't
Does it really matter?
Now I lay me down to sleep
And pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake, feed Jake
He's been a good dog
My best friend right through it all
If I die before i wake, feed Jake
Also found the original video on Youtube, you might want a hanky, the video is sad. But it does have a Lab in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzXCb3EalI
Del, That one does it for me also.
Willie, lI know ya got blues in yer blood, but fer an audition it'd be kick a$$ if you could pull off "Carnival for Trumpet". There's another one I can't bring ta mind right now, and any Voluntary is good fer techinical work. The one that was used fer the theme ta Falcon Crest is impressive.
I'm sure it will all be good!
Find a copy of the Arben's book an go to the back section, there's some stuff in there that'll blow their minds.
Arbens, now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. No suggestions for you, Willie, been way from from it for quite awhile now( not as much wind as I used to have). My favorite stuff was Big Band music ( String Of Pearls was a favorite, Bobby Hackett's solo was great). i was more of a ballad type player. In the middle '70's I was first chair for a Bi-Centennial group in North Canton that did four or so concerts during the year. Classical, marches, show tunes, etc...........Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on February 07, 2009, 03:42:02 PM
Arbens, now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. No suggestions for you, Willie, been way from from it for quite awhile now( not as much wind as I used to have). My favorite stuff was Big Band music ( String Of Pearls was a favorite, Bobby Hackett's solo was great). i was more of a ballad type player. In the middle '70's I was first chair for a Bi-Centennial group in North Canton that did four or so concerts during the year. Classical, marches, show tunes, etc...........Buck 8) ::)
I got ta do that Buddy Hacky solo once upon a time. I had just got braces before we recorded it, so it coulda been better. On In the Mood, me an the second chair guy would flip a coin on who played that solo, cause who ever lossed the toss would have ta hit that high note at the end of the song.
Leo, I've still got a pro-grade Yamaha back in the loading room. Probably needs the valves oiled and the slides greased, but it'd still probably do the job. picked this one up used, inside of the bell is kinda dinged up. silver plated, think it's a ML bore. A horn i'd love to have back though, is the Bach Stradavarious that I had to sell years ago. large bore, had a really rich dark tone to it. Couldn't overblow it if i tried............Buck 8) ::)
I had an Olds. The Strad is what I always wanted. The Olds was brass with silver valve cases.
Secret I discoverd, that slide grease is just really thick bore butter. Give it a sniff an you'll see ;) It aint cheaper, but in a pinch...
Probably better than Vaseline ::) :o
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on February 07, 2009, 03:42:02 PM
Arbens, now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. No suggestions for you, Willie, been way from from it for quite awhile now( not as much wind as I used to have). My favorite stuff was Big Band music ( String Of Pearls was a favorite, Bobby Hackett's solo was great). i was more of a ballad type player. In the middle '70's I was first chair for a Bi-Centennial group in North Canton that did four or so concerts during the year. Classical, marches, show tunes, etc...........Buck 8) ::)
here, you'd like this then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK12xeotGQs
it's a band I used to play with back at Disneyland.
thanks for all the help and suggestions guys.
Willie, All I can do is offer encouragement. The only things I can play is the radio and the CD player.
Four-eyed buck, any chance of the Yamaha being for sale? I actually like the smaller sized bores because of the rasp I can get out of them for songs like Minnie the Moocher. And yeah, a Strad would be sweet. When I played with that band, I used a Strad with a rose gold bell, medium - light bore with a tulip gold mouthpiece... man could she sing! but in all honesty I think the Strad would be better in a larger bore and meant more for the classical whereas a great Conn, York or Buescher for the big band style. They were made in that era and just sound "right" kind of like an old strat vs a new one, they just don't compete!
thanks for the vote of confidence Tex! does anyone know how to post up song links or how to post up music in general? If I could I'd post up links to different things that I'm working on along with youtube links to the Jazz Ensemble.
I know nothing!
Here's another old girl to consider, Willie. How's about a Conn 360? they were another number that was quite popular back in the day I was in High School. At one point while my old Reynolds was in for repair, I got to use a Doc Severinsen signature model horn. Can't remember who made them though. Wasn't too bad, but the Strad was my big love........Buck 8) ::)
That Cab Calloway stuff was fun ta play. Plunger mutes, harmon mutes, all them good ol' sounds. My Olds was nice, could get a tone like Bunny Beranigan.
Leo, I always wanted an OLDS too! A 1966 442!
;D
Red with white interior, ragtop and 4 speed with W-30 package.
Willie, In dance band( stage band if you will), I used to do Clyde McCoy's "Sugar Blues", had a lot of fun with that harmon mute I'll tell you. In marching band, my senior year, I did a solo in the football stadium here of "The Shadow of Your Smile". Actually had a band person from the opposing school mention it two years afterwards when we were both working at The Hoover Company(RIP)..................Buck 8) ::)
Loved playin Frankie and Johnny with the wah and a good toungue roll. Dern if I aint gonna take the horn up again with all this talk. St. James Infirmary was another one.
LEO, Make us proud, SON!
Played trombone in HS.
Slim
All we need now is a clarinet, banjo and base, and we might have a Dixieland group ;D 8)
Could we get some of those striped vests, garters, and straw hats too?
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on February 13, 2009, 10:22:40 AM
All we need now is a clarinet, banjo and base, and we might have a Dixieland group ;D 8)
Of all the HS bands I played in that was ma favorite one. Nobody in my school played banjo so the teacher had an old friend of his sit in with for performances. That extra sound really added alot.
Maybe an old upright rinky tink piano too.
Dixie bands er usualy mobile Pop. Unless we kin get the Killer back I don't know if we'll find anyone up ta the task of marchin that thing down tha street.
However, metionin that rinky tink pianer did get me thinkin on Scott Joplin. He was the Jimmy Hendrix of his time ;D
Yeah, a pianer would be necessary for a non-marching band, Leo. Don't think I've got enough wind for the horn, let alone marchin' with it too. the bum peg wouldn't hold up for any distance either. Standin' stil, er, sittin' I'm your man.........Buck 8) ::)
Standin still is fine sa long as ya can do it out on the street. The only times I saw a Dixie band "march" was in a funeral procession. I want that. They go in playin the sad stuff and come out with the lively tunes.
By mobile I was just meanin pickin up an movin on ta a differnt corner every now an then.
Heck we kin put y'all on a Dixieland Float n I kin hook up a team a horses!
Well, There you go!
LIT you could put 'm all on a stage too............the first one out of town ;)
That's terrible, LR.
me bad
We just gettin this band started an Roo's already throwin maters at us. >:(
Here's one we could do (without the singin acourse) I can hear Slims trombone in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvr7nkd_IJM
Slim a trombone solo..........So Low you can't hear it?
<<<<off to the time out corner
Betcha can't even tune a fish ;D
I lost my Tuna fork
Sorry for the mater throwing , just hated to see all them recalled maters in florida wastin, so I used my stimulis check and bought some
So now while yer taking request....could ya put another quarter in the jukebox?
before I become a fish out of water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMLhmCoTIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giiYDlqRQs
If ya gonna play good stuff like that, I'll but a whole dollar in ;)
Hidee Hidee HI! Hoddie Hoddie HO!
Quote from: litl rooster on February 14, 2009, 12:48:19 PM
Slim a trombone solo..........So Low you can't hear it?
<<<<off to the time out corner
Ya probably wouldn't want ta hear me play since I haven't played it much in 25 years. ::)
Slim
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on February 14, 2009, 04:04:05 PM
Ya probably wouldn't want ta hear me play since I haven't played it much in 25 years. ::)
Slim
You an me both.
I can play a jaw harp. Twang, twang, twang. ;D
Leo, you're not alone. Kinda like lifting weights, use it, or lose it..........Buck 8) :o
Occasionally I'll buzz ma lips fer the kids, but it's no where near the necessary regimine.
Don't know if that scar from the unfortunate brake repair accident would affect mine or not ,Leo.........Buck 8) ::) :o
I picked up a kids horn a few years ago and had some real trouble with it. My fingers knew what ta do but my lips were lost. Gettin braces was my downfall back then. Used ta pack wax over em, but everything changed. After a year of that I threw in the towel and picked up the guitar. Traded the horn for a nice mandolin at a place called The Starving Musician. It's still there.
The place or the horn?
The place. Fer all I know the horn is too just waitin fer me. Stranger things have happened. Lil's been following aong on this thread and really wants ta hear me play again. I'm going to have ta go find a copy of the movie "Young Man With A Horn". It was an insperation to me way back, an may be the kick in the butt I need now. Cept acourse I don't wanna git hit by a car in the end.
Rooster, that sounded great!
I was able to get my trumpet up here thanks to my Mom coming up over the weekend for a visit. I'm now working on getting it playable again.
Leo,
"Young Man with a Horn" is a great movie. My band instructor in middle school had us always watch a movie every friday for inspiration. That was one of them, obligatory "Music Man" was another, it was great... he really inspired me.
Good ta see ya again Willie.
That movie came on one day while I was home sick from school. Made me wanna grab the horn an work on improvising. Haven't seen it in years (many years) but I'll never forget it.
Ah man, Louis Belson checked out taday. He was another good one from the era we been discussin lately. Played with Goodman, Ellington an others.
RIP, now they someone ta give that other drummer a break up there.
wow that band up in Heaven must be amazing by now!
Ray on piano,
Benny on the leads
Ellington and Satchmo
Krupa on the drums... with Louis battling him... yeah, what a band
Louis you'll be missed buddy
RIP
Atchaly "that other drummer" I was refferin ta was Buddy Rich. But yeah, quite a line up they got. Guess that's why they call it Heaven.
They got good bands up there in Heaven for several venues.
every venue we could ever want.
I am sorta partial to the TEXAS PLAYBOYS and a guy named Bob whose last name I can't remember.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 19, 2009, 06:26:09 AM
I am sorta partial to the TEXAS PLAYBOYS and a guy named Bob whose last name I can't remember.
I believe that would be Bob Wills.
when ya cross that ole Red River, Bob Wills is still the "The King"
Russ, That was done as a tongue in cheek remark by me. I grew up on music that we call Western Swing, It don't matter whose in Austin, Bob Wills is still tha King. Take me back to Tulsa and KVOO!
What was the name of them two guys that came out big in the 90's doin western swing? They were very popular on the country station. It was refreshing ta hear them amist all the Shanias an Billy Rays.
Back in the late 60's early 70's, Bob's brother, Johnny lee Wills had a big Western Store there in Tulsa, I'd go in there every chance I got, Bob was in there once, I got ta shake his hand and tell him how much I enjoyed his Music.
when my Grandmother was in a rest home for a few months, the little man in the room next door was always sittin out in the hall and sayin hi to everybody, didn't seem that he had anybody ever coming to see him, one day I just sat down by him and started vistin, come to find out his name was Bill Wills, Bob Wills Cousin, he was the bus driver for Bob during his heyday. he had a boot box just packed full of pictures of Bob and the Texas Playboys, he'd sit there and tell a story about every one of em, I really did enjoy visitin with him, from that day on I always just planned to take twice as long, cause I knew I'd be visitin with him a little while too.
he told me once that the most important thing to Bob was that everybody that came to their dances, have a good time, he said when the dance started, Bob would tell him to look around and if he saw any girls that wasn't dancing, ask em to dance.
he'd say there wasn't much air conditioning back then, he said his job was to make them fat girls sweat. ;D
Back in the Early 70's the Moose taught school in Grand Prairie with one of Bob's daughters. My Mom's side of the family is from around Turkey, where Bob used to play in the dining room of the Turkey Hotel. They have a Big Bob Wills celebration in Turkey every year. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen and my personal favorite, Asleep at the Wheel, have preserved the Western Swing tradition. Hank Thompson did his share also, especially with his songs about Oklahoma.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 19, 2009, 02:21:38 PM
Russ, That was done as a tongue in cheek remark by me. I grew up on music that we call Western Swing, It don't matter whose in Austin, Bob Wills is still tha King. Take me back to Tulsa and KVOO!
TL
That was for those that might have known. Remember there were folk around here that didn't know who Hoppy was! ::) ::) ::) However they are into music, so probably didn't need the hint!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on February 19, 2009, 06:18:09 PM
TL
That was for those that might have known. Remember there were folk around here that didn't know who Hoppy was! ::) ::) ::) However they are into music, so probably didn't need the hint!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Let it die man, let it die ;D
Hoppy will live forever.... ;)
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 19, 2009, 06:41:42 PM
Let it die man, let it die ;D
Couldn't resist, but I just shot it in the foot so It won't travel very far!!! :D :D :D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 19, 2009, 06:41:42 PM
Let it die man, let it die ;D
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on February 19, 2009, 06:49:03 PM
Couldn't resist, but I just shot it in the foot so It won't travel very far!!! :D :D :D
Shoot higher Russ... 'bout where yer boot might hit his
a$$ butt ;)
Hey now there was a whole nother thread fer this business. It dropped back a few pages an I was just startin ta go out in public again ::)
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 19, 2009, 07:06:51 PM
Hey now there was a whole nother thread fer this business. It dropped back a few pages an I was just startin ta go out in public again ::)
Check again, once again yer wrong. ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 19, 2009, 07:06:51 PM
Hey now there was a whole nother thread fer this business. It dropped back a few pages an I was just startin ta go out in public again ::)
Sorry Leo, but I thought it couldn't go too far, but seems it still as legs! ::) ::)
Then I'll put this here too. Del showed me all bout Hoppy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLL_q5FMCU
Leo, You are greatly outnumbered here by folks that watched Hoppy at the movies and in the early years of TV. My only suggestion is to keep on watchin' those vintage western TV shows DVDs and take good notes.
Now fer somethin completely differnt...
Hey Del, here's that song ya asked me ta find. Found it on cowboylyrics.com
dust of the chase
ray wylie hubbard
I come down from Oklahoma with a pistol in my boot
A pair of dice, a deck of cards and a bible in my suit
I come her as the cause of tears, I am a crying shame
Seven stud or eternal blood, just looking for a game
I double crossed the State of Texas and they give me a little time
I taught myself to doublecut the cards and hold scriptures in my mind
I learned to love the tumblin dice and to believe the word
Tombstones or rolling bones, beats anything I ever heard.
Patience is a virtue that I don't possess
And I can't deny that heavan lies beneath a cotton dress
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
I'm lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
I have walked through God's green pastures and seen the rich blue skies
I have seen the fall of man and the kingdom hidden from his eyes
I have heard the roar of thunder and felt the lightening bolt
And when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take along
Samuel Colt
Every night I kiss the cards and hold them to my breast
And when I see the king of hearts I know that I am blessed
And though my eyes are blind sometimes, I know there's something there
And when the times at hand and I kill a man, I say a little prayer.
I come down from Oklahoma with a pistol in my boot
A pair of dice, a deck of cards and a bible in my suit
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
I'm lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
How small a part of time we share 'till we hear the sound of wings
Lost in the dust of the chase that my life brings.
THATS A DAMN GOOD SONG!
No youtube on that one, but I got ta hear it. Reminds me of Chris Rea, I love that "deserty" sound with the slide electric and harmonica. Thanks Del.
It sounds to me that young man may have visited one of our institutions of higher education in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 20, 2009, 04:44:23 PM
No youtube on that one, but I got ta hear it. Reminds me of Chris Rea, I love that "deserty" sound with the slide electric and harmonica. Thanks Del.
No problem, that part
I have walked through God's green pastures and seen the rich blue skies
I have seen the fall of man and the kingdom hidden from his eyes
I have heard the roar of thunder and felt the lightening bolt
And when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take along
Samuel Colt
is gonna become the ring tone for you folks. Had to do a bit of redo, some I had are hard to hear for me, that one ain't.
It's a good album. Called a friend who has it an grabbed it from him. It's called Delerium Tremolos. Last song on it is a James McMurtry tune slowed down a little. I think he may have been a guest of yer state accomodations as well Pop.
I deleated one verse cause...well because ;D
Strap them kids in
Give em a lil bit of vodka
in a cherry coke
were goin to oklahoma
to the family reunion
for the first time in years
its up at uncle slatons
cuz hes gettin on in years
no longer travels but hes
still pretty spry
hes not much on talk
and hes too mean to die
and they'll be comin down
from kansas and west arkansas
it'll be one big old party
like you've never saw
uncle slaton's got his texan pride
back in the thickets with his asian bride
hes got an airstream trailer and a
holstein cow
still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how
plays that chocktaw bingo every friday night
you know he had to leave texas but he won't say why
he owns a quarter section up by lake ufalla
caught a great big ol bluecat on a driftin jugline
sells his hardwood timber to the chippin mill
cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell
he cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell
you know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell
my cousin roscoe, slaton's oldest boy
from his second marraige up in illinois
hes raised in east st louis by his
mammas people where they do things different
thought he'd come on down
hes goin to dallas texas in a semi truck
caught from that big mcdonalds
you know that one thats built up on that
big old bridge across the will rogers turnpike
took the big cabin exit stopped and bought a carton of cigarrets
at that indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings
and the cherokee nations hittin the skogee late that night
somebody ran the stoplight at the shawnee bypass
roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite
bob and mae come up from
some little town way down by
lake taxoma where he coaches football
they were two-A champions for two years running
but he says they wont be this year
not they wont be this year
and he stopped off in tuska at the pop knife and gun place
bought a sks rifle and a couple full cases of that steel core ammo
with the beardam primers from some east bloc nation
that no longer needs em
and a desert eagle thats one great big old pistol
i mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass ebers
and some surplus tracers for that old BAR
of slatons as soon as it gets dark
were gonna have us a time
were gonna have us a time
ruth-anne and lynn come from baxter springs
thats one hell-raisin town way down in
southeastern kansas
got a biger bar next to the lingerie store
thats got rollin stones lips up there in
bright pink neon
and they're right downtown where everyone can see em
and they burn all night
you know they burn all night
they burn all night
Uncle slaton's got his texan pride
back in the thickets with his asian bride
hes got a corner pasture and an acre lots
he sells them owner financed strictly to them
its got no kind of credit
cause he knows they're slackers
and they'll miss that payment
and he'll take it back
plays that choctaw bingo
every friday night
he drinks his johnny walker
at that club 69
were gonna strap those kinds in
give em a lil bit of vinadryll
were gonna have us a time
were gonna have us a time
well whoever wrote it, has been to Oklahoma a time or 2, a lot of the references he uses are sure nuff places, when I lived there in Muskogee, I was'nt a quarter mile from the Shawnee bypass and that lake Eufaula is where you go to catch them big blue catfish. and a whole lot of the others I recognize. ;D
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on February 20, 2009, 06:32:31 PM
well whoever wrote it, has been to Oklahoma a time or 2, a lot of the references he uses are sure nuff places, when I lived there in Muskogee, I was'nt a quarter mile from the Shawnee bypass and that lake Eufaula is where you go to catch them big blue catfish. and a whole lot of the others I recognize. ;D
Born in OK, raised in TX.
Here's a bio on him from his website. Saw him in 1978, one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
http://raywylie.com/bio.htm
BTW he wrote and did the version of London Homesick Blues they used to use on the opening of Austin City Limits. He also wrote "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother."
Well it appears I got that one backwards. Can't find anythin about anyone but McMurtry doin Chocktaw Bingo. Shoulda known better.
I was wrong, Gary P. Nunn wrote London Homesick Blues. ::) Gary P. Nunn, Steve Goodman, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff and a bunch of others hung around together a lot, Also Steve Ray Vaughn.
Well, when you're down on your luck,
and you ain't got a buck,
in London you're a goner.
Even London Bridge has fallen down,
and moved to Arizona,
now I know why.
And I'll substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor
is drier than than the Texas sand.
You can put up your dukes, and you can bet your boots
that I'm leavin' just as fast as I can.
I wanna go home with the arma [Am] dillo
Good country music from Ama rillo and Abi lene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever
seen.
Well, it's cold over here, and I swear
I wish they'd turn the heat on.
And where in the world is that English girl
I promised I would meet on the third floor.
And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I've got
is a smoke and a cheap guitar.
My mind keeps roamin', my heart keeps longin'
to be home in a Texas bar.
I wanna go home with the arma [Am] dillo
Good country music from Ama rillo and Abi lene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever
seen.
Well, I decided that I'd get my cowboy hat
and go down to Marble Arch Station.
'Cause when a Texan fancies, he'll take his chances.
Chances will be taken, that's for sure.
And them Limey eyes, they were eyein' the prize
that some people call manly footwear.
And they said you're from down South,
and when you open your mouth,
you always seem to put your foot there.
I wanna go home with the arma [Am] dillo
Good country music from Ama rillo and Abi lene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever
seen.
Repeat chorus 'til the cows come home
liked that London Homesick Blues since the viery first time I heard it, had to go out and buy it on tape. ;D
you'd have to hunt hard nodays for an Indian Bingo hall, since they passed the gamin bills over in Oklahoma, all they got is slot machines and poker, no more Bingo. we go the Chotaw Casino across the line from Ft. Smith sometimes other times to the Cherokee Casino over by Sallisaw. ;D
Hubbard got another really good song I like, but can't scare up the lyrics, called West Texas Dance Band, got a line about doing one by Jerry Jeff Walker, but that's ok, he does some of mine. ::)
Here is another one JJW did that I love, was on the last record he made in NY, can't 'member the name, but I saw him on TV one time talkin' 'bout it, lets just say there were problems and the last two songs were fought over to get them on, said to have been made up after the problems oh-curd. Part of it involved Jesse Winchester, see that was before Jimmy Carter was pez and the record company wouldn't pay for a session in Canada, and Jerry Jeff wouldn't do Mississippi on my Mind with out Jesse, so Jesse was snuck into the NY studio. ::)
Can't 'member the name of the record right now, but have a 33 of it.
Bob Livingston/Gary P. Nunn
Got my irons in the fire down in Texas
Got a toe hold in Tennessee
Got my foot in the door of that California Store
Now I'm up to my ears in me
Don't be concerned if the song sounds familiar
Don't be concerned if it all seems the same
Just be concerned that your policies will kill you
It's all just public domain
I took a bite of the Big Apple
And I dabbled in that forbidden fruit
No they promised me points
And they slipped me skinny joints
And I've yet to see me any loot
From that man in the high-heeled Gucci shoes
Don't be concerned if the song sounds familiar
Don't be concerned if it all seems the same
Just be concerned that your policies will kill you
It's all just public domain
I sang in the Red River Valley
I've drank with the whores in Santa Fe
Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas
Like I ran from Snow White in L.A.
Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay
Don't be concerned if the song sounds familiar
Don't be concerned if it all seems the same
Just be concerned that your policies will kill you
And it's all just public domain
It makes sense to get into the rain
The other song I will clean up a bit. ::)
Peein' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're peein' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren
About the time I called this Guy it was four in the morning
Teach me the words to the song I was humming
He just laughed and he said that the ole grey cat is sneakin' down the hall
But all he wants to know is who in the hell is paying for the call
Peein' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're peein' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren
Now this Nunn called me up, it was eight in the morning
Wanted to know how in the world am I doin'
He just laughed and he said get together boy, and fall on by the house
Some Gonzo buddies would like to play anything your's picking now
Peein' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're peein' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren
Now we worked and we suffered and struggled
Makin' our record till we got it right
Now we're waiting on the check to come sneaking down the hall
Like that old time feeling
That we never should have ever put the record out at all
Peein' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're peein' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren
That the answer my friend is just peein' in the wind
The answer is peein' in the sink
They don't say "peein' on the record. ::)
I never paid much attention to Jerry Jeff until I heard "Viva Terlingua" album. "Up Against Tha Wall" became my theme song.
I still have an 8-track of the album tucked away somewhere.
"Walkers collectibles" 1975/76
In another Galaxie 500, far far away!
Since on this day in 1945 the flag was raised over Iwo Jima, I thought it would be good to post this, Writen by Bob Dylan, made famous by Johnny Cash:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Gather round me people there's a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
From the land of the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land
Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water stopped
Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again
And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Ira Hayes returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no home, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Then Ira started drinkin' hard;
Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
like you'd throw a dog a bone!
He died drunk early one mornin'
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died
I'll take Cash over Dillon ta honor the man.
Another one that Cash did is near and dear to my heart and most Texans. "The Ballad of the Alamo".
but the one we all learned it from was Fez Parker,
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
In eighteen thirteen the Creeks uprose, addin' redskin arrows to the country's woes
Now, Injun fightin' is somethin' he knows, so he shoulders his rifle an' off he goes
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
Off through the woods he's a marchin' along, makin' up yarns an' a singin' a song
Itchin' fer fightin' an' rightin' a wrong, he's ringy as a b'ar an' twic't as strong
Davy, Davy Crockett, the buckskin buccaneer!
Andy Jackson is our gen'ral's name, his reg'lar soldiers we'll put to shame
Them redskin varmints us Volunteers'll tame, 'cause we got the guns with the sure-fire aim
Davy, Davy Crockett, the champion of us all!
Headed back to war from the ol' home place, but Red Stick was leadin' a merry chase
Fightin' an' burnin' at a devil's pace, south to the swamps on the Florida Trace
Davy, Davy Crockett, trackin' the redskins down!
Fought single-handed through the Injun War, till the Creeks was whipped an' peace was in store
An' while he was handlin' this risky chore, made hisself a legend for evermore
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
He give his word an' he give his hand, that his Injun friends could keep their land
An' the rest of his life he took the stand, that justice was due every redskin band
Davy, Davy Crockett, holdin' his promise dear!
Home fer the winter with his family, happy as squirrels in the ol' gum tree
Bein' the father he wanted to be, close to his boys as the pod an' the pea
Davy, Davy Crockett, holdin' his young'uns dear!
But the ice went out an' the warm winds came, an' the meltin' snow showed tracks of game
An' the flowers of Spring filled the woods with flame, an' all of a sudden life got too tame
Davy, Davy Crockett, headin' on West again!
Off through the woods we're ridin' along, makin' up yarns an' singin' a song
He's ringy as a b'ar an' twict as strong, an' knows he's right 'cause he ain' often wrong
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
Lookin' fer a place where the air smells clean, where the trees is tall an' the grass is green
Where the fish is fat in an untouched stream, an' the teemin' woods is a hunter's dream
Davy, Davy Crockett, lookin' fer Paradise!
Now he's lost his love an' his grief was gall, in his heart he wanted to leave it all
An' lose himself in the forests tall, but he answered instead his country's call
Davy, Davy Crockett, beginnin' his campaign!
Needin' his help they didn't vote blind, They put in Davy 'cause he was their kind
Sent up to Nashville the best they could find, a fightin' spirit an' a thinkin' mind
Davy, Davy Crockett, choice of the whole frontier!
The votes were counted an' he won hands down, so they sent him off to Washin'ton town
With his best dress suit still his buckskins brown, a livin' legend of growin' renown
Davy, Davy Crockett, the Canebrake Congressman!
He went off to Congress an' served a spell, fixin' up the Govern'ments an' laws as well
Took over Washin'ton so we heered tell, an' patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear!
Him an' his jokes travelled all through the land, an' his speeches made him friends to beat the band
His politickin' was their favorite brand, an' everyone wanted to shake his hand
Davy, Davy Crockett, helpin' his legend grow!
He knew when he spoke he sounded the knell, of his hopes for White House an' fame as well
But he spoke out strong so hist'ry books tell, an' patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear!
When he come home his politickin' done, the western march had just begun
So he packed his gear an' his trusty gun, an' lit out grinnin' to follow the sun
Davy, Davy Crockett, leadin' the pioneer!
He heard of Houston an' Austin so, to the Texas plains he jest had to go
Where freedom was fightin' another foe, an' they needed him at the Alamo
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
His land is biggest an' his land is best, from grassy plains to the mountain crest
He's ahead of us all meetin' the test, followin' his legend into the West
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
I still have my white milkglass hot chocolate mug with Davy Crockett's picture on it.
well at least ya got something important from back then. ;D
I'm in the process of aquiring the Davy Crockett series from Disney Movie Club. It should bring back a lot of early TV memories.
I had a Davy Crockett watch, wore it until it fell apart. Also had the series of Welch's jelly jars with Davy on them. ate a lot of Welch's grape jelly back then.................Buck 8) ::)
I've still got my Roy Rogers watch and my Hopalong Cassidy watch.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 24, 2009, 12:39:27 PM
I've still got my Roy Rogers watch and my Hopalong Cassidy watch.
I got one of these....but wish i had my RR ax(guitar)
well if ya had'a told Roy back then ya had a Ax, he'd a told ya to go split some firewood. ;D
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on February 25, 2009, 07:45:40 AM
well if ya had'a told Roy back then ya had a Ax, he'd a told ya to go split some firewood. ;D
yep cas I sure couldn't play a guitar or sing very good.... ;D
well if ya could have it might'a changed history, litl rooster and Dale Evans, or ya mighta had yer own sidekick like the Lone Ranger, litl rooster and tonto,
probably best not to mess with history. ;D
Happy Trails to You Till We Meet Again!
So what happened ta that Roy Rogers git-fiddle? Seems like somethin a guy would hang on ta.
They have a collection of all the Roy Rogers items that were sold during that time in the Museum at Branson. I visited the Museum several times when it was in Victorville and a remember a small guitar among the items. I would assume that all those items made the trip from Victorville to Branson.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on February 25, 2009, 01:30:36 PM
So what happened ta that Roy Rogers git-fiddle? Seems like somethin a guy would hang on ta.
young and stupid ............who'd thunk that stuff would be better than a 401 k
Quote from: litl rooster on February 25, 2009, 10:45:57 PM
young and stupid ............who'd thunk that stuff would be better than a 401 k
yeah... my dad is in the same boat as you are, except with a car... he bought her brand new back in 1969... now all he says is "who'd thought a 1969 Charger Super Bee Hemi would be worth that much now?!" yeah... I'm kicking him, big time! LOL
right now, I'm looking at some vintage trumpets on ebay for restoration. Got my Yamaha for now, but man, to have a classic horn from the 30's would be awesome.
here's my other baby:
Willie, I feel your Dad's pain. I had 3 cars at one time I wish I had back, a 56 Chevy BelAir 2drHt, a 58 Impala with a 348 tri-power and 3 spd., and a 66 Pontiac GTO. Good luck with the horn restoration.
Was watchin' Cheyenne this morning, and they played part of the two other shows that were part of "The Cheyenne Show". It was from Bronco Lane:
Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the Texas plain.
Bronco, Bronco, Bronco Layne.
Worn down around the old panhandle,
Texas is where he grew to fame.
There ain't a horse that he can't handle,
that's how he got his name.
Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the Texas plain.
Bronco, Bronco, Bronco Layne.
Next to a four square Texas twister,
You'd call a cyclone weak and mild,
You've never seen a twister, mister,
Till someone gets him riled.
Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the Texas plain.
Bronco, Bronco, Bronco Layne.
Show me a gal who kissed him once,
And I'll show you a gal who's kissed him twice.
Once a city gal has kissed him twice,
She's dreamin' of shoes and rice.
Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the Texas plain.
Bronco, Bronco, Bronco Layne.
Was readin' 'bout the murder defendant whut stabbed the trial judge in Stockton, CA. Saw the cop what canceled 'is bus pass with a single shot ta the head was a Lodi cop. Made me think ah this'n.
Fogerty ain't always easy ta understand. First I heard it I thought he was sayin' 'I'm suckin' on old tires again.'
(J. Fogerty)
Just about a year ago, I set out on the road,
Seekin' my fame and fortune, lookin' for a pot of gold.
Things got bad, and things got worse, I guess you will know the tune.
Oh ! Lord, stuck in Lodi again.
Rode in on the Greyhound, I'll be walkin' out if I go.
I was just passin' through, must be seven months or more.
Ran out of time and money, looks like they took my friends.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
The man from the magazine said I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play.
I came into town, a one night stand, looks like my plans fell through
Oh ! Lord, stuck in Lodi again.
Mmmm...
If I only had a dollar, for ev'ry song I've sung.
And ev'ry time I've had to play while people sat there drunk.
You know, I'd catch the next train back to where I live.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
Love John but yer right about his 'nunciation. Lot a folks out there singin "there's a bathroom on the right".
Moose is one of them.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 25, 2009, 03:57:12 PM
They have a collection of all the Roy Rogers items that were sold during that time in the Museum at Branson. I visited the Museum several times when it was in Victorville and a remember a small guitar among the items. I would assume that all those items made the trip from Victorville to Branson.
yeah his saddles brought premium dollars. With all the money he made off of offical products, it's a shame they had to sell off alot to pay taxes. He and Dale had like 6gazillion kids you'd thunk he could deducted them on their taxes better.
Back in the 50's, Roy and Dale contributed to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch west on Amarillo. The Ranch was located on what was once the town of Tascosa. Roy and Dale donated clothes and boots to the kids at Boys Ranch every Christmas. Roy and Dale were at the Stock show in Fort Worth. Roy was commissioned as a Deputy Sheriff for Tarrant County and Dale was made an honorary citizen of Fort Worth. I never got to meet Roy and Dale, they came into the coffee shop at a motel one morning. I was working in Waxahachie at the PD. I had just finished my night shift and was going home . Dale's mother had passed away in a little town near Waxahachie. They were there for the funeral. It was around 75 or 76. I did get to meet Dusty one time at the Museum in Victorville.
TLD
Roy and Dale made an appearance at End of Trail shortly before his death. So I got a chance to see them then. I have possed with Dusty a couple of times at EOT and found him to be a very nice down to earth person. His band used to be the featured attraction at the Saturday night dance at EOT.
Russ, Did you see my post about Tom Mix?
Yes I did, but I'm not sure what I posted that led to Mr. Mix!
Somebody posted that you had some Tom Mix memrobilia.
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on March 06, 2009, 10:49:17 AM
Yes I did, but I'm not sure what I posted that led to Mr. Mix!
It was paying for a hot water heater....
I posted that you might have to sell some of your Tom Mix memoribilia.... (I doan know if Russ has stuff like that)
Jist ah joke.......
I have never had the opportunity to visit the Mix Museum in Dewey. Long before I got into shooting and especially Cowboy shooting (I don't think Harper and Boyd had even started SASS at the time) I did get the chance to visit the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City
Iffin' I did have some Mix memorabilia I sure wouldn't unload it to pay for a water heater. There always is the stove and a pot of water! ::) ;D
My wife's cousin, George Williams as inducted at the Museum as a member of the 2008 Rodeo Hall of Fame. We didn't know about until after it was over with. It was neat to know that one on the kinfolk is a member of the HOF.
Quote from: Tensleep on March 06, 2009, 11:02:13 AM
It was paying for a hot water heater....
Why would ya wanna heat hot water?
Inquiring Minds?
Quote from: Arcey on March 06, 2009, 11:35:19 AM
Why would ya wanna heat hot water?
Super-heating maybe?
Not everyone can boil water!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 06, 2009, 03:06:32 PM
Not everyone can boil water!
Once I left that recipe next ta the one fer ice cubes an they both disappeared. It was a hard week ta say the least.
Leo, "A man's gotta know his limitations".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 06, 2009, 06:33:53 PM
Leo, "A man's gotta know his limitations".
I'll say, everthin I ate er drank was tepid til I got them distructions back.
Tepid is better than too hot.
RIP Hank Locklin:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,507024,00.html
Thanks Del, Another Hank in Hillbilly Heaven.
http://www.stinalisa.com/HillbillyHeaven.html
Looks like only 2 left that were in that song.
Eddy Arnold passed away on 08. Andy Griffith is the only one left on that list.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 10, 2009, 01:17:35 AM
Eddy Arnold passed away on 08. Andy Griffith is the only one left on that list.
I thought I'd read Eddy passed also
The last time I saw Andy was in a country video of Brad Paisley's. His face looked like it was puffy, he's 82 years old.
He was back in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital a few months ago under an alias. Lives in Manteo, NC. He was back home before it was reported. Good ta see the reporters had some respect for his privacy.
General has a heck of a rep as a heart treatment center on the right coast. Why I find a l'il comfort in Betsy bein' in Leigh Memorial, the original of which me 'n the fat lady were born. They're sister hospitals.
It's good that she's in a hospital that has a reputation for good health care.
Very good. The hospital that dealt with my Mom fer 4 years was amazing. They just kept pullin rabbits out of their hats everytime things went wrong. The place is in Flagstaff and I have more respect for them folks than I can say. Darn near miracle workers if you ask me.
M D Anderson Hospital in Houston gave us 8 more years of life for my Dad. I can't say enough about the quality of care he received there and the knowledge of the staff.
Been thinkin on all the kids taday. Thought about ma almost grown daughter an this come ta mind. Pulled it up an had one them allergy attacks.
All you dads with little girls out there, this ones fer you. Don't know what the heck Vienna has ta do with anything, but this man could write a song.
Slow down, you crazy child
You're so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you're so smart, tell me
Why are you still so afraid?
Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You'd better cool it off before you burn it out
You got so much to do and
Only so many hours in a day
But you know that when the truth is told...
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even
Get halfway through
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Slow down, you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be
Before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight
Tonight,...
Too bad but it's the life you lead
You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need
Though you can see when you're wrong, you know
You can't always see when you're right. you're right
You've got your passion, you've got your pride
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Slow down, you crazy child
And take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile
It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?
And you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get half through
Why don't you realize, Vienna waits for you
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 10, 2009, 04:18:07 PM
M D Anderson Hospital in Houston gave us 8 more years of life for my Dad. I can't say enough about the quality of care he received there and the knowledge of the staff.
I heard good things about M D Anderson recently.
Slim
maybe it's Vienna sausage? LOL
I love that song!
Well I was thinkin mebbe he meant a nice safe place. That were my DAD perspective on it at least. ;)
Ah! Vienna sausage, rat cheese, and saltines. my favorite snack.
See now niether of ya got no prodgeny of the female variety er otherwise. Wouldn't be suprised if Willie were callin me in 15 years er so sayin "Leo, my daughters actin strange all a sudden, what gives?" ::)
Victoria is my female child prodigy.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 12, 2009, 01:48:09 PM
Victoria is my female child prodigy.
Do she play the pianer? ;D
Nope, She's huntin'/guard dog.
There's a big differnce tween progeny an progidy Pop.
Warning to all. I never cared fer the Carpenters an never sat through an entire album of theirs. Well it happened tanight an I'm still wipin' the blood outta my ears. Beyond the hits we all know an love :-X they also managed ta destroy some really good songs like Jumbalaya. I seriously need ta clense ma palate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE
hat is in hand
Leo, Victoria is the daughter I never had, she's both a progeny and a prodigy.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 12, 2009, 01:40:17 PM
See now niether of ya got no prodgeny of the female variety er otherwise. Wouldn't be suprised if Willie were callin me in 15 years er so sayin "Leo, my daughters actin strange all a sudden, what gives?" ::)
I'd have to get to know a girl first, then well have the daughter, and then be able to call you! LOL I dunno if any of that will happen anytime soon, let alone as quick as 15 years! LOL
Yeah, I thought on that when I was typin it, just didn't wanna pitcher maself much older ::)
Did I mention I loathe the carpenters? Oh yeah, guess I did.
I would like to know Karen's brother. He had a collection of "muscle cars" of the Mopar variety at one time.
For today:
And come tell me Sean O'Farrell tell me why you hurry so
Husha buachaill hush and listen and his cheeks were all a glow
I bare orders from the captain get you ready quick and soon
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon
And come tell me Sean O'Farrell where the gath'rin is to be
At the old spot by the river quite well known to you and me
One more word for signal token whistle out the marchin' tune
With your pike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
With your pike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon
Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night
Many a manly heart was beating for the blessed warning light
Murmurs rang along the valleys to the banshees lonely croon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon
All along that singing river that black mass of men was seen
High above their shining weapons flew their own beloved green
Death to every foe and traitor! Whistle out the marching tune
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, 'tis the rising of the moon
'Tis the rising of the moon, 'tis the rising of the moon
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, 'tis the rising of the moon
Del, That sounds like there may be a rebellion in the works!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 17, 2009, 07:49:57 PM
Del, That sounds like there may be a rebellion in the works!
Most the stuff I've been listenin' to tonight is that kind.
The young English soldier got back on his machine and away he did go
For there's no sense in fighting a girl of 16,
Who'll die for a banner, white orange and green.
I've a bit of Ulster Irish in me, but love them Fenian songs, go figger. ;D
To tha Bold Fenian MEN!
Almost fergot ta do this this year on Ireland's most special day. Lonnie Donnegan was part of the birth of rock'n'roll with that skiffle beat, an dern it I take ma hat off ta him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4qkHMv678
Ain't no documentation of what the heck he is singin in the last verse, it died with him. Any lyrics search just shows question marks at that part. Guess no one ever asked him with a pencil and paper in hand.
here's my fave, from my fave band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6TMqOAOyfc
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6TMqOAOyfc
Leo, I was hopin for "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 18, 2009, 09:33:23 AM
Leo, I was hopin for "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor".
He did a lot more good uns other than that dern gum song Pop. But cause ya asked, here ya go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXp0i7Y1eVo
Ya outta here him belt out the Battle of New Orleans. Heck, they're all good fer the most part.
Back in the Dark ages, I had a 45 record of that.
+My favorite line form "Does your Chewing Gum" is:
<spoken> If a tin whistle is made of tin, What's a fog horn made of???
I just found a 2 cd set of Rolf Harris...(remember him?? ) a hint is "tie my kangaroo down sport"
but I would buy the whole set of cd just for the B side of Tie my Kanga roo down...Does ANYBODY remember what that song was...?
Curley
The Big Black Hat.
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on March 21, 2009, 03:55:26 AM
The Big Black Hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Yw5WMd6Ec
Slim
"So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's hangin' in the shed".
The "B" side of tye my kangaroo down was a song called "Sun Arise"
"Sun arise in the mornin........(that is all I can remember at the moment...think I need to get that cd)
curley
Well, guess I just had to look for it a bit, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtnBm8glPE
Curley
I got the wrong artist! :o ::) I definitely like Sun Arise over Big Black Hat! ;D
I 'member that, seems somewhere in my sometimes foggy mind Alice Copper did a cover of it.
Del, After age 50 your mind starts to go, Welcome to tha crowd.
Did ya mean Alice Cooper? If so I can prolly find it in a drawer around here somewhere.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 21, 2009, 05:13:08 PM
Did ya mean Alice Cooper? If so I can prolly find it in a drawer around here somewhere.
Copper, Cooper, you know the guy that plays golf with Pat Boone. ::)
Vincent Fernier. Then there's Al Cooper an that's whole differnt ball a wax. I'll see if I can find that song.
Alice doesn't live here anymore!
Well, he was wino, tried and true.
Done about everything there is to do.
He worked on freighters, an' he'd worked in bars.
He worked on farms, an' he'd worked on cars.
It was white port that put that look in his eye,
Grown men get when they need to cry.
We sat down on the curb to rest,
And his head just fell down on his chest.
He says: "Every single day it gets,
"Just a little bit harder to handle and yet. . ."
Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered,
And the words just rolled off down the gutter.
Well, he was elevator man in a cheap hotel,
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell.
An' he's old: years beyond his time,
No thanks to the world, and the white port wine.
So he said: "Son." He always called me son.
Said: "Life for you has just begun."
An' then he told me the story I'd heard before
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore.
Now, he could cut through the years to the very night,
When it ended in a whore house fight.
And she turned his last proposal down,
In favor of being a girl about town.
Now it's been seventeen years, right in line,
He ain't been straight in none of the time.
It's too many days of fightin' the weather,
An' too many nights of not being together.
So he died.
Instrumental break.
An' when they went through his personal effects,
In among the stubs from the welfare checks,
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door,
An' an address in Dallas, and nothin' more.
An' the welfare people provided the priest,
A couple from the mission down the street,
Sang "Amazing Grace", and no one cried,
'Cept some lady in black, way off to the side.
We all left and she's standing there,
A black veil covering her silver hair.
Ol' One-Eyed John said her name was Alice,
An' she used to be a whore in Dallas.
So let him roar, Lord, let him roll.
I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul.
Just you let him roll, Lord, let him roar
He always said that heaven
Was just a Dallas whore.
Just you let him roar, Lord, let him roll.
I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul.
Guy Clark an Mr Cash both did that one. Love em both.
and Little Feat
I'm sorta partial to Guy Clark's rendition of it.
Here's a little Sheb Wooley tune some of ya might remember and most of us can relate to.
I stepped outta the shower and I gotta good look at myself
Pot belly, bald head, man, I thought I was somebody else
I caught my reflection in the mirror on the back of my bathroom door
I just don't look good naked anymore
So, I'm goin' upstairs and turn the bedroom mirror to the wall
I hung it there when I was trim and tall
I'd stand there and smile, and strut and flex until my arms got sore
But I just don't look good naked anymore
Well, I used to go out with the girls
I loved them one and all
Now they don't get very close to me
They're afraid that I might fall
Well, I went to the Doctor for my annual medical exam
Stood there in the buff, suddenly he said "MAN"
I said "What is it Doc, some fatal disease, I just gotta know the
score"
He said "No, you just don't look good naked anymore
Well, me and my wife had a dance routine
Everybody said it was unique
Now it's only when we're back to back
That we're dancing cheek to cheek
Well, I went to a nudie beech to have some seaside fun
Stretched out in my birthday suit, soakin' up the sun
Somebody yelled, "Hey, there's an old white whale washed up on the
shore
I just don't look good naked anymore
Yeah, my arches fell, my chest went to hell
And my butt's a-draggin' the floor
An' I just don't look good naked anymore
No, I just don't look good naked anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoZjsHs86A&feature=related
DAMMIT ROO!
What tha hell you doin' lookin' in my winder?
LR, Unfortunately there is a bunch of us that are in that group.
A-Men, Brother TLD ;D ::) :o 8)
Slip Slidin' away!
Been noticin the signs lately maself. Should prolly think about doin somethin bout it.
Dang it Pop, ya got that Paul Simon stuck in ma head now.
Leo, Don't wait as long as I did.
Duley noted. Lucky I still have the upper body strength, just have ta work on the gut and cardio. It was nice when I didn't have ta "work on it". All the good eatin and being out of the field is my downfall.
Leo, The older you get, the harder it is to take off. It's easier to put on than take off.
When the food is good it's very easy to put it on. First wife was a bad cook an I stayed slim. Now I'm into cookin and the wife is too.
TLD's words have iron in'em, Leo. I love to eat, too. After 50, it REALLY gets hard to get it off. By then, all the stupid stuff you did as young'un catches up with you. Exercise is a lot more difficult when things don't work like they used to or are startin' to wear. Try to walk more, at least. I get more exercise now doing the bus thing than when I first retired. Worst thing you can do is veg, you gotta keep movin'..................Buck 8) ::) :o
Buck, Yes, I know of what I speak.
Thank you gentlemen. Sounds like good advice.
Had to get this out thanks ta Tex. Been stewin in ma head all day.
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said delores
I live in fear
My love for yous so overpowering
Im afraid that I will disappear
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Aint got no rain
She said a bad days when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
And I know a fa-ther
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things hed done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
God only knows
God makes his plan
The informations unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe were gliding down the highway
When in fact were slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
Slip slidin away
You know the nearer your destination
The more youre slip slidin away
Mmm...
"Ain't it funny how time slips away".
See if I can't get one stuck in yer head.
"And time goes by so slowly
and time can do so much"
So much for the Righteous Brothers!
Uh, oh, get out your pottery wheel ::)
Unchained Melody in the Mud.
I had fergot about that movie Buck. I think I was the only person in town that didn't go see it.
Them boys sure could sing though. They were banned from some radio stations for being "too soulfull".
"Blue-eyed Soul"!
If I recall correct, some minister said they were responsible fer an upswing in teen pregnancy. Somthin about their sound put the gals in the mood. Apparently they didn't lose that lovin feelin.
It seemed to get Demi Moore in the mood in "Ghost".
I saw Medley on PBS a week or so ago. Is Hatfield gone? Or are they having "artistic differences".........Buck ::) 8)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 24, 2009, 06:57:14 PM
I saw Medley on PBS a week or so ago. Is Hatfield gone? Or are they having "artistic differences".........Buck ::) 8)
Buck i think he has health issues
I'll say. He joined that band in the sky in 2003. He was quite a guy.
I saw them at Billy Bob's one night.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 24, 2009, 11:48:13 PM
I'll say. He joined that band in the sky in 2003. He was quite a guy.
I guess he really did have some issues :o it might also account for the artistic differences
LR, That's a definite possibilty.
Kinda figured it was probably so. It was a show about movie themes, Medley did "You've got thast Lovin' Feelin'" alone on the stage, probably with a recorded track as accompaniment............Buck 8) ::)
In Rock and Roll, Ya know they got a hell of a BAND!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 25, 2009, 11:54:48 AM
In Rock and Roll, Ya know they got a hell of a BAND!
Luckily ma brain did one of those fill in the blanks things fer me ;D
Hatfield had a inneresting life, I read a story about him when he died. He was scouted for the majors when he was young and ended up winning several golf titles when he was older. The guy was a natural athelete, his amazing voice just got in the way for a few years.
One story I read had him dying of a heart attack and another had him dying of a cocaine overdose.
Not fer me ta judge, but the two could be related. Just a matter of how ya wanna put it in many cases.
So I got a new song for all you, gone country for this one, but it's got some blues in there, hehe, like all mine do:
http://music.yahoo.com/track/17019972
there's a little play button by the album artwork
Troubled soul, all alone
I can feel your sadness
The hearache and the madness
Are hittin' hard tonight
You're cornered up and hunkered down
The walls are tall around you
For anyone to break through
It's gonna be a fight
(Chorus)
Bring it on, bring it on
All your heartache and frustration
You've been done wrong too long
And I'm strong enough to change it
Maybe in time, we'll turn water into wine
Maybe love is what we'll find
Bring it on
It's not too late to fly away
And I won't try to stop you
So you do what you've got to
I'll understand
But if you need a place to land
A haven, safe and certain
Someone to share your burden
Then take my hand
(Chorus 2x)
Bring it on, bring it on
All your heartache and frustration
You've been done wrong too long
And I'm strong enough to change it
Maybe in time, we'll turn water into wine
Maybe love is what we'll find
Bring it on
Yeah, bring it on baby
Baby, bring it on
Bring it on
Yeah, bring it on
I like Trace's song. There's one of his that brings a tear to my eye and I'm not ashamed. To anyone who has served in the military, this song has strong meaning. "I finally made it to Arlington". If that song don't put a tear in your eye, there is something wrong with you.
Tex, before you were done with your reply I knew what song you were talking about. I love that song, and weep every time... and damn proud I do. I figure it takes a real human to realize the meaning in that song.
TLD,Willie Here's the link for the video for Trace's song "Arlinton"
http://new.music.yahoo.com/singleVideo/?vid=22921559
yeah
too many memories there, I can't watch that vid.
I'm thinking about tatooing a number 8 on my chest over my heart...
there were 8 of us that signed out of high school or went to the academies, and we were all close. I'm all that's left.
played trumpet for them all, they figured since I was a Coastie, I'd be the safest and so it was my job.
guess they were right.
Major, Thank you for the link to the video. I've lost friends in the military and fellow officers as a cop, it's always tough. My heart is with the families for the 4 officers who died in Oakland.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 26, 2009, 05:20:30 PM
Major, Thank you for the link to the video. I've lost friends in the military and fellow officers as a cop, it's always tough. My heart is with the families for the 4 officers who died in Oakland.
hear hear!
That song gets me hard for my own reasons. One of the ones I know what's going to happen as soon as I hear the first few bars and realize what it is. Aint ashamed to say Lil has seen my tears many times and never thought any less of me.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 26, 2009, 05:51:32 PM
That song gets me hard for my own reasons. One of the ones I know what's going to happen as soon as I hear the first few bars and realize what it is. Aint ashamed to say Lil has seen my tears many times and never thought any less of me.
that's how you know she's a good woman Leo, that's how you know. And I hope the best for your "reasons" too, I really do.
Trace was part of a USO tour last year to Iraq. I watched a Special on that tour on CMT. He brought a little bit of home to those military personnel so far away from home during the holidays. The trip was tough on him and he lost his voice. He still put on shows for the personnel.
Gonna change the tone, with no disrepect fer anyone.
This popped inta ma head taday fer no good reason. Lil is gettin convinced that I was preserved in ice fer 80 years when I mentioned it. She never heard of it but sure enough there it was on the You Tube. Somethin I'm guessin no one ever 'spected ta see or hear in this thread. This one goes waaaay back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHg5uuZjwY
Leo, That one was a little before my time. The only thing that I remember that my dad told that Barney Google was a cartoon comic strip character i n the 20s and 30s.
I knew about Barney Google just because of my comics, and I always like to know the history of stuff. Rumor has it Barney was inspiration for a certain mouse that took over the world.
Lost another good one today, Dan Seals passed away in Tenn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UP26qH9Jc
Bro. Sleep, That's hittin' close to home, he's our age!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 27, 2009, 06:49:39 PM
Bro. Sleep, That's hittin' close to home, he's our age!
Sad to say that's true... lymphoma took him after two years..
Saw that, was he involved with Seals and Croft as well?( Summer Breeze)...........Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 27, 2009, 07:18:37 PM
Saw that, was he involved with Seals and Croft as well?( Summer Breeze)...........Buck 8) ::)
That is Dan's brother Jim.
Dan was aka "England Dan"
I didn't know that Dan was sick. I hadn't heard new songs of his on the radio. I always enjoyed his songs and singing.
I got to see Dan in 1994, good show.
I learned to drink beer with Dan and John Fod Coley under the bridge on Dowdy Ferry Rd outside Dallas in the 60s.
They were both good friends of my cousin, John Wilson.
Del, How's the weather?
Cold, cold rain fallin' here, real heavy at times.
It's been pretty nice here, darn cold though... supposedly getting snow tomorrow, it keeps getting pushed back.
Sometimes I wonder
If you even know
That I'm starin' at you
Or if you even care
Sometimes I think
I'll just go somewhere
Could be anywhere
Cause my heart
Can't take the pain
Of another day
In this cold, cold rain
Sometimes I reach out
To touch you
Feel you turn away
Somethin' I've done
Must have hurt you
But you never say
What made your
Sweet love change
In this cold, cold rain
And I'm drowin' in
Tears that I've cried
And I'm chokin' on
Feelin's inside
Oh, my heart
Can't take the pain
Of another day
In the cold, cold rain
(Instrumental)
One day and it won't be long
You'll leave me standin' here
Wavin' goodbye to our love
Watchin' it disappear
Just like a slow movin' train
In the cold, cold rain
And I'm drowin' in
Tears that I've cried
And I'm chokin' on
Feelin's inside
Oh, my heart
Can't take the pain
Of another day
In this cold, cold rain
Cold cold rain...
The ARA put out some good stuff. Most of it is kinda down but the sound of em...
Quote from: Tensleep on March 27, 2009, 07:22:35 PM
That is Dan's brother Jim.
Dan was aka "England Dan"
true
the video you posted was done in Montana ... seen him do the solo acoustic gig in Missoula near 20 years ago now.
RIP
here's a great song that shows there's at least hope with country...
it helped inspire my drawing
"Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace"
I was raised by the good book
learned to work hard every day
Thought that if you can't say something good
there's nothing good to say
And I caught on pretty early it's no use to work
no harder than you play
So I guess that's how I ended up this way
[Chorus:]
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Well I give everything I got, try to give more than I take
For Heaven's sake I keep on smiling
no matter what comes my way
And I may be passin' out on Friday night
But come Sunday I'll be passing the collection plate
[Chorus:]
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Yeah I know I'm a sinner, but I've got faith
Oh my good side is what he's gonna see
When I'm standing at them Pearly Gates
He'll have nothing but mercy for me
[Chorus:]
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
http://www.cmt.com/videos/big-rich/181232/between-raising-hell-and-amazing-grace-short-film.jhtml?id=1243422
Willie, That song takes me back about 40 years, when I was young and crazy.
no reason why you can't be "young and crazy" now Tex. It's the heart that counts.
Willie, If I would have know I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 29, 2009, 01:14:09 AM
Willie, If I would have know I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
you know, a lot of my older friends have said that. But another one, in the same situation said, "well hell, I'm old, so be it... I earned it."
lol he's a CWO5 in the Coast Guard... salty guy. 35+ years in and I think they'll have too boot him out, or bury him at sea. He always started every one of his watches with "ready to be a hero today?!"
all I got to say is that thanks to you and Leo, I'm where I am right now... pursuing a dream I never thought was possible, and now... with ever door open to me.
thanks
Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad that I could be some help.
your very welcome Tex, I'm serious. you really helped me get back on track.
Here's another great song I like from Big and Rich, from their original album.
"Live this Life"
Met a man on the street last night said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
Thought he was crazy till I watched him heal the blind man
I watched him heal the blind man now I see yeah
I'll live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk with patience through that open door
I have no fear angels follow me where ever I may go
I'll live this live until this life won't let me live here anymore
Met a girl in a chair with wheels but no one else would see here
Met a girl in a chair with wheels
Every one was so afraid to even look down on her
And she just spread her little wings and flew away
I'll live this life until this live won't let me live here anymore
And I will walk yes I will walk with patience though that open door
I have no fear angels follow me where ever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Live here anymore
Met a kid on a bridge last night contemplating freedom
Met a kid on a bridge last night
And he said I'm tired of this maddening life and I'm ready to go meet Jesus
I said he's a friend of mine met him just last night it's all right yeah
It's all right yeah
I'll live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk with patience through that open door
I have no fears angels follow me where ever I may go
I'll live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Live here anymore
Met a man on the street last night said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
Thanks Willie.
Love this one, but a lyrics search don't turn up much, just gotta listen. Foriegn accents er fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1shnX9xy0
That's awesome, they remind me of one of my fave cult bands the "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club" combined with "Gaelic Storm!" That was a great song.
hehe, can't help it now,
here's my favorite song from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
"Ain't No Easy Way Out"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXcHNHEOqg
kinda poetic for me right now... lol
lyrics are simple too, but they don't need to be much more
It's easy to fall in love
When you fall in love you know you're done
you got easy eyes to hunt
when the world above needs your blood
and the cold vain to the richest man
They're paid away to steal our hand
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
It's easy to fall in love
When you're on your luck you know you're done
and the last kiss had a foolish cause
now your tired eyes could only haunt
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
It's easy to fall in love when you fall in love you know you're done
I just stole this from over the Leathershop....Ya'll have to loaded it to a file but worth it.
http://www.westernfolklife.org/site1/batr/music_earthsky.php#anthem
LR, That's a good 'un!
The American Cowboy, A Dying Breed!
That was a good listen. Going to go through the rest of them. Thank ya.
Had this one on this morning from the Live in Aught Three album
Hear the trucks on the highway, And the tickin' of the clocks
There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon, Bullet holes in the mailbox
Bullet holes in the mailbox, Keyholes in my mind
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I've fallin' behind
She said won't you come see me, When the sun goes down
It'll be just like the old days, When I used to let you hang around
Well I don't know, I might not speak the language any more
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I've closed some doors
People in the village, Watch the children play
At the sight of a stranger, They call the kids away
Just leave that man alone, I hear the mothers say
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
What's made him that way
I hadn't intended, To bend the rules
Whiskey don't make liars, It just makes fools
So I didn't mean to say it, But I meant what I said
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
Must have gone to my head
Jet trails in the sunset, a long way away
cuttin' cross the horizon, At the edge of the day
And it calls out to me, Come fly away, I've been
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I'll have to stay
There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon
Bullet holes in the mailbox
Bullet holes in the mailbox
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 03, 2009, 12:23:33 PM
The American Cowboy, A Dying Breed!
Baxter Black says NO, ya just can't see him from the road. ;)
He's usually out on the range somewhere.
Still got some workin cowboys a few miles west of here but they don't have the pleasure of being in undeveloped expanses described in the poem. When they's doin their work they have cars wizzin by em on the hiway an gas station signs on the horizon. God bless them guys.
The ranch I worked on was about 30 miles from town. The feedlots were near highways so the trucks could load and unload the cattle.
Leo that's like Cowboyin' here in old Dominion
Unlike eastern Montana where I had 45 miles of gravel to hit,before the oil to town.
LR, I heard they lost over 3,500 head of cattle in the Panhandle in the blizzard they had up there. Most of them were in feedlots. I'm glad I missed out on that one, I'm sure it was pretty rough up there.
Askin fer some help here. Didn't Johnny Cash do a song called "the Ring"? Not Ring of Fire, it's differnt. They made a movie out of it I saw years ago. Song's about a kid who hustles pool and bets the last thing he has. The ring his father gave his mother before leaving for good. The guy he's shooting against when he bets it turns out to be his father.
Someone here has got ta know. It's drivin me nuts.
Can't help ya. E'er time he's played as bumper I grab the remote 'n shut it off fer a minute.
Moans out - 'Some velvet mornin' when I'm skraight' (intentional misspellin') – Yuck!
Sokay Amigo. Just had one a them friendly arguments with a feller who thought he was the authority on all things Cash. Mentioned that song and movie an denies they existed. Kinda frustratin. Ta each his own.
Damn.....
If Deeeeeeeeedra with flowers growin' onna hill is that important ta ya, stay sober 'n maybe ya kin get 'tween 'er gates.
Sorry. Doan listen ta bad music, legend er not.
Songs called The Baron I believe, think it's on my CD set.
I wish I had of known you when you were a little younger 'round me you might have learned a thing or two
If I'd had known you longer you might be a little stronger
Maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do, maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do.
As he walked into the poolroom you could tell he didn't fit
In his hand made boots, custom suit, pearl handled shootin' stick
Tonight there'd be a showdown then everyone would know
Who shoots the meanest game around, The Baron or Billy Joe
Billy Joe looked edgy, about to lose his cool
But the Baron's hands were steady as the two began to duel
Yeah, he was like a General on a battlefield of slate
And he would say to Billy Joe each time he sunk the eight, he'd say...
I wish I had of known you when you were a little younger 'round me you might have learned a thing or two
If I'd had known you longer you might be a little stronger
Maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do, maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do.
Now Billy Joe was busted but he hadn't felt the sting
And from the far end of the table he threw his Mother's wedding ring
And he said 'You won my money but it ain't gonna do the trick
I'll bet this ring on one more game against your fancy stick'
The Baron's eyes grew foggy as the ring rolled on the felt
And he almost doubled over like he was hit below the belt
Twenty years ago it was the ring his wife had worn
And he didn't know before he left that a son would soon be born
It sounded just like thunder when the Baron shot the break
But it grew quickly quiet as he lined up the eight
Then a warm hand touched his shoulder and it chilled him to the bone
When he turned and saw the woman who had loved him for so long.
The game was never finished, the eight ball never fell
The Baron calmly picked it up and put it on the shelf
Then he placed the ring in the hand that held him long ago
And he tossed that fancy shootin' stick to his son Billy Joe
And he said....
I wish I had of known you when you were a little younger 'round me you might have learned a thing or two
If I'd had known you longer you might be a little stronger
Maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do, maybe you'd shoot straighter than you do.
Leo, It was a Made for TV movie done in 1984. Johnny and June was in it. I think it was called the Baron and the Kid.
Thank ya guys. It were one of them instances where I knew I remembered somthin' an couldn't pull it outta ma hat. No big deal, it was just buggin me. Saw that movie when it was brand new.
It's nice to be appreciated once in a while.
Watchin' an old wwestern, "Hellgate". Bunch of cowboy actors at very early ages. Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond, James Arness, and a small part played by Sheb Wooley. Seein' Sheb reminded me of this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE
Russ, You must be watchin' encore western channel. Ol Sheb has a walk on role in the movie that came on next, "The Toughest Man in Arizona".
Watchin' it now! Short stint in the Cavalry, in this one!
By the way, listening to Vaughn Monroe's songs have managed to kick the Purple People Eater outa my head!
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on April 08, 2009, 02:34:54 PM
By the way, listening to Vaughn Monroe's songs have managed to kick the Purple People Eater outa my head!
Dear lord, don't go puttin it in mine. Too late dammit.
Leo, How about "Ghostriders in the Sky" by Vaughn Monroe?
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 08, 2009, 02:46:17 PM
Dear lord, don't go puttin it in mine. Too late dammit.
Leo
That was part of the plan! ::) ;D Once it was stuck in my head, I just had to share! ;D My Momma taught me not to be selfish. ::)
Sokay, I've done ma share of plantin them evil seeds. Just ask Del.
Funny you mentioned Ghost Riders Tex, it was in ma head this mornin. Tryin ta get it back. Oh there it is.
It too, wil pass!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 08, 2009, 03:14:21 PM
Sokay, I've done ma share of plantin them evil seeds. Just ask Del.
Funny you mentioned Ghost Riders Tex, it was in ma head this mornin. Tryin ta get it back. Oh there it is.
I like to refer to them as "Musical Mind Mines". ::) ;D
Russ, That's a good term, I'll have to remember that.
That is a good term Russ. I had a job once when I was younger. Was another guy there that used ta come in ta pick up paperwork 2 or 3 times a night. Found that if I quietly hummed a bad song while he was around, he would come back a few hours later singing it out loud. It really drove him nuts. Was months bafore he realized I was the one doing it ta him.
Deevious!
*Leo quietly mutters, "why-em-see-ay, whyyy-em-see-ay" *
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 09, 2009, 02:19:53 PM
*Leo quietly mutters, "why-em-see-ay, whyyy-em-see-ay" *
Didn't work Leo! ::) ::)
I have to see the episode of Nash Bridges, where Joe Dominguez is directing traffic to that song, before it gets stuck. ;D ;D
Yer a resiliant one Mr Chambers.
Just be glad I didn't pull out the big guns. ;D
Leo, That sounds like a threat!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 09, 2009, 04:21:12 PM
Leo, That sounds like a threat!
I'm sure ya do feel threatened Pop. After all...
Everybody was kung foo fighting(appologies in advance ta Del an Buck ::) )
Bring It Carl!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 09, 2009, 05:21:47 PM
I'm sure ya do feel threatened Pop. After all...
Everybody was kung foo fighting
(appologies in advance ta Del an Buck ::) )
ya mean Del and Buck are Kung Foo fighters :o ;)
Them Cats was fast as lightinin', but they was a little bit frightenin!
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on April 09, 2009, 05:32:01 PM
ya mean Del and Buck are Kung Foo fighters :o ;)
Don't know, but I jammed both there heads with that one a while back ;D
Seems ta be workin on Tex too.
Leo, My mind left town many years ago!
Since were talkin' bout bad musiv\c from the middle 70's see if this one will stick: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDaVG5Syqw
Groooooaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn ::) :o 8)
That looks like a 58 to me.
And another over played blast from the past. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JlARH_8VyA&feature=related
The image of the singing truck is what's stuck in ma head more than the bad songs.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 09, 2009, 10:55:11 PM
The image of the singing truck is what's stuck in ma head more than the bad songs.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Well try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73WlF_XZUD0
I don't mind having Patsy stuck in ma head. Them trucks is goofy though.
You got Lil with that one Del. I clicked on the link and shut it off just a few seconds inta it. Lil is now humming the tune an don't even know it. Good work man :D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 09, 2009, 11:24:18 PM
I don't mind having Patsy stuck in ma head. Them trucks is goofy though.
Well if you don't like trucks, how 'bout VW Beetles? :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08Nj7Jdehw
Leo loads a mighty 10 and fires one that should do a good amount a damage...
If ya don't have sound, the second barrel is loaded with the words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym_mJokfTQg
Del, Thanks for reminding me of some those great trucker songs of the 60s. The two Red's, Sovine and Simpson. I'm sorta partial to "Highway Patrol" by Red Simpson. I like Junior Brown's version a little better because of Junior's "Guit-Steel".
Leo just ain't got no sense of humor. Most likely humor is illeagal on the left coast. ;D
Del, He's been brain-washed by them west-coast Liberals.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 10, 2009, 09:48:09 AM
Del, He's been brain-washed by them west-coast Liberals.
They'd rather have a Hummer than humor. ;D
Uhhh, I'm not even gonna touch that Del. ::)
Tex, I was built special ta withstand that liberal brainwashin. I thank ma Dad fer that ;)
You're definitely in the minority out there then.
You could definately say that, though there are quite a few of us where I live. Were only 4 miles from Hippie Town but there's a lot of good old boys in these parts. One of the biggest celebrations of the year used ta be called Joe Cain day. Now they just call it Marti Gras cause a them liberals you were mentionin.
Them folks can stay out there on the left coast.
This was the guy that is highly celebrated in my neck of the woods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cain
Leo, How did someone from Alabama being celebrating in California? All I know about him is that he estsblished the Mardi Gras celebration.
From the article...
The impression that the celebration had on a couple of visitors from California resulted in Joe Cain Days being officially recognized, in 1993, as a sister celebration by the Joe Cain Society of California in Nevada City, California each Mardi Gras.
Also, there is a very small town two miles from here that attempted to succeed from the Union. We have a big celebration for that too. The town is called Rough and Ready. The sign inta town says "The Republic of Rough and Ready".
Texas is the only State that can legally do that.
Note I said "attempted".
http://www.roughandreadychamber.com/
I wonder if Trace Atkins even knows the place exists.
We got two cities in Texas with unusual names, Cut N Shoot and Point Blank.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 10, 2009, 04:40:42 PM
We got two cities in Texas with unusual names, Cut N Shoot and Point Blank.
What happened to
Dime Box
Muleshoe
Gun Barrel City
Champions
Acme
Pidcoke
Lott
Bells
Telephone
Hext
Shep
Earth
Just to name a few other unusual towns
Bro. Sleep, I didn't forget. I read where the man killed by the tornado in Mena Arkansas was in a Masonic Lodge.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 10, 2009, 06:54:27 PM
Bro. Sleep, I didn't forget. I read where the man killed by the tornado in Mena Arkansas was in a Masonic Lodge.
I read that it was a woman at an Eastern Star meeting.
Either way I am glad there were just 3 killed, I'm sure it could have been a lot worse.
It can always be a lot worse but every individual counts. Every one person means the world to someone else. Not preachin here whatsoever, I just feel for those folks. Gonna go find some music to play.
Been using that www.pandora.com when I'm on the pewter at home, love it, did a Jimmie Rodgers station, and it plays other similar artists, did not know Gene Autry did Blue Yodel music, guess his cowboy stuff over shadowed the other stuff. Dang sounds almost like Jimmie himself.
I like the Sons of the Pioneers fer that stuff. The Sons of the Sons of the Pioneers weren't bad either, just short lived.
They used to do a show up in Branson several years ago. At that time, one of the original members was still with them. I still sorta partial to Bob Nolan's vocals and Ken Curtis wasn't bad either.
CD player just played this one by Don Edwards:
Deep water, ice and snow
And with a thousand cattle, we had to go
To get the cattle to the other side
You can bet your life we had to ride
Now the railroad was but a mile away
But ome men and horses would die that day
We held the herd on a ridge close by
As the north wind blew the snowflakes by
Well we were all chilled our bodies thru
But from cold or fear, nobody knew
So we lit us a smoke and we watched her blow
Now slack your cinches, we gotta go
Deep water, ice and snow
And with a thousand cattle we had to go
Well I pointed the men and we hit her fast
But our luck by now was a fadin fast
That man was a talkin from down below
As my horse and I were next to go
Well my horse turned over and I floated free
But the waves was so high, I couldn't see
Then my horse swam by and I grabbed his tail
He dragged me outa that icy hell
Deep water, ice and snow
And with a thousand cattle we had to go
Well I'll never forget that terrible day
When grown men cried and I heard some pray
We crossed the cattle to the other side
Just to save a vain mans pride
Well the hell I've seen was mighty cold
But the other kinds worse or so I'm told
Well I just hope when I have to go
It ain't in deep water, ice or snow
Deep water, ice and snow
And with a thousand cattle we had to go
To get the cattle to the other side
You can bet your life we had to ride
I love Don's singin' and his music. He is one of Fort Worth's biggest attractions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo
If any of you all were surfers, this will bring back memories. Showed my wifey, and thought she never would stop laffing
curley who never danced that good.
The Chantays were cool but they weren't no Dick Dale.
Wonderin if that little dance were special fer Lawrence Welk's show. I was waitin fer the bubble machine ta kick in.
Here's the King of Surf Guitar Just a hair late fer passover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6gAmC-fTTc
And one all of us at CAS City know and love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6M6kd8cmpI&feature=related
The guy has beat cancer twice an is still shreadin.
I remember seeing the Chantay's on that Lawrence Welk show. It was on a Sunday night and I was a Soph. in HS.
Leo, Did you catch the duet of Dick Dale and Stevie Ray doin' "PIPELINE". I reallywould like to hear Dick Dale and Junior Brown do "The Surf Medley".
Caught the one with him an SRV. There was also a version of Dick doing Ghost Riders in 2006 but the video kept sending me inta error land so I went with the original. He an Junior Brown would be amazing tagether.
This is funny,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKmC4EiFWE&feature=related
They're copying Dick Dale and the Dale tones, not bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAGzYqhyZk
When Old Top was a youth and stationed in DC, he wandered into a coffeehouse and heard a group he has been raving about ever since. I am the person of my family that finds lost stuff. I have been lookin for this group for all these 40 some years with no luck. All I had was the name: Baker Street Irrigulars. He thought they were from DC. Finally a few months ago on the net I found a listing about them and found out they were from Phylly and they had done one onreleased single. Thought I was doomed. Couple of days ago (actually while I was listening to the Chantays..) I thought what the hey, I would do a search on Utube, and sure enough there it was with even the single pix(Well the pix was the "bear fax, but it was the Fuzz label)...Ah, I turned into Sherlock Holmes for Top after all...
enjoy
curley
Those Youtube songs bring back a lot of memories, mostly good ones.
Quote from: Curley Cole on April 17, 2009, 04:20:26 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAGzYqhyZk
When Old Top was a youth and stationed in DC, he wandered into a coffeehouse and heard a group he has been raving about ever since. I am the person of my family that finds lost stuff. I have been lookin for this group for all these 40 some years with no luck. All I had was the name: Baker Street Irrigulars. He thought they were from DC. Finally a few months ago on the net I found a listing about them and found out they were from Phylly and they had done one onreleased single. Thought I was doomed. Couple of days ago (actually while I was listening to the Chantays..) I thought what the hey, I would do a search on Utube, and sure enough there it was with even the single pix(Well the pix was the "bear fax, but it was the Fuzz label)...Ah, I turned into Sherlock Holmes for Top after all...
enjoy
curley
did you read the White Cliff label? written by Jerry Mathers
Tha Beave!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buf6P0V45rg&feature=quicklist
The first time I ever saw Nancy perform was on an episode of Austin City Limits.
Jeez, Steve Earl musta been on one a his short stints outta the pokey. Think he's got more time in than out.
The Yardbirds did a very similar version of the song Curley posted. Count 5 from Berkley sounded a lot like them too.
This is true Leo, but ifn it had been the ybirds or Count5 I wouldn't have had to spend 40 years lookin for them I got them in my record cab. and my cd cab.
It sure was cool to find them, but it is kinda like finishin a book.......What do I do now???
curley
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 19, 2009, 12:09:44 AM
Jeez, Steve Earl musta been on one a his short stints outta the pokey. Think he's got more time in than out.
The Yardbirds did a very similar version of the song Curley posted. Count 5 from Berkley sounded a lot like them too.
hehehe Rodney Crowell and him musta of made bail together
Don't forget about Johnnie Rodriguez!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 19, 2009, 07:24:44 AM
Don't forget about Johnnie Rodriguez!
don't know it fer certin...but good chance Nancy Griffth was only one in that group that hadn't done a little time... but only in Texas is stealin' goats a crime
Rodriguez killed one of his "drunk" friends west of San Antonio. He got aquitted.
Found this taday. Some neat clips in it, might jar a few memories out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmWRjjpBlWw
AH! The Girl Groups!
Lil swears I been around the block bafore. I find that stuff an enjoy the heck outta it. I don't feel bad cause Patton said the same thing, an he was the man. She says I know stuff I shouldn't know. Kinda funny.
Ain't many folks my age that know Martha an the Vandellas either. Phil Spector did a lot of producing them gals back then.
"Heat Wave"!
Called it "the wall of sound". Idiot's goin up the river now.
They need to put Phil in a "nut house".
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on April 22, 2009, 07:43:45 PM
They need to put Phil in a "nut house".
The fool did the begining of Easy Rider then ended up in an episode of I Dream of Jeanie. The guy has been so far out in left field I think he's still waitin ta catch one off a joltin Joe's bat. Let 'im rot.
It's a shame that him and Robert Blake can't be roommates.
We're coo coo for Cocoa Puffs!
Yessir!
Dad sent me this. Keep watching, more and more locations keep coming. The amount of coordination that went into this is amazing. Just getting the instraments in tune had ta be a huge chore.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741>
That is a group of wonderfully talented musicians.
Great production video and music.
I imagine ol' Ben is tickled pink where ever he is.
They done song real proud like.
Great video.
Slim
That video is also part of an organization, that I found via youtube. It's called "Playing for Change"
they have numerous songs and other things. It's not-for-profit. I just purchased the CD.
here's the link
http://playingforchange.com/
also, on another note, I felt like finally contributing again. With everything that's going on over in Africa, along with a dear friend of mine, her Dad is Captain of the Viking Explorer up in Alaska. He's been shown on Deadliest Catch and she knows each of the main guys on the show on a personal basis. Apparently right now he's headed out, probably for a shake-down cruise. so I just felt like posting up this link, I love this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed6WKq1UmCk
Billy Joel is a great songwriter and singer. Unfortunately most of his best stuff never made top 40 or ended up on any of his greatist hits albums. Uptown Girl was garbage, but that's what a lot of younger people know him for. That and doing music fer a Disney cartoon. Hope he's still doin well, the man is a natural talent.
I keep getting error on the page when I try to view it.
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on May 03, 2009, 07:55:41 PM
I keep getting error on the page when I try to view it.
It's working for me
http://playingforchange.com/
LIT here, try the youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/playingforchange?blend=3&ob=4
try that.
yeah, a lot of Billy Joel's best songs weren't greatest hits, Downeaster Alexa was one of the few that were, that I liked. Ballad of Billy the Kid, and Piano Man, those three are my trinity of Billy Joel. But yeah, there's tons that are good that weren't toppers.
This one always makes me think of my oldest daughter. I think I put the lyrics up here before, but here is the music...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGh23ZEWcI
God I love it, now we need to think of a way to do that with some Cowboy songs like Navajo Rug and Ghost Riders in the Sky.
LIT, That sounds like a bood idea.
Or "The Highwayman". I that was recorded in several separate locations.
"Ghost Riders In the SKY" would be a good one, maybe a clip of Vaughn Monroe singing, a clip of Gene Autry singing, a clip from the movie "Ghost Rider".
I went ahead and pulled this one up. The parts with Waylon an Johnny kinda got me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VST2KKIYn50&feature=related
This fits in here nicely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbR3K9DEAjI&feature=related
this one does to....it don't cover everyone that has ever covered it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUQAxRvvHqw
Man, that Highwayman song is awesome! I love that song! Never thought to try and find it on youtube!
the Highwayman is a group ever group wishes they were in country music. Only Alabama and Brooks and Dunn come close.
although, I gotta say, right now, for me anyways. I love Big N Rich. this song is one of the few that helps me keep on keepin on when things get really bad.
8th of November
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liG9UT4HiCg
yeah, I cry, and I mean cry every time I hear it.
my bike, my car, everything I ever own, somewhere on it will say:
"and the orders a tall one, he swallows it down with his tears."
"On behalf of a grateful nation, your son died a hero."
RIP my Magnificent Seven
put it plainly, not a one of them listened to my advice to not be a hero, and not a one of them got less than a star.
"I came here to live, I didn't come here to DIE"!
amen Tex
I sorta like Ol Hank Jr's song, " A Country Boy Can Survive" also.
Pop, that song caught ma attention when I was just a boy. The original album it was on is "The Pressure is On" Bought it with ma allowance, the last song on it is called "The Ballad of Hank Williams". I've still got it layin around somewhere.
Back in the 80s, Moose and I went to Billy Bob's and to concerts a lot. We went to BB's so much that the bartender would hand me my brand of beer at the Bar without ordering it. I went over there after work at night sometimes too. I don't drink that much anymore. I drink at home mostly now. We saw just about every country act that toured back then. Mom and Dad took me to Amarillo to see Hank the Father in 1951. I was about 5 but I don't remember it. I've always been a Willie fan.
Ok, ok, ok, ok.
The Cash dude was fantastic, wow. But if the fool runnin' the late night talk show uses 'Some Velvet Mornin'' many more times I'm gonna put twelve in the stereo. Then maybe put a fresh mag in. That damned noise is like nails onna blackboard.
Just shut it off 'til it's gone. The Glock is as close as the remote is.
Arcey, That sounds like a waste of good ammo and wear and tear on the Glock.
Maybe so, Tex. On second thought, the 34 with plinkin' reloads in it. That'd be eighteen. Then that would be a waste of primers. Thinkin' it might best if I go ta the barn 'n bring the splittin' maul in. I'm afraid I'm gonna wear the remote out, gottah do sumthin'.
With the problem of being able to find primers, the maul might be your best bet.
This one has always been a fav of mine from Cash, love the fact someone built the car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-zzJnKtDg
Moose and I went to Nashville aback in 1982. We went out to Johnny's house and saw the Cadillac. It's a strange lookin' vehicle. I wonder what happened to it after Johnny and June passed away.
That 'n 'A Boy Named Sue', (akin ta some clown what posts ta 'nother board unner the name ah Jane, could be a cross dresser I reckon) is 'bout all I can take.
My view, 'e moaned 'n talked thru 'is recordin's. Weren't no singin'. Did shows fer criminals. They were in prison fer a reason.
Suppose it's similar ta some folks claimin' ta like Scotch.
Quote from: Arcey on May 08, 2009, 11:09:55 AM
Suppose it's similar ta some folks claimin' ta like Scotch.
WHAT??
Who sed that?
Bro.Sleep, I only drink Scotch when there ain't no BUSHMILLS!
Quote from: Tensleep on May 08, 2009, 11:11:26 AM
WHAT??
Who sed that?
Know a couple three. Only way I'll drink that piss again'll be cuz it's the last drop of liquid I kin get my hands on......
Quote from: Arcey on May 08, 2009, 11:32:31 AM
Know a couple three. Only way I'll drink that piss again'll be cuz it's the last drop of liquid I kin get my hands on......
As you know I don't know more, but although I won't use words as harsh as Arcey, as far as whiskey it was low on my list when I did. Prefered George Dicikel or Makers Mark myself myself. Always though scotch had a bit of flavor of rotting plants in a swamp. ;D
But to each his own. ;)
Drinking Scotch is an aquired taste. I still like Bushmills better.
My way ah thinkin', why would anyone wanna werk ta drink er eat sumthin' whut tastes like that? Knew the first time it passed my lips I didn't want it. Far is I'm concerned the stuff don't exist.
The few I'm acquainted with tell me the stuff is ole Scotland. Hell, none of 'em never been ta Scotland 'n if ya put 'em onna ship they couldn't find it. Used peat ta fuel the fires ta cook it. Ashes gettin' in it gave it the raunchy flavor. These days fake stuff is added to it ta make it taste that bad.
Kindah a meat 'n 'taters type with vegetables tossed in. Them havin' a want fer stuff like Scotch, warm, bitter 'n dark beer kin go fer it. Ain't gonna be in their way.
Be akin ta sittin' inna bar listenin' ta Cash moan. Sumbody wants ta fine by me. I ain't gonna do it.
Arcey, I'm sittin' here thinkin' what a boring world this would be if we all liked the same thing and thought the same way. Don't ever change my friend, that's one of the reasons I like you and would love to sit and share a cup of coffee with you, the kind you like for you of course. ;)
"Course that goes for any of us in our little group. ;D Have shared a few cups of coffee with TLD, and as I 'member Slim had some orange peko tea, if that's what someone would prefer I'll put that kind in the gear if I can find it.
We might poke fun at each other now and then, but so what, makes life interestin'.
Nice sentiments Del.
Had a friend that used ta drink Johnny Walker. Think he did it ta impress folks. Never did as far as I know. Switched ta Meyers rum a while later. Heard single malt was a whole differnt ballgame than the regular blended stuff, never bothered ta try fer the money they want fer it. I'll have a beer please, but not til I'm done with ma Folgers.
Tried Scotch (several different brands) on several different occassions.
Purty much tasted like bitter ashes til I tried one called McCallan, it wasn't bad at all.
Asked my friend what it was and how much.... $80 ah fifth!
Too rich fer my blood an' not that good.
I'll stick to Bushmills when I have a taste.
We all liked the same thing business would adapt. Ain't no tellin' whut concoctions folks come up with years ago whut ain't readily available taday, No one prepares it cuz no one wants it.
The chicory stuff in coffee. Lou, rest the ole bull-headed fart, ran the kitty when I went to the bureau. All he'd make cuz we got it fer nothin'. As the folks whut lived thru WW II, God bless 'em, who learned ta live with it got old 'n moved on, the new guard, like me, wouldn't drink it. When I earned a squad 'n an office, I brought my own maker 'n coffee in. Then others did. The coffee kitty went belly up. Had folks come in askin' fer a cup. I left then came back. When I did someone else was runnin' the thing with Folger's. Had ta pay for it 'n he ran a surplus 'n used ta pay for our Christmas goodies.
Saddens me I can't get hard licorice or horehound drops it the grocery. But ain't 'nuff folks want 'em ta make 'em profitable no more. The market is narrow.
Splittin' a pot'd be mighty fine. Be interestin' talkin'. But I ain't takin' responsibility fer any damaged stereo equipment should Cash stuff come on.
Ain't gonna change, I'm old 'n as bull headed as Lou was.
Arcey, I'd not play Cash, just for you if we even had one on, bet both of us would be better with out it as to hearin', we'd just have to yell over it anyway. ;D
BTW don't tell the new guy cause I wouldn't want to hurt his feelin's but if it played anything by Big and Rich 'cept that 8th of November song I'd put a 500 grainer through it. ;D Get far more than my share of it my 10 hours a week in the work dept, Rita lets me turn it down in her car. Got so mad at it at work one day (no customers at the time) I said very loud that if their tour bus went over a bridge and into a river I hoped they could save the driver. Sorry Willy. ;)
Arcey I think in a lot of ways were a lot alike, different but alike.
BTW, don't ask me why, but back in the day, most often in the summer I got a hankerin' for some decent gin, in a glass with just a couple good big cubes. ;D
Never unnerstood gin er the folks who drank it. It's pert near gone in these parts, replaced by vodka in all the drinks that called fer the stuff. Since the passing of ma gramma several years ago, I can't count one person I know that drinks it.
Far as shootin radios goes, I used ta real riled up when that Boot Scoot Boogie would come on at work. The list goes on, but that one sticks out in ma head. Any of them nasaly SOB's can go off the bridge. Course I aint countin Hank the Senior.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 08, 2009, 05:31:46 PM
Course I aint countin Hank the Senior.
Ya better had removed yer hat when you mentioned "Hank the Father." ;)
Still got it in hand Del.
He and some of the other originals pulled off that sound, the new guys do somethin ta my blood pressure when I hear em. Reminds me why I like rock'n'roll. Another trend that gets me is how all the girl country singers gotta do a female empowerment song now a days. Patsy Cline went walkin after midnight when she got done wrong, she didn't smash some guy's pick up with a Slugger er tear up the upholstry. She didn't do a whole number bout guys that don't impress 'er. So on an so on. Seems that classy has been replaced with sassy. Enjoy yer girls night out ladies, jus don't spect me not ta change the station when yer givin the details.
Del, I'm sure he did. Leo, You need to take your hat off when you mention Patsy Cline.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 08, 2009, 06:00:21 PM
Del, I'm sure he did. Leo, You need to take your hat off when you mention Patsy Cline.
Good idea pard, plus:
Johnny Horton
Jimmie Rodgers
Lefty Frizzell
Doug Kersaw
and a whole bunch a others. ;D
We might otta add Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, and Ernest Tubb to that list.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 08, 2009, 06:13:40 PM
We might otta add Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, and Ernest Tubb to that list.
"Amen brother preach it." Sorry, an ex girlfreind went to a church like that, I got carried away here. ::)
Can I get an AMEN! Brothers and Sisters!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 08, 2009, 06:19:19 PM
Can I get an AMEN! Brothers and Sisters!
Yep, don't 'member anymore what the church flavor was but they did have a guy came once in a while that played and up-right pedal steel. ;D
After mentionin Hank an Patsy, I won't put ma hat back on fer a week.
I remove it fer No Show Jones as well. He carried on the tradition when everyone else was tryin ta modernize the sound.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 08, 2009, 06:21:24 PM
After mentionin Hank an Patsy, I won't put ma hat back on fer a week.
I remove it fer No Show Jones as well. He carried on the tradition when everyone else was tryin ta modernize the sound.
Hope it will be a while 'fore I remove it for the possum, he ain't dead yet. ;)
Found this, saw the hands on the upright and removed my hat for Don Helms, got to see him and Jerry rivers together along with a couple other guys one time, was billin' themselves as the Driftin' Cowboys, Jerry and Don had the right to in my mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hDPMJ5HJ3M
S'ok ta remove yer lid fer someone still livin, jus' not somethin I make a habbit of. Kinda like a thing I heard a ways back, "Why does everyone give someone flowers after they're dead, they prolly would a liked ta get em when they were alive?"
Good Hank video, lots of good shots in there.
Hank was taken from us way too soon.
Tis said with the exception of Jesus himself, there are more songs that are about or at least mention Hank thr Father than anyone else, I tried counting one time and was at about 250 and there's been a lot more since then and I know I didn't come close to finding them all.
Still think this one is my favorite. Despite DAC wearin' a Charlie One Horse hat. ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYJI8MnNarM
It looks like DAC is tryin' to dress like Hank Jr. They make them Charley One horse hats over in Garland, Texas on the east side of Dallas. The same outfit now owns Stetson too.
Havin' coffee would be interestin'.
Gin 'n vodka. The redhead it the doc's office was tellin' me how ta fast – clear liquids only. Told 'er gin 'n vodka were clear liquids. The girl ain't gottah sense of humor.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 09, 2009, 03:24:32 AM
It looks like DAC is tryin' to dress like Hank Jr. They make them Charley One horse hats over in Garland, Texas on the east side of Dallas. The same outfit now owns Stetson too.
Tex, that was from the earky 80's, whole dange bunch a them dressed that way. Hat Brands Inc is the name, Owns Stetson, Resitol, Dob and Charlie One Horse, the area rep don't care for me, was in last fall, got done with the buyer and wandered into OWS. I was there, he asked questions, I told him the truth. ;D Could tell he didn't like my answers.
Arcey, them dang folks like that that work with the public like that need a sense of humor, I do my best that way with customers, even though I sometimes want to scrap them out for spare parts. ;D And sorry, I'd been temped to tell the old biddy that was funny and lighten up, course I'd told my Dr. about her, but don't think he'd hire one like that anyway.
Del, That outfit is supposed to have a big outlet store over there. I never have been too excited to drive clear across Dallas just look at Hats. There's another hat outfit that has an outlet store near Stephenville, Texas. It's got an Italian name,
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 09, 2009, 07:36:34 AM
Del, That outfit is supposed to have a big outlet store over there. I never have been too excited to drive clear across Dallas just look at Hats. There's another hat outfit that has an outlet store near Stephenville, Texas. It's got an Italian name,
Serimtelli (sp) If you make a drive go their first, much more impressed with their product, although Hat Brands has gotten better in the last couple years.
I'd rather go to Stephenville than Garland anytime.
While you fellers are one yer road trip I just thought I'd put Mr. Cash's voice inta perspective. In comparison ta this, he's an opera star...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
Now if that gets stuck in anybody's head, accept ma advance appology.
The Trashmen, Leo. That tune could get in your head. I was about 15 or 16 when the song came out. All that surf music!
Leo, I drug this over here, don't 'member if we did this one yet, but it's worth lookin' at agai. The kid is gonna be remembered like his buddy Little Jimmie Dickens for his novelty songs and thats fine, but this one is serious, good country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKgnkIN8C8
This one is funny as can be, but also a lot of truth in it: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEPe4fZNf74&feature=channel
Quote from: Delmonico on May 15, 2009, 10:33:14 PM
Leo, I drug this over here, don't 'member if we did this one yet, but it's worth lookin' at agai. The kid is gonna be remembered like his buddy Little Jimmie Dickens for his novelty songs and thats fine, but this one is serious, good country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKgnkIN8C8
Just finished the first one, that was good. Lil asked me from the other room what I was listnin to an I tolt she had ta watch it. Will admit ta bein choked up a bit seein it fer the first time.
This one is a duet with him and Allison Krause, 'bout as hard core a old time country as you'll see this side of heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tyCXYibZE&feature=related
Keepin up, I saw the second one an got a say I like his style. He gets some great folks ta do his videos with him.
I found it, ain't heard this one in 25 years, Alvin Crow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ufH_pE2a-s
Another oldie worth a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RSHQWHH2m8
One by Ed Bruce:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4
Brad was really excited about making the video with Andy. After making the video was over, Andy gave Brad his guitar and signed it. The guitar looked like the one he played on the TV show in the 60s. That is a great song, a lot of guys can identify with that song.
Don't like everthing Brad does, but by durn he's helpin' bring real CM back and he seems to have a likin' to some of the older folks. Not bad at all.
That place called "The Broken Spoke" in Austin is a good old-fashioned honky tonk, complete with a hardwood dancefloor. They serve up purty fair CFS. It's on S. Congress in Austin, if my memory serves me correct. You picked some good songs off of Youtube, Del, especially Ian's.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 16, 2009, 09:57:08 AM
That place called "The Broken Spoke" in Austin is a good old-fashioned honky tonk, complete with a hardwood dancefloor. They serve up purty fair CFS. It's on S. Congress in Austin, if my memory serves me correct. You picked some good songs off of Youtube, Del, especially Ian's.
I have good taste based on my mis-spent youth. ;D
We all know Steve goodman wrote the perfect Country and Western Song, David Allan Coe told us that, well here is Steve goodman and this song is a hoot if you've never heard it. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtHZDPoRdU
And it rained!
Now I got some catchin up ta do. Thanks fer all the good music Del.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 16, 2009, 12:23:46 PM
Now I got some catchin up ta do. Thanks fer all the good music Del.
Maybe: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrRDinxWOQ
At least I got some childhood memories outta that one.
So much for the Monkees!
When I found out they didn't play their own instraments I was heart broken. Guess they did at the end of their run but that aint sayin much.
Interestin' stuff there (it works again), cowboy surf music, I like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v6__8DwX4
Dick Dale spanks that one, don't know if you tube has it. Been lookin at other stuff, gettin my Memorial Day tribute tagether.
You Guys need to include Junior Brown's "Surf Medley" on YouTube.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 16, 2009, 06:04:30 PM
You Guys need to include Junior Brown's "Surf Medley" on YouTube.
Maybe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497ZmAsGAT4
And this: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qsYreBJZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaEzT5MusFs
And from durn near 50 years ago, before he was a sausage king and befor Kermit and Miss Piggy stole the other one's thunder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dHo7sIIb4
Grandpa had this one on a 45:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Uq5VHGuPA
Now this is way cool, looks right, sounds right, love the sound of a 78, got some on CD, yeah I know that sounds weird: ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkqim4C9iDM&feature=related
Lot a cool old tunes over there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRH7FtAAbJE
A late friend turned me on to these folks, the sound on this one is haunting to say the least:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dtwVEPjto
Love this one also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4agHxT0wdec&feature=related
And this one I've lile since about 1977 when i first heard it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjHToihXC94
What a memory lane trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lYDkAfViw
Incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzc77Tz6PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k6GZ0vEt2U
Lot of my misspent youth over there, out Midnite New Years Eve song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ppc3jz3GE
Slow down Del. Yer a man obsessed. It'll take me a week ta get through all a that.
The Moose and I have sat under that tree that JJ and Gary P were talking about. We drank a little beer and there was a bunch guineas with the chickens.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 17, 2009, 09:06:02 AM
The Moose and I have sat under that tree that JJ and Gary P were talking about. We drank a little beer and there was a bunch guineas with the chickens.
The "Stereo Chickens" song they were talkin' about is not on y-tube. ::) Got it on a 33 1/3 up-stairs though. ;D
got side tracked on the Jimmie rodgers....now I'm hungry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtmhPUAg4U&feature=quicklist
Quote from: litl rooster on May 17, 2009, 09:38:34 AM
got side tracked on the Jimmie rodgers....now I'm hungry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtmhPUAg4U&feature=quicklist
Ya need some of these also?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4&feature=related
Love Guy Clack music.
Quote from: Delmonico on May 09, 2009, 07:47:19 AM
Serimtelli (sp) If you make a drive go their first, much more impressed with their product, although Hat Brands has gotten better in the last couple years.
This one? http://www.serratellihatcompany.com/
Also found http://www.delmonicohatter.com/
Slim
Yep, They've got an outlet store on the road to Stephenville, SW of Fort Worth.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 17, 2009, 01:29:16 PM
Yep, They've got an outlet store on the road to Stephenville, SW of Fort Worth.
The hat in my avatar is a black wool felt Serratelli from Cowboy Supplier in Cody, WY.
Slim
Here's a song I really like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkkFOoTVMPE
Slim
YouTube is havin' some sort of problems?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 17, 2009, 06:42:53 PM
YouTube is havin' some sort of problems?
Del broke it.
You need to add Junior Brown's "Surf Medley" to your play for surf music.
Got it, Junior Brown has done the rounds here bafore.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 17, 2009, 06:42:53 PM
YouTube is havin' some sort of problems?
It's working fer me.
Slim
It was about 7 or 7:30 pm when it would not work.
Here's one I ain't heard in awhile till tonight...Jackson Browne was so underated as a song writer
Im going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
Im going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
Ill go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
Ill get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen
I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening
Ive been aware of the time going by
They say in the end its the wink of an eye
And when the morning light comes streaming in
Youll get up and do it again
Amen
Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there
Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight
Im going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And well fill in the missing colors
In each others paint-by-number dreams
And then well put out dark glasses on
And well make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
Well get up and do it again
Get it up again
Im going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender
Yep i have always liked that one.
This one by him is also a classic:
Someone's going to have to explain it to me
I'm not sure what it means
My baby's feeling funny in the morning
She's having trouble getting into her jeans
Her waist-line seems to be expanding
Although she never feels like eating a thing
I guess we'll reach some understanding
When we see what the future will bring
I met her in a crowded barroom
One of those typical Hollywood scenes
I was doing my very best Bogart
But I was having trouble getting into her jeans
I punched an unemployed actor
Defending her dignity
He stood up and knocked me through that barroom door
And that girl came home with me
Now baby's feeling funny in the morning
She says she's got a lot on her mind
Nature didn't give her any warning
Now she's going to have to leave her wild ways behind
She says she doesn't care if she never spends
Another night running loose on the town
She's gonna be a mother
Take a look in my eyes and tell me brother
If I look like I'm ready
I told her I had always lived alone
And I probably always would
And all I wanted was my freedom
And she told me that she understood
But I let her do some of my laundry
And she slipped a few meals in between
And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in
And I was buying her a washing machine
My baby's feeling funny in the morning
She says she's got a lot on her mind
Nature didn't give her any warning
But she's feeling better about it all the time
She says she's ready for some meaning
After all of her running around
Well bless my soul, she's got a rock-and-roll bandman
Thinking 'bout settling down
was listening to him from a concert done in 05 last night. he co- wrote this one. Claims it's been done in almost every language 'cept chineese. Went on said if it has he wants paid for it, and the other author(David Lindley not Glen Frey) could get copy he would learn it.
Well, Im running down the road
Tryin to loosen my load
Ive got seven women on
My mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says shes a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Dont let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Dont even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
And take it easy
Well, Im a standing on a corner
In winslow, arizona
And such a fine sight to see
Its a girl, my lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, dont say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
Gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though
We will never be here again
So open up, Im climbin in,
So take it easy
Well Im running down the road trying to loosen
My load, got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin for a lover who wont blow my
Cover, shes so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Dont let the sound of your own
Wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, dont say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
Gonna save me, oh oh oh
Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy
That song was the "Eagles" first hit, they recorded it in 1972.
second album
I never liked the Eagels. I liked Joe Walsh and even he refused ta go ta the big reunion at the Y2K party. I laughed perty good when I saw The Big Labowski an all The Dude cared about while he was gettin the snot knocked outta him was that the driver wouldn't change the radio station...it was playin the Eagels.
I'm not a huge Eagles fan, but I do like "Take it Easy" and "Hotel California".
those are 2 real good en's
Tex you heard the Hotel Kaliforny with Eric Clapton playing the lead in?
Yessir, I always enjoy Eric's guitar playing.
Eric plays the leads in While My Guitar Gently Weeps on the White Album, most folks think it was George cause he was singing it (and wrote it).
George was a purty fair picker in his own right. I am a big fair of guitar solos or leads. Got hooked on guitar music listening to Dwayne Eddy, Dick Dale, The Ventures, Safaris, and Chantays in the early 60s.
Duane Eddies big hit was a result of him changin a few notes in When the Saints Go Marching. I used ta listen ta a lot of that stuff. Remember one called Telestar er somethin...have ta go look it up.
Cliff Richards.
I HATE having to look things up. The memory is fadin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2dsqKxFBfY
Oh wait, it twere the Tornadoes that made that one a hit.
I am better off waitin ta remember somethin on ma own. Coffee just kicked in.
Leo, Are you talkin' about "Rebel Rouser" by Dwayne Eddy?
hey all, sorry it's been a while.
found a good group a while back, have a cool "outlaw" almost bob dylan sound, thought you all might like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU5Ab9zHvM0
been pretty busy now that I have a full time job here on campus, working security for the Arizona Cardinals while they're up here!
Ah the BRMC. "Hey Johnny, what ya rebellin against?" No one can do that song like the Righteous Bros.
Ya Pop, it was Rebel Rouser I was talkin about up there. He even admitted it's origins, just foolin with his guitar.
Good ta see ya back Willie.
Jist watched tha George Strait special, he is/always will at that top of my list..
"Troubadour"
I still feel 25 most of the time.
I still raise a little cain with a voice.
Honky Tonks and pretty women,
But Lord I'm still right there with 'em
Singing above the crowd and the noise...
[CHORUS]
Sometimes I feel like Jesse James
Still tryin' to make a name.
Knowing nothing's gonna change what I am.
I was a young troubador
When I wrote in on a song.
And I'll be an old troubador when I'm gone...
Well the truth about a mirror...
Is that a damn old mirror...
Don't really tell the whole truth.
It don't show what's deep inside.
Or read between the lines.
And it's really no reflextion of my youth...
[CHORUS]
Sometimes I feel like Jesse James
Still tryin' to make a name.
Knowing nothing's gonna change what I am.
I was a young troubador
When I wrote in on a song.
I'll be an old troubador when I'm gone...
I was a young troubador
When I wrote in on a song.
And I'll be an old troubador when I'm gone...
I'll be an old troubador when I'm gone...
ole George has been one of ma favroite's since them first songs came out. I was goin through a divorce when I first remember hearin him in about 1985 I think.
and ya know, I don't hardlly remember a bad song along the way.
I remember listening to his first song, "Unwound" in about 84. I had bought a new GMC truck about that time. It had one of them new fancy radios with an AM/FM radio with a cassette player.
I believe Montana has every album ole' George has produced..........I don't know if she bought 'm to listen to or just look at the covers
Quote from: litl rooster on May 28, 2009, 08:07:22 AM
I believe Montana has every album ole' George has produced..........I don't know if she bought 'm to listen to or just look at the covers
Heck, I look jist like him, should I send her ah pitcher?
Quote from: Tensleep on May 28, 2009, 08:10:19 AM
Heck, I look jist like him, should I send her ah pitcher?
I see she still got the page turned on the CC with you picture....I thought she was just read'n the artickle
Quote from: Tensleep on May 28, 2009, 08:10:19 AM
Heck, I look jist like him, should I send her ah pitcher?
Quote from: litl rooster on May 28, 2009, 08:11:45 AM
I see she still got the page turned on the CC with you picture....I thought she was just read'n the artickle
Miz Annie jist sed I looked more like Red Stegall..... I knew it was somebody famous 'sides jist me ;)
Better check them albums again....
as always Miss Annie is right....'cept I believe Red might be a little bit younger ah ah... and better lookin'...... and wealthier........oh yeah...and funnier.........other than that you'd fit him to a Tee ;D
Remind me at Nick's Saturday, I'll share a story Red shared with me......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyXr0dt8ZLg
They got a full size cardboard cut out of George Straight down in the other part of the store, ladies always want to buy it. Advertise some sort of his line a clothing. He's not bad but I just can't get that excited about him, I get 10-12 hours of the so called country station a week that I can't shut off, anything he does I'm tired of it cause they play it to death.
LR, I enjoyed the Booger Red song, I of my favorites of his. I like his album that did in the early 70s honoring rodeo cowboys. The two funny songs of his that I like the best are "Copenhagen", and the one about the only thing his wife left him was a pair of jeans, a pair of Justin boots, and a grass rope.
So she got the gold mine and he got the shaft?
Quote from: Leo Tanner on May 29, 2009, 09:49:10 AM
So she got the gold mine and he got the shaft?
Naw, that was Jerry Reed. ;D
Ol cuzzin Jerry passed on a few months ago. Always enjoyed his songs and his role in Smoky and the Bandit, and who could forget Fred!
Quote from: Delmonico on May 29, 2009, 09:58:43 AM
Naw, that was Jerry Reed. ;D
I'm aware a that. I learned that whole song backwards an forwards at the ripe ol' age a 10.
Just seemed a fittin thing ta say at the moment.
Booger Red is the Poet Laureate of Texas, designated by the Texas Legislature. He hosts a Western Swing Festival, Cowboy Poetry, and Chuckwagon Cookoff in the Stockyards in Fort Worth in October each year. I never miss it.
Sounds like a real hoedown er hootananny er what have ya. Lil loves ta go ta those kinds of things, ya meet some really great folks.
It starts on a Thursday and runs through Sunday.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 29, 2009, 02:57:11 PM
It starts on a Thursday and runs through Sunday.
When?
It starts with a Wagon Train coming into the Stockyards on Thursday evening the 22nd of October. The Festival actually starts on the 23rd of October and it runs through Sunday afternoon.
Hehe, got a great one for you guys. After all it was Leo that turned me to these guys, thought I should share it. I subscribed to their website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvayzIktTJ4
check it out, the "Playing for Change" artists finally meet and play together.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on May 25, 2009, 10:51:07 AM
George was a purty fair picker in his own right. I am a big fair of guitar solos or leads. Got hooked on guitar music listening to Dwayne Eddy, Dick Dale, The Ventures, Safaris, and Chantays in the early 60s.
Ya fergot Les Paul. He sure could play.
Don't forget his lovely bride too - Mary Ford - although she wasn't a guitar player.
Quote from: Tensleep on May 28, 2009, 08:10:19 AM
Heck, I look jist like him, should I send her ah pitcher?
Ya do?
I think I need my eyeglasses percription adjusted.
This one is getting a lot of radio play and won't leave my head:
This old man and me
Were at the bar and we
Were havin' us some beers and
Swappin' I don't cares
Talkin' politics
Blonde and redhead chicks
Old dogs and new tricks and
Habits we ain't kicked
We talked about Gods grace
And all the hell we raised
Then I heard the old man say,
"God is great, beer is good and People Are Crazy"
He said "I fought two wars,
Been married and divorced"
What brings you to Ohio?
He said "Damn if I know"
We talked an hour or two
About every girl we knew
What all we put 'em through
Like two old boys will do
We pondered life and death
He light a cigarette
He said "These damn things will kill me yet,
But God is great, beer is good and people are crazy"
Last call its 2:00am
I said goodbye to him
I never talked to him again
Then one sunny day
I saw the old man's face
Front page Obituary
He was a millionaire he
He left his fortune to me
Some guy he barely knew
His kids were mad as hell
Huh but me, I'm doing well
And I drop by today
To just say thanks and pray
And I left a six-pack right there on his grave
And I said God is great, beer is good and people are crazy
God is great, beer is good and people are crazy
God is great, beer is good and people are crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMgb0JMTeo&feature=related
That's a good one SB. Great story ta it.
Before I rack out......
The NNW series ran in Nashville this evenin'. The Nashville winner receives a custom, Gibson, Les Paul model guitar.
Kyle Busch won – easily. Gets the guitar 'n proceeds to play rock star in Victory Lane. Busted it all ta hell.
Quote from: Arcey on June 06, 2009, 10:13:04 PM
Before I rack out......
The NNW series ran in Nashville this evenin'. The Nashville winner receives a custom, Gibson, Les Paul model guitar.
Kyle Busch won – easily. Gets the guitar 'n proceeds to play rock star in Victory Lane. Busted it all ta hell.
What? Why? That don't make sense.
Townsend only broke Rickenbachers an that was just cause they had weak necks.
What I know from promotions, rumors 'n a broadcast interview just now.
It's the model I described with graphics by Sam Bass. A unique award along the lines of Martinsville's Grand Father clocks 'n the pair of '73 clones TMS awards.
Busch told Bass what he was gonna do if he won. Bass thought it was fittin' with rock 'n gave his blessin's. Busch said before the race he 'n the crew were gonna have some guitar after the race. After he smashed it, he kept a hunk then tossed the remains to the crew. It goes to the band saw tomorrow. The hunks to the crew.
Busch intends to commission Bass to create two more. One for the trophy case 'n one for his crew chief.
Gibson was pleased. The thing held up strong despite the abuse – on live, national TV. Neck didn't break.
Seems the only folks unhappy with the stunt is the media 'n the Junior Nation. He's been bad mouthin' Junior lately. The Nation doesn't like the truth tolt on their boy. .
Last night could have been his 4th straight win in the series. After near domination of those races, he lost two to very late tire problems 'n one to rain. Said 'e was just showin' a l'il excitement was all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrXbgMzejyU
I aint a part of the Junior nation an I think that was perty lame. Showboatin has never been ma thing. Glad he won, but that looked like a pro wrestling stunt.
Kyle feeds off the hatred the fans show toward him on or off the track. It was just another stunt to get the Jr fans and other fans that don't like him insenced. He feeds his ego off stuff like that.
By now both sides have made the point. The thief, Rick Hendrick, released Busch 'n hired a tee shirt salesman to replace him. The thief is happy, he's makin' money on the deal.
Busch is happy, he's winnin' more races with Gibbs than he was with the thief. He's takin' l'il pot shots when he gets the chance.
Thought bustin' the guitar was funny.
Well, when ya look at the politics of it all, I guess it were kinda funny. Can't say I haven't pulled a few displays of defiance in my day.
I just woulda loved ta have that guitar.
Me too Leo, and I don't even play a guitar.
It's time for the big Tent revivals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dcj8JkKu7k
OL Delbert is one of our old time rock and rollers from the Metroplex.
Got a bunch of Delbert's stuff around here and Elvin Bishop Paul Thorn can put lyrics together can make enny one laugh
If it's a revival you want Roo try this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEv0qWi_AeE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEv0qWi_AeE&feature=related)
I'll save that one for Montana...........I hear he still can sell out shows
made me wanna send him some money.................................................................................yeah right
Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay, He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play!
Ya can't have a tent show without this one. Mebbe Montana will like it too.
The three back up gals definately look like theys in church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEX2yrZDks
Leo, That Video is older than you are! I have a strong urge to put on something polyester!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 12, 2009, 03:05:41 PM
Leo, That Video is older than you are! I have a strong urge to put on something polyester!
Yeah, but I knew it. That song always made me think of them revivals. Several versions of it on the you tube, but I thought that one would be the most fun.
Ol Elton's hair style has changed a lot. He still wears strange clothes.
and don't forget Tuesdaynight, Church leaguge softball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DyxjiGA_UM&feature=related
Good Christian Fun! Lots O Brotherly Luv!
One fer TLD per another thread in The Barracks: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crw7A4xSSdA
That song would have been a good song for Spike Jones!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 14, 2009, 09:57:29 AM
That song would have been a good song for Spike Jones!
I remember him most fer the "Right in the Fuhrers Face" song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2I7rlmefA8
With that one ya gotta watch it ta the end. That goes waaaaay back.
Here's a couple other old ones: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8pmdCMCk9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tg1kEBUO9A
WW2 Propaganda cartoons, Ya gotta love em!
As Archie an Edith would say,
"Those were the days..."
Dern, I wan't even even born then an feel sentimental.
Leo, If you had been born back then, you would be an old goat like the rest of us.
This is a great one. Listen to how well the arrangement is made. Benny actualy took a pen ta paper an made this noise happen. He even threw in a couple of seconds of Yankee Doodle in there just fer fun. It's always been a favorite of mine an is just plain masterful. Buddy Rich may have been one the best drummers that ever lived. When Benny comes in after the second solo it gives me chills.
Did you forget a link? ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A&feature=PlayList&p=75EF1227F4BA203E&index=0
Sorry fellers. The whole channel is good.
That's a jazz classic!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on June 14, 2009, 03:52:51 PM
Buddy Rich may have been one the best drummers that ever lived.
Ya start 'em young.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJxPeTC7k4
WOW.
S'all I can say.
Quote from: Arcey on June 14, 2009, 05:52:58 PM
Ya start 'em young.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJxPeTC7k4
Man, that kid's pretty darned good! He sure didn't miss a beat.
Buddy Rich simply amazes me. Did you ever see him play against Animal from the Muppets? ;D In some of his vids, you can see sweat pouring off of him. I wonder what his folks thought of him and his energy when he was a kid.
According to the comments in your video, that wasn't Buddy Rich, but Gene Krupa on the drums. You can also find a "Playoff" video of them together.
So reading the post at youtube...is it Gene Crupa or Buddy Rich? Either way that was a great recording. Leo like you said 'bout the production.
oooopsss SorryTrinity
That kid was amazing I don't believe Bruce Lee or Jackie will be heckling him anymore
Good un here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZHSIhdYSZY
Someone just watched an old episode of WKRP....
Quote from: Tensleep on June 14, 2009, 06:33:24 PM
Good un here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZHSIhdYSZY
Hoyt was a one of a kind, know of a couple popular Rock and Roll groups from the late 60's, early 70's would have not been as much with out his songs.
Yeah it was Krupa. Ma mistake. Rich played with Dorsey. They were both great.
Hoyt ranks high in ma book. He had style.
Hoyt was a classic, I always enjoyed his acting gigs too.
Gene played with Benny Goodman. SWING, SWING, SWING was him on the drums. I love Big Band stuff, favorite stuff I liked to play in HS......................Buck 8)
Not a player, but I enjoy listening to the music.
A lot of those guys played in various bands. Like Bunny Berrigan and Harry James on lead horn. Sometimes it's hard ta tell who's who.
The Dorsey band did this one too, but I like Benny's better. I think it's Bunny on the trumpet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9h4VdKFq7w&feature=PlayList&p=75EF1227F4BA203E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17
I don't know, Leo, but I'll take your word for it.
Well I'm not sure. I do know that that was Martha Titon on vocals. Me an Lil love that one.
Martha passed away about 3 years ago.
Believe it's Martha Tilton. As far as the horn blower, sounds like Harry James's style, but I don't remember when he left Benny to start his own band. Unless it's an earlier recording used for the movie. Otherwise, Ziggy Elman would be my next guess.................Buck 8) ::)
Ziggy did it with the Tommy Dorsey Band.
I missed the "l" in Tilton, sorry Martha.
I enjoy that Big Band music. They always play the WW2 vintage stuff at the CAF AirSho at Midland.
This is a good one ta have a cup a cawfee to Tex, when e'ery one else is sleepin an it's just you an the dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b91xd-ZS4Fg
That's a good one, Leo.
just caught this on my news page
http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20090616/Obit.Bogle/
I always enjoyed the Ventures music. I listened to a lot of that surf and instrumental stuff in the early 60s.
I have a Ventures Christmas album. We put it on every year when doin the decoratin an such.
Well that band up there just got better. Bet Howie Johnson's been waitin on him fer some time ta jam again.
It does say any other durn thing ya want up there, so...
Been introducing Spud ta the classic toons. Wanted im ta know that Daffy was not intended ta be tha anal retentive snotwad they made him out ta be in later years. Now this is stuck in ma head, an mebbe an can get it stuck in yers too. Link is below...
My name is Daffy Duck
:I worked on a merry-go-round
:The job was swell
:I did quite well
:Till the merry-go-round broke down (Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! ...)
:The guy that worked with me
:Was a horse with a lavender eye
:Around in whirls we'd wink at girls
:Till the merry go round broke down
:Up and down
:And round it we sped
:That dizzy pace
:Soon went to my head
:Now you know why I'm dizzy
:And do the things I do
:I am askew and you'd be too
:If the merry go round broke down
:If the merry go round broo-o-o-oke down
:Oh people call me Daffy
:They think that I am goony
:Just because I'm happy is no sign I'm looney tooney
:Oh when they say I'm nutsy
:It sure gives me a pain
:Please pass the ketchup I think its going to rain
:Oh you can't bounce a meatball
:Though try with all your might
:Turn on the radio I want to fly a kite
:Good evening friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q526mSA3TRs
Yep, That's why they called him Daffy. You need to add some of the old Bugs and Elmer stuff too.
Balieve it er not, Elmer's first apperance in a Loony Toon was as Cupid. The first hunter was Egghead who got replaced by Porky. The Bugs an Elmer thing came a little later, but yeah, he'll see 'em all.
I know waaaaay too much about this stuff. Procede with the music fellers.
Egghead sorta looked like Kilroy.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 18, 2009, 01:44:35 PM
Egghead sorta looked like Kilroy.
I think I was the last generation of kids ta see that painted on fences an know Kilroy Was Here.
Leo, I'm you were able to see those old cartoons on the TV as a youngster. YouTube is about the only place to see them now.
Anything ya want is on DVD. I gottah pile ah good stuff for the grand kids. Mostly Warner Bros. They kin plug in the player in the van for the trip home if they want.
In between the two of ya, but when I think ah Kilroy I think of Mr. Roboto.....
Ah be-ah, ah be-ah, ah be-ah, ah be-ah! That's all folks!
Arcey is a Stix fan!!!
Domo warigato.
Styx.....
Styx and Stones!
No Stones. No talent bunch ah ugly Brits with a cult followin'.
I liked em bafore Brian Jones took his last swim. Just about anything after that was disco.
Back when I was 11 er 12, saw 'em on TV. Before that my pards nor I liked their stuff. N'er saw the big deal with 'Satisfaction'. Then the TV thing with Jagger, elbows poked out, bent o'er with 'is hands on 'is hips struttin' the stage like a spastic chicken........
Weren't fer me.
Gotta agree with you on that stage manerism thing. Always thought he looked like a damn fool up there. It's almost painfull fer a man ta watch.
Ol' Mick sorta reminds me of the San Diego Chicken.
They made 2 seat outhouse full of money being bad.......don't throw rocks at me I've never bought enny their stuff
I was more into the Irish Invasion
Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and sliding
All along the water fall, with you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da
So hard to find my way,
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My how you have grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometime I'm overcome thinking 'bout
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da.
Can hear the song in my head, just can't remember the group ::) :o
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on June 20, 2009, 07:13:35 AM
Can hear the song in my head, just can't remember the group ::) :o
Van Morrison
'Brown Eyed Girl' wuz still fairly new 'n gettin' air time when the Fat Lady 'n I started datin' steady. She weren't the Fat Lady back then, she was my Brown Eyed Girl.
Had that song on a 45 rpm record, then a cassette tape 'n now days a CD.
The daughters come out brown eyed. Reckon brown wins out o'er hazel.
Sumtimes I'm o'ercome thinkin' 'bout it.
I'd agree with Jimmy Buffett ....Brown Eyed Girl is the Greatest summertime song ever written........Arcey I think we all relate to a Brown eyed girl when we hear it. Glad it werk'd out for ya
Ma first wife had brown eyes an her dad used ta sing that ta her. I got hazel/green an our girls turned out with blue. Musta come from ma Mom.
I liked Van when he was with Them. First time I heard "Baby Please Don't Go" I thought it was the best song in the history of the world.
Ain't thinkin' I'd disagree, Roo.
Whut's a puzzler ta both sides is the grand girl's left handed. Soons she figgered out a crayon – left hand.
Brown eyes tho.....
I have two brown eyed girls, The Moose and Victoria. I have brown eyes also, I'm naturally left-handed, but I shoot right-handed.
Quote from: Arcey on June 20, 2009, 03:46:50 PM
Ain't thinkin' I'd disagree, Roo.
Whut's a puzzler ta both sides is the grand girl's left handed. Soons she figgered out a crayon – left hand.
Brown eyes tho.....
That's the artiztic side of her.....I'm a south paw also...She will learn to adapt...since the werld still hasn't overcome their bigg-oh-tree towards us.... Keeping us suspressed since the dawn of man.
LR, I knew I was offensive, but I didn't know I was oppressed too.
Long guns off the left shoulder. Native American too. Don't feel discriminated against.
Laney is how God put 'er tagether.
mechanical can opener...... :o
Heck I was a adult before I learned somethings were sold left handed...at slightly higher price
had this one on earlier...cain't get it out of my head now
, In My Own Mind Lyrics
I get up in the morning
I drink a cup of coffee
I look out of the window
I try to get it started
I turn it all over
Plow it all under
I plant 'em in the springtime
Pick 'em in the summer
CHORUS
I live in my own mind
Ain't nothin but a good time
No rain just the sunshine
Out here in my own mind
I live where I can breathe
Ain't nothin but a cool breeze
Nobody that it won't please
Out here where I can breathe
Randy and Danny Ray
They'll show back up any day
That's one thing you can count on
But sometime's they'll be long gone
I'd rather be hunting
Hooked on fishing
I read it on their t-shirts
And if you don't believe it
I live in my own mind
Ain't nothin but a good time
No rain just the sunshine
Out here in my own mind
I live where I can breathe
Ain't nothin but a cool breeze
Nobody that it won't please
Out here where I can breath
Hardwood floor creakin'
Bedroom door squeakin'
She's standing in the kitchen
I thought she was still sleepin'
Kiss her on the forehead
Asked her how she slept
She says, 'honey it's so early,
We probably shouldn't speak yet'
steel guitar solo here
I live in my own mind
Ain't nothin but a good time
No rain just the sunshine
Out here in my own mind
I live where I can breathe
Ain't nothin but a cool breeze
Nobody that it won't please
Out here where I can breathe
I live where I can breathe
Ain't nothin but a cool breeze
Nobody that it won't please
Out here where I can breathe
When that guy stabbed in my hand, I actually had to buy a left handed duty holster and wear it for a couple of months.
Good song Roo.
I was one them ambidextrous types. The Cadillacs don't like it fer some reason. Since we had a bunch a regular scissors in the classroom an only 4 pair a lefties, I got dubbed right handed. Can still do plenny with ma left but as a kid I really didn't care which one I used, it all felt the same. The penguins did their best ta beat it outta me.
Colts and Ruger single actions are left handed, Bill and Sam were both lefties. A right handed shooter passes it to their left to load and un'load.
Ya really don't handle single action revolvers that often do ya, Del?
Quote from: Arcey on June 18, 2009, 03:07:15 PM
Anything ya want is on DVD. I
I'm still waitin' for the official release of "Song of the South" by Disney. They don't think it is politically correct. The copy I have has Japanese sub-titles.
(http://www.videofp.com/extracash/images/songsouth.jpg)
Think I got it on VHS.
I load the Ruger over hand, gun in the right an bullits in the left. Never thought bout it til now. Work the loading gate with ma right thumb an revolve the cylinder with it too. Guess that's wierd, but it works. Lil learned from watchin me so she does it the same way.
Quote from: Sod Buster on June 20, 2009, 07:00:15 PM
I'm still waitin' for the official release of "Song of the South" by Disney. They don't think it is politically correct. The copy I have has Japanese sub-titles.
(http://www.videofp.com/extracash/images/songsouth.jpg)
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You'll have a long wait, disney has recalled all copies of that movie and will prosecute anyone they find selling it for copy right infringement.pc rears it's ugly head
Quote from: Sod Buster on June 20, 2009, 07:00:15 PM
I'm still waitin' for the official release of "Song of the South" by Disney. They don't think it is politically correct. The copy I have has Japanese sub-titles.
(http://www.videofp.com/extracash/images/songsouth.jpg)
My copy doesn't have any subtitles, but looks like it was transferred from a really old VHS. Could be worse, there are no real flaws in it other than a low sound quality.
Damn. Sounds like Disney iz a bit touchy....
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that
::)
Quote from: Arcey on June 20, 2009, 08:38:08 PM
Damn. Sounds like Disney iz a bit touchy....
Ya think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvBIR0k1_o
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actual
Ev'rything is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day, yes sir!
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actual
Ev'rything is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, feeling this way
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It is the truth, it's actual... huh?
Where is that bluebird? Mm-hm!
Ev'rything is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
Quote from: Arcey on June 20, 2009, 06:53:51 PM
Ya really don't handle single action revolvers that often do ya, Del?
Think about it, in the left hand the gate is up when held by the grip. it's the most natural feeling way to load one. And Bill and Sam were lefties. Had a chance to handle one of those mirror image one that guy down in Texas used to make, the movements to load and unload it seemed much more natural.
They can be loaded in the right hand, but held in the left feels more natural.
Quote from: Arcey on June 20, 2009, 08:38:08 PM
Damn. Sounds like Disney iz a bit touchy....
Like most places it's ok to offend some folks but not others.
Kinda like most big toy stores won't sell cap pistols but will sell graphic violent video games. It's OK, I know a Western Store that sells lots-o-cap pistols and caps. We keep them in both my dept and the kids dept. Get em a pallet at a time.
A good use of a small space, don't take up much room, Terry and I asked for them in out dept, folks complained cause they didn't know they were there so the added them to the kids, dept, sales tripled or better.
Quote from: Delmonico on June 20, 2009, 08:56:26 PM
Think about it, in the left hand the gate is up when held by the grip. it's the most natural feeling way to load one. And Bill and Sam were lefties. Had a chance to handle one of those mirror image one that guy down in Texas used to make, the movements to load and unload it seemed much more natural.
They can be loaded in the right hand, but held in the left feels more natural.
That makes 'em a 'left handed gun'?
Best tell me lever guns they're lefties. Loadin' gates er up when held in the left hand 'n loaded with the right. Doan know how they'll take the news.
Looks like they were all made for the RIGHT hand to perform the actions necessary for them to function....
Back in the Dark Ages, when all us old cops carried nuthin' but revolvers. We were taught to have our two middle fingers stuck through the open frame with the cylinder up, to load the rounds with our right hand.
Single action er double I know the drill(s). Done both on the clock. Holdin' a revolver still with yer left while yer right makes the motions just don't seem ta make me think of a 'left-handed' tool.
thank God for speed loaders
I thought I had hit the big time when Bianchi came out with the Speed Strips for the dump pouches. The 12 loop or the dump pouches were it back then.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 21, 2009, 07:59:17 AM
I thought I had hit the big time when Bianchi came out with the Speed Strips for the dump pouches. The 12 loop or the dump pouches were it back then.
I've used the dump pouches in the Air Force
Started with dumps. When the speed stuff came out used HKS on the street 'n Dades in games. The left handers used SKH.......
Need ta check my Glock stuff 'n make sher it's right handed....
here's the newest right hand gun/phone
You really need to have held one of those old Texas Longhorn Arms SAs to realize that for right handers the regular one is just a bit off for right handers. Course they were expensive and the company went bust. The things ain't near a off as a right handed bolt action in a lefties hand, but still they have the mark of a lefty. ;)
Whatever....
Back when I was good, there was a fifteen round pistol stage. Sweep five targets with one pistol grab the second 'n sweep the targets again. Do a full cylinder reload then sweep 'em a third time. It was inna shoot that meant sumthin' to me. Shot it clean in ah l'il o'er twenty seconds with a pair of '73 Colt clones. Was bein' careful 'cuz a miss onna stage like that'd kill yer score. Weren't a world record but out a hunnert 'n some odd shooters the folks that did it faster could be counted on one hand. Sure felt like them things were made fer a right hander.
Thinkin' ya might wanna let this'n go. There's a difference 'tween them that do 'n them that talk 'bout it.
Been shooting SA's since 1977, till the CAS shooting came out I never seen anyone try to load one held in the right hand. Course no one was trying to beat a clock. Don't matter, tis the way they were built and the only one who ever tried to change it went broke. ;)
Ain't telling you how to best use them for fast shooting, but I do know a bit about ergonomics and they are slightly better for a left handed person than a right handed one. And never said they don't work pretty well for a right handed one. ;)
It just feels more comfortable for me to load right-handed.
After readin all this I figgered why I do it the way I do. My cartrige loops are on the left side of the belt. It's easier fer me ta pop em with ma left hand an keep the gun in ma right. It's one a them ta each his own deals.
Back ta the music. I've always liked this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNuQulK6N0
First thing I remember was asking papa why
For there were many things I didn't know.
And daddy always smiled and took me by the hand
Saying someday you'll understand.
(chorus:)
Well I'm here to tell you now each and every mother's son
That you better learn it fast you better learn it young
'Cause someday never comes.
Well time and tears went by and I collected dust.
For there were many things I didn't know.
When daddy went away, he said, try to be a man,
And someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here...
And then one day in April, I wasn't even there,
For there were many things I didn't know.
A son was born to me. Mama held his hand,
sayin' someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here...
Think it was September, the year I went away,
For there were many things I didn't know.
And still I see him standing tryin' to be a man,
I said, someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son,
That you better learn it fast, you better learn it young,
'Cause someday never comes
Don't put off till tomorrrow, what you can do today!
Damn. Michael Jackson done croaked..........
Oh well.....
I feel bad that I never got to go to "NeverLand"!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 25, 2009, 06:08:25 PM
I feel bad that I never got to go to "NeverLand"!
You ain't young enough and I hate to tell you my friend, but you ain't that cute either. ;D
Nows ya gonna start hearin all them Jim Morrison rumors that he couldn't take the pressure an faked it. Some a them stories about them rapper fellers too. I'd have ta slap maself if I knew their names.
Del, Thanks for the kind words!
Hearin' the remains of Michael Jackson will be neither buried ner cremated. No. He's to be recycled into grocery bags.
In that form he may remain plastic, white 'n a danger ta l'il children.
That works for me!
Just saw another one:
When Farrah Fawcett arrived at heaven , God granted her one wish. She wished for all the children in the world to be safe. So God killed Micheal Jackson
Back in the early 70s when my Dad was going through chemo the first time, I got aquainted with one of Farrah's uncles, Garland Fawcett. Garland was a good friend of my wife's parents. He lived in Houston and he got to see Farrah when she came to Houston to see her parents. I never met her, but I did know her uncle.
I'm a happy guy. Try an make a long story short.
My son, The Boy, by way a marryin Lil has always seemed ta get whatever he wants when the spirit moves him. Well a few years ago I took him inta a music store an he really liked bein there. He started spendin all his afternoons in there an the shop owner took a shine ta him. The guy pulled out an old guitar, a pieced tagerher Les Paul with no markins er numbers on it. Beautiful sunburst finish, just like the one Jimmy Page had. Story is he an his father built it years ago. Shop owner gives the thing ta The Boy who proceeded ta slap a bunch a stickers on it an throw it in a corner. I would spit rocks everytime I saw it there collectin dust with all them stickers on it.
Well, he gave it to me the other day. Just handed it over fer no perticular reason. Me an Lil got all them stickers off an the finish is as good as new cept fer some dings that are due ta fact that this one don't have no pick gauard. I'm gonna get one, an some new volume an tone knobs (he glued bottle caps ta the original ones) an it needs a new rhythm/treble switch. No biggy.
I haven't played in awhile, but with this thing, I'm ready ta get back inta it. I'll try ta get some pitchers when I call it done.
as Del would say
Clyde played Electric Bass ;)
Let's hear it for Clyde! I always wanted to play Bass guitar. A guy I went to High School with in Dumas, played Bass for Stevie Ray Vaughn.
My Sister used to share a house with a guy who toured with the Beach Boys as a replacement Bass player. He still keeps in touch with them and if they're in the area will stop by for a visit.
I think Tommy played with Johnny and Edgar Winter also. I didn't know what had happened to Tommy after HS. I was wathcing Austin City Limits when Stevie Ray was playing and recognized Tommy.
Little Miss plays bass an I was thinkin we could get somethin goin now that I got this here guitar. Give us somethin ta do tagether. Get The Boy ta set his drum kit back up an we's could be the Partrige Fambly. Without Rueben. I hated that guy.
Hey Leo, What about the Cowsill's?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 05, 2009, 02:32:58 AM
Hey Leo, What about the Cowsill's?
The Partrige Fambly was loosley based on the Cowsills. Don't think they got any money outta it though.
They're appearing in Branson this month!
Fhat's cool Leo, n by the way Rueben is and should be a sammich not a band manager! ;D
Them Ruebens are good, especially with some cole slaw and hot German potato salad.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 05, 2009, 08:42:26 PM
Them Ruebens are good, especially with some cole slaw and hot German potato salad.
That's right! An anyone who says differnt can just go pout in a corner.
Ain't gonna pout over old boiled taters with goop on them, make more sense to fry them. ;D
Mentioned this song in the coffee thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxW4AygNRs
Kinda similar to this old song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LylB0VfQNY&feature=related
Some good learnin' in both.
Interesting from Marty, 1955.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbqLTwIn-M
I always enjoy a little Marty Robbins once in awhile, with a little Johnny Horton on the side.
All three of those were good though ya got wonder about Marty writin a song so close ta Osbourne's. His Maybeline was good but that will always be a Chuck Berry tune. Either way, ya gotta love the guy.
It's hard to beat the "Ol Duck Walker" when it comes to old tyme rock and roll.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 06, 2009, 09:33:17 PM
It's hard to beat the "Ol Duck Walker" when it comes to old tyme rock and roll.
When that stuff was new, a lot of radio stations would not play his version and stuff by some of the other grats, cause, well there was that skin problem. ::)
At least when someone like Marty recorded and sold it, those guys got some extra money they would not have got. Don't remember who it was, but saw one of the old black Rock and Rollers on TV one time a few years ago. They got a live deal on a local station and the local bigots cut the guy wires for the radio tower while they were on the air.
It was the "Devil's Music"!
Damn..........
Ringo is 69 years old taday. That's old even ta me...
Ah! The preservation powers of sex, drugs, and rock and roll!
They had Pat Boone record a few of Little Richards hits. It's the most ridiculous sounding stuff ya ever heard.
Happy birthday ta Richard Starky. Ya know it it don't come easy.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 07, 2009, 09:43:02 AM
Ah! The preservation powers of sex, drugs, and rock and roll!
This will make yer ears bleed. Open with care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLeVcP_JQg
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 07, 2009, 09:43:02 AM
Ah! The preservation powers of sex, drugs, and rock and roll!
Hope sex, alcohol 'n rock 'n roll helps me a l'il. Sher have taken all I can get of each......
Quote from: Arcey on July 07, 2009, 11:52:29 AM
Hope sex, alcohol 'n rock 'n roll helps me a l'il. Sher have taken all I can get of each......
We have found common ground ma friend. Never did like no drugs. The other two...well...<insert smiling crutch>
A fun little story that ties all this tagether. Ringo was the first Beatle ta ever smoke weed. They went ta see Bob Dillion at his house an he offered up a joint ta John. John was nervous an appointed Ringo his "royal taster". Ringo called it good an they all went inta the bag after that. You can tell listenin to their albums when things changed. Rubber Soul sher is a lot differnt than everything else afore it.
Way I saw it was Rubber Soul was the beginnin' of the transition. Then there was Sgt. Pepper. No one had successfully run one song into 'nother on the flip side until they did it.
The drug part tho, always keep in mind George Martin produced the thing. It was his idea ta cut up circus music tapes, throw 'em in the air, pick 'em up 'n splice 'em to create the background in 'Bein' for the Benefit of Mr. Kite'. Martin never claimed to do dope. No credible evidence there to suggest he did.
Think John Lennon let a lot of the Beatles marketin' strategy slip when asked what the Paul is dead messages said. He replied 'it sez buy more Beatles records'.
N'er did think they were as screwed up as they let on.
Thhey was just tryin' to find they selves!
George Martin was very creative but it was Lennon that came up with alot of new stuff. The effect now called a flanger er phaser come from an ider he had. He'd have the techs set up two reel ta reel players with the same recording perfectly synconized. As they both played he would use his finger ta make one of the tapes drag. Perty cool if ya ask me.
The stuff Phil Spector did fer em just pissed all of em off on Let it Be. You can get a remaster of it now called Let it Be Naked without all the sloppy symphony garbage. I think he was tryin ta do a George Martin thing with that but just failed. When George introduced clasical instraments ta the band fer Elanor Rigby an others, it was perfect, the man did have talent.
Every now an again this song comes ta mind. The feller who wrote it lost his father in The Big One bafore he ever met him. He grew up looking around at all the selfish idiots in the world that didn't acknowledge the sacrafices that had been made so that they could go on being idiots. Once this and a few other songs got recorded and published he quit the band cause they were all idiots too. It was written 30 years ago but applies to taday just the same even though it's about England. We got the same thing going on over here.
http://www.actionext.com/names_p/pink_floyd_lyrics/the_post_war_dream.html
AMC had war flicks on this morning for some reason. They had "Tora Tora Tora" on, The replica Japanese planes are what is called the "Tora Tora Tora Boys of the CAF"
Well the story bahind the whole thing is weird. Roger Waters wanted to pay a tribute to his father and make music that made people more aware of what all went on. The band made a double album in 79 an he had written too many songs to fit so the band voted and booted all the stuff that was about his father.
Album sold good so they made a movie and let him put one of the left out songs in it. In 83 they made another album in which all the left out stuff was suposed ta be in. Things changed an the band voted again an this song was left out. It was the most important one fer him. He walked away from Pink Floyd at the height of their career over it. The Album was remastered in 2004 and the man's tribute to his father was finally available.
His name was Eric Fletcher Waters and I applaude his son for going through so much to tell his story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2LoYnQeog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU-vnviI1ak&feature=related
Well just found out about this young lady. Kendel Carson. She works with Chip Taylor (Wild Thing and Angel in The Morning) picked up her cd and she is good. But if you want to see hot guitar see my post in the Longbrance about Ori
good shootin
curley
Thought Wild Thing was The Troggs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U
Leo
The Troggs sang Wild Thing, but Chip Taylor WROTE it...
curley
Quote from: Curley Cole on July 16, 2009, 09:21:55 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U
Leo
The Troggs sang Wild Thing, but Chip Taylor WROTE it...
curley
Ahh, I see. Ya ever hear Hendrix do it? Used ta do a thing when I was in a band where I'd switch from the Troggs version ta his. Then do the same thing with Eddie Cochran an the Who with Summertime Blues. It was kinda gimmicky, but it was fun.
For me Wild Thing had to be by the Troggs, and Hey Joe had to be by the Leaves...anyone else just didn''t to feel right to me.
But then again, I didn't like it when the Sufaris rerecorded Wipeout, the laff wasn't right and they tuned the guitar right...
I just am picky I guess..
curley
The l'il ole band from Texas........
Ah Haw, haw, haw, haw...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYny9l20wc&feature=related
Now ya got in the mood fer The Top. I wore the heck out of my Tres Hombres album, lotta differnt kinda stuff on there.
Got the Greatest Hits CD in the truck. Need ta get it out 'fore I deafen myself or wear it out or tear a speaker or all three. That's some good stuff 'n I like a drummer like Beard what ain't afraid the drums're gonna hit back.
Real nice Legs vid on the tube but if I put the link up I might have wives er g/friends comin' at me with heavy, blunt objects..........
This wife here wouldn't care, she been ta a few of their concerts. The "You Shook Me All Night Long" video by AC/DC is another one ta see. Even if ya don't like AC/DC. The closing shot will just about knock yer head off. Hey, it was all deemed fit fer TV so I don't see how it could be a problem here.
La Grange, Texas was where the notorious "Chicken Ranch" cat house was at.
Ne'er mind bout the AC/DC thing, you tube don't have the original video though the one at the top has some fine specimines of ladies in it but mostly just that goofy guy playin guitar an jumpin around in his school boy outfit. Ah well, the original is burned in ma memory ferever.
lights-graphics -n- Rock n Roll
"Hell yeah!"
Quote from: litl rooster on July 18, 2009, 06:39:09 AM
lights-graphics -n- Rock n Roll
"Hell yeah!"
What I'm talkin' 'bout........
Have mercy!Ladies – it's Leo's fault.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCi5sHRE2mY&feature=PlayList&p=67A1CB02D78A17EA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29
damn it man, had to watch it 3 times then realized they were there playing ;D
Could somebody please call 911? I think I done vapor-locked! Somebody Hep Me!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 18, 2009, 11:46:51 AM
Could somebody please call 911? I think I done vapor-locked! Somebody Hep Me!
DAMN IT, LEO! See what ya done done?!?
Tex, put a wet, ice cold towel on yer head. Take some deep breaths 'n think ah food ya hate er ah colonoscopy er sumthin'. Yer gonna be awright, mi amigo...
Maybe Leo should have to stand in the corner for a while and think about what he done did,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,er never mind, this is a family forum. ::)
Ol' Carmen can "Bump And Grind" with best of them. I should have watched that video before I got old and done got high blood pressure!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 18, 2009, 12:19:16 PM
Ol' Carmen can "Bump And Grind" with best of them. I should have watched that video before I got old and done got high blood pressure!
Yeah.............................
Dunno when that was taped. The blonde in black 'n white looks an awful lot like Trish Stratus. 'Nuff ta be 'er. She is/was a rassler with the WWE 'n wound up in Playboy.
They all look like good candidates for pole dancing school!
Quote from: Arcey on July 18, 2009, 12:30:54 PM
Yeah.............................
Dunno when that was taped. The blonde in black 'n white looks an awful lot like Trish Stratus. 'Nuff ta be 'er. She is/was a rassler with the WWE 'n wound up in Playboy.
Jeez Arcey, now you got poor ol' Tex all steamed up and vapor locked again. Did ya have to mention rasslin' and Playboy? :o
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 18, 2009, 12:36:09 PM
They all look like good candidates for pole dancing school!
That was self inflected, don't feel sorry for ya. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on July 18, 2009, 12:37:28 PM
That was self inflected, don't feel sorry for ya. ;D
yep he shot his own foot that time.......
Quote from: litl rooster on July 18, 2009, 12:46:05 PM
yep he shot his own foot that time.......
Hopefully it was only his foot, feets are simple to bandage. ::)
I aalways thought I had a had a good eye for "raw" talent!
Thanks, Tex. Couldn't 'member if it was Raw er Smack Down...
guess I need to watch more 'rasslin'
Fun fer awhile. Then the story lines get old, akin ta reruns ah Dallas - well mebbe not that bad. E'en the wimmen can't save it after that.
Glad it was ma fault, a feller's gotta live dammit.
Carmen was in the Playboy a few years back too. My my. Aint nothin wrong with this kinda fun, Tex coulda seen it on TV an ya know how strict they is.
Dyin' ain't much of a livin', Leo. The feller vapor-locked. Ain't ya got no shame?
Point taken, mebbe this is more his speed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFzLfgKKLI
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 18, 2009, 02:13:52 PM
Point taken, mebbe this is more his speed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFzLfgKKLI
Bad move Leo, now he just boiled over thinkin' about a Flapper in a Fliver. ::) ;D
is Fliver a real word? and can it rhym with Silver? or is it just a half rhym?
we'll try "orange" later
Quote from: litl rooster on July 18, 2009, 02:53:35 PM
is Fliver a real word? and can it rhym with Silver? or is it just a half rhym?
Should a checked, spelled it wrong, it's Flivver. ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_T
Mebbe I missed the mark with the roarin 20's stuff. I want ta help the man. Heres the latest effort...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQU0_PHUB2E
Leo, not good either, now his team has run away. ::)
Well as ya know... via ut abyssus est interfixus per bonus intentions.
Can't say I weren't tryin.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 18, 2009, 03:13:43 PM
Well as ya know... via ut abyssus est interfixus per bonus intentions.
Can't say I weren't tryin.
Don't be stutterin', you ain't tryin' very hard. ::) Here, this ought to work, this will stop all the overheatin' vapor lockin' and any other thoughts of naughty things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRJWmAS7z2I
Hey Del, I made for 11 sec. before I threw up. I now have a firm belief the Chelsea Clinton is a product of AI.
See, it worked, got a friend that works in an ER, she says if you take some of those pills they advertise that when they work too good and you head to the ER with yer Stetson not on yer head, they just drag out a necked picture of Hillaruy and the problem is cured. ;D
That works for me!
Quote from: Delmonico on July 18, 2009, 03:25:49 PM
Don't be stutterin', you ain't tryin' very hard. ::) Here, this ought to work, this will stop all the overheatin' vapor lockin' and any other thoughts of naughty things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRJWmAS7z2I
Weren't stutterin. You's the one with the latin sig line. Thought ya might catch it...oops.
That Hellerry thing was just plain bad. Closed it afore her face er ass er whatever it is she talks outta showed on the screen.
Here I was just tryin ta have a little fun. Sheesh.
Leo, Don't sweat the small stuff.
Ya mean don't pet the sweaty stuff?
Er wait I mean don't sweat the petty stuff.
A good choice, either way!
Yo there Pards,
I really have to say that puffy wet stuff is really slobber from Barney Frank and the real show stop-n BLUES is the reality of the three stooges ;D(an insult to Curly-Moe-Larry) ;Din the line up of our Countries' Leadership in order Berry-Joe-Nancy. Anything happens to Berry sets off the Blues of Screws of the scare-crow and that squawk-n crow!!! :o :o :o I'll take the Hill-Bill-Chill vidio. ;D :D :D
Yeti
An folks dinnet unnerstand simple latin. Go fig.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 12:00:26 AM
Οι λαοί δεν καταλαβαίνουν τα απλά λατινικά. Πηγαίνετε σύκο
Once again, something got lost in the translation, sometimes it all seems like Greek to me. ::)
Opah!
But do they offer classes that teach sascwatch?
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 11:56:28 AM
But do they offer classes that teach sascwatch?
Only on the West Coast. ::)
Leo, You might check with that Beef Jerky outfit that does the saquatch commercials.
Heh heh, even yer little babble thing don't speak latin.
Quis est orbis terrarum coming ut?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
BTW Leo, per conversation last night, 3 cubits. ;D Also the same as most wagons, should have had a tape yesterday. ::)
My cubit marked tape got lost on a job sight. Been havin a hellava time findin a new one fer the last few thousand years.
Thanks fer resolvin that, it was the chariots, correct?
Del, What's up with Leo today? He appears to "feisty" for some reason!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 04:50:18 PM
My cubit marked tape got lost on a job sight. Been havin a hellava time findin a new one fer the last few thousand years.
Thanks fer resolvin that, it was the chariots, correct?
Yep, also the cubit varies between cultures. ;)
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 05:17:59 PM
Del, What's up with Leo today? He appears to "feisty" for some reason!
Just in one a them moods Pop. If ya spoke ta me on the phone ya'd know I'm laughin an good natured.
BTW I thought of that Python bit as soon as the language thing came up. As serrendipity would have it, that black lab came back taday. Her owner named her "Another". I tolt the dumb girl taday that the latin word fer another in female form is Alia. Has a much better ring to it an I hope it sticks. Means the same thing but at lwast it sounds like a name.
Just as long as it's not drug-induced!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 06:09:23 PM
Just as long as it's not drug-induced!
I'm the last person ya'd ever see drug induced. I may tilt a beer every now an again but that other stuff can fly out the winder. Several people will testify ta ma stance on that matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE
Well if you change yer mind, I know where there's some out behind the straw stacks in the fence line. ;D
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/5152009483.jpg)
Don't think I'll be changin ma ways anytime soon.
It's funny that it grows wild like that out there. Out here it's worked like any other crop though I ain't never seen anyone posted in a cornfield with an AR15. Never seen a cabbage patch with a trip wire either.
OT can relate to that song because he used to live and work there. That song was popular when I was in college in Oklahoma. The State of Oklahoma had a bunch of lapel pins made, "Okie". I sure wish I would have gotten one of them back when they came out in the middle 60s.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 21, 2009, 08:18:56 AM
OT can relate to that song because he used to live and work there. That song was popular when I was in college in Oklahoma. The State of Oklahoma had a bunch of lapel pins made, "Okie". I sure wish I would have gotten one of them back when they came out in the middle 60s.
According to these Okie boys, things have changed a bit down there since Merle wrote that saong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgd-tkjxQ94
I think that their song is addressed to the folks at OU, some of the Band members wear OSU T shirts. That may be the reason behind the song,
Could be, I'm used to a state with a Lonieversity that only picks on the other states. ;D
Like when a relative from OK was here one time, we were both laughing at how folks say we should hate each other because of who the university hires to play football. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 09:28:53 AM
According to these Okie boys, things have changed a bit down there since Merle wrote that saong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgd-tkjxQ94
:D
They dun't roll their joints right, so I just use ah bong. ::)
Reminds me ah dem Cheech an Chong records.
Dave? Dave's not here.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 09:28:53 AM
According to these Okie boys, things have changed a bit down there since Merle wrote that saong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgd-tkjxQ94
Mebbe that's why OT moved ta Arkansas.
I had a doctor offer me a medical recommendation ta grow an possess weed. I asked him if I could just get free beer instead. He said no an I tolt him where ta stick his reccomention.
Ran across this, ain't heard it in 20-30 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3181Ta9Jvs
Dave's got that gravely voice, honed by years of cigarette smoking. You can hear a little Dave in Junior Brown.
His writing style is simalar ta Mr. Cash. Least that's what I got listnin to it.
Whoever made the video fer the background oughta keep their day job. Not bein mean, just aint guessin they's gonna be doin stuff fer MTV anytime soon.
It looks like that they didn;t have much of an budget.
OHHHH Heel to toe, come on baby let's go Boot scoot.....
Whew! That one came outtah nowhere!
I'll be all right, beneath the light, of a Neon Moon.....
We say Sir and We say Mam' if ya ain't inta that we don't give ah ....care?
KRUD radio, all County, some ah da time.
Let's get this party goin again.
elvis shmelvis... this guy, The Killer an Gene Vincent were the true kings in my book. This was always one a ma favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQg4ze1_KU
An of course Bill Haley was the GOD of rock 'n' roll. In my humble opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9jM_E5R0Q&NR=1
Iffin' we's gonnah party.....
Let's have ah cool one........White Lightin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggkrk5InCR0)
OH NOOOOOOOO!
Wacko Jacko's nose is missin'!
Awww, hell. Prolly show up on eBay........
We's tryin ta have a party here an ya gotta mention him? It's been I don't know how many days since he was expunged from the earth an I can't even turn on the news anymore without hearin bout it.
The EBay thing was funny though.
Ain't gonna see eye ta eye on this. The whole friggin' thing's funny 'n I love a good laff. The more news the funnier.
Quote from: Arcey on July 24, 2009, 12:57:57 PM
Ain't gonna see eye ta eye on this. The whole friggin' thing's funny 'n I love a good laff. The more news the funnier.
Fair enough. Got a habbit a laughin maself.
Red Hot Chillie Peppers Gives me the Upset tummy now.
How bout ah Place?
Under the Boardwalk? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnfvgTPQqt8)
it's hot under there......
Let's move the party......
Up on the Roof? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABV8oIDecyo&feature=related)
If we's goin to party on da roof I might need sum.......
New Shoes! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWMDIXOwh00)
No? Scared ah Heights?
Betcha I kin find ah Honky Tonk Crowd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMopeuLjC5I)
I invited this guy cause even he's cooler than elvis...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws3Xb7L3t5s&feature=PlayList&p=84EB194FDFE4F647&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=36
Too slow..... Crank it up ......
Get Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDB8firw4BI)
Funny but all his songs have the same beat.
Is it getting Hot er whut?
Fire! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAZvxhA2oA)
What does it mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOaoPDO16Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOaoPDO16Y)
I actchaly know that one. They were tryin ta write more songs durring a recording session an the one dude looked at the clock in the middle of the night.
Least that's the way I heard it. Chicago never slept on ma lawn so I couldn't ask em directly.
Back ta the good stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M
Alll Rightyyy Then!
Been thinking bout sum.... Hug Therapy for my lady..... after that.....some shakin goin on...... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM&feature=related)
So cool they have this stuff on the net.
If the House is Rockin'........ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wD-vv1sRU&feature=related)
BabyLikes to rock it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJKb1BoQ6Ts)
That's funny to me. What was Rock N Roll is now considered Country.
Charlie Pride was the Man in Black.
Johnny Cash usta' be Rock n Roll.
If ya haven't heard this, ya gotta...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQw-jeItVs
At's ah Good un' Leo.
;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 24, 2009, 12:19:59 PM
An of course Bill Haley was the GOD of rock 'n' roll. In my humble opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9jM_E5R0Q&NR=1
See I know a differnt Bill Haley, course they are one and the same, just a younger fella: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gviIRbc8E5Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGyIjTq2hc
Wow Del. I guess droppin the Four Aces an pickin up the Commets was a good move on his part. Not that yer music was bad, but it sure weren't the birth of rock an roll.
Many consider this 1947 song the first Rock and Roll some, has all the form. Got the man into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. George Throughgood did a cover of it in the 1980's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lza3NVH6Ig
And yes I like Bill and the Comets, but there was a few before him of the style. He just got the name layed on his song from 53.
AH! Hank the Father, always good music!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 05:17:24 AM
AH! Hank the Father, always good music!
I hope you removed yer hat. ;)
Far as I know there are only 3 in both the Country Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll, Elvis Johnny Cash and Hank the Father.
Go to You-tube and look at some of Hank's film clips and tell me Elvis did coppy some of his moves. ;)
Carl Perkins Del, he was another one. Matter of fact he pulled a trifecta by bein number one on the country, rock an pop charts all at the same time.
some guys tried ta keep rock 'n' roll on the right track...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqIQE4du6co
Then Some Didn't.
Dell, Did you ever see Chuck Berry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKZcLEY2qEY&feature=related) in the 70's?
Kinda looks like it might possibly be you in the crowd at the 13 second mark.......
;)
:D :D :D
;D
I like ta pratend that he never did that. So it is in Leo Land.
Quote from: Wireman on July 25, 2009, 09:39:09 PM
Then Some Didn't.
Dell, Did you ever see Chuck Berry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKZcLEY2qEY&feature=related) in the 70's?
Kinda looks like it might possibly be you in the crowd at the 13 second mark.......
;)
:D :D :D
;D
Funny you ask, was 'spossed to be here in 73, had tickets, he got sick and cancled. They were 'spossed to film for that R&R documenty "Let the Good Times Roll" here. Great flick.
Anway I missed him.
Leo!
You gottah be kiddin' me..... You ain't sing dat song when you was little?
What ah GREAT Tune..... Wonder did they Beep it out on TV.... they didn't.
Ya couldn't have Lucy and Desi sleep in the same Bed, but Chuck could sing his song.....
Quote from: Wireman on July 25, 2009, 11:01:58 PM
Leo!
You gottah be kiddin' me..... You ain't sing dat song when you was little?
What ah GREAT Tune..... Wonder did they Beep it out on TV.... they didn't.
Ya couldn't have Lucy and Desi sleep in the same Bed, but Chuck could sing his song.....
I wasn't that little when that came out, was in HS. Luzzy and Dezzy were 'bout 15 years earlier, even Archie and Edith slept in the same bed and Archie worried about what the Meathead was doin' to his daugher up-stairs. ::)
We got our first TV in53, "I Love Lucy" started in 51 and ran till 60. They ain't many of us that was around to see that stuff when it was new.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 25, 2009, 11:16:11 PM
I wasn't that little when that came out, was in HS. Luzzy and Dezzy were 'bout 15 years earlier, even Archie and Edith slept in the same bed and Archie worried about what the Meathead was doin' to his daugher up-stairs. ::)
Yep Chucks Song came out in the 70's. Said it was about his "Toy Boat" er sumpin' silly like that.
Guess it runs together fer me since they was still playin Lucy on TV too. The she was ah secretary fer...fer Mr Whimple? :D
I Know.... Stifle Wiry, Stifle....
;D
Wireman, you weren't around when the original Lucy started, It started in 51.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 11:55:29 PM
Wireman, you weren't around when the original Lucy started, It started in 51.
Yer RIGHT. I was -11 in 51, Dad was still runnin' round in da Navy.
Re-Runs?
They started in the Apartment, then they moved to the Country, fergit how Fred n Ethel ended up out there. Then after Ricki disappeared? She was ah secretary er sumpin' and the kids was on da show. I think it was like three different shows just her as the central character in all ah em'. ;)
Ya can just ask ma wife how I feel about that show. She swears that it woulda sealed a permanent bond tween me an her father. He wanted ta kill the b**ch too. Aint no wonder her an Dez slept in differnt beds.
I was gonna post a song, but it's late an we been gone far too long.
Ricky was cooler than elvis too.
Most everyone was cooler than Elvis. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH71kQNna8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooAgqCHGvU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooAgqCHGvU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj_jm2J6DWc&feature=related
Just exactly how much did Susie get around?
Quote from: Wireman on July 26, 2009, 01:25:45 PM
Just exactly how much did Susie get around?
Most nights at most drive-in theaters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK__U-1z-_A&feature=PlayList&p=C0FF8475148AE2E9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Quote from: Delmonico on July 26, 2009, 01:36:52 PM
Most nights at most drive-in theaters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK__U-1z-_A&feature=PlayList&p=C0FF8475148AE2E9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Drive-In's, that's sumpin' ya don't see anymore.
The last one anywhere around here got hit by lighting and burned up the screen. Then it just shut down. Happened more that once. Business just wasn't that good.
We had two way back when. One is ah Nursing Home and the other is just sitting. Waiting for the next thing to come along.
Found ah site about em'. Hasn't been updated in ah while I'll bet. It still shows the one near me as Open. It's been closed fer ah couple ah years now.
http://www.driveintheater.com/drivlist.htm (http://www.driveintheater.com/drivlist.htm)
Last I knew the one in Council Bluffs Iowa is still there, 'bout an hour, we talk about going, just don't seem to get it done. Be more fun if I still had my old 49 Chev with the bench seats, them spit buckets in Rita's car are just wrong for that, could take my pick-up but she hates it. ::)
Last one around here is in Strasburg south of us about 20 minutes. Last really local one is now a shopping center with a lot of empty store fronts. We pick up the kids for the one camp run there now..............Buck 8)
There is still a four screen outdoor here in Reno/Sparks.
all the ones around Muskogee closed back in the 80's, we had 5 of em for years. one I used to go up to Tulsa had a twin screen, back to back screens, I've read where it's still open, the only one left around Tulsa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KYxj3MQp8&feature=related
;D
They mostly use them places fer swap meets now. There was one in Rosedale Kansas that went ta a digital broadcast that ya could hear over an FM car radio. Place is prolly still goin. Goin ta Rosedale is like ridin a time machine.
Last one we went to in the 80's was the radio thing. The West O, not far from my house. Was the last one in Lincoln, open till 93 when the Derecho that came through took out the screen.
Well it has been MY experience that Drive in's was fer folks lookin ta get it trouble ah some sort.
Yep, I'd fit the bill as ah customer. Always wantin to do what ya ain't supposed ta do. :D
Hmm.... Wonder if I should put in ah bid on the old place. Kids is still wantin ta do whut thay ain't supposed ta do. Dares money in that I'll betcha'.
Movie theaters don't have balconies anymore either. Lot a monkey business up there too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbqp6ryEsbw&feature=PlayList&p=39E550C652ACCCEF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30
I can't think of ah single place round here wid ah balcony.
Maybe that fancy "Arts" place down town.
The one where the movies is fer dem Arts type whut smoke wid da Wrong Hand. ;)
Yep, it would seem that "the balcony is closed" fer good. The theater I went to as a kid had one until they renovated. Took one huge screen an made two theaters out of it an ripped out the cheap seats. Another nail in the coffin of Americana.
The last old Theatre over at Muskogee had a balcony, in the mid 60's it would be the whites upstairs and the blacks would sit downstairs,
that's the theatre I turned the half grown possum loose in that night, found him out in the parkin lot and caught him and put him in a brown paper bag, I never heard so much screaming in my life. ;)
What, the possum didn't like the movie??????????????? ;D ::) :D
At's funny OT.
Exact opposite here I do believe.When I was werkin' fer dat Dukey Univarsity, Dey still had the signs on the Water fountains and the Bathrooms marked. The balcony was fer "colored" Americans.
Some Yahoo pulled up in the Yard again today while I was gone fer ah second. This usta' be ah nice quiet part ah the country.
Daddy Won't Sell The Farm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EysRI9Stk&feature=related)
I remember the first time I heard that story OT. I was laughin so hard that Lil thought I'd gone even goofier than I already am.
Don't remember where ya posted it, but dang that was funny.
Things moved sorta slow around Muskogee back then, OT was just tryin' to liven things up!
it did stir things up for a little bit, they flipped on all the house lights and opened the side doors and I saw him run right out the door and into the night, I guess he had a story to tell too. ;D
you know people was funny back then about the blacks and whites, my grandmother wouldn't have eaten if she'd seen a black back there cookin, I came to her house one time and told her I had eaten with a black lady that lived off down toward the river, the lady had pressure cooked some carp and made me a sandwich and fried it. I can remmeber she about passed out, she was always on me about that being around people.
Found out today some customer called Andreas a Mexican F@@ the other day at work. Said he held back and didn't punch him. Told him if it happened again and I was there, I saw it and the other guy swung first.
I don't like about half the folks I've ever met, but color, race, religion or coutry of origin has nothing to do with it. Heck he's the best of the young ones we have at the store.
That's just the way things were back then. Horse's Butts come in all COLORS!
I'm always reminded of all those days when I hear that one song, Catfish John,
good memories and smiles
Momma said don't go near that river
Don't be hangin' 'round old Catfish John
Come the mornin' I'd always be there
Walkin' in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Let me dream of another mor-ornin'
And a ti-ime so long ago
When the sweet magnolia blossom
Cotton fields were white as snow
Catfish John was a river hobo
Livin' by the river bed
Thinkin' back, I still remember
I was proud to be his friend
Momma said don't go near that river
Don't be hangin' 'round old Catfish John
Come the mornin' I'd always be there
Walkin' in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg
Traded for a chestnut mare
But still he never spo-oke in anger
Though his load was hard to bear
Momma said don't go near that river
Don't be hangin' 'round old Catfish John
Come the mornin' I'd always be there
Walkin' in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Momma said don't go near that river
Don't be hangin' 'round old Catfish John
Come the mornin' I'd always be there [fade]
My Great Uncle Nick was like that. I'd go ta the store with him an he'd pick the line based on who was the checker. I was just a kid but still wanted ta say, "hey, we can get the hell out here a lot sooner if ya pay this lady instead a that one." Guess I never will figger that one out. The guy fought nazis fer cripes sake, how could he be like that?
Leo, That's why they had two sets of water fountains and two sets of bathrooms back then. Things changed from 65 on.
don't know where your uncle was raised Leo, but feelings ran really deep in lots of parts of the country and you were taught one way or the other from an early age.
He was from Pittsburg. I've heard a lot of folks from out there acted that way. I respected the man in many ways, but when yer 10 an ya see that kind of behavior from an elder it's perty disheartening. Guess it was all part of ma edjacation. I chose not ta be like that an just hate people who are A holes. Guess ya could say I'm an equal opportunity hatin guy. On the other side of that coin I'm even handed at liking folks too.
The Northern Plains was really one of the most un-bigoted part of the country. Back when they were The Bugeaters in the 1890's UN won a game on forfiet. Another team refused to play them because they had a black guy on the team.
Old photo's show black and white cowboys drinking in the same bar sometimes. Yes there were lots of problems, but less than a lot of the rest of the country and often up north was worse than down south.
Leo, You gotta remember that we come from a different time than you. Everything started to change after 65.
There in Oklahoma where I grew up, Wagoner, County was the old Creek Nation when the 5 civilized tribes came to Oklahoma, when the Slaves were set free, a large portion were taken in by the Creek nation, these Freedmen as they were referred to were assigined land just like the Indians there, every 40 acres had a house on it, when I was growin up and probably more Blacks were therer than there were whites at one time.
there were 2 all Black towns that were fairly close to us, they were established earlyl in the 20th century, towns built up with business's, Schools, Jails everything just the same, but different.
Peoples is peoples.
Good er bad, peoples juss da same.
here's some information about the black towns of Oklahoma.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html
Nephew has a good friend who is black he went through high school with, they are always over to Mom's working on pick-up's. Elijah came to the store a couple of years ago and bought a hat. Was over to Mom's and asked him how the hat was. He said fine but folks sometimes made comments about a black guy wearin' a cowboy hat. Looked at Daniel and did my real serious like I do so well, "You never tolt me Elijah was black."
The Elijah would have spit coffee if he'd been drinkin' it and tolt me I was cooler than he thought I was. ;D
Now that's a classic Delmonico moment.
Gotta get back ta some music here, just been busy.
Got 2 brothers and their wives from Omaha that cowboy shoot. The one decided to do Buffalo Soldier, we put the stuff together and was gettin' a hat cord. he liked the fancier one and asked why I had grabbed the plain yellow one. Put my hand on his shoulder and said, I can't, it's an officers cord. He acted sad and said, "They never let us do the really cool stuff back then." ;)
If I could stand Bob Marley, I'd play that song just fer yer friend.
Unfortunately, I despise him an am still looking fer somethin fun ta play.
we had a lot of Black Cowboys in Oklahoma and I mean a lot of em, we never thought anything of it.
How about this tune?
Country, Blues er Rock n' Roll? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X-Ei6Lbb-Y)
Come ta think of it dem Zoot Suiters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X-Ei6Lbb-Y) kinda missed their song.
I know the song, not bad for Marley. Do not watch Buffalo Soldiers with Danny Glover, or if you do, shut it off 10 minutes before the end, typical Liberal he shames the memory of some of the best soldiers of the Indian Wars with his PC feel good ending. That movie makes me as made as DWW. :P
Colorado State Hi stoical Society has one of the best Buffalo Soldier collection in the world. Was moved from a temp display from Denver to Ft Garland in 97-98, storage was needed between places till Ft. Garland was ready. NSHS helped them out and "stored" it for a year on our second floor. Did a lot of tours of it when I was a docent, wish we could have kept it. Besides the Buffalo Soldier part, it was great for just teaching IW soldiers.
Water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJPnhScrwI&feature=fvw)
Quote from: Wireman on July 26, 2009, 10:57:08 PM
Water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJPnhScrwI&feature=fvw)
Good one, early version byfore Roy, with Bob Nolan at lead vocals.
Robert has this thing locked up so tight with internet condoms I have to hit ctr as will as left click to get links to open, guess that's good.
Computor in Tack ended up with what we had, wish the IT guy luck tommorow.
Here's a guy that lives ta keep the sounds flowin. This aint with his original band but thought it was a great version. Plus he looks like a fool in all the 80's stuff. Everybody did. This is just him an his band kickin butt. Learnin ta play this one on the guitar with the solos was an adventure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODFrMvLYkMY
One of the best and least known (as a singer) western artists of all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWR6FLnPack&NR=1
The best TV theme song of all time in my opinion, even been lucky and seen it performed live twice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZzY6KZuLUo
To take this back a couple pages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D96gvWk6lE
The Bronze Buckaroo, his 1994 version of that with MMM and the San Antonio Philharmonic on the Sagebrush Symphony tour is great, a "Delmonico's Choice" CD, and don't be afraid to crank that sucker up. ;D
Del, I really enjoyed Ken's singing solo and with the Sons. Buck has done a print of Ken as Festus to go along with the one he did of James Arness as Matt. I've got them framed alike to hang next to each other in my living room.
I saw Herb (the Bronze Buckaroo) at the 2003 End of Trial in Norco, when SASS created the Buckaroo Bronze award. He was pushing 92 at the time, and need help getting up on the stage, but the voice was still strong and wonderfull!!!
I have a cut of him with MMM that I'm not sure of the date, but that waas as strong as his voice was.
I didn't realize how old Herb is, until I started doing the math. He's seen a lot of folks come and go in music as well as the movies.
Time fer ah Tune.....
Tax dis Osammabamma ding dong......
Cause I'm ready (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg)
God I love that song. It was originaly on a record called "The Presure is On". I ran right out an bought it with every last dime I had. Wore the sucker out quick. The last song on it is called "The Ballad of Hank Williams". I can't post it here.
What does ma heart good about this one is that he mentions we's from North California and South Alabam. Thanks Wiry, been awhile.
I like 45's ..... runnin' trot lines, and BACON! ;D
Back to the oldies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ak_GMUJqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw&feature=related
Let's see if some of you Westerners can handle this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpMJ7hizSs&feature=fvw
-or--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJRRc8FToQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww69ReZdS98
Since Tupelo Flash is on the top of this page, how about some "Elvis"
enjoy
curley
That Kentucky Blue Grass music is a big slice of American folklore!
I wish I hadn't seen that elvis thing. He sucked bad enough when he was him. Watchin someone else impersonate him sucks even worse.
All good tunes Sod, but this one is a little easier on the eyes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efql7d9tRAw&feature=related
Leo, I've never seen "bumpin' and grindin" to bluegrass. Unique concept?
Elvis 'n Cash. Two 'icons' I do my best to avoid......
I enjoy most music and singing with the exception of Opera. Watching large people singing high notes just ain't my thing.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 29, 2009, 05:07:16 PM
I enjoy most music and singing with the exception of Opera. Watching large people singing high notes just ain't my thing.
Well then it aint ever gonna be over. Mebbe that's yer secret ta longevity.
Leo, If I had know that I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Blue Grass is soul music...
Remember Stringbean? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY)
My Dad usta play this one ......
Salty Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu09Rr7lfoE)
when my son was 6 he showed some interest in the mandaline, I took him for lessons and he caught on reallly fast and really liked playiin it.
I played the fiddle along with him and his mom played guitar, we played at the family functions ;D mostly all Bluegrass stuff.
he got to get up on the stage and play Mandaline with Bill Monroe at Joplin Mo. once. ;D
when he got into Jr. High, he got into the Jazz band at school and played guitar for them for 3 years, all the while he played with a band there in Muskogee,
first date I had with Jackie, I took her to see him and his band play. when I came in with her, all the band almost fell off the stage, they had just gotten used to seein me by myself after my second wife had died.
See, some grand memories there OT.
Great story OT.
This here shows just how serious Steve Martin is about the banjo. They tear this one up, it's incredible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE
I do have some really good memories of those days, my son came with me when his mom and I got a divorce, he was 10, we went through the music, we raced go carts for 2 years, when he was 11 & 12, used to go to the professional wrestling matches up at Tulsa in the early 90's ( now that was a show in itself)
he and I did a lot of stuff together, he still likes to tell stories about it, I'll meet some of his friends for the first time and they'll ask if we reallyl did all thoses things that Seth talks about.
I'll tell em, we done em all and had a great time doing it. It started out as a way to pi$$ his mom off and then I found out it was a lot of fun and so we just done it for that.
There is only one......
Bill Monroe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcCgsAMxhs&feature=related)
Now this feller can do some Fancy Work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJiHlV5O_1w), it's The Country Boy whut don't wear ah Hat.
And another one Fer Dad......
Willow, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzA68Ohwke4&feature=PlayList&p=4EDDFE509EDD2457&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18) Featuring Allison Krauss
That concludes this weeks broadcast of the Pine Cone Bluegrass Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAQtE7zHe0&feature=related
how about some Mean Mary???
curley
Hurry up Dad they's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FgpQyk5ibw&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FgpQyk5ibw&NR=1) starting the Show.
I think I like da Fiddle players Hat in that one.
Dad, Dad their comin' back on!
Check out the Steel Geeetiars players hat, reckon he had him ah sip er two?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiqpk4aX828&feature=related
I keep waiting fer Scruggs ta sa sumpin', the night e finally said sumpin' bout two werds, I bout had ah chicken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxtetzBmaM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxtetzBmaM&feature=related)
Yep. Music, like smell, is ah strong reminder ah Days long gone.
If you ever tried ta play this guitar part you will know it's physicaly painful. This guy is the God of Travis picking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5twqxnXqHo
Nick was good.
Have ya ever Googled yourself?
I did and
Man do I have talent.
Ben Lacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFyd04Yenlc&feature=related)
Everytime I hear about Fleetwood Mac, I think about Slick Willie and Hillary, "Don't stop thinking about Tomorrow" and I get SICK!
That aint fair. He picked the worst song they ever did an used it. If you know Travis style picking Linsey is phenomanal.
I hate that song.
Sorry Leo, I ain't never heard of no Travis style. I ain't too musically inclined, other than singing. I haven't done much of that since college.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 30, 2009, 02:33:15 AM
Everytime I hear about Fleetwood Mac, I think about Slick Willie and Hillary, "Don't stop thinking about Tomorrow" and I get SICK!
Barf Brooks had the follow up................."If Tamarra Never Comes"
I like to forget about those 8 years that we had to put up with the Slick one. I wanna think that it was all just a bad dream.
Travis style goes way back. It's a way a man with one guitar can sound like several. It always facinated me an I looked inta it one day. Got perty good at it after awile.
I'll let the little kid splain it, he stumbles a bit. This took me months to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJumP5Qb6s
and more from the master of the Telecaster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISiQ6PqATI
Not bad fer a bunch of Brittish hippies.
Sorry Leo, I don't know any more about than when I started.
I thought ya ment playin the rhythm and lead on the same gitarrr at da same time....
Since ya put up ah kid.... I will too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VclJmZ1HY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VclJmZ1HY)
Figured ya'll really enjoy the song......
:D
Zepplin?
Cashmere by Me? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulC9TUqIjtg&feature=related)
Quote from: Wireman on July 30, 2009, 03:37:32 PM
I thought ya ment playin the rhythm and lead on the same gitarrr at da same time....
Since ya put up ah kid.... I will too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VclJmZ1HY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VclJmZ1HY)
Figured ya'll really enjoy the song......
:D
I did mean putting the rytem and lead all tagether. Curse you for remnding us of Mikey. But yeah, the kid is good. Prolly the best that song ever sounded.
This is Travis picking...one guitar.
Sorry if I'm annoying you Pop. It was a point of pride ta learn this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0Dq_SXaWc
This is classical syle, it has ta do with how ya use yer fingers. Oh Lord, that sounded wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguzKze1sYo
Yep! It's all in da Fingering....er issat Fretting? ???
:D
Leo "Mr. Magic Fingers" Tanner! Give tha Boy a Hand!
Quote from: Wireman on July 30, 2009, 06:21:44 PM
Yep! It's all in da Fingering....er issat Fretting? ???
:D
Not the fretting, it's the pickin hand. Travis ya do the bass line with yer thumb an use yer first three fingers fer the melody. It usaly requires tuning the guitar different than standard, drop D is the most common but there are several other tunings.
In classical ya just use yer thumb and first two fingers and the guitar is tuned standard. Now Flemenco... aww nevermind.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 30, 2009, 07:47:38 PM
Leo "Mr. Magic Fingers" Tanner! Give tha Boy a Hand!
ER at Least ah Finger?
;D
Leo, I usta could play ad Classical Gas tune.
Banjo is just what yer tawlkin' about..... least in the strings.
Yep. A mandolin has ta be picked cause them little strings in just too close tagether an all doubled up. A feller can work a tenor banjo specialy with a handfull of finger picks, but they aint neccesary.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 30, 2009, 11:25:14 PM
Yep. A mandolin has ta be picked cause them little strings in just too close tagether an all doubled up. A feller can work a tenor banjo specialy with a handfull of finger picks, but they aint neccesary.
At's funny about the tenor Banja..... Got one up on the mantle. It's old and cracked and warped.... just like it, it was Dad's
My Little Bro. has his good Gibson Banjo and mandolin'.
I always liked the steel gitar but never played one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTde48oPXH4&feature=related
How about this one....from long long ago....(this is not the original version)
curley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPoghr9qJw0
Course I always wanted to learn to play this. This is the only one i could find without lyrics.
curley
Damn! I had ta do embryonic journey. I loved playin that tune. Still got the tabs fer Blackbird around here somewhere.
Well if ya like the blues an ya like ta laugh here is a good un...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NdsBpK0rE
lEO, yOU'VE OUT IN THE SUN TOO LONG!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2009, 04:30:24 PM
lEO, yOU'VE OUT IN THE SUN TOO LONG!
By the way you's typin I'd say it was you that been out in the sun too long. Check the caps lock key. You aint no can chaser.
An co'mon, that was funny.
It's amazing some times how little it takes to keep folks amused!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2009, 06:05:02 PM
It's amazing some times how little it takes to keep folks amused!
I'd rather be easily amused than a stick in the mud. But that's just ma philosophy.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2009, 06:05:02 PM
It's amazing some times how little it takes to keep folks amused!
Yep!
Guess it's one ah dem Altitude thangs. :D
Who's Goin' chutin'?
I R I R!
Leo, You calling me a stick in the mud?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 31, 2009, 06:18:51 PM
Leo, You calling me a stick in the mud?
uh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Looks like there's going to be a DUEL........................
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 30, 2009, 04:13:24 PM
This is classical syle, it has ta do with how ya use yer fingers. Oh Lord, that sounded wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguzKze1sYo
this one might take some fingers also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fjAGM2cAE&feature=quicklist
Roo, that is really somethin else. I've never seen one a them bafore. The fella seems ta work it perty well.
Tex, I'm sorry you did not appreciate the humor of Missippi Gary. Let's have a Bushmills an ferget about it.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 01, 2009, 12:59:07 PM
Roo, that is really somethin else. I've never seen one a them bafore. The fella seems ta work it perty well.
Tex, I'm sorry you did not appreciate the humor of Missippi Gary. Let's have a Bushmills an ferget about it.
heck I wanted to see the
Duet I mean a Dual ;D
Quote from: litl rooster on August 01, 2009, 02:20:58 PM
heck I wanted to see the Duet I mean a Dual ;D
Ok, I bet ya I kin drink him under the table. Put on the drinkin music an the duel will proceed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozJBa3Q-1s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozJBa3Q-1s)
Beers Up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzbdY_rPtjw
Nother Round?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s)
BEER!
It's whut fer dinner! :o
::)
:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCjeb5Dc6s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaRrVqBhfYg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaRrVqBhfYg)
I love this Bar! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85rPq1u9sc)
Too much beer fer Wiry. Vos dormius. You'll feel better.
Pop still aint even shown up ta the table. By the time he gets here it'll be desert.
Guess I should ah Et' sumpin'.....
Leo, It's too hot for Bushmills, and besides that I'm on a mini-vacation this weekend. This hotel Cawfee is bad, it tastes like instant. The bull riding doesn't start till about 2 pm today. I'm hoping they have a weekend breakfast buffet here in the hotel. They had some good rides last night. Both the kids I know finished in the top 10 last night. Everybody rides one round and then top 15 get a chance to ride a third one . The winner will get about 30 thousand bucks.
TLD, that brings to mind OSU and Ripley, $2 would get you a ride on a bucking bull back when I was in College, a friend and I decided that it sounded like fun to us, so we drove over on Thursday night to give it a try. :o ::)
we pretty much decided after that night, Bull Ridiin just wasn't in the cards fer us. ;D
I got on one in college, I decided to stick with bucking horses.
Well since this is the music thread...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFmG1uugsvY
WHASSUP?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hz0EXXZU8g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hz0EXXZU8g)
Thanks for the links for the songs, two of my favorites.
What is 92 below the lowest E flat?
The Brown note......
:o
:D
Quote from: Wireman on August 04, 2009, 08:19:03 PM
What is 92 below the lowest E flat?
The Brown note......
:o
:D
My God you are ma brother. I didn't think anybody in this place would know bout that one.
I'm laughin like an idiot right now. But then again I am an idiot so it fits.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 04, 2009, 08:43:54 PM
My God you are ma brother. I didn't think anybody in this place would know bout that one.
I'm laughin like an idiot right now. But then again I am an idiot so it fits.
Cool!
8)
See whut I mean? Us Kountry Bumkins is gots Game!
Not Game, Just Strange!
Timmy!
Strange Funny Ha, Ha, I hope. :-[
Enough Tawlk Radio.....
Time fer ahTune.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItwS66qIuk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItwS66qIuk)
More tunes?
wid Candy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCi5sHRE2mY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCi5sHRE2mY)
Wrong Candy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvH5cpqLvM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvH5cpqLvM)
:D
Quote from: Wireman on August 05, 2009, 08:44:38 PM
Timmy!
Strange Funny Ha, Ha, I hope. :-[
Figgered that's where ya got it. An yeah, in ma way of seein things it is funny.
Thanks fer the candy. You pulled that second one outta nowhere but it weren't hard ta look at.
Leo, Mr. Hankey.... I know you know. Just another hint for some that might not.
Personally I find the Social Commentary there to be intelligent, even when I don't agree.
I've seen several things that were so close time wise it's like they can predict the future.
Takes Three months to make one show.
Thursty? Try Some.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqtoO2zbfyk)
Tonight's Sponsor is
Pets Mart... er isit Pet Smart?
Either way .......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Y7rEiJ9kE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Y7rEiJ9kE&feature=related)
These guys just crack me up.
I can't help it.....
Dinner at the Club? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsGOX7DMVCg&feature=fvsr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcVnhNjWV0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcVnhNjWV0&feature=related)
Bought a book on local history the other night, had a picture that brought back a lot of memories from the 1960's, noon show on KLON TV Channel 10 Lincoln. B-36 bomber, used to go over to the TV station at lunch with his band, Marty Martin and the KLON-TV Rangers:
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Local%20history/scan-1.jpg)
Lecil Travis Martin from Sterratt Txas, one standing in the middle is him. Was at the old Rock Island crossing on O st one day, watched a freight train go by with a hobo one it, got the idea to write a song, recorded it on a 45 at the old Roto Records about 1/2 mile from where I grew up, Dad bought a copy, still over to mom's. Moved on, retired from the AF, made is somewhat big, took a new stage name, the name of that first song he recorded, was known as Box Car Willie ever after.
Boxcar was a boom operator on a KC 97 tanker. He was stationed at NAS Dallas when he was still in the Air National Guard. Starrett is a little town just north of Waxahachie on HWY 77. I met Box out at DFW one night in baggage claim.
Well then, this is fer you Del. It'll bring things full circle if ya remove yer hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fBvqakjwIQ
Wiry, that Redneck Yacht Club really do exist...Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. It was like heaven there in the summer.
I'd imagine there is more than one RNYC. I know of Three just around here! ..lol...
Leo, Here's one ta play fer Meg er I mean Lilly when she gits home.....
I mean, Heck Dell's got his hat off....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aP0OWx4jY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aP0OWx4jY&feature=related)
I liked the Sticker on the Steel guitar in the last one.
Everybody needs ta believe in sumpin'..... I believe I'll have another Drink!
Wonder will they Let this feller in the BK?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbMoFYtZ6o8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbMoFYtZ6o8)
I remember ah Little thing said ta me "I don't know who taught ya, but you really crank my Tractor.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KmzFABujM&feature=channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KmzFABujM&feature=channel)
Might not like the Tunes.... But there....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cdzt_8DbQg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cdzt_8DbQg&feature=related)
I'd rather listen to Hank the Father than Kenny Chesney any time.
Well, den go pick ya ah Tune TL.
Everybody get's ta DJ here.
I got plenty of Cd's, I've got Sirius on Dish Network , and I have XM in my wife's Cadillac and my GMC. I seldom listen to UTube.
I hear ya TL!
Sometimes ya see some funny stuff lookin' for Tunes on the You-tube.
This guy is great. The first part sounds like somethin from Scott Jopilin written fer the pianer but then he really breaks out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56I2Zuok70
PS, ta those innerested there is some perty girls wanderin around that street.
You need one of those cool hats, Leo.
Well just so folks know we got some culture an class round here I give you this. Thought it was cool that a couple guys did it on nuthin but guitars.
By the way, the title of the tune in English is The Thieving Magpie. It's from the 19th century so it's PC fer here. Rossini was the last classical composer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksYPCoLa58
Leo, That ain't nuthin'! Roy Clark and Chet Atkins could play that just as good!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 08, 2009, 03:54:11 PM
Leo, That ain't nuthin'! Roy Clark and Chet Atkins could play that just as good!
So much fer the class an culture. Fergot where I was fer a minute I guess.
Let's rock this place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYALiTct1_I
I like Reverend Heat....... always liked the Phyco Billy stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E
Horton saw a Who?
Well now, Roo has joined the party, nice tune and nice video.
Psycobilly is what I was listen to when all the 80's garbage was on the air. The Rev played at a local bar here once. Those guys can work it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKue9eToU54
The guys name is James Heath an he can really play. It was a pleasure ta meet all of them.
Leo, I gotta say that your musical tastes cover the entire spectrum.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 08, 2009, 09:25:19 PM
Leo, I gotta say that your musical tastes cover the entire spectrum.
That's what makes life fun. Little a this an a little a that.
Or I'm just strange, but thanks either way.
Here's another guy that can play.
The song is very special to me.
When ya listen to it, say hi to a little girl named Anabelle fer me. That would be cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_WAbnKCPc
Lots of covers of it Love SRV's but I like this one also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6F2qExLsic&feature=related
Thanks Roo.
SRV didn't sing when he did it so it lost it's value ta me. Yers is perty cool. Clapton has a ton of talent.
Stevie Ray didn't need to sing..............his guitars did it for him
I hired these kids fer the party. The singer aint great, but the guitar work is excellant. And they work fer cheap beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3nK91YUqU
Leo, None of those youngsters look old enough to buy cigarettes, much less Beer!
Aw heck, now I got a contributin ta the deliquency of minors charge.
I can't seem ta do nuthin right.
That's what happens when you associate with folks that are cops.
Aww. Give em da Beer Leo!
Sides TL is outtah his jurisdiction. :D
8)
Quote from: Wireman on August 10, 2009, 12:51:05 PM
Aww. Give em da Beer Leo!
Sides TL is outtah his jurisdiction. :D
8)
An he's retired too, I thought I was safe. Once a cop always a cop. Shoulda known.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk
Daddy was a cop...
My Dad and I became Cops about the same time, unfortunately Cancer cut his career short after eight years. Leo, You can keep the south side of Chicago, been there, done that. I'll take Texas.
Yeah, but when was the last time ya heard that one?
Sorry about your Dad.
Thanks Leo, He was 59, he died in May of 78. He would have been 60 on Oct. 17th. It's been at least 20 years, maybe more since I heard that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXY1_F5YkoM&feature=related
This one has some old B&Ws on it 'n one fairly recent that's been shopped.. The song 'n I go back a long way. Have it on CD. The old man didn't like cops. Lotta peeps don't. Oh well.
Perps don't either. Oh Well!
Tha peeps like ya when tha perps is gettin on em though.
They only like you when they need you.
No matter. I'm outtah their lives 'cept fer one itty bitty thing. I'm makin' a good livin' for walkin' ta the mailbox once a month – on their tax money.
He who laughs last......................... Heh, heh, heh.
Cuzzin you werked fer every dime yer gettin in retirement. Aint so sure about some of tha ones out there taday. Wanna do thet touchy, feely, make everyone feel good about themselves policin.
Thankee, cuz..
LIT, Old timers like Arcey and I come from a different time in Law Enforcement. I'm actually making more money on retirement than when I was still working. I heard on the News last night that County Employees would not be getting a raise this year.
That's why folks need ta learn the moral of this story...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXnoLAEUSQ
An the prisoner aint hard ta look at either.
Leo, She's prolly about 60 by now. My how time flies. I got my paperwork filled out for Social Security today, when I turn 62 in Oct.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 13, 2009, 02:21:17 AM
Leo, She's prolly about 60 by now. My how time flies. I got my paperwork filled out for Social Security today, when I turn 62 in Oct.
Man, you are a stick in the mud. I don't care how old she is now, that's the beauty of having things saved on film. Geez.
Aint nobody DJ'n taday. I'm tapped on law enforcement songs but I'm sure there's more.
Oh wait a minute...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbON8udTPo
That may qualify.
Ok, I did think of another one, but derned if I can find it or remember the name. Bo Diddley did it an George Thorougood covered it. (Yes I'm sure I spelled his name wrong.) It's about a guy who gets forced ta assist in a robbery an the bad guy gets caught in the end. All I can remember is the part where the robber describes his gun as bein a 44 that shoots a ball an chain. Then at the end, the police tell the hostage "Don't worry, we're going ta put him so far away, we'll have ta pump air ta him".
Anyone remember that one?
Nope! But can you hum a few bars?
Yeah, but you can't hear it.
I will find it, as Pop as ma witness I will.
I understand the great Les Paul passed on today..........RIP
Yep, another one a the greats is gone!
In tribute...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4
Les was the true pioneer of electric guitars. We might never got to hear people like Chet Atkins or Roy Clark, not to mention a lot more performers.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 14, 2009, 12:37:54 PM
..........not to mention a lot more performers.
That's the truth. What would Kyle Busch have had ta smash at Nashville had it not been fir Polsfuss?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 14, 2009, 12:37:54 PM
Les was the true pioneer of electric guitars. We might never got to hear people like Chet Atkins or Roy Clark, not to mention a lot more performers.
He invented alot of other stuff too. In that clip I posted it sounds like Mary Ford has backup singers. That's all her, Les made the first machine fer overlayin voice tracks.
Arcey, Maybe somebody needs to grab Kyle Busch by the neck and WHOP him on the pavement?
Hell. Grab one them fans what has '88' shaved inta their back hair 'n sic 'em on 'im......
Don't we have another thread fer the racin stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUxAol0wbak
Yes, this music sucks but ya keep things tied tagether.
Jerry was a race car driver
And he drove so goddamned fast
He never did win no checkered flag
But he never did come in last
Jerry was a race car driver
Hed say el solo number one
With a bocephus sticker
On his 442 hed light em up
Just for fun
Captain pierce was a fireman
Richmond engine #3
Ill be a wealthy man when I get
A dime for all the things that
Man taught to me
Captain pierce was a strong man
Strong as any man alive
It stuck in his craw that they
Made him retire at the age of 65
Jerry was a race car driver
22 years old
Had too many cold beers one night
And wrapped himself around a telephone pole.
Very good, Leo. Yes. There is a racin' thread.
But the comments weren't about racin'. They were about a guitar gettin' busted.
Try ta pay attention.
Leo, Each year they have a Nationwide and a Truck Series race at Nashville. The winner of these races receive a special guitar as a trophy. Kyle Busch won the Nationwide race this year. He received the trophy and picked it up by the neck and slammed the body on the pavement.
I remember the story from over there. He was tryin ta prove some kind a point an got another guitar after he busted that one. I think Arcey posted it from the you tube. It made me cringe ta see that custom go down like that.
See, I pay attention.
Leo, I'm proud of ya!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 14, 2009, 07:53:56 PM
Leo, I'm proud of ya!
That means alot Pop. So I'm given this ta you special like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46SmVv8SU
Thanks Leo, Unfortunately that describes the relationships of a lot of fathers and sons now days. I didn't get to enjoy my Dad very much as a kid. He worked hard till I was in college. When he got elected Sheriff, he got a well deserved rest from hard work. The Cancer took him away from me about the time that he started having time to spend with me. Life is sorta unfair that way. I treasure the time I did get to spend with him, even at the end . I drove to Houston every weekend for almost a year before he past away.
I'm sorry, I hope I didn't stir up any bad feelings. My Dad lives in Arizona so I don't get much time with him other than an occasional phonecall.
Leo, No bad feelings, really. I just feel a little cheated sometimes.
I was lucky in a way, I came back from College and started farming with my Dad, so I was able to get to know him pretty good for a few years.
I came down to my Dad and Moms early one morning and was starting to feed cows, I had talked to my Dad on the phone earlier and he wasn't feelin well , so I told him I'd go ahead and feed that morning, I stopped in and visited for 30 minutes, got up started to leave and walked over to the door to leave, turned around and told my Dad I loved him, before I could go out the door he had a heart attack and was dead, we called an ambulance and I gave him CPR till the ambulance got there, but he was gone.
I was 25 when he died, he was 59, he had heart trouble through his life, he had scarlet fever as a kid and it had affected his heart. my son had just turned 1 a few days before my Dad died, my son turned 34 this year, Dad's been gone longer than I knew him, so I'm kinda like Tex in that I kinda got cheated out of going through a life time with Dad.
Well I guess I can't say much, mine is still here an we have become friends since my Mom passed, and I'm lucky to have had that opportunity. It wasn't always like that but we both seem to have grown into each other over the years. Imagine two of the most stubborn rams in the field buttin heads fer 30 years. Then one day they realize they aint so differnt from one another. That's about the best I can explain it.
I wasn't born until after WW2, because Dad was overseas. He was 29 when I was born and 59 when he died. He lived long enough to see me initiated into the Masons and to become a Detective. He wound up doing a purty good job as Sheriff. They made some drug raids and busted up a lot of burglary rings. He was the only candidate that had not been in LE, but he still won the election and got re-elected.
You guys remember this one? I grew up watchin it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCF7Dnov8vA
I never watched that show. I remember seeing the movie with Glenn Ford.
It's kinda how I always wanted things ta be but with Mom there too instead of the asian housekeeper. I even remember the names of the kid's goldfish. There's some trivia fer ya, prolly can't even find it on the innernet.
My brain retains the strangest things.
Leo, You're probably right, not too many folks would remember the names of the goldfish.
Chet and David.
How the hell I can remember that I can not say. I haven't seen that show since I was about 7. Mebbe even younger than that.
The show ran from 69 to 72. You were a little whippersnapper!
Reruns durrin the day time. God, thinkin back on it I was prolly 4 cause I remember where I lived when I watched that. I was in Receda an we had the big earthquake. 1976.
Leo, You were a young whippersnapper, a pre-schooler!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 16, 2009, 09:13:59 PM
Leo, You were a young whippersnapper, a pre-schooler!
Yep, but I remeber the name of them fish. Someone wired me all wrong.
A lot of the old TV shows that I watched as a kid are not available on DVD or reruns. Some of the Westerns are available. I was lucky a couple of months ago to to find the complete series of "Highway Patrol" with Broderick Crawford on DVD.
Then this should look familiar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxcep0eJR-8
This was my generation...enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIX7UWIsNXM
Leo, I had one of those 77 Dodge Monaco's with the 440 in it. That thing was a Rocket. Mine was dark green and it only had a red spot light. What ever happened to Adrian Zmed?
He does soap operas now er somethin. Officer Ramano is no longer.
This was my generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr15AhGXlOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnVdaTlQNMU
The most realistic........
Major, I was Officer Jim Reed for almost 14 years, then I became Deputy Jim Reed.
Quote from: Arcey on August 17, 2009, 07:09:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnVdaTlQNMU
The most realistic........
I think those two were in Norfolk's new Academy class Arcey!
Kin I have yer auty-graph, TLD???? ;D ::) 8)
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on August 19, 2009, 08:03:36 PM
I think those two were in Norfolk's new Academy class Arcey!
Targeted recruitment.
That's why we got fired. We turned up too much that forced disqualification.......
Buck, I'd be happy to. I was also in a movie in 63 that they shot up in the Panhandle. A movie called "HUD". It had some guy in it named Paul Newman. I was in a couple of scenes, unloading stock at a rodeo, and shooting the sick cattle.
I got this in mind after readin Tex's post in the Racin thread...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRaVUXaRkNA
Poor Kyle.
Dr. John, He played for our Prom in either 65 or 66 and Jim Gilmer and the Fireballs played the other year. It's been too years since then to remember which group played which year. Hey Leo, What about Dr. John, Leon Redbone, and Leon Russell in a Jam session.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 22, 2009, 07:36:53 PM
Dr. John, He played for our Prom in either 65 or 66 and Jim Gilmer and the Fireballs played the other year. It's been too years since then to remember which group played which year. Hey Leo, What about Dr. John, Leon Redbone, and Leon Russell in a Jam session.
I could skip on the Leon Redbone part. Zydeco were never ma thing.
By the time my prom came around they didn't have live bands anymore, just DJ's playin crappy 80's music. I think it would have been alot more fun with a live band. Oh, an a date that wasn't a ravinig bi***. That woulda helped to, but I digress.
Sorry that you missed all the good stuff Leo.
In our town, we had three public high schools and two parochial high schools. Each one had its own prom (don't remember if we had a live band, or a DJ), then everybody went down to the city hall auditorium for what we called Post Prom. There we did have a live band! It was Buddy Rich and his band!!
Outstanding drummer, Russ............ ;) 8)
Pat Boone Radio (http://www.patsgold.com/mini/slideshow/slideshow.html) ;)
Slim
He had a perty daughter but she couldn't lip sinc fer beans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjEB2OilDXY
He almost met his match!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY
Buddy Rich and Animal! A pair to draw to!
I remember seein that the first time it was aired. Ma Dad was patient and watched it too every week. I liked the two old guys up in the box seat that critisized everythin.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 23, 2009, 02:31:12 PM
He had a perty daughter but she couldn't lip sinc fer beans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjEB2OilDXY
;D ;D ;D ;D
Slim
I always considered the Muppets as being cartoon characters for adults.
Here's a nice little montage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvV2ALV0bg
I remember seeing Ralph on the Jimmy Dean show as a regular in the early 60s.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 24, 2009, 03:11:45 PM
I remember seeing Ralph on the Jimmy Dean show as a regular in the early 60s.
Ya mean Rolf, the pianer playin dog?
This was one of my favorites. What we had was Aunt Faye's old feather bed. On the landing at the top of the stairs in an old Victorian house in Cassopolis MI. Could lose a whole passel of younguns in the mattress, but never did find a Muppet in there!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2nHGlE06y0
Geez Russ, talk about memory lane. My Mom had all of his albums and I memorized the words the that one. Used ta practice singin it in the shower every evening. Then I'd move on ta Thank God I'm a Country Boy. My sister would laugh so hard at me an I'd just sing louder.
Thank you. It's been a long time.
Leo, I never figgered you for a John Denver fan.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 24, 2009, 05:35:23 PM
Leo, I never figgered you for a John Denver fan.
I said, it's been a long time. At any rate, I've been lucky enough to have been exposed ta all kinds of music.
As I get older, I find myself listening to the same music that my parents listened to in the 40s and 50s.
Hey ol' Johnny could do some good stuff when he wasn't make the natives of his adopted state mad:
This one is a hoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2bXOA7kW4
And this is my favorite by him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5pwk3AAjjk
I had heard either one of those songs before.
The second one reminded me of Al Stewart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6hVQn-e5Y
I still have a copy of Year of the Cat layin around here on vinyl.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 24, 2009, 06:34:42 PM
The second one reminded me of Al Stewart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6hVQn-e5Y
I still have a copy of Year of the Cat layin around here on vinyl.
Sound ain't good in this one, but this is the best Al Stewart song ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LqYePhVbj0
Well at least I aint the only one that remembers him.
Heard "Roads to Moscow" on night late in 1974, drove me nuts for a whle tryin' to find the name and who did it, went out and bought the album. ::)
I never listened to any of that till last night. I musta been too busy listenin' to Merle, Willie, Hank jr, and Waylon.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 25, 2009, 08:32:25 AM
I never listened to any of that till last night. I musta been too busy listenin' to Merle, Willie, Hank jr, and Waylon.
I found time for them all. ;)
I still listen to some of the non-country music of the 70s, but my first love is Hank the Father and western sing music.
Well there Pop, do ya remember this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU
Gotta love the sax player.
OH YES!
Found this one, may be a bit artsy for some here:
;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-uJ1w379-g&feature=related
One of Ian's best!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 26, 2009, 02:16:36 AM
One of Ian's best!
No the best. ;D
And that video really makes it good.
It's hard to pick a bad Ian song. I like all of his.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 26, 2009, 07:29:33 PM
It's hard to pick a bad Ian song. I like all of his.
I know of no bad ones, just like that one best, my favorite song, by my favoite singer about my favorite painter. Does it get any better than that? ;)
Just ta be the usual turd that I am, I thought this would be appropriate for taday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbCqwl2geQg
Sorry if I made yer ears bleed.
MY EARS! MY EARS! My Kingdom for some new ears!
Sorry Pop, but I had ta play the Dead Kenedys.
You are just now beginning ta see the scope of music? I have encoutered and remembered.
Leo, I don't feel bad that I have missed out on the Dead Kennedys until now.
I just thought it was funny. There spin on that tune is about the guy who got off from murdering the mayor of San Francisco and Harvey Milk because he ate too many Twinkies. The jury actualy bought that an set him free. So where is the Twinkie control?
That guy was an ex-SFPD officer who was running for a Board of Supervisors position.
That's why I leave Twinkie wrappers all over ma house incase I ever do somethin bad. A precident was set an I can skate. I wonder if Ho Hoes an Ding Dongs would work too. Er mebbe these...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2wIs7DsyM
With all respect ta Fogerty, only the original will do.
Leo, It sounded like they recorded it in somebody's garage.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 27, 2009, 04:05:47 PM
Leo, It sounded like they recorded it in somebody's garage.
Are ya talkin Dale Hawkins er the other one? That Suzie Q was on a 78 an they were basicaly singing inta a can. If yer talkin bout the other one, that was just me makin a joke over dead ted. That band sucked.
Suzie Q.
Most people know that from CCR, but if you listen ta both Fogerty skipped over the bent "blue" note that Hawkins used throughout the song. I don't know why John left it out, it's one of the things that really grabs yer attention on the original. If ya played guitar ya'd know what I mean.
And another one they covered and made famous...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clryRK5lZCc
Must be somethin about the name Hawkins.
Screaming Jay is right!
Oh dear me, a guy on another board inadvertenly got me thinkin about this album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfkVGCU_BA&NR=1
Leo, Can I take my earplugs out?
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 30, 2009, 05:02:39 PM
Leo, Can I take my earplugs out?
Yes you can. This should cool things off fer you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9U6URQSF6U
Careful er I'll lay Midnight at the Oasis on ya.
It's too calm here now. Here's what I listen to when I'm feelin' my Irish heritage and need a pickem-up (from the greatest Irish fiddler, Ashley MacIsaack of Cape Breton):
:o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVTUh5yviI
This will get your BP up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MawaHGXMRoo
I warned ya all. We gotta keep an eye on Tex an his bleedin ear syndrome. I have ta forego Midnight at the Oasis an do emergency triage with this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg
He should be very calm now.
Major, I enjoyed the Celtic Rock with the Pipes! Leo, I believe I'll pass on Minnie, what about "Music to Watch Girls By"?
Thought I'd use this opportunity to plug my band, Cheetah Palomina. Country-western-rockabilly from right here in Music City!
http://www.myspace.com/cheetahpalomina
Good stuff JD. I loves the rockabilly sound.
Pop, you wanted yer Andy so here it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-GD8YeObE
The Moose and I saw Andy up in Branson several years ago. I always enjoyed his Christmas specials. Thanks Leo. I had forgotten about Andy doing that song. I was thinking about the original instrumental.
Al Hert I think that was. I remember the gal on the album cover with the whip cream on her. Man I missed alot of good stuff by gettin born late.
Nope, Leo that was Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights". The album was light green in color.
But it was Al Hert that did the girl instramental wasn't it? I guess I could look it up.
We had several Herb Albert an the TJ Brass records when I was a kid. That must be where I got the whip cream thing from.
Hirt's big one was "Java", mid 60's I believe. I have his album when he played with The Boston Pops Orch. when Fiedler still was the conductor. Believe the girls one was another Alpert track. I did a lot of his stuff my senior year, Tiajuana Taxi and Lonely Bull come to mind.
On the horn front, Leo, the guy I got the Yamaha parts from out there in Calif., just made me an offer I may not be able to refuse. There's a company that's in Taiwan that's making some big waves making horns quite similar to Strads, Xenos, and Schilkies that's gaining some pro endorsements. they've got one model that resembles my old Bach in a larger ML bore( .460), for about $850. Hoping I hear from him on that one, it's a heavy framed horn that should be fairly dark and rich in tone quality, IMHO.................Buck ::) 8)
That'll give ya a Chuck Mangioni flugal style of sound.
God I haven't thought of Chuck in years. Good luck on that one.
Saw a Selmer fluegle in the local paper over the weekend for $200........... 8)
The last time I saw anything on Chuck was on an episode of "King of the Hill".
for the grand opening of the Mega low mart over in Arlen. ;D
Quote from: Leo Tanner on August 31, 2009, 11:07:12 AM
Good stuff JD. I loves the rockabilly sound.
Thanks, Leo! :D
Those are all originals, but we mix in some good ol' country like Merle's "Fightin' Side of Me" (one of my faves).
JD that one is a good Merle tune, remember the first time I ever heard it, over at Muskogee, Ok. the night Merle recorded the Okie from Muskogee Album, 1967 or 68, it was an over flow crowd at the civic center and they turned on the outside speaker systems so we could hear everything out in the parking lot. there were twice as many outside as in and it was sold out so they just piped it outside.
Holy Smokes! OT, that was History! That record made me a solid forever Merle fan!
a friend of mine and me rode over to the Civic Center to see about gettin in, it was a mad house over there that night, it filled in no time and at least 5,000 were out in the parking lot. they started the concert and within about 20 minutes they turned the speakers on outside, so we got to enjoy the whole night from outside.
that made me a Merle fan forever too. He played Okie from Muskogee at least 5 or 6 times that night after the concert was over and we enjoyed it every time. ;D ;D
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I heard the story bahind that song was that the hippies were startin ta take a likin to him an he didn't want em. Started playin that song an chased em all away. I hope that's true cause havin hippies follow ya around is like havin dog crap stuck on yer shoe. Good job Merle fer grabbin the Fuller brush an scubbin em off.
I listened to Merle a lot in that era on my 8 track player in my car, 67, 68, 69, and 70. I've seen Merle in concert 4 or 5 times. He always puts on a good show. I enjoy the Bob Wills stuff that he does. I found a new band in 72 that was playing western swing music when nobody else but Bob was playing. A little group called "Asleep at the Wheel". I still have an 8-track of their first album. I've a fan of their's since 72. They play Fort Worth a lot. I grew up on Bob Willis and Hank the Father.
Tex, in 1977, in Vermont of all places, I joined a band that played western swing including a whole lot of Asleep at the Wheel covers. We were pretty popular in the North Country (upstate NY, VT, NH). One time several of us went to see the Wheel play in Burlington and after the show we ended up at the same restaurant. We were talking to Lucky Oceans (the pedal steel player) and told him we did covers of their stuff and he was shocked: "I didn't know anyone covered our stuff!" I'm a total fool for western swing.
And Bob Wills is still the King. ;D
And Merle's Strangers were one of the hottest groups of musicians ever put together.
This modern crap they're doing in Nashville, the Chesneys and all, isn't even C&W. Don't get me started on that.... ::)
got to meet Bob in Tulsa in the late 60's or early 70's, he was in his brother, Johnny Lee's wester store, shook his hand and told him how much I enjoyed his music,
He's buried there in Tulsa, Memorial park Cematery, got a real cool head stone. lots of songs and stories on it with a couple of fiddles on the top.
OT, I guess I inherited some of my musical tastes from my Dad. He loved Hank Sr. and Bob Wills. We went to Amarilo in about 50 or 51 to see Hank Sr. I don't remember it. We watched Bob's TV show from Tulsa in the early 50s. My mother's side of the family(King) is from around Turkey, Texas where Bob was born. Bob played music at the Turkey Hotel as a young man. The annual celebration at Turkey always attracts a big crowd. The Moose taught school with one of Bob's daughters in Grand Prairie when she first started.
I know what ya mean, I can remember from the time I was just little, when the radio got turned on it was tuned to KVOO and that was where you heard Bob Wills on Tulsa Radio. he was just kinda always there. seems like I just knew the words to the songs forever.
OT, I don't remember the Radio shows, but I remember the TV ones. It came on Sunday afternoon. We got our first TV in 53, so it would have been after 53. I've seen that monument they built to him in Turkey, In fact I have actually spent the night in the Turkey Hotel. Some folks from Dallas bought it several years ago.
Tex, you may remember this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFzW55_a51U
Leo, That's what I'm talkin' about! AHA! San Antone!
Leo! Dang it! You just had to mention that Merle song, now it's running on a closed loop in my head. Been on all afternoon.........Buck ::) :-\ ;D
Buck, That's a good thing.
Yes it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE
Great! Now I'll probably hear it in my sleep tonight ::) ;D
In Muskogee Oklahoma, USA! By Golly!
Here Buck, this outta get it outta yer head. One of the best ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTDsA76wkSg
The Man from Littlefield, Texas! A Texas Outlaw!
I certainly don't mind havin that one stuck in my head. He did another song with Willie (who I could care less about) and breaks inta that one at the end. It saved the whole album as far as I'm concerned.
I hope now that Waylon is gone he had a chance for Buddy ta tell him, "no problem Pard, I know it was just a joke". I think that plane crash bothered him fer the rest of his life.
Yep Leo, That's what they call " survivior syndrome". You feel guilty because you lived and they didn't.
Well I reckon it was even worse fer him cause he actualy said "I hope your plane crashes" bafore he got on the bus.
I'm sure that led to his drug and alcohol addiction.
Sorry folks, but I had ta get this outta ma head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5DnqW3F57E
Leo, Just move the sectional up on your front porch and you'll an extra seating area.
Sorry Leo, didn't work here! You need another host.
What's the status of the Auburn fire? We've been getting smoke here in Reno, but it's coming up from the Yosemite fire.
The Auburn fire is contained. We're gettin smoke from all the other ones now.
I need a new host? The current one offered me beverages an finger sammiches. Ya missed out on Quicey Jones.
Leo, I'm not too disappointed about that!
Speakin' of Waylon and Buddy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPZ14fY_uyA
Another favorite by Waylon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEtRUcKGwc
Waylon was good at honorin' those before him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHu_71sU1E
Saw him in Lincoln in 1977.
Found this one also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7jb47HEvQA&feature=related
Not a real big Kris fan, but this is his best one and I nerer heard this version before. BTW it it the theme song for one of the worst movies of all time, Gene Hackman and Kris in "Cisco Pike." ::)
Another one taken from us way to soon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTIiA-1RpY
An the great AP on lead vocals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3H_TLmsQUo
Yer on a good run Del. Gotta say the Jimmie with the dixie band accomniament was the best.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 04, 2009, 06:45:12 PM
Yer on a good run Del. Gotta say the Jimmie with the dixie band accomniament was the best.
Buck will like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvr7nkd_IJM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 04, 2009, 06:50:38 PM
Buck will like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvr7nkd_IJM
And why would you think I wouldn't like it, got some of his in my collection. ;D
And as Monty Python said, "And now for something competely different." Means more if'n yer from around his, but we all now where this ended up going. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6RYZg6fh0U
Not sure where the cafe came from, but the truck sences were shot 'tween Lincoln and Omaha. ::)
No pictures but some durn good music by the guy who wrote it and the guy who made it known:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2xuT9zlnR4&feature=related
A duet few have heard.
That is an exceptional song.
Well since Del likes Louis too heres one fer him, words ta live by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdcm2Lx7qo
Del, I've never heard that song before. I had some of Chris's old stuff on 8 track, when nobody outside rodeo knew who he was. He was the 76 World Championship PRCA bareback Champion.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 04, 2009, 09:28:12 PM
Del, I've never heard that song before. I had some of Chris's old stuff on 8 track, when nobody outside rodeo knew who he was. He was the 76 World Championship PRCA bareback Champion.
Charlie did a solo version of that in 73-74 one his Fire on the Mountian album, the one with Long Haired Country Boy and The South's Gonna Do it Again on it.
The duet version is better than either one by themselves.
I still like Chris's old stuff better than the new music with all the lights and other stuff.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 04, 2009, 09:28:12 PM
Del, I've never heard that song before. I had some of Chris's old stuff on 8 track, when nobody outside rodeo knew who he was. He was the 76 World Championship PRCA bareback Champion.
ya mean back before Barf Brooks? When you had to mail order or buy at a rodeo. Is latter stuff was better produced and he got a lot of others to join him via multi track recording.........I still catch myself hummin' along to "Copenhagen" as i drive down the road.
Yep, LR I even found an order blank in the old Rodeo Sport News back in the 70s.
"nuther oldie I used to like but almost forgot about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ufH_pE2a-s&feature=related
Nother goodie from a favoite of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACwVOJXpn0
On a roll, one that's well know from another of that group of folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo8poVlQrM
Well yes Steve Goodman wrote that song, we've know it for years, but he wrote an even more well know one, but folks don't bother to mention it, so we'll just listen to him do it: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXGFKpWUOW0
OK, one more and I'll quit for the day. A new improved version of an old classic, but the new improved version is 34 years old now: ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI
Funny that ya put Arlo in there cause I thought Woody wrote "City of New Orleans".
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 05, 2009, 03:22:37 PM
Funny that ya put Arlo in there cause I thought Woody wrote "City of New Orleans".
Nope Steve wrote it.
Quote from: Delmonico on September 05, 2009, 03:29:29 PM
Nope Steve wrote it.
Well I got that all wrong so's I'm gonna change channels again.
This is fer ma Pop who we all know as Texas Lawdog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TraFxjPyDns
Well speakin' of dogs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzXCb3EalI
Gentlemen, I want to thank you for that musical walk down memory lane!
Here Lero, that song I tolt ya about, scroll down to where it says "Wyoming Wind and push the play button, you have to provid yer own tissue though: :'(
http://asgra.org/newsletters/2008/05.htm
Especially the dog songs!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2009, 05:25:52 PM
Especially the dog songs!
And Cowboy ones, for you Leo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyri5lL8BWo
Nuther duet that may surprise a few:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLYRdWxJ7zY&feature=related
Nuther one by Chris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zliPHByGQAY&feature=related
And a nuther one with Chris and Charlie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_goEvOq28&feature=related
The Bar J Wranglers always put on a good show up there in Jackson Hole. Moose and I have been to the show twice. You get a chuckwagon meal with dutch oven biscuits.
My favorite Chris song is "This Cowboy's Hat".
Shifting gears, one of my favorite songs that made the country charts in the last 20 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_xFOdgfJI
"nuther dang good recent one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gybGXnciig
Quote from: Delmonico on September 06, 2009, 10:32:53 AM
Shifting gears, one of my favorite songs that made the country charts in the last 20 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_xFOdgfJI
If ya don't know, the fellar Vince talks to at the beginning is Bill Gaither.
Slim
Vince Gill got me thinkin about this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OevWGLGxNLM
"Nuther one who is missed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMI5wR2P9jQ
A Public Service song no less. ;D
Two fantastic songs from Guy Clark, back to back, the second one is him at his best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPOu5c5i6A
Another blast from the past:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYCRrHd1Po
Remove yer hat Del...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FY7RWJAtJQ
Don't know what made me think of that one.
was a story on the Arkansas Carry board this morning, this fella in the story managed Black Oak Arkansas at one time.
By Bill Lawson / Staff Writer / blawson@maumellemonitor.com
Friday, September 4, 2009 9:03 AM CDT
North Little Rock police place Norman Millard "Butch" Stone Jr. of Maumelle under arrest Monday evening on the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market parking lot after Maumelle police stopped him based upon a broadcast alert about a car involved in a gun incident at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard. (Bill Lawson)
Maumelle Family Fest promoter Norman Millard "Butch" Stone Jr., 63, of Maumelle was arrested Monday night in Maumelle by North Little Rock police after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun on Maumelle Boulevard that continued onto the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard.
North Little Rock police said Stone was charged with four counts of aggravated assault.
Stone was handcuffed and placed in the back of a North Little Rock patrol car and the handgun he was carrying was confiscated as evidence.
Maumelle police Chief Sam Williams confirmed that Maumelle police stopped Stone in the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market parking lot about 7 p.m. Monday night after North Little Rock Police broadcast an alert for a car fitting description of Jones' car. The car allegedly had been involved in a gun incident at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard a few minutes earlier.
Four Maumelle patrol units and three North Little Rock patrol cars converged on the parking lot.
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Williams confirmed that Stone had a black 9 mm Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol in his car at the time he was stopped. He said Stone has a concealed-carry permit from the Arkansas State Police to carry the weapon but North Little Rock police officers arrested him based on the complaints from patrons at Wal-Mart about showing a gun.
The North Little Rock police report said three men were in a car westbound on Maumelle Boulevard when they encountered Stone's black Chrysler PT Cruiser traveling below the speed limit in the outside lane.
The driver of the second car, Kenton David Byrd, 25, of 7333 River Pointe Drive in Maumelle, told police he "tailgated" Stone in an attempt to get him to pull over to the inside lane. He said a passenger in Stone's vehicle, Ronald G. Stone of Maumelle stuck his arm out of the window and waived them around.
The three people in the car, Byrd, David Eric Adams, 20, of 66 Stoneledge Drive in Maumelle and Racheal Lowry, 23 of 7333 River Pointe Drive in Maumelle all said as they pulled alongside Stone's vehicle, "The driver leaned over the front seat passenger and pointed a black pistol out of the front passenger side window at them."
Byrd told police he quickly pulled into the Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot on Maumelle Boulevard and Stone followed him in. He told police Stone and his passengers all exited their vehicle and came up to his.
Byrd said he got out to speak with Stone about "the problem." He said Stone pointed the gun at him again.
Officer Brandon Bennett said in his report that all passengers in Byrd's vehicle "recounted these events just as Byrd explained them."
They said Stone then "pushed Byrd back into his vehicle while he held the gun on him."
The report said Stone and his passengers yelled obscenities at them as they left in their vehicle.
Bennett also said in his report, "When told why he was being arrested, Stone spontaneously stated that he pointed the gun at them because he felt he was in danger and that he thought they had a gun."
Bennett said he searched all victims and their vehicle and did not find a weapon.
The gun contained a clip with 16 9-mm Luger rounds, according to the report.
Stone, of 200 Millwood Circle, was accompanied in the vehicle by Justine M. Stone, 30, of the same address in Maumelle and by James D. Stone, 30, of Mandeville, La.
Stone, who has produced the Maumelle Family Fest since its inception, recently signed a multi-year contract with the city to conduct the festivals for several years. He has promoted concerts in Little Rock and elsewhere and managed several big-name musical groups, including a group of teenagers from Northeast Arkansas known as KnowBody Else. They later changed their name to Black Oak Arkansas. The group became a top-seller in the 1970s with its rendition of the Fats Domino 1950s hit, "Jim Dandy" that featured the group's lead singer Jim Mangrum, of Black Oak, a small community north of Jonesboro.
Calls to Stone were not returned before press time.
Guess you missed them in March OT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtsZ7xBjn0
Used to do a durn good show well worth the money, saw them 3 times in the 70's.
that place they were playin at is less than 10 miles cross country to it from the house here. They had pictures of it on TV, it sure looked crowded there,
I heard a few people talkin about going, said they all had a good tme.
they have a big concert goin over there this weekend too. don't remember who they said was gonna be there
Jim Dandy looks a lot older and fatter than I remember, don't look like he jumps around as much any more either. ;D
Del, That can be said for a lot of us!
I looked this one up taday and was impressed with the photographs. Thought some of ya might like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE
Leo, The Mighty Mississippi certainly does have a mind of it's own!
This is fer Buck. The last note is fer you Pard, mebbe ya can still hit it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM
Just finished readin a pretty good book on the life and death (and theft of body) of Gram Parsons.
Twenty Thousand Roads, by David N. Meyers.
It has some more info that the last book I read Hickory Wind. This book jumps around a lot, and sometimes you can't tell who is making the statement, but it has a good telling about the bus tour they took..
This guy sure made some changes in rock and country music. Interestingly, he only got ONE royalty check while he was alive.
good read, and made me get out some of my recordings of him and Emmylou again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj8qnzwHUwo&feature=related
take care
curley
Leo, It's gonna take awhile to get the chops back up, upper register is pretty weak. Thanks though, Big Band music is some of my favorite stuff.................Buck 8)
My senior year, I managed to get Bobby Hackett's solo down for String of Pearls. Had it written down, even..........Buck 8)
I still got a recording of that layin around here somewhere of me playin that solo in Jr high. I had just gotten braces on ma teeth so I cracked a little an bled alot. The young gal that was playin piana and had the next solo had some wrist problem from softball practice. We pulled it off ok but it coulda been better. I think the sax player did fine with his bit. I'll have ta dig the tape out.
Leo, It's good that you have all the musical talent, it makes up for us folks that don't have any.
This is the solo Buck is talkin about. It's after the sax part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uoH6kcpMc
According to the roster listed, that one has a different soloist, Leo. not Bobby Hacket. Good job anyway.............Buck 8) ;)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on September 12, 2009, 02:43:47 PM
According to the roster listed, that one has a different soloist, Leo. not Bobby Hacket. Good job anyway.............Buck 8) ;)
I didn't look at that but I did notice that the whole thing sounded a little differnt. Mighta been the Army Air Corps band. But the solo was note fer note as far as I can tell.
Another fun little tid bit...there were lyrics written fer that one. Can anyone else remember where the string of pearls was bought? Ya get a cookie if ya do. I just thought of it while settin out back.
Leo, if your E-Mail is still active, check for one out of my "home" account. Has an attachment on it from the Photobucket pics that the seller put up for that Bach. See what you think.................Buck 8) ::)
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on September 12, 2009, 03:41:52 PM
Leo, if your E-Mail is still active, check for one out of my "home" account. Has an attachment on it from the Photobucket pics that the seller put up for that Bach. See what you think.................Buck 8) ::)
Will do, and yes I still use the same account.
Here's a good one of Bobby. He swore that the cornet was superior ta the trumpet. The tube has a gradual flare leading up ta the bell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBG-atBvgA
Leo and Buck, The Moose and I are listening to a PBS special salute to Big Bands! Great Music!
Well I hope they didn't ferget the Dorsey brothers. Everyone seems ta ferget them two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XIT6f0KDE
Yeah it's strange for a guy my age to love this stuff but how could you not? Lil thinks I'm reincarcerated er somethin.
The progam lasted for 2 hours. They really didn't do much on the Dorseys. They had a lot of Glenn Miller, which is my personal favorite.
Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman are the most remembered but there were others. I'd like ta see the program you watched.
The PBS station in Dallas airs these types of programs when they are looking for donations. Most of the time the programs are on Sat. and or Sun.
It was on here in N.E. Ohio last month, TLD. good stuff, and you can understand the lyrics, too! ::) ;D :o
Buck, this would be a good work out fer that new horn of yers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TAVW3paBA
Yes, I do come up with some strange stuff.
That does not compute! Danger! Will Robinson!
Don't 'member doin' any Tom Paxton before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWxO0dhnWo
A good one from a long time ago.
Also Leo, someone added this since the last time I searched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syu1EhiXkxU
Thanks Del. Both those songs mean something ta me.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 15, 2009, 06:26:38 PM
Thanks Del. Both those songs mean something ta me.
They do a lot of folks.
CD player at work gave me an idea, found one, now you know when they went to the singing cowboys movies, Ken Maynard lost out to Gene Autry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SSLfk3uqo
Ken is a bit less than a polished singer. ;)
Nice pair showing how diverse some folks can be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhppnr5YIe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzdK666DPF8
Another one I liked a long time ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpr0qoDI-cI
"nuther one, group was well know, song was to long for most radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLuIb4oic4
Have you ever heard this one Leo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2eF1IJtSE
I got a few of their albums.
I give ya one back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZXjHxgMaQ
Del, I think I still have that King Crimson album, I used to listen to the title track a lot. Talk about bringing back memories
These guys are mostly remembered for this one and one other, but they had some really good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs
The studio cut of this one is great but not too bad live either.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=10+years+after&page=2
There best one was called "Once There Was A Time" but I haven't found it.
Here it is. Again, the studio cut is better. The album was called "A Moment In Time".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyNBV-BTzDw
I think I paid $4.50 to see them in 72-73.
Saw these folks live in 75, don't know why. ;D Very small crowd. ::)
This ought to bring back some memories for some of us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_Street
As long as we're in this vein, always liked this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLFEwdM4rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLFEwdM4rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFFlCXS6RKs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129uSUEN-8w
And some lesser music from the time: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZL_tZxyBDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnfgqD_ye8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mASbP3Eq1VE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYL0qUyjHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYL0qUyjHM
Yeah, well Del take this one.
You don't wanna start a bad music war with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc&feature=PlayList&p=E9DB66C8168C0D16&index=0&playnext=1
What's wrong with those songs? ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_WL-q_T-n4
Slim
Who woulda thought that Slim of all folks would sneak up an smack us in the head? Man, that came outta nowhere, talk about a sucker punch.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 16, 2009, 10:37:16 PM
Who woulda thought that Slim of all folks would sneak up an smack us in the head? Man, that came outta nowhere, talk about a sucker punch.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Slim
I had a real bomb ta drop but accordin ta the innernet it don't exist. I woulda had this all tied up but some evil force won't allow it. Phooey.
Hey Leo, Who cares if Bobbie Gentry could sing, she was a good lookin' Ol' Hide back then.
saw this morning we lost another one of the singers we grew up with. always liked them folksingers. when I think of em, Puff the Magic Dragon comes to mind.
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikPn0TLdFoAt6VrnGIeDC-kf8uGA
PP&M was an instant station change back in the day.
I wish her a peaceful rest. That said, I'm so happy her passin' is old news 'n the national media isn't playin' snippets of that group of fools' 'art' taday.
Geez.... Like nails onna black board......
I did like the song they did fer folks gettin married. I think they just called it the Wedding Song but it came out a the Scriptures. Fer me that was about it. Puff the magic dragon can go smoke his joint somewhere else. Like the land of Honoly or whatever it was.
I promised ya all the H bomb of bad 70's music. I have found it an now it shall be rained upon you. Sorry it's a bit late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLKkNY9eUA
Have mercy, Leo! ::) :o :-\
Couldn't think a nothin worse than that one.
Where's Chuck Barris's Gong when ya need it!?
Nope, I will not listen to it. :P
Showed up today Leo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7NEOBnMVI
And a one by Tom Paxton for the kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlnVRWD7vVY
Quote from: Delmonico on September 17, 2009, 06:38:34 PM
Showed up today Leo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7NEOBnMVI
And a one by Tom Paxton for the kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlnVRWD7vVY
Aint it funny how that keeps happenin? Always gotta keep yer ear ta the ground ;)
Just ta make sure the war is over, here comes Bockscar with the final payload.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRL9NLQqP8
I feel really bad fer doin that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4X6nGI-rA
Slim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc
Slim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSlPJOfnJZk
How about some "pie" for dessert
curley
thanks Curley for breaking the awfull evil spell that's been haunting this tread
From a CD I love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvREkXJ_zA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi7Z-bWpJiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upJGDGwXF1Y
And a almost forgotten fella:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgmJTC0Sbxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SNIjWNc-4
And off on a different tangent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGNQIecbcc
Curley, Utah Phillips lives right here. He has a radio show on the public access radio station, KVMR.
Now ta follow Del's lead...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
Sorry fer the last two er three pages Roo, me an Slim was just havin some fun.
Good song sometimes, but I like it by the author better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hidk2V_S63g
Granted, but I grew up hearin Johnny sing it.
This was my introduction ta DAC. Listen fer the whistlin at the end. It's hard ta hear but it spooked just about everyone in the studio cause there weren't no one in there whistlin. Is it true? Heck, I don't know but it sure is a good story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
Quote from: Leo Tanner on September 18, 2009, 02:45:06 PM
Granted, but I grew up hearin Johnny sing it.
This was my introduction ta DAC. Listen fer the whistlin at the end. It's hard ta hear but it spooked just about everyone in the studio cause there weren't no one in there whistlin. Is it true? Heck, I don't know but it sure is a good story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
Got Johnny paycheck again. ;D
The link I posted with "the ride" leads inta someones playlist and it is excellant.
Jamie Johnson comes on next...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YQd5Imw6cU&feature=PlayList&p=67DC084F6C4F9756&index=50&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL
There was a lot of pure BS about the song "The Ride." Randall william's was involved with it. The Death Caddy also "disapeared from somewhere and magically reappeared at the CMHOF at the time also. Some may be that dumb, but not me, promo stuff for a guy's song was all it was.
Leo, here is some of the Grandson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gac5_jEsYWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fdwr2KdCfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgxRj_QFMJk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5wtYksKXY
Sound quality ain't always the best, but you can get the idea.
Also this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijJw-0GITk
"Course everytime I see Curb records I think of the founders one hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjWQHpu3bY
This should have been banned though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hen0ISUQhYI&feature=related
Beats Bockscar :o
Now this one would be really bad if it wasn't so so good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIU4QNQiiac
Kermit did that on the Muppet Show years ago. I remember it cause that's when I decided ta quit the trumpet an go fer guitar. I was home sick from school an I remember thinkin "Hey a guitar is polyphonic not monophonic".
Strange the things ya remember.
Leo, That explains a lot!
Well polyphonic means an instrament ya can play more than one note at a time on. With a guitar ya can play six. A pianer ya can play ten (unless yer Jerry Lee Lewis then ya can use yer elbows an play 20). Monophonic means an instrament that can only play one note at a time, like trumpet er clarinet. So when I was a kid an heard that song I called BS.
I was a strange lad.
I am and always have been a wierd dude. How's that?
That's more like it, Leo!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 18, 2009, 06:43:52 PM
That's more like it, Leo!
Thank you fer the nod. An someone who was unawares may have learned somethin taday bout the meanins of certain words. I'm not here ta teach, just ta share.
Well since you admit yer weird, here's one for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FBQ1O5F8k
I aint that wierd. At least ma kids have real names.
Yep! Spud and Little Miss?
Don't ferget Little Bit, CJ, The Boy an Steve.
Beats the heck outta Dweesel an Moon Unit. That stuff is atchaly on thier birth certificates. They have both failed miserably in life after MTV didn't want em no more as VJ's back in the 80's.
Leo, Del and I will try and keep you on the straight and narrow, as you ride along life's highways and biways.
Thank you Sir.
My kid's names in real life are Christy, Rachael, Terra, Rusty, Steven and Jasmine. Jasmine was a foster until she turned 18 so we didn't name her. I think they's all perty good names.
I listened ta Shirly Ellis and didn't name any of them Chuck. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJLi5_dyn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k
The one guy's collar is too much. ::)
Slim
Ok, Slim just officialy won the war. I had fergotten all about that little nugget. Oh the humanity...
The problem with modern Country and Western music is not enough yodeling. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDEk2AMJAI
Slim
Well Slim, Pickins are slim for yodelers in CW music. Riders in the Sky, Roy, Gene, and the late great Jimmie Rodgers are all good examples.
Dern it, I can't make a sarcastic remark about the young yodelin gal. She was too good.
She's gotta lot of talent for a 12 year old.
Jewel doesn't do a bad job either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9oxbyLlAYI
Slim
She lives near Stephenville, Tx on Ty's ranch.
Lil has a Jewel CD an I run an hide everytime she plays it. No yodelin on it, just pure estrogen. The girl needs ta rock out once in a while.
I've never heard this Jewel sing. My #1 child is Jewel. ;) Not named after the singer. Jewell is my better-half's maiden name.
Slim
She's like one them modern day coffee house singers that plays acoustic guitar and sings about society an heartbreak. Most women I've know cannot resist listenin to her an most men I've known have my reaction. An that's sayin alot cause I'm generaly a sensitive guy ;D
I wouldn't know who she was, if she wasn't married to TY.
Here's my ignorance showing. Who is Ty? ???
Slim
Well this is much better Pop. You don't even have to like the Beatles ta enjoy the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHfYi1bC0fc&feature=rec-HM-r2
I have no idea who Ty is Slim so it's ok.
Ty Murray.
Cause there's lots a cool guns in it. So many that it's worth hearin the song twice ta see em all an read all the slogans. I like the one that says "Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms should be a convienince store not a goverment agency".
won the werld title like a gazillion times with the PRCA now honcho's PBR
Quote from: litl rooster on September 20, 2009, 04:32:03 PM
won the werld title like a gazillion times with the PRCA now honcho's PBR
Thanks.
Slim
Quote from: litl rooster on September 20, 2009, 04:32:03 PM
won the werld title like a gazillion times with the PRCA now honcho's PBR
Don't even follow it much and knew that, gee. ;D
I guess I weren't payin attention. Never woulda guessed he'd marry a hippie. Love does some crazy things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Murray
Won't say nuthin' Leo, know folks who have done stranger things for a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, never mind, you can figger it out. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on September 20, 2009, 04:38:01 PM
Don't even follow it much and knew that, gee. ;D
Don't have cable so I don't follow it at all. ::)
Slim
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on September 20, 2009, 04:54:09 PM
Don't have cable so I don't follow it at all. ::)
Slim
Same boat here. We get the news podcasts in the mornin an other shows on sites like fancast and crackle. I watch Nightly News with Brian Williams most nights too. NBC was real smart ta get in bed with MSN.
Besides winning World Championships in Bull Riding in the PRCA, he won some All-Around Championships. At one time, he competed in all 3 rough stock events, SaddleBronc, Bareback Bronc, and Bull Riding. He was on Dancing with the Stars this year also.
Ya don't say. A bull rider on dancing with the stars? Someone should do a you tube video with clips of that while Garth Brooks Rodeo song is playin.
He lasted longer than most folks thought he would. He got a lot of folks that were bullriding fans to vote for him and his partner.
Got to work tonight, had some new up coming band signin' autographs, Randy Rogers Band, guess they get some air play. Never heard of them before, playin' in town tonight. Went down and quized them out, no up-right steel, but a fiddle. Took my hat off and asked them if they did any Hank the Father, ones wearin' hats took them off and the one guy started singin' Yer Cheatin' Heart. Looked them up, modern country, but the fiddle player seems to be good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD3siuHOtCQ
Rita says this is the one they play on the radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBlryfjlCc
Not quite what I really like, but they seemed like nice guys and came up here in a bit and checked it out, took pictures and video, who knows might be in their next video. ;D
Guess they are from Texas:
http://www.randyrogersband.com/
Even made Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Rogers_Band
Del, I don't keep with the new country artists or groups these days. I've never heard of them and didn't know they were from Texas.
I hadn't either till yesterday, found the rest on the net. Drove by "Uncle Ron's Wild West Saloon" on the way home, looks like it was pretty packed so someone must like them.
Some of you might like these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cf6k4yJyv0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKOc_Mpumc&feature=channel
I love the second one, especialy the chorus. Here's the words...
High school seemed like such a blur
I didn't have much interest in sports or school elections
And in class I dreamed all day
About a rock 'n' roll weekend
And the girl in the front of the room
So close yet so far
Y'know she never seemed to notice
That this silly school-boy crush wasn't just pretend
Chorus:
Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right
Close your eyes and then it's past;
(it's the) story of my life
And I went down to my old neighborhood
The faces have all changed, there's no one left to talk to
And the pool hall I loved as a kid is now a seven eleven
I went downtown to look for a job
I had no training, no experience to speak of
I looked at the holes in my jeans and turned and headed back
Chorus
Good times come and good times go
I only wish the good times would last a little longer
I think about the good times we had and why they had to end
So I sit at the edge of my bed
I strum my guitar and I sing an outlaw love song
Wonderin' bout what you're doin' now and when you're comin' back
This one is fer the Trinman. He turned me on ta these guys and they are a hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJUywl7CFw
Leo, Those guys could have been the house band in "Deliverence"!
You said it! All they do is cover hard rock and heavy metal songs in blue grass style. The mandolin player is great. It's one of those groups that would just be plain silly if they weren't so talented.
Sometimes it's harder to do that than play regular music.
Johnny Cash tried ta do it and in my opinion failed miserabley. I was bummed cause I liked him, it just didn't work.
Let's not forget Pat Boone trying to sing heavy metal.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on September 29, 2009, 06:41:52 AM
Let's not forget Pat Boone trying to sing heavy metal.
An lets not ferget him tryin ta sing Little Richard either. That's about as funny as it gets.
I saw Pat on a PBS special on 50s music a couple of weeks ago. He's holding his own in the age department.
His daughter was perty cute, but she missed the mark on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenFPDV76uM
I don't think she ever knew what rock 'n' roll was. It's more like a lullabye.
Ol Pat married into the Music business. His wife is Red Foley's daughter. Debbie is the girl next door type, wasn't the type for the music business in the late 70s or early 80s.
My ex wife's stepfather was an evangelical minister. He used ta talk about working with Pat. Said he was a great guy and very religious. He helped fund there revivals and missionary work. I don't know if they're still in touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvieb2OedWE
I like this old codger. Of course there several other verses to the song, but he does good. Just sittinin there by the fire an singing songs his dad taught him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZNAoYsgSYY
I just hope he doesn't break into "Tiptoe through the Tulips".
Howzabout some Western Swang? One of the major benefits of livin' in Nashville is all the great venues to listen to music played by some of the finest musicians in the world. Some of the stages are big, like the Ryman (my no. 1 favorite) but there are plenty of smaller joints like Robert's Western World where you'll hear amazing stuff.
Another favorite is The Station Inn, the heart of the bluegrass world. But there's other music there, too. This Monday, in celebration of makin' it through another year, I'm headed there to hear one 'a the best western swing combos there is, the Time Jumpers. They play at the Station almost every Monday, and many many great C & W performers drop in. It kinda blows my mind that I can drive a few miles on any Monday night and hear bands like this:
Ranger Doug Green, My Confession (Bob Wills)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5O2udl2xs&feature=channel
Bring It On Down To My House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZtD7qzsAyE&feature=channel_page
Fidoodlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNgw325heU&feature=channel
All of me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRU8CjjE054&feature=related
IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbacmmKvdeA&feature=channel
Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurtin' Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIj41Q1woOA&feature=related
My Weakness Is Too Strong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnjHc_-hpvk&feature=channel
"If you're gonna play in Texas, You gotta have a fiddle in the Band"!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 03, 2009, 10:40:33 AM
"If you're gonna play in Texas, You gotta have a fiddle in the Band"!
It helps in Nashville, too! ;)
I love it when all 3 fiddles in the Time Jumpers start sawin' in unison!
Bob usually had 2 fiddles in the band and sometimes he would play also, so they would have 3. That is a good band, all fine musicians. That place looks small on the inside.
TLD, I had that Alabama album. I taped it and ran through the equalizer i had with my stero outfit at that time. My '68 Mustang had four speakers and a 200 watt equalizer in it. Great sound for a cheap setup. Playing that tape on it, you wouldn't believe the base line under that song. used to turn it up some, did the same with "Roll On" on that album. The semi at the beginning sounded like there was a real one next to me ::) ;D
If you had a system that kicks bass like that you had ta have this one rollin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCNcgoyG_0
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 03, 2009, 05:17:27 PM
Bob usually had 2 fiddles in the band and sometimes he would play also, so they would have 3. That is a good band, all fine musicians. That place looks small on the inside.
They're all studio musicians. The steel player is the late John Hughey, who did amazing work with Conway Twitty for almost 20 years. He also toured with Vince Gill for several years, and played on a Dickey Betts album, etc.
The Station Inn is pretty small. That's one of the great things about it--you can really hear all the instruments. And you never know who'll show up to sit in with the band. Some pretty big names.
They also serve some pretty tasty bb-que. :)
You gotta have plenty of cold BEER to go with that bbq!
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on October 04, 2009, 08:30:37 AM
You gotta have plenty of cold BEER to go with that bbq!
Sho nuff, they got that too! ;D
Here's a fiddle player for ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcnGrie__M
Now keep in mind that Paganini is the first muscian rumored to have sold his soul ta the devil cause he did things with that fiddle that seemed impossible. If ya listen through the whole thing there's times where he makes it sound like a whole orchestra. He was like a rock star in his day. The guy in this video must of practiced long an hard ta get it down.
Leo, per our conversation today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZzY6KZuLUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWa7cuM5CXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRTSooRdiDY
Here ya go Del...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH9ih2XJg
And the Jackson Browne song ya made me think of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY
and the Bob song we were talkin about...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJw1kFlnY0
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 07, 2009, 02:46:53 PM
Here ya go Del...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH9ih2XJg
Yep, for some reason I thought that was Jackson Browne.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 07, 2009, 02:49:14 PM
And the Jackson Browne song ya made me think of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY
and the Bob song we were talkin about...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJw1kFlnY0
Yep know em both.
The one I could not think of was The Pretender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikm9hn_xy9Y&feature=related
Now ya got me thinkin about this pretender...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXnUEW_OXw
The lady that was my partner for several years was a big Platter's fan. She goes to Vegas every year to watch their show.
Susie likes the Platters, too, TLD. We saw them at the Palace here some years back, good show....Buck 8)
Glad I could spread some mezmoies around.
Now fer somethin completely different...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8
got derailed back at Jackson Browne..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gayTFiOUQ&NR=1
Let's hear it for the Soggy Bottom Boys!
That JC song had gotten put so far back in the memory banks that it was like hearing it for the first time. Thanks Roo.
That sounds like an Irish Pub song. Break out the Guinness!
I'll take a Guiness an listen ta this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JZfJ8q81A
That's a good one Leo. I like "China Grove" also.
Went to Cracker Barrel last night and besides a good meal I got a 3 CD set of Jonny Cash from the Sun years. 20 songs and a CD full of out takes and misstarts, ain't lisened to them yet but could be interestin'.
Includes this one ya seldom here but my fave from those years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7J68CdhPDo
The Tennessee Three! Ya done good, Del!
Careful Del, Arcey might hear that an come undone. I maself enjoyed it plenny.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 09, 2009, 06:29:26 PM
Careful Del, Arcey might hear that an come undone. I maself enjoyed it plenny.
I bet Arcey listens to music I don't like. ;D That's why I like him, he's like me, he speaks his mind. Shhh, don't tell him I said that, he'll think I'm gettin' soft. ;D
I'm sure he knows I'm just ribbin 'im. If he don't than he aint who I thought he was an that aint likely.
But he might not be who he thunk he is. ;D
Geez Louees, ya can't even pick a good fight round here no more.
Leo, Some people pick fights,I just pick my nose!
Leo picks lint. ::)
Leo The Lint Picker!
Though some of us may have differing opinions on Johnny Cash, I thought this would be fitting for tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqc_cADJiQ
Most of them songs on the "Live from Folsom Prison" album ain't too PC these days, but who cares? Not me!
Did ya'll watch the CMA awards? I couldn't handle a full hour, had to switch channels. A week ago, George said this:
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Is "New Country" Real Country?
Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:40pm PST by Wendy Geller in Viva NashVegas
This week, George Jones told the media that he thinks new country stars such as Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift have "stolen the identity" of country music in general, and that they should "find their own title" for the music they are making, resulting in a flurry of "George Jones Says: Don't Call It Country!"-type headlines across the news.
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(George was being asked specifically about the girls, but you can add Chesney and Rascal Flatts and the rest of that gang.) I caught one good act, Jamey Johnson (with Kid Rock, of all people) doing Between Jennings and Jones. Cool song.
Good for George, yes Kid Rock can do some durn good country when he wants to.
Ok now I need help after reading that. There was a band that came out in the early to mid nineties. They were very scruffy lookin and had hair down to thier butts but they played some damn good country and brought it to people that normaly wouldn't listen to it. The name is on the tip of my tongue but it won't come out. I can picture the album cover and I recall the name being two words. And no, I can't remember the name of any of thier songs, they just kind of disappeared.
Kentucky Headhunters?
Quote from: J.D. Yellowhammer on November 12, 2009, 08:45:38 PM
Kentucky Headhunters?
BINGO!!! Ask a question here an yer sure ta get an answer.
Thank you JD.
Yeah, I remember them, JD. Couple of hits and then gone ::) 8)
Yer welcome, Leo, glad to be of assistance! ;D
Buck, I think some'a them are still kickin' around somewhere. I vaguely remember some concert er somethin not too long ago... I could be confused, I'm a heavy sufferer from CRS.... :-\ 8)
Here's a good 'un from them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slT9Oer4m6A
Was home with my hand in a cast, never heard of them before that, this came on the TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xf-BNkLWUE
They is all related, they got a CMA award years ago, went up to get it and they all had their HS FFA Jackets on wih the white shirt and ties. ;D Big drum ihas the HS logo on it. They're still around I guess, but not what the modern industry wants. ::)
Who put the commercials in the You tube? I didn't mind watchin that gal shave her legs but advertisements over there is new ta me.
Cool vid Del, I'm glad JD jarred ma memory with so few clues.
Forgot, as I found that video and opened it, HAL 9000 my faithful CD player at work decided to play the same song, but by Riders in the Sky. ::) Got my eye on him again, don't trust him at all, will shut him off if need be. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on November 13, 2009, 05:56:38 PM
Forgot, as I found that video and opened it, HAL 9000 my faithful CD player at work decided to play the same song, but by Riders in the Sky. ::) Got my eye on him again, don't trust him at all, will shut him off if need be. ;D
Time ta close the pod bay doors? Watch out fer gettin yer air cut off.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 13, 2009, 06:34:17 PM
Time ta close the pod bay doors? Watch out fer gettin yer air cut off.
I have the remote in my pocket, HAL does not scare me, even after what he did to John that weekend Terry and I were gone and he worked up here. The boss saved him and he drooled a lot before that anyway. ::)
Now ya got that music stuck in ma head without even playin it. Drat.
And neither verson has all the verses, must be a couple dozen at least. ::)
Heard this on the radio the other day, sometimes you get to hear something good today. "Course it wasn't no Top 40 station: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWir9SaAe8
The Happy Schnapps Combo, now you just expect good out of a group like that. ;D
And this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmown6Skckw
Take that all you multi-cultural diversity snops. ;D
I like those tractors, they ain't "trailerqueens"! Now we need to have some tractor square dancing!
Well these guys are a fun bunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aioA3wPHLZg&feature=PlayList&p=0CC8133A90F266B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5
Leave it to Leo to find the off-beat music!
It's my forte'.
I'll have to agree with ya!
This one is a bit different also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLu_UK_MpfA&feature=related
"Bout time for some Christmas music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ761NOhfmM
Quote from: Delmonico on November 21, 2009, 04:43:58 PM
"Bout time for some Christmas music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ761NOhfmM
NOT YET!!! We ain't even had Miles Standish Day yet. Christmas music outta wait til the day after at least.
But it's Homer and Jethro. ;D
I can't wait to hear the Barking Dogs and "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer"!
And this one: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqIM_bPTws
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 21, 2009, 04:59:32 PM
NOT YET!!! We ain't even had Miles Standish Day yet. Christmas music outta wait til the day after at least.
OK, just so we don't have to hear you whine, some Thanksgiving Music, a very tradional one, you know there ain't a lot ot music for Thanksgiving: ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DtpdXZi0M
Now yer talkin!
Del, Somehow I knew it was the Hippo song. Leo, We got a 5 dollar fine for whinin'! Would you like some Brie with tha Whine?
Tex, he don't deserve more than some Boone's Farm and Velveeta. ;D
Annie Greensprings!
And this one, course it's better on a 45 that the record player (not turn table) is playin' through an RCA tube radio, add a woodstove with Christmas Dinner on it and a Red Cedar for a Christmas tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISgVQOj_QM
Oh and since Leo ain't gonna like it, a snack for the Grinch: ;D
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/food/puregrapewine.jpg)
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/food/untitled-1.jpg)
I weren't whinin, just wantin ta make the seasons come on their own time. Go ta K Mart ta get a kid a costume afore halloween an they got Sandy Claws everywhere. Slow down people, you'll get ma money just not yet.
And yes, I would like a baked brie. Apple slices on top if ya would.
We ain't got no K-Mart in town anymore, been gone for years, don't want another, don't kneed it. ::)
I 'spose this is really gonna up-set Leo: ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-4cTOyzKk
Quote from: Delmonico on November 22, 2009, 03:39:55 PM
We ain't got no K-Mart in town anymore, been gone for years, don't want another, don't kneed it. ::)
Well out here in Dogpatch, the big red K is all we got. The Sears is a tiny building with a few appliances in it and a catalog. Gotta go 30 miles fer a Target an 60 for a Wallyworld.
Got 3 Wally's and 5 Targets, that's enough, add a couple Home Depots and Menards and it gets to much, they even added some place called Lowe's a year or so back. Figger it's another one of the "help don't know poop" places. Got to Menardss maybe once a year, Home Depot, once was enough. Like my local owned hardware stores which we have 7-8 around town, can't remember, they've added a couple more the last couple years.
I always enjoy Gene's renditions! Yep, Lowe's is one of those "Home Improvement" places.
Got no Home Depot er OSH er Lowes either. All privately owned stuff. There is a True Value franchise an a Ace franchise but they are small little places. Our best hardware store is totaly indipendant and was started by an old geezer that lives right up the road from me as a lumber yard. We do have a Meeks but it don't count fer much in service, price or selection.
Our Home Depot seems to have most stuff we need, however if I need something fast, I visit our local ACE hardware.
TLD, I forgot to tell ya that I got Jackie one of them craftsman electric hammers, she has been using it on everything she can and it really works good on most everything. it's really good in the tight places we have around the curtains, where you have to reach up in the curtains and nail something.
she really likes it.
OT, That's good. I still haven't got to use mine yet.
Jackie has set hers up in the shop so it has it's own plug in for the charger, she has it on the charger now, she never has run it down, it seems to have pretty good power.
With Sue in couch arrest from her knee surgery, I get to do all the cooking, not just the turkey on the grill. So I started prepping the mashed tater, green bean casserole, stuffing tonight. Once I get the turkey on the grill, I can put the other stuff together. Our friend is doing yams, as I hate yams! Sue made the pumpkin pies Monday before her surgery. So I think we're all set for tomorrow.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
My wife has been doing prep work for the last two days for the meal. It should go fast today. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
This'll be me in a few days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZokY1UfN-4
I'll be singing this in the morning. ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvO-DxkJAU
Slim
We got dumped on perty good last night with more ta come.
I always liked to hear Vaughn Monroe sing, especially "Ghost Riders In The Sky".
Before the day is over I wanted to do this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3gKtdb2cE
"Off We Go, Into the Wild Blue Yonder, Climbing High Into the Sun"! "Att Em Boys! Give Em tha GUN"!
I believe that in the initial attack only two of our planes got off the ground but yes they did give er the gun.
Moose and I took a self guided tour of that little field the took off from. The CAF always reenacts the Pearl Harbor attack with a P40 chasing a Zeke and the B17 trying to land with only one gear down.
CD player played a version of this, found these two, a favorite song, was around long before the 7th:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odr1vjzf1ws&feature=related
And one with the lyrics::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTQ0C8dxx0
Del, Those were 2 rousing songs for this morning. It makes me proud to be a Celt!
We had Cornish Christmas last night. There is a group of pipers that will make your eyes water when they do Amazing Grace. Been going down to see those old boys fer years.
OK, speakin' of pipes, there was this bagpiper, he was hired to play at a funeral out in the country. Well he got lost and by the time he found the cematary, everyone was gone but the grave diggers. They were just gettin' ready to fill in the grave.
The piper went over anyway, looked into the open grave, looked down at the concrete vault inside and then started to play "Amazing Grace. Well this brought tears to the eyes of the grave diggers. As the piper was headed back to his car, one of the grave diggers said, "I've been puttin' in septic tanks for 30 years and I never had that happen before." ::)
That's a cute one.
When my daughter died my father in law hired a fiddle player to do that song at the service. A month and a half later I took my other two daughters to the Chistmas thing and the pipers were walking up the street to get a beer or a shot and they stopped right in front of us and started playing it. Like they knew. It was cool.
I always enjoy the Pipes!
The Pipes just stir a mans soul
We got "Celtic Women" concert on PBS on the TV. Those girls are purty and man, can they sing!
They most certainly can! 8)
There supposed to be here for a concert in March. I'm gonna get a couple of tickets if they're not too expensive.
Had some John Prine on the other day, Rick said it reminded him of KAAY Beaker Steet back years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Mezl1WZH8
And John and a friend of his: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTbg39-I5Q
And DAC lied to us, John helped Steve write this one or so Steve says. Can't ask him though, Steve has passed on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlHNOme8uEk&feature=related
And the most famous song that Steve wrote, with the great Jethro Burns helpin':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlHNOme8uEk&feature=related
Good selection tanight. An I'm sure DAC lied more than once in his life.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 17, 2009, 07:54:48 PM
Good selection tanight. An I'm sure DAC lied more than once in his life.
Steve died way to soon and was too unkown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnqtGjHJjs8&feature=related
He t'was a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_bQtdt3rg&feature=related
Jethro in his younger days with his brother:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mGFjAySTw
Nuther H&J:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hodPq2AjrRc&feature=related
And one for the season"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-foNQyck2M&feature=related
Leo, John Prine didn't take any credit for the song I found out, so Steve could get all the royalties, most likey so Steve could afford treatments for his leukemia which took him in 84.
Here's my idea of Crhistmas music and a great video to go along with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIcwofkrS8
Quote from: Delmonico on December 17, 2009, 08:29:39 PM
Leo, John Prine didn't take any credit for the song I found out, so Steve could get all the royalties, most likey so Steve could afford treatments for his leukemia which took him in 84.
John Prine is a good man and an amazing song writer.
Here's a Christmas Classic (wish I could find a video of the original):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Sq1tp_ugg
And I remember when this came out. Man, that dates me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dnrosVyamY
JD, Most of us are right there with ya!
Here's a Christmas song that's a bit different, course John Prine is a bit different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uIFs-pNdc
BTW I have his Christmas album, kinda neat, got one part between songs, tells about the year he got a divorce for Christmas, to cheer himself up he went out and bought an 'lectric train cause he never had one as a kid. Him and a buddy nailed it to the dining room table, just cause they could. ;D
In case you aren't a fan of the chipmunks, this is how they ended up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGtKnbQ6S8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGtKnbQ6S8)
Here ya go JD. Brenda Lee sang it an Johnny Marks wrote it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzyOSAJg94
Brenda Lee, The original "Carrot Top"! Red Foley discovered her and put her on his show. Pat Boone too. Pat married one of Red's daughters.
My ex father in law paled around with Pat doing some kind of ministry work. I guess he's a cool guy but I rather would have met Debbie.
Pat plays or played golf with Alice Cooper.
Vincent Fornier? That wouldn't suprise me, he did a whole heavy metal album a short while back when he lived next door to Ozzy.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 20, 2009, 01:46:51 PM
Vincent Fornier? That wouldn't suprise me, he did a whole heavy metal album a short while back when he lived next door to Ozzy.
Just for a laugh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9IedgMOwc
Just relized the name of the album is an Alice Cooper song.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 20, 2009, 01:52:39 PM
Just relized the name of the album is an Alice Cooper song.
Yer on the trail, now just don't lose it. ::)
One for the season:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6YyotxGM4
Where's Waddie Mitchell when ya need him?
The hits keep rollin in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoMwhm-OOg8
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 20, 2009, 02:32:24 PM
Where's Waddie Mitchell when ya need him?
You can just whine about it, I'll do the work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ndh7Cq7wI
Geez Tex, yer startin' to act like Leo. ::)
If you know Soundgarten this is so funny it'll give you cramps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7bgxuC8VA
An acourse Pop acts like me, he's ma Pop.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 20, 2009, 04:09:08 PM
If you know Soundgarten this is so funny it'll give you cramps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7bgxuC8VA
An acourse Pop acts like me, he's ma Pop.
Ya mean this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di0bMycRpC8
Slim
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on December 20, 2009, 04:43:47 PM
Ya mean this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di0bMycRpC8
Slim
Yeah, that would be the original.
Heard a thing on a radio show some years ago that elvis was still alive an recordin Nirvana songs. I'm tempted ta look.
Some how I doubt this is really him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYc91Uohuk
But ya never know with all the surgery available taday.
Another one of them Japanese imports!
I may have owned this pick-up at one time, it was a 57 Chevy and sure sounds like it, BTW gave $25 for it and used it at the farm, was a good way to get rid of used oil: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWClsaKmo5Y
But it's Christmas...wheres Manhiem Steamshovel? (er whatever). Right dude, wrong season.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 21, 2009, 07:39:35 PM
But it's Christmas...wheres Manhiem Steamshovel? (er whatever). Right dude, wrong season.
What's a matter, yer right index finger broke? ::)
I wish I could find a 57 for $25. I could park in my front yard and decorate it with lights for Christmas. That should make the neighbors delighted.
Don''t forget the concrete blocks, TLD ;D
that's Mannheim Steamroller, by the way..........Buck 8)
I'll have to check with Code Enforcement on the Blocks. I would probably decorate it for all the holidays.
As long as you have a toilet fer a planter box it should all be up to code Pop.
Leo, I've got a brand new one in the garage that I need to set. I have a half-bath in the garage that needs to be redone.
I hate to do this, but after all it's Christmas: ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg
You are just plain evil. That's all.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 05:56:30 PM
You are just plain evil. That's all.
You finally figgered that out? ;) Yer lucky you don't have to work with me, that rule that says I ain't to talk to new employees for there first 2 weeks ain't for nuthin' Mary Anne has been threatenin' to raies it to 4 weeks. ;D
Hear, take this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNSBlFq_JA
Knew we couldn't get through the season without somebody pulling that thing up......... :-\ 8)
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 07:01:01 PM
Hear, take this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNSBlFq_JA
Comin' back at ya with both barrels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfGeOcQiQM
You moved Leo, the coupe de grass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlkPQfAo7-g
Well I can only leave you with this as lay here with my ears bleeding...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foybsDsn5hk
Joe was singin' that the other day at work, started me so bad I lost 2 style numbers I had in my head and had to go get them again,
So take this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtZBE5XXFo
I see you twitchin' in the snow Leo, take this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwP8QvI1jY
And to kick you while yer down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_oEaJZPwU
And it will take a turn-ee-quit to stop the ear bleedin' after this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_oEaJZPwU
Apparently ya got a dose of yer own medicine cause ya played the same racket twice.
Now I'll combat all yer evil forces with good stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY
Oh an I'll never fergive ya fer the Leon Redbone. Everything after that was a blurr.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 07:41:23 PM
Apparently ya got a dose of yer own medicine cause ya played the same racket twice.
Now I'll combat all yer evil forces with good stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY
Guess than means you cry Uncle? Sorry about the double, if you don't giver up then try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_oEaJZPwU
Sorry pard, but now that's the video 3 times.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 07:41:23 PM
Now I'll combat all yer evil forces with good stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY
Well I can out good ya too, and with a good ol' Made in USA Newbrassky product, not some cheap furrin' import:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0pTBNkt9g4
I could have done a worse on this one but if the kiddies er watchin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKAxikZmY-0
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 07:52:18 PM
Sorry pard, but now that's the video 3 times.
Guess it wasn't meant to be, computor refuses to copy the link, perhaps best, but you could search You-tube for "Korn-Jinglebells." :o
So I get the knockout punch? Sorry ta the rest of ya but he asked fer it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMv4zy8HQw
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 08:01:14 PM
So I get the knockout punch? Sorry ta the rest of ya but he asked fer it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMv4zy8HQw
I found it, listened and am now imune. ;D
So here's the death blow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xpwijiUw0
I almost threw in the towel but with my dying breath I remebered this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yV7OUt8oCo
With a fresh supply of belted ammo Leo pulls an Audey Murphy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJhC-bAqwg&NR=1
And now for something completely different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU
I hope Santa brings you all guns for Christmas this year!
Time Outs for Leo and Del! Go to your nuetral corners!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 23, 2009, 08:26:08 PM
With a fresh supply of belted ammo Leo pulls an Audey Murphy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJhC-bAqwg&NR=1
Pantywaist songs, you can't top this and the radiation has a half life of 100,000 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-6xoqGJuA
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 23, 2009, 08:40:12 PM
Time Outs for Leo and Del! Go to your nuetral corners!
Phhhaaaaatttttt, take this ya ol' phart: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW_7ANnHZI
Still say I won. the chixie dicks an sonny an cher do not rate over elmo. Acourse he'll whine an wimper but I, good folks, deal only in the truth.
Thanks fer that song an wish SB. This may be the first year an new piece don't end up here. That's ok, but it was a nice thought.
Well we know Leo is a Sonny and Cher fan along with the Dixie Chicks, see I hit low, I'll take Elo any day. ;D
Quote from: Delmonico on December 23, 2009, 10:06:42 PM
Well we know Leo is a Sonny and Cher fan along with the Dixie Chicks, see I hit low, I'll take Elo any day. ;D
Never said I liked any of em, just that I pulled out the worst. I wanna cookie you loose. Sayin I'm a fan of either of them makes ya guilty of slander, libal an deeformation of character.
Leo, I think that you and Del have "ODed" on U Tube! You need to step away!
I shoulda nuked both of them with this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cRhWRK4RM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cRhWRK4RM)
Quote from: Lucky Irish Tom on December 26, 2009, 05:19:35 PM
I shoulda nuked both of them with this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cRhWRK4RM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cRhWRK4RM)
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
I surender, just plain give up, Leo can't beat me but Tom can. BTW even I ain't evil enough to use that one. :P
Del did not win but I surrender to that as well. Frikken cruel man just plain cruel.
Cruel and unusual punishment, that is! :o :o :o
Cooler heads have prevailed.
here's a new one from "Playing for Change"
http://www.bornagainamerican.org/index.html
besides ya'll have been way too quiet here
LR, It's the cold weather that has kept us inhibited!
That was great Roo. I put my name in the hat ta play slide guitar, It would cool if they called. As long as I don't have ta sing that is.
Leo, There's always room for another picker.
I liked some of his (the producer) earlier stuff also...Good luck with the slide guitar
Leo, The Blues Man!
I used to be good a Travis picking but you have to stay in practice with that. I keep meaning to pick it back up but haven't got around to it.
I'm sure that you'll find time for it.
The challenge is getting used to doing it on the Les Paul and not my old Fender accoustic. The LP is much heavier and it lays across my lap different. And I have gotten lazy.
Leo, You gotta do good to make up for us folks what ain't musically inclined!
Well these two ain't very musically inclined, but they sure are funny, Williams and Ree, the Indian and the White Guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSbccKL1de4
What A way to go!
Seen these two live a couple times, they are a hoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t56ATFK_olI&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-1r-1-HM
They performed on the Nashville Network several years ago. I had lost track of them.
They mostly play the northern Casino's any more. They are just a hoot.
I still enjoy hearing them once in awhile. They are funny.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on February 06, 2010, 01:44:54 PM
I still enjoy hearing them once in awhile. They are funny.
But not very PC: ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf4g5IWTg70
Are my ears RED?
Here an old one you might not have heard in a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wLJe9tZhpQ
Here's one I always liked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPHr9CXsFtA&feature=related
I've always been partial to Roy Clark's "Thank God and Greyhounds, You're Gone"!
And a different version:
And this:
Are you having Oktoberfest in March? Find us a Gailic version of those songs.
What about an episode of "Bonanza" in Japanese?
Here's one in German.
Slim
Slim, That is unique.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 21, 2010, 05:22:28 AM
Slim, That is unique.
The whole episode is in German.
Slim
Here's one that caught my attention.
This one just stole my heart.
An oldie but a goodie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI
Another classic from Arlo!
There are several new Ian video's on youtube, this one is now there, Ian at his best:
And a great new version of this one:
Del, Ya dun good! Alberta Canada is beautful country. I've been up there twice for the Stampede and have had time to do a lot of sightseeing. Those Canadian Rockies are breath taking. I can see why they wanna use that part of the country to film Westerns these days.
That oldies show on one of the local stations had a theme this weekend for Memorial Day, "Hillbilly Heaven, all songs by those already gone. He played this for his last song, ain't heard it in a while, folks had it on a 45:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcLOym2qBk
Quote from: Delmonico on May 30, 2010, 11:03:14 AM
That oldies show on one of the local stations had a theme this weekend for Memorial Day, "Hillbilly Heaven, all songs by those already gone. He played this for his last song, ain't heard it in a while, folks had it on a 45:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcLOym2qBk
I've heard Roy sing it, but not Tex. Thanks, Del. :)
Slim
I think that Tex recorded it first.
Another song from my mispent youth, been several covers, MMM wrote it and did it, New Riders of the Purple Sage did also, but here is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK1rKhayVMQ&feature=related
I like where Zac's head is at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ujS1er1r0
I was lucky enough to marry a woman who loves John Wayne movies. This just started...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7iZ5HJJY0
The boss lady E-Mailed this to us, thought you might like it:
http://www.wimp.com/harmonicacarnegie/
Good one Del.
Here Roo, this was shot in the original church from the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DtpdXZi0M
this ain't carneigie..but it sounds pretty good but them teleie always do in the right hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmNk3U1ujY&feature=grec_index
Quote from: litl rooster on November 27, 2010, 05:53:38 PM
this ain't carneigie..but it sounds pretty good but them teleie always do in the right hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmNk3U1ujY&feature=grec_index
That is good LR. Love that sound.
Here's an oldie but goodie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8
This guy was great in concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y7sQ
I never heard this guy solo before today. Thanks Roo, this is really somethin else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpr-Zy_wRs
Someone got this one up, ain't heard it in more than 35 years. Memories of Clyde Clifford, Beaker Street am 1090 out of Little Rock late night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
Gotta say I like this gal. Seems ta know what's important.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWbblHJfcqc
If you like rock n roll you might enjoy this young ladies approach to the classic's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVH7NB8eMRc&feature=related
follow her links
and this youngin's also
it's my 2nd favorite Skynrd song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRRPD7V6MI&feature=related
Both very nice.
You may get a kick out of this. It was done in one take with a multi track recorder. What all average Joe can't do these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vcxA29okM
thanks leo he is pretty good..Here's one simular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4bFD2eKPM
Kid's good but he needs to know when to close his yap. I think he tolt me his underwear size somewhere in there. At any rate he is definitely multi talented.
I'm surprised that these kids even knew who Nina Simone was. I think they did a good job with this and deserve some credit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZ0IyFaqqw
Here is one similar in thought to your serviceman one:
The original and writer was Tom Paxton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWxO0dhnWo&feature=related
John Denver did a very good cover, hard to tell which is the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4JovOw8qWo
They are both good. That's one that always gets me in the gut. This one does too.
Jack Pontes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL0HIgHv1Wc&feature=related
Figgered this would be good taday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1JEDWs37Q
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 07, 2010, 08:20:31 AM
Figgered this would be good taday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1JEDWs37Q
Ain't there no more.
On Dec 8 1982 we lost one of the great ones, good singer and a colorful charector:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UxsEwco3t8
Had to shar this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rVgxmekeM&feature=BF&list=QL&index=1
Roo, that was great!!! I had a daughter named Annabelle that didn't live very long and I designated that her song. This version is beautiful. You made my day by posting it.
Seems to be a Sunday morning thing here get to watching and listening to some good music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDD04Pxu6aI&list=QL&playnext=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SysBazd50D8&list=QL&playnext=3
Quote from: litl rooster on December 12, 2010, 07:49:09 AM
Seems to be a Sunday morning thing here get to watching and listening to some good music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDD04Pxu6aI&list=QL&playnext=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SysBazd50D8&list=QL&playnext=3
I was thinkin' of him last night, had a CD in, a one of Duets someone gave me. Merle and Willie sang this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjwO17gsqU
Here's one. Watch what Gene does with the sticks on the bass. Aint fer everyone but I'm sure a few will enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwoc7UWdBw
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 12, 2011, 01:13:38 PM
Here's one. Watch what Gene does with the sticks on the bass. Aint fer everyone but I'm sure a few will enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwoc7UWdBw
Leo I just left a remark on that one
Quote from: litl rooster on January 16, 2011, 09:38:21 AM
Leo I just left a remark on that one
I bet you are right about that Roo. Since you mentioned that I can almost imagine a guitar in there.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 16, 2011, 11:21:36 AM
I bet you are right about that Roo. Since you mentioned that I can almost imagine a guitar in there.
Yeah his Big band gig was produced alot like Bob Crosby gig.
I saw him twice with the Stray Cats at a small venue down the street from my house. That was a whole different Brian. The drummer played the whole show standing up with no stool in sight. Next thing ya know Setzer is wearing a tux and conducting an orchestra. Not saying it was a bad change but I missed the old stuff.
Leo I like watching his drummer, Plays a 4 pc set and stands like you said. Then rocks it.
here's one for everyone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURma5PlfGs
Quote from: litl rooster on January 18, 2011, 07:21:51 AM
here's one for everyone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURma5PlfGs
It's funny because it is so true.
What do you call a musician without a girlfriend...?
Homeless.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 18, 2011, 10:08:42 AM
What do you call a musician without a girlfriend...?
Homeless.
Terrible fatal accident out on the highway last night. A van carrying a local band flipped over killing 3 musicians and a drummer..(
rim shot no longer available)
Luckily there was a trombone player standing by to do the wa wa wa waaaaaah.
I'll try to repent the drummer remark here
I'm glad to see Mr. Helm still able to get out and tour and play. He had a long battle with Throat cancer, and has learned to overcome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRekuHyIgXU&feature=feedlik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ism9itDvKTk&feature=related
Not bad for Canadians
Just found this, one of my favorites Johnny Cash songs, now by the writer instead:
Thank you. WM
OK for the day after St Paddy's Day, Bluegrass has strong Irish roots. I offer the only crude Bluegrass song I've ever heard:
You never fail ta provide fer our listen' pleasure.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 18, 2011, 11:48:33 AM
You never fail ta provide fer our listen' pleasure.
I'm warped, was warped with non-mainstream radio stations in my youth.
Her is another old favorite from Guy Clark, or rather two of them, on about trains and the other about a wino:
Another classic from Guy:
OK, Guy Clark is an old favorite of mine:
Of course if you don't mention Hank the Father in a song, (remove hat when mentioning Hank the Father) you ain't country:
And you'd better be able to do this one or ya ain't country:
Here's one for ya Leo, local boy born an Okie. Yes Dr. was earned, retired now a Professor of Philosophy at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Been followin' him for 35 years, plays anywhere for cheap or free. Sound ain't the best, writes most of his own, calls it Country Blues. I love that tin guitar he's got, when I see him play I ask him to play his tin guitar.
He loves to interact with his audience.
You make it here sometime we'll find where he's playin' if not his # is in the book, lives a few blocks from me. Bet he's play for a couple of bucks or coffee.
Been wantin a resonator for some time now. They got a special sound.
Here you go Leo...I'm partial to the sound of a resonator also
http://cigarboxguitarbuilders.blogspot.com/2009/05/cigar-box-resonator-guitar-kits-for.html
Quote from: litl rooster on March 18, 2011, 03:14:41 PM
Here you go Leo...I'm partial to the sound of a resonator also
http://cigarboxguitarbuilders.blogspot.com/2009/05/cigar-box-resonator-guitar-kits-for.html
I'm going to look into that. There was one at the local shop that looked just like this 'un
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLye8QJqbAc
They wanted a little too much for it.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 18, 2011, 05:49:22 PM
I'm going to look into that. There was one at the local shop that looked just like this 'un
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLye8QJqbAc
They wanted a little too much for it.
I think American Resonator Guitars start around $500. These Cigar box creations sound pretty good espically for the blues
Here Leo, ya ever hear of Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys?
"nuther oldie from a long time ago.
Bill Haley before he had any comets, he had 4 Western Aces instead:
The Fender was 680 bucks. Sure was nice ta look at in the showcase winda.
Here's a couple...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkcE87CzCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3nw1dS7lNs
Y'all that know the genre, I could use a l'il assistance. Ya see, I saw a NASCAR promo with a country band in it. The lead singer looked familiar but I couldn't place 'im. Ennyways, I search thru youtube 'n track down the song then run the video up. Now I'm really messed up.
The lead singer I think I've pegged as lookin' like a guy I've shot cowboy with in Carolina. He's got 'im a Billy Gibbons knit cap fetish is all. Lookin' it some the others, the fiddle player looks sumthin' like Chuck Panozzo when Chuck was still healthy. The guy on the keyboards looks a l'il like a young Waylon Jennings. The bass player, in profile 'n a couple angles, looks like one the Vikings in the Capital One commercials. The lead guitar dude looks familiar too 'n it seems like someone that ugly I'd remember but I don't. Thinkin' I've seen 'im with other bands. He doesn't show on the band's website 'n he's not with the band when they did the anthem for the Shoot Out last year. The guy on stage with 'em that looks like Carl Edwards in the NASCAR promo is - Carl Edwards.
If anyone knows of the band, any info would be appreciated. Pretty good song, BTW.
The promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYe48REFqI&feature=related
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrafs61Cjo&feature=related
Uh...could it be the Zac Brown Band? ;D ;D
This is the song that brought them into the spotlight
Hope this is the same crew Arcey... these guys are good 8)
Look up the Youtube of 'sic 'em on a chicken" same album...got inta' trouble with PETA & liked it even better :P 8) :o ;D :D ;) :)
Good song, but 'scuse me if I don't click on it. Get the Top 40 when I'm in the WD and they overplay and kill any thing. I like their "As she was walking away" with Alan Jackson real good. Lot of bluegrass influence in it. Current one "Colder Weather" has far run it's course, local station plays it about every hour instead of every 2.
She'd trade Colorado if he'd take her with him
Closes the door before the winter lets the cold in,
And wonders if her love is strong enough to make him
stay,
She's answered by the tail lights
Shining through the window pane
He said I wanna see you again
But I'm stuck in colder weather
Maybe tomorrow will be better
Can I call you then
She said you're a ramblin' man
And you ain't ever gonna change
You gotta gypsy soul to blame
And you were born for leavin
At a truck stop diner just outside of Lincoln,
The night is black as the coffee he was drinkin',
And in the waitress' eyes he sees the same 'ol light a
shinin',
He thinks of Colorado
And the girl he left behind him
He said I wanna see you again
But I'm stuck in colder weather
Maybe tomorrow will be better
Can I call you then
She said you're ramblin' man
And you ain't ever gonna change
You got a gypsy soul to blame
And you were born for leavin' (born for leavin')
Well it's a windin road
When you're in the lost and found
You're a lover I'm a runner
And we go 'round 'n 'round
And I love you but I leave you
I don't want you but I need you
You know it's you who calls me back here, Baby
Oh I wanna see you again
But I'm stuck in colder weather
Maybe tomorrow will be better
Can I call you then
Cause I'm a ramblin' man
I ain't ever gonna change
I gotta gypsy soul to blame
And I was born for leavin' (born for leavin')
When I close my eyes I see you
No matter where I am
I can smell your perfume through these whispering pines
I'm with your ghost again
It's a shame about the weather
But I know soon we'll be together
And I can't wait till then
I can't wait till then
We call it the Shoemakers Truck Stop song, my daughter is a cashier there, drives her nuts cause folks ask all the time if it's the one from the song. Yep, only one on I-80 near Lincoln. song ain't bad though, just heard it to many time.
Reckon tiz Zac Brown. That's what the title sez ennyways. Watched both the chicken vids 'n that guitarist ain't with 'em in those neither. Still think I've seen 'im before. Could have joined up for the night fer giggles.
Grandboy #1 has a pair of them damned shoes what light up Brown was talkin' about in the 'Sic 'im on the chicken' thing. Left 'em in the middle of the den floor then they all found a bed. Ole Arcey goes walkin' thru the den it o'dark thirty 'n kicked 'em. All kindsa colored light goes scurryin' 'n blinkin' 'cross the floor. Forgot why I was up wonderin' what kinda strange creature I done kicked ta death................
Think the rack's a good place ta ponder it all 'n the time is right. Nitey-nite, y'all.
:) ;) ;D 8) Too funny
Quote from: Arcey on March 23, 2011, 09:50:54 PM
Reckon tiz Zac Brown. Thats what the title sez ennyways. Watched both the chicken vids n that guitarist aint with em in those neither. Still think Ive seen im before. Could have joined up for the night fer giggles.
Grandboy #1 has a pair of them damned shoes what light up Brown was talkin about in the Sic im on the chicken thing. Left em in the middle of the den floor then they all found a bed. Ole Arcey goes walkin thru the den it odark thirty n kicked em. All kindsa colored light goes scurryin' 'n blinkin' cross the floor. Forgot why I was up wonderin what kinda strange creature I done kicked ta death.
Think the racks a good place ta ponder it all n the time is right. Nitey-nite, yall.
Arcey, you can always tell when a youngin' got his first pair of them lite up shoes. They walk looking at them, stumblin and running into things.
Leo.. Here some more bottlenecking/ sllide action from the Queen of the Bottle neck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04r_tlWdRs&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXfuqpyFpcKbG-Vz-VmBkj0L
Usin the middle finger fer the slide is a little different. She does have it down good though. I was showin off fer ma wife one night and picked up a glass candle holder an went ta town. Most folks use the pinky or ring finger to make playing chords easier.
Good slide on this one and appropriate for today out here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbJQT2eDseA
Well it's baseball season, so maybe it's time to listen to this one, bet it's been 40 years since I heard it last:
OK, maybe I shouldn't post this one, but it is funny:
I'm lookin' forward to the live performance at the Johnny Mack Brown High School on Sat. night.
The Indians game with their Columbus farm club was called after a few innings because of snow ::) :o :P
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on March 30, 2011, 02:13:55 PM
I'm lookin' forward to the live performance at the Johnny Mack Brown High School on Sat. night.
Lester Roadhog Moran and his Caddilac Cowboys. ;D
Still stuck on slide guitar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRahCTMKll0
Quote from: Leo Tanner on March 30, 2011, 09:48:31 PM
Still stuck on slide guitar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRahCTMKll0
Thanks Leo...Bonnie like Emmy Lou get better with age....that's one fine little woman
here a little dobro lesson for you, seen this young lady play with Asleep at the Wheel. she wasn't there just for her looks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDQ-Z19zgzw
what's up with the youtube 1911 icon?
1911 Viral Videos
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When you play laptop Dobro the action is set so high you can't do any fingering. She is good but I prefer setting up for a combination of slide and different chords.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 01, 2011, 10:33:21 AM
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When you play laptop Dobro the action is set so high you can't do any fingering. She is good but I prefer setting up for a combination of slide and different chords.
Ms. Cashdollar, is known for her steele but I'm sure she plays a full circle of guitars. I agree with you on playing the slide or being able to play some cords . I didn't realize the set up on them Laptops run high like you stated. I still like the tone the cones add to the sound
Quote from: litl rooster on April 01, 2011, 05:13:17 PM
Ms. Cashdollar, is known for her steele but I'm sure she plays a full circle of guitars. I agree with you on playing the slide or being able to play some cords . I didn't realize the set up on them Laptops run high like you stated. I still like the tone the cones add to the sound
That 3 cone can be set up for normal play. Dobros and resonators used to be two different animals. A lot of dobro players liked the National Steel sound and replaced the bridges and the head nuts to suit them.
Dang it Del, now I is thinkin of that Twilight Zone episode where the kid wished everything into the corn field. All the one guy wanted to do was listen to Perry Como.
This is cool, read the narrative. This is the original sheet music Santa Anna's band had. Thought it would be neat ta share.
Most think of Chet as one of the best gee-tarists ever or as a producer, most have never heard his other side:
Oh and this one, haunting:
Cowboy Junkies 2nd best thing Canada has produced
Don't know if any of you seen this ..mouse over the Logo
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8
in honor of Les Pauls birthday
Was just showin off my LP to to the kid helpin the deck guy. He forgot about work for a few minutes and just held it. Hope I didn't get him in trouble.
The signature sounds of the E street band has passed. Clarence Clemons,"the Big man", 69 had a stroke last week passed away yesterday. Played with Bruce Springsteen for nearly 40 years. RIP
Hate ta see him go. I had no idea he was that old.
I stream Little Stevens Underground garage at work at night, It will be interesting to hear what he says about Clarence
I see Amy Winehouse finally destructed herself...now on the 27 club list
R.I.P.
This made my morning, thanks.
You see where Accroyd(sp?) and Belushi got the moves?
It does appear that they studied this.
First off gotta say I just love the early Cowboy Junkie stuff...(them reviewers that said Margo Timmons had been hittin the thorazine jar were just way off...)
But, I came here to tell ya'll about last nite. My little woman bought tickets to go see America and Three Dog Night. I was sceptical to say the least. Liked a number of songs from both groups but hey.....
Boy howdy was I wrong. America started the show off and were a little bit better than I expected. Then TDN came to the stage. Original band members Danny and Cory looked like they had just come from the old folks home...but after a couple of songs they warmed up. and started to really put on a show. In the middle of Mama they stopped and Cory put on some glitter and they showed what that song would be like if it was a rap...funny stuff.
Of course I always like to hear my friends (Hoyt Axton) stuff and it was stand up.
Then they introduced some songs that would be on their album coming out in 2035 (joke here) and they did a blues number that ripped. then a 6 part acapella number that qould make ya cry. if interested in them check it out on:
http://www.threedognight.com/
I have to say I had a blast...now gotta dig out a couple of old records..
curley
Liked them boys. Sounds like a good time.
If any one is interested, them boys (3 Dog Night) are gonna appear here in Rancho Cucamonga (SoCal) next month Sept 10th I think...at the center in Victoria Gardens. It is a brand new concert hall and seats less than 400. not a bad seat in the house. Think my wifey is makin me take her.......again...
curley
Found that a lot of folks have never heard this original. It's a little more colorful than Johnny Horten's version an more accurate.
;D ;D ;D 8) Definately better version Leo
Didn't even know about this one:
We all know someone like this:
Del, No one plays like Junior. I've seen m live several times. My favorite is always gonna be "Highway Patrol" and the Moose's favorite is "You're Wanted By the Police and My Wife Thinks You're Dead". I heard him on Austin City Limits about 20 years ago and have been a fan since then. He has another song he calls "Surf Medley" that is good as well. If you haven't heard it, you're missing some classic Junior.
I've heard it and love it. A friend turned me on to him, he's played with Jr.
That's a nice one with Roy and Clint, Del. Didn't know they'd done it......
Clint somewhat resembles Roy when Roy was younger.
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on March 28, 2012, 01:08:57 PM
That's a nice one with Roy and Clint, Del. Didn't know they'd done it......
Somewhere back in the early 90's. It even got some radio play.
I never got meet Roy or Dale, but I met Dusty at the Musuem when it was still in Calif. Roy and Dale came into a restaurant in Waxahachie one time when I worked for the PD. Dale's mother lived in a small town south of Waxahachie. She had past away and they were there for the funeral.
Sad news :'(
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=714281>=28102
RIP Earl...nuthin' better than Flat & Scruggs performin' at the 'ol Oprey
Shoulda posted this too....
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Earl+Scruggs&view=detail&mid=B10536E8047E707999B5B10536E8047E707999B5&first=0&qpvt=Earl+Scruggs
The album with that song on it was called Roy Rogers Tribute,it has a bunch of Country singers doing duets with Roy.if you can find it it's worth buying.
I'd like to find a copy of that. I'll check on Amazon for it. We finished off the leftover chicken fajitas for supper. We got teased by the rain, more forcast for today. I've got an eye exam at noon today, then get some new glasses.
we lost a good one today
curley
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Texas Lawdog
Ifn ys can't find a copy of that record, I can burn ya a copy for shippin
curley
One of my favorite things on Wax was the Earl Scruggs review, with his sons and others Live RIP
Curley, Thanks for the pictures of Roy and Dale's grave markers.
I think this song kind of describes most of us here: ::)
Commander Cody never told us the whole story even if they did have a hit song:
Commander Cody forgot 4 of the Cylinders:
And the real "Hot Rod Lincoln."
Okay,
Here is a U Tube Country song that I am kinda fond of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93SFPizg1E
TTFN *S*,
In case you missed this today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo&list=HL1334867000&feature=mh_lolz
Levon, is not doing well his battle with cancer is down to the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeNe5MLgyHM&feature=related
bad week for music, we lost another great banjo man....hear tell Doug went to Earls house askin for a set of scruggs tuners, and Earl sold him a set and installed them his ownself....
lost another dang it
curley
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For those that enjoyed seein' Roy and Dale's stones, here is a shot of a plaque placed at the cemetary by Gene Autry.
curley
Gillian Welch One More Dollar
One of my favorites of her's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJFio-o9_Jk&NR=1
Just found this, crept up on Pandora while I was working on my writing.
Comprised of three fine Telecaster-wielding guitarists (former Fairport Convention member Jerry Donahue, Desert Rose Band founder John Jorgenson, and session musician Will Ray), the Hellecasters won significant praise from guitar fanatics for the blistering roots and country-rock of their 1993 debut, The Return of the Hellecasters. Escape From Hollywood followed in 1994, and in 1997 the Hellecasters returned with Hell 3: New Axes to Grind. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
thanks for dusting this one off.
OK, this ain't the nice guy in the white hat Gene that we all know from the movies and TV. ;D
I shot that rounder that stole away my gal
The next time she sees that man, it'll be in the other world
I always enjoy Gene's music, especially "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine".
Most folks don't know Bill Haley could yodel either. ;D
Del, I found yer theme song. You pull this stuff all the time.
Leo, Del ain't no sneak, He's just CRAFTY!
Same differnce.
Leo, It's not nice to poke the BEAR!
Just makin up fer him jerkin ma chain all them years. Ten bucks says he'll get a laugh.
Leo, Del always enjoys making folks feel uncomfortable, just for the fun of it. He and I have a lot incommon.
What worries me is how and why he found that. ::)
Try this one, I like Ray Wiley Hubbard, saw him in concert in 1978.
Try this one also, neat old trucks in the video.
Just listening to some stuff I ain't listened to in a while.
Moose bought me a Kindle Fire for my Birthday. She installed Pandora on it and I am really enjoying the Western Swing and Cowboy music on it.
What is scary is to know I seen many of them old model rigs on the road. As a kid High school I repaired many a flat tire on them. Did that till I went in the Air force. When it was my turn to test in a duce n half I already knew how to shift thru the pattern.
Thanks for both Del, Cowboy Junkies is my second favorite thing from canada...I only like 2 things there.
Never rode a Duece 'n a Half myself there Li'l Roo so I'm a question ya there Pard... I was told that ye have ta do a right smart "Double Clutch'n Boggie" as float'n thru the box was near impossable..... guess that now they're all automatics... ???
Quote from: litl rooster on January 27, 2013, 05:48:15 AM
Thanks for both Del, Cowboy Junkies is my second favorite thing from canada...I only like 2 things there.
;)
Pandora is broadening my music tastes slowly.
Quote from: Delmonico on January 26, 2013, 11:34:29 PM
What worries me is how and why he found that. ::)
Cause I'm known ta find stuff.
Leo, Inquiring minds wanna know!
Quote from: yeti76620 on January 27, 2013, 08:20:22 AM
Never rode a Duece 'n a Half myself there Li'l Roo so I'm a question ya there Pard... I was told that ye have ta do a right smart "Double Clutch'n Boggie" as float'n thru the box was near impossable..... guess that now they're all automatics... ???
Rock n Roll with a little Twang
Shiftin' a Duces n was easier than some them old Mack's
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 27, 2013, 10:46:14 AM
Leo, Inquiring minds wanna know!
My daughter showed me that years ago an when I saw Del's new facebook picture I thought of it.
Double clutching when needed makes a high milage old Ford pick-up easier to deal with at times also. I ain't going to worry about a few worn sycro rings.
Quote from: Delmonico on January 27, 2013, 11:43:05 AM
Double clutching when needed makes a high milage old Ford pick-up easier to deal with at times also. I ain't going to worry about a few worn sycro rings.
Roger that!.......Bessy Mae, my ol' '81 F250 back talks me all the time on a shift as a dbl-pump clutch'n calms her... :D
My dad used ta say, "If ya can't find em, grind em". We rented a moving truck once and that was about the only way the thing would get down the road.
The Army had some GMC Dueces in the early 60s that had auto trannies in them. I drove one at Fort Sill in 69.
And the song before it:
And another follow up song:
And another one:
And Charlies
12 Cylinder Lincoln Motored Hot Rod Lincoln:
Oh and the other version of Hot Rod Race:
And more:
Now we know the whole story. ;D
Now to shift gears, awesome song.
*pop* *crack* *pop* is this thing on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse
There's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down
When the Man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the Man comes around
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling, voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns
When the Man comes around
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the Man comes around
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penney pound
When the Man comes around.
Close (Spoken part)
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him.