Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Texas Lawdog]

Written by Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh. It was first recorded by Ray Peterson in 1960.

[Leo Tanner]

I always thought the Everly Bros did that one.  Funny how the memories get scattered.


Leo

[Delmonico]

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.

[Texas Lawdog]

Ilike to refer to those scattered brains as just having a SENIOR moment.

[Curley Cole]

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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.....

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Curley

[Texas Lawdog]

Who could forget the Burrito Bros.

[litl rooster]

RIP

[Delmonico]

OK everyone sing in key, the boss is checin' up on us.

[Sod Buster]

HUD:

[Texas Lawdog]

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.

[Leo Tanner]

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...

[Delmonico]

I 'member when that was new.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

So do I! 

[Leo Tanner]

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

[Ozark Tracker]

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 

[Delmonico]

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.

[Russ T Chambers]

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.

[Leo Tanner]

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 

The Graduate was a great flick.  Older women do make beautiful lovers


Leo

[Major E A Sterner]

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

[Leo Tanner]

Someone did that before Procal Harem?  Great song.


Leo