Tired of singin' Kumbuya Part Deux

[Curley Cole]

Miz Lee,
Jump in anytime, we will be happy to "edify" you.....ahaaaa

Uncle E
I think Louise was before Leo, I first heard it on Linda Ronstadts second solo album and Bonnie Raiit did a version...so it has been around quite a while.

very dang sad....

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[Uncle Eph]

Curley, looks like we might have a tie..... Kinda

Leo Kottke released a version of Louise called Sweet Louise in 1970; the same year as Linda Ronstadt recorded her version on the Silk Purses LP.  The version I was thinking of by Kottke was released in 1972.

BTW my vision of hell has a Leo Kottke soundtrack.

[Uncle Eph]

just to back this up a bit: Barry Sadler was shot in 1989 in Gutamala (sp?) lost a third of his gray matter but still managed to get a shot off, was in a coma for something like 14 months and died in a Vets hospital in Tenn. SOF magazine had something to do with getting him out of Gutamala (sp?), but I don't remember the details.

[Curley Cole]

A tip of my hat to you, that was a passel of information. I waz at work and tryin to go by memory...which ain't real reliable these days..
thanks for the Sgt Barry info too...

so who has a good song tonite??

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[Uncle Eph]

I knew it was a long time ago for that song because I was going to school in Portland Or in the early 70's and I bet I saw kottke at least 10 times playing in bars or wherever in the area and that was the only thing of his I liked.

[Curley Cole]

I don't think I ever saw Kottke, I did see Ronstadt about 4 times. Once, she brought Emmylou Harris (long before the Trios album) out for her encore, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

Hearing Linda sing "Crazy" is about as good as it gets. There were guys swooning in the isles..

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[Four-Eyed Buck]

When we first got married, my Susie would sing along with Linda's "Heart Like a Wheel" album. Boy, she could make harmony with her! We wore two of those out completely.........Buck

[Uncle Eph]

remember when Linda would do the Smothers Brothers show and some others and it was always a big deal because she was barefooted and no bra.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Heh, there's something sweet about coming full circle.

Here's a tune I have claimed as my own:

TOM'S TUNE

I've seen a lot of faces

And I've been a lot of places

So I know I must be going somewhere

The world just keeps spinning

And I'm always just beginning to begin

But I never seem to get there

The times and seasons go on

But all the rhymes and the reasons are wrong

I'll know I'll discover

After it's all over and done

I should have been a nun

Who wrote it, and who is Tom?

AnnieLee

[Curley Cole]

Miz Lee
I am glad you are back in the fold, tom's tune looks very familar....Smothers would be too obvious, so who was it?

I have an excellent Mason Williams at home, I will post as it fits the subject matter...(since he was a writer for the Smother Bros...)

it is cloudy to day but still dry (figuretativly speaking, humidity is 60+ % still, so, I feel it...)

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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

< Hands Curley a cookie>

Aye, it was Tom Smothers, and yes, it was Mason Williams.



Well done!

From one fuzzy head to another,

AnnieLee, always beginning to begin.

[Curley Cole]

Thankye Miz Lee

Did you know Mason has a web page? (like who doesn't?)
anyways in the Mason Willims frame of mind, here is

them Moose Goosers

How about them moose goosers
aint they recluse
up in them boondocks
goosin them moose

goosin them huge moose
goosin them tiny,
goosin them medow moose
in they hiney.

look at them moose goosers
aint they dumb
some use an umbrella
some use a thumb

them obtuse moose goosers
sneakin through the woods
pokin them snoozy moose
in they goods

how to be a moose gooser
it'll turn ye puce
githcy gooser loose and
rous a drowsy moose....

now a few licks of classical gass

curley

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Awww... Curley, you must've been fuzzy headed, we posted that one way back on the TFS thread! But there's always a call for more Mason!



AnnieLee

[Curley Cole]

I know, but felt since we were revisiting Mason it woould be appropriate, besides, it is the only one i can remember, except for Hor Dovers....

I will try not to repeat again, It is truley a terrible day at the asylum, and it isnot even the patients that are bad, it is the staff....if I had my hardware that I will have with me tomorrow, I could just reak some havock..well, not really but it sounds goood.

I'm just in a real snit right now....sorry.
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[Russ T Chambers]

This came to me after postin' to Del's response at Sure is quiet.  Ya got'a read between the toes over there to get the connection.   

Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, I see'd Mars Jackson walkin down the street
talkin' to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafayette [pronounced La-feet]
He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee
and the pirate said he'd help us drive the British in the sea.

The French said Andrew, you'd better run,
for Packingham's a comin' with a bullet in his gun.
Old Hickory said he didn't give a dang,
he's gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Packingham.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we looked down the river and we see'd the British come,
and there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
while we stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
if we didn't fire a musket til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire til we see'd their faces well,
then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave a yell.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down,
so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We'll march back home but we'll never be content
till we make Old Hickory the people's President.
And every time we think about the bacon and the beans,
we'll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin,
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.


A few extra verses than Johnny Horton's version. 

[Curley Cole]

Not 'zactly a song but it could be.....

I psychoanalyzed myself
and pondered my fate
and realized that I was born
a hundred years too late

A cow poke in this day and age
must learn to specialize
the fact I'm barely gettin by
should come as no surprise

There was a time when you could tell
a top hand by his hat
but knowin cows is not enough
geneticists do that

once, every puncher worth his salt
could rope a wild steer
now motel cowboys do that trick
at Cheyenne every year

I might have been a bunkhouse bard
a hundred years ago
but modern cowboy poets star
on the Johnny Carson's show

Some how I think if i had loved
when horses reigned supreme
I'd carved my niche in history
at least that's what I dream

I'd built my reputation with
each buckin bronc I spurred
my daring exploits would have made my
name a household word

But I gues I should be thankful
In spite of what I've said
If I'd been born that long ago
then right now, I be DEAD!!

Pardon the typos, it is late and am now going to bed....
So who was the bard that wrote this piece...
curley

[Forty Rod]

I just spent two days reading all of these posts.

Want to hear something sad?

I only know about a dozen of the artists you folks named and not much more than that of their music.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Good for you, Forty! Expand those horizons! Heck, I don't know many of the cowboy lyrics that are posted here, but it's fun to learn!

Once in a while I get tempted to post Godsmack lyrics, but the post would be like this:


<Edited for adult content>




AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Russ T.  Did you ever here Leon Russell's version of "Battle of New Orleans" from his 1973 Album "Hank Wilson's Back Again'  It is great, but the whole album is great.

[Curley Cole]

Isn't that why we all are here, for the "edyfication"....If''n I ain't heard the tune before, i may want to hear more....

and the poem I left up above was from Baxter Black, outta Cowpies and Croutons...

nite gang, don't let the fire burn down