Lyrics of old-time classic : Daisy, Daisy
Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis
Hi
I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
Daisy, Daisy.
It goes like this:
Daisy, Daisy
I am half crazy
.....
On a bicycle built for two
.... or something like that.
Is there some Web site where I can find the lyrics for that song,
or is there some kind soul who could e-mail me the lyrics (even
incomplete will be most helpful!).
THANKS
nean...@ix.netcom.com
John Lupton
In article <326C22...@ix.netcom.com> Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>From: Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Lyrics of old-time classic : Daisy, Daisy
>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:26:20 -0700
>Hi
>I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
>Daisy, Daisy.
>It goes like this:
>Daisy, Daisy
>I am half crazy
>.....
>On a bicycle built for two
>.... or something like that.
The song is "Bicycle Built For Two":
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
I think we learned another verse way back in school days, but I don't recall
it.
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In article <jlupton.7...@sas.upenn.edu>, jlu...@sas.upenn.edu
(John Lupton) wrote:
Do I remember this titled "The Sidewalks of New York"?
Mando Mark
Second Verse (sung by the lady!)
Jimmy, Jimmy, here is your answer to...
I'd be crazy to marry the likes of you
If you can't afford a carriage
than let's forget the marriage
'cause I'll be dammed
if I'll be crammed
On a bicycle built for two!
Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<326C22...@ix.netcom.com>...
> Hi
>
> I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
> Daisy, Daisy.
>
> It goes like this:
>
> Daisy, Daisy
> I am half crazy
> .....
> On a bicycle built for two
>
> .... or something like that.
>
>
John Lupton
In article <gerry.kendal-2...@actserv1.educ.ualberta.ca> gerry....@ualberta.ca (Gerry Kendal) writes:
>From: gerry....@ualberta.ca (Gerry Kendal)
>Subject: Re: Lyrics of old-time classic : Daisy, Daisy
>Date: 22 Oct 1996 18:16:02 GMT
I wrote:
>> The song is "Bicycle Built For Two":
>>
>> Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
>> I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you
>> It won't be a stylish marriage
>> I can't afford a carriage
>> But you'll look sweet
>> Upon the seat
>> Of a bicycle built for two
>>
>> I think we learned another verse way back in school days, but I don't recall
>> it.
>>
Gerry responded:
>Do I remember this titled "The Sidewalks of New York"?
No, that was:
East Side, West Side, all around the town
Ring-around-the rosie, London Bridge is falling down
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
We tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
This is actually the chorus, I think it has several verses - check the Digital
Tradition.
How's Roadhog doin', Gerry??
Joseph C Fineman
jlu...@sas.upenn.edu (John Lupton) writes:
>I think we learned another verse way back in school days, but I don't
>recall it.
The temptation to add a reply has been yielded to many times over the
years. When I was a kid we had
Maxie, Maxie, here is your answer true:
I'm not crazy all for the likes of you.
If we can't afford a carriage,
There won't be any marriage,
'Cause I'll be damned if I'll be crammed*
On a bicycle built for two.
*Variant for respectable company: "I'll be switched if I'll be
hitched".
--
Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
495 Pleasant St., #1 (617) 324-6899
Malden, MA 02148
Nancy Hauser
Nope, you don't... Sidewalks of New York was a different (but perhaps
vaguely similar?) tune...
It went:
East side, west side all around the town
The tots play ring-around-rosie, London Bridge is falling down
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the Sidewalks of New York
Bob Marshall
In article <jlupton.7...@sas.upenn.edu>, jlu...@sas.upenn.edu (John Lupton) writes:
> In article <326C22...@ix.netcom.com> Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>From: Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com>
>>Subject: Lyrics of old-time classic : Daisy, Daisy
>>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:26:20 -0700
>
>>Daisy, Daisy.
>
>>It goes like this:
>
>>Daisy, Daisy
>>I am half crazy
>>.....
>>On a bicycle built for two
>
>>.... or something like that.
>
>
> Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
> I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you
> It won't be a stylish marriage
> I can't afford a carriage
> But you'll look sweet
> Upon the seat
> Of a bicycle built for two
>
> it.
Of course, you can always rent the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". This is
the song that the on-board computer HAL sang as Dave was disconnecting him.
Of course, I don't think he ever got past the first verse...
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DZCrawford
Do not forget Daisy's reply:
Peter, Peter, here is your answer true.
I'd be crazy, to marry a lad like you.
If you can't afford a carriage -
there won't be any marriage.
And I'd be dead, before I'd wed
on a bicycle built for two.
My Dad used to sing that part a lot many, many, many years ago whenever I
was dating a "lad" he deemed to be of poor means.
Donah Zack Crawford
Director, Folklife Center at Buttonbox Farm
Dick Wisan
In article <jlupton.7...@sas.upenn.edu>, jlu...@sas.upenn.edu says...
>
>In article <326C22...@ix.netcom.com> Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <neande
>r...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>From: Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com>
>>Subject: Lyrics of old-time classic : Daisy, Daisy
>>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:26:20 -0700
>
>
>>I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
>>Daisy, Daisy.
>
>
>
>The song is "Bicycle Built For Two":
>
>Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
>I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you
>It won't be a stylish marriage
>I can't afford a carriage
>But you'll look sweet
>Upon the seat
>Of a bicycle built for two
>
>I think we learned another verse way back in school days, but I don't recall
>it.
Was it:
Michael, Michael, here is your answer true:
I won't cycle, all for the love of you.
If you can't afford a carriage,
There won't be any marriage.
'Cause I'll be damned
If I'll be crammed [jammed? slammed?]
On a bicycle built for two.
--
R. N. (Dick) Wisan - Email: wis...@norwich.net
- Snail: 37 Clinton Street, Oneonta NY 13820, U.S.A.
- Just your opinion, please, ma'am: No fax.
Barrie McCombs
Joseph C Fineman (j...@world.std.com) wrote:
: Maxie, Maxie, here is your answer true:
: I'm not crazy all for the likes of you.
: If we can't afford a carriage,
: There won't be any marriage,
: 'Cause I'll be damned if I'll be crammed*
: On a bicycle built for two.
: *Variant for respectable company: "I'll be switched if I'll be
: hitched".
I think that one was actually the rarely sung second verse, with the name
of the man changed frequently. At a sixties-era camp, we used to sing
this politically incorrect version as the male retort to verse two:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy, just to make love to you
You make me all hot and sexy
So let us call a taxi
My kind of fun, just can't be done
On a bicycle built for two.
- Barrie
Robert G McCausland
Isn't this an interesting thread? Peter, Michael, and I know a Richard.
My source for this, I believe, is Pop Wagner on a Prairie Home Companion
broadcast from more than 10 years ago.
Richard, Richard, here is your answer true.
You're half crazy if you think that will do.
If you can't afford a carriage,
There won't be any marriage.
Cause I'll be switched
If I'll be hitched
On a bicycle built for two.
On the sunny side,
~~Rob McCausland
rg...@world.std.com
WalterH796
And another reply that I have heard:
Harry, Harry, here is your answer true.
I'd be crazy to marry a jerk like you.
There'll never be any marriage
If you can't afford a carriage
And I'll be switched (As is hit with a switch)
If I'd get hitched
Kevin Sheils
> > The song is "Bicycle Built For Two":
> >
> > Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
> > I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you
> > It won't be a stylish marriage
> > I can't afford a carriage
> > But you'll look sweet
> > Upon the seat
> > Of a bicycle built for two
> >
> > I think we learned another verse way back in school days, but I don't recall
> > it.
A second verse I recall is a response along the lines of
Michael, Michael, here is my answer true
I won't cycle, it leaves me all black and blue
There won't be any marriage
If you don't get a carriage
for I'll be blowed
If I'll be stowed
On a bicycle made for two
Kevin Sheils
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Peter J Knaggs
>I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
>Daisy, Daisy.
It is well documented in books of music hall songs, under the title
"Daisy Bell".
--
Peter J Knaggs
p...@paisley.ac.uk
WILLIAM BRUECK
hi: hope this helps,
DAISY,DAISY GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER TRUE
I'M HALF CRAZY, ALL FOR THE LOVE OF YOU.
IT WON'T BE A STYLEISH MARRIAGE.
I CAN'T AFFORD A CARRIAGE.
BUT YOU'LL LOOK SWEET.
UPON THE SEAT.
OF A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO.
RECORDED BY MITCH MILLER (SING ALONG WITH MITCH) IN THE 50'S
I CAN PROBALY GET YOU A COPY FOR ABOUT 5 OR 6 BUCKS IF NEEDED.
Alec Powell
In article <326C22...@ix.netcom.com>, Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis
<nean...@ix.netcom.com> writes
>Hi
>
>I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
>Daisy, Daisy.
30 years ago went:
Daisy,Daisy the coppers are after you,
If they catch you,you know what they will do.
They'll tie you up with wire inside a Black Maria
So ring your bell and pedal like hell on a bycycle made for two!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
No doubt all our North American friends will want to know what a Black
Maria was!!
--
The Pr...@prole.demon.co.uk
DZCrawford
Well gentlemen, there you have it! It dosen't matter what your name is --
Daisy won't have you unless you can at least afford to rent better wheels.
dzcrawford
George Black
Gerry Myerson
[Follow-ups trimmed] I thought it went like this:
Daisy, Daisy, send me some email, do
I'm half-crazy all for a byte of you
I can't afford a modem
I don't know how to code 'em
But you'd look good
Upon a node
Of the internet built for two.
[Insert male name, twice], here is your email true
I'd be crazy to interface with you
Why don't you get a clue be-
Fore ranting like a newbie
And I'll be damned
If I'll be spammed
On an internet built for two.
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
DJIRYL
In article <gerry-251...@e7a4mac05.mpce.mq.edu.au>,
ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au (Gerry Myerson) writes:
Geez - I thought it went:
Daisy, Daisy read my chain letter do
Though I'm crazy, I swear it all is true
Then send it to five others
Their sisters and their brothers
And you will stash
A lot of cash
Off this e-mail I sent to you
Moron, moron, I read your chain letter through
I'd be crazy to do what you said to do
*So take your bloody spamming
*Dispose of it by cramming
I hope you're flamed
By all those named
When the letter comes back to you
* I heard the teeny invisible guy who turns my refrigerator light on
singing these lines:
I sent it to your postmaster
You ignoramous bastard
Jeri Corlew
Kathleen Steele
LOL! Thanks for all the sharing! I've really enjoyed
seeing all the other Daisy responses!
In our family, yet another response evolved:
Michael, Michael, here is your answer true.
I don't fancy any the likes of you.
If you can't afford a carriage,
There won't be any marriage,
On a bicycle built for two!
: )
Kathleen
Abby Sale
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:53:04 +0100, Alec Powell <Al...@prole.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
>Daisy,Daisy the coppers are after you,
>If they catch you,you know what they will do.
>They'll tie you up with wire inside a Black Maria
>No doubt all our North American friends will want to know what a Black
>Maria was!!
Well, since you bring it up, I guess I _am_ a bit confused here. I always
thought this was a prisoner transport wagon, beginning, I seem to
remember, from New Orleans. My Webster's dictionary (American) seems to
confirm this, with a first-printed date of 1874.
The really confusing thing is that my Chambers dictionary (English)
defines it as:
A shell that emits dense black smoke or a gun discharging it.
From context, I just can't be sure which one the song intends.
But actually, this whole thread may involve less than the acceptable level
of seriousness we try to maintain here on r.m.f. The original request was
from
>Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis <nean...@ix.netcom.com>
and since we _all_ know that Neanderthal was nowhere near being an
Anthropopitecus, but was, of course, Homo Neanderthalensis, (or probably
more properly Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis,) I have to wonder if
requester was being serious, or even using his/her correct name!
Abby Sale, for the time being
ange...@gmail.com
> Hi
> I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
> Daisy, Daisy.
>
> It goes like this:
>
> I am half crazy
>
> .... or something like that.
>
>
> or is there some kind soul who could e-mail me the lyrics (even
> incomplete will be most helpful!).
>
> THANKS
> nean...@ix.netcom.com
Joe Fineman
posting. However: The name of the song is "Daisy Bell, or a Bicycle
Made for Two", and it is by Harry Dacre.
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: Conversation should have a distinctive lack of purpose. :||
Abby Sale
I glad that's finally answered. We always called it "A Bicycle Built for
Two."
Sheet music at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:140.090 Good
song. Catchy.
More important, I wonder why the 1996 poster called himself
"Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis." (Should be an H there - ..pithecus.)
That's two completely different creatures. That is, if there is any
specific guy called anthropopithecus. I don't believe there was. It
would be someone in the hominid line, some millennia earlier than
pithecanthropus (ape-like man).
On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:43:42 -0400, Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net> wrote:
>ange...@gmail.com writes:
>
>> On Monday, October 21, 1996 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Anthropopitecus
>> Neanderthalis wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
>>> Daisy, Daisy.
>>>
>>> It goes like this:
>>>
>>> Daisy, Daisy
>>> I am half crazy
>>> .....
>>> On a bicycle built for two
>>>
>>> .... or something like that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there some Web site where I can find the lyrics for that song,
>>> or is there some kind soul who could e-mail me the lyrics (even
>>> incomplete will be most helpful!).
>>>
>>> THANKS
>>> nean...@ix.netcom.com
>>
>> Dais
>
>This reply seems to have been aborted, and I can't retrieve the original
>posting. However: The name of the song is "Daisy Bell, or a Bicycle
>Made for Two", and it is by Harry Dacre.
I am Abby Sale - in Raleigh, North Carolina
Skate free or die!
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Colin Irvine
<NO_SPA...@ft.newyorklife.com> wrote:
>
>I glad that's finally answered. We always called it "A Bicycle Built for
>Two."
>
>Sheet music at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:140.090 Good
>song. Catchy.
>
>More important, I wonder why the 1996 poster called himself
>"Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis." (Should be an H there - ..pithecus.)
>That's two completely different creatures. That is, if there is any
>specific guy called anthropopithecus. I don't believe there was. It
>would be someone in the hominid line, some millennia earlier than
>pithecanthropus (ape-like man).
>
>On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:43:42 -0400, Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>ange...@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>> On Monday, October 21, 1996 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Anthropopitecus
> I am Abby Sale - in Raleigh, North Carolina
>
> Skate free or die!
>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
As a kid I learnt a second "verse" (I didn't know the song had actual
verses).
Daisy, Daisy, the cops'll be after you,
If they catch you, they'll give you a month or two,
So ring your bell and peddle like Hell
On your bicycle built for two.
--
Colin Irvine
http://www.colinandpat.co.uk
Joe Fineman
> As a kid I learnt a second "verse" (I didn't know the song had actual
> verses).
>
> Daisy, Daisy, the cops'll be after you,
> If they catch you, they'll give you a month or two,
> They'll tie you up with wire
> Inside a Black Maria
> So ring your bell and peddle like Hell
> On your bicycle built for two.
The song has been extensively parodied. Another one is
Maxie, Maxie, here is your answer true:
There won't be any marriage,
||: I don't know what I'm doing here, but I know I'm doing it :||
||: wrong. :||
Abby Sale
>The song has been extensively parodied. Another one is
>
> Maxie, Maxie, here is your answer true:
> I'm not crazy enough for the likes of you.
> If you can't afford a carriage,
> There won't be any marriage,
> 'Cause I'll be switched if I'll be hitched*
> On a bicycle built for two.
>
Yep - I'd forgotten about them. Kinda begs for bawdy parodies, don't it?
The Hash House Harriers have a few.
Abby Sale
I'll be durned and so forth.
The original post by Anthropopitecus Neanderthalis was, in fact, posted
here in 1996. I actually saved the thread back then and amazingly (to me)
still have it.
Several people posted parodies, some quite unrespectable. Joe posted the
same one as below. I'm glad to see it again. It's still a useful song for
parodising.
On Sun, 11 May 2014 17:32:23 -0400, Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net> wrote:
>Colin Irvine <lo...@bottom.of.home.page> writes:
>
>> As a kid I learnt a second "verse" (I didn't know the song had actual
>> verses).
>>
>> Daisy, Daisy, the cops'll be after you,
>> If they catch you, they'll give you a month or two,
>> They'll tie you up with wire
>> Inside a Black Maria
>> So ring your bell and peddle like Hell
>> On your bicycle built for two.
>
>That is, actually, a second refrain.
>
>The song has been extensively parodied. Another one is
>
> Maxie, Maxie, here is your answer true:
> I'm not crazy enough for the likes of you.
> If you can't afford a carriage,
> There won't be any marriage,
> 'Cause I'll be switched if I'll be hitched*
> On a bicycle built for two.
>
>*Naughty people made it "I'll be damned if I'll be crammed".
they...@gmail.com
They'll give you a month or two
Joe Fineman
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1439
||: A little of what you fancy does you good. :||
fbo...@felsted.org
> Hi
>
> I am desperately trying to find the lyrics of the ancient song:
> Daisy, Daisy.
>
> It goes like this:
>
> Daisy, Daisy
> I am half crazy
> .....
> On a bicycle built for two
>
> .... or something like that.
lisafay...@gmail.com
Michael Michael this is my answer true I'd be crazy to ever marry you if you can't get a carriage their won't be any marriage because you'll be ditched before I get hitched on a bicycle made for 2
This is the British version I grew up singing.
karen.cla...@gmail.com
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer true, I'm half crazy with my love for you, It won't be a stylish marriage, for I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a 'Bicyle Built for Two'.
Jimmy, Jimmy, here is my answer true, you're half crazy if you'll think I'll marry you, if you can't afford a carriage, you can't afford a marriage. And I'll be damned if I'll be crammed on a 'Bicyle Built for Two'.
This is how I learned it.
hub...@ccanoemail.ca
wrote:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/daisybellabicyclebuiltfortwo.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
mrkvicka...@gmail.com
steve...@gmail.com
Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you
They’ll give you a bump or two.
So ring your bell
And peddle like hell
On a bicycle made for two.
tgerm...@gmail.com
You're half crazy if you think that will do
For I'll be switched b'fore I get hitched on a bicycle built for two
