Songs to avoid at a wedding?
Gerry Myerson
As surely as night follows day, every few months someone comes on to
rec.music.folk to ask for songs suitable for singing at a wedding.
Someone ought to compile the hundreds of suggestions that have been
posted and then post the list whenever the thread rolls around again.
For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
sing at a wedding? Here are a few that come to mind:
Fair Ellender. That's the Child Ballad about the guy who invites the
woman he rejected to his wedding, and all three principals wind up
stabbed to death. Maybe appropriate if you're ever invited to a wedding
in the Addams family.
The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter. Fairport Convention do this one.
Again, a man invites a lover of his to his wedding, but there's no
bloodshed here: the bride boasts of her liaison with another man & the
groom ditches her for the lover.
When You Are Old and Gray. "Say you love and trust me/For I know you'll
disgust me/When you're old and getting fat." Actually, just about any
Tom Lehrer song is a bad idea for a wedding, unless the couple has a
severely twisted sense of humor. Alma (While married to Gus, she met
Gropius/And soon she was swinging with Walter/When Gus died, her teardrops
were copious/She cried all the way to the altar), My Home Town (The guy
that took a knife/And monogrammed his wife/Then dropped her in the pond
and watched her drown), She's My Gal, etc., etc.
More?
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
Jim Spinelli
How about "The Unfortunate Man" - a tune recorded by the Chad Mitchell
Trio, written by Jimmy Driftwood about the lawyer who marries an older
woman and discovers that her beauty is all a disguise.
Jim
Nanaimo, BC
Canada
Rebecca Carr
ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au,NNTP1 writes:
>For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
>sing at a wedding?
Christine Lavin's 'The Secrets atThis Wedding' would fit this category
very well.
Apurt
Well, there's always Gram Parsons' $1,000 Wedding.
Ann Purtill
Howard Kaplan
Gerry Myerson wrote:
> For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> sing at a wedding? Here are a few that come to mind...
A few years ago, I was at a wedding where the band wanted to play
something appropriate for the cutting of the cake.
They played "Mack the Knife".
Howard Kaplan
Songwriter and occasional performer
Toronto, Ontario
Mike Dana
Howard Kaplan wrote:
>
> Gerry Myerson wrote:
>
> > For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> > sing at a wedding? Here are a few that come to mind...
>
> A few years ago, I was at a wedding where the band wanted to play
> something appropriate for the cutting of the cake.
>
> They played "Mack the Knife".
A friend of mine tells of a wedding, back in the '70's, where the bride
and groom wanted a certain track of the Beatles "White Album" played as
the recessional. The "DJ" goofed and they got half-way up the aisle
before realizing that the song playing was "Why Don't We Do It in the
Road"...
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Mike Dana
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Harold Stevens
In article <330B4D...@boeing.com>, Mike Dana <mike...@boeing.com> writes:
[Snip...]
|> A friend of mine tells of a wedding, back in the '70's, where the bride
|> and groom wanted a certain track of the Beatles "White Album" played as
|> the recessional. The "DJ" goofed and they got half-way up the aisle
|> before realizing that the song playing was "Why Don't We Do It in the
|> Road"...
[Snip...]
Probably wanted "I Will" which follows it immediately on the album. It's my
favorite for a wedding; sang it myself as a part of my own wedding vows.
Talk about unfortunate but perhaps logical juxtaposition... :)
"Road" isn't too bad, compared to marching down to "Helter Skelter". :)
Regards, Weird
(Harold Stevens)
wy...@ti.com
Joseph C Fineman
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Steve Kramer
Gerry Myerson wrote:
> For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> sing at a wedding?
Close the Door Lightly When You Go
That's What You Get For Loving Me
Banks of the Ohio
Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'
Steve
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John Fereira
In article <5edj2a$6...@news.inforamp.net>,
Howard Kaplan <hka...@inforamp.net> wrote:
>Gerry Myerson wrote:
>
>> For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
>
>A few years ago, I was at a wedding where the band wanted to play
>something appropriate for the cutting of the cake.
>
>They played "Mack the Knife".
I attended a wedding (of a musician that I've mentioned here before)
where each of them sang each other a song as part of the ceremony.
She sang "All of Me" and he followed it up with "Please Release Me".
It was one of the funnest wedding/receptions that I've ever attended.
About 80% of the attendees were professional musicians. They all
brought their instruments and music was played long into the night.
John Fereira
ja...@cornell.edu
Mike Canzoneri
How about:
Tied to the Whipping Post
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* When I was a boy they were my pride and joy but now they only bring
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Stephen Suffet
Gerry Myerson wrote:
>
> As surely as night follows day, every few months someone comes on to
> rec.music.folk to ask for songs suitable for singing at a wedding.
> Someone ought to compile the hundreds of suggestions that have been
> posted and then post the list whenever the thread rolls around again.
>
>
> Fair Ellender. That's the Child Ballad about the guy who invites the
> woman he rejected to his wedding, and all three principals wind up
> stabbed to death. Maybe appropriate if you're ever invited to a wedding
> in the Addams family.
>
> The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter. Fairport Convention do this one.
> Again, a man invites a lover of his to his wedding, but there's no
> bloodshed here: the bride boasts of her liaison with another man & the
> groom ditches her for the lover.
>
> When You Are Old and Gray. "Say you love and trust me/For I know you'll
> disgust me/When you're old and getting fat." Actually, just about any
> Tom Lehrer song is a bad idea for a wedding, unless the couple has a
> severely twisted sense of humor. Alma (While married to Gus, she met
> Gropius/And soon she was swinging with Walter/When Gus died, her teardrops
> were copious/She cried all the way to the altar), My Home Town (The guy
> that took a knife/And monogrammed his wife/Then dropped her in the pond
> and watched her drown), She's My Gal, etc., etc.
>
> More?
>
> Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
Greetings---
I would add to the list Buffy Ste-Marie's "The Incest Song." A
princess finds that her borother, who got her pregnant, is about to
wed another woman. She confronts him; he stabs her to death and then
goes off to his own wedding, a bit teary-eyed and wistful, but not at
all remorseful:
That very same day at his own wedding feasting,
When his father asked, "Why are you weeping all so?"
He said, "Such a bride as I've seen on this morning,
Never another man shall know."
But if you think Buffy's lyrics are a bit melodramatic, try my own
alternative ending:
That very same day at his own wedding feasting,
His father asked, [spoken]: "Hey, have you seen your sister
anywhere? I could have sworn I sent her an invitation. It isn't like
her to miss a wedding. You know, always a bride's maid and never a
bride. By the way, have you noticed that she's been putting on a
little weight lately? She'll never get a man if she blows up like a
balloon..." :-)
Regards,
Steve Suffet
george brothers
Stephen Suffet wrote:
>
> Gerry Myerson wrote:
> >
> > As surely as night follows day, every few months someone comes on to
> > rec.music.folk to ask for songs suitable for singing at a wedding.
> > Someone ought to compile the hundreds of suggestions that have been
> > posted and then post the list whenever the thread rolls around again.
> >
> > For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> > sing at a wedding?
I once played at a wedding in Atlantic Canada where the groom was a
mountie (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and many of the guests were law
enforcement officers - the most requested song of the night was " I Shot
the Sherrif " which was popular around that time.
Ada M. Prill
How about "Good Night Irene," which reports an extremely short period
of wedded bliss:
Last Saturday night I got married;
Me and my wife settled down;
Now me and my wife are parted...
Ada
Joseph C Fineman
Howard Kaplan <hka...@inforamp.net> writes:
>They played "Mack the Knife".
The _Threepenny Opera_ also contains an actual wedding song:
Bill Lawgen and Mary Syer
Last Wednesday man and wife became.
Three cheers for them, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
When they stood before the registrar,
He did not know where she got her bridal dress
And she was not too sure about his name....
It would do just fine.
--- Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
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Apurt
Apurt
Jack Regan
ste...@adam.dseg.ti.com (Harold Stevens) wrote:
>In article <330B4D...@boeing.com>, Mike Dana <mike...@boeing.com> writes:
>[Snip...]
>|> A friend of mine tells of a wedding, back in the '70's, where the bride
>|> and groom wanted a certain track of the Beatles "White Album" played as
>|> the recessional. The "DJ" goofed and they got half-way up the aisle
>|> before realizing that the song playing was "Why Don't We Do It in the
>|> Road"...
My wife was some 45 minutes late arriving at the church, due to no
fault of her own. I am forever indebted to the organistfor playing
"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" about half an hour into the delay.
SueL107122
How about
"Torn Between Two Lovers"
or
"Are You Lonesome Tonight"
Sue Leventhal
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Hiroshi Ogura
In article <19970219172...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
You should also avoid "Christine's Tune" that Parsons did with the Burritos.
She's a devil in disguise
You can see it in her eyes
She's telling dirty lies
She's a devil in disguise, in disguise.
Need I explain more?
I also remember Mojo Nixon's "Amazing Bigfoot Diet" ("I married a
bigfoot!") and the traditional "You Married my Daughter and Yet You
Didn't". Give me a day, and I'll remember enough to turn a message
into a mailbomb... :-)
--Hiroshi
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Jim Spinelli
This is fun. Once at my friends' David and Marie's wedding reception I sang
Tom Paxton's "Not Tonight Marie". I think they enjoyed it but a few guests
were a bit taken aback!
Jim
Nanaimo, BC
Canada
Randy Rohrer
David Wilcox's song "Mango" (aka "After Your Orgasm")
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Stewa1
I would suggest avoiding "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" :-)
Greg Bullough
One might avoid the "Ballad of William Bloat"
Or the last verse of "Fathom the Bowl" (the one which has found
disfavor with many of the folk thought-putzes but which is really
a classic on the battle of the sexes):
Me wife she does disturb me as I lie at my ease
She says as she likes, and she does as she please
Me wife she's the devil, she's black as the coal
Bring me the punch ladle, I'll fathom the bowl
Greg
Howard Camber
In article <330B52...@worldnet.att.net>, Stephen Suffet
<Suf...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> > As surely as night follows day, every few months someone comes on to
> > rec.music.folk to ask for songs suitable for singing at a wedding.
> > Someone ought to compile the hundreds of suggestions that have been
> > posted and then post the list whenever the thread rolls around again.
> >
> > For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> > sing at a wedding? Here are a few that come to mind:
Sing *anything* and *everything* her Dad likes - especially if the lady
you are marrying is "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter."
--
soft...@inforamp.net (Howard Camber)
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Stephen L Suffet
A few candidates:
"Devilish Mary" -- If I ever marry again,
It'll be for love and not riches,
Marry a girl about four feet tall,
So she can't wear my britches.
"It's a Shame to Beat Your Wife on Sunday" --
...when you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, it's a shame...
"The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" --
No, you cannot take my eldest son,
There's work on the farm that got to be done.
Oh, it's not your eldest son I crave,
It's your scolding wife I'm gonna take away.
The farmer answered with a start:
You can have her with all of my heart!
"It Takes a Married Man" (Woody Guthrie) --
You single boys can ramble, you single boys can roam,
But it takes a married man to sing a worried song.
A married man, and a worried song.
"I Had a Wife" ---
I had a wife and got no good of her,
Here is how I easy got rid of her:
Took her out and chopped the head of her,
Ear-lye in the morning!
Seeing as how I left no evidence,
For the sheriff or his reverence,
They had to call it an act of Providence,
Ear-lye in the morning!
So if you've a wife and get no good of her,
Here is how to easy get rid of her:
Take her out and chop the head of her,
Ear-lye in the morning!
Kindest regards,
Steve Suffet
Karen Rodgers
Gerry Myerson wrote:
> For a change, how about suggestions for songs you should never, ever
> sing at a wedding? Here are a few that come to mind:
"Harry's Wife," by Eric Bogle, a song about divorce twenty years, or
so after the wedding.
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How about the ever popular D-I-V-O-R-C-E ???
Brett Weiss
> * Do they still play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls
> around
> * When the snow melts away do the Cubbies still play in their ivy
> covered burial ground
> * When I was a boy they were my pride and joy but now they only bring
> fatigue
> * To the home of the brave, the land of the free and the doormat of the
> National league.
Or, as Tom Paxton put it...
"I grew up in a city where they played no organized baseball...Chicago."
--
Brett
Helen F. Stephens
There's a good one called "Don't get married, girls" which would turn
almost any sane woman off marriage.
Also, I know these aren't folk songs, but, what about the old pop
songs, like the one where the woman stands up at the back of the church
and screams out "It should have been me", or "Band of gold"?
Or, even better, the one by Living Colour with the refrain "Oh, no, not
this again!" (which may even be the title) where the man wakes up in a
pool of sweat, dreaming that his girlfriend has finally dragged him down
the aisle with her.
SLHinton17
Don't sing "I Wish I Was Single Again" or "The Devl and the Farmer's Wife"
("The Farmer's Curst Wife") or any version of "The Wee Cooper o' Fife," or
"The Old Lady of Slapsadam" ("Eggs and Marrowbones.")
Sam Hinton
La Jolla, CA
Joseph C Fineman
"Helen F. Stephens" <Helen.S...@hunterlink.net.au> writes:
>There's a good one called "Don't get married, girls" which would turn
>almost any sane woman off marriage.
Cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl":
Single girl, single girl, goes to the store and buys.
Married girl, married girl, rocks the cradle and cries.
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Keith Dunnigan
How about "Put another log on the fire" ?
Keith
Larry Blumenfeld
Here's a couple more for this seemingly inexhaustible thread:
"I Never Will Marry" and Jim Croce's "One Less Set Of Footsteps."
...and then, of course, there's Tom Rush's "No Regrets."
Happy trails,
Larry B.
Amy E. Ksir
When my friends Larry and Robin got married, since Larry is 15 years
older than Robin we sang "Maids, When You're Young, Never Wed an Old
Man."
BriWeiland
Another classic from Lyle Lovett:
"I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You"
RAREDANCE
There is always "The Unfortunate Man" about the lawyer who gets married
and finds on his wedding night his bride takes off all her false parts
(hair, face, teeth, leg, eye etc). It does have a moral though
....
At the wedding the lawyer made one big mistake
'twas not in ommitting the wine or the cake,
The ring was well chosen, they had a big feed,
But the lawyer did not get a warranty deed.
...
...
So all you young men who would marry for life
Be sure to examine your intended wife
Remember the lawyer who trusted his eyes
And little bit later got quite a surprise
Come to think of it, I did sing this once at a post wedding reception at
work for a co-worker.
rich r
Baumbaum
How about
"Maids, when you're young never wed an old man."?
(This old standard is probably in the Digital Tradition.)
Matt Baum - Expert in the Obsolete!
Hodagg
Another one to avoid would be the old Tom Waits song, "Better Off Without
A Wife".
Stewa1
How about Joan Baez' composition "Love Song to a Stranger, Part 2"...with
it's infamous line "....love is a pain in the ass."
Tisserand
"Do You Love An Apple"
Before I was married I wore a black shawl
Now that I'm married I wear bugger all
Most of the wedding party would be squinting at the singer trying to
figure out what it means.
Abby Sale
Or maybe songs to _sing_. I much approve that these two threads are now
largely mixed together. The guise of a "cautionary" song, permits much
leeway in what "permissible" and also allows for some higher charged
lyrics.
"The Batchelor's Delight"
being
A Pleasant new Song, shewing the happiness of a
Single Life and the miseries that do commonly attend
Matrimony
To the tune of, The King's delight; or, The young man's advice to his
fellow batchelors.
The world's a blister sweld with care,
much like unto a bubble,
Wherein poor men tormented are
with women and with trouble,
And every one that takes a wife
Adds [toil and] sorrow to his life,
and makes his burden double.
Whilst Adam was a Batchelor,
in Eden he did tarry;
It is an Eden upon earth
to live and never marry:
Oh then what cause have we to grieve,
To think upon our mother Eve;
Who made us all miscarry!
Sampson, they say, was a champion stout
that fill'd the world with wonder;
The proud Philistians he did rout,
his blows did sound like thunder:
But when he did court the false Dallila,
The wicked whore did him betray,
and so he was brought under.
Job was a man that open lay
unto the spight of the Devil,
Who took his goods and sons away,
but could we count him civil
Because he left him still his nurse?
Oh no! he left her for a curse:
she was his greatest evil!
A woman once was hang'd on a tree,
and some the rope were cutting,
Diogenes this sight did see,
and spoke unto them strutting:
"Would every tree such fruit would bear!"
If so, fond fools those young men are
that e're would go a-nutting!
A thief once rode up Holborn-Hill,
towards Oliver Cromwell's pallace;
A maid that bore him some good will
had begged him from the gallows:
"Oh no" (quoth he) "I'le go to the gibb,
And not be a slave to my own rib,
drive on the cart, good fellows!"
Marriage is honourable indeed,
but tell what's house-keeping?
It makes the good man's pockets bleed,
his purse is alwaies weeping:
Nay more, hee's alwaies full of care,
Whilst he that is a Batchelor
Is fast and soundly sleeping.
A froward woman takes delight
to see her husband vexed;
Both morning, evening, noon and night,
the poor man is perplexed:
She brawls and scoulds, she frowns and pouts,
And, to her speeches, scoffs and flouts
are ever more annexed.
Though he hath been at work all day,
as hard as he is able,
Yet when he comes home, without delay
she bids him rock the cradle;
And if he doth the same refuse,
The durty quean will him abuse,
and beat him with the ladle.
He cannot quietly rest in bed,
but, every little season,
The childe doth cry and must be fed,
and then, she saith, 'tis reason
That he should do't, and let her sleep;
The poor man he must silence keep,
for talking would be treason.
Then certainly a batchelor's life
is a most precious treasure;
He that doth suddenly marry a wife
will surely repent it at leisure;
For when he hath been snub'd and curb'd,
And almost all the night disturb'd,
yet must rise at her pleasure.
"Robin (quoth she) "'tis time to rise,"
and thumps him on the shoulder,
"The hogs want swilling in the sties!"
at length she speaketh bolder--
Calling him fool and logger-head,
And with her feet quite out of the bed
she thrusts the poor house-holder.
And therefore he that weds a mate
is like a horse in a tether;
Marriage and hanging go by fate,
and therefore chuse you whether;
For the three destinies have spun
Knots for Hymen and for Dun,*
then let them go together.
Man is a little world of himself,
and therefore wanteth nothing;
He needs not care for worldly pelf,
so he have food and cloathing;
And marriage is a fickle thing,
Which sometime doth in love begin,
and often ends in loathing.
And therefore I will single live,
in spight of lust and passion;
Pure virgins good examples give,
and worth our imitation.
For before matrimony arose,
The mode of wearing yellow hose**
and horns were out of fashion.
And lastly, to conclude my song,
vain joy is but a bubble'
A double heart, and a double tongue,
hath fill'd the world with trouble;
And therefore to avoid all strife,
'Tis best to lead a single life,
we will have nothing double.
Finis
*Dun, the hangman
**probably the typical dress of the bachelor (see MacColl, Broadside
Ballads)[ajs]
London, printed for F.G. on Snow-hil.
_The Roxburghe Ballads_, Wm Chappell, 1875, vol III, p426.
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A few standards:
Strange Fruit
You Can Have My Husband But Don't Mess With My Man
Cottage For Sale
Never Will I Marry
Fine And Mellow
End Of A Love Affair
The End Of A Beautiful Friendship
Go Away Little Boy
Wedding Bell Blues
Gone With The Wind
Everything Happens To Me
I Can't Get Started With You
Wives And Lovers
Skippo '8^)#
Gerry Myerson
Found a few more:
The Husband With No Courage in Him (recorded by Frankie Armstrong,
I think. Title says it all)
The Earl of Errol (recorded by Alistair Hulett & Dave Swarbrick.
The earl's father-in-law sues for the return of his dowry,
citing the earl's inability to consummate the marriage. The
earl proves the charges false by impregnating another woman.
Based on a true story from 1658)
Queen Elinor's Confession (a Child Ballad, I think. Recorded by
the Chad Mitchell Trio. The queen, on her deathbed, confesses
to having tried to poison the king, and to having lost her
virginity to the king's most trusted earl)
Queen Jane (Child 170, begins "Queen Jane lay in labor for six weeks
and some more..." Guaranteed to make a bride think twice)
Lord Bateman (Child 53, recorded by Frankie Armstrong. Unexpected
appearance of old lover at wedding feast brings marriage to a
swift conclusion)
Sorry the Day I was Married (recorded by Tim Hart & Maddy Prior on
Summer Solstice album. Title says it all)
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
Paul J. Stamler
"I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (recorded by Tony Barrand on "An Evening at
the English Music Hall")
"Nobody's Wedding" (Richard Thompson)
"I Wish I Was Single Again"
"Single Life is a Happy Life"
"Rocking the Cradle" ("When I'm at home my wife's on the ran-tan/On the
ran-tan with some other young man/She's drinking and cursing while I'm at
home nursing/Nursing a baby that's none of my own") Sung by A.L. Lloyd.
"I Never Will Marry"
"Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man"
"Give Me Back My Five Dollars" ("Gimme back my five dollars/I paid you
for my wife/I'd be a fool to pay someone/to sentence me for life")
"Baldheaded End of a Broom" ("And so young men take my advice/Don't you
be in a hurry to wed/You'll think you're in clover til the honeymoon's
over/And then you'll think you're dead")
The list goes on...
Peace.
Paul
PS: Don't let anyone recite "Wild Horse Charlie", either.
Adam M. Lipkin
Paul J. Stamler (psta...@crl.com) wrote:
: "Rocking the Cradle" ("When I'm at home my wife's on the ran-tan/On the
: home nursing/Nursing a baby that's none of my own") Sung by A.L. Lloyd.
Also by Boiled in Lead (during the Todd Menton incarnation), on Hotheads
(and thus on Old Lead as well).
Adam Lipkin ali...@emory.edu
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~alipkin/
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In article <5evhe7$l...@crl11.crl.com>, "Paul J. Stamler"
<psta...@crl.com> writes
>"Baldheaded End of a Broom" ("And so young men take my advice/Don't you
>be in a hurry to wed/You'll think you're in clover til the honeymoon's
>over/And then you'll think you're dead")
>
Good Lord! I don't think I've heard that song in over 20 years, and
this is certainly the first time I've heard someone else mention it in
that time!
--
Jim Bready
bob...@worldnet.att.net
We requested "A Cottage For Sale" at our wedding. My dad, Larry Conley,
wrote the lyric for this song back in 1930. It wasn't bad luck---we've
been married thirty years!!
Hope Conley Lang
Jennifer Gadd & David Nelson
Well, I hate to state the painfully obvious, but if I *ever* have to sing "Annie's Song"
at another wedding, I will vomit!
Jennifer
Larry Blumenfeld
Strange...I would have thought that this song would have bit the dust
right after their marriage did. Whenever *I* hear this song, I'm
instantly reminded that Annie no longer *does* light up his senses...
Happy trails,
Larry B.
Dan Goodman
Eggs and Marrowbone, Four Mights Drunk, Dear Old Buffalo Boy, Careless
Love, I Wish I Was Single Again, Housewife's Lament.
--
Dan Goodman
dsg...@visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.
Baumbaum
On an upcoming trip to Cuba I'd like to be able to sing the song from
earlier in this century about that country.
It was a "popular song" which puts it a bit off the "folk" path, but
someone must remember. The refrain had the words:
We're on our way to Cuba, Cuba, where life is gay.
. . . (why don't you plan a . . . trip to Havan-a) . .
. . . hop on a ship, and I'll see you, in C U . . . . . B A.
Thanx!
Tim Sullivan
How about "Your Cheatin Heart"?
--
lay down, lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the ones who stand and frown
-Melanie
Mary Katherine Aldin
In article <19970228235...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
baum...@aol.com (Baumbaum) wrote:
>On an upcoming trip to Cuba I'd like to be able to sing the song from
>earlier in this century about that country.
>
>It was a "popular song" which puts it a bit off the "folk" path, but
>someone must remember. The refrain had the words:
>
>We're on our way to Cuba, Cuba, where life is gay.
>.. . . hop on a ship, and I'll see you, in C U . . . . . B A.
>
>Thanx!
>Matt Baum - Expert in the Obsolete!
It appears most accessibly on the recently reissued to CD set by the Any Old
Time String Band, on Arhoolie Records. I think Bing Crosby did it in a movie,
and that soundtrack may also be on CD, I'm not sure.
Mary Katherine
Jim Bready
In article <5f8dac$8...@inout.beachnet.com>, Mary Katherine Aldin
<mka...@beachnet.com> writes
>I think Bing Crosby did it in a movie,
Whoops, make that 1946. I should have checked before I posted.
--
Jim Bready
Jim Bready
According to the notes on the Any Old Time String Band LP that the song
originally appeared on, it came from the 1936 Bing Crosby movie called
"Blue Skies". Great song, and it's hard to imagine it done any better
than Any Old Time does (did) it.
--
Jim Bready
Tim Sullivan
In article <-28029719...@wor-ma3-15.ix.netcom.com>,
<tsu...@ix.netcom.com> (Tim Sullivan) wrote:
Or "Runaround Sue"?
Allen Price
Or that old Osborne Brothers classic:
"You Ain't The Kind of Woman I Wanted, But You're The Kind Of Woman I Got"
(insert gender of your choice to reflect a more enlightened view).
Tim Sullivan <tsu...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<tsull1-0103...@wor-ma3-56.ix.netcom.com>...
Richard David Glueck
I always thought "Slap 'er down agin', Paw" would be tacky when you're
meeting your new inlaws.
-RDG
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Richard David Glueck Email:glue...@spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
Lee McGee
Oh, gosh...how about Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman"? Or maybe Seldom
Scene's "Carolyn at The Broken Wheel Inn"? :^)
--
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http://reality.sgi.com/lmcgee_corp/
skip elliott bowman
bob...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
: skip elliott bowman wrote:
: >
: > A few standards:
: > Never Will I Marry
: > End Of A Love Affair
<repertoire snipped>
: We requested "A Cottage For Sale" at our wedding. My dad, Larry Conley,
: wrote the lyric for this song back in 1930. It wasn't bad luck---we've
: been married thirty years!!
No way! (way, Skip)
Lovely song with such sad words! But if Pops wrote the song that allows
for all sorts of slack, not to mention that it is still played and sung
today, 67 years later. Mazeltov on the longevity of your marriage--in 27
years I'll be able to say thirty years of marital bliss too!
Skippy, the last fan of the Macarena
Scott R. Shank
In article <5erogq$jq1$2...@nadine.teleport.com>, skip...@teleport.com says...
>
>A few standards:
>
>Strange Fruit
>You Can Have My Husband But Don't Mess With My Man
"I Know You're Married but I Love You Still" (Stanley Bros.)
"Pretty Polly" (7,100 verses to murder the poor thing, one to turn himself
in)
"Down in the Willow Garden" (murdered three times in one song, twice in one
verse)
MCartsonis
That's Irving Berlin! And the Austin Lounge Lizards recorded it, too! Nice
duet in the movie, though.
Bill Burgess
In article <19970303082...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
mcart...@aol.com (MCartsonis) wrote:
> That's Irving Berlin! And the Austin Lounge Lizards recorded it, too! Nice
> duet in the movie, though. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's on their album, Lizard Vision.
Scott Burright
"Havin' My Baby" might raise a few eyebrows.
How about "With Pen in Hand?"
Oog...
--Scott Burright
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire
BILL ELLIS
Instead of the standard Mendelssohn wedding music after we tied
the knot, my wife and I decided on "The Agincourt Carol" which
our organist had in a good transcription.
In context, it was ghastly! The only thing I can compare it
to would be like playing "Bonaparte's Retreat" in a really modal,
slow arrangement as the bride and groom, now both convinced they'd
made a serious miscalculation, stroll down the aisle and into the
expensive catered reception that can't be cancelled less than
six weeks before the event.
BE
Baumbaum
> That's Irving Berlin! And the Austin Lounge Lizards recorded it, too!
Nice
> duet in the movie, though. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's on their album, Lizard Vision.
From: bur...@scri.fsu.edu (Bill Burgess)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Thanks Bill and others who have helped me on this.
Incidentally, My son has downloaded (I think the Lounge Lizards) a
RealAudio file to my web page, which I was able to retrieve as:
http://www.taco.com/cuba.ra
You can get the RealAudio player from their web site.
Thanx again
Cleoma
You can also find CUBA on the Arhoolie reissue CD of Any Old Time String
Band, which is called "I Bid You Goodnight".
Suzy Thompson
Neal Mulvenna
Kate Bush's "The Wedding List"
Neal Mulvenna
Mr Lemons
The Austin Lounge Lizards did an infectious version of this tune on one of
their recordings from a few years ago. My memory says that it was on the
CD titled "Paint me on Velvet".
Jacey Bedford
"Rescue the Perishing" and "For those in Peril on the Sea"
--
Jacey Bedford e-mail art...@artifact.demon.co.uk
ARTISAN
Owl
I was at a wedding reception where the band played "Breaking Up Is
Hard to Do". (I'd figured out several songs before that they must
have learned everything from a book, because the list was played in
alphabetical order...but you'd think they might have skipped that
one.)
Wasn't too happy with the one that played "YMCA" either...
Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer
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