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Thread #3889 Message #1427012
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Mar-05 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Homer and Jethro
Subject: Lyr Add: ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT (Homer & Jethro)
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? Homer & Jethro (RCA 47-7852, 1961) (Turk - Handman / Henry D. Haynes - Kenneth C. Burns)
Are you lonesome tonight? If you are, serves you right! I'm so happy you left me at last! I can still hear you roar, Make the beds, mop the floor, Do the laundry, and then mow the grass! You took me for a boat ride, I had to swim back! Darling I thought I'd never Get out of that sack! Should you fly back again, Park your broom and come in, Darling, that's why you're lonesome tonight!
[Spoken] Short Spear once said, all the world's a stage. It ain't much of a line, but if it's good enough for Elvis, it's good enough for us.
Act one: You took me home to meet your folks and I can still hear your father whispering, "Son, that girl's cross-eyed, knock-kneed, strong-headed, bucktoothed" and all you said was, "oh pa, you don't have to whisper, she's deaf too".
Act two: Our engagement lasted ten years, 'cause I wouldn't marry you when you was drunk.
Yeah, and I wouldn't marry you when I was sober.
Act three: The only romantic thing you ever said to me was, that I creeped into your heart, and I creeped into your brain, creeped into your mind.
No, all I ever said was that you is the biggest creep I'd ever seen.
Act four: We finally settled down in our little honeymoon cottage and every Friday night our friends and neighbours come over to watch the fight.
Yeah, we didn't ever have a TV set, but we had a fight every Friday. One night I blacked your eyes, broke your nose and knocked your teeth out and you got chicken and called the cops.
You told 'em not to believe a word I said, 'cause I was punch drunk.
[Sung] So, I'll miss you my pet. Every chance that I get! Darling, that's why you're lonesome tonight!