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Thread #4424   Message #24770
Posted By: Ferrara
28-Mar-98 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wasn't That a Party (Tom Paxton)
Subject: Lyr Add: WASN'T THAT A PARTY (Tom Paxton)
Hi. Got here a little late. The words from the Olga site leave out some of the best lines. Here's the whole thing as I learned it anyway. Where the words differ from the ones above, use the version you like better, I guess.

There are an A part and a B part, tunewise. I'll try to show which is which.

WASN'T THAT A PARTY

A
Might have been the whiskey
Could have been the gin
Might have been the three or four six packs,
I don't know,
But look at the shape I'm in
Head like a football,
Lord I think I'm gonna die,
But tell me Me, oh me, oh my
Wasn't that a party?

A
Someone found a grapefruit
Wore it like a hat
I saw someone under the kitchen table,
Talking to the neighbor's cat
He was talkin' 'bout football,
And the cat was talkin' back
Along about then everything went black
Wasn't that a party?

B
Might have been my memory
Playing tricks on me
But I thought I saw my buddy sittin'
Up in my neighbor's tree

A
He was playing a folksong
Sounded pretty good
Might have sounded better if his wife
hadn't made such a racket
chopping all my neighbor's wood
Might have been his woodpile
But I think it was his door
She must have got her three or four
Wasn't that a party?

B
Bill and Jim and Tommy
Went a little far
They were out in the front yard
blowing on the siren
Of somebody's po-lice car

A
So you see your Honor,
It was all in fun
That little old track meet down on main street
was only
to see if your cops could run
They run us in to see you
In an alcoholic haze
I sure can use them 30 days
wasn't that a party?