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Lyrics needed !!! (closed thread)

Cluin 13 Nov 03 - 10:09 PM
GUEST,Guest 13 Nov 03 - 07:16 PM
Gurney 13 Nov 03 - 03:25 AM
LadyJean 13 Nov 03 - 12:47 AM
Ferrara 12 Nov 03 - 02:14 PM
vectis 11 Nov 03 - 05:50 PM
Cluin 11 Nov 03 - 04:54 PM
Nigel Parsons 11 Nov 03 - 02:41 PM
Gurney 11 Nov 03 - 12:48 PM
GUEST,GL 11 Nov 03 - 05:03 AM
Gurney 11 Nov 03 - 04:44 AM
Hrothgar 10 Nov 03 - 05:37 AM
The Fooles Troupe 10 Nov 03 - 04:58 AM
HuwG 10 Nov 03 - 04:56 AM
GUEST,PAKMAN 09 Nov 03 - 08:26 PM
GUEST 04 Sep 01 - 05:04 PM
Noreen 04 Sep 01 - 04:51 AM
GUEST 04 Sep 01 - 02:42 AM
GUEST,argenine 04 Sep 01 - 02:17 AM
DWDitty 16 Sep 98 - 08:05 PM
dick greenhaus 16 Sep 98 - 03:05 PM
Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca 16 Sep 98 - 06:48 AM
Charlie Baum 16 Sep 98 - 12:24 AM
Jay Tanner Brooklyn, NewYork 15 Sep 98 - 09:17 PM
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dick greenhaus 14 Sep 98 - 10:39 PM
Joe Offer 14 Sep 98 - 10:28 PM
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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 10:09 PM

I'd post the lyrics you requested here, but John Cage has them copyrighted.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 07:16 PM

Nothing is better than a loaf. Half a loaf is better than nothing. So half a loaf is better than a loaf.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 03:25 AM

Ferrara, not being able to speak Italian, I've always read that in English, sort of.
I always thought it meant 'me alone.' 'Oh, Lonesome Me.'

I did mean to type 0(Nil, nothing) Solo Mio rather than O Solo Mio, so I was even more asleep than I thought I was.

I did manage to drive safely....


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 12:47 AM

I believe Felix Mendelssohn wrote several songs without words. I suppose those were the lyrics requested. I don't care much for Mendelssohn, so I can't be much use, I'm afraid.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Ferrara
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:14 PM

Gurney, were you trying to make a pun on "O, Solo Mio?" I don't get it....

"O Sole Mio" means "You are my Sunshine," more or less ... which means you're right on target since that has nothing to do with the thread....


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: vectis
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 05:50 PM

I saw a copy of the record once. It was called
"The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan"
You got it


It was blank both sides :)


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 04:54 PM

... and a whole chain of beauty salons, in fact...


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 02:41 PM

Now that the assembled 'Catters are on the search for these lyrics we ought to find something but if not, then Nil Desperandum we'll just admit we've drawn a blank
At least we've found some words to fill the vacuum, eventually we'll have enough for the hole song.

To quote Ringo (or at least the actor playing him in Yellow Submarine):
I've got a hole in my pocket; well, half a hole anyway. I gave the other half to Jeremy"!


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 12:48 PM

My brain has not been completely asleep overnight, it seems to save that for the daytime...(6.40am in the City of Sails.)
'O, Sole Mio.'
And the Country # 'Nothing To It.'


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Subject: Lyr Add: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND (G Lightfoot)
From: GUEST,GL
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 05:03 AM

If you could read my mind

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like and old time movie
Bout a ghost from a wishing well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghosst is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paper back novel
The kind the drug stores sell

Then you reached the part
Where the heartaches come
The heros would be me
But heros often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two, a movie queen to play
The scene of bringing all the good things out of me
But for now, love, let's be real
I vever thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone and I just can't get it back
(Repeat *)

But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone and I just can't get it back


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Nov 03 - 04:44 AM

Socrates (before my time, too) claimed that he knew nothing, and concluded that he was the wisest man in the world, because he KNEW that he knew nothing.

Pity we can't ask him to contribute. Was he a singer? He wasn't popular.

Socrates kept his tongue in his cheek.

Largo, how about starting a new thread for the lyric you actually require. This one is too funny to stop.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 10 Nov 03 - 05:37 AM

I'll have nothing to do with this.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Nov 03 - 04:58 AM

Ah! a response off topic in a thread about nothing...

Philosophically speaking, I wonder what is the nominative term for that?


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: HuwG
Date: 10 Nov 03 - 04:56 AM

Bravo !


I will now give you the sound of one hand clapping ...


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: GUEST,PAKMAN
Date: 09 Nov 03 - 08:26 PM

FROGGIE WENT A COURTING ON A FINE SPRING DAY, UH-HUH.
FROGGIE WENT A COURTING ON A FINE SPRING DAY, UH-HUH.
FROGGIE WENT A COURTING ON A FINE SPRING DAY, MET TWO
LADIES ON THE WAY, UH-HUH, UH-HUH, UH-HUH.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 05:04 PM

It's clear to me you're looking for
I got plenty of nothing, and nothing's plenty for me'


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 04:51 AM

:0)


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Subject: Lyr Add: IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T (MA' BABY)
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 02:42 AM

DW Ditty and Argenine, here are the lyrics you mentioned.

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)
sung by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
- written by Billy Austin and Louis Jordan
- from the Universal picture "Follow The Boys"
- as recorded June 30, 1944 in Los Angeles by The Andrews Sisters with Bing Crosby and Vic Schoen & His Orchestra.

I got a gal who's always late
Anytime we have a date,
But I love her, yes I love her.

Mmm, he's gonna walk up to my gate
And see if he can get it straight,
'Cause he wants her, he's gonna ask her:

"Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt.
You's is still my baby, baby.
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out!"

A woman is a creature that has always been strange;
Just when you're sure of one, you find she's gone and made a change.

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
Maybe baby's found somebody new,
Maybe baby's found somebody
Or is my baby still my baby true?

Is you or is you ain't my baby, baby?
Baby boy, the way you're actin' lately makes me doubt.
See here, who's been cuttin' me?
You's is still my baby, baby
Baby boy, it seems my flame in your heart's done gone out!
Oh, blackout

A woman is a creature that has always been strange;
Just when you're sure of one, you find she's gone and made a change,
And took my change.

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
Maybe baby's found somebody new?
Maybe baby's found somebody--
Is my baby still my baby true?

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 21-Feb-02.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: GUEST,argenine
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 02:17 AM

I discovered this little bit of nothing accidentally, while seeking the lyrics to "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby," --which, by the way, is older than Delbert is.

Anyway, I got intrigued with the lunacy of this thread, so I thought I'd reply.

I still would like the lyrics to "Is You Is or Is You Ain't," as well as the proper attribution, chords, etc.

Argenine


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: DWDitty
Date: 16 Sep 98 - 08:05 PM

Heard a Delbert McClinton song once - "Is You Is or Is You Ain't"


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Sep 98 - 03:05 PM

I guess Kristofferson had the final say on the subject:

Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free..


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
Date: 16 Sep 98 - 06:48 AM

I can't add to the songs of nothingness mentioned here, but I do recall the words of Foghorn Leghorn, "A half nothin' and a half nothin' make a whole nothin', boy, you can't argue with mathematics."


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 16 Sep 98 - 12:24 AM

Is it possible that this entire thread about nothing is a posthumous tribute to the Seinfeld show?


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Jay Tanner Brooklyn, NewYork
Date: 15 Sep 98 - 09:17 PM

The 9:09 Message was from me . I've just discovered this site and I'm just getting accustomed to it. So also The DAVIS sisters I'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAT YOU'LL EVER KNOW ABOUT HIM.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From:
Date: 15 Sep 98 - 09:09 PM

I'm trying to find PLease Help Me I'm Fallin" Lyrics Any Hints?


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 10:39 PM

In a semi-related vein, someone once penned a verse called
The Perfect Conservative

As I was sitting on a chair
I knew the bottom wan't there
Nor legs nor seat, but there I sat
Ignoring little things like that


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 10:28 PM

Well, Greg, you may have trouble getting help quickly in this thread. The topic of this discussion is "nothing," and we've said an awful lot about it. You'll find the song by putting frog* court* in the search box, thereby finding a song that has frog, froggie, froggy, or froglegs AND court, courting, courtin', or courtyard.
But since it's late and the kid's gotta go to bed, I'll e-mail you the lyrics (or you can click here).
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Greg Rosenberg
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 10:00 PM

Lyrics needed please to the song "Froggy went a courtin"..please help, my nuerotic daughter must have her father sing this song to her, or her mother will loses her mind..please help and e-mail to Faithinhim@primary.net thanks!!!!


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 05:11 PM

I found the lyrics!!

Yesterday upon the stair
I saw a little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
How I wish he'd go away.

Source? Anyone know? Sounds like Ogden Nash.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From:
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 05:02 PM

"Monday: nothing, Tuesday: nothing, Wednesday; a little more nothing..." ...Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bert
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 02:37 PM

And just think.... Timothy apologized for being "Slightly Off Topic" in his thread.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 12:35 PM

If we're talking about a folk song, did John Cage rip it off when he wrote 4'33"?


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Allan C.
Date: 14 Sep 98 - 09:25 AM

I think it was the great Jerry Lewis (or was it Moe?) who said, "If it were, it would be; but since it isn't, it ain't!"

I had more to say about this but I forgot it. Oh well, it was probably nothing.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 08:40 PM

NO PROBLEM---DE NADA...whatever...


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BSeed
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 07:40 PM

Enough of this nihilism, already. The ATF's gonna be raiding all your homes looking for bombs. --seed


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: DWDitty
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 07:24 PM

How about George Jones doing "If Your Phone Don't Ring, It'll Be Me."


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Pete M
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 04:33 PM

Of course Bondi, Gold and Hoyle postualted that if you stretch nothing sufficiently something is created. But thats stretching a point.

Pete M


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Sheye
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 02:04 AM

... and all you fellas know that when you ask a girl "what's wrong?" and she says "nothing", you're pretty much assured that it's something...

"Out of nothing nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing." - Persius


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Sep 98 - 12:02 AM

"We will meet, but we will miss him,
There will be one vacant chair...."

an emptiness, a vacancy...but surely not 'nothingness'...we humans are able to give meaning to nothingness by means of language...a song being a special case. We all know that the 'nothing' in that chair where a friend should be is much more than just empty space...

we can joke..(and it is fun to play with the words)..but those two lines above make the point pretty well that we are almost never speaking of 'pure' nothing.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 10:06 PM

A vast emptiness? As in vastly full of nothing? As in nothing from nothing leaves nothing? And as Sheye points out, anything could be nothing, while it has the potential to be something, it is probably nothing.

I have a headache. I would take something, but it is probably nothing, so it likely won't touch it.......never mind.

Mick


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BSeed
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:50 PM

I really love all you guys, but in this thread, all your postings have left me with a vast emptiness. --seed


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:00 PM

But is not the essence of nothing something unto itself?


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 03:05 PM

I am now unable to shake my heads, being convinced that Einstein knew nothing.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 02:08 PM

Consider, if you will, the song, "Yes, We Have No Bananas". Clearly, the absence of bananas is a concept which has meaning, and therefore 'existence'...and on a different level than in the songs, "I've Got Plenty of Nothin'" or "Talkin' Nothin' Blues"

For more explanation of the matter go here or here

(correct...# 1 more closely illustrates 'Tabula rasa' and #2 contradicts its own thesis..and this is just totally silly) ...while this page called 'Cyberlimbo' comes close, though differing little from this

I hear the rattles as you shake your heads, asking, quite rightly, "Does Bill D have NOTHING better to do/" yes, he does, and he intends to go DO it...and he will have nothing more to say on this subject....no, wait....here..this guy has the right idea....click


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 11:44 AM

Einstein never had a computer and the Net...not to mention an intellectually stimulating thread like this. Course...I bet he wouldn't know this tune either.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:15 AM

G'day,

T, I'd have thought that when God divided by zero, that would have been the big bang, and THAT'S a singularity. (Until Quantum mechanics suggested it wasn't - we were THAT close to proving God exists.)

Amazing, we've gone from nothing to the theory of relativity in one short thread; not even Einstein did that.

Cheers,
Alan


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 07:14 AM

Nothing doesn't exist, because if it did, it wouldn't.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 09:56 PM

I thought he said, "I ain't had a bite in five days." So she bit him.


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 09:42 PM

Nothing ventured, nothing gained---GOOD DIET ADVICE!!

Hobo went to a back door of a house & said, "Pardon me, mam, but I've eaten NOTHIN' in five days." She replied, "Lord, I wish I had your willpower!"


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Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 07:06 PM

Now I know why "One Is The Loneliest Number..." All you guys are down here "Doin' Nuthin'" Well that zero is too low for me...


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