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'Conversation' songs
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST Date: 30 Mar 05 - 01:55 PM Joe F: Yes, "hair o' gold" makes sense, and it's probably right. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 30 Mar 05 - 09:46 AM Jim Dixon: Perhaps "harigold" = "hair o' gold"? --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If you can't get the blues off your mind, get your mind off the blues. :|| |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,AArk Date: 29 Mar 05 - 05:50 PM HUSBANDMAN AND SERVINGMAN BILLY BOY |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HASTEN DOWN THE WIND (Warren Zevon) From: GUEST,Dave'sWife at work Date: 29 Mar 05 - 04:36 PM it's not quite a tit for tat conversation song but... Warren Zevon's 'Hasten Down the Wind' comes to my mind. HASTEN DOWN THE WIND As recorded by Warren Zevon on "Warren Zevon" (1976)
1. She tells him she thinks she needs to be free.
CHORUS: She's so many women.
2. Then he agrees he thinks she needs to be free.
He tells her to hasten down the wind. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Brakn Date: 29 Mar 05 - 03:58 PM "Oh You Sweet One (The SCHNITZELBANK Song)" ? and The Andrews Sisters. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: DannyC Date: 29 Mar 05 - 03:40 PM A couple of broken token songs spring to mind: "DARK EYED SAILOR" - As I was a-walkin' one evening fair, it being the summer to take the air... and "A Lady Fair" - A Lady fair in the garden walking when a well-dressed gentleman passed her by... |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:40 PM If we're going to admit commercial songs, I nominate ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO BETTER. Folk/traditional, I don't think anyone has mentioned THE YOUNG MAN THAT WOULDN'T HOE CORN yet. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:25 PM "FALSE LOVER WON BACK" (Child 218) is mostly conversation, tho there is some narration. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: A New Yorker puts up with cockroaches in order to consort with swine. :|| |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST Date: 29 Mar 05 - 12:08 PM My favourite is LORD RANDALL. which is an old Scots song with derivatives BILLY BOY and A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL, all of which are conversation songs. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Ebbie Date: 28 Mar 05 - 11:46 PM Old thread but some great posts here, a number of which I've never heard. 'BIRCHES' is a little different but it has a little give and take. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FORSYTHIA (Lou and Peter Berryman) From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 28 Mar 05 - 11:34 PM Transcribed from an archived radio program: Minnesota Public Radio's Morning Show, Thursday, November 18, 2004. Click here to play. The song begins 2 hours 47 minutes and 00 seconds from the beginning of the program. FORSYTHIA "A love song written in 7/4 time, being sung alternately by a baker and a gardener." (Lou and Peter Berryman) LOU: You are my sweet forsythia. I love to linger with ya. You are my pink geranium. I like to kiss your cranium. And goodness knows, You are my rose. PETER: You are my herb focaccia. I could just sit and watch ya. You are my chocolate nougat flan With bits of marble marzipan. I can't deny You're my peach pie. LOU: You are my gilded marigold With eyes of green and hair o' gold. You are my main magnolia. When you're sad, I'll console ya And burn my socks, But you're my phlox. PETER: You are my plum cannoli torte, And, I am happy to report, You are my mocha macaroon. I'd wait for half the afternoon To tell the gang You're my meringue. LOU: You are the dear wisteria I'd follow through Siberia. You are the one japonica I'd give my best harmonica, And it's a strech, But you're my vetch. PETER: You are the butter lemon ring I'd treasure more than anything, And if I may be very blunt, You are my maple berry bundt, And by the way, You're my parfait. LOU: You are my boutonniere of blue. PETER: You are my salt and short'ning too. LOU: You're my corsage and my silk. PETER: My baking soda and my milk, My cup of flour. LOU: My garlic flower. BOTH: You are my {flour/flower}. [Recorded by Peter & Lou Berryman on "The Pink One," Cornbelt CD #14, 2003.] |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I DON'T BELIEVE YOU LIKE MY SHIRT From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 28 Mar 05 - 10:34 PM Transcribed from an archived radio program: Minnesota Public Radio's Morning Show, Tuesday, June 1, 2004. Click here to play. The song begins 32 minutes and 45 seconds from the beginning of the program. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU LIKE MY SHIRT (Lou and Peter Berryman) PETER: I don't believe you like my shirt. I don't believe you like my shirt. Careful, now, the truth can hurt. I don't believe you like my shirt. LOU: If I were in a cavern a mile from Chattanooga, It'd be OK from there. If I were under water an hour from Tortuga, It'd be OK from there. If I were in a blackout a minute after midnight, Standing right beside you, dear, The moon behind the mountain and me without a flashlight, It'd be OK right here. PETER: Don't you like my after-shave? Don't you like my after-shave? Tell the truth and I'll be brave. Don't you like my after-shave? LOU: If I were in a space suit an hour from the shuttle, It'd be OK from there. If I were with the Packers in Cleveland in a huddle, It'd be OK from there. If I had influenza without my decongestant, And we were in a cyclone, dear, And I could keep a clothespin affixed to my proboscis, It'd be OK right here. Now it think I made you blue. I cut a piece of pie for you. Still I think I heard a sigh. Don't you like my pecan pie? PETER: For someone in a famine, who used to be a glutton, It'd taste OK to him. For a hermit in the desert with absolutely nuttin', It'd taste OK to him. If I'd been in a coma for half a generation, Dining intravenously, And you had lied a little and said my shirt was lovely, It'd taste OK to me. [Recorded by Peter & Lou Berryman on "We Don't Talk about That," Cornbelt 800, 1993.] |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Lucius Date: 27 Jan 01 - 08:35 PM BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE.
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: bill\sables Date: 27 Jan 01 - 05:54 PM There was one called "Wor Geordies Wife" from Newcastle |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FLUE EYES (Shel Silverstein) From: Susanne (skw) Date: 27 Jan 01 - 05:41 PM Here is a hilarious, basically spoken piece from Hamish Imlach's 'Fine Old English Tory Times' (1972), written by Shel Silverstein, but certainly not in Glaswegian dialect ... The 'lady' is done (very convincingly) by Iain MacKintosh. FLUE EYES (Shel Silverstein) Ah see ye're a' by yersel', sittin' at the bar Can Ah sit doon beside ye, ma whish daughter Ma boyfriend, he - actually, he's jist gone tae the cludgie He's seven feet ta' an' he always carries an axe An' he's the leader o' the Auchenshuggle Hell's Angels Och aye - Well if Ah beat up yer boyfriend an' Ah take away his axe And Ah set fire tae his moped, an' Ah sit doon beside ye Will ye take a wee drink, flower Ah'm drinkin' double brandies and baby cham Och - Well if Ah beat up yer boyfriend an' Ah take away his axe And Ah set fire tae his moped, an' Ah sit doon beside ye An' Ah buy ye a double brandy an' a baby cham Can Ah run ye hame, ma whish daughter I live in Whig Och - Well if Ah beat up yer boyfriend an' Ah take away his axe And Ah set fire tae his moped, an' Ah buy you a double brandy an' a baby cham An' Ah run ye hame tae Whig Will ye ask me tae the door, flower Ya see, we really get an awfy damp close An' it's full o' crocodiles and alligators An' there's mice an' there's rats in the dunny Och aye - Well - if Ah beat up yer boyfriend an' Ah take away his axe And Ah set fire to his moped, an' Ah buy you a double brandy an' a baby cham An' Ah run ye hame tae Whig, an' Ah don't get eaten by the crocodiles an' the alligators Will ye ask me tae come in, ma wee flower Ach,it's awfy late, an' ma mammy'll be waitin' up for me She likely has washed the loaby floor, an' it'll a' be covered in newspapers An' we've got a vicious big Alligatian dog that bites strangers My faither, he's worried aboot no' gettin' his broo money through I'll have tae wash ma hair, I've got tae be up early the morrow mornin' - Wait - you don't really want me tae see ye hame, dae ye But ma mammy'll be waitin' for me You don't really like me, dae ye But ma hair's got tae be washed, it didnae get washed since last Thursday ..... 'S a' right, 's a' right, Ah know, Ah know ..... |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Jimmy C Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:32 PM BRIAN OG AND MOLLY BAWN, |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jan 01 - 03:40 PM "Make Believe" from Showboat? Giant SIGHHHH |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Diva Date: 26 Jan 01 - 03:02 PM Tam Bowie.....rather rude but fun as sung by Nynia and I on Sunday night when we should have been studying for our exam on Monday. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Ina Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:25 PM "I NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS", Tom Waits and Bette Midler "IN SPITE OF OURSELVES", John Prine and Iris DeMent !!! |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:13 PM "You Say Tomayto; I Say Tomahto" (LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF) Actually the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread was "Hello Walls" |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:08 PM FATHER AND SON by Cat Stevens -- always liked the way the two melody/descanted in the last verse |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Grab Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:53 PM DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA has 2 separate singers for Johnny and the Devil. Grab. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Lox Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:19 PM Don't forget:
...You're a bum you're a punk Bye kirsty lox |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:12 PM The other "SOLDIER, SOLDIER" i.e. Pete Bellamy's version of the Kipling poem. See the recent (3 weeks old?) "Soldier, Soldier" thread. Keith |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:18 AM "WHISTLE, DAUGHTER, WHISTLE" and "ROVING GAMBLER" make use of dialog between mother and daughter. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: GUEST,Dita (at work) Date: 26 Jan 01 - 06:30 AM A couple of Irish ones spring to mind. Over the mountain sung by Len Graham. [See THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN] MY LOVE IS IN AMERICA written and sung by Mick Hanley. love, john. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:16 PM Here's a few more that come to mind: Lou and Peter Berryman's "DO YOU THINK IT'S GONNA RAIN?" (which is also a cumulative song). Lou and Peter Berryman's "If (Dueling Paranoias)." "TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE," by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in "THANKS FOR THE MEMORY," 1938. And here's a related thread, although not all the songs are dialogues: DUETS, (And Other Multi-Part Songs). |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Charlie Baum Date: 04 Jul 99 - 01:26 AM Ah Yes I REMEMBER IT WELL (Maurice Chevalier and What's-her-name?) --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Annrai Date: 01 Jul 99 - 03:22 PM I'm surprised no one has mentioned "True Lover's Discourse"/"'THE LOVER'S DISCUSSION" amounting to a two-way conversation where the girl and her lover converse in alternate stanzas. A 48 verser, it takes some handlin'. A friend of mine and his wife from Glenfin in Donegal used to do it at weddings as their "party Piece" Extraordinarily enough it was penned by a Co. Down man from Magheratimpany near Ballynahinch - from where I first collected it. It had travelled all the way to Donegal with hardly a single word of difference. The late great Jerry Hicks was the first man I ever heard singing it, and he only ever recorded a much-shortened version. Annraoi |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: SandyBob Date: 01 Jul 99 - 02:42 PM A FINE ROMANCE - from an old Astaire picture What about just plain talking songs with a sung verse or two? Fun ones I'm aware of are any version of the talking blues, maudlin talking country songs by Red Sovine, etc. SandyBob |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Bert Date: 01 Jul 99 - 11:53 AM LOLLY-TOO-DUM |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Songbob Date: 01 Jul 99 - 11:39 AM Late-19th Century pop songs had several such songs, including two I can think of just now: "THERE'LL COME A TIME," which is just conversation, no "he said, she said" stuff, between a father and daughter, in which the father reveals that his wife left him long ago, and he's sure that "there'll come a time, someday" when the daughter will leave him. It's corny and cloying and all those 19th-century things, but it's interesting. Not sure I can find the words, but I'll try to look for 'em. "JUST TELL THEM THAT YOU SAW ME," by Paul Dresser, from 1892, I think. A chance encounter on a street between a man "on pleasure bent" and an old school-girl friend who is obviously walking those streets. I _can_ remember this one, and if it's not in the DT, I'll submit the lyrics. Bob Clayton |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: gargoyle Date: 01 Jul 99 - 07:26 AM Aahhh - L's Brother, your nautical vent brought to mind, THE LOWDOWN LONESOME LOW. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Liam's Brother Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:15 PM CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Cap't Bob Date: 30 Jun 99 - 11:05 AM "ROCKIN' CHAIR" ~~ with Jack Teegarden and Louis Armstrong Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:11 AM This is a great thread. It has given me an idea for a topic for one of our monthly song swaps. One of my favorites of THE LAIRD O' DRUM, by Bok, Muir, & Trickett's Language of the Heart CD. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Bert Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:31 AM There's SOLDIER, SOLDIER, WILL YOU MARRY ME Bert |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 30 Jun 99 - 02:35 AM Sorry, Gargoyle--I missed that one: I just scrolled past it. When I clicked the ribbon, your longer one caught my eye, I guess. I would characterize my postings as too often careless, but hardly rude (except the playful one in the True Detective thread--I guess you didn't see it that way and I'm sorry [I apologized for it in that thread, also, you may recall]. I was bummed by the cyberstalker one from Fongoul (Fongoyle?), I'll have to admit. --seed |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: alison Date: 30 Jun 99 - 01:40 AM Any of the "THE FALSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD" songs slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: gargoyle Date: 30 Jun 99 - 01:22 AM Oh the humblest and most gracious of apologies to my dearest, kind and benevolently, honorable Mr. Seed.
By now I am familar with your rude style of jumping into the middle of threads without following them through.
By now you should be familar with my style of double posting. Read the posting above the one you commented about. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:41 PM Gargoyle, that song is "PAPER OF PINS": I'll give to you a paper of pins For that's the way my love begins, If you will marry me-e-e, If you will marry me. I'll not accept your paper of pins, If that's the way your love begins, Ana I'll not marry you-ou-ou, No, I'll not marry you. The young man offers items of increasing value with the same result, until finally it comes to the verse Gargoyle entered, when she finally assents. --seed |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Banjer Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:07 PM I've heard 'T FOR TEXAS" done as such a number. His part is the T for Texas, she does the T-for Tennessee part, he does T for Thelma and she demands to know who is Thelma and the rest of the song is a conversation between the two, her answering each line he sings. Kinda neat... |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Susanne (skw) Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:11 PM THE SHEARIN'S NAE FOR YOU Proposal and Acceptance |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Den Date: 29 Jun 99 - 06:22 PM There was also the very dark, THE WELL BELOW THE VALLEY. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Indy Lass Date: 29 Jun 99 - 06:12 PM Oops--make that the Tannahill Weavers. My apologies about the spelling. Sometimes my computer will end my transmission due to "lack of activity" and I'm not the fastest typist so I didn't take the time to double check. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COME UNDER MY PLAIDIE^^ From: Indy Lass Date: 29 Jun 99 - 06:07 PM There's a song sung by Tannahill Weavers called "COME UNDER MY PLAIDIE" that's a discussion between an elderly man and a young woman: Come under my plaidie the nights gane ta fa' Come in frae the cold blast, the drift and the snaw Come under my plaidie and sit doon beside me There's room in it lassie believe me for twa Come under my plaidie and sit doon beside me I'll hap ye frae every cauld wind that can blaw Comme under my plaidie and sit doon beside me There's room in it lassie believe me for twa Gae wa wi your plaidie auld Donald gae wa I fear nae the cauld blast, the drift or the snaw Gae wa wi your plaidie, I'll no sit beside ye Ye might be my gutcher(grandfather)auld Donal gae wa I'm gaun tae meet Johnnie, He's young and he's bonnie He's been at Meg's bridle fu' trig and fu braw Nane dances sae lightly,sae gracefu' sae tightly His cheeks like the new rose, his brow's like the snaw Dear Marion let that flee stick tae the wa Your Jock's but a gowk and has naethin' ava' The hale o' his pack he has no on his back He's thirty and I am but three score an twa Be frank noo an' kin'ly I'll busk ye aye finely, Tae kirk or tae merket they'll few gang sae braw A bien hoose tae bide in a chaise for tae ride in And flunkies tae tend ye as aft as ye ca' My faither aye tellt me my mither an a Ye'd mak a guid husband and keep me aye braw It's true I lo' Johnnie, he's young and he's bonnie But wae's me I ken he has naethin ava' I hae little tocher ye've made a guid offer I'm noo mair than twenty my time is but sma' Sae gie me yer plaidie, I'll creep in beside ye I thocht ye'd been aulder than three score an' twa. ^^ This is from their "The Mermaids Song" CD. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Tony Burns Date: 29 Jun 99 - 04:44 PM Thanks for the offer to post Barbara but folks have supplied a long list already. No point in going to the trouble for my needs. Someone else might like them and if so I expect they will speak up. Thanks to everyone. |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Jun 99 - 03:31 PM Then there's the obnoxious Buffalo Boy and the sexist OH, NO JOHN. I can't help myself. I like 'em both, even if they appeal to my baser instincts. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Night Owl Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:18 PM "JENNY JENKINS"; "FIVE NIGHTS DRUNK"; "Soldier John" [SOLDIER, SOLDIER, WILL YOU MARRY ME?]...(not sure if that's the correct title, but after she buys him new clothes for their wedding, he can't marry her "with all these fine clothes on")..... |
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Subject: RE: 'Conversation' songs From: Barbara Date: 29 Jun 99 - 01:51 PM Berryman and Berryman (Lou and Peter) have written several if you want a more modern outlook. "PASS THE PEPPER", I believe one is called, is an archetypical husband and wife breakfast conversation where they inform each other of conflicting plans and neither listens. Or there is "ORANGE COCOA CAKE" where a woman attempts to give a recipe over the phone to a friend while dealing with her three children. And then there is "WHY AM I PAINTING THE LIVING ROOM?" If you want any of these (and they're not in DT, I haven't checked yet) I could post them. They also have a song called "DOUBLE YODEL" where the man and woman alternate not only the verses but the high and low parts of the yodel. Blessings, Barbara
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