BY WHAT SONG should I know you?

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,daddy's girl
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 12:21 AM

My daddy passes away a month ago. Some of my fondest memories are of when my sister and I were growing up and daddy would sing 'When the Works all Done this Fall". That was one of our favorite songs. Actually it still is. Mom always wonderes why it was our favorite song because it was so sad. It was our favorite becaue daddy sang it us. We had lost track of that song as we were growing up until my son found a Michael Martin Murphy CD with the song on it. We listen to it all the time. I would like to fine the original lyrics. Michael just does not sing it quite like daddy.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:51 AM

Sorry for your loss, daddy's girl. It's never easy.

Here's how we used to sing the song.

WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL

A group of jolly cowboys discussing plans at ease,
Says one: "I'll tell you something, boys, if you will listen please;
I am an old cowpuncher and here I'm dressed in rags,
I used to be a tough one, boys, and go on great big jags.

"But I have got a home, boys, a good one you all know;
Although I have not seen it since long, long ago.
I'm going to my home, boys, once more to see them all;
Yes, I'm going to see my mother when the work's all done this fall.

"When I left my home, boys, my mother for me cried,
Begged me not to go, boys, for me she would have died;
My mother's heart is breaking, breaking for me that's all
And with God's help I'll see her when the work's all done this fall.

That very night this cowboy went out to stand his guard;
The night was dark and cloudy, and storming very hard;
The cattle they got frightened, and rushed in wild stampede,
The cowboy tried to head them, riding at full speed.

While riding in the darkness so loudly he did shout,
Trying his best to beat them and turn the herd about;
His saddle horse did stumble, and on him it did fall;
The poor boy won't see his mother when the work's all done this fall.

They picked him up so gently and laid him on a bed;
His body was so mangled the boys all thought him dead;
He opened wide his blue eyes and looking all around,
He motioned to his comrades to sit near him on the ground.

"Boys, send mother my wages, the wages I have earned,
For I am afraid, boys, my last steer I have turned.
I am headed for a new range, I hear my Master call,
And I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall.

"Fred, you take my saddle; George you take my bed;
Bill, you take my pistol after I am dead.
And think upon me kindly when you look upon them all,
For I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall."

Charlie was buried at sunrise, no tombstone at his head,
Nothing but a little board, and this is what it said:
"Charlie died at daybreak, he died from a fall,
And he'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall."

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:04 AM

I identify with the old blues line "I'm built for comfort, not for speed".

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Joybell
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:25 AM

"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"
I'm probably the only person still singing it, although it was very popular about 100 or so years ago. Anyway that's the song I want to be remembered by. Joy

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Celtaddict
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 09:56 PM

How Can I Keep from Singing?

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 03:23 AM

Wow, Kat--

I love The River Where She Sleeps, especially the line: ". . . she ain't mad at dad and mommy".

Does it sometimes seem to you that you're the only person in the world that had a happy childhood? I almost feel guilty about it, when everyone else I talk with tells me horror stories!

Great song; I'll have to go find the melody now.

'Spaw, hang in there, m'dear. Wandering days, great memories, and good friends are never past as long as you can still find them in your head. But you know that...

Love,
Lin

P.S. My song would have to be a cowboy song, possibly Night Life or maybe Crazy (by Willie Nelson, of course). Or any of a zillion others by him, or by the Hag, or Waylon Jennings... impossible to choose!