Ain't Songs & Rhymes

Subject: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 07:42 PM

Some people say ain't ain't a word. But we all know that ain't true.

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what songs or children's rhymes you can think of have the word "ain't" in their title or somewhere in their words.

I know a bunch of songs and children's rhymes that have the word ain't in their names. Plus there are songs & rhymes that don't have ain't in their titles but have it in their words.

And just for the heck of it, I'm gonna list some of them right here on this here thread.

If you aint doin nothin else and if you've got a mind to, join in this thread. And if you're busy now, then join in later if you wanna.

And if you don't want to join in, well, that's okay too.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:17 PM

I'mma leave the easy ones that come from Black American spirituals for other folks to list-unless time passes and nobody else list them.

So what's the first song I'm puttin on this thead gonna be?

Well, there's a Bob Dylan song called:

"You Aint Going Nowhere"

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8006

I mention that song because it has the same exact title as a children's foot stomping cheer a girl name Shadaya showed me in Pittsburgh, Penn back in 2002. I don't think the foot stomping cheer and the Bob Dylan song have anything to do with each other except for the fact that they have basically the same name.

Here's the words to the children's foot stomping cheer:


YOU AINT GOIN NO WHERE

Entire
Group:
You ain't goin no where,
no where.
You ain't goin no where.
You ain't goin no where,
no where.
You ain't goin no where.

Group
{minus the soloist named}:
Hey, Shadeya,
In-tro-duce yourself

Shadeya
{name or nickname of the first soloist}:
Too shy

Group
{minus the soloist named}:
Hey, Shadeya,
In-tro-duce yourself

Shadeya:
I'll try
My name's Shadeya.
I cheer for Garfield.
My sign is Libra.
And when I'm up

Group
{minus soloist named}:
When she's up.

Shadeya:
I'm hot stuff.

Group
{minus soloist named}:
She's hot stuff.

Shadeya:
And when I'm down.

Group:
And when she's down.

Shadeya:
Don't mess around.

Group:
Don't mess around

Shadeya:
Don't make me scream.
cause you will be _knocked _out.
-Shadeya Tyler {African American girl age 10 years; Garfield area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2002; collected by Azizi Powell, 2002

Performance instructions:
{Chant while doing a synchronized foot stomping routine that includes standing basically in place while producing bass soundihg foot stomps, alternating with [individual] handclaps, and body pats [pattin juba]. {__} means to pause a beat. Repeat the entire cheer from the beginning with the next soloist who says her name or nickname, the name of the sport or community team she cheers for {presumably she's a cheerleader for} and her astrological sign. Continue this pattern until every one in the group has had one turn as the soloist.}

For more information on foot stomping cheers, visit www.cocojams.com

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Bert
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:38 PM

Of course it's a word. I use it all the time.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:39 PM

Okay, I said I wasn't gonna add no spirituals, and I'm not-yet.

But I'm gonna cheat a bit, cause this next song I'm adding to this thread is a civil rights song {otherwise known as a "Freedom Song" that is based on a spiritual:

AINT GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME ROUND
Aint gonna let nobody
turn me 'roun'
turn me 'roun
Aint gonna let nobody
turn me 'round
I'm gonna keep on walkin'
keep on talkin
walkin into freedom land

Aint gonna let {name a prominent segregationist}
turn me 'roun',
turn me 'roun
Aint gonna let {repeat name}
turn me run
I'm gonna keep on walkin'
keep on talkin
walkin into freedom land

Aint gonna let no jailhouse
turn me 'roun'
turn me 'roun
Aint gonna let no jailhouse
turn me round
I'm gonna keep on walkin'
keep on talkin
walkin into freedom land

Aint gonna let no policemen
turn me 'roun'
turn me 'roun
Aint gonna let no policemen
turn me round
I'm gonna keep on walkin'
keep on talkin
walkin' into freedom land

Aint gonna let no playa haters
turn me 'round
turn me 'round
Aint gonna let no playa haters
turn me 'round
I'm gonna keep on walkin
keep on talkin
walkin into freedom land

-snip-
The word "marchin" may be substituted for "walkin". The last verse was added 6/2007 to update the song a bit.

Fyi, A "playa hater" {player hater} is a person who is jealous of another person's possessions, accomplishments, looks etc. A playa hater could also be antagonistic toward the person for no reason at all.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:49 PM

It Ain't Necessarily So
The Blues Ain't Nothin'
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Ain't She Sweet?

I would not mind attending such a concert. %^)

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 09:43 PM

Well, this one is more "cain't" than "ain't," but I like it - and it starts with "ain't."
-Joe-

I Can't Say No
(from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!)

It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do.
I knowed whut's right and wrong since I been ten.
I heared a lot of stories and I reckon they are true
About how girls're put upon by men.
I know I mustn't fall into the pit,
But when I'm with a feller, I fergit!

I'm jist a girl who cain't say no,
I'm in a turrible fix
I always say "come on, le's go"
Jist when I orta say nix!
When a person tries to kiss a girl,
I know she orta give his face a smack.
But as soon as someone kisses me,
I somehow, sorta, wanta kiss him back!

I'm jist a fool when lights are low
I cain't be prissy and quaint
I ain't the type that can faint
How c'n I be whut I ain't?
I cain't say no!

Whut you goin' to do when a feller gits flirty,
and starts to talk purty?
Whut you goin' to do?
S'posin' 'at he says 'at yer lips're like cherries,
er roses, er berries?
Whut you goin' to do?
S'posin' 'at he says 'at you're sweeter 'n cream,
And he's gotta have cream er die?
Whut you goin' to do when he talks that way,
Spit in his eye?

I'm jist a girl who cain't say no,
Cain't seem to say it at all
I hate to disserpoint a beau
When he is payin' a call!
Fer a while I ack refined and cool,
A settin on the velveteen setee
Nen I think of thet ol' golden rule,
And do fer him what he would do fer me!

I cain't resist a Romeo
In a sombrero and chaps
Soon as I sit on their laps
Somethin' inside of me snaps
I cain't say no!

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: oldhippie
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:48 AM

I think "This Ole House" contains the most "Aint's".

"Ain't gonna need this house no longer
Ain't gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the windows
Ain't got time to fix the doors
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Or to fix the windowpanes
Ain't gonna need this house no longer
Gettin' ready to meet the Saints."

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Declan
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:30 AM

She ain't goin' nowhere, she's just leaving (Guy Clark)

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:53 AM

Azizi, your ' retirement ' from the Mudcat didn't last long, did it ?

eric.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:10 AM

Off topic, but in response to eric the red's post.

I never said that I was retiring from Mudcat.

I told someone privately that I was not going to post on Mudcat for a while for personal reasons. And though that person meant well, he started a thread without my prior knowledge.

Here's a link to my post on that thread:

thread.cfm?threadid=102110#2066265 "Azizi"

And here's an excerpt from that post:
"To badly paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of my break taking from Mudcat are true.

Q pmed me and asked why I wasn't posting on Mudcat, and I succiently replied that I was taking a break from posting here. I neither knew nor did I expect him to start this thread based on that information.

I think that Q started this thread because he correctly surmised that I was at low energy, and he wanted to give my spirit a much needed boost. Although I feel somewhat embarrassed by this thread, I thank you, Q, for your consideration. And with all my heart and soul, I thank all of you for this unexpected present...

I have met so many wonderful, interesting, knowledgeable, creative, and caring people through posting on Mudcat. When my hibernation period is over, God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be back exchanging comments with you all."


-snip-

When I go into hibernation mode for whatever reason or reasons, it could be for one week, one month, two months or longer. As it turns out, I didn't post on Mudcat for a little less than three weeks.

Again, I didn't ask nor did expect that anyone would start a thread about my absence from posting. But again, I thank Q for his good intentions. I also thank all those who wrote supportive comments and indicated that they missed me and hoped that I would return to posting on Mudcat.

When I started posting again on Mudcat, I included this "thank you" post at the end of my first post on that thread that I started:

"Thank you Mudcat members & guests. I very much appreciated and still appreciate your support and kind words. While I didn't ask for words of encouragement, they really meant and still mean a lot to me.

But now that I'm back, you can stop being so nice. Just kidding :0}} "

thread.cfm?threadid=102593#2079998 "Bazooka Zooka Bubble Gum"

-snip-

eric the red, since you asked me this question on this public thread rather than private messaging me, I felt the need to respond to you on this public thread. But having done so, I no longer feel the need to address this on any other thread.

Best wishes,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:46 AM

Oh, and -- how could I have forgotten? --

Ain't misbehavin'

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 12:22 PM

Rabit aint got no tail at all

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Severn
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 12:52 PM

Ain't That A Shame
Ain't it a Shame To Whip Your Wife On Sunday (Leadbelly's version)
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos
I Ain't Goin' Down To That Red Cross Store No More
Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More
It Ain't What you Eat, But How you Chew It
It ain't the Meat, It's The Motion
Ain't that Peculiuar
Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of Mt Jelly Roll
Grits Ain't Groceries

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Severn
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:10 PM

Ain't enough? Gettin ain't-sy for more?


Conch ain't Got No Bone
Poppa Ain't Salty
Ain't Got no Home (Clarence "Frogman" Henry)
I Ain't Got No Home In This world Anymore" (Guthrie)
I Ain't Never (Mel Tillis)
It Ain't Right
It Ain't Gonna Rain No More

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:32 PM

Some people say ain't ain't a word.

Only pretty ignorant people. First recorded use in Oxford English Dictionary is 1778.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 02:30 PM

Thanks to all who have posted titles & examples of songs & rhymes that include the word "aint". Thanks also for information about that word.

**

Severn, with regard to this example: "Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of Mt Jelly Roll" I'm assuming that you meant to type the word "my" instead of "Mt". Is that right?

**

There's a Mudcat thread called Roaches and Bedbugs? that includes a
number of versions of that song {which sometimes known as It Aint Gonna Rain No More}.

Here's a link to a post from that thread:

thread.cfm?threadid=312#546040

Also, CRANKY YANKEE posted a version or two on this thread thread.cfm?threadid=33452#446496 "SONG CHALLENGE-Roaches 1,Tenants 0"

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:06 PM

Oh the deacon went down to the cellar to pray
he met Mae West and he stayed all day

I ain't a gonna grieve my lord no more.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Severn
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:11 PM

Yes, Azizi. I DID mean to type "My". I don't know where the Mount came from. Freudian Slip, maybe?


Here's a few more:

Ain't No Sweet Man Worth The Salt Of My Tears
I Ain't Never Been Satisfied
It Ain't Easy
A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore
You Ain't Nothin' But A Hound Dog/Bearcat
Ain't That Good News
Chicken Ain't Nothin But A Bird
You Ain't Talkin' To Me
I Ain't High

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: GUEST,Jay
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:59 PM

Ain't Hurting Nobody - Hank Williams Jr.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:27 PM

Severn, about that Freudian slip: naughty, naughty!

;o}

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 06:06 PM

Aint aint a word, aint aint.
Nice is not a nice word.
So my mother used to say (refering to the original meaning of nice)

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:16 PM

Ain't nobody's business but my own.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Bert
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:16 PM

Here's one of mine.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: oldhippie
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 08:20 AM

Good song, Bert. Have you recorded it?

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Bert
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 11:27 AM

Thanks oldhippie. No I haven't recorded it yet. It's kind of a spoof song so it's sung with a jolly rhythm.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Midchuck
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 11:46 AM

I arbitrarily date the acquisition of legitimacy by "ain't" as of PP&M's recording of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." They were so clean cut, no word they used could possibly be improper. I think that was about the middle of the '60s.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Grab
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 11:58 AM

"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone" - Al Green

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Michael
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:55 PM

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

Mike

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: mrdux
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 06:23 PM

"T'ain't Nobody's Businees If I Do" (the version sung by Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday and Jimmy Witherspoon, written by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins)

as well as

"Ain't Nobody's Dirty Business" (by Mississippi John Hurt. Taj Mahal sings a variant. see this earlier thread).

michael

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 07:27 PM

Here's a few miscellaneous ones from my archives that I believe no one has mentioned:

I Ain't Broke but I'm Badly Bent

Ain't It a Beauty

They Ain't No Flies on Auntie

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:30 PM

RIP

Guess I've killed another thread. Ain't that a shame!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:43 PM

Well, it ain't over till it's over.
[not to mention the fact that, to my knowledge, no woman of large size has sung]

**

I admit that I cheated and used my friend Google to find this spiritual.

However, imo, there are at least two typos in this example.

AIN'T GOING TO TARRY HERE
Sweep it clean
Ain't going to tarry here

I sweep my house with the gospel room
Ain't going to tarry here

Sweep it clean
Ain't going to tarry here

Gong to open my mouth to the Lord
Ain't going to tarry here

O-o-o Lordy,
Ain't going to tarry here

'Cause he's digging down in the grave
Ain't going to tarry here

The big bell's tolling in Galilee
Ain't going to tarry here

O-o-o Lordy
Ain't going to tarry here

http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/ain_t_going_to_tarry_here.htm


-snip-

I've never heard [or heard of] this spiritual. But it seems to me that "I sweep my house with the gospel room" is a misprint. "I sweep my house with the gospel broom" makes much more sense to me.

Also, speaking of typos, "gong" in the line "gong to open my mouth to the Lord" is obviously "going". But as to that phrase "open my mouth to the Lord"...well I've never heard that expression before.

Does anybody know this song, and if so is "broom" the correct word in that line?

And is "opening my mouth to the Lord" the right phrase [instead of something like "opening my mind" or "opening my heart" or "opening my eyes"?

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:47 PM

Google found this other "aint gonna tarry" song for this thread:

Artist/Band: Patty Loveless
Lyrics for Song: Big Chance
Lyrics for Album: Dreaming My Dreams

Well, there's a boy down Shelby Gap
And I like sittin' on his lap
I'm his gal and he's my man
We been makin' weddin' plans

Brought him home to meet my ma
She raised Cain and dropped her jaw
"Girl, you're crazy as a bat, you ain't gonna marry that"

Looka here mama, looka here daddy
This is my true love, we're gonna get married
Ain't a gonna hem-haw, ain't a gonna tarry
This is my big chance, we're gonna get married

Oh, mama, daddy, can't you see
Holler's closin' in on me
Cousins pourin' down like rain
They're runnin' out of given names
It's so crowded I can't breathe
You need one less mouth to feed
Forty dozen here at home
You won't miss me when I'm gone

Looka here mama, looka here daddy
This is my true love, we're gonna get married
Ain't a gonna hem-haw, ain't a gonna tarry
This is my big chance, we're gonna get married

Oh, he's the prettiest in these hills
I don't hitch him, some gal will
You just messed up my big chance
For married bliss and true romance
Two things y'all don't realize
Shelby boys is mighty shy
And courtin' life is extra hard
If I can't keep 'em in the yard

Oh, another one gone

[Thanks to [e-mail] for lyrics]

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/patty-loveless/big-chance-16221.html

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 12:31 AM

"Ain't No Flies on Auntie," Charlie? You got lyrics you can post?
I posted Ain't No Flies on Jesus.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 09:53 AM

Sure, Joe. That ain't too hard but I probably harvested the song from Mudcat. I sing it to the tune of "The Old Gray Goose Is Dead":
THEY AIN'T NO FLIES ON AUNTIE
(As recorded by the Akins Birmingham Boys, 1929)

You think you're gonna hear a song about the deep blue sea,
But if that's running through your mind, mistaken you will be;
Now sailor songs are very nice, I'm sure you will agree,
But this is no sailor song, and you will surely see:

They ain't no flies on Auntie, on Auntie, on Auntie;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and I'll tell you the reason why:
She don't drink, nor she don't smoke,
But she likes to hear a naughty joke;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and that's the reason why.

They ain't no flies on Auntie, on Auntie, on Auntie;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and I'll tell you the reason why:
She don't condemn the girls who pet;
She says no one died from it yet.
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and that's the reason why.

They ain't no flies on Auntie, on Auntie, on Auntie;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and I'll tell you the reason why:
She drinks her liquor by the quart,
Liquor that she never bought,
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and that's the reason why.

They ain't no flies on Auntie, on Auntie, on Auntie;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and I'll tell you the reason why:
She rolls her stockings to her knees,
When she sets down, oh, you can see;
They ain't no flies on Auntie, and that's the reason why.

(Repeat last verse.)

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:09 AM

is the song "Aint Gonna Grieve No More" listed on this thread already?

That religious song interests me partly because of its use as a non-religious song.

As a kid, I remember singing that line as "Ain't Gonna Meet My Lord No More" as "Aint gonna meet my lord no more". I'd sing it along with a rhyming insult [diss; put-down] verse like this:

Oh you'll never get to heaven
with Debbie's face
cause Debbie's face
is ah disgrace.
Oh you'll never get to heaven with Debbie's face
cause Debbie's face is ah disgrace.
Aint gonna meet my lord no more.

-snip-

That's the only verse that I can remember. I don't know if we {my sisters,friends and I} sung any other verses to that song.

But I do know that we had NO idea that this song was based on a spiritual or gospel or whatever genre of African American religious song that "Aint Gonna Grieve My Lord No More" is.

By the way, as I wrote in that thread whose link I provided, I think that title is supposed to read," Ain't gonna grieve, my Lord, no more" with "my lord" being an interjection. I believe that this sentence meant that the person wasn't going to grieve anymore {for whatever reason he or she was grieving} and not that the person was going to grieve the Lord {God or Jesus} anymore.

Of course, there are some who may still disagree with this interpretation of that line.

:o}

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:17 AM

Also, is the song "Sail Away, Ladies" listed on this thread yet?

"Ain't no use to sit and cry
Sail away, ladies, sail away.
You'll be an angel by an' by,
Sail away, ladies, sail away,"

-snip-

I seem to recall writing about this song on some recent Mudcat thread, but can't remember which one.

Oh, yeah, now I remember. It was thread.cfm?threadid=102897

:o)

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:26 AM

Sorry, Fred Maslan!

I see that you posted some lines to "Aint gonna grieve my lord no more on 01 Jul 07 - 03:06 PM.

**

Hey, Bert!

I've been meaning to say I like your "Road To Nowhere" song, though I don't read music so I don't know how it sounds.

But I particularly like the words:

I lost my best gal down in Dallas
where she went to I can't tell
and I guess this road is headed nowhere
except maybe it's bound for hell

-snip-

I hope you record it soon!

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:50 AM

'Aint gonna grieve' is used as a coach trip song in the UK
The religious chorus stays there, but people make up verses, all starting will the line
You'll never get to heaven.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 12:05 PM

Hi Mo!

Were the verses to "Aint gonna grieve" song that you remember like the one I posted? Would you post an example from your memory.

Thanks!

And I suppose a coach trip song is like the USA term "bus trip" song {ie. a song sung by kids while they are riding a bus on a school trip or some other group trip}. Is that right?

Here's a link to a Mudcat thread on bus trip songs:

thread.cfm?threadid=36629
"Back of Bus Songs"

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 12:07 PM

Well I thought we must have discussed it before
this thread
Our version always started

Oh a (that word we didn't think was all that bad then, OK lets say Deacon instead) went down
echo
In a cellar to pray
echo
And the lights went out
echo
|And he stayed all day

Repeated faster without the echo
Ain't gonna grieve
My lord no more.

Chorus

Then the improvised verses
You'll never get to Heaven
In ---'s old car
'cos ---'s old car
wont go that far

etc.etc

We sang the chorus in 2 parts, half singing
Ain't gonna grie-e-e-e-ve
My Lord no mo-o-o-o-ore
Ain't goona grieve
My Lord no more
repeat

while the others sang
Ain't gonna grieve my lord,
Aint goona grieve my lord
Aint gonna grieve my lord no more
repeat.

It was sung (even by church groups) completely without any religious intention, even though the words would seem to be religious

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 08:51 AM

Thanks, Mo!

Btw, I just posted another "song" that I remembered to that "Aint Gonna Grieve No More thread" whose link you provided.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 08:38 AM

These titles are all from The Red Hot Jazz Archive:

Ain't Goin' Marry (Ain't Goin' Settle Down)
Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jellyroll
Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee in the Morning
Ain't Got Nothin' Blues
Ain't It a Shame
Ain't It a Shame about Mame
Ain't It Nice?
Ain't Love Grand?
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't Much Good in the Best of Men These Days
Ain't My Baby Grand
Ain't Nothin' Cookin' What You're Smellin'
Ain't Nothing to It
Ain't She Sweet?
Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling?
Ain't That Hateful?
Ain't That Hot?
Ain't That Too Bad?
Ain't We Got Fun
Ain't You Ashamed!
Ain't You Hot?
Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But!
Dark Man (You Ain't Gonna Darken My Life)
Everyman That Wears Bell-Bottom Britches Ain't No Monkeyman
Everything's Wrong, Ain't Nothing Right
Folks in New York City Ain't Like Folks Down South
Gonna Have You - Ain't Gonna Leave You Alone
He Ain't Got Rhythm
He Ain't Done Right by Nell
He Ain't Got Rhythm
He Ain't Never Been to College
Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South)
I Ain't 'En Got 'Er No Time to Have the Blues
I Ain't Givin' Nothin' Away Blues
I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool
I Ain't Gonna Blame It on the Blues
I Ain't Gonna Do It No More
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll
I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Break My Heart
I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus
I Ain't Gonna Marry and Settle Down
I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
I Ain't Got No Gal Now
I Ain't Got No Man
I Ain't Got Nobody (Nobody Cares For Me)
I Ain't Got Nobody Much
I Ain't Got Nobody to Love
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
I Ain't Never Had Nobody Crazy over Me
I Ain't No Ice Man
I Ain't No Man's Slave
I Ain't Nobody's Darling
I Ain't That Kind of a Baby
I Ain't That Kind of Baby
I Ain't Your Hen Mister Fly Rooster
I Don't Care Who Ain't Got Nobody
I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It You Could Have It If I Had It Blues
Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
It Ain't Necessarily So
It Ain't No Fault of Mine
It Ain't What You Usta Be
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
I've Got the Ain't Got Nothin' Never Had Nothin' Blues
Love Ain't Blind No More
Love Ain't Nothing but the Blues
Mama Don't Allow It (And She Ain't Gonna Have It Here)
My Business Ain't Right
My Handyman Ain't Handy No More
My Man Ain't Yo' Man
Now I Ain't Got Nothin' at All
Oh Sister Ain't That Hot
Oh! Eva (Ain't Ya Comin' Out Tonight?)
Ole Mammy Ain't Gonna Sing No More
Oooh, Look-A-There, Ain't She Pretty?
Sam Jones Blues (You Ain't Talkin' to Mrs. Jones)
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
That's All There Is - There Ain't No More
The Man I Got Ain't the Man I Want
There Ain't No "Maybe" In My Baby's Eyes
There Ain't No Flies on Auntie
There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland
There Ain't No Man Worth the Salt Of My Tears
They Ain't Walking No More
Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz
Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing?
You Ain't Been Livin' Right
You Ain't Gonna Feed in My Pasture
You Ain't Got Nothing I Want
You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
You Ain't Nothin' to Me
You Ain't Nowhere
You Ain't the One
You Ain't Too Old
You Ain't Treating Me Right
Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
Your Going Ain't Giving Me the Blues
Your Worries Ain't Like Mine

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 11:27 AM

Wow! Thanks for the link and listing, Jim!

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 08:45 PM

There ain't no flies on me, either.
(There may be flies on some of you guys.)

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 08:39 PM

And there may be bugs on some of you lugs, nits on some of you twits, etc.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 09:13 PM

Joe_F, I'm glad you know that girls aint got no flies.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 01:29 AM

Shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky
I ain't had no lovin
since January, February, June or July.

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 08:25 AM

These songs are listed in The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project, which is also indexed at Honking Duck.

I have tried to shorten this list by eliminating duplicates. Some of the "duplicates" I omitted had minor spelling or punctuation differences from the ones I left in:

A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird
A Nickel Ain't Worth a Cent Today
Ain't Cha Comin' Home?
Ain't Cha Comin' Out?
Ain't Cha Ever Gonna?
Ain't Cha' Glad?
Ain't Cha Got Music
Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin'
Ain't Givin' Nothin' Away
Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No Mo
Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Ain't Goin' There No More
Ain't Goin' to Do like I Used To
Ain't Going That Way
Ain't Going There No More
Ain't Going to Give You None
Ain't Going to Lay My Armor Down
Ain't Gonna Be No Doggone Afterwhile
Ain't Gonna Be Treated This
Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog
Ain't Gonna Beg You for That Stuff
Ain't Gonna Do It No More
Ain't Gonna Do That No More
Ain't Gonna Give It Away
Ain't Gonna Give None of My Jelly Roll
Ain't Gonna Give You None
Ain't Gonna Grieve My Mind No More
Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down
Ain't Gonna Lay My Receiver Down
Ain't Gonna Lay My Religion Down
Ain't Gonna Lead This Life No More
Ain't Gonna Marry No More
Ain't Gonna Stand for That
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
Ain't Gonna Wash My Face
Ain't Got a Dime Blues
Ain't Got a Dime to My Name
Ain't Got No Blues Today
Ain't Got No Gal in This Town
Ain't Got No Mama Now
Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee
Ain't Got Nothin' Blues
Ain't Got Nothin', Never Had Nothin' Blues
Ain't Got Nowhere to Lay My Head
Ain't I a Dog
Ain't I Good to You?
Ain't I Got Rosie?
Ain't I Right
Ain't I the Lucky One
Ain't It a Crime
Ain't It a Cryin' Shame
Ain't It a Good Thing
Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?
Ain't It a Pity and a Shame
Ain't It a Shame
Ain't It a Shame about Mame?
Ain't It a Shame to Keep Your Honey Out in T Rain
Ain't It a Shame to Work on Sunday
Ain't It Awful
Ain't It Funny What a Difference a Few Hours Make
Ain't It Grand to Be a Christian
Ain't It Hard to Love
Ain't It Hell, Boys?
Ain't It Just Too Bad?
Ain't It Nice
Ain't It the Truth
Ain't Life a Load of Happiness?
Ain't Love Grand
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't Much Good in the Best of Men These Days
Ain't My Baby Grand?
Ain't Nature Grand?
Ain't Never Comin' Back
Ain't No Bears in the Forest
Ain't No Business We Can Do
Ain't No Gettin' Along
Ain't No Misery in Me
Ain't No Tellin'
Ain't No Use
Ain't No Use to High Hat Me
Ain't Nobody
Ain't Nobody Got It
Ain't Nobody Got Nothin'
Ain't Nobody Home But Me
Ain't Nobody Truck Like You
Ain't Nobody's Business
Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine
Ain't Nothin' Baby Without You
Ain't Nothin' Cookin' What You're Smellin'
Ain't Nothin' Nothin' Baby
Ain't She Coming Out?
Ain't She Cute?
Ain't She Sweet?
Ain't That a Cryin' Shame?
Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling?
Ain't That a Mess
Ain't That a Shame?
Ain't That Good News
Ain't That Just Like a Man?
Ain't That Just Like a Woman
Ain't That Marvelous
Ain't That News?
Ain't That Too Bad
Ain't That Trouble in Mind?
Ain't the Gravy Good?
Ain't Trustin' Nobody No More
Ain't We Carryin' On?
Ain't We Got Fun?
Ain't You Ashamed?
Ain't You Comin' Back from California?
Ain't You Comin' Back to Dixie
Ain't You Comin' Back to Old New Hampshire
Ain't You Comin' Out Tonight?
Ain't You Comin' Out, Malinda?
Ain't You Coming Back to Dixieland?
Ain't You Got No Romance
Ain't You Had No Bringin' Up?
Ain't You Kind of Sorry Now
Ain't You Sorry Mama?
Ain't You Sorry That You Lied?
Ain't You, Baby?
Ain'tcha Comin' Out Tonight?
Ain'tcha Comin' Out?
Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back?
Ain'tcha Glad?
Ain't'cha?
Alabama Girl, Ain't You Comin' Out Tonight?
And That Ain't All
Baby I Ain't Satisfied
Baby When You Ain't There
Baby Your Time Ain't Long
Baby, Ain't You Satisfied?
Baby, When You Ain't There
Baby, Your Time Ain't Long
Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame
Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But
Bootleggin' Ain't Go No More
Charms of the City Ain't for Me
Dark Man, You Ain't Gonna Darken My Life
Don't Think It Ain't Been Charmin'
Doug Ain't Doin' the Jitterbug
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
Everything's Wrong, Ain't Nothing Right
Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long
Folks in New York City Ain't Like the Folks Down South
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Hallelujah Joe Ain't Preachin' No More
Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where
Hard, Ain't It Hard
Harlem Ain't What It Usta Be
He Ain't Done Right by Nell
He Ain't Got Rhythm
He Ain't Never Been to College
Hell Ain't But a Mile and a Quarter
Hell Ain't Half Full
Hobo Yodel #2 - Money Ain't No Use
Home Ain't Nothing Like This
I Ain't a Bit Drunk
I Ain't Afraid
I Ain't Afraid of Nuthin'
I Ain't Afraid of Nuthin' That's Alive
I Ain't Cryin' over You
I Ain't Done Nothin' to You
I Ain't Feeling So Good
I Ain't Foolin'
I Ain't Gettin' Nowhere Fast
I Ain't Givin' Nobody None
I Ain't Givin' Nothin' Away
I Ain't Goin' Honky Tonkin'
I Ain't Goin' Nowhere
I Ain't Goin' Study War No More
I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle
I Ain't Going That Way
I Ain't Going to Sell You None
I Ain't Gone Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll
I Ain't Gonna Be Nobody's Fool
I Ain't Gonna Be Worried
I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog
I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool
I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man No More
I Ain't Gonna Blame It on the Blues
I Ain't Gonna Do It
I Ain't Gonna Do It No More
I Ain't Gonna Do That No More
I Ain't Gonna Fall in Love
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll
I Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord Any More
I Ain't Gonna Grieve No More
I Ain't Gonna Have It
I Ain't Gonna Lay My Receiver Down
I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen No More
I Ain't Gonna Let Satan Turn Me 'Round
I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus
I Ain't Gonna Love You Anymore
I Ain't Gonna Marry
I Ain't Gonna Marry and Settle Down
I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
I Ain't Gonna Sin No More
I Ain't Gonna Stay Here Long
I Ain't Gonna Study War No More
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
I Ain't Gonna Worry No More
I Ain't Got Any Changin' Clothes
I Ain't Got It Bad No More
I Ain't Got Long to Stay
I Ain't Got No Body
I Ain't Got No Gal
I Ain't Got No Gal Now
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
I Ain't Got No Money Now
I Ain't Got No Roses
I Ain't Got No Sweetheart
I Ain't Got No Time to Have the Blues
I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
I Ain't Got Nobody (To Love)
I Ain't Got Nobody Much
I Ain't Got Nowhere to Travel
I Ain't Got Time
I Ain't Got Weary Yet
I Ain't Got-En No Times to Have the Blues
I Ain't Gwine Study about War No More
I Ain't Had No Lovin' for a Long, Long Time
I Ain't in Love No More
I Ain't Lazy
I Ain't Lazy - I'm Just Dreamin'
I Ain't Mad at You
I Ain't Mad with You
I Ain't Much Good But What I Got, Oh My
I Ain't Never Had Nobody Crazy over Me
I Ain't No Better Now
I Ain't No Good
I Ain't No Ice Man
I Ain't No Man's Slave
I Ain't No Sinner Now
I Ain't No Stranger Now
I Ain't Nobody's Darling
I Ain't Nobody's Fool
I Ain't Prepared for That
I Ain't Puttin' Out
I Ain't Puttin' Out Nothin' Blues
I Ain't Satisfied
I Ain't Settin' Where I Was
I Ain't Skeered of Work
I Ain't Sleepy
I Ain't Takin' Orders from No One
I Ain't Talkin'
I Ain't That Kind of Baby
I Ain't Thinkin' about You
I Ain't Your Hen Mister Fly Rooster
I Ain't-a-Gonna Grieve
I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long
I Feel My Time Ain't Long
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
I Know My Time Ain't Long
I May Be Crazy But I Ain't No Fool
If It Ain't Love
If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another
If It Ain't That Gal of Mine
If You Ain't Lovin'
I'm Askin' Ye Ain't It the Truth?
I'm Going Where the Blues Ain't Never Known
I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It
Is It Is or Is It Ain't
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
It Ain't a Doggone Thing But the Blues
It Ain't Clean
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
It Ain't Killed Nobody Yet
It Ain't Like That
It Ain't Necessarily So
It Ain't No Fault of Mine
It Ain't No Good
It Ain't No Lie
It Ain't No Use
It Ain't No Use to Worry Anymore
It Ain't Nobody's Bizness
It Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do
It Ain't Nothin' Happenin'
It Ain't Right
It Ain't Right to Treat Me Wrong
It Ain't What You Do
It Ain't What You Usta Be
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
It Still Ain't No Good
I've Got a Gal and She Ain't No Good
Jive and Smile (Ain't Gonna Be No Afterwhile)
King Ain't King No More
Lady, Your Clock Ain't Right
Life Ain't Worth Livin' When You're Broke
Lonesome Trail Ain't Lonesome Anymore
Looka There, Ain't She Pretty
Love Ain't Blind No More
Love Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
Love Ain't Worryin' Me
Mabel Ain't Able
Mama Ain't Cookin' Today
Man Ain't Nothing But a Fool
Man I Got Ain't the Man I Want
Money Ain't No Use Anyhow
Money Ain't No Use Anyway
Mountains Ain't No Place for Bad Men
My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More
My Horses Ain't Hungry
My Man Ain't Yo' Man
My Name Is Morgan, But It Ain't J. P.
My Time Ain't Long
My Woman Ain't Pretty
New York Ain't New York Any More
Now I Ain't Got Nothing at All
Oh Eva (Ain't You Comin' Out Tonight?)
Oh Sister Ain't That Hot
Old Grey Horse Ain't What He Used to Be
Old Grey Mule You Ain't What You Used To
Ole Mammy Ain't Gonna Sing No More
Ooh Looka There Ain't She Pretty
Papa Ain't No Santa Claus
Poor and Ain't Got a Dime
Religion Ain't Nothing to Play With
She Ain't Built That Way
She Ain't No Gal of Mine
She Ain't Right
She's Sweet (Ain't She Sweet)
Sin Ain't Nothin'
Six Months Ain't Long
Six Months in Jail Ain't Long
Some Days There Just Ain't No Fish
'Tain't a Cow in Texas
'Tain't a Doggone Thing
'Tain't a Doggone Thing But the Blues
'Tain't a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast
'Tain't Cold
'Tain't Good
'Tain't Good, Like a Nickel Made of Wood
'Tain't Me
'Tain't No Good
'Tain't No Lie
'Tain't No Sin
'Tain't No Tellin' What the Blues Will Make You Do
'Tain't No Use
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
'Tain't Nobody's Fault But Yours
'Tain't Nothin' Else But Jazz
'Tain't Nuthin' Else But
'Tain't So
'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So
'Tain't What You Do
'Tain't What You Do But How You Do It
'Tain't What You Pay to Get a Thing
'Tain't What You Used to Have
Tell Me Little Gal, Ain't I Your Feller?
That Ain't Right
That Ain't the Way I Dreamed It
That Stuff Ain't No Good
That Stuff You Sell Ain't No Good
That's All There Is There Ain't No More
The Band Ain't Draggin'
The Blues Ain't Nothin' But
The Devil Ain't Lazy
The Gal Ain't Born That Can Treat Me Like You Do
The Half Ain't Never Been Told
The Horse Ain't Got Much Sense
The Lonesome Trail Ain't Lonesome Any More
The Man Ain't Born (Who Can Treat Me Like You Do)
There Ain't Any Chorus to This Song
There Ain't Gonna Be An After Awhile
There Ain't Gonna Be No Doggone Afterwhile
There Ain't Gonna Be No Me
There Ain't No Bugs on Me
There Ain't No Flies on Auntie
There Ain't No Flies on Me
There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland to Me
There Ain't No Lovin' Like Mine
There Ain't No Man in the Moon
There Ain't No Man Worth the Salt of My Tears
There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes
There Ain't No Moonlight
There Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears
There Ain't No Use in Crying
There Ain't No Use in Crying Now
There Ain't Nobody Got It Like She's Got It
They Ain't Walking No More
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
This Ain't No Place for Me
This Ain't the Blues
Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stand Still
Times Ain't Like They Used to Be
Times Ain't What They Used to Be
Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More
We Ain't Goin' Nowhere
We Ain't Got Nuthin' to Lose
Welcome on the Mat Ain't Meant for You
Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz?
Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing?
What's He Got That I Ain't Got
Why Ain't I Got No Sweetheart?
Why I Ain't Got No Sweetheart
Yankee Doodle Ain't Doodlin'
Yes, There Ain't No Moonlight
You Ain't Been Doin' Right
You Ain't Been Living Right
You Ain't Done Nothing to Me
You Ain't Foolin' Me
You Ain't Gonna Feed in My Pasture Now
You Ain't Gonna Givin' Me the Blues
You Ain't Got Faith
You Ain't Got No Romance
You Ain't Got Nothin' I Want
You Ain't Got Sense
You Ain't Had No Blues
You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
You Ain't Livin' Right
You Ain't No Relation of Mine
You Ain't Nothin' to Me
You Ain't Nothing But the Blues
You Ain't Nowhere
You Ain't Quittin' Me Without 2 Weeks Notice
You Ain't Talkin' to Me
You Ain't the Last Man
You Ain't Too Old
You Ain't Treatin' Me Right
You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love
You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't No Love
You Think She Ain't
Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash
Your Worries Ain't Like Mine

Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 07:43 AM

Wow! Thanks, Jim for finding that resource and eliminating duplicates!

That list and other songs & rhymes on this thread which that list maker somehow omitted, prove at least one thing- people who say "Ain't ain't a word" don't know what they're talking about.

:o)