Lyr Req: Rosie (Richard Digance)

Subject: Drinking with Rosie - Lyrics wanted
From:
Date: 21 Apr 97 - 05:07 PM

The chorus goes ...

Everyone wanted to be drinking with Rosie But Rosie was drinking with me She didn't have eyes for good-looking guys I was the apple of her old mince pies Everyone wanted to be drinking with Rosie But Rosie was drinking with me.

I know there are several verses, but I know none of them! Help would be wonderful.

Cheers!

Subject: Lyr Add: ROSIE (Richard Digance)
From:
Date: 22 Apr 97 - 06:31 PM

The version below says "Roving Spies" I think mince pies is probably much more accurate if the piece is Cockney rhyming slang.

ROSIE
(Richard Digance)

(Try to draw out the last 4 syllables of the 6th line of each verse. If you sight read music just imagine it said rit. at the 4th last syllable. If you can manage a Cockney accent that can be quite effective too.)

CHORUS: Everyone wanted to go drinking with Rosie,
When Rosie went drinking with me.
She never had eyes for good looking guys
I was the apple of her roving spies.
Everyone wanted to go drinking with Rosie,
When Rosie went drinking with me.

Ever since I was a nipper I had this here wish
To marry a woman who could drink like a fish.
I'd need no excuses for staying out late
Cause she'd be in an equally 'orrible state.
When I'd hit the beer My Rosie'd hit the gin.
She'd just tip back her head and she'd shovel it in.
And she would sing songs that a girl shouldn't sing.
When Rosie went drinking with me. CHORUS

Every Saturday night we'd have a good scrub.
And go for a brew down at the pub.
We'd have a few brews and a bit of a croon.
And no one would care if you sang out of tune. (Sing the word tune off key.)
Now Old Joe's piano was as old as could be.
And the lady wot played it was a hundred and three.
She'd play a handfull of tunes in no particular key.
When Rosie went drinking with me. CHORUS.

Now a fellow once said she should drink from a trough
And in no uncertain way she told him where to get off
After she'd clocked him we counted to ten.
We helped him back up and then she knee'd him again.
That's one thing for Rosie, she done a good job.
Now that gentleman wishes he'd never opened his gob.
She'd take on the whole pub for a couple of bob.
When Rosie went drinking with me. CHORUS

Lets have another. (Again draw it out like the 6th lines.)
When Rosie went drinking with me.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 29-May-02.

Subject: RE: Drinking with Rosie - Lyrics wanted
From:
Date: 25 Apr 97 - 03:18 PM

"her old mince pies" (=eyes)

Subject: RE: Drinking with Rosie - Lyrics wanted
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 26 Apr 97 - 10:05 AM

Hi- Anyone know where we can find the tune?

Subject: RE: Drinking with Rosie - Lyrics wanted
From:
Date: 26 Apr 97 - 01:13 PM

Back in 1988 the house band for the Calgary Folk Club recorded a cassette entitled "Come as a Stranger Leave as a Friend" They now refer to it as "The Green Grenade" (I think because it bombed so badly and has a green label.)

Rosie is on side 1.

Do you need an address? I will double check and post if you need it. Their latest CD lists the e-mail address for Graham Jones who died last June so I better check all other details first.

Frank Phillips

Subject: Take Me Back To Tulsa: lyrics request
From:
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 08:34 PM

Does anyone have the lyrics that go with this old fiddle tune?

Subject: RE: Take Me Back To Tulsa: lyrics request
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 09:29 PM

Who's that gal with the red dress on?
Some folks call her Diana.
Stole my heart away
From way down in Louisiana.

CHORUS: Take me back to Tulsa, boys. I'm too young to marry.
Take me back to Tulsa. I'm too young to marry.

Little bee sucks the blossom.
Big bee gets the honey.
Little man raises cotton.
Big man gets the money.

Travel all the country round,
Playing by the hour.
Always have a great big smile.
Never do look sour.

Not to sure about the last verse, & I think you repeat the first verse. This may be by Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys.

Subject: RE: Take Me Back To Tulsa
From: Les Blank
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 09:36 PM

Also recorded by "Asleep at the Wheel", the second best Western swing band that ever wuz !!

Subject: RE: Take Me Back To Tulsa
From: Dale Rose
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 11:24 PM

For a very interesting sound, check "Walkin' Georgia Rose" by the Pelican Wildcats [1931] on the Roots and Blues Retrospective CD box. [Columbia C4K 47911] No words, but quite certainly the string band source for "Tulsa"