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Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming Related threads: Lyr Req: '...comin' home with the crabs' (4) Shrimp Boats (8) |
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Subject: shrimp boats are a-coming From: sam@hendersonuk.com Date: 19 Nov 99 - 03:16 PM Hello, Can you help? My mum is staying with us right now. She is looking for the lyrics to a song that her choir want to sing in choral festival in July next year here in the UK. She knows that some of the lyrics go "shrimp boats are a-comin'" "won't you hurry hurry hurry home" She would really like to know the rest of the lyrics, but we couldn't find it on the Digitrad based on our present limited knowledge of lyrics. Sam |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: MMario Date: 19 Nov 99 - 03:35 PM Sung by doris day in some movie or another... the lyrics are HERE url:http://roughstock.com/cowpie/cowpie-songs/m/misc/shrimpboats.lyr MMario |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 20 Nov 99 - 12:38 PM And a big hit for Jo Stafford. Anybody perchance have the chords? |
Subject: ADD: Shrimp Boats From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Nov 99 - 11:33 AM The song is by Paul Mason Howard and Paul Weston (husband of Jo Stafford). It was copyrighted in 1951 by the Walt Disney Music Company - could it have been in a Disney movie? Here are the chords I found in a Hal Leonard fake book (measures are separated by slashes with spaces). You may find these chords impossible, but that's what the book provides. -Joe Offer- SHRIMP BOATS |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Sam Date: 23 Nov 99 - 04:55 PM Thank you to those who responded to my request. My mother was pleased to receive your help. Thanks especially to Joe who typed out all the lyrics and chords. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: seagoddess Date: 24 Nov 99 - 11:40 AM Oh, my gawd! One of my favorite childhood songs! I want to include it in my new repertoire, but can only recall the chorus tune. Does anyone know if the lyrics tune is the same/similar? Can't find a site with a sound bite for this -- has anyone else? seagoddess |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,Emma Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:17 AM I have this song as sheet music,,anybody interested??? email me emi_lu@hotmail.co.uk |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:26 AM I love this song. Thanks for all the info. I have it on a cd of Jo Staffords greatest hits. I did not know it came from a film or that Doris Day ever sang it, is that true. Would like to hear her version. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,Jim Martin Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:48 AM I remember this song from hearing it on the old BBC radio Light Programme (now Radio 2) when I was a kid in the '50's. Loved it (still do)! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Apr 07 - 08:37 AM Immortalised by Derek Brimstone as,' don't go down to the shrimp boats mother - fathers come home with the crabs.' |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Celtaddict Date: 09 Apr 07 - 09:01 AM I heard this countless times as a kid, from my folks who were big show-tune fans. I seem to recall a verse to this (to a wholly different melody; a bridge?) that went Johnny the fisher[man][boy?] sailed out to sea And his mother is waving goodbye; Johnny come home, Johnny come home As the sun rises high in the sky And she waits for the day she can cry, Look here, the Shrimp boats is a-comin'. . . |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 07 - 11:21 AM This was not recorded by Doris Day nor was it, as far as I can find out, ever part of a film. Other than Jo Stafford is was recorded by Delores Gray. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: ThreeSheds Date: 09 Apr 07 - 02:28 PM Anyone remember Pedro the Fisherman? He kept on whistling a merry tune |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Apr 07 - 04:11 PM Brilliant recollection by Alan Bennet in his memoirs of an entertainment laid on for kids in Leeds during the war - some sea scouts whistling Pedro the Fisherman. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,Wobinson Date: 27 Apr 08 - 07:16 PM I have a vague recollection of the movie from which this song came, but I have searched and searched for it. Anybody have the movie title, maybe the studio, or other info? BTW the Jo Stafford rendition of the song is available over usenet. I just DL'ed it recently. Corny song (shrimp boats haven't used sails since WW1, AFAIK, and I was a shrimper for many years) but I really want to track down that movie. I don't want it to fall into that void where lost movies go. -Wobinson- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Bob Bolton Date: 27 Apr 08 - 11:36 PM Err... G'day Wobinson, I'm just glancing in at the 'Cat during lunchtime at work ... Wasn't this sung in Carousel? I seem to remember it being one of the few films i got to see, in my impecunious childhood! Regard(les)s, Bob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 28 Apr 08 - 12:52 AM I remember Jo Stafford singing it, but, at a later time, I 'seem' to remember it from a film as well. Just a quirky memory? Couldn't find anything on the net about a film. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Apr 08 - 02:37 AM Hi, Bob - The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel was set in Maine. It has songs reminiscent of the style of "Shrimp Boats" (particularly the one about the clam bake), but I don't think there's any shrimping on the New England coast. The best-known U.S. shrimp fishery is from New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico, but U.S. shrimp boats also fish the Atlantic and the Pacific Northwest. My Great Song Thesaurus usually makes not of it if a song has been used in a movie. In this case, it there's no movie citation. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: Arkie Date: 28 Apr 08 - 11:26 AM You can find Jo Stafford singing Shrimp Boats and lots of other good songs here: Shrimp Boats |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,Joybubbles Date: 06 Feb 09 - 06:52 PM You can find the sheet music at my ebay site this evening. Find listing for "joybubbles." Thanx! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: shrimp boats are a-coming From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 06 Feb 09 - 07:20 PM Gee, they could have used that one in "Forrest Gump." Sad to say, I clearly remember Jo Stafford singing that song on the radio when it came out. Another song from the same era, though unrelated and more "down home," is Hank Williams' "Jambalaya." |
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