Lyr Req: Circle (Edie Brickell)

Subject: Help finding a song!
From: GUEST,ashley
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:45 PM

About a year ago I heard a song that I fell in love with..i just heard it for the 2nd time about a week ago but i cannot find the artist or song title. Some of the lyrics are "I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems...by myself, is the best way to be, all alone, where no one can say goodbye." I would greatly appreciate anyone's help.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From: mousethief
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:48 PM

Can you give us a little more info -- is this a pop tune, a C&W tune, a celtic folk thing, or....? Did you hear it performed live, or on a recording? If the latter, was the singer male or female?

Thanks and good luck,
Alex

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From:
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 12:14 AM

I have been trying to find the following music or at least the words. My Mother use to sing these songs to me when I was a little girl but I am not sure what the titles were. One of the verse's was "Stay or (play) in your own back yard" Another verse was Lilac trees are blooming.... Another song had the verse in it "Underneath the old Umbrella" I wish I could remember the rest of these two songs. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Peggy

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:24 AM

Hi, Peggy - I found sheet music for Stay in Your Own Backyard (click) at The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.

I'm wondering if "Underneath the Old Umbrella" comes from "Strolling in the Rain," one of the Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads written by Robert W. Service, the guy who wrote the "Cremation of Sam McGee. Am I right?

Didn't have any luck with the request from Ashley.

-Joe Offer (e-mail sent to Peggy)-

Subject: Lyr Add: CIRCLE (Edie Brickell)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:47 AM

Oh, Ashley - I should have known your song right off - it's called "Circle," but Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. You can find the lyrics here (click). It's from the album "Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars." Didn't she get married to Paul Simon? I liked a lot of her early stuff.
-Joe Offer-

Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends
And we notice you don't come around
Me, I think it all depends
On you touching ground with us but
I quit I give up
Nothing's good enough for anybody else
It seems and
I quit I give up
Nothing's good enough for anybody else
It seems

And being alone is the, is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

Everything is temporary anyway
When the streets are wet
The colors slip into the sky
But I don't know why that means you and I are
that means you and
I quit, I give up
nothing's good enough for anybody else
it seems
I quit, I give up
nothing's good enough for anybody else
it seems

And being alone is the, is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say

Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends
And we notice you don't come around

(I believe the songwriter is Edie Brickell)

Subject: ADD: Strolling in the Rain
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 03:59 AM

Strolling in the Rain
(Robert W. Service)

I am blue when skies are blue And glad when skies are grey,
And I'd like to sing to you Why I feel that way.
When it's bright I have no right To wait for Elsie Jane,
But when it's damp I'll take my gamp To shield her from the rain.

There's a juicy burg, they call Duckville by the sea,
When it's raining every day, Oh, That's the place for me.
There I'll stand a better chance Of sparking Elsie Jane,
And sweetly rounding that romance That started in the rain.

If her name for mine she'll trade And little ones arrive,
An umbrella I'll have made To shelter four or five.
When it's wet I will not fret For in the school-house lane,
They'll welcome me with hearts of glee And singing this refrain.

Chorus:
Oh - strolling with my sweetie in the rain
I hope the sun will never shine again.
Oh I am a happy fellow underneath my old umbrella,
As strolling with my sweetie in the rain.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From:
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 04:21 AM

I am looking for a song that was written by the same author that wrote the " The Hills of Athenry". The verses start off like this......In an Irish town (village)? there lived a girl...Fairer than....Chorus..There she goes...ring and rose or rings and roses and there is something about Dublin.

I would appreciate a help in locating the words .

many thanks in advance!

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From: Brendy
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 05:45 AM

I can only think of one Pete St. John song that matches your criteria, Phyllis, and it is:
Dublin City in the Rare Ould Times ~ Click Here ~

B.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding a song!
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 10:00 AM

An efficient thread!