discuss: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (Prine)

Subject: What's this song? What in the world etc
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 02:41 PM

Can you help me with this song? It starts, What in the world has come over you? What in heavens name have you done?

Subject: RE: What's this song? What in the world etc
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 02:53 PM

John Prine: Speed of the Sound of Lonliness.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: What's this song? What in the world etc
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 03:06 PM

Click here for the lyrics, available at The John Prine Shrine.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's this song? What in the world etc
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 05:35 PM

So that's what it was! Thanks very much.

Subject: hello in there
From: Rasta
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM

Howdy buckaroos and buckaretts--I know john prine wrote hello in there but Im looking for the words to another tune. (So what in the worlds come over you what in heavens name have you done, -----yer out there runnin just to be on the run.----Nancy Griffith did it on one of her cover projects. Im not sure of the title and could not find the lyrics on the data. can anyone help me on this one======thanx and happy 4-th Rastaaaaaaaa

Subject: RE: hello in there
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 01:33 PM

The title is: "SPEED OF THE SOUND OF LONELINESS". Try one the search engines for John Prine. Happy 4th to you you also..........

Subject: RE: hello in there
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 01:41 PM

This may help too. Speed of etc;

Subject: RE: hello in there
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 05:49 PM

Address seems to have changed. I went here:John Prine Shrine. Happy hunting!

Sandy

Subject: RE: hello in there
From: Night Owl
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 01:21 AM

Rasta..I have this on a Nancy Griffith tape...if you haven't found the lyrics by Monday, I'll try to post them or send them to you.

Subject: Posting songs readily available elsewhere
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 03:07 PM

Hi, Night Owl - sometimes, I think it would be a great idea to post the lyrics of every John Prine song here, along with everything by Greg Brown, John McCutcheon, Gordon Bok, and a host of others. The Prine Shrine that Sandy linked to has a pretty complete collection of Prine lyrics, so maybe it's not necessary to post them here, and it's more appropriate to post links. It's certainly not inappropriate to post Prine songs here, if you like, especially if there's a discussion of the song going on. What do other people think?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: hello in there
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 04:44 PM

Joe,

I think the Prine Shrine is a wonderful resource. I also suspect that it is someone's volunteer work and is not organizationally supported. That means it could "go under" at any time.

When I go back to old threads in a search I commonly run across links that go nowhere because the site no longer exists.

Therefore, I think the DT should keep Prine songs as whenever they come up on a thread. That way his most popular work will get posted. I would not send Dick off to copy the whole Prine Shrine. Not every song John did was wonderful.

Big RiB (and a real Prine fan)

Subject: the sound of loneliness
From: GUEST,marsh hawk
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:14 PM

Hi all; anyone out there have the words to John Prine's song; "The Speed of the Sound of Lonliness" (your out there running just to be on the run)?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the sound of loneliness
From: Bluegrass Girl
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:28 PM

Yep! Here they are:

You come home late And you come home early You come on big When you're feelin' small You come home straight And you come home curly Sometimes you don't come home at all

Chorus:

So what in the world's come over you? What in heaven's name have you done? You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You're out there runnin' Just to be on the run

Well, I got a heart that burns with a fever And I got a worried and a jealous mind Well how can a love That will last forever Get left so far behind?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the sound of loneliness
From: Midchuck
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:32 PM

Here's a site with all his lyrics, it looks like.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the sound of loneliness
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:39 PM

Thank you all for such a quick and helpfull response. marsh-hawk

Subject: RE: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (Prine)
From:
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 01:03 PM

thanks to all contributers for the words.

Peter.