Lyr Add: Songs by Lou & Peter Berryman

Subject: Lyr Add: HOMELESSNESS (Lou & Peter Berryman)
From: open mike
Date: 27 May 20 - 02:55 AM

HOMELESSNESS
Words, Peter Berryman; music, Lou Berryman.
As recorded by Lou & Peter Berryman on "Some Days" (2005)

I never dreamed I'd ever be
Without a home to comfort me
'Til a friend of mine this very spring
Lost his whole house and everything.
So now I know that life is strange,
That all is luck and luck can change,
And don't forget, it's sad but true,
The next time around it could be you.

One runaway truck,
One slip in the muck,
One stretch of bad luck,
Homelessness.
One family feud,
One litigious old prude,
One long bad mood,
Homelessness.
One toaster too hot,
One investment that's not,
One tiny blood clot;
Homelessness.
One decision on gin,
One paycheck too thin,
One dumb night of sin,
Homelessness.

My poor old pal is on the street,
It's extra sad 'cause he's so sweet,
But even if he were a creep,
The lug should have a place to sleep.
So anyway, it's really true,
That the next time around it could be you,
And when you say, "How can it be?"
It could be worse, it could be me.

One letter too strong,
One adventure gone wrong,
One sick-leave too long,
Homelessness.
One knock on the door,
One slippery floor,
One nuclear war,
Homelessness.
One slip of the pen,
One downsizing trend,
One back-stabbing friend,
Homelessness.
One identity thief,
One flaky belief,
One slice of bad beef,
Homelessness.

Once I did agree with you,
That fiscal plans make dreams come true.
Now I know that I was nuts,
That fate is king and fate's a putz,
But now I'd say that you'd be smart,
To squirrel away a shopping cart,
And if they ever change your locks,
Mi cardboard box, su cardboard box;
My cardboard box, your cardboard box.


Performance on YouTube

lyrics found here

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Lou & Peter Berryman
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 10:38 PM

Looks like I'd better post "Dem Deer"

Subject: Lyr Add: DEM DEER (Lou & Peter Berryman)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 11:50 PM

DEM DEER
(Peter and Lou Berryman)

Hope you don’t mind when an old man sings
Helps me to keep my mind on t’ings
So when I go where the animals thrive
I sing dis song on the treacherous drive
A - - - / - - E A ?

Dem deer dey’re here, den dey’re dere
Dey’re here, dey’re dere, dey’re everywhere (repeat)

At dawn in fields & coniferous groves
Bucks & does come alive in droves
Just when you think that the coast is clear
There in the road is a whitetail deer

In venison-land as the day goes by
Deer lay low when the sun is high
Sun goes down & de night draws near
Twilight brings out the whitetail deer

Bucks bed down where de tall grass grows
Fawns dey doze where de doe does doze
Dose does doze dere, dose does doze here
And dose are de habits of de whitetail deer

——w & m: Lou & Peter Berryman
© 2005 Lou & Peter Berryman (SESAC). On their Some Days, Stay Tuned String

Subject: Lyr Add: AUNT EMILY (Lou & Peter Berryman)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 May 21 - 01:16 AM

My transcription. You can hear this on YouTube


AUNT EMILY
As recorded by Lou & Peter Berryman on “Some Kinda Funny” (1998)

1. Songbirds at night never let out a peep.
Fishes are silent way down in the deep.
Cows are all quiet and so are the sheep,
But my dear aunt Emily sings in her sleep.

CHORUS: She sings: “Oh-la-la-la, Figaro, fa-mi-re-do.
You are my sunshine, the valley so low,
Over the river and rosin the beau.”
She sings: “Oh-la-la-la, Figaro, fa-mi-re-do.”

2. The windows were open one evening in June.
A family of bears heard aunt Emily croon.
They perked up their ears and they followed the tune,
Surrounding our house by the light of the moon.

CHORUS: They heard: “Oh-la-la-la....”

3. They climbed in our windows and danced on our chairs
While crunching our pretzels and sucking our pears.
In time uncle Walter came running downstairs,
And that’s how he fell into waltzing with bears.

CHORUS: To the “Oh-la-la-la....”

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

CHORUS: “Oh-la-la-la....”

4. Although she’s been singing since I don’t know when,
The dancing downstairs wakes her up now and then.
The bears must wait quietly down in the den
Until my aunt Emily drifts off again

CHORUS: And sings: “Oh-la-la-la....”