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21 Oct 99 - 04:07 AM (#126264) Subject: female reply to song 'He'll Have to Go' From: SingsIrish Songs I have a vague recollection of hearing such a song years ago...when I was a kid... I think it might have been the same melody--and definitely the female's reply to the song "He'll Have to Go" (ya know--Jim Reeves)..."Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone..." Can anyone help me with the lyrics? Thanks muchly. Mary Kate |
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22 Oct 99 - 07:14 AM (#126713) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: Allan C. It was simply titled, "He'll Have To Stay". I cannot remember the artist. |
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22 Oct 99 - 08:12 AM (#126724) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: Wolfgang after the big help from Allan it was easy to locate in Cowpie: click for the direct link Wolfgang |
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22 Oct 99 - 02:37 PM (#126879) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: SingsIrish Songs THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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22 Oct 99 - 10:48 PM (#127041) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: rich r There is a 3-CD set chock a block full of these types of song pairings called "...And The Answer Is:" Vol 1-3. The Jim Reeves/ Jeannie Black piar is on Vol 3. rich r |
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22 Oct 99 - 11:43 PM (#127076) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: Gene A few of the ANSWER songs * www.cddb.com * Various Artists/And The Answer Is 1960s Ballad Of A Teenage Queen/Johnny Cash Return Of The Teenage Queen/Tommy Tucker Charlie's Shoes/Billy Walker The Answer To Charlie's Shoes/Jonie & Johnny Mosby He'll Have To Go/Jim Reeves He'll Have To Stay/Jeannie Black She's Got You/Patsy Cline She Can Have You/Judy Almost Persuaded/David Houston (He Was) Almost Persuaded/Donna Harris Detroit City/Bobby Bare Why Don'tcha Come Home/Shirley Ray Wolverton Mountain/Claude King I'm The Girl From Wolverton Mountain/Jo Ann Campbell Walk On By/Leroy Van Dyke I'll Just Walk On By/Margie Singleton Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town/Kenny Rogers Billy, I've Got To Go To Town/Geraldine Stevens King Of The Road/Roger Miller Queen Of The House/Jody Miller 500 Miles Away From Home/Bobby Bare He's Comin' Home/Mary Taylor Evil On Your Mind/Jan Howard Evil Off My Mind/Burl Ives Please Help Me I'm Fallin'/Hank Locklin (I Can't Help You) I'm Fallin' Too/Skeeter Davis Good Hearted Woman/Willie Nelson Good Hearted Man/Connie Cato Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line/Waylon Jennings Only Mama That'll Walk The Line/Jean Shepard |
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23 Oct 99 - 04:01 AM (#127108) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to song 'He'll Have to From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au And my favorite is "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells--an answer to "Wild Side of Life" by Hank Thompson. There is also "Hello Fool" by Ralph Emery--in answer to "Hello Walls" by Farron Young In the case of the Kitty Wells one. I like the answer better than the original--mostly because of the better instrumentation. Murray |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:12 PM (#1069881) Subject: Lyr Add: HE'LL HAVE TO GO (Joe & Audrey Allison) From: Jim Dixon Looks like this has never been posted at Mudcat. It might as well go here. HE'LL HAVE TO GO (Joe Allison and Audrey Allison) Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's pretend that we're together, all alone. I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low, And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go. Whisper to me. Tell me, do you love me true, Or is he holding you the way I do? Though love is blind, make up your mind. I've got to know. Should I hang up, or will you tell him he'll have to go? You can't say the words I want to hear while you're with another man. If you want me, answer "yes" or "no." Darling, I will understand. REPEAT FIRST VERSE [A hit for Jim Reeves, 1960.] |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:14 PM (#1069883) Subject: Lyr Add: HE'LL HAVE TO GO (Homer & Jethro) From: Jim Dixon And now the parody: Lyrics transcribed from the sound file at http://www.geocities.com/u2page5/ HE'LL HAVE TO GO (As sung by Homer & Jethro) Put your big mouth a little closer to the phone. Don't you try to tell me that you're all alone. You only go out with your friends. You told me so. But you don't have no enemies. You'll have to go. The tomcat said, when he kissed the skunk, "Though it's been grand, I've enjoyed all of this that I can stand." You said you'd stick with me through thick and thin, I know. The longer you stick, the thinner I get. You'll have to go. When your mother came to visit us, she would knock, then knock again. You and me would always have a fuss, 'cause I wouldn't let her in. Oh, put your fat mouth a little closer to the phone. Don't you try to tell me that you're all alone. The man with you must be a navy man, I know, And you can tell him the coast is clear now; he'll have to go. [Recorded by Homer & Jethro on "At The Convention," 1962; "Humorous Side of Country Music," 1963; "Ooh, That's Corny," 1963; "The Best of Homer & Jethro," 1966 and 1996; and "Country Comedy," 1971.] |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:18 PM (#1069886) Subject: ADDPOP: He'll Have to Stay From: Joe Offer Well, we have the others, so I guess we ought to have the requested song for comparison. This is from the Cowpie link provided above. -Joe Offer. HE'LL HAVE TO STAY Recorded by Jeannie Black/Lyrics by Charles Grean (Original words and music by Audrey Allison and Joe Allison) CAPO: 3rd Fret/KEY: Bb/PLAY: G [G] I am glad you've finally [C] called me on the [G] phone I've been waiting here tonight but not a-[D7] lone You broke the [G] date that we had [G7] made just yester-[C] day [Am] Now there's [G] someone else who's [D7] here, he'll have to [G] stay I have found another love I know is true And he holds me much more tenderly than you Loving you's not worth the price I have to pay Someone else is in your place, he'll have to stay. Once I [C] loved you with all my heart But [G] now I must say no You [C] broke my heart too many times So [G] now you'll have to [D7] go. I can hear the jukebox playing soft and low And you're out again with someone else, I know My love was blind, i'm not your kind that's all I'll say So you can hang up, I'm in his arms, he'll have to stay. TAG: Now someone else is in your place, he'll have to stay. |
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11 Dec 03 - 05:15 AM (#1070073) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: GUEST,MC Fat South Yorkshire version Put your sweet lips little closer to t'phone lets pretend that were together by us sens I'll tell yon youth to put t'jukebox way down t'low and you can tell that pillock with you he can f*ck off |
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11 Dec 03 - 10:14 AM (#1070246) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: PoppaGator Looks to me like all the original/answer pairs of songs listed above are from the country-and-western genre. I know there are plenty of similar sets of tunes in the rhythm-and-blues archives as well; I wish I could list a bunch of them off the top of my head, but can't. "Annie Had A Baby," sometimes cited as the "first" R&B or R&R single, inspired at least one answer song, and there have been plenty of similar answers and follow-ups ever since. Anyone out there inclined to do the research? Many (maybe most) of these answer songs were quickly and deservedly forgotten, but many others emerged as memorable in their own right, like "He'll Have to Stay." In a very few instances, the answer became a bigger hit and/or more memorable song than the original -- "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells is a good example. Murray, I'm sure you're not the only one who prefers that answer to the original that inspired it. |
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12 May 08 - 07:16 AM (#2338220) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: Mr Happy Great version here from Ry Cooder http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzFVp4HvqI |
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12 May 08 - 10:04 AM (#2338336) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: GUEST,leeneia Ah, the culture of small town, small time people! So she's home and there's a man with her. It never occurs to him (or the parody writers) that the man could be her brother, her adult son, the plumber or a Jehovah's Witness on the porch. No, everything is about sex and jealousy. Could the fact that he's calling from a bar have anything to do with it? |
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12 May 08 - 06:24 PM (#2338746) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: McGrath of Harlow The original is a song open to different scenarios. It could well be a female who's supposed to be singing the song in any case? Or, for that matter, it might be a male at both ends of the line... |
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12 May 08 - 06:32 PM (#2338754) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: GUEST leeneia, you say small town, small time people assume it's always about sex, that they never consider that the man with her could be her brother, her adult son, the plumber or a Jehovah's Witness on the porch. Let's not US be too quick to jump to conclusions either. In some regions, it might be one of those guys you mention and STILL be about sex and jealousy. |
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12 May 08 - 06:33 PM (#2338756) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: GUEST,Genie (Wha hoppen ma cookie?) Oops! Forgot I wasn't logged in. That last bit of irreverence was mine. Genie |
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12 May 08 - 06:41 PM (#2338766) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: PoppaGator Well, the singer's being in a bar DOES have something to do with the state of the relationship in question, and I think we (the audience) are supposed to take that under consideration, whether or not the singer (i.e., the character he represents) is fully conscious. I really don't think we're supposed to believe that the singer just happened to see a male person at the woman's house, and that he might be misinterpreting an entirely innocent and coincidental meeting. No, he's calling her and knows the guy is there even though he's elsewhere and can't see, because the guy is always there, or at least has been most evenings lately. Which came first ~ the man's exile to a barroom, or the woman's taking up with another? Could be either way, which in turn would gtell us which partner is more to blame for thye break. Of course, it's almost always true that both share in the culpability. |
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12 May 08 - 10:08 PM (#2338901) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: Lin in Kansas Fer God's sake, Leenia--it's a COUNTRY song!! Those aren't small town, small time people, they're just flippin' COUNTRY! You know what you get if you play a country record backwards? You get your truck fixed, your dog comes home, your girlfriend's not pregnant anymore, and your beer mug is full... Lin |
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13 May 08 - 08:53 AM (#2339183) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: wordfella And you get out of jail... |
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13 May 08 - 09:28 AM (#2339210) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: Mr Happy '.............she'll have to come ??' |
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13 May 08 - 09:34 AM (#2339212) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: Bonnie Shaljean Adding on to Gene's October 99 post about pairs of songs & answering-songs, does anybody remember: Roses Are Red, My Love / Bobby Vinton Long As The Rose Is Red / Florraine Darlin |
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13 May 08 - 03:05 PM (#2339531) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: Dave Roberts Carole King wrote an answer to the lovestruck Neil Sedaka's 'Oh Carol' which he wrote for her when they were both very young songwriters at, possibly, Capitol Records? She used the same tune and, daringly, rhymed 'Sedaka' with 'chewing tobacco' ('terbacca', I think the approximate pronunciation was). I only know this because I heard the record a few weeks ago for the first, and probably last, time. I think she called the song 'Oh Neil', which would give it a strange pseudo-Irish quality. Or perhaps not. |
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28 Apr 09 - 02:33 PM (#2620622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: female reply to 'He'll Have to Go' From: GUEST Oh put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Don't you try to tell me that you're all alone. The man you're with is a Navy Man I know. You can tell him the coast is clear. It's time to go. That's all I remember from my childhood! JP |
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10 Dec 14 - 12:22 AM (#3684094) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: He'll Have to Go; He'll Have to Stay; etc From: GUEST,rose I'm looking for the song where he left her cuz she was fifteen and him 21 or 22 and he left her and five years later he came back and she told him she married his best friend in the end I'm looking for that song can anyone help me is same he'll have to go he'll have to stay but both male and female is singing in this one please can anyone find the link to that song and email me at roseybaby13@hot mail.com |