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31 Aug 01 - 02:59 PM (#539131) Subject: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor WRite a verse to the tune of Woody Guthrie's Hard Traveling about your job or some job you like or admire. HARD TRAVELING - Woody Guthrie (1959)
I BEEN HAVIN' SOME HARD TRAVELIN', I THOUGHT YOU KNOWED
I BEEN RIDIN' THEM FAST RATTLER'S, I THOUGHT ....
I BEEN HITTIN' SOME HARD ROCK MININ' ....
I BEEN WORKIN' THAT PITTSBURGH STEEL ....
I BEEN HITTIN' SOME HARD HARVESTIN' ....
I BEEN LAYIN' IN A HARD ROCK JAIL ....
I BEEN HITTIN' THAT LINCOLN HIGHWAY ....
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31 Aug 01 - 03:07 PM (#539142) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor Please note this one was my idea and there will be no cow chips awarded. But I'm looking forward to seeing what y'all write> I promise to tell you what i like about your verses! Here's mine
I been doing computer programming and I ain't lyin' I know it's not up there with "dodgin' red hot iron" but its what I do! |
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31 Aug 01 - 04:29 PM (#539196) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: SharonA I been makin' some seed catalogues, I thought you knowed Seeds for gard'ners with their garden clogs, down deep they're sowed I been makin' some seed catalogues, with ladybugs and stuff for slugs I been makin' some seed catalogues, Lord. |
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31 Aug 01 - 04:53 PM (#539211) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor I always wondered who made those things! Now I know! Thanks |
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31 Aug 01 - 04:55 PM (#539214) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Kim C I been knittin up some socks, I thought you knowed Gots to keep these peoples feets warm when it snows I been knittin up some socks, day and night around the clock I been knittin up some socks, Lord |
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31 Aug 01 - 05:35 PM (#539258) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: CarolC In honor of the labor of at home mothers who don't get counted on labor day (although I'm now retired from that job myself)...
I been changin' some stinky diapers, I thought you knowed |
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31 Aug 01 - 08:04 PM (#539362) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Charley Noble Carol – GREAT!!!!! |
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31 Aug 01 - 08:08 PM (#539364) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: CarolC Thanks Charlie. |
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31 Aug 01 - 10:36 PM (#539428) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: iamjohnne I been doing some job searching I thought you know'd I been doing some job searching Way down the road Looking searching Crying dying Gettin back up and Keep on trying I been doing some job searching now Good thread Jack, this is fun. Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" |
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31 Aug 01 - 11:55 PM (#539462) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: MAG I like that one, Iamjohnne. I can relate.
I been pickin' them books out, I thought you knowed |
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01 Sep 01 - 02:55 PM (#539744) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor I been doing some job searching I thought you know'd I been doing some job searching Way down the road Looking, Searching Crying, dying Gettin back up and Keep on trying I been doing some job searching now Good thread Jack, this is fun. Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" Johnne, I reformatted it for you, Your verse is Brilliant! It seems that you and carol have hit on something I hadn't thought of, in todays society, since Woody often sang about people on the margins, perhaps he would have sung about people without jobs. I also liked yours alot too mag. Are you a folklorist a librarian or both? |
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01 Sep 01 - 03:04 PM (#539747) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor Here's one based on a PBS/BBC documentary called I saw recently "Called Dreams" or "Hack Dreams" anyway, you'll get the picture.
I been drive a City Cab on a New York Road |
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01 Sep 01 - 03:48 PM (#539780) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Allan C. I've been doin' some sink drain cleanin' I thought you knowed I've been pourin' that hot lye cleaner. Sink overflowed. I've been usin' that worthless plunger, that Drano Foam and that Plumbers' Helper. I've been doin' some sink drain cleanin', Lord. (No kidding. Really!) |
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01 Sep 01 - 04:19 PM (#539796) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: iamjohnne OMG Allan!! I hope all is well now, Thanks Jack, I never thought of anything I came up with as brilliant...... Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" |
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01 Sep 01 - 05:11 PM (#539819) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: CarolC Jack the Sailor,
*grin*
I think the point of my post is that mothers who stay at home to care for their families do have jobs. They just don't get paid for them. Nice thread, by the way. |
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01 Sep 01 - 06:33 PM (#539860) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor Hmm, What a mother does is WAY more than a job. My comment was better suited to IamJohnne's post. Your point is well taken and your verse is quite fitting on many many levels. |
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01 Sep 01 - 06:41 PM (#539863) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: CarolC Thanks. |
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01 Sep 01 - 07:51 PM (#539906) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: SINSULL I've been cleaning up after kittens, I thought you know'd I've been cleaning up after kittens, way down the road Poop on the sofa; and pee on the floor Comin' next Tuesday, they're all out the door. I've been cleaning up after kittens, Lord! Anybody want a kitten? Or two? |
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03 Sep 01 - 12:32 PM (#540806) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor I've been writing some sad song, I thought you knowed I've been feeling some heart break and I know it showed Loving that woman, trustin that woman, felt so bad I saw it coming I been writing some heart break, Lord |
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03 Sep 01 - 12:59 PM (#540821) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Metchosin I've been shovelin up the horse shit, I thought you knowed Every day, steaming apples of the road I been scoopin' up the dung, for their bums I'd like a bung Neverending equine fertilizer Lord |
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04 Sep 01 - 12:20 PM (#541602) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST Yes, Jack, I'm a librarian. Youth Librarian.
I've been doin' storytime, I thought you knowed MAG at work |
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04 Sep 01 - 01:08 PM (#541638) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: SharonA MAG, honey, Bush ain't makin' NO jobs easier (even for them's of us who still has 'em)... 'ceptin' maybe hiz own. |
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04 Sep 01 - 01:46 PM (#541672) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor Well not everyone SharonA
I've been doin' corporate lobbyin', you never knowed |
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04 Sep 01 - 09:52 PM (#542075) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Sonja I've been doing some long lecturing -- I thought you knew --, To these difficult English Majors here at Purdue. I've been doing some hard grading; Student papers seldom are scintillating! But I keep trying for tenure, Lord! (I'm not at Purdue any more and I don't teach English, but what the heck?) |
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04 Sep 01 - 10:16 PM (#542088) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Sosumi I've been doin' some hard lawyerin', I thought you knowed. Suing for those whiplash injuries on all the roads. Chasing that proverbial ambulance, Makin' folks pay thru the nose for negligence, See how that insurance industry's growed! Sosumi
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04 Sep 01 - 10:21 PM (#542092) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Anita Real Job I been doin' some banjo pickin', I thought you knowed. Everybody keeps tellin' me, "Hey! Hit the road!" I been doin' some hard strummin' But I'd make more money if I was a-bummin'! I been doin' some hard buskerin', Lord! ARJ |
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04 Sep 01 - 11:12 PM (#542137) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: MAG (for diabetics only)
I been doin' some exercise, I thought you knowed Hey, this is fun.
Kitty's got it too, Lord, I thought you knowed |
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05 Sep 01 - 04:59 AM (#542264) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Sonja I posted this above, but it needed editing. I've been doing some long lecturing (I thought you knew) To these prissy English Majors at O.S.U. I've been doing some orating, conjugating, hard grading; Lord, I have the proper English blues!
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07 Sep 01 - 01:34 AM (#544180) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Lola I know it's after Labor Day, but I can goof off all year 'round. I been workin' as little as possible, I tho't ya knowed, Doin' some serious couch potato-ing, I been doin' some channel surfin' H'ors d'oeuvrin', swivel-chair swervin', I been doin' some hard loiterin', Lord! |
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07 Sep 01 - 03:25 AM (#544230) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Genie Lola, you forgot hte "way down the road" part of the second line. |
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07 Sep 01 - 04:46 PM (#544740) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: iamjohnne This has really been a fun thread. We need to do this again next Labor Day. Johnne |
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09 Sep 01 - 07:55 PM (#545881) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor Thanks folks! As they say here in the South and as I expected it would be... ITS ALL GOOD!!!! Sonja, your first post was excellent, the second even better! Sosumi, Obviously your real name! Very funny, I'm still smiling! Thanks to Lola for her anti-labour post. Mag Four good ones! Amazing! What's humulin? Thanks for the Busking one Anita. We needed that one. Metchosin: I think you may have supplied us with a little Bull Dung there. But it is certainly the good stuff! SINSULL: Cleaning after kittins.. A labour of love? I think it kind of shopws through your humour. Allan C. I feel your pain! I bet you'd hate to do that for a living! Kim C sorry I missed you the first time. I like the line about the "feets". Do you knit socks for a living? Thank you all for opening my eyes a little. Especially IamJohne and CarolC for their poignant yet funny verses. Not to take anything away from the others because everyone was quite original and great! And thanks SharonA for being there first with a great verse. I kinda thought that you would be. |
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09 Sep 01 - 08:01 PM (#545884) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: Jack the Sailor One last from me and a request.
I've been working in a farmer's barn My request is a verse or a few verses about labour! Childbirth I mean. I know there is humour and pathos there but I am totaly unqualified to mine it. Cheers and thanks again!! |
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10 Sep 01 - 12:43 AM (#545972) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: MAG I ain't been through childbirth, Lord, it used to make me sad Then all three a' my sisters told me not to feel bad two had long labor, with C's, belated, one had to be artifically dilated They all said childbirth's overrated, Lord. (humulin is fake insulin, Jack. -- MA) |
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10 Sep 01 - 12:47 AM (#545974) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: MAG I ain't been through childbirth, Lord, it used to make me sad Then all three a' my sisters told me not to feel bad two had long labor, with C's, belated, one had to be artifically dilated They all said childbirth's overrated, Lord. (humulin is fake insulin, Jack. -- MA) |
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02 Sep 02 - 11:42 AM (#775581) Subject: RE: Labour Day Song Challenge From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor Bump HAPPY LABOUR DAY!!! |