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19 Sep 01 - 10:19 PM (#554538) Subject: Before They Tow My Car Away From: robomatic I heard this a few times when I was a kid in California, sung with Mexican 'hacienda' sounding accompaniment, it's a love song by a guy who can't stay because he's double parked: Chorus: I'd like to drink your coffee my love I'd like to stay all day But I must kiss you quick and run my love Before they tow my car away Say you haven't got change for a quarter? I'd sure like to hear a copy of this and learn who wrote/ sang it. Click for previous thread |
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19 Sep 01 - 10:24 PM (#554541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: Charley Noble Be patient. It does look familar. I'm sure someone was discussing this song on another thread a few months ago. Have you tried a "thread search" using the chorus? |
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19 Sep 01 - 10:48 PM (#554558) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: Sorcha It's John Hartford......only thing in the DT/Forum is this, which is mostly the same as this request. Resident Hartford Xspurt, harpgirl, where are you??? |
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24 Sep 01 - 12:11 AM (#557447) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: robomatic Thank Thank Thank you! That earlier request was also posted by moi, only I didn't have the savvy at the time to put a tracer on it and I lost it. I now have an album to trace. Prolly haven't heard the thing for thirty years! I love and respect you all! robo |
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24 Sep 01 - 07:29 AM (#557568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: harpgirl I'm not aware that he sang such a song....sorry....hg |
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24 Sep 01 - 07:33 AM (#557570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: harpgirl ...oh wait, let me wake up from my fifteen mile canoe trip on the Suwannee yesterday (and Falmouth Spring swim)....ah yes...it is from Iron Mountain Depot. I'll try to decipher it tonight, if the record isn't too scratchy...sorry hg |
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24 Sep 01 - 11:25 AM (#557726) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: robomatic hg I'd love to get a copy of Iron Mt. Depot. What's the best approach? |
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25 Sep 01 - 06:45 AM (#558107) Subject: Lyr Add: BEFORE THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY(John Hartford From: harpgirl BEFORE THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY by John Hartford Today I felt the cruel world Through the skin of your rose colored touch And an hour was better than nothing at all In the knowing that that wasn't much I'd like to eat your pretzels my love I'd like to stay all day But I must kiss you quick and run my love Before they tow my car away You haven't got change for a dollar Besides it won't work after four Just as soon as I lace up my work shoes I think I should head to the door I'd like to drink your coffee my love I'd like to stay all day But I must kiss you quick and run my love Before they tow my car away But my album even has liner notes and the person who owned it before me was Michael B. Bleecker recorded on Iron Mountain Depot, RCA, 1970 hmmmm...not particuarly melodic is it? |
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25 Sep 01 - 10:25 AM (#558227) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: robomatic Thank you so much. It had a lovely vaguely hispanic melody. I certainly haven't heard it for thirty years yet it echoes.... |
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25 Sep 01 - 10:29 PM (#558856) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: harpgirl ...oh, sorry if I've inadvertantly insulted your taste robomatic. I will listen to this album seriously again. I confess it isn't one of my favorites. When John used David Bromberg to produce Aero Plain, I really started liking his stuff.I thought these early albums were overproduced but I think he was in the process of finding his voice after coming off a Hollywood writing career. But I could also be wrong about that, as well. David seemed to be good at helping him with finding his true musical self on that record. But then I'm still a besotted fan of both of these guys... |
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26 Sep 01 - 01:53 AM (#559004) Subject: Lyr Add: UNTIL THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY From: Mark Cohen I took a look at the thread title, and this is what just came out. The manufacturer makes no warranty as to quality, expressed or implied. UNTIL THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY You're not a blonde, you're a redhead -- at least, today I'm not a hunk, I have a gut and a toupee But if you hand me that guitar, well I can play And we can sing, until they tow my car away Our songs are different, you like to rock, I'm into folk And when we met, you thought my mustache was a joke But here we are, with Haagen Dasz and Diet Coke So let's just sing, until they tow my car away Don't stop now, keep the beat Forget that red light flashing, in the street This song of mine gets kind of boring at the end But there's a note in the last line that you can bend And it can sound so very sweet, if we pretend That we're real good -- until they tow my car away Aloha, Mark |
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26 Sep 01 - 02:04 AM (#559011) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: Joe Offer I think you should apologize to Buffy Ste. Marie, Mark. The same tune went through my head as I read the lyrics. Harpgirl, what IS the tune for this song? Something familiar, or a Hartford original? -Joe Offer- |
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26 Sep 01 - 07:04 AM (#559106) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: harpgirl well, Joe the melody to John's song is a slow waltz with a strong bass line and drums. It has nothing really distinctive and doesn't sound even vaguely hispanic to me. Hmmm, let's speed it up to 45. The opening to the song has bells or triangles in it! Geez, they are all through it...Well it does sound very vaguely hispanic in a couple spots....The end is a guitar walk down that sounds hispanic, sorta. I can't call out each note in the melody though Joe. I play with my ears, but my neck gets tired... Mark is in Hawaii. The melody sounds hispanic. Robomatic is from California. I vote for the other song. What's the melody to it? Are you from Longbeach, robo?*wink* |
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26 Sep 01 - 07:10 AM (#559108) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: harpgirl ...oh I see robo knows the words...I'm a mess before nine am, I guess. I can play the melody so maybe I should play it and then tell you what the notes are...duh...tonight when I get home. PM me about the album, robomatic. He does play his face on the album but with all that orchestration, his style is obscured. |
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28 Sep 01 - 12:11 PM (#560810) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: robomatic This has become a great thread, with newly invented lyrics, wonder how they'd go with the tune. I can't speak much to the tune, I think I remember it but I don't remember much by way of instrumentation, haven't heard the song since it came out and was played most likely in 1970 or 71 on WCRB out of Waltham, Massachusetts. They were a formal classical station but on Saturday nights they let their hair down and the Veep of the station (Or assistant manager) Richard L. Kaye would play Goon shows, Bob Newhart, and songs like that which initiated this thread. They would always have a cake and invite listeners over for Beethoven's Birthday, which was in December. He had a buddy who ran a radio station in Cleveland and they would both celebrate Hinkley Buzzard Day (March 15). There was a song associated with that: Incidentally I live in Alaska, not Calif., but I've got Calif. ties.
When the Buzzards come back
I remember that day
When the buzzards appeared Chorus:
Though the morning may be murky |
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28 Sep 01 - 06:13 PM (#561029) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away From: Mark Cohen As Joe hinted, my words go to Buffy Ste. Marie's song, "Until It's Time for You to Go", to which he kindly made a link. And since I just made it up on the spot, I have no problem with anybody liking the other song better! It's actually the first song I've written (well, half-written, since I used Buffy's tune) in over 10 years, and certainly not a gem---but I thank you, robo, for starting this thread and getting me off my songwriting butt! Maybe now you should write "When the Eagles Come Back to Haines"? Of course, they never really leave, do they, so they couldn't actually come back...hmmm... Aloha, Mark |
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03 Oct 02 - 11:01 PM (#796558) Subject: Lyr Add: BEFORE THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY (J Hartford) From: harpgirl BEFORE THEY TOW MY CAR AWAY By John Hartford
Today I felt the cruel world
I'd like to eat your pretzels my love
You haven't got change for a dollar
I'd like to drink your coffee my love |
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03 Oct 02 - 11:09 PM (#796564) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Before They Tow My Car Away (Hartford) From: Joe Offer Anybody have the lyrics to "Baby You Can Tow My Car"? [grin] -Joe Offer- |