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Lyr Req: Red Knuckles & Trailblazers

08 Sep 02 - 03:17 PM (#779177)
Subject: Red Knuckles & Trailblazers
From: GUEST,Flatpik

The alter ego of Hot Rize - many great honky tonks songs from the fifties. How about Long Gone John from Bowling Green, Kansas City Star, The Dixie Cannonball?

Thanks - Mike

08 Sep 02 - 05:24 PM (#779231)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Red Knuckles & Trailblazers
From: Sorcha

Are all those songs and are you asking for lyrics? If so, it would be better to start a new Lyr Req thread for each. I'll see what I can find.

08 Sep 02 - 09:37 PM (#779368)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Red Knuckles & Trailblazers
From: GUEST,Flatpik

Thanks Sorcha - I'm new to this forum & don't know the protocol.

Mike

10 Sep 02 - 07:58 AM (#780317)
Subject: Lyr Add: KANSAS CITY STAR (Roger Miller)
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://users.bigpond.net.au/clarks/kansascity.htm

KANSAS CITY STAR
(Roger Miller)

Got a letter just this mornin'. It was postmarked Omaha.
It was typed and neatly written, offerin' me this better job:
Better job and higher wages, expenses paid, and a car,
But I'm on TV here locally and I can't quit. I'm a star.

Ha-ha! I come on the TV a-grinnin', wearin' pistols and a hat.
It's a kiddy show and I'm the hero of the younger set.
I'm the number one attraction at every supermarket parkin' lot.
I'm the king of Kansas City. No thanks, Omaha. Thanks a lot.

Kansas City star, that's what I are.
Yodel-leedle lay-dee, you oughta see my car.
I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels. Got rhinestones on the spokes.
I got credit down at the grocery store and my barber tells me jokes.
I'm the number one attraction at every supermarket parkin' lot.
I'm the king of Kansas City. No thanks, Omaha. Thanks a lot.

REPEAT LAST VERSE.

SPOKEN: Stay tuned, we're gonna have a Popeye cartoon in a minute.

19 Sep 02 - 12:05 AM (#787212)
Subject: Lyr Add: DIXIE CANNONBALL (from Hank Williams)
From: toadfrog

DIXIE CANNONBALL
Written by Vaughn Horton
Key of E
Demo made by Hank Williams 1949
This is on the 10-CD box set.

(E) I'm a-headin' back to Dixie.
That's the (A) place I long to (E) be,
Where the (A) cotton grows and the (E) Swanee flows.
That's (F#7) home sweet home to (B7) me,
(E) Where they meet you and they greet you
With the (A) sweetest "how you all."
Well, (E) shut my mouth. I'm a-headin' south
On the (B7) Dixie Cannon- (E) ball.

CHORUS: (E) On the Dixie Cannonball,
On the (A) Dixie Cannonball,
Just (E) listen to the whistle.
It'll (F#7) thrill you one and (B7) all.
And I (E) know there's someone waitin'
With the (A) sweetest "how you all."
Well, (E) shut my mouth. I'm a-headin' south
On the (B7) Dixie Cannon- (E) ball.

(E) When I cross them Smokey Mountains,
I'll be (A) countin' every (E) mile.
When the (A) whistle blows, I'll be on my (E) toes,
And I'll (F#7) shuffle down the (B7) aisle.
And I (E) know I'll not be lonesome
when I (A) see them treetops tall.
I'm coming (E) through on the big choo-choo,
On the (B7) Dixie Cannon- (E) ball. CHORUS.

REPEAT FIRST VERSE.

Changed from all caps. --JoeClone, 21-Sep-02.