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04 Oct 06 - 04:15 PM (#1850459) Subject: Lyr Req: All old bachelors are hard to please From: Desert Dancer Ok, I was very excited to hear that the Double Decker String Band has a new recording (see this other thread). Went to their site & listened to a couple of clips... got curious about one track: All Old Bachelors Are Hard to Please. It apparently came from the Georgia Yellowhammers, of north Georgia. Back in January on the Sugar in the Gourd site forum, a Gordon from my part of the world (Arid-zona) posted the lyrics below looking for the question marks to be filled in. I'd be interested, too. All Old Bachelors Are Hard to Please The Alabama's [they] live on Peas The Tennessea's [they] eat what they please The North Carolina's [they] eat tar and rosin [???] The Georgia [towns?] gals got coon and possum All old bachelors are hard to please, hard to please I went out west to get me a wife I thought I'd settle down for life When I [got] landed there I like to fainted To my surprise their lips were painted All old bachelors are hard to please, hard to please I went up north to make a trade The first I met was a darned old maid I thought that that was where I'd land {?] She had her hair cut like a man All old bachelors are hard to please, hard to please I started then to try the South Where I don't want no painted mouth I Found that there they had their riches Like their smiles [??} they wore their britches All old bachelors are hard to please, hard to please I'm going back, up in the hills Where the doctor does not peddle pills Take my fiddle and my old banjo I may get married but I don't know All old bachelors are hard to please, hard to please ~ Becky in Tucson |
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04 Oct 06 - 07:46 PM (#1850620) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All old bachelors are hard to please From: GUEST,DrWord |
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05 Oct 06 - 06:27 PM (#1851467) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All old bachelors are hard to please From: Desert Dancer What, no old bachelors out there? ;-) |
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05 Oct 06 - 09:32 PM (#1851615) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All old bachelors are hard to please From: Joe_F Me! Me! Me! |
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09 Oct 06 - 07:41 AM (#1853934) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All Old Bachelors Are Hard to Please From: Jim Dixon There is a Georgia Yellow Hammers album called "Johnson's Old Grey Mule," which includes the song ALL OLD BACHELORS ARE HARD TO PLEASE. This page, a catalog of a special collection at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, indicates there was also a recording by Bill Chitwood and His Georgia Mountaineers. I was unable to find any lyrics or sound samples. |
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09 Oct 06 - 04:06 PM (#1854332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All Old Bachelors Are Hard to Please From: Scoville Got to admit I find these 1920's bobbed-hair-backlash songs highly amusing. "She's Been After Man Ever Since" is funny, too (in Digitrad somewhere, I believe). Seems like a lot of men had a hard time with it when we cut our hair off. |
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09 Oct 06 - 04:07 PM (#1854334) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All Old Bachelors Are Hard to Please From: GUEST Just the 27 who wrote songs. |