ADD: The Old Songs' Home (Shelley Posen)

Subject: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: autoharpbob
Date: 07 Aug 10 - 08:12 AM

Anyone have the lyrics to this song by Shelley Posen?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Aug 10 - 12:04 PM

PM Sent

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: GUEST,GUEST dulcimer player
Date: 07 Aug 10 - 07:02 PM

You should have asked Thursday, what you like???
Liz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: autoharpbob
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 05:47 AM

Hi Liz - hoped you might pick this up! Next time I see you I would appreciate a copy if you have one, it is a song that should fit the autoharp well - and of course I won't sing it while you are there!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: GUEST,GUEST dulcimer player
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 12:20 PM

No problems, I'll take a copy to Dumbles next time. I agree it is a song that should fit autoharp well, I have played it on banjo with 2 guitars accompanying and that sounds well too also got some nice harmonies on chorus.
Liz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 05:07 PM

If you have it, post it. That's what Mudcat is all about.....sharing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: bbc
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 06:56 AM

Great song! The first time I heard it, I felt that it would have been a good match for Rick Fielding, if only he were still with us.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: GUEST,music
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 10:23 AM

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs Home
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 06:33 PM

I so miss Johnny Collins singing this....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs' Home (Shelley Posen)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 07:10 PM

Here's a bit of it, from a sample at Shelley Posen's web site:

In the Old Songs' Home, the old songs live together,
In the Old Songs' Home, when the world has passed them by.
They come here when their last note's sung, unnoticed and unknown.
They echo here forever in the Old Songs' Home.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs' Home (Shelley Posen)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 09:41 PM

[DOC] The Old Songs' Home
harrysmusic.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/old-songs-home.docFile Format: Microsoft Word - Quick View

Lyrics and chords there. Open Quick View after you get there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs' Home (Shelley Posen)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Sep 24 - 06:04 PM

Still need lyrics. Storm sang this today.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs' Home (Shelley Posen)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Sep 24 - 06:57 PM

THE OLD SONGS' HOME
(Shelley Posen)

On a lonely street at twilight
On my way home from the store
I passed a run-down mansion
I had never seen before
The walls were cracked and peeling
With ivy overgrown
And a sign upon the threshhold
Said, “The Old Songs’ Home.”

Well, sometimes curiosity
Is not to be denied
I walked up to the open door
And took a peek inside
Soft echoes of a thousand songs
At once caressed my ear
But somehow I could hear each one
Complete and crystal clear.

In the Old Songs’ Home
The old songs live together
In the Old Songs’ Home
When the world has passed them by
They come here when their last note’s sung
Unnoticed and unknown
They echo here forever
In the Old Songs’ Home.

I heard shanties that helped raise the sails
On a thousand clipper ships
And hits from Tin Pan Alley
Once on everybody’s lips
I heard songs the cowboys sang their herds
Where the buffalo used to roam
But no coyotes answered
In the Old Songs’ Home.

I heard songs once sung in factory towns
In logging camps and mines
And songs that striking workers sang
While walking picket lines
I heard songs that played the Palace
And the New York Hippodrome
Each night they bring the house down
In the Old Songs’ Home.

I heard Young Monroe swap stories
With The Boy That Wore the Blue
While Phil the Fluter danced a jig
With Johnny Macadoo
I heard She-e-rry sing doo wop
With Mr. Earl and Honeycomb
They still meet on the corner
In the Old Songs’ Home.

Well, every old song has a dream
That glimmers now and then
Of living in the world once more
And being sung again
My friends, if you love singing—
Low, high, or monotone—
There’s an old song waiting for you
In the Old Songs’ Home.


https://shelleyposen.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-songs-home