The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91826   Message #1750826
Posted By: Azizi
31-May-06 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
Subject: RE: BS: Are we going to get a Summer ?
Here's the words to that Pittsburgh pawnshop song:

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
Written by Bob Merrill
performed by Guy Mitchell

Peaked at # 4 in 1952


(There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I walk up and down 'neath the clock
(By the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
But I ain't got a thing left to hock

She was peaches, she was honey, and she cost me all my money
'cause a whirl 'round the town was her dream (was her dream)
Took her dancin', took her dinin' till her blue eyes were shinin'
With the sights that they never had seen (never seen)
If you should run into a golden-haired angel
And ask her tonight for a date
She'll tell you somewhere there's a rich millionaire
Who is calling again about eight

(There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I've just gotta get five or ten (five or ten)
(From the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Gotta be with my angel again

http://ww.lyricsdepot.com/guy-mitchell/pittsburgh-pennsylvania.html

-snip-

I betcha that 2/3rds of the people in Pittsburgh nowadays have never heard of this song. I know I didn't...

Somewhat off subject -Me talking to myself "who me??" "Yeah you".
...composer Stephen Foster's home is about 4 minutes from where I live, but hardly anyone knows it's there. And few Pittsburghers in general even know that Stephen Foster lived in Pittsburgh. That strikes me as wrong, even though I have mixed feelings about some-actually most- of Stephen Foster's songs.

But sorry.. that's tooo far off topic.

How's this:
It's gettin hot in here and I don't have any air conditioning.
It's gonna be a long hot summer.