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Thread #116137 Message #2500181
Posted By: Richie
22-Nov-08 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: FUNNY WHEN YOU FEEL THAT WAY (Carter Fami
Funny When You Feel That Way is "It's Funny when you Feel that Way" by George Harris 1873. Here's a link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mussm&fileName=sm/sm1873/14000/14066/mussm14066.db&recNum=1&itemLink=D?mussm:2:./tem This was first recorded by one of Gene Autry's musical partners Frankie Marvin in 1929. The Carter's did their version in 1937. FUNNY WHEN YOU FEEL THAT WAY- Carter Family I can't forget how queer I felt Since first I fell in love I had a most sincere attack Through squeezing a lady's glove Her lovely hand was in it As we waltzed around so gay I thought myself in paradise It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way I thought myself in paradise It's funny when you feel that way [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] Again we met one afternoon As we were all alone I plucked up nerve to ask if she Someday would be my own She blushed and said, go ask papa And ask him if I may I danced a canter 'round the room It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way I danced a canter 'round the room It's funny when you feel that way [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] The old boy said that we might wed And so he crowned my bliss And I shall be a double man In about a month from this Though it seemed to me somehow the time Shall never pass away For I longed to hear those wedding bells It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way It's funny when you feel that way I longed to hear those wedding bells It's funny when you feel that way