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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