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Thread #138624   Message #3173363
Posted By: Jim Dixon
20-Jun-11 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Widow Jones + Widder Jones
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WIDOW JONES (Tom T. Hall)
This is probably NOT the song that was wanted, but since I found it, and had to listen to it to eliminate it, I figured I might as well post it.

My transcription from the video at YouTube:


THE WIDOW JONES
Words and music by Tom T. Hall
As sung by Jeannie C. Riley on her album "Harper Valley P.T.A." (1968).

Ask any young man in this town who is over thirteen
To tell you about the things and places he's seen.
If he tells you something about women you haven't known,
You can attribute his knowledge of anatomy to Widow Jones.

CHORUS: Well, Jonesie was a go-go girl a little while before she married Sam.
He fell into the River Jones; he said that's water over the dam.
He said we ought to leave these matters to the good discretion of the law,
But when you have a shape like Widow Jones, you have a lot of friends at City Hall.

Well, I don't bring her up because I think we should put her down.
I just want to shed some light on the truth in this town.
These boys'll learn things they couldn't have learned in our schools,
And their parents can relax knowin' that they're not all out a-shootin' pool.

CHORUS
Yeah, the widow's got a lot of friends at City Hall.


[This song sounds like a "spin-off" from the song HARPER VALLEY P.T.A., which contains the line: "And shouldn't Widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled completely down?" The tunes are very similar.]