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Thread #165420 Message #3967556
Posted By: GUEST,Mark Wingate
20-Dec-18 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Let's all go down to our house
Subject: Lyr Req: Let's all go down to our house
I heard this song on WUNC out of Chapel Hill, NC, in the 1980s, maybe early '90s. It is a humorous song, sung by a woman. It sounds like a field recording, no instrumental accompaniment. Judging from the accent, it was from the Midwest, or at least not from the South.
Not a ballad form, more of a music hall or novelty song, even vaudeville, kind of like Charlie Poole might have sung, but free of any "rounder-ism" or extreme sentimentality. Straightforward words, nothing overly clever or artful.
It had a really nice friendly, good-hearted tone, like something a group of friends might sing together back when people did such things. And since the song references that very kind of getting together, maybe it was already fading.
The only lyric fragments I can remember is that it rhymed "Coca-Cola" with "Pianola," and the general theme, if not the exact title, was "Let's all go down to our house" where good times are had.