The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56155 Message #877093
Posted By: Neighmond
28-Jan-03 - 07:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Family Overhead, The
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Family Overhead, The
I Wrote it. It's based on an old song from the thirties
"Moma tied a baloon on daddie's back-last time I seen 'em he was balling the jack...etc..."
The version youall have in your fine lyric library goes:
Johnny and Jainie had a falling out, Johnny ran Jane clean out of the house, Johnny don't allow no low down hangin' round.
and so forth
I really wanted my version to sound old-I wrote it as a present for a friend of mine who is a professional Landlord, for whom I worked briefly. I have 30 some verses to it, and it's a helluva hit at the drinking partied because it's easy to improvise verses as needed,
I. E.:
Tel ya boys, it's mean, just mean The dish ain't made that'll keep itself clean....
Tell you one thing that money can't buy Babes that'll keep themselves dry.....