Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: s&r
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:49 AM

These talking blues are often played with continuous bass runs between the chords like:c (strum C) d e f (strum F) c (strum F) g g a b c (strum C) e (strum C) c (strum C)d e f (strum F) c (strum F) g g a b c

the lower case letters are notes in the bass.

Stu

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Gene
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 01:58 PM

this ditty can be played just about any way anybody wants to,

including the arrangement below.

4 beats of I
8 beats of V7
4 beats of I

4 beats of I7
4 beats of IV6
4 beats of V7
4 beats of I

for the background accompaniment...

in some narrations of various songs, the singer apparently pays no attention to the tune in the background...they just yak yak yak..

often a familiar religious song is the background music

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 04:38 PM

A A7th D E A

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: LIFE GETS TEEJUS DON'T IT?
From: Gene
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 02:26 AM

Carson Robison's MGM records single, "LIFE GETS TEEJUS DON'T IT?" Entered the country music charts August 14th, 1948 and peaked at number three.

It was his second charted song and was on the charts for 28 weeks. It also scored a no. 14 on the pop music charts.


LIFE GETS TEEJUS DON'T IT? [Version from Rose's website]
Carson Robison

[1] The sun comes up. [4] The sun goes down.

[5] Hands on the clock keep [1] goin' around.

[1] I just get up and it's [4] time to lay down.

[5] Life gets teejus [1] don't it?


My shoe's untied, but I don't care.
I ain't figurin' on goin' nowhere.
I'd have to wash and comb my hair.
That's just wasted effort.

Water in the well gettin' lower and lower.
Can't take a bath for six month's more,
But I've heard it said, and it's true, I'm sure,
That too much bathin' will weaken you.

I open the door and the flies swarm in.
I shut the door and I'm sweatin' again,
And in the process, I've cracked my shin,
Just one dern thing after another.

Old brown mule, he must be sick.
I jabbed him in the rump with a pin on a stick.
He humped his back, but he wouldn't kick.
There's something cockeyed somewhere.

A mouse chawin' on the pantry door,
He's been at it for a month or more.
When he gets through, he'll sure be sore,
'Cause there ain't a dern thing in there.

Hound dog howlin' so forlorn,
Laziest dog that ever was born.
He's howling 'cause he's settin' on a thorn,
Just too tired to move over.

The tin roof leaks and the chimney leans,
And there's a hole in the seat of my old blue jeans,
And I've et the last of the pork 'n' beans.
Just can't depend on nothin'.

Cows gone dry and the hens won't lay.
Fish quit bitin' last Saturday.
Trouble's pilin' up day by day,
And now I'm gettin' dandruff.

Grief and misery, pains and woes,
And debts and taxes, so it goes,
And I think I'm gettin' a cold in the nose.
Life gets tasteless, don't it?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 05:59 PM

Kendall, what chords do you use on this?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Peace
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 05:13 PM

Peter Lind Hayes (June 25th, 1915 - April 21st, 1998)

a.k.a Joseph Conrad Lind

Peter Lind Hayes was the son of entertainer/nightclub entrepreneur Grace Hayes (1896-1989). Hayes was nine years old when he joined his mother's vaudeville act, doing an impression of Hollywood child star Jackie Coogan. He then spent several years as the star attraction of the Grace Hayes Lodge in the San Fernando Valley. In 1938, he made the first of his sporadic film appearances, and in 1940, he married his future stage and screen partner, singer/actress Mary Healy. While serving with distinction in the Army Air Force, Hayes was featured in the 1944 20th Century-Fox feature Winged Victory. From 1946 onward, the songs-and-snappy-patter team of Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healey was a top New York nightclub and theatrical attraction. They extended their activities to TV in 1949, starring in such variety series as Inside the USA With Chevrolet (1949-50), The Stork Club (1950), The Peter Lind Hayes Show (1950-51, with Mary--originally titled Peter and Mary) and Star of the Family (1951). Their last regular TV gig was the semiautobiographical 1960 sitcom Peter Loves Mary (1960). In addition, Hayes and Healey starred in the 1958 Broadway play Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?, while Hayes soloed as Arthur Godfrey's TV and radio summer replacement and as one of the post-Paar, pre-Carson hosts of The Tonight Show. While his film career never attained the heights of his activities elsewhere, Hayes enjoyed at least one truly memorable screen role: Mr. Zalbedowski in the cult musical fantasy 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, co-starring wife Mary and Hans Conried. Active in a number of entertainment fields, Peter Lind Hayes was the author of three books and several magazine and newspaper articles, and served as producer-host of the 1975 anthology series When Television Was Live.

Hal Erickson

The above is from the www

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 05:00 PM

'Life Gets Teejus' was a popular record in the UK when I was around 17/18 years old, circa 1950/51. It was sung by a performer named Peter Lind Hayes. Anybody know anything about him? Burl.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 08:10 AM

I didn't play the tune, just did it as a recitation with a simple three chord background.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 08:08 AM

I'm certain I learned this from Carson himself.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Life gets tedious dont it
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM

what are the chords to this song??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: GUEST,valdoran
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 02:47 AM

anyone know where I can get a copy of More & More Teejus please..(I have Life Gets Teejus)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Joe Richman
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 12:37 AM

Carson R. in addition to "teejus" wrote "My Blue Ridge Mountain Home", "I Just Don't Want to be Rich" and quite a few others. He probably recorded "Golden Slippers" but Bland wrote it (Bland also wrote "Carry me back to Old Virginny").

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 10:18 PM

pdq: The Library of Congress has several copies of sheet music for OH, DEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS! dated 1879, and written by James Allen Bland (1854-1919).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:57 PM

Both "Life Gits Teejus Don't It" and "The Clouds Are Gwine to Roll Away" are on Doc Watson's "On Stage" recording which came out in 1971. I doubt that there is a better example of Doc Watson's combination of charm, skill and humility than is found here. Carson Robison also wrote "Dem Golden Slippers", a song often assumed to be "traditional".        

The current CD version of Doc's "On Stage" leaves off the Homer and Jethro sendup of "Moving On", unfortunatey.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Arkie
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:29 PM

To hear Carson Robison sing Life Get's Teejus go to the Record Lady's site, Real Country Archives page 7 and scroll down.

Record Lady

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: GUEST,Tom in Geneva
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 12:31 PM

Hi Kendall, but I should have specified the Carson Robison version, unless you can convince me your version is better. Post it!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 10:22 PM

According to this web site, the poem Kendall just posted is called FROM BAD TO WORSE and it was written by Skinny Rowland.

Subject: Lyr Add: A MAN'S TALE OF WOE
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 06:51 PM

And on this subject....


A MAN'S TALE OF WOE

Now my wife just left and the well went dry,
and my horse got sick and about to die.
Then my still blew up and the barn burned down,
and the road washed out the way to town.

Then my dog got rabies and bit the cat
and they both died soon after that.
Now I lost my specs and my pipe stem broke,
so I can't even sit and read and smoke.

Then a tree fell on the chicken shed,
and most of the hens got smashed plumb dead.
Then a chimney fire took half of a wall,
and this old shack is about to fall.

Then I caught my heel on an old dead vine,
and sat smack dab on a porcupine.
Then a beaver dam broke and my bridge washed out,
and my watch stopped working and I've got the gout.

And the bank foreclosed so I've lost my place,
and my cow's disappeared without a trace.
They cut off my credit at the grocery store,
and I lost my job and a whole lot more.

I must have been hexed by a triple curse,
as things keep going from bad to worse.
And now fate has hit me a last dirty crack;
to top off the worst - my wife's coming back.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 09:24 AM

Sure. 40 Ardsley Ave. South Portland Maine. Or, you could order a copy of LIGHTS ALONG THE SHORE from Folk Legacy Records.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?
From: GUEST,Tom in Geneva
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 04:00 AM

Can anyone supply an address where Life gets tedius (teejus !) can be heard?

Subject: RE: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 May 00 - 03:08 PM

Say, the tune is missing from both the online and offline versions of the database. Can somebody send one in for posting at Mudcat MIDIs?
Click on my name below to send me e-mail
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: tar_heel
Date: 15 May 00 - 12:02 PM

i open the door and the flies swarm in,then i shut the door and sweatin' again.and in the process i crack my shin,just on darn thing after another!!!!

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 15 May 00 - 09:36 AM

Tony,

You're a little ripper - I half remembered about half of a couple of verses. I can go to bed now with a clear conscience. Pleased you wanna keep JBP. Will only trade John Howard for BOTH our major party leaders .

Thanks, mate - the words are great!

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: paddymac
Date: 15 May 00 - 09:12 AM

Metchosin - thanks for the BCT. It's a kewl site.

Subject: Lyr Add: MORE AND MORE TEEJUS, AIN'T IT^^
From: Tony in Darwin
Date: 15 May 00 - 08:49 AM

Sam, ya silver-tongued devil, you talked me into it - here 'tis !

MORE AND MORE TEEJUS, AIN'T IT
(Tune: Life Gets Teejus, Don't It)
Carson Robison

The years roll on and your hair gets thin,
Then you start to growin' your second chin;
Democrats are in again -
Gets monotonous, don't it?

I've used every tonic in the world, I think
And my head's just as bald as the kitchen sink;
Mosquitoes use it for a skatin' rink -
Plum aggravatin' sometimes.

My teeth are gone - all but two -
A lot o' good they're gonna do,
'Cause they don't meet by a mile or two -
Sure makes it hard chawin'.

Gettin' wide in the beam and my stomach dips,
Got no more lap than a snake's got hips,
And when I squat, somethin' rips -
Just more and more teejus, ain't it.

I get up at night to "look at the moon",
It's as dark as the inside of King Tut's tomb;
Stump my toe on the - uh - "spitoon" -
Well, I oughta have modern plumbin'.

They say that I'm lazy and maybe it's true,
But if I wasn't meant to sit down like I do,
Then why was I made to bend where I do?
Sure fit this old rockin' chair.

Some guy tears through life like a blizzard,
Folks point him out and say, "He's a wizard!"
Then he's dead at forty with a burned-out gizzard -
Huh - I'll be eighty-one come April.

Can't help but smile at some of these guys
Who get so big in the public eye
Them six feet of earth make us all one size -
Nope, y' can't take it with you.

Life has many a twist and turn
And we live and die and never learn
If our wings will flap or our tailfeathers burn -
Powerful uncertain, ain't it?

Yet, the years roll on and I try to grin,
To keep things from gettin' under my skin,
But I'm gettin' that (sniff) cold in my nose again -
Life gets tasteless, don't it?


Sam, leave us "Joe Bjorke P" - our folk-laureate, John Dengate, would've dropped off the twig years ago if he hadn't had the Darling Downs Despot to lampoon. But you're welcome to John Howard if you like - most of us would be glad to get rid of him.

Cheers,
Tony ^^

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 15 May 00 - 06:53 AM

Tony,

Even a Kiwi would accept a post of M&M Teejus from Darwin .

Post it, cobber, post it! The old family 78 of the follow-up was wobbly in the 40s, and I never got to hear it properly!

Please, please, post the words ASAP. NZ will take Joe Bjorke P back, I promise never, ever to throw the borax at an OZ again (until next time)

Please post the words mate!

Cheers OzCob - Sam

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 15 May 00 - 06:41 AM

G'day Clay,

You need "Real Player" (which also plays Mudcat Radio), You'll find it at aargghh... Life is most un-teejus at the moment... thort it would be simple... Goto Real Player Homepage, go for the "basic" version, jsut below the piccie. Hope you're on a PC, not one of those Macintosh thingies

Hope that helps - you'll love it when you hear it - original version as far as I know.

Sam

Subject: ADD Verse: Life Gets Teejus Don't It ^^
From: Tony in Darwin
Date: 15 May 00 - 06:13 AM

I open the door and the flies swarm in
I shut the door and I'm sweatin' again
And in the process I crack my shin
Just one durn thing after another

Does anyone know the sequel, "More and more teejus, ain't it"? I have it on a very old cassette-dub of a '78, and have been checking the known resources, before I post it here.

Tony ^^

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: GUEST,Clay
Date: 15 May 00 - 05:23 AM

As usual you all are great. Unfortunately, I could not establish a link that would play the song, My attempt to download the program that would play it was equally unsuccessful. Suggestions?

Thanks Clay

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 15 May 00 - 04:02 AM

Metchosin,

Many thanks for that link above - I'm now listening to a Hit Parade of the 40s. It's stopped life gettin' teejus - same Robison version I wore out on the wind-up gramophone!

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 May 00 - 10:50 PM

Clay you can listen to it including the missing verse if you click here

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 May 00 - 10:36 PM

I see what you mean, that verse isn't in the DT either, but I know I have heard it as part of the song but can only remember the line you posted too. Maybe someone else can find it.

Subject: RE: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 May 00 - 10:24 PM

Clay it's in the DigiTrad, just type in Life Gets teejus in brackets and it will come up or you can click here

Subject: Life Get's TeeJus Don't it.
From: GUEST,Clay
Date: 14 May 00 - 08:37 PM

I was discussing Life get's... and someone mentioned that I had missed a verse. They couldn't remember all of it but it contained the lines: I open the door and the flies swarm in. I shut shut the door and I'm sweating again.

Anyone have any Idea?

Thanks

Clay