Lyr Req: Pffft You Were Gone

Subject: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Lee Shore
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 04:02 AM

Can anyone here come up with the lyrics to and old country song called "Pffft You Were Gone." ? Possibly Homer & Jethro? All I can remember is the opening phrase "Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and though I'd found true love. You found another and pffft you were gone." Actually the "pffft" spelling is misleading, because it is sung as a raspberry. More like "Brrrrrp."

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 04:44 AM

Buck Owens version written by Susan Heather is HERE.

Lots of other variants exist and are written about special fields or things we do.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 04:56 AM

It must be "Gloom, Despair, and Agony, Oh Me".

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 09:48 AM

Huh, whaddaya know... I'd misremembered the lyric as "you was gone" (pronounced "yew wuz gawn"). Thanks for the edification!

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 10:31 AM

Amazing what folks sang on radio in the 1960's.

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: jeffp
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 10:36 AM

This was a staple on the old "Hee Haw" show. IIRC, it was sung by Archie Campbell and Gordie Something-or-other.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:37 AM

I remember the old Hee Haw Show. There were two songs, as masato linked to above. The Pfft, You Wuz Gone was sung by Archie Campbell (in the cornfield usually with a guest), but who sang the Gloom, Despair...song? Was it Buck Owens and Roy Clark?

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:39 AM

...or was it Jr. Samples and the "family on the couch"?

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:42 AM

Would Gordie some-thing-or-other be Gordie Tapp who is now selling those fancy E-leck-trickle Beds?

LL

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: jeffp
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:16 PM

LL, I think you got it. He and Archie stood in front of the fence and sang one verse and a chorus. Just a quick blackout sketch.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Charcloth
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 04:09 PM

Some time back I even saw a gospel version of the "phhht you were gone" I wish I had kept the lyrics it was a blast!

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 04:30 PM

They used to have great fun on Hee Haw spitting on each other at the "pffft" part.

Damn, I miss Hee Haw...

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Mark Clark
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:41 PM

Charcloth, I believe “Pffft You Were Gone” was originally a gospel song. The Hee Haw version was just a parody of the gospel version. I used to have the gospel version somewhere—maybe I still do—but I can't think where just now.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Charcloth
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:04 AM

cool! Mark if you have please post it

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:05 AM

Where, O where, are you tonight?

Why did you leave me here all alone?

I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love.

You met another and Phhfffft! you was gone!

(Add silly verses ad nauseum, ad infinitum!)

A staple of Homer & Jethro for many years.

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: WyoWoman
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 11:32 PM

GOSPEL????' This I must see ... (Would this be from God's p.o.v.? Speaking to Fallen Man? I'm just pondering the possibilities and shall wait with 'bated breath ... )

ww

Subject: RE: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Charcloth
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 08:16 AM

Refresh. I hope someone has the gospel version, but here is the regular version (at least how I do it)

You looked so pretty the day we got married
A holding the hand of our little boy son
Your mama was frowning but your daddy was laughing
As he stood there a holding that gig old shotgun

CHORUS: Where o where are you tonight
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over & thought I found true love
You met another & phht you were gone

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pffft You Were Gone
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 08:37 PM

There are some more verses posted here.

The (allegedly) original gospel song is given here, but I find it hard to believe this song was ever anything but a burlesque.

A version recorded by Archie Campbell is posted here