Lyr Add: Yard Sale!

Subject: Lyr Add: Yard Sale!
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 09:19 PM

Here's a timely ditty!

Yahd Sale! (to the tune of Gloucestershire Wassail)
© Fred Gosbee , Castlebay Music

Yard sale, yard sale all over the town
Go up in the attic and bring it all down
Put it out on the lawn for people to buy        
You can dicker if they say the price is too high        
(may be used as a chorus)

Here’s to the people from near and from far
Who pull off the road and stop in our yard
Who stop in our yard for an hour or so
And leave us holding a bunch of their dough

There’s a plate in that box that you really should get
It might be the one to complete your good set
You never know where you might find what you seek
When they’re all selling junk but you’re buying antiques

What is that thing that you’ve got over there?
I think that I saw one just like it somewhere
Back in the old days when I was a kid
I never could figure out just what it did

I found a guitar with only three strings
A fife and a drum and some other great things
A French horn, a fiddle without any bow
But they just sold the bagpipes an hour ago

Now here is a key without any lock
It might go to this train it might go to that clock
The train’s got no track and the clock’s got no chime
and I bet I can get either one for a dime

Look at these dresses, they’re all really nice
And you never would find them again at this price
The only thing wrong with them that I can see
They’re too small for you and they’re too big for me.

Now where is the girl with the little cash box
Who’ll give us our change for the stuff that we bought
This stuff that we bought but surely won’t keep
‘Cause we’re having a sale of our own just next week!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Yard Sale!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 09:49 PM

I love it!


And let's put in a little plug for https://www.castlebay.net/

Is there a recording of this profound musical composition?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Yard Sale!
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 19 Aug 20 - 10:44 PM

Yes indeed- it's on "The Night the Whisky Froze" by Fred Gosbee!
Thanks for asking
J