Subject: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:50 PM In response to the most recent posting Big Mick made to "Good Songs You're Sick Of," How about songs you've sung a million times, and look forward to singing a million more times? Maybe everyone else runs screaming from the room, but you never tire of them? I realize this must be a variant on 18 other threads, but Hey... Repetition is traditional. Here are some songs I've been singing for 40 years, and they still feel fresh to me: Lady Margaret Mary Of The Wild Moor Down On Penny's Farm Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn Old Man At The Mill Days Of 49 Farmer's Curst Wife Jerry Add songs you still SING, please.. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Cluin Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM First song I figured out on the guitar as a kid and still sing occasionally... Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain Though I figured it out my own way, slightly different than the original and prefer to sing it that way. When I think of it now, a kid about 10 singing lines like "the women all were fast" and "cold and drunk as I can be"... didn't mean much to me then. They were just words. Strange how prophetic they were actually. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: khandu Date: 04 Jan 04 - 05:15 PM Carefree Highway-Gordon Lightfoot We Used to Know- Jethro Tull Dinny the Piper- Andy M Stewart The Thrill is Gone- BB King Handful of Songs- Jerry Rasmussen & 1000's more! k |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Deckman Date: 04 Jan 04 - 05:35 PM "Days of 49", "Mary of the Wild Moor", Me too Jerry! Bob(deckman)Nelson |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Snuffy Date: 04 Jan 04 - 07:52 PM Wild Rover Black Velvet Band Home Boys Home The Keeper Lily The Pink Serafina Johnny Come Down To Hilo New York Girls (Can't You Dance The Polka) My Old Man's A Dustman Lili Marlene and a million more |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Walking Eagle Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:00 PM The Mary Ellen Carter> The Roseville Fair> My Home's Across the BlueRidge Mtn.> Hoboe Lulliby> Goodnight Irene> And about a jillion others. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Amos Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:23 PM Days of 49 is on my list, too, as are: The Blue Mountain Lake I Remember Loving You John Henry The Midnight Special Tenbrucks Stewball Duncan& Brady Motherless Child Wade in the Water Keep your Hand on the Plow The Strawberry Roan Get Along, Li'l Dogies Sweet Baby james Rising of the Moon Rolling in My Sweet baby's Arms Old Joe Clark A Man of Constant Sorrow West Virginia Polly, Pretty Polly The Unreconstructed Rebel The Battle of Bull Run Hullabaloo Belay Oh, You New York Girls The Eddystone Light .... and about two hundred others that the jukebox won't report on at the moment....:>) And yes, some of them are corny and overworked, but there's always some one young enough at heart not to be tired of it! A |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Bill D Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:53 PM Good Peanuts I've Rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late Storms Are on the Ocean Wreck of the Old 97 The Twa Corbies Lord Randall The Goodnight, Loving Trail Stern Old Batchelor Jimmy Cracked Corn Baltimore Fire and just a few more.... |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Leadfingers Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:18 PM Snuffy - I never realised how many of my gigs you've been at. But what about Streets of London and Dont Think Twice ? |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Peace Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:31 PM Maggie Wild Mountain Thyme One Too Many Mornings Love Minus Zero Mail Myself to You |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:07 PM Most of Bob Dylan's. Particularly... Just Like A Woman Dark Eyes To Ramona Visions of Johanna She Belongs To Me Ring Them Bells Jokerman I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine Changing of the Guards Lay Down Your Weary Tune Desolation Row |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Phil Cooper Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:09 PM Pretty Susan Rosemary's Sister Death of Young Andrew Spencer the Rover Little Heathy Hill (it's a tune,but I never get tired of playing it) Poor Ditching Boy Master of the Sheepfold (learned from Art). |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:15 PM 12 posts and over one hundred songs, and very little duplication. Lots of good songs that we never get tired of... and this is just the tip of the iceberg.. I must say, Deckman, you have impeccable taste.. Jerry |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: SINSULL Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:27 PM Shenandoah and all its variations The Lightening Express Hard Times (Come Again No More) A Bird In A Gilded Cage |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Ebbie Date: 04 Jan 04 - 11:47 PM Somehow I never get tired of 'Angel Band', sung southern style. (northern style lacks soul, or something) |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: mg Date: 05 Jan 04 - 12:42 AM Hm..I was just trying to remember Mary of the Wild Moor..I always scramble the verses...at this folk club in Newfoundland we had first this angelic sounding woman from Quebec sing her version, and then this quite scruffy southern American sing his..it was quite a contrast... well, shall I add to the list.. Green grow the lilacs Greenland whales Old Kentucky Home Bonnie Annie Laurie America the Beautiful Erie Canal Paddy works on the railway mg |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Dave Hanson Date: 05 Jan 04 - 06:10 AM I think sinsull has included ' Lightning Express ' as a joke, it's the most awful bloody song I've ever heard in my life, in fact just thinking about it now, I think I'll log off and go and kill myself. eric |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 05 Jan 04 - 07:31 AM I know Mary of the Wild Moor from the Blue Sky Boys, and I'm with you, Ebbie on Angel Band. I can't imagine ever tiring of that song. I do it with my gospel quartet, and even though the other three guys are black, we do it white southern style. Two of the guys grew up in the south and listened to the Grand Ole Opry and white church music as well as the gospel sung in black Baptist churches. The Third is from Jamaica and has his own reggae band. Wonder what it would sound like as a reggae song? Jerry |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,James Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:34 AM Reynardine, American Stranger, Old Dog Blue, Pull Down Lads, The Boony Swans,Raglan Road, Geordie, Sprinhill Mine Diasaster, Wedding Song(the Bob Dylan one), Coast of Malabar, Foggy Dew, Black eyed dog, Army Dreamers, Bold Dockerty, Grace Darling, Oh England, my Lionheart, The Plains of Waterloo..and loads more. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,James Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:38 AM I forgot one of my all time favpurites..Gentle Annie |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Merritt Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:48 AM Either I lack discernment or have consistently great taste. When I look over my songlist I have a hard time finding a song that I don't really enjoy singing. I stopped playing & singing for about 20 years so some folks here have more history to base their selection on. Anyway, here's 20+ songs grabbed off a list of 200+ tunes that I do solo: Any Old Time – J. Rodgers I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself – 1934 Southbound Train – G. Nash St. James Infirmary – Magdalena – D. O'Keefe The Blackbird – Trad Stormy Weather – Arlen/Koehler; 1943 Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues – D. O'Keefe River – Joni Mitchell Goodnight, My Someone – by Meredith Wilson; 1956 Simple Man – Graham Nash Song for the Asking – Paul Simon Save The Last Dance For Me – Drifters; 1960 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe – Mercer/Warren 1945 Mother Nature's Son – Beatles All I Know – Jimmy Webb Careless Love – trad; Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff Birds – Neil Young Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison Kansas City Blues – Jim Jackson; 1928 Across The Universe - Lennon It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – Dylan My Dear Companion – Jean Ritchie Whispering Pines – The Band - Merritt |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: MAG Date: 05 Jan 04 - 12:36 PM Jerry, you're responsible for "Handful of Songs"? good 'un -- it's on my "to learn" list. I still do Strangest Dream Changes |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Tinker Date: 05 Jan 04 - 04:40 PM SINSULL I think it's time to formalize the Mudcat Sirens... we seem to be luring the gentlemen this week.... House of the Rising Sun Holy Ground Trees They Do Grow High Circle Game |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 05 Jan 04 - 05:38 PM MTA by the Kingston Trio |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: John Hardly Date: 05 Jan 04 - 06:21 PM I wanna sit and listen to Merrit's CD collection! Hey, wait, I already have it! |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: SINSULL Date: 05 Jan 04 - 08:20 PM I learned Lightening Express when I was 11 from the Everly Bros. "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" album. Then heard the Blue Sky Boys and multiple others do it. I love it. Would you like to borrow a knife Eric? Of course, you could always go out and lie down on the railroad tracks. I do love the MTA as done by the KT. Also their version of Ruby Red. Add The Golden Vanity Roll Alabama Roll Old Shep (Need a sharpening stone, Eric?) |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 05 Jan 04 - 08:30 PM The Streamline Cannonball is another great train song.. not well known Jerry |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Ebbie Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:29 PM The Streamline Cannonball is a song I learned from my parents before I knew I was learning songs, Jerry R. We had a farm and one of my earliest memories is of my dad singing as he walked from one spot to another. And of my mother singing at the kitchen stove as she got breakfast. I just realized I'm a lucky woman! Jerry, I'll be PMing you- I got to hear a CD of yours and I'd love a copy of my own. I spent my teen years in the south and that's the music I still resonate to. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 05 Jan 04 - 10:35 PM Sound Sound Your Instruments of Joy--need harmonies Malpas Wassail--need harmonies Anchored in Love--as duet Arthur McBride Lakes of Pontchartrain Parting Glass My First Shipwreck at Sea Amelia Earhart Town I Loved So Well Teardrops In the Snow Tumbling Tumbleweeds 8 More Miles To Louisville Cool Water Farther Along Yard Sale Streets of Baltimore Lili Marlen (auf Deutsch) D- Day Dodgers (same tune, of course) Hofbrauehaus Angels Rejoiced The Good Old Way Sentimental Journey West Virginia, My Home Give Me the Leavin's What really makes a lot of these songs, esp. the UK songs, sound great to me is to sing them in harmony in a group. I can and do sing any of these solo (e.g. walking to and from the subway every day) (in Takoma Park MD, well-known folk ghetto, hence a pretty tolerant area). But I love to sing harmonies myself, and to sing one of the Watersons' songs, for instance, in a group that knows how to make their sort of soaring and swooping harmonies, is one of the best experiences of my life. I can't imagine ever getting tired of any of these (just to scratch the surface), most of which I've sung over 10 years. In fact, there are very few songs I am thoroughly tired of. (Admittedly I don't have to sing Wild Rover every other night). The only 2 I can think of are "Waltzing With Bears' and "Little Drummer Boy". And I had a 4-part harmony group which did door-to-door caroling this season, took requests, and was asked to do "Drummer Boy". We did, in harmony, with all the verses, though we had no music for it, and it sounded surprisingly good. Even "Drummer Boy" in the right circumstances is OK. Perhaps one of the reasons I don't get tired of songs is that I listen to all kinds of music all the time, including hot jazz, early rock, classical, blues and bluegrass. Right now I'm listening to a lot of 1930's calypsoes--really sophisticated, politically aware, and informative lyrics, with a great sense of humor--and a window on another world (obtained at CAMSCO, by the way) The 5 CD's on my CD player right now are Roosevelt in Trinidad; Complete Wind Sonatas (1 of 2) --Handel; Marty Robbins/Johnny Horton; Washington Phillips--I Am Born To Preach The Gospel; and Calypso Carnival 1936-1941. Sorry for the thread creep |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,johnfitz.com Date: 05 Jan 04 - 11:23 PM I love doing almost anything anybody sincerely requests, but if the hockey game is winning the battle, I'll sing: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Wild Mountain Thyme The Dutchman Tupelo Honey I Saw the Light Ghost Riders Mary Mac Angel from Montgomery Froggie went courtin' No Woman no Cry Hope I don't fall in love with you Dark as a dungeon Barrett's Privateers Tomorrow is a long time Don't laugh at me (with my daughter) |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: DonMeixner Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:03 AM Begin the Beguine I'll Be Seeing You Buttermilk Hill Rompin' Rovin' Days (Thanks Bruce) Can't Help But Wonder Butchie's Tune Brave Wolfe Short Grasses Livin' On The River Little River and about 1,000 others. Don |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 06 Jan 04 - 02:10 AM La Vie En Rose Wabash Cannonball Mariú Blue Yodel No. 9 Waltz Across Texas Non Piú Andrai Isle Of Innisfree Tennessee Waltz Tennessee Stud Bheir Mí ó Lovesick Blues Oró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile Only Our Rivers Run Free If I were Free Hear My Song He's In The Jailhouse Now The Errant Apprentice The Shearin's Not For You. And one or two thousand others. Seamus |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Dave Hanson Date: 06 Jan 04 - 04:26 AM Boring doggy dirge SINSULL. eric |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: clueless don Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:16 PM A song I have never gotten tired of is a Henry Clay Work song called "Come Home, Father" ("Father, dear father, come home with me now, the clock in the steeple strikes one ...".) I used to sing it at Folklore Society of Greater Washington open sings (in a previous life.) Quite maudlin, but it strikes a chord with me. Don |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: kendall Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:26 PM PHEOBE SNOW. Don't knock Old Shep. If not for the family dog, I wouldn't be here. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:57 PM Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bobby Z) Lies (Stan The Man) Dark-Eyed Molly (Archie Fisher) Anything by Elvis, but especially Girl of My Best Friend, Blue Christmas and Are You Lonesome Tonight (ah, memories of Sue Pearson!) Margarita and Gift Of A Brand New Day (Harvey Andrews - a true genius) Rainy Day People (Gordon Lightfoot) The Lorry Ride (sorry, I forget her name) The Bergen and Old Bones (Jez Lowe) Fair Annie (Trad) Most of John Connolly's songs but particularly Charlie In The Garden and The Grimsby Lads Polly On The Shore (Trad) Polly On THe Shore (Lester Simpson) Canadee-i-o (the Nic Jones version) Joe Peel (Peter Bond) Oh and dozens of others too numerous to mention. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Peace Date: 06 Jan 04 - 09:25 PM William Kidd You Are My Sunshine Silver Threads and Golden Needles |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Nancy King Date: 06 Jan 04 - 10:14 PM A lot of good stuff here, folks. Here are a few of my faves: I Think of You, by Bruce Phillips Old Flames, by Dolly Parton Lake George, by Terasina Huxtable Times Are Gettin' Hard, by Lee Hays The Butcher Boy The Ballad of Charles Guiteau Delia's Gone Woody Knows Nothin' Who Will Sing for Me and in the Gospel vein: Anchored in Love In the Garden Marching to Zion When They Ring the Golden Bells Just a Closer Walk With Thee and more.... Nancy |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Bill D Date: 06 Jan 04 - 10:34 PM yes, Seamus...I forgot Bheir Mí ó...I used to sing my son to sleep with that...he's 21 now.. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Jim Krause Date: 06 Jan 04 - 11:42 PM Well it has been quite a while since I've posted. Here are just a few off the top of my head Barbara Allen Lord Bateman Henry, My Son Penny's Farm (I use this one a lot in my banjo classes) A bunch of my songs like I'm a Rovin' Cowboy Road to Santa Fe Anna On My Mind Tiger on My Couch When We Rise Songs by Bill Staines Roseville Fair Lovers and Losers Flowers in the Snow More Traditional songs In Good Old Colony Days One Morning in May (The Nightengale) The Minstrel Boy Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms That's enough for one post. Jim |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Dave Hanson Date: 07 Jan 04 - 05:09 AM ' They Don't Write Them Like That Anymore ' eric |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: fat B****rd Date: 07 Jan 04 - 05:22 AM Not so many songs as tunes. Loads of standards Cole Porter, Gershwin etc Work Song (Adderley) The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) Now's The Time (Parker) Loads of Leadbelly (Just to keep the Mudcat Police at bay) Blood Red Roses Poor Old Horse |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 07 Jan 04 - 08:36 AM Forgot 'The Rose Of Allendale' JB |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Kim C Date: 07 Jan 04 - 01:57 PM Night Rider's Lament |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Bill D Date: 07 Jan 04 - 02:08 PM oh...one that never ceases to amaze me how everyone responds to it... "The Housewife's Lament" |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jan 04 - 02:10 PM Oh, Lordy...well, here are some, but there are about 23.5456 x 10^24 others. Queen Elinor's Confession Down in the valley Red River valley Wreck of old '97 Casey Jones and the variants (and esp. the variant that starts "Casey Jones was a son of a bitch....") Roll me over in the clover Green grow the lilacs McDonald on the heights Mary Ellen Carter John Birch Society Springhill mine disaster Crabs walk sidewise Sweet Survivor There but for fortune Outside of small circle of friends I got a letter from LBJ Draft dodger rag Darcy Farrow Outlawed Rapparee Brennan on the moor How can I keep from singing Silent Night Yankee Doodle Roll, Alamaba, Roll Mary L. Mackay Willie McBride And the band played waltzing Matilda South Side Irish ...and a lot that have been mentioned above. Ever notice how these sorts of songs seen ever fresh, which most rock music fades? |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jan 04 - 06:14 PM I should also mention The Idiot The Giant Northwest Passage and pret' near everything by Stan Rogers. Also, from Schooner Fare Mad Jack Day of the Clipper Portland Head and lots of others. |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Dave Hanson Date: 08 Jan 04 - 05:11 AM The Idiot Song by Neil Innes, beautiful. eric |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: kendall Date: 08 Jan 04 - 06:46 AM I remember loving you (U. Phillips) Faded roses of December (U. Phillips Last thing on my mind (Tom Paxton) Phil Brown (Dave Mallett) Duna (Gordon Bok) anything sung by Seamus Kennedy or Rick Fielding Fire down below sung by Jeri Corlew A bad half hour (Tom Russell) Lock Keeper (Stan Rogers) |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 08 Jan 04 - 07:44 AM Kendall, my favourite of all lines is in Lock-Keeper:- "She wears bougainvillea blossoms, You pluck 'em from her hair and toss them in the tide Sweep her in your arms and carry her inside. Her sighs catch on your shoulder, Her moonlit eyes grow bold and wiser through her tears, How could you stand to leave her for a year?" Wish I could write like that. Johnny |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,stumd3@hotmail.com Date: 08 Jan 04 - 11:29 AM I AIN'T GOT NO HOME WAITING FOR A TRAIN LOUIS COLLINS YOUNG BUT DAILY GROWING HARD TIMES JIM JONES RANK STRANGER THE FIELDS HAVE TURNED BROWN KENTUCKY WALTZ TO LIVE'S TO FLY ANGEL FLYING TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD HOUSE OF GOLD MY LOVE FOR YOU HAS TURNED TO HATE HEY PORTER POOR VALLEY |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: kendall Date: 08 Jan 04 - 07:44 PM Johnnie, join the club! All it takes is an outstanding line, and I'll learn a whole song for it. Such as: ...we drifted on home through the public bars, we were ten times less by one... |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 09 Jan 04 - 08:27 AM Kendall, humour me - where's that from? |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: Morticia Date: 09 Jan 04 - 08:55 AM Peggy Gordon- Trad She moved through the Fair- Padraic Colum Sparehand- our own Linda Kelly Dancing at Whitsun- John Austin Marshall Louise-Paul Siebell Lowlands - Trad Westlin' Winds - Burns Man of War- Steve Knightly Sally Free and Easy- Tawney Time to Be Sleeping- our own Jim MacClean |
Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of From: GUEST,MAG stuck in Portland Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:48 PM I can't name the song, (10xless by 1) but it's on a Gordon Bok recording -- the one of work songs. |
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