Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Oct 24 - 04:24 PM

Auld Rob Morris from Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany. A conversation between a mother and daughter, the former trying to convince the latter that marrying the titular auld man is a good idea.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 20 Oct 24 - 07:27 PM

Huntingtower is a great Scottish traditional dialogue song.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Oct 24 - 10:37 PM

I realize this is much off topic, but rhyming with orange?

My friend George said nothing rhymes with orange (my wife said no it doesn't)

I sent this to George:

Things that rhyme with ORANGE: forage, storage, porridge, mortgage, marriage, courage, encourage, carriage, anchorage, coverage, voyage, homage, arrange, average, college, scourge, forge, gorge, GEORGE, torch, emerge, range, carnage, foliage, enlarge, knowledge, and leverage.

There's also image, avenge, engage, enrage, exchange, hinge, indulge, language, manage, revenge, and twinge.

Your MILEAGE May Vary.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 05:59 AM

Across the Blue Mountains - this actually has three characters, but can be sung by a male and a female voice.

"I'll buy you a horse, love, and saddle to ride
I'll buy myself another to ride by your side
We'll stop at every tavern, we’ll drink when we’re dry
Across the Blue Mountains go my Katie and I"

Then up spoke her mother, and angry was she then
Crying "Daughter, oh dear daughter, he's a married man!
There's young men a-plenty more handsome than he
Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny"

"Oh mother, dear mother, he's the man of my own heart
Wouldn't it be a tragedy if we should have to part?
For I'd envy every woman that I'd ever see
Cross the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny"

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: The Og
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 12:06 PM

Songs with the same chord patterns can be sung against each other

I Was Born about 10,000 Years Ago + Lonesome Traveler

It's a Sin to Tell a Lie + Little White Lie

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 01:03 PM

The ever-controversial
"Baby, It's Cold Outside."

Recorded by more duos than I can enumerate,
chief among them
Ray Charles and Betty Carter.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: gillymor
Date: 21 Oct 24 - 01:25 PM

Ray and Betty also did an outstanding version of Cole Porter's "Every Time We Say Goodbye".

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 03:32 AM

Goodbye Again by Dave Alvin with Rosie Flores.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 27 Oct 24 - 10:21 PM

The Elfin Knight / Scarborough Fair / Whittingham Fair / Rosemary Lane
https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/theelfinknight.html

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Oct 24 - 06:11 PM

BUFFALO BOY
Sung by: Marian Dozha and George Fisher
Recorded in Mountain View, AR 4/19/63



When are we gonna get married, get married, get married?
Oh, when are we gonna get married, my dear old buffalo boy?

I guess we’ll marry Tuesday, next Tuesday, next Tuesday.
I guess we’ll marry next Tuesday--that is, if the weather is good.

Well, what you gonna wear to the wedding in, the wedding in, the wedding in?
What you gonna wear to the wedding in, my dear old buffalo boy?

I guess I’ll wear my britches, my britches, my britches.
I guess I’ll wear my britches--that is, if the weather is good.

Well, how you gonna get to the wedding in, the wedding in, the wedding in?
How you gonna get to the wedding in, my dear old buffalo boy?

I guess I’ll ride my oxcart, my oxcart, my oxcart.
I guess I’ll ride my oxcart--that is, if the weather be good.

I’se a-hoping you’d bring your buggy, your buggy, your buggy.
I’se a-hoping you’d bring your buggy, my dear old buffalo boy.

The ox won’t fit in the buggy, the buggy, the buggy.
Ox won’t fit in the buggy, not even if the weather be good.

Well, who you gonna bring to the wedding in, the wedding in, the wedding in?
Who you gonna bring to the wedding in, my dear old buffalo boy?

I thought I’d bring my children, my children, my children.
I thought I’d bring my children--that is, if the weather be good.

I didn’t know you had no children, no children, no children.
Didn’t know you had no children, my dear old buffalo boy.

Reckon I got six children, six children, six children.
I reckon I got six children--seven if the weather be good.

Well, there ain’t gonna be no wedding in, no wedding in, no wedding in.
There ain’t gonna be no wedding in, not even if the weather be good.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 24 - 01:40 PM

Proud Maisrie. Not dialogue, but male first 4 verses, female the last three. Bleak rejection.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Oct 24 - 05:11 PM

If you are serious..
double yodel

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: Neil D
Date: 06 Nov 24 - 05:24 AM

I always thought "Fields of Athenrye" would make a great duet.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Nov 24 - 06:50 PM

Anyone mentioned “Anything you can do, I can do better”, from Annie Get your Gun? It’s a real hoot of a song!

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Nov 24 - 06:37 AM

Pretty Polly

Oh Willie, oh Willie, I'm a feared for my life
Oh Willie, oh Willie, I'm a feared for my life
I'm afraid you mean to murder me, and leave me behind

Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly, you guessed about right
Polly, Pretty Polly, you guessed about right
I've been diggin' your grave, for the best part of last night

American versions of the song, such as those of B.F. Shelton and Dock Boggs, tend to begin in the first person
("I courted Pretty Polly...") and switch to the third person for the murder ("he stabbed her to the heart");
Jean Ritchie's 1963 recording as well as Judy Collins' 1968 recording featured alternating verses,
switching back and forth between Polly and Willie's perspectives. Wikipedia

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: GUEST,Dennis D'Asaro
Date: 13 Nov 24 - 02:13 AM

God knows if you are still at this.

"Love Is All Around" (the Troggs' other hit)
Heard whatsisname Jackrabbit Slim do this once with a woman at a NYC open mic. Very effective counter-torchy.

It was an awful environment for an outsider. The New Folk (or whomever) people all left their concert manners at home for strangers. This was at least 30 yrs ago.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Nov 24 - 08:43 PM

The Hungarian song "Elment a madarka". Dialogue between a man and a woman, mediated by a bird carrying messages. He's in exile as an outlaw. She wants him to come back, but he wants to stay out there, eating raw grain from the fields and drinking the dew. I haven't heard it sung as a duet but the form fits.