Lyr Req: The Man with the Single Hair

Subject: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: RWJ
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 06:31 AM

I am looking for a monologue about a man with a single hair but cant remember any more can anyone help

   Ron

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 12:13 PM

Could you possibly be thinking of Lavender Cowboy? It's a song, not a monologue, but in some versions he has one hair, not two.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: reggie miles
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 03:44 PM

Whilst in the oriental district of Seattle years ago I happened to notice a gentleman with only one long hair growing from the middle of his chin. My gawd! I thought, what discipline to have to shave around it each day and constantly watching over it so as not to catch it accidentally in the zipper of a coat, or what if you happened to scratch your chin at the wrong time and caused it fall off after years of caring for it, you'd have to start all over again. It was probably some kind of zen religioso thing. It was a very strange sight to see. One of the modern wonders of the world in my book. One long grey hair comin' right out of the middle of his chin. Weird!


Reggie truth is stranger than fiction Miles

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 03:50 PM

Lavender Cowboy had only one hair on his chest.Silly song. If it aint in the D T i might just post it.

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Click for Lavender Cowboy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 05:02 PM

No, RWJ is talking about a monologue about a man who notices he is losing his hair until he has only one left which he cares for meticulously. Damn, we can't think where we heard it but it's great.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: ADD: The Man with the Single Hair
From: GUEST,Jim Ward
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:17 AM

The Man with the Single Hair
By Robert Ganthony & Arthur H. Wood (1902) Performed by Met. B. Spurr

He was not bald: for on his shining cranium
Remained one hair, it's colour pink geranium.
Oh, how he idolised that single hair
That, last of loved ones, grew luxuriant there.
He counted it each morning: fondly viewed it
This way and that way: carefully shampooed it.
Brushed it, combed it, scented it and oiled it,
Dared scarcely put his hat on lest he spoiled it.
In evening dress, arrayed for swell society,
He'd part it in the middle for variety.
Often he'd curl it, train it o'er his brow
In navy fashion, as our middies now.
Omitting nothing, with devoted care,
He'd pet his hirsute pride, his single hair.

But sad to tell!
Ah bitter was the blow!
There came a day —
A day of direst woe —
When in his soup it fell! He quickly spied it,
Then rescued it, and on his napkin dried it,
His only hair. His pet, his flowing tress,
Chill was his forehead, deep his heart's distress.
'I'm bald at last,' he wailed, in bitter grief,
'My only hair has fallen like a leaf.
What ho! A taxidermist,' shouted he,
'I'll have it stuffed, for all mankind to see.
And when, within its case of glass installed,
The world shall see I was not always bald.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: RWJ
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 03:36 AM

Thanks Jim thats the one i was looking for & thanks for the other replies not what i was sfter but still worth reading

Ron

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with a single hair
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 04:22 PM

Guess the debate is over on this one, no more splitting hairs over origin...;~)

Charley Noble