Lyr Req: Songs about duct tape

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about duct tape
From: voyager
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 03:50 PM

Duct Tape or WD-40 - Which one to use?

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: rangeroger
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:39 PM

Anniversary refresh. This should be tied to the WD-40 thread we just had.

rr

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Duane D.
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 03:06 PM

Thanks to Annap for reviving this thread. BTW, for what it's worth, Duct Tape was invented in New Jersey and somewhere in my home in NJ I have a newspaper article written about the invention and the inventor(s).

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Barbara
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 01:56 PM

Peter Krug, whom Sadie mentioned earlier, is also the author of "I've Gotta Find a Woman With a Chainsaw" located in another thread that I haven't bothered to link, and has written other stuff that got recorded, like "The Working Hands" and "Geritol Gypsy" and "See How the Land". Sorry, forgot to sign my last post.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 12:25 PM

Hadn't heard that one.can't sleep.dropping in and out.ratz

troll

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 12:19 PM

Saint Gedda of Grippe, whose shiny side doth save us all in our torn and weary paths...

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 12:15 PM

Speak ye not lightly of the Holy Ribbon of St.Tenacious!

troll...looking very severe (BFG)

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 11:59 AM

Hey EeZzz.....You told that joke back on May 24 and it ain't got no better over time!!! (:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Easy Rider
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 11:50 AM

Star Wars Joke:

Why is Duct Tape like The Force?

. . .

It has a Light Side and a Dark Side and it binds the Universe together.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 10:22 AM

When I finally meet my maker,
When I pass that final cup
I will tell him it was duct tape
Kept my soul from cracking up.

If your stress has too far risen
And your heart has tooo much bled,
Never doubt a little duct tape
Will keep your thoughts inside your head!

A

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 09:19 AM

What a friend we have in Duct Tape,

Trials and troubles it will mend.

We will never be without it.

It sticks with you 'til the end.

Anyone else?

troll

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: jeffp
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 09:01 AM

What a friend we have in Duct Tape
All our problems to repair
When the children start to fighting
Just Duct Tape them to their chairs!

jeffp

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 07:43 AM

Hi Sadie. Believe it or not, I wrote every word myself. I've never read any of your friend Peters work but he is obviously a man of great talent and is probably charming, gracious, and witty. Great minds do indeed follow similar tracks.

Seriously, I'd like to read some of his stuff. If you can point the way,I'd be grateful.

troll

Subject: Lyr Add: BIGAMOUS DUCT TAPE SLUT (Ian Rowe)
From: Barbara
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 07:30 AM

Hi, Sadie, I know a 4 pt round (and may have mentioned it above; I didn't read the whole thread again when annap refreshed it. Lou Matthiesson, I think the Alaska songwriter's name is.
This showed up in my email a couple days ago:

Bigamous Duct Tape Slut
-- by Ian Rowe

I saw a yellow roll of duct tape
Just the other day;
It was shiny bright and cheerful
But I prefer you just the same.
Your silver skin is fine to me,
You've born the test of time.
Why would I want to have a roll
Colored like a lemon rind?

I saw some duct tape at the store
That was the color Blue
But for all its glamour and its style
It made me think of you.
Why doll you up in pretty things
When pretty things don't last?
If my life is a sailing ship
Then silver is its mast.

I used a bit of pink duct tape
Just the other day.
I didn't want to do it
But you see you were away.
The pink was kind of pretty
But not as nice as you
I hope you don't mind, tomorrow
I'll buy a roll of blue.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From:
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 04:05 AM

Duct Tape music lovers: Here are DUCT TAPE related songs that we know of:

"Duct Tape Blues" by Michigan songwriter, Joel Mabus. This song is available on his live album, "The Naked Truth" available on Fossil Records, P.O. Box 4754 East Lansing, MI 48826-4754.

"The Perfect Gift" Now playing at all Wal-Mart Stores (really) by Washington State's Terry Anderson (a.k.a. Dr. Dirty) and the Band du Jour This song is available on a cassette with another Duct Tape Blues song that Dr, Dirty created at the request of Jim and Tim, the Duct Tape Guys:"The Duct Tape Junkie Blues" you can get ordering information by clicking here.

The Duct Tape Song by Bev Seinberg is available on her cassette "Lost and Found" - you can order from her for $5.00 plus $1.00 for shipping and handling. Mail to: Bev Seinberg 172 Chapman Drive, Amsterdam, NY 12010. You can e-mail her at [e-mail].

That Silver Fix It All by Rudy Darling "Past Due and Playable" -- "Bluegrass With Interest" PDP-002CD Contact: Past Due and Playable 14086 Mandolin Way, Nevada City, CA 95959 916-265-4328 or 916-265-8672.

Mr. Whitekeys has been doing duct tape schtick in words and music as part of his act in Alaska for twenty years. You can order a tape of his recordings from the Fly by Night Club 3300 Spenard Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99503 or phone [phone]. Sorry, don't know prices or specific titles - if you do, let us know and we'll update this.

Duct Tape and Cherrios by Mike Greger of Toronto, Canada. We don't know where to get this song, but apparently is is the sorry tale of a man whose wife is addicted to crack and their lives are falling apart. He threatens to duct tape her in a chair and feed her Cherrios with a spoon to keep her away from dealers.

Peter Krug, in Guerneville, CA, has an excellent song called Duct Tape. The chorus is:

Duct Tape, what would we do without Duct Tape, couldn't muddle through without Duct Tape, it's all the rage

Duct Tape, couldn't get by without Duct Tape, praise it to the skies It's the number one miracle of our modern age

And has four verses involving emergency repair situations, including a crashed space ship.

To contact Peter, he's Peter Krug, 17926 Santa Rosa Road, Guerneville, CA 95446.

Know of any others? Send us an e-mail with the specifics.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From:
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 04:00 AM

I believe that Troll is quoting part of "Duct Tape", by my neighbor Peter Krug, who also wrote "Woman with a Chainsaw" and "The Packrat Philosophy". The song describes many of the uses for duct tape mentioned here, and finishes the story of the singer's repair of a damaged interstellar vehicle, thus sending duct tape's fame to the stars

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Sourdough
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 02:26 AM

I was seventy miles up the Marrowijne River in Suriname, in a dugout canoe (yes, Catspaw, I had a paddle). The only boats on the water were dugout canoes like ours, made from hollowed out tree trunks, fifteen to thirty feet long. The bows were carved with a graceful upswept curve. The boatmen used intricately carved paddles with blades painted in bright, geometric figures.

Heavy and difficult to maneuver, the Djuka people could pilot these canoes through rapids that would give an experienced whitewater canoer pause. Each village along the river was fronted by a bare, muddy beach with a few canoes pulled up on shore. This was pretty remote country, no roads, no electricity, no touch with the central government, just a traditional culture living almost exactly as they had in the three centuries since they had originally settled there.

I was delighted that I had made it to a setting that was like "Green Mansions", on a jungle river, jaguars, macaws,I felt as though I had stepped into one of the National Geographic magazines I used to love to read, curled up on the window seat at home.

Somewhere in the middle of a reverie like that I noticed that one of the boats on shore had apparently smashed into a rock coming through a rapids a while back and the bow had been broken off. The repair had been made using, you guessed it, Duct Tape.

Subject: Lyr Add: DUCT TAPE(?)
From: Troll
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 11:29 PM

When you're sittin' there and lookin' at a pile of stuff to mend,
And the warranty on everything has just come to an end,
Don't go push the panic button 'cause you know you've got a friend,
In Duct Tape!

When the diaper pins are missing and your mothers comin' by
And the lamp cords frayed so badly you're afraid it's gonna fry,
There's no need for you to worry. You can fix it if you try
With Duct Tape!

It's your faithful, true companion when the going's gettin' rough.
Though it looks real thin and flimsy, you will find it's very tough.
You can mend it in a jiffy. It'll hold up well enough,
With Duct Tape!

troll

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 11:09 PM

Love Red Green! The man is so warped...and yet...ya know, some of those things he builds look like they might work....

BTW, Mikal--back when I still had my little Aeronca Chief, I had a small hangar accident--scraped the fabric off the tip of one wing. My mechanic and I slapped some duct tape across it and I flew the next 50 hours that way--worked great. (Don't know about fighter planes, though--that might be kinda scary at those speeds! and yeah, I know they call it 100 MPH tape, but still....)

My hubby swears by Mentholatum to take the sticky residue off. Be aware: he says Vicks doesn't work nearly as well! This is a man who claims that "you never have enough clamps (or duct tape)" and has cartons of both in his workshop.

And my brother, the auto mechanic, has kept any number of family vehicles on the road with that gray shiny stuff.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 09:55 PM

Annap, thanks! That was so sweet of you.
I am definately a duct tape junky.
I will thoroughly enjoy reading this thread tonight.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: annamill
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:03 PM

Little Neophyte, I brought this back for you and all our great newbies. Here we go again. What ever happened to Fadac? I liked him.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Fadac
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 03:51 PM

Nogs, Yum, good thoughts, I just had lunch...Chili. -Fadac

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: nogs
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 03:44 PM

more words to joel hickersons song:

Why dont they make diapers of a bright yellow color Why dont they make diapers of a bright golden hue whydont they make diapers of a bright yellow color Or green when the baby comes down with the flu

We lined his diapers with paper towels To catch all the nasties when he moved his bowels But soon we discovered it just wouldn't do He screamed and he squirmed and it shot right on through

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 05:34 PM

Veterinarians formerly used it after doing surgery on ducks. The ones still doing it in this day and age are considered quacks.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Fadac
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 02:57 PM

I have heard of using this tape on hamsters, but who wants to tape up a duck?

-Fadac

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 02:28 PM

I just checked a reel in the garage. It's DUCK tape.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 11 Jun 99 - 07:29 PM

Oops the name line thingy doesn't work automatically any more.
Jo x

Subject: RE: duct tape
From:
Date: 11 Jun 99 - 07:27 PM

Tim - certainly can buy duct tape in England - delayed response due to computer probs.
Peterp - not at all the same as gaffer tape, that's the thick stuff for sticking leads to stage floors - duck (sic) tape is for keeping rain out of Citroën 2cvs!!!
Jo x

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 09:15 PM

Someone ought to mention the poem about "bits of binder string"

And also a verysilly song about "No bones in mushrooms/ mushrooms have no bones"

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 06:07 PM

Smart man, Annap! Had the same kind of relationship with my son, who is now 29!

Did anybody see the cartoon "Ziggy", today? Not one my favourites to watch for, but today's was cute. ziggy is staring at his cat who is plastered against the wall, with broad strips of tape across his body, arms and legs, while Ziggy observes, "The mice must've been in the duct tape, again!"

kat

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: annamill
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 04:04 PM

Gee! I don't know how this is going to be received, but it is so funny to me I felt I had to pass it on.

My son knows next to nothing about Mudcats except wr're having guests. He is 22 years old and he and I have a very open, very free relationship. We're good friends. (Sometimes this is not great) All this in explanation of what is to follow.

My son recently broke up with a woman (she is 31) and he is feeling kind of low. His first real heartbreak. I asked him if he were going to start seeing other women again. He said he was going to start seeing lots of woman. I told him he better buy a lot of condoms. That he could buy them in a box of 20. He said he couldn't afford it (he supports himself), that he was going to get some aluminum foil and duct tape. He said that should last for a while.

I love him. annap

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Peter
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 03:13 PM

In the Canadian Army, it is called Gun Tape, and comes in an olice drab colour. Not actually used on guns, to my certain knowledge, but for almost everything else.

About ten years ago, the supply system made it available in black, brown, yellow, green blue and red. Very useful for all sorts of purposes, but purists wil still argue that it isn't proper gun tape.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 10:11 AM

Art,

That's a beauty.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Jun 99 - 02:51 PM

Friend o' mine was born with one eye lid. When he was circumsized they saved it and grafted it on his eye with duct tape. He's fine now; just a bit cockeyed.

Art

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: peterp
Date: 05 Jun 99 - 09:57 AM

gaffer comes off clean, and costs about £5 a roll

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Fadac
Date: 24 May 99 - 03:50 PM

Big differance between duct tape and gaffers tape. At least here.

duct tape, also called, 100 mile an hour tape = $1.98 roll, sticks to about everything, will pull paint from wall, and leaves glue all over the place, sticky nasty smears. The handymans friend. Also gets real ugly on the couch after about six months. It sort of slides all over. Yuck.

Gaffers tape = $12.50 a roll. Sticks reasonably well, but when pulled up, leaves no marks. Leave no messy glue behind.

So, how does the glue work in the UK? Big mess or clean? If it's clean and cheep, you got a good deal.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Easy Rider
Date: 24 May 99 - 03:44 PM

Q: Why is duct tape like the Force (Star Wars)?

A: It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the Universe together.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: peterp
Date: 23 May 99 - 06:10 PM

in the UK the stuff is known as gaffer tape or carpet tape, but all musicians know it as gaffer

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jeri
Date: 23 May 99 - 06:02 PM

True story

I retired from the Air Force last Feb. My second-to-last assignment was in Korea. Shortly after I got there, I was required to go to a series of briefings, one of which was on war-time first aid. The guy giving the briefing sounded and looked like Jeff Foxworthy. (You Might Be a Redneck If...) He explained how you you used whatever was at hand and improvised - "And everybody has...duct tape!" Seems you can bandage somebody, splint anything, apply traction, stabilize a neck, put someone in anti-shock position, rig up a back board, create a litter (the thing you carry people on) or just use the roll for a pillow.

Once he got into it a ways, he'd start on treatment of the next injury. He'd ask "OK, anybody know how you can help a guy with a sucking chest wound?" and we'd all yell "Duct tape!" True, he did talk about other options, but he always came back to duct tape.

Subject: Lyr Add: DUCT TAPE BLUES (Joel Mabus)
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 23 May 99 - 05:04 PM

Fishy,

Boy, did you experience the worst of thread drift. Here's one of your requests.

Duct Tape Blues
by Joel Mabus

You say the world is going to pieces,
Things just fell apart,
You want to put things back together,
But you don't know where to start.
Well, I got your solution,
The stuff you need to use.
It's a thing called Duct Tape,
There ain't nothin' it can't do.

CHO:
I say the world is going to pieces,
What's a poor boy going to do?
I'm just holdin' things together.
Singin' the Duct Tape blues.

Duct Tape is the answer,
In a little silver roll.
It'll mend the wildest crack,
It can patch the deepest hole.
I put Duct Tape on my sneakers,
When they start to fall apart,
And since my baby left me,
I'm wearing Duct Tape on my heart. CHO:

Now, I'm goin' down to the Pentagon,
Gonna help my country out.
Tell them five star Generals,
What it's all about.
I'll show 'em my roll of Duct Tape,
And I'll explain what it can do.
I'll say it's only 99 thousand dollars,
This week's special just for you. CHO:

Sorry I took so long. I like this song, but it was not in my memory banks any longer. Finally found my file of old songs.

Enjoy the music.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: duct tape
From:
Date: 06 May 99 - 06:38 PM

Incidently, someone was trying to tell me that you can't buy duct tape in England. I find this hard to believe. Do you just use a different term over there?

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Valentine
Date: 06 May 99 - 01:01 AM

The wood song is "More Wood" by Dillon Bustin. It's on the Short Sisters recording and also on one of the February tapes by Gordon Bok and (lotsa) friends.

Valentine

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 05 May 99 - 03:20 PM

A colleague's brother builds satellites. They use a lot of duct tape--but they're careful to call it Rocket Tape.

Catspaw says, "If you can't fix it, duckit!" But in the words of one of the students on the solar-car project here said, "If you can't duck it, *uck it!"

(He pronounces the asterisk very clearly.)

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 May 99 - 11:22 AM

I have a friend who knitted a car cosy (to cover his VW) out of used video tape. Not relevant, of course, but where else could I put such information?

Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: duct tape
From:
Date: 04 May 99 - 06:03 PM

There was a recent article here in Canada in the National Post about the gentleman who is attempting to perfect a grizzlie-proof suit. Apparently this suit has many other excellent qualities, as you can be shot at, run over by a truck, beaten with iron rods, etc. and come out smiling. The picture in the paper showed him being attacked with a chain saw, IIRC. There was a documentary made about him some time back, with one of his earlier suits. He tried to attract a grizzlie to attack him, but couldn't interest any.

Anyway, the article said that the inventor couldn't afford proper molded parts for certain critical parts of the suit, so he used massive amounts of duct tape. I can't remember the exact number, but it was something like 7000 feet of it. So duct tape, in sufficient quantity, will protect you against grizzlie bear attacks it seems.

It of course has many uses -- a friend of mine, in a Red Green moment, made a bird feeder out of an old pole, old pump parts, a plastic hood, a pie pan, and duct tape. Worked quite well. Personally I like to use it to seal packages, and think of the poor soul on the receiving end trying to get it open.:)

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jon W.
Date: 04 May 99 - 10:48 AM

There is an archive of the astro pix if you go to the site, the duct tape picture is on May 1. Of course, anyone who's seen the movie "Apollo 13" knows how duct tape was used to save the lives of those three astronauts - Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and that other guy. Seriously, I think that part of the movie was historically accurate.

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 03 May 99 - 06:27 PM

I always thought it was Duck Tape - keeps the water out of my car! :-}
Jo

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Banjer
Date: 02 May 99 - 02:16 PM

By jove, KatL, ya did it!! Neat picture!

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 May 99 - 01:21 PM

Pete: I did a search and it finally cme up. Don't knwo why just putting in the address,verbatim, so to speak, didn't work. Today's is realy spectacular! Thank you. Now, for one LAST attempt at linking this for others:

Click here

Subject: RE: duct tape
From: Peter T.
Date: 02 May 99 - 11:05 AM

dear katlaf, The site name seems to be O.K. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) -- there may be something in your cutting and pasting (this happens to me a lot in C&P). I just checked in to it,as I do every morning I am on this thing. It would be a pity of you missed today's picture (they also have back files) which I guarantee will stun you.

Yours, Peter T.