Origins: Angelita (Terry Poirier)

Subject: Origins: Angelita
From: GUEST,doryman
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 04:38 PM

I have a cd with this song on it. The chorus--
" Oh Angelita, my love for you is an open door
If you'll come and stay with me
   My heart will sing for ever more..."
The tune ,I think, is an old fiddle tune.
I would love to know who sings/wrote it so I could give proper credit if I ever manage to learn it. Any ideas??

Subject: RE: Origins: Angelita
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Dec 10 - 05:05 PM

Does the cd have any data with it? What company issued it?
There are several "Angelita" songs.

Subject: RE: Origins: Angelita
From: GUEST,Robin
Date: 20 May 13 - 08:44 PM

Just heard it on WAMU ... Kati Penn and Newtown at least covered it

Subject: RE: Origins: Angelita
From: GUEST,Bill / guest
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 12:48 PM

...although it sounds very old, this is a tune written by Mark Simos. Mark is a professor at the Berklee School of Music. It is an absolutely awesome tune and I would love to decipher some more of the lyrics so I can sit around on MY front porch and pick and sing the tune. I have figured out most of the lyrics based on the Newtown recording from 2011...just a few words I can't quite get. I saw Newtown perform this at the 2015 Busybird Bluegrass Festival in Berkshire, NY and I bought the CD within minutes!

Subject: RE: Origins: Angelita
From: GUEST,RH
Date: 14 May 22 - 05:53 PM

All the members of Newtown are friends of mine. I believe the song was written and sung by Terry Porier, who was their bass player at the time. Terry comes from a musical family and was born and raised in Canada, but I told him he must have a little Cajun in him. Oh, Angelita is a great song.

Subject: ADD: Angelita (Terry Poirier)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 May 22 - 08:04 PM

I've been able to determine that Terry Poirier was a member of the band that called themselves "Newtown."
Here's the recording from the self-titled Newtown album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsXqm3IaokE

The chorus in the first post is correct.

ANGELITA
(Terry Poirier)

CHORUS
Oh Angelita, my love for you is an open door
If you'll come and stay with me
My heart will sing forevermore.

1. Sit out on my new front porch,
Watch the sun a-sinkin'
Flowin' through the cypress trees,
It's of you I'm thinkin'

2. Met you at a Sunday dance,
Many an eye upon it,
Seemed to me an artist fair,
With a golden hand had drawn it.

3. If I was gone a thousand years,
No one 'd even miss me
[no idea]
The moment that you first kissed me.

Some folks covet gold and coin
Some want to be famous,
All I want is your sweet love,
And a little boy name's Amos (???)

Love to hear the way you laugh,
Hurt to hear you cryin'
Hope that it's your voice I hear
On the day that I lie dyin'


As you can see, I need some help on the verses. Post corrections below, and I'll add them here.