Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs

Subject: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: Jenny S
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 08:55 AM

Does anyone have the words for this please?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 11:20 AM

Sung by who ? Trad or Contemporary ? Any other clues ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 11:51 AM

hand me down me walking cane
hand me down my bible

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: maeve
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 02:45 PM

YouTube- Listen to "Hand Me Down Songs" Gentleman Callers
"The Gentleman Callers are a rocking four piece outfit from Lansing, MI. Hand Me Down Songs album They are deeply rooted in the sounds of traditional country, with a rock and roll edge and attitude. Hand Me Down Songs CD music All that matched with pro gear and an unquenchable thirst for Beer, make them the rockinest honky-tonk band in mid-Michigan. Hand Me Down Songs music CDs Listening to their CD will make you wanna throw your peanut shells on the floor, and puke twice before cracking open another frosty cold sixer of Milwaukee's Best." found here: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7238033


Not quite what you had in mind, Jenny S? More clues, please. :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 04:00 AM

Hand Me Down Me Petticoat

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 04:43 AM

In the DT

http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2477

Share

HAND ME DOWN

cho: Oh, hand me down (Hand me down)
Hand me down (hand me down)
Hand me down my silver trumpet Gabriel
Hand it down, Throw it down,
Any old way, just get it down
Hand me down my silver trumpet Lord

Sincerely,
Gargoyle
Where did you become familar with it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: nutty
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 01:18 PM

Is it the Barry Temple song that Jenny S is wanting.

Details can be found here - and I would recommend buying the Song Book and CD

Hand me down songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: nutty
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 01:23 PM

Gargoyle

I found Silver Trumpets (Which I used to sing) in a book at school.
I think it was called "Apusskidu"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: maeve
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 02:42 PM

Both songbook and cds look interesting. Thanks, nutty.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: GUEST,Jenny S
Date: 21 Jul 15 - 11:55 AM

Oh this is embarrassing - that was me (nearly 3 years ago now!) asking for this. I never got back to the thread due to various unexpected distractions.

But to clarify - I heard someone sing this at a festival back in 2011 - I have no idea who the person was, but I do remember that the chorus was something like this:

Treasure those songs, those hand-me-down songs
.........
.........
And Treasure those hand-me-down songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 22 Jul 15 - 10:07 AM

Jenny I think it is the Barry Temple song, posted by nutty above, the link does not work though, now

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jul 15 - 02:39 PM

Gee, Jenny, I thought maybe you were looking for "Second Hand Rose"...

Here's an up-to-date link for Barrie and Ingrid Temple: http://barrieandingrid.co.uk/hmdscd.html

Subject: Lyr Add: HAND-ME-DOWN SONGS (The Gentleman Callers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 11:46 PM

Evidently this isn't the song that Jenny S originally requested, but it's the one Maeve suggested back on 19-Sep-2012:


HAND-ME-DOWN SONGS
As recorded by The Gentleman Callers on "Hand-Me-Down Songs" (2006)

Time after the show when I found you in the wings
And I told you how I thought you were ev'rything.
I meant it at the time; I thought you were the king,
And I spent the next two years learnin' how to sing.

I wrote some country songs, played 'em ev'ry night
In these empty bar rooms underneath the neon lights.
When I get too sad, and when I'm wound too tight,
I try to tell myself you set me all right.

CHORUS: But you burned out your bill(?) for us; you left me in the cold,
Wearin' all o' your hand-me-down clothes,
And I wish you hadn't made me ever'thing I am today,
Just to turn around and walk away.

Last time that we spoke, I didn't recognize your tone,
But I knew that you were gone and you left me all alone.
I could eat the fruit from the trees that you've grown,
But then nothin' I make will ever be my own. CHORUS

Since you went away, I stand upon my feet,
And I'm spittin' out these tired songs … teeth(?),
Wearin' down the pain of your sad deceit.
Now I'm walkin' through my lonesomeness down these city streets. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hand-me-down songs
From: GUEST,Jenny S
Date: 29 Jul 15 - 02:50 PM

Thanks Joe!