Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House

Subject: Lyr Add: THE NEW MAN WHO COMES AROUND (Terry Shand
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Jun 19 - 06:53 PM

You can hear this on the Internet Archive.


THE NEW MAN WHO COMES AROUND
(Bud Green; Tommy Tucker; John Lair)
As recorded by Terry Shand and His Orchestra, 1940, on Decca 2997 A.

CHORUS: There's a man who passes our house ev'ry single day,
Plays his little song and then goes away.
I asked the man his name and, queer as it may sound,
He told me he was just the man who comes around.

1. The man who passes our house is quite a jitterbug.
He comes to beat the carpet; he likes to cut a rug.
He beats it on the line and he beats it on the floor.
When Papa comes home, he beats it out the door. CHORUS

2. The man who passes our house repairs the Frigidaire.
He hangs around the kitchen but Sister doesn't care.
He stays all day but the time is never lost.
If he didn't come around, Sister never would defrost. CHORUS

3. The man who passes my house is the bashful beau.
Though he's a swing musician, his boiling point is low;
But Sister says he's diff'rent when he takes her for a ride,
For he's a sound sender on the Jersey side. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: Thompson
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 03:18 AM

On YouTube

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN MAMA GOES OUT THE MAID COMES IN
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Mar 16 - 03:10 PM

Heard this on the radio today. A similar story with the genders reversed. It's on an album called "Western Swing Heaven, Vol. 1" (2013).


WHEN MAMA GOES OUT THE MAID COMES IN
As recorded by the Bar X Cowboys, 1940.

Mama goes out 'most ev'ry night; she's in society,
And when Mama goes out, the maid comes in to keep us company.
With no one there but Papa and me, we'd be lonesome, don't you see?
So when Mama goes out, the maid comes in to keep us company.

The maid's a little blue-eyed blonde, as cute as she can be.
We always play some funny games and we sit on Papa's knee.
She always helps him with his work; she's as nice as she can be,
So when Mama goes out, the maid comes in to keep him company.

Papa gets up 'most ev'ry time and turns the lights down low,
For he always says they hurt his eyes and they have to be just so,
But why they talk so soft and low is more than I can see,
But when Mama goes out, the maid comes in to keep us company.

Papa is awful good to me, and so is Nursie too.
Nearly anything they ask of me they know that I will do,
But why they put me off to bed I really cannot see,
But when Mama goes out, the maid comes in to keep us company.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Johnny B
Date: 06 Oct 13 - 01:27 PM

This is being played rather frequently on "The UK 1940s Radio Station". Listen to it on the web.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 12 - 08:32 PM

So glad to find this site. I have been singing one verse over and over and my wife thought I was making it up. I lso remember Tommy Tucker band but I thought Bob Crosby's band played it. Thanx Al

Subject: Lyr Add:THE MAN DON'T COME TO OUR HOUSE ANYMORE
From: GUEST,Mike in San Antonio
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 10:34 AM

Different versions of this one probably exist, but I transcribed these words directly from the old 78 [which you can hear at the Internet Archive]. Someone wrote "36" on the flip side, so it may have cost 36c when my mother bought it many years ago.

THE MAN DON'T COME TO OUR HOUSE ANYMORE
(Tucker/Somerville)
As recorded by Tommy Tucker Time, with vocal chorus by Kerwin Somerville.
Okeh 5717 (Matrix W 28039), 1940.

CHORUS: Oh, the man don't come to our house anymore.
He used to come around and knock upon the door.
We still live where we always did before,
But the man don't come to our house anymore.

1. The man that came to our house that used to bring the ice,
He was the nicest ice man that ever brought our ice,
But he came around so often when my papa wasn't there
That Pop put out the "No Ice" sign and bought a Frigidaire! CHORUS

2. The man that came to our house to bring us eggs and butter,
He couldn't talk so very good; he always had to stutter.
It seemed a shame he had to go; I always wondered why.
I guess because it took so long for him to say "Goodbye." CHORUS

3. The man that came to our house that used to bring the milk
And walked right in the kitchen 'cause he talked as smooth as silk,
He liked my mama very much and brought her a corsage,
And now we've got a Jersey cow that lives in our garage. CHORUS

4. Now when I get big and get to go to school,
I want to learn a few things so I won't be a fool,
But before I learn my A-B-Cs or how much is a pound,
I'm gonna ask the teacher why the man don't come around. CHORUS

Easy, Lad; easy!

TAG: I wonder why—wonder why—why the man don't come to our house anymore.

[The same recording was also released on another label: Conqueror 9593.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 04:15 PM

Leo R Tanguay ([e-mail])

Old Song:

Oh! the man don't come to our house anymore,
he used to come around and knock upon the door,
we still live where we always lived before
but the man don't come to our house anymore.

Then it talks about the man brings ice. milk, bread and butter.

Do you have all of the lyrics.

Love to have them!

Thank You

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Clive Stone Auckland New Zealand
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:49 AM

My father was an anti-tank gunner stationed on Stirling Island in the Treasury Group in the war. There were Catalina PBY flying boats in Blanche Harbour between Mono and Stirling Islands. This is what he wrote in his diary:

A ship is at anchor permanently as a tender for the flying boats, its name is the "Coos Bay".

The flying boat tender has an amplifier or an electric gramophone (…a gramophone and amplifier on board) and it's pretty loud – we can hear the music from here and it's pretty good. (They thrash one song, "There's a man comes to our house every other day, Poppa isn't home, so the man comes to stay." How true in America these days.)

SATURDAY 8TH. JANUARY 1944

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Ian
Date: 11 Sep 10 - 10:53 PM

The man that comes to our house, he comes to take the trash
In a little white jacket and a little black mustache
It's all rather strange, but it always seems to me
He's a little more familiar then a trash man ought to be

The man that comes to our house is always very nice
He comes in the summer time to bring Mama ice
But the little teeny bit he brings soon melts away
So he has to come back again later in the day

When I grow up, I'm never gonna be
A plumber or a carpenter, no, sirree
I'll never be a doctor with an office down town
I'm gonna be just the Man That Comes Around

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 10 - 12:08 AM

i recall the "unintelligeable" lyric as "But the teenee weenee litle one soon melts away. the he has to come back again, later in the day."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,gooseguyz
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 01:35 PM

Putting together an 80th birthday party for my parents and this song just HAD to be a part of it! Thanks to all for supplying two verses I had never before heard. Now if I can just get my siblings to sing it all with me at the talent show, the party will be a huge success.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Dan Brown USN (Ret)
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 10:09 PM

Thanks to all who contributed to this site. I have had this song running through my mind for forty years or more, and I just now got all of it. Thanks again.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN WHO COMES AROUND (Will Osborne)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 06:56 PM

See the link given by GUEST,Dave above. [And there are additional copies here and here.] Here's my transcription


THE MAN WHO COMES AROUND
(Tucker; Lair; Green)
As recorded by Will Osborne & His Slide Music, 1939, Varsity 8143.
"Vocal by Dale, Barbara, Stinky, Will & Members of the Orchestra."

1. There's a man who comes to our house ev'ry single day.
Pappy comes home and the man goes away.
I asked the man his name and, queer as it may sound,
He told me he was just the man who comes around.
The man who comes around, the man who comes around,
He told me he was just the man who comes around.

2. [CHILD'S VOICE] The man who comes to my house he comes to bring the milk.
He walks right in the kitchen and talks as smooth as silk.
I always have to hold his horsie out by the gate,
'Cause he always stays so long, the horsie hates to wait.

CHORUS: There's a man who comes to our house ev'ry single day.
Papa comes home and the man goes away.
Papa does the work and Mama gets the pay.
The man comes around when Papa goes away.

3. The man who comes to my house isn't such a dope.
He rings the bell and says, "I hope, I hope, I hope."
I know that he's a salesman by the way he steps inside.
He never sells a single thing but walks out satisfied. CHORUS

4. [ELMER FUDD VOICE] Greetings ...(?) I'm never gonna be
A carpenter or a plumber, no siree.
I'll never be a doctor with an office downtown.
I'm gonna be just the man who comes around. CHORUS

5. [POSH BRITISH VOICE] The chap who's coming to my house had better watch his footing
For if he isn't careful, he's going to get a booting.
He comes and goes so quickly, the neighbors all declare
That he must be surely the little man who wasn't there. CHORUS

6. The man who comes to my house comes to fix the phone.
He brings his tools with him but he always comes alone.
And just before he leaves the house, I guess I ought to mention,
He goes upstairs to Mammy's room and fixes her extension. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: Peace
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 05:14 PM

http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo_view.pl?SYN040310

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 10:13 PM

Dave: That contains the stanza I remembered part of:

The man who comes to my house comes to fix the phone.
He brings his tools with him, but he always comes alone,
And just before he leaves the house, I guess I ought to mention,
He goes upstairs to Mammy's room and fixes her extension.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,dave
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:19 PM

http://www.archive.org/details/WillOsborneHisSlideMusic-ManWhoComesAround1940

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Brenda
Date: 06 Jun 09 - 09:15 AM

I had a 78 of this that my ex inherited from his parents. I loved this song, thought it was funny and a bit shocking for the time. I googled it today and was shocked to find this discussion of it. How cool! Would love to find a copy of the song somewhere.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 01:51 PM

This song was a favorite in our house when I was a child, my older sisters would sing it. Something reminded me of it, and I went on line to see if I could find the lyrics, since I could only recall the chorus and some bits and pieces. I was so delighted to find this site! Thank you all who contributed. It was wonderful to have some happy memories brought back while reading this. (At some point in time, I think I heard all the verses mentioned here!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:30 PM

Satelite Radio, channel 6004, the 30's & 40's has been playing this tune recently.
I was suprised it got past the "censors" of that era.
Quite a dicey melody!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: GUEST,Twinky
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 10:26 PM

I remember a verse that I haven't seen posted.
Have most of this right, but not 100%

There's a man that comes to our house and he's quite a jitterbug.
He cuts it on the carpet and he cuts it on the rug.
He cuts it in the hallway and he cuts it on the floor,
When Poppa comes home he cuts it out the door

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Man that Comes to Our House
From: Fidjit
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 02:50 PM

I hav ethis on a Cd or cassette somewhere. Will take some time to find as I'm in he process of moving and everthing is packed away. Try my beast.

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 09:32 PM

Here's how the song is sung by The Yonder Mountain String Band. You can hear their version at The Internet Archive if you have Winamp installed.

THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE

CHORUS: There's a man that comes to our house ever' single day.
Papa comes home and the man goes away.
Oh, papa does the work and mama gets the pay,
And the man comes around when papa goes away.

1. The man that comes to our house, he's very nice.
Comes in the summertime, brings Mama ice.
But the little piece of ice he brings soon melts away,(*)
Ice man comes back later in the day. CHORUS

2. The man that comes to our house comes to sell a brush,
Comes in a hurry, leaves in a rush,
And ev'ry time he goes away, Mama's in a pet,
Didn't get ev'rything she thought she ought to get. CHORUS

3. The man that come to our house drives a Cadillac,
Runs around the corner and parks it in the back.
Mama comes to the door, he's always sure to greet 'er
With "Open up, Honeybunch. Let me check your meter." CHORUS

4. When I grow up to be a man, I don't want to be
A plumber or a janitor, no siree.
Won't be a doctor with an office downtown.
I'd rather just be the man that comes around. CHORUS

[*This line is mostly unintelligible so I just used the line that Troll posted above.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 03:59 PM

The Online Discographical Project says THE MAN DON'T COME TO OUR HOUSE ANYMORE was recorded by Tommy Tucker Time in 1940. (That was the A-side; the B-side was BEER BARREL POLKA by Lawrence Welk!)

It also says The Sweet Violet Boys recorded THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE in 1937.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Dewey
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:15 AM

There's also a follow up song for this this one, (i.e. THE ANSWER to the man that comes around) done by tucker time.

The answer:

The Man Don't Come to Our House Anymore

The man that came to our house
That used to bring the ice.
He was the niceset ice man that ever brought our ice.
But he came so very often, when my Pappa wasn't there,
That Pop put out a "No Ice Sign" and bought a Frigidaire!

Chorus:

Oh, the man don't come to our house anymore
He used to come around, and knock upon the door,
We still live where we always did before,
But the man don't come to our house anymore


On the man that came to our house
that used to bring the milk
He walked right throught the door
'cause he talked as smooth as silk.

.... sorry, can't remember the rest

I had a recording for both the original and the answer, done by tucker time, but I misplaced it after moving out of an apartment, many years back.

Dewey

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: GUEST,dboop31
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:01 PM

Please if anyone has this song on a recording of any kind. I would love to have a copy for my father and his kids and grandkids and great grandkids(to come). This is one of his favorite songs and we would love to be able to pass it on. As he has to us.

Email me a [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Thank you

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Gurney
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 02:27 AM

'The Man who Comes Around' is also in the Jerry Silverman book, 62 Outrageous Songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: GUEST,robbi
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 06:33 PM

I was so glad to find this site. I remember listening to this when I was a little girl in Maplewood, MO in the early 1940's, and have never heard of it since.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Stewie
Date: 14 May 03 - 07:29 PM

The Sweet Violet Boys (Prairie Ramblers) recorded it under the title 'Fhere's a man that comes to our house' on 25 May 1937 in Chicago. Issued as Vocalion 5284. [Info from Meade et alia 'Country Music Sources' p458].

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Deckman
Date: 14 May 03 - 07:12 PM

I can't read this song title without remembering the late (and great) John Dwyer! This was one of his signiture songs. Come on in Maggie and fill us in on how and where your dad learned this song! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 May 03 - 06:59 PM

There is another stanza about a man who comes to fix the telephone. It ends

...but I forgot to mention,
He goes up to Momma's room & fixes her extension.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 14 May 03 - 01:33 PM

Copyright by Bob Miller (under the name Trebor Rellim), one-time piano-player with the Prairie Ramblers (Formerly Kentucky Ramblers. 1920s late, I think, but no idea who has the rights now.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN THAT COMES AROUND (Lair/Tucker)
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 03 - 01:09 PM

You can hear this version at the Internet Archive:

THE MAN THAT COMES AROUND
(Lair/Tucker)
As recorded by Tommy Tucker Time, with vocal by Kerwin Somerville, on Vocalion 5199, 1939.

CHORUS: [Now,] there's a man that comes to our house ev'ry single day.
Papa comes home and the man goes away.
Oh, Papa does the work and Mama gets the pay,
And the man comes around when Papa goes away.

1. Now, the man that comes to our house, he's very nice.
He comes in the summertime to bring my mama ice,
But the little teeny weenie piece soon melts away,
And he has to come back again later in the day. CHORUS

2. The man that comes to our house, he comes to take the trash
In a little white jacket and a little black mustache.
It's all very strange, but it always seems to me
He's a little more familiar than the trash man ought to be. CHORUS

3. The man that comes to our house, he comes to bring the milk.
He walks right in the kitchen and he talks as smooth as silk.
I always have to hold his horsie out by the gate,
'Cause he always stays so awful long the horse don't want to wait. CHORUS

4. Now when I grow up, I'm never gonna be
A plumber or a carpenter, no sirree!
I'll never be a doctor with an office downtown.
No, I'd rather be just the man that comes around. CHORUS

TAG: Whoa-ho-ho-ho! I'd rather be just the man that comes around!

[Another recording by the same band and vocalist appears on Columbia 37082, from 1941. The recording quality is better, and the vocal is a bit more expressive, but the lyrics are practically identical.]

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE
From: The Invisible Blazoona
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:39 PM

The old record by the Sweet Violet Boys! There are two more verses. Here's the whole song:

THERE'S A MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE (EVERY SINGLE DAY)
As recorded by the Sweet Violet Boys on Vocalion 03766, 1937.

CHORUS: There’s a man that comes to our house ev'ry single day.
Papa comes home and the man goes away.
Oh, Papa does the work and Mama gets the pay,
And the man comes around when Papa goes away.

1. The man that comes to our house, he's very nice.
He comes in the summertime and brings Mama ice,
Just a little teenie-weenie piece that soon melts away.
He has to come back again later in the day. CHORUS

2. The man that comes to our house comes to sell a brush.
He comes in a hurry and he leaves in a rush,
And ev'ry time he goes away, Mama's in a pet
If she didn't get ev'rything she thought she ought to get. CHORUS

3. The man that comes to our house drives a Cadillac.
He runs round the corner and he parks it in the back.
Mama goes to the door; he's always sure to greet 'er
With "Open up, honey-bunch; let me check your meter." CHORUS

4. When I grow to be a man, I'm not gonna be
A plumber or a janitor; no, sirree.
I won't be a doctor with an office downtown.
No, I'd rather be just the man that comes around. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man That Comes To Our House
From: Troll
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 10:02 AM

This is a song that my father sang when I was a kid in the late 40's. I have three verses and a chorus. Does anyone have any more? I seem to remember that he sang a lot of verses.

THE MAN THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE

There’s a man that comes to our house every single day.
Papa comes home and the man goes away.
Oh, papa does the work and mama gets the pay,
And the man comes around when papa goes away.

Oh, the man that comes to our house, he comes to bring the milk.
He comes up to the door and he talks as smooth as silk.
I always have to hold his horse outside the gate.
And the man he stays so doggone long and the horse don't wanna wait.
CHO.

Oh, the man that come to our house, he comes to bring the ice.
He walks right in the kitchen and he talks so awful nice.
But the little piece of ice he brings soon melts away,
And the man he has to come again later in the day.
CHO.

When I grow up, I don't wanna be
A doctor or a lawyer. No siree.
Don't want a fancy car or an office in the town.
I just wanna be the man that comes around.
CHO.

Thanx

Subject: The Man Who Comes Around
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 27 Jul 97 - 10:13 PM

"The Man Who Comes Around" is the song, and also the album title to an old Johnny Bond (50's country) album on the now-defunct Starday label. I have the album, and would be glad to make you a copy of the song on tape and mail it to you. Just give me your address at my email, and ill pop it off to you :) email: [e-mail]

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Subject: Popular song circa 1940
From:
Date: 27 Jul 97 - 05:00 PM

A song I recollect (part of) from my childhood. Very popular for a short while. Surprised that it was on juke-boxes then, and that I was not chastised for singing it around the house. Probably nobody listened. Chorus: "There's a man who comes to our house every single day. Poppa come home and the man goes away. Oh, Poppa does the work and Momma gets the pay, And the man comes to our house every single day."

It goes through the days of the week, with the man in a different guise each time. All I remember now is that on Wednesday he comes "in a little white jacket and a little black moustache" and that's when he come to "take away the trash". Pretty funny song. I'd like to know the rest of it. Bill Frey

Subject: RE: Theres a man that comes to our house.
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 11 Feb 97 - 10:31 AM

Johnny Bond recorded and had a big hit with this country song about what happens when Dad leaves the house in the morning. Originally recorded for the Starday record label the track has been reissued on CD on one or two compilations from the people who bought the Starday catalogue. (Gusto)

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Subject: Theres a man that comes to our house.
From: G. Romagno
Date: 11 Feb 97 - 08:16 AM

Anyone remember this one? Theres a man that comes to our house every single day, papa goes to work----?