Lyr Req: Are You Lonesome Tonight (parody)

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 03:23 PM

Nice one, Phil. I have sent an email to Alex Beaton asking him for his lyrics, and I will post them when (if) I receive them.

Murray

Subject: Lyr Add: ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT (Homer & Jethro)
From: GUEST,Phil Cooper
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 02:59 PM

my singing partner, Margaret Nelson, sings sometimes a parody of "lonesome" that she thinks Homer & Jethro did.

Are you lonesome tonight? If you are, serves you right,
I'm so lucky I've lost you at last,
I can still hear you roar wash the dishes clean the floor,
And then, clean up the glass.
You took me for a boatride, I had to swim back,
Darling I never thought, I'd get out of that sack.
So, I'll miss you my pet, every chance that I get.
And that's why you're lonesome tonight.

probably not Alex Beaton's version, but a good one none the less. Phil Cooper

(line breaks added by a Joe clone)

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: High and Lonesome
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:56 PM

Even Elvis himself, to his credit, did a parody of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" off the cuff, I believe. His lyrics went something like this:

Do you sit in your parlor and wish I were there?
Do you look at your bald head and wish you had hair?
Oh, dear are you lonesome tonight?

While it's great fun to trash Elvis, if you listen to the early stuff he did (interestingly, all before he entered the army) you'll find that he had a whole lot going on. Many of the best folk singers working today are borrowing more from Elvis than they are from, say, Pete Seeger.

Oh dear, have I committed some sacrilege?

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 11:27 AM

Kendall, I think you must be referring to Elvos Costello

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 09:41 AM

To get back to the thread...I only know the first lines
Are you lonesome tonight?
Are your corsets too tight?
Brit comedian (?) Freddie Starr who likes to do an Elvis impression does this, I think, (he also likes doing Hitler, go figure....)
RtS

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:51 AM

There are Red Elvises, go Search and you'll see.

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:08 AM

never could understand that cow eyed geek being so popular.

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Grab
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 07:52 AM

Who needs Dolly the Sheep, when there's dozens of Elvises (Elvi?) around? You could use them for medical research, and no-one would notice. They've all changed their names anyway, so technically they could all be the same person...

Grab.

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 04:12 PM

Some dark-haired dude who got himself cloned all over the place, Murray.

I'm watching this thread hoping that someone will have the lyrics.

Sophocleese

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Kara
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 04:11 PM

He was a verynice young man.

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 04:09 PM

Elvis ? Elvis? The recording I know is by the Carter Family. Who is Elvis?

Subject: RE: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Kara
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 03:52 PM

Cats don't know much about elvis even his parodies

Subject: Parody: Are You Lonesome Tonight
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:02 AM

Earlier this month I heard Scottish entertainer Alex Beaton sing a hilarious parody of Are You Lonesome Tonight at a Highland Games in South Florida. Does anyone know the lyrics to this? I have checked his website but he doesn't seem to have recorded it.

The only lines I remember are the last two:

"Are you frightened to yawn, 'cos your teeth are all gone

It's no wonder you're lonesome tonight"

Murray