Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Mbo
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 09:07 PM

Frankie, is that "She's gone gone gone, gone gone gone--crying won't bring her back...the more that I cry, the faster her plane flies out across the sky..."? Glen Campbell sang that really good!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,Frankie
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 08:47 PM

There is Gone, Gone, Gone a favorite of bluegrassers that start's out:

She said if I ever decieved her,
She'd leave before I could count to ten.
etc.

I've heard excellent versions by Carl Jackson and Brownie Ford.

F

PS You guys are talking about Long Black Rifle are you refering to Long Black Veil?

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,flattop
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 07:29 PM

I don't think anyone regretted spending time with Long Tall Sally, Mrrrrr

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 07:24 PM

Art those are very sad and truthful lyrics.
It would have been interesting to hear Grandad's telling of the story.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Margaret V
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 06:22 PM

John, perhaps you could write your own song. It might help you find answers to the question you've asked of yourself. I had to write one when I found myself perilously on the brink; it was about fidelity and infidelity at the same time; and it helped me assess what the heck was going on in my life. Hang in there, learn. Margaret

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,John Evans
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 04:19 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions

No one has yet come up with anything that expresses the pain in the pit of my stomach - or the constantly reccuring thought: 'why the hell did I do that?'

Thanks anyway,

John

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 04:13 PM

What about Long Tall Sally? "Saw Uncle John with LTS, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley, ooh baby, baby, have some fun tonight" - At least he ran away, that shows regret, doesn't it? Or maybe just regret at getting caught?

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 02:33 PM

"Make the World Go Away" Another C&W song.

Mario, Cornell teaches that men are genetically polygamists? I thought they taught agriculture.

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:37 PM

Other songs we sing: The Scotsman, Please Kind Sir, Big Fuzzy Vikingman, just about anything by Weird Al Yankovic, The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, Maids When You're Young, and a lot of songs from Monty Python.

Personally, I prefer to sing more serious stuff, but fun stuff is always good. And annoying. . .

Peace--Keli

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:24 PM

Oh that's cool, K! I like bugging people with songs from ELO's disco-esque album, Shine A Little Love, and Last Train to London! Wooo!

--Mbo (Disco DOESN'T suck!)

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:29 PM

My best friend and I sing "I Will Survive" just about every time we see each other, plus at other times to annoy the people we hang out with who don't like disco. he he heh. . .

Peace--Keli

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:13 PM

I thought of Long Black Rifle too, but it doesn't regret the infidelity, the singer instead dies to protect the marriage of the one being unfaithful with him. And the other one I thought of, slightly off-kilter, is I Will Survive, where the singer is NOT regretting having thrown the unfaithful bum out. Maybe someone could write the song about how the thrown-out guy is watching her survive and wishing he were still along for the ride...

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Sean Belt
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:07 PM

It's not necessarily "folk", but there's a pretty good John Hiatt song I use in my sets called "The Most Unoriginal Sin" that speaks to this issue.
I actually learned it off of a Willie Nelson CD. Now I play it as a sort of blues number.

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Escamillo
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 02:05 AM

One of the most beatiful songs I ever heard is Love Song from the movie Sanders of The River, circa 1930. It was recorded by Paul Robeson. I'm not sure that the subject is infidelity, cause I could never decipher the lyrics from that old record. If you want to see it partially, it is in a thread named Lyr Req: Love Song from Sanders of the River. Just put the word Sanders in "filter" and select 180 days, then it will appear. Un abrazo - Andres

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Davewilkes
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:46 AM

Long Black Rifle

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:26 AM

WOW Old Mole! How'd ye know I ADORE Ronnie Milsap? YES!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: TheOldMole
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:17 AM

Ronnie Milsap, "That girl who waits on tables used to wait for me at home...patiently she waited, till all the love was gone"

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:59 AM

Nothing like new music to distract me from everything else important. That plus the college stuff I got from Glasgow yesterday.

Peace--Keli

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:55 AM

That's OK, K! I when bonkers last Thursday when I found a Dixieland Jazz songbook at my University music library! Woo hoo!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 12:16 AM

Sorry. It's early morning here in Cincinnati (or latenight. . .whatever). What WAS I thinking??? Country music all runs together in my mind, and I'm a bit muddled today anyway--excited, though. . .I got a new book 1850 new songs!!!

Peace--Bridget

I'm not crazy; I'm a princess!!

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:59 PM

No no K, I meant "I do" listen to country music!

--Mbo

Subject: Lyr Add: HERE'S TO YOU ROUNDERS (Don Lange)^^^
From: Art Thieme
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:37 PM

DON LANGE wrote a wonderful song called "HERE'S TO YOU ROUNDERS"
(It was on my first LP -- Kicking Mule 150---I recorded it even before Don did it on Flying Fish.)

chorus) Here's to you rounders and here's to you railroad bums,
Here's hopin' you make it home soon,
And here's to the womwn who married for love,
And lived with the man in the moon.

1)I never knew my grandad--he was always on the bum,
Every September he'd grab him an southbound and he'd ride,
Then along about Christmas me and my brother--we'd get some coins in the mail,
But we couldn't spend 'em----it was all he could send from the Mexico City jail.

2) Back in the thirties, when the going got tough, my grandad, he hit the road,
Mother was young then and only remembers his name,
Granny got work in the old canning factory and she took in some wash on the side,
She promised herself that she'd never forgive him,
A promise she kept 'til she died.

3) One time near the end he rolled into town--he was riding on the greyhound line,
O guess he got old and those boxcars got harder to climb,
He dropped his last dime in a call to my granny but "NO" was her only reply,
She hung up the phone and she cussed him in German---but I saw the pain in her eyes.

4) I never knew my grandad--he was always on the bum,
The Salvation Army sent us a note when he died,
Now me and my brother, we carry the memory of a face that we never did see,
Like some foreign coin layin' cold in the pocket of a young boy's faded blue jeans.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:27 PM

Mbo--I don't, but then again, I'm a fairly loyal and true person. Also, the fact that I don't date much (better things to waste my time on--plus, have you seen the guys in my neck o' the woods?) helps me avoid problems like that.

Peace--Keli

Loyalty is a virtue, but not fanaticism.

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,JenEllen
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:56 PM

How about old Cajun? Jo-El Sonnier does a great version of "Knock,Knock,Knock" ~Elle

Knock, knock, knock
Let me on in
I don't wanna be locked outside again
Won't you let me tell you where I've been?
Don't make me sleep in that old dog house again

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:46 PM

I do, K, and there's not that many I know...must be "old country" stuff.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Kelida
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 08:57 PM

People regret infidelity??? hmmmm. . . Mindboggling. . .

There are pretty many country songs about this, although I'm not much into country so couldn't tell what songs or who they're by. . .

--Keli

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Callie
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 08:47 PM

Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach "Toledo"

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:44 PM

Check "Ms Henley's Revenge" in the Mudcat Songbook -- it covers enforced regret for dalliance and revenge by the cuckoldee.

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Robo
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:41 PM

Another Orbison: "You're Not Alone Anymore."

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Robo
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:40 PM

How about Roy Orbison's "Careless Heart"?

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: MMario
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:13 PM

Cornell

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 05:13 PM

Frankie and Johnny. She shot the SOB and he regretted it.

C&W (Jim Reeves) "There She Goes" .....If I hadn't cheated; If I hadn't lied, I'd be the one who walking by her side . I love her still etc.

I think Hank Williams has a few of these.

"Who's Sorry Now?"

Mario, What school did you attend?

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: Gary T
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 05:13 PM

Doggone it, John, I'm sure there are many country songs with that sentiment, but I can't recall any right now. I'll keep thinking on it.

Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: MMario
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 04:51 PM

or actually feels not only guilt, but remorse and repentence? (Somehow I doubt there are many) (hey! men are geneticaly polygamists...or at least that's what they taught me in school. Handy excuse, ain't it?) (NOTE: JOKE!!)

Subject: Wanted: Songs that regret infidelity
From: GUEST,John Evans
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 04:48 PM

In many British / American folk songs, a man straying is (from a male point of view) seen as something to celebrate. There are also lots of songs where the interloper gets caught and punished (especially if he's a tailor)

There are lots of songs sung from the female view which suggest that men can't be trusted, that they'll cheat on you etc.

Can anyone come up with any songs where the man feels really guilty for cheating on a woman?

Interested in anything, not just trad stuff.

Thanks

John Evans

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