Lyr Req: Deadwood Stage (from 'Annie Get Your...')

Subject: Calamity Jane/Deadwood Stage
From: Glen in Gloucestershire
Date: 31 May 00 - 04:51 AM

Hello Children Everywhere!

Can anybody come up with the words for the Deadwood Stage. Last heard being played on the wireless whilst laying in bed on a Saturday Morning the programme was called "childrens favourites" way back in the 1960's

- a amost wonderful song about a stage coach coming over the hill with the whip cracking away etc. I think it may have been sung by Doris Day.

I know it's not a Folk song as such, but it is part of folk memory. I need them for a party piece that I'm planning.

Many thanks for your help Glen.

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Subject: Lyr Add: THE DEADWOOD STAGE
From: GUEST,podie
Date: 31 May 00 - 05:50 AM

THE DEADWOOD STAGE

CALAMITY:
Oh, the Deadwood stage is a-rollin' on over the plains,
With the curtains flappin' and the driver slappin' the reins.
A beautiful sky! A wonderful day!
Whipcrack away, whipcrack away, whipcrack away!

Oh, the Deadwood stage is a-headin' on over the hills.
Where the Injun' arrows are thicker than porcupine quills,
Dangerous land! No time to delay!
So whipcrack away, whipcrack away, whipcrack away!

We're headin' straight for town,
Loaded down with a fancy cargo,
Care of Wells and Fargo, Illinois, boy!

Oh, the Deadwood stage is a-comin' on over the crest,
Like a homing pigeon that's a-hankerin' after its nest.
Twenty-three miles we've covered today,
So whipcrack away, whipcrack away, whipcrack away!

The wheels go turnin' round, homeward bound,
Can't you hear 'em hummin'?
Happy times are comin' fer to stay, hey!

We'll be home tonight by the light of the silvery moon,
And my hearts a-thumpin' like a mandolin a-plunkin' a tune.
When I get home I'm fixin' to stay,
So whipcrack away, whipcrack away, whipcrack away!
Whipcrack away, whipcrack away, whipcrack away!

SHERIFF:
Here they be! Here they be! How's about a welcome?
A peaceful sorta welcome for the gang?
"BANG!" [they all shoot their guns]

CALAMITY:
Oh, the Deadwood stage is finally home again.

GUY:
Well, excuse my stammerin' (??), if it ain't Calamity Jane!

2ND GUY:
Hiya, Calam! What'd ya bring us today?

3RD GUY:
New rubber boots?

2ND GUY:
Ten-dollar suits?

WOMAN:
Things to crochet?

CALAMITY:
Beads that sparkle like a prism,
Snake oil for your rheumatism.
Calico and gingham fer the girls.
Gumdrops made up in Chicag-y,
Gumdrops just a trifle soggy!
And a genuine string of artificial pearls.
Here's a hat from Cincinnati,
Same as Adelina Patti
Wore in every famous concert hall.
Cast your eye on Dr. Boris'
Patent-pending hair restorer,
Guaranteed to grow hair on a billiard ball!

.....Introducing Henry Miller,
Just as busy as a fizzy sarsaparilla.
He's a showman, and he's smarter,
Operates the Golden Garter
Where the cream of Deadwood city come to dine.
And I'm glad to say he's a very good friend of mine.

Hi Joe! Say, where'd you get them fancy clothes?
I know, off some feller's laundry line!
Hi Beau, aren't you the prairie rose,
Smelling like a watermelon vine!
Here's a man the sheriff watches.
On his gun there's more'n twenty-seven notches.
On the draw there's no on faster,
And you're flurtin' with disaster
When Bill Hickok's reputation you malign.
And I'm glad to say he's a very good friend, of a friend of mine!

Oh, my throat's as dry as a desert thistle in May,
In the Golden Garter, gonna wet my whistle today.
Last to the bar's a three legged crow,
Set 'em up Joe, set 'em up Joe, set 'em up Joe!

JOE:
Drinks on the house! Drinks on the house!

CALAMITY:
Set 'em up Joe!

(line breaks added by a Joe clone)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Calamity Jane
From: alison
Date: 31 May 00 - 10:30 AM

good job Podie..... did you type all of that in or have you found a libretto site somewhere??

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Calamity Jane
From: Glen in Gloucestershire
Date: 01 Jun 00 - 03:59 PM

Well doon Podie,

I "Jest nuw" that the 'ol Mudcat would come up with the goods. Where? How? Why? do you know so many words to this grand old song? Are you a fan of Doris Day? or of the cinema from the early 50's.

Thanks what ever it is!

Glen in Gloucestershire