Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red
From: GUEST,Granny Gruntz
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 11:19 PM

09/08/2014 - I think I first heard "The Lady In Red" when I attended
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN - BACK IN 1948. *AND - it was a pretty old drinking song THEN! *Never knew when it originated. *Just one, among many, "songs" one hears and learns at the "places of higher learning" - *AND passes on to future generations to be. ;-) *I am NOW a great-grandmother of four and 3/9ths great-grandchildren. *AND - I still like to sing the "old songs" at the top of my voice when taking a shower! ;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red
From: Lighter
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 07:54 AM

You go, girl!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red
From: GUEST,CarolinaJacket
Date: 26 Oct 14 - 04:20 PM

The Sigma Nus at Presbyterian College were singing it back in the '50s. Our version ended with "beside the gin". Great song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Oct 14 - 01:39 PM

This article in Life, from Feb. 1, 1963, called "Just a Home Where Squares Get Lost" is about Bill Baird (who professionally spelled his name "Bil") and Cora Baird. The Bairds were probably the world's most famous puppeteers until Jim Henson came along. It says:

[Bill] also wrote, but never bothered to copyright, the college classic, Her Mother Never Told Her (with that part about "Let her sleep under the bar").

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let Her Sleep Under the Bar / Lady in Red
From: GUEST,K. Canning
Date: 25 Mar 15 - 02:08 PM

Like a post above, this was a song our family sang on car rides in the 1970's, taught by my mother who likely learned it from her father who was in a fraternity at Union College,NY in the late 1920's. We learned the "gentleman handsome stepped over the transom" line, as well as "ways of college men, and how they come and go, [mostly go]." Also at the last lines, it was, "Let her sleep under the bar ["between the bottles" added a la barbershop style], Let her sleep under the bar."