Moving Tunes

Subject: Moving Tunes
From: bflat
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:01 AM

There must be some songs written about packing personal property and filling up the moving van. Relocation! I remember a Richard Berman song about the kids moving back,not what I had in mind. I was thinking more along the lines of striking out on one's own. Any ideas?

bflat

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST,JackieB
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:47 AM

There is quite a funny County Down song called, 'The Moving of the Furniture', as far as I know not yet recorded. It must be over 60 years old as my father remembers singing it at school. I must look up the song and post it sometime.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Bert
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:48 AM

The Farmer's Boy.
The Oregon Trail
So Long it's been good to know you.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: sophocleese
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:50 AM

"Out From St. Leonards", I can't remember the details of that one.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 12:28 PM

My Old Man (Said Follow The Van)

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Metchosin
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 12:38 PM

Moving On by Hank Snow, more trains than vans but definitely striking out on ones own.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From:
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:39 PM

Granny Fraser's Flitting by Ian ManIntosh

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:44 PM

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:45 PM

(almost forgot) Wandering Star

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:46 PM

Pack em up, head em out, Rawhide!

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:47 PM

(they keep popping into my head) Wagon Wheels

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Marion
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:40 PM

Jeannie's packing up, Jeannie's moving out... pack all her clothes, tonight away she goes! Say all goodbyes, tonight away she flies!

It's from the musical "Brigadoon".

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:43 PM

Big Old Jet Airliner --Steve Miller Band

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Oversoul
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:07 PM

MEMPHIS MINNIE! "You Got To Move" (1934), With her husband Kansas Joe, and by the way, I think the "Stones" did a cover of this during the '70's. I'm not much of a name-dropper, but this gal had it all, I relish just about everything she recorded.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Anglo
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 12:00 AM

Well, no-one seems to have mentioned "It's Moving Day," which I think was from a 1930s old-time string band recording by someone like Charlie Poole. Bob Davenport used to do (probably still does) a stirring rendition.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Oversoul
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 12:38 AM

Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, founder of BROADSIDE Magazine wrote another great "moving song". KEEP MOVING. It is one of those great dustbowl/depression era songs. What optimism in the verse "how can you keep moving unless you migrate too?" I probably should mention Woody Guthrie, too, but enough already!

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:52 AM

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile!

8-}

sian

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:01 AM

How about that Wild Thing variant, "Prune Juice?"

Prune Juice......You make my bowels loose.
Prune Juice......You really move me.
I gotta' go for sure!

Wrong kind of moving huh? Oh well..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:46 AM

glad somebody did mention Poole's Moving Day. The original Sterling and Von Tilzer recording had two verses, but Poole only recorded one, then Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders wrote (and recorded) another one. I sing ig every time I move or assist in a move. Loudly.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Bob P
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 01:22 PM

Check Loudon Wainwright's "Cardboard Boxes"

It's on "I'm Alright" (1985, Music Club Records)

and

"Best Of LWIII 1982-86" (1994, Virgin Records)

It's a great song - If your on LWIII's wavelength (meaning your close to certifiably nuts)!

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Bert
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 01:57 PM

Wanted Man

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: harpgirl
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 03:42 PM

Well, I like Ry Cooder singing "How Can You Keep on Movin?"...

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: bflat
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:20 PM

You folks are the best!! Some really great suggestions, well except for Spaw, and his body function ditty above. Then again we could start a thread on "Great Movements" and see what passes.

Thanks! Mucho!

bflat

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 10:52 PM

I'm On My Way (from Porgy and Bess)

The Old Ark's a Moverin'

Ease on Down That Road (from The Wiz, analogous to Follow the Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of Oz story)-- a friend of mine says "Ooze on down the road."

A Home in the Meadow (from How the West Was Won, to the tune of Greensleeves)

I'm Goin' to Leave Old Texas Now

Goodbye Old Paint (I'm leaving Cheyenne or wherever)

Well We're Movin' On Up (from the Jeffersons)

Califonia Here I Come!

Mary (just getting started)

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:05 PM

Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down,
Oh no
I got to keep on moving
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
I'm running in a one touch ground,
Oh no I got to keep on moving.

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: JamesJim
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:06 PM

My favorite: Woody Guthrie's, "Do Re Mi"

"Lots of folks back east they say, leavin' home most every day, hittin' that hot old dusty trail to the California line.," etc.

Jim

Subject: RE: Moving Tunes
From: Kim C
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 05:11 PM

This is a little different, maybe, but I absolutely LOVE "Midnight Rider" by the Allman Brothers.