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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Big Al Whittle Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:58 AM One Man Went to Mow but thats being a guiatr teacher for you the chord change comes on the word meadow, i have noticed. |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: saulgoldie Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:46 AM You can say it, but that doesn't make it so, Ted! |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: saulgoldie Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:45 AM 100--Woohoo! |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Paco Rabanne Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:16 AM 99 is the new 100 by flamenco ted |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,David Hannam Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:01 AM Leonard Cohens. Anthem |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Big Al Whittle Date: 23 Oct 05 - 11:59 PM many of the songs by my favourite lyricist Dorothy Fields It had to be you They can't take that away from me |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Gene Date: 23 Oct 05 - 12:03 PM the following lines have HAUNTED me for over 55 years... I seem to be the only person in the world who recalls them- [Because She Ain't Built That Way]
A woman can't jump over a fence like a man |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: saulgoldie Date: 23 Oct 05 - 09:45 AM Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon Cranes over Hiroshima by Fred Small Universal Soldier by Buffy Sainte-Marie And yes, too, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Yes, there IS a theme here. War is the *problem,* not the answer. When humanity discovers this truth and truly embraces it, life will be so totally, radically different we will not know what to do with ourselves. Then we can put our resources towards feeding the hungry, fighting disease, and supporting the arts like they should be supported! Sorry for the rant, but it is never far from my consciousness. You understand, I am sure. |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: number 6 Date: 23 Oct 05 - 08:48 AM Elmer ... I know exactly what you mean.... and it's not one of my fav Dylan songs. sIx |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Juan P-B Date: 23 Oct 05 - 08:00 AM On the positive side..... For me it's 'The Roseville Fair' - I don't know why it pleases me (I never got round to learning it) but it is a song I can hear time and again Also 'We Stayed Awake' by Huw Williams - Any parent who's walked the floor with an infant at two in the morning will appreciate the love in the song The Downside.... 'Whiter Shade Of Pale' - It just does my head in! |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: zelger Date: 23 Oct 05 - 05:36 AM Aimee Mann, Save me. |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Bard Judith Date: 22 Oct 05 - 11:46 PM The Lambs on the Green Hills - mournful tune, lost-love theme Bonny Portmore... even just the words are enough to draw tears. Yup, On Raglan Road, like the rest of you... most songs by Loreena McKennitt, or Sting, or Enya And just now, an old spiritual called "Down in the Valley to Pray" (aka Down to the Valley /Down to the River/ Down in the River) You can (hopefully) hear a clip of Alison Krauss from the 'O Brother' soundtrack by clicking here... but if not, just search Amazon for the soundtrack and click on the appropriate track. Marvelously simple yet - yes... haunting. Even better is the King's Singers' version on 'Six', btw. The Lass with the Delicate Air The version I've linked here is a male chorus, quite slow and wordless, but it's a full and generous song, not just a little sampling! I hope some of you will enjoy being 'haunted' by a few new spirits... regards from the bard |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Elmer Fudd Date: 22 Oct 05 - 11:22 PM Talk about haunting! This thread has been resurrected from waaaaay back in 2000! Ever since "No Direction Home" aired, I can't get "Desolation Row" outta my head. |
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Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: leftydee Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:46 PM "Singing in the Bathtub" is the song that haunts me, and I say haunts in the worst possible sense, unlike any other. It has been a total Ear-Worm to me. I've had in running in my head for days.AAAAARRGHH! |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE CURSE (Larry Groce) From: GUEST,Responding to a post from 2000 Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:31 PM I know it's a long time ago, but someone posted part of this song and I just had to fill in the rest... The Curse By Larry Groce Album: Please Take Me Back Way Back in the Hills where the ginseng grows, Back in a hollow where nobody goes, There lives and old man that you never will see, He lives in a hollowed-out sycamore tree. Deer hunters tell of an awful fright, Waking up cold in the middle of the night From far, far away comes the mournful tune Of the old man's fiddle in the light of the moon. When the man was a lad so the stories all go, A better fiddler never lifted a bow. Every dance, every party for miles around, well they hopped to the tune of his fiddilin' sound He met a young lady one night in June. Sweeter than the sweetest fiddilin tune. After the night had passed away, well they swore they'd Marry on the very next day. Well the music rang out for the bride and the groom. The fiddle and the bell and the dulcimer too. Then an old woman stood when the party had done, She said beware of the settin' of the sun. The young man laughed and he took his bride. They went into the hills for their weddin' night. They soon forgot what the woman had said, and when the sun went down his bride was dead. (Softly) Way Back in the Hills where the ginseng grows, Back in the hollows where nobody goes, There lives and old man that you never will see, He lives in a hollowed-out sycamore tree. Deer hunters tell of an awful fright, Waking up cold in the middle of the night From far, far away comes the mournful tune Of the old man's fiddle in the light of the moon. I love this one as a Halloween song. Erik T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: jaze Date: 25 Nov 00 - 05:19 PM a few more that haunt me: Wind and Sand--Eric Andersen Old Friends--Mary McCaslin Louise--Bonnie Raitt Two-Way Waltz--Kate Wolf |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST Date: 24 Nov 00 - 11:15 PM Bruce Cockburn's "All the Diamonds" and "waiting for the moon". Arlo Guthrie's version of gates of Eden and Laura Smith's "I'm A Beauty" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 24 Nov 00 - 03:00 PM Howie Mitchell's "Dipper of Stars". My mom has asked me to play that at her funeral (which shouldn't happen for many more years, barring something completely unexpected). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: LR Mole Date: 24 Nov 00 - 12:27 PM Simon and Garfunkel's "Old Friends". Who can play that Fmaj7-Cmaj7 without hearing that graveyard wind? Simon himself once said his song to Lennon, "The Late Great Johnny Ace", was haunted. There are more channels than our little receivers get, I think... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Peter Kasin Date: 24 Nov 00 - 01:39 AM Several songs that The NexTradition recorded are constantly in my head these days, most prominently "Sinner Man" and "Weldon." Kate Rusby's recordings of, well, just about anything, haunt me. What a great singer! Hearing Ed Miller sing Robert Burns's "A Man's a Man for A' That" last summer, backed up by 200 fiddlers, (me among them). It was a very moving experience hearing him sing that beautiful ode to brotherhood. It would make a great national anthem. Who knows, Scotland may someday be in a position to choose one. -chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Hagbard Date: 24 Nov 00 - 12:16 AM Bruce Springsteen's 'Highway Patrolman'. Dar Williams just recorded an absolutely haunting version of it. 'Who Will Comfort Me' by Connie Dover Hagbard |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Tom Dowling Date: 24 Nov 00 - 12:07 AM How about "Gypsy Woman" -- either the original version by the Impressions (featuring Curtis Mayfield) or the truly fine version by Ry Cooder on his relatively early "The Slide Zone" album? I haven't figured out how to play this one yet. Have had some success with the Chieftains/Cooder version of "The Coast of Malabar" which stayed between my ears until I (think) I hacked it out on the tin whistle. Amen also to "On Raglan Road/Dawning of the Day", which is often a tin whistler's first tune. "She Moved through the Fair" is also right up there. Tom D. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: MMario Date: 23 Nov 00 - 11:43 PM Don - one time reading the lyrics and I HAD to learn it.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Audi Date: 23 Nov 00 - 08:14 PM Oh, I am still haunted by the song that brought me to this site in the first place. I only remember a few lines and the haunting, eerie tune. It is about a ghost fiddler in the backwoods mourning a lover's death, as I recall:
Back in the woods where the ginseng grows,
Deer hunters tell of an awful fright, Like MMario, when I finally find it and can sing it through, I shall be released from it. (It has been nearly two months.) However, I don't think I shall ever be released from this site. It is extremely addictive and you people are really something! Audi |
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Subject: Songs that haunt you From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 23 Nov 00 - 01:17 PM Got a new one these days... thanks to a certain catter... Beeswing by Richard Thompson... WOW-OH-WOW what a song! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: DonMeixner Date: 23 Nov 00 - 09:56 AM I am haunted by so many songs. Some come at me when I'm doing nothing special and some when I am special situations. Driving between the Finger lakes will get me singing "Liverpool Light", ...all the way from the Minch to Dundee... Late at night with a cup of coffee and my small Martin its usually "The One Rose". But it might be "Our Mother the Mountain". Some songs are perfect songs that we never seem to learn for ourselves to play. For me its "Tecumseh Valley" and "Jock o' Hazeldean", "Lost Mine of the Chisos" and "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue". Mario, I am thrilled that you were haunted by song enough to learn it. Thank you. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Steve Latimer Date: 23 Nov 00 - 09:34 AM T2D, You're welcome. The Official Dylan site is actually a very good site, it offers sound clips, all lyrics etc.
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Tomsk Date: 23 Nov 00 - 07:42 AM I sing "And the band played.." more than any other. I have had requests for it at wedding celebrations and christenings! I think it popular because it brings home the realisation of "How lucky we really are.." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: bigchuck Date: 23 Nov 00 - 07:16 AM "Mary Brown, Abolitionist" by Peggy Eyres. Always makes the hair on my neck stand on end. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mcpiper Date: 23 Nov 00 - 05:10 AM I never would have guessed there were so many haunted people. One song that is mentioned a few times is And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. I thought I might try it again, on my own out in the back room. Still can't get past the part where the cripled, wounded and maimed are sent back home, and nobody cheered, they just stood and stared.
Anyone who is a regular attender at Anzac Day dawn parades may have a bit of trouble singing this song. I can't anymore.
Keep up the postings, there have been some great tunes and songs mentioned. Thanks, mcpiper. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Thyme2dream Date: 22 Nov 00 - 10:22 PM Thanks,Steve:-)! It drives me nervous trying to look lyrics up anywhere but Mudcat...I get too distracted along the way and never end up practicing anything! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: John Hardly Date: 22 Nov 00 - 09:09 PM WHATSHERNAME --Stookey You've Got a Friend --King John Hardly |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Diva Date: 22 Nov 00 - 08:47 PM Little Musgrave by Christy Moore. Don't know why. It just keeps coming back. Black Is the Colour by The Easy Club. Gone for the Day by Ian Bruce. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Cap't Bob Date: 22 Nov 00 - 08:26 PM "Sally in the Garden" ~~ It's the modal thing. Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: John Routledge Date: 22 Nov 00 - 08:13 PM JUNE TABOR singing "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda". Haunting voice - Haunting words - Nothing else. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE MINUS ZERO/NO LIMIT^^ From: Steve Latimer Date: 22 Nov 00 - 04:48 PM Thyme2dream, Here you go, straight from www.bobdylan.com Love Minus Zero/No Limit Bob Dylan My love she speaks like silence, Without ideals or violence, She doesn't have to say she's faithful, Yet she's true, like ice, like fire. People carry roses, Make promises by the hours, My love she laughs like the flowers, Valentines can't buy her. In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall. Some speak of the future, My love she speaks softly, She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all. The cloak and dagger dangles, Madams light the candles. In ceremonies of the horsemen, Even the pawn must hold a grudge. Statues made of match sticks, Crumble into one another, My love winks, she does not bother, She knows too much to argue or to judge. The bridge at midnight trembles, The country doctor rambles, Bankers' nieces seek perfection, Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring. The wind howls like a hammer, The night blows cold and rainy, My love she's like some raven At my window with a broken wing. Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 21-Mar-01. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mrmoejoerisen Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:52 PM "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" By Pete Seeger; gets me in the heartstrings everytime I hear it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,dan evergreen Date: 22 Nov 00 - 11:54 AM Allison Kraus's "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby" is very haunting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: oubliette Date: 22 Nov 00 - 11:47 AM haunting, for me, means that a song crawls into my head just when i think i've put it to rest by playing or singing it over and over again. with that in mind (no pun intended!), my top three would be "Follow Me Up to Carlow", "Danny Boy", and Steeleye Span's version of "Wife of the Soldier". if i include pop music, "The Things I Do For Money" (The Northern Pikes), "Nobody's Hero" (Rush), "Foolish Games" (Jewel), and "Valparaiso" (Sting) would be on my list, too. an album that i find myself playing over and over again is Sting's _Soul Cages_. if you're looking for some extremely haunting songs (mostly involving the ocean), it's definitely one to watch out for.
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Michael in Swansea Date: 22 Nov 00 - 08:38 AM She Moved through the Fair
Spinning Wheel, (one of the two "lullabies" my maternal grandmother used to sing me to sleep with, the other being "Kevin Barry") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Thyme2dream Date: 22 Nov 00 - 12:23 AM "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is kind of sad to me cos I remember my dad singing it a lot when he and my mom were breaking up...real life meets art, etc. Am I missing something, or are the words to Love Minus Zero/No Limit really NOT in the digitrad? It was nice to have my memory jogged about that song, I think it will be the one to haunt me now til I learn it and sing it for my darlin:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Jimmy C Date: 21 Nov 00 - 10:11 PM Many songs stick in my head and wont go away until I have learned them and played them. The following few really haunted me for a while. Civil War Songs = Lorena and The Vacant Chair John Prine's - Paradise Don McLean's - Vincent also "The Rose of Allendale" and a song from The Isle of Man caled "The Laxey Wheel" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Pixie Date: 21 Nov 00 - 05:37 PM Alison Moorer's "A Soft Place to Fall" and Kate Wolfe's "Here In California". Although there are a lot more those are two that really stand out for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 21 Nov 00 - 02:13 PM I've just got the old Dylan version (and Peter, Paul, and Mary, but I don't like theirs nearly as much). Not quite sad, but maybe . . . contemplative? I know that's really vague. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE A MEAN ONE, MR. GRINCH^^ From: Amergin Date: 21 Nov 00 - 11:54 AM Here's one that always stays so near to my heart....
You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you, with a
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you,
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool What's really great with this song is that the name Mr. Grinch can be substituted with other names, like Harry Fox for example....Isn't it great how the folk process works? Amergin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Ol' Dad Gad Date: 21 Nov 00 - 10:34 AM Lady Franklin's Lament: "I dreamed a dream, and thought it true."
Midnight on the Water; I think someone mentioned that.
The Lonesome Roving Wolves; Rosalie Sorrels used to sing this quietly and unaccompanied and raise your hair up.
And a fragment of something that Steeleye Span slipped between the verses of The Weaver and The Factory Maid: |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,D_hand Date: 21 Nov 00 - 10:05 AM 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 21 Nov 00 - 10:00 AM I guess I must be too familiar with Mike Ness' interpretation of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" His is a boom-chicka-boom thumper that is not sad in the least, but a great "blow-off" song, similar to Ronnie Milsap's "Button Off My Shirt". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Steve Latimer Date: 21 Nov 00 - 09:36 AM Callie, The Dylan song is Love Minus Zero/No Limit. It's from the wonderful album Bringing It All Back Home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: kendall Date: 21 Nov 00 - 09:24 AM Utah Phillips' WILD IRISH ROSE... ..some will lead the crippled, some will lead the blind But, what of alms for him whose wound is of the mind... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Callie Date: 21 Nov 00 - 08:16 AM It's usually the songs I like but don't quite know. So put them on a tape and play them in the car over and over and over until I could sing them in my sleep. Years later, when I hear one of these, it reminds me of the time when I was fanatical about that particular tune and it can take me back to that place. Examples:
the entire Joni Mitchell album "Blue" Callie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 20 Nov 00 - 05:56 PM Right now it's "All the Tunes in the World", words by Ewan McVicar. After the Derry, NH Saturday blast it has a double haunting- the achingly lovely words I must know, and the deep, deep joy of singing it with friends all over the world via Paltalk and right there in 3d! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 20 Nov 00 - 05:18 PM Guest Matt, I've never thought "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was rip-roaring. I think the emotions described in it are a cut--several cuts--above the usual failed-relationship songs. Maybe it's just me, personally. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Melani Date: 20 Nov 00 - 02:11 PM Stan Rogers' "The Mary Ellen Carter" Talk about advice from beyond the grave. I was also hung up on "Calliope House" for about 15 years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Jim the Bart Date: 20 Nov 00 - 01:44 PM "Handbags and Gladrags" by Rod Stewart (although he didn't write it) and "Dimming of the Day" (written by Richard Thompson and recorded superbly by Bonnie Raitt) are two songs that I have never been able to play to my satisfaction. This is probably because the original versions were so strong. There are also two jazz standards that I would love to sing some day: "I Can't Get Started" and "Lush Life". There is a version of Lush Life by John Coltrane, with Johnny Hartman singing, that is so world-weary. . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Steve Latimer Date: 20 Nov 00 - 11:44 AM She Moved through the Fair is one of the most haunting melodies I've heard. Dylan's A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall for the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Matt Date: 20 Nov 00 - 11:10 AM Ely, I'm wondering in what way does "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" haunt you? I never found rip-roaring songs to be that haunting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 20 Nov 00 - 09:52 AM Spiritualised's "Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space", one of the most beautiful sounding and shiver-causing songs I have ever heard. But not one that could ever be played by anyone else. Folkwise, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mkebenn Date: 20 Nov 00 - 07:02 AM They buried Willy in The old church yard, and Barbara Allen beside him, And from Willy's heart there grew a rose, from Barbara Allen's, a briar. The grew and grew up the old church wall, 'till they could grow no higher. And then they tied in a true lover's knot, the rose grew 'round the briar. MB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Trevor Date: 20 Nov 00 - 05:35 AM I've got my CD player on repeat on the Altan version of 'Jug of Punch' and I know it won't go away until I've got the 'diddley diddley' bits at the end right! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 20 Nov 00 - 05:00 AM The Trees They Do Grow High by the Dransfields Mother nature is sound (first line of the chorus; don't know the title) as above Mollymauk sung by Jeri, (this has driven me nuts for weeks Until I tried singing it,in public, it is still driving me nuts, but I'm working on it) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: CarolC Date: 20 Nov 00 - 03:59 AM It's not so much that I'm haunted by it, as it is that I feel compelled to play it constantly...Kate Martyn's Waltz. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Adolfo Date: 19 Nov 00 - 01:46 PM "Ombra mai fú", I had forgotten to mention this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,mactheturk, Date: 19 Nov 00 - 11:51 AM Steamboat Whistle Blues Spoon River Paradise |
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Subject: Sammy's Bar... From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 19 Nov 00 - 10:45 AM Thanks Ely... That is the same song that Garnet Rogers covered... And you should look it up... His version is pretty sweet... That voice... wow... It's on his 'live' album (is there another way to record?) "Summer Lightning" {-: |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ronaldo Date: 19 Nov 00 - 05:11 AM Yes, it happens all the time but it can happen with obscure but melodious words (what did he say?) as well as with tunes.. mostly the latter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Nov 00 - 04:40 AM Ya had to go and mention that bloody Paper Lace thing didn't you.... now it'll be bloody Billy don't be a sodding hero all flaming day!!! I will make sure you burn in your own personal ZZ Topp hell for that! I'm beng haunted by a hymn called 'Cradle O Lord in your arms everlasting' - as heard on Songs of Praise last week. It's haunted me ever since we learned it for the programme in October, and I wish I could remember more than the first line... it was written by a teacher, one of whose pupils was killed in a car crash (thread creep, today is Road Crash Sunday, when we are supposed to think of those killed and injured in road accidents.... jolly huh?) and it is a poignant song about the death not only of what the child was, but what they could have become.... and how God will cradle them and care for them now that they are no longer with their families. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 19 Nov 00 - 01:54 AM Mom says to add "Darcy Farrow" (and seconds "Sammy's Bar"). I should probably put the "The Jute Mill Song" on here. I can never get the tunes to "Amelia's Waltz" [Bob McQuillan] or "Midnight on the Water" [Luke Thomasson] out of my head, either. Or "Hot Buttered Rum" [Red Clay Ramblers]. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 19 Nov 00 - 01:52 AM I'm not familiar with Garnet Rogers. It's the one that goes, "I went down to Sammy's Bar [hey, the last boat's a leavin'] at the shores of Pieta [call away the daighsoe] . . ." About the girl who likes the other guy because he has a "Yankee" car, and then she's killed when he turns too sharply. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Thyme2dream Date: 19 Nov 00 - 01:51 AM Sarah MacLachlan's 'Angel' has haunted me since the first time I heard it...a seriously lonesome song that, and it so echos the way I feel a lot of the time..."glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: WyoWoman Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:46 PM (In the Arms of the) Angel, Sarah McLachlan I Am Stretched on Your Grave, Kate Rusby Bold Riley, Kate Rusby Two-Way Waltz, Kate Wolf Gracias a La Vida, various ... Probably because I'm learning these right now. Sometimes a song will crop up in my mind and stick with me insistently until I pay attention to what it's trying to tell me. My subconscious sings to me and it's important that I listen because it gives me all kinds of 'coded' messages that way that clue me in to what's going on in my heart and soul. (An easy example is not being able to get "Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" out of my mind for a couple of weeks before the Man Formerly Known As My Fiance walked out of my life unannounced. If I'd just LISTENED ... ) ww |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: richlmo Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:22 PM Birds by Neil Young. For 25 years when I hear of Neil Young that song comes into my head. Such a beautiful melody. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:13 PM Sorry, Matt, just couldn't resist. I know you like almost everything, which probably proves just what a likeable chap (to use a British expression) you actually are. Try to look upon it with humour...I do. It's actually kind of amusing how some songs drive certain people up the wall, don't you think? "Achy Breaky", for example, is a superb line dancing song...but I think it got overplayed for a while there...and I'm not into line dancing anyway. If I was, I'd probably like it much better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,harpgirl Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:11 PM Whoa Back Buck...Green Corn...Linin' Track...So Early Early in the Spring...Looky Looky Yonder...Black Betty...Steam Powered Aereo Plane... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,harpgirl Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:06 PM ...Delia...The Maid on The Shore...Delta Queen Waltz... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mcpiper Date: 18 Nov 00 - 11:01 PM Thanks for replying and keeping this thread going.
I was wrong, the next tune to haunt me was not a Vengaboys number, but the good ol Tennessee Waltz. It just hit me the other night. I'll have find a nice fingerpicking guitar version before this one is put to rest. mcpiper |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Matt_R Date: 18 Nov 00 - 10:21 PM Thanks LH, I knew it couldn't go on much longer before the WHAT DO YOU HATE started seeping in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Nov 00 - 10:15 PM Along the lines you suggest...any number of Dylan songs, "Starwalker" by Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Moonshot" also by Buffy, "Ain't No Cure For Love" by Leonard Cohen. I really like "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum too, but haven't played it as yet, and probably never will. Then there is the other kind of song that haunts me...like a bad odor that won't go away..."Achy Breaky Heart" and "Farmer's Song" (Murray McLaughlin), for example. "Billy Don't Be A Hero" and Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy", not to mention "Tonight's The Night". Eeeee-YECH!!! Olivia Newton-Joke doing "I Honestly Love You". "I've Never Been To Me"... Argh! Gasp! Retch!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: catspaw49 Date: 18 Nov 00 - 08:22 PM Some I learn, some I don't. Some come to me after hearing them for years and never giving them a second thought..."Lay Down Your Weary Tune" comes to mind as one of those. The other night I went to sleep with a tape playing in the VCR of a movie. I had taped other things following the movie but I had no idea what. Turns out that there was a televised episode of Prairie Home Companion (maybe 10 years old?) at the end of the tape and I woke up to Emmylou singing an Allen Reynolds song, very gospelly/bluegrass, called "Someday My Ship Will Sail." Its very short, but I can tell you its already hit the category you're talking about. It just grabbed me and won't let go. BTW, her mando player was a young and unknown Vince Gill. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Matt_R Date: 18 Nov 00 - 08:02 PM How To Disappear Completely --Radiohead |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 18 Nov 00 - 07:54 PM Ely... or whoever... Is that the Sammy's Bar covered by Garnet Rogers on his CD Summer Lightning? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Ely Date: 18 Nov 00 - 07:47 PM "Ode to Billie Joe" --Bobbie Gentry "Sammy's Bar" --Cyril Tawney (on the Golden Ring record) "North Country Blues", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" --Bob Dylan "Flying Shoes", "You Are Not Needed Now" --Townes Van Zandt "All the Pretty Little Horses" --trad. "Billy Gray", "When the Fields Are White with Daisies" --Norman Blake "Powderfinger" --Neil Young (I've got the Cowboy Junkies' version) "Gaftaí Baile Buí" --trad. Irish (?). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 18 Nov 00 - 07:41 PM I think the last earworm I had was for Kiri's Piano, by James Keelaghan... But I'd been enjoying that one for years before I decided to sit down and learn it... When I did it took me all of maybe 3 minutes... Been getting a lot of new stuff off Napster lately so my earworm is more like a juke-box these days... think about it for a sec and the tune changes... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Mickey191 Date: 18 Nov 00 - 06:01 PM Jaze, I played "On Raglan Road" by Joan Osborn at least 50 times yesterday. Today I've had on a CD by Michael McCann. It has songs sung by soldiers in different wars. Today I was stuck on "Lorena". Liner notes say Confederate commanders forbade the playing of it because it made men so homesick that they deserted. These are two haunting songs. Great thread. Slainte |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: MK Date: 18 Nov 00 - 03:51 PM When She Loved Me - Sarah MacLachlan In A New York Minute - Don Henley Time and Tide - Basia Corazon Espinado - Santana Tears in Heaven and Layla - Eric Clapton Julia - John Lennon The Hungry Years- Neil Sedaka Take 5 - Paul Desmond Rhapsody In Blue - George Gershwin Spain - Chick Corea (Al Jarreau version) Alonzo - Al Jarreau Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John (Oletta Adams version) Don't Hold Back Your Love - Daryl Hall Cloudburst - Hendricks, Lambert and Ross Europa - Gato Barbieri ...and the soundtrack from the Wizard of Oz (especially anything to do with Munchkins!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Oldtimemusic1@aol.com Date: 18 Nov 00 - 03:10 PM Ah, but I might as well try and "Catch the Wind" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,chuck 7721 Date: 18 Nov 00 - 02:52 PM "Deep River Blues" and "Single Girl" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: fat B****rd Date: 17 Nov 00 - 02:50 PM ps that's the sidewinder by lee morgan RIP and not (with respect) rem fB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: fat B****rd Date: 17 Nov 00 - 02:47 PM now's the time, the sidewinder, begin the beguine, annie by ronnie lane, you can't sit down, etc., and not forgetting 'Living with the Blues' by Brownie McGhee which i would be haunted by if only some mf would tell me the lyrics. peace etc fB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Morticia Date: 17 Nov 00 - 01:53 PM Like MMario, this happens to me all the time, all my life. I am fanatical about a song until I've learned it and then, mostly, I can put it back in the "With luck, I'll remember you when I want you" box (which is becoming a tad unreliable over the last year or two). One song that continues to haunt however is "Now, Westlin Winds" because it has such a beautiful tune. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,kendall Date: 17 Nov 00 - 01:40 PM John Cherokee |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: MMario Date: 17 Nov 00 - 01:28 PM I tend to be haunted by songs until I learn them, then they leave me in peace. A few of the more recent: Three Score and Ten, The Mother's Kiss, An Emigrant's Daughter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Jim Krause Date: 17 Nov 00 - 12:57 PM Oh, yes! I just had to learn Spanish Is the Loving Tongue after hearing a Michael Martin Murphey recording of it. Hearing that song made me wonder if perhaps we really do get but one chance at true love per lifetime. And then there were the songs that came from somewhere in outer space that just had to be written. I hope someday to record a few more of them. Soddy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Steve Latimer Date: 17 Nov 00 - 12:54 PM Evangeline from The Band's "The Last Waltz." I think this was the first time I ever heard Emmylou Harris and it sent chills down my spine, still does. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mousethief Date: 17 Nov 00 - 12:49 PM Pacing the Cage by Bruce Cockburn
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: SINSULL Date: 17 Nov 00 - 11:03 AM mkebenn - Just got a shiver. Guess I am haunted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: jaze Date: 17 Nov 00 - 10:59 AM For the past 2 months I've been haunted by On Raglan Road by Joan Osborne. Can't get it out of my mind,but I'm not at all tired of it. I went thru a Mary Hamilton phase too after reading James Michener's "The Drifters" Must say I really enjoy being "haunted" by great songs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: Grab Date: 17 Nov 00 - 08:57 AM Anji. Still does. And it drives my wife round the bend. :-) Grab. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: mkebenn Date: 17 Nov 00 - 07:05 AM last night I washsed the Queen's feet, and put the gold in her hair, and the only reward I find for this the gallows to be my share.
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Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,Adolfo Date: 17 Nov 00 - 06:46 AM Every time I notice I'm humming it's Danny Boy, Highland Cathedral or The Water Is Wide. Dowland's Flow my tears or Purcell's arias are next in the list |
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Subject: Songs that haunt you From: mcpiper Date: 17 Nov 00 - 06:15 AM I don't know if there has been a thread about this before, but does anyone have songs or tunes that just seem to haunt them.
By haunting,I mean they won't go away until you have learnt them, and played them until you are comfortable with them. Only then do they seem to have been exorcised.
My list would have to include Ode to Billie Joe, it's had me ever since it came out, last week it was Still Crazy after All These Years, before that Hard Times, On Raglan Road and I suspect the next one will be, of all things, Vengaboys with Uncle John from Jamaica. There has been a few reels, marches, jigs etc., but the recent thread on Billie Joe really got me thinking.
Does this happen to anyone else? mcpiper |
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