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 |
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... |
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. |
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". |
Subject: RE: BS: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,D_hand Date: 21 Nov 00 - 10:05 AM 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' |
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: |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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" |
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:-) |
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") |
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: 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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! |
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. |
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 |
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.." |
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: 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 |
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! |
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 |
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.... |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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). |
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" |
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 |
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. |
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! |
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. |
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 |
Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: zelger Date: 23 Oct 05 - 05:36 AM Aimee Mann, Save me. |
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! |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: GUEST,David Hannam Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:01 AM Leonard Cohens. Anthem |
Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: Paco Rabanne Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:16 AM 99 is the new 100 by flamenco ted |
Subject: RE: Songs that haunt you From: saulgoldie Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:45 AM 100--Woohoo! |
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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