Subject: Ode To TheLittle Old Shack From: Dulcy Date: 10 Jun 00 - 09:12 PM Does anyone have the Lyrics and music for "Ode To The Little Old Shack Out Back" by Billy Edd Wheeler? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Old Shack From: Pene Azul Date: 10 Jun 00 - 09:21 PM Here (click) are a couple of versions of the lyrics. PA |
Subject: Lyr Add: ODE TO THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK (Wheeler) From: GUEST,jayepwoods@aol.com Date: 11 Jun 00 - 03:00 AM ODE TO THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK (Billy Ed Wheeler)
They passed an ordinance in the town,
CHORUS: Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down.
It was not too long ago
I would hum a happy tune,
It was not a castle fair.
It wasn't fancy built at all, |
Subject: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: GUEST,Rob Hobby, Macon, GA Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:44 PM I'm looking for the lyrics and/or guitar chords for an old folk song about an outhouse. The chorus was: "Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down, (three times), For there's not another like it, in the country or the town." Any help? Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:45 PM In the DT, ODE TO THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK (Billy Ed Wheeler) |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:46 PM Whee ya! ONE minute!! I win!!!!! |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: raredance Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:21 PM Can we all bring some hotdish over to your house to celebrate your victory? rich r |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: GUEST,Rob Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:25 PM WOW... what help, and in only ONE minute! Thanks guys...I want to use it at a banquet next month. Rob |
Subject: World Champion Response! From: Joe Offer Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:01 PM Oh, my. It was just a few days ago that Sorcha tied Jeri and Pene's two-minute record. Now she went and made a New World Record!Since Rich is bringing the hotdish for the celebration, I'll make a Jello mold. We can have a real Midwestern shebang to celebrate this momentous event. Hmmmm. I wonder if it's possible to post a response with a clickable link in NO minutes.... -Joe Offer, former champion (first to break the 3-minute mark)- |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:17 PM Aw shucks. Sure, come on out!! Venison shish kebabs on the grill, and potato salad, coming up! |
Subject: RE: Melody for 'Little Brown Building' From: GUEST,Blaine Scott Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:01 PM Where can I hear the melody to refresh my memory? Is there an MP# out there of this tune? I had just found this site this am and this particular song was the first one I looked for because I have been looking for it for years! the lyrics turned up with a simple search here on the mudcat. Yeha! I recall it only from around the campfire at Camp Northern Lights north of Peterborough Ontario where Father Joe Lynch sang it for us. Anybody else out there learn it from Father Joe? He was the assistant pastor at Immaculate conception parish where I grew up. (I know it a million to one for finding anyone who knew father Joe but I thought I would leave this bit of digital query for posterity). I heard he left the priesthood. Wish I could find out how he is. Blaine Scott musicman@csolve.net |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Bill D Date: 26 Jan 01 - 11:38 PM well, you could cal ME and I'll sing it to you..*grin*,,,I have had the original Billy Ed Wheeler album for years,,,,and I sing the song several times a year.... |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: bob schwarer Date: 27 Jan 01 - 07:22 AM There's another song too. Something about the "Interstate coming thru our outhouse". Anyone have the words to that one? Bob S. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:12 PM Bob, go check out this site Click The guy seems to think it is not a different song, just an alternate verse.........relative comment is about 3/4 down the page. I don't know. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Katcina Date: 27 Jan 01 - 02:08 PM There was an excellent folk singer that played in my place, The Sugar Shack, who went by the name of Bobby McGee who sang a song named "Steam-roller Through My Two-holer". It was a constant request when ever she was in but I've never heard it anywhere else so it might be of her own design. Worth a look though. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: bob schwarer Date: 27 Jan 01 - 03:22 PM Sorcha: The Interstate song has an entirely different tune. I've got it "somewhere" on a tape I made from a show that was on a New Orleans radio station way back in the '70s. Had to connect the tape input across the speaker terminals back then. No fancy stereo hookup. Thought someone else may know it. Bob S. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 27 Jan 01 - 04:58 PM I suspected so, the the Site Guy that I linked to above wasn't sure........the song is not on the web anywhere that I could find. You may have the only extant copy! |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Bill D Date: 27 Jan 01 - 06:40 PM well, the last version posted on that site is 'almost' exactly what I copied off the record.... in one verse, he sang.." It was not a castle fair, but a man could linger there" ....and there was applause, so the album version was recorded at a live concert..(while the rest of the stuff on the album seemed to be in a studio) |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Bill D Date: 27 Jan 01 - 07:51 PM ...just listened..and he DIDN't sing 'lingered'...see what 'folk processing' will do?
BILLY EDD WHEELER
KAPP Records -Mono title song recorded at The Mountain State Art & Craft Fair, Ripley W. VA....( no date given anywhere)..had to be late 60s-early 70s blurb says he was born in 1932...and that he was living in BROOKLYN!at time of album release.. He wrote "The Reverend Mr Black"...Kingston Trio hit |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Banjer Date: 28 Jan 01 - 07:54 AM I just checked my 45 collection and found that my 'Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back' by Billy Ed Wheeler is the B side of one by Wheeler called 'Duel Under The Snow'. another case where the B side outlived the A side. My record is on the Radio Cinema label and is a DJ copy, RC001. Are DJ copies worth more or less than a regular release, given equal conditions of the record? |
Subject: Lyr Add: ODE TO GRANNY AND THE LITTLE BROWN... From: raredance Date: 28 Jan 01 - 12:41 PM In the songbook "The Songs and Poetry of Billy Edd Wheeler" (1971, Big 3 Music Corp) the variable lines are printed: It was not a castle fair, but I could dream my future there And build my castles to the yellow jacket's drone. The one recording I have of Billy Edd doing the song is "Billy Edd Wheeler Sings His Favorite Original & Traditional Folk Songs" (produced by BEW for The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, Asheville, NC) has him singing the same words as the book. However in the chorus of this recording he adds an "n" to "another" so it comes out "another'n" as in a contraction of "another one" "The Interstate is Coming Through My Outhouse" was written by R.C. Blankenship and H.G. Johe. At least one recording was by none other than Bill Edd Wheeler on his "Nashville Zodiac" album (United Artists UAS 6711). I guess a trilogy is completed when one adds in another song by Bill Edd Wheeler called "Ode to Granny and the Little Brown Shack Out Back". This is also from the songbook. As with a number of other BEW songs, most of it is spoken, except the "granny granny..." lines. rich r
ODE TO GRANNY AND THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK OUT BACK |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 28 Jan 01 - 12:53 PM Wow, rich! Good going, there. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Bill D Date: 28 Jan 01 - 07:24 PM that might be the lady in THIS story: "Paw...you need to go out back and fix the outhouse" "Oh, Maw...I'm tired..whuts wrong with it"? "You gotta come see.." "Oh...fer...ok....." ..*looks around*..."Maw, there ain't nothin' wrong here" "Yes there is..poke your head in that there hole!" "I ain't gonna stick my head in there!" "You need to, so's you can see whut needs fixed..." "Well, ok...but you better be right.."......*takes deep breath and pokes his head in" "Maw...there ain't nothin' wrong in here....and I ain't gonna keep looking..."............*starts to pull head out and gives a loud yelp!!* "Ouch, Maw...I caint get my head out....my beard's caught in a crack in the seat!" ................"..yup...aggravatin', ain't it?" |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:41 PM So, Rich - how 'bout the lyrics for the one about the Interstate? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE INTERSTATE IS COMING THROUGH MY... From: raredance Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:44 PM Going a little bit out on a limb here. I found this version out on the web. I can't say if it is the same song that Billy Edd Wheeler sings. The needle broke on my turntable, so until I get it fixed I can only look at my LPs. I think it might be the same. Notice the name credited with the song. One of the two credits on the BEW album is an "H. Johe". "Howard Yowee" could be aural transmission and the folk process at work on the name. I also encountered a parody called "The Internet is Coming Through My Classroom" that said it was based on the "Howard Yowee" song
The Interstate is Coming Through My Outhouse |
Subject: RE:Lyric Add: Interstate Is Coming Through My Out From: Sorcha Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:54 PM WOW!! Just doing a LyrAdd in the subject box so maybe it will get harvested someday. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: raredance Date: 30 Jan 01 - 12:05 AM Forgot to add I found another recording of "The Interstate..." song. A CD by THE SADIE GREEN SALES RAGTIME JUGBAND called "Rub A Dub Dub". I know nothing about the group so I am not endorsing it, just calling attention to its existence. rich r |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: bob schwarer Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:12 AM Thanks, Rich. That's the version I remember. I'm still trying to dig it out of a bunch of old, brittle tapes. I'll keep digging, but I think you have it all. Bob S. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Little Brown Building' From: GUEST,JWB Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:29 PM It's been a good while since I performed this one. The fella I learned it from said it was written in Freeport, ME. The words are real close to what's in the DT, though. Most significant variation is in the verse that begins "I would hum a happy tune, Peeping through the quarter moon, As all my Daddy's kin had done before. It was a simple shack, and plain, Good in sunshine and in rain, And it gave the same relief to rich and poor."
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Subject: 'That Little Brown Building' From: GUEST,haehlm@blueriver.cc.mo.us Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:46 AM Hi, I am looking for the lyrics of a song that is a humorous "nostalgic" song about tearing down the old outhouse. The lyrics include, "Verse 1: There's a building in the town and the're going to tear it down, ... Chorus: Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down, don't let 'em tear that little brown building down, don't let 'em tear that precious building down, 'cause there's not another like it in the country or the town." Martha Haehl Kansas City, MO |
Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T LET' EM TEAR THAT LITTLE BROWN... From: IanC Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:54 AM This it?
DON'T LET' EM TEAR THAT LITTLE BROWN BUILDING DOWN
They passed an ordinance in the town
Chorus
It was not so long ago, that I went trippin' through the snow
Oh I would sing a happy tune, peepin' through the quarter moon
It wasn't fancy built at all, it had newspapers on the wall
Cheers! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'That Little Brown Building' From: Sorcha Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:57 AM Ian, always check the DT/Cat first.......it can save you some trouble,(grin) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'That Little Brown Building' From: IanC Date: 07 Jun 01 - 11:01 AM Whoops! Red face ... too busy with my Lords & Ladies quiz!!!
:-( |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'That Little Brown Building' From: Bill D Date: 07 Jun 01 - 11:15 AM but NOT written by Bobby Bare....written by Billy Ed Wheeler there have been a couple threads about this, including history and alternate words based on various hearing of the author singing it. |
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