BY WHAT SONG should I know you?

Subject: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:41 PM

Asking myself that question, the first song that popped into my head was 'I was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago.' I had to forgo that choice, however, even though it was a perfect fit for my age, when I noticed that the DigiTrad was several verses short of a full song and they were the ones I would have needed to substantiate my claim. They're some of the best ones, too. I am referring to:

I saw Satan when he looked the garden o'er,
And Adam and Eve get shuffled out the door,
And while from the bushes peepin,
Saw the apple they wuz eatin,
And I'll swear thet I'm the guy thet et the core.

Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me.
We were maried in Milwaukee secretly.
But I upped and forsook 'er,
And went with General Hooker,
To shoot mosquitos down in Tennesee.

And there are many,many more. But I felt I couldn't claim that song, because my memory is fading, and I am not sure whether that was Hooker or Meade I was with.

So moving along, the nexxt song i came up with was 'I've Been Everywhere.' No dice. I had to rule that one out too, because I'm pretty sure I missed Ombilika and dead certain I never made it to Baranquilla. The reason I know that is becuz we blew a tire on that long down grade there and then right at the bottom of the grade on a sharp right hand curve you cudn't see around, the road was washed out. And by the way (BTW)I should probably let you know that Chatanika has only one T in it. You'll find it (the town, that is, not the T) just a few miles north of Fox on the Steese Highway. We're talkin Alaska here, folks.

And so, we come to the final choice I settled on to give you a better notion of what I am about. If I knew how to make a clickity I'd hide my choice behind it so it would be more of a surprise. You've probably already guessed it, anyway. The song is 'When The Work's All Done This Fall.' One reason: the work IS done, my part of it, all that I'm ever goin to do of it, anyway. What's left is play. And second: That song was one of the very first my Dad ever taught me, not the very first, but one of the first. I made ten bucks and change in tips for singing it at the county picnic they always had at Nick's Lone Acre after the fall cattle drive from summer range in the high mountains back to the home ranches in the Mother Lode.

What's your song?

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:50 PM

I can't believe I could do anything that stupid. i never saw that thread about songs to finish with. I drive that same way most of the time.

Sorry.

Spud

Subject: Lyr Add: CREEP (from Radiohead)
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 09:21 PM

Creep, by Radiohead.

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so f***ing special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here...

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so f***ing special
I wish I was special

She's running out again
She's running out again
Run, run, run, ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnn

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so f***ing special
I wish I was special...

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here...

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 10:03 PM

Thread Creep Alert!

Spud, have you heard Robin Hopper's 'I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE IN ALASKA'? She's a professional musician/songwriter who lives in Chugiak. This song is very popular at the Alaska Folk Festival, as you might imagine. It starts out- (I don't have a copy in front of me so I could be off on a few words):

"Well, I was totin' my pack along the Glen tryin' to catch a ride
When along came a tour bus with a hundred tourists stuffed inside
If you're goin' down to Anchorage, with us you can ride.
And so I climbed into the bus and when I settled down inside
They asked me if I'd seen a road with so much glacier sand
And I said, "Listen, guys, I've traveled every road in this here land.

I've been everywhere, man
Breathe that mountain air,
Tundra flats and bear, man,
skeeters, I've had my share
Yeah, up here in Alaska, I've been everywhere.

I've been to Anchorage, Egigik, Elmendorf, Chignik,
Turnagin, Crow Creek, North Pole, Summit, Knik,
Nikolai, Glen Highway, Porter Glacier, Cold Bay,
Peters Creek, Selewik, Wasilla, Anaktovik,
Cooper Landing, Northway, Valdez, Seward, Icy Bay,
Nancy Lake, Chilitna, Susitna..."

There are 3 or 4 more verses with well over a hundred names of towns and villages. She says it took her two years to write it and two months to learn to sing it. If you'd like to have it, I'll dig it up from my files.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 10:33 PM

As far as I can tell Spud, the threads are entirely different, no need to apologize, one asks the question about finishing a musical set, yours is entirely more philosophical, a song approprite for ones life.

Hmmmm......and a lot harder to answer.........I'll have to think about this one for awhile.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE RIVER, WHERE SHE SLEEPS (Dave Carter)
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 10:44 PM

Wow, Spud, I am glad you started this as a new thread. Some of my earliest and favourite childhood memories are of my dad singing When the Works All Done This Fall to us kids, that and Billy Venero, as well as the Zebra Dun, Little Joe the Wrangler, Strawberry Roan, Rosin the Beau..oh...geez...he is making a new cowboy songs homemade tape, if you'd like when he gets it done, I'd be happy to send you one.

He loved the time he spent in Alaska, when he was on Amchitka in the oilfields. Had quite a rep for himself, packing his fiddle and banjo back and forth on the airlines when he'd come home to Colorado for a short spell. Ebbie, I'd love to see the whole lyrics to pass on to dad.

Phoaks around here who hear me in Paltalk would probably say you'd know me by Prairie Lullaby, because it's another childhood song I love to sing. There is a fairly new song that I think idealises what I would like to be known by and that is The River, Where She Sleeps by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammar. It's got a great, catchy tune and I'd like it to be heard at my wake:

THE RIVER, WHERE SHE SLEEPS
(Dave Carter

she's a walkin talkin breathin new age wonder, old time heathens
don't know what to make of Mary Jane
cause she ain't tryin to be no swami, she ain't mad at dad and mommy
she don't curse the storm clouds when it rains

when the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she make everything look fine
she got moon in her eyes, crescent windows on the skies
and the rain comes down in sheets on the people in the streets
and it carries all the secrets that they keep to the river where she sleeps

she comes to me when i'm dejected, leaves her soul out unprotected
tells me that the truth can make me free
and she don't need what she ain't got, she reads me books by Alan Watts
speakin words o' wisdom: let it be

when the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she take thunder for a sign
she got stars in her head, supernovas in her bed
and it rains most every day, but i like it fine that way
'cause the waters run so marvelous and deep in the river where she sleeps

Mary ain't inclined to drinkin, still she stumbles without thinkin
anywhere she gets the urge to stray
and everybody knows about her, they don't want to change or doubt her
they just grin when she comes out to play

when the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she be movin down the line
she got bells on her toes, generations in her clothes
and she sings without a sound as the evenin rolls around
and she dances as the twilight shadows creep down the river where she sleeps

professor come to burst my bubble, says that girl is bound for trouble
serves me solace in a paper cup
but it looks a bit like agent orange and when he leaves he slams the door and
just about that time she phones me up

when the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just ain't the worryin kind
she got dogs, she got cats, she keeps rabbits in her hats
and the people that she sees, they're all buddhas or police
and the banks rise high and perilous and steep by the river where she sleeps

now one dismayed December dawn i wake to find my Mary's gone
and no one knows when she'll come back again
and all the silent temple bells from Styx to Glenn to Hazel Dell
are mournin all the nights that might have been

when the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just leave this world behind
she got wheels in her smile, she can coast along for miles
me i'm walkin all alone, feelin soulful to the bone
till i stop and i hang my head and weep by the river where she sleeps

© 1995 Dave Carter - BMI

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 10:56 PM

If you could, and its not to big a pain, Ebbie. I bet it did take some time, and a lot of map reading. I'd love to have it. Can you send it as a MSWord or WP document? My e-mail address is [e-mail]

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 06:20 AM

Well, if you're in Greece this summer and you see a Brit of a certain age emptying Tavernas with Puttin' on the Style; Send me to the 'lectric chair: Goodnight Irene, or (after a particularly long session on the brandy) Blue Suede shoes, say hello to me.
RtS (the one joining in the dancing with the locals with great aplomb will be Herself)

Subject: Lyr Add: HOW FORTUNATE THE MAN WITH NONE
From: Peg
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 08:57 AM

I don't sing it but I do believe I'd like it played at my funeral...

HOW FORTUNATE THE MAN WITH NONE

You saw sagacious Solomon
You know what came of him,
To him complexities seemed plain.
He cursed the hour that gave birth to him
And saw that everything was vain.
How great and wise was Solomon.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's wisdom that had brought him to this state.
How fortunate the man with none.

You saw courageous Caesar next
You know what he became.
They deified him in his life
Then had him murdered just the same.
And as they raised the fatal knife
How loud he cried: you too my son!
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's courage that had brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

You heard of honest Socrates
The man who never lied:
They weren't so grateful as you'd think
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried
And handed him the poisoned drink.
How honest was the people's noble son.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's honesty that brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

Here you can see respectable folk
Keeping to God's own laws.
So far he hasn't taken heed.
You who sit safe and warm indoors
Help to relieve our bitter need.
How virtuously we had begun.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's fear of god that brought us to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: annamill
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 09:08 AM

What a Day for a Daydream - Spoonful. That's me. That's my life. Always rubbin my face in somebody's new mowed lawn.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 10:22 AM

Peg: Maybe for the time being you could use some of annamill's new mown lawn treatment. Please! No requiems yet. But there is a lot to consider in what your song says. Like maybe keeping a low profile, no matter what you are driven to. Thank you.

Kat: I suddenly realized I didn't acknowledge your offer of a tape of your Dad's songs. You bet I want it. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 10:28 AM

Three songs from Dylan fit three stages of my life:
You Ain't Going Nowhere
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Bob Dylan's Dream

"I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That I could sit talking in that room again
Ten Thousand Dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if life could be like that"

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Peg
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 10:38 AM

oops! sorry, all I entered the html for bold instead of line break!

this song has an extraordinary melody and the arrangement is haunting...

Subject: Lyr Add: MANY A MILE (Patrick Sky)
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 01:02 PM

This is a different thread entirely to me Spud and you're getting some good responses. For me, there are probably two that fit. For many years, the first choice would be "Many a Mile" by Patrick Sky:

MANY A MILE
(Patrick Sky)

I've damn near walked this world around
Another city, another town
Another place, to say goodbye
Another girl, to sit and cry.
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

Well there was one, who knew me best
You know she gave my poor heart rest
She was my world, my heart, my dear
And now she's gone to God know where
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

I seen your towns, they're all the same
The only difference is in a name
And the only home I ever knowed
Was a suitcase and the open road
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

So fill the glasses up to the brim
But thru my glass, the world looks dim
But outside I know there's light somewhere
Maybe my rambling will take me there
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone
And it's many a mile I have spent all alone
And it's many a mile I will go.

(This is slightly different than the DT which gives Buffy's version)

The other song which continues to haunt me is a Dylan song, basically ripped from the trad "Lord Franklin." Bob did that a lot, but I still prefer Bob's version:

Bob Dylan's Dream

While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

Damn near can't sing this one at all anymore.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 01:05 PM

Sorry Bartholomew, I meant to add that we have similar taste ala Bob Dylan's Dream......Like the other two as well!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM

Funny, 'spaw, I was trying to recall the words of the last verse to BD's Dream from my poor battered memory and I couldn't remember what came after "sit" in the second line. Of course it's "simply", but my mind stuck in "talking". Freudian, I suppose.

A beautiful lyric and great choice.

Good thread, too, Spud. Thanks
Bart

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 01:48 PM

Love those songs and your insights! For me, I'll have to do a lot of thinking- don't have a clue.

kat and Spud, I'm looking for Robin's lyrics. The problem is that I probably have it on a disk. Will keep looking.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Kim C
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 01:58 PM

I don't know. Maybe I will have to write it myself. There are so many that fit at different times...

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 02:13 PM

Spaw, that is as poignant and tear-producing as Art singing Handful of Songs at the end of his CD. Anybody have a hanky? Beautiful, darlin'...luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 03:45 PM

There are two actually. "A Soldier's Lament" Lyrics by Me and music by Kevin McGrath and Santy Anno. Both of which i sing at reenactments and when I practice. I expect that'll change as it does on a regular basis. I'm forever being moved by music. When that stops, they'll be shovelling the cold sod over my sorry cold carcass. Kindest reguards, Neil

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: bill\sables
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 04:07 PM

According to Max and Bert any song that has the word "Bugger" in the lyrics would be mine, I realy don't know why.
Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Kim C
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 04:19 PM

I guess if I had to pick one, it might be Souvenirs by John Prine. Or Thunder Road by the Boss. Or You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. But that could change tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 04:35 PM

Bill, it's 'cos YOUR song is "Lambtom Worm" - You should have known that, you silly bugger ;-)

It seems that I'm destined to be forever linked with "Size Doesn't Matter" and I think Max is "Stagger Lee"

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Hawker
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:13 PM

When I was a teenager, I got through the teenage doldrums of boyfrineds dumping me, being grounded, and other problems by listening to 'I am a Rock' - The words "I have my books and my poetry to protect me" meant a lot as did "'cos a rock feels no pain and an Island never cries" Now I really don't know, there are so many.... But earlier someone voiced a wish for a particular song at their wake - for me that would have to be a poem by RS Hawker called 'The Dirge' (i say written by but it seems he completed an earlier poem given to him by one of his parishoners) Perhaps there is a tune to it, it really demands being sung!

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,DrWord-afk
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 06:13 PM

Thanks so much for this thread! :) 2 all who have responded. And Peg: I appreciate that you added the fact that you'd like it sung 4 u There's a new thread there: songs 4 yr OWN funeral I helped my dying brother pick the tunes 4 his funeral and I think the dobro moved me more than the bagpipes. >>xcuse thread creep. Yeah, Bob's Dream is a great ol' tune & a happy sentiment. But to add 2 Spud's pix--all of which I love--they reminded me of "Goin' back to where I come from" which will do 4 my tune. Regards, 'catters Dennis

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: guest(intruder-inactive)
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 07:57 AM

Chapin's "Laugh Man"

Have you ever heard the one about...
oh god i love myself, when i've got it on
i know i'll live forever, man, all my fears are gone
then suddenly i'm dying, they've turned the laugh track off
i'm drownin' in the silence, crucifed by coughs

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 12:16 PM

I would have to go with Lyke Wake Dirge and Ewan McColls Joy of Living. There is no rush though, I would rather sing them at other peoples. JohnB

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DIRGE (Rev. R. S. Hawker)
From: Hawker
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:48 PM

For those of you who do not know 'The Dirge' Rev. R. S. Hawker recounts:-
The first line of these verses haunted the memory and the lips of a good and blameless young farmer who died in my parish some years ago. It was, as I conceived, a fragment of some forgotten dirge of which he could remember no more. But it was his strong desire that 'The Words' should be 'put upon my (his) headstone' and he wished me also to write 'some other words to make it complete' I fulfilled this entreaty and the stranger who visits the churchyard will find this dirge carven in stone 'In sweet remembrance of the Just' and to the praise of the dead Richard Cann.

THE DIRGE:

"Sing from the cradle to the grave!"
Thus did the dead man say
"A sound of melody I crave
Upon my burial day."

"Bring forth some tuneful instrument,
And let your voices rise:
My spirit listened, as it went,
To music of the skies."

"Sing sweetly as you travel on,
And keep the funeral slow:-
The angels sing where I am gone -
And you should sing below."

"Sing from the threshold to the porch,
Until you hear the bell;
And sing you loudly in the church
The Psalms I love so well.

"Then bear me gently to my grave,
And as you pass along,
Remember, 'twas my wish to have
A pleasant funeral song"

"So earth to earth, and dust to dust!
And though my flesh decay,
My soul shall sing amongst the just
Until the judgement day."

Regards,
Lucy

Subject: Lyr Add: RIVER (Bill Staines)
From: cowboypoet
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:50 PM

Although I sing mostly cowboy songs nowadays, and have sung them all my life, this would have to be the song you'd know me by:

I was born in the path of the winter wind,
Raised where the mountains are old --
Their springtime waters came dancing down,
And I remember the tales they told.

The whistling ways of my younger days
Too quickly have faded on by,
But all of their memories linger on
Like the light in a fading sky.

River, take me along,
In your sunshine, sing me a song,
Ever moving and winding and free,
You rolling old river, you changing old river,
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.

I've been to the cities and back again,
And I've been moved by some things that I've learned.
Met a lot of good people and called them friends,
Felt the change when the seasons turned.

I've heard all the songs that the children sang,
And I've listened to love's melodies.
I've felt my own music within me rise
Like the wind in the autumn trees.

River, take me along,
In your sunshine, sing me a song,
Ever moving and winding and free,
You rolling old river, you changing old river,
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.

Some day when the flowers are blooming still,
Some day when the grass is still green,
My rolling waters will round the bend
And flow into the open sea.

So here's to the rainbow that's followed me here
And here's to the friends that I know,
And here's to the song that's within me now --
I will sing it wherever I go.

River, take me along,
In your sunshine, sing me a song,
Ever moving and winding and free,
You rolling old river, you changing old river,
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.

The song is, of course, "River" by Bill Staines. I learned it from him years ago. I sang it at my Granddaddy's funeral -- he taught me to fish (he also taught me *how* to fish, but that's different) and most of the best of what I know about being a man. I like to think somebody will sing it at mine some day.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:31 PM

I guess it really depends on which hat I'm wearing

Today I had on my Mum hat and it was Cindy Lauper's Time After Time

"If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I'll be waiting
Time after time"

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: R!
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:29 PM

Smile by Charlie Chaplin.

Reen

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:34 PM

Ok.......thought about this a lot.....probably Stan Roger's Mary Ellen Carter......I have risen so many times, like the phoenix, from the ashes of my life, oft times somewhat sadder, rarely any wiser and from places where even those that love me feared I might not return, that this song might be appropriate.

.....or maybe The Cat Came Back.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:36 PM

'Mickey' by Toni Basil. Tacky, but love those handclaps. I know a certain band called Lucky who do a really heartbreaking acoustic version...

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: KT
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 02:28 AM

Spud , kat and Ebbie,

Robin Hopper is a very talented singer/songwriter/performer who has the ability to weave life's stories into beautifully crafted songs. She can have you laughing one minute and sobbing the next! Her song I've Been Everywhere can be found on her CD, Up On A Mountaintop. You can find her here

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: KT
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 02:29 AM

oops! try here: http://robinhopper.com/

back to the practice thread, I guess......

You did well, except there was no space between the
"a" and the "href"
It's been fixed.
- la joeclone -

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: R!
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 08:02 AM

Oops! Forgot my other favorite: Always Look On The Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.

Ta ra, Reen

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 02:45 PM

Thanks, KT. You just made a sale for Robin.

Hmmm.....Robinhopper, indeed.

When we lived in Fairbanks, Mrs. Murphy used to look for the first robin of spring, and when she saw it, she was exceedingly happy. We had survived another Alaskan winter!

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,Norton1
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:43 PM

"Clayton Delaney" when I'm feeling blue and "Amazing Grace" when I think of my Lovely Sweet Wife. From my Dad "When the Works All Done This Fall" and my Mom would be "Paradise." My Grandkids would be "Joy to the World" and my kids would be "Wild Thing."

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: wdyat12
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 12:08 AM

Spud,

This song, sung to me as a child, always comes back to haunt me and has had an ironic, if not profound, effect on my life.

Peter, Peter, Pumpkineater had a wife and couldn't keep her So, he put her in a pumpkinshell And there [she didn't fair so] well.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: wdyat12
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 12:18 AM

Amazing what thoughts are provoked during a snowstorm in February.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:41 AM

The Best Years of our Lives by Steve Harley.

especially these snippets:

'Fresh faced imbeciles laughing at me,
I've been laughing myself, is that so hard to see
' ...
'If there's no room for laughter there's no room for me'
...
'Since the last time we met I've been through
About seven hundred changes and that's just a few'
...
'Lost now for the words to tell you the truth
please banter with me the banter of youth'

& the chorus

'You'll think its tragic, when that moment first arrives. Oh, oh but its magic, its the best years of our lives'

For me it captures the way that we are constantly changing, never old & stale & how each year it feels like the best years of our lives. And all the joy & laughter.

Its a wonderful life, innit?

Kris

Subject: Lyr Add: GIVE ME THE ROSES WHILE I LIVE
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 12:01 PM

GIVE ME THE ROSES WHILE I LIVE

Wonderful things of folks are said when they have passed away
Roses adorn the narrow bed over the sleeping clay

Give me the roses while I live trying to cheer me on
Useless are flowers that you give after the soul is gone

Let us not wait to do good deeds till they have passed away
Now is the time to sow good seeds while here on earth we stay

Kind words are useless when folks lie cold in a narrow bed
Don't wait till death to speak kind words, now should the words be said

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Bluebelle
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM

Peter, Paul & Mary's "No Other Name."

Know me, if you will, by the wind on the hill
Know me, by the place, where I came
Know me, if you might, by the fire shining bright
Know me, by no other name.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:31 PM

wdyat12, it was probably too small. Next time, get one of them big buggers, like they grow in the Matanuska Valley

kris: It sure is!!!

.....and then some!

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Troll
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 09:12 PM

Ewan McColl's "Freeborn Man"

troll

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 09:30 PM

"Docs's Guitar"
It's become my song - or maybe my nemisis.

I've spent the last week, every single night, for 1-2 very intense hours at a time which leave me feeling drained and exhausted, trying to put down a take I can live with in my home studio. I've been playing this tune for six months. I can sit and practise it and play it perfectly, cleanly and very quickly every time. (It sounds best really up tempo, although I have thought about slowing it down.) (Doc wouldn't do that.)

As soon as I hit the record button and get about a minute into it, all manner of internal voices start whispering to me, dropping me hints that I'm now over this section, and the next section is approaching and oh don't blow it, and yatta yatta yatta. I try closing my eyes; or focusing on a light fixture, or getting mildy high to relax (but then the fingers die), and nothing works. Being a bugger for punishment, I'm going to go back at again shortly, and I will keep persisting nightly until I nail it. Once I do, I don't intend to play it for a month.

But the process has clearly illustrated to me why he's "DOC" and I'm just a picker. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 11:18 PM

Finally, nailed it! Now it's time to relax he says with a big smile and a sigh.

Send me a PM if you want to hear it in MP3 format.

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: wdyat12
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 03:38 AM

Thanks Spud,

I don't honestly think it was the pumpkin.

wdyat12

Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE (IN ALASKA)
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 02:27 AM

Thanks for the link to Robin, KT. I had forgotten her web site. I looked but I didn't find the lyrics to this song.

Spud and kat, here are they are. Sorry- It's long!

I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE (IN ALASKA)
Robin Hopper, Chugiak, Alaska

Well, I was totin' my pack along the Glen tryin' to catch a ride
When along came a tour bus with a hundred tourists stuffed inside
If you're goin' down to Anchorage, with us you can ride.
And so I climbed into the bus and when I settled down inside
They asked me if I'd seen a road with so much glacier sand
And I said, "Listen, guys, I've traveled every road in this here land.

I've been everywhere, man
Breathe that mountain air,
Tundra flats and bear, man,
Skeeters, I've had my share
Yeah, up here in Alaska, I've been everywhere.

I've been to

Anchorage, Egigik, Elmendorf and Chignik,
Turnagain, Crow Creek, North Pole, Sunrise, Eek,
Nikolai, Glen Highway, Portage Glacier, Cold Bay,
Peter's Creek, Selewik, Wasilla and Knik ,
Cooper Landing , Northway, Valdez, Seward, Icy Bay,
Nancy Lake, Chilitna, Big Lake and Susitna...

Flat Top, Ikiak, Chandalar and Swikshak,
Deep Creek, Karluk, Sutton, Beaver, Salt Chuck,
Deadhorse, Caribou, Resurrection, Igloo,
Whittier, Nikiski, Chilkoot and the Bering Sea,
Purgatory, Rainbow, Venetie and Cohoe,
Long John, Burnt Paw, Sleeping Lady, Yistletaw...

Bird, Barrow, Aniak, Trapper Creek and Chugiak,
Hooper Bay, Soldotna, Hunter Creek, Takotna,
Willow Creek, Skagway, Jewel Lake and Scammon Bay,
Russian River, Kodiak, Mountain Village, Togiak,
Chickaloon, Koyukuk, Porcupine and Shageluk,
Kennicott, Nenana, Sourdough, Gulkana...

Mud Bay, Cannery, Teller, Wrangell, Beaufort Sea,
Tanana, Fish Creek, Glennallen, Scatter Peak,
Hogg Point, Alaktak, Denali, Orca, Noatak,
Bethel, Hoonah, Golovin, Anchor Point and Pelican,
Ophir, Tunnel, Skwentna, Waterfall and Yentna,
Sand Point, York, Galena, Shishmarek and Kivalina...

Hope, Juneau, Kotzebue, Ketchikan and Nome, Attu,
Eagle River, Umiat, Alyeska, Yakutat,
Girdwood, Kipnuk, Fairbanks and Ketchumstuk,
Haines, Kenai, Point Lay, Unalaska, Glacier Bay,
Palmer, Chicken, Dillingham, Prudhoe Bay and Ptarmigan,
Clear, Homer, Tok, Eureka, Summit Lake and Chatanika.

I've been everywhere.

Intersperse the chorus with the verses.

Ebbiewhowon'toverloadthethreadagain!

Subject: RE: BS: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 02:31 AM

oops

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: GUEST,daddy's girl
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 12:21 AM

My daddy passes away a month ago. Some of my fondest memories are of when my sister and I were growing up and daddy would sing 'When the Works all Done this Fall". That was one of our favorite songs. Actually it still is. Mom always wonderes why it was our favorite song because it was so sad. It was our favorite becaue daddy sang it us. We had lost track of that song as we were growing up until my son found a Michael Martin Murphy CD with the song on it. We listen to it all the time. I would like to fine the original lyrics. Michael just does not sing it quite like daddy.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:51 AM

Sorry for your loss, daddy's girl. It's never easy.

Here's how we used to sing the song.

WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL

A group of jolly cowboys discussing plans at ease,
Says one: "I'll tell you something, boys, if you will listen please;
I am an old cowpuncher and here I'm dressed in rags,
I used to be a tough one, boys, and go on great big jags.

"But I have got a home, boys, a good one you all know;
Although I have not seen it since long, long ago.
I'm going to my home, boys, once more to see them all;
Yes, I'm going to see my mother when the work's all done this fall.

"When I left my home, boys, my mother for me cried,
Begged me not to go, boys, for me she would have died;
My mother's heart is breaking, breaking for me that's all
And with God's help I'll see her when the work's all done this fall.

That very night this cowboy went out to stand his guard;
The night was dark and cloudy, and storming very hard;
The cattle they got frightened, and rushed in wild stampede,
The cowboy tried to head them, riding at full speed.

While riding in the darkness so loudly he did shout,
Trying his best to beat them and turn the herd about;
His saddle horse did stumble, and on him it did fall;
The poor boy won't see his mother when the work's all done this fall.

They picked him up so gently and laid him on a bed;
His body was so mangled the boys all thought him dead;
He opened wide his blue eyes and looking all around,
He motioned to his comrades to sit near him on the ground.

"Boys, send mother my wages, the wages I have earned,
For I am afraid, boys, my last steer I have turned.
I am headed for a new range, I hear my Master call,
And I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall.

"Fred, you take my saddle; George you take my bed;
Bill, you take my pistol after I am dead.
And think upon me kindly when you look upon them all,
For I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall."

Charlie was buried at sunrise, no tombstone at his head,
Nothing but a little board, and this is what it said:
"Charlie died at daybreak, he died from a fall,
And he'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall."

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:04 AM

I identify with the old blues line "I'm built for comfort, not for speed".

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Joybell
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:25 AM

"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"
I'm probably the only person still singing it, although it was very popular about 100 or so years ago. Anyway that's the song I want to be remembered by. Joy

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Celtaddict
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 09:56 PM

How Can I Keep from Singing?

Subject: RE: BY WHAT SONG should I know you?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 03:23 AM

Wow, Kat--

I love The River Where She Sleeps, especially the line: ". . . she ain't mad at dad and mommy".

Does it sometimes seem to you that you're the only person in the world that had a happy childhood? I almost feel guilty about it, when everyone else I talk with tells me horror stories!

Great song; I'll have to go find the melody now.

'Spaw, hang in there, m'dear. Wandering days, great memories, and good friends are never past as long as you can still find them in your head. But you know that...

Love,
Lin

P.S. My song would have to be a cowboy song, possibly Night Life or maybe Crazy (by Willie Nelson, of course). Or any of a zillion others by him, or by the Hag, or Waylon Jennings... impossible to choose!