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Subject: From: gmb0@ms1.allencol.edu Date: 16 Dec 96 - 10:13 PM For those who remeber, there was a song from the movie Jaws" where, after they all get drunk on Quint's boat, they sung a son with the words: SHow me the way to go home/ I'm tired and I want to go to bed/ I had a little drink about an hour ago/ and it went right to my head. If anybody can fill in the rest of the song, I would be very appreciative.
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Subject: Lyr Add: SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME From: Kevin Date: 17 Dec 96 - 09:33 AM Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago And it went right to my head. No matter where I roam, On land or sea or foam, You can always hear me singing my song, Show me the way to go home. That's the only verse I know. I remember it from one of my father's Mitch Miller albums. I think they just repeated this verse over and over again but there might be other verses. Kevin |
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Subject: Info: Show Me the Way to Go Home From: Sue Wichers Date: 04 Jan 97 - 10:01 AM It's written by Iriving King, 1925 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME (parody) From: dick greenhaus Date: 05 Jan 97 - 11:44 PM And, for a reprise, was sung:
Direct me to the place of my abode |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from From: Clhamby Date: 06 Jan 97 - 12:18 AM Dick Greenhouse: As another songster put it, "Play that rhythmically enhanced music, melanin-deprived male person!" |
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Subject: SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME - info From: Jerry Friedman, jfriedman@nnm.cc.nm.us Date: 07 Jan 97 - 05:22 PM I learned the same vocabularian version as you, Dick, but with the lines, "Wherever I may perambulate, On land or sea or agitated water." In any version, the best part is the cerebellum. A few lines from the song are also sung in Tennessee Williams's play _Camino Real_, along with a lot of drinking songs that I didn't recognize. |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from From: K.C. King Date: 09 Jan 97 - 03:35 PM Dick, I believe that was "Show me the way to my habitual abode ..." Regards, KC |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from From: dick greenhaus Date: 09 Jan 97 - 09:03 PM KC- Hi. I yield yo your expertise in the area. My memory dims. dick |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 13 Sep 01 - 11:14 PM Other places in the Forum where the song's been discussed....
Show Me the Way to Go Home |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from From: Don Firth Date: 14 Sep 01 - 01:54 AM I often hear it combined with two other songs:
I want a beer just like the beer that pickled dear old dad
Don Firth |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME (parody) From: lady penelope Date: 14 Sep 01 - 06:00 PM The song I remember from Jaws is " Fairwell you Ladies of Spain" !
Indicate direction to my abode Ok so you have to get a fair bit of syncapation in on some of the lines, but we quite often end up shuffling about to it ( lets face it you're generally not going to be sober when you start singing things like this ) and we can pretend we can dance at these points! Happy paddling! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: the vocabularian Ladies of Spain From: Haruo Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:27 AM Auf Wiederseh'n, ciao, you Hispanic señoras! Sayonara, so long, you Iberian dames! how does the rest of it go? Haruo |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from JAWS From: GUEST,Bill Donaldson Date: 19 Apr 11 - 12:32 AM Same song as "Show Me the Way to Go Home" "Direct me the way to my residence, I'm fatigued and I wanna retire... Had a little nip 'bout an hour ago and it went right to my sacroiliac! Wherever I may perambulate, On Land or Sea or Atmospheric Places, You can always find me croonin' this tune, Direct me the way to my residence!" |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from JAWS From: GUEST,highlandman at work Date: 19 Apr 11 - 09:41 AM My MIL, who is the definitive reference for mid-20th-century pop, says it goes like this (accent marks indicate stressed beats): 'Indicate the 'route to my a'bode I'm fa'tigued and I de'sire to re'tire I 'had a sip of 'nectar sixty 'minutes a'go And it 'went right 'to my 'ce-re-'bel-lum Wher'ever 'I may per'ambulate On 'land or 'sea or 'at-mos-pher-ic 'va-por You can 'always 'hear me 'chanting this '*melody 'Indicate the 'route to my a'bode |
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Subject: RE: Drinking song from JAWS From: GUEST,Phil B Date: 19 Apr 11 - 10:54 AM I was told somewhere that it was Robert Shaws idea to sing 'Spanish Ladies'. I'd love to think it was true. |
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Subject: RE: 'Show Me the Way to Go Home' from JAWS From: GUEST Date: 16 Dec 14 - 06:06 PM My dad always sang this version while I was supposed to sing the original--but I always burst out laughing... Indicate the way to my abode I'm fatigued and I wish to retire Had a little nip a sixty minutes ago And it went right to my cerubellum Wherever i may perambulate Over land or sea or atmospheric vapor You will always hear me croonin' this melody Indicate the way to my abode |
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Subject: RE: 'Show Me the Way to Go Home' from JAWS From: GUEST,Mrr at work Date: 16 Dec 14 - 10:17 PM OK, slightly different: indicate the route to my habitual abode I'm exhausted and I wish to retire I had some alcocol 60 minutes ago And it went right to my cerebellum Wherever I may perambulate On land or see or atmospher' evaporate you'll always hear me humming this melody Indicate the route to my habitual abode And you have to go down to the bass on the "ce-re-bell-um" part. |
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Subject: RE: 'Show Me the Way to Go Home' from JAWS From: Joe_F Date: 16 Dec 14 - 10:38 PM Another variant ending, learned from my parents in he 1940s: ...You will always hear me singing this song -- Nobody knows How dry I am, And nobody knows How to show me the way to go home. If you need to post here ask a moderator to reopen it. The spammers are having a field day with it open. --mudelf |
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