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Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee |
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Subject: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: GUEST,Keith Devine Date: 19 May 01 - 02:02 AM Unable to find in your database. Down yonder someone's waiting for me ----------------- Waiting on the levee, waiting on the Robert E. Lee |
Subject: Lyr Add: WAITING FOR THE ROBERT E. LEE From: Pene Azul Date: 19 May 01 - 02:31 AM Waiting For The Robert E. Lee (Words by L. Wolfe Gilbert. Music by Lewis F. Muir) Way down on the levy in old Alabamy There's Daddy and Mammy There's Ephraim and Sammy On a moonlight night you can find them all While they are waiting, The banjos are syncopatin' What's that they're sayin'? What's that they're sayin'? While they keep playin' A - hummin' and swayin' It's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's come to carry the cotton away! Watch them shuff-lin' along, See them shuff-lin' along! Go take your best gal, real pal Go down to the levy, I said to the levy, And join that shuff-lin' throng Hear that music and song! It's simply great, mate, waitin' on the levy Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee! The whistles are blowin', the smokestacks are showin' The ropes they are throwin', excuse me I'm goin' To the place where all is harmonious Even the preacher, he is the dancin' teacher! Have you been down there? Were you around there? If you ever go there you'll always be found there, Why, dog-gone, here comes my baby On the good old Robert E. Lee! Watch them shuff-lin' along, See them shuff-lin' along Go take your best gal, real pal Go down to the levy, I said to the levy, And join that shuff-lin' throng Hear that music and song! It's simply great, mate, waitin' on the levy Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee! Found here: http://www.melodylane.net/waiting.html Sheet music: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_b0153/ |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: catspaw49 Date: 19 May 01 - 02:31 AM Lyrics and Midi are HERE (click) Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: catspaw49 Date: 19 May 01 - 02:32 AM PENE!!!!! Glad to see you back.....and you kicked my bums on this one! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Pene Azul Date: 19 May 01 - 02:43 AM Eubie Blake played a great piano trio of this with Joe Jordan and Charles Thompson. I have it on Eubie Blake - That's Ragtime!. Very fine CD. Hi Spaw. Good to be back. Jeff |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Metchosin Date: 19 May 01 - 02:53 AM Glad to see you here too Pene! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Clinton Hammond Date: 19 May 01 - 12:37 PM I was in a play in elementary school with that song in it! Hadn't even thought of it for years! Thanks! ;-) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Mrrzy Date: 19 May 01 - 03:26 PM ...And waiting for the Robert E. Lee (it was never there on time)... Snatch of Tom Lehrer's spoof on Dixie |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Apr 02 - 05:30 PM lev·y (lµv"¶) v. lev·ied, lev·y·ing, lev·ies. --tr. 1. To impose or collect (a tax, for example). 2. To draft into military service. 3. To declare and wage (a war). --intr. 1. To confiscate property, especially in accordance with a legal judgment. --lev·y n., pl. lev·ies. 1. The act or process of levying. 2. Money, property, or troops levied. --lev"i·er n.lev·ee 1 (lµv"¶) n. 1. An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing. 2. A small ridge or raised area bordering an irrigated field. 3. A landing place on a river; a pier. --lev·ee tr.v. lev·eed, lev·ee·ing, lev·ees. To provide with a levee.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Lin in Kansas Date: 29 Apr 02 - 03:23 AM From the original post, it looks to me like the requester may actually have wanted "Down Yonder," which does have the line in it about "waiting on the Robert E. Lee," but is a different tune.
There was a discussion of "Down Yonder" in this thread, also noting that the same person co-wrote both it and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee," so it's no wonder they sound alike!
Lin |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: masato sakurai Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:15 AM From the Levy Collection (Click here).
Title: Al Jolson's Big Hit in the Winter Garden. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: masato sakurai Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:24 AM The Heidelberg Quintet's recording (RealPlayer) is HERE. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: greg stephens Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:38 AM As a side issue(especially as the original poster isnt even looking for "Waiting for the Robert E Lee"): the line "it's simply great, mate" always sounds quintessentially London English. Is that really American usage as well? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 May 02 - 11:56 AM Greg: Here's what the American Heritage Dictionary says: mate 1 (m³t) n. 1. One of a matched pair. 2. A spouse. 3.a. Either of a pair of animals or birds that associate in order to propagate. b. Either of a pair of animals brought together for breeding. 4.a. A person with whom one is in close association; an associate. b. A good friend or companion. 5. A deck officer on a merchant ship ranking below the master. 6. A U.S. Navy petty officer who is an assistant to a warrant officer. --mate v. mat·ed, mat·ing, mates. --tr. 1. To join closely; pair. 2. To unite in marriage. 3. To pair (animals) for breeding. --intr. 1. To become joined in marriage. 2.a. To be paired for reproducing; breed. b. To copulate.--but I say that meaning #4 is rarely heard. If you refer to a friend as your "mate" you might be understood correctly, but you might also be misunderstood to mean that the two of you are a "mated pair"! I wouldn't recommend using it among people who are unfamiliar with British or Australian usage. On the other hand, children often have playmates, and this has no connotation of mating. But usage might have been different in 1912. Or the song might have been using "mate" in the nautical sense—after all, it is a song about boats. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting For The Robert E. Lee From: greg stephens Date: 01 May 02 - 12:13 PM Yes i wondered if it referred to a ship's mate. I also wondered if the songwriter was English..many thanks for confirming my feeling that Americans dont call their friends "mate" |
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