SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists

Subject: Tiptoe Thru the Tourists
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 07 Jul 01 - 03:20 PM

Help!

Someone posted this excellent parody on some thread or other in the last few days. Damned if we can remember which thread or who posted it. Now we want the lyrics. Anyone remember where it was?

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Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Gypsy
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:14 AM

Ooohhhhh, we need that one. Joe pretty please paste and add?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 07:25 PM

C'mon, now. Somebody posted this parody and many of you read it. We have ways of making you talk. You can make this easy or you can make this hard. Please don't make us contact our enforcers.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: Search Challenge!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 06:47 PM

Jerry & Bev, I don't know how to break this to you, but I couldn't find it. Maybe Max hasn't indexed the Forum lately so the search won't work right, or maybe the poster didn't put ADD: Tiptoe Through the Tourists in the message title. Can anybody remember this song and where to find where it's posted?
-Joe Offer-

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Help!!!

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: mousethief
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 06:57 PM

blicky

Alex

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: mousethief
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 06:58 PM

Ooops. Wrong song. Never mind. I'll keep looking.

Alex

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: KT
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:21 PM

Hey, Bev and Jerry! How's this??

I'm just pasting this, so if it doesn't come out right, I'll try to do a blue clicky. KT


TIPTOE THROUGH THE TOURISTS. (words by Donna Gibson C1992)

I
Tiptoe through the tourists, it's the purest kind of native glee.
So come tiptoe through the tourists with me.
Can't get near the beaches, that'l teach yez, to live by the sea,
So come tiptoe through the tourists with me.

Knee deep in traffic we'll play
Don't park, they'll tow you away
(extra line)
I'm here to tell you that...........

Summer, is a bummer, when there's nothing you can do for free, but,
Tiptoe through the tourists with me.

II
Way back, last December, you remember, how it used to be When you tiptoed past the "Condo's" with me
There was Bar room, there was Car room, and landlords rented more reasonably
When you tiptoed 'cross the ice floes with me.

We were so happy and gay
Planning new pot holes for May
(extra line)But though they.......
Bore us and ignore us, we give directions cheerfully
So come tiptoe through the tourists with me.

Line Breaks <br> added. Thanks a lot, KT.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: KT
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:39 PM

found it here Let's see if this works. KT

Link fixed
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:40 PM

Thanks, KT - where did you find it?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: KT
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:41 PM

Nope, it didn't but htanks for helping me, Joe! KT

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Gypsy
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:41 PM

And i DO live on the ocean! Thankee kindly for posting!

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: KT
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 07:45 PM

It was here, Joe. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=30600#394653

Sorry, it's back to the practice thread for me!! KT

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Gareth
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 08:00 PM

There used to be an old City of London game, much practised by broking staff at Lloyds called misdirect the tourist. You got maximum points for getting a bunch of Tourists on a bus marked Tower Hamlets when they wanted the Tower of London.

Come to think of it, I've been drinking in the Buttermarket at Canterbury, next to the Catherderal Entrance, and not heard a word of English spoken !

Henry II, Thomas a'Beckett, you have a lot to answer for.

(More for the CAT'Bury tales ??)

Gareth

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 11:58 PM

Thanks very much Joe for giving us a lesson in naming a thread. Also, thanks to KT for responding.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: ADD: Jimmy and the Preacher (Donna Gibson)
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 03:52 AM

Yes children, it was written by the ever lovely scintillating, statuesque bundle of delight, to whome I've been married since 1970 (See my post to the thread, "Musicians don't date other musicians?"

She writes lots of very good "Social Comment" songs, as well as just plain old songs. My Daughter, Joyce Katzberg, did two of Donna's songs in her last album, "Jimmy and the Preacher" and "Just like a Man". I've posted them both, on occasion, but don't find them in the "Digitrade" At Mika Bossom's (nee-Seeger) 50th birthday party , Her Dad (Pete) and Aunt Peggy, Donna and I sat around swapping songs for a couple of hours. Pete loved, "Jimmy and the Preacher", as anyone who knows Pete Knows that he would. and asked Donna to send him a tape of it. Which she did.

Here it is. If it doesn't make it to the song data base this time, I'll quit wasting time by submitting songs.

JIMMY AND THE PREACHER (words and music by Donna Gibson) C-Donna Gibson

.................I.........
ONCE I KNEW A PREACHER IN A CHAPPEL, WHITE AND NEAT.
I ASKED HIM, "COULD YOU PRAY , AS WELL, IN THE ALLEY OR THE STREET?"
HE SAID HE'D NEVER VENTURE INTO THAT DEN OF SIN.
BUT IF YOU LOCK YOUR DOOR AGAINST THE DEVIL, HOW CAN THE LORD GET IN?

HOW CAN THE LORD GET IN?
HOW CAN THE LORD GET IN?
IF YOU LOCK YOUR DOOR AGAINST THE DEVIL, HOW CAN THE LORD GET IN.

...........II.......................
HE "HAD IT IN" FOR JIMMY
BECAUSE JIMMY WASN'T CLEAN
JIMMY WAS A DRINKING MAN BUT IT NEVER MADE HIM MEAN
AND WHEN HE SANG, TO EASE THE PAIN,
IT WAS A SACRED THING
AND IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EARS TO THE SOUND OF EVIL
YOU CAN'T HEAR THE ANGELS SING

CAN'T HEAR THE ANGELS SING
YOU CAN'T HEAR THE ANGELS SING
IF 9YOU CLOSE YOUR EARS TO THE SOUND OF EVIL;
YOUCAN'T HEAR THE ANGELS SING.

..................III...............
IF YOU'D HAVE PASSED THAT CHURCH LAST SUNDAY
YOU'D HAVE HEARD AN AWFULL DIN
THAT PREACHER WAS DEMANDING
THAT THE LORD SHOULD COME TO HIM
HE STORMED THE GATES OF HEAVEN
BUT THE SAVIOR WASN'T INNO!!THE LORD WAS DOWN AT THE CORNER BAR
SINGING HARMONY WITH JIM

THE SAVIOR WASN'T IN,
THE SAVIOR WASN'T IN
NO!! THE LORD WAS DOWN AT THE CORNER BAR SINGING HARMONY WITH JIM

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 03:59 AM

AND THERE'RE PLENTY MORE WHERE THAT ONE CAME FROM!!!!Love and Kisses

JODY GIBSON
MD. DDS. LLD.

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Cappuccino
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 04:01 AM

I'm going to add that one to my list of Songs To Shock A Self-Righteous Congregation with... - Ian B

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: sian, west wales
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 04:17 AM

On the tourist theme ... I've come across two succinct ....ummm ... sentiments? Which were probably bumper stickers or something.

1. If it's Tourist Season, why can't we shoot 'em? 2. Welcome to (wherever)!! Now go home.

sian, fed up with caravans (Am: trailers) in west wales

Subject: RE: SEARCH CHALLENGE!! Tiptoe Through the Tourists
From: Gypsy
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 11:53 PM

Oh, give me a home
Where the tourists do roam
and they spend their money, all day!