BS: Almost hits

Subject: BS: Almost hits
From: Bsondahl
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:05 PM

Imagining songs that were almost hits...

Almost heaven, North Dakota...
:-)

from a former South Dakotan
sondahl.com

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:32 PM

Does Dallas Ever Cross Your Mind ?

God Bless South America

Antarctica The Beautiful

What Do You Do With A Drunken Soldier?

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:36 PM

Greenpants. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:37 PM

Oh - and how about that old traditional song -

The House Plumber

"How wet, how wet, my own true love. How wet, how wet was he ?"

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:39 PM

Tamewood Flower

Goodbye, Ol' Pinto

If I had a chisel

I wanna hold your purse

Puff, the magic mushroom

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:42 PM

roflmao@kat's puff the magic mushroom

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Jeanie
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:45 PM

24 hours from Tulse Hill

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: TIA
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:46 PM

I left my heart in Tenochtitlán





(okay, ya gotta think about it for a minute)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:49 PM

Kabul Farewell

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:53 PM

Michael Washed Up On The Shore

This Land Is Their Land

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Cluin
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:55 PM

"Barrett's Other Private Parts"

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:01 PM

mary, ellen, and carter

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Cluin
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:07 PM

"Lift Up Your Ass, Tom Dooley"

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:07 PM

I Wanna Shake Your Hand

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: MMario
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:10 PM

Colorado Rocky Mountain Depression

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:13 PM

Colorado Rocky Mountain Oysters

(sorry MM)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Cluin
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:14 PM

Leavin' on a Jet Ski

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Gareth
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:43 PM

The leaving of Birkenhead ?

The Jolly Agricltural Worker ?

The Streets of Sheerness ? (One for Kent Folk)

Oh I could go on, but I won't.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:22 PM

Sargent Peppers Lonely Foot Fetish Band ?

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:26 PM

still in a Bealtes mode:

Lady Hershey's

Rocky, the Goon

Hey, Dude (probably not a new one, that!)

Hoker, Poker (in a sad try at blending the hokey-pokey with helter-skelter!)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Bsondahl
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:31 PM

I think we're onto something here...

Where have all the eggplants gone?

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:37 PM

well i hear the famous Where Have All The Virgins Gone is rather popular in the middle east...

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Peg
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:43 PM

Streets of Milton Keynes

Sweet Styx, Flow Softly

House of the Rising Mojo

Dirty Old Clown

Live and Let it Be

London Derriere

Take Me Out to the Crap Game

No, We Don't Have Any Fucking Bananas, Now Go Home!

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 03 - 05:47 PM

there is a song called London Derriere...it's in the DT...

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 May 03 - 07:13 PM

These gospel greats may appear in our Saturday Night Service (get busy writing, Mmario):

Wade in the Effluent

Swing Low Sweet Sinwagon

I'll Drive Away

Grapes, Grapes, God's Grapes

Pass Wind Not O Gentle Savior

I'm Gonna Sh*t When the Spirit Says F*rt

Don't Breathe on Me Bad Breath of God

Come, Holy Moly

Cohabitate With Me

Amazing Greats, How Sweet the Clowns

Keep on the Cloudy Side

The Clouded Day

In the Organic Garden

Just As I Am, Without One Flea

Michael, Beach the Boat

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 21 May 03 - 07:29 PM

Goin Down to Hell Feelin' Good.
Blow Ye Friend in the Morning which could be sung with, The Early Morning Special
Then there's The Cowgirls Dream, Bone on the Range.

Peace, Rustic (with mind in the gutter)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Gareth
Date: 21 May 03 - 07:38 PM

Mmm ! I said I would not continue - BUT

"T'was on the Bad ship Venus"

"On Ilkley Moor Bah't Anorak"

"Three Score and Ten, boys and men were saved at Yarmouth Town"

"Cosher Bailey had an HGV"

"The wild computer programmer"

"Spancil Avenue"

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 May 03 - 12:44 AM

Hey Mr. Aubergine Man
Oh What a Failing
Don't Humphrey That Joint
Eight Miles Huh
Clods
How Many Kinds of Bud Can You Grow in a BC Country Garden
Hello Doily
The Ballad of Hovis Bread
Fox with the Runs

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 May 03 - 02:30 AM

I Was Sinking Deep In Sin, WHOOPIE!
Since Hades Came Into My Heart
I Heard the Voice of Devils Say
Hateful, Hateful, We Adore Thee
There Are Rain Clouds In My Soul Today
He Keeps Me Sinking
I'm Gonna Keep On Sinking. . .
(I'm Gonna Keep On Doubting, I'm Gonna Keep On liftin' my voice and let the world know the Devil saves!)
Move On, My Soul
Blunderful Words of Life
O Master, Don't Let Me Walk With Thee
Just a Closer Balk With Thee
Sit Down, Sit Down for Jesus
Late is Thy Faithfulness
          Hey, after you've been a church musician for a few decades you have to do something while sitting around during all those sermons-----oh, it's just kidding around, just playin' with words! OK, OK, I'll stop!

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Bill D
Date: 22 May 03 - 02:25 PM

"M'ass's in the cold, cold ground"

"Hang down your...never mind, Tom Dooley"

"Jimmy Crack..."

"It's a Long Way to Tilt a Rary"

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 May 03 - 03:03 PM

Blistering Hope, or Wasted Assurance

The Key of Y

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 May 03 - 04:28 PM

Praise Ford and pass that ol' transmission (for Spaw)

Domicile of the Up and Coming Astral Orb

Little Bunny, Tofu

On top of Ferlinghetti

Let's go down to the river & get naked

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 03 - 04:35 PM

Let's go down to the river & get naked

katdarlin....that sounds like a promising song... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 May 03 - 05:52 PM

could be fun, eh? ;->

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:42 PM

Back in the US of A
Surprising Grace
(I Did It) Your Way
In My Merry Mercedes Benz
The Man Who Lost It All At Monte Carlo
They're Moving Father's Grave To Install Fiber Optic
(Proud To Be An) Iowan From Dubuque

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 03 - 10:56 PM

Also:

In the Year 2424
Blowin' In The Calm
24 or 623
Puff the Ordinary Dragon
Irish Stay-At-Home
The Petunia Of The West
Si Beg, Si More-Or-Less
Sweet Esmerelda From Pike

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Grab
Date: 23 May 03 - 02:12 PM

Lord, won't you buy me a Nissan Sunny
50 ways to shove a lever
Down by the banks of the NatWest
The doggy doggy doo

And of course the famous psalm:-

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He fleeces us twice a year, sells us as mutton, and worst of all, rents us by the hour to the Welsh."

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 03 - 02:15 PM

take this pile and shovel it

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 23 May 03 - 03:25 PM

Hey Mr. Bodhrán Man
Do Your Chewing Tobacco Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
The Mason's Underwear
She Moved Through The Midway
The Black Velvet Garter-belt
Chateau Lafitte Rothschild '87 In The Jar
Tie Me Snail-Darter Down, Sport

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 May 03 - 06:09 PM

I'm me old offspring

If you think I'm fluffy (Rod Stewart)

The smog beneath my wings

Murky in the straw

Haul-a-way Bay

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 23 May 03 - 06:17 PM

the katlaughin came back.... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: DMcG
Date: 23 May 03 - 06:30 PM

The Cyril Tawney also-rans:

Egg on Toast.
Sweet M25 flow swiftly.
The Grey flannel line.
Wally, free and easy.

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 03 - 06:32 PM

And They Banned The Playing of Waltzing Matilda

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Alba
Date: 23 May 03 - 07:22 PM

Don't it make my Brown Eyes swell!
12 Bourbons 8 Scotch one ambulance
Smoke gets on your nerves
Piece of my Kidney (I can hear Janis Joplin now)
Hey Mr shakeyegg man
House trained Thing
If I said you had a horrible Body would you really resent me!



Still LOL at Puff the magic mushroom Kat:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 03 - 08:31 PM

When you start this it's hard to quit:

Starlet of the County Down
15 Tons
Shale Tattoo
Springhill Mine Boo-Boo
Tame Thing
The Old Goodnight-Loving Trail
Pride of Royal Dutch Shell
Banks of Capri
Ballad of the Pink Berets

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 May 03 - 09:52 PM

Thanks,amergindarlin and Alba!

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Cluin
Date: 28 May 03 - 12:16 AM

"Rollin' Up Some Gold Maui"

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 May 03 - 12:42 AM

I just don't look good in Armani, anymore

Sounds of Chaos

Bridge over smooth waters

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Bsondahl
Date: 28 May 03 - 02:08 AM

The Greenland cod fisheries
When Janie comes waltzing home
The Wreck of the Hanky Panky (and Gary Hart's election chances)
My baby does the Edmund Fitzgerald

Subject: RE: BS: Almost hits
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 03 - 05:06 AM

They call the wind 'Julie'?

Gonna wash those nits right outta my hair

Don't cry for me Newport Pagnall    (where apparently plectrum go to die... I found one there on the way to the Yorkshire Gathering but it wasn't one of Mortys)

House of the Rising gorge

A whiter shade of magnolia

Oh Danny Kaye......

By the rivers of Basildon (sorry, Les Barker did that first)

Scrumpy Jack, Scrumpy Jack

Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of bogies; jump down, turn around, pick a nose a day.

Song sung pink

A spoonful of vinegar

My luve is lyke a red, red nose.

I am the very model of a modern major incident

Baden Baden, so good they named it twice.

You were always on my nerves.....

Puppy on a string



I'll get me coat.......

LTS