Lyrics needed !!! (closed thread)

Subject: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Largo
Date: 01 Sep 98 - 05:14 AM

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 01 Sep 98 - 07:43 AM

Largo....

That would be "If I Could Read Your Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot.

.....Tiger

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Terry in San Diego
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 12:50 AM

Here's an excellent Gordon Lightfood website, with all the lyrics and chords:

www.mmlc.nwu.edu/~mfifer/lightfoot/index.html

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Terry in San Diego
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 12:53 AM

Sorry about the typo, Gordon

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: steve t
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 01:15 AM

I'd recommend just singing "rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb." But if it's a really short song, like Tequilla, just sing rhubarb once, okay?

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Largo
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 01:27 AM

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BBJ
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 09:54 AM

Maybe he means "The Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon. I've been asked to sing this on many occasions.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 08:33 PM

Or perhaps "Nothin' From Nothin' Leaves Nothin". Dan

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Robalot
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 10:01 PM

Da Da Da ....

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: JVZ
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 10:03 PM

I'm not sure I know this one, Largo, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 03 Sep 98 - 11:47 PM

Largo, because no one else would take your request seriously I searched the DT on your behalf. It produced the following:

"Sorry, no documents were found which match your query."

If I'm correct this is the first line of the missing last verse of an old Burl Ives song:

MARY ANN REGRETS

Sorry, no documents were found which match your query,
I know you've no passport and your story makes me teary,
Without boarding papers believe me the shit hits the fan,
Say bye bye to Europe. Get a life, without May Ann.


TGIF
John

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: takeo
Date: 04 Sep 98 - 12:28 AM

from a oriental phylosophy, all what you can see is "emptiness" in its essencial meaning. -takeo

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BAZ
Date: 05 Sep 98 - 05:34 PM

Largo

Regards
Baz

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Sep 98 - 06:40 PM

A Song made of Nothing.
Yet he that doth read, or heare it, shall find
Something of nothing to pleasure his mind

To a Dainty New Tune

Some men of nothing doe matters endite,
And some men of small things large volumes doe write;
But if you will give me leave, I will recite
A Song made of Nothing

[c 1630. 22 more verses, which is probably enough nothing to satisfy almost anyone.]

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Ewan McV
Date: 05 Sep 98 - 07:38 PM

I don't know why everyone is having such trouble with this. Handel's Largo was a tune with no words. Largo's handle is a name with no tune, so there's no song, so what?

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Sep 98 - 08:59 PM

There don't seem to be words for the tunes Largo Law, Largo's Fairy Dance, or Largo Andante either.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Largo
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 08:15 AM

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Largo
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 08:30 AM

The previous one should mean: "I ain't got no words, I'm so impressed..." I just wonder why this dam' "empty thread" is so dam' popular here. Yes, I've "miss-typed" and pressed enter key instead of Tab to change the field so that's how it went on. But if you folks would pay 1/10 of your attention and 1/10000 of your enthusiasm to "un-empty" same-named thread you could probably help me. Though, playing fool is much more easier and brings more fun. So, enjoy yeselves

Cheers

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Sheye
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 09:09 AM

the sound of silence?

this thread is like cotton candy in the store's window!

Sheye

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 09:48 AM

I need lyrics, too. Also, a melody.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 02:43 PM

No offense intended, Largo - we're just goofing off. Sometimes it's nice to spend time being silly.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 04:01 PM

Barb, I can't remember enough of the lyrics to be of any help; but the melody goes like this:

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bruce O.
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 04:03 PM

Isn't that the Lost Chord?

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 04:04 PM

Barb, I draw a blank as to the lyrics; but the melody goes like this:

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Pete M
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 04:57 PM

Elected silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear.

(Gerard Manley Hopkins)

It fits the tune perfectly too!

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BAZ
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 05:42 PM

I would hate to cause a fuss or prolong the discussion but it strikes me this isn't a "FOLK" song or tune so should it be here? (ducks quickly out of sight......)
Regards
Baz

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 05:53 PM

Hell, sure it's a folksong. I never heard no horse singin' it!

Art

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Roger Himler
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 05:56 PM

Baz,

Of course it is a folk song. It predates the written record and there is no known author. And yet it remains popular still today.

Certainly it addresses the life and times of the common woman and man. At allmost every folk circle I have attended, someone in the circle does this song.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 06:22 PM

TALKIN' NOTHIN' BLUES
from the LP on Riverside--mid 1950's--Chicago Mob Scene

...damn, He, folks, I'm SORRY! I can't find it anywhere...it used to be on a tape I made right before the old LP spontaneously combusted one day. Is real strange...

Subject: Lyr Add: TALKIN' NOTHIN' BLUES
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 06:45 PM

Whoops, HERE IT IS!

TALKIN' NOTHIN' BLUES
(from the LP on Riverside--mid 1950's--Chicago Mob Scene)

Well, I looked up the hall to the top of the stair,
I didn't see the man who wasn't there,
There was lots of nothing, nothin' at all
Lots o' nothin' all over the wall,
A predominance of vacancy.

There was a man on the corner, he was standin' around,
He was spreading some nothin' all over the ground,
I heard some passin' people say,
All that nothin's in the way.
There ought to be a law.

I went to the cupboard, the cupboard was bare,
Lots of nothin', nothin' was there,
I turned around and I scratched my face,
So darn much nothin' all over this place,
In my pocket,
In my wallet,
In my icebox.

I figured I'd better lay in a supply,
So I went to the store some nothin' to buy,
In the window I saw a big display,
They've got lots o' nothin' on sale today,
They got pans, bars, jars, crates,
Boxes with no handles,
All vacuum packed.

Salesman said, he said, What'll it be?
Well, I'll take nothin'--nothin' for me,
How do ya want it---big or small,
Short & skinny--fat or tall,
I'll take some with bows on it.
Wrap it up nice, you know, for a gift.

This song was written with nothin' in mind,
Nothin' at all of any kind,
Nothin' at all of any degree,
Aint nothin' in it that I can see.
Nothin',
Nothin',
You know what I'm talkin' about,
Nothin' !




^^

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Sep 98 - 11:06 PM

I hate it when all you pro's get involved. I need the chords in tablature for this, or I will never be able to play it.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Largo
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 03:52 AM

Actually the song seems to be from early "Silent Circle"'s ones. Or "Heroes de Silencio"'s ...who knows...

Cheers

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 11:41 AM

A BLACK HOLE IS WHERE GOD IS MULTIPLYING BY ZERO !

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bert
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 12:24 PM

Art,

...MULTIPLYING BY ZERO !
I think that's what this thread is doing.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 01:23 PM

Well, you can't divide by zero because the result would be 1. Since 1 is something, one would have to multiply to perpetuate its current value. Either that or leave it be!

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Sheye
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 09:29 PM

let's see if i'm getting this ... (archibald has control of the keyboard):

- ya can't make something out of nothing
- anything into itself is one
- nothing is never something, but anything could be nothing

is this much ado about nothing? or is it really something?

That last statement is scary Allan!! There's some things that are just better off if NOT multiplied for perpetuation!!! (little smiley emoticon)

sheye

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From:
Date: 10 Sep 98 - 11:38 PM

Art,

Actually a black hole is where God is DIVIDING by zero...it's that naked singularity thing.

T

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Ferrara
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 01:02 AM

Art, my husband (Bill D) learned the Talkin' Nothin' Blues with the following last verse:

This song was written with nothin' in mind,
Nothin' at all of any kind,
Nothin' at all of any degree,
Aint nothin' in it that I can see.
Nothin' at all in any respect --
We was aided by a poverty of intellect.

...I'm not sure if he sang lines 3 and 4 or not. But thought you might like that last couplet.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 05:16 PM

I looked at the thread title and ignored it, thinking it was 'nothing' I would care about...when I should have been here at the beginning, since I both follow folk music and have studied 'nothing' extensively. I took an entire course in Jean-Paul Sartré's "Being & Nothingness" where we debated such things as the 'phenomenological & existential reality of absence'........

and let me tell you, in all my years I NEVER saw a better exposition of the myriad aspects of 'nothing'!

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"

I think I'll go sing "Nottumun Town" and "Talkin' Nothin'"

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 07:06 PM

Now I know why "One Is The Loneliest Number..." All you guys are down here "Doin' Nuthin'" Well that zero is too low for me...

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 09:42 PM

Nothing ventured, nothing gained---GOOD DIET ADVICE!!

Hobo went to a back door of a house & said, "Pardon me, mam, but I've eaten NOTHIN' in five days." She replied, "Lord, I wish I had your willpower!"

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 11 Sep 98 - 09:56 PM

I thought he said, "I ain't had a bite in five days." So she bit him.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 07:14 AM

Nothing doesn't exist, because if it did, it wouldn't.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:15 AM

G'day,

T, I'd have thought that when God divided by zero, that would have been the big bang, and THAT'S a singularity. (Until Quantum mechanics suggested it wasn't - we were THAT close to proving God exists.)

Amazing, we've gone from nothing to the theory of relativity in one short thread; not even Einstein did that.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 11:44 AM

Einstein never had a computer and the Net...not to mention an intellectually stimulating thread like this. Course...I bet he wouldn't know this tune either.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 02:08 PM

Consider, if you will, the song, "Yes, We Have No Bananas". Clearly, the absence of bananas is a concept which has meaning, and therefore 'existence'...and on a different level than in the songs, "I've Got Plenty of Nothin'" or "Talkin' Nothin' Blues"

For more explanation of the matter go here or here

(correct...# 1 more closely illustrates 'Tabula rasa' and #2 contradicts its own thesis..and this is just totally silly) ...while this page called 'Cyberlimbo' comes close, though differing little from this

I hear the rattles as you shake your heads, asking, quite rightly, "Does Bill D have NOTHING better to do/" yes, he does, and he intends to go DO it...and he will have nothing more to say on this subject....no, wait....here..this guy has the right idea....click

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 03:05 PM

I am now unable to shake my heads, being convinced that Einstein knew nothing.

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Dan
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:00 PM

But is not the essence of nothing something unto itself?

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: BSeed
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 09:50 PM

I really love all you guys, but in this thread, all your postings have left me with a vast emptiness. --seed

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed !!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 10:06 PM

A vast emptiness? As in vastly full of nothing? As in nothing from nothing leaves nothing? And as Sheye points out, anything could be nothing, while it has the potential to be something, it is probably nothing.

I have a headache. I would take something, but it is probably nothing, so it likely won't touch it.......never mind.

Mick