Three songs listed with no words

Subject: Words to 3 Songs you need
From: Salem Gypsy
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:40 PM

THE ROSE

Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor,
That leaves the soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
An endless, aching need…
I say love, it is a flower,
And you, it's only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking,
That never takes a chance.
It's the one who won't be taken
Who can not seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely,
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the icy snows,
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring, becomes the rose.

Repeat last verse. ^^^

SAINT JAMES' INFIRMARY

It was down in Old Joe's Barroom,
On the corner by the square
The drinks were served as usual,
And the usual crowd was there.

On my left stood Joe McHenry,
His eyes all bloodshot red,
As he gazed at the crowd around him
These are the very words he said:

"I went down to St. James' Infirmary,
And I saw my lady there
Laid out on a slab of marble,
So still, so cold, so fair.

Well let her go, let her go, God bless her.
Wherever she may be, she can search this whole wide world over
She'll never find another man like me.

Oh when I die please bury me with a gold piece on my hat
To let the boys out in the back room know I'm still standin pat.
And I want six crap shooters for my pall bearers
Some chorus girls to sing me a song
Put a jazz band on my hearse wagon
We'll raise hell as we roll along.

Well let her go, let her go, God bless her.
Wherever she may be, she can search this whole wide world over
She'll never find another man like me.

And now that you've heard my story,
I'll take another shot of booze,
And if anyone should happen to ask you,
I've got the St. James' Infirmary blues."

Well let her go, let her go, God bless her.
Wherever she may be, she can search this whole wide world over
She'll never find another man like me. ^^^


SLOOP JOHN B
We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night, we got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up, I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home,I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home,I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up, I wanna go home


The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home,I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up, I wanna go home ^^^

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:52 PM

Thank you, Gypsy. Actually St. James Infirmery can be found just by putting St. in the Search. And "sloop" will find you "The Wreck Of The Sloop John B".
The Rose is very modern and this is a new addition.

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:53 PM

And welcome!

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 08:25 PM

I heartily echo Sinsull's welcome.

Checking what is already here is no easy task; and it is better to duplicate an entry than to miss posting something we need.
The search box, (top left of the 'Forum' page) allows for 'Browse' of letters of the alphabet, but is caught out by variant titles, etc.,
It is usually better to search for a song using a short line from the song. (one for which you believe there could be no alternative). Then re-try with another line, just in case of an earlier typo, or a typo in the version already posted.
All this is just verbum sap however.

Once again, WELCOME, Salem Gypsy


CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 08:48 PM

Welcome from me too. I can remember how much trouble I had finding "Daddy be Gay" when I was very new to searching. Must have got about a million porn sites. Joy

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 09:45 PM

Hi, Salem Gypsy - We have them all in the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, but thanks for offering to help. The best way to find songs here is to put a distinctive phrase from the song in our search box. Titles can be misleading.
Welcome to Mudcat. Stick around and make some friends.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:53 AM

And, the alphabet Browse won't get lyrics in the forum, just the DT.

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Salem Gypsy
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:08 PM

Ooops, me foot's in it already, and I just got here. Thanks for the welcome! I also sent words for "The Merry Minuet"; did I miss that, too? I'd better go back to selling pencils on the streetcorner.
Mea culpa...
Gypsy

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:11 PM

as in "They are rioting in Africa" - yup - that'[s in the DT also...

But Welcome! I know I would rather have someone re-posting then have people not answering or not willing to post.

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From:
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:08 PM

Besides the DT entry there are Threads in the Forum on many of those songs in the DT. Here are some of the links

Rioting in Africa
Amanda McBroom's The Rose - Thread
Lyr Add: St. James Infirmary - Thread
Wreck of the Sloop John B

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From:
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:12 PM

OOps! My mistake

Rioting in Africa - DT
Amanda McBroom's The Rose - Thread
Lyr Add: St. James Infirmary - Thread
Wreck of the Sloop John B - DT

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Salem Gypsy
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:22 PM

Thanks, everyone! This seems to be a friendly and good-natured forum. Glad I joined.
Gypsy

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:32 PM

That's a good helpful way to saty hello to teh Mudcat.

And your set of words for St James Infirmary aren't quite the same as the one in the DT - and some of yours I think I might prefer. For example, you've got:

Oh when I die please bury me
with a gold piece on my hat
To let the boys out in the back room know
I'm still standin pat.
And I want six crap shooters for my pall bearers
Some chorus girls to sing me a song
Put a jazz band on my hearse wagon
We'll raise hell as we roll along.

And the DT has:

Oh, when I die, please bury me
In my ten dollar Stetson hat;
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So my friends'll know I died standin' pat.
Get six gamblers to carry my coffin
Six chorus girls to sing me a song
Put a twenty-piece jazz band on my tail gate
To raise Hell as we go along

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Salem Gypsy
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:48 PM

I still don't know how I missed those songs - but when I clicked on the titles, they said something like "no listings for that title". Anyhow, the way I do Infirmary, it would be hard to fit in the lyrics you set down. Interesting. I'd like to hear how other people do the songs differently. Wish we had an amateur coffee house hereabouts.
Thanks, friends!

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:23 PM

I think I prefer the Sloop John A... :-)

... we looked for it all day.... :-)

Joybell
"Must have got about a million porn sites. Joy"

There's just no answer to that....

Robin

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 12:32 AM

I've always sug that verse:

When I die, get me six crap-shootin' pallbearers.
Dress me in my white tuxedo and my Stetson hat
And put a 20-dollar gold piece in my watch chain
So the boys wil know I died, standin' pat.


FWIW.

A

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: pavane
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 03:43 AM

And whoever wrote The Rose wasn't much of a gardener.

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: Salem Gypsy
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 02:35 PM

High School Minuet

They're rioting in study hall, la la lala lala la
They're screaming in math,      "
They're holding drags in driver's ed,   "
And so they won't pass,    "

Kids' hormones are raging; they're out of control
They're cutting their classes, the teachers can't call roll
The lunchroom's run out of food, assembly hall's too small
So why do we bother coming here at all?

But teachers get even, and they hit back hard,
They put nasty marks on the old report card,
Someday in September we'll come back and then,
We'll have to start all over, and go through this whole year again.

They're rioting in study hall, la la lala lala la,
The team's full of beer,   la, etc.
What teachers don't get through to us, la....
They'll pound into us next year. (Sproing....)


(My parody, written in junior year of high school.)

Subject: RE: Three songs listed with no words
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Feb 04 - 05:38 PM

And whoever wrote The Rose wasn't much of a gardener

Not sure about that , pavane. True, I've never heard of anyone growing a rose from seed, but still it can be done - here's a site about Germinating Rose Seeds - and I note where it specifically says "Most ...(rose) seeds are programmed to survive a winter before they sprout." Which is more or less what the song says.