Lyr Req: Hippies and the Beatniks (Miles Wootton)

Subject: She;s Gone with the Hippies and the beatniks O:
From: lisa null
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 02:55 PM

Hi:

Does anyone out there happen to have the lyrics to "She;s Gone With The Hippies and the Beatniks Oh" or know who wrote it and where it might be found?

I'd like to learn it --- a nice song from my rapidly aging generation!

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 02:58 PM

The title is

"The Hippies and the Beatniks.

It is in the dt. If you have difficulties, here's the link:

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiGYPHIPPI.html

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http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6451

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Susan of DT
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 03:03 PM

Lisa

If you search for Child #200, you will find several parodies along with the regular versions.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Alec
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 03:08 PM

I'd never come across this one before.Great song!

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 04:27 PM

This was a much requested song in the late John Dwyer's very large repertoire. I think he said that he learned it from a singer in Vancouver, B. C., but where it came from before that, I have no idea. Obviously it was an idea whose time had come.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 04:31 PM

As Susan says, it's a parody of Child #200, written by Miles Wootton.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HIPPIES AND THE HAIRIES
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 04:58 PM

I know it as The Hippies and the Hairies O

with the words as follows:

It was late one night, Mr. Jones came home
On the 5:47 from London O
He was rich and fat, wore a big bowler hat
And he hated the hippies and the hairies o

He walked in through his mock Tudor door
And he called to his wife, "Well I'm home dear o
I'm late I'm afraid, the train was delayed
It must be the hippies and the hairies o"

Scarecely had he stepped inside
when the au-pair ran to meet him o
saying "madame is not 'ere, she is gone I fear
Away wi' ze 'ippies an' ze 'airies o"

"O bring to me my MG BGT
for the Daimler was never so speedy o
And I will drive 'til I find her alive
Or dead with the hippies and the hairies o"

So he drove East and he drove West
Until he came to a field near Knebworth o
and there she did stand, with a joint in her hand,
she was getting into Hawkwind with the hairies o

"O What makes you leave your house and car
Your washing machine and your stereo
Your children three, not to mention me
To go with the hippies and the hairies o?"

"O What care I for my house and car
My washing machine and my stereo
For a fuse I've primed and the whole lot's timed
To explode in the middle of the Wogan show"

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:01 PM

((That Guest post was me, sorry, I wasn't signed in))

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:27 PM

I'll see if I can find Dad's verses and add them to the thread. I am sure I have it on tape somewhere, I don't know if they're all written down where I can find them easily.

SRS (Maggie Dwyer)

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Scrump
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:35 PM

Fred Wedlock has recorded it on both his different albums bearing the title "The Oldest Swinger In Town".

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:43 PM

The singer from Vancouver was Jon Bartlett...I heard him do this at the USA "National Folk Festival" in about 1977. I shamelessly stole it, and have sung it at odd times ever since.

(Lisa...you probably heard it from me..)

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:49 PM

Rika Ruebsaat and Jon Bartlett pic.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:51 PM

funny, I remember his beard being black...*grin*...(He and our own Jon Eberhart sang "Thaïs" under the stage)

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: MARINER
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 06:13 PM

First heard it sung by an American singer at the Carnsore Anti Nuke Demo in 1978 .Any chance that was Jon Bartlett or you Bill D ?

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 06:50 PM

Miles Wootton rewrote it a couple of times - Hippies and Beatniks was the earliest ! I believe there is a CD of some of Miles old stuff in
the pipeline !

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 06:52 PM

His beard is dark brown, Bill. So is my hair. I tell people, "This is what true dark brown really looks like."

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 07:01 PM

nope, Mariner...not me. I just sing in small groups. Might have been Jon..

(yeah, Peace...mine is reddish...like in those old Mudcat photos)...at least I still have a lot of it)

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 07:34 PM

BEA UTIFUL

Wonderful thread and contributions - never seen nor heard of her before - but this one, for me, it is love at first byte.

THANK YOU!!!

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: open mike
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 08:59 PM

is this a play on wraggle taggle gypsys??

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 09:20 PM

I want some of what he's on...

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 10:43 AM

yes, open mike, it is.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 01:10 PM

It's a clever song until the end. There's nothing funny about bombs.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 03:38 PM

I'm just reporting it as I learned it

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 03:39 PM

and yes Open Mike, it is from the Raggle-taggle Gypsies, or Black Jack Davy which is another version of the same song.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: DADGBE
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 06:00 PM

'Catters Bev and Jerry Praver often perform a version of this in their school programs.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 10:15 PM

Sorry open mick ....it is a play....an innocent joke....something that ten years ago ALL within the web would have recognized YOUR brillant (sarcastic) reply....and also my (my innuendo and swift counter)....

Given the current American parlaied positions...my reparie' was counter with a deleation.

Sincerley,
Gargoyle

I have no problem with "clones" ... I just wish ALL could pass a "high school exit exam",,,,or be well versed in verses.

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 10:18 PM

This WONDERFUL!!! THREAD and its aborted censorship

IS A PRIME EXAMPLE WHY THE MUDCAT IS DEAD...
A carriorn worthy of buzzard's breath

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: lisa null
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 10:34 PM

Thanks a lot. I had a different title so couldn;t get the lyrics in Digitrad. In the meantime, I'm throughly enjoying all the other answers to this thread. What a resource you guys are.

Lisa