Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms

Subject: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:38 PM

We've had threads about songs about feet, and cakes, and rabbits, and dogs.

And in that glorious [?] tradition, this thread is about houses, and homes, and rooms, and other places of habitation?

Why?

Well, why not??

What songs and rhymes do you know about houses and homes, and rooms, and other places of habitation?

Examples can be from folk or other genres.

I'll start off in the next post.

Join in! There's room for many a more!

Thanks in advance,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Bernard
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:43 PM

Green Door...?

Our House (in the middle of the street).

In the Kitchen at Parties...

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:45 PM

This Ole House (DT)
is a favorite of mine. There's a good thread with the story behind the song also--but I don't how to link to it without losing this post.

Janie

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:46 PM

Excerpt from I WENT TO MY SWEETHEART'S HOUSE

I went to my sweetheart's house.
I never was thar befor'
They sot me in the corner as still as a mouse,
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo' mo', mo'
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo', my love,
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo'.

I had a little rooster,
He crowed 'bout break o' day
An' the weasel come to my house
An' stole my rooster 'way
An' stole my rooster 'way, my love,
An' he stole my rooster 'way.

Jackers came to my house,
I thought he came to see me.
But when I come to find out,
He 'swade my wife to leave me.
He 'swade my wife to leave, my love,
He 'swade my wife to leave me...

-snip-

Source: Dorothy Scarborough "On The Trail of Negro-Folk-Songs" {Foklore Associates, Inc. edition, 1963, p. 166; originally published in 1925}

Scarborough wrote that this was a banjo tune from Virginia that was "very old and from before the {Civil} War"

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:50 PM

Here's a link to a YouTube video of Luther Vandross singing A House Is Not A Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVBB64PJ8I

Added June 24, 2006; From seppydude
"An excerpt from the 1988 NAACP awards in which Luther VanDross sings "A House is not a Home" live.

He, more or less, sings this song directly to Dionne Warrick (who, originally, sung this song)".

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:52 PM

House of the Rising Sun
A House Not a Home
In My Tennessee Mountain Home
The Little Brown Shack Out Back
West Virginia, You Are My Home
Home
Home, Sweet Home
You Gave Me a Song (About a Place That I Call Home)
My Old Kentucky Home

To name a few:^)

Janie

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:55 PM

Here is the thread with the story behind This Ole House

J

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:55 PM

WHO ROCKS THE HOUSE

Who rocks the house?
The Panthers* rock the house.
Who rocks the house?
The Panthers rock the house.
And when we do
we rock it all the way,
all the way,
all the way,
down.

-snip-

Children's cheerleader rhyme

* substitute the name of your school's team

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Declan
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:55 PM

Boo Hewerdine's "The Patience of Angels" seems to fit this thread.

"There's a door, in a wall, in a house, in a street, in a town, whrere no one knows your name ..."

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: terrier
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:57 PM

This old house is gettin'....etc (getting ready to meet the saints)
This old house is falling down around my ears (Dimmin' of the day)
It's time to go Jennie, no need to close the door...
A bit of a ruin Cromwell Knocked about a bit (that one may not count)
On Mother Kelly's Door Step (That must be part of her house)
Swansea Jail (Giving it the hard cell)
With 'Er 'Ead Tucked Underneath 'Er Arm (she walks the Bloody Tower)
I'll leave some ROOM for some more!!!!!! :o)

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:08 PM

Here's a link to a YouTube video of Nina Simone singing "House Of The Rising Sun"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_0TDRfOuXQ

Added December 17, 2006; From SoulColors
"New York @ Bitter End 1968:

Nina Simone sings this song more uptempo than I've heard before.

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And here's a link to YouTube video of Reggae vocalist Gregory Isaacs version of House Of The Rising Sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQnyunGnvwY

Added October 21, 2006; From Qrizter
"Gregory Isaacs with a cover of House of the rising sun(-91/-92?)".

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:15 PM

Actually 'the house' {in the rhyme "Who Rocks The House" that I posted above} refers to "the place" such as the gymnasium or the stadium where the basketball or football team is playing and not to a house, a home, a room, or a place of habitation.

So technically speaking, that rhyme may not count.

But who said we needed to be technical?

Not me {said the little red hen}

**

I'm loving all the examples posted.

Keep them coming!

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:20 PM

Azizi-

Do you really want 300 or so housing songs dumped onto this thread from my draft Housing & Neighborhood Organizing Songbook?

I think not! ;~)

How about "The Railroad Runs through the Middle of the House"?

And Fred Small's "We're Building a House"?

Warm regards,
Landlady's Daughter

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:29 PM

Doon in the Wee Room Underneath the Stair
Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly
The Harp that Once through Tara's Halls
The Quartermaster's Store

tunes:
Devil in the Kitchen
Drummond Castle Laundry
Ossian's Hall
The Long Room of Scarborough
My Cape Breton Home
My Home (I think there are words to it, usually a waltz)
The House of Grey
Johnny Groat's House
several zillion tunes named after aristocratic houses in Scotland

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:45 PM

I also don't think it's a stretch for the children's song "Playmate" to be added to this thread. After all, it includes the line "Slide down my cellar door".

There's a number of versions of Playmate on this Mudcat thread:
thread.cfm?threadid=8560#53707

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This song is often used as a children's handclap rhyme.

Here's some contemporary versions of Playmate that I had posted on that Mudcat thread:

thread.cfm?threadid=8560#1929063

For those who are still on dial-up connection, here's one example from that post:

Cee Cee my playmate,
come out and play with me
and bring your dollies three,
climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rainbow
into my cellar door
and we'll be jolly friends
forever more more, shut the door!
-mulfig on May 29, 1999
http://streetplay.com/discus/ ; Discussion: Girl Games: Clap & rhyme; Archive through June 8, 2000

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:55 PM

Charley,

Ask and you shall receive...

Well, maybe you shouldn't post all of the 300 or so songs in that book...

Actually, I'm wondering how eclectic this thread will become.

So, I guess that means that I'm hoping that folks will add the names of songs, or lyrics from songs, or links to song videos or song clips to songs that they like the best or just thought of, or songs [and rhymes] that they heard of which stretch the walls & boundaries of this thread's topic.

In other words, in keeping with the theme {relatively}, people can post whatever rocks their boat {in a manner of speaking}.

;o}

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE WAS NO ROOM IN THE INN FOR JESUS...
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:40 PM

THERE WAS NO ROOM IN THE INN FOR JESUS MY LORD

There was no room in the inn for Jesus my Lord
There was no room in the inn for him
But if you heed his call there'll be room for us all
In the places prepared for you. (for you).

My Lord says there's room enough,
room enough in heav'n for you
My Lord says there's room enough,
don't stay away.
Don't stay away brother, don't stay away
Don't stay away sister, don't stay away.

Because there's plenty good room, plenty good room,
Plenty good room in heav'n for you.
Plenty good room, plenty good room,
You just choose your seat and sit down.

I wouldn't be a backslider
I'll tell you the reason why
I'm 'fraid my Lord might call me
and I won't be ready to die.

Because there's plenty good room, plenty good room,
Plenty good room in heav'n for you.
Plenty good room, plenty good room,
You just choose your seat and sit down.

There was no room in the inn for Jesus my Lord
There was no room in the inn for him
But if you heed his call there'll be room for us all
In the places prepared for you. (for you).

http://www.marjoncu.co.uk/gospelchoir/lyrics.htm

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:53 PM

I grew up singing "Plenty Good Room" this way:

Plenty good room, plenty good room,
Plenty good room in my Father's kingdom
Plenty good room, plenty good room,
Choose your seat
and sit down.

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I found a couple of versions of this song on YouTube that give the words as "Plenty good room on the glory train".

Here's one example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reid94PinJk

Added March 08, 2007 ; From NathanD2006
"Plenty Good Room from the "Music in Our Schools" month concert at Countryside High School - March 8th, 2007".

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: iancarterb
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:56 PM

Who will watch the home place
Who will tend my own dear space
Anwd who will fill my empty space
When I am gone from here.
that's the chorus- I think by Allison Krause. Sweet song.

A bonnie wee lassie whose name it was Nell
Lived in the house where her grandmother dwell.
The house it was small and the windows no less
Each having four panes, ones needed a glass.
CHO That nice little window, that sweet little window,
    That nice little window where grandmother dwell.

That's from Burl Ives singing, obviously from the fifties. The title is Bonnie Wee Lassie. The story is about the amorous young man who gets his head stuck in the window. Burl Ives Columbia Records CL6058.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO WILL WATCH THE HOME PLACE (Kate Long)
From: open mike
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 02:37 AM

the Home Place won IBMA song of the year by Laurie Lewis.

WHO WILL WATCH THE HOME PLACE

by Kate Long

(Verse)
G G C G /
Leaves are falling and turning in showers of gold
G G D7 D7/
As the postman climbs up our long hill
G G G C /
And there's sympathy written all over his face
Am Am D7 D7/
As he hands me a couple more bills.

(Chorus)
G Am G G /
Who will watch the home place
C C Am D7/
Who will tend my heart's dear space
G Am G C /
Who will fill my empty place
G D7 G G/
When I am gone from here?

There's a lovely green knoll by a clear running stream
It was my place when I was quite small
And it's pictures and sounds could soothe my worst pains
But today they don't ease me at all.

In my grandfather's shed there are hundreds of tools
I know them by feel and by name
And like parts of my body they've patched this old place
When I move them they won't be the same.

Now I wander around touching each blessed thing
The chimney, the table, the trees
And my memories swirl 'round me like birds on the wing
When I leave here, oh who will I be?

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jim Lad
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 03:39 AM

Bless this house.
Thanks for "Doon in the wee room" Jack.

The Old House:
Lonely I wander through scenes of my childhood
They call back to memory those happy days of yore
....... but apparently, not the words.
Ah well, it's a great wee song.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 07:23 AM

Bless This House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7TdGYm0ck

Added December 04, 2006;From xxxxsoulladyxxxx
"Short peek of the Naturally 7 Concert in Stuttgart, 30.11.2006"

-snip-

Click http://www.singers.com/gospel/seven.html for more information on Naturally Seven.

[Btw, Naturally Seven's name is a takeoff the name of the award winning Black male accapella group, Take Six]

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: terrier
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 08:17 AM

I remember, I remember,
the house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away

....This is one of the first poems I remember as a child.

Subject: Lyr Add: THIS HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE(Malvina Reynolds
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:36 AM

Here's an old favorite from Malvina Reynolds on the theme of hospitality:

Words and music by Malvina Reynolds
© 1966 by Schroder Music Co.
From Muse of Parker Street

THIS HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE


This house is your house;
You can do what you want here;
You can sleep, you can eat,
You can talk or retreat;
You can sing, you can laugh,
And you don't have to ask;
This house is your house.

This house is your house;
You can do what you want here;
You can sprawl in a chair,
Run your hand through my hair,
Read a book, come or go,
Ask me things I don't know;
This house is your house.

This house is your house;
You can do what you want here;
It is cozy and good
And the hod's full of wood;
When you're ready to leave
I will bid you godspeed,
And you know where I keep the key;
This house is your house.

Warm regards,
Landlady's Daughter

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: leeneia
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 10:10 AM

here's a pretty one

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=21937
and Mudcat MIDI's

It's "baloo baleerie" a Lullabye. It repeats the phrase "to our ben noo," meaning "our chamber now"

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: leeneia
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 10:12 AM

I enjoyed this one when I was a kid: Two Silhouettes on the Shade. (I'd still enjoy it if I heard it again.)

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_rays/silhouettes.html

Subject: Lyr Add: HERE IS MY HOME and OUR HOUSE
From: JennyO
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 10:46 AM

There is a song I have heard on a tape, but I can't find it anywhere. It's called Old Home and is about the sadness of leaving a home you have lived in for a long time. Anyone think they know it?

Meanwhile, here are two songs that have very good associations for me.

HERE IS MY HOME - SI KAHN

Good friends from whom we now must part,
Where are we bound?
Your hands and voices lift my heart;
Here is my home.

CHORUS:
Come darkness, come light
Where are we bound?
Come morning, come night
Here is my home.

For those who work in harmony,
Where are we bound?
Can learn to live in unity;
Here is my home.

If we can join ourselves in song,
Where are we bound?
Our hearts will live when we are gone;
Here is my home.

The spirit that finds music here
Where are we bound?
Will sing forever in the air
Here is my home.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OUR HOUSE - CROSBY, STILLS and NASH

I'll light the fire, while you place the flowers
In the vase that you bought today.
Staring at the fire for hours and hours,
While I listen to you play your love songs
All night long for me, only for me.

Our house, is a very, very, very fine house.
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard,
Now everything is easy 'cause of you.

Come to me now, and rest your head for just five minutes,
Everything is done.
Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them,
Fiery gems for you, only for you.

Our house, is a very, very, very fine house.
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard,
Now everything is easy 'cause of you.

Subject: Lyr Add: TRAILER PARK SONG (Mike Campbell)
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:16 AM

TRAILER PARK SONG
by Mike Campbell

Well I moved my family up to Alaska don't you know.
Where the wildlife and scenery are grand,
And I wasn't all that worried about the bad economy,
For a civil service job was in my hand.
But when we got to Anchor town,
A decent house could not be found,
And we knew the winters here were cold and dark.
The price of housing was so high,
That my loving wife and I,
Bought a trailer in a crappy trailer park.

It's got little tiny bedrooms that open on the hall,
One for the girls the other for the boys.
But all of their possessions are still packaged up and stored,
For they have no room for dolls or other toys.
And so they climb around like monkeys,
On their sets of wooden bunkies,
For their normal beds are much too large to fit.
And the bathroom is so small I get no privacy at all,
When I try to brush my teeth or have a sit.

Now the Wilsons to the north of us are really quite a pain,
For they play their stereo so loud at night.
And the strangers to the south of us we really do not know,
But they've slashed our tires and stolen all our bikes.
And the dealer on the west, I know the cops like him the best,
For they're always there investigating crime.
But the Murphys to the east, why now they bother us the least,
Since their kids are in the slammer doing time.

Now I'm really not implying that a trailer is all bad,
Compared to living in a house of wood and stone.
For when a winter storm will dump three feet of snow upon my roof.
With my trailer I can clear it on my own.
And when the stress of work still lingers,
And I'd like those magic fingers,
To vibrate gently as I lie reposed.
I do not need a big earthquake to make my domicile shake,
All I've got to do is wash a load of clothes.

Now I'm glad to say this is the ending of my little song,
About my family living in a trailer park.
And quite honestly I wish that I had written something else,
Like a sailing song about a whale or shark.
But if those of you out there, will take the time to really care,
And if each buys just one copy of this song,
Then that trailer park will be, part of our ancient history,
And we'll be living in a house before too long.

Hope you enjoy,
Mike

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: cptsnapper
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:16 AM

How about " Why Am I Painting The Living Room " by Lou & Peter Berryman as recorded by Hilary Spencer on " Afterimage "

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: bubblyrat
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:24 AM

" Goodbye to my step-stone,
   Goodbye to my home--
    God bless the ones that I leave with a sigh----"

   Also :-
    "Every time that you walk in the room " ( Hatch / Trent )
    Courtin" in the Kitchen   ( Trad. Irish )
    Come into the parlour, Maude   ( Victorian music -hall )
    Deck the halls   ( Christmas carol )
    I wouldn"t leave my little wooden hut for you ( Don"t know !! )
    A shanty in old shanty town                   ( Ditto ! )
    Gonna write a classic, gonna write it in an attic ( sorry ! )
    The geese in the bog ---!! This has gone far enough.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:39 AM

YouTube video clip:

Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Sweet Home Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7UkcMVzag

Added September 06, 2006; From blueshoeproject

"91 Year Old Blues Legend and N.E.A. Recipient Robert Lockwood, Jr. plays live on stage at the Palace Theatre in Grapevine, Texas"

Also because 1 & 1 are 2, here's a second YouTube clip of this song:

Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris 'Sweet Home Chicago'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDxrzuWOBk

Added March 22, 2006; From rj64

"Keb' Mo' and Corey Harris, playing Robert Johnson's song "Sweet Home Chicago" "

Subject: Lyr Add: I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES (R L Stevenson)
From: Marion in Cornwall
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 01:48 PM

I really like 'I Will Make You Brooches', a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (from his songs of travel collection), which has been put to music and can be found on A Fine Song For Singing by Jeannie Redpath.


I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES
Robert Louis Stevenson

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jim Lad
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 02:50 PM

Thanks, Azizi!

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 03:31 PM

"House Song" by Noel Paul Stookey, recorded on Peter, Paul and Mary's ALBUM 1700, from 1967. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 03:37 PM

Hello, Jim.

I take it you're thanking me for posting a link to the Naturally Seven video of "Bless This House".

??

Anyway, you're welcome.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 03:48 PM

Speaking of links to YouTube videos, here's one more:

Angelina-Keb' Mo'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTmcZzR6kI

Added June 10, 2006; From bravedeer

"94 performance. Go Mo'"
-snip-

{Yeah, it's stretching the boundaries of this thread, since the word "home" is only mentioned in one line. But I love this song}.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jim Lad
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 03:52 PM

Great voice, looks, young, talent coming out of his pores.
Sickening, so it is.
Wink!
Jim

Subject: Lyr Add: NO MIRRORS IN MY NANA'S HOUSE (Barnwell)
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:00 PM

Here's another song that I love:

NO MIRRORS IN MY NANA'S HOUSE
from CROSSINGS by Ysaye M. Barnwell (c)1992)

There were no mirrors in my Nana's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
There were no mirrors in my Na's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
And the beauty that I saw in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).

I never knew that my skin was too black.
I never knew that my nose was too flat.
I never knew that my clothes didn't fit.
I never knew there were things that I'd missed,
cause the beauty in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun);
...was in her eyes.

There were no mirrors in my Nana's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
And the beauty that I saw in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).

I was intrigued by the cracks in the walls.
I tasted, with joy, the dust that would fall.
The noise in the hallway was music to me.
The trash and the rubbish just cushioned my feet.
And the beauty in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).
...was in her eyes.

There were no mirrors in my Nana's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
And the beauty that I saw in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).

The world outside was a magical place.
I only knew love.
I never knew hate,
and the beauty in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).
...was in her eyes.

There were no mirrors in my Nana's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
There were no mirrors in my Nana's house,
no mirrors in my Nana's house.
And the beauty that I saw in everything
was in her eyes (like the rising of the sun).

"Chil', look deep into my eyes."
"Chil', look deep into my eyes."
"Chil'..."

http://www.ymbarnwell.com/nomirrors-lyr.htm

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Ysaye M. Barnwell is a vocalist with the award winning a capella group "Sweet Honey In The Rock". That song is featured in that group's 1993 CD "Still On The Journey".

Here's a short sound clip of that song:
http://www.goldenrod.com/supplybridge/catalog.asp?prod=EB42536&from=OT&mem=&homepos= Track 6

**

And here's a link to a brief video clip of a choir singing this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auh-0pDwZ7w

Added November 15, 2006; From nedmarc

"OurSong - The Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chorus performing "There Were No Mirrors in my Nana's House" for Gala Chorus Directory January 2006"

Subject: Lyr Add: THE BONNIE HOOSE O' AIRLIE
From: Bert
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:04 PM

Little Boxes

and

THE BONNIE HOOSE O' AIRLIE

It fell on a day, on a bonnie summer's day,
When the sun shone bright and clearly,
That there fell oot a great dispute
Atween Argyll and Airlie.

Argyll he has mustered a thousand o'his men,
He as marched them oot richt early;
He has marched them in by the back o' Dunkeld,
To plunder the bonnie hoose o' Airlie.

Lady Ogilvie she looked frae her window sae high,
And O but she grat sairly,
To see Argyll and a' his men
Gome to plunder the bonnie hoose o' Airlie.

"Come doon, come doon, Lady Ogilvie" he cried:
"Come doon and kiss me fairly,
Or I swear by the hilt o'my guid braidsword
That I winna leave a stan'in' stane in Airlie."


"l winna come doon, ye cruel Argyll,
I winna kiss ye fairly;
I wadna kiss ye, fause Argyll,
Though ye sudna leave a stan'in' stane in Airlie."

"Gome tell me whaur your dowry is hid,
Gome doon and tell me fairly."
"l winna tell ye whaur my dowry is hid,
Though ye sudna leave a stan'in' stane in Airlie."

They socht it up and they socht it doon,
I wat they socht it early;
And it was below yon bowling green
They found the dowrie o' Airlie.

"Eleven bairns I hae born
And the twelfth ne'er saw his daddie,
But though I had gotten as mony again,
They sud a' gang to fecht for Charlie.

"Gin my guid lord had been at hame,
As he's awa' for Charlie,
There dursna a Campbell o' a' Argyll
Set a fit on the bonnie hoose o' Airlie."

He's ta'en her by the milk-white hand,
But he didna lead her fairly;
He led her up to the tap o' the hill,
Whaur she saw the burnin' o' Airlie.

The smoke and flame they rose so high
The walls they were blackened fairly;'
And the lady laid her doon on the green to dee
When she saw the burnin' o' Airlie. '

From Folksongs and Ballads of Scotland, MacColl
Child #199

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: bfdk
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:07 PM

New Home by Nick Keir (from the CD Rumours of Snow)

Welcome to your new home
Hope you have a good time
Hope you ask me round occasionally and feed me when I'm on the breadline
Welcome to your new home
Hope it's full of music
Hope it's full of fun and laughter, full of friends sitting drinking good wine

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: Lyr Add: COME ON IN MY KITCHEN (Robert Johnson)
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:15 PM

COME ON IN MY KITCHEN (Take 2)
by Robert Johnson
recording of 1st of 5 sessions, November 23 1936, San Antonio, Texas
from The Complete Recordings (CBS 467246 2 & Columbia/Legacy C2K-46222 & Columbia 4622 & Sony 64916),

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm

You better come on in my kitchen, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors
When a woman gets in trouble, everybody throws her down
Lookin' for yo' good friend, none can be found
You better come on in my kitchen, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors

Nnn, the woman I love, took from my best friend
Some joker got lucky, stole her back again
She better come on in my kitchen, baby, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors
(spoken: Mama, can't you hear that wind howl?
Oh how the wind do howl!)
You better come on in my kitchen, baby, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors

Nnn, the woman that I love, I crave to see
She's up the country, won't write to me
Then, you better come on in my kitchen, goin' to be rainin' outdoors

I went to the mountain, far as my eyes could see
Some other man got my woman, lonesome blues got me
But she better come on in my kitchen, 'cause it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors

My mamma dead, papa well's to be, ain't got nobody to love and care for me
She better come on in my kitchen, 'cause it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors

http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/lyrics/robert_johnson/come_on_in_my_kitchen_take_2.htm

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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jim Lad
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM

There's a wee hoose 'mang the heather
There's a wee hoose o'er the sea
There's a lassie in that wee hoose
Waiting patiently for me
She's the picture o' perfection
And I widnae tell a lee
If you saw her, You would love her
Just the same as me.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
From: GUEST,Mike B.
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 05:39 PM

World War II era song that's been recorded by Josh White, Paul Robeson and Frank Sinatra among others -

THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
By Earl Robinson and Lewis Allen

What is America to me?
A name, a map, or a flag I see?
A certain word, "democracy"?
What is America to me?

The house I live in, a plot of earth, a street
The grocer and the butcher, and the people that I meet
The children in the playground, the faces that I see
All races and religions, that's America to me

The place I work in, the worker by my side
The little town or city where my people lived and died
The "howdy" and the handshake, the air of feeling free
And the right to speak my mind out, that's America to me

The things I see about me, the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall
The wedding in the churchyard, the laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a-growin' for a hundred and fifty years

The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom
The church, the school, the clubhouse, the millions lights I see

But especially the people
That's America to me

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jeanie
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 05:50 PM

"The House of Your Dreams" by Harvey Andrews: about the difference between the estate agents' blurb and the reality, "they never tell you that" e.g.
"It's tasteful, proportioned, and sought after too
Charming and rural and smart
Executive home with exceptional view
Its garden will soon win your heart
But the pleasure of weeding easily cloys
Dogs from next door were born to make noise
And the doors and the windows are painted turquoise
They never tell you that"

This song is on the CD "Somewhere in the Stars" - full of great songs.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Jim Lad
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:35 PM

Far away in the Heilands there stauns a wee hoose
And it stauns on the breast o' the brae
Where we played as laddies there lang, lang ago
It seems it was just yesterday
I can still see old granny a smile on her face
Just as sweet as the heather dew
As she kissed me goodbye, with a tear in her eye
Saying "Laddie, may God bless you"

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: steamstress
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:01 PM

I'm thinking of the one Andy Stewart sings, in the chorus is the line
"may there be love and laughter in the heart of the home," I think it's really a song to sing at a wedding though.
Also the one Ann Mayo Muir sings with Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett that starts
"I knew this place, I knew it well," about the home where the songwriter grew up.
Isn't it Carla Sciaky who sings "Home is where the heart is"?

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: open mike
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 03:23 AM

Little Boxes made of ticky tacky...
this song is in the D.T. here:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3621

the beatnik parody version is here:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3622

another parody here:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3623

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 08:47 AM

Alaska Mike, thanks for posting your song about living in a trailer. I like the song.

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 10:38 AM

How about "Come On-a My House" made famous by Rosemary Clooney back in the late 40s or early 50s?

Also, "Workin' on a Building" from back when gospel songs were called 'spirituals'.

SC

Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 11:57 AM

Trailer for sale or rent,
Rooms to let 50 cents.
No phone no pool no pets,
Ain't got no cigarettes.