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Subject: Lyr Add: LORD OF THE MOBILE HOME MANOR From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Mar 07 - 01:08 PM "I knew this place, I knew it well," is a reference to Dave Mallett's song "I Knew This Place." Mike- I really enjoyed your trailer park song; it's almost as if you might have experienced such a life! LOL Here's my contribution to the trailer park experience from the point of view of management (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up chords): By Charles Ipcar with help from Tim Vogel and Dahlov Ipcar, April, 1982 Tune: Ewan McCall"Legal-Illegal" Key: F (5/C) LORD OF THE MOBILE HOME MANOR C---------------G----------C I used to work hard for a living, F-----------C----------G7 Up with the sun in the morn, F------------C------------F--------C Down at the office from eight to five, F-C---------------G---C-----G--------F A slave to a boss who would flay me alive, ------C--------F---C-----F-----C--------G--C Then fighting the traffic back home to the wife, ----F-C---F-C—F---C---G7--C Just a cog in the big busi-ness whirl. Then one day I saw in the paper, An ad for some green pasture land, A vision came to me: by buying that space, I'd get myself out of that office rat race; With a loan from the bank and a deed to the place, I'd be Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. So I surveyed the land on the weekend, Laid out the drains and the lines, Pads for the trailers, parking for cars, A management office and junkfood snack bar, A tot lot for children would be going too far, I'd be Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. Now when I was ready for tenants, I thought who I'd want to live there: No children, no pets, no motorcyclists, No unmarried couples or creeping socialists, Would find themselves on my "preferred guest list" For a place at the Mobile Home Manor. And as for those who would move in, They'd have to abide by some rules: No jogging, no gardens, no repairing cars, No loud stereo music or electric guitars, No patio parties or watching the stars, Or be evicted from Mobile Home Manor. No longer a slave to ambition, I live off the rents of the land; Sheltered by interest, insurance, and tax, And clever accountants to cover my tracks, I need never fear that IRS ax, I'm the Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. Warm regards, Landlady's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Azizi Date: 11 Mar 07 - 05:25 PM Here's a YouTube link to the Barret Sisters and a choir singing a medley of the gospel songs "Come And Go With Me To My Father's House", "I've Got A New Home Over In Glory", and I believe l'll Testify WHile I Have A Chance", and "Glory Glory Hallelujah, {Since I Laid My Burden Down} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUmjZ6jHlQ Added January 23, 2007; From nomorefear -snip- All of these songs have the same tune. Come and go with me with me to my Father's House to my Father's house Come and go with me To my Father's House there is peace peace peace. [I grew up singing the last line as "there is joy, joy, joy".] ** Here's the words to "I've Got A New Home Over In Glory" I've got a new home over in glory and it's mine, mine, all mine I've got a new home over in glory and it's mine mine all mine. Additional verses-with that same formula "I've got a new walk"; "I've got a new shout"; I've got a new name" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: bfdk Date: 11 Mar 07 - 06:46 PM Just remembered this: From NEW YEAR'S EVE SONG (Si Kahn) May whatever house you live in have flowers round the door, And children in the bed to keep you warm, May the people there accept you for what you really are, And help you find some shelter in the storm, And morning rain, to ease the pain, that comes with being free, May the New Year bring you freedom peacefully. Bente |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: mg Date: 11 Mar 07 - 07:25 PM did someone say courtin in the kitchen The pig was kept in the parlor I'll take you home again Kathleen Home boys home mg |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Joe_F Date: 11 Mar 07 - 08:03 PM The Queen Anne Front @displaysong.cfm?SongID=8416 |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: mg Date: 11 Mar 07 - 08:35 PM hope I am not repeating...don't have time to review the list. Little old sod shanty There was music in my mother's house |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THAT GREEDY LANDLORD (Fred Dallas) From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Mar 07 - 08:47 PM Oh, let's raise the ante a little: Words by Fred Dallas © 1960 Tune: traditional "Bold Turpin Hero" In Songs for the Sixties THAT GREEDY LANDLORD In the month of July, in the year of fifty four, There were slates off the roof, there were holes in the floor; There were rats in the cellar and we didn't have a cent When the landlord came and told us he was putting up the rent. Chorus: Oh, that greedy landlord, Oh, that landlord, oh! Well, he said it was a pity and it really was a shame, That he couldn't spare a copper for the mending of the drain, And the paint was so expensive that we ought to lend a hand And pay a little extra to the man who owns the land. (CHO) He promised to be faithful and he promised to be true; He promised that he'd make our little house as good as new; Folks would come to see it from miles around, If we'd pay a little extra to the man who owns the ground. (CHO) Will you mend the broken windows, replace the lock upon the door? And will you tell the carpenter to lay another floor? Will you make the house a place where decent folks can live, If we pay a little extra in the rent we've got to give? (CHO) Your rent is going up, he said, there's nothing you can do; And as for your suggestions, here's the best of luck to you; You'll be lucky if I give repairs a solitary thought, Unless you've got the cash to take it to the County Court. (CHO) So we talked the matter over with the people down the road; We began to pull together for to share the heavy load, And we formed a street committee and we gave the thing a thought And a thousand angry tenants took him to the County Court. (CHO) Now a landlord makes a living out of sponging on the poor, And every week he takes them for a hundred pounds or more, But he couldn't spare the money for solicitors and such, So he settled out of court because it didn't cost as much. (CHO) Here's a health to everyone of you who earns your weekly rent; Bad luck to every landlord and the landlord's government; Good luck to everyone of you who wants to lend a hand To speed the time that's coming when the people own the land. Final Chorus: Bye, bye, greedy landlord, Bye, bye, greedy landlord, oh! I have fond memories of a rent party in New York City where I revived this song twenty years ago. Warm regards, Landlady's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Jim Lad Date: 11 Mar 07 - 10:02 PM Another fine pick, Azizi. For those on dial up, windmills or wave power, "Come And Go With Me To My Father's House" is a lively medley of Gospel singing with full choir & congregation. Well worth the time taken if you like that stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Azizi Date: 12 Mar 07 - 07:17 PM Thanks, Jim. Here's another YouTube of a gospel song that mentions the word "home": "I'm Coming Home" Tramaine Hawkins and the Hawkins Family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLER24rNTJk Added November 17, 2006;From sivatmin "Here is Tramaine Hawkins with the Hawkins Family singing "I'm Coming Home." Tramaine and the family really influenced and inspired me as a child and a teenager. I never will forget learning about the style of contemporary gospel music in the early [19]80s with these group of singers" |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LI'L LIZA JANE From: Azizi Date: 12 Mar 07 - 07:50 PM LI'L LIZA JANE I've got a gal who loves me so L'll Liza Jane Way down south in Baltimore. L'll Liza Jane Chorus Oh, Eliza. L'll Liza Jane Oh, Eliza, L'll Liza Jane Liza Jane looks good to me L'll Liza Jane Sweetest gal I ever did see L'll Liza Jane Chorus I fell in love when first I saw L'll Liza Jane Now I've got a mother-in-law Chorus House and lot in Baltimore L'll Liza Jane Lots of children round the door L'll Liza Jane Chorus I don't care how far I roam L'll Liza Jane The very best place is home L'll Liza Jane Chorus Source: Jerry Silverman, "Play Old Time Country Fiddle", p. 34 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: OLD JOE CLARK From: Azizi Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:05 PM Here's a song that mentions a place of habitation that hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet-a hotel: OLD JOE CLARK Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son Preached all over the plain The only text the ever used was "High, low, jack and the game" Chorus Round and round Old Joe Clark Round and round I say He'd follow me ten thousand miles To hear my fiddle play I used to live on mountain top But now I live in town I'm boarding at the big hotel Courting Betsy Brown Chorus When I was a little girl I used to play with toys; Now I am a bigger girl. I'd rather play with boys. Chorus When I was a little boy, I used to want a knife; Now I am a bigger boy, I only want a wife. Chorus Source- Jerry Silverman, "Songs Of The Great Outdoors", p. 87 |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Jim Lad Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:37 PM The path was deep and wide from footsteps leading to our cabin Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp And late at night a hand would knock and there would stand a stranger Yes, I'm the son of Hickory Holler's tramp. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Joe_F Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:53 PM I've heard there is one in New Orleans. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Azizi Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:56 PM Yeah, Joe F. But I'm not sure it's still there, after Hurricane Katrina. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 12 Mar 07 - 09:16 PM Josephina Don't-a Lean-a on the Bell Maniana-The window she is broken... My sister burned the house down.... Old Folks at Home My Old Kentucky Home (bowlderized, of course) Home on the Range I've Got Tears in My Ears (From Lying in my Bed on my Back While I Cry Over You) Country Roads (Take me Home) No Place Like Home for the Holidays |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 12 Mar 07 - 09:23 PM Counting Flowers on the Wall Knock Three Times Green Door Courtin' in the Kitchen New York Girls (Won't You Dance the Polka)-sailor robbed in a girls room I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen You guys got most of the good ones early on. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NOW WE'RE FREE From: Charley Noble Date: 12 Mar 07 - 09:28 PM The challenge for me was to find a song about houseboats. I finally received a contribution from a houseboat association in Seattle commemorating their successful battle with their "docklord." Here's how they described the battle: "The lyrics were written this summer (1982) when about 30 homeowners purchased their moorage from an old "grinch" of a docklord. This particular docklord, who unfortunately still owns one dock, is known for giving homeowners a bad time about cats, plants, and anything else he can think of. Last spring when two homeowners got married on the dock, they put out balloons for the occasion. This docklord popped them all!" Words by Sheri Lockwood © 1982 Tune: inspired by "Five-Foot-Two" Now We're Free Now we're free! Now we'll see How refreshing life can be Without a docklord on our back. If things get blue, As they can do, We can put out a balloon or two Without a docklord on our back. If you want to plant, We won't say you can't; We like plants too; You can build a floor, Put in a door, Or put your houseboat on a tour. Now we're free! Now we'll see How refreshing life can be Without a docklord on our back. Warm regards, Landlady's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Jim Lad Date: 12 Mar 07 - 10:04 PM ...... Many days you have lingered ..................................? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: GUEST,guttersnipe Date: 13 Mar 07 - 04:51 PM The Grand Tour Red House |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ARSON'S JUST BUSINESS From: Charley Noble Date: 13 Mar 07 - 07:00 PM Just because a song has the word "house, homes, and rooms" doesn't necessarily make it a song ABOUT such. Grumpity, grump! But there are a whole lot of songs, some good ones, that are more focused. Few things are more terrifying than an outbreak of arson in a neighborhood. This song was especially written in response to my complaint that while arson was alive and well in many major cities, I hadn't come across a single protest song. Paul Emery, a singer-songwriter from Michigan, boldly rose to the challenge. Emery, whose house did catch fire and whose vintage Gibson guitar recovered from extensive third degree burns, says: "Losing your place is bad when it's an accident but it's especially hard to deal with if you know some fucker's got paid to do it and that he's just some minor pawn in the economic arrangement that's responsible for you standing in the street." This song describes how you might feel as you begin to explain to your partner, or to someone else you love, that someone just burned down your home and it makes perfect sense: ARSON'S JUST BUSINESS (Original Words & Music by Paul Emery © 1982 Adapted slightly by Charlie Ipcar - 1993) Baby, you won't believe it, How someone could come around; Take our house, Just burn it down; Old landlord's standing by the fire trucks, Over there with the police, Over here the kids are standing in a puddle, Hell, it's nighttime in the streets. They all say they're sorry, But there's nothing they can do; Happens all the time, LA, Chicago, New York, it's nothing new; They all got insurance And that's the lucky thing; Ain't no way to catch them bastards, Come and done this thing. Chorus: They'll burn down the whole damn city, Get paid their share; What the hell's the difference, ain't no reason For us to be staying here; Ain't no jobs left, Just booze, junkies and welfare; Arson's just business; Business, it don't care. You know, this building, Wasn't worth much anyway; You remember how the wind blew, Baby, How the curtains you put up would sway? Got so cold, sometimes, We'd all sleep together in one bed; Burnt up everything we had, Thank God, no one's dead. When you come home, Baby, We can drive on down the street; Of course, by then all the ashes Will be covered up with weeds; The thing is, it really scares me, All the hope and love that burnt up there; Thirty years of our life, We tried to raise a family there. (CHO) Warm regards, Landlady's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Mar 07 - 02:34 AM There'll be dancin' in front of the fireplace again, In this house that I built out of stone. When you came down the road with your trunk, from New York, Did you think that the music was gone? Chorus:- Well, you gave this house life, when you came as my wife, And the pipe, flute and fiddle they play. The three reels and the Rambling Pitchfork of course, As you stepped out the Old Sligo Maid. If you come down by Boyle, take a left at the cross, In the Parish of Corrigheen Row. There's a house down the lane where the peoples refrain, Sings of sadness at leaving Drumdore. Chorus:- Now the house it was closed and the memories froze, But the ancestry's patient for them. And the notes in the stones are passed on through their bones, And I'm glad that there's music again. Chorus:- Song taken from a CD by one of Licolnshires finest Folk trios..."Cara" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Mar 07 - 02:44 AM The music for the above can be found on Caras website.... www.carasmusic.com by clicking on The Notes Behind the Stones and the 'music' for the first track of the CD |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: GUEST,Mike B. Date: 14 Mar 07 - 08:11 PM The House Song - Peter, Paul and Mary Rainy Night House - Joni Mitchell Goin' Home - performed by Addiss & Crofut on an old Hootenanny record (might be one of the folk tunes Antonin Dvorak used for his New World Symphony) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Houses, & Homes, & Rooms From: Willa Date: 03 Apr 07 - 02:28 PM The Miner's Dream of Home |
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