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18 Apr 99 - 06:22 PM (#71821) Subject: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Laura Looking for the lyrics or a source of a parody of "The Green Green Grass of Home". Not sure who did it, but it was probably done 30 years ago. Know part of the lyrics refer to stepping off the train to see the old outhouse and the old oak seat I used to sit on. Any help would be appreciated. Laura |
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18 Apr 99 - 09:30 PM (#71859) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Banjeray (inactive) I vaguely remember that parody, I think it was done by Sheb Wolley, aka Ben Colder, who has parodied quite a few of the hits throughout the years. |
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18 Apr 99 - 10:32 PM (#71880) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: DocJohn Homer and JEthro did it...do a search for them and I bet you find it. John |
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18 Apr 99 - 10:39 PM (#71881) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Mark Roffe Looking forward to this one. I can't resist telling you that when I was a kid, my Aunt Mildred brought a musician she was dating over to the house. Nice guy, it was Sheb W., and he gave me a copy of the sheet music to his hit,Purple People Eater! I never met him again, and I always forgot to ask Aunt Mildred anything about him. Mark |
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18 Apr 99 - 11:14 PM (#71889) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Peter Fisher I only know one verse of the parody, if its the same one: The old outhouse looks the same as I walk down the lane And close behind me is my mama and my papa. Down the lane we run, and we might make it If we don't then we'll just fake it That's why we have such green green grass at home. |
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17 Sep 03 - 03:04 AM (#1020511) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: The Fooles Troupe It's a bit old, but a new look might produce results Robin |
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17 Sep 03 - 05:00 AM (#1020557) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Kevin Sheils I only know the "short" version The old hometown looked the same So I got back on the train |
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17 Sep 03 - 05:05 AM (#1020563) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Brakn Hair of gold and tits like cherries, (Sorry about that) |
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17 Sep 03 - 10:38 AM (#1020749) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: trayton The old hometown looked the same As I fell off of the train There to meet me were the mamas and the papas As sung by a fellow student in the mid 70's |
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17 Sep 03 - 11:24 AM (#1020781) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Louie Roy Laura go to Cowpie and type in the words Green Green Grass At Home and the entire song is listed plus the chords.If I knew how to do the blue clickity thing I would direct you but sorry I don't Louie Roy |
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17 Sep 03 - 12:39 PM (#1020838) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: nancyjo Yes, how DOES one do the blue clickity thing?? |
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17 Sep 03 - 02:05 PM (#1020879) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: The Fooles Troupe 1) Louie Roy - We are after THE PARODY or some parodies, NOT the original song. 2) nancyjo - Look at the bottom of this page - see the link - Right click and open new window. Common sense and following instructions on screen should work. Robin |
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17 Sep 03 - 02:29 PM (#1020902) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: nancyjo Robin - I saw that, but I guess I'm dense. I still couldn't figure out how to get the link into the text of my email. nancyjo |
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17 Sep 03 - 02:48 PM (#1020918) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Nancyjo, and Louie. There are numerous threads on the subject. Have a search for HTML here at the Mudcat. Seems to me I remember hearing a song parody of this which had more than connotations of the left-handed "grass". Can't find that on the 'net either. |
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17 Sep 03 - 03:20 PM (#1020953) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Leadfingers Down the road I look and here come Mary Like an ape but twice as hairy |
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18 Sep 03 - 03:02 AM (#1021221) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Mr Happy I recall Max Boyce doing a parody of this in the mid 70's. I've checked his web site but no lyrics for it there. However, Joan from Wigan supplied me the worfs to another Boyce song, so she may have thisone too. |
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18 Sep 03 - 10:05 AM (#1021407) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca A friend of mine sings this after singing the regular song: The old outhouse is still standin'
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20 Sep 03 - 06:54 PM (#1022281) Subject: RE: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Gareth Shame on you !!!!!! Parodying our Tom ! Max B does a wonderfull paraody on this, dating from the time that they built the A470 across Llanover Rd., Pontypridd. I'll try and find it. Gareth PS Mothers one claim to fame was she was born in the same street in Ponty ! |
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22 Jul 04 - 05:16 PM (#1231690) Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME and parodies From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Still haven't locate the one Laura's looking for. But... GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME Curly Putman The old hometown looks the same As I step down from the train, And there to greet me are my momma and my daddy. Down the road I look and there runs Mary, Hair of gold and lips like cherries. It's good to touch the green, green grass of home. CHORUS: Yes, they'll all come to see me, Arms a-reachin', smilin' sweetly. It's so good to touch the green, green grass of home. The old house is still standing, But the paint is cracked and worn, And there's that old oak tree that I used to climb on. Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary, Hair of gold and lips like cherries, It's good to touch the green, green grass of home. CHORUS Then I awake and look around me, At the gray walls all around me, And I realize that I was only dreamin', 'Cause there's a guard and a sad old padre. Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak. Again I'll touch the green, green grass of home. FINAL CHORUS: Yes, they'll all come to see me, In the shade of that old oak tree, As they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home. From /thread.cfm?threadid=43154#639222 CAMPSITE AT DRUMCREE Drumcree looks much the same. On the hill above the plain, Flaps the residence of Kittery and McAutry. There's broken glass and wire that's barbed And boys decked out in marching garb. It's good to touch the green, green grass of home CHORUS: Oh yes, they'll all come to greet me, Arms outstretched and smiling sweetly. It's good to touch the green, green grass of home. My oul' tent is still standin' And me sleepin' bag is dry, And there's the oul' latrine I used to wee in. Down the road I walk that's called Garvaghy, A trip that always makes me happy. It's good to touch the green, green grass of home. CHORUS The army and the lawmen Say, "Up the road you go, men! Never mind the residents complaining." And we play "The Ducks of Magheralin" Even though the tune's a din And then we play "The Green Slopes of the Boyne." CHORUS But then I wake and look around me. A thousand cops surround me, And I realise that I was only dreamin'; For the hoors in thon oul' Walks Commission, On our parades are forever pishin', So we're camped out on the green, green grass of home. FINAL CHORUS: Oh yes, they've stifled our ambition, The hoors in the Walks Commission So we're camped out on the green, green grass of home. From http://www.farmboymusic.com/old/lyric_thegreengreengrassofhome.html THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME Lyrics copyright 1994 by Clyde Bauman My old back yard looks the same as I step out in the rain, And there to greet me is my hound dog and the silo. Down the path I walk to the old two-holer. I sure am glad it ain't no colder As I walk across the green, green grass of home. My outhouse is still standing with the half-moon on the door, And there's that great big painted plank I love to sit on. When I sit in there, there's never many - Just me and God, and J. C. Penney - And around me grows the green, green grass of home. Then I stand up and look around me At all the corncobs that surround me And I realize: I'm glad it's not December. When it's cold out, I try not to shiver, 'Cause when I do, I get a sliver! And I bleed all over the green, green grass of home. Every now and then, I just don't make it - Sometimes my kidneys just can't take it - And that's why we have such green, green grass at home. From http://nfldsongs.tripod.com/06/grass.htm: GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (Joan Morrissey Rendition) The old hometown looks the same As I fall down from the train And there to meet me is Joe Smallwood and John Crosbie. Down the lane I look, and there runs Neary, Lookin' oh so sad and weary. It's good to smoke the green, green grass of home. CHORUS: Yes, they've all come to meet me, Arms a-reachin' smiling sweetly, It's so good to smoke the green, green grass of home. The old house is still standing, But our treasury has run dry; And there's that old seat that Valour used to sit on. Down the lane I look, and there runs Rossy, Chasin' after our old cow Bossy. We're gonna have some green, green grass at home. CHORUS |
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22 Jul 04 - 05:18 PM (#1231691) Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME Parody From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca One More: http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Prohibition/Humor/Hemp%20Songs THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME The old home town looks the same |
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22 Jul 04 - 06:28 PM (#1231698) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Q (Frank Staplin) Who didn't sing this song about an execution? Add to the above- Johnny Cash Grateful Dead (Quite different, but no outhouse. A return from prison) Tom Jones Jerry Lee Lewis Elvis Presley Kenny Rogers Hank Snow Merle Travis (Record Lady RQ5. The verse "I awake" spoken. My favorite) Porter Wagoner (Record Lady A4) Others? Curley (Claude) Putnam guitar tabs (it says) at Curley Putnam tabs |
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22 Jul 04 - 06:50 PM (#1231726) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: harvey andrews I did one when the british Prime Minister was Lord Home (pronounced Hume) The punch line was; It's good to kiss the green green ass of Home Dearie me! So long ago! Forgive me. |
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22 Jul 04 - 08:26 PM (#1231806) Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME parody From: TS Stompin' Tom Connors has a great LIVE version of the Parody on "Live at the Horseshoe" GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME The old home town looks upside down As I lay here on the ground There's the old freight train that I just fell off of Down the path I look and here comes Bessie Damn good cow, but sure is messy Thats why we got such green, green grass at home. The old outhouse, its still standing Though the catalogue's used and gone There's the old oak seat that I used to shhh-sit on Down that path I'd run and hope to make it There were times I had to fake it Thats why we got such green, green grass at home. |
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22 Jul 04 - 09:20 PM (#1231831) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Q (Frank Staplin) ReelBrew found the outhouse for you, Laura. It took just five years! |
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28 Aug 04 - 04:58 AM (#1258755) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,CurtJester@webtv.net If this song is about an execution, is the execution a hanging because "they will see me from that old oak tree"? This song writer Putnam, does anybody know his thoughts and inspiration of this? He was born in 1930 in Alabama. |
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28 Aug 04 - 05:49 PM (#1259109) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Looks like we still have to find out the words done by Homer and Jethro for their recording. |
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07 Sep 04 - 10:18 PM (#1266461) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Jim Dixon Re: Homer & Jethro's version of GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME. I've consulted a couple of online discographies, and assuming they're complete, the only time H&J recorded GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME was when they teamed up with Chet Atkins and performed as The Nashville String Band. It's on NSB's album "Identified!" RCA Victor LSP-4472 (1971). Trouble is, all 10 cuts on that album are instrumentals. In fact, I think NSB only did instrumentals. You can see the album cover and the track list here. So it looks like H&J didn't record a parody – unless, of course, they used a title so different from GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME that I can't recognize it. The discographies I checked were: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hillbilly/message/10810 http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/humor.html |
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07 Sep 04 - 11:42 PM (#1266516) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Gene JIM I was about to post the same NFO about H&J & GGG of Home I have a SIZEABLE collection of H&J and it not on any of them... |
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07 Sep 04 - 11:49 PM (#1266520) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: The Fooles Troupe Maybe it is something they SHOULD have done, cause we would love to hear their approach... |
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08 Sep 04 - 04:56 PM (#1267071) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca That's for darn sure! |
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03 Feb 11 - 07:30 AM (#3087811) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,tomcat has anyone provided parody of Green green grass of home by Max Boyce? |
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06 Feb 11 - 04:29 PM (#3090018) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Jim Dixon Max Boyce's LP "I Know 'Cos I Was There" (1978) had a cut called GREEN GREEN FIELDS (THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME). I couldn't find anything about it at Max Boyce's web site. |
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07 Oct 11 - 10:48 AM (#3235340) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST As I stepped down from de plane Ohh Baby, the pain there was no one to greet me, my mammy or my pappy, and then along comes Mary, just a truckin' along with my best friend Harry I guess I'll smoke the green green grass of a home Yes they'll all come to see me in the State penitentiary 'cause i got caught while i was smokin' the green green grass of a home |
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20 May 12 - 09:44 AM (#3353275) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,Joe Erhardt Another set of lyrics we can't find: The parody version by 60's-70's comedian Alan King. |
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21 May 12 - 03:54 AM (#3353619) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Musket There to meet me, was my Poppa with a copper. Down the lane I walked with my sweet Mary, Teeth all black and her legs all hairy, She'd had a few on the green green grass of home. (Being the racist sod I am, I used to add a bit to one of the lines;) My Poppa with a copper, (and Jones the Bread and Dia the Meat.) I used to have about four verses. Taught to me by a good friend from Middlewich sadly no longer with us. I might have them written somewhere, but that's all I recall. Yet I used to sing it as an icebreaker after waffling on about throwing knickers at me and breaking microphones with my voice.... Err.. at least 30 years since I had to recall it. |
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16 Aug 13 - 02:19 PM (#3549894) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,postneoludite It seems to have been done before. The version I'm thinking of contained something like: Down the lane I look and there crawls Mary Hair like gold, and lips like apples. It's good to smoke... ... Down the lane I look and there lies Mary Hair like gold, and lips like watermelon. It's good to smoke... But, this is what I found the boogiemen - smokin' the green green grass of home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-MiISa_gg |
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22 Aug 17 - 08:04 PM (#3873230) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,guest Red Sovine among many others did a parody of that song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnZotZboVU . |
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04 Apr 19 - 07:39 AM (#3985845) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: GUEST,Guest Mac & O, Irish ballad singers, sang that parody you're looking for a couple of times in the Catskills in the 1990's. They did not record it. |
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04 Apr 19 - 09:10 AM (#3985863) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Green Grass of Home Parody From: Acorn4 In an interview not so long ago Tom Jones requested his female fans not to do the throwing of the underwear on the stage during the ballads - sort of "come on, now, we're a;; a bit more mature aren't we:- This was just a thought on ageing pop idols with ageing fanbases:- The Green Green Grass of Home 1.Now the old crowd looks the same, as I step out on the stage. And there's the roar of the same old fans to greet me, Oh it's Alice, Doris, Lily and Mary, Skins a little wrinkly and chins a little hairy They've all been put out to the green, green grass of home. 2. When they were maidens young and fair, They used to throw their underwear, Upon the stage where I would strut my strut so boldly But now it's only ladies of a certain age, Who still try to throw their knickers on the stage And they lie there on the green, green grass of home. Chorus:- And those knickers hot and sweaty, They fell down from heaven just like confetti, And landed on green green grass of home. 3. I used to use those knickers as a towel To wipe the sweat from off my brow, And throw them back to the sound of all that screaming, But nowadays I'm not so keen, because, After all, you don't know where they've been! It's so sad to think of that green, green grass of home. 4.Now you wouldn't hear me complain When those knickers fell like rain, Though one or two had probably been weed in! But nowadays before they stay throwing , They've probably wet themselves without even knowing, , It's so hard on the green, green grass of home. Chorus:- And those knickers hot and sweaty, They fell down from heaven just like confetti, And landed on green green grass of home. 5.Well ,these days I move a little slower, My voice a little lower, But as we all know things drop as we get older, Some of those knickers won't reach me, this I know, They'll only get as far as the second row, And land there on the green, green grass of home. 6. Well just like these ladies here These are my twilight years, Oh, well, I suppose I'd better just enjoy the time remaining And no use pretending , though it's sad, Look out, here comes an incontinence pad!! It's a health and safety issue on the green, green grass of home. Chorus:- And those knickers hot and sweaty, They fell down from heaven just like confetti, And landed on green green grass of home. |