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Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie

17 Apr 08 - 12:37 PM (#2318375)
Subject: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: GUEST,seadew

looking for exacts words to a Woody Guthrie song which would go something as "the woodpecker is pecking and breaking the crust, the old folks are kissing and the kids are crying" ? sorry, a french reference i have, can't match it with any song i know... thanks a million.


17 Apr 08 - 01:44 PM (#2318445)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: Peace

Would you please post the French reference, seadew? I'm getting nowhere with the info as given.


17 Apr 08 - 01:46 PM (#2318447)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: peregrina

Are you sure that's Woody in French and not something from Jacques Aufray's Dylan translations?


17 Apr 08 - 01:46 PM (#2318448)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: GUEST

le pivert donne des coups de bec
et fait voler l'écorce
les vieux s'embrassent
et les gosses pleurent

nothing else, sorry...


17 Apr 08 - 01:49 PM (#2318451)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: GUEST

you mean Hughes Aufray ? no, it's just some line in a book on WG by Thierry Murat. The book come with 2 CD and the first part tells the story of WG in comics. It's anice edition. These lines are in italics, as if they were from some song... puzzles me...


17 Apr 08 - 02:00 PM (#2318465)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: Peace

I'm no expert, but it doesn't sound like either Guthrie or Dylan to me.


17 Apr 08 - 02:05 PM (#2318475)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: peregrina

Yes, I did mean Hughes..

Are you sure it's not a translation from something to do with Woody Woodpecker?


17 Apr 08 - 03:42 PM (#2318572)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: bobad

I think a closer translation would be something along the lines of:

"The woodpecker pecks
And makes the bark fly
The old ones kiss
And the kids weep"


17 Apr 08 - 03:54 PM (#2318587)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko

Sounds almost like a poor translation or parody of "So Long It's Been Good to know you"-

The sweethearts they sat in the dark and they sparked.
They hugged and they kissed in that dusty old dark.
They sighed and they cried and they hugged and they kissed,
But instead of marriage they talked like this:


17 Apr 08 - 04:16 PM (#2318612)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: GUEST

many thanks to everyone ;o)


17 Apr 08 - 07:39 PM (#2318807)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: Cool Beans

Hughes Aufray of Virginia Woolf?


18 Apr 08 - 03:55 AM (#2319013)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help on Woody Guthrie
From: peregrina

No, Hughes Aufray the French singer and translator of Dylan, among others