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20 Oct 09 - 10:09 AM (#2748674) Subject: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: InOBU Richard, I hope you enjoy the tug at your beard... after your comments about the south london couple with the dogs, I had to find the words to Billy Braggs, Just Walk Away Rene for you... Cheers Lorcan |
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20 Oct 09 - 02:44 PM (#2748866) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: Richard Bridge So, where are they? |
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20 Oct 09 - 03:17 PM (#2748896) Subject: Lyr Add: WALK AWAY RENEE (Billy Bragg) From: VirginiaTam WALK AWAY RENEE Billy Bragg She said it was just a figment of speech And I said "You mean figure" And she said "No, figment" Because she could never imagine it happening. But it did. When we first met I played the Shy boy When she spoke to me for the first time my nose began to bleed She guessed the rest The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry And when nobody came to collect our fares Well I knew then this was something special I couldn't stop thinking about her And every time I switched on the radio There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us It was just like being on a fast ride at the fun fair The sort you want to get off because it's scary And then as soon as you're off you want get straight back on again But all love is strange And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose She began going out with Mr. Potato Head It was when I saw her in the car park With his coat around her shoulders that I realized I went home and thought about the two of them together Until the bathwater went cold around me I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts And about the point where their bodies met I confronted her about it I said, "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town!" And she said, "Yeah, that's why I could never understand any of those silly letters you sent me" And then one day it happened She cut her hair and I stopped loving her |
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20 Oct 09 - 06:17 PM (#2749012) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: Richard Bridge Having trouble fitting those words to the version of Walk Away Renee that I know (think it was the Four Tops). |
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20 Oct 09 - 06:27 PM (#2749016) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: InOBU Ah no, Richard... you have to speak them, with a south london accent, while playing walk away rene on the guitar... magic... |
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20 Oct 09 - 06:52 PM (#2749033) Subject: Lyr Add: WALK AWAY, RENEE (from The Four Tops) From: Richard Bridge I don't think the Left Banke version did anything in the UK. I don't remember that at all. Here are the Four Tops lyrics. They simply do not scan the same. The Four Tops WALK AWAY, RENEE Lyrics: And when I see the sign that points one way. The lot we used to pass by every day. Just walk away, Renee. You won't see me follow you back home. The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same. You're not to blame. From deep inside the tears I'm forced to cry. From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide. Just walk away, Renee. You won't see me follow you back home. Now, as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes, For me, it cries. [Instrumental break featuring flute solo.] Just walk away, Renee. You won't see me follow you back home. Now, as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes, For me, it cries. Your name and mine inside a heart on a wall, Still finds a way to haunt me though they are so small. Just walk away, Renee. You won't see me follow you back home. The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same. You're not to blame. |
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20 Oct 09 - 07:34 PM (#2749044) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: GUEST,Winger Ever notice that when you play the 45 rpm vinyl version of this at 33 rpm Billy sounds just like Frank Bruno? |
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20 Oct 09 - 08:01 PM (#2749060) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: InOBU Then there is the Irish version... I wrote, You can just walk on Soibhan... THe yellow smoke of morning, breaks along woodquay the smell of coal fires burning the way it used to be... You can just walk on Soibhan, you'll not see me follow you back home The empty sidewalks I walk down, there not the same, your not to blame Do you recall the Ceili, where we first met, we danced the Walls of Limerick, I can hear it yet... Your name and mine, inside a heart, upon a wall down past the liffy bridges, behind a market stall... |
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21 Oct 09 - 06:45 AM (#2749301) Subject: Lyr Add: MADAME ETIENNE (Amadée Ardoin) From: Dead Horse Isnt this some obscure reference to 'Allo 'Allo? Ohh Hohh Renee! Malheureuse, quoi t'a fait. ouais, avec moi? Ca me fais du mal chaque fois je to regarde, ouais malheureuse. Quoi t'as fait? Chère Jouliine, ca me fait du mal. Quoi faire t'as fait mais tout ça, t'as fait si long (temps) avec moi? Je vas m'en aller, Je vas m'en aller, à la maison Je vas me'en aller, sans tot Jouline, ouais à la maison. Malheureuse, quoi t'as fait à ton petit coeur. Moi j'ai pas pu juger ton histoire rapport à tot. Ta bonne histoire est aussi bonne que tesparoles. Ça tu m'as dit, ma belle Jouline, ça m'a fait du mat. Je suis pas sûr d'être capable de m'en alter. Mon coeur fait mat juste assez, chère.pour moi pleurer. (Madame Etienne) |
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21 Oct 09 - 06:49 AM (#2749304) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: Dead Horse Madame Etienne by Amadée Ardoin (Just gimme any excuse ta bring cajun culture ta da heathens) Unhappy girl. What have you done to me? You hurt me every time I look at you, unhappy girl. What you said, dear Jouline, you hu rt me. Why have you always done what you'vedone to me. I am going away, l going home. I'm going home without you, Jouline. Unhappy girl. just look at what you've done to your little heart. I couldn't judge your story because of you. Your story is only as good as your word. What you told me, Jouline, hurt. Dear Jouline, I'm not sure I'll be able to go away. My heart aches just enough to make me cry. |
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22 Oct 09 - 10:18 AM (#2750222) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: Jim Dixon At YouTube: WALK AWAY RENEE – a live performance by Billy Bragg and Badly Drawn Boy. The last line here is "She voted Tory and I stopped loving her." WALK AWAY RENEE - live performance by The Left Banke. (Billboard #5 in 1966) WALK AWAY RENEE - by the Four Tops. (Billboard #14 in 1968) |
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22 Oct 09 - 11:57 AM (#2750299) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: Lonesome EJ and then there's Rickie lee Jones' version. I love it. I also have always liked the flip side of the Left Banke 45, which was Pretty Ballerina. |
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22 Oct 09 - 12:48 PM (#2750354) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: WalkAwayRene Bragg version for R Bridge From: InOBU Ta Jim Dixon... Now, there you go Richard ... see why your reflections about the South London couple made me think of this song... do click on the Youtube Bragg verson... |