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Lyr/Chords Add: You Gotta Talk My Language

18 Nov 99 - 11:09 AM (#137894)
Subject: Chords Add: YOU GOTTA TALK MY LANGUAGE
From: Jeri

This one's linked to Allan C's "Thought for the Day." It doesn't seem like it's just kids who can show their affection for someone in every way possible other than just telling them. (I was one of those kids who, although I never physically attacked adults I liked, made a general nuisance of myself.)

YOU GOTTA TALK MY LANGUAGE
(George Ward)

(EFGG) C-/CG7/FG7C/CF/F-/CG7FC/ C-5, G+0

If I ask you do you love me,
Will you answer "Yes I do,"
Even though I ask by standing on your toes?
'Cause I don't* know the words to say,
Don't know what love is anyway.
I'm not sure that anybody knows.

C-/FC/C-/G7G/C-/FC/FC/GC/

But I need something and I know it;
If you can feel me, I can show it.
You can push me if you want to,
You can wiggle just one toe.
If I* just believe it's loving
You can make me quit my shoving,
But you've gotta talk my language,
It's the only one I know.

18 Nov 99 - 11:14 AM (#137898)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: katlaughing

Nice one, Jeri. Thanks. BTW, I REALLY enjoyed your song last night!

18 Nov 99 - 12:32 PM (#137934)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: Jeri

Thanks, Kat. My recorded voice still sounds strange to me, and I hear all the mistakes.

Apologies for the following - I just lapsed into silly song mode. Tune: Aunt Clara. Feel free to add to it (your choice of pronouns), critique it or completely ignore it.

Last weekend he boiled my bunny,
On Monday he soaped up my car On Tuesday night, he gave me a fright
When he burned a heart in my yard

But he's just showing he loves me
To me it is perfectly clear
There's a new trick each day he comes up with to say
"I'm madly in love with you dear."

We never mention affection
The words are just too hard to say
We express our emotion and mutual devotion
In unique and creative display

18 Nov 99 - 12:44 PM (#137936)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: MMario

He boiled your bunny? sounds *painful*! (I like it. NOW I have to go look up "aunt Clara"

18 Nov 99 - 12:51 PM (#137938)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: Jeri

Here's WE NEVER MENTION AUNT CLARA with a clicky at the bottom for the tune. Aunt Clara is itself a parody and a classic.

18 Nov 99 - 01:08 PM (#137950)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: Sandy Paton

BLATANT PLUG: Ed Trickett recorded this fine song (and George Ward has written a number of fine ones!) on his first Folk-Legacy solo album - The Telling Takes Me Home. It's available now as a cassette (C-46) with the booklet of headnotes and song texts. I'd love to re-issue it as a CD sometime soon, but can't afford to do that right now. Look for the cassette in the Mudcat record listings, or mention Mudcat in the comment line if you order it direct from FOLK-LEGACY.

Sandy

18 Nov 99 - 01:17 PM (#137954)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: MMario

Thanks!

18 Nov 99 - 01:23 PM (#137956)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: KathWestra

This is a great song (and I love Ed Trickett's singing of it -- first place I'd heard it). I know kids today for whom this song seems to be written -- and adults who were once those kids and who never learned to communicate any other way than standing on someone's toe because at least "ouch" is a response...

When I run into one of them, I often find myself humming or singing this song, and reminding myself that people surely do have different ways of expressing their needs.

19 Nov 99 - 11:42 AM (#138383)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: bbc

It's a great song for teachers. I threaten to sing it to my students regularly, when they are pushing, shoving, nudging each other (particularly the opposite sex). Unfortunately, the threat of me singing is usually enough to stop the behavior. Sigh.

bbc

19 Nov 99 - 11:34 PM (#138616)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: Sandy Paton

Hey, bbc! C'mon now. You sang it at the Getaway, and it was just fine!

Sandy

20 Nov 99 - 08:26 AM (#138680)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: bbc

Sandy, you're a sweetheart. I owe you & Caroline a personal email; I miss you! This weekend is rehearsing for our 1st coffeehouse gig & a T-day dinner at church, plus the usual house & schoolwork.

bbc

20 Nov 99 - 11:49 AM (#138748)
Subject: RE: SFTD-11/18/99- Got to Talk My Language
From: Sandy Paton

Break a leg, bbc!