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19 Aug 97 - 09:00 PM (#10804) Subject: Where, oh where, are you tonight? From: Hi! I'm looking for the words to that old He-Haw song, "Where, Oh Where, Are You Tonight?" It's one of those novelty tunes that fits a good sing-along. Thanks for the help! Terry counter@etsu-tn.edu |
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19 Aug 97 - 11:23 PM (#10812) Subject: RE: Where, oh where, are you tonight? From: Ralph Butts
Where, oh, where, are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over, and I thought I'd found true love, You met another, and, %^&*, you were gone! The stanzas were made-up, topical, roll-your-own, always comi-tragic, e.g.,
Now, there was a girl, she wanted to marry, .....Tiger |
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20 Aug 97 - 01:31 PM (#10869) Subject: RE: Where, oh where, are you tonight? From: Jon W. A verse I remember (although it has a different rhythm):
We let you use our new cow milker
My wife contributes this one:
Remember when you went out huntin' for 'possum |
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14 Oct 97 - 01:54 PM (#14723) Subject: RE: Where, oh where, are you tonight? From: Jon W. I'm resurrecting this thread to see if anyone else has any more verses. My wife wants to sing this Friday night and a couple more verses would be great. |
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19 Oct 97 - 10:53 PM (#14979) Subject: Lyr Add: PFFT! YOU WAS GONE From: Gene HI...well, it's too late for the past Friday night...maybe you can use this version by Archie Campbell another time. Tho' noted primarily for his story telling ability...old Archie occasionally sang a ditty or two....I stumbled across this old LP while searching for something else tonight. PFFT! YOU WAS GONE CAPO: 2nd FRET/KEY: E/PLAY: D INTRO: You [G] met an-[D] other and [A7] Pfft! You Was [D] Gone. CHORUS (Spoken) [D] I miss you so much, the [G] 'taters need [D] diggin' CHORUS (Spoken) Your lips are as red as boysenberries CHORUS (Spoken) I thought that my love was all you wanted CHORUS
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20 Oct 97 - 11:26 AM (#14994) Subject: RE: Where, oh where, are you tonight? From: Jon W. Thanks, Gene |
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30 Dec 07 - 10:41 AM (#2224898) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: GUEST Jon I have several more verses to this song if you're interested and still following this thread And thanks for the verses you have listed here(I didn't have them) Pete pdkahler@yahoo.com |
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30 Dec 07 - 11:37 AM (#2224922) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: Bob the Postman The theme song for the CBC radio programme "Vinyl Cafe" is a tasty bit of rag-inflected finger-picking. Someone wrote to the show asking what the tune was, and Stuart Maclean told us that it was derived from a Caribbean cover of "The Song Of The Clyde". This astonished me because for years I'd been singing along to the chorus using the "Where oh where" lyric. |
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31 Dec 07 - 05:57 PM (#2225804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: GUEST I read the original song was written by Susan Heather back around 1952 and it was a gospel song. Archie Campbell recorded it as you see it above in 1966 and Buck Owens did his own version in 1972 on the album "Too old to cut the mustard" |
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15 Jun 09 - 02:26 AM (#2656629) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: GUEST,T Sander I went to the barn to kill a sick chicken. 'Twas our anniversary we celebrate. Why should some poor fat sick little chicken Pay for the little mistake that we made? I had six kids and you had eleven. We had eight more bloomin' like flowers. Won't you come back, dear, 'cause I really need you. Your kids and my kids are beatin' up ours. |
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23 Jan 10 - 12:57 PM (#2819637) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: Gene some more verses from old hee haw reruns on RFD channel Remember the clothesline from the house to the shed, dear It sags and your clothes drag the ground all the time You said would you please move the shed over, darlin' So it will tighten up my old clothesline. I must admit, I hanker for Mabel She was the best horse I ever had Now I Have to sleep alone in the stable (*Joe) (*Offer) said I oughta be glad. **Substitute a friends name! |
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23 Jan 10 - 07:22 PM (#2819923) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: kendall My favorite verse: My Daddy swore he would never quit drinking, Mother got down on her knees and she begged, One night my Daddy came home cold sober, The dog didn't know him and he chewed off his leg. |
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23 Jan 10 - 07:30 PM (#2819933) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: maeve Truelove was singing this one a month or so ago. Thanks for refreshing it, Kendall. I had forgotten there were so many verse options. maeve |
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23 Jan 10 - 07:42 PM (#2819940) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where, oh where...? (Pfft! You Was Gone) From: Susan A-R SA Lute! What a great collection. I also remember Minnie Pearl, Something about "We ain't ones to repeat gossip So you'd better make sure you listen real close the first time." |
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01 May 10 - 12:04 PM (#2898043) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Dausman the Elder I remember one ... Her hair was like straw, her eyes was like marbles, her teeth were like rocks: all chisled away. Her face was like felt: all green and fuzzy. Why, oh why didn't she stay. |
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23 May 10 - 05:36 PM (#2912722) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST When you were young, you weren't very pretty You'd make a freight train take a dirt road... Now that you're older you ain't much better, cause you'd scare the warts right off of a toad! |
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29 May 10 - 10:50 AM (#2916571) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Gene Buck Owens version... (found online) Down here on the farm the weather gets messy laying around with nothing to do When you went away you took my cow Bessie I miss her darling more than I miss you You took off your leg your wig and your eye-glass and you shoud've seen the look on my face I wanted to kiss I wanted to hug you but you were scattered all over the place Where oh where are you tonight why did you leave me here all alone I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love You met another and (pfft) you were gone I know that you loved me here's my way of knowing The proof's hanging out right there on the line When I see the snow and feel the wind blowing Your nighties hugging them long johns of mine The noises you made at our supper table your habits my dear, were surely absurd But how many times do I have to tell you soup is a dish to be seen and not heard Where oh where... Remember you phoned me a sobbin' and cryin' The dog bit your maw and drug her around You said she looked pale and thought she was dying I said don't worry I'll buy a new hound I had six kids and you had eleven and we had eight more and they grew like flowers I wish you'd come back, without you ain't heaven Cause your kids and my kids are beatin' up ours Where oh where... |
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02 Aug 10 - 08:49 AM (#2956642) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST ...was at an antique steam and gas show yesterday and had an opportunity to sing this but bowed out because I could not remember some of the verses. Here are a couple of mine...somebody please correct or add to them if you know them. I heard tell that you were religious, A real holy roller from your head to your toes, But I found out you were just foolin, When you said grace before pickin your nose! Where or where are you tonight..... The other night after the hoe-down, We drove up to our parking place, I wrapped my arms around you wanting to hold you, You popped a zit, hit me square in the face. Where or where are you tonight.... The other night after the square dance, I was felling particularly bold, With my arm 'round you I pulled you closer, You raised your armpits and I blacked out cold. |
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16 Aug 10 - 01:33 PM (#2966482) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: Gene heard this one awhile back on a Hee Haw rerun on RFD. You always acted like you were so young, dear A livin' the life of excitement and spice You told the neighbors it's your 25th birthday 25th, nothin', you been 25 twice. |
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27 Aug 10 - 06:19 PM (#2974264) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Jimmy I help with The Archie Campbell Days in Bulls Gap Tenn. Phil Campbell [Archie's son] and I sing some "Where, Oh Where Are You Tonight" lyrics and I have just found alot of new lyrics we can use. THANKS! |
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27 Aug 10 - 11:42 PM (#2974391) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: Tannywheeler Ah, the classics. Who needs Shakespeare?? Tw |
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30 Sep 10 - 06:51 PM (#2997186) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST I remember in school how you kept us all laughin no one was quite sure of what you would say the teacher once told you to sit down in front you said you couldn't you don't bend that way... LOL |
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24 Oct 10 - 01:52 PM (#3014390) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST Pardon me dear if my words seem bitter There's no excuse for my broken dreams I did not know I married a quitter My life is falling apart at the seams! |
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08 Nov 10 - 09:20 PM (#3027227) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST Last night at the dance you sure did look purty you shure did look purty while doin a jig but come Monday morning while slopin the Hogs dear I could'nt tell you from one of the pigs. |
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29 Nov 10 - 11:56 PM (#3043297) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST We went to the barn to milk a new heifer You came alomg, not want'n to nag You went inside to fetch me a milk stool You left me there a hold'n the bag |
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14 Feb 11 - 06:06 AM (#3094916) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST I had a wife Blanche she sure was a drinker A pint an hour is what she would take and when it came time for our wedding reception her breath lit the candles on our wedding cake |
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20 Feb 11 - 09:16 AM (#3099059) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST My son wants to sing this at a variety show. Anyone know where I can get the background music? |
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21 Feb 11 - 06:30 AM (#3099618) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where. From: GUEST,.gargoyle http://gosong.net/download/qfdnhnjlsAk/Where_Oh_Where_are_You.html
Multiple versions available at above.
A simple wash-tub bass would work well.
Sincerely,
HHH version - warning not for under-age kids.
Why did you make us hash all alone? You fat lazy B+st+ards While you weren't here, We F^cked all the new boots And drank all the beer. |
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08 May 11 - 02:46 PM (#3150458) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,KD who was the guy with archie campbell that goes like this:
Pardon me dear if my words seem bitter, |
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08 May 11 - 11:50 PM (#3150636) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Gene A better question might be "Who Didn't Sing Pfft! You Were Gone" with Archie... Conway Twitty, Vince Gill, etc., a guest on Hee Haw. G |
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11 Oct 11 - 09:24 PM (#3237543) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST The lyrics for the cow one are:
You bought yourself an electric milker. |
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12 Jan 12 - 09:25 PM (#3289688) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: Gene At Jingle Bell time you made out the gift list For Judy & Jill & Trudy & Tex When Christmas rolled 'round, you sent out the gift list You signed the cards, dear, but I signed the checks. Another one from a Hee Haw Rerun on RFD. Gene |
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25 Sep 12 - 10:11 AM (#3409912) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST Here is a new one I remember, I remember darlin the first time I met you You looked at me with that big posseum grin I asked you sweetheart please may I kiss you You opened your mouth; that's when I fell in. |
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12 Nov 13 - 10:16 AM (#3575007) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,John I went to the barn to milk our cow Elsie She gave to me a good bucket full It tasted funny all over the corn flakes It wasn't Elsie; it was the bull Where, oh where... |
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06 Jan 16 - 09:52 PM (#3763354) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST Here are some of my favorites: Where are you tonight? (Funny/hee haw version) lyrics - Verse 1: You yelled at me darling your voice was like gravel And you scared the mocking birds right out of the trees I'm singing this song and I hope you will hear it Darling oh darling don't come back to me Chorus: Where oh where, are you tonight Why did you leave me here all alone I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love You met another and (plfzzz) you was gone Verse 2: We all were amazed as the kids kept on comin' The doctor bills mounted, I said "That's enough" That duck by the dog pen ain't no duck at all dear That duck's just a stark with its legs plum wore off (Chorus) Verse 3: No one ever said that you was a beauty Your figure was like a flat river boat I still recall well the first time I kissed you The hairs on your chin dear they tickled my throat (Chorus) Tag: Yes you met another and (plfzzz) you was gone |
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26 Mar 16 - 11:06 PM (#3781613) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Guest I married you because of your money. you married me because of my wealth. I drank and you decided to leave me, decided to leave me because of my health. |
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27 Mar 16 - 12:38 PM (#3781678) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: BrooklynJay Here's an original one: You drank and caroused like there was no tomorrow, Your morals was loose as the tie 'round my neck; Last Saturday night when we went to the square dance The caller cried "Hoedown" and you hit the deck! Jay |
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11 Apr 16 - 09:24 PM (#3784796) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,mela I think there was also a verse that ended with the words: I like to watch telly, but in that crazy picture, the Lone Ranger looks like he's a ridin' a snake. |
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11 Jun 17 - 06:47 PM (#3860372) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Bill Schmaltz I took my girlfriend to the drive-in movie, We brought our own popcorn and sodie-pop too, You asked me if I'd like to sit in the back seat, I said, "No, I would rather sit up front with you!" |
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20 Jul 17 - 07:49 AM (#3867263) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Randito I knoocked out six teeth when I punched you, darlin'; You knocked out seven when you slapped my face. When we was smoochin', no one come betwixt us, 'Cause we was locked in a lover's embrace. |
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11 Jun 19 - 02:20 AM (#3995904) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pfft! You Was Gone: 'Where, oh where...?' From: GUEST,Ed Collins An original of mine: I wanted to hold you and hug you and kiss you You said, "Not now - I'm not in the mood." You offered instead, to make me a sandwich The joke is on you dear - I just wanted food |