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29 Mar 01 - 11:17 PM (#428944) Subject: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: GUEST,MABELH@PRIDIGY.NET I am trying to find the words to this song. Any help would be appreciated. |
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30 Mar 01 - 08:15 PM (#429686) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Any more clues, such as a verse or where and when you heard it? |
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30 Mar 01 - 09:39 PM (#429727) Subject: Lyr Add: BIG MABLE MURPHY From: Sorcha Is this it? I am constantly amazed at what I find on the web. BIG MABLE MURPHY Way back in 29 in a town called Coffeeville Was a honky-tonk named Big Mable Murphy’s She had a sweetheart his name was Melvin And hair would fly between them every night Cause poor little Melvin was up every morning With two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head They said that Melvin'd get high on bathtub gin Cause it made him grow to almost twice his size He'd try to take over he'd sass Big Mable And her great big fist would black little Melvin’s eyes One rainy evening Scarface Moozeyola Come in and started shoving folks around Big Mable Murphy was out in the kitchen They say Scarface shot little Melvin down The very next morning down by the river Scarface was found a being a little short of breath They say that Scarface had died from a whuppin' He had two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head Big Mable Murphy's place raved on til she died And sometimes a tear would fill her eye And then she'd whisper lord I’d give anything If once more I could black little Melvin’s eyes |
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30 Mar 01 - 09:42 PM (#429729) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Sorcha Sorry about the caps, I cut and pasted........ |
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30 Mar 01 - 11:07 PM (#429764) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Giac Once again, hats off to ya, Sorcha. I looked for that thing for two hours this morning. I remembered the "black eyes and knuckle bumps," but nothing more. Did the source say who recorded it? |
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31 Mar 01 - 12:32 AM (#429796) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Gene The WRITER, for one....DALLAS FRAZIER |
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31 Mar 01 - 08:31 PM (#430296) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Sorcha Only other recording artist I could find besides Frazier was Sue Thompson. |
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31 Mar 01 - 11:18 PM (#430350) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Giac Sue Thompson's the one I could "hear" singing it. Thanks, Sorcha, I think it was on the country charts in the early 70s, around the same time she made some records with Don Gibson. |
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01 Apr 01 - 12:24 AM (#430376) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Sorcha From somwhere......"Sue Thompson's last great hit was Big Mabel...in 1975." and you know what? Now I can't find the lyrics. Can't find the site I copied them from, LOL! I know all I did was put "big mabel and little melvin" in Google, and now it won't come up. I do remember that there was no other info at the site, just the lyrics, which is why I didn't bother to paste the URL..... |
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01 Apr 01 - 12:38 AM (#430381) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Sorcha aHA! I finally found it again! You have to spell it mabLE instead of mabEL.....here is the address...http://server3003.freeyellow.com/colvin/songs and I sen an e mail to mabelh who requested it. |
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01 Apr 01 - 12:57 AM (#430386) Subject: RE: Big Mabel Murphy and Little Melvin From: Sorcha Well, Mabel's address doesn't work. Wonder if it's prOdigy instead of prIdigy......if one doesn't know one's own e mail, there is not much we can do. |
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01 Apr 01 - 01:16 AM (#430391) Subject: RE: Dallas Frazier/Big Mable Murphy From: Gene FWIW: Besides the referenced song, here's a list of just a few of the many HIT SONGS written by Dallas Frazier
All I Have To Offer You Is Me-Charley Pride
Baptism Of Jesse Taylor, The-Oak Ridge Boys
Dream Painter-Connie Smith
Elvira-Oak Ridge Boys
Fourteen Carat Mind-Gene Watson
How To Catch An African Skeeter-Little Jimmy Dickens
I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me-Charley Pride
Johnny One Time-Brenda Lee
Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp, The-Kenny Rogers
There Goes My Everything-Ferlin Husky
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