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11 May 01 - 12:06 AM (#460172) Subject: Lyr Add: CHASIN' RAINBOWS (The Dallas String Band) From: GutBucketeer I have fallin in love with this song. This is how I hear the words as sung be the Dallas String Band, and Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serendaders. The Double Decker String Band seems to sing it slightly different. I can't make out the second verse real well. Does anyone know if I have it correct?
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11 May 01 - 01:22 PM (#460551) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GutBucketeer oops: It should be Now that I am feeling blue, |
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18 Oct 01 - 09:13 AM (#574817) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GutBucketeer refresh |
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18 Oct 01 - 09:01 PM (#575183) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Stewie I hear some slight differences for the first verse in DSB version:
Some day you'll find the end of my rainbow To my ears, your second verse is pretty close to what the Cheap Suits sing. The DSB seem to sing something different, particularly the second time through - closer to what Norman Blake sings in his version on 'Flower From the Fields of Alabama'.
Some day the silver clouds will be lifting I don't reckon there can be anything definitive here, unless you can find some sheet music [it sounds like it may have originated as a pop song, but I find nothing at Levy] - you takes your pick. --Stewie.
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18 Oct 01 - 10:55 PM (#575276) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GutBucketeer Thanks Stewie! Do you know the chords? JAB |
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18 Oct 01 - 11:02 PM (#575280) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: SINSULL Very different from the one I remember: "I'm always chasing rainbows.... Maybe I'll find a little bluebird..." Anyone have the lyrics? |
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19 Oct 01 - 12:03 AM (#575301) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GutBucketeer Sinsull: That's a different song. I have the lyrics and chords from M. Ted. The lyrics are also on Melody Lane. The Lyrics are: I'm always chasing rainbows Watching clouds drifting by My schemes are just like all my dreams: Ending in the sky. Some fellows look to find the sunshine I always look and find the rain Some fellows make a winning sometimes I never even make a gain. Believe me, I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find A little bluebird in vain. The chords are: ||GG/D9D9/GG/EmEm/ AmAm/AmGAmG/D9D9/D9D9/ E7E7/E7E7/AmE7/AmAm/ A7A7/A7A7/D9/D9/ G7G7/CC//CC/ E7E7/E7E7/A7A7/D7D7/ GG/D9D9/GG/E7E7/ AmAm/A7D7/GG/GG|| JAB |
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19 Oct 01 - 05:03 AM (#575379) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Stewie JAB, Sorry, can't help you with chords. --Stewie. |
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10 Sep 03 - 12:04 AM (#1016029) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GutBucketeer Refresh: I'm still looking for the chords for this song if anyone has them worked out. JAB |
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10 Sep 03 - 08:33 PM (#1016594) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Jerry Rasmussen Have to pull out my CD of the Dallas String Band.... this is one of my favorites, too... along with I Used To Call Her Baby. I hear the words differently, but I'll have to listen to the recording again. Jerry |
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11 Sep 03 - 01:25 AM (#1016705) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: masato sakurai The chorus part of "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (sheet music at Levy) is an 1918 remake of Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu (1855). |
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12 Sep 03 - 08:17 PM (#1017912) Subject: Lyr Add: I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS (McCarthy...) From: Jim Dixon This seems to be a different song from the one GutBucketeer requested, but since there has been some discussion of it anyway, I might as well post it. The Levy collection has 3 editions of the sheet music for I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS, each associated with a different play or film: 1. The stage musical comedy, "Oh Look!" starring The Dolly Sisters and Harry Fox. See Masato's link above. This edition is missing its last page. 2. The 1939 film, "Rose of Washington Square," starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, and Al Jolson. Levy has the cover only, no sheet music pages. 3. The 1945 film, "The Dolly Sisters," starring Betty Grable, John Payne and June Haver. This is the one I used for my transcription which follows. It also has chords. As usual for songs of this period, the chorus is much better known than the verse. I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS (Words, Joseph McCarthy. Music, Harry Carroll [Frederic Chopin]. 1918.) At the end of the rainbow, there's happiness, And to find it how often I've tried; But my life is a race, just a wild goose chase, And my dreams have all been denied. Why have I always been a failure? What can the reason be? I wonder if the world's to blame? I wonder if it could be me? CHORUS: I'm always chasing rainbows, Watching clouds drifting by. My schemes are just like all my dreams, Ending in the sky. Some fellows look and find the sunshine; I always look and find the rain. Some fellows make a winning sometime; I never even make a gain. Believe me, I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain. |
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04 Oct 04 - 04:49 PM (#1288551) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Ron Davies Pretty late to be answering this, but for what it's worth. I think this is what the Double Decker String Band sings on this song--which they say they got from the Dallas String Band---maybe Double Decker guessed at the second verse, but I think it's a good one, made up or not. Someday you'll find the end of my rainbow And maybe find a little pot of gold Someday while running around You'll find what we never found A golden mist, a rainbow's kiss They all fall down in a little pot of gold Someday I'll be found to be missing Angels carried off my soul There is nothing I can do While I am feeling blue But chase those rainbows in my soul. |
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04 Oct 04 - 11:00 PM (#1288778) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Jerry Rasmussen Hey, Ron: I love the Double Decker String Band.. the second verse is definitely made up. Pete Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders made up anothe verse to Moving Day which was great, and fit the feeling of the song seamlessly. Jerry |
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05 Oct 04 - 06:15 AM (#1288994) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GUEST,Hootenanny I believe (and sing) the second verse as: Someday a silver cloud will come misting Angels will gather up my soul There is nothing I can do Now that I am feeling blue But look for the rainbow in my soul Are you still having trouble with the chords, or have you got them now? |
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05 Oct 04 - 06:42 AM (#1289014) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: Ron Davies It's too bad we haven't yet come up with a another totally different verse for the whole song. It seems what we're calling the second verse is actually the second part of the first verse. So the song as it stands only has one verse, no matter what the words are. It's such a great song-- has that 20's feel to it. don't you think?--could definitely use at least another verse. |
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05 Oct 04 - 02:41 PM (#1289451) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas StrBnd From: GUEST,Hootenanny Ron, I would guess written a bit earlier than the twenties although as far as I'm aware it was Coley Jones's Dallas String band that made the first recording and that was December 9th 1928. This version sounds more like an attempt at the "Barbershop Quartet" treatment, a style which I believe preceded the twenties. I have never heard a another version with more words than those indicated in the above thread. As a sideline; Whilst on the subject of the Dallas String Band I've always been intrigued by their version of "So Tired" compared to Lonnie Johnson's later and much slower version and the so different version by Skip James. |
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30 Jan 10 - 08:03 PM (#2825983) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas String Band From: GUEST The chords to this song go a little like this, such an amazing song F/Bflat/F/F/ G/C/F/F7/ Bflat/Bflat/F/D7/ G/G/C/C F/Bflat/F/F/ Bflat/Bflat/A7/A7/ F/C/F/D7/ G/C/F/C/ |
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30 Jan 10 - 08:59 PM (#2826031) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas String Band From: GutBucketeer Thanks for the chords !!! Its been awhile. |
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30 Jan 10 - 09:19 PM (#2826045) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows by Dallas String Band From: Jerry Rasmussen I think Stewies second verse is right on the money, and it is a second verse. Many years ago I was fooling around and wrote a song as much as anything out of love for this one. It wasn't very good, but here's what I remember. You go your way and I'll go mine Yours ain't the only way to go Just because your sun is shining now Don't mean your flowers gonna grow Just go your own sweet way But you'll be back some day And when you do, Honey, I'll say we're through ...... (can't remember the last line) Haven't thought of that in many, many years. I'm amazed that I can remember this much. Jerry |
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16 Feb 10 - 05:41 PM (#2841325) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows (from Dallas String Band From: stevewise I've just listened to the Dallas String Band's fantastic original of this, as downloaded from the Juneberry 78 site and what I hear is this Someday you'll find the end of my rainbow, And maybe find a little pot of gold. Someday while running around, You'll find what we never found. That golden mist, The rainbow kissed, That all falls down in a little pot of gold. Someday silver clouds will be missing, Angels cover up my gold. There ain't nothing I can do, While that I am feeling blue, But chase the rainbows in my soul. There is only one verse - it is sung twice with an instrumental break in between |
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18 Aug 15 - 12:27 PM (#3731178) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows (from Dallas String Band From: GUEST,el jefe this song is about watersports :) |
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13 Aug 19 - 02:13 AM (#4004376) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chasin' Rainbows (from Dallas String Band From: GUEST,Brian Smith Agree with Ron on the Double Decker lyrics, which I've just played again, except that the penultimate line matches stevewise on 16 Feb 10, "While that I am feeling blue". The "that" is crammed in there and is hard to make out. And yes, it seems that the Double Deckers were influenced by Stampfel and the Holy Modal Rounders. Don't they have a song or two where the guy with the highest voice imitates Pete in the background? I'm thinking "I Got Shoes" is one, don't recall the other. |