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17 Jul 01 - 09:58 AM (#508532) Subject: Rip Van Winkle From: 2feathers I've tried a lyrics search and can't find this one. Please help me find missing lyrics in this old song:
Oh, oh, many years ago
CHORUS:
(Now the real missing parts!)
I need this second verse. I know the song is silly, but it's fun! It has to be more than fifty years old. |
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17 Jul 01 - 10:43 AM (#508579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rip Van Winkle From: MMario From The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music You will find it at box 154a item 148 ---Jeff (PA)--- |
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17 Jul 01 - 11:35 AM (#508638) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rip Van Winkle From: 2feathers MMario So near and yet so far. I cannot get into this search site but get an error message that I should report to the systems administrator. I find Box 149 listed and then nothing to help me. How did you find it? I'd follow your footsteps, but the wind has covered them with snow HELP! |
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17 Jul 01 - 11:48 AM (#508650) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rip Van Winkle From: MMario whoops! sorry - that second link should have been box 154a item 148 that should take you right to it. I searched for rip van |
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17 Jul 01 - 12:38 PM (#508707) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rip Van Winkle From: 2feathers MMario, I got as far as the page with the 5 miniature sheet music pages, but when I went to enlarge the pages so I could read the lyrics (my whole purpose was the lyric search!) I was given an error message that my system administrator should correct something or other. I am not a techie, just a simple minded person. I wouldn't know where to start with that. I posted this problem on the Trouble page. IN THE MEANTIME if you can get to that page, and can enlarge the images, and read the lyrics, and post them for me, I can let the air out of my tensed up lungs. (Whew, that is.) My late husband (born 1917 and died in 1982) knew all kinds of funny songs. This was one he knew. He must have been a little kid when he heard it. |
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17 Jul 01 - 12:52 PM (#508720) Subject: Lyr Add: WHO PAID THE RENT FOR MRS RIP VAN WINKLE? From: MMario WHO PAID THE RENT FOR MRS. RIP VAN WINKLE (Lyric - Alfred Bryan Music - Fred. Fischer ~ 1914) (Levy Collection - box 154a item 148) Oh, oh, many years ago Lived the wife of happy Rip Van Winkle One day she drove poor Rip away As the little stars began to twinkle All that he had, he had under his hat And she was glad to see him go, So, over the hill he went Left her without a cent One thing I'm anxious to know CHORUS: Who paid the rent for Missus Rip Van Winkle, When Rip Van Winkle went away? And while he slept for twenty years Who was it kissed away her tears? She had no friends in the place Had no one to embrace But the landlord always saw her With a smile on her face Who paid the rent for Missus Rip Van Winkle When Rip Van Winkle went away? Oh, oh, many years ago Napoleon crossed the Alps one day in winter Oh, oh, history tells us so Julius Caesar stepped upon a splinter Miss Cleopatra she knew how to love She put a Mark on Anthony So, I searched in history To clear the mystery One thing that's worrying me Chorus |
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17 Jul 01 - 01:32 PM (#508772) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rip Van Winkle From: 2feathers THANK YOU MMARIO and anyone else who had a hand in fixing this! I got the sheet music and copied out the words! I thought I could also copy out the sheet music, but my computer won't copy this at all. Never mind, I know the melody well enough, and now I have filled it all the details. I was surprised to find out that the song writers, Alfred Bryan and Fred Fischer also wrote Peg O' My Heart - a classic! |