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Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?

08 Oct 02 - 09:44 AM (#798872)
Subject: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Kudzuman


Meet me tonight, darling meet me
Meet me by the light of the moon
For I have something to tell you.......

I can't find this in the DT or DF. Any ideas anyone? Thanks!

Kudzuman


08 Oct 02 - 10:11 AM (#798889)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Mark Clark

It's called The Prisoner's Song.

      - Mark


08 Oct 02 - 10:50 AM (#798909)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: masato sakurai

'Prisoner's Song' - Vernon Dalhart [Realaudio] from The Record Lady's Country site (Real Country Archives Page 5).

~Masato


08 Oct 02 - 12:02 PM (#798954)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Coyote Breath

Well, yes Vernon Dalhart and there is a "parody" which is a moonshining song;

I am sure that those lawmen don't like me
They have drove me away from my still
And of course I had to leave there running
Through the wildwood and over the hill.

Chorus:
And its meet me tonight old pal meet me
Meet me out in the moon light alone
For I have ten gallons of good whiskey
Must be sold by the light of the moon

Chorus:

Well I know that the lawmen don't love me
They have drove me from my cabin door
If I had my time to do over
I would still ten thousand gallons or more.

Chorus:

If I knew when those lawmen were coming
I could be standing in my cabin door
With my pockets full of steel jackets
And my Colt ivory handled forty-four.

Chorus


08 Oct 02 - 02:45 PM (#799043)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Kudzuman

Thanks to all. I'm a happy camper now!!

Kudzuman


08 Oct 02 - 02:58 PM (#799049)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: M.Ted

Only thing is that the Prisoner Song is a collection of bits from other songs--anyone know of any earlier works with these particular lines?


11 Oct 02 - 09:20 AM (#800994)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Jim Dixon

Coyote Breath: Do you happen to know who wrote and/or recorded the parody you posted? And does it have a title?


11 Oct 02 - 10:00 AM (#801040)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me tonight, Darling Meet me?
From: Willie-O

Meet me tonight in the cowshed
After the cows come home
For though it is only a cowshed
To me it is home sweet home.

;)=

W-O