08 Aug 03 - 09:24 PM (#999229) Subject: Lyr Req: You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act) From: Bert C Gawd, it's been way too long since I've been around here. There's just not enough of me to go around. Anyhow, does anyone have the lyrics for Mary-Chapin Carpenter's great satire, "You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act)". I heard it on one of the country music award shows some years back, and I thought I had a tape of it, but I can't seem to find it. Thanks Much, Bert C |
08 Aug 03 - 11:11 PM (#999254) Subject: Lyr Add: YOU DON'T KNOW ME (I'M THE OPENING ACT) From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Google's Cache gives us this file from http://www.johnejennings.com/4chapin/chlyr/openact.html. This is MCC's famous performance at the 1990 CMA awards which got her a standing ovation. Then there's the other version... Opening Act
You don't have a backstage room of your own.
Now, I don't have a hit on the Billboard charts.
Now, I'm not going bald, so I don't wear a hat
Now for 37 minutes I sang out my heart. This one is the, uh, more BLUNT version of the song that she sang in concert
You don't have a backstage room of your own.
There's a cold cut platter and beer for the crew.
The right attitude will get me such a long way.
I don't have a hit in the Billboard charts.
Now I'm not going far so I don't wear a hat.
Now for 37 minutes I'll sing out my heart. |
09 Aug 03 - 10:20 AM (#999367) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act) From: Bert C That's the one all right, but I didn't recall her being quite that blunt when I saw it on TV. Perhaps it was sanitized for the video masses. Trouble is, I thought I remembered the tune, but now I can't quite fit it with the words. Do you by any chance have the chords? Thanks, Bert C |
21 Aug 03 - 12:15 AM (#1005641) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act) From: Jim Dixon I'm puzzled by this. I see that Mary Chapin Carpenter won a "Song of the Year" award for this song in 1991 - from the Washington (DC) Area Music Association, yet I can't find any evidence that she ever recorded it. Wassup with that? |
21 Aug 03 - 01:00 AM (#1005653) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act) From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Burt. Sorry, no chords can I locate. If you look closely there, the site I got it from and what I posted has TWO versions. One a tad more blunt than the other.... |
21 Aug 03 - 01:03 AM (#1005656) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Don't Know Me (I'm The Opening Act) From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Reminds me. MAry Chapin Carpenter and Nanci Griffiths are on the August 30th WGBH Austin City Limits Episode. Should be good. Perhaps she'll do this song. |