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29 Dec 03 - 11:03 AM (#1081525) Subject: Song for retirement party? From: Pinetop Slim A good fella is retiring from our company after 35 years. Can any catters recommend a song that would be appropriate for his retirement party and could be learned quickly by a "choir" of untrained singers? |
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29 Dec 03 - 11:40 AM (#1081544) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: open mike dylan's forever young? |
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29 Dec 03 - 11:40 AM (#1081545) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: open mike for he's a jolly good fellow....nobody can deny.... |
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29 Dec 03 - 11:41 AM (#1081546) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Amos Bessie Smith's "You Been A Good Ole Wagon, Daddy, But You Done Broke Down". A |
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29 Dec 03 - 11:42 AM (#1081547) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: ddw If he feels about his work like I did mine by the time I left, Take This Job and Shove It would definitely be appropriate... cheers, david |
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29 Dec 03 - 11:44 AM (#1081552) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: artbrooks So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya, and its easy to massage the lyrics to fit the situation. |
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29 Dec 03 - 12:05 PM (#1081566) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: stagehawk Old and in the way?????? |
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29 Dec 03 - 12:15 PM (#1081577) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: breezy Stan Roger's 'Last watch on the Midland' ??? at 64 you're still the best, one more year and then you're less than dust upon the floor. |
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29 Dec 03 - 12:27 PM (#1081589) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Gareth "I thought I heard the Old Man say, Leave her Johnny leave her..."! Gareth |
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29 Dec 03 - 01:11 PM (#1081621) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,Les B. "Goin'Down the Road Feelin'Bad" ?? |
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29 Dec 03 - 01:36 PM (#1081630) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Little Robyn My husband was going to sing Gordon Dryden's 'Factory Lad' when he was made redundant, but when the time came, he couldn't do it. 'So when my time comes, as come it must, I'll leave this place, I'll walk right out past the charge-hand's desk and I'll never turn me face. Out through the gate into the sun and I'll leave it all behind With one regret for the lads I've left to carry on the grind. ch. Turning steel how do you feel.............' Robyn |
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29 Dec 03 - 01:44 PM (#1081635) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Leadfingers Not so sure about being learnt by a "choir" but Keith Marsdens song 'Prospect Providence' is a guy retiring from work in a woolen mill, or Utah Phillips 'All Used Up' might fill the bill as well. |
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29 Dec 03 - 02:41 PM (#1081685) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Uncle_DaveO This one (although I usually use it as a birthday song) would work, I think. It's to the tune of Silver Threads Among the Gold. [Darling/fella/Charlie/Charlene], you are growing ooo-old Rocks don't get as old as you! You're not quite as old as God is, But you're older than primordial stew! Yes, my [Darling/fella/Charlie/Charlene], you will be, will be... Older than the rocks and trees Yes, my [Darling/fella/Charlie/Charlene], you will beeee-eeee Older than the rocks and trees! Dave Oesterreich |
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29 Dec 03 - 03:33 PM (#1081728) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Joe Offer Hi, Slim - I think the perfect retirement song is My Get Up and Go Has Got Up and Went. I find, though, that now that I'm retired, I have plenty of get-up-and-go. -Joe Offer- |
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29 Dec 03 - 06:40 PM (#1081884) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Emma B When I quit Social Work, a few years ago, I sang the first and last verse of the Parting Glass at my leaving 'do'. A "good fellow" might find the middle verse appropiate too! |
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31 Dec 03 - 09:45 AM (#1083123) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST Thanks all. -- Slim |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:00 AM (#1083137) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: John MacKenzie Go Now John |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:14 AM (#1083144) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: The Fooles Troupe "Turnin' steel, how do you feel, as in the chuck you spin? If you felt like me, you'd roll right out, and never roll back in!" Great harmonies possible! |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:26 AM (#1083156) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,Puffenkinty "Quitting Time" by the Roche sisters |
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31 Dec 03 - 12:35 PM (#1083256) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,Nancy King at work "Too old to work and too young to die" |
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01 Jan 04 - 06:30 AM (#1083774) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Tattie Bogle Freewheeling Now by Jim Reid, but it's really about reaching 50th birthday, but you could modify the words of the first verse to suit the occasion. |
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01 Jan 04 - 11:17 AM (#1083870) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,MickyMan Lou and Peter Berriman have a great new humorous song called "Older Than Everybody" that is very cute and really much more possitive than it sounds. Another that comes to mind is "The Dancing Boilerman" (Writer Charlie King... he was from CT, USA about 25 years ago). It's especially approprate for a dancer as it is about a factory worker who enjoys retirement because he and his wife take up "dancin' at the YMCA". That's square dancing...and it's laced with dance calls that could probably be changed to any style. Some of the earler entries are downright depressing. I don't know about everybody elase, but I'm looking forward to those years! |
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01 Jan 04 - 11:22 AM (#1083874) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,JTT Maybe it'd be a good idea to find songs that are about new beginnings. Mind you, my mind's a blank right now; only one I can think of is The Manchester Rambler - "I may be a wage slave on Monday But I am a free man come Sunday"! |
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01 Jan 04 - 11:23 AM (#1083876) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: McGrath of Harlow Why not Born to be Wild? |
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08 Jun 08 - 09:55 AM (#2360624) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,danni A Million Miles Away by David Byrne off his Uh-Oh CD. |
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08 Jun 08 - 10:05 AM (#2360628) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: John MacKenzie Gold Watch Blues by Donovan. Cho. Here's your gold watch, and the shackles to your chain And the piece of paper, to say you left here sane And if you've a son, that wants a good career. Just get him to sign on the dotted line, and work for 50 years. G |
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08 Jun 08 - 10:08 AM (#2360630) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: john f weldon I see not everyone's into positive thinking here. Ah well, here's the worst song for a retirement party: Sarah Silverman |
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08 Jun 08 - 11:46 AM (#2360691) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Darowyn On Melanie's most recent CD, there is a song which I shall need to be restrained from singing at my retirement party. "I Tried to Die Young" I might just do a line from Woodstock:- "We are Stardust, we are golden, And we've got to get ourselves back to the gardening" Cheers Dave |
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08 Jun 08 - 12:11 PM (#2360711) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: topical tom If appropriate, "I Did It My Way". "The Parting Glass". "The Honor of Your Company". |
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08 Jun 08 - 01:33 PM (#2360760) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: dick greenhaus Take this job and shove it! |
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08 Jun 08 - 01:47 PM (#2360768) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: peregrina This Day is Mine--Winter Wilson Ah cud hew--Ed Pickford |
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08 Jun 08 - 02:32 PM (#2360817) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Effsee "Don't call me early in the morning!? |
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08 Jun 08 - 02:38 PM (#2360821) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: kendall Onnie by Johnnie Cash |
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08 Jun 08 - 03:35 PM (#2360860) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: Marc Bernier All Used Up by Utah Phillips |
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09 Jun 08 - 06:32 AM (#2361253) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: cetmst I Have Been a Good Boy, Carl Sandburg version |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:04 AM (#2361261) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: quokka 'Those Were the Days My Friend' I thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day... Sory don't remember any more of the words Cheers Quokka |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:43 AM (#2361285) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work) My mate Smiley Dave sings a song 'he's old and grey and only in the way' |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:47 AM (#2361289) Subject: RE: Song for retirement party? From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work) and here it is Old And Only In The Way From Charlie Poole When you walk along the street, how often times you'll meet Some poor old man who's getting old and gray With age is back is bent, in his pockets not a cent And for shelter he has no place to stay His relations by the score, they'll turn him from the door They'll see him on the street and pass him by If you ask them why they do, they'll turn and say to you "He is poor, he's gray, he's only in the way." cho: Now let us cheer them on, for they won't be with us long Don't quarrel with them because they're old and gray Just remember while you're young that to you old age will come When you'll be old and gray, and only in the way. There was a time, I hear, when youth was not so queer But since that time there's been an awful change Young men with strength and might to their parents they bring strife If it happens every day that's nothing strange In shackles they did toil, their children they did spoil As sure for death ofttimes they do pray He and his faithful wife were toiling all their life To find they're old and only in the way Now my message, I am sure, is for rich as well as poor Take a rich man when he's growing old His relations 'round him stand, and take him by the hand They all want him to die, they want his gold Through life he did enjoy all the things that gold can buy But all his gold, his life it could not save After all he's like the poor when his journey's nearly o'er He finds he's old and only in the way |