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13 Feb 99 - 06:25 PM (#58478) Subject: LYR ADD:DetourOnTheHighwayToHeaven From: 'YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN" (Melody: "The Great Speckled Bird" When Mama lay a-dyin' on the flatbed, She told me not to truck with girls like you; But I w sun instead. Thanks link.net ö!Î à!Î €Ô€8 ÿ ´ ÿ Message_ID 8 쳌£¥ Wÿ8 Ð|£¥ ' Ð Hò ' L …éã d^k Mf `æ' [n@ ^ 8ô' (Á |
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13 Feb 99 - 06:30 PM (#58480) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: --seed Hey, Joe--Any idea why I can't get this damned thing to post? --seed |
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14 Feb 99 - 10:50 PM (#58626) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: alison Hi Seed, Joe is on holiday for a few days... but if you check in other threads you'll see we've all been having the same problem with bits of postings disappearing... Hopefully Max is still trying to fix it.... Slainte alison |
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15 Feb 99 - 12:05 AM (#58632) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: Art Thieme excrete the impeashment but cornedbeef tastes better peppermeat rolls if yo give it a kickkkkkkkk alas alas alas alas . Why shouldn't Keep on the sunny side or condem condem condem Say, what's wrong. This thing won't post right |
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15 Feb 99 - 02:21 AM (#58642) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: seed -Art, I couldn't have said it better myself. --seed |
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15 Feb 99 - 02:41 AM (#58643) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: Mohammed hlloooooooooooooooooooooo..............slammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
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15 Feb 99 - 02:41 AM (#58644) Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN From: --seed I'll just enter the whole song again. As I said in the earlier attempt to post which no one saw, this--not "You Never Even Call Me by My Name"--is the perfect country song. Although it lacks rain, a train, prison, and gettin' drunk, it has Momma, it has a truck, plus it has a honky-tonk woman, that lost highway, and heaven--and it has the most wonderful bunch of overblown country metaphors of any song I ever heard. YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN (tune: The Great Speckled Bird) When Momma lay a-dyin' on the flatbed, She told me not to truck with girls like you, But I was blinded by the glare of your headlights, And went joy-ridin' just for the view. (chorus) You're a detour on the highway to heaven. I am lost on the back roads of sin. I have got to get back to the four-lane, So that I can see Momma again. Your curves made me lose my direction, My hands from the steering wheel strayed, But you were just one more roadside attraction: It's been ten thousand miles since I prayed. If you ever get out of the fast lane, And get back to that highway above, I'll be waiting for you at the tollbooth, In that land where all roads end in love. I don't know who wrote this. One of my fellow Born Once Gospel Singers found it on an album (we're playing tomorrow night: I'll try to find out). --seed |
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15 Feb 99 - 04:19 AM (#58654) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: From: Rick Fielding Seed, I gotta know more about the "Born Once Gospel Singers"! Have you ever done a prayer breakfast for the Christian Deer Hunters? Apologies to the religious...there's a lot of us heathens in Canada. |
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11 May 99 - 02:20 AM (#77436) Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN From: bseed(charleskratz) I thought I posted this song several months ago but a forum search by title and by key phrases failed to turn it up, as did a search of my own postings, some 600 over the past 11 months. It, and not "You Never Even Call Me by My Name<" is the perfect country song. No trains and no gettin' drunk (other than implied), but dyin' mama, loose woman, trucks up the yazoo, bein' lost on the highway, and a passel of the wildest country metaphors you've ever heard. And it doesn't even need Charlie Pride and Merle Haggard imitations to make it work: YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN Melody: "The Great Speckled Bird" or "The Wild Side of Life"
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Your curves made me lose my direction,
If you ever get out of the fast lane I hope I did the HTML right for the chord placement--it was fine when I wrote it in Claris Works, but it looks funny here. --seed |
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11 May 99 - 02:23 AM (#77438) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Yer a Detour on Highway to Heaven From: bseed(charleskratz) That is so-oo-o-o- weird. But I suppose you can get the idea (or maybe Joe can straighten it up--he has the key to the threads). --seed |
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11 May 99 - 10:52 PM (#77686) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Yer a Detour on Highway to Heaven From: bseed(charleskratz) Aw, the hell with it. Anybody who knows the tune can figure out the chords easily enough. By the way, "The Wild Side of Life" is also known as "(I Didn't Know God Made) Honky Tonk Angels," and of course, if you don't know them, you might know "I"m Thinking Tonight of My Blue-Eyes." Here's the first verse again, without the mess created by the chords" When Mama lay a-dyin' on the flatbed, She tol' me not to truck with girls like you, But I was blinded by the glare of your headlights And lost my way a-starin' at the view. And the first word of the chorus, is, of course, "You're," not Youlre (I thought I caught all those little buggers--when I copy things from my word processor and drop them in here, I have to convert all the apostrophes, quotes, and commas--that is, I have to erase them and retype them here). |
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11 May 99 - 11:43 PM (#77700) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Yer a Detour on Highway to Heaven From: campfire and, of course, the final remake, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels". I'm not sure it was God who made HTML, either. campfire |
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12 May 99 - 03:27 AM (#77755) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Yer a Detour on Highway to Heaven From: bseed(charleskratz) Right, campfire--that first feeble thrust into feminism in country music:) --seed |
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16 Sep 06 - 08:17 AM (#1835910) Subject: RE: ADD: Detour On The Highway To Heaven From: chazkratz Yup, bdfk, "seed" being me in an earlier incarnation. The wonders of the forum search engine, huh? Charles |
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16 Sep 06 - 08:41 AM (#1835927) Subject: RE: ADD: Detour On The Highway To Heaven From: Ron Davies Fantastic song! |
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20 Nov 13 - 02:47 PM (#3577481) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You're a Detour on the Highway to Heaven From: GUEST,Nita "You're a Detour..." was written by a group of women mystery writers. They included Sharyn McCrumb, an award-winning novelist who writes about Appalachia, Joan Hess, whose mystery characters live in Arkansas, and Dorothy Cannell. Elizabeth Peters, who wrote the Amelia Peabody mystery series, included the lyrics and some comments on the song's origin in her 1994 book "Last Train to Memphis" and Hess included it in her "O Little Town of Maggody", also in 1994. |