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27 Jun 06 - 07:23 AM (#1770042) Subject: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: LilyFestre Does anyone know the words for Drunken Billy Goat? Thanks! Michelle |
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27 Jun 06 - 12:01 PM (#1770266) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Rman The only drunken billy goat i know is a Flatpicked guitar tune! |
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27 Jun 06 - 02:57 PM (#1770439) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Louie Roy I never heard the words to The Drunken Billy Goat,but I do have the fiddle tune and can send an MP3 if you PM me your email address.We had our own version of words for this tune when I was growing up in the 1930,but the words were our version.Louie Roy |
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27 Jun 06 - 03:51 PM (#1770493) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Slag Perhaps "Bill Grogin's"? I vaugely remember something about him eating Bill's union suit then coughing up the red flannel and flagging down the train just in time. I'll asked my dad (86 years) as he used to play the guitar and sing this when I was a child. |
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27 Jun 06 - 07:53 PM (#1770688) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Louie Roy Slag that song is completely different from the Drunken Billy Goat.I've been singing this tune for over 40 years and I never did know the correct name of it and I swear that Haggard came out with this song about 1965.I can post the Lyrics if anyone is interested |
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27 Jun 06 - 10:01 PM (#1770760) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Slag I, for one! |
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28 Jun 06 - 12:18 AM (#1770827) Subject: Lyr Add: DRUNKEN BILLY GOAT From: Louie Roy Slag here are the words to (Like I said I don't know the title) DRUNKEN BILLY GOAT Listen and I'll tell you about a little Billy Goat Who lived alone and he was very sad Until he met Miss Nanny all dressed up in her white coat And she made him happy with her Baa Baa Baa They ran away and married and were living on a farm But they were going hungry all the time Until one day the farmer's wife was hanging out the wash And Bill ate three red shirts right off the line Farmer Brown he was mad 'twas all the shirts that he had He caught Nan and she took all the blame He tied her to the railroad track,but when he went away Bill coughed up the shirts and flagged the train Billy loved Nanny and Nanny loved Billy Now all the little goats are going Baa Baa Baa If there is more verse to this song I never heard them and the story I heard was that Haggard wrote this song while still in the lockup since he was taking care of the barn animal.Whether this is true or false that is the story I heard 40 years ago. Louie Roy |
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28 Jun 06 - 01:47 AM (#1770854) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Artful Codger Hmm, sounds like an offshoot of Bill Grogan's Goat. Or red shirts (in threes) must be popular capricorn delicacies. |
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05 Mar 13 - 05:08 AM (#3486512) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: GUEST,guest It's not a song (not in English anyway) but a cassette tape- now reissued as a CD 'The Drunken Billy Goat' by Patrick Forester and Jim Bainbridge...review on mustrad.org |
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05 Mar 13 - 05:29 AM (#3486520) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: GUEST,Hootenanny Am I mistaken or is Drunken Billy Goat not one of the tunes played by Eck Robertson in the "Brilliancy Medley" That's what I was told by a fiddling friend. Hoot |
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05 Mar 13 - 04:24 PM (#3486730) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: GUEST,guest Hootenanny- written by Patrick Forester of Schull in Ireland according to my CD notes - if it's the same tune of course |
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05 Mar 13 - 05:28 PM (#3486758) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: GUEST,Hootenanny The fiddle tune by Uncle Eck was recorded in Dallas, Texas in October 1929, no lyrics. Hoot |
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06 Mar 13 - 03:12 AM (#3486913) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: Joe Offer BMI lists two songs titled "Drunken Billy Goat." One was by Richard T. Fegy, the other by Sam Bush. One could be an arrangement, and the other the original song. -Joe- |
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06 Mar 13 - 11:12 AM (#3487065) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Billy Goat From: GUEST,guest thats 2 songs and one tune then |