Lyr Req: Hippies and the Beatniks (Miles Wootton)

04 Mar 07 - 02:55 PM (#1986062)
Subject: She;s Gone with the Hippies and the beatniks O:
From: lisa null

Hi:

Does anyone out there happen to have the lyrics to "She;s Gone With The Hippies and the Beatniks Oh" or know who wrote it and where it might be found?

I'd like to learn it --- a nice song from my rapidly aging generation!

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04 Mar 07 - 02:58 PM (#1986064)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace

The title is

"The Hippies and the Beatniks.

It is in the dt. If you have difficulties, here's the link:

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiGYPHIPPI.html

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http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6451

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04 Mar 07 - 03:03 PM (#1986069)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Susan of DT

Lisa

If you search for Child #200, you will find several parodies along with the regular versions.

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04 Mar 07 - 03:08 PM (#1986075)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Alec

I'd never come across this one before.Great song!

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04 Mar 07 - 04:27 PM (#1986138)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Don Firth

This was a much requested song in the late John Dwyer's very large repertoire. I think he said that he learned it from a singer in Vancouver, B. C., but where it came from before that, I have no idea. Obviously it was an idea whose time had come.

Don Firth

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04 Mar 07 - 04:31 PM (#1986141)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: The Borchester Echo

As Susan says, it's a parody of Child #200, written by Miles Wootton.

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04 Mar 07 - 04:58 PM (#1986174)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE HIPPIES AND THE HAIRIES
From: GUEST

I know it as The Hippies and the Hairies O

with the words as follows:

It was late one night, Mr. Jones came home
On the 5:47 from London O
He was rich and fat, wore a big bowler hat
And he hated the hippies and the hairies o

He walked in through his mock Tudor door
And he called to his wife, "Well I'm home dear o
I'm late I'm afraid, the train was delayed
It must be the hippies and the hairies o"

Scarecely had he stepped inside
when the au-pair ran to meet him o
saying "madame is not 'ere, she is gone I fear
Away wi' ze 'ippies an' ze 'airies o"

"O bring to me my MG BGT
for the Daimler was never so speedy o
And I will drive 'til I find her alive
Or dead with the hippies and the hairies o"

So he drove East and he drove West
Until he came to a field near Knebworth o
and there she did stand, with a joint in her hand,
she was getting into Hawkwind with the hairies o

"O What makes you leave your house and car
Your washing machine and your stereo
Your children three, not to mention me
To go with the hippies and the hairies o?"

"O What care I for my house and car
My washing machine and my stereo
For a fuse I've primed and the whole lot's timed
To explode in the middle of the Wogan show"

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04 Mar 07 - 05:01 PM (#1986176)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs

((That Guest post was me, sorry, I wasn't signed in))

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04 Mar 07 - 05:27 PM (#1986204)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Stilly River Sage

I'll see if I can find Dad's verses and add them to the thread. I am sure I have it on tape somewhere, I don't know if they're all written down where I can find them easily.

SRS (Maggie Dwyer)

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04 Mar 07 - 05:35 PM (#1986206)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Scrump

Fred Wedlock has recorded it on both his different albums bearing the title "The Oldest Swinger In Town".

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04 Mar 07 - 05:43 PM (#1986210)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D

The singer from Vancouver was Jon Bartlett...I heard him do this at the USA "National Folk Festival" in about 1977. I shamelessly stole it, and have sung it at odd times ever since.

(Lisa...you probably heard it from me..)

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04 Mar 07 - 05:49 PM (#1986215)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace

Rika Ruebsaat and Jon Bartlett pic.

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04 Mar 07 - 05:51 PM (#1986217)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D

funny, I remember his beard being black...*grin*...(He and our own Jon Eberhart sang "Thaïs" under the stage)

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04 Mar 07 - 06:13 PM (#1986246)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: MARINER

First heard it sung by an American singer at the Carnsore Anti Nuke Demo in 1978 .Any chance that was Jon Bartlett or you Bill D ?

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04 Mar 07 - 06:50 PM (#1986278)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Leadfingers

Miles Wootton rewrote it a couple of times - Hippies and Beatniks was the earliest ! I believe there is a CD of some of Miles old stuff in
the pipeline !

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04 Mar 07 - 06:52 PM (#1986282)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Peace

His beard is dark brown, Bill. So is my hair. I tell people, "This is what true dark brown really looks like."

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04 Mar 07 - 07:01 PM (#1986285)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Bill D

nope, Mariner...not me. I just sing in small groups. Might have been Jon..

(yeah, Peace...mine is reddish...like in those old Mudcat photos)...at least I still have a lot of it)

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04 Mar 07 - 08:59 PM (#1986391)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: open mike

is this a play on wraggle taggle gypsys??

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04 Mar 07 - 09:20 PM (#1986414)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: The Fooles Troupe

I want some of what he's on...

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05 Mar 07 - 10:43 AM (#1986937)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Stilly River Sage

yes, open mike, it is.

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05 Mar 07 - 01:10 PM (#1987167)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: leeneia

It's a clever song until the end. There's nothing funny about bombs.

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05 Mar 07 - 03:38 PM (#1987336)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs

I'm just reporting it as I learned it

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05 Mar 07 - 03:39 PM (#1987340)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: Sherbs

and yes Open Mike, it is from the Raggle-taggle Gypsies, or Black Jack Davy which is another version of the same song.

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05 Mar 07 - 06:00 PM (#1987492)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: DADGBE

'Catters Bev and Jerry Praver often perform a version of this in their school programs.

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05 Mar 07 - 10:18 PM (#1987683)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

This WONDERFUL!!! THREAD and its aborted censorship

IS A PRIME EXAMPLE WHY THE MUDCAT IS DEAD...
A carriorn worthy of buzzard's breath

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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05 Mar 07 - 10:34 PM (#1987692)
Subject: RE: She;s Gone wiHippies and the beatniks O:
From: lisa null

Thanks a lot. I had a different title so couldn;t get the lyrics in Digitrad. In the meantime, I'm throughly enjoying all the other answers to this thread. What a resource you guys are.

Lisa

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