Even though I still think Chestnut Mare’s implied bestiality references top the corny dreck list!
Speaking of Chestnuts…this little diddy {with more sexual innuendo than Chuck Berry’s Live version of My Ding a Ling or Reelin’ & Rockin’} is on Rhino’s Have a Nice Day: Volume 21. It was done by Meri Wilson sold over a million copies and charted at 18 in 1977 (aren’t drugs great?).
Just a sampling…(BTW what’s the real diff between posting the whole song or a link or snippets thereof?) I went to my apartment on a Monday at one
A-singin’ do lolly, lolly shicky bum, shicky bum
Started movin’ in it on a Tuesday at two
A-singin’ do lolly, lolly shicky do, shicky do
Wednesday at three I called the phone company, singin’:
“Hey baby, put a phone in for me”
Thursday at four he came a-knockin’ at my door, singin’:
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do…
pulling out the stops…
“Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
Everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when we’re together,
Brighter than a lucky penny,
When you’re near the rain cloud disappears, dear,
And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.”
No, I did not Google. Music trivia is fairly easy for me. However, I am stumped by your last post. I do not recognize that song. This has been lots of fun. Please, someone else keep this going. It brings back great memories.
happyheathen : What makes you think anybody would have to google for that one? Everybody where I worked one time knew it by heart…We were “line draggers”. Can you guess what job we were doing?
On another note(gag) “Good-bye Roooosie, Queen of Pamona”. Like Mona Lott , I’m stumped by your last one.
Originally posted by happyheathen :
"No, I have no idea what a ‘line dragger’ is - best guess (backed by Google) is commercial fishing. Doubt if that is it, though."
Draggin’ the line is the job given to the low-man on a survey crew. You get to pull a 66 foot chain, on a straight line, through swamp, briar patches, deserts, and other pleasantries of nature. Thus some of the lyrics: “Huggin’ a tree when you get near it”, “I’ve seen fire and rain and snow and bright sunshine”, etc. It was years ago when I did that. I suspect that GPS units have made those chains obsolete now. (Another great summer job for high school kids bites the dust)
I’m cheatin’ here, breaking the “Post Heartbreak Hotel Top 40” rule, but it’s just too tempting:
“This white circle on my finger means we’re through
A reminder of my wasted years with you
I took off my rings and placed them out of sight
But that won’t keep me from missing you tonight.”
Get THAT one without google, and I’ll have Dejah Thoris send a whole plate of cyber-cookies to you!
Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson, Mississippi on a Saturday night
‘Specially when there was three of them and only one of me
They all started laughin’ and I felt kinda sick
And I knew I’d better think of somethin’ pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked old green-teeth right in the knee.
He let out a yell that’d curl your hair
But before he could move, I grabbed me a chair
And said; “Watch him folks, 'cause he’s a thouroughly dangerous man.”
“Well, you may not know it, but this man’s a spy
He’s an undercover agent for the FBI
And he’s been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.”
He was still bent over, holdin’ on to his knee
But everyone else was lookin’ and listenin’ to me
And I layed it on thicker and heavier as I went
I said; “Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearin’ Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars
And he voted for George McGovern for president.”
“He’s a friend of them long-haired, hippie type, pinko fags
I betcha he’s even got a Commie flag
Tacked up on the wall, inside of his garage
He’s a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys
He may look dumb, but that’s just a disguise
He’s a mastermind in the ways of espionage.”
John - didn’t know the term, although I’ve worked survey (in another life), From what I’ve seen, laser telemeter is the replacement (no chain, just carry this pole with a mirror where a rabbit could’nt go. Still good excercise in the open air…
the song (yes, I cheated) is ‘This White Circle’, probably by Kitty Wells (I do very little C&W)
**Rico! - ** Breakthrough!
That would be ‘Uneasy Rider’ - too lazy to look up the act
I hate to say it but I told you so, don’t mind my preachin’ to you
I said “don’t trust 'em, baby” now you know
You don’t know ev’rything there is to know in school.
Wouldn’t believe me when I gave advice, I said that he was a tease
If you want help you better ask me now
So be sincere, convince me with a “pretty please”
Laugh, laugh, I thought I’d die
It seemed so funny to me
Laugh, laugh you met a guy who taught you how it feels to be
Lonely, oh so lonely
[hijack] Rico, thanks for the memories. I did that song karaoke-style in a hotel bar in Huntingdon, West Virginia while I was visiting a friend of mine who’s an archaeologist. It was the first time I’d met her co-workers and I hadn’t spoken to them much when I did that song, complete with appropriate accent. What my friend and I found so amusing is that I am indeed from the South, south of London, England, and my natural accent is North-East American, with a faint hint of British.
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Now back to the battle:
Let’s Kool things off a little: We should Cherish the love we have
Cherish the life we live
Wo-o-o-oh
Cherish the love
Cherish the life,
Cherish the love
Your morning weather forecast: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head
But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Cryin’s not for me
Cause I’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’
And to think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was such a great movie (sigh!).
And finally, I know I’ll never love this way again
So I keep hopin’ on
Till all the good is go-one.
I know I’ll never love this way again.
Hold on, ho-old on.
[spoken]It seems the love I’ve known has always been the most destructive kind. Maybe that’s why now I feel so old before my time[/spoken]
Yesterday when I was young, the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. I teased at life as if it were a foolish game, the way the evening breeze might tease a candle flame…
Hey Hey - Love Love - Yeh Yeh - Ah Ha
Freddie’s dead, thats what I said.
Let the man read, the plan, said it singing home
But his home was a rope and he should’ve known.
Everybody’s misused him, ripped him up and abused him.
Another junkie plan, pushin’ dope for the man.
A terrible blow, but thats how it goes.
A Freddie’s on the corner now.
If you wanna be a junkie wow.
Remember Freddie’s dead.
I hate you
Then I love you
Then I love you
Then I hate you
Then I love you more
For whatever you do
I never, never, never
Want to be in love with anyone but you
You treat me wrong
You treat me right
You let me be
You make me fight with you / I could never live without you
You make me high
You bring me down
You set me free
You hold me bound to you
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