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Louis Gottlieb
Rock-a-bout, rock-a-bout, rock-a-bout. Chorus: Come on and rock-about my Saro Jane. (Repeat) Oh, there's nothing to do but to sit down and sing and rock-about my Saro Jane. I've got a wife and five little children. Believe I'll take a trip on the big Macmillan. Oh, Saro Jane. A guy like me don't have no home. I make my livin' on my shoulder bone. Oh, Sara Jane. Oh, Saro Jane. Oh, Saro Jane. (Chorus) Woke up this mornin' feeling mighty mean, thinkin' 'bout my good gal in New Orleans. Oh, Saro Jane. Fireman, keep those boilers hot. I want to reach town by six o'clock. Oh, Saro Jane. Oh, Saro Jane. Oh, Saro Jane. (Chorus) Back's getting' tired and shoulder's gettin' sore. Each sack is bigger than the one before. Oh, Saro Jane. A rock in my stomach and a watchin' my head. Gettin' superstitious 'bout my pork and bread. Oh, Saro Jane. Oh, Saro Jane. (Chorus) |
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Jacqueline Steiner/Bess Hawes
Spoken: These are the times that try men's souls. In the course of our nation's history, the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened. Today, a new crisis has arisen. The Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the M. T. A., is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of a subway fare increase. Citizens, hear me out! This could happen to you! (Eight bar guitar, banjo introduction) Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charley on a tragic and fateful day. He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family, went to ride on the M. T. A. Chorus: Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unknown. (What a pity! Poor ole Charlie. Shame and scandal. He may ride forever. Just like Paul Revere.) He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston. He's the man who never returned. Charlie handed in his dime at the Kendall Square Station and he changed for Jamaica Plain. When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel." Charlie couldn't get off of that train. (Chorus) Now, all night long Charlie rides through the station, crying, "What will become of me?!! How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea or my cousin in Rocksbury?" (Chorus) Charlie's wife goes down to the Sculley Square Station every day at quarter past two, And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich as the train comes rumblin' through. (Chorus) Now, you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal how the people have to pay and pay? Fight the fare increase! Vote for George O'Brien! Get poor Charlie off the M. T. A. (Chorus) He's the man who never returned. He's the man who never returned. E tu, Charlie? |
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Dave Guard/Bob Shane/Nick Reynolds
Only one thing that money can't buy, t rue love that will never die. All my sorrows soon forgotten. Carefree lovers down country lanes, don't know my grief, can't feel my pain. All my sorrows soon forgotten. But it's too late, my love Too late but never mind. All my sorrows soon forgotten. Now there's one more thing that troubles my mind. My love is gone, left me behind. All my sorrows soon forgotten. But it's too late, my love. Too late but never mind. All my sorrows soon forgotten." |
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Jane Bowers
A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die. A line that he drew with his sword when the battle was nigh. "The man who would fight to the death cross over but he who that would live better fly," And over the line stepped a hundred and seventy-nine. Chorus: Hi! Up! Santa Anna, we're killing your soldiers below, so the rest of Texas will know and remember the Alamo! Jim Bowie lay dyin', his powder was ready and dry. From flat on his back, Bowie killed him a few in reply, And young Davy Crockett was smilin' and laughin'. The challenge was fierce in his eye. For Texas and freedom, a man more than willin' to die. (Chorus) A courier sent to the battlements, bloody and loud. With words of fare well in the letters he carried were proud. "Grieve not, little darlin', my dyin' if Texas is sovereign and free. We'll never surrender and ever will liberty be!" (Chorus) Remember the Alamo! Remember the Alamo! Remember the Alamo! |
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by George Archer, c. 1947,1964, 1965
(Many thanks to Big Wayne Shrubsall for researching and contributing these lyrics) E inu tatou e hara E inu tatou ite ava e E inu tatou e E inu tatou e hara E inu tatou ite ava e E inu tatou e A rave hoi oe A rave hoi oe *A rave ite mau peu ri'i e A rave e-- ite mau peu ri'i mau ae te man ote vahine e. For singers: pronounce each syllable and vowel separately. The line marked * then would be pronounced this way: Ah rahvay eetay mah oo payoo ree-ee ay (as in 'say'). However, Guard's solo verse is NOT part of Archer's original." |
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Woody Guthrie
Chorus: Well, it's hard. Ain't it hard? Ain't it hard (oh, yes) to love one who never did love you. Well, it's hard. Ain't it hard? Ain't it hard, great God, to love one who never will be true? Well, there is a house in this old town. That's where my true love lays around. She sits down upon another's knee (do tell) and tells him what she never will tell me. (Chorus) The first time I seen my true love she was a-standin' by my door, And the last time I seen her false-hearted smile, she was dead on that bar room floor! (Poor girl!) (Chorus) Well, who's gonna kiss your ruby lips? (Not you, sweetie!) Who's gonna hold your little hand? (Hand?) Who's gonna do, well, you know what, when I'm down in that promised land? (I will!) (Chorus) Well, don't go drinkin' and gamblin'. Don't go there your sorrows for to drown. This hard liquor place is a low-down disgrace. It's the meanest damn place in this town! (Chorus) |
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Paul Campbell
Hey! We are following the footsteps of those who've gone before and we'll all be reunited on that new and sunlit shore. Chorus: Oh, when the saints go marching in, (Repeat) oh, Lord, I want to be in that number when the saints go marching in. And when the sun refuse to shine, (Repeat) oh, Lord, I want to be in that number when the sun refuse to shine. Oh, when the trumpet sound its call, (Repeat) oh, Lord, I want to be in that number when the trumpet sounds that call. Oh, when the new world is revealed, (Repeat) oh, Lord, I want to be in that number when the new world is revealed. (Chorus)" |
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Dave Guard
One, two, and three jolly coachmen sat at an English tavern. Three jolly coachmen sat at an English tavern, And they decided, and they decided, and they decided to have another flagon. Landlord, fill the flowing bowl until it doth run over. (Repeat) For tonight we merr-I be, (Repeat twice) Tomorrow we'll be sober. (What!) Here's to the man who drinks dark ale and goes to bed quite mellow! (Repeat) He lives as he ought to live (Repeat twice) He'll die a jolly good fellow! (Ha! Ha! Ha!) Here's to the man who drinks water pure and goes to bed quite sober. (Repeat) He falls as the leaves do fall, (Repeat twice) He'll die before October! (Ho! Ho! Ho!) Here's to the maid who steals a kiss and runs to tell her mother. (Repeat) She's a foolish, foolish thing. (Repeat twice) For she'll not get another. (Pity!) Here's to the maid who steals a kiss and stays to steal another. (Repeat) She's a boon to all man kind. (Repeat twice) For soon she'll be a mother!" |
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Chorus:
South Coast, the wild coast, is lonely. You may win at the game at Jolon, But the lion still rules the barranca, and a man there is always alone. My name is Juan Hano de Castro. My father was a Spanish grandee, But I won my wife in a card game, when a man lost his daughter to me. I picked up the ace. I had won her! My heart, which was down at my feet Jumped up to my throat in a hurry- Like a warm summers' day, she was sweet. (Chorus) Her arms had to tighten around me as we rode up the hills from the South. Not a word did I hear from her that day- or a kiss from her pretty red mouth. We came to my cabin at twilight. The stars twinkled out on the coast. She soon loved the valley- the orchard- but I knew that she loved me the most. (Chorus) Then I got hurt in a landslide with crushed hip and twice-broken bone. She saddled our pony like lightning- rode off in the night, all alone. The lion screamed in the barranca; the pony fell back on the slide. My young wife lay dead in the moonlight. My heart died that night with my bride. (Chorus) Daughters were possessions, to be bet away or arranged marriages for; also, note the use of "young wife" in the final stanza. Her shyness- "had to tighten"- and her silent reticence but adaptable "soon loved..." indicates no previous marriage, and "lost his daughter to me" indicates her origin, whereas "to hell with the lords o'er the sea" seems thrown in. If this man were a sailor, why would he have established orchards? Just a thought. I'd really like to see the original music if it were available. The concept of betting away a daughter was my first exposure to the concept of women as property and the sung stuck with me my whole life. (I was the oldest and only daughter and I was afraid of the possibility; I was 9 and the chorus, except for one word, and the storyline, and the tune have stayed with me for the last 25 years; it influenced my major "women's studies") |
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Dave Guard
Scotch and soda, mud in your eye. Baby, do I feel high, oh, me, oh, my. Do I feel high. Dry martini, jigger of gin. Oh, what a spell you've got me in, oh, my. Do I feel high. People won't believe me. They'll think that I'm just braggin'. But I could feel the way I do and still be on the wagon. All I need is one of your smiles. Sunshine of your eyes, oh, me, oh, my. Do I feel high. People won't believe me. They'll think that I'm just braggin'. But I could feel the way I do and still be on the wagon. All I need is one of your smiles. Sunshine of your eyes, oh, me, oh, my. Do I feel higher than a kite can fly. Give me lovin', baby. I feel high." |
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