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Name A Song with a Woman's Name in the Title!

Dendy Jarrett

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From Three Penny Opera... "Barbara Song"

 

[video=youtube;cp_8KzJ9hNs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_8KzJ9hNs

 

Can't vouch for this translation below... my German is ... sehr rostig.

http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/k...#ixzz45ZAlv7fW

Barbara Song

I used to believe in the days I was pure

And I was pure like you used to be

My wonderful someone will come to me someday and then it will all depend on me

If he’s a fine man, if he’s a rich man,

Wears a fine cravat, smokes a cigar

And if he’s gallant and treats me like a lady then I shall tell him

Sorry

Chin up high keep your powder dry

Don’t relax or go too far.

Look, the moon is gonna shine till dawn

Keep the little rowboat crusing on and on

You stay perpendicular

Oh, you can’t just let a man walk over you

Cold and dignified is what you are

Such a whole lot of things can happen

So firmly say but sweetly

Sorry

One day comes a man

But what kind of a man

Do you know why he does what he does

He walked into my room and he hung up his hat

And I just didn’t know where I was

He was a lean man, he was a mean man

He didn’t own a cravat, smoked no cigar

And God knows he never made me feel a lady.

Just wasn’t time for sorry

Chin up high my chin was down

My shoes and I relaxed, but far too far

Oh, the way the moon kept shining on

The night was nice for rowing and this girl was gone

Not so perpendicular

So you let a man just walk right over you

Who said dignified is what you are

Such a wonderful lot of terrible things did happen

And now it’s you can tell me

Sorry

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nat whilk II Newbie

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OK, lots of nice ones cited, and I'll go for a 2nd one. That bass alone.....I've read that it's Carol Kaye, but I just don't know for sure.

 

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1001gear Proficient

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And not exactly but this unknown staple of the repertoire...

 

[video=youtube;sn8KYD1Vco0]

 

A little bit of Googuh can be a dangerous thing.

 

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Iamthesky Newbie

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This one comes to mind because (BBC) Radio One did this exact thing in the late 1970s. A listener would call in for their birthday and they'd play a song with the name in the title. "Desiree" was a cool name, sure, but not exactly a lot of song choices for it in the pop of the time.

 

It was very clear after this song played that the DJ had had no idea what he was putting on and totally regretted playing it. Maybe he pulled the record out of John Peel's stack or something -- if so, he should have known better. Not exactly one of Curved Air's far-out songs, but for the mid-afternoon slot on the BBC of the time this was not at all suited to their playlist. You could almost hear the DJ as he visualized listeners switching off their radio right then.

 

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MikeRivers Newbie

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Doesn't look too hard to me.

 

Old folk songs:

Lady Margaret

Fair Ellender

Barbara Allen

Mary Hamilton

 

Fiddle tunes:

Sally Ann

Liza Jane

Rachel

Donna's Waltz

 

Hokum/Blues/Swing:

Caledonia

Frankie Jean (actually that was the name of a horse)

Little Ramona ('s Gone Hillbilly Nuts)

Dinah

Boney Maroney

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sirfun Grand Master

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and they said I couldn't rhyme "orange" !! ) :)

 

[video=youtube;xGFW9jCFml4]

 

 

I bought a peasant blouse for Ang !! )

 

 

 

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