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Topic: Help, Need Some Country Songs For a Family Reunion |
Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 5:37 am |
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| I hope I have posted this in the right place. We have a gig this weekend for a family reunion. I am looking for songs that do not talk about beer drinking and cheating. I know there is plenty of material to play without getting into those subjects. The problem is I go blank when trying to come up with some material. You guys got any ideas they would certainly be appreciated. |
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Rick Nicklas
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Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:22 am
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No Beer Drinkin or Cheatin Vocals... Looks like you are going to be playing a lot of instrumentals...  Just kidding... look at a song list and the titles will give you what you need..... If you have to play some tunes you think are unacceptable, just announce them as a requested song from the guests.[This message was edited by Rick Nicklas on 01 October 2006 at 07:49 AM.] |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:26 am
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| "Walk Through This World With Me." |
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Colm Chomicky
From:
Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:51 am
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Here's an old gospel tune.
Life's Railway to Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkAfFo819E
Russ Wever on steel, I've posted the lyrics with the video but you mave to hit the "more" to the pper right to read the text. A really moving song.
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Rick Campbell
From:
Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:52 am
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How about "I'm My Own Grand Paw"
No... won't work...you're from TX and I thought WV. Sorry!
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Emmons Lashley Legrande D-10 8/4,Nashville 400, Profex II, Bunches of fiddles, guitars, etc....
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 7:09 am
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| No drinking or cheating? How about "Wildwood Weed"? Seriously? "Look at Us". [This message was edited by Steve Hitsman on 01 October 2006 at 08:10 AM.] |
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Larry Garrett
From:
Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 10:50 am
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Steve,
It just depends on how "country" you want it. At our family reunion ANYTHING other than drinking and cheating songs (even a few selected ones of those are okay) goes over well, the older and "country-er" the better.
A few examples:
Y'all Come
Company's Comin'
Above and Beyond
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Hey Good Lookin' and anything else of Hank's
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold
I Love You Because
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
When You and I Were Young Maggie
Slowly
All I Have To Offer You Is Me
I Overlooked An Orchid
We Could
Welcome To My World
Tiger By the Tail
Waltz Of the Angels
"Swangin'" and any other novelty song
Pretty much anything from The Carter Family, Bob Wills, E T, Lefty, or Johnny Cash
Any of the "old" Gospel songs such as:
Amazing Grace
Power In The Blood
In The Garden
Life's Railway To Heaven
Where Could I Go
How Great Thou Art
The Old Rugged Cross
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Just about any instrumental is okay, even Wildwood Flower (as long as my wife isn't too closeby) ha.
We have guitars (of course), fiddle, mandolin, dobro and/or steel, and sometimes bass, and drums once in a great while.
Larry
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Larry Garrett
From:
Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 10:56 am
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Oops! I meant to say Paul but I guess Steve's mention of "Wildwood Weed" short- circuited my thought. Ha.
Larry |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:53 pm
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| Thanks for the input. There were a couple of those songs I had thought of. And I love the song "I'm My Own Grandpa". I have not heard it in years and would like the words and music to it if anyone knows where I could find it. It would be a great song to do since there will be several older folks there. My apologies for placing this topic in the wrong forum. |
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Charley Adair
From:
Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2006 5:40 am
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Kiss An Angel Good Mornin
Mamma Tried
Sing Me Back Home
Together Again
Big City |
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Petr Vitous
From:
Czech Republic
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Posted 2 Oct 2006 6:28 am
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I'M MY OWN GRANDPA
(Dwight Latham - Moe Jaffe)
« © '47 General Music, ASCAP »
Many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grownup daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grownup daughter who of course was my step-mother
I'm my own grandpaw I'm my own gradnpaw
It sound funny I know but it really is so oh I'm my own grandpaw
Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild for he was daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife she's my grandmother too
Now if my wife is my grandmother then I'm her grandchild
And everytime I think of it it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother I am my own grandpaw
Petr http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/elpe.htm
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2006 4:57 pm
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| Thanks Peter for the words to that song. I nearly fell out of the chair laughing. |
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