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Favorite Songs about People,tell us your Favorites.Freeper Canteen 8~21~14

Posted on 08/21/2014 5:57:13 PM PDT by fatima

~Favorite Songs about People~





Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm








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Looking glass - Brandi you're a fine girl











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To: fatima
This is for any Whittier High School alumni, students, faculty or administrators who may be out surfing through FR tonight:
41 posted on 08/21/2014 6:35:04 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: randita

Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
Lady Godiva - Beatles
Don’t Mess With Bill - Marvelettes


42 posted on 08/21/2014 6:35:32 PM PDT by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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To: fatima

BIG BAD JOHN ~ Jimmy Dean 1961
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0
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Big Bad John
written by Jimmy Dean and Roy Acuff

Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew, ya didn’t give no lip to Big John

Big Bad John

Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
He didn’t say much, he’s kinda quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, he just said, “Hi” to Big John

Somebody said he came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen
And a crashing blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land, Big John

Big Bad John

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
When a timber cracked and men started crying
Miners were praying and hearts beat fast
And everybody thought that they’d breathed their last, except John

Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
Grabbed a sagging timber, gave out with a groan
And like a giant Oak tree, he just stood there alone, Big John

Big Bad John

And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out, “There’s a light up above”
And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave
Now there’s only one left down there to save, Big John

With jacks and timbers they started back down
Then came that rumble way down in the ground
And then smoke and gas belched out of that mine
Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John

Big Bad John

Now they never reopened that worthless pit
They just placed a marble stand in front of it
These few words are written on that stand
At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big, man, Big John


43 posted on 08/21/2014 6:36:15 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: fatima

WWII train station goodbye song:

She kissed him at the station as he went off in his uniform.


44 posted on 08/21/2014 6:37:11 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: fatima

Billy Currington - People Are Crazy


45 posted on 08/21/2014 6:38:23 PM PDT by lysie
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To: fatima

Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - Bob Dylan

With your mercury mouth in the missionary times
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes
And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes
Oh, who do they think could bury you ?
With your pockets well protected at last
And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass
And your flesh like silk, And you face like glass
Who among them do they think could carry you ?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate
Oh, sad-eyed lady, should I wait ?

With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace
And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace
And your basement clothes and your hollow face
Who among them can think he could outguess you ?
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns
Who among them would try to impress you ?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate
Oh, sad-eyed lady, should I wait ?

The kings of Tyrus with their convict list
Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss
And you wouldn’t know it would happen like this
But who among them really wants just to kiss you ?
With your childhood flames on your midnight rug
And your Spanish manners, and your mother’s drugs
And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs
Who among them do you think could resist you ?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate
Oh, sad-eyed lady, should I wait ?

Oh, the farmers and the businessmen they all did decide
To show you the dead angels that they used to hide
But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side ?
How could they ever mistake you ?
They wished you’d accepted the blame for the farm
But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm
And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms
How could they ever, ever persuade you ?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate
Oh, sad-eyed lady, should I wait ?

With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row
And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go
And your gentleness now, which you just can’t help but show
Who among them do you think would employ you ?
Now you stand with your thief, you’re on his parole
With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold
And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul
Who among them do you think could destroy you ?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate
Oh, sad-eyed lady, should I wait ?


46 posted on 08/21/2014 6:38:36 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: randita
This original version was a hit in Southern California--but apparently nowhere else--in December, 1966.

Wedding Bell Blues--Laura Nyro

47 posted on 08/21/2014 6:38:58 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: fatima

:)

Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1_xe5p42IU


48 posted on 08/21/2014 6:40:16 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: fatima

Common People- William Shatner and Joe Jackson;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0


49 posted on 08/21/2014 6:41:12 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: 2111USMC

Damn, I hadn’t thought about that in forever.


50 posted on 08/21/2014 6:41:29 PM PDT by MileHi
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To: laweeks

LORNE GREENE - ‘Ringo’ - 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMXnXN8pbQ


51 posted on 08/21/2014 6:41:35 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: fatima
As far as I know, this back-handed tribute is the only "Larry" song that I know of:

Hats Off to Larry--Del Shannon (1961)

52 posted on 08/21/2014 6:42:25 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: fatima

People are Strange.
The Doors


53 posted on 08/21/2014 6:42:45 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: fatima
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne.
54 posted on 08/21/2014 6:42:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: fatima

((((Hugs)))))


55 posted on 08/21/2014 6:44:17 PM PDT by lysie
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To: fatima

“Sarah” by Bob Dylan


56 posted on 08/21/2014 6:44:27 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: fatima

The Who - Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pjOH5T1l8


57 posted on 08/21/2014 6:44:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kartographer
Ringo for President--The Young World Singers (1964)

Sorry, but I'll pass--and vote for Goldwater!

58 posted on 08/21/2014 6:46:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: fatima

Her are some more I like:

If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
In My Dreams - REO Speedwagon
Crying - Roy Orbison
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Walk Away Renée - The Left Banke
Ariel - Dean Friedman


59 posted on 08/21/2014 6:49:16 PM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; MEG33; fatima

60 posted on 08/21/2014 6:49:23 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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