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Rest in Peace
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Just remember Fred....everyone loves a "enery" wouldn't top no Willy or a Sam.....maybe I can get that one out of your head and plant this one...Tiny Bubbles in the wine, makes me happy all the time... The Don Ho theme song!!! Mike
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Pillar of the Community
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Ooh! Ooh! I thought of another one! Anyone else here a Chris LeDoux fan? "We've got a five dollar fine for whining".... Rachel [:p] P.S. Thanks a lot, Fred! "I'm Henry the 8th I am, I am" Gonna be singing that one for a while.  Edited by Kyra
05/17/2005 9:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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A true classic:
"..Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score..."
City of New Orleans--Arlo Guthrie
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Pillar of the Community
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Originally posted by longnine009
A true classic:
"..Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score..."
City of New Orleans--Arlo Guthrie
I can't belive I didn't think of that one. My son is train crazy, and he loves that song. He's just grasping the concept that some trains don't have names "...passing trains that have no names..." City of NO, as all of the trains in the Thomas the tank engine series have names and faces. "I'm down to my last dollar..." Hello New Orleans- Robert Earl Keen |
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My gosh, I forgot all about Arlo Guthrie. His Father Woody, according to legend did "Ride the Rails". Did he mention money (or the lack of it!) in any of his down trodden' depression era songs? Does the lyric from "Hey Look Me Over" count with the line "Fresh out of Clover, Mortgage up to here"  Mike  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Originally posted by Mike
Just remember Fred....everyone loves a "enery" wouldn't top no Willy or a Sam.....maybe I can get that one out of your head and plant this one...Tiny Bubbles in the wine, makes me happy all the time... The Don Ho theme song!!! Mike
Didn't work. I still can't get 'enry out of me head. But all this thinking tilted me to: A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar!
What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,
But now you come at noon.I have no idea what a "diller" is an I couldn't find it in a quick search. This is apparently a Mother Goose tale. But, this lead to another Mother Goose rhyme/tale/song with money in its theme: "There was a crooked man... and he had a crooked smile...
Had a crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile."And speaking of Boy Scouts, we used to sing a popular camp song entitled, "I've got six pence": I've got six pence, jolly jolly six pence;
I've got six pence to last me all my life.
I've got two pence to spend and two pence to lend,
And two pence to send home to my wife.
Poor wife. No cares have I to grieve me,
No pretty little girls to deceive me.
I'm happy as a lark, believe me,
As we go rolling, rolling home.
Rolling home, rolling home, by the light of the silvery moon.
Happy is the day when the Staffmen get their pay.
As we go rolling, rolling home.Song repeats, taking away two pence each verse. Substitute sailor or miner or soldier or whatever for "Staffmen" for the original verse. I would guess without doing any research that this is an old, old drinking song, most likely Irish since all the good drinking songs are Irish. |
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This thread is scrambling my brain. My last post ran me into a six pence nursery rhyme rut:
Sing a song of six pence, a pocket full of rye...
...The king was in the counting house, counting out his money.
And:
Simple Simon met a pieman, going to the fair...
...Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
"Show me first your penny."
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Indeed I have not any.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Originally posted by SFDukie
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Originally posted by longnine009
A true classic:
"..Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score..."
City of New Orleans--Arlo Guthrie
I can't belive I didn't think of that one. My son is train crazy, and he loves that song. He's just grasping the concept that some trains don't have names "...passing trains that have no names..." City of NO, as all of the trains in the Thomas the tank engine series have names and faces.
"I'm down to my last dollar..."
Hello New Orleans- Robert Earl Keen
I remember finding pieces of weather beaten coal on the railroad tracks when I was a kid. Apparently, still left over from the steam days. I wish I would have saved a piece. Here's another penny song, depressing as it is. "...Now my advice for those who die Declare the pennies on your eyes Cos I'm the taxman, y"...eah, I'm the taxman..." Taxman--Beatles |
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United States
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Just heard another one, can't believe I didn't think of this one before. Rhinestone Cowboy- "With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe." Give me some time, I'll come up with some more!
Rachel [:p]
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Australia
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As my first post
Gene Pitney's
If I didnt have a Dime,& I didnt take the time to play the Juke box.
Or
Liza Minelli's
Money makes the World go around from Caberet
A Mark, a Yen, a Buck or a pound.
or
Kincade's
Jenny, Jenny, dreams are ten a Penny.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It Stoned Me (Van Morrison)
Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin' down
Me and Billy standin' there
With a silver half a crown
Hands are full of a fishin' rod
And the tackle on our backs
We just stood there gettin' wet
With our backs against the fence
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Hope it don't rain all day
Chorus:
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like goin' home
And it stoned me
Then the rain let up and the sun came up
And we were gettin' dry
Almost let a pick-up truck nearly pass us by
So we jumped right in and the driver grinned
And he dropped us up the road
We looked at the swim and we jumped right in
Not to mention fishing poles
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Let it run all over me
Chorus
On the way back home we sang a song
But our throats were getting dry
Then we saw the man from across the road
With the sunshine in his eyes
Well he lived all alone in his own little home
With a great big gallon jar
There were bottles too, one for me and you
And he said Hey! There you are
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Get it myself from the mountain stream
Chorus
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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"Pennies from Heaven", sung by Frank Sanatra in an old movie.
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 United States
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Sung to the tune of the famous Australian ballad 'Click Go the Shears', this jingle heralded the introduction of decimal currency in Australia in 1966.
Three years earlier, the decision to introduce dollars and cents had been approved by the Australian Government. The dollar as the unit of currency was not an automatic choice, other unsuccessful contenders, seriously considered for the name included the austral, merino and royal.
In Come the Dollars, In Come the Cents
In come the dollars, in come the cents,
to replace the pounds and shillings and the pence.
Be prepared for changes when the coins begin to mix,
on the 14th of February, 1966.
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Rest in Peace
United States
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A week later and I still have I'm Henry the Eighth I Am running through my mind. Thanks, all!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
980 Posts |
just thought of Madonna's Material Girl;
"Some boys try and some boys lie but
I don't let them play
Only boys who save their pennies
Make my rainy day, 'cause they are"
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