Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Songs

patio, that song reminded me of Joyce Kilmer's poem "The House with Nobody in it."

All of these songs are great, and I want to encourage any of you here who have written original stuff to PLEASE post it.

Oldandknew has written a great tune called "Stairwell Blues." John, please share it here, ok? Anyone else?

"THOSE STAIRWELL BLUES"


It's 10 minutes past yesterday and life suddenly sucks
I'm sitting down here at the bottom of the stairs
She's sitting up there in her flat on the 4th floor
Is she feeling good or feeling bad, but here I am
Wishing and hoping, doing those stairwell blues
I got back late, I'm in the wrong and now I pay.
She'd asked some friends round for dinner
Told me it would be fun with Toby and Rose
They live and breath the world of money
Bankers both and I'm doing those stairwell blues
I'm just a free spirit, come and go day by day
Jess wanted my commitment but I shrugged it off
Me much too young, a friend had said let's have a beer,
sure I said, and time sped by and late came quick
Too late when I got here, now I'm doin' those stairwell blues
Should I venture back up stairs, cap in hand
Beg forgiveness, promise love, recant and mend my faults
Take a chance and see what's said, I climbed the stairs
You let me down, now freak off and don't come back
I begged with words, then slunk back to
those stairwell blues
Lost and hopeless tramped my way back home,
those stairwell blues
Cold and wet in autumn drizzle and still I have
those stairwell blues
I get back to my empty home and sitting down,
those stairwell blues.


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This song was written by Fred Brooks and Lester Judson. It was recorded by both Harry Belafonte and Margret Roadknight.

DELIA

Delia Delia where have you been so long
Delia Delia everything I had is gone
The trees have left the countryside
Frost is on the ground
The birds all sing a different song
With a low and a lonesome sound
With a low and a lonesome sound

Delia Delia where have you been so long
Delia Delia everything I had is gone
If we could count the falling stars
As we have done before
Or share the sound of summer rain
I'd never ask for more
I'd never ask for more

Who can tell where Delia's gone
Or why she went away
Or if she always knew
She'd break my heart one day
She'd break my heart one day

Delia Delia
De-e-elia-a-a-a

Hope no one has posted this yet, but i just can't be arsed to read the whole damned thread:

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen:

I'm sittin alone, Saturday night, watching the Late Late Show.
A bottle of wine, some cigarettes, I got no place to go.
Well, I saw your other man today; he was wearing my brand new shoes,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.

Well, I met my old friend Bob today from up in Bowling Green;
He had the prettiest little gal that I'd ever seen.
But I couldn't hide my tears at all, cause she looked just like you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.

Now everybody tells me there's other ways to get high.
They don't seem to understand I'm too far gone to try.
Now these lonely memories, they're all I can't lose,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.

Well my dog died just yesterday and left me all alone.
The finance company dropped by today and repossessed my home.
That's just a drop in the bucket compared to losing you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.

Got the Down to Seeds and Stems again Blues.

um well set i only posted the last verse so i guess its ok to post the entire song

Hide Nor Hair - by Ray Charles

Oh I was lying in bed with fever
And I was burning up inside
My baby walked in my bedroom
And I could hardly open my eyes
She said she was going to the pawn shop
Just across the track
She started packing some clothes in a hurry
And then she said she would be right back
But I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day
Well I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since she went away
I remember so well when she slammed the door
But the girl didn't make it back no more
I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day
Well I waited for her twenty four hours
And I was just about to starve to death
It didn't look like she was coming back
So I had to look out for myself
Well I called the police department
To find out what they knew
They said no by heck but we will get her yet
Because they were looking for her too
But I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day
Well I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since she went away
Well I don't know what happened across the track
But I know my baby didn't make it back
I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day
Well I called my Doctor Foster
And when the girl answered the phone
I got a funny feeling
The way she said Doctor Foster had gone
She said he left with a lady patient
About twenty four hours ago
I added two and two and here's what I got
I got I'll never see that girl no more
But I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day
Well I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since she went away
If Doctor Foster has got her then I know I'm through
Cause he's got medicine and money too
I ain't seen hide nor hair of my baby since that day -
Oh no-o-o-o

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate

It's five o'clock in the morning
And you're just getting in
You knock on the front door
And a voice sweet and low says
"who is it? "
She opens up the door and lets you in
Never once asks where have you been
She says "are you hungry?
Did you eat yet?
Let me hang up your coat
Pass me your hat"
All the time she's smiling
Never once raises her voice
It's five o'clock in the morning
You don't give it a second thought

It's a thin line between love and hate

The sweetest woman in the world
Could be the meanest woman in the world
If you make her that way
You keep hurting her
She'll keep being quiet
She might be holding something inside
That'll really, really hurt you one day

I see you in the hospital
Bandaged from foot to head
In a state of shock
Just that much from being dead
You couldn't believe the girl
Would do something like this, ha
You didn't think the girl had the nerve
But here you are
I guess action speaks louder than words

It's a thin line between love and hate

Chrissy Hind

Seasons of My Heart - by George Jones, as performed by Jerry Lee Lewis

Seasons come, seasons go
Get a little sunshine rain and snow
Just the way that it was planned to be
But there's no seasons in my heart
While you play the leading part
But I guess what is to be my dear will be
Your leaving will bring autumn sorrow
And my tears like withered leaves shall fall
No hope to bring some glad tomorrow
Darling we might have been happy after all

A companion piece to Dys' "Tears in my Ears":

Thank God and Greyhound

I've made a small fortune and you squandered it all
You shamed me till I feel about one inch tall

But I thought I loved you and I hoped you would change
So I gritted my teeth and didn't com- plain

Now you come to me; with a simple good- bye
You tell me you're leavin' but you don't tell me why

Now we're here at the station and you're getting on
And all I can think of ... is ...
Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone.

Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone
I didn't know how much longer I could go on

Watchin' you take the respect out of me
Watchin' you make a total wreck out of me

That big diesel motor is a- playin my song
Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone.

Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone
That load on my mind got lighter when you got on

That shiny old bus is a beautiful sight
With the black smoke a-rollin' up around the tail light

It may sound kinda cruel but I've been silent too long
Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone.

Thank God and Greyhound, you're gone.

John oak, "Stairwell Blues" was better the second time around. I wrote a song in my head as I was traveling to Virginia, but I need to go for total recall, and that ain't happened yet. Later, maybe.

We must not leave out this turgid C/W classic:

In a bar in Toledo, across from the depot
On a bar stool she took off her ring
I thought I'd get closer so I walked on over
I sat down and asked her her name
When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter
But I finally quit living on dreams
I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after
I'm after what ever the other life brings

In the mirror I saw him and I closely watched him
I thought how he looked out of place
He came to the woman who sat there beside me
He had a strange look on his face
The big hands were calloused he looked like a mountain
For a minute I thought I was dead
But he started shaking his big heart was breaking
He turned to the woman and said

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille

After he left us I ordered more whisky
I thought how she'd made him look small
From the lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room
We walked without talking at all
She was a beauty but when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind
I couldn't hold her 'cos the words that he told her
Kept coming back time after time

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times
This time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille

A Teardrop on a Rose by Hank Williams

While strolling through a lovely garden
As day was drawing to a close
My eyes beheld a tragic story
I saw a teardrop on a rose

It should have been a tear of gladness
But deep inside the sorrow shows
A trusting heart had just been broken
I saw a teardrop on a rose

A sobbing tear that follows parting
Holds all the pain that sorrow knows
A false good-bye a life is shattered
There lies a story on a rose

The tear will dry the rose will wither
When spring and winter comes and goes
I loved I lost My story ended
With just teardrop on a rose

Train Song
Tom Waits

Well I broke down in E. St. Louis
On the Kansas City line
and I drunk up all my money
that I borrowed every time
and I fell down at the derby
and now the night's black as a crow
It was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
What made my dreams so hollow
was standing at the depot
with a steeple full of swallows
that could never ring the bell
and I come ten thousand miles away
with not one thing to show
well it was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
I remember when I left
without bothering to pack
you know I up and left with
just the clothes I had on my back
now I'm sorry for what I've done
and I'm out here on my own
well it was a train that took me away from
here but a train can't bring me home


Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits

Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had some kind of skin disease
and was totally blind. They had a
thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy

One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it,
parked across the street, laughing,
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed north

Never could stand that dog


I love Tom Waits....

Well I just came up on the midnight special how about that
My car broke down in Texas she stopped dead in her tracks
Just called to tell you that I need you
Just called to tell you how I feel
I feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel
Feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel
Took my money on the night train what a terrible fight
I gave my promise I would be there with you by Saturday night
I wanna tell you that I need you baby

I need to tell you just how I feel
I feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel
Feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel

Can't say much in a phone call baby you know how it is
I have to tell you one short thing oh won't you listen to this
I want to tell you that I love you baby
I want to tell you just how I feel
I feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel
Feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel

. Well, they handed him his orders in Monroe, Virginia,
Sayin', "Steve, you're way behind time.
This is not 38, it is Old 97
You must put her into Spencer on time."
Well, the engineer he said to his black, greasy fireman
"Shovel on a little more coal,
And when we cross that White Oak Mountain
You can watch Old 97 roll."

It's a mighty hard road from Lynchburg to Danville
A road with a three-mile grade.
It was on that grade that he lost his airbrake,
You can see what a jump she made.

He was goin' down the grade making 90 miles an hour,
When his whistle broke into a scream,
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle,
He was scalded to death by the steam.

Now the telegram came into Washington Station
And this is what it said:
That brave engineer that drove old 97
Is layin' down in Danville, dead.

Now listen, all you ladies, you must all take a warning,
From this story a lesson learn:
Never speak harsh words to your true lovin' husband,
He may leave you and never return.






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Letty: Yep. Steve was a good guy - a true lovin' husband. And here's one where the gal should have listened to those words: "He may leave you and never return."

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home
I moan the whole night long.
I'll do the cookin', honey, I'll pay the rent
I know I done you wrong
Remember that rainy eve 'that
I drove you out with nothin' but a fine tooth comb
Yes, I know that I'm to blame, and ain't that a shame
Bill Bailey, won't you please come home.

But, on the other hand:

With you it's all or nothin'
All for you and nothin' for me.
But, if a wife is wise, she's got to realize
That men like you are wild and free.

So I ain't goin' to fuss
Ain't goin' to frown.
Have your fun and don't come home till three.
And go right off to bed if you're sleepy

No use waitin' up for me.
I really mean it.
No use waitin' up for me.

Down in the pool room some of the guys were telling of girls they knew
Women are all the same said Joe. Then one dizzy bird said pal ain't you heard the story of true blue Lou
Listen and get an earful, Joe, while I remind you: She was a dame in love with a guy
She stuck with him but didn't know why
Everyone blamed her
Still they all named her
True Blue Lou
He gave her nothing
She gave her all
And when he had his back to the wall
Who fought to save him
Smiled and forgave him
True Blue Lou
He got a break and went away
But poor kid The only brak she got
Was the one way down in her heart
Maybe somewhere in heaven up above
There's a reward for her kind of love
Angels won't blame her
They too will name her
True Blue Lou

DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS

Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause
That's the side of town I was born in
I love her she loves me but I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks

Ev'ry night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill
I love a little girl who lives up there and I guess I always will
But I don't dare knock on her door
'Cause her daddy is my boss man
So I have to try to be content
Just to see her when ever I can

Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause
That's the side of town I was born in
I love her she loves me but I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks

Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks

One fine day I'll find the way to move from this old shack
I'll hold my head up like a king and I never never will look back
Until that morning I'll work and slave
And I'll save ev'ry dime
But tonight she'll have to steal away
To see me one more time

Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause
That's the side of town I was born in
I love her she loves me but I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks

and Raggedy, the precursor to Bill Bailey:

Ain't that a shame, a measly shame to leave your honey,
Out in the rain
(Oh, Lordy have a little mercy)

Won't you open that door,
And let me in
I stand here freezin'
Right wet to the skin.

Ah, Letty, I had indeed forgotten all about that precursor and I must stay away from this thread because now I'm trying to remember the song about the woman who walked the streets in a red dress because some farm boy from Tennessee "done her wrong".
And Down in the Boondocks made me think of one about a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who finally did make it back to his sweetheart only to find out that she had died. Oh Woe Is Me! My mind is addled now.

But one, more - You asked what makes us blubber.

I feel the trembling tingle of a sleepess night
Creep through my fingers and the moon is bright.
Beams of blue come flickering through my window pane
Like gypsy moths that dance around a candle flame.

And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did, I never thought you would.

Moonlight used to bathe the contours of your face
While chestnut hair fell all around the pillow case.
And the fragrance of your flowers rest beneath my head
A sympathy bouquet left with the love that's dead.

I never thought the words you said were true
I never thought you said just what you meant
I never knew how much I needed you
I never thought you'd leave
Until you went.

Morning comes and morning goes with no regret
And evening brings the memories I can't forget
Empty rooms that echo as I climb the stairs
And empty clothes that drape and fall on empty chairs.

And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would.
(Empty Chairs - Don McClean

No such listing would be complete without:

Just because I ask a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today
She thinks I still care

Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers ev'rywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care

But if she's happy thinkin' I still need her
Then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish
Oh where would she get such an idea

Just because I ask a friend about her
And just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I saw her then went all to pieces
She thinks I still care
She thinks I still care

Hey, Raddgedy. Isn't the song that you're thinking of called "Ruby Red Dress"? Reminds me of "Delta Dawn"

WOW! Setanta. Wasn't George Jones married to Tammy Wynette at one time?:

Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man
So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand
Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E
But the words we're hiding from him now
Tear the heart right out of me.

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be goin' away
I love you both and it will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Watch him smile, he thinks it Christmas
Or his 5th Birthday
And he thinks C-U-S-T-O-D-Y spells fun or play
I spell out all the hurtin' words
And turn my head when I speak
'Cause I can't spell away this hurt
That's drippin' down my cheek.

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be goin' away
I love you both and it will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.


Good grief, I really don't like that song.
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