Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Songs

That's it, Letty, Ruby Red Dress - Leave Me Alone, Leave Me Alone - Helen Reddy. I hated that song and Delta Dawn, too.

And the other one:

With pen in hand,you sign your name
Today at five, I'll be on that train
And you'll be fee, and I'll be all alone.
So alone
If you think we can't find the love we once knew
If you think I can't make everything up to you
Then I'll be gone and you'll be on your own.
You'll be on your own.
Can you take good care of Jenny
Can you take her to school everyday
Can you teach her how to play
All the games that little girls play.
Hear what I say.
Can you teach her how to roll up her hair
Can you make sure each night that she says her prayers
Well if you can do all these things
Then maybe she won't miss me
Maybe she won't miss me.
And tonight as you lay in that big lonely bed
And you look at that pillow where I laid my head.
With your heart on fire, will you have no desire
To kiss me
Or to hold me., etc. etc. etc. etc.

(I'm sorry, I'm not going to bother finishing this one. It irritates me as much as D I V O R C E. )

I'm still trying to remember the one where the boy from the other side of the tracks arrives at his sweetheart's house too late.

Raggedy, The only Helen Reddy tune that I really liked with sad overtones was "You and Me Against the World":

You And Me Against The World
Performed by Helen Reddy

You and me against the world
Sometimes it feels like
You and me against the world
When all the others turn their back
And walk away
You can count on me to stay
Remember when the circus came to town
And you were frightened by the clown
Wasn't it nice
To be around someone that you knew
Someone who was big and strong
And looking out for
You and me against the world
Sometimes it feels like
You and me against the world
And for all the times we've cried
I always felt the God were on our side

*And when one of us is gone
And one of us is left to carry on
Then remembering will have to do
Our memories alone will get us through
Think about the days of me and you
You and me against the world

Here's an old Emmylou Harris song:
Evangeline

She stands on the banks of the mighty Mississippi
Alone in the pale moonlight
Waitin' for a man, a riverboat gambler
Said that he'd return tonight

They used to waltz on the banks of the mighty Mississippi
Lovin' the whole night through
He was a riverboat gambler off to make a killin'
And bring it on back to you

Evangeline Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
That pulled her man away

Bayou Sam from South Louisian'
Had gamblin' in his veins
Evangeline from the maritime
Was slowly goin' insane

High on the top of a Hickory Hill
She stands in the lightning and thunder
Down on the river the boat was a sinkin'
She watched that Queen go under

Evangeline Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
That pulled her man away

Evangeline Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
That pulled her man away

Swimp, Hi. I've never heard that one, but it certainly fits the "wronged woman" syndrome.

Letty: I love "You and Me Against the World", but the recording I have is by the composer, Paul Williams. A real "bluesy" rendition. I forgot to mention "Pen in Hand" is by Bobby Goldsboro, and the reason I don't like it is that the guy in the song just sounds too chauvinistic for my taste. :wink:
And now I promise I won't be a pest here anymore until I think of that song about that kid from the wrong side of the tracks. (That may take awhile)

Pest? Pest? No way, Raggedy. Wish I could help you on that song you're lookin for.

HI:) Letty! Emmylou's got a million of 'em. Here's another:

On The Radio

Someone found a letter you wrote me, on the radio
And they told the world just how you felt
It must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat
They never said your name

But I knew just who they meant
I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered, too
If by chance you heard it for yourself
I never told a soul just how I've been feeling over you
But they said it really loud

They said it on the air On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh On the radio
Whoa oh oh oh On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh

Now Don't it kinda strike you sad when you hear our song
Things are not the same since we broke up last June
The only thing that I wanna hear is that you love me still
And that you think you'll be comin' home real soon

Whoa
And it made me feel proud when I heard you say
You couldn't find the words to say it all yourself
And now in my heart I know I can say what I really mean

'Cause they said it really loud
They said it on the air On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh On the radio
Whoa oh oh oh On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh

If you think that love isn't found on the radio
Well tune right in you may find the love you lost
'Cause now I'm sitting here with the man I sent away long ago
He found he really lied he said he realy lied
On the radio

Whoa oh oh oh On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh

Thanks, Swimp. And here's a companion piece to Emmylou's radio.

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here it's just the radio
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you I really do

Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again
What to say to make you come again
Come back to me again and play your sad guitar

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you I really do

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you I really do

Dear Karen Carpenter. What a total waste of talent, and just because someone referred to her as Ken's chubby little sister.

Letty: I'm back because while I was sleeping I had a dream and this is what I dreamt:(except, it was the girl who was from the wrong side of the tracks.)

Patches by Dickey Lee (Teenagers made this a smash hit in 1962)

Down by the river that flows by the coal yards.
Stand wooden houses with shutters torn down.
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches my darling of Old Shanty town.

We planned to marry when June brought the summer.
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride.
Now, I don't see how that ever can happen
My folks say NO, and my heart breaks inside.

Patches, oh what can I do?
I swear I'll always love you
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won't let me love you.

Each night I cry as I think of that shanty
And pretty Patches there watching the door
She doesn't know that I can't come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more.

I hear a neighbor telling my father
He said a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town.

Patches, oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
It may not be right, but I'll join you tonight
Patches I'm coming to you.

Raggedy. Chill bumps Glad you stepped out of that dream and into this thread again There was another song about "Patches", too, but your song reminded me of "Ode to Billy Joe":

- Ode To Billy Joe

It was the third of June
Another sleepy, dusty, delta day
I was out choppin' cotton
And my brother was bailin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped
And walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered at the door
"Y'all remember to wipe your feet."
Then she said
"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
"Today Billy Joe McAllister
"Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge."
Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick o' sense,
"Pass the biscuits, please.
"There's five more acres in the lower forty
"I've got to plow."
And Mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe McAllister's
Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge

Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
I'll have another piece of apple pie
You know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billy Joe's
Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge

Mama said to me, "Child what's happened to your appetite?
"I been cookin' all mornin'
"And you haven't touched single bite.
"That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you
"Up on Choctaw Ridge
"And she and Billy Joe was throwin' somethin'
"Off the Tallahatchee Bridge."

A year has come and gone since heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson
They bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus goin' round
Papa caught it and he died last spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do too much of anything
And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers
Up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water
Off the Tallahatchee Bridge

Oh yes, Letty. Bobby Gentry's hit. That gave me the chills. And we will ever know what they really dropped off that bridge?

Ya know, Raggedy, There was a lot of speculation about that song, and it seems to me, one of them was that Billy Joe was gay. Another song that has fans guessin' is Carley Simon's "You're so Vain" . I always thought she was referring to Warren Beatty.

I've always liked this sensitive jazzy tune:

IF I SEE YOU SMILE

Don't cry, come lift the veil from your eyes
I'm sorry, it's my fault, or maybe not at all,
what difference does that make tonight?
No regrets, if I see you smile.

Don't cry, wipe the despair from your eyes.
Your laugh, it haunts me like whispers in a dream,
the tears on your cheek tell it all.
No rest till I put the smile back in your dreams, in your heart.

Sometimes I wish you were diamonds,
unchanging, eternally true,
but what is life without mystery?
What is life without you?

Don't cry, come to my arms, start a fire...
it's a cruel world that I'd like to shelter you from,
we've all been exposed to the storm.
No rest till I see your smile dance with the moonbeams above.

Cav, That is sensitive. Who wrote it?

listening to Clifford Brown play "Ghost of a Chance" and one of my favorite Jazz tunes by the man with the trumpet:

Willow weep for me,
Willow weep for me,
Bend your branches green,
Along the stream that runs to sea.
Listen to my plea,
Listen willow and weep for me.
Gone my lover's dream
Lovely summer dream.
Gone and left me here
To weep my tears into the stream.
Sad as I can be,
Hear me willow and weep for me.
Whisper to the wind,
And say that love has sinned
To leave my heart a breaking
And making a moan,
Murmur to the night,
To hide her starry light,
So none will find me sighing
And crying, all alone.
Oh weeping willow tree,
Weep, in sympathy,
Bend your branches down
Along the ground and cover me,
When the shadows fall,
Bend oh willow and weep for me.

Ah, dedicated to my friend, Bill who introduced me to Clifford and to Booman wherever he is.

I must confess, twas me, in 1993, the tender age of 23, Letty.

Cav, is there anything that you can NOT do? Par excellence, my friend. I just gotta remember that song I wrote.

Well, so far we have two originals here, and I do wish that we would see some more. Surely Toronto and London don't house the only songwriters.

Letty: I don't know how to post a link, but I'll be practising shortly, and will post a link about You're So Vain. It states that Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson and Warren Beatty, former lovers of Carly, were all under consideration, and that Carly will not divulge the answer. It's a cute article. She was married to James Taylor at the time and he even suspected that he might be the guy, but Carly firmly denied that.

In the movie Ode to Billy Joe, it turned out that Billy was gay, but he got the gal pregnant and we assumed it was their baby that was thrown off the bridge. But it's been a long time since I've seen that movie, so don't quote me on it.

Hmmmm. I'd guess Beatty.

A James Taylor outtake:

"I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
I beat my wife and did cocaine...

Oops, sorry, can I change that line?"