Fw: [R-390] Tunes

[Lee Bahr]

: Re: [R-390] Tunes


> Well, my HOUSE FRAMER while framing my lake house was singing "My woman
done
> left me, don't feel like rockin and rollen  no more"!  He kept singing
this
> over and over for a month, daily, eight hours a day!  No other words to
it,
> so it should be easy to remember.
>
> Or, how about this one!  This is an actual song on a  record from the 20s.
> (An early 78 whenever they came out).  I heard a ham friend of mine play
it
> for me back in the 50s and I have never forgotten the words to it.  I
> remember the other side of the record had the song HELLO BLUEBIRD on it.
> Anyway, the song was intitled HOW COULD RED RIDING HOOD.  "How could Red
> Riding Hood be so very good, with that wolf knocking at her door.  Mother
> and Father, she had none, but, where in the world did all that money come
> from?  Please don't let me ask it!  Who filled her basket!  The story
books
> will NEVER tell"! You could sing this was while melting solder.
>
> Or here is the title of another song from the 20s.  I don't remember the
> words. I actually saw the sheet music for it.  "If YOU TALK IN YOUR SLEEP,
> DON'T MENTION MY NAME". If you like this one, you will have to do research
> for all the words to it, while melting solder.
> Lee, w0vt
> Houston
>
>
>
>
> > It occurs to my frozen brain that since we have talked about
> > almost everything related to the r-390 class set, how about
> > tunes to sing silently while working on sets that never fail
> > once restored. Tunes from the era, like:
> >
> > Gotta have another cigarette
> >
> > Across the alley from the Alamo
> >
> > Please, Mr. Custer, I don't wanna go
> >
> > It's later than you think
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Anybody got the words?
> >
> > Any more suggestions for songs to sing while inhaling rosin?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Hawkins
> >
>