Bluegrass Karaoke

[Daniela]

Geez, there's so many, how do you pick?  I love singing this one at the top of my lungs to anyone who will listen!   

It's A Great Day To Be Alive
Darrell Scott 

I got rice cooking in the microwave | I got a three day beard, I don't plan to shave | And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say, I'm doing all right | I think I'll make me some homemade soup | I'm feeling pretty good and that's the truth | It's neither drink nor drug induced, no I'm just doing all right

And it's a great day to be alive | I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes | It's hard times in the neighborhood | But why can't everyday be just this good

It's been fifteen years since I left home | Said good luck to every seed I'd sown | Gave it my best, then I left it alone | I hope they're doing all right

Redbird, redbird what do you see? | He says, "I see a lone wolf looking at me | Head in the clouds but harmless as a tree | I guess he's doing all right"

And it's a great day to be alive | I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes | It's hard times in the neighborhood | But why can't everyday be just this good

Sometimes it's lonely | Sometimes it's only me and the shadows that fill this room | Sometimes I'm falling, desperately calling, howling at the moon

It's a colorful life that we go through | It's neither black or white, nor just shades of blue | ......Maybe I'll grow me a fu man chu

 Listening to: What else?

[Daniela]

Hey, we also need James Buchanan's song "Packin' for Telluride" on this here list.  Anyone know the lyrics by heart??

[iain]

I need help! What are all the words to that song, "take a little time for sunshine, take a little time for love" that sam bush sings (i don't think he wrote it though)???? I'd love to sing that with a BIG group of people!

That's "Howlin' at the Moon", and I'm pretty sure he wrote it.

Thats what i thought, but when i searched I only got hank williams' "howling at the moon"  . . which is a competely different song, no?

Sammy gives James L Ratts and John McEuen credit for writing Howlin' at the Moon.  And I don't think anyone wants me to perform Karaoke, so I won't suggest a song!

[Hippie]

I'm pretty sure Telluride Tom has a small PA, I've got some pretty nice microphones, maybe all we need is a few good pickers, an easel with a large pad of paper, and someone with a laser pointer. 

Sound like the makings of a new way to party

 

 Listening to: NPR Morning edition

[Monkeygirl]

What would be really fun is if we took a little "Karaoke Super Happy Lucky Death Challenge"... draw a song out of the hat, flip to the appropriate page... game on.

Does anyone have a hook or a gong?

xoxo

 Listening to: Oh Lonesome Me - Johnny Cash

[Maineahhh]

No gong, but I can do a mean drum roll!

[Daniela]

Seriously, does anyone have James Buchanan's "Packing for Telluride"??  I really, really need to hear it.   

[TellurideTom]

Seriously, does anyone have James Buchanan's "Packing for Telluride"??  I really, really need to hear it.   

It was up on the Planet Bluegrass site last year.
Maybe Dustin can provide a link to it?

[arcticdesertnomad]

Guess I should toss in my 2 cents.  James Keelaghan wrote this one, but I prefer Richard Schindell's version a little better.  I like songs based on true stories, and this one is pretty powerful.


My name is Dodge, but then you know that
It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the bed
They think I'm blind, I can't read it
I've read it every word, and every word it says is death
So, Confession - is that the reason that you came
Get it off my chest before I check out of the game
Since you mention it, well there's thirteen things I'll name
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters

August 'Forty-Nine, north Montana
The hottest day on record, the forest tinder dry
Lightning strikes in the mountains
I was crew chief at the jump base, I prepared the boys to fly
Pick the drop zone, C-47 comes in low
Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go
See the circle of the fire down below
Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters

Gauged the fire, I'd seen bigger
So I ordered them to sidehill and we'd fight it from below
We'd have our backs to the river
We'd have it licked by morning even if we took it slow
But the fire crowned, jumped the valley just ahead
There was no way down, headed for the ridge instead
Too big to fight it, we'd have to fight that slope instead
Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters

Sky had turned red, smoke was boiling
Two hundred yards to safety, death was fifty yards behind
I don't know why I just thought it
I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time
Tried to tell them, Step into this fire I set
We can't make it, this is the only chance you'll get
But they cursed me, ran for the rocks above instead
I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters

And when I rose, like the phoenix
In that world reduced to ashes there were none but two survived
I stayed that night and one day after
Carried bodies to the river, wonder how I stayed alive
Thirteen stations of the cross to mark to their fall
I've had my say, I'll confess to nothing more
I'll join them now, because they left me long before
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri shore

[Ron N Deb]

Ok Its not Bluegrass , But I took Boz Scaggs to his room to day at the resort and as i was leaving I left to this
Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack
But that was all he missed and he ain't comin' back
A tombstone bar in a jukejoint car, he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down and let it roll



He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road



{Refrain}
Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go
Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road



Lido be runnin', havin' great big fun, until he got the note
Sayin' toe the line or blow, and that was all she wrote
He be makin' like a beeline, headin' for the borderline
Goin' for broke

Sayin' one more hit ought to do it
This joint ain't nothin' to it
One more for the road

 

[Courtney]

"I don't need no stinkin' microphone."  What movie is that from anyway?  The inspiration for Karaoke Bluegrass was to have a song or two so we could sing along with an occassional song in a tent jam.   If it becomes an event, oh my - when?  So maybe lets keep it simple for this year and see how the books go.  I will make song books, large print and small.   

As for non-bluegrass - whatever folks can play - I'm up for.  I personally would like to see/hear/sing Elvis Presley's "Do the Clam" but I really doubt that's going to make it.  I've Just Seen a Face by the Beatles has been done bluegrass style.  I'll find the lyrics for that one later.

 Listening to: Lightning Hopkins, Rainy Day Blues

[itsRick]

I'm pretty sure Telluride Tom has a small PA, I've got some pretty nice microphones, maybe all we need is a few good pickers, an easel with a large pad of paper, and someone with a laser pointer. 

Sound like the makings of a new way to party

 

slide projector ??

 Listening to: Cross Canadian Ragweed/ boys from Oklahoma roll there joints all wrong

[TellurideTom]

I'm pretty sure Telluride Tom has a small PA, I've got some pretty nice microphones, maybe all we need is a few good pickers, an easel with a large pad of paper, and someone with a laser pointer. 

Sound like the makings of a new way to party

 

slide projector ??

I've got the PA, and a projector I can hook up to my computer, and I have the screen. 

[Courtney]

okay - that could be brilliant.  I can make a powerpoint - will that software work for you Tom?  Are you going to do a slide show? Is Carissa, she sent me an email, I'll ask her.   Also, I'm still making the books or holographic tatoos.



 Listening to: Track 9 - Whatever - stinkin' shared music - The Tennessee Waltz and it's beautiful

[heaubeau]

i love to sing johnny cash and hank williams senior and merle haggard after i drink a couple, like tonight.  this really is my first drunk post.

"could be holdin' you toniiiiiiiiiight,
could quit doin' wrong, start doin' right"

woo hooooo!!!!
 i saw me some bluegrass at  the wormy dog