Tue, 20 Sep 1994 00:35:32 -0400
Date: 20 Sep 94 00:32:37 EDT

From: Paul Woodford <72772.2633@compuserve.com>

To: Zippy <zippy@usa.net>Cc: Ed Cray <cray@mizar.usc.edu>Subject: Need Help w/Song

 


ZiPpy, Ed,


My version of "Side by Side," or the "Wedding Song," has a bad verse.  I 
got this song from two sources (Sharkey Ward's "Jacksing" and a xeroxed 
hash songbook), and they both have a screwed-up third verse, which looks to 
be made up of parts to two verses, poorly remembered.  I'll include both 
third verses, Sharkey's first.  Any ideas?  Do either of you have a 
complete version of this, or do you think someone on the WWW folksong net 
could help?  If not, I'll put it on the hash net and see what happens.



WEDDING SONG

Melody-Side by Side



We got married on Sunday,

The party didn't finish till Monday,

And when the guests had gone home,

We were alone,

Side by side.



Well, we got ready for bed then,

And I very nearly dropped dead when,

Her teeth and her hair,

She placed on the chair,

Side by side.



(Her little glass eye to follow,

Her wooden leg so small,

Along with other attachments,

She placed on a chair by the wall.)



(Well the shock did very near kill me,

When her glass eye did fall,

Then her leg and her arm,

She placed by the chair,

Side by side.)



Well this left me broken hearted,

For most of my wife had departed,

So I slept on the chair,

There was more of her there,

Side by side.



Thanks and On On,

Flying Booger