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Lyr/Tune Req: Rollin' Home (Eric Andersen)

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hjackson@junction.net 30 Jul 97 - 04:20 AM
RS 30 Jul 97 - 06:29 PM
Bill D 31 Jul 97 - 01:01 PM
RS 31 Jul 97 - 07:47 PM
LaMarca 01 Aug 97 - 02:00 PM
Joe Offer 19 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM
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Subject: Rollin' Home (REQ: Lyrics & Music)
From: hjackson@junction.net
Date: 30 Jul 97 - 04:20 AM

this is a song written by Eric Andersen, recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary. A lyric fragments is...

I don't want a lot of money, i don't want a playboy bunny,
just someone to call me honey, late at night...

thanks for your help.

Hugo

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Subject: RE: Rollin' Home (REQ: Lyrics & Music)
From: RS
Date: 30 Jul 97 - 06:29 PM

If you make your way to the Peter Paul and Mary website, (at http://www.downeast.net/ppm/ ), then click on the "Alphabetical list of songs which contains links to lyrics, songbooks and video releases" , (at http://www.downeast.net/ppm/nslist.html ), then click on the "R" page (at http://www.downeast.net/ppm/nslist.html#r ) then click just underneath "Rolling Home", where it says "Album 1700", you will get to http://www.downeast.net/ppm/na1700.html#song1 , with the complete lyrics of the song "Rolling Home".

Of course you could just cut & paste the last URL given above, but then you'll miss seeing what a great website PP&M have put together!

By the way, a query to the "Powers That Be": I could obviously have just cut & pasted the lyrics from that site, & posted them here, which would have saved Hugo the (slight) inconvenience of looking them up, and also made them available for you to add to DT. But I am unsure of the netiquette here ... is this an ok thing to do? Should one ask the website owner, out of politeness, if they mind?

Obviously, one would be unlikely to get caught, especially if one made minor modifications before posting ... but suppose one took MANY songs from one site? Any thoughts on how to approach this?


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Subject: RE: Rollin' Home (REQ: Lyrics & Music)
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 01:01 PM

In my,ahem..'humble' opinion, you did about the right thing...refer someone to a more appropriate site...Max says he will be developing a 'links' page that we can list the many sites that are not quite folk/trad, but are still of interest to the readers here....this should help reduce the strain on this forum and still provide a much needed service...I'll bet in a year we will be amazed at how smoothly this all works...

Thanks for asking and taking the time to care...


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Subject: RE: Rollin' Home (REQ: Lyrics & Music)
From: RS
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 07:47 PM

Thanks Bill for your reply, it answers part of my question but not all ... in this particular case I *would* consider just about all of Peter Paul & Mary's music as "contemporary folk", and much of it is also "traditional" ... the DT database already contains at least six of their songs ... so what about the netiquette of copying songs from their site? Is it "done" or "not done"?


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Subject: RE: Rollin' Home (REQ: Lyrics & Music)
From: LaMarca
Date: 01 Aug 97 - 02:00 PM

Don't know whether it's good netiquette or not, RS, but my vote would be for referring folks to a site that already has the lyrics posted; after all, why take up memory/bandwidth/(whatever the correct computerese term is) by duplicating something that's already available? (The Department of Redundancy Department?) I actually enjoy browsing through sites that other folks have sent me to on other song queries, and it avoids getting into the Folk/Not Folk issue completely!


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Subject: ADDPOP: Rolling Home (Eric Andersen)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM

I think our thinking on this has evolved over the years. We've learned that other Websites die, and the lyrics posted on them get lost. I copied these lyrics from peterpaulandmary.com
-Joe Offer-

ROLLING HOME
Eric Andersen- Deep Fork Music, Inc. ASCAP

Truth, with all its far out schemes, 
Lets time decide what it should mean;
It's not the time but just the dreams that die.
And sometimes when the room is still, 
Time with so much truth to kill,
Leaves you by the window sill so tied
Without a wing, to take you high, 
Without a clue to tell you why.

Now, I just want to keep my name, not bother anybody's game
Without ideas of gold or fame or insane heights.
I don't want a lot of money, I don't want a Playboy Bunny,
Just a love to call me honey late at night,
In my arms, by my side, in my arms late at night.

Chorus:
But I don't know, I ain't been told, 
Ev'rybody wants a hand to hold.

They're so afraid of being old, 
So scared of dying, so unknown

And so alone, rollin' home.

Well, I see the ones who crawl like moles 
Who for a front would trade their souls,
A broken mirror's the only hole for them;
And for you who'd exchange yourselves, 
Just to be somebody else,
Pretending things you never felt or meant;
Hey, you don't live what you defend, 
You can't give so you just bend.

Now if you care what people think, 
Like they supplied some missing link;
They'll just stand back and watch you sink so slow.
They'll never help you to decide, 
They'll only take you for a ride,
After which they'll try and hide the fact that they don't know
What you should do, where you should go,
What you should do, where you should go.

(Chorus)

There's nothing big I want to prove, 
No mountains that I need to move,
Or even claim what's right or true for you.
My sights, my songs are slightly charred, 
You might think they miss their mark,
But things are only what they are and nothing new
But for me, I think they'll do,
But for me, I think they'll do.

Well, I can see a king and queen, a beggar falling at my feet;
They all must see the same sad dreams at night;
Futility and senseless war, pit the rich against the poor,
While cause is buried long before the fight
For what was wrong, for what was right,
It's just the strong, who ever says what's right.

(Chorus)


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