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Poor Man's Poison is an American folk band from Hanford, California. [1] The lineup since its creation consists of guitarists Ryan Hakker and Michael Jacobs, mandolinist Tommy McCarthy and double bassist Dustin Medeiros; all members share vocal duties, although Hakker usually acts as lead vocalist.
The chorus lyrics vary between different versions of the song. In a version collected in Dover, Vermont in 1919, the chorus is sung: A linman, a tinman, a tinker, a tailor, A fiddler, a peddler, a plough-man, a sailor; Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, Don't let me die an old maid, but take me out of pity! [2]
Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' is a once-neglected song from the 1927 musical Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.It was cut from the production during the Washington D.C. tryout on the orders of producer Florenz Ziegfeld, supposedly because it was one of the factors that made the show too long (it ran four-and-a-half hours when it premiered).
The song, sung in first person, tells of John Joseph, an old man who lives out in the railroad yards. The Narrator tells how he likes to visit him in the evenings to listen to the old man's stories of the "glories of his past" and how he always ends the night with story of the arrival of his Corey, who he describes like an apparent love interest coming for him.
A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels on the same album, titled "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels", where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "they're trying to drive me sane" before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice. [15]
Please [do] put a penny in the old man's hat If you haven't got a penny, [then] a ha'penny will do If you haven't got a ha'penny, [then] God bless you! Although the lyrics begin appearing in print in 1885 [1] and 1886, [2] they are presented without an author and in a way of cataloging something that was already mostly common knowledge of the ...
'A lot of road rage': Greater Fall River drivers share commutes from hell into Providence. Gannett. Dan Medeiros, The Herald News. December 12, 2023 at 5:05 PM.
"A Poor Man's Roses (or a Rich Man's Gold)" is a song was written by Bob Hilliard (lyricist) and Milton De Lugg (composer). [2] The song was popularized by both Patsy Cline [3] and Patti Page in 1957. Cline rerecorded the song with a string arrangement and in stereo, in 1961. Page recorded the song again in 1981.