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Just wanted to say that I love the song Last Kiss - especially Pearl Jam's version.  I know it's a sad song but I think it is also a very beautiful song.
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I think the Jam does those oldies really well.  I saw them on a special years ago... tribute to Bob Dylan... and they did a riveting "With God On Our Side".  That boy can sing... :)

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It's amazing how many sad-story songs there were in the '50s era - I mean death and/or big troubles.  Off hand I can think of a few:

Tell Laura I Love Her
Leader of the Pack
Never Go Home Anymore
I forget the song name - Where Can My Baby Be?  What's it called?

I know there are more but it's been long since I've heard any.
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Have you ever heard or read the lyrics of any song by the truck-driving singer Red Sovine?  "Teddy Bear" and "Giddy-Up Go" and the one about the ghostly trucker on the highway (retold in the movie Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)....they're so sad it's creepy.



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Phantom 309

Max Power

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Sammy, what are the lyrics like in that song "baby back"?  I wonder if I've ever heard it.
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I Want My Baby Back
Jimmy Cross

 

I want my baby back

Gotta have my baby back

I miss her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

 



I don’t hardly know where to begin.  I remember we were cruising home from the Beatles concert.  I’d had such a wonderful evening, sitting there watching my baby screaming, and tearing her hair out, and carrying on.  She was so full of life.  Then, well, we were about three miles from home when all of a sudden it started to rain.  And I do mean rain.  I couldn’t hardly see nothing.  Well, we kept driving for about another mile when all of a sudden I see this stalled car right smack in front of me.  Well, I wasn’t about to slam on the brakes ‘cause I didn’t have none to start with.  So I swerved to the left.  And what do I see—some mushhead on a motorcycle headin’ right at us.  And I knew at last me and my baby were about to meet the leader of the…



…pack

 

Well, when I come to, I looked around

And there was the leader

And there was the pack

And over there was my baby

And over there was my baby

And way over there was my baby

 

I want my baby back

Gotta have my baby back

I miss her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

 



It’s been many months now since that fateful night.  And you know something, I’ve tried.  Believe me, I have tried.  But I just can’t make without my baby.  So I’ve decided I’m going to have her back one way or another.  Oh, baby, I dig you so much.  Hot dang, pay dirt.

 



 

I’ve got my baby back

Now, I’ve got my baby back

I love her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

I’ve got my baby back

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Endless Sleep -
The night was black rain fallin' down
I looked my baby she's no where aroun'
Chased her footsteps down to the shore
Afraid she's gone for ever more ...


Written by Jody Williams and Dolores Nance, 1958.  Covered by Don Williams, Billy Idol and Wynonna Judd.  This is one sad sad song.
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Marc Bolan did a great version of the above song. Ironically, it was one of his last releases before his untimely death....

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Thanks, Max, for saving me the trouble. A pretty strange, funny song.
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Last Kiss by Wayne Cochrane.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
We hadn't driven very far.
There in the road straight ahead,
A car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right,
I'll never forget the sound that night.
The screaming tires, the busting glass,
The painful scream that I heard last.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.


When I woke up, the rain was falling down,
There were people standing all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said;
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close I kissed her - our last kiss,
I found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight,
I lost my love, my life that night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

Wanna hear Pearl Jam stream it at you?
http://www.angelfire.com/de3/whereowhere/
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Ebony Eyes, by The Everly Brothers?

On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have had time I love that one
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I went to the chaplain and he authorized
Me to send for my ebony eyes

My ebony eyes was coming to me
From out of the skies on Flight 1203
In an hour or two I would whisper
To my beautiful ebony eyes

"The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said 'Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?' He said
'Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course.'
I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for

My ebony eyes

"And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once."

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life’s most wonderful prize
My beautiful ebony eyes

If I ever get to heaven I’ll bet
The first angel I’ll recognize
She’ll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful ebony eyes
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :'( :'(I love that one!delightfully ambiguous,if you listento the lyrics carefully1It's my good-luck traveling song.Two other sad story songs by Don and Phil are "Put my Little Shoes Away"and "LIghtning Express'By the way,"Endless Sleep ' has a happy ending--the guy saves the girl at the end.Cheers!

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Another pretty, sad song by Don McLean was "Starry, Starry Night".
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Gotcha Steve! That should be in the Songs Called by the Wrong Title" thread! It's actually 'Vincent'.

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Gotcha Steve! That should be in the Songs Called by the Wrong Title" thread! It's actually 'Vincent'.
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You're right!  Oops and mea culpa.  :-[

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Ebony Eyes, by The Everly Brothers?

On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have had time
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I went to the chaplain and he authorized
Me to send for my ebony eyes

My ebony eyes was coming to me
From out of the skies on Flight 1203 that's my good luck song when i go on a plane.Cheers!
In an hour or two I would whisper
To my beautiful ebony eyes

"The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said 'Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?' He said
'Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course.'
I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for

My ebony eyes

"And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once."

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life’s most wonderful prize
My beautiful ebony eyes

If I ever get to heaven I’ll bet
The first angel I’ll recognize
She’ll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful ebony eyes
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:'( :'(I love that one!delightfully ambiguous,if you listento the lyrics carefully1It's my good-luck traveling song.Two other sad story songs by Don and Phil are "Put my Little Shoes Away"and "LIghtning Express'By the way,"Endless Sleep ' has a happy ending--the guy saves the girl at the end.Cheers!
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Yeah, I've always like Put My Little Shoes Away, but it's on the concert CD that I can't find. "Lightning Express", however, at 4:50, is one heck of a long listen.

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:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) 8) 8) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :oPut Muy Little Shoes away is on "Songs Our Daddy taught Us"LP and "The Everly Brothers--the Complete Cadence Collection--1957-1960",both of which I have."Lightning Express" is one I'd love to play at a party,or at least drive my neighbors crazy by playing it in my backyard.Cheers!