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WillPick4Beer
Jan-08-2005, 11:48am
anyone have the words for it. its hillarious. i can remember most of them. or anyone know if its online somewhere to listen to. the Monroe brothers recorded it in the late 30's although the writer is unknown
goes like this
You see in our store they're giving away
hundreds and thousands of coupons each day
coupon redeeming you can bet your life
I tried it out and I got a wife.
you can get a good jack knife for o' thirty cents
sorry i didn't get a jack knife instead
five million coupons is what my wife cost
and i'd spend many more now to get a divorce
im savin up coupons to get one of those.
cant remember all the verses though.
WillPick4Beer
Jan-08-2005, 11:56am
my brother got married and right off the reel
started savin up coupons to get a new automobile
on the day that he got it from smoking he died
from the house to the grave with the brothers on the right
his wife then got busy no time did she lose
till some lucky boot stepped in poor brothers shoes
now every day they can be seen (?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif???)
ridin around in poor brothers machine
its tryin to come back to me
Peter Hackman
Jan-08-2005, 12:01pm
It was also recorded on Victor during the first
years of the BG Boys. I forget who sings it,
maybe Cousin Wilbur.
These Victor recordings turn up in various
CD compilations every now and then.
Moose
Jan-09-2005, 10:33am
Yeah! - Victor! - Victor Schwartz.... ; he had a tape recorder set up in his garage....(Ops!## - off topic!##). Carry on http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
evanreilly
Jan-09-2005, 2:14pm
It was not recorded by the Monroe Brothers. It was recorded by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys on October 2nd, 1941.
Personnel were: Bill Westbrook ('Cousin Wilbur') on bass and vocal; Art Wooten on fiddle; Pete Pyle on guitar and Bill Monroe on mandolin.
It was reissued on a BMG/RCA CD 2429-4-R, in 1991 Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, Mule Skinner Blues.
An interesting song....
WillPick4Beer
Jan-09-2005, 4:00pm
right . . . but lets assume i cant afford to buy a CD (or lunch for that matter) would any of you happen to know the words so i can make peole laugh as i play on the street, increasing my chances at lunch?
Your point is well taken - the dust has settled - no, I can't help you with the words.... surely some one in the CAFE can... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif