Name that Tune

[Human without the bean]

Another song.

The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left town

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone, " he said
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads
Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin
"Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"

[GeorgeStGeorge]

That last line seems familiar,  but I'm not getting it.

George

[Human without the bean]

23 hours ago, Human without the bean said:

Another song.

The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left town

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone, " he said
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads
Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin
"Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"

Backstage the girls were playing five card stud by the stairs
Lily had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair
Outside the streets were filling up, the window was open wide
A gentle breeze was blowing, you could feel it from inside
Lily called another bet

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance looking so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place
He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and silver cane

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WordWolf]

Maybe George has heard this song before. I've heard lots of songs that charted before I was born, but I've hardly heard them all.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

It's really not clicking for me, either, though I may well have heard it.

George

[Human without the bean]

On 5/18/2018 at 12:46 AM, Human without the bean said:

 

The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left town  He was standing in

the doorway looking........................

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone, " he said
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads
Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin
"Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"  Then he moved

into the corner face down like like ..........................

Backstage the girls were playing five card stud by the stairs
Lily had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair
Outside the streets were filling up, the window was open wide
A gentle breeze was blowing, you could feel it from inside
Lily called another bet and drew up .....................

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance looking so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place
He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match ..................

Rosemary started drinking hard and seeing her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention tired of playing the role of Big Jim's wife
She had done a lot of bad things even once tried suicide
Was looking to do just one good deed before she died
She was gazing to the future riding ................. .....

Lily was a princess she was fair-skinned and precious as a child
She did whatever she had to do she had that certain flash every time she smiled
She'd come away from a broken home had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere
But she'd never met anyone quite like the ...........................

The hanging judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drilling in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring
And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king
No nothing ever would except maybe the ...........................

No one knew the circumstance, but they say it happened pretty quick
The door to the dressing room burst open a Colt revolver clicked
And big Jim was standing there you couldn't say surprise
Rosemary right beside him studying her eyes
She was with big Jim but she was leaning to the .......................

Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall
And cleaned out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haul
In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
For one more member who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no further without the ............................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Sorry.  Just don't know it.

George

[WordWolf]

*checks*  I've definitely heard of this artist. I've definitely never heard this song before.  Maybe George has.  If Raf has, I'll be shocked.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

If Raf REPLIES, I'll be shocked. 

George

[Human without the bean]

It's not Simple Twist of Fate or Tangled Up in Blue or even Shelter From the Storm but it's a song from ~Bob Dylan~ on the same album as those songs.  Blood on The Tracks.  1976.  I didn't expect anyone would get it.  I was more expecting a guess I guess at the artist.   Dylan's 76 birthday was May 24 and in honor of that day I have posted the video to Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.  I love these ballets because his songs have more than just lyrics.  Dylan puts characters in the song and brings them to life in the story.   I can see Lily, Rosemary, the hanging Judge just sitting around the Cabaret waiting for the dealer to deliver the next card.  

[GeorgeStGeorge]

If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass
Can't think of anything I need

No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat, no books to read

George

[Human without the bean]

The Air I Breathe  ~The Hollies~

 

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Correct (obviously)!

George

[Human without the bean]

I posted another clue last week, oh I want to say Saturday, and somehow it didn't show up.  Well, well.  Let's try it again.

She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles
That weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way?

She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion
As something comes into her mind
Slowly starts dancing remembering her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line

 

Cut and print, that's a wrap!   This is a real oldie.

[WordWolf]

I may be imagining I've heard this ONCE, quite some time ago.  It's not sparking a memory of a tune or anything.

[Human without the bean]

Yeah, the song is 50 yrs old.  I think you're younger than George or I, so I'm guessing you weren't born yet WordWolf or were just a baby.  Am I close?

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I think WW is only a couple of years younger than I, so he would have been around in the late 60s, and probably old enough to listen to the radio.

It seems like a pleasant song, but I don't remember it.

George

[WordWolf]

If it's 50 years old, it's before my time.  The Mrs and I are fans of different "retro" things, so we sometimes sound older than we are. 

[GeorgeStGeorge]

5 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

I think WW is only a couple of years younger than I

3 hours ago, WordWolf said:

If it's 50 years old, it's before my time. 

 

Apparently, I was mistaken! 

George

[Human without the bean]

*Think*  Glenn Yarbrough kinda songs.  

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I don't know who Glen Yarbrough is.

George

[Human without the bean]

Am I logged in?

[Human without the bean]

3 minutes ago, Human without the bean said:

Am I logged in?

Glenn Yarbrough is a folk singer, same type of artist as the clue.  Bobby Goldsboro is another one.  But neither of them is the artist for this particular song.

[WordWolf]

*checks*  Glenn Yarbrough was a folk singer. Among his portfolio is the songs in the Rankin-Bass animated movie, "the Hobbit" (like "the Road Goes Ever On" and he did some songs for their animated "Return of the King."  ( You may recall the troubadour at the beginning. "Frodo of the nine fingers....and the ring of doom!")   For me, that's the best-known stuff he's done. And the stuff he's done I've heard most recently. 

[Human without the bean]

Well, Glenn is the wrong Glen as I said.  Just dropped it in there as a hint for you so you guys would get an idea of the genre and the kind of artist that the guy was.  He's really country, but he was considered a folk guy too as many artists were of the day.  It's ballet song, like Goldsboro's "Honey".

She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles
That weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way?

She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion
As something comes into her mind
Slowly starts dancing remembering her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line

The photograph album she takes from the closet
And slowly turns the page
And carefully picks up the crumbling flower
The first one he gave her now withered today
She closes her eyes and
Touches the house dress that suddenly disappears
And just for the moment she's wearing the gown
That broke all their minds back so many years