Re: [Harp-L] Cellphone Blues

[Jerry Deall <jdeall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just remember this is why in America we are not a metric nation, the metric system is just not poetic. 
It's "every inch of my love", not every centimeter, "I'm walkin' a mile for my baby" not a kilometer, etc. Translating the blues to another language or vernacular rarely works . 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 6:58:48 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Fwd: [Harp-L] Cellphone Blues 

Excellent! 

My only quibble is would this not need to translate across the pond and over 
here we don't cellphones we have mobiles, in the states i understand a 
mobile might be something you stick up above a cot to stop the baby from 
getting bored, so it's tricky innit! 

One of my work colleagues left her 'mobile' on the bus the other week, so 
she rang her number and spoke to someone called Hajib, they agreed to liaise 
that evening for the handover. The office was full of conjecture, would 
Hajib turn out to be a mad axe murderer or the love of her life. Actually 
he turned out to be neither, he handed over the mobile and that was that. 
But imagine the lyrical possibilities..... 

Bill 

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Abner Galdos <cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: 

> Jim this was good. 
> 
> abner 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jim Adams 
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 8:19 AM 
> Subject: [Harp-L] Cellphone Blues 
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> 
> 
> In response to johnnieharp's challenge re: the demise of Splash's 
> cellphone..... 
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> 
> 
> Cellphone Blues 
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> 
> 
> Don't got no contacts 
> 
> Can't call no friends 
> 
> Ever since my cellphone 
> 
> Met an untimely end. 
> 
> 
> 
> Gettin' into my Jeep 
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> I was headin for home 
> 
> But I didn't notice 
> 
> That I'd dropped my phone. 
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> 
> 
> It fell from my pocket 
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> And I didn't see 
> 
> Now I can't call no-one 
> 
> And no-one calls me. 
> 
> 
> 
> My cellphone is dead now 
> 
> Crushed by my rear wheel 
> 
> Got the cellphone blues now 
> 
> That's just how I feel. 
> 
> 
> 
> I been at this phonebooth 
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> For quite a long time 
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> Tryin' to get someone 
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> To lend me a dime. 
> 
> 
> 
> But they all ignore me 
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> They couldn't care less 
> 
> Bout a broken-down man 
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> Who's cellular phone-less. 
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> 
> 
> So if you're gonna call me 
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> Now I don't have no "roam" 
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> You'll just haveta wait 
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> Until I get home. 
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> 
> 
> Harpstrangler 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
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> 
> --Forwarded Message Attachment-- 
> From: johnnieharp@xxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [Harp-L] I ran over my phone with my jeep 
> CC: 
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:03:27 -0700 
> To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> > If you see him tell him to give me a call. I ran over my phone with my 
> jeep- 
> > a while back and lost the numbers of alot of my buds.PEACE Splash 
> 
> LOLOL ... Now if there was ever a story to be told in a modern day 
> blues song, THIS would be it. 
> 
> How about it Splash / Everyone? Perhaps a song contest in the making? 
> 
> Now ROTFL ... :-) 
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> 
> 
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