[Harp-L] Re: Cell Phone Blues

[Jim Adams <tusker23@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:58:48 +0100
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Thanks Abner! -- And Bill, in answer to your quibble, this "song" was actually written in a very rare, little-known genre which pre-dated southern blues by many years. It was based on Acadian folk music brought to Ontario in the 1800's by Big Blind Angus MacHinery and the Furtrappers Blues Band, and it gradually evolved into what Canadian enthusiasts know today as "Transatlantic Blues."  

 

This format allows the substitution of the word 'mobile' for 'cellular' throughout the song, as well as allowing U.K. monetary units to replace North American units.....so in the U.K., the fifth verse would read

 

Been at this phonebox 

For an hour or three

Tryin' to get someone

To lend me 10 P.

 

Hope this clears things up!  

 

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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!
 
 
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
>
>
>
>  In response to johnnieharp's challenge re: the demise of Splash's
> cellphone.....
>
>
>
>  Cellphone Blues
>
>
>
>  Don't got no contacts
>
>  Can't call no friends
>
>  Ever since my cellphone
>
>  Met an untimely end.
>
>
>
>  Gettin' into my Jeep
>
>  I was headin for home
>
>  But I didn't notice
>
>  That I'd dropped my phone.
>
>
>
>  It fell from my pocket
>
>  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
>
>  For quite a long time
>
>  Tryin' to get someone
>
>  To lend me a dime.
>
>
>
>  But they all ignore me
>
>  They couldn't care less
>
>  Bout a broken-down man
>
>  Who's cellular phone-less.
>
>

>  So if you're gonna call me
>
>  Now I don't have no "roam"
>
>  You'll just haveta wait
>
>  Until I get home.
>
>
>
>  Harpstrangler

>
 

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