Re: [Harp-L] Re: Cell Phone Blues

["Abner Galdos" <cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NO, don't let it be true.. I thought we had a budding song writer in the mist.
anyway I'm going to steal it and sing it and play it.
since I cant sing or play worth a dime it wont matter.

It was still a very good translation.

abner (BluEyes, were o were is my Kalamazoo )
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Adams 
  To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:19 AM
  Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Cell Phone Blues



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  From: bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Fwd: [Harp-L] Cellphone Blues
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  Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:58:48 +0100
  To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx

  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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