Afleveringen t/m ZOZ260 vind je bij Marja.
In aansluiting op mijn vorige blog: Van brand en herinneringen, gaat deze zwijmel ook over een brandend huis. Het is een song, geschreven door country singer/songwriter Dick Feller, die nu door het leven gaat als Deena Kaye Rose. Ik schreef al eerder over hem/haar en de geslachtsverandering, en over de prachtige muziek die meestal onder de naam Dick Feller bekend is: 170513 - ZOZ - Van zangers en geslachten. In dat blog ook een voorbeeld van een bijzondere kijk op de wereld in de song Dick Feller - Daisy Hill, met de volledige tekst erbij.
De song die ik nu plaats, geeft ook een voorbeeld van zo'n bijzondere kijk. Het gaat over "Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls", waar een verpieterd opschrift aan de deur hangt met de tekst: “Single Rooms for Single Girls…No Men Allowed”. Maar er breekt brand uit...
De song is dus geschreven door Dick Feller. De eerste die het opnam, in 1971, was Tex Williams (nl). Nog een paar mensen namen het op, en in 2001 nam Dick Feller het zelf ook op.
The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down
Writer: Dick Feller © Cyberphonic Publishing
Miss Nancy Ann ran a boarding house with a fade sign that read
"Single Rooms For Single Girls. No Men Allowed." It said
But rumor had it that a gentleman with a yen for love for a fee
Could always go to Nancy Ann's for some feminine company
Well one night in June in the Billiard Room was I chalking up with a friend
He was set to break when the door burst open and Leo James rushed in
He yelled "There's a fire that's just broke out and it's down at Nancy Ann's!"
So we dropped our cues on the pool room floor and down the street we ran
Chorus:
Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick not a single life was lost
And the reason for the blaze was never found
But it long will be remembered in our local history
As the fire that fairly scandalized the town
The night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls burned down
When we got to the place the front was a blaze and so was the second floor
So we cut around the side and up the alley and stopped aside the back door
We were catching our breath when the door flew open and knocked poor Leo flat
And out through the smoke ran Mayor Wills wearing nothing but a black silk hat
And right behind him with his shirt tail afire came the local chief of police
And banker Jones with the red-haired girl he always said was his niece
And then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself helping someone else out of the fire
Her arm around the red bald head of old Judge McEntire
A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff and one state congress-man
The county physician, the city mortician
Out through the flames they ran
The grand parade of girls in gowns and hat claid gentlemen
Through the thick gray smoke that certainly smelled like french perfume and gin
Chorus
Everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the time the roof caved in
We were heading back to the billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend
He said "I believe that's the funniest show I've ever seen in town"
"The so called elite caught out in the street with their pompous purity down"
Chorus
The night Miss Nancy Ann's hotel for single girls burned down
Writer: Dick Feller © Cyberphonic Publishing
Miss Nancy Ann ran a boarding house with a fade sign that read
"Single Rooms For Single Girls. No Men Allowed." It said
But rumor had it that a gentleman with a yen for love for a fee
Could always go to Nancy Ann's for some feminine company
Well one night in June in the Billiard Room was I chalking up with a friend
He was set to break when the door burst open and Leo James rushed in
He yelled "There's a fire that's just broke out and it's down at Nancy Ann's!"
So we dropped our cues on the pool room floor and down the street we ran
Chorus:
Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick not a single life was lost
And the reason for the blaze was never found
But it long will be remembered in our local history
As the fire that fairly scandalized the town
The night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls burned down
When we got to the place the front was a blaze and so was the second floor
So we cut around the side and up the alley and stopped aside the back door
We were catching our breath when the door flew open and knocked poor Leo flat
And out through the smoke ran Mayor Wills wearing nothing but a black silk hat
And right behind him with his shirt tail afire came the local chief of police
And banker Jones with the red-haired girl he always said was his niece
And then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself helping someone else out of the fire
Her arm around the red bald head of old Judge McEntire
A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff and one state congress-man
The county physician, the city mortician
Out through the flames they ran
The grand parade of girls in gowns and hat claid gentlemen
Through the thick gray smoke that certainly smelled like french perfume and gin
Chorus
Everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the time the roof caved in
We were heading back to the billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend
He said "I believe that's the funniest show I've ever seen in town"
"The so called elite caught out in the street with their pompous purity down"
Chorus
The night Miss Nancy Ann's hotel for single girls burned down
Tex Williams - The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down:
Dan de versie van Dick Feller zelf, op de CD "Centaur of Attention" uit 2001. Let ook even op het gitaarspel.
Dick Feller - The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down:
P.S.: Deze week overleed Hollywood-acteur Burt Reynolds (nl), voluit Burton Leon Reynolds Jr.
Een deel van zijn roem ontleende hij aan de succesvolle actie-komedie Smokey and the bandit (nl), en daarin zit muziek die (mede)geschreven is door Dick Feller, de hoofdpersoon van deze ZOZ.
"The Bandit" is geschreven door Dick Feller, en samen met Jerry Reed (voluit Jerry Reed Hubbard), "West Bound And Down" en de hit "East Bound and Down", gezongen door Jerry Reed.
Onwijs leuke muziek. De tekst is zo komisch.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenErgens is het grappig maar tegelijkertijd natuurlijk ook niet want die wereld van 'in het verkeerde geslacht moeten leven' is nog steeds gehuld in taboes en dat gaat met onnoemelijk veel leed en schaamte gepaard, en niet alleen bij de persoon in kwestie zelf helaas.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenFIjn weekend.
Lekkere muziek, het maakt de tekst zo nogal luchtig. Lijkt me moeilijk voor de mensen die in een verkeers lichaam zitten.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenGelukkig kunnen ze tgenwoordig zoveel. Als je echt graag wilt dan kun je er wat aan laten doen. (Klinkt simpeler dan het in werkelijkheid is)
Haha een geweldig verhaal, een hotel... om je dood te lachen!
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