[Dixielandjazz] Re: Songs with a Question

[Henry B. Stinson]

Hey, Dan, do you have any leadsheets & lyrics for those tunes?
I especially like the title "WHO'LL CHOP YOUR SUEY WHEN I'M GONE?"
-- Henry

Dan Augustine wrote:

> >From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard@hotmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] New thread to stop the crying in the beer
> >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:28:26 +0000
> >
> >Don Ingle asks the musical question - "Name only tunes that ask a question"
> >OK, why not? . . .
> >What Kind of Fool Am I?
> >Could It Be You?
> >How Deep is the Ocean?
> >Isn't it Romantic?
> >Is it True What They Say About Dixie?
> >What'll I Do?
> >What Can I Say (After I say I'm sorry)?
> >Why Can't You Behave?
> >Why Don't You Do Right?
> >Why Was I Born?
> >Wouldn't It Be Nice?
> >Respectfully submitted?
> >Bill "?" Gunter
> >jazzboard@hotmail.com
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> Inquiring Minds--
>      The Anderson database of 9,067 song titles (my copy of it) lists
> 305 songs that end with a "?" (but with numerous duplicates).  Some
> interesting titles:
>
> AFTER I'VE CALLED YOU SWEETHEART (HOW CAN I CALL YOU FRIEND?)
>        by Little Jack Little
> AIN'T CHA' COMING BACK, MARYANN TO MARYLAND? by Eubie Blake
> AREN'T YOU KIND OF GLAD WE DID? by George Gershwin
> CAN YOU TAME WILD WIMMEN? by Harry Von Tilzer
> GONE WITH "WHAT" WIND? by Benny Goodman & William ""Count"" Basie
> HOW ARE YOU GOIN' TO WET YOUR WHISTLE? (A DRY LAMENT)
>        by Francis Byrne, Frank McIntyre & Percy Wenrich
> HOW CAN I HI-DE-HI (WHEN I FEEL SO LOW-DE-LOW)?
>        by Mercer Cook, Don Redman & J. Russel Robinson
> HOW MANY BURPS IN A BOTTLE OF BEER? by Fred Patrick & Claude Reese
> IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE (HOW WILL I KNOW I'M DEAD?) by Bert A. Williams
> WHAT! NO SPINACH? by William Tracey, Hugh Aitken & Dinty Moore
> WHERE DO FLIES GO IN THE WINTER TIME? by Sam Mayo & Frank Leo
> WHO DAT SAY CHICKEN IN DIS CROWD? by Will Marion Cook
> WHO PLAYED POKER WITH POCAHONTAS? by Fred E. Ahlert
> WHO'LL CHOP YOUR SUEY WHEN I'M GONE? by Sidney Bechet & Rousseau Simmons
> WOULD YOU RATHER BE A COLONEL WITH AN EAGLE ON YOUR ARM THAN A
> PRIVATE WITH A CHICKEN ON YOUR KNEE? by Walter Donaldson
>
>      Dan
> --
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