Help w: Lyrics : a 55 Tele under my tree

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 19 Jan 2005 6:57 am

could someone help me find the lyrics to this tune ?:
a 55 Telecaster under my tree
who did this tune ?
i'm runnin' this errand for a friend
Thanx

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 19 Jan 2005 7:42 am

Hey Crowbear, I've never heard the tune but I'd sure love to find a '55 Tele under my tree!!.........JH

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Livin' in the Past and Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.

Alan Cook · Post by **Alan Cook** » 19 Jan 2005 7:44 am

A 55 Telecaster under a tree
The player sat plucking and playing with glee
The band are on tour they forgot him to-day
Thank god said the steelie I'll get chance to play.
(only joking, can anyone find a chorus? we could have a hit)

Alan Cook · Post by **Alan Cook** » 19 Jan 2005 8:21 am

OK to late I have the chorus:

Listen to that steelie plaaaaaaaay
His bar flying and gliding so free
Why is he so good todaaaaaaaaaaay
The tele's stuck under a tree.

Come on folks verse 2
Bob maybe we should move this to the humour section

David Cobb · Post by **David Cobb** » 19 Jan 2005 3:24 pm

John Jorgensen and Carlene Carter

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 19 Jan 2005 4:25 pm

Thanx David

Steve Robinson · Post by **Steve Robinson** » 19 Jan 2005 8:52 pm

Here's the best I could work out from listening to it. Some of the words are beyond my ability to decipher. Do what I do - make 'em up! Reminds me a little of "I Knew the Bride When she Used to Rock and Roll".

Steve
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A 55 Telecaster Under My Tree - Carlene Carter

Way back when in nineteen sixty-seven
The Monkees on the radio
My only piece of heaven
Was a band in a rock & roll show

I wanted to plug in and rock it up
But a ukelele's all I had
I would beg my Mama, I would scream and shout
But all she said was "ask your Dad"

Christmas time was a-comin' soon
So Dad said to write to you
I might be a little old for the Santa stuff
But I'm takin' a chance you'll come through

CHORUS
Please Santa please, bring to me
A 55 telecaster under my tree
An amplifier too to make it loud
I guarantee a year from now I'll make you proud
If I was just a little louder I could draw a crowd

Standin' in front of the mirror
In my hip-huggin' bell-bottom jeans
Strap hung low like a Rollin' Stone
Tryin' my best to look mean

I'd practice for hours all alone
And my favorite ...
I'd be jammin' with Animals' For Your Love
Never hearin' my brothers cries

I've got a Malibu blue Dan-electro guitar
And a Silvertone amp from Sears
...
So I'm a-begging you ...

CHORUS

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 20 Jan 2005 12:55 am

Thanx a bunch Steve

Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 20 Jan 2005 12:15 pm

I like those lyrics. I remember when all I had was a uke, too. About 1967, I asked my Daddy for a guitar. I distinctly remember him saying that he had asked around, and someone had told him that the two best guitar brands were Gibson and Kay.

Guess which one I got.