Kingston Trio Lyrics

    ------ About the song Three Jolly Coachmen performed by Kingston Trio

Apart form the dungeon, the most iconic D&D location is a tavern. Maybe not an English tavern, but there are lots of fantasy cities with two sylables you can drop in.

My mom played the heck out of her Kingston Trio 8-track back in the 70's, and this song stuck with me for some reason.

Now, as a dungeon master, if I ever want to set the mood of a happy, rollicking tavern for the players, I play the part of someone, usually a halfling bard who jumps up on a table, who starts this call-and-response song and gets all the patrons, PC and NPC alike singing and having a good time.

I'll print out the lyrics, except for the 'punchlines' and the end of each verse so the players don't get confused.

    ------ About the song E Inu Tatou E performed by Kingston Trio

Just about my favorite of all Kingston Trio songs. First heard it about age 10 in 1961 and it has haunted me ever since. No idea why. Years later I was in the Peace Corps for two years on a Pacific island and learned lots of local music, but none ever affected me as much as this particular Dave Guard song.

    ------ About the song Chilly Winds performed by Kingston Trio

While most of the lyrics are original, the refrain - including it's delivery - is from a much older song, first recorded in the 1920s by the likes of Cliff Carlisle and Henry Whitter. Coming from an oral tradition it has numerous versions, and each version has several titles, but it is most commonly known as 'Blowin Down This Road' as recorded by Woodie Guthrie, or 'Lonesome Road Blues'. It was recorded under the title 'Chilly Winds' as well, by Odetta Holmes in 1956, on an album which Bob Dylan claimed made him want to become a folk singer. It seems unlikely that Stewart and Phillips would be unaware of this early work, especially given the delivery of the line echoing that of earlier versions.

    ------ About the song The Merry Minuet performed by Kingston Trio

In thinking about the Gospel lesson for this Sunday (11/14), the words to the Minuet came into my head. I first heard them back in the 60's when the Trio was in its prime, but the words have stuck with me over the years. Now I've got a delightful tool with which to kick off a sermon based on Luke 21.

    ------ About the song All My Sorrows performed by Kingston Trio

The Haunting blues..and abstract reality of this song..hit me when it came out..I have decided to do it..the lyric though simple covers a lot of ground..most of us have been there..if you know the blues..if you were born to the blues..well..here it is..Tony

    ------ About the song Take Her Out of Pity performed by Kingston Trio

If you pay close attention to the lyrics, the subject of the song, "Sarah," is almost 29, and she has never had an offer of marriage. The song says that the ugly sister was married 16, and had 2 children by the time she was 18.

    ------ About the song The Merry Minuet performed by Kingston Trio

i came across this song in the 80's.can't remember from whence. probably it was played on KPFA Berkeley, or KKUP Cupertino, or maybe i heard it on the streets in SF or Santa Cruz. I learned the song, used to sing it when i did coffee house gigs on guitar. now i am a cynical old lounge lizard making good money, singing mediocre versions of pop songs in german hotel bars. ( and some decent jazz and blues). i am putting this back in my repertoire. it will replace "Let it Be AND Hey Jude AND YOUR Song". no offence beatles fans but even if the Günthers love it, i cannot f''''%! stand the sound of ME singing 'em. (sound of lounge lizard choking back a hurl".)

    ------ About the song Take Her Out of Pity performed by Kingston Trio

I'm a girl and I like this song. First off words aren't exactly the primary thing of importance in most KT music, in most anyone's music, really.

But secondly, if you really analyze this song, you'd find it's against chauvinism, not for it.

You're not supposed to think a domineering husband is right, you're supposed to think about stereotypes and why they're wrong. It's just as sad that people judge attractive people kindly and less attractive ones harshly.

Also, no one I know even considers dating the "ugly" girl, and it's sad if it happens that the only way "ugly" people can have someone is to be walked upon. Maybe we should think about this: what's really ugly is if you let yourself be steamrolled or to have such low self esteem that you don't shoot for anything better in life than "just have a spouse".

I'd say it really makes you think.

    ------ About the song Lion In The Winter performed by Kingston Trio

I agree with you Eugene. I stumbled on it on Youtube and play it frequently. Linda does a nice little falsetto at times that I never heard her do elsewhere and Hoyt with his gravely vibrato makes for a real musical treat.

    ------ About the song Chilly Winds performed by Kingston Trio

One of the prettiest songs John Stwewart ever wrote. He wrote it with John Phillips from the Mamas and Papas out on Sausalito bay one afternoon when he (John Stewart) was a member of the famed Kingston Trio in the 19060s. They'd borrowed a rowboat from Nick Reynolds (one of the other guys in The Kingston Trio) and rowed out about two miles in shorts and t-shirts to go fishing, not knowing the weather was about to change. About an hour later, the winds picked up and the temperature dropped considerably. At some point, one of them said, "Geez, these are really chilly winds." To which the other replied, "Hey, that's a great title for a song." Because they didn't have anything to write on, they ended up rowing over to The Kingston Trio's secretary's (Charlotte Larson) house and (according to Charlotte) wrote about 50 verses. The best recording of the song is on The Kingston Trio's College Concert album recorded live at UCLA in 1962.