shel silverstein

dr hook and the medicine show

funny songs

Hopefully you guessed this one would be here. I mean, when we talk songs that have a humorous tint to them, this one ranks right up there in terms of humor and popularity. Gotta include this one, and I did! So here it...

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Funny Songs: A Boy Named Sue

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 3 Sep 23

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Marie Laveau (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 21 Mar 22

Cheers to Shel Silverstein, who’s being honored on April 8 with a postage stamp for his children’s classic The Giving Tree. And cheers to you all, for enduring this look at my favorite songs that Silverstein wrote. Here’s...

Tall timber time as we end the countdown celebrating the songs of Shel Silverstein. The postage stamp coming out next month isn’t doing that: it’s honoring The Giving Tree. Both of the top two are on my 100 favorites list,...

bobby bare

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Song: Queen of the Silver Dollar (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 20 Mar 22

Okay, things are back to normal. I’m out of my tornado shelter. You’ve hopefully had time to recover from the shock of yesterday’s Shel Silverstein-penned tune. And now it’s on to another song in this countdown honoring the...

doyle holly

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: The Taker (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 19 Mar 22

MIND BLOWING time! That’s right, folks, we’re at the point of the countdown of my favorite songs written by Shel Silverstein where the song that “everybody” knows shows up. And, if the past comments have been any indication, it...

waylon jennings

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: A Boy Named Sue (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 18 Mar 22

Into the top five with this look at the songwriting side of the great Shel Silverstein. As I’ve been reviewing the comments I’m sort of surprised to discover how many people didn’t know that he was a songwriter. But then, I’m a...

johnny cash

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Your Times Comin (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 17 Mar 22

Another day, another song! Right now I’m celebrating poet, author, illustrator, and songwriter Shel Silverstein, who’ll be honored with a postage stamp for one of those things (author) next month on a postage stamp. I’m just...

faron young

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Ones on the Way (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 16 Mar 22

NOW we’re talking Shel Silverstein silliness! You may have been waiting to see just how crazy the late multi-talented writer could be. Now you’ll realize. Here’s today’s song from the pen of Silverstein. [b]#7:...

loretta lynn

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Three-Legged Man (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 15 Mar 22

Next month a US postage stamp will honor Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s book The Giving Tree. To celebrate that, I’m counting down ten favorite songs that Silverstein wrote. I mentioned this in a reply earlier, but...

steve goodman

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Once More With Feeling (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 14 Mar 22

Welcome to the most obvious band on the countdown of favorites by Shel Silverstein. If I repeated artists half of these would probably boil down to either this band or Bobby Bare. (Bare introduced me officially to Silverstein’s...

jerry lee lewis

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: I Got Stoned and I Missed It (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 13 Mar 22

dr hook and the medicine show

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: On the Cover of the Music City News (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 12 Mar 22

JJ? CALM DOWN. We’ll get to them later in the countdown. Heck, you might not have known that this cover of a Dr. Hook song existed!! For the rest of you, HI! Welcome to the start of a look at the late,...

Finding country performers on postage stamps is a hard thing. The legends who’ve been on stamps are Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Carter Family. Oh, and Elvis if you count...

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Shel-ibrating Shel

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 11 Mar 22

"A Boy Named Sue" was written by Shel Silverstein who also wrote several hits for Dr. Hook. Silverstein had a friend, Jean Shepherd, who was a guy that had to deal with a girl's name. This is where the idea for the song came...

irish rovers

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Songs A-Z - A is for A Boy Named Sue

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222222) • United States 8 Jun 20

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Ten Favorite Real People Songs: Marie Laveau (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86567) • United States 14 Dec 17

There are oh, so many songs about real people out there. Many of those people have their name used as the title of a song, or included in the title of a song. @teamfreak16 started (and has since completed) a countdown of...

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Shel Silverstein

monica1981 @monica1981 (466) • United States 11 Jun 08

I loved Shel Silverstein's poems when I was a kid. Some of my favorite of his poems are Overdues, Sarah Cynthia Stout, I'm Not Going to School Today, Backward Bill, Ladies First, and The Unicorn. What are some of your favorites?

childrens literature

poems

My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are grayish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors...

Colors - by Shel Silverstein

terilee79720 @terilee79720 (3621) • United States 25 Mar 08

colors

poetry

What's your favorite children's book/s? Mine would be "The Missing Piece" and the "Missing Piece Meets the Big O", both by Shel Silverstein, and McBratney's "Guess How Much I Love You". I was already an adult when I got to...

What's your favorite children's book?

dianne17k @dianne17k (587) • Philippines 7 Jan 08

childrens books

childrens literature

guess how much i love you

In the past week I have become totally obessed with kids poetry. I am gonna try to work on writing some for fun and possibly publication. I normally write regular poetry for well anyone but its usually just like adult like...

the missing piece

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Childrens Poetry: Have You Written Any? Would You? Published Any?

monkeywriter @monkeywriter (2003) • United States 19 Apr 07

childrens poetry

kids poetry