![]() ![]() ![]() Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). Get the embed code The Statler Brothers - At San Quentin Album Lyrics1.Flowers on the Wall2.Flowers On the Wall (Live)3.Flowers On the Wall - Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 19694.Less Of Me (Live)5.Less Of Me - Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969The Statler Brothers Lyrics provided by So I must go back to my room and make my day complete. Now, counting flowers on the wall, That dont bother me at all. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. It's good to see you out although I know I look a frightĪnyway my eyes are not accustomed to this lightĪnd my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete Playing Solitaire till dawn, With a deck of fifty-one. You can always find me here and having quite a time. So please don't give a thought to me I'm really doing fine Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one. Perhaps, as the Statler Brothers said in their song Flowers On The Wall, you’re playin solitaire till dawn/ with a deck of 51. Chorus Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all. Playin’ Solitaire Till Dawn With A Deck Of 51. Last night I dressed in tails pretended I was on the townĪs long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down So I must go back to my room and make my day complete. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo Playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one While you and your friends are worrying 'bout me, I'm having lots of fun. If I were walking in your shoes I wouldn't worry none There’s another Bruce Willis connection to the song as well: Willis mentions spending his suspension “Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo” in Die Hard With A Vengeance.I keep hearing you're concerned about my happinessīut all that thought you're giving me is conscience, I guess Bruce Willis is singing along to the song, which is playing on his car radio, just before he runs over Marsellus Wallace at an intersection. This appears on the soundtrack to the movie Pulp Fiction. ![]() Playing Solitaire till dawn, With a deck of fifty-one. ![]() Now, counting flowers on the wall, That don't bother me at all. I find faros are my zen meditation, they. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. I told her, I’m not that far from retirement, and that song captures my sentiments. 4 thoughts on Playing Solitare ‘Til Dawn, With A Deck of 51 Abraham S Carnow on October 10. He’s in a pretty bad spot, counting flowers on the wall and playing solitaire with a deck that’s missing a card. Playing Solitare ‘Til Dawn, With A Deck of 51. But I don't see the red queen's face to put on black king guys. Written by Statler Brothers singer Lew DeWitt, this song is about a guy who has been left lonely and nearly catatonic by the one he loves. I can always find some card to put down on red five. In 1966 it won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Performance-Group (Vocal or Instrumental.) Flowers On The Wall was their only top 10 Billboard 100 hit. Nine weeks later, it had peaked at #4 in the Billboard 100 and #2 in the Billboard Country Charts in 1966.Īll together the Statler Brothers had 66 songs in the top 100, 33 in the Top Ten and 4 number 1’s in the Billboard Country Charts. In December, the song appeared on Billboard’s Hot 100. He described it: “We took gospel harmonies and put them over in country music.” However, it did crossover to the pop charts.īuoyed by interest from the country fans, folk listeners began to demand that rock stations play Flowers On The Wall. Lew DeWitt, the original tenor for The Statler Brothers, wrote “Flowers on the Wall. I remember it early on as a kid and in more modern times when Bruce Willis was mouthing the words it in Pulp Fiction. You know when the Muppets cover you…you have a hit. I have heard this called a psychedelic Country song… CMT named it one of the 100 greatest Country songs of all-time. ![]()
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