The Face On The Barroom Floor Mad Magazine

It was the inspiration for a 1914 charlie chaplin film above and a 1954 mad magazine parody below.

The face on the barroom floor mad magazine.

The wind has blown it in. The face upon the barroom floor aka the face on the floor and the face on the barroom floor is a poem originally written by the poet john henry titus in 1872. Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was therewhich wellnigh filled joes barroom on the corner of the square. Lyrics to the face on the barroom floor by hank snow.

The face on the barroom floor trigdog2002 talk 17 32 8 february 2009 utc in the movie mad dogs and englishmen a documentary about the joe cocker rock concert tour by the same name the tour director recites this poem at a cast barbecue. Decades later in 1978 composer henry mollicone and librettist john bowman were commissioned to write the opera the face on the barroom floor for the central city opera company which is adjacent to. Our version came from hank snow s tales of the yukon lp. In 1978 an opera commissioned by the central city opera one of the oldest opera houses in the country 30 miles west from and 3000 feet higher than denver.

The face on the barroom floor lyrics. The face on the barroom floor poem by hugh antoine d arcy. Publicly recited in its entirety and was even featured and illustrated in a 1954 issue of mad magazine. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score and you shall see the lovely madeline upon the barroom floor another drink and with chalk in hand the vagabond began to sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man.

A later version was adapted from the titus poem by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887 and first published in the new york dispatch. The face on the barroom floor. Where did it come from someone said. And i ll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad.

Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was there which well nigh filled joe s barroom on the corner of the square and as songs and witty stories came through the open door a vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor.