Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the window panes
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
"This Ole House" was a #1 hit (in both the US and the UK) in 1954 for Rosemary Clooney. That same year, she appeared (along with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) in the movie White Christmas. She was the aunt of George Clooney. "This Ole House" was written by Stuart Hamblen, a hard-drinking radio and movie "singing cowboy" who underwent a religious conversion at a Billy Graham crusade in 1949 and received 72,000-odd votes as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate in the 1952 election.
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I like Rosemary Clooney. When George was on ER years ago, his aunt Rosemary had several cameos as an elderly lady who would role around the ER in her wheelchair singing. She was terrific.
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