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Topic: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Dear Joe, the band, and friends,

This past weekend of the 13th was my brother Steve's wedding.  He introduced me to your music many years ago and I've been thankful ever since.  Each time one of us is at one of your shows it's a tradition to phone the other.  He always calls me during Mountain Time since I moved to Colorado.  Last year he made the trip to Denver and we saw your sold out show together at the Bluebird Theatre.  Thanks again!
For the wedding song they chose "Asking Around for You".  It was absolutely amazing!  When they return from their honeymoon I'll ask if he minds if I post the video of their dance to your site, if that's possible, or on Myspace.

I look forward to the next time you're in the Denver area.

All the best,
Jim

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

That's not a bad choice for a wedding song, considering most of Joe's songs are "she done me wrong" blues.

Joe told a funny story at one of the Oneida shows last year about a couple that chose "Miss You Hate You" for their wedding song. The punchline of course was that this was a song about breaking up with his then girlfriend. Quite an odd choice for a wedding song! big_smile

I'm just saying.
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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Hey Jim-
  I was at that sold out Bluebird show also...it was awesome huh??  I think that's a great wedding dance song..and would love to see the video!!
  I thought that sign in the Bluebird's box office window that night (that Joe mentioned during the show) was cute->"Yes, the Joe Bonamassa show is REALLY sold out!!".

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

is it just me but isn't the song about when you die and go to heaven you ask around for who you are looking for . i really don't see that as being a wedding song . maybe people should listen to the words of the song before they pick it as a wedding song . then again maybe they want eachother to die as fast as possible so they can go the own ways and if they get to heaven they can look for eachother ..i'm lost on this one .joe

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

People can have different takes on songs. If the song makes you think of someone who passed away, then that can be the meaning to you. But to other people it's a song about loving someone, and loving them so much that you want to be with them in Heaven as well. The first person you'd want to see in heaven being your wife/husband or someone else special. My girlfriend and I view it as a love song and plan to use it at our wedding.

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Cool reads here!

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Evan wrote:

People can have different takes on songs. If the song makes you think of someone who passed away, then that can be the meaning to you. But to other people it's a song about loving someone, and loving them so much that you want to be with them in Heaven as well. The first person you'd want to see in heaven being your wife/husband or someone else special. My girlfriend and I view it as a love song and plan to use it at our wedding.

here are the word for the song  alot of talk about being in heaven meeting my maker and stuff like that so for a wedding song people might look at you funny using it . but thats just me ..

Asking Around For You Lyrics
If I get to heaven
The first thing I'll do
Before I met my maker
I'm gonna ask around for you

All of heaven's got to know
The beauty of the truth
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven, now
Oh, I'm prayin now - it'll,
It'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven now, oh I'm prayin' now
It'll, it'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be coming home to you

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

joebeacon wrote:
Evan wrote:

People can have different takes on songs. If the song makes you think of someone who passed away, then that can be the meaning to you. But to other people it's a song about loving someone, and loving them so much that you want to be with them in Heaven as well. The first person you'd want to see in heaven being your wife/husband or someone else special. My girlfriend and I view it as a love song and plan to use it at our wedding.

here are the word for the song  alot of talk about being in heaven meeting my maker and stuff like that so for a wedding song people might look at you funny using it . but thats just me ..

Asking Around For You Lyrics
If I get to heaven
The first thing I'll do
Before I met my maker
I'm gonna ask around for you

All of heaven's got to know
The beauty of the truth
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven, now
Oh, I'm prayin now - it'll,
It'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven now, oh I'm prayin' now
It'll, it'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be coming home to you

I agree with Evan here, it could be taken both ways.  By the way, does Joe really sing "play some cards and drink black coffee"?  I've always heard something else, I don't know what but I know it wasn't black coffee.

"There is nothing to it.  You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself."---Johann Sebastian Bach
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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Fretwork wrote:
joebeacon wrote:
Evan wrote:

People can have different takes on songs. If the song makes you think of someone who passed away, then that can be the meaning to you. But to other people it's a song about loving someone, and loving them so much that you want to be with them in Heaven as well. The first person you'd want to see in heaven being your wife/husband or someone else special. My girlfriend and I view it as a love song and plan to use it at our wedding.

here are the word for the song  alot of talk about being in heaven meeting my maker and stuff like that so for a wedding song people might look at you funny using it . but thats just me ..

Asking Around For You Lyrics
If I get to heaven
The first thing I'll do
Before I met my maker
I'm gonna ask around for you

All of heaven's got to know
The beauty of the truth
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven, now
Oh, I'm prayin now - it'll,
It'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
Where we could all sit & talk a while
Play some cards & drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven now, oh I'm prayin' now
It'll, it'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
And I'll be asking around for you

I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be coming home to you

I agree with Evan here, it could be taken both ways.  By the way, does Joe really sing "play some cards and drink black coffee"?  I've always heard something else, I don't know what but I know it wasn't black coffee.

he says drink some beer not coffee ........

10 Reply by Fretwork (edited by Fretwork 2007-10-28 16:44:01)

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Now you're just messin' with me.  Doesn't he say something like "Play some cards and dream back home" or "dream of home"?

"There is nothing to it.  You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself."---Johann Sebastian Bach
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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Fretwork wrote:

Now you're just messin' with me.  Doesn't he say something like "Play some cards and dream back home" or "dream of home"?

i will have to listen to it . i will get back to you in a few minutes on this one .joe

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

joebeacon wrote:
Fretwork wrote:

Now you're just messin' with me.  Doesn't he say something like "Play some cards and dream back home" or "dream of home"?

i will have to listen to it . i will get back to you in a few minutes on this one .joe

he says black coffee just listened to it . playing cards and drinking black coffee is a italian thing .many nights with the family over doing that same thing . black coffee is really espresso coffee for all the people who aren't italian . brown coffee would be the regular coffee everyone drinks .that just a little info from your uncle joe ....

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Someone correct me if I'm wrong...I believe Kevin Shirley also played Asking Around For You at his wedding. I think the song holds a special message for anyone choosing it for a wedding song.  Its something personal and you have to feel it to understand it.

Bottom line-POWERFUL SONG...especially if so many people can interpret it in different ways!!  I still think it may find a home in a soundtrack or a show...:)

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

First of all, let me say thanks to my brother (and Best Man) Jim for posting this compliment. Both to Joe, the band, and to my dancing. The former both well deserved, the latter, not so much. ;-)

The song has always been special to us, and I was glad we were (after many months and several hundred dollars-worth of lessons!) able to pull off enough moves to do it justice for our first dance. I cannot wait to see this video Jim's refering to. Hand it over, brother!!! smile

Anyway, it is encouraging to see the spirited back-and-forth of the responses. It just continues to support and prove what I wrote in a post more than a year ago:



It's interesting. The first time my girlfriend and I heard this song (live at the Tangier in Akron a few months back), we interpreted it as a song emphasizing the enormity and completeness of love, and how one never wants to lose it, but wants to carry it with them to the "next place."

The song hit us so hard that we immediately knew it was going to be (one of) our wedding songs. Now, having gotten Y&M and listened to the song, oh, 50 or so times, it just occured to me that Joe might be singing about a lost loved one, as Jane wrote about in a previous post. Which, of course, got me to thinking about its appropriateness for a wedding.

For about a minute.

The beauty of the song (and the blues; and music in general) is that it doesn't matter. Whatever YOU take from any song is what's most important. So thanks to (I think) Mark Himmelstein for writing, and Joe for singing and playing, one of the most soulful, emotional and beautiful songs I've heard in a long while.

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

Nancy in Chicago wrote:

That's not a bad choice for a wedding song, considering most of Joe's songs are "she done me wrong" blues.

Joe told a funny story at one of the Oneida shows last year about a couple that chose "Miss You Hate You" for their wedding song. The punchline of course was that this was a song about breaking up with his then girlfriend. Quite an odd choice for a wedding song! big_smile

I have a live track of Joe pretensing MYHY with "we hope this song will be at many weddings in years to come" or somthing like that.

I would choose "asking around for you" to be played at a funeral. Its an up tempo - celebrate life kind of song in my mind!

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16 Reply by firin' frank (edited by firin' frank 2007-10-31 07:59:15)

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Re: Wedding Song: Asking Around For You

It's only my personal opinion but it's much too sad for a wedding song, but to each his/her own.

And I always thought the lyrics were- "Play some cards and drink that coke"

But after seeing him Oct 30th it is indeed "Play some cards and drink black coffee".

I stand corrected.


I think my wife just went along to all of Joe's shows with me because she knows how much I like Joe. But at the Fort Wayne show while Joe was playing this song I think she finally "got it".  She told me "Now I know why you like him so much... he's awesome!".

Last night's show was awesome!