The Bus Stop Song (A Paper Of Pins)

Label

Columbia Records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Media Type

45

Duration

8:00

Composer(s)

KEN LORIN DARBY

Entered Chart

Aug 25, 1956

Released

August 1956

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Columbia 40736

B-Side

A House With Love In It

"The Bus Stop Song" (also known as "A Paper of Pins") is a popular song. The title references the film, Bus Stop, in which it was introduced. A traditional song, it was orchestrated by Ken Darby in 1956 but a version (called The Keys of Canterbury) was known in the 19th century and Alan Lomax collected it as "A Paper of Pins" in the 1930s. It is best known in a recording, made on July 17, 1956, by The Four Lads and dubbed over the opening credits of the movie, with some of its lyrics also included in early dialogue. This recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40736. It first reached the Billboard charts on September 15, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at number 17; on the Best Seller chart, at number 22; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached number 23. The flip side was "A House with Love in It

I'll give to you a paper of pins
And that's the way our love begins
If you will marry me, me, me	
If you will marry me

I'll give to you a feathery bed
With downy pillows for your head
If you will marry me, me, me	
If you will marry me

But you don't want my paper of pins
And you don't want my feathery bed
You want my house and money instead
That is plain to see

Well here they are take everything
My house, my money, my wedding ring
And in the bargain I'll throw in me
If you will marry me