Topic: Samantha Bumgarner "Worried Blues" lyrics

[eddiefigures]

Hi,
I'm new at this - please bear with me.

I found this great recording by Samantha Bumgarner, but the quality of the mp3 copy is poor.  I tried to find the lyrics - but it's difficult to get them.

Anyone out there know where I can obtain them?

Thanks...

Here's the link to the recording:

http://www.archive.org/details/Worried

eddiefigures

[banjochris]

Welcome -- usually the policy on things like this here is for you to take a crack at the lyrics yourself and then people will be glad to help you out if there are bits you can't get.
Chris

[Slack]

Welcome Eddie!

Thanks Chris!

[fictioneer]

This is what I hear on it:

Got the worried blues (x3)
Can't be worried this a-way.

See you when your troubles are like mine (x3)
See you when you can't change a dime

Got the worried blues ...

Bound down in the jail (x3)
No one to go my bail

Honey babe would you [or "won't you"] go my bail (x3)
Can't be worried this a-way

Goin' down this long lonesome road (x3)
Can't be worried this a-way

Honey babe, don't leave me here (x3)
Unless you leave a dime for beer

Got the worried blues ...

Goin' down this long lonesome road ...

Got the worried blues ...

There are a couple of "Lord"s thrown in more or less at random, and the vocal timing is very individualized, over a steady two-finger (index lead) up-picked banjo.  She adds extra syllables to some words, especially in the first line of verses.  In the first two 'got the worried blues" verses she sings "wor-ri-ed" in the first line but not on the repeats.  In the next to last, she sings "wor-ri-ed" on the first two lines, and in the last such verse she sings "wor-ri-ed" throughout.

[eddiefigures]

Thank you to banjochris, slack and especially fictioneer - I honestly could only make out a couple of lines here and there on this recording - and that's why I sought help in this forum - I will take your interpretation, fictioneer, and re-listen using it as a guide - and get back here to discuss what I can make out as far as words go.

Again, many thanks.

eddiefigures

[banjochris]

Eddie -- for what it's worth, I think fictioneer's got the lyrics nailed. One thing I will mention, though, is that if you're listening to this track on the JSP Mountain Blues - Disc B the tune is mislabeled -- the tune there is actually Bumgarner's "Georgia Blues," which is very similar melody-wise but with somewhat different lyrics. The banjo tuning for both songs is gGGBD (assuming concert pitch; I haven't checked the actual pitch of the recording), with the fourth string tuned an octave below the third string. Somewhere on the Back Porch here is a recording of me playing "Georgia Blues," although I don't sing all the same words she does.
Chris

[eddiefigures]

Hi, Chris and fictioneer,

I have listened to it using fictioneer's interpretation as a guide - and the only thing I noticed are a change - slight - from one line to another:

"See you when you're troubles are like mine"

and then, it seems to my ear, she sings

"See you and your troubles are like mine" on the 2nd and third line...

But these are so minor...

Thanks for the tuning info, Chris - this will actually help me with playing it on guitar - I'll be tryin' it out in open C tuning...

I'll let you know how it goes...

eddiefigures