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Hello, I'm trying to find the lyrics to "What Will I Do", but some words escape me (probably because I'm French). Would someone be kind enough to help me? Thank you.

https://youtu.be/wKwQsPDkp8Y?si=XVLlJNLpw0f9QPaZ

What Will I Do
ig Joe and His Rhythm (1941)


What Will I do
To start my love again
What Will I do
To start my love again
I'll do anything
To start it back if I can

What will I do
If you don't take me back again
What will I do
If you don't take me back again
I'd be......unhappy
To doing the best I can

What will I do
If you mistreat me again
What will I do
If you mistreat me again
I'd rather be a moron
.......

What will I do
to give my love away
What will I do
to give my love away
I'll get me a pistol
And put you in......

What will I do
If you close the door in my face
What will I do
If you close the door in my face
I know by that
Another man is at my place

Joe McCoy guitar and vocals
Charlie Mcoy mandolin
Robert Lee McCoy harmonica
Ransom Knowling string bass
Amanda (Ann) Sortier washboard and vocals.
Recorded in Chicago on July 23 1941.


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Weenie Campbell Main Forum / Re: Fort Worden
« Last post by jed on Yesterday at 11:43:52 PM »
Yes, it was during my first year (1997?) that my bad back had heard about the dorm beds and told me to rent a room in town.  While roaming the dorms one night, the bright glare of what turned out to be resonator guitars drew me to a group of beseated Weenies & Weenettes wantonly breaking the quietude rules.  I think one of them may have mentioned that the fort rented Officers' Row houses.  In any case, I somehow ended up at the Housing office and found 7W available the following year (not for nothing!).  Over the years, Weenies have stayed in most of the units at one time or another.  While we may have some party pix here from some of those times, they're nowhere near the league with what I've heard about Cephas & Wiggins galas. 

This year's hospitality conflagration was a sticky situation, but Centrum - aware of the fort's challenges and cognizant of Centrum's needs - had prepared plans to weather that storm.  They keep claiming that they don't want to manage the whole megillah, but this year will provide a necessary proof one way or the other.  Housing is limited, in part because the Park is apparently planning to address deferred maintenance issues (including cleaning 11 of the mold accrued about a year ago after an interior water issue that the Fort allowed to fester...).  Still, party house 15 is habitable, and some latter day Weenies have it on hold.
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Super Electrical Recordings! / Re: Tommy Johnson
« Last post by Blues Vintage on Yesterday at 03:32:52 PM »
Hi Big Bill,

Welcome to Weenie Campbell.

Some of the stuff on Document runs at an incorrect speed/pitch. My best guess is that Yazoo have it (more) accurate.
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Hi all,

Zoom class: Creating Your Own Fingerstyle Blues Arrangement, Part 2, Class 2

Class two will continue following the motto: Do The Work—Build Your Skills. Two songs will be presented for participants to choose from in creating an arrangement. The songs will be drawn from a variety of types: blues standards, pre-blues/songster material, unaccompanied songs, piano blues, ragtime blues. We’ll take a look at the two songs in class, see how the melody sits in the scale, figure out the form and chord progression and examine possibilities for different treatments of rhythm and phrasing. Participants will then have two weeks, using what was discussed in class, to come up with an arrangement of one or both of the songs. After this second class and each subsequent class a “show-and-tell” session will be held, at no additional cost, at which participants will play their arrangements and hear their classmates’ arrangements. Learning to rely on your ear, understanding what you’re hearing and having a sense of how a given song will fit comfortably (or not) in a given playing position/tuning will come naturally from your ongoing engagement in the process of creating these arrangements.

The second class presentation will be held on Saturday, February 15 at 10:00 AM, Pacific Standard Time. Subsequent classes will be held every two weeks. The class will meet for an hour and be filmed. Class enrollees will be sent the film of the presentation, whether or not they were able to attend it, so that not being able to attend the class does not mean you have to miss it. Cost of each class is $40.00. To sign up, make a payment to my account at paypal.com as per the instructions at https://johnmillerguitar.com/teaching.html . Once I’ve received notification that payment has been made, I’ll send you an invitation to the class. I hope to see you there!

All best,
Johnm

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Weenie Campbell Main Forum / Re: R.I.P. Pat Thomas
« Last post by islandgal on February 09, 2025, 06:29:05 PM »
I was not familiar with Pat Thomas. Thanks for the link. Bill Steber's photographs are stellar. Highly recommended.
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Weenie Campbell Main Forum / R.I.P. Pat Thomas
« Last post by jed on February 09, 2025, 12:42:51 AM »
From Bill Steber:
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Pat Thomas, son of the late Delta legend James “Son” Thomas, has died. He is seen here reflected in a mirror with one of his cat head drawings at his home in Leland, MS in 2001. Pat and his father were the first blues folks i met in the Delta on my first trip in 1992 and Pat has always held a very special place in my heart. He loved his father dearly and spent his too-brief life following in his father’s footsteps. And like his father, Pat worked at many jobs including grave digging. His own music focused on his father’s repertoire, singing in the same falsetto voice that made “Son” Thomas internationally known. And like his father, Pat became known for his evocative clay sculptures depicting skulls, animals, and “gypsy men” which, according to Thomas, possessed supernatural power. Both Roger Stolle’s Cat Head store in Clarksdale and Mississippi’s Cat Head brand vodka were inspired by his signature cat head drawings. Most days you could catch impromptu performances by Thomas at Billy Johnson’s Hwy 61 museum in Leland MS. I knew Pat longer than anyone else in Mississippi (33 years) and his loss to the local culture is immeasurable.

https://www.instagram.com/stonesinmypathway/
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Super Electrical Recordings! / Re: Tommy Johnson
« Last post by Big Bill on February 07, 2025, 06:11:28 PM »
Hi gang, first post here on WC. Trying to find a reason that on the Document 5001 Complete Tommy Johnson recordings, the first four tracks (Cool Drink, Big Road, Bye Bye Blues, and Maggie Campbell) are all pitched up a whole step. Compared to all other remasters, these stick out. Do the folks at Document (or remaster engineer Paul Swinton) know something no one else does?
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Country Blues Lyrics / Re: Cecil Augusta / Augusta Crawford's "Stop All The Buses"
« Last post by Johnm on February 05, 2025, 09:08:05 PM »
I should say that in my hearing of the long first line of the first verse, in the word "just", the "ju" is not pronounced, just the little bit of "st" before "drop".
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Pretty tough

1.2 Stop New York Central, don't move, babe, let me, find that little girl of mine

3.1 {Gettin' slow across} the country

4.2 {Let Mister So-and-So take me ?}
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Country Blues Lyrics / Re: Cecil Augusta / Augusta Crawford's "Stop All The Buses"
« Last post by Johnm on February 05, 2025, 09:01:58 AM »
Hi Rob,
Here's what I'm hearing for the first verse and chorus:

   Yes, stop all the buses, darlin', streetcars on line, just drop me off, sugar, don't move, babe, let me find that little girl of mine
   CHORUS: I've got the blues about my baby, my baby oughta have the blues 'bout me
   Yeah, don't treat me no better, baby, mmm, why in the world you let me be?
     
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