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Mance Lipscomb Lyrics
MuddyBuddy:
Mance was such a wonderful singer and player. I have been working on his stuff a bit, and found very few lyrics on the net. So let's use this space for his stuff!
cheers
BERT
MuddyBuddy:
Tried to figure this out from the Mance Lipscomb -In Concert DVD on VESTAPOL
corrections appreciated!
Silver City - Mance Lipscomb
I?m on my way, I?m on my way
I?m on my way back to Silver City now
Well i?m going back (to) Silver city now.
Got up this morning I was feeling bad
Woke up this morning I was feeling bad
Thinking ?bout the good times I once have had
Poor girl is cripple but she do go clean
Poor girl is cripple but she do go clean
People all call her Mary Magdalene.
You hurt my feelings little in the wrong
You hurt my feelings babe, little in the wrong
Excuse me daddy, I didn?t mean now harm
See me coming hike your windoww high
You see me coming hike your windoww high
Here come my Daddy think he wants to ride.
Yes I?m going back to Silver City now
I?m going back to Silver City now
Yeah I?m going back to Silver City now.
Don?t want me just tell me so
If you don?t want me just tell me so
You won?t be bothered with me no more.
uncle bud:
Hiya Bert,
Good idea. One of the things I notice about Mance is he has a lot of verses. Given that he also has a lot of songs, that a lot of words floating around in his head. Don't know how some of these guys do it.
Silver City is a favourite Mance Lipscomb tune of mine. Here's the version from the You Got To Reap What You Sow disc (Arhoolie CD 398). I have a few spots I'm not sure of, including a line from a verse that appears in the version you transcribe above. Note that this version has more verses, different versions of verses. Interesting that he would just change lyrics, singing them as they came to him, drop verses, add verses etc. A true songster.
Silver City - Mance Lipscomb
Well I?m on my way, yes, I?m on my way
Lord, I?m on my way, babe, to Silver City now
Yes I?m going back to Silver City now.
Got up this morning, I was feeling blue
I woke up this morning, Lord, a-feeling blue
I didn?t have no one to tell my troubles to.
You can tell all your high browns that you [see but one?] *
You can tell all your high browns that you [see but one?]*
Well I?m going back to Houston to have my washing done
Oh the poor girl is cripple but she do go clean
Oh the poor girl is cripple but she do go clean
And the people all call her Mary Magdalene.
Tell my baby, tell her this for me
If you see my baby, tell her this for me
Well I done got lucky found a money tree
If I had money like the leaves grows on trees
If I had money like the leaves grows on trees
Get any woman I want, work when I please
Well you hurt my feelings [a little in the wrong]**
Yes you hurt my feelings, babe, little in the wrong
Excuse me, babe, I didn?t mean no harm
If you see me coming hoist your windows high
If you see me coming hoist your windows high
Yonder come my daddy and he wants to ride.
Yes I?m on my way, yes I?m on my way
Yes I?m on way back to Silver City now
I?m going back to Silver City now.
Got up this morning, looked down the road
Got up this morning, looked down the road
Thought about my baby, wonder where did she go
* not sure of the lyric here. Could the word "Seabird", as in the juke box, be being used here?
** not sure of "a little in the wrong" and wondering if it is perhaps a name being sung here as in "little INSERT NAME"
Mance pronounces "hoist" as "heist" in the third to last verse. I suspect it is the same in the concert version.
MuddyBuddy:
Hi Bud
thanks for the nice set of lyrics. I don't have that record, so it was exciting to see more lyrics!
Will be posting more of Mance in the future. Just have to get time to transcribe!
That southern dialect that a lot of singers have, like Son House especially, sounds like some sort of New York kind of accent at times to me. Like you mentioned hoist as "heist". Like burst would be "BOYST". Interesting. Son was from Mississippi, but Mance was from Texas. Any ideas about where this pronunciation comes from or if it still exists? I am originally from New hampshire, but having lived in Sweden for 32 years, I am isolated from southern US dialects!
cheers
BERT
uncle bud:
Hi Bert - No idea where it comes from or if it still exists. My guiding principle in deciphering some of these lyrics comes from Weenie member Frankie:
--- Quote ---I occasionally have to relate to these things by imagining how Yosemite Sam might have said them.
--- End quote ---
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