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Rivers,
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I'm making a note to myself, never ask set up questions like "or am I a dork?" ;D
Yo, Weenies,
I'm having fun learning the Little Hat Jones licks that Ari taught us, but I sure need help with the lyrics to Cherry Street Blues. ?Here's what I've got so far . . . any help in filling the blanks will be much appreciated.
Cherry Street Blues
Train come to San Antone, man, and stop in the yard.
?? Just as sure as the ?? train come to San Antone, man, and stop in the yard.
It's gonna take two dollars and a quarter, I declare to ??___________??
Mmmmmmm baby, tell me what's on your mind.I agree with waxwing about this verse.
Mmmmmmm baby, tell me what's on your mind.
??________________??
Gonna move to the bottom, camp out on the ground.First line also begins "I'm gonna move..."
I'm gonna move to the bottom, man, and camp out on the ground.
Every morning I call my woman just to hear my echo sound.
I got a woman in San Antone, I declare that is sweet to me.I've got a woman in San Antone, I declare's really sweet to me
I got a woman in San Antone, man, really sweet to me.
Most of you people don't know she's here, but she lives on Cherry Street.
Mmmmmmmm, oh lawd lawdy lawd.
Mmmmmmmm, oh lawd lawdy lawd.
??_______________?? to be my brother-in-law.
You men got these women, you got to treat them nice and kind.
You men got these sweet women, how come you don't be nice and kind?
Cause don't you know Little Hat got something that'll change your sweet woman's mind.
Mmmmmmmm, know you ain't gonna think it's so.
Well I'm gonna tell you men something, I know you ain't gonna think it's so.
(He doesn't sing a response line here -- anyone want to guess what Little Hat was gonna say that us men wouldn't think it's so?)
I hear the last part of most verses not as "...just like a submarine" but as "...just like a summer rain". Much more country sounding.
let me know what you think.
6) Well yon' come the Santa Fe just passed me and flyin'
Oughta see me when I'm rich, I really col' turn blind
(6) Well yon' come the Santa Fe just passed me and flyin'
Oughta see me when I'm rich, I really col' turn blind
I always think of "blinds" in a generic sense to mean trains - but that probably is not right.? Is there a more specific meaning for "blinds"?? (I don't have a good dictionary handy, anyone have one handy?)
I think the chord is close to
First: 3rd fret
Second: 2nd fret
Third: third fret
Fourth: 1st fret
Fifth: 1st fret
Sixth: not played
The phrase "Hurry Blues" appears nowhere in the tune. The closest is "worried blues", sung in the 4th verse. Either the record comany misheard the lyric...A mishearing of "worried" was one of the suggestions made in Blues Unlimited 55 (July 1968) when reviewing Yazoo's Buddy Boy Hawkins & His Buddies compilation, on which it was included. The other suggestion was more tongue in cheek concerning his increasing speed to finish the song. ;D
Hello Ghost Rider, It seems to me that I read somewhere that the woman who speaks on this record was Ruth Willis who also recorded with Willie McTell, also known as Ruth Day.I'll have to double check this but when Morris Craig and Thomas Young interviewed Jones in 1962 I think he said he recalled taking a lady friend along to one of the sessions. His recordings were made by an Okeh mobile "field unit" in San Antonio, Texas so I guess rather unlikely that they'd have brought along Wiilis or Day for a spoken interjection. But stranger things have happened.... :)
2) I 'member one time, aw it is in 1921 (x2)
(???) been I start ta watch my sweet woman (???) from sun to sun.
4) (And) I never had nothin' (mmm, aw turnout) to hurt me so. (x2)
Aw, when I was talkin' to my baby that mornin' and she told me that I shouldn't (???) no more.
Here's my take on the "Corpus Blues" words, see what you think.
hi there,
has anyone put down the line in kentucky blues "course the bloodhounds just could not catch my scent".
the latest quote i can see on this thread is "course the blindest", which does make some sense, but i always hear bloodhound said again.
Alex, going back and listening to that second verse again I think it's more likely he's saying "teeth and", and cutting off the "d" at the end of "and", and his nasal vowels make it sound like "in" -- I don't hear a "p" sound there, though. See what you think.
Chris
ADDED
I had a quick look at some of the early pages of the topic and notice that you couldn't get the last bit of the last line of 'Hurry Blues'. It is 'Sweet land of blue cheese'. David Evans told me it is a black's parody of the second line of 'America', 'Sweet land of liberty'.
Blues done crawled up my window and trouble ??? up my door.
4) Have you ever went to bed, listen ???, thinkin' about your sweet woman at night.
Have you ever laid down, listen ???, thinkin' about your sweet woman at night.
.... trouble gwyin' (e.g. southern dialect for "going", not sure how to better spell that) up my door.
A few suggestions, GhostRider ? Slack's points are incorporated.I'll make the changes. Thanks, dingwall.
1.1 They SAY IF YOU'VE got a ---
I still hear "said". The "d" sond is clear to me
1.2 I SAY IF YOU'VE got a ----
Here I'll stick with "see you" as well
2.2 Mmmm, people, I ain't ---
I just don't hear the "I". Maybe my ears are bad.
2.3 ---and DONE GWINE up my door.
This is right.
4.1 ---bed, MISTER, AND THINK about ---
I like this as well
4.2 ---down, MISTER, AND KEEP thinkin' ---
Yes.
4.3 DO you know, ---
Correct.
5.1 ---baby, LIFT AND ease me down---
The key to this one is the "f" sound. I just dont hear it.
5.3 I want you TO talk BABY-TALK (??not baby, talk?? to me---
This is pretty subtle, but I agree.
8.1 NOW, listen baby,---
Yes, I agree.
Some comments, GhostRider, some trivial. This topic started long before I was active on Weenie, so I might have the odd suggestion re the early lyrics. I'll try to do this in a week or so.
Rolled From Side to Side Blues
1.1/2 MISTER FREDDIE, MISTER FREDDIE IS A MAN THAT YOU WOMENFOLKS KNOW
This seems right, but I'm torn between Freddie and Faraday. And LHJ pronounces "you" as "chou"
1.3 LORD, I'M tryin' TO get my sweet woman like MISTER FREDDIE got his girl
2.3 Pretty woman make HER man love her, people, and shake hands and go
Perfect
3.1 DON'T never take no woman, I'm speakin' 'bout, to be your friend
This is right.
3.2 I said man, DON'T never take no woman, I'm speakin' 'bout, to be your friend
3.3 Aww, she get all OF your money then look what a hole YOU'RE in
I'd change "of" to "o'", but that's trivial
5.3 I didn't have no blues, UNDERSTAND THAT things weren't goin' ON right.
Understand is certianly right but I hear "but" not "that" after.
6.3 'CAUSE I've (no A) got one eye on my pistol, keep the other one on your trunk.
After repeated listening, you're right, except that we both but the word "eye" in, when he doesn't say it, "'Cause I've got one on..." Interesting
Who here plays Bye Bye Baby Blues, and how do you do it? I can figure it out for sure, but I'm just starting on it so any insights you can share would be welcome. Sounds likely to be played out of G position capoed at first fret, the original is pitched at A flat or thereabouts. My first stab at it I was playing out of an E position but that doesn't seem to work for the whole tune.
Kentucky Blues (This is based on your version at REPLY #33)
Little Hat Jones
1930
solo acoustic guitar
Standard tuning, E position, pitched at F.
2.1 Well, whilst we here tryin' TO have our fun
2.2 S'POSIN' the law jumped up and said "Nobody run!"
2.4 Long gone and I'M got away lucky
2.5 'Cus (??or 'CAUSE better??) I'M gonna leave Seguine, I'll be just like a submarine
3.4 DON'T WANNA LET YOU sing this worried song"
4.1 WELL, I ONCE HAVE KNOWED A man they CALLED him Austin Jack
4.2 Stopped 'EM(??) put the bloodhounds RIGHT on my track4.2 I still think its 'n', but I grant there's an "eey" aspiration on the front. Leaving
4.3 'CAUSE the BLOODHOUNDS JUST could not catch my scent
4.4 Do you know they couldn't tell where LI-LITTLE(??a stumble) Hat went
4.5 'Cus I left Seguine, people I WAS just like a submarine.Agreed
6.1 Well HERE(??) come the Santa Fe just PUFFIN' and flyin'
6.2 Oughta SEEN me when I reached up and really caught them BLIND(This sounds singular and is almost always that way ? 'ride the blind' and so on)
6.3 They said "That's another long gone, from Kentucky
6.4 Long gone and then got away lucky
6.5 'Cus HE left Seguine, HE WAS just like a submarine"(Quotation is over the three lines)
8.5 'Cus I'm leavin' San Antoine, I declare I(??) ain't comin' here no more
9.4 WANNA tell you 'bout YOUR MONEY that your father had9.4 I think YOUR is "the", pronounced th'. Agree with the rest
Hurry Blues (Comments here are on your version at REPLY #35. I've separated the x2 lines, as I suggest some differences.)2.1 I listened to this 20X. My opinion is that it's not "notice" rather "know this" (this pronounced "dis")
2.1 I NOTICE EAGLE'S on A dollar, other side "In God We Trust" (I had 'know there's' and have just noticed(!) it's 'notice' ? makes sense too - one eagle, not plural, and in second line, checking it's a genuine coin.)
2.2 I NEED TO NOTICE EAGLE'S on A dollar, ON(??) THE other side "In God We Trust"
2.3 Well, a woman loves a man but I know THIS (??quite clear, rather than 'dis') dollar's WORTH
4.1 HAS you ever loved a woman, man,---Agreed. The 6.3 line is amazing, I could here it my way our yours on alternate listenings. I think yours is right. I'd add an A between AT and TOWN and depluralize TOWNS
4.2 I SAY, have you ever loved a woman, one---
6.3 AND I MAY STOP AT TOWNS WHERE I HAVEN'T NEVER been before.
9.1/2 Some time you hear me singin' "Nearer, OH My God to Thee"
9.3 THEN again you hear me singing, "Sweet land of blue cheese"
While I absolutely love "sweet land of blue cheese" and think I might sing the song that way if I ever performed it myself, I think that what's transcribed as "blue cheese" pretty obviously has 3 syllables and, on a close listen, the phrase is "sweet land of liberty". Jones is referencing the song "America", which begins "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty". For non-U.S. weenies, it's one of the major "national songs" of the United States, and would have been performed often at parades, picnics, gatherings, and civic events back in Jones' day (and still is today).
I've started up the weeniepedia entries for these. I've been careful to use the finished version of each. So far I have Corpus, Kentucky and Bye Bye entered. What's the definitive CD release for LHJ? It needs to go on the artist page:
http://www.weeniecampbell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Little_Hat_Jones
Hate to muddy the waters at this late date, but I clearly hear "first" as the last word of the first verse of "Hurry Blues." Also, this is a verse sung by a lot of blues singers, and "first" is the usual ending.
Chris
2.1 I listened to this 20X. My opinion is that it's not "notice" rather "know this" (this pronounced "dis")
2.2 Same. "know dis" rather that "notice".
2.3 again I hear dis, not this. Can anybody else help with this? Agree on WORTH.
Hate to muddy the waters at this late date, but I clearly hear "first" as the last word of the first verse of "Hurry Blues." Also, this is a verse sung by a lot of blues singers, and "first" is the usual ending.
Chris
Is "Hurry Blues" yet another case of someone at the record company mishearing the title? It seems to me that "Worried Blues" would be more appropriate.I've been busting my brains over this, to no avail. Back in the dark ages when it first appeared on a Yazoo compilation there was a proposition that the title was a mishearing for "Worry Blues" with evidence supplied. Can I find it? Can I hell!
Is "Hurry Blues" yet another case of someone at the record company mishearing the title? It seems to me that "Worried Blues" would be more appropriate.
Is "Hurry Blues" yet another case of someone at the record company mishearing the title? It seems to me that "Worried Blues" would be more appropriate.I've been busting my brains over this, to no avail. Back in the dark ages when it first appeared on a Yazoo compilation there was a proposition that the title was a mishearing for "Worry Blues" with evidence supplied. Can I find it? Can I hell!
Well whilst we here tryin' to have our fun
'Spose the law jumped up and said, 'Nobody run!'
Well, you know I'm long gone, from Kentucky
Long gone, an' I'm got away lucky
'Cause I'm gonna leave Seguin,
I'll be just like a submarine
Well, my woman poked her head out from way under the bed
Said, 'Please don't let them kill Mister Little Hat dead'
I said, 'No use worryin', sweet mama, I ain't gonna be here long'
Tell her I love to sing this worryin' song
'Cause I'm gonna leave Seguin,
I'm gonna be just like a submarine
Well I once'd to know the man, they call him Austin Jack
Stopped and put the bloodhounds right on my track
'Cause the bloodhounds just could not catch my scent
You know, they couldn't tell where Little Hat went
'Cause I left Seguin,
People, I was just like a submarine
Well here comes the Santa Fe just puffin' and flyin'
Oughta seen me when I reached up and really caught them blinds
They said, 'There's another long gone - from Kentucky
Long gone - an' done got away lucky
'Cause he left Seguin,
He's just like a submarine'
I want to sing this song, ain't gonna sing no more....
'Cause I'm leavin' San Antonio, I declare I ain't coming here no more
Well, I don't play the dozen and neither the ten
'Cause you keep on talkin', I'll ease you in
When you keep on talkin' till it makes me mad
Well I'll tell you 'bout the mothers that your father had
'Cause I don't play the dozen, I declare man, and neither the ten
| Proposed changes | weeniepedia | Comments |
| Well whilst we here tryin' to have our fun 'Spose the law jumped up and said, 'Nobody run!' Well, you know I'm long gone, from Kentucky Long gone, an' I'm got away lucky 'Cause I'm gonna leave Seguin, I'll be just like a submarine | Well, whilst we here tryin' to have our fun s'posin' the law jumped up and said "Nobody run!" Well you know I'm long gone, from Kentucky long gone and then got away lucky 'Cus I'm gonna leave Seguine, I'll be just like a submarine | |
| Well, my woman poked her head out from way under the bed Said, 'Please don't let them kill Mister Little Hat dead' I said, 'No use worryin', sweet mama, I ain't gonna be here long' Tell her I love to sing this worryin' song 'Cause I'm gonna leave Seguin, I'm gonna be just like a submarine | Well my woman poked her head out from way under the bed She said "Please don't let 'em kill Mr. Little Hat dead" I said "No use to worryin' sweet mama, ain't gonna be here long" Don't waznn let you sing this worried song 'Cus I'm gonna leave Seguine, I'll be just like a submarine. | |
| Well I once'd to know the man, they call him Austin Jack Stopped and put the bloodhounds right on my track 'Cause the bloodhounds just could not catch my scent You know, they couldn't tell where Little Hat went 'Cause I left Seguin, People, I was just like a submarine | Well I once have knowed the man they call him Austin Jack Stop and put the bloodhounds right on my track Course the blindest[1] could not catch my scent Do you know they couldn't tell where the Little Hat went 'Cus I left Seguine, people I's just like a submarine | |
| Well here comes the Santa Fe just puffin' and flyin' Oughta seen me when I reached up and really caught them blinds They said, 'There's another long gone - from Kentucky Long gone - an' done got away lucky 'Cause he left Seguin, He's just like a submarine' | Well yon' come the Santa Fe just puffin' and flyin' Oughta seen me when I reached up and really caught them blind They said "There's another long gone, from Kentucky" Long gone and then got away lucky 'Cus you left Seguine, you's just like a submarine | |
| want to sing this song, ain't gonna sing no more.... 'Cause I'm leavin' San Antonio, I declare I ain't coming here no more | I'm gonna sing this song, ain't gonna sing no more [Instrumental lines, x 3] 'Cus I'm leavin' San Antoine, I declare I ain't comin' here no more | |
| Well, I don't play the dozen and neither the ten 'Cause you keep on talkin', I'll ease you in When you keep on talkin' till it makes me mad Well I'll tell you 'bout the mothers that your father had 'Cause I don't play the dozen, I declare man, and neither the ten | Well I don't play the dozen and neither the ten 'Cus she keep on talkin' I'll ease ya in Well you keep on talkin' 'till you make me mad Well I tell you 'bout the mother that your father had 'Cus I don't play the dozen, I declare, man, and neither the ten |
I've been shooting craps and gambling : mama and I done got brokeI've been trawling though got in Taft's Concordance. Almost every use of I got or he got is equivalent to I have or He has (in British English I've got or He's got.) Only a handful of examples of got meaning 'became' or 'received'. And they seem to be confined to got drunk and got a letter ? usually in the formula I got a letter ... How you you reckon it read?.
I done pawned my pistol : mama and my best clothes in soak
"You keep on talkin' til you make me madThis makes me think again about Elijah Wald's suggestion that Little Hat usually sang
I tell you 'bout the puppies that your sister had"
Gonna tell you 'bout some puppies that your father hadbut censored it for the recording. Was and some other have suggested
tell you 'bout some otherswhich I'd dismissed as too feeble. But perhaps it's feeble because it's a bowdlerisation.