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chipmonk doug:
Danm but you are good, Pan.  It would have taken me 6 mo. to work that out, now I'll be able to play it in a week.

thanks,
doug

MuddyBuddy:
Hi
I wasn't sure if Bo is saying little or thing in the verses. Any ideas?
any tabs around for this? Someone on IGS mentioned this is in G6 tuning, but i don't even know what that is!

cheers
BERT in Sweden




I Want You To Know - Bo Carter  (Armenter Chatmon)

Babe I want you to know, Babe I want you to know
That little/thing you been doin? Lord, Baby don?t you do it no more.
 
Babe I want you to know, Honey I want you to know
That little/thing you been givin?  Lord Baby don?t you give it no more 

BRIDGE
?Cause I?m a stranger here just dropped in your town
Ain?t none of these women Lord turn me down
They crying Baby, Honey

They want you to understand, Honey want you to understand
I don?t need no more good now, please give it to another man.

instrumental 2 times through and bridge and once

Babe I want you to know, Babe I want you to know
That little/thing you been doin? Lord, Baby don?t you do it no more.
 
Babe I want you to know, Honey I want you to know
That little/thing you been givin?  Lord Baby don?t you give it no more 

BRIDGE
?Cause I?m a stranger here just dropped in your town
Ain?t none of these women Lord turn me down
They crying Baby, Honey

instrumental out....

Slack:
Hi Muddy,

Here is a topic on Bo's tuning:

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=100&topic=819.0

Hard for me to tell what he is saying - phonetically it sounds like "Lillya" which makes no sense.

Cheers,

GerryC:
Hi Bert. The G6 tuning Carter uses on this is (bottom to top) D-G-D-G-B-E: the same as open G but with the top string left as normal. I'm fairly sure that he sings "that thing you been doing" in each of the verses, but Woody Mann transcribes it as "that little bit"; if you slur the vocal as if you were drunk it could sound that way. Woody transcribed the song in his book Six Early Blues Guitarists (Oak Publications 1973 - I don't know if it's still in print) but he used Open G as the tuning. However, he has since said that he now believes G6 is correct. There is another version of the same song which Bo Carter recorded as Don't Do It No More. It's almost identical as regards the guitar part but the lyrics are different and were the subject of a Weeniethread a while back.

Hope this helps.

Cheerily,

Gerry C

PS  Don't Do It No More will appear on my next CD, which will be escaping from protective custody soon...

PPS Cool website! I think that's the first time I've ever seen Eric Bibb without a hat.. Check out my site at www.gerrycoopermusic.co.uk

MuddyBuddy:
Thanks Slack and Gerry for the tips! This place is really a goldmine for information and anecdotes.
Gerry, I checked out your website and am listening to Mississippi Blues right now... which I will be putting on my next cd too, just got the basic track finished.

Well Eric never had on hats when I knew him in the 70's and 80's. Haven't laid eyes on him since that last jam at my house when he used my old Duolian 1991. But I suspect that most guitar players with hats have them for a reason... ;-) I know several that just can't get used to not having the hair they used to. It doesn't bother me, comes with the age... as long as the fingers don't stop!

all the best
Bert

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