Topic: Pink Anderson Lyrics

[uncle bud]

Damn that extraneous r / intervocalic intrusive r / round r conjunction / inserted r / injected r / hard r conjunction / rhotic consonant between two morphemes / intrusive r / lateral / linking consonant / r quirk.  Does anyone know if Jo(r)dy was related to No(r)ah ;-)

 

I had just loaded 3 Pink cds into the player the other day and binged. Don't have time for adding to lyrics at the moment but glad to see Pink getting his due.

[ScottN]

Thanks Uncle Bud, you never seem to get hungover either when you binge on Pink :-)


Johnm transcribed The Titanic from Ballad and Folk Singer earlier in the thread. The Ship Titanic from Gospel Blues and Street Songs is essentially the same but has one additional verse at the beginning.

It was in the month of April, nineteen hundred and twelve
Listen to the story, that I'm going to tell
On one Sunday night, when that ship went out of sight
Wasn't it sad when the great ship went down


Thanks,
            Scott

[ScottN]

From Gospel Blues and Street Songs:

Every Day In The Week




Intro

I woke up this morning
When the clock was striking four
You ought ta heard my baby cryin daddy please don't go

I hate to leave you mama
God knows I have to go
Had the blues so long it's done made my poor heart sore

Well the blues jumped the Devil
Run the Devil a solid mile
Well the Devil sat down and he cried like a new born child

If you got you one woman
Well you sure better get you five
'Cause two might quit you and the other three might die

I got a Monday woman
Works on Fourth and Main
I got a Tuesday woman brings me all her change

My Wednesday woman
Bring me whiskey and beer
I got a Thursday woman she raise sand if she catch me here

My Friday woman
Just won't treat me right
I got a Sa'day woman I declare wants me all night

My Sunday woman
Lays on my arm and sleep
You may know 'bout that I got a gal for every day in the week

I don't love no yellow woman
And I ain't crazy 'bout no brown
'Cause you can't tell the difference I declare when the sun go down

My old grandma and my grandpa
Both of 'em got old and grey
If grandpa hadn't a talked careful I wouldn't a been here today

I'm gonna sing this verse
I declare I ain't gonna sing no more
I'm gonna leave here directly I'm gonna walk and tell everything I know


Carolina Blues Man's version is pretty close to the same but has some additional verses / variations

I woke up this morning
Hmm a while 'fore day
You ought to see'd me grab the pillow where my baby used to lay

Mmm mama
What in the world is you tryin to do
Tryin to go away and leave me good as I done been to you

When your woman get buggish
Sometime she get very hard to rule
Take that woman to a buggy drive her like a Georgie mule

I'm gonna sing this verse for ya right now
Ain't gonna sing no more
I'm gonna get drunk directly tell everything I know


Thanks,
            Scott

Edited 4/28/14 with help from Johnm

[ScottN]

Hi Johnm - in Wreck Of the Old 97, the version on Gospel Blues and Street Songs is essentially the same.  I think in both versions though, line 8.3 is lost his "air brake" not "average" although I have clearly heard "average" used in other people's versions of the song.

Thanks,
           Scott

[Johnm]

Hi Scott,
That's a good catch, especially so long after the transcription was posted.  I will edit the original post and the Weeniepedia entry.  Thanks!
All best,
Johnm

[ScottN]

Hi John - thanks, I wish I'd have been tuned in back in 2006 but I'm glad someone hipped me to WC in 2011 :-)

There were some earlier songs in the thread that aren't in Weeniepedia yet (probably in various levels of completion):

CC&O (Pink and Simmie Dooley)
Every Day In The Week (Pink and Simmie)
The Kaiser
Travelin Man

Thanks,
           Scott

[ScottN]

Pink's version of John Henry is in Weeniepedia and looks to be from Ballad & Folk Singer. The version on Gospel Blues and Street Songs is very similar but provides three additional verses.



John Henry said to his Shaker one day
Shaker you'd better pray
'Cause if I miss this here piece of steel
Tomorrow be your buryin day
Yes tomorrow be your buryin day
Yes to (guitar)

John Henry said to his captain one morning
Write me out my time
I can make more money on the Seaboard road
Then I can on the Southern line
Then I can on the Southern line (yeah)

John Henry went to the turn one day
Picked up his hammer to drive
Lord the rock was so tall and John Henry was so small
Lord he lay down his hammer and he cried
Lord he lay down his hammer and he cried
Lord he lay down his hammer and he (guitar)
Lord he (guitar) plat it again


Thanks,
           Scott

[ScottN]

From Gospel Blues and Street Songs:



Greasy Greens

Folks I'm just a man from New Orleans
Crazy 'bout them greasy greens
If I don't get 'em three times a day
I'll get mad and walk away

Them greens all I want my greens
Boy they just like oats
Soft and easy good and greasy
Crazy 'bout them greasy greens

Second fit

Way down south where I was born
They raised them good old greens and corn
Sweet potatoes bbbblack eyed peas
Green tomatoes and pecan trees

But them greens all I want my greens
Boy just won't don't
Soft and easy good and greasy
Crazy 'bout them greasy greens

[xxx xxx] fit

Mama you can cook your lima bean
you can cook somethin I ain't never seen
But Honey when you fix ya table for me
Ah don't fix nothin but (guitar)

Them greens all I want my greens
Ah they won't stop for the red light
Soft and easy good and greasy
Crazy bout them greasy greens

That meat you knew must be fat
Cook them greens so greasy like that
If you don't use nothin but natural lean
You can't cook no good greasy greens

Them greens all I want my greens
Boy just won't 'have
Soft and easy good and greasy
Crazy 'bout them greasy greens

Last fit

I don't care what your mama don't 'low
Bring them greens here anyhow
Soon as I get 'em Honey I'll be gone
Your mammie won't know that you put them on

Them greens all I want my greens
Boy they just won't don't
Soft and easy good and greasy
How they love them greasy greens. What. Man.



The version on Medicine Show Man has an additional verse:

I see greens upon your shelf
You must be saving them for someone else
I hear hissp in your pot
Honey how much greasy greens you got

'N' them greens all I want my greens
They just won't don't
Soft and easy good and greasy
Wild about them greasy greens. Eat em up then


Thanks,
           Scott

[ScottN]

From Gospel Blues and Street Songs (the version of In The Jailhouse Now from Medicine Show Man is essentially the same with no extra verses):

He's In The Jailhouse Now



I had an old friend named Campbell
Campbell used to steal and gamble
He made his living cheating all the while yes sir
Now he had a little game he called euchre, blackjack, dice and poker
He thought he was the smartest dude in town

But I just found out Monday
Campbell got locked up Sunday
They got him in the jailhouse down in town
They got Campbell in the jail and got no one to go his bail
That judge he won't accept no fine, they got him

He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
I told Campbell once or twice stop playing cards and tryin to shoot dice
He's in that big house now

I remember last election
The white folks was in action
Tryin to get theyself a President mmm hmm
A colored man by the name of Bill Austin
He walked from New York to Boston
Just to find a colored settlement

Now my brother Bill's a voter
Bill's a great promoter
He's always looking for some good advice
So they told Bill to go to the poll
And vote for both [xxx] and [xxx]
Instead of voting once, the fool voted twice. That settle it

Bill's on the rock pile now
He's on the rock pile now
I told Bill to go 'head home
And let them white folk's business alone
Bill's on the choin gum (chain gang) now

I walked into town last Friday
I met a girl they call Ida
I thought she was the prettiest girl in town, I sure did
She begin to call me Honey
And I begin to spend my money
We walked into a cafe and sat down

Folks I made sure I were in it
I was spending every minute
Buying this old liquor and wine by the quart, sure was
But when I went to pay that man
I found that lady's hand
Right in my pocket where my money was, they got her

She's in the graveyard now
She's in the graveyard now
I told the judge to his face
That woman's hand was out of its place
She's in the ape-yard now


Thanks,
           Scott
   

[ScottN]

From Carolina Medicine Show Hokum And Blues With Baby Tate (mislabeled on download album as Greasy Greens)

Mutton Stew

If you want to get to Heaven let me tell you what to do
Grease your feet with mutton stew
If the Devil get at ya with his greasy hand
You'll slide right over in the Promise Land
Go easy
So greasy

Make up the bed gal and make it up nice
Old Preacher Johnson gonna be here tonight
He's a chicken eater
He likes cake
He like the sisters, too

I was standin right up by the mantle piece
Standin right up by a bucket of grease
I greased my feet with axel grease
I went slippin up and down the mantle piece
Huntin matches
Cigarette [ducks]
Chewin tobacco

I's down in the wild wood sittin on a log
Finger on the trigger and the eye on the hog
I pulled the trigger and the gun said flip
I went on the hog with all of my grip
Said scrape it
Eatin hog eye
I love chit'lin

I was down the henhouse here the other night
The moon wa'n't shinin I didn't have no light
I meant to grab a chicken and I grabbed a goose
And the white folks hollered about turning me loose
I rode bushes
Jumpin gulleys
Dodgin bullets

I was down at the henhouse on my knees
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
Nothin but a rooster was sayin his prayers
And givin out the hymns to the hens upstairs
[Its] singin
Rooster's crowin
That the way they [xxx]

Ain't no need in me workin so hard
W'n I got a woman in the white folk's yard
She give me then chicken and she give me the egg
And she think I'm workin but I'm layin in the bed
Havin a good time
Talkin about her
To other women



Thanks,
           Scott

[banjochris]

Scott, a few suggestions:

In "Greasy Greens" it's "just won't don't." I'm not exactly sure what it means but it pops up in some other numbers - I believe Blind Blake sings it in "Too Tight."

And instead of "just want hay" try "just won't 'have" for behave.

I think he does say "fit" between the verses.

And in"Jailhouse" I believe that missing bit is something lie "And vote for both [name] and [name]"

Pink pronounces "chain gang" very oddly.

Should be "honey" where you have "homey"

"Buying THIS OLD LIQUOR AND WINE by the quart"

And the last line I think is "ape-yard"


Chris

[ScottN]

Hi Chris - thanks so much - I'm always thankful for your great ear and extensive knowledge of the canon :-)  I made the suggested changes.

In Mutton Stew I'm pretty sure I hear a reference to cigarette "ducks."  Chesterfield by Buddy Moss (and I think John Jackson as well) also seems to reference them "Smoke one in the morning, one at night, choke your "duck" and hold the other too / two tight."  Do you know of other lyrics that reference this and/or is this common slang among smokers?

Thanks again,
                         Scott

[banjochris]

Googling brought up "duck's ass" that means the end of a cigarette that is soggy from saliva, I would assume it comes from that.
Chris

[ScottN]

Hi Chris - thanks. I had seen that but wasn't sure how far back that term went of if there was an alternate meaning out there. Thanks again :-).

Scott

[ScottN]

From Carolina Blues Man



Try Some Of That

I know a girl she sell hot cookie
She sells em night and day
First thing early in the mornin
I'm goin down that way

I'm gonna try some of that'n
I'm gonna try some of that'n
First time I get my money
Gonna try some of that

It don't make no difference
Who you are where you might come from
She will meet you out on the streets at night
Then try to sell you some

Boys you oughtta try some a that
You oughtta try some of that
First time you get your money
You oughtta try some a that

All you men you oughtta try some a that
You oughtta try some of that
First thing early in the mornin
You oughtta try some a that

I tried somethin last [Wednesday?] night
The money was not wasted
I tell you boys it was out of sight
The best I ever tasted

It's good for mis'ry  in your back
It's good for corns and bunion
I said Honey that sure is good
She said yes I know my onion

I'm gonna try some of that
You need to try some of that
First time you get your money
You oughtta try some a that

Everybody you oughtta try some of that
You oughtta try some of that
First thing early in the mornin
You oughtta try some of that

There was a bow legged man walk in the house last night
Folks this ain't no fake
He walked in the house and he stayed three minutes
The fool came out walkin straight

He had done tried some of that
Boys he tried some of that
He must have got satisfaction
Boy because he tried some of them cookies I'm talkin about



Thanks,
           Scott