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Offline banjochris

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #60 on: September 18, 2019, 04:40:17 PM »
I would transcribe it as
Here, and I stood at the station...

From the way Carr hesitates a bit, I would guess that he misspoke here, starting to sing the third verse, which basically starts with "Hear," realizes his mistake and goes on. Probably should have been "Went and I stood at the station."
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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #61 on: September 18, 2019, 04:45:43 PM »
Thank you Chris!

I'll make the change.

Cheers,

Pan

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #62 on: September 18, 2019, 05:53:08 PM »
Hi Pan,
I think in those two verses it should be disgusted rather than disgusting, though he's very nasal on that last syllable and I could be wrong.  If he describes himself as disgusting, he's saying he makes other people sick, if he's disgusted, he's been made sick himself, if that makes any sense.
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« Reply #63 on: September 18, 2019, 07:02:40 PM »
Was just about to post the same thing, Johnm, 'til I turned the page and you'd beat me to it.

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #64 on: September 19, 2019, 01:22:01 AM »
Thanks Johnm, and Waxwing.  I was wondering about that too. I'll make the change.

Cheers,

Pan

Hi Pan,
I think in those two verses it should be disgusted rather than disgusting, though he's very nasal on that last syllable and I could be wrong.  If he describes himself as disgusting, he's saying he makes other people sick, if he's disgusted, he's been made sick himself, if that makes any sense.
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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #65 on: February 07, 2020, 03:49:28 PM »
Hi all,
I've been working on an arrangement of (In The Evening) "When The Sun Goes Down" and was surprised to find that it had never been transcribed here.  It is a classic, and deservedly so.  It is so much harder to compose a blues with this kind of staying power than you might think, and Leroy Carr composed more than his fair share, often working with a woman friend who co-wrote with him.  What a soulful and beautiful singer he was!  Listening to his and Scrapper's original recording of the song, at https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=11988.msg106309#msg106309 , where Gordon had selected it for a Song of the Month a while ago, I was surprised to find how up-tempo Leroy and Scrapper took it, for so many of the covers of it have been quite slow.  In any event, here are Leroy's lyrics.



INTRO

In the evening, in the evening, mama, when the sun goes down
In the evening, baby, when the sun goes down
Well, ain't it lonesome, ain't it lonesome, babe, when your lover's not around, when the sun goes down

Last night, I laid a-sleeping, I was thinking to myself
Last night I laid a-sleeping, I was thinking to myself
Well, wondering and thinking why the one that you love, will mistreat you for someone else, when the sun goes down

The sun rises in the East, and it sets up in the West
The sun rises in the East, mama, and it sets in the West
Well, it's hard to tell, hard to tell, which one will treat you the best, when the sun goes down

Hey-ey-ey-ah, hee-hoo-eee
Hey-ey-ey-ah, hee-hoo-oh
Hey-ey-ey-hi, hoo-oo-ee

Goodbye old sweethearts and pals, yes, I'm going away
But I may be back to see you again, some old rainy day
Well, in the evening, in the evening, babe, when the sun goes down, when the sun goes down

OUTRO

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Johnm

« Last Edit: February 27, 2024, 09:08:28 AM by Johnm »

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #66 on: May 17, 2020, 12:49:26 PM »
How Long How Long Blues - Part 3

Leroy Carr - Vocals, Piano
Scrapper Blackwell - Guitar

19 December, 1928





How long babe how long
Must I sing my lonesome song
How long how how long baby how long

I have been waitin’ but the mailman leaves no mail
I’m just driftin’ like a ship without a sail
For how long how how long baby how long

Sometimes I think you love me and I feel so glad
But you stay away baby and then I feel so bad
For how long how how long baby how long

And then someday you’ll find me buried six feet under the ground
And you know it's because you quit me for I have my face turned down
For how long how how long baby how long

You went and left me baby and I'll do the best I can
But if you had to quit me why steal some other woman’s man
For how long how how long baby how long

Last night I heard a hound dog babe and I felt so blue
Cause I dreamt he was in the graveyard looking down at you
For how long how how long baby how long

Sometimes I get to dreaming that you’re coming back
And I go down to the station stand gazing up the track
For how long how how long baby how long
« Last Edit: May 18, 2020, 02:24:58 PM by harry »

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #67 on: May 18, 2020, 11:18:28 AM »
Harry, some suggestions for your question marks:

And then is right

4.1 And you KNOW IT'S because...
Face is right

5.1 I'LL do the best I can

Dreamt is right

Gazing is right

Chris

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #68 on: May 18, 2020, 02:22:33 PM »
Thanks Chris

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #69 on: May 20, 2020, 01:10:08 PM »
Tired Of Your Low Down Ways

Leroy Carr - Vocals, Piano
Scrapper Blackwell - Guitar

December 19, 1928 in Chicago





Now listen baby do you think I'm gonna to be your dog all my life
You caused me to leave my happy home and my wife
And I've got tired of your low down dirty way
And when I leave you baby I'm going away to stay

I can tell baby when you want to throw me down
You always got business in some other end town
And I've got tired of your low down dirty way
And when I leave you baby I'm going away to stay

You know baby that I’m tired of your low down dirty way
You leave me at midnight and I don't see you 'til the break of day
And I ain't gonna stand none of that any more
I'm through with you and I'm through with you and I'm through for sure
And I've got tired of your low down dirty way
And when I leave you baby I'm going away to stay

I give you my money you left me cold in hand
You took my money give it to your other man
And I've got tired of your low down dirty way
And when I leave you baby I'm going away to stay

Worked all the summer and I worked all the fall
Come home and took my christmas in my overalls
Do you think baby that my heart is made of stone
I took you in when you didn't have no home
I fed you baby put the clothes on your back
Now you want to give your baby that wise old crack
And before I will stand that any more
I will pack my grip further down the road I'll go
And I've got tired of your low down dirty way
And when I leave you baby I'm going away to stay
« Last Edit: May 21, 2020, 07:15:24 AM by harry »

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #70 on: May 21, 2020, 06:59:03 AM »
Thanks for posting "Tired of Your Lowdown Ways", Harry.  That is a great song and a ripping performance.  Wow!
All best,
Johnm

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #71 on: June 23, 2020, 01:16:18 PM »
Court Room Blues

February 20, 1934 in St. Louis, MO





Believe I'll take me a walk ‘round the corner by myself
Believe I'll take me a walk ‘round the corner by myself
And if I can't find my baby I don't want nobody else

Well she went and left me left me all alone
Well she went and left me left me all alone
Now I ain’t got no one to love no one to call my own

Now I'm going out this morning with my forty five in my hand
Now I'm going out this morning with my forty five in my hand
Now I'm gonna kill my woman for loving another man

Then I'm going to the judge and I'm gonna fall down on my knees
Then I'm going to the judge and I'm gonna fall down on my knee
And ask him please kind judge have mercy on me please

Well it's please kind judge don't send me to the electric chair
Well it's please kind judge don't send me to the electric chair
Just give me my time and I'll try to do it anywhere

Judge I done killed my woman cause she treated me so unkind
Judge I done killed my woman cause she treated me so unkind
Treated me so unkind ‘till I swear I lost my mind

When I'm dead and gone and six feet in the ground
When I'm dead and gone and six feet in the ground
You can only say there's a good man has gone down





Take A Walk Around The Corner

August 14, 1934 in New York City





Believe I'll take me a walk around the corner by myself
Believe I'll take me a walk around the corner by myself
And if I can't find my baby I don't want nobody else

She went out last night and she didn't even say goodbye
She went out last night and she didn't even say goodbye
How come she left me lord I really don't know why

Now I'm going out this morning my forty five in my hand
Now I'm going out this morning my forty five in my hand
Now I'm gonna kill my woman for loving another man

Then I'm going to the judge and I'm gonna fall down on my knee
Then I'm going to the judge and I'm gonna fall down on my knee
Ask him please kind judge have mercy on me please

Judge I done killed my woman cause she treated me so unkind
Judge I done killed my woman cause she treated me so unkind
Treated me so unkind ‘till I swear I lost my mind

Well it's please please please don't send me to the electric chair
Now and it's please please please don't send me to the electric chair
Just give me my time and I'll try to do it anywhere

When I'm dead and gone and six feet in the ground
When I'm dead and gone and six feet in the ground
You can only say there's a good man has gone down

And it looks mighty cloudy and I believe it's going to rain
Well it looks mighty cloudy and I believe it's going to rain
I just love to hear my baby call my name


« Last Edit: June 23, 2020, 01:21:20 PM by harry »

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #72 on: August 30, 2020, 04:55:49 PM »
Leroy Carr - Barrelhouse Woman

Leroy Carr - Vocals, Piano
Scrapper Blackwell - Guitar

New York, August 14, 1934

Key of C





My woman’s so lowdown she barrelhouses all the time
My woman’s so lowdown she barrelhouses all the time
She's low and squatty but I love that girl of mine

When she gets up in the morning she starts to drinking her corn
When she gets up in the morning she starts to drinking her corn
Every time I think of that woman I wished I had never been born

She struts around all day she barrelhouses the whole night through
She struts around all day she barrelhouses the whole night through
But when she love me I forget that I ever was blue

I wish that I could cure her barrelhousing ways
I wish that I could cure her barrelhousing ways
And if I stay with her I'll barrelhouse some day myself

I love my woman swear that she won't act right
Now I love my woman swear she just won't act just right
Gets her head full of whiskey and wants to start a fight

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« Reply #73 on: August 31, 2020, 06:02:32 AM »
Some stellar music making on Barrelhouse Woman!

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Re: Leroy Carr Lyrics
« Reply #74 on: November 24, 2020, 12:06:47 PM »
It's Too Short (Take 1)


John Miller already transcribed take 2.  Available earlier in this thread and Weeniepedia.
Very strong musicianship on this cut. The interplay between Carr, Blackwell and White is just incredible. Unfortunately Carr’s contract with Vocalion ended after the sessions (Dec 17/18 1934) which might explains the ferocious playing. Tampa Red managed to get them a contract for Bluebird. Carr and Blackwell got into a heated dispute over money during the signing and recording. Legend has it that Blackwell was either ejected from the studio or departed in a rage. Leroy Carr died two months later.


Leroy Carr – Vocals, Piano
Scrapper Blackwell – Guitar
Josh White – Guitar

December 17, 1934
New York City – New York

Piano in Ab





Now I'm down and out ain't got no friends around
Now I'm down and out ain't got no friends around
I'm going from door to door everybody turns me down

Now my woman she treats me like I'm a motherless child
Now my woman she treats me like I'm a motherless child
Now baby she don't give me a pleasant smile

Now here I am people all out in the ice and snow
Now here I am people all out in the ice and snow
My clothes all in pawn ain't got nowhere to go

She said she liked my music but my tune's too short
She said she liked my music but my tune's too short
If she gets a long winded player she's sure to get caught

Now babe I can't help it if I can't play long
Now babe I can't help it if I can't play long
I'm just a skinny fellow and I ain't very strong

 


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