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Offline ScottN

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2012, 06:54:46 AM »
Hi Matt, I'm generally hearing "of your Uncle Sam" and in the third verse "with your Uncle Sam."  I think you have verse 4 pretty close, it's a tough one.  Thanks, ScottN

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2012, 07:21:56 AM »
right, I hadn't thought of "of your" uncle sam; reckon you're probably right.

the noise Pink makes just sounds like "ah fee", so I guess it's like "of yih" ? of your.

Still, I'd be grateful for any second, or third, opinions!

I mainly like the song because of that one line "they conquered little Belgium", which for some reason makes me smile. Apologies to any Belgians reading this! I know a song about World War I and imperialism shouldn't produce that reaction, especially a quite jingoistic/flag-waving song. And I know it's probably very immature of me to find that line so amusing.. but hey... the blues certainly aren't politically correct!

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2012, 12:20:27 PM »
Been meaning to check collective wisdom on this for a long time.  I've always loved this one but could use some help in a couple spots.  I searched but didn't see that this had been done before.  I apologize if it has.

Every Day In The Week Blues

I woke up this morning
What you reckon was on my mind
My brown told me to leave but I told her I just wasn't gwine

Woke up singing this morning
When the clock was striking four
All I heard my baby crying daddy please don't go

Show me the train
You call the Cannonball
That's the train don't stop a'tall

My momma told me
When I was but a child
That there's good times now but terrible after a while

If you ride the Seaboard
I ride the L & N
Momma that's the train'll sure carry me in the wind

My momma told me
When I was four years old
You gonna be around a woman god bless your soul

Lord a mean old fireman
A cruel old engineer
Took my good girl and left me standing here

I'm gon' buy me a manger
I wanna carry it to the sky
So I can see my baby when she comes passing by

Well I took this brown skinned woman
From my best friend
And that rascal got lucky and stole her back again

I woke up this morning
Ah with the rising sun
Said go away day and let tomorrow come

Singing my blues
And I sing 'em when I please
I sing these blues to give my poor heart ease

Sometime I feel like
I done throw it away
Take this old guitar and whoop these blues all day

You must get your basket brownie
And make it into them woods
If you don't find an old apple you must make black bread good (??? puzzling line to me )




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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2012, 01:13:51 PM »
I think he's saying "berries," not "bread."
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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2012, 02:50:41 PM »
Yeah, I think the line would be "if you don't find an apple you'll have to make do with blackberries" in today's American English.

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2013, 08:53:35 AM »
  Howdy folks,

  This is one of my favorites from Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley..  CC&O Blues.  I've been playing this for awhile and singing what I guess makes sense lyrically to me.  In the second verse, I assume the Seaboard refers to the old Seaboard Air Line Railroad.  I'm not sure about the rest of that line though.  Riding the blinds was a way to ride a train.  The fourth verse is the other spot I am really unsure of.  I put a few of my interpretations there.  Also, when Pink chimes in with his questions, it sounds to me like he usually says "boss", but it could be "boy".  I imagine the discerning ears here can help with the details.



CC&O Blues

If you didn't want me, why don't you tell me so?
If you didn't want me, why don't you tell me so?
If you didn't want me, why don't you tell me so?
(What boss?)
I won't be hangin' 'round your door no more

Gonna ride the Seaboard either ride the blind
Gonna ride the Seaboard either ride the blind
Gonna ride the Seaboard either ride the blind
(What you gonna do?)
Gonna ride that train you call the CC line

I'm goin' up the country, and the time aint long
I'm goin' up the country, and the time aint long
I'm goin' up the country, and the time aint long
(What you going for?)
Going up the country to count the days I'm gone

The CC&O the best train I do ride
The CC&O the best train ought to ride
The CC&O the best train of the ride
(What about it boy?)
That's the train to ride to pacify your mind

Mama told me, so did Father too
Said, Mama told me, so did Father too
Said, Mama told me, so did Father too
(What'd they tell you boss?)
That CC road gonna be the death of you

(whoop it boy, whoop it)

I wonder where the engineer is goin'
I wonder where the engineer is goin'
I wonder where the engineer is goin'
(Why boss?)
I feel like riding, if it's all night long
« Last Edit: July 11, 2020, 01:48:04 PM by Johnm »

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2013, 10:49:58 AM »
Hey Devin. Great tune. In verse 2 I hear "either ride the blind" as well. Not sure if it's right but...

in 2.5 I hear "you call THAT CC line"

In the 3rd verse, 3.5 it does sort of sound like "TO count the days I'm gone" but I am not sure this makes sense. The usual formula would be along the lines of "you can count the days I'm gone" or something, no? Maybe "yuh count the days I'm gone." Anyway, not sure of it.

For the 4th verse, I hear "ah, to ride," with various pronunciations:

The CC&O, the best train, ah to ride
The CC&O, the best train, ah, to ride
The CC&O the best train, ah, to ride
(What about it boy?)
BEST train to ride to pacify your mind

p.s. That skillet inlay on yer website is great. ;)

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2013, 08:02:59 PM »
Thanks for the reply, Uncle Bud. 

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in 2.5 I hear "you call THAT CC line"

I definitely agree there.


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In the 3rd verse, 3.5 it does sort of sound like "TO count the days I'm gone" but I am not sure this makes sense

  I also agree it doesn't quite make sense.  I like to think that he's playing with a familiar line with a little humor.  Going away just to count the days.  Standing here just to hold up this wall.  That sort of thing.  More likely he might've just slurred the line a little.

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2014, 11:28:22 PM »
Hi there good people,

Any suggestions as to where I could find the lyrics to "A thousand women blues"?

thanks!

Z

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2014, 10:17:05 AM »
A Thousand Woman Blues



Intro

I ain't nev never loved me
But just a thousand womens in my life
Oh Lord
But a thousand womens in my life

Yes I know my little woman
My woman bound to love me some
Whoa Lord gal
She's bound to love me some

She puts her arm all around me
Just like the circle 'round the sun
Mmm hmm
Like the circle 'round the sun

If you love me pretty baby
Oh you won't do nothing wrong
Whoa gal
Won't do nothing wrong

Solo

I used to have a little woman
My woman lived up on that hill
Oh Lord boy I swear
She lived up on that hill

There was a house on that hill
It was just painted all over in green
Mmm hmm boy
Paint(ed) all over in green

Some of the finest young lady
That a man most ever seen
Mmm hmm
That a man most ever seen

If your best gal ever quit you
When you ain't done nothing wrong
Whoa Lord
When you ain't done nothing wrong

And your heart will be in trouble
And your life won't last too long
Mmm hmm gal
Your life won't last too long

Outro



Thanks,
            Scott
« Last Edit: July 11, 2020, 01:48:58 PM by Johnm »

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2014, 12:22:06 PM »
Wow!

thank you very much ScottN!

much appreciated.

Z

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2014, 11:33:40 PM »
Hi Z - you're welcome. I was surprised there were only 5 entries for Pink Anderson in Weeniepedia...will have to try and fill that out a little more.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2014, 10:06:01 AM by ScottN »

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2014, 10:41:05 AM »
I've Got Mine is from Gospel Blues and Street Songs. There is another version on Medicine Show Man that has essentially the same lyrics. The only real change is that the sentence for playing craps drops from 9-18 months to 9-30 days.

Also anybody familiar with the slang Geordie / Jordy in other American blues songs?  I'm familiar with the British reference but hadn't heard it before in American slang.

Thanks,
           Scott




I've Got Mine

Intro

I went down to a big crap game it certainly was against my will
I lost every doggone nickel I had but a greenback dollar bill
With a forty dollar bet laying on the floor and my buddy's point was nine
When the police come he caught all of us but I got mine

Yes I got mine let me tell ya I got mine
I grabbed that money out the back door I went flying'
Ever since that big crap game I've been a living' on chicken and wine
I'm a leader of the high society folks I got mine

And I went down to a turkey feast and that dinner was certainly fine
Fifteen minutes 'fore the table's set all the jitterbugs fell in line
When they brought them gobblers in on those Jodies I did shine
Talk about a rascal a grabbin' I got mine

Yes I got mine let me tell ya' I got mine
I grabbed that turkey by the wing out the window I went flyin'
I tried to make it to a hidin' place but I didn't get there in time
A hungry rascal grabbed me by the coat but I got mine

I know a barber shop it's over in town it's over on North Fourth Street
It's the onliest place on a Saturday night we gamblers care to meet
Some comes in for a haircut while others come for a scrap
But when you see me and my buddy up there we mean to shoot some crap

Hollerin' seven eleven won't you come come come
If you don't seven eleven dice I'm done done done
If I see the police 'fo' he sees me I'm gonna run run run
But I'm a leader of the high society folks I got mine

Yes I got mine what was it I got mine
I got it from all these good sports who been playing all the time
Some of the boys got eighteen months and some of the boys got nine
When they brought them stripes in the next morning I got mine

I went to my best gal's house last night the hour just about nine
I wasn't dressed up like Henry Ford but I was feelin' just as fine
I caught her sittin' in another rascal's lap I didn't like that sign
I told that Jody what I thought about him and I got mine

Yes I got mine let me tell ya I got mine
I grabbed my hat out the back door I went flyin'
That Jody grabbed a shotgun and he used it mighty fine
Talk about a rascal a runnin' men I got mine


Edited 3/26/14 with help from Banjochris
« Last Edit: July 11, 2020, 01:49:43 PM by Johnm »

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2014, 11:26:19 AM »
I think it's Pink putting an extraneous "R" in "Jody." Look up "jody slang" or "jody the grinder" on Google.
Chris

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Re: Pink Anderson Lyrics
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2014, 02:38:02 PM »
Thanks Chris - I very much appreciate your insight and help on this - I made the change to the lyrics :-)


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 ;-)

 


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