I believe, I believe, President he's all right - President's Blues, Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band
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I love my girl like a schoolboy loves his pie, like a Kentucky white man loves his rock & rye. I love my girl until the day I die - Jim Jackson, St Louis Blues, 1930
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When you get up into heaven, when you get up into heaven, you'll find a big stream of molasses and a big lot of flapjacks sitting on each side. And it's a lot of butter on each side and a big knife to cut the butter with. When you get down to the stream of molasses you're going to cut the butter with your knife, you're going to drag the butter through the flapjacks, you're going to drag the flapjacks through the big stream of molasses, you're going to drag them across your mouth and say, "A bow bow bow bow bow..." - Lead Belly, Sermon on Pancakes, 1941
Frank Foster was playing a
street concert from the Jazzmobile in Harlem. He called for a blues in B-flat. A young tenor player began to play "out" from the first chorus, playing sounds that had no relationship to the harmonic progression or rhythmic setting. Foster stopped him. "What are you doing?" "Just playing what I feel." "Well, feel something in B-flat, motherfucker." I said to the station man, "Where's my train?" He said "I never knowed you owned a train". I said "You better answer or I'll smack you down". He said "All trains goin' to Memphis Town" - Memphis Town, Leroy Carr, 1930
Just about every verse in this song is quotable: - Me And My Tapeworm, Sylvester Weaver Gee, I'm always hungry, can't get enough to eat Gee, I'm hungry, can't get enough to eat I'm just like a savage, I could eat a barrel of meat Set down to the table, ate up everything I could found Set down to the table, ate up everything I found Would have ate the dishes if someone hadn't been around Pot of ham and cabbage, ain't enough to fill mine (2) That just makes me peckish, I could eat a dozen fine Saw my family doctor, said I had a big tapeworm I saw my family doctor, said I had a big tapeworm Said I had ate a cow, made me good and firm Went to the country, broke into a chicken coop I went to the country, broke into a chicken coop Stole a dozen chickens, put 'em in a pot of soup I'm a greedy glutton, eat fifty times a day (2) When I'm around a pigpen, they hide the slop away Guess me and my tapeworm must go further down the road (2) 'Cause we eat so much, won't nobody give us no board He'll fix you up a drink, just won't quit, it'll make you fight a circle saw, make you slap the lady down, and make you pick a fight with your pa. - Jim Jackson, Bootlegging Blues
While browsing some banjo-related threads, I came upon this one, courtesy of frankie:
My personal vision of the banjo starts with a .22 and a groundhog! - Walt Koken rsepp
I'm gonna' start me a graveyard of my own
if you rounders don't leave my women alone! The Georgia Crackers This line will always intrigue me for its built in contradictions:
He was a sinful boy, good hearted but had no soul. His heart was hard and cold like ice - Willie McTell, Dying Crapshooter's Blues dj
A room without a woman is like a heart without a beat - Curtis Jones, Lonesome Bedroom Blues
Arthur Petties, Freddie Spruell, Romeo Nelson, Doug Suggs -- these are only a few of the blues singers known on record and in discographies to blues enthusiasts, whose rediscovery has not been followed by recording sessions, for they have forgotten all they knew, and hear with disbelief the records they made as young men. - "The Future of the Blues", Blues Off the Record, Paul Oliver
Don't jive every girl you see in the street, there's other kind o' pork besides pigmeat. - "It Still Ain't No Good (New It Ain't No Good)", Mississippi Blacksnakes
There were guys in there fiddlin' and scrapin', couldn't play enough music to keep the flies off a dog. - Howard Armstrong on being kept out of white fiddling contests.
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