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	<title>McGuinn's Folk Den</title>
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	<description>Roger McGuinn carries on the tradition of folk music</description>

	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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    <copyright>Roger McGuinn 2003-2006</copyright>
    <managingEditor>rm@mcquinn.com (Roger McGuinn)</managingEditor>
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    <category>Folk Music</category>
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    <itunes:subtitle>Roger McGuinn's FolkDen Since 1995</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:summary>Roger McGuinn carries on the tradition of folk music</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>    
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        <itunes:name>Roger McGuinn</itunes:name>
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		<title>Cripple Creek</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7098</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


 

  

So many towns boast a Cripple Creek, it&#8217;s hard to know which one this song is referring to. The famous banjo picker Bascom Lamar Lunsford mentioned in his 1927 book &#8220;30 and 1 Folksongs From the Southern Mountains&#8221; that he knew of a Cripple Creek [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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So many towns boast a Cripple Creek, it's hard to know which one this song is referring to. The famous banjo picker Bascom Lamar Lunsford mentioned in his 1927 book "30 and 1 Folksongs From the Southern Mountains" that he knew of a Cripple Creek within five minutes walking distance of his office in the Flat Iron Building in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

Of course everyone claims their own town to be the real Cripple Creek - including the former Gold Rush town, Cripple Creek, Colorado,  but the music sounds more like it came from Kentucky or North Carolina. I just sang the choruses. Instead of singing the verses, I played them as the great old Southern instrumental this is. I've included the verses below if you want to sing them.

There's a nice Youtube video of Earl Scruggs and his friends doing the song as an instrumental. Click here.

Lyrics:

Cripple Creek
  (Kentucky, traditional)

[G] Hey, I got a gal,
At the head of the creek,
An' I'm goin' up t' see her,
'Bout three [D] times a [G] week.

Kisses on the mouth,
Jus' as sweet as any wine,
Wrap myself aroun' her,
Like a sweet potato vine.

chorus:
      Goin' up Cripple Creek,
      Goin' on a run,
      Goin' up Cripple Creek,
      T' have some fun.

      Goin' up Cripple Creek,
      Goin' in a whirl,
      Goin' up Cripple Creek,
      T' see my girl.

I got a gal,
An' she loves me,
She's as sweet
As she can be.

She's got eyes,
Of baby blue,
An' her love,
Fer me is true.

      chorus:

Now the girls up Cripple Creek,
'Bout half grown,
Jump on a boy,
Like a dog on a bone.

Roll my britches,
Up to my knees,
An' wade ol' Cripple Creek,
When I please.

      chorus:

Cripple Creek's wide,
An' Cripple Creek's deep,
Gonna wade ol' Cripple Creek,
'Fore I sleep.

Hills are steep,
An' the road is muddy,
An' I'm so drunk,
I can't stan' steady.

      chorus:
Cripple Creek's wide,
An' Cripple Creek's deep,
Gonna wade ol' Cripple Creek,
'Fore I sleep.

Roll my britches,
To my knees,
'An wade ol' Cripple Creek,
When I please.

      chorus:

Drive in a buggy,
That's for me,
Watch the wheels roll,
Merrily.

Through the mud.
An' over the stones,
Buckin' horses,
Break good bones.

      chorus:

I went down,
To Cripple Creek,
To see what them gals,
Had to eat.

Got so drunk,
I fell against the wall,
Ol' corn likker,
Was the cause of it all.

      chorus

I went down,
To Cripple Creek,
To see what them gals,
Had to eat.
What they cooked,
I couldn't eat at all,
Harder than,
A brick in the wall.

      chorus:


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		<title>Blow The Man Down</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7097</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Seafaring</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


 

  

Blow the Man Down originated in the Western Ocean sailing ships. The tune could have originated with German emigrants, but it is more likely derived from an African-American song Knock a Man Down. Blow the Man Down was originally a halyard shanty. A [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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Blow the Man Down originated in the Western Ocean sailing ships. ...]]></itunes:subtitle>
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Blow the Man Down originated in the Western Ocean sailing ships. The tune could have originated with German emigrants, but it is more likely derived from an African-American song Knock a Man Down. Blow the Man Down was originally a halyard shanty. A variant of this is The Black Ball Line (with a more positive view of the Blackball Line as well).

Western Ocean Law was Rule with a Fist. "Blow" refers to knocking a man down with fist, belaying pin or capstan bar. Chief Mates in Western Ocean ships were known as "blowers," second mates as "strikers" and third mates as "greasers."

There are countless versions of Blow the Man Down. The one here is from the Burl Ives Songbook and tells of the Blackball Line. The Black Ball Line was founded by a group of Quakers in 1818. It was the first line to take passengers on a regular basis, sailing from New York, Boston and Philadelphia on the first and sixteenth of each month. The Blackball flag was a crimson swallow-tail flag with a black ball.

The ships were famous for their fast passage and excellent seamanship. However, they were also famed for their fighting mates and the brutal treatment of seamen. (Western Ocean seamen were called "Packet Rats"). Many ships bore the name "bloodboat." Most of the seamen hailed from New York or were Liverpool-Irish.

By 1880 the sailing ships were being replaced by steamers and the packets entered other trades or were sold. 

Thanks to www.contemplator.com for this research.

Lyrics:

[C] Come all ye young fellows that follow the sea,
To my way [Am] haye, [Dm] blow the man [G7] down,
And pray pay attention and listen to me,
Give me some time to [C] blow the man down.


I'm a deep water sailor just in from Hong Kong,
to my way haye, blow the man down,
if you'll give me some grog, I'll sing you a song,
Give me some time to blow the man down.


'Twas on a Black Baller I first served my time,
to my way haye, blow the man down,
And on that Black Baller I wasted my prime,
Give me some time to blow the man down.


'Tis when a Black Baller's preparing for sea
to my way haye, blow the man down,
You'd split your sides laughing at the sights that you see.
Give me some time to blow the man down.


With the tinkers and tailors and soljers and all
to my way haye, blow the man down,
That ship for prime seaman on board a Black Ball.
Give me some time to blow the man down.


'Tis when a Black Baller is clear of the land,
to my way haye, blow the man down,
Our Boatswain then gives us the word of command
Give me some time to blow the man down.


"Lay aft," is the cry,"to the break of the Poop!
to my way haye, blow the man down,
Or I'll help you along with the toe of my boot!"
Give me some time to blow the man down.


'Tis larboard and starboard on the deck you will sprawl,
to my way haye, blow the man down,
For "Kicking Jack" Williams commands the Black Ball.
Give me some time to blow the man down.


Pay attention to order, now you one and all,
to my way haye, blow the man down,
For right there above you flies the Black Ball.
Give me some time to blow the man down.


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		<title>Old Joe Clark</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7096</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7096#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Love</category>
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


 

  

This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. The song originated in Irish Creek, on the Blue Ridge Parkway near South River Virginia in the early 1800s. Joe Clark had a daughter who jilted her [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School ...]]></itunes:subtitle>
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This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. The song originated in Irish Creek, on the Blue Ridge Parkway near South River Virginia in the early 1800s. Joe Clark had a daughter who jilted her lover. The young man is said to have written the song out of spite and jealousy.

Lyrics:

Old Joe Clark

[G] Old Joe Clark's a fine old man
Tell you the reason why
He keeps good likker 'round his house
Good old [F] Rock and [G] Rye

 [G] Fare ye well, Old Joe Clark
      Fare ye well, I [F] say
 [G] Fare ye well, Old Joe Clark
    I'm a [F] going [G] away

Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son
Preached all over the pain
The only text he ever knew
Was High, low, Jack and the game

Old Joe Clark had a mule
His name was Morgan Brown
And every tooth in that mule's head
Was sixteen inches around

Old Joe Clark had ayellow cat
She would neither sing or pray
She stuck her head in the butermilk jar
And washed her sins away

Old Joe Clark had a house
Fifteen stories high
And every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie

I went down to Old Joe's house
He invited me to supper
I stumped my toe on the table leg
And stuck my nose in the butter

Now I wouldn't marry a widder
Tell you the reason why
She'd have so many children
They'd make those biscuits fly

Sixteen horses in my team
The leaders they are blind
And every time the sun goes down
There's a pretty girl on my mind

Eighteen miles of mountain road
And fifteen miles of sand
If ever travel this road again
I'll be a married man

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		<title>Away Rio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7094</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7094#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Seafaring</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


 

  

On December 1, 2007 the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago celebrated its 50th anniversary. This is a song that I learned there 50 years ago. I love sea chanteys and this is one of my favorites! American sailors who sang this disdained [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:duration>00:03:20</itunes:duration>
        
        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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On December 1, 2007 the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago celebrated its 50th anniversary. This is a song that I learned there 50 years ago. I love sea chanteys and this is one of my favorites! American sailors who sang this disdained any pronunciation other than "Ry oh."

Lyrics:

[E] Have you ever been out on the [B7] Rio [E] Grande?
Away Rio
It's [A] there that the [E] river runs down [B7] golden [E] sand
And we're bound for the [B7] Rio [E] Grande

CH

[E] Away [B7] boys [E] away
Away Rio
So [A] fare ye [E] well my [B7] bonny young [E] girl
And we're bound for the [B7] Rio [E] Grande

It's pack up your sea chest and get under way
Away Rio
The girls we are leaving can take half our pay
And we're bound for the Rio Grande

CH

Oh the anchor is weighed and the sails they are set
Away Rio
The maidens we're leaving we'll never forget
And we're bound for the Rio Grande

CH

Sing good bye to Sally and sue
Away Rio
And all who are listening, it's good bye to you
And we're bound for the Rio Grande


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		<title>O Come All Ye Faithful</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7095</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7095#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Seasonal</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


 

  

In keeping with the Folk Den tradition, this is a Christmas song for December. I have wonderful memories of singing this at my grandparents&#8217; house in Chicago with my family in the mid 50s. My grandmother and grandfather would sit at the [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:duration>00:04:15</itunes:duration>
        
        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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In keeping with the Folk Den tradition, this is a ...]]></itunes:subtitle>
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  Mp3: O Come All Ye Faithful 


In keeping with the Folk Den tradition, this is a Christmas song for December. I have wonderful memories of singing this at my grandparents' house in Chicago with my family in the mid 50s. My grandmother and grandfather would sit at the piano and play together and we would all harmonize, while recording it on a 78 rpm vinyl disc recorder. The melody is truly captivating. Merry Christmas 2007!

Lyrics:

G] O come, all ye [D] faithful, [G] joyful and triumphant, [D]
[Em] Come ye, [D] O come ye, to [Bm] [A]  Bethlehem [D]
[G] Come and [D] behold Him, [Em] born the King of [D] angels;

[G] O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
[C] O come, let us [D] adore [C] Him,
[G] Christ [D]  the [G] Lord.

True God of true God, Light from Light Eternal,
Lo, he shuns not the Virgin's womb;
Son of the Father, begotten, not created;

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation;
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!
Glory to God, all glory in the highest;

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

Child, for us sinners poor and in the manger,
We would embrace Thee, with love and awe;
Who would not love Thee, loving us so dearly?

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, born this happy morning;
Jesus, to Thee be glory given;
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing.

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.


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		<item>
		<title>Old Blue</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7093</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7093#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
	<category>Humor/games/children</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Blue Dog Painting by George Rodrigue


 

  

We recorded Old Blue on Dr. Byrds &#038; Mr. Hyde in back 1968. I&#8217;d heard it performed live by Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn in Chicago in 1961 and had always loved it. There&#8217;s a version by [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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Blue Dog Painting by George Rodrigue

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We recorded Old Blue on Dr. Byrds & ...]]></itunes:subtitle>
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Blue Dog Painting by George Rodrigue

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  Mp3: Old Blue 


We recorded Old Blue on Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde in back 1968. I'd heard it performed live by Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn in Chicago in 1961 and had always loved it. There's a version by Jim Jackson on the Harry Smith Anthology but it's completely different, a lot more of a blues. 

When I sing this in concert I ask the audience to clap along, following an unusual pattern. It's fun to hear them get the syncopation right. But someone always claps in the wrong place and makes everybody laugh.

Lyrics:

Old Blue     (trad.)

[D] Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue
Yes I had an old dog and his [A] name was [D] Blue
Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue
I bet you five dollars he's a [A] good dog [D] too

Old Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
The possum growled, Blue whined at him

[D] Bye Bye [Bm] Blue, [G] you good dog [D] you
Bye Bye [Bm] Blue, you [G] good dog [D] you

When old Blue died he died so hard
He shook the ground in my back yard
We lowered him down with a golden chain
and every link we called his name

My old Blue was a good old hound
You'd hear him holler miles around
When I get to heaven first thing I'll do
is grab my horn and call for Blue

The Byrds   "Dr.Byrds And Mr.Hyde"  
Columbia Records 1968"
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		<item>
		<title>The Ballad of the Boll Weevil</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7092</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7092#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Sharecropper working with one-horse plow,
Green County, Georgia, July 1937.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration


 

  

This is a fairly new folk song. The Boll Weevil didn&#8217;t come to Texas from Mexico until around 1900. Sharecroppers who sang this song took delight in [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:duration>00:04:16</itunes:duration>
        
        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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Sharecropper working with one-horse plow,
Green County, Georgia, July 1937.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration

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Sharecropper working with one-horse plow,
Green County, Georgia, July 1937.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration

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  Mp3: The Ballad of the Boll Weevil 


This is a fairly new folk song. The Boll Weevil didn't come to Texas from Mexico until around 1900. Sharecroppers who sang this song took delight in identifying with this nearly indestructible insect. It gave them great hope!

Barry McGuire was visiting the Folk Den and we sang The Ballad of the Boll Weevil together, trading verses. McGuinn & McGuire - sit and sing by the fire. To read more about Barry McGuire's visit, check out Roadie Report 30 

Lyrics:

The Ballad of the Boll Weevil

[G] The Boll Weevil is a little black bug come from Mexico they say
[C] All the way from Texas, just a-lookin' for a place to [G] stay
[D7] Just a-lookin' for a home,  [G] just a-lookin' for a home
[C] Just a-lookin' for a home,  [G]  just a-lookin' for a home
[D7] Just a-lookin' for a home,  [G] just a-lookin' for a home

The first time I saw the boll weevil he was sitting in the square
The next time I saw the boll weevil he had his whole family there
Just a-lookin' for a home (X6)

The farmer took the boll weevil and put him in the hot hot sand
The boll weevil said "This is mighty hot but I'll stand in it like a man"
This'll be my home (X6)

The farmer took the boll weevil and put him in a lump of ice
The weevil said to the farmer " Man! This is mighty cool and nice"
This'll be my home (X6)

The boll weevil said to the farmer "You can ride that Ford machine
But when I get through with your cotton field you won't buy no gasoline
You won't have no home" (X6)

The merchant got half the cotton the boll weevil got the rest
He didn't leave that farmer's wife but one old cotton dress
And it was full of holes (X6)

The Boll Weevil is a little black bug come from Mexico they say
All the way from Texas just a-lookin' for a place to stay


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		<title>Fair and Tender Ladies</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7091</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Love</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7091</guid>
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This version of &#8220;Fair and Tender Ladies&#8221; was recorded at New York&#8217;s Bottom Line in 1977. Gene Clark and I were on an acoustic tour of the United States. Gene was playing his beautiful Martin D-45 and I was finger picking my Rickenbacker [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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  Mp3: Fair and Tender Ladies 


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  Mp3: Fair and Tender Ladies 


This version of "Fair and Tender Ladies" was recorded at New York's Bottom Line in 1977. Gene Clark and I were on an acoustic tour of the United States. Gene was playing his beautiful Martin D-45 and I was finger picking my Rickenbacker 370 12-string - dripping with compression. Our songs spanned the music of The Byrds, our solo careers and included some traditional material - including this arrangement, which could easily have been on a 1965 Byrds record.
Lyrics:


Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies

Come all ye [D] fair and tender [G] ladies
Take warning [D] how you court your [Em} men
They're like a [C] star on a summer [Am] morning
They first [C] appear and then they're [D] gone again

My daddy was a handsome gambler,
He had a chain five miles long,
And on every link a heart does dangle,
Of another maid he's loved and wronged.

They'll tell to you some loving story
And they'll make you think they believe it's true 
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew."
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		<title>Sugar Baby</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7090</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Love</category>
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7090</guid>
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The New Lost City Ramblers were the first to introduce me to this song in the early 60s in New York City. Mike Seeger of the Ramblers had made friends with Dock Boggs who was famous for recording &#8220;Sugar Baby&#8221; for Brunswick Records in 1926. [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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  Mp3: Sugar Baby 


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  Mp3: Sugar Baby 


The New Lost City Ramblers were the first to introduce me to this song in the early 60s in New York City. Mike Seeger of the Ramblers had made friends with Dock Boggs who was famous for recording "Sugar Baby" for Brunswick Records in 1926. The song was eventually included on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. 

Mike gave Boggs the opportunity to come to New York and record again after a long hiatus from the music business. Dock's style of banjo playing is interesting because he didn't use the claw hammer approach common to most banjo stylists of Appalachia. Dock used a three finger up-picking technique that was quite unique.

This song also appears on “Harry Smith Connection” sung by Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett and me - a  compilation CD recorded live at the Wolf Trap Farm in October, 1997 

The Harry Smith Connection



Lyrics:

 Sugar Baby


Oh I've got no sugar baby now
All I can do is to seek peace with you
And I can't get along this a-way
Can't get along this a-way

All I can do, I've said all I can say
I'll send it to your mama next payday
Send you to your mama next payday.

I got no use for the red rockin' chair,
I've got no honey baby now
Got no sugar baby now

Who'll rock the cradle, who'll sing the song
Who'll rock the cradle when I'm gone
Who'll rock the cradle when I'm gone?
I'll rock the cradle, I'll sing the song
I'll rock the cradle when you gone.

It's all I can do
It's all I can say,
I will send you to your mama next payday

Laid her in the shade, give her every dime I made
What more could a poor boy do
What more could a poor boy do?

Oh I've got no honey baby now
Got no sugar baby now

Said all I can say, I've done all I can do
And I can't make a living with you
Can't make a living with you
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		<title>The Coo Coo</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7087</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger McGuinn</dc:creator>
		    
		
	<category>Love</category>
	<category>Irish/british</category>
	<category>Mountain/southern us</category>
		<guid>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[



 

  

&#8220;The Coo Coo&#8221; is a &#8220;folk-lyric&#8221; style song, where verses are interchangeable with verses from other folk songs such as &#8220;The Wagoner&#8217;s Lad,&#8221; and &#8220;East Virginia,&#8221; which are otherwise unrelated. The first verse can also be heard in &#8220;Way Down The Old Plank Road&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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        <itunes:author>Roger McGuinn</itunes:author>
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  Mp3: The Coo Coo 


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  Mp3: The Coo Coo 


"The Coo Coo" is a "folk-lyric" style song, where verses are interchangeable with verses from other folk songs such as "The Wagoner's Lad," and "East Virginia," which are otherwise unrelated. The first verse can also be heard in "Way Down The Old Plank Road" sung by Dave Macon. "The Coo Coo" was originally recorded by Clarence "Tom" Ashley in Johnson City TN November 23, 1929.
This song style possibly developed between 1850 - 1875 in Kentucky. A British version can be found in Cecil Sharp's collection: "Folk Songs From Somerset."

Lyrics:

No chords are given because it's all in A modal tuning.

The Coo Coo

Gonna build me - log cabin on a mountain so high
So I can - see Julie  as she goes on by

Aw the Coo Coo is a pretty bird she warbles as she flies
She never hollers coo coo till the fourth day  July

I've played cards in England I've played cards in Spain
I'll bet you ten dollars that I'll beat you next game

Jack of diamonds jack of diamonds I've known you from old
Now you've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold

I wish I had a good horse and corn to feed him on
I wish I had Julie to feed him when I'm gone

I've played cards in England I've played cards in Spain
I'll bet you ten dollars I'll beat you this game

Aw the Coo Coo is a pretty bird she warbles as she flies
She never hollers coo coo till the fourth day  July
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