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12-stringer Lyr ADD: Don't Try It for It Can't Be Done (44) RE: Lyr Req: Don't Try It for It Can't Be Done 16 Apr 08

DWR wrote:
The other version is a bit less common, recorded by Ozark musician Arkansas Red. He also sings FORD but his take on the disputed line is "You might feel wonderful punching a bag."


Ya know, I used to do this song 'way back in the 60s (one of several I learned off the GHP album, the first Riley Puckett reissue), and what I made of that line was "You might dream wonderful punching a bag." Made no sense on God's green earth but that's the way I did it back then. I doubt I've even started this song since the Nixon administration, but listening to an mp3 at Juneberry the other night, that's still what I hear him saying. And it's definitely Ford (notorious rattletraps), not 'gourd.'

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