The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93425 Message #2176814
Posted By: PoppaGator
22-Oct-07 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
It's not a "12-bar blues," at least not in the version(s) I know, nor according to most of the above-quoted lyrics ~ it's 16 bars (4 lines) per verse.
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I know this song best not as a Woody Guthrie song, but from the Grateful Dead rendition ~ even though (like Jerry himself!) I was a folk-music enthusiast long before the psychedelic era began. I strongly suspect that the Dead's version is close-enough to Woody's (discounting the instrumentation, tempo, etc.), but I'd appreciate if anyone could either verify or dispute my suspicion...