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Thread #59456   Message #2420813
Posted By: 12-stringer
23-Aug-08 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: (She Was Just) A Sailor's Sweetheart
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (She Was Just) A Sailor's Sweetheart
Cf Bluebird 6737 (rec at Charlotte, NC, 11 October 1936) by the Washboard Wonders (who also recorded as Dick Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers and Hartman's Heart Breakers). Style is 1930s hot hillbilly jazz; I don't know the ID of the hot acoustic guitar soloist.

(intro: Fiddle starts off with "Sailor's Hornpipe," then takes a straight break on the melody)

She was just a sailor's sweetheart
And she loved her sailor lad.
But he left her broke in Hartford.
He was all she ever had.

But she still believes in sailors.
And she's true to the red white and blue.
And although she's barred from the navy yard,
Oh, she loves her sailor boy positively.

(Acoustic guitar and fiddle each take a 32-bar break)

She was just a sailor's sweetheart
And she loved her sailor lad,
But he left her broke in Hartford;
He was all she ever had.

But she still believes in sailors,
And she's true to the red white and blue,
And tho' she got sore,
When he broke her jaw,
Oh, she loves her sailor boy absolutely.