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Thread #167122   Message #4026666
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Jan-20 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Junco Partner (Dr John's version)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Junco Partner (Dr John's version)
OK, so here's the YouTube link:I'll put my headphones on and make a stab on it later, but it's very hard to understand.

The video does have an attempt at a transcription: (boy, I don't like this transcription at all)

I did the lyrics transcriptions for the Rise Again Songbook, and the Blues chapter drove me crazy (I think we got pretty good results, though). Some of those songs are so good, but they're so hard to understand completely. At the time, I had a bit of correspondence with Michael Taft, former head of the American Folklife Collection at the Library of Congress. Mr. Taft had done a book of blues lyrics transcriptions titled Talkin to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1941. Mr. Taft said that he had such a hard time transcribing these songs, that he was almost embarrassed to publish them. No matter what he thinks of his own book, I love it.

-Joe-