Lyr Req: Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me)

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: puzzled
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 01:48 PM

that last message was from me. I don't know why it left my name off?

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Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From:
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 11:42 AM

The 20's tin pan alley record is indeed the Swanson, McCarron and Morgan tune i mentioned. It has one other verse than i wrote above. The chorus is repeated three times with slightly different words each time. I'll list them if anyone wants.
If there is an earlier version from the ragtime era, I would really like to know about what and where. If you can get more info on that, Ferrara, I would be very happy.
I do feel like one of the problems with "intellectual property" rights when it comes to songs is that there always seems to be an earlier version out there somewhere. Maybe forgotten. Or maybe remembered as classics such as Three Night's Drunk, the words and the tune have been there for a long time. I really believe that there is nothing new under the sun. I have a 1923 record that sounds like it could have been a 1950's rockabilly tune. Same style. How much older than the recording was that style and tune from?
How long do you suppose people have had the blues their naughty sweetie gave to them?

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 10:30 AM

Tony, sorry can't help technically with the music bit but in all the versions I've heard traditional jazz bands perform the bit starting "There are blues you get from women..." is usually sung fast & staccato with the instrumentalists playing percussive stop chords (?is that the correct term?) behind. Usually finishes off with a flashy solo by tenor banjo player.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Ferrara
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 11:03 PM

A man I know plays jug band and skiffle band music. I asked today whether he knows this song. Said he plays it often and will send me the words and, more important, the chords, and that I could post the chords to Mudcat if we don't already have 'em by then. He says Kweskin got it from a '20s tin pan alley record. Is that the Swanson, McCarron and Morgan that 'puzzled' mentioned? But Ed said the song goes back earlier, to maybe 1900, in the early ragtime era.

Subject: Lyr Add: BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE GIVES TO ME
From: Tony Burns
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 05:00 PM

I went to the Jugband Rag site and got the words to this but the chords don't all fit the tune as I know it from Kweskin's recordings. The first part is OK but it falls apart after a while. Does anyone have a better set of chords? (I'm still working on it but haven't got it yet).

Here's what was at the Jugband Rag site.

BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE GIVES TO ME
Swanstone/Carvon/Morgan
on Kweskin's See Reverse Side For Title

Suggested tablature:
Am // Dm // E7 // Am // B7 E7
Am // Dm E7 // Am // Am // G C

There are blues that you get from loneliness
And there are blues that you get from pain.
And there are blues when you are lonely
For your one and only
And there blues you can never explain.

And there are blues that you get from sleepless nights,
Oh, but the meanest blues that be:
They're the blues that I've got on my mind,
I mean the ones that are the meanest kind,
They're the blues my naughty sweetie gives to me.

There are blues you get from women
When you see 'em going swimming
And you haven't got a bathing suit yourself.
There are blues you get much quicker
When you're drinking lots of liquor,
And somebody goes and takes it off the shelf.
And there are blues you get when everything's in hock,
When your girlfriend doesn't answer when you knock,
And there are blues you get from getting
In a taxicab and fretting
Every time you feel the bumper jump a clock.

And there are blues you get from trying
To keep your Uncle Bill from dying,
And he afterwards forgets you in his will.
And there are blues you get from kisses
When you're walking with your Mrs.
And another girl shouts, "Hi, Bill!"
But the blues that make you hop and want to stop and shake and shiver
Are they blues that want you want to go and end it in the river,
They're the blues my naughty sweetie gives to me.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: jofield
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 08:46 AM

Oh, bien. C'est pas grave.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 13 Apr 99 - 08:25 PM

Oh, I'm sorry, I'd never heard of them! How can I take my words back? I feel silly now...
Jo

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Apr 99 - 06:48 PM

Jo, I think that in those three words, jofield was saying that you can find a terrificly funny recording of this song on Vanguard CD VMD 79317, THE BEST OF THE GREENBRIAR BOYS, featuring John Herald. My way sounds crassly commercial and nowhere near as succinct, but I guess it's clearer...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 13 Apr 99 - 06:27 PM

Ferrara - oops, I forgot it was that way round!

jofield - is yours a request for the lyrics of a different song? This particular thread is for 'Blues my Naughty Sweetie'. Start a new thread which says LYR REQ: then the title/words you can remember - don't use quote marks - someone may then be able to help you, otherwise your request will get lost in this one.

Jo

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: jofield
Date: 12 Apr 99 - 12:49 PM

I have only three words: The Greenbrier Boys.

(First album, I think. Parentheses don't count.)

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Gene
Date: 12 Apr 99 - 12:40 PM

You can also find a RealAudio at - *ComedyRadio Net*

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Ferrara
Date: 12 Apr 99 - 08:10 AM

Actually Jo, that "another girl shouts Hi Bill" bit is the only part that I *dont* like, because, think about it, I'd be the Mrs. he was walking with, wouldn't I?

The only time I've heard this song, far as I know, is when a guy named Don ("Fuzzy") Pricer sang it at the Singer's Studio in DC. I was taping, with permission, and have always wished I could get the words. Couldn't understand all of it on my across-the-room build-in-mike homemade tape.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 06:15 PM

Ferrara
Aieee! I only did whistly flutey bits, and 'noises off'. My better 'arf did the guitar; we had lead mandolin. I've not heard the above-mentioned versions, only our own, we just did what the mandolin-playing genius told us to. My bit went 'parp parp!' etc...Is it the ''somebody shouts 'Hi Bill!' '' bit that you like?*G*
Jo

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Ferrara
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 06:52 AM

Thanks, Jo, that's exactly what I wanted! Now if you'll just teach me to play the guitar part? (kidding...)

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Cheryl in the Blue Ridge
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 09:44 PM

Sure

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Jo Taylor
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 07:51 PM

Here's a direct link to the lyrics here I have a version just slightly different - anyone want it or is this one near enough?
Jo

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: bassen
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 03:53 AM

The lyrics to Kweskin's version can be found in the september 98 issue (?) of the Jug Band Rag

http://mh005.infi.net/~jugband/jbr.htm

bassen

Subject: Lyr Add: BLUES (MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE GIVES TO ME)
From: puzzled
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 01:06 AM

I thought Kweskins got the song from Swanson, McCarron & Morgan called Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me)

Verse:
What is that song about kisses
What is that song about smiles?
If I could have my way, I'd sing a song today
that would beat them all by miles
I wouldn't sing about smiling
That's not the title to choose
I would sing about what I've got
And what I've got's the weary blues

Chorus:
There are blues that you get from worry
There are blues that you get from pain
and There are blues when you're lonely for you one and only
the blues you can never explain
There are blues that you get from longing
But the bluest blues that be
Are the sort of blues that's on my mind
they're the very meanest kind
the blues my naughty sweetie gives to me.

There another verse and more words in the chorus in this original version if you want them. These words are similar to but not the same as what Kweskins sang. And, of course, this tin pan alley tune had a little more complicated chord progression than Kweskins version did. But it is definitely the source for his jug band version.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 12:33 AM

If anyone finds this in a forum search, please bring the thread up again! I want it, too. I do have a transcription -- somewhere ! -- Are you as tired of hearing that as I am of saying it? I copied it down from a home-made tape done during a concert and couldn't decipher all of the words. I WILL LOOK FOR IT, but it's hiding just behind my record of Ian and Sylvia singing "The Renegade." - Rita F

Subject: RE: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 08:16 PM

Roger, in a thread some time ago I noted the virtual absence of jug band songs in the DT. I've never seen a printed collection of Kweskin's songs, but I'd be surprised if one didn't exist. In line with 'What You Can Do For Mudcat..' I'd be happy to notate some of these tunes if anyone cared to fax me the sheet music (or send me some GIF's).

You can email me on [e-mail]

Regards
John

Subject: LYR REQ. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 07:55 PM

We had this song requested on a duplicate thread. I checked the DT and came up empty. I failed to try a forum search. Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band did it as did Judy Henske.

Roger in Baltimore

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-Joe Offer-