Subject: Walkin' Guitar Blues From: bacps@roanoke.infi.net Date: 20 Apr 99 - 10:13 PM "I bought a guitar, 'bout a week ago...thought I'd learn it, in a day or so..." Anybody have the lyrics to this? Who wrote it? |
Subject: RE: Walkin' Guitar Blues From: Rick Fielding Date: 20 Apr 99 - 10:31 PM You might try "Talkin' Guitar Blues". I know of two recordings. One is by Cisco Houston, t'other is by Oscar Brand. Whoops, a third by Ed Badeaux, available from Smithsonian Folkways. |
Subject: RE: Walkin' Guitar Blues From: Ewan McV (inactive) Date: 21 Apr 99 - 02:34 AM Written as Talking Guitar Blues, I think by Ernest Tubb, in the 1950s. First verse starts
If you want to get in trouble I'll tell you how to do it. Look for it in C&W lyric sources like Cowpie.Recorded in the UK by Lonnie Donegan and Josh Macrae in about 1960. (My first song, Talking Army Blues, was the B side of Josh's recording, then became the A side and got into the Top Twenty! Surprised the hell out of me.) Ewan McVicar |
Subject: RE: Walkin' Guitar Blues From: Rick Fielding Date: 21 Apr 99 - 02:39 AM Jeez, are you the Ewan McVicar, who wrote "One Singer, One Song'? If so, let me thank you for a wonderful book that "keeps on giving" year after year. You really nailed the spirit lad. rick |
Subject: Lyr Add: TALKING GUITAR BLUES From: Alan B Date: 21 Apr 99 - 09:08 AM Ive know this song for decades, badly remembered from a Lonnie donegan 78 Walkin' Guitar Blues If you want to get in trouble, let me tell you how to do it Always moaning at you, groaning, won't let you practice Well I bought myself a guitar bout a year ago Good place to be if you've got a guitar Well. For weeks & weeks I worked hard Got sore on the ends, couldn't hold the strings down Could see Mum's hair was turning white, Face was lined with discontent, Game gall though, just limit to everything Dad, he took it a different way, and I ain't going, never intend to - you figure it out" Next day, got me clothes all packed, Ain't found none - only hardships So now as I sit & play my guitar Italics are spoken out of time (People say I sing close harmony - not right, but close!) |