Lyr Req: Ramblin' Round (Your City) (Woody Guthrie

Subject: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: K Ford Boston MA
Date: 15 Oct 96 - 10:34 AM

Can anyone help me locate the lyrics to "Ramblin' Round Your City" by Woody Guthrie. I believe the tune is the same or similar to "good Night Irene" and "Roll on Columbia".

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From:
Date: 27 Oct 96 - 11:43 AM

I have the song on an album by the Greenbriar boys.

Ramblin roun your city, Ramblin roun your town. I never see a friend I know As I go ramblin round boys As I go ramblin round.

Is that it?

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Kevin Ford
Date: 28 Oct 96 - 08:49 AM

Thats the song! If you have the verses I'd really apreciate them. I haven't been able to locate them anywhere.

thanks

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Bill
Date: 04 Nov 96 - 02:16 AM

The verses I have are attributed to Woody Guthrie.

My sweetheart and my parents I left in my old home town. I'm out to do the best I can as I go ramblin' . . .

The peach trees they are loaded, the limbs are bending down. I pick 'em all day for a dollar, boys

Sometimes the fruit gets rotten, falls down on the ground. There's a hungry mouth for every peach

I wish that I could marry; I wish I could settle down. But I can't save a penny, boys

My mother prayed that I would be a man of some renown; But I am just a refuge

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Kevin Ford
Date: 04 Nov 96 - 09:52 AM

Many thanks!

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 11:27 PM

I just downloaded a Linda Ronstadt collection from iTunes( her four earlier solo albums compiled and for just 9.99) and she had a version of this with similar lyrics to those mentioned above - it was quite nicely done!

Subject: Lyr Add: RAMBLIN' ROUND (YOUR CITY) (Woody Guthrie
From: Peace
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 11:29 PM

Ramblin' Round

by Woody Guthrie

Ramblin' around your city
Ramblin' around your town
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' 'round boys
As I go ramblin' 'round

My mother hoped that I might be
A man of some renown
But I am just a refugee
As I go ramblin' 'round boys
As I go ramblin' 'round

The peach trees they are loaded
The branches bending down
I pick 'em all day for a dollar boys
As I go 'ramblin 'round
As I go 'ramblin' 'round

Sometimes the fruit gets rotten
And falls on to the ground
There's a hungry mouth for every peach
As I go ramblin' 'round boys
As I go ramblin' 'round

©1962 TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Peace
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 11:30 PM

That is from

www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/ramblin-round.shtml

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Amos
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 11:52 PM

The tune is slightly different from "Good Night, Irene", but the same three eternal chords are used.


A

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Round Your City
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 06:10 PM

It does seem to me that it's only the different words to this song, causing it to scan a bit differently than IRENE, that make it "seem" to be a different tune. Actually, though, the tunes are pretty much the same.

Art