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Subject: Lovesick Blues From: GUEST,Sonja Date: 16 Jul 02 - 09:52 PM Tried a filter search, a DT search, and a DT/Forum search and all I could find for this song was a MIDI of the tune. I hope these chords stay in position when I post this. These lyrics are a composite of those sung by Patsy Cline and those sung by Hank Williams. (He sings "sweet daddy," instead of "sweet baby.") ~SWO~
LOVESICK BLUES CAPO: 3rd FRET KEY: F PLAY: D [C] [E7] [Am] REPEAT 1st VERSE |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Nigel Parsons Date: 17 Jul 02 - 04:07 AM The words weren't as I recall, so I checked on Gooogle for "Lovesick Blues + Frank Ifield + lyrics" which got a site with the words I remember, but not quoting the writers. A further check for lyrics brought up This Site which gives the writers credit, and a date (1922), which far pre-dates the 1962 Frank Ifield version which I had remembered. Nigel |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Genie Date: 17 Jul 02 - 01:14 PM Sharon A, You're right that Patsy Cline's version has more differences from the lyrics Hank Williams sang than are posted above. The lyrics Sonja posted seem basically to be Hank's version (the ones I have seen at Cowpie), but with the less gender-specific "baby" and with the 3rd person pronouns changed to the way Patsy sang it. It's good to have the lyrics that Patsy sings posted here, too. Thanks. Nigel, thanks to you, too, for your further research. Cowpie did not give the copyright date. Since Patsy modified the lyrics, it wouldn't surprise me if Hank did, too. Genie |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVESICK BLUES (from Hank Williams) From: Genie Date: 17 Jul 02 - 01:30 PM Nigel, here are the lyrics from the site you linked to. (I didn't syllabicate it here the way it would be done in sheet music or the way it's done in the lyrics Sonja posted above, but making "blues" into a 2- or 4-syllable yodel, "sigh" into about 6 syllables, etc., are key to the song.
LOVESICK BLUES
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh, lawd,
I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful gal, Note: The underscored words/syllables are multi-syllabic yodels. *Note the change from the 3rd person to the 2nd person here. Patsy Cline sings "that man" instead of "you." ©1922 Mills Music, Inc (ASCAP) |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: SharonA Date: 17 Jul 02 - 02:12 PM BTW, on another site with the Patsy Cline version, I saw that in the reprise (? – correct terminology?) of the end of the song, the lyric changes to I've grown so used to that man, and how And I'm nobody's sugar-baby now 'Cause I'm lonesome I got the lovesick blues |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Greycap Date: 17 Jul 02 - 04:09 PM Best we all listen a little while to the Emmett Miller recording on ' Emmett Miller, The Minstrel Man from Georgia'and hear the first ( I believe ) recording of this great song.... |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Genie Date: 17 Jul 02 - 04:16 PM Sharon, on the Patsy Cline tape I have, she sings "somehow." |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: SharonA Date: 17 Jul 02 - 04:36 PM Genie: Yeah, mine too. I'm not sure where that site got its info... but then, who knows what she might have sung during a live show?! I don't think "Lovesick Blues" is on my "live in concert" tape, but I'll check. Here are a couple of sites that have the "and how" lyric: http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?sid=pc%B53%3D%F8%7FM http://homepages.compuserve.de/fmber72/63.htm http://www.allcountry.de/History/Archive/Marty_Robbins/MRobbins_Songbook/MRobbins_Song04/body_mrobbins_song04.html http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/F3D916214DDEFEFD4825693B0031BCC1 ...all copied from the same source, I'd guess, but I wonder what this March 7, 1960 "release" is (and where to find it in order to listen to it!), and I wonder when the recording we're familiar with was made. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Stewie Date: 17 Jul 02 - 07:45 PM Greycap, Miller's recording was the first issued recording - September 1925 - but the Vaughan Quartet made two unissued recordings of it in Richmond for Gennett in April 1923. Certainly, Miller's is the first we can listen to. [Info from new Meade, Spottswood, Meade discography]. I second your recommendation for people to listen to Miller's recording - wonderful! Pete Rowan also did a superb version on an LP that he recorded with Tex Logan and Greg Douglass for a UK label back in 1982 - 'Revelry' Waterfront WF012. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Ian Date: 18 Jul 02 - 04:12 AM The best version I ever heard is by Jason Hill of stoke on trent. The full aspects of tragedy and pathos come through with the skillful way he emphasized each phrase. If his rendition did not reduce you to tears of of pain from the laughter you were not listening. ian |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: Nigel Parsons Date: 18 Jul 02 - 04:24 AM SharonA: The "1960 release" might be the original recording date of the Frank Ifield version, which 'charted' in the UK from 25 Oct '62. back in the 'good old days' there weren't songs which went straight into the charts. They needed to be heard, and then requested from the record shops. Things went at a slower pace. Nigel |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVESICK BLUES (I Mills, C Friend) From: Jim Dixon Date: 23 Sep 19 - 11:31 AM These lyrics are from the sheet music, which you can see at Indiana University: LOVESICK BLUES* Words and music by Irving Mills and Cliff Friend, ©1922. I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love with a girl. That’s what’s the matter with me. I’m in love, I’m in love, with a beautiful girl, But she don’t give a darn about me. To make her love me I tried. How I sighed and I cried, But she just refused, And ever since she’s gone away, I’ve got those love-sick blues. CHORUS: Got the feeling called the “Blue Hoos,” Since my sweetie said “Good Bye.” Seems I don’t know what to “Do-Hoo.” All day long I sit and cry. That last long day we spent alone, I’m yearning for it yet. She thrilled me, filled me, with a kind of lovin’. I never will forget The way she called me “sweet daddy.” ‘Twas just a beautiful dream. I hate to think that it’s all over. I lost my heart, it seems. I got so used to her somehow, But I’m nobody’s baby now. Gee, it’s awful when you’re lonesome, And get those lovesick blue-oo-oo-oo-oo’s. * The copyright was registered under the title LOVESICK BLUES, which is also the title on page 1 of the sheet music. However, the title on the cover of the sheet music is I’VE GOT THE LOVE-SICK BLUES. Wikipedia has an excellent article on the history of the song. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Lovesick Blues From: GUEST Date: 14 Aug 23 - 10:21 AM The song Lovesick Blues was written in 1922 by Irving Mills and Cliff Friend in the same year. The first recording by Emmett Miller was made in 1925. The George Cracers that backed him had a young Louis Armstrong on trumpet. in 1949 Hank Williams adapts new words his version is nothing like Miller's at all. I thank you all on this song and other version by Frank Ifield and Patsy Cline. From Joe |
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