Origins: Dark and Stormy Weather (Carter Family)

Subject: Origins: Dark & Stormy Weather...Search down
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Jul 04 - 07:24 PM

search is down. Any info? Listening to Norman and Nancy do it...

Subject: Lyr Add: DARK AND STORMY WEATHER (Carter Family)
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Jul 04 - 09:44 PM

DARK AND STORMY WEATHER

    Dark and stormy weather
    It still inclines to rain
    The clouds hang over Center*
    My love's gone away on a train

We met, loved, and parted
I thought the world of you
You left me brokenhearted
To me you proved untrue

    [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

I'm leaving old Virginia
There's nothing here for me
I know you love another
In my grave I'd rather be

    Dark and stormy weather
    It still inclines to rain
    The clouds hang over Center*
    My love's gone away on a train

      [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

You told me that you loved me
I believed just what you said
But now you love another
I wish that I were dead

    Dark and stormy weather
    It still inclines to rain
    The clouds hang over Center*
    My love's gone away on a train



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Subject: RE: Origins: Dark & Stormy Weather...Search down
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 09:42 AM

Harpgirl, it's a Carter Family song. I'll give more information as soon as I am reunited with my Charles Wolfe book that accompanies the Bear Family set. . . hugs from PETE

Subject: RE: Origins: Dark & Stormy Weather...Search down
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 09:21 AM

Here's what Wolfe says about it: " Dark and Stormy Weather shows up in several folksong collections as 'I Don't Know Why I Love Him' and had been recorded in 1937 by the Delmore Brothers." (page 77) it was recorded at the Carter Family's last session in October 1941. I have searched for it under both titles in my copy of Vance Randolph and it's not there, but I only have the ONE volume edition; Meade says it's there in volume IV #750, pp 234-36. (He also gives North Carolina Folksong II, #168, and Haun (Mildred Haun's Master's thesis at Vanderbilt).

Subject: RE: Origins: Dark & Stormy Weather...Search down
From: harpgirl
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 12:23 PM

thanks, Pete. I knew the Carter's had recorded it but I haven't listened to their version. I want to hear a few of them.