Lyr Req/Add: Rockin' Chair

Subject: Rockin Chair
From:
Date: 14 Mar 99 - 08:13 PM

This song has been haunting me for a long time and I have been unable to find a history or words and music. Can you help me/ Ole Rockin Chair's got me Cane by my Side, Fetch me my ????Son A'fore I tan your Hyde

Subject: RE: Rockin Chair
From: DonMeixner
Date: 14 Mar 99 - 08:59 PM

Look for Hoagy Carmichael stuff. Elegant southern style song writer from the 30's and 40's

Don Meixner

Subject: RE: Rockin Chair
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 14 Mar 99 - 11:22 PM

Louie Armstrong recorded this song with his hot seven. To hear it check out: http://www.redhotjazz.com/lao.html I had this 78 back in the late 40's and was one of my favorites. Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Rockin Chair
From: takeo
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 09:24 PM

is this the song that satchimo played at film: jazz on summer day, with jack teagarden? if yes, i love this song very much. satchimo on that film played great and specially impressive for me when he joked with his style and then played his solo. i also want to have a lyric of this song. -takeo

Subject: RE: Rockin Chair
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 11:35 PM

It was, as I dimly recall, the signature tune for a lady named Mildred Bailey.

Subject: RE: Rockin Chair
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 01:07 AM

The web site I listed above

http://www.redhotjazz.com/lao.html

was down for a while, however it is back on line now if any of you want to hear "rocking chair".

CAP'T BOB

Subject: ADD: Rockin Chair (Hoagy Carmichael)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 08:40 PM

I found the lyrics at http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/r/rockinchair.shtml

ROCKIN' CHAIR
(Hoagy Carmichael)

Louis Armstrong with Hoagy Carmichael - 1929
The Mills Brothers - 1932
Mildred Bailey - 1937
Gene Krupa & His Orch. - 1941
Lonnie Johnson - 1967

Also recorded by: Bix Beiderbecke; King Cole Trio;
Crystal Gayle; Casa Loma Orch; Peggy Lee; Hi-Lo's;
George Melly; Bing Crosby; Barbara Lea; Lou Rawls;
Tex Beneke & Orch; Ray Bryant; Larry Clinton Orch;
Rosemary Clooney; Maria Muldaur; Roy Eldridge Orch;
Duke Ellington Orch; Nat Gonella; Prudence Johnson;
Marian McPartland; Paul riobeson: ..... and others.


Old rockin' chair's got me, my cane by my side
Fetch me that gin, son, 'fore I tan your hide
Can't get from this cabin, goin' nowhere
Just set me here grabbin' at the flies round this rockin' chair

My dear old aunt Harriet, in Heaven she be
Send me sweet chariot, for the end of the trouble I see
Old rockin' chair gets it, Judgement Day is here
Chained to my rockin' chair

Old rockin' chair's got me, son, (Rocking chair got you, father)
My cane by my side, (Yes, your cane by your side)
Now fetch me a little gin, son (Ain't got no gin, father)
What? 'fore I tan your hide, now, (You're gonna tan my hide)

You know, I can't get from this old cabin (What cabin? joking)
I ain't goin' nowhere (Why ain't you goin' nowhere?)
Just sittin' me here grabbin' (Grabbin')
At the flies round this old rockin' chair (Rockin' chair)

Now you remember dear old aunt Harriet, (Aunt Harriet)
How long in Heaven she be? (She's up in Heaven)
Send me down, send me down sweet (Sweet chariot) chariot
End of this trouble I see (I see, Daddy)

Old rockin' chair gets it, son (Rocking chair get it, father)
Judgement Day is here, too (Your Judgement Day is here)
Chained to my rockin', old rockin' chair


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As recorded by Louis Armstrong & Hoagy Carmichael

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Mildred Bailey Recording here (click)