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11 Dec 07 - 02:46 PM (#2213259) Subject: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road From: Jim Krause There's a blues song I used to sing a long time ago and I can only remember a fragment of it. I know it under the title CHORUS: Rocks and gravel makes a solid road (2X) Takes the gal I love to satisfy my soul. (verses as I remember them) I'm going to the race track to see my pony run (2X) If he wins any money, gonna take my baby some. I went to the depot and looked up on the board (2X) Said "Good times here, but better on down the road." Seems to me there are at least two more verses. I'm not sure where the song comes from, Mance Lipscomb, maybe? Pretty sure it isn't Mississippi John Hurt. (Dang! I hate that CRS disease.) Jim Krause |
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11 Dec 07 - 03:11 PM (#2213285) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road From: Mick Pearce (MCP) According to the Folk Index, Mance Lipscomb's version was printed in a 1959 Sing Out. I've got some of the reprints somewhere, but it would take me a while to find them. If someone has access to SO, maybe they can check. Mick |
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11 Dec 07 - 08:58 PM (#2213517) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road From: Jim Krause Refresh |
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11 Dec 07 - 10:13 PM (#2213564) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road From: Stewie Ian and Sylvia did a great recording with different lyrics from those above. I think theirs was based on floaters from Lomax recordings of Mississippi prison and work songs. The best thing they ever did IMO - it stands up wonderfully well. It is the first track on Ian and Sylvia 'The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings'. It starts: Well, if I had a-known the captain was lyin', darlin', darlin' (x2) If I had a-known that the captain was lyin' I wouldn't have gone to work till half past nine Dave Van Ronk also recorded a version on his 'In The Tradition' with the Red Onion Jazz Band. The track, however, is a Van Ronk solo. See Stefan Wirz site for details. It begins: Well, it's early in the morning, the morning, when I rise, well-a (X3) I got an achin' (misery?), mama, in my right side --Stewie. |
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11 Dec 07 - 10:16 PM (#2213566) Subject: Lyr. Add: ROCKS AND GRAVEL (John Jackson) From: Q (Frank Staplin) ROCKS AND GRAVEL John Jackson It takes rock and gravel to build a solid road Takes rock and gravel to build a solid road It takes high-priced whiskey- t' satisfy my soul. Now tell me baby, where'd you stay last night? Tell me baby, where'd you stay last night? Come in this mornin', your clothes ain't fittin' you right. (Where'd you stay baby?--) Instrumental break # 1 Well, I love my baby, love her all night long Yeah, I love my baby, love her all night long. Love her when she's here, Lord, I love her when she's gone. But I leave here running, I walked in here too slow Yeah, I leave here running, walked in here too slow. I'm leavin' you baby, never comin' back no more. Instrumental break #2 (with stops) It takes rocks and gravel to build a solid road Rocks and gravel- to build a solid road. It takes high-priced Whiskey, to satisfy my soul. Rocks and Gravel Bob Dylan picked this up and applied some different verses. |
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11 Dec 07 - 10:27 PM (#2213572) Subject: Lyr Add: ROCKS AND GRAVEL (Dylan/Levy) From: Q (Frank Staplin) ROCKS AND GRAVEL (Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy remake) Takes rocks and gravel, baby, make a solid road, Make a solid road. Takes rock and gravel, baby, make a solid road, Make a solid road. Takes a good woman, mama, To satisfy my weary soul. Have you ever been down on that Mobile and K. C. Line? Have you ever been down on that Mobile and K. C. Line? Well I just wanna ask you, If you seen that gal of mine. Don't the clouds look lonesome shining across the sea, Don't the clouds look lonesome shining across the sea, Don't my gal look good When she's comin' after me? Many internet sites. |
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11 Dec 07 - 10:59 PM (#2213581) Subject: Lyr Add: ROCKS AND GRAVEL (Lomax/Richardson) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Does anyone have the Mance Lipscomb lyrics? On the cd, "Trouble in Mind." Also in Sing Out- post by Mick Pearce, above. Alan Lomax and W. B. Richardson (? in Traditional Ballads Index). Apparently copyright Lomax (and Bibb?) in 1958. Lyr. Add: Rocks and Gravel Silber, Folk Song Word Book, p. 77: Lomax and Richardson, revised Leon Bibb Rocks and gravel makes a solid road Rocks and Gravel makes a solid road Takes a do right woman satisfy my soul. Well I'm going out West just to see my pony run, If I win any money I'm gonna send my gal some. Here's a dollar Momma, made it in the rain, (twice) It's a hard old dollar- made it just the same. That's your tone daddy, every time you come (twice) I ain't got no money but I'll soom have some. A man in the army wants a furlough home (twice) He said, "About face rookie, you ain't been here long." A man in the army eatin' out of a trough (twice) Just waiting for Uncle Sam soon to pay him off. I got a girl in the country and she won't come to town (twice) Got one in Louisiana and she's waterbound. I can't see how can you treat your Daddy mean, (twice) When you lays all night and your Daddy's on benzedrine. Note following song in FSWB- "Copyright 1958 and 1966 Ludlow Music Inc. NY, used by permission." |
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12 Dec 07 - 03:18 AM (#2213630) Subject: Lyr Add: EARLY IN THE MORNING From: Barry Finn Collected by Allen Lomax from "22", Little Red, TangleEye & Hard Hair, 1947, Parchman Farm Penitentiary, Mississippi. Used as a double axe (cross-cutting) song. On the Rounder Records Lomax collection, Prison Songs, vol.1 Murderous Home "Early In The Morning" (Variarnt of "Rosie") Well, it' early in the mor-in the morning Baby, when I rise, Lordy, mama Well, it' early in the mor-in the morning Baby, when I rise, Lordy, well-a Well-a, when I rise, well-a Well, it' early in the mor-in the morning Baby, when I rise, Lordy, baby Wa-, in my right side, Lordy, baby Wa-, in my right side, Lordy, sugar Well, it's I have a misery, Berta Right in-a my right side, well-a Chorus Well-a it's-a Lordy Ro-Lordy-Berta Well, it's Lord /you keep a-talkin'/, babe Well-a it's-a Lordy Ro-Lordy-Rosie Well, it's O Lord, gal, well-a Well, rocks 'n gravel, make-a Make a solid road, sugar Well-a it takes-a rocks-a gravel make-a To make a solid road, well-a It takes-a rocks-a gravel make-a To make a solid road, well-a It takes a good lookin' woman to make-a To make a good lookin' whore, well-a It takes a good lookin' woman, Lord, baby To make a good lookin' whore, Lord, sugar To make a good lookin' whore, well-a Chorus Boys, the peckerwood a-peckin' on the On the schoolhouse door, sugar Well, the peckerwood a-peckin' on the On the schoolhouse door, well-a Well, the peckerwood a-peckin' on the On the schoolhouse door, sugar Well he pecks so hard, Lordy, baby Until his pecker got sore, well-a Until his pecker got sore, Lord, sugar Well he pecks so hard, Lord, mama Until his pecker got sore, well-a chorus that's 3 out of 5 verses. Barry |
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12 Dec 07 - 04:15 AM (#2213647) Subject: Lyr Add: ROCKS AND GRAVEL (Harry Belafonte) From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Well, if you're posting other versions, in addition to the ones above, the Harry Belafonte version is with the collection of his songs on the site kept by Ake Holm - Belafonte Mick ROCKS AND GRAVEL Well it's early in the morning Baby when I rise a well a I got aches and pains lordy mama Makes a man want to die a well a Well it's hard it's hard lordy rollin´ Come on boys a well a It takes rocks and gravel to make a To make a solid road a well a Well it ain't ever done lordy mamma There's a captain that's got a gun a well a Well a whose ever told lady told a, He told a dirty lie a well a He said I heard that my woman done leave me Well o well a well I ain't been to Georgie, Georgie But I been told a well a They say that Georgie gals Lordy baby I got a sweet Jenny roll a well a Source: Harry Belafonte |
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12 Dec 07 - 11:54 PM (#2214249) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road From: Jim Krause Thanks for all who responded. Jim Krause |