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28 Nov 99 - 09:48 AM (#141685) Subject: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Morris Does anybody remember a rueful cowboy song that has a repeated line that goes something like: "I wish I'd bought a half a pint and stayed in the wagon yard!"? I would like to have the words and tune. Thanks for your help! |
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28 Nov 99 - 10:45 AM (#141690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Dale Rose Check here for an earlier thread. I think you will find out quite a bit about this old song ~~ no tune, though. We mention an earlier thread which I still can't find. |
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28 Nov 99 - 10:59 AM (#141693) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Dale Rose As usual, CDNow has found a way to make my link in the other thread to their sound file inoperative. Try this one ~~ it SHOULD take you to CDNows page for the Any Old Time String Band. Wagon Yard is the fourth clip, and is a generous one minute long. If the link does not work, just go to CDNow, and enter any old time in the search blank. That'll do it. |
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28 Nov 99 - 04:56 PM (#141793) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: dick greenhaus If you go up to the DigiTrad Lyrics Search at the top of the page, and enter [wagon yard] --the square brackets indicate that the two words constitute a phrase-- you'll find it. |
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28 Nov 99 - 05:49 PM (#141822) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Stewie Document recently reissued Lowe Stokes' 1929 recording of 'Wish I had stayed in the wagon yard' (the first ever) on 'Lowe Stokes Vol 1' Document DOCD 8045. Earl Johnson's 1930 recording also has been reissued by Document. Tony Russell describes it as 'an exquisite parable of an unfortunate countryman's experiences in the big city that might have been plucked from an 18th century broadside'. |
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28 Nov 99 - 05:59 PM (#141827) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Dale Rose Well, after doing as Dick suggested, I see the lyrics are there from the Apr99 update, as posted by me ~~ must have been in that earlier thread that no one seems to be able to locate. As to the Lowe Stokes recording on Document, someday I am going to have to turn loose of a whole batch of money, just for Document CDs alone! |
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28 Nov 99 - 07:42 PM (#141873) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: kendall Grandpa Jones recorded this too |
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09 Nov 11 - 09:03 PM (#3254015) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard From: Jim Dixon Lyrics have been posted in another thread: WISH I HAD STAYED IN THE WAGON YARD as recorded by Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians. |