22 Apr 00 - 10:54 AM (#216048) Subject: Lyrics for '44 Gun' From: GUEST,Vicky Bunsen I'd like some help with lyrics to a song that I heard on a 1991 cassette tape by the The Wandering Ramblers. The song is titled 44 Gun and here's some of the lyrics that I can understand:
Chorus:
Verses:
Now if you see me standin' on the porch, with a forty-four in my hand, There are couple more verses that I can't make sense of. Any help at all would be appreciated so that I can piece it together. Thanks, - Vicky |
11 May 05 - 07:09 PM (#1482826) Subject: Lyr Add: MARY DON'T YOU GO From: Jim Dixon The Wandering Ramblers' recording of 44 GUN is on the various-artists collection "Old-Time Music on the Air," Rounder CD (or cassette) #331, 1994. Allmusic.com has a sound sample, which happens to include one of the verses Vicky quoted (5 years ago!). I hear only a couple of words differently: Now if you see me standin' on my porch, with a forty-four in my hand, Just tell them all I've killed myself, 'cause you've gone to some foreign land. …but I'm afraid even the best ears won't make those words make any more sense. I did find another song with some similar lines in it. Copied from here. MARY DON'T YOU GO Woke up last night, heard a knock on the door, I heard a rough voice say: "I've come here tonight. I don't want to fight. I just come to take Mary away." CHORUS: Oh, Mary, don't you go, don't you go. Come back and see me once more. Fifteen cents is all the money I've got. Mary, don't you want some change? All I want is a forty-four gun To blow out some dirty man's brains. CHORUS If you find me alive at your door tonight, With a forty-four in my hand, I'll tell you the reason that I killed myself Was because you loved another man. CHORUS |
09 Aug 06 - 10:09 PM (#1805832) Subject: Lyr Add: 44 GUN (from The Wandering Ramblers) From: Peace BINGO Forty Four Gun From Wandering Ramblers. Marimac 9033. Key on Cassette C/Bb double tonic, no thirds in C chord. Tune only has one part, but is played both high and low. From Lily May Ledford, Powell County, Kentucky, and Clarence Hay Ashford, Kentucky. Don't you remember on that rocky mountain side When we lay down to rest You promised to be my blue eyed boy While the sun sank in the west High instrumental Now hand me down my old grey hat It's a hanging there on the nail Before this time tomorrow morn I'll be gone on that long, long, trail Low instrumental Now if you see me standing on my porch With a for--ty four in my hand Just tell them all I've killed myself Because you've gone to some foreign land High instrumental Don't you remember on that rocky mountain side When we lay down to rest You promised to be my blue eyed boy While the sun sank in the west Low instrumental I wish to the lord I'd never been born Died when I was young I never would have seen those two blue eyes Or heard that lying tongue High instrumental I never will listen what another man says Let his hair be black or brown Unless that he's on some scaffold high Saying darling I wish to come down Straight into Don't you remember on that rocky mountain side When we lay down to rest You promised to be my blue eyed boy While the sun sank in the west High instrumental. End Free A Little Bird From Dykes Magic City Trio. Old Homestead LP. Key on LP F; presumably being played in G, because all Dykes tunes seem to be tuned down at least a tone from standard. Oh, I'm as free a little bird as I can be, I can be I'm as free a little bird as I can be Gonna build my nest in a weeping willow tree Where the bad boys cannot bother me Break x2 Oh, I'll never build my nest on the ground, on the ground I'll never build my nest on the ground I'll build my nest on a weeping willow tree Where the bad boys cannot tear me down Break x 1 Repeat verse 1 That is from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/old-time-songs/old-time-songs-F.htm Found it with a Google of "if you see me standing on my porch" in the quotation marks. FYI. |
09 Aug 06 - 10:10 PM (#1805833) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 44 Gun (from The Wandering Ramblers) From: Peace I may have screwed up and added a second song there. Sorry. |