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15 Oct 01 - 08:41 PM (#572952) Subject: High Geared Momma??? From: July4thbby Can someone help me with the title and lyrics to this song?? I'M A HIGH GEARED MOMMA COMING TO TOWN DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN, YOU CAN THROW IT IS HIGH AND YOU CAN THROW IT IS LOW, MAKES A OLD MAN GET HIS CANE AND GO Thanks, Cookie |
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24 Oct 01 - 01:49 PM (#578853) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: High Geared Momma??? From: Jim Dixon Here's some information: "High Geared Mama" was written by Jimmie Davis, the "Singing Governor" of Louisiana who also wrote "You Are My Sunshine." (The link gives some interesting biographical information about him.) The 5-CD set "Nobody's Darlin' But Mine: 1928-1937" (issued by Bear Family in 1998) contains Davis' recordings of both "High Geared Mama" and "High Geared Daddy," which was written by Buddy Jones. Jones performed with Davis and they co-wrote several songs. I suspect one of these songs was an "answer" to the other, but I don't know which came first. The bio (linked-to above) says that "High Geared Mama" was regarded as a "racy" recording, and Earl Long tried to use it to discredit Davis in a political campaign, but the attempt backfired. It seems this song would be a good addition to DigiTrad, so I hope someone finds it and posts it here. |
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15 Sep 02 - 09:52 PM (#784787) Subject: Lyr Add: HIGH-GEARED MAMA (Jimmie Davis) From: Stewie HIGH-GEARED MAMA (Jimmie Davis) Now talk about your gals but I've got one She's a high-geared mama, she's a son of a gun She's got knee actions so they say You oughta see her make her getaway She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down She can walk the dog, she can ball the jack She can really cock 'em back She's a high-geared mama built for speed She has got anything you need She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down Instrumental break She can throw it in high, she can throw it in low Make an old man grab his stick and go She wanted a dress and she wanted a ring But she didn't even want to shake that thing She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down She's a two-time mama when I leave her at home She calls another daddy on the telephone She's snorted and cavorted, capered and reared She never even whimpered and never even cared She's a high-geared baby comin' to town Don't let her get you down Instrumental break For exercise she'd walk a mile She can cut your pork chops any old style If you like a girl like this girl of mine You can come get mine just any old time She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down I took her to church the other day She and the preacher made a getaway They buried the preacher a mile from town She come to the funeral in her red nightgown She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down Instrumental break She's a high-geared mama comin' to town Don't let her get you down Words and music by Jimmie Davis. Recorded 21 March 1936 in Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana. Issued as De 5206. Source: transcription from reissue on 'Songs of Jimmie Davis: Nobody's Darlin' But Mine Vol 4' Bear Family BCD-15943. --Stewie.
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17 Sep 02 - 12:04 PM (#786024) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: High Geared Mama From: Jim Dixon Thanks, Stewie. Certainly has a different tone than "You Are My Sunshine", doesn't it? It's hard to imagine a politician writing a song like that. Are there any politicians today writing anything other than memoirs or political essays? Eugene McCarthy wrote poems (not exactly earthshaking), Vaclav Havel wrote plays, Winston Churchill wrote history and biography, Benjamin Disraeli wrote novels -- that's all I can think of. Hope you don't mind the thread drift... |
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14 Nov 10 - 02:44 AM (#3031611) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: High-Geared Mama (Jimmie Davis) From: GUEST,yr uncle Thanks. Thought of this one while listening to some Jimmy Rodgers. Heard it originally on a windup in Kansas in the late forties. It was too risque for my Mom to let me listen to...after I'd already heard it a dozen times. So governors were honest men once. |