Lyr Req: Blue Yodel #1

05 May 98 - 01:36 AM (#27322)
Subject: Blue Yodel #1 lyrics needed
From: [e-mail]

I need the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers' version of "T for Texas" (Blue yodel #1) Thank you!

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05 May 98 - 02:15 AM (#27325)
Subject: RE: Blue Yodel #1 lyrics needed
From: Gene

GO TO:

http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie

search for [ rodgers ] omit brackets....

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23 Jan 03 - 06:46 PM (#873295)
Subject: ADD: Blue Yodel #1: T for Texas
From: Joe Offer

I copied this from Cowpie. Note that Alan Lomax included a verse from T for Texas in his transcription of "Muleskinner Blues."

T for Texas
Jimmie Rodgers

        E                               E7 A
  Well, 'T' for Texas, 'T' for Tennessee
  A                               E
  'T' for Texas, 'T' for Tennessee
  B7                                                E
  'T' for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me
  
  If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall
  If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall
  'Cause I can get more women than a passenger train [can haul]
  
  Well, I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
  I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
  'Cause this Georgia water tastes like turpentine
  
  I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
  I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
  Than to be here in Atlanta, [and] get treated like a dirty dog
  
  E            B7          E
  Women make a fool out of me
  
  If you're ever down in mobile be sure to look me up
  If you're ever down in mobile be sure to look me up
  And if your ever in Atlanta tell Lucille to go to hell
  
  Women make a fool out of me

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23 Jan 03 - 08:27 PM (#873400)
Subject: RE: Blue Yodel #1 lyrics needed
From: GUEST,Q

"Blue Yodel," Jimmie Rodgers. (No. 1), (T for Texas)
Posted version lacks these verses of the first recorded version of 1927.

Insert verse 2:
I'm gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I'm tall (Lawd, Lawd)
I'm gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I'm tall
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to see her jump and fall.
(Yodel)

Insert verse 4:
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun, with a great long shiny barrel
-Gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barrel
I'm gonna shoot that rounder, that stole away my gal.
(Yodel)

Verse 5: Connective "ands" not on recording.

Mobile verse not in original. Ever sung by Rodgers??

The verses with pistol and shotgun sorta give a different take on the song. From the copy on Rounder CD 1056, Jimmie Rodgers 1927-1928, First Sessions.

The Cowpie version seems to have been put together by someone at the University of Nevada, leaving out the hardware.

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24 Jan 03 - 02:58 AM (#873567)
Subject: RE: Blue Yodel #1 lyrics needed
From: Joe Offer

Thanks, Q. Probably it would have been better to post the whole thing, and not just the corrections. We're not THAT short of space, and lyrics are easier to read if they're complete.
-Joe Offer-

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01 Oct 19 - 12:58 PM (#4011430)
Subject: Lyr Add: BLUE YODEL (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Jim Dixon

OK, Joe, here’s the complete song. You can verify this by listening to the recording at the Internet Archive. Title as given on the 78-rpm record label, Victor 21142-A.


BLUE YODEL
(Rodgers)
As recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1927.

1. T for Texas, T for Tennessee.
T for Texas, T for Tennessee.
T for Thelma, that gal that made a wreck out o’ me.
YODEL

2. If you don’t want me, mama, you sure don’t have to stall. (Lawd, Lawd)
If you don’t want me, mama, you sure don’t have to stall,
‘Cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul.
YODEL

3. I’m gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I’m tall. (Lawd, Lawd)
I’m gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I’m tall.
I’m gonna shoot poor Thelma just to see her jump an’ fall.
YODEL

4. I’m goin’ where the water drinks like cherry wine. (Sing ‘em, boy; sing ‘em.)
Lord, I’m goin’ where the water drinks like cherry wine,
‘Cause the Georgia water tastes like turpentine.
YODEL

5. I’m gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barr’l.
Gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barr’l.
I’m gonna shoot that rounder that stole away my gal.
YODEL

6. Rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log.
Rather drink muddy water an’ sleep in a hollow log
Than to be in Atlanta, treated like a dirty dog.
YODEL

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