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26 Jan 03 - 09:31 AM (#875139) Subject: Lyr Add: I FEEL SO GOOD (Broonzy) From: CraigS I've just transcribed this, and I'd like some comments as to what the man meant. The second verse doesn't make a lot of sense, and I'd like to know about garden gin - sounds like it might be fun, but it might just be a Broonzy invention, like the long-billed boll weevil! I FEEL SO GOOD W Broonzy I got a letter, it come to me by mail My baby said she's coming home and I hope that she don't fail You know I feel so good, yes I feel so good, Now I feel so good, baby, I feel like balling the jack I feel so good I hope I always will I feel just like a Jack out with a Ginny, well behind the hill You know I feel so good, yes I feel so good, I feel so good, baby, I feel like balling the jack I'm going down to the station, just to meet a train I've got to see my baby you know I've got that aim You know I feel so good, yes I feel so good, I feel so good, I just feel like balling the jack I love my tea, crazy 'bout my garden gin, When I get high now, baby, I just feel like floating around in the wind You know I feel so good, yes I feel so good, I feel so good, baby, I feel like balling the jack |
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26 Jan 03 - 10:15 AM (#875159) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: Roger the Skiffler Is garden gin the same as bathtub gin (hooch)? "Tea" was slang for maryjane, ganja, weed, certainly Louis Armstrong, a lifelong smoker of the same, called it that. RtS |
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26 Jan 03 - 11:34 AM (#875198) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: JennyO Ah yes, there was something about tea and drawing on the thread "A proper cup of tea - nothing like it", I think. |
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26 Jan 03 - 06:47 PM (#875430) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: CraigS Now you mention it, I remember a reference to Texas Tea in a talking blues. |
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26 Jan 03 - 07:55 PM (#875458) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: mack/misophist If you're talking about 'Jack out with a Ginny', he mis-spelled it. A Jack is a male mule and a Jenny is a female. I think that's what he meant. |
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26 Jan 03 - 09:40 PM (#875500) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: JennyO Great!!! I'm a female mule. I had heard that before and had filed that away under "things I don't want to know". |
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27 Jan 03 - 12:14 PM (#875831) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: GUEST,Lionel Gordons Gin. A popular brand, both sides of the Atlantic, even today. |
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28 Jan 03 - 03:21 AM (#876355) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: CraigS He didn't miss-spell it, I did! Thanks! The gin, however, he pronounced "garden" - Gordons is a good suggestion - any others? |
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28 Jan 03 - 10:29 AM (#876585) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: GUEST,Lionel Mmmm... well, if you were a black, blues singing ex-sharecropper from Mississippi living in Chicago in the 1930s you might pronounce the word "Gordons" as "Gardens", Tampa Red made a blues recording in 1928 or 1929 titled "Good Gordon Gin." Maybe Tampa "mispronounces" the word or maybe he or his record company mis-spelt it, when they should have put "Good Garden Gin" instead. What do you think? And in Lonnie Johnson's recording of "Tin Can Alley Blues" does old Lonnie sing about "Buckhead gin" or is it "Butthead gin" ? And anyway does it matter? It is'nt as if it were fucking Shakespeare or John Donne we are talking about here. |
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29 Jan 03 - 03:30 AM (#877360) Subject: RE: Broonzy: Feel So Good From: CraigS It matters to me that, in progressing this song into this century, I retain its original meaning. Too many songs have deteriorated - eg. if you hear people sing The Little Ploughboy around here the chorus has gone from "Good luck, God speed, no charing" to "Luck, God speed, no cherry" . Lots of blues have lost meaning - I find it all the time - that's why I want to know. |