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20 Feb 05 - 01:42 PM (#1415690) Subject: Lyr Req: skip james' illinois blues From: Roberto This recording of Illinois Blues is the one featured on the cd SHE LYIN'. The main problem is in the third stanza. Please, help. R You go to Banglin', tell my boys You go down to Banglin', tell my boys What times I'm havin' in Illinois In Illinois, Illinois In Illinois, in Illinois When I gin my cotton and I'm gonna sell my seed When I gin my cotton and sell my seed I'm gonna give my baby everything she need Everything she need, ev'rything she need I'm gonna give my baby everything she need She don't let me have my love (...) She let me have my love (...) She'll never (...) spend my money next week Oh, next week, never next week She'll never spend my money next week She'll never spend my money next week You go down to Banglin', tell my boys You go down in Banglin', tell my boys What times I'm havin' up in Illinois In Illinois, Illinois In Illinois, in Illinois I been in Texas and I been in Arkansas I been in Texas and I been in Arkansas But I never had a good time till I got to Illinois Illinois, Illinois In Illinois, in Illinois The people will treat you just so–so-so People will treat you just so-so You'll never go back to old Banglin' no more Never no more, never no more Oh, never no more, never no more Go down in Banglin', tell my boys Go down in Banglin', tell the boys Of the good times I'm havin' in Illinois |
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20 Feb 05 - 02:20 PM (#1415708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: skip james' illinois blues From: khandu Harry's Blues has this version, which is quite a bit different from yours. I am still looking! k |
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20 Feb 05 - 04:57 PM (#1415788) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: skip james' illinois blues From: Peace Is these them? |
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20 Feb 05 - 05:02 PM (#1415792) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: skip james' illinois blues From: Peace AVOID THIS SITE IF YOU GOOGLE. IT HAS MORE POPUPS THAN A HORSE HAS HAIRS. skip James lyrics |
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20 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM (#1415915) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: skip james' illinois blues From: Stewie Roberto, those lines are difficult to decipher. After listening repeatedly and 'time stretching', my best bet is that the lines could be: She don't let me have my boneless meat (x2) She never let me spend my money next week That is only a guess, but whatever I reckon the words he is singing begin with 'b' and 'm' - neither of them is 'love'. Regards, Stewie. |
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09 Aug 15 - 06:53 AM (#3729073) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Illinois Blues (Skip James) From: GUEST, Paul Slade Can anyone shed only light on where 'Banglin'" is in this song? I'm assuming from context that it's a place name, but if so, it's one that no longer seems to survive. I'm really curious about this now. |
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05 Oct 15 - 09:36 AM (#3741882) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Illinois Blues (Skip James) From: GUEST,Don Bennett Banglin Mississippi. Youngblood spent time in Mississippi in his youth (according to the interwebs). |
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08 Oct 15 - 09:59 AM (#3742433) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Illinois Blues (Skip James) From: Jim Dixon Don Bennett: Your comment puzzles me. Youngblood? Are you referring to Alvin Youngblood Hart? He sang "Illinois Blues," but he didn't write it; Skip James wrote it, and the name "Banglin," or something that sounds like it, appears in James' 1931 recording, so Hart (born in 1963) couldn't have influenced him. Anyway, I can't find any reference to a place in Mississippi called Banglin. |
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09 Oct 15 - 04:38 PM (#3742729) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Illinois Blues (Skip James) From: GUEST,Gene Rosenthal - Adelphi Records Jim, Don, Et Al -- Please see khandu's earlier post in this thread - 20-feb-05 footnote #1 -- Banglin was a "Lumber Camp" - best regards, Gene R. |