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23 Jul 05 - 07:52 AM (#1526149) Subject: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Big Al Whittle As well the lyrics - anybody who can offer me some insight into some of the verses, their comments would be most welcome big al whittle |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:01 PM (#1526407) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Peace Tabs on this link. Will look for chords, WLD. |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:05 PM (#1526409) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Peace Lyrics here. |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:07 PM (#1526411) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Peace SORRY. That's Prison Cell Blues. SORRY. I misread the link. I'll keep lookin'. SORRY. |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:15 PM (#1526416) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Peace It was recorded by BLJ in the late 1920s. Can't locate the lyrics just now. However, Carl Perkins did a version of it and lyrics are readily available for his rendition. He titled it, "Matchbox". |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:24 PM (#1526421) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Peace Tabs here--it's right this time. |
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23 Jul 05 - 03:33 PM (#1526430) Subject: Lyr Add: MATCHBOX (Carl Perkins) From: Peace I have to leave soon. If the Perkin's lyrics will do until someone comes up with BLJ's, here ya go. Matchbox Lyrics Well I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes Yeah I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes I ain't got no matches, but I got a long way to go
I'm an ol' poor boy and a long way from home
Yeah I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes |
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23 Jul 05 - 04:00 PM (#1526457) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Big Al Whittle thanks for your efforts. I found those. I remember three verses of it, but to be frank it means damn all to me. Unfortunately the only bit of it that made any impression on me was when Hamish Imlach played it on guitar - the guitar part I remember well! which incidentally sounds sod all like BLJ, but what the hell - I've been playing it for forty years this way I'm buggered if I'm changing at this advanced period in the state of my evolution. i used to have Sam Charters record with it on and it went:- I'm going by the river, going right by the sea X2 Get so damn cold living, I guess you know what I mean (kind of ironic as they found BLJ's body in the streets after a snow storm) Matchbox verse then something like Tell me honey, who may your manager be X2 and another line I've forgotten altogether a more sinister piece than Carl's cut and paste rockabilly thing. But then a sinister character altogether - he treated Josh White, the little boy leading him around, like shit. apparently phenomenally successful as a recording artist. Seriously I would welcome ideas, and insights and thoughts on the matter and the lyrics of course. all the best Big Al Whittle |
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23 Jul 05 - 06:48 PM (#1526563) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Big Al Whittle come on, i was expecting to be inundated with brilliant insights by bluesologists hither and thus Come on BLJ fans there must be hundreds of you out there. all the best big al whittle |
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23 Jul 05 - 07:51 PM (#1526622) Subject: RE: lyric required Matchbox Blues by BLJ From: Tannywheeler Don't know about BLJ, but there's a Willie Dixon (sp?) song similar to the Perkins words. Haven't heard it in a long time. Jazz clarinetist in Austin (name of Stan Smith) used to do it. Not sure how to reach him right now. Sorry I can't be more help. Keep trying. Tw |
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23 Jul 05 - 11:16 PM (#1526730) Subject: Lyr Add: MATCH BOX BLUES (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: Stewie Blind Lemon did a recording of it for Okeh in March 1927 and two takes for Paramount in April 1927. Some stanzas are modified and appear in different order in these takes. Given the 'river' stanza you refer to above, it looks like you are after the Okeh recording: MATCH BOX BLUES I'm goin' to the river goin' walk down by the sea I'm goin' to the river, walk down by the sea I've got those tadpoles and minnows eyein' over me Standin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my clothes I was settin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my clothes I ain't got so many matches but I got so far to go Lord, mama, who may your manager be Hey hey mama, who may your manager be Reason I ask so many questions can't you make 'rangements for me I got a girl 'cross town she crochet all the time I got a girl 'cross town, crochet all the time Baby if you don't quit crochetin' you're gon' lose your mind I wouldn't mind marryin' but I can't stand settlin' down I don't mind marryin' but, Lord, settlin' down I'm gon' act like a preacher so I can ride from town to town I'm leavin' town; cryin' won't make me stay I'm leavin' town, eeee! cryin' won't make me stay Baby, the more you cry, the further you drive me away Transcription of 'Match Box Blues' as recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson on 14 March 1927 and issued as Okeh 8455. Transcription by Jeff Todd Titon in 'Early Down Home Blues' Uni of Nth Carolina Press 2nd edition 1994, pp 34-35. --Stewie. |
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09 Oct 14 - 07:16 PM (#3667661) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: Big Al Whittle stewie - what a bum i was - thankyou for your efforts! |
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06 Apr 15 - 06:01 PM (#3700137) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: GUEST someone explain what match box hold my cloths means please thanks |
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07 Apr 15 - 08:57 AM (#3700252) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: GUEST,# It means ya have very few clothes. |
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07 Apr 15 - 11:53 AM (#3700297) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: PHJim This is one of those verses that appears in many old blues. I first heard it on a Lonnie Johnson record where Lonnie sang: I'm sittin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my clothes Yes I'm sittin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my clothes Well I ain't got so many, but I sure got a long way to go. This always made perfect sense to me. I ain't got so many clothes; so few that they might fit in a matchbox. Then I heard the "I ain't got so many matches..." line, probably from Carl Perkins, which does not make any sense. A shortage of clothes seems more logical than a shortage of matches. If you want a really garbled version, listen to the Beatles sing this song. Beatles Matchbox |
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07 Apr 15 - 12:16 PM (#3700298) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: GUEST,# I heard Lonnie do that live. He was a wonderful singer, guitarist and person. I think too often that blues songs 'fail' because the singers don't know what they're really singing about. The Perkins rendition is a disaster: rock-a-billy my Aunt Mehitabel's petunias. It's bad blues. |
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07 Apr 15 - 12:23 PM (#3700302) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) From: Mark Ross Lead Belly used that verse as part of his BLACK SNAKE MOAN. Mark Ross |