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18 Oct 06 - 06:34 PM (#1862682) Subject: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: GUEST,C I can't figure out exactly what the hell Roscoe Holcomb is saying in Swanno Mountain. Want to sing it, but I don't mumble as good as him. I tried looking online, but...no dice. Apparently the lyrics are in the liner notes to the comp "Untamed sense of control" If you have it, can you post the lyrics please? |
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18 Oct 06 - 06:39 PM (#1862689) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: Big Mick OH ..... MY ..... GAWD ......... SPAW ....... SWANNO MOUNTAIN???????? We have got to do something with this. Mick |
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19 Oct 06 - 02:20 PM (#1863452) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: nickp The Swannanoa Mountain range, overlooks the Swannanoa Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina |
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19 Oct 06 - 05:23 PM (#1863614) Subject: Lyr Add: SWANNO MOUNTAIN (Roscoe Holcomb) From: 12-stringer I'm going back to the Swanno Mountain Lordy that's my home, baby, that's my home. Got sixteen brackets on my banjo Lord it rings like silver, baby, shines like gold. I got a letter from my woman Lordy she's gone blind, baby, she can't see. repeat verse 1 I got a letter from my captain Lordy he's in jail, baby, he's in jail. repeat verse 1 Lyrics from the note booklet in the vinyl edition. |
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20 Oct 06 - 09:57 AM (#1864211) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Holcomb's version is a brief survival of the earlier "Swannanoa Tunnel" / "Swannanoa Town," now verging on a century old. Check out version by Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Folkways), the first to be sung widely in the folk community. Dulcimer singer and scholar Artus Moser also did a version. It's one of the older hammer songs. Appears in Cecil Sharp's English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians V2, 42-3 as "Swannanoa Town" in two versions, one from Black Mt. NC, the other from Micaville NC, both sung by women, collected in 1916 and 1918 respectively. |