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Thread #64225 Message #1050383
Posted By: Stewie
08-Nov-03 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Too Long (from Mississippi Sheiks)
Subject: Lyr Add: TOO LONG (from Mississippi Sheiks)
Hi Roger, I have the Sheiks recording. There's not much more to it than what you have given. I am unable to decipher the last line of the first stanza, but it is something like what I have in square brackets. Sam Chatmon was not on this recording.
TOO LONG
My baby she left me, she never said a word It was on account of something that she heard She thought when she left I'd run around and cry But there's a crepe on my door [for you, baby, goodbye]
Too long, you waited too long to come home Now your Daddy don't need you no more. Too long, you don't belong here anymore So stop your knock, knock, knocking on my door
Now you left me sweet mama for no good reason at all And now there's another mule kicking in your same old stall Too long, you waited too long to come home Now your Daddy don't need you no more
Instrumental break
Too long, you waited too long to come home Now your Daddy don't need you no more. Too long, you don't belong here anymore So stop your knock, knock, knocking on my door
Now you left me sweet mama for no good reason at all And now there's another mule kicking in your same old stall Too long, you waited too long to come home Now your Daddy don't need you no more
Source: transcription of Mississippi Sheiks 'Too Long' recorded in Atlanta, Ga, on 24 October 1931 and issued as OK 8953 – Walter Vincson (vcl/gtr) and probably Lonnie Chatmon (vln). Reissued on Mississippi Sheiks 'Complete Recorded Works Vol II' Document DOCD-5084.