The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59040   Message #17295
Posted By: Barry
08-Dec-97 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Diamond Joe -- source of tune?
Subject: Lyr Add: DIAMOND JOE
Yup

Went up on a mountain, give my horn a blow.
Thought I saw my true love coming, saying, "yonder come your beau."

CHORUS. Diamond Joe come to get me,
Diamond Joe come to get,
Diamond Joe come to get me, Diamond Joe.

Ain't work this country don't need no part of this farm.
I'm gonna sit till me Maybell come & she keeps on calling me home.

Diamond Joe, where'd you come from (3X)

Ain't gonna tell no stories, neither words nor lies.
When I hear my Maybell singing, didn't you keep on by.

That's the closest I could get in 10 yrs. Heard that Michael Cooney did this some yrs back, but I don't know where. Lomax recorded it at the State Prison Farm (Parchman Farm).
Barry