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Thread #91819 Message #1753761
Posted By: Richard Brandenburg
05-Jun-06 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: Jean Sackett and the Texarkana Wranglers
Subject: RE: Jean Sackett and the Texarkana Wranglers
No threadjack intended, but the name of a dear friend comes up in a curious thread... I'm going to be playing music in a couple of nights with Dave Fredrickson, and will ask him about this song, and where he learned it.
Dave's a singer of Western songs, from the Central Valley of California. His website is www.davefredrickson.net. He's around the same age as Guest Debbie's mother, and learned much of his material from the radio in the thirties and forties. Who knows... he may even have heard a recording of Jean Sackett and the Texarcana Ramblers. Here's the song on his 1962 Folkways album:
BONNIE BLUE EYES
Learned from the Randolph Collection (IV, 209-10) with verses added from "My Last Gold Dollar" (IV, 114.)
Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes I'll see you again but God knows when Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes.
I'm leavin' on the railroad train I'm leavin' on the railroad train Oh I love you God knows I do But I'm leavin' on the railroad train.
I'm goin' out west this fall I'm goin' out west this fall I'm goin' out west I'll leave the one that I love best, Little bonnie don't ya weep for me.
I'll sail on the ocean blue I'll sail on the ocean blue On the ocean blue I'll think about you But I'll sail on the ocean blue.
Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes I'll see you again but God knows when Good-bye little bonnie blue eyes.
I must travel on down the line I must travel on down the line I love you my dear and I want you near But I must travel on down the line.
Put your hand in mine Just put your little hand in mine If you love me like I love you Just put your little hand in mine.
My last gold dollar is gone My last gold dollar is gone My board bill's due and my whiskey bill is too But my last gold dollar is gone.