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Thread #111404   Message #2345751
Posted By: katlaughing
20-May-08 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocks and Gravel
According to this old posting, Leon Bibbs also recorded it: Click Here.

There's also mention of it on a Dave Van Ronk CD HERE

Sinsull says it is also on an Ian and Sylvia CD.

If you are lucky enough to find a copy, it is also in the Newport Folk Festival Songbook.

Here's a posting about by CHicken Charlie:

My suggestion would most likely be vetoed, but there's an old prison song called "Rocks and Gravel"--I think.

"I'm breakin' rock and gravel (x3)

I'm breakin' rock, breakin' gravel, and I'm-a moanin' low."

Very slow, with a heavy bass thump at the end of the line, like the sound on "Lazarus," in "Oh, Brother." There were all the great work song couplets in it, like, "Aks [sic] my cap'n for time o'day; he got so mad, throwed his watch away," and "If I'd known the cap'n were blin', Wouldn't a gone ta work till quarter to nine." On a particular (peculiar) level, it would be amusing, but I doubt The Average Person would think so. DT doesn't have a "Rocks & Gravel." Maybe try a search with "Rosie" because there were a couple of verses built on that--"Rosie, be my gal; everyday be payday, well, why doncha come along Rosie." Good old tune, though. :)

Chicken Charlie


I found those by putting "rocks and gravel" in the search box at the top. I am not familiar with the song, but I think the above refer to the version you are interested in and not the Dylan one.

Thanks,

kat