The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54490 Message #843705
Posted By: Barry Finn
09-Dec-02 - 01:48 AM
Thread Name: Add: Fixing To Die (Booker TW White)
Subject: RE: ADD Lyric: Fixing To Die
The version I love most is the one Dave Van Ronk recorded back in the late 60's. I don't know where he got it from (haven't had that LP in decades) but it was a bit different. I think it went something like:
Your mother treated me children, like a new born baby, like a new born baby child
Your mother treated me, children like a new born baby child
That's why I tried so hard to come back home to die.
Hard to tell weither I liked the version he did so much or just the way he did it. I know that when I saw the words posted above the tune just came back from out of nowhere. Great song. Barry