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Thread #60402 Message #974782
Posted By: wysiwyg
30-Jun-03 - 08:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oldtime Songs, titles unclear
Subject: Lyr Add: RAZORS IN THE AIR
HERE is some info about Schwandt. Guess he preserved the song.
HERE are the liner notes from the Kingston Trio's version on "Goin' Places." RAZORS IN THE AIR-- An entire valuable body of native American music has all but died out as a result of the stress of 20th Century life: the minstrel song. This number deserves its rescue.
And more verses in the version posted there, tho they scan funny against the tune I heard:
RAZORS IN THE AIR
Come, my love, and go with me. Ah, my love, I greet thee. Take you down to Tennessee. Meet you by and by. Don't you hear them hollerin' now. Ah, my love, I need thee. Ain't there goin' to be a row! Meet you by and by.
Chorus: Get away from that window, my love and my dove. Get away from that window, don't ya hear? Come some other night for there's gonna be a fight. There'll be razors flyin' through the air.
Pack a poke and come with me. Ah, my love, don't grieve me. Shoe your foot in Tennessee. Meet you by and by. Out that window, sweet and soft. Ah, my, believe me. Hurry love and we'll be off. Meet you by and by.
Sookie by the kitchen gate. Tiptoe by and let her wait. She don't know 'bout you and me. Corn is cheap in Tennessee.
Chorus
Someone's slipping down the hall. Hush, my love, be quiet. Don't you make no noise at all. Meet you by and by. Hear that blind man blow his horn. Goin' to be a riot. All those boys are full of corn. Meet you by and by.
Chorus
Wagon comin' down the road, turnin' with the heavy load, See the moon a-shinnin' down. All the boys are out of town. Isn't this a quiet town? Took the mad-dogs to the pound. Bless the day that you were born. I was affraid that you'd be gorn.