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Lyr Req: Automobile Trip through Alabama
| Bee-dubya-ell | 13 Jan 03 - 11:39 PM | |
| Joe Offer | 14 Jan 03 - 12:23 AM | |
| Joe Offer | 14 Jan 03 - 01:15 AM | |
| Bee-dubya-ell | 14 Jan 03 - 09:34 AM | |
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Lyr Req: Automobile Trip through Alabama
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Subject: Lyr Req: Automobile Trip Through Alabama From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 13 Jan 03 - 11:39 PM Looking for words to "Automobile Trip Through Alabama", the story of the unlikely adventures of a man with a brand new Ford and a tank full of Woco-Pep gasoline, off of a New Lost City Ramblers album from the 60's. A friend had the LP, but it is impractical to contact him as he is dead. Bruce |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Automobile Trip Through Alabama From: Joe Offer Date: 14 Jan 03 - 12:23 AM It was on a NLCR LP called "Rural Delivery Number One." It's also on a Smithsonian Folkways CD called Outstanding in Their Field, Vol II, 1963-1973. Hey, there's lots of words to transcribe in this one, Bruce. I'll get it out in a little wahile. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: AUTOMOBILE TRIP THROUGH ALABAMA From: Joe Offer Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:15 AM OK, this is my best shot. It was a tough one. It's a recitation, by the way - not a song. -Joe Offer- AUTOMOBILE TRIP THROUGH ALABAMA (recorded by New Lost City Ramblers) John Cohen, voice; Mike Seeger, banjo source: Red Henderson & Emmet, 1920's Well, some folks calls me Red, but my hair's not red; It just got wet and rusted, that's all. But I bought me a brand-new Ford and poured it full of ten gallons Of Woco Pep gasoline to see how far I could drive it. I drove it three weeks, night and day, wired back for a new set of tires, And still didn't need no gasoline. I drove it over the hills and hollers of Alabama. Way back on top of one of those big mountains over there, I saw an old man drivin' a cow to the buggy. Well, the cow got scared of my brand-new Ford, So the old man tied him to a tree and said he'd pull the buggy himself. And just as he got alongside of me, I shot the juice to my brand-new Ford, Scared the old man, and he ran away and tore up the buggy. The cow got loose walkin' down the road just laughin' at him. So I went on down to a place they call Bear Creek. On the other side of Bear Creek, I saw a great big bear. Well, the Ford stood there and started shakin', So I reached in the back seat and grabbed my hat And crawled on down the road 2, 3, 4, 5 miles; Come back ten minutes later, and what do you think I saw? But there was my brand-new Ford, standin' in the middle of a broom-sage patch Kickin' with both hind feet and pawin' like the dickens with the front two. I looked around and didn't see no bear. I wondered what's the matter? The Ford says, "Don't you see all them young aeroplanes, lightin' on my back?" I looked back there, and sure enough, there was a whole bunch of little yellow-striped things, Lightin' on my brand-new Ford, that had knots on it like hen's eggs. Well, this kinda got me mad, so I got a brush and began to thrush. They thought I was gettin' warm, so they began to fly around my head tryin' to cool me off. This kinda got the Ford mad. It said, "Put 'em all in the back seat. We'll drive 'em all on down to the river and drown 'em." So, I put 'em in the back seat and got behind the wheel and started. And naturally, the Ford had kicked and poured (?) and run a hot box, And run all the grease out of it. All it could say was, "Me and you and them." I says, "It may be me and you and them now, but it's just gonna be you and them for a little while." So I went on down the road for five minutes and come back ten minutes later, and what do you think I saw? But there was my brand-new Ford, Scattered all over a ten-acre field. Well, I taken the two back houses And I taken the ramrod and poured in five gallons of that Woco Pep gasoline To make me a gun to go hunt the bear. well, I went on down the river And I saw a drove of ducks up the river and a drove of geese down the river. Just then, I turned around, and what do you think I saw? But there was a rattlesnake, fixin' to bite poor me. So I lit a match to the gasoline and blowed up the gun. One barrel went up the river and got all the ducks. The other barrel went down the river and got all the geese. The ramrod went down the snake's throat and killed it. The explosion was so strong that it knocked me back in the river, And I come out with both boots full of fish. Just then, I turned around, and what do you think I saw? But there was my brand-new Ford, all back together again. Still didn't need no Woco Pep gasoline. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Automobile Trip Through Alabama From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:34 AM Thanks loads and loads, Joe! The brand of gasoline is "Woco Pep". It was a predecessor to Pure Oil Co. and was one of the first gasolines to have an additive, benzol, included. It was formulated by a man from Birmingham, AL who was in the steel business. Benzol is a byproduct of steel manufacture. Click here to see the Woco Pep logo. Bruce |
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