Lyr Req: Bye Bye My Rosie-Anna / ...Roseanna

Subject: Lyr Add: BYE BYE MY ROSEANNA
From: Brian Peters
Date: 03 May 99 - 06:18 AM

I just clicked on Joe's link and realised that all of the message I've written is pretty well redundant - you all knew it already. Anyway, for those of you that have missed it, allow me to direct you to the incredible rendition by the Bright Light Quartet on Southern Journey Vol. 1 from the Alan Lomax Collection (Rounder CD 1701). The harmony is sublime. Come to that the whole CD is incredible, as are all the other volumes I've heard so far. Here are the verses Bright Light sing - with quite a bit of repetition of verses.

Sweet Roseanne, sweet Roseanne,
Bye-bye, sweet Roseanna.
I thought I heard my baby say:
I won't be home tomorrow.

Sweet Roseanne, my darling child,
Bye-bye sweet Roseanna.
Sweet Roseanne, my darling child,
I won't be home tomorrow.

Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye,
Bye-bye, sweet Roseanna.
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye,
I won't be home tomorrow.

The steamboat coming round the bend,
Bye-bye, sweet Roseanna,
It's loaded down with harvest, men.
I won't be home tomorrow.

Don't you want to go home on your next payday?
Bye-bye, sweet Roseanna.
Don't you want to go home on your next payday?
I won't be home tomorrow.

I'm going away but not to stay.
Bye-bye, sweet Roseanna.
I'm going away but not to stay,
I won't be home tomorrow.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Bye bye my Rosie-Anna
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 May 99 - 10:54 PM

Be Careful Joe. Remember the old R&B Tune:"60 minute Man"? You could become known as the "6 Minute Man"!

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Bye bye my Rosie-Anna
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 02 May 99 - 10:19 PM

Joe! You are even self-competitive. 6 minutes is nothing!

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Bye bye my Rosie-Anna
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 May 99 - 08:47 PM

Click here, Emily. It's a hard one to find because of the variations in spelling of the name.
-Joe Offer-

Which is why my reply took six minutes....

Subject: LYR REQ: Bye bye my Rosie-Anna
From: emily rain
Date: 02 May 99 - 08:41 PM

this is (i think) the last song on the album "together" with pete seeger and arlo guthrie. once upon a time i owned it, but then the turntable died... does anyone know some verses off the top of his/her head?

chorus:
sweet rosie ann
sweet rosie ann
bye bye my rosie anna
i'm goin' away,
but not to stay
and i won't be home tomorra!

thanks!

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