Lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,MVP
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:18 PM

Have you heard the version by Iz? (Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole) He does it without the opening verse and very slight change in lyrics, but it is great!

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:35 AM

The Red Hot Jazz Archive says:

The Five Harmaniacs were a jug band that was responsible for the tune "Coney Island Washboard" which was recorded by dozens of bands and sung by hundreds of barbershop quartets. Curiously, the Five Harmaniacs recording didn't use a vocalist.... [They used a kazoo instead.]

At that web page, you can play the original recording CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD made by the Five Harmanaics on 17-Sep-1926. No words, but at least you can hear what both the verse and the chorus sound like.

The Five Harmaniacs consisted of:
Jerry Adams (real name: Harold Whitacre)
Wayne Durand
Walter Howard
Ned Nestor
Clyde Shugart

So those (minus Walter Howard) must be the authors of the tune.

Subject: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 12:43 PM

I was about to reply to a thread, but while I was thinking about it, it was bumped off the bottom of the page. I tried top get it back using the search, but was unsuccessful. I think these are the chords I use to Coney Island Washboard. (I'm at the library abnd don't have a guitar, so my air guitar will have to do. I'm sure the librarian wonders what I'm doing.)

Coney Island Washboard- Lyrics
       C                               A
On her Coney Island washboard she would play,

          D7
you could hear her on the boardwalk every day

G                   C             A
soapsuds all around, bubbles on the ground

D7                               G7
Rub a dub a dub in her little tub any tune she found

C                               A
thimbles on her fingers made the noise

          F                               D7
she played Charleston on the laundry for the boys

          F                Fm (or F#dim)
she could rag a tune right through the knees

      C                A
of a brand new pair of BVDs

D7          G             C
Coney Island Washboard Rondelay.
*****************************************************************
Here in Southern Ontario we have a performer called Washboard Hank who plays a wonderful "Stradavarious" washboard with many attatchments. (Google "Washboard Hank" images) Soon after being invited to his 50th birthday party, I found myself singing these words to this old jug band song:

On his Stradavarious washboard he would play,
He'd front the Gravestone Lickers each Thursday.
With bells and horns and gongs
He'd play that Dughnut song
All the drunks who know how the lyrics go
Always sing along.
Thimbles on a golf glove make the noise
On a washboard covered with his favourite toys.
He can knock a hole in your mandolin
If you stand a bit too close to him
Washboard Hank up Peterborough way.

last 6 lines:
Sometimes he'll play the tenor banjo too.
His guitar's patched up with duct tape 'stead of glue.
He's a dangerous man
If you need proof
Take a look at the hole in the Ganny roof
Washboard hanh up Peterborough way.

Expanation: The Gravestone lickers are one of Hank's bands.
The Doughnut Shops Of Ontario is one of his most requested tunes.
Hank finishes many solos with a Pete Townsend style swing which has been known to bloody the nose of his mandolin player, Clayton Yates.
The Ganny is a hotel with a low roof over the stage.

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Previous thread found with the Filter, and this message was moved to the earlier thread.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: fretless
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 12:16 PM

Kweskin's jug band recorded it on their first Vanguard album back in 1963.

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 09:27 AM

I end with a coda: "Gets the skid marks out with ease from the dirtiest pair of BVDs" after "rag the tune right out the knees of a pair of dungarees".
I think there was an earlier thread on this??
Beryl Bryden -and the Spinners with Deryk Guyler- were my influences.
RtS

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,Alley
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 09:54 AM

Don't ask me how, but I managed to get it all printed. This is a wonderful web site. The "Coney Island..." song seems to be the only one that has actual sheet music to follow. Are there other songs with music, or is this the only one? Can't tell you how happy I am to get this song. Many, many thanks.

Alley

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: Snuffy
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 09:31 AM

If you put your mouse over the first fret diagram, you should see a little toolbar appear. If you click the Printer on there you will get it very close to the left border with a big gap on the right.

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,Alley
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 09:09 AM

Bill, Thank you, thank you for the music. This is exactly what I wanted. Just one small problem - when I try to print it out, the right side of the music is cut off. This is because the left side has a big space. I've tried to correct this, but can't seem to do it. Do you have any suggestions?

Alley

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 12:07 AM

On an American TV show in the 60's called Hullabaloo Spanky Mc Farland and Our Gang did this live from Coney Island. It was popular among American Jug Bands at the time. I heard Jim Kweskin's Jug Band as well as The Even Dozen Jug Band do this song. John Sebastian's J-Band does it too I believe.

Don Meixner

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: bill kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 09:05 PM

Alley - found this for you:

www.ohek.co.uk/history/coney.htm

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,Alley
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 07:30 PM

Bill: Yes, this is the song. Isn't it great? I have the guitar chords for the chorus, but no chords for the introduction. Can you help me out? Alley

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: Fran
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:58 PM

I first heard this by The Armpit Jug Band, http://www.armpitjugband.co.uk/
there are some small Mp3 clips on the website, the were great fun, so sad they are not playing any longer!

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: bill kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:55 PM

Nestor / Shugart / Durand / Adams 1926

Subject: RE: lyr/Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: bill kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:42 PM

The Mills Brothers recorded this at least twice, very early and very late in thier careers. The early recording from the twenties has lots of voices as instruments, very upbeat, the later version from the forties is slower, smoother and more nostalgic.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD
From: bill kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:40 PM

Down by the beach there's the cutest little peach
And I must say, she has the cutest way
Playing a chord upon her washboard
Folks would gather 'round from everywhere in town
just to hear her play! (on a . . . )

(G)Coney Island washboard she would(E7) play,
you could (A7)hear her on the boardwalk every day
(D7)soapsuds all around, (G)bubbles on the (E7)ground
(A7)Rub a dub a dub in her little tub (D7)all those tunes she found
(G)thimbles on her fingers made a (E7)noise
she played (A7)Charleston on the laundry for the boys
she could (C)rag a tune right (C#o)through the knees
of a (G)brand new pair of (E7)BVDs,
(A7)Coney Island (D7)Washboard rounde-(G)lay

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:10 PM

Yep, used to sing it in the East End (of London) pubs back in the late fifties, have been known to do it more reently too. Learnt it from a recording by Clancy Hayes. He was from San Francisco if my memory is correct and sang with either Turk Murphy's band or Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz band. It was on the Goodtime Jazz Label and I still have the 78. I'm sure it must have been re-issued.
Not greatlyrics but good for a rowdy drunken crowd.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:07 PM

Found this, is this it and is there more?

CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD ROUNDELAY - Lyrics
G E7
Coney Island washboard she would play,

A7
you could hear her on the boardwalk every day

D7 G E7
soapsuds all around, bubbles on the ground

A7 D7
Rub a dub a dub in her little tub all those tunes she found

G E7
thimbles on her fingers made a noise

A
she played Charleston on the laundry for the boys

C C#o
she could rag a tune right through the knees

G E7 A7 D7 G

http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/83/lyrics_1475.php

Subject: Chord Req: Coney Island Washboard
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 02:56 PM

Heard this great song today. It is a l926 song, music by: Hampton Durand and Jerry Adams, and words by: Ned Nester. Has anyone ever heard it? Would love to get the music.

Alley