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Lyr Req: Let Your Money Talk (Kokomo Arnold)
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Subject: Lyr Req: 'Let Your Money Talk' by Kokomo Arnold From: GUEST,barry biesanz Date: 08 Feb 04 - 06:17 PM Years ago I had an LP with Kokomo Arnold on one side, and Bukka White on the other. Kokomo did a great version of Alabama Bound called Let Your Money Talk. My mental folk processor tells me it was a slide tune in open G, possibly capoed up. Some of the words include: Elder Green's in town (2x) second time is an instrumental repeat He's got it painted all over his automobile He's Alabama bound. Well the rooster crowed (2x) And the hen ran around (2x) Said if you want my love, sweet babe You got to run me down Let your money talk 4x If you want to ride you don't have to walk just let your money talk Great tune, but I'm missing several verses, and there's a reference to 'rush the can' that I've never figured out...anyone got feedback on that? Thanks, Barry |
Subject: Lyr Add: LET YOUR MONEY TALK (Kokomo Arnold) From: Stewie Date: 08 Feb 04 - 10:42 PM I have it on an old Blues Classics LP with Kokomo Arnold on one side and Peetie Wheatstraw on the other. This version does not have the first two stanzas that you quote above. Below is what I hear - I have put in brackets words or phrases I am not certain of. LET YOUR MONEY TALK Let your money talk Let your money talk Let your money talk Let your money talk If you feel like ridin' And don't want to walk Let your money talk Ah you look so (neat) And you look so (neat) And you talk so sweet You talk so sweet Now you can't get by No matter how you try On your dead beat (Could be: oh you're dead beat) Let your money talk Let your money talk So we can hear So we can hear If you ain't comin' back Tell me right now Leave a dime for beer Let your money talk Let your money talk Put it in my hand Put it in my hand If you like your (cool kind) Barefooted mama, we can rush the can If you go to the butcher's If you go to the butcher's To get your sausage (fryin') Your sausage (fryin') If you cain't get it in the front You don't want it behind You want your ashes hauled You want your ashes hauled And ain't got no man Ain't got no man Just lay it on the wood, pretty mama, Do the best I can If you want to boogie-woogie If you want to boogie-woogie And haven't got the price And haven't got the price Just let the landlady know, (old man) And she will put it on ice If you can't see If you can't see If you're deaf and dumb If you're deaf and dumb Don't stand around lookin' cute And on the bum Source: transcription of Kokomo Arnold 'Let Your Money Talk' recorded on 18 April 1935 in Chicago and issued as Decca 7191. Reissued on 'Kokoko Arnold/Peetie Wheatstraw Blues Classics LP 4. If you put "rush the can" in a google search, you get a variety of examples of how the term has been used, but no specific definitions: Google search results The most useful in this context seems to be: "rush the can" — A description of what criminals did when they were lying low in Chicago during the winter. They settles down in their accustomed haunts, "rush the can" and follow their vocation of robbery only when something particularly "easy" turns up or when bad whisky has got the better of their judgment. (Chicago Daily News, November 13, 1897.) --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Let Your Money Talk' by Kokomo Arnold From: Jim Dixon Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:00 PM This song has some things in common with ALABAMA BOUND. By the way, the version of ALABAMA BOUND in the DT leaves out the call-and-response structure that I recall someone using—I don't know if it was Lead Belly: I'm Alabama bound (I'm Alabama bound) I'm Alabama bound (I'm Alabama bound) And if the train don't stop and turn around I'm Alabama bound (I'm Alabama bound) LET YOUR MONEY TALK seems to have a similar structure, but Kokomo Arnold seems to be singing both the call and response by himself. Another feature the two songs have in common is the line "Leave [me] a dime for beer." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Let Your Money Talk' by Kokomo Arnold From: GUEST,barry biesanz Date: 11 Feb 04 - 07:01 PM Thanks, Stewie, that is the stuff! And my memory sure ran it through the folk processor. I googled 'rush the ca', and think it usually means buying beer by the pail. Here the line could be, he's hitting her up for some cash, and saying, :"if you like your cool something beer sweet mam, we can rush the can." And I agree, Jim this is a variation on Alabama bound. My thanks to you both. Barry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Let Your Money Talk' by Kokomo Arnold From: GUEST Date: 27 Aug 05 - 03:00 PM "Rush the can" means making a run at an occupied outhouse thus disrupting someone's urgent deposit. (At least in my part of KY) |
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