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Subject: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: lefthanded guitar Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:03 PM I will be doing a short set at a restaurant patio this autumn, and I want to include some travellin' songs. Seems right for the fall. I have this line (and the shred of a melody) stuck in my head that seems to go "hand me down my walking shoes"...and/or.."my walking cane." I am sure the lyric is from some acoustic country style delta blues (since I love acoustic delta blues) and there's probably more than one version of the tune. But I can't..ah...remember it. Anyone know a song like that? (these senior moments seem to be progressing with more freqency than I have requested) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:11 PM In the DT. Also see thread 37822 and others- Walking Cane |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,Nick E Date: 27 Aug 08 - 10:24 PM I remember a song from Elvin Bishop called Travelin' Shoes the lyric...Hand Me Down My Coat & Hat & My Walking Cane, I got to put on my travilin' shoes |
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Subject: ADD: Walkin' Man (Guy Clark) From: GUEST,Louise Date: 28 Aug 08 - 12:24 AM There's also Guy Clark's "Walkin' Man" on his Workbench Songs CD: Walkin' Man (Guy Clark) Now what's up with the walkin' man I wonder where he's gone Marchin' down to Birmingham I think I'll tag along Was a walkin' man come by here a hundred years ago Walkin' down the trail of tears Out to Oklahom-i-o, out to Oklahome Chorus: Hand me down my walkin' shoes Hand me down my cane Tune me up my mandolin I'll be on my way, hey sure does smell like rain Woodie Guthrie was a walkin' man in the dust bowl days Had a six-string guitar in his hands He killed a fascist every day Chuck Berry is a walkin' man So was Ghandi too Lace me up my ol' Brogans That's just what I'll do I got walkin' left to do Chorus If I had shoes like the walkin' man Tell you what I'd do I'd walk away and not come back Till I got to Katmandu-da-do-da All the do-da-day |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Aug 08 - 12:43 AM I'd swear I've heard a version of the song that goes, "Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes," but I don't think one has been posted. Anybody got a version? -Joe- |
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Subject: ADD: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,Hootenanny Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:33 AM Joe, are you thinking of the song by Howling Wolf among others "Meet me in the Bottom"; Meet me in the bottom, hand me down my walking shoes etc. "Hand me Down my Walking Cane" is not the same song: HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE Hand me down my walking cane Hand me down my walking cane Hand me down my walking cane I'm gonna leave on that midnight train All my sins taken away taken away I got drunk got throwed in Jail x3 Had nobody to go my Bail All my sins etc The peas were hard and the meat was tough x 3 Oh my Lord I couldn't eat that stuff Ally my sins etc If I die in Tennessee x3 Send my body back C.O.D All my sins ect Repeat first verse. That's as I recall it but of course others will know variants. Hoot |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:25 AM "Ghandi" - never was anyone of that name. Gandhi, please... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my c From: Mooh Date: 28 Aug 08 - 11:05 AM Hand Me Down My Walking Cane appears on Norman Blake's wonderful album Whiskey Before Breakfast (mid '70s). I've been singing it ever since. It also appears, unattributed, in the book "Songs For Pickin' And Singin'" (selected and arranged by James F. Leisy) which I luckily found on my parents' bookshelf all those years ago. (The book has my mom's and my sister's names in it before my own...funny how a 50 cent song book from the '60s made the rounds!) To my ears, it's the kind of timeless melody which makes it attractive to all listeners, and repeatable. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my c From: Mooh Date: 28 Aug 08 - 11:08 AM Lefthanded guitar...PM sent and offer made. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: RUBBERBAND MAN (from The Spinners [US]) From: Amos Date: 28 Aug 08 - 11:17 AM Not to be confused with "The Rubber Band Man" by the Spinners, which uses a similar opening couplet: RUBBERBAND MAN (from The Spinners [US]) Hand me down my walkin' cane Hand me down my hat Hurry now and don't be late 'Cause we ain't got time to chat You and me we're goin' out To catch the latest sound Guaranteed to blow your mind So high you won't come down Hey, y'all prepare yourself For the Rubberband man You never heard a sound Like the rubberband man You're bound to lose control When the Rubberband starts to jam Oh, Lord, this dude is outta sight Everything he does Seems to come out right Once I went to hear them play At a club outside of town I was so surprised, I was hypnotized By the sound these cats put down When I saw this short fat guy Stretch a band between his toes Hey, I laughed so hard 'Cause the band got down When he finally reached his nose Hey, y'all prepare yourself For the Rubberband man You never heard a sound Like the rubberband man You're bound to lose control When the Rubberband starts to jam Got that rubberband Up on his toes And then he wriggled it up All around his nose (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Guaranteed to blow your mind (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Playin' all that music, yet keepin' time (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Where in the world did he learn that, oh, Lord, huh (Doo doo doo doo doo) Lord, help him get away Hey, y'all prepare yourself For the Rubberband man You never heard a sound Like the Rubberband man You're bound to lose control When the Rubberband starts to jam Doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo Rubberband man, Rubberband man How much of this stuff do he think we can stand So much rhythm, grace and debonair from one man, Lord And then he had nerve to wiggle his left toe To his knee, got the feelin' in his head, y'all Ah, come on, baby Hey, y'all prepare yourself For the Rubberband man You never heard a sound Like the rubberband man (He's a Rubberband Man and he likes to Jam) You're bound to lose control When the Rubberband starts to jam Rubberband man starts to jam Movin' up and down across the land Got people all in his ways Everything about him seems out of place Just a movin', just a movin' Just a move-move-movin' Just a Rubberband, Rubberband man Just a movin', just a movin' Just a move-move-movin' Just a Rubberband Rubberband man Get down Oh, get down lover |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: PoppaGator Date: 28 Aug 08 - 12:30 PM Thanks, Amos. I don't know how many times I heard that song on the radio, and never deciphered those rapid-fire lyrics. (These are the US R&B/pop/soul Spinners, by the way, the only one's I ever knew about until fairly recently, when I stumbled into a Mudcat htread discussing a British folk group of the same name.) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my c From: GUEST Date: 10 Oct 08 - 02:12 AM great version also from 1985 ish by the knitters, the country reboot of the LA band X. Substitutes if i die in this hotel for if i die in tennessee jon shestack |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Snuffy Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:41 AM In most versions of HOG-EYE MAN you find something like: Hand me down my walkin' cane, I'm going to see Miss Sally Jane. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Jim Dixon Date: 12 Oct 08 - 01:01 AM There was indeed a song called HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING SHOES recorded by Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen. It's on the album "Pye Jazz Anthology," Castle Music America CD 72012, 2002. It's called "traditional" on that album. I transcribed this from a sound sample: ...my walkin' shoes. Hand me down my walkin' shoes To walk away and leave those blues. Hand me down my walkin' shoes. Hand me down (hand me down) my walkin' shoes (walkin' shoes). Hand me down (hand me down) walkin' shoes (walkin' shoes). Oh, hand me.... [Kenny Ball is a British Dixieland jazz trumpeter best known in the US for his 1961 hit "Midnight in Moscow."] |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie Date: 12 Oct 08 - 07:23 PM The song that comes to mind is Elmore James' "Look on yonders Wall": Look on yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane. Look on yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane. I gotta new woman just like my baby got a new man. (I think) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Cap't Bob Date: 12 Oct 08 - 09:48 PM Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane Yonder comes a man across the field Yonder comes a man across the field, Yonder comes a man across the field kickin' up dust like an automobile All of my sins been taken away CHORUS Hand me down my walking Cane Hand me down my walking cane Hand me down my walking cane I'm leaving on the midnight train All my sins been taken away. Hand me down my bottle of corn X2 Gonna get drunk as sure as you're born All my sins been taken away CHORUS i got drunk and I got in Jail X2 And I got no one to go my bail All my sins been taken away CHORUS The beans was tough and the meat was fat X2 Oh good Lord I can't eat that All my sins been taken away. Wish I'd listened to what mama said Wish I'd listened to what mama said If I'd listened to what mama said I'd be sleeping on a feather bead All my sins been taken away CHORUS |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Snuffy Date: 13 Oct 08 - 09:39 AM Rosie, get my Sunday shoes, Gertie get my walkin' cane; We'll take another walk to see Old Alice sail again. From OLD ZEB |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 13 Oct 08 - 02:54 PM Early recordings of "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane." Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, 1926 Kelly Harrell, 1926 Henry Whitter & Fiddler Joe, 1926 Ernest Stoneman, 1927 Vernon Dalhart, 1927 Carson Robison, 1930 Boswell Sisters and Dorsey Brothers, 1932 I have skipped over some, and the list of later 'covers' is long. Walking Cane "Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet" (random references) Royal Chanters, 1946, Savoy records Rodeheaver, Homer, ed., "Rodeheaver Negro Spirituals, 1923" no. 12. Charles Winters and Elond Autry, date?- before 1942. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 13 Oct 08 - 10:01 PM Anybody familiar with these verses? That walking cane - get up and get it yourself. That walking cane - get up and get it yourself. Cause if you ain't got the gumption to fetch it, Better just leave it on that shelf. That mandolin - you don't know how to tune it? That mandolin - you got no riffs or chops. Maybe you got it cheap on eBay, baby Best take it to a pawnshop. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,Mike Date: 16 Oct 08 - 12:56 PM References to Hand me Down my walking cane/shoes also in John Haitt - Master of Disaster and John Prine - Please don't Bury Me down in that cold cold ground |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: Reiver 2 Date: 16 Oct 08 - 01:59 PM I had no idea that there were so many songs with the "hand me down my walkin' cane" phrase in them. The only version I knew is from a little song book that I had as a young boy (still have it, btw.) The book is "Treasure Chest of Homespun Songs" copyright by Treasure Chest Publications, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1935. No information or notes accompany it, and it contains only the two verses: Hand me down my walkin' cane, Oh hand me down my walkin' cane; Yes hand me down my walkin' cane, For I'm goin' to get that midnight train, 'Cause all my sins are taken away. Hand me down my bottle of corn, Oh hand me down my bottle of corn; Oh hand me down my bottle of corn, For I'm goin' to get drunk sure as you're born, 'Cause all my sins are taken away. In the book the song is accompanied only by a small pen and ink sketch of a black man dressed in a top hat and tuxedo, dancing (or staggering - it's not clear which) down the street with a walking cane in one hand and a jug in the other! Reiver 2 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,crazy little woman Date: 17 Oct 08 - 12:16 PM No, I've never heard your verses before, Leeneia. But they do point out that for a disenchanted, independent guy, he sure does want to be catered to. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,jannick Date: 18 Jan 13 - 08:29 AM in the song walk of life, by the dire straits they sing: Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story --Hand me down my walkin' shoes-- Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat the talkin' blues He got the action, he got the motion Oh Yeah the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the night time into the day |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GUEST,Ben howison Date: 03 Jun 18 - 05:36 PM "Beatnik walking" by Richard Thompson:
And Mr. Murdoch’s news I’m going thunder rain or shine Got a papoose on my back We’re on the right track, Jack To leave the beatnik blues behind |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane From: GerryM Date: 12 Dec 21 - 01:05 AM Tom Paxton wrote a (very different) song, Hand Me Down My Jogging Shoes. https://youtu.be/PNY75wWi-iE |
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