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Subject: I Hope I Live a Few More Days From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 17 Jul 99 - 07:20 AM Doc Boggs had a great song called "I Hope I Live a Few More Days". I especially like the banjo part. Can anyone give me the words. The first line seems to be I hope I live a few more days and god will give me grace. It seems to be a lament/complaint of a jilted lover. Thanks Murray |
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Subject: RE: I Hope I Live a Few More Days From: Peter T. Date: 17 Jul 99 - 02:15 PM I have this at home on the Smithsonian Folkways re-release, and will check it out for you in the next day or two. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I HOPE I LIVE A FEW MORE DAYS (Dock Boggs From: Peter T. Date: 18 Jul 99 - 11:45 AM A great album, a great man. A couple of these lines have given me trouble. But... I HOPE I LIVE A FEW MORE DAYS (said to be from relatives of his) I hope I live a few more days And God will give me grace I'll buy me a bottle of Ethermotor(?) drops To wash out the seeds of face (?) Oh, I will come in but I won't sit down, For I want (won't?) hardly time, I truly understand you love another one Sweet, are no longer mine Oh, now you are a married man A-living at your ease, While my poor heart is broken and troubled No pleasure do I see. Oh, you know what you promised me When you gave me your right hand Said if ever you did marry in this wide world That I should be the one (s). Oh, now you are a married man (repeat earlier verse) Oh many other girls they dress so fine And off to church they'll go, While me, a poor girl has to stay at home And rock the cradle and sow. Oh many other girls they drive fine cars And off to the store and buy While me, a poor girl, has to stay at home And rock the cradle and cry. --from Smithsonian Folkways: Dock Boggs, His Folkways Years (1963-1968). |
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Subject: RE: I Hope I Live a Few More Days From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 18 Jul 99 - 10:53 PM First of all Peter, I am glad to know about the Smithsonian re-release. I will put that on my shopping list. The line "To wash out seeds..." might be "to wash your deceitful face". That fits anyway. Murray |
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Subject: Dock Boggs Recordings From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Jul 99 - 04:01 AM The Folkways Dock Boggs 2-CD set is a serious bargain. CDNow has it for $14.99 - 50 songs. Click here and take a look -Joe Offer- |
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