Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)

Subject: Hound Dog Taylor
From:
Date: 07 Apr 97 - 04:29 PM

I'm looking for lyrics to "Give Me Back My Wig" by Hound Dog Taylor. I got most of them from listening to the CD (Alligator Records 30th Aninversary set) but there are a few that are extrememly hard to make out. Please email me if you know or know where to find.

Thanks Steve [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Hound Dog Taylor
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 07 Apr 97 - 05:14 PM

Your best bet might be writing to Alligator's president, Bruce Iglauer at the address on the CD. In my experience, he's very personable and willing to help. Worth a 32-cent shot, anyway!

Subject: Lyr Add: GIVE ME BACK MY WIG (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 01:25 AM

Copied from http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/g/givemebackmywig.shtml

GIVE ME BACK MY WIG
Hound Dog Taylor

Give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn't have no business
Honey buyin' you no wig at all.

Takin' me downtown
Say four forty nine,
When I get down there
I swear, nine ninety nine.

You just give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn't have no business
Honey buyin' you no wig at all.

Yeah my Mama told me
And your good friend too,
When you get that wig
That's the way you gonna do.

You just give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn't have no business
Honey buyin' you no wig at all.

Goodbye little one
All I got to say.
Give me back my wig and be
On your merry way.

You just give me back my wig
Honey, now let your head go bald.
Really didn't have no business
Honey buyin' you no wig at all

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: GUEST,Dave Ruch
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 08:14 PM

We spent HOURS in college listening to that particular cut, from one of Hound Dog Taylor's Alligator releases. God, the drive, the overall vibe and the singing are just unparalleled. A true power trio, with no bass guitar! Thanks for reminding me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Aug 08 - 05:01 AM

Hound Dog seems had a huge advantage over other guitar players, having six fingers on his left hand !!


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CdgHWT3S-Hg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_Taylor

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 05 Aug 08 - 10:55 AM

At the risk of being pedantic,I believe you will find that Hound Dog only ever played with a slide on his left hand so he never used more than one digit on that one.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 08:55 AM

'he never used more than one digit on that one.'

How did he hold the slide with 1 finger? Didn't he use a thumb [opposable] too?

[see moi can be pedantic aussi!] 8-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 02:08 PM

When playing "lap-style," a technique often employed by dobro, pedal-steel and lap-steel players, the slide is usually held by its outer surface, using the thumb and one or more other fingers, and pressed down against a fretboard that is facing up.

The "bottleneck" technique used by blues players who hold the guitar in the more conventional manner, with the fretboard and soundhole oriented vertically and facing out and away from the player, involves inserting ONE finger into a tubular device (made either of glass, like a broken-off-and-sanded bottleneck or a factory-made slide, or of metal, like a short piece of pipe).

So, yeah, old Hound Dog ~ like very many blues guitarists, old and young, black and white ~ absolutely holds/held his slide with a single left-hand finger. (Not sure whether to use past or present tense: is he still alive and playing?)

Incidentally, many players who "wear" the slide this way on a single finger (ring or pinkie) use the remaining two or three left-hand fingers to play some notes/chords in-between other notes/phrases that are "slid." Much of the Robert Johnson songbook consists of numbers that require this technique. So, a sixth finger on the left hand could indeed be an advantage for a slide-guitar player. Hound Dog Taylor, however, used the slide pretty much exclusively, rarely if ever using a bare finger to fret a note. That's how I remember his playing from when I last saw him in person ~ but that was back in 1968!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 06:55 PM

Birth name Theodore Roosevelt Taylor

Born April 12, 1915(1915-04-12)
Natchez, Mississippi

Died December 17, 1975 (aged 60)