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Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics

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GUEST,Marcy 02 Aug 13 - 06:53 AM
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GUEST,Marcy 07 Aug 13 - 09:00 AM
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Subject: Lyr Add: BACK UP AND PUSH (from June Carter Cash)
From: GUEST,Marcy
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 06:53 AM

Hi you all. I'm curious about the lyrics to the fiddle tune Back Up And Push. The only one I've found who performs the song with vocals is June Carter Cash. Here's the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmTBPoMIL0
Are these traditional lyrics and has anyone else recorded them? The words are...

BACK UP AND PUSH
(As recorded by June Carter Cash)

Do you ever wonder about the riddle,
What kind of spirit lives in a fiddle?
Well that's old Satan right there waiting.
Or are you tuned with the angel band?

CHORUS:
You back up and push, back up and push,
Back off from glory in.
You can't go wrong singing this song.
Back up and push away.

Verse 2:
If you let the devil play on your senses
Prepare to suffer the consequences.
The foolish measure of worldly pleasure
Can only drag you to the roaring fire.
CHORUS


Just curious if anyone's heard these words or knows when they were written.


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Subject: RE: Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:17 PM

Boy, I don't know how you'd tell who wrote that one. The songfile.com utility of the Harry Fox Agency lists versions attributed to 12 different people:

BACK UP AND PUSH        B3639P        BILL MONROE
BACK UP AND PUSH        B10820        WARD ALLEN
BACK UP AND PUSH        B10819        KRISTIN WILKINSON, BUDDY SPICHER
BACK UP AND PUSH        B10818        FRED HERRON
BACK UP AND PUSH        B42052        CHET ATKINS
BACK UP AND PUSH        B30145        LARRY ROGERS, BILLIE TUCKER, GIL MICHAEL
BACK UP AND PUSH        B10822        ROY L. CLARK
BACK UP AND PUSH        B21869        BOB MILLER
BACK UP AND PUSH        B3669O        RALPH JOE MEADOWS
BACK UP AND PUSH        B37346        CHARLIE DANIELS
BACK UP AND PUSH        B5247C        WILLIAM YORK
BACK UP AND PUSH        B2272M        JOHNNY GIMBLE


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Subject: RE: Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics
From: GUEST,Marcy
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 09:00 AM

Thanks so much. I checked out these versions--or at least the ones I could find--and they seem to be instrumentals. It's a puzzle to me where the words came in and why they're not used more often.


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Subject: RE: Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 09:21 AM

Look on Youtube, too. It's an often overlooked resource.


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Subject: RE: Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 10:49 AM

The tune for "Back Up & Push" is actually one strain from the ragtime piano piece "Creole Belles". Several songs have been sung to it, listen to Mississippi John Hurt for a couple. It is also as a kids skipping song and has been recorded as "Rubber Dolly Rag".

Hoot


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Subject: RE: Origin: Back Up And Push lyrics
From: PHJim
Date: 20 May 18 - 09:33 AM

11 years later - The late Raymond McLain, the father/grandfather/great-grandfather of the wonderful McLain Family Band from Berea, Kentucky was the writer of these lyrics to "Back Up & Push".


Back Up & Push - McLain Family


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