Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes

Subject: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST,Banjer Holler
Date: 06 May 14 - 01:42 PM

Hey folks, I've been trying for quite some time to discern some lyrics in this Old Time tunes medley by Gid Tanner & Fate Norris, as well as identify some song titles.

Youtube Link Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGfVejS7QA

What I've got so far:

The first one has a line "Down where those orange blossoms grow'' but doesn't seem to fit in to any settings of the song I've found on here,

I know the words and title to the second one, ''Born In A Mighty Bad Land''

The third one is Live In The High Way Till I Die

The last one I am having trouble identifying, I believe it mentions tobacco in the lyrics, and I have discerned: I learned down there in school one day, two and two make four, and here's a little bit, add it to what you've got, could you make just a little bit more. Anyone familiar with this tune? The only other time I have heard it is Columbia 150-D Chicken Don't Roost Too High For Me/I Don't Love Nobody Medley by Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett.

Youtube Link Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTyVljVpfo

Thanks in advance Mudcatters!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST,Larry the Radio Guy
Date: 06 May 14 - 03:04 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGfVejS7QA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTyVljVpfo


Let me try transform your links into 'blue clicky's". Hope it works---I'm fairly new myself at doing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST
Date: 06 May 14 - 08:13 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtF-NNrRBsM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtF-NNrRBsM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST,Tony
Date: 06 May 14 - 10:52 PM

The lyrics to both of those songs contain racial slurs that fun-loving southern mountain folk at that time thought were pretty cool, but which would be considered offensive today.

The lyrics to his best song, Tanner's Farm, are humorous without being offensive, and they're posted in a Mudcat thread as "Penny's Farm."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 May 14 - 12:23 PM

How in the world do you know that? Most of the lyrics are totally incomprehensible.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 May 14 - 01:50 PM

Where the Orange Blossoms Grow:
Sheet music at Lib. Congress, written 1884, waltz, Adam Giebel. See at American Memory. Also a thread on this song here at mudcat, 57589:

Where the orange blossoms grow

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 May 14 - 02:13 PM

I have just posted "Girl From Tennessee," the song about the 'highways'.

Thought it was already in mudcat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: GUEST,Tony
Date: 07 May 14 - 02:16 PM

Q: That's not what the Skillet Lickers are singing.

leeneia: It's just a question of dialect, and I happen to be familiar with that one.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: Lighter
Date: 07 May 14 - 05:02 PM

Just listened to "Tanner's Farm."

A few words are hard to catch, but from what I do hear, which is most all of them, and what I know of how words sound and fit into sentences, I can't hear anything "offensive" (i.e., racist) in the lyrics.

Tanner was born in 1885 in north central Georgia. He's got that Deep-South accent that used to be the stereotype ("Don' evvuh say 'nevvuh' own the rivvuh!"), but that nowadays you mostly hear further South and nearer the coast.

Even Jimmy Carter, born further South but nearly forty years later sounds less "old-fashioned" to me than does Tanner.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Help Identifying Tunes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 May 14 - 12:48 AM

refresh, compensating for our downtime