Lyr Req: Gone Downtown With the Hard Case Boys

Subject: Lyr Req: Gone Downtown With the Hard Case Boys
From: jody
Date: 26 Dec 23 - 11:55 PM

I used to know this song back in the 70's and would love to see the lyrics. Here are a few lines...

I wasn't doing nothing that I couldn't leave off so I had me a quart of beer

We sole a car and crashed it "with the fender deep in the stream... seemed like a terrible dream.

There wasn't but one thin timber wall between me and that crowd
But I wisht it was three times as think 'cause I never heard nothing so loud
I never heard nothing so loud in my life, Oh Lord what a terrible noise
I wisht I never had Gone Downtown and joined with the Hard Case Boys

Could this be from the singing of Ed Tricket on Folkways?

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gone Downtown With the Hard Case Boys
From: Zhenya
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 12:25 AM

You guessed correctly! It’s from Ed Trickett’s Folk Legacy album Gently Down the Stream of Time. The title of the song is Tear Old Wilson Down, and per the liner notes, the song is by Bob Coltman.

I found the lyrics on the Smithsonian Folkways site, which has the Folk Legacy albums and all the liner notes as pdfs. I tried to copy the whole song here, but I’m out of town with only a tablet and that didn’t work correctly. But you can check here for the liner notes which include the full lyrics:

Gently Down the Stream of Time liner notes on Smithsonian Folkways site

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gone Downtown With the Hard Case Boys
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 12:29 AM

Hi, Jody - I'll bet it's Tear Old Wilson Down (click), by longtime Mudcatter Bob Coltman.

Here's the Ed Trickett recording on Folk-Legacy (now Folkways): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgOj2Ohftug