Lyr Req: Wabash Blues (Dave Ringle, Fred Meinken)

Subject: Lyr Req: Wabash Blues
From: DobroBob
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 02:01 PM

Looking for yet another one....

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Messages from multiple threads combined.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: Wabash Blues Melody
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 12:46 AM

OK, friends, I have looked EVERYWHERE I can think of for the melody line to Wabash Blues. Anybody have it? I will accept abc,MIDI,any key, anything.........HELP! (pleeze?)

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:26 AM

Hey, Sorcha, you don't have to beg, surely it hasn't come to that?

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: GUEST,ddw
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 10:05 PM

...or maybe it has.

Sorcha, maybe you have some more info that would be helpful — like where you got the lyrics, who sings it, etc. I thought I had a pretty extensive blues collection, but I've never heard of it. Or is it one of those misnamed "blues" that's not really a blues at all? I'm willing to do some poking around when I get home tonight, but more info would be helpful.

cheers

david

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 10:42 PM

I FINALLY found it--in a vocal/piano score, in Eb, but I can deal with that. Just in case you still want to know, lyrics are by Dave Ringle,music by Fred Meinken, pub. by Leo feist in 1921. Played by the Dixie Stompers and Firehouse Six plus 1, no doubt others.

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: GUEST,ddw
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 10:48 PM

Sorcha, that's great. Would you mind posting a URL for where you found it? I'm always interested in finding new songs. I've got one or two cuts by the Dixie Stompers on compilation albums, but I don't think WB is one of them.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 11:09 PM

This is it, but it is a bearcat to get to. I finally got there through the main uchicago page. If you don't get there, URL is eos.lib.uchicago.edu/score_images/Wabash_Blues. I saved it, and could e mail it to you, but it's pretty big.

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: GUEST,ddw
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 11:26 PM

Sorcha, thanx!

david

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 11:52 PM

Neither the link nor the URL worked for me-- help?

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: ddw
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 12:41 AM

Actually, neither worked for me either, but don't bother with the e-mail. I've got the URL copied down and I'll play around with it when I have more time. If I can't get to it after a few more tries, maybe I'll send you a PM and ask for it or something. Thanx anyway.

david

Subject: RE: Wabash Blues Melody
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 09:56 AM

Try this one, then scroll down on left hand frame and click "W" in the browse alphabetical section. "Wabash" should be first in line. URL is http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/hi-fido/.

Subject: ADD: Wabash Blues
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:49 PM

I came across this and wondered why nobody had posted the lyrics. Now I know - too dang complicated. See the sheet music Sorcha linked to .
-Joe Offer-

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WABASH BLUES
(Dave Ringle & Fred Meinken)

Nearly broken hearted since the day that I once started from my Wabash home,
Indiana's sweet and it's a place that's hard to beat but then I longed to roam,
My old homestead I now can see, I had a girl as sweet as could be,
Now every day I'm so lonesome it's misery.

CHORUS
Oh, those Wabash Blues' I know I got my dues,
A lonesome sould am I, I feel that I could die.
Candle light that gleams, haunts me in my dreams
I'll pack my walking shoes - to lose those Wabash Blues.

I am just a mourner for each little nook and corner that I used to know,
No more will I linger 'cause I see a warning finger pointing where to go
There's no reason why I should stay, I'll take a hint and beat it away,
Old memories bring recollections the while I say:
CHORUS

PATTER CHORUS
Through the sycamore the candle light is burning bright
Memory brings the scent of new-mown hay to me each night
I am starting for that spot no need to ask me when
I'll be leaving hoofprints t'ward the old home road again.

'Xpect to see the moonshine on the Wabash any night
Seems that such a picture's bound to turn me to the right
Making up my mind to see that home so far away
But until that happens here's the best that I can say:


lyrics by Dave Ringle & music by Fred Meinken
Copyright 1921, Leo Feist, Inc.

from sheet music available online at the University of Chicago, www.lib.uchicago.edu

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Subject: RE: Wabash Blues - Lyrics & Melody
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 02:35 PM

Great Chris Barber record of this.