Lyr Req: Angeline the Baker

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:59 PM

Angelina Baker cooks with Chocolade,
But the way her cookies taste, it's a little odd.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker
From:
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:57 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 08:00 PM

Good digging, Dicho. Maybe it will provoke someone else to get to work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 07:55 PM

Cotton-eyed Joe; an unanswerable question? I checked my books on American slang and came up dry. On google, I found that a library director, Univ. Texas asked this question on a chat line of Rice Univ. ([e-mail]) and received no reply. I found a version where cotton-eyed Joe is a horse. Cotton-eyed Joe you mean outlaw/ Worst durn hoss I ever saw/ Hold my fiddle and hold my bow/ I'm gonna dance that Cotton-eyed Joe. The piece is a traditional fiddle tune and has as many versions as there are performers. Another interesting word is the verb cotton- I don't cotton to her, etc. Perhaps from a Welsh word meaning like or care for.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 05:43 PM

I wonder if "cotton eyed" refers to squinting, after a hot day of working in the cotton field. Just speculating. I've only worked in hay fields. Good question.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Margo
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 01:28 AM

I'd still like to know what being "Cotton Eyed" is...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: RWilhelm
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 01:26 AM

While we are on the subject, can someone tell me which is more correct, "Angeline the Baker" or "Angelina Baker"? I once referred to the song as "Angeline the Baker" and was sharply corrected, but that's the way I learned it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:34 PM

Margo, you're probably right. Although, I'm not sure if I started singing those verses to the contradance tune or if it were someone else:

Whiskey went and tore me clothes,
Whisky for me Johnny-o,
Whiskey gave me this broken nose,
Whiskey for me Johnny-o!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Margo
Date: 10 Aug 01 - 11:48 AM

John, thanks for the recording references!

Charley, the lyrics you have above sound like "Whiskey Johnny", a sea shantey. I've heard it Whiskey for my Johnny O. Might be a differen tune.... I don't know.

Margo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:32 PM

Never heard the above words used for this tune. Out in Michigan we used to use verses like this:

Whiskey killed me poor old dad,
Whiskey for me daddy-o,
Whiskey drove me mother mad,
Whiskey for me daddy-o!

We'd borrow verses from cowboy songs like "Rye Whiskey" and sea shanties like "Whiskey-O". Are you sure the words in the DT scan with the tune?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the Baker
From: Margo
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:24 AM

I play a version of Angelina the Baker that is from my clawhammer banjo method book by Ken Perlman. The melody as it is in my book fits with the Stephen Foster lyrics. Interesting! Margo in Vancouver Washington

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the Baker
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:02 AM

Well, the Stephen Foster lyrics are in this thread (click). You'll find totally different lyrics in our database here (click).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the Baker
From: Jacob B
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:58 PM

Here is a link to the words in the DigiTrad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the Baker
From: GUEST,Barry Finn
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:55 PM

Way back there was a thread on this I think it had the words. Barry

Subject: Angeline the Baker
From: GUEST,David Thompson, Portland, OR
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:42 PM

Looking for the lyrics to this song. Found the Stephen Foster words, nothing like what I heard (but forgot) last summer in N. Carolina, sung by a truck driver from Texas. It's a great tune so if you can help me out...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 10:59 AM

doesterr,

Yours is coming

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Feb 00 - 10:35 AM

Absolutely great! Praise for Praise!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 09:16 PM

Joe!! I was thrilled to have someone ask for two songs we love so much, and busy writing to you and not blue-clickying! You still the man, man!


A Delta Blues beat and guitar... [Beebo dee! dah! doo, doddy doo... dee doodie doo dah doo...]

OUR BLUE-CLICKIE MAN Lemme tell ya 'bout Offer, (dup dee duh) Joe de Offer Man (dee doodie doo dah doo).
He de bes' blue clickie (dup dee duh), he no also ran (bee deedle dee doo dee DUM DUM).
He can fin' yo song so sweet,
He can find de tuine to beat.
Oh Lordy! (dup dee duh) He de Offer Man (bee deedle dee doo dee).

Our man have de clickies (dup dee duh), do a real fine job (dee doodie doo dah doo),
Our man wit de cookies (dup dee DUH) feed de hungry mob (bee deedle dee doo dee DUM DUM).
He no part time Offer Man.
Always do the bes' he can!
Joe Offer! (dup dee duh) our bes' Blue Clickie Man. [fiddles take it!]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:56 PM

Durn. She beat me. The record is two minutes, with a response that includes a clickable link. Think she'll be able to beat that???
I think it was Jeri who made it in two minutes. My best is three minutes.
-Joe, miffed-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:54 PM

Well, we have the one song listed as ANGELINA BAKER, and as Angelina Baker (click) in the Forum.
WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST (click) is in the database.
Sometimes, it takes a while to get the hang of our search engines, but they ain't too hard. Hope that helps.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Angeline the baker & whiskey before
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:51 PM

Angeline the Baker is oin the DigiTrad database as ANGELINA BAKER. (See the pretty blue box.) It's one of those make-a-verse things so you can add whatever words you like.

WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST is also immortalized in the DT. In the DT, the chorus goes,

Lord protect us, Saints preserve us We been drinkin' whiskey 'fore breakfast

At our house, we know it as:

Lord have mercy, bless and protect us, We're having whiskey before breakfast.

Enjoy!

Subject: Angeline the baker & whiskey before brea
From: GUEST,G_Smolt
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:46 PM

ohhh puhleeeezeplease help, I have been playing these dam' songs for years and still don't know the lyrics so if anyone out there can help me get in touch with the words I would be most grateful thanks in advance G_Smolt

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-Joe Offer-