Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag (Garland, Horton)

Subject: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Jeep man
Date: 29 May 00 - 04:14 PM

Sure would lik the words to this one. Porter Wagoner made it popular years ago, and it may still be under copywrite. I just neet to sing it. Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 30 May 00 - 10:15 AM

You can find A VERSION at Motoya Kitagawa's Bluegrass Songbook-

* CLICK HERE *

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Jeep man
Date: 30 May 00 - 08:47 PM

Now if I can just get the chords. J

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From:
Date: 30 May 00 - 09:43 PM

Try this

Sugarfoot Rag Tab

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Pene Azul
Date: 30 May 00 - 09:44 PM

Here's a MIDI. Found on this page.

PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 May 00 - 11:33 PM

Sugarfoot Rag was based on an older fiddle tune. I know that it was recorded on a square dance record (78) by Roy Acuff; it might have been called Dance Around, Molly. Does anybody know anything about it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Metchosin
Date: 30 May 00 - 11:45 PM

Dick, my brother has recorded Sugarfoot Congress as a traditional fiddle piece with the Walter Bodega Band here with a sound clip, but it doesn't sound like the midi. Are they two different songs?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Metchosin
Date: 30 May 00 - 11:52 PM

If they are the same song Jeepman, I can send you the whole song on an MP3, as I have the bands permission and I have sent some cuts to Max and I'll be sending the whole CD too, for use on Mudcat Radio.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 May 00 - 12:26 AM

Sugarfoot always sounds a lot like Cripple Creek to me, except for one part that goes to a minor chord........

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Stewie
Date: 31 May 00 - 02:54 AM

The Decca 'From the Vaults' 3CD country music boxed set has 'Sugarfoot Rag' by Hank 'Sugarfoot' Garland. I am not aware of Garland, but country music reference books indicate that he was a great country/jazz guitarist who, with Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Grady Martin etc, was instrumental in developing the Nashville sound (God forgive them all) in the late 50s. His career was cut short in 1963 by a near-fatal car accident. Given his nickname, maybe the tune, or that incarnation of it, originated with him.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 31 May 00 - 09:35 PM

DECCA VAULT notes for SUGARFOOT RAG
states that Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland
borrowed the melody from the traditional
fiddle tune "Merry Little Widow".
Lyrics by George "Vaughn" Horton.

Subject: Lyr Add: SUGARFOOT RAG (H Garland, G Vaughn)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 12:26 AM

Collated from various sources on the Internet, and compared with as many sound samples as I could find:

SUGARFOOT RAG (a.k.a. SUGAR FOOT RAG)
(Hank Garland (BMI) [pseudonym of Walter Garland]; and George Vaughn (ASCAP) [pseudonym of Vaughn Horton], 1951)

Gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes,
Meet my baby and tell her the news:
I bet my bundle on a swayback nag
And I came home a winner with a-plenty of swag.

CHORUS: One-foot, two-foot, slew-foot, drag.
Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag.
Do [or "dig"] a little jig with a ziggety-zag [or "zig and a zag"]
While the guitar's* pickin' out the sugarfoot rag.
[*Or whatever instrument plays the following break.]

Got a big jug of cider and a bottle of wine.
One's for my honey and the other one's mine.
Sip on the cider and sip on the wine.
Both sip together and a have a good time. CHORUS

Gonna spend all my money and get on a jag,
Swing my honey to the sugarfoot rag.
Walk right up and stomp on the floor,
And swing up the middle with a shoofly four. CHORUS

[Recorded by Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, The Browns, Coteau, Duane Eddy, Ella Fitzgerald, Red Foley, Hank Garland, Hot Rize, Porter Wagoner, and many others. (I suspect some of these are instrumentals only.)]

QUESTIONS:
I know a sycamore is a species of tree, but what does it mean in the first line?
And what the heck is a sugarfoot?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: Padre
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 11:19 PM

"Sugarfoot, a nickname denoting one grade lower than a tenderfoot." This is from the old TV series "Sugarfoot" starring Will Hutchins.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 05:10 PM

Sugarfoot...sugarfoot
Easy lopin' cattle ropin' Sugarfoot
Carefree as the tumbleweed"

Thanks, Padre. For the life of me I could not remember the actor's name.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag chords
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 01:36 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sugarfoot Rag
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 01:56 PM

this is such an awesome song...

i hope that everyone has heard Junior Brown's version(s) of it.

for those who havent, he does a heavier blusier version of it, and mixes in some rock n roll.... good ole' junior brown!