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Subject: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: Lane Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:37 AM Looking for lyrics ... the first verse goes: "Goin down to the river gonna take a long my rocking chair and if these blues dont get me I'm gonna rock, rock away from here...." Or something close.... Thanks! |
Subject: Lyr Add: ROCKING CHAIR BLUES (Bessie Smith) From: Quincy Date: 02 Mar 01 - 05:46 AM Hi Lane.....think this is what you're after.. ROCKING CHAIR BLUES
lyrics by Bessie Smith, music by Bessie Smith and Irving Johns
Did you ever wake up with sorrow all on your mind?
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: Brian Hoskin Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:59 AM The lyric you've posted is a traditional oral formular that has been used in any number of songs. Probably the best known use is in 'Trouble in Mind' Brian |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: Lane Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:37 AM Thanks for the help! I know about half of this song and am thinking that there are other verses out there.... the one that Yvonne posted is not the same song, though I like those lyrics and would like to learn that one, as well.... Yes, the line is used in a number of songs... maybe I can narrow it down.. heres part of another verse that I can remember....
They arrested me in a town down south, and I forget the lyrics from there..... Thanks, all! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:22 AM ... missing from a verse up above (blues jumped a rabbit): ...cried just like a natural-born child. We just had a thread on that song too, on its own-- Blues Jumped a Rabbit. Use Supersearch though, not the filter, to find it-- that wasn't the thread title. ~S~ |
Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHERLESS CHILE BLUES From: GUEST Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:58 AM Lyrics also used in BBQ BOB song "MOTHERLESS CHILE BLUES"
If I mistreat you, girl, sho' don't mean no harm. REPEAT
Please tell me, pretty mama, honey, where'd you stay last night? REPEAT
I had to go so far, girl, just to get my hambone boiled. REPEAT
I did more for you, girl, than your daddy ever done. REPEAT
If you see two women always riding hand in hand, REPEAT
I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rockin' chair. REPEAT Pretty standard lyrics but great tune 12-string tuned to D capoed to 4th fret (6th if you tune your 12-string a step low as is often recommended) lush percussive open sound. GREAT FUN |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: Jeep man Date: 07 Nov 03 - 11:26 PM I heard a snippet by Bert Jansch and really liked it. Can anyone supply his lyrics or something close? Jim |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: GUEST Date: 09 Nov 03 - 11:43 PM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Goin Down to the River....maybe From: Jim Dixon Date: 11 Nov 03 - 09:50 AM I'm goin down to the river, set in my rocking chair, (2x) And if the blues don't find me, gonna rock away from here. --from I Know You Rider in the DT (no attribution). Goin' down to the river. Gonna take my ol' rockin' chair And if the blues don't leave me, I'll rock away from there. --from Trouble in Mind in the DT (no attribution) Going down to the river, take my rocking chair, If that blues overtakes me, rock away from here. --from Boat's Up The River sung by Roscoe Holcomb (in an old thread) When I get the blues gonna give me a rockin' chair(2x) When the blues overtake, gonna rock rock away from here --from Flip, Flop & Fly as sung by The Blues Brothers Going downtown to get a rockin' chair Gonna rock, baby rock, away from here --from Rockin' With Red sung by Red Hadley. I'm goin' down the river, goin' down the river, Goin' to take my rockin' chair. Goin' to the river, goin' to take my rockin' chair. Blues overtake me, goin' to rock away from here. --from Mr. Crump by W. C. Handy Wish I was in shady grove sittin in a rockin chair And if those blues would bother me, I'd rock away from there --from Shady Grove in the DT (no attribution given) Watch the evening sun go down sitting in the rocking chair. If the blues don't get me down I'll rock away from here. --another version of Shady Grove I'm going down to the railroad tracks And I'm going to bring my rocking chair If these doggone blues don't leave my mind I'm going to rock away from here --from Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (no attribution) I'm goin' down to the river, Gonna take me a rockin'-chair, If this trouble don't leave me Gonna rock away from here. --from Sun's Gonna Shine sung by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,Glenda Date: 02 Mar 13 - 01:09 PM My dad sang this song to my sons. I am trying to find out who sang it. Dad is not alive for me to ask and would love to know who sang. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Date: 02 Mar 13 - 02:23 PM This site has it as 2:19 Blues. (The lyrics are not the same as the Armstrong/Bechet song of the same name, nor is it the 2:19 (Mamie's blues) of Jelly Roll Morton). There is a recording on youtube: 2:19 Blues (Dr.Uke and Daughters) where a comment attributes the song to Bob Gibson. He can be heard singing it with Abilene here: Abilene/2:19 Blues - Bob Gibson (2:19 start at about 2:22 in - pity they couldn't have made it at 2:19!). I haven't verified the attribution, but this review of the album the track is from Funky In The Country - review has that attribution too. Mick |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,jdell Date: 12 Nov 14 - 10:49 AM These words are from the 2:19 Blues |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,Hootenanny Date: 12 Nov 14 - 10:56 AM Maybe the song you are looking for is "All Night Long" by Burnett and Rutherford. Also sung by Clarence Ashley as "Richmond Blues" and also by one of Ashley's younger friends Clint Howard. I believe he used the same title. Hoot |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,Joseph Scott Date: 20 Nov 17 - 01:58 AM ?... buy a rocking chair, blues overtake me gonna rock away from here." -- "Don't Care Blues," Mamie Smith on Okeh, 1920 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,GUEST Bruce Date: 23 Sep 18 - 10:17 PM You can find the version you're looking for in Bert Jansch's "Young Man Blues - Live in Glasgow 1962-1964". It's on Spotify. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...rock away from here... From: GUEST,Robert L. Kendrick by way of his daughter-in Date: 16 Nov 19 - 07:31 AM Gonna go down to the river Gonna get me a rock'n chair If these blues don't leave me I'm gonna rock on away from here Storm clouds are gathering When the storms do come I won't be here darling For I'll already be home |
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