Lyr Req: Stephan Grossman versions

Subject: Stephan Grossman versions
From: GUEST,Brendy - out and about
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 06:20 AM

Yo!

I played a gig recently with a guy I haven't played a note with in two years, and I'm still reeling from it!

In the intervening years since we last talked, never mind played together, he had added some long forgotten songs to his repertoire plus a few of his own.

It started to get me remembering of an old Stephan Grossman double album I once had - a Live one - and some of the songs, and rags that were on it.

I have had a look in thre database, and there are 3 songs on the subject of 'Delia'.
On the album, the song was called (I think) "All my friends are gone", but Delia was the lady in question, and the "High Sheriff shot her down...with a great big Gatlin gun"

Anybody recognise it, and not too distracted with worldly things to kindly post the words?

'Satisfied and Tickled too', was another track from that album, where I have all/ or most of the words of....but not necessarily in the right order.

This was one of those albums, along with some Irish trad albums that I played over and over, getting his riffs as best I could. I remember, for instance, a session in a pub in Ennis, many years ago, where a blues head beat out 'Powder Rag'. He played it in a dropped D, and told me that Grossman recorded in that tuning. Trouble was that I had been always under the impression that he was in DBGDBD, and I played it accordingly. Both tunings worked perfectly, with the bass runs easily accessible.

But if anyone could help me ressurrect these songs, I would be eternally grateful.

Take care out there.

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stephan Grossman versions
From: GUEST,frankie
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 06:13 PM

Hi Brendy, The think the first tune you mentioned was Rev. Gary Davis' version of "Delia", which resembled his "Cocaine" in the opening bars of the verse, that Stefan used to play. I've got the words at home and I'll post them later in the week if nobody else does. I'm not familiar with the second tune but the third one is probably Rory Blocks' arrangement of Powder Rag which he also recorded (on Yazoo Basin Boogie?) the tab for that use to be availble and probably still is somewhere. I learned it in Drop-D from a tab I got from Stefan Grossmans' Guitar Workshop many years ago. There is a forum a the Workshops' website called the Woodshed where you might be able to address these questions to Stefan directly. Good luck,frankie

Subject: Lyr Add: DELIA (Stephan Grossman)
From: Chris Amos
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 01:58 AM

Brendy,

The words as best I recall them

Delia was a gambling girl
Gambled all around
Delia, a gambling girl
Laid her body down

And all the Friends
I ever had are gone

Delia, Delia
Gona ask around
High Sherrif he came by
Shot her to the ground

And...

Delia, Delia
Made a lunge to run
High Sherriff shot her down
Great big gattlin gun

Delias' mother weep
Delias' father moan
They wouldn't hate it so bad
If their child died at home

Rubber tyred carrage
rubber tyred hack
dun taken old po' Delia
Never bring her back

Men in Atlanta
Trying to pass for white
Delias in the grave-yard
Six feet out of sight

Delia, Delia
How could it be
Wanted everyone around you
Never wanted me

And all the friends
I ever had are gone.

Hope that's some help

Memory is a funny thing, I went to a folk club recently and someone sang a verson of The cruel Ships Captain which was different to a version I had learnt 30 years ago. All the way home I tried to recall the words but could only get the first and last verses. In the middle of the night (with my brain in neutral I guess) I woke up and could recall it word for word.

Chris

Line Breaks
added.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: DELIA (Rev. Gary Davis; Willie McTell)
From: Justa Picker
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 03:14 PM

I have the video and tab of Grossman's which contain "All My Friends Are Gone". Here are the lyrics posted within that booklet.

Rev. Gary Davis Version

Delia, Delia was a-goin' her last go round
When ol' Cutty came by
And shot her to the ground
All the friends I had are gone.

Delia, Delia made a lunge to run,
Sheriff shot her down
With his great big Gatlin' gun
All the friends I ever had are gone.

Men in Atlanta tryin' to pass fo' white
Delia's in the graveyard
Six feet out of sight.
All the friends I ever had are gone.

Men in Atlanta drinkin' out of a silver cup
Delia's in the graveyard,
Ain't never goin' to get up.
All the friends I ever had are gone.

Delia, Delia how could it be?
Wanted everyone,
But you never had time for me
All the friends I ever had are gone.



Second Version: from the singing of Blind Willie McTell*

Delia was a gambler, gambled all around
She was a gamblin' girl,
She's layin' her money down
She's all I got is gone.

Delia see her mother, took a trip out West.
When she returned,
Little Delia had gone to rest.
She's all I got is gone.

Delia's mother weeped, Delia's father moaned
Wouldn't hurt so bad,
But the chile died at home.
She's all I got is gone.

Delia, Delia how can it be?
Say you love them rounders
And you don't love me.
She's all I got is gone.

Cutty's he's in the bathroom, drinkin' out of a silver cup,
Delia she's in the graveyard
May not never wakeup
She's all I got is gone.

Rubber-tired buggy, double-seated hack,
Taken Delia to the cemetery
But failed to bring her back.
She's all I got is gone.

Delia, Delia poor girl she's gone.
All I have
She has left me all alone.
She's all I got is gone.

Judge said to Cutty, "What's that fuss about?"
"All account of those gamblers
Tryin' to drive me out."
She's all I got is gone.

Cutty said to the judge, "What might be my fine?"
"I done told you poor boy
You got ninety-nine."
She's all I got is gone.

Up on the house top, high as I can see,
Lookin' at those rounders
Lookin' after me.
She's all I got is gone.

Curly lookin' high, Curly lookin' low,
Shot poor Delia down
With that April 44.
She's all I got is gone.


*David Bromberg also recorded this version.

Subject: Lyr Add: SATISFIED (Mississippi John Hurt)
From: Justa Picker
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 03:25 PM

SATISFIED
(Mississippi John Hurt)


I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back
I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back

First in the country, then in the town,
I'm a tote-loader shaker from my navel on down
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back
I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back

I pull my dress to my knees,
I give my tote loader who I please
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back
I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied it's gonna bring you back

I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back
I'm satisfied, tickled too,
old enough to marry you
I'm satisfied, it's gonna bring you back

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stephan Grossman versions
From: Justa Picker
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 03:29 PM

I also have the tab for Powder Rag (in dropped D) in Tabledit format as well as (no lyrics though.)PM me if you want it.

Cheers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stephan Grossman versions
From: GUEST,Brendy - out...
Date: 19 Sep 01 - 05:56 PM

Thanks a million, Frankie, Chris, and especially you, JP, for filling in those blanks that have been there for many years.

I'll be home at the weekend and can acquiesce in the comfort of my own chair (for a change), and get a bit of mailing done.

And, as always, thank you, Joe, for line-breaking it all.

All the best.

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stephan Grossman versions
From: GUEST,Nick Barnett
Date: 23 Jan 24 - 02:58 AM

Justapicka: Cutty (or Curtis?) was drinking in the bar-room (not the bathroom :-| which, in American, isn't the room you go to for a bath, let alone a drink out of a silver cup.)