Lyr Req: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly

Subject: Leadbelly
From:
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 02:46 AM

Anybody know the words to Leadbelly's "Where did you sleep last night"?. Thanks Ken

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT (Leadbelly
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 06:58 AM

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows

Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found

SOURCE: HERE

Also HERE and HERE (Nirvana version). It's a variant of In the Pine.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leadbelly
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:39 PM

e mail sent

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leadbelly
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:15 PM

The version in the DT is called "In The Pines (Black Girl)". There's a slew of threads discussing it. Oddly enough, the bluegrass version of "In the Pines" makes no mention of body parts, nor of black girls, although it does mention "the longest train I've ever seen..."

Lin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leadbelly
From: GUEST,a girl
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:10 PM

The Bluegrass Version is by Seldom Scene

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leadbelly-Where did you sleep last night
From: GUEST,Trs298701
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 07:58 PM

What is the song structure for lead belly's version of Where did you sleep last night?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly
From: tenn_jim
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 02:32 PM

Actually this song dates back into the late 1800's. Almost every songster who did folk and minstrel has performed a verson of the song.

Bill Monroe made it a "bluegrass" standard, while Leadbelly did the "Blues" version.

It was one of the first tunes I learned as a young boy in Appalachia.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 03:21 PM

Several threads with versions of this song, of which Leadbelly's is also considered in thread 1439; Lyr. Add: In the Pines (Joan Baez/Leadbelly)
In the Pines (J.B. and Leadbelly)