Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)

Subject: Lyr Add: JEALOUS HEARTED ME (Carter)
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 07:53 AM

A lyric a day keeps the blues away......Tiger

JEALOUS HEARTED ME — Carter Family

Takes a rockin' chair to rock,
Takes a rubber ball to roll,
Takes the man I love
To satisfy my soul,

REFRAIN (Each stanza)
Because I'm jealous,
Jealous hearted me,
I said I'm jealous,
Jealous as I can be.

Got a stove in the kitchen,
And it bakes nice and brown,
But I need a poppa
To turn the damper down,

You can have my money.
You can have my home,
But, for goodness sakes, women,
Let my man alone,

Gonna buy me a bulldog
To watch while I sleep,
To watch this man of mine
On his midnight creep,

Subject: RE: LYR ADD(Carter): Jealous Hearted Me
From: CarterNut
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 01:18 PM

Just got back from the Carter Family Memorial Festival, and this is one of the songs that Janette and Joe Carter sang. They are the son and daughter of Sara and AP Carter.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD(Carter): Jealous Hearted Me
From: CarterNut
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 01:20 PM

Hey Tiger:

Do you have the words to "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room"? I am looking for them if anyone has them. Keep On the Sunnyside. John

Subject: RE: LYR ADD(Carter): Jealous Hearted Me
From: Gene
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 01:54 PM

I Have "50 Miles Of Elbow Room" by Hank Locklin
may have it by others, would have to look..
And I have "Jealous Hearted Me" by Minnie Pearl.
Few know it, but she did record several songs.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD(Carter): Jealous Hearted Me
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 02:11 PM

John......

Don't have it, either on computer or recordings. In fact, I've never heard it. Let us know if it shows up (Gene?).

.......Tiger

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 04:56 PM

i would like to know the guitar cords used in the carter families "jealous hearted me"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 06:14 PM

[C]Takes a rocking chair to rock, takes a rubber ball to roll
Takes the man I love to [C7, optional] satisfy my soul,
Because I'm [F]jealous, jealous-hearted [C]me
I said I'm [G7]jealous, jealous as I can [C] be.

Compare Charley Lincoln's "Jealous Hearted Blues," on Columbia 14305-D, recorded in 1927, several years before the Carters did this for Decca.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 04:07 AM

Compare, also, Blind Willie (McTell)'s "Weary Hearted Blues," recorded for Victor in 1929 but never issued, and recorded again for ARC in 1933, on Vocalion 02668. Excellent retooling of the Lincoln song. "I used to jump [my songs] from other writers, but I'd 'range 'em up my way," as McTell told an interviewer in 1956.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: GUEST,Delmar Lemming
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 05:37 AM

By the way, the guitar chords for Jealous Hearted Me are fine but you have to work hard to get that wonderful thumping bass lead throughout the song. This song really defines the Carter style. Homespuntapes produced a lovely Mike Seeger video lesson about Carter family music.
The slightly saucy lyrics here are pretty daring for this wonderful group, too. thanks for the postings! Delmar Lemming

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 09:32 AM

Fifty Miles of Elbow Room

Everything ya'd wanna know at

http://oldweirdamerica.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/55-fifty-miles-of-elbow-room-by-rev-f-w-mcgee/

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:39 AM

The last post of mine was in reference to the request

From: CarterNut
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 01:20 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jealous Hearted Me (Carter Family)
From: Mark Clark
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 01:05 PM

Jealous Hearted Me (originally Jealous Hearted Blues) was recorded by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey in 1924 as the B side of Paramount 12252. Richie made reference to Ma Rainey's recording back in 2008. If the Carter Family learned this tune from Leslie Riddle then Riddle probably learned it from the Ma Rainey recording. The Ma Rainey recording may be heard on YouTube. It's interesting how the Carter Family took Ma Rainey's lowdown, draggy blues number and turned it into a spritely squared-off white number. I've always loved both versions of the tune.

      - Mark