Lyr Req/Add: Been All Around This World

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 11:45 PM

which Crowley? Aleistair? that man sure do get around! be careful in that hurricane, Harpgirl! Pete

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: harpgirl
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 11:09 PM

Art,
Is Crowley's Ridge in Arkansas the lower end of the New Madrid Fault? harp

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 10:15 PM

Yes, Charlie, if ya look at the map there's a "swelling" where the river bends westward and then back eastward at the town site of Cape Girardeau. ie. "a cape" of sorts. It's only about 15 miles north (as the crow flies) of Cairo, Illinois where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi down in that part of S. Illinois called EGYPT. That's close to NEW MADRID, Mo. where in 1812 the N.M.fault "quaked" and the Mississippi ran backwards for 3 weeks---Reelfoot Lake was formed---entire forests were leveled---and this is no tall tale. If it'd been populated as it is now millions would've been killed. The steamboat ROOSEVELT rode out the quake as well as WEEKS of aftershocks(somehow) on the breast of the river! See B.A. Botkin's grand book---TREASURY OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOLKLORE.

The New Madrid Fault mooved again a couple years ago. We felt it here in Peru, Illinois---100 miles S.W. of Chicago.

Art

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 05:49 PM

I've always assumed, looking at a map, that the "Cape" of Cape Girardeau has to do with the shape of the land as the Mississippi River curls around it. Or perhaps a sandbar. Or perhaps these geographical items existed at the time in history when the place got its name, but Ol' Man River just keeps rollin' along and changin' the landscape.

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 05:36 PM

If you search for [been all around this world], you'll find one.

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Rockaday Johnny
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 11:22 AM

Check out "Cape Girardo" on Art Thieme's "Songs of the Heartland" KM 148 for a GREAT version....

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: dwditty
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 05:50 AM

Greg Brown & Bill Morrissey do a fine rendition of Hang Me - very close to the Van Ronk version. BTW, I believe Rush Limbaugh is from Cape Girardeau.

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 01:15 AM

I've wondered about that one most of my life, Charlie. I always thought a cape was a narrow spit of land that stuck out into an ocean. What the heck's one doing in Missouri, of all places?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 01:12 AM

In the Dave Van Ronk verison, it's
"Been around Cape Girardeau, and parts of Arkansas."
Cape Girardeau is a Mississippi River town in southern Missouri.
--Charlie Baum, your folkie geographer

Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 12:20 AM

Hi - I found this at LEO (Link Everything Online)
-Joe Offer-

I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD
(as recorded by The Grateful Dead)
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Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand;
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.

Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door.
Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door.
Before I have to walk in with my old 'forty-four.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.

Momma and Poppa, little sister makes three.
Momma and Poppa, little sister makes three.
They're comin' in the mornin'; that's the last you'll see of me.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.

Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
I wouldn't mind your hangin', boys, but you wait in jail so long.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.

Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand;
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.

Subject: Lyr Add: BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD
From: Barry Finn
Date: 24 Sep 98 - 12:01 AM

Refrain: Hang me oh hang me, I'll be dead & gone
Hang me oh hang me, I'll be dead & gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging, it's laying in that grave so long poor boy, I've been all around this world

Been around Cape Geirido (SP?) & parts of Arkansas (2X)
Got so goddam hungry, I could hide behind a straw, poor boy
Been all around this world

Went up on a mountain there I made my stand (2X)
Rifle on my shoulder, got a dagger in my hand, poor boy, been all around this world

Noose around my neck, strung me up so high (2X)
Last words I heard them say, "it won't be long before you die, poor boy", been all around this world

As far as I know these are the same tunes, only the above is sung slowly & the New Railroad is usually up tempo (at least the way I've heard it). Here are some other verses not in the DT. The words should be pretty close, I'm going from memory, have'nt sung it in yrs. Got this version from Dave Van Ronk.

Lulu oh Lulu where'd you get that dress so fine (2X)
Got my dress from a railroad man, my shoes from a driver in the mines, been all round this world

Lulu Lulu come & open up your door (2)
Before I have to blow it down with my old 44, been all round this world

Barry

Subject: RE: Been All Around This World
From: Dave T
Date: 23 Sep 98 - 11:08 PM

I don't know if it's the same song but...I have a version from Hot Rize called "I've Been All Around This World". It's in the database under the title "Working On The New Railroad". See if this is the song you're after. I'm not familiar with the Dead's version.
Dave T

Subject: Been All Around This World
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Date: 23 Sep 98 - 10:42 PM

There's a song on Reckoning by The Grateful Dead called Been All Around This World, and I can't find it in the database using any of the keywords. Does anybody know if there are alternate verses, or maybe a little history about it, that I couldn't get from the album? Thanks in advance.