origins: Chilly Winds

Subject: origins: Chilly Winds
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:24 PM

What is the origin to "Chilly Winds"? ("Goin' where the Chilly Winds don't blow, darlin' baby...etc") I always thought it was a Depression Era song, but I read that it dates back to the (US) Civil War?. What is the REAL story?!
Mark

Subject: RE: origins: Chilly Winds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 03:46 AM

Place to start here:

www.bluegrassmessengers.com/master/chillywinds4.html

Subject: RE: origins: Chilly Winds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 03:50 AM

This is from that site, Mark:

"NOTES: "G Major. Chilly Winds is a related version of "Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad". Both are frequently categorized under "Lonesome Raod Blues." The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler and banjo player Tommy Jarrell learned the tune in early in the 20th century and played it in AEAE tuning. He related to Mike Seegar"

Subject: RE: origins: Chilly Winds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:53 PM

I always thought this was by John Stewart. Is it Traditional?

CHILLY WINDS

I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow, darling baby
I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow
When I'm going to my long lonesome home

Now who'll be your daddy when I'm gone, darling baby
Now who'll be your daddy when I'm gone
When I'm going to my long lonesome home

Oh, who'll hoe your cotton when I'm gone...

Oh, it's way down in jail on my knees...

Oh they feed me on corn bread and beans...

Oh I'm going where the climate suits my clothes...

So make me a pallet on your floor...
As sung by Cisco Houston
From A Treasury of Folk Songs, Kolb
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Subject: RE: origins: Chilly Winds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:56 PM

CHILLY WINDS
The Seekers


(2 versions of this: 1'12" and 2'16")

I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow, oh baby,
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow.
I'm goin' where I've never been before, oh baby,
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow.

(This stanza in 1'12" version only:)
Chilly winds are drivin' me away, oh baby,
Chilly winds are drivin' me away.
I'll go and find the sun again some day, oh baby,
Chilly winds are drivin' me away.

I'm goin' where I'll never have the blues, oh baby,
Goin' where I'll never have the blues.
I'm gonna leave this hammer, leave this light and you, oh baby,
Goin' where I'll never hve the blues.

Chilly winds are drivin' me away, oh baby,
Chilly winds are drivin' me away.
I'll go and find the sun again some day, oh baby,
Chilly winds are drivin' me away.

Who's gonna love you when I'm gone,
When I leave this lonesome town?
I'm goin' away to find my home
Where those chilly winds don't blo-o-o-ow.

I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow, oh baby,
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow.
I'm goin' where I've never been before, oh baby,
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow.
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow.
(1'12" version repeats this line twice more)
(2'16" version:)
Goin' where those chilly winds don't blo-o-o-o-ow


https://www.lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/c/chillywinds.html

Subject: RE: origins: Chilly Winds
From: cnd
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 12:05 AM

This should answer your question Joe:

In the best folk tradition, the Stewart / Phillips “Chilly Winds” composition could fairly be described as "assembled" from earlier folk songs as much as it was "written." The very title and the signature line - "I'm goin' where those chilly winds don't blow" - originated in a 19th century Appalachian clawhammer banjo number that later morphed into both a blues number and then a jazz standard. One whole verse - the favorite of many fans, about the "headlight on a westbound train" - was lifted in toto from a 1930s Jimmy Noone recording of "Blues Jumped The Rabbit" - and from several old published versions of "I Know You Rider." And the "Leavin' in the springtime / Won't be back til fall" trope also appears in a number of older folk songs.

No matter, though - that's how folk music works, and "Chilly Winds" stands on its own as one of the best of the art-folk original songs of the revival period. Its roots in older songs are actually
one of its strengths, and few if any other songs of the era articulate the melancholy of a dying romance so well.

by Jim Moran; see more at http://compvid101.blogspot.com/2011/01/remembering-john-stewart-ii-chilly.html