Origins: Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (Paul Clayton

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 07:21 AM

None what so ever, but it's a common mistake one makes.

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:55 PM

Any relation to the song Harry Belafonte sang in the 50s--Scarlet Ribbons?       Tw

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: kendall
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 06:40 AM

Thanks Sandy...brain cramp.

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: GUEST,Nicky
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:03 AM

Another Bob Dylan 'original' exposed.

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: Bob Coltman
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 06:53 AM

And the subject of an cause celebre and out-of-court settlement in the 1960s. My Paul Clayton biography (expected publication 2007) has some detail on the matter, including its roots in a song Paul collected called "Who's Gonna Buy You(r) Chickens When I'm Gone."

Ahh, the folk process.

Bob

Subject: ADD: Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:56 AM

I don't think the song has been posted here.

Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone
(Paul Clayton)

It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin,
And it ain't no use to sit and cry now,
T'ain't no use to sit and wonder why, darlin,
Just wonder who's gonna buy you ribbons when I'm gone.

So times on the railroad gettin' hard, babe,
I woke up last night and saw it snow,
Remember what you said to me last summer
When you saw me walkin' down that road.

So I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road,
You're the one that made me travel on,
But still I can't help wonderin' on my way,
Who's gonna buy you ribbons when I'm gone?


source: http://www.bobdylanroots.com/who.html


Recorded by Paul Clayton on "Home-Made Songs & Ballads" (Monument 4001, c. 1960).
Obvious tune/lyrics source of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:
From: Francy
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:37 AM

On Ed Trickett's cd "Echo On the Evening Tide" it is titled "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons"... a real fine version I might add.....Frank of Toledo

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:31 AM

I should add that Bob Coltman has just found a publisher for his biography of Paul Clayton. It should be on the market early next year. I'll urge him to announce its availability on this forum.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:29 AM

That's PAUL Clayton, Kendall. Bob Clayton is the Washington DC songmaker we often see at Nomad and NEFFA.

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:
From: kendall
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 05:18 PM

Thanks, Jeri. I should have known that LOL

Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote:
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 05:13 PM

It appears to be called "Who's Goin' To Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone".

Subject: Origins: Who wrote:
From: kendall
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 05:06 PM

Can anyone tell me the correct title of the song by Bob Clayton that Dylan "borrowed" ...whose gonna buy you ribbons when I'm gone?