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27 Aug 07 - 05:37 PM (#2134832) Subject: Lyr Req: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with.. From: Gern An old goofy song, I know, but I always liked it and associate it somehow with Jimmy Driftwood: "I Wish I'd Slept with the Baby-O" |
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27 Aug 07 - 05:43 PM (#2134838) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with.. From: Peace Do you have any of the lyrics? Any at all? |
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27 Aug 07 - 05:48 PM (#2134840) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept wit From: Gern No, but a wayfarer is offered a room for the night, if he wants to sleep with "the baby-o." No, he'd just as soon sleep in the barn. Next morning at breakfast he meets a beautiful girl that "Pa calls 'the baby-o." Driftwood then introduces himself as "the fool who slept in the barn last night." I'm only guessing on the title, but it's repeated at the end of each verse. |
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27 Aug 07 - 05:52 PM (#2134843) Subject: Lyr Add: BABY-O (from Grandpa Jones) From: Peace BINGO, thanks to your posting of "the fool who slept in the barn last night". BABY-O -Grandpa Jones I went down to Riggso town, I met an old man and his name was Brown He said you can sleep in the shanty-o but you have to sleep with the baby-o When I got there i's froze to death and I didn't wanna smell no baby breath So I looked at him and I said by darn if you don't mind I'll sleep in the barn CHORUS: night was cold and the wind did blow smoke poured out of the shanty-o shivered and I shook with a frostbit toe and I wished I'd slept with the baby-o Mornin came and I took me a look when I heard somebody cry sook by sook standin on the frozen taw was the prettiest gal in Arkansaw I looked at her she looked at me I said young lady who might you be She said my name is Mary Jo but the old man calls me the baby-o She milked the cow and went to the shack and had a big breakfast of razorback I stood by the fire and I thawed my toe and I couldn't help lookin at the baby-o I was just about fixin to leave she said what might your handle be I held her hand and I told her right I'm the fool that slept in the barn last night! That is from www.sam-hane.com/sass/songs/023.htm |
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27 Aug 07 - 05:58 PM (#2134850) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept wit From: Gern Twelve minutes--a personal best. Thanks, Peace. Hope your name catches on. |
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27 Aug 07 - 06:01 PM (#2134853) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with.. From: Peace Thanks for starting this thread. Learned that Driftwood wrote "The Battle of New Orleans" as well as thousands of other songs, three hundred of which were recorded by other artists. |
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27 Aug 07 - 08:01 PM (#2134919) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Charley Noble ;~) Charley Noble |
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27 Aug 07 - 08:04 PM (#2134924) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Joe Offer So, is it established that Driftwood also recorded this song, or is it strictly a Grandpa Jones song? -Joe- |
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27 Aug 07 - 09:47 PM (#2134987) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Arkie Driftwood wrote the song and Grandpa Jones, who was a friend of Jimmy's, recorded it. Jimmy also recorded the song and sang it many times here in Mountain View. The town mentioned in the first line is Riggsville town. Riggsville was the orginal settlement southeast of the present Mountain View. It had a mill, two churches, a general store, and a bonded whiskey still. |
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28 Aug 07 - 05:55 PM (#2135564) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: GUEST,Stewart Is this tune sung to the same melody as "What will we do with the baby-o" as done by numerous oldtimey players. Thanks. Stewart |
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28 Aug 07 - 07:14 PM (#2135626) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Arkie The tunes are not the same. Jimmy did often borrow tunes for his songs and the tune to Baby-0 sounds familiar but I have never identified it. |
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29 Aug 07 - 11:14 AM (#2136074) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the bab From: Gern Not at all; What'll I do with the Baby-o is a breakdown done by JEMainer's Mountaineers,Stringbean and others. Baby-o is a story song well transcribed above. |
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29 Aug 07 - 06:02 PM (#2136375) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: GUEST,Stewart Could anyone kindly direct me to the melody somewhere on the web. I've not had any luck googling. Many thanks. Stewart |
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29 Aug 07 - 08:25 PM (#2136492) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Arkie Hopefully this link will work. It should give you a 29 second preview of verse and chorus of Grandpa Jones' version. Baby-O |
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30 Aug 07 - 07:06 AM (#2136752) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: GUEST,Stewart Many thanks Arkie. Just enough to indicate how the tune goes. I do hear hints of 'What will we do with the baby-o' in the chorus, but definitely a different song overall. Stewart |
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30 Aug 07 - 07:10 PM (#2137189) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Arkie I'd say we got lucky, as there was enough to catch the tune. |
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30 Aug 07 - 07:38 PM (#2137204) Subject: RE: Jimmy Driftwood: I Wish I'd Slept with the baby-o From: Peace I hear that! Good work. |
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04 Apr 13 - 09:19 PM (#3498938) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby-O (Jimmie Driftwood) From: GUEST,T Welch Can't believe I found this song! By the way, In the lyrics, it's "Riggsville" and not "Riggso", and Jimmy Driftwood wrote it, not Grandpa Jones! Riggsville used to be a town near Mountain View Arkansas where Driftwood came from. Not much left there now. |
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05 Apr 13 - 10:06 AM (#3499157) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby-O (Jimmie Driftwood) From: GUEST,Arkie Here is what is left of Riggsville. We still have a lot of Deckers. One more old building and the creek. Riggsville Store |
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19 Apr 22 - 08:04 AM (#4139537) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby-O (Jimmie Driftwood) From: GUEST,Dave Seace I heard somebody say sook by sook? Is there a meaning to the word sook? I always thought it was sugar pie, sug. And standing there in the frozen straw (straw in the cold barn). Thanks to everyone for remembering Jimmy Driftwood and Grandpa Jones. |
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19 Apr 22 - 08:04 AM (#4139538) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby-O (Jimmie Driftwood) From: GUEST,Dave Seace I heard somebody say sook by sook? Is there a meaning to the word sook? I always thought it was sugar pie, sug. And standing there in the frozen straw (straw in the cold barn). Thanks to everyone for remembering Jimmy Driftwood and Grandpa Jones. |
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19 Apr 22 - 08:24 AM (#4139541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby-O (Jimmie Driftwood) From: cnd I think it's just an onomatopoeic noise Jimmy made up because he needed something to rhyme with "look." You can listen to the song here; the part in question is right at 40 seconds in. |
