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14 Nov 09 - 03:05 PM (#2766069) Subject: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: declercq Hello From the LEADBELLY'S last session(Smithsonian Folkways)I found in disc #1 track #29 "Winnsborow Cotton Mill Blues" It starts with I love my country, indeed I do But that war has made me feel blue. Continued with When Mister Hoover said to cut my dinner down I never even hesitate, I never frown I cut my sugar, I cut my coal But now they dug down deep in my soul I've got the blues, I've got the blues But this recording ends after 48 seconds It seems that "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" is in fact "The Alcoholic Blues" written and composed by Albert Von Tilzer / Edward Laska. Billy Murray did it in 1919 and DeFord Bailey in 1927 Am I right or wrong? Who can help me either by the lyrics or by the tune (MP3) Thank you |
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14 Nov 09 - 04:35 PM (#2766125) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: Bill D http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiWNNSBORO;ttWNNSBORO.html (processed version of what's in the DigiTrad database.) I 'think' the New Lost City Ramblers did this at some point, but I can't get to my old LPs right now |
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14 Nov 09 - 04:38 PM (#2766127) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: Bill D Note: the words may vary widely from what Leadbelly used. |
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14 Nov 09 - 04:40 PM (#2766130) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: GUEST,Johnny R. Pete Seeger recorded it many years ago, but I don't know the name of that album, and I think it was a compilation. He did say it was the Alcoholic Blues... I don't have the recording here now. |
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14 Nov 09 - 04:42 PM (#2766133) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: GUEST,Johnny R. PS: http://www.last.fm/music/Pete+Seeger/_/Winnsboro+Cotton+Mill+Blues That might help a bit! |
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14 Nov 09 - 04:45 PM (#2766136) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: Bill D Yep... I just found that also...and yes, it WAS Pete Seeger I remember. (the song won't play in my Opera browser, but maybe it will for you.) |
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14 Nov 09 - 05:48 PM (#2766167) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: Dave MacKenzie The version I have is more or less the same as Bill D linked to and I think I got it from a Jerry Silverman book: WINNSBORO COTTON MILL BLUES Old man Sargent, sittin' at the desk, The darned old fool won't give us no rest. He'd take the nickels off a dead man's eyes, To buy a Coca-cola an' an Eskimo Pie. cho: I got the blues, I got the blues, I got the Winnsb'ro Cotton Mill Blues, Lordy, lordy, spoolin's hard, You know an' I know, I don't have to tell: Work for Tom Watson, got to work like hell. I got the blues, I got the blues, I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, ( Repeat after each verse) When I die, don' bury me at all, Just hang me up on the spool room wall. Place a knotter in my right hand, So I can keep spoolin' in the promised land. When I die, don' bury me deep, Bury me down on 600 Street, Place a bobbin in each hand, So I can doff in the Promised Land. |
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14 Nov 09 - 11:53 PM (#2766282) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues From: 12-stringer To download Billy Murray's version of "Alcoholic Blues," go here: http://www.archive.org/details/BillyMurray_part4 It's about halfway down the page (the listing includes numerous Murray songs); there are two recordings, each in several formats (high bit rate, lower bit rate). The Internet Archive has hundreds of Murray sides, comprising a fabulous collection of ragtime pop and novelty songs from 1900-1925. The Leadbelly take, while it's apparently labeled "Winnsboro," seems to get its lyrics from "Alcoholic" and is probably a version of the original pop hit, not the cotton mill parody. And there's another recording by Vernon Dalhart, right here: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016+&query=alcoholic |
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16 Nov 09 - 06:23 PM (#2767383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Leadbelly) From: Jim Dixon Declerq: I believe you're absolutely right: Leadbelly sang ALCOHOLIC BLUES and it has been misidentified on the "Last Sessions" album as WINNSBORO COTTON MILL BLUES. I wonder how this mistake happened? |
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19 Nov 09 - 07:04 AM (#2769087) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Leadbelly) From: GUEST,Jack Warshaw This article http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/say-it-loud-the-greatest-protest-songs-part-1/ suggests that "Winnsboro" emerged in a 1930's mill workers protest. But it does not say it was written in the 30s. It could have been earlier. The assumption seems to be that "Winnsboro" is derived from Alcoholic Blues. But who's to say "Winnsboro" didn't come first in some form? |
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21 May 14 - 07:20 PM (#3627567) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Leadbelly) From: GUEST,Flipdiggler Since Lead Belly was from Shreveport,La. or near there, it is most likely referring to Winnsboro,LA. . The latter only bieng a short distance from Shreveport . |