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21 Jun 11 - 03:54 PM (#3174091) Subject: Lyr Req: Roscoe Holcomb's lyrics to Black Eyed Su From: GUEST,Arkansas Red Am trying to find Roscoe Holcomb's lyrics to Black Eyed Susie. I can't understand all the lyrics on the recording. Thanks |
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21 Jun 11 - 08:51 PM (#3174221) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roscoe Holcomb's lyrics to Black Eyed Su From: Jim Dixon YouTube has a recording of Roscoe Holcomb singing Black Eyed Suzy (sic). I will try transcribing it later, unless somebody beats me to it. |
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21 Jun 11 - 10:22 PM (#3174247) Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK-EYED SUZY (from Roscoe Holcomb) From: Jim Dixon Here's my best guess as to what he's singing in the YouTube recording: BLACK-EYED SUZY As sung by Roscoe Holcomb 1. Black-eyed Suzy stayin' in the corner, She a pretty girl, 'pon my honor. CHORUS: Hey, little black-eyed Suzy, Hop up, pretty little black-eyed Suzy. 2. Rain come in, the sun come in an' drown me. Stand back, pretty girl. Don't come around me. CHORUS 3. Ho, little kitty-buss, poor little feller, Poor little kit-cuss died in the cellar. CHORUS REPEAT VERSE 2 AND CHORUS. |
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22 Jun 11 - 02:00 PM (#3174656) Subject: RE: Req: Roscoe Holcomb's lyrics to Black Eyed Susie From: 12-stringer One or two minor corrections, per the liner notes to the original LP issue of Folkways FA2317, Mountain Music of Kentucky ("Collected - Annotated - Photographs by John Cohen"): Blackeyed Susie, sitting in a corner She's a pretty girl, 'pon my honor Cho: Hey pretty little blackeyed Susie Hop up pretty little blackeyed Susie Rain come wet me, sun come dry me Stand back, pretty girl, don't come nigh me Poor little kitty-puss, poor little feller Poor little kitty-puss [liner notes say ketty-puss here, which I take to be a typo], died in the corner repeat verse 2 |