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20 Oct 99 - 07:50 PM (#126148) Subject: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: wtbush@yahoo.com Anyone got the lyrics to this classic? -Warren |
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20 Oct 99 - 09:06 PM (#126168) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Gene For one version check - * Japanese Bluegrass Songbook * |
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21 Oct 99 - 12:09 AM (#126231) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Warren Thank you very much Gene. I really appreciated it. -Warren |
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21 Oct 99 - 09:01 AM (#126308) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: JedMarum I remember two verses:
Well it's good mornin' captain, good mornin' son (2X) |
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21 Oct 99 - 11:27 AM (#126374) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: unclenort here's another verse that i don't see here. i'm an old muleskinner from old kentucky way i can make any mule listen or i won't exept your pay......e..hay oh da le he he.............. |
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21 Oct 99 - 01:29 PM (#126438) Subject: Lyr Add: MULE SKINNER BLUES (from Bill Monroe) From: Gene While BM may have recorded different versions here is one from 1962. MULE SKINNER BLUES Recorded by: Bill Monroe Writers: Jimmie Rodgers & George Vaughn Good morn-in' captain Good mornin' shi-hine Do you need another mule skinner Out on your new mud li-ine. Yo-del-ay-hee-eee---ay-hee-hee-ee. I li-ike workin' I'm rollin' all the ti-ime I can pop my initials On mule any old ti-ime. [Yodel] I'm go-in' to town Whadaya want me to bring you ba-ack Bring a walkin' cane And a John B. Stetson ha-at. [Yodel] Hey-little water boy Bring that bucket aro-ound If you don't like your job Set your water bucket dow-own. [Yodel] SOURCE: BILL MONROE/THE FATHER OF BLUEGRASS And his Blue Grass Boys 1962 RCA Camden CAL-719 |
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21 Oct 99 - 07:03 PM (#126571) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Allan.S I heard the verse as "I can pop my initials on a mules behind" |
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21 Oct 99 - 08:04 PM (#126595) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Gene FWIW Apparently BM omitted the lines about popping the initials on the mule's behind and bringing back a pint of rye from town in the referenced recording. |
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22 Oct 99 - 05:18 AM (#126703) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Roger the skiffler There are also versions by Jack Elliott and Lonnie Donegan amongst my collection if you want alternatives! |
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09 Feb 00 - 03:00 PM (#175697) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: GUEST,Scot Curry (scurry@kiva.net How about the tablature/chords and mandolin intro for this song? Anyone have it or know it off hand? Thanks.. |
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09 Feb 00 - 03:18 PM (#175715) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Metchosin I also have a version on an early Roy Acuff 78 RPM and another version (total departure) by the Fenderman in the early 60's if you're interested. |
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09 Feb 00 - 03:24 PM (#175719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Amos Chords are straight E, A and B7; I've sung it for years, and know the line as "I can pop my initials, down on a mule's behind", likewise. Just don't tell the Minnie Mouse Protective League. A |
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09 Feb 00 - 04:51 PM (#175764) Subject: Lyr Add: MULE SKINNER BLUES (from Roy Acuff) From: Metchosin Acuff's version: MULE SKINNER BLUES (BLUE YODEL #8) (Words by Rodgers)
Good mornin' captain
Workin' on the railroad
another version I have has the lines
I smell your bread a burnin |
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16 Aug 07 - 04:46 PM (#2127369) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: GUEST,Tanya Hi My uncle used to sing Mule skinner and my son and I are trying to find the chords to it all the chords from begining to end. We sing the jimme rodgers-george vaughn version if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! |
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16 Aug 07 - 06:44 PM (#2127450) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: 12-stringer The chords are quite simple, no matter which of the two distinct versions you're looking for. Transpose to your favorite key. Rodgers sang it as a 3-line blues, with the third line yodeled: [C]Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Shine [C7] Do you [F] need another mule skinner out on your [C] new mud line? Yodel-ay-hee [G7]hee, yodel ay hee ay hee [C] hee. The more common post-Jimmie versions do it as a 3-line blues, but set up like this, with the first line repeated as in standard blues format: [C]Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Shine Good [F] morning, Captain, Good morning [C] Shine Do you [G7] need another mule skinner, out on your [C] new mud line. In this version, the yodel (if it's used at all) comes after the third line and uses the same structure as the yodel in the first version. For some variety, an extra yodel can be thrown in between verses, on the order of: [C7]Yodel ay-[F] hee hee hee Yodel [C] ay-hee-hee hee Yodel[G7] ay-hee ay-hee oh-lay-[C] ee. |
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17 Aug 07 - 04:49 AM (#2127710) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Leadbelly Do you remember the great version of Rusty Draper? Manfred |
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17 Aug 07 - 11:48 AM (#2127926) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: GUEST,Tunesmith I remember Ramblin' Jack Elliott singing Mule Skinner Blueson a UK tv folk music show back in the mid-60s. I think I made a recording of it. |
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17 Aug 07 - 02:19 PM (#2128067) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: cptsnapper Anyone remember the Fendermen's version? |
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17 Aug 07 - 03:19 PM (#2128126) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Leadbelly You're quite right,Tunesmith. I'm justlistening to his version which he recorded with Derrol Adams. Nice voices and a lot of banjo playing, too. Manfred |
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17 Aug 07 - 08:14 PM (#2128293) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: ad1943 Aaah Yes Mr Snapper The Fendermen's version of Muleskinner Blues was wonderful. I have the record here at home in Sydney Autralia Best wishes Allen in OZ |
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18 Aug 07 - 11:43 AM (#2128577) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: Mr Red Why is my memory of lines like Dang me, dang me, they oughta get a rope and hang me Hang me from a high oak treeeeeee, woman will you weep for me dupe dupe etc plus yodelling that Jimmy Rodgers would have done. Now what was that song called if it was not Mule Skinner Blues? I am too young to loose my memory like this....... |
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18 Aug 07 - 10:43 PM (#2128951) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues lyric request From: cptsnapper Mr. Red, I think that that may be " Dang Me " by Roger Miller. |
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01 Oct 19 - 09:39 AM (#4011382) Subject: Lyr Add: BLUE YODEL No. 8 (MULE SKINNER BLUES) From: Jim Dixon It looks like we have never collected Jimmie Rodgers' version, which should be definitive: BLUE YODEL No. 8 (MULE SKINNER BLUES) Words and music by Jimmie Rodgers and George Vaughan As recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1930. 1. Good mornin', captain. Good mornin', shine. Do you need another mule skinner out on your new mud line? YODEL 2. I like to work; I'm rollin' all the time. I can pop my 'nitials on a mule's behin'. YODEL 3. Hey, little water boy, bring that water roun'. If you don't like your job, set that water bucket down. YODEL 4. Workin' on the good roads, dollar an' a half a day, My good gal's waitin' on Sat'day night, just to draw my pay. GUITAR SOLO 5. I'm goin' to town, honey; what you want me to bring you back? Bring a pint o' booze an' a John B. Stetson hat. (Bring it to me, honey.) YODEL 6. I smell your bread a-burnin; turn your damper down. If you ain't got a damper, good gal, turn your bread aroun'. YODEL |
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01 Oct 19 - 10:14 AM (#4011383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: gillymor I always wondered who or what "shine" referred to in the first line. For me Bill Monroe did some of my favorite versions of this but Tony Rice did a bangup version of it on his Cold on the Shoulder LP as well. |
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01 Oct 19 - 10:23 AM (#4011384) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: GUEST,Hootenanny Is it not rightly so, now a NON PC word ? Louis Armstrong once sang about it. |
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01 Oct 19 - 10:45 AM (#4011390) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: gillymor Here's the entry from the Wiki list of ethnic slurs- Shine- (U.S.) a black person (from shoeshiner) I had forgotten that it had been used like that at one time, although it's hard, for me anyway, to be certain from the context what Rodgers had in mind by using the term. |
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01 Oct 19 - 03:32 PM (#4011473) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: gillymor Wikipedia It seems JR borrowed that lyric from the 1928 recording "Tom Dickson Blues" where shine did refer to an African-American. |
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01 Oct 19 - 05:36 PM (#4011486) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: GUEST,Hootenanny When JR was around people weren't quite so "sensitive" and I am sure that the word would be used without much thought much as the "N" word was. The song by Louis Armstrong which I referred to above was called Shine and The words include lines such as "that's why they call me Shine". I was a little surprised when I found out that the song "All Coons Look alike to me" was written by a coloured gentleman. |
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01 Oct 19 - 06:33 PM (#4011494) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: gillymor It seems that Tom Dickson was black as well. The great Dooley Wilson sang a snatch of Shine in Casablanca as I recall. |
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03 Oct 19 - 10:23 AM (#4011711) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: Mark Ross SHINE was a Bert Williams song. He was a star in Vaudeville. Even though he was African-American, he would appear in blackface makeup. Ry Cooder did a great version on his recording JAZZ. Mark Ross |
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17 Jul 25 - 05:07 AM (#4225776) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: GUEST sThere is a patreon bonus story of the Mule Skinner Blues song by the Fendermen. It tells not just about the Fendermen's history, but how short jimmy rogers' life could have lived a better life if he had not died too young in 1933. thanks for all of what you had to say from joe. |
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19 Jul 25 - 01:40 AM (#4225871) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mule Skinner Blues From: The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuxHwITbyk ramblin jack a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuxHwITbyk "> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuxHwITbyk |