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Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues

07 Oct 21 - 05:39 PM (#4122200)
Subject: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: GUEST,PyschedOutStolas

Be my kid blues by Elizabeth Johnson has some odd instruments, a cornet and woodblock, in addition to the guitar. However, I fine her articulation difficult for the verses.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000210120/W401279-Be_my_kid_blues

It goes something like:

VERSE 1
If you be my kid, I'll be your teddy-bear
Be my kid, I'll be your teddy-bear
be my kid, I'll be your teddy-bear
I'll get in your pocket and follow you everywhere

VERSE 2
When you see me comin', h...??? your window high
See me comin', h...??? your window high
See me comin', h...??? your window high
See me leavin', hang your head and cry

BRIDGE
Raining here!
Raining here!
Raing here!
Raining here!
Raining here, storming on the see

VERSE 3
Raining here, storming on the see
Raining here, storming on the see
Raining here, storming on the see
Raining here, storming on the see

VERSE 4
I'm leaving here, but I sure don't wanna go
Leaving here, I sure don't wanna go
Leaving here, I sure don't wanna go
Even men(?) don't want me no more

VERSE 5
I'm going up-town, I'm gonna buy me a bed
Going up-town, I'm gonna buy me a bed
Going up -own, I'm gonna buy me a bed
Sleep with my man if it kills me dead


08 Oct 21 - 09:55 AM (#4122281)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: GUEST

See if p.304 is any use to you.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=mTpFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA304&lpg=PA304&dq=Elizabeth+Johnson,+If+you+be+my+kid,+I%27ll+be+your+teddy-bear+Be+my+kid,+I%27ll+be+your+teddy-bear+be+my+kid,+I%27ll+be+your+teddy-bear+I%27ll+get+in+your+pocket+and+follow+you+everywhere&source=bl&ots=7ITOUgWZxH&sig=ACfU3U27T-Mhcc8ECuUP9b2umzY1eMELHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw9cKH-7rzAhVpF1kFHcm5DD8Q6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=Elizabeth%20Johnson%2C%20If%20you%20be%20my%20kid%2C%20I'll%20be%20your%20teddy-bear%20Be%20my%20kid%2C%20I'll%20be%20your%20teddy-bear%20be%20my%20kid%2C%20I'll%20be%20your%20teddy-bear%20I'll%20get%20in%20your%20pocket%20and%20follow%20you%20everywhere&f=false


08 Oct 21 - 09:56 AM (#4122282)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: GUEST

Oops. Sorry. Easier this way.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=mTpFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA304&lpg=PA304&dq=Elizabeth+Johnson,+If+you+be+my+kid,+I%27ll+be+your+teddy-be


08 Oct 21 - 11:21 AM (#4122294)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: cnd

The book sounds right to me. A note worth commenting on: "heist" is dialectically "hoist"


08 Oct 21 - 11:23 AM (#4122295)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: GUEST

Hi, cnd. Good to see you. ;-)


08 Oct 21 - 12:41 PM (#4122305)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: cnd

Howdy, GUEST,# . Good to see you as well


10 Oct 21 - 04:18 PM (#4122536)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Be My Kid Blues
From: GUEST,PsychedOutStolas

Cheers, those seem right with the one correction. I'm got a recording of the outake version which seems just a tad muddier than the one linked in my first post.