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28 Jun 23 - 06:51 AM (#4175718) Subject: Lyr Req: Hello Baby Rosco GordonMr Jon From: GUEST,Mr Jon I am seeking the lyrics to Rosco Gordon's song "Hello Baby". The recording of the song is live and was poorly captured. I can't understand any of it. |
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28 Jun 23 - 06:56 AM (#4175719) Subject: Lyr Req: Hello Baby by Rosco Gordon From: GUEST,Mr Jon I am seeking the lyrics to "Hello Baby" which Rosco Gordon recorded with Wayne Bennett. I can't understand any of it on Youtube or Spotify.. |
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28 Jun 23 - 02:00 PM (#4175732) Subject: Lyr Add: HELLO BABY (Rosco Gordon) From: cnd Here's a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIROQJDOg74. Below is my transcription. HELLO BABY Hello baby Had to call you on the phone Hello baby Had to call you -- had to call you on the phone I feel kinda lonesome Daddy wants his -- got to have his baby home Downright rotten Lowdown, lowdown dirty shame I tell ya, it's a Downright rotten Lowdown, dirty shame The way you treat poor me And I know I'm -- I tell you I know I'm not to blame [instrumental break] Jelly, jelly, jelly Jelly stays on my mind, good loving Jelly, jelly, jelly Jelly stays on my mind Jelly Roll killed my pappy And my mammy gone blind * "Jelly" and "jelly roll" here is obviously not the dessert, but probably a drug. I've heard jelly used to refer to both cocaine and heroin; it could be either here. |
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28 Jun 23 - 07:04 PM (#4175748) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Hello Baby by Rosco Gordon From: GUEST,Mr Jon Thankyou CND, you've got better ears for the vernacular than I. No, 'jelly' is not a drug but a euphemism for when an act of procreation occurs, similar to the original meaning of 'rock'n'roll'. With that in mind, a re-reading of the lyric will verify what I mean. |
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28 Jun 23 - 08:48 PM (#4175755) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Hello Baby by Rosco Gordon From: cnd Glad to help! I considered jelly being sex, but I didn't think it would make sense to cause blindness, whereas complications from drug usage could (according so some cursory research, at least) |
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28 Jun 23 - 09:52 PM (#4175758) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Hello Baby by Rosco Gordon From: GUEST there was a Bessie Smith song that had lyrics 'I want a hot dog in my jelly roll', or something like that. I remember eorge Melly singing it at the 100 Club in Oxford St London in1971. |
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28 Jun 23 - 09:53 PM (#4175759) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Hello Baby by Rosco Gordon From: GUEST ......and I guess mammy's blindness was caused by some sort of social disease |