Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues (Joe Calicott)

13 May 00 - 05:00 PM (#227612)
Subject: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: GUEST,NovaProf

Looking for lyrics and tabs for "Fare Thee Well Blues". Written by Joe Callicott, sometimes called "Fare You Well Blues", it was most recently recorded by John Sebastian's J Band on his CD, "Chasing Gus' Ghost". Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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12 Jun 00 - 07:56 PM (#241705)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: GUEST

does this have anything to do with the Grateful Dead song Fare THee Well

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12 Jun 00 - 08:02 PM (#241712)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: GUEST,Judith

There's an old song that starts -

If I had wings like Nora's (Noah's) dove Fly upriver to the man I love Fare thee well, oh, honey, Fare thee well

I can post the rest of the lyrics if this is the song you're looking for.

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13 Jun 00 - 04:00 PM (#242040)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: Pene Azul

If this is the one in Judith's post, I found it on this page. It's on a page of Jeff Buckley lyrics, credited as "Bob Dylan / traditional" as "Dink's song" "a.k.a. Fare Thee Well."

PA

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13 Jun 00 - 04:02 PM (#242045)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: Pene Azul

It is also in the DT here.

PA

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09 Nov 00 - 02:09 PM (#337240)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fare Thee Well Blues
From: GUEST,novaprof

Thanks to all of you who responded. I wish this was the song I'm looking for, but it's not. The one I want is by Joe Callicott, and has been recorded on a couple of blues albums. One of the verses goes:

You told me early in the fall,
You didn't have no man at all,
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well
You told me early in the fall,
You didn't have no man a-tall,
You've got more men than a 2-ton truck can haul.

Sure would like to get the rest of the song.

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11 Aug 02 - 05:52 PM (#763513)
Subject: Lyr Add: FARE THEE WELL BLUES (Joe Calicott)
From: Jim Dixon

Lyrics copied from http://www.enidsworld.com/lyrics.html#fare
(which, by the way, is a web site devoted to the film Ghost World in which Steve Buscemi plays a record collector. Funny that we've never had a discussion of that film.)

FARE THEE WELL BLUES
(Joe Calicott)

Told me early in the fall you never had no man at all.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
Told me early in the fall you never had no man at all.
Well, you got more men than a two-ton truck can haul.

Told me to my face, had a good man in my place.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
Told me to my face, had a good man in my place.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.

Told me it's early spring, when the birds began to sing.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
Told me, early spring, when the birds began to sing.
Well, it's the last chance get to be right here with me.

I told you, early in June, when the flowers began to bloom,
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
I told you, early in June, when the flowers began to bloom,
You can't do no better, 'nother good girl can take your room.

When [ice winter], let your curtain down.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
When [ice winter], let your curtain down.
Well, you kept tellin' me, be some joke around.

Go 'n' put on your nightgown, baby. Let me go lie down.
Fare thee, baby, fare thee well.
Go 'n' put on your nightgown, baby. let me go lie down.
Well it's the last chance, shakin' in your baby, do.

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