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18 May 00 - 07:02 PM (#230176) Subject: Liberty on the corn Liquor Still From: Kristi H I am looking for chords and lyrics for thie crooked tune. We heard it a few years ago from a friend. Help, I didn't find it in the digitrad or forum. Kristi |
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19 May 00 - 12:00 AM (#230300) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Pete Peterson Hi Kristi. STILL loving my copy of Upsala! (and hearing you and Wanda sing Cottage Home) There ain't no lyrics (unless you heard it from somebody really weird) and the chords are standard G,C,D. I play G////C///D///G/// G////C/D////G/// hope that makes sense. . . PETE hope JU is doing OK! haven't seen any updates recently so will take no news to be good news |
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19 May 00 - 09:49 PM (#230837) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Kristi H Pete, JU is doing fine. He just had the barn raising party for his big contract tonight. The man finished major chemo and radiation two months ago and has been crawling around on roofs for the past month. Musically, we are getting our feet wet again and can't wait to see what happens at the FFF next weekend. All of the support from everyone really made this a great triumph for him rather than a tragedy. Hope to see you soon. Oh and I wasn't sure if there were lyrics to the tune. We have a bit of it on video from the FOTMC several years ago performed by Dave Borland at our campsite. Do you know of a resource that has it on tape or CD? We recently heard a J. E. Mainer CD that has a tune called digging Taters that sounds similar. Kristi |
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20 May 00 - 09:45 PM (#231217) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Pete Peterson Hi Kristi-- thanks for the good news! The original recording is by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers which I think was re-released on one of the County records; if I had to guess County 506. It was brought into the "modern" world by Highwoods in 1973, who recorded it on one of their early albums, I think the one with the red cover. It does not have any words, as far as I know. BTW you wren't thinking of using it for square dances I hope?? it is one of the crookedest tunes I know and very very wonderful. Note that when I did the chords I put an extra slash in after the G; that's where the extra beat is. If you have no other way of getting it , I'll dub a tape for you. Have fun at White Springs! |
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21 May 00 - 02:54 AM (#231310) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Stewie Hi Kristi and Pete, 'Liberty' is reissued on County CD 3509, the only Skillet Lickers CD yet to be released by County. There are no words for it on this recording, just a few dance calls. The complete 'A Corn Licker Still in Georgia' has been reissued on CD: Voyager VRCD303. It includes a snatch of 'Liberty', but this also has no words, just a bit of gratuitous verbal exchange at the beginning. As Peter said, the tune appeared on the Highwoods 'Fire on the Mountain' LP on Rounder, but it didn't make it to the only Highwoods CD compilation that I know of 'Feed Your Babies Onions' Rounder CD 11569. --Stewie. |
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21 May 00 - 11:07 PM (#231638) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Pete Peterson Thanks Stewie. I'm still in the Dark Ages as far as CD's are concerned. And Lord help us to get right |
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22 May 00 - 05:20 PM (#232109) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Liberty on the corn Liquor St From: Kristi H We have Feed Your Babies Onions. Andy's got several Skillet Lickers and Highwood Albums stored away. I will search for it there first. Kristi |