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18 Sep 00 - 08:45 AM (#299825) Subject: Shortest blues song? From: Dave the Gnome Is it true that the shortest blues song in the world is - "I didn't wake up this morning..." If so, what is the shortest folk song? |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:02 AM (#299845) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Catrin 'I didn't walk out one morning in May'? |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:04 AM (#299846) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Catrin Or 'Lord Donald's wife was sick and never made it to church' |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:15 AM (#299857) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: catspaw49 "No tragic deaths" Spaw |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:17 AM (#299861) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: A Wandering Minstrel or "Admiral Taylors alive and well" |
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18 Sep 00 - 10:07 AM (#299887) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: GUEST,The Invisible Blazoona "There Have Been No Shipwrecks" |
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18 Sep 00 - 11:06 AM (#299927) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Catrin Everybody survived |
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18 Sep 00 - 03:17 PM (#300069) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: mousethief "I'm happy!"
Alex |
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18 Sep 00 - 04:20 PM (#300124) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: SINSULL "SPRROOONNNGGGGG!" |
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18 Sep 00 - 04:26 PM (#300133) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Bernard Tom Paxton did the shortest folk song years ago! It has one word, and one of his many titles for it is 'Song for a failed election campaign'. Guitar intro (single notes!): G G G A A# B 'Sh*t!'
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19 Sep 00 - 01:01 AM (#300441) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Crazy Eddie Can't help With the Folksong, but the shortest poem I know was written by Spike Milligan.
ODE TO THE ORIGINS OF MICROBES :0) |
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19 Sep 00 - 01:14 AM (#300445) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: thosp I didn't shoot the sherrif peace (Y) thosp |
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19 Sep 00 - 01:15 AM (#300446) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Clifton53 The shortest blues song I ever heard is Steve Goodman's "I Ain't Never Heard You Play No Blues", lasts all of a minute/thirty. " My baby came to me this mornin' She said I'm kinda confused, She said 'if me and B.B.King was both drownin', Which one would you choose? And I said Oh baby, babe I ain't never heard you play no blues" Clifton53 |
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19 Sep 00 - 03:06 AM (#300486) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: tgreenie we had firestones on the pinto as we headed out that day. |
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19 Sep 00 - 11:01 AM (#300666) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: GUEST,celticblues5 tee hee! greenie's & Catrin's are the best! a "real" one I saw in a blues book years ago is "Cornfield Holler:" "Sometimes I feel my man's too sweet to die Sometimes I feel he ought to be buried alive" :-) |
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19 Sep 00 - 06:18 PM (#300997) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: oggie Shortest recorded song I know is Tom Paxton's 'Ballad of Spiro Agnew' (Tom Paxton Live) 'I'll sing of Spiro Agnew and all the things he's done.' I suppose that dates both the song and me! All the best Steve |
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19 Sep 00 - 06:20 PM (#300999) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: mousethief I first heard the Ballad of Spiro Agnew on a John Denver album - I had no idea Paxton wrote it! But it figures -- he is much more witty (and political) than Denver was. On the same album was The Ballad of Richard Nixon, which was 29 seconds of silence.
Alex |
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19 Sep 00 - 06:23 PM (#301001) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Catrin Well Mousetheif, it seems you win - you don't get much shorter than silence *BG* |
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19 Sep 00 - 07:00 PM (#301030) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: gillymor The Smothers Brothers did song called Hangman that went like this: Hangman, hang man slack your rope, Hangman, hang man slack your rope, Slack it 'fore I ... CULLHHHGG!!!! |
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19 Sep 00 - 09:56 PM (#301108) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Bill D some one posted awhile back: The Readers Digest Condensed Ballad of El Paso
"Down in the West Texas town of El Paso,.. ah-ha!...an idea for a thread?..other longs songs that could be condensed... |
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19 Sep 00 - 11:59 PM (#301180) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: mousethief A long, long time ago, this'll be the day that I die. We need one of our Dylan fans to do the Jack of Hearts song. I can never remember the lyrics (and am too lazy to go look them up).
Alex |
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20 Sep 00 - 09:46 AM (#301322) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: MikeofNorthumbria Shortest blues song I ever heard was sung by Bert Jansch sometime around 1965. It went like this (approximately - chords optional). (E7)We....ll, you can take out yer teeth, (B7)And put 'em in a glass, but (A7)Yer can't get away from yer ... (E7) nose! I don't think he sings it any more. Wassail! |
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20 Sep 00 - 11:25 AM (#301382) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Ritchie Well I woke up this mornin' and I'm going to bed again to night..... regards Sleepy Ritchie. |
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21 Sep 00 - 12:46 AM (#302000) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Songster Bob I actually went to the trouble of writing the entirety of that blues song, which I call the "Ultimate Blues." Ended up with six or eight verses. Wrote it with a couple of friends via the internet, too. I even had someone interested in recording it, but haven't heard anything so far. Bob Clayton |
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21 Sep 00 - 03:32 PM (#302463) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Eric the Viking I would've woke up this morning but I died in my sleep. |
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22 Sep 00 - 02:42 PM (#303263) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: L R Mole Hmm...Reader's Digest condensed Dylan... Come gather round people changin'... Hey, Mr., followin' you... Of war and peace,Eden. Was in another storm. Here comes the Hurricane... of the world. Lay, lady, lay. Bed. Ain't no use. Don't think twice;it's all right. Ah well. End of the work week.I'm gone. Johnny's in the wind blows. (?)
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22 Sep 00 - 03:09 PM (#303309) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Naemanson The shortest one I've seen is in Lomax's Folk Songs Of North America is: MY SWEETHEART'S A MULE IN THE MINES, My sweetheart's a mule in the mines, I drive her without any lines, On the bumpers I sits, And tobacco I spits, All over my sweethearts behind. When I was married my wife hated that song so I, of course, had to learn it. My girlfriend of the last four years hated it and refused to let me sing it in our coffeehouse. Come to think of it, I think I only sang it in public once and that was after my girlfriend left me! You be the judge, should I hold on to that song? |
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22 Sep 00 - 03:12 PM (#303314) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: mousethief Naemanson: you gotta weigh the benefits and the risks. For example, it might be a good one to remember if you need to dump a girlfriend and make it look like it's her fault.
Alex |
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22 Sep 00 - 10:54 PM (#303605) Subject: RE: BS: Shortest blues song? From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) A tenor banjo player I met in Chicago was talking about composing a series of one part single reels (no B-parts and play the A through once and then next tune. A>A>A>A) just to see if anyone would catch on. Rich |