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25 Sep 00 - 09:33 PM (#305431) Subject: Looking For songs titles From: GUEST,Dustyfog@webtv.net Hi I am looking for songs.About Outlaws ,Gunfighters,Bad guys of all types.And any thing about whiskey running. If you kow of any songs. Please help me either post or send them to me. Thank you |
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25 Sep 00 - 09:55 PM (#305446) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: GospelPicker (inactive) El Paso... Marty Robbins Don't Take Your Guns To Town... Johnny Cash many more but I have little time tonight... feel free to send me a message on my 'Cat personal page. I can hook you up with many more like them. GospelPicker @:()[+] |
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25 Sep 00 - 10:27 PM (#305470) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Hotspur There are traditional ballads about Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Sam Bass, Jim Fisk (robber baron), John Hardy, William Quantrill, Stagolee (whether he was real or not is debateable) and Cole Younger. I found all but Jim Fisk and Quantrill in the DT, I can send those to you if you like. Michael Martin Murphey, the country singer, has a terrific recording of both trad. and contemp. outlaw songs called "Rhymes of the Renegades." There are several ballads about the English folk hero Dick Turpin also. These are the ones that spring to mind...if I think of any more, I'll add on later. |
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25 Sep 00 - 10:47 PM (#305489) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Sandy Paton You should check out the two volume CD set from Yazoo: My Rough and Rowdy Ways, which has Wild Bill Jones, John Hardy, The Fate of Talmedge Osborn, Dupree Blues, Stack-O-Lee, Jesse James, Little Sadie, Bad Man Napper, Otto Wood the Bandit, Louisville Burglar, and many more. To which one might add "Railroad Bill," "Harvey Logan," and Frank Proffitt's delightful "Moonshine" (available now as a custom cassette from Folk-Legacy, but soon to be released on CD -- at last!). Sandy |
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26 Sep 00 - 04:20 AM (#305633) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Joe Offer Gees, Sandy, you keep mentioning these recordings fromYazoo, all two-volume sets. they all sound enticing. I hope you have some left by the time I see you in October. -Joe Offer- |
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26 Sep 00 - 04:28 PM (#305992) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Noreen Try clicking on this recent thread: BS: Favorite Badman Ballads Noreen |
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27 Sep 00 - 08:12 AM (#306412) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Catrin Noreen - I was gonna do that! Cheers, Catrin - all too ready to show off her new found clicky skills |
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27 Sep 00 - 01:45 PM (#306659) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: Susan of DT a search for @outlaw gets you 207 songs |
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27 Sep 00 - 05:17 PM (#306827) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: bigchuck For whiskey running songs, check out "Midnight Run" by Chris Shaw. Great story. |
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28 Sep 00 - 12:38 AM (#307132) Subject: RE: Help: Looking For songs titles From: ddw Ian Tyson's Cowboyography series has several bad-man ballads in it, by favorite being Claude Dallas. Also Hank Williams Jr. did a great tune called Two Dot, Montana. Can't remember what album it was on —sorry. david |
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08 Aug 21 - 09:30 AM (#4115812) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST I have the Yazoo Rough and Rowdy Ways set, but these old ears cannot make out the lyrics to "Bad Man Napper." Anyone do any better? |
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08 Aug 21 - 09:40 AM (#4115813) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: Steve Shaw Surely it hasn't taken 21 years for Woody's Pretty Boy Floyd to appear in this thread! |
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08 Aug 21 - 10:20 AM (#4115815) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: John C. Bunnell Thunder Road is certainly near the top of any grouping of moonshine-related ballads. Also relevant: Mountain Tay, here performed by the Irish Rovers, concerning excise men and 'shine makers in the hills of Connemara. |
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08 Aug 21 - 11:37 AM (#4115827) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,# The following is from near the bottom of the page that opens. I cannot attest to the accuracy of the liyics. That will take better ears tham mine. https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=11316.0 The Bad Man Napper, was the cause of Little Eddie's death today The Bad Man Napper, was the cause of Little Eddie's death today I think he slipped and he stole his life, out from behind a big stack of hay Napper was a bad man, and I hate to sing the song Old Napper was such a bad man, I hate to sing the song He made his livin' in stealin', and hidin' it all along He came to my house, I thought he was comin' to see me He came to my house, thought he was comin' to see me When I come to squirrel him out, 'suaded my wife to leave me Stole a coat from a tailor, weighed sixteen hundred pounds Stole a coat from a tailor, weighed sixteen hundred pounds Cost so much he wouldn't pay the tailor, wouldn't meet halfway 'round Aw, my baby, he don't mean no one man no good Aw, old Napper, don't mean no one man no good Lord, I got the same feelin', mama, be the same way if I could The Sheriff says, "Gentlemen, don't you hesitate." Sheriff says, "Gentlemen, don't you hesitate. Get your guns and your horses. Run him out the State." He is a bad man, I hate to sing the song He's such a bad man, I hate to sing the song He makes his livin' in stealin', hidin' it all along Edited 7/27 to pick up correction from banjochris Edited 7/28 to pick up correction from Harry Edited 7/29 to pick up changes from Harry and Johnm |
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09 Aug 21 - 09:27 AM (#4115914) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,my daisy true here's a gunfighter song set near leadville,colorado bad guy gets it in the end https://soundcloud.com/dshifl/my-daisy-true |
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09 Aug 21 - 12:15 PM (#4115932) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: Elmore I don't see On the Road to Fairfax County by David Massengill or The Highwayman by Phil Ochs (with a little help from Alfred Noyes)on this thread. Sorry if I missed them. |
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09 Aug 21 - 01:49 PM (#4115940) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,Guest jackaroodave Thank you, #.! Nowadays, I make out a lot of the language I hear by context and inference, and those lyrics make it clear that strategy was never going to work. If it's not perfect, that's OK, just finding out what weighed 1600 pounds is more than enough. |
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09 Aug 21 - 01:56 PM (#4115941) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,# You're most welcome, jackaroodave. And thanks for introducing a new-to-me song. |
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09 Aug 21 - 02:09 PM (#4115942) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch The Robin Hood stuff would fill a volume or three of its own. Lyr/Tune Req: Joaquin Murrieta Origin: Red Headed Stranger (Stutz/Calisch) Lyr Add: I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley) Lyr Req: A Pirate Looks at Forty (Jimmy Buffett) |
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09 Aug 21 - 07:11 PM (#4115970) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: robomatic "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle |
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09 Aug 21 - 07:44 PM (#4115976) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: pattyClink Gracious! A Pirate Looks at Forty? I was listening to the Boats CD and thinking how a few of his songs really deserve to pass into folk status. But geez, classified as bad guys? I'm gonna plead Victimless Crime and ask for mercy. |
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10 Aug 21 - 05:31 AM (#4116012) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Methinks the 'folk' ship sailed at Marty Robbins. You say 'bad' like it's a bad thing. Jack Sparrow, Han Solo, Aeneas: Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing, Time and tide will admit no delaying. Take a boozy short leave of your nymphs on the shore, And silence their mourning with vows of returning But never intending to visit them more. And some gunfighters wear white hats. When a Cowboy Trades his Spurs for Wings (Rawlings & Welch, 2018) Let me tell you, buddy There's a faster gun Coming over yonder When tomorrow comes Let me tell you, buddy And it won't be long 'Til you find yourself singing Your last cowboy song (chorus) Yippee-ki-yi-yay When the round-up ends Yippee-ki-yi-yay And the campfire dims Yippee-ki-yi-yay He shouts and he sings When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings When they wrap my body In a thin linen sheet And they take my six irons And pull the boots from my feet Unsaddle my pony She'll be itching to roam And I'll be halfway to heaven Under horsepower of my own (chorus) Yippee-ki-yi-yay I'm glory-bound No more jingle-jangle I lay my guns down Yippee-ki-yi-yay He shouts and he sings When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings |
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10 Aug 21 - 12:46 PM (#4116060) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: GUEST,Modette Ry Cooder on modern crooks - No Banker Left Behind. |
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10 Aug 21 - 01:23 PM (#4116062) Subject: RE: Songs about outlaws, gunfighters, bad guys From: Big Al Whittle I've written several songs about John Dillinger and his gang. There's also one I wrote about MachineGun Jack McGurn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTlKeEfpB4&t=22s |