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19 Oct 00 - 12:55 PM (#322593) Subject: Jawbone From: Allan C. Recently on the Independant Film Channel, (IFC) there has been a movie called, "Silent Tongue". To me this was one of those movies which began with a promise of being very good; but failed to keep the promise. The main redeeming feature of the film was the many trad songs which were sprinkled throughout. One song in particular sounded very familiar but I was unable to make out much in the way of lyrics. All I can recall was the chorus which was: Jawbone. Jawbone. Something something something something...old jawbone. I believe there was some reference to it hanging on the shed. Sorry I can't come up with more. Does this ring any bells with anyone? |
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19 Oct 00 - 05:41 PM (#322851) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Sorcha Allan, is this it? Has the chords and an audio file, too. I know if I try to copy/paste it, the chords will come out all goobered up. |
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19 Oct 00 - 05:54 PM (#322857) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Allan C. That's an interesting song, Sorcha. Thanks. But that's not it. |
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19 Oct 00 - 06:03 PM (#322862) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Quincy Allan, Was it sung by a band that were in the film as actors? If so, it might be the Red Clay Ramblers as they were the acting band.......or so it says on a web-site about the film!! Can't find it as a released track of theirs but they may have just done it especially for the film? All this information and I still can't give you any lyrics!!!!! Good luck with your search, best wishes, Yvonne |
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19 Oct 00 - 06:13 PM (#322871) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: GUEST,John Leeder The New Lost City Ramblers recorded "Old Jaw Bone" (sometimes called "Old Joe Bone"), a song from the Carter Brothers and Sons, lots of raw energy but quite misogynisctic. One verse I can recall, without digging out the LP, is A jawbone walking, a jawbone talking, A jawbone eating with a knife and fork, and I laid my jawbone on a fence, And I ain't seen nothing of my jawbone since. Chorus: Old jawbone, couldn't get along, Here comes Sally with a red dress on. (Or maybe a blue dress.) Sound like it? |
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19 Oct 00 - 06:23 PM (#322880) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Allan C. Thanks for the lead, Quincy. Don't know why I didn't think to do a search on the movie title. I can't say for sure whether the actors were actually the singers. For the purposes of the story, they didn't need to be very good. John, that seems as if it could be the one. I think it may have had some risque verses to it. I have sat through the show twice and am still trying to figure out the lyrics. (I think it may be time for some new batteries;-) |
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28 Oct 00 - 12:19 PM (#329199) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Allan C. Okay, I put new batteries in the tape recorder and was able to capture the song. But I can still only make out the chorus and first verse. I will put it out here for anyone else to add to it or maybe recognize it.
(Chorus)
The old jawbone on the almshouse wall
Chorus At twelve o'clock... |
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15 Aug 02 - 08:14 PM (#766195) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Jim Dixon Found these quotes here: http://www.johnhartford.com/discog/goforth.htm "Jawbone walk and jawbone talk and Jawbone eat with a knife and fork." It seems to be a blackface minstrel tune. Hans Nathan in his Dan Emmett book has it sung at a Tennessee frolie in the early 1830's. "I left my jawbone sittin' on a fence. I ain't seen nothin' of my jawbone since. Walked on home and didn't get along. In come Sally with her big boots on." -Ragged but right - Kuntz, p. 306 "A jawbone played with a stick so the teeth would rattle was a minstrel percussion instrument - probably borrowed from blacks." P. 19 - Leadbelly, Chas. Wolfe, Kip Lornel. And I found this quote at http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/banjo-l/log0005/0109.html Now the ol' jawbone, that is a humble instrument. It does help BTW, if the jawbone is removed from the head, stripped and cleaned and dried. Some people keep the lower jaw intact so it has a U shape suitable for carrying. But only one side works too, should you want to share. A refrain to "Give the Fiddler a Dram" goes: "Walk jawbone, Jinny git along, in come Sally with the blue boots on." Does this refer to playing the jawbone, or is it a dance call? The preceding verse is not enlightening: "Jawbone walk and jawbone talk, jawbone eat with a knife and fork. Laid my jawbone on the fence and ain't seen nothin' of my jawbone since." The fiddle tune "Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel" is also known as "Old Jawbone." Maybe that argues a minstrel show origin? |
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15 Aug 02 - 08:22 PM (#766201) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Jim Dixon The Internet Move Database gives this as the soundtrack listing for Silent Tongue (1993). "Little Acrobat's Song" Music and Lyrics by Tommy Thompson and Jack Herrick. "Man of the House" "The Saratoga Hornpipe" "Hell Almongst the Yearlings" "Old Jawbone" "The Musical Priest" "The Earl's Chair" "White Blanket" "Star of Donegal" "Flying Cloud Cotillion" "The Man at the Plough" "Oh, Death" "Haul Away, Joe" Traditional music arranged by the Red Clay Ramblers. |
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16 Aug 02 - 04:31 AM (#766336) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: GUEST,The late, great Richard Manual I'm a thief, and I dig it! |
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16 Aug 02 - 02:39 PM (#766582) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: GUEST,Ole Bull The JawBone was a Plantation music/Minstrel Show icon where it was often used as a rhythem instrument in place of, or along side of, bones. Hence there are a lot of mid 19th century songs, some parodies of each other, with Jawbone titles or references. "De Old Jawbone" chorus goes: "Walk Jawbone with the Turkey too, Never mind that Boogerboo." And first verse is "Jawbone hung on the kitchen wall... I think that it was Hans Nathan (mentioned above) who suggested that Walking JawBone was a dance which may be the prototype of Tapdance as it imitates the sound it makes. Steven Foster sang of how Angelina Baker left him to weep a tear and beat on the old Jawbone. |
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16 Aug 02 - 10:40 PM (#766781) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: Stewie Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers recorded a version of 'Jaw Bone' in June 1928. The refrain goes:
Walk jaw bone and walk away It has silly verses like the first (as far as I can decipher it):
? old man comes riding by It also includes the 'jaw bone walks and jaw bone talks/jaw bone eats with a knife and fork' stanza mentioned above. The recording has been reissued on Various Artists 'Echoes of the Ozarks Vol I' County CO-CD-3506. The spirited version by the Carter Brothers and Son, 'Old Joe Bone' (February 1929), which is mentioned above, has also been reissued by County - Various Artists 'Mississippi String Bands Vol I' CO-CD-3513. The earliest reference given in the Meade, Spottswood, Meade biblio-discography is to 'S.S. Steele pre-1865'. They also reference 'Minstrel Songs Old and New' (1882), Talley 'Negro Folk Rhymes'(1922), Tennessess Folklore Society Publications (1935), Randolph 'Ozark Folksongs II' (1950) and Browne 'Alabama Folk Lyric' (1979). --Stewie.
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05 Nov 14 - 08:08 PM (#3674913) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: GUEST,lew something about keeping the spooks away hang an old jaw bone on the outhouse door |
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20 Nov 14 - 04:59 PM (#3678762) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jawbone From: GUEST |