Lyr/Chords Add: Somebody's Waiting For Me

21 Dec 00 - 04:14 PM (#361305)
Subject: Somebody's Waiting For Me
From: Mark Clark

Guy's new Carter Family site got me thinking about CF songs again---pretty easy to do---and I was reminded that this tune isn't in the DT. I learned it from a recording by Curtis Blackwell and Randall Collins but people for whom I've sung it tell me it's a CF song. Wherever it's from, I hope you enjoy it.

      - Mark

Somebody's Waiting For Me

In a noisy eastern city sat a lonely lad one night,     (G, C)
In a bar room where the wine began to flow,     (D, G)
From a table in the corner, the young lad slowly rose,     (G, C)
He said "I see it's getting late boys, I must .go."     (D, G)

Chorus:
Somebody's waiting for me,     (G, C)
Someone who loves me I know,     (D, G)
There's a light shining bright in her window tonight,     (G, C)
Somebody's waiting for me.     (D, G)

I suppose you have a sweetheart his companions jovially said,
If she's pretty we would like to see her too,
If you'll only stop your teasin' I will show her to you boys,
She's the only sweetheart that I ever knew.

(chorus)

From a small brown leather pocketbook a picture he did take,
Of a gray-haired lady with a bowed down head,
She's my mother, she's my sweetheart and she waits for me tonight,
So you see, I told the truth boys when I said...

(chorus)

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21 Dec 00 - 11:27 PM (#361551)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Somebody's Waiting For Me
From: Mark Clark

Well I see I've managed at least two errors in a single post. Not bad, eh? The first line of the chorus is missing the highlight indication for the chord change. The line should read:

Somebody's waiting for me,     (G, C)

The other error is attributing the new Carter Family site to Guy (Wolff). I read the thread too quickly and thought it was from Guy, actually the thread and the great CF site were from Gray Wolf, a different person altogether.

Sorry Gray (and Guy),

      - Mark

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22 Dec 00 - 10:55 AM (#361730)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Somebody's Waiting For Me
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson

I don't think the Carter Family covered this; the recording I know best is Ernest Stoneman. I've heard Patsy Stoneman (his daughter0 sing it a couple times now. Wonderful song! thanks Mark

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23 Dec 00 - 10:53 AM (#362266)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Somebody's Waiting For Me
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

My virson of the song that i heard years ago It was in a country garden where the sun was at it;s high It was lonley and the wind began to blow. At a table in a corner where a young man slowly rose he said it;s growing late boys i must go Well have another drink sit down Jack why the fun as just begun why it;s only twelve o;clock yet someone cried. Well i,ve a sweetheart waiting someware and she waits for me tonight if you came with me i;ll show you to her boys. He took them to a cottage stearing through a window pane where a grayhaired woman sat with a bowedown head; she;s me mother she;s me sweetheart she;s the one i meant tonight so you see the truth boys when i said sombody waiting for me sombody loves me i know somebody waoudering where i can be or what can be keeping me so;somebody heart is sad waiting so patiently, there.s a light burning bright in thw window tonight cause there's somebody waiting foe me

ght if you come with me i;ll show her to you boy;s

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24 Dec 00 - 12:57 AM (#362587)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Somebody's Waiting For Me
From: Mark Clark

GUEST, Do you remember the source for your version? It would be interesting to follow the development of the song.

      - Mark

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