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06 Feb 98 - 06:45 PM (#20841) Subject: Tishomingo Blues lyric? From: Bill Can anyone send me the lyrics to Tisomingo Blues? Thanks for any help. Bill Andersen andersenw@msn.com |
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07 Feb 98 - 12:52 AM (#20856) Subject: RE: Tishomingo Blue lyric? From: Dale Rose Have you checked the Prairie Home Companion site? http://phc.mpr.org/ It might be there, tucked into a corner of the site. I would imagine that they have real audio recordings of it, too. |
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07 Feb 98 - 06:53 AM (#20874) Subject: RE: Tishomingo Blue lyric? From: Frank in the swamps I'm goin' to Tishomingo because I'm sad today I wish to linger 'way down old Dixie way. Oh my weary heart cries out in pain, oh how I wish that I was back again, In a place, With a race, Where they make you welcome all the time. Way down in Missisippi among the Cyprus trees, They get you dippy with their strange melodies.. to resist temptation, I just can't refuse, In Tishomingo, I wish to linger, where they play the weary blues.
Words & Music by Spencer Williams. If there are more verses I'd love to hear them, My Pals and I have jammed to this tune once in a while, I don't know much about it, but I've seen Spencer Williams' name before, don't know much about him either. Frank I.T.S. |
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08 Feb 98 - 05:55 AM (#20942) Subject: Lyr Add: TISHOMINGO BLUES (Spencer Williams) From: Frank in the swamps Heh, Heh, I was digging around trying to find "Blackbottom blues" for Sharon and guess what I found.... Words & Music by Spencer Williams Copyright 1917 Edward B. Marks music corp. Renewed 1944. Oh Mississippi, Oh Mississippi, my heart cries out for you in sadness, I want to be where, the wintry winds don't blow, down where the southern moon swings low, That's where I want to go..... (Chorus) I'm goin' to Tishomingo, because I'm sad today, I wish to linger, way down old Dixie way. Oh my weary heart cries out in pain, oh how I wish that I was back again, with a race, in a place, where they make you welcome all the time. Way down in Mississippi, among the cypress trees, they get you dippy, with their strange melodies, to resist, temptation, I just can't refuse, In Tishomingo, I wish to linger, where they play those weary blues. (Verse) Tonight I'm prayin' Tonight I'm sayin' Oh lord please bless the train that takes me. To Tishomingo, way down old Dixie way, Where Southern folks are always gay, That's why you hear me say.... (Chorus) etc... Wait 'till my buds find out we've never been playing the whole tune, just the chorus. Frank I.T.S. |
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08 Feb 98 - 01:45 PM (#20965) Subject: Lyr Add: TISHOMINGO BLUES (Peg Leg Howell) From: Art Thieme Here is Peg Leg Howell's "Tishomingo Blues" from ll/8/'26 Might've been flip side of "Coal Man Blues" recorded same date. But it doesn't seem to be the song you're looking at here. That's life. I'm goin' to Tishomingo because I'm sad today (repeat) Pretty woman I love--she done drove me away. I'm goin' to Tishomingo to have my ham bone boiled, (repeat) These Atlanta women done let my ham bone spoil. I woke up this mornin' 'tween midnight and day, (repeat) I felt for my rider--she done walked away. Can't you always tell when your good gal gonna treat you mean? (repeat) Your meals is unreg'lar---your house ain’t never clean. You can always tell that something’s goin' on wrong, (repeat) When you come in your radishes out and gone. When she come in she got a rag tied 'round her head, (repeat) You think about lovin'--she swear that she's almost dead. Sweet mama, what's on your lovin' mind? (repeat) You can't quit me---turn on me on a dime. I've got a lovin' fairy, she long & tall like me, (repeat) [That's what I hear here. Must mean a fair skinned person.] I love my brown skin--don't care where she be. Art Thieme |
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10 Feb 98 - 02:11 PM (#21143) Subject: RE: Tishomingo Blue lyric? From: Bill Andersen Thanks to all who sent lyrics in response to my request. There seem to be a number of variations on the original lyric by Spencer Williams. Nobody ever accused jazz of being static. |
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10 Feb 98 - 05:22 PM (#21162) Subject: RE: Tishomingo Blue lyric? From: Jon W. Art, I haven't heard Peg Leg Howell's song but I'll bet the last verse says "I got a lovin' fair-brown..." |
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03 Oct 07 - 08:26 AM (#2162661) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Jim Dixon You can see the sheet music to TISHOMINGO BLUES at Indiana University Sheet Music Collections. I guess the lyrics that Garrison Keillor sings must be something he made up himself. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:03 AM (#2162744) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: GUEST,leeneia "fairy" used to be slang for a white person. "Fare thee well, fare thee well, fare thee well, my fairy fey. For I'm goin to Lousiana for to see my Susiana, singin polly wolly doodle all the day." There's a Tishomingo in Oklahoma as well as in Mississippi. We saw a painted bunting at the National Wildlife Refuge there. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:06 AM (#2162747) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace "Tishomingo Blues" (1917) by Spencer Williams 1. Oh Mississippi ... GOOGLE that. I think the lyrics are there. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:08 AM (#2162749) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the link to the Indiana sheet music site, Jim. Judging from the cowboy and Spanish senorita on the cover of the song, I suspect the artist didn't read the lyrics and had the wrong Tishomingo in mind. Not that all of Oklahoma is cowboy country... |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:09 AM (#2162751) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace Dang. The lyrics are already posted above. SORRY! |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:21 AM (#2162760) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Before I got involved with folk music, in the early 1950's, I was already a fan of traditional jazz. One of my early favorites was the legendary trombonist, Jack Teagarden, who did a lovely version of Tishomingo Blues. The melody was well suited to the instrument, and to his fluid upper register playing. His very distinctive singing style almost mimicked the sound of his horn. A great treat, if you can find a recording of it. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:44 AM (#2162773) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace CD with Teagarden's version available for $15, here. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:44 AM (#2162774) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Since we're in the genre, has anyone heard another blues which Teagarden performed, "Casanova's Lament?" The first verse: I was born at midnight, By mornin' I could walk. They called me Casanova; Had eyes just like a hawk. First time I saw a woman, I jumped my crib and tried to walk! If anyone has more, please jump in. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:45 AM (#2162776) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace CD with Teagarden's version available for $15, here. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:47 AM (#2162781) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace Sorry about doubling that. |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:49 AM (#2162782) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Peace You passed right by me baby Like you never had been mine. Passed me by and kept on goin Like you never had no time. I've always done alright with women Since I reached the age of nine. |
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03 Oct 07 - 12:38 PM (#2162807) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Q (Frank Staplin) Hear the Washingtonians play "Tishomingo Blues," the Spencer Williams tune, on this 1928 Brunswick recording at Red Hot Jazz: Tishomingo Blues An excellent instrumental. Another great one here: Tishomingo Blues Black Birds of Paradise, 1927, Gennett. Also the Spencer Williams song. Also instrumental; seldom played with lyrics. |
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03 Oct 07 - 12:59 PM (#2162817) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues From: Q (Frank Staplin) The earliest American slang usage for 'fairy' was prostitute, found in print in 1856. "I met eight men on their way to Kansas... a hard & rough looking set of fellows... they told me they stopped the night before at Bangor in a house of the "Farries" & [persuaded one of them] to accompany him to the Territory...She goes for the especial accommodation of the company, though under the name of the wife of one:" Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 1866- H. J. Harris, "Southern Sketches." You will tell us no more of the fairy. I dare say she has you irrevocably charmed." I don't doubt the usage by Blacks of fairy for a "fair-skinned brown." (Jon W). |