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21 Mar 98 - 02:12 PM (#24268) Subject: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: Don Mostrom Looking for words to the old fiddle tune "Barlow Knife". dmostrom@aol.com |
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21 Mar 98 - 02:47 PM (#24275) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: I've been working all my life and all I want is a Barlow knife Stag horn handle with a barlow blade best old knife ever was made |
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21 Mar 98 - 03:47 PM (#24282) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: Joe Offer Here is a previous thread on the topic, but it doesn't seem to come up with a conclusive answer. Here is another. Maybe the whole song is just this one verse? -Joe Offer- |
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21 Mar 98 - 07:08 PM (#24294) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: MAG A 50's folk group named "Womenfolk" -- 5 women plus guitars -- probably nobody but me remembers them: anyway they did a version of "hard times c.m.g." with the additional verse: When I die don't bury me a/tall/Just hang me up on the barroom wall/Pickle my bones in alcohol/Hard times everywhere every verse ended with this line, then swung into the chorus. I'm new on this list, and am de-lurking to say how very much I enjoy it! Not a pro, MAG |
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22 Mar 98 - 02:38 PM (#24339) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: dulcimer I know there is a brand name Barlow Knife and I think it might be a special knife used for something or other. What really is a barlow knife? Good song to play. |
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22 Mar 98 - 04:41 PM (#24345) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: chet w I used to do this song/tune. All I can add is that for the "B" part of the tune we'd sing "Barlow handle and a Barlow blade,Barlow is not a brand but rather a style of folding knife, been around forever. You can find one at any hardware store. It has one or two blades. The handle has a long piece of bone or plastic, rounded at one end, and a metal plate (bolster is the technical term), kind of rectangular, at the hinge end of the handle.
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22 Mar 98 - 10:18 PM (#24368) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: BFP I've been working all of my life and all I got is a barlow knife. Staghorn handle with a barlow blade Best old knife that ever was made. |
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24 Mar 98 - 02:45 PM (#24515) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: judy Many tunes just had a single line thrown in now and then. I think it is up to the group to make up another line. enjoy! judy |
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25 Mar 98 - 06:18 AM (#24555) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: Bill in Alabama In my part of the southern Appalachians, the tune was considered a fiddle tune or a dance tune, and the only verse I ever heard sung was the one about being a poor boy all my life, with the chorus being the piece about Barlow Handle, Barlow Blade. Because many of those tunes, especially dance tunes, tend to last for a very long time, the instrumental burden is occasionally broken up by such a single verse/chorus vocal. Although there were others of the same type with which I was once familiar, I can't think of one now, other than Sally Goodwin, which we sang with only one verse. |
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25 Mar 98 - 05:41 PM (#24573) Subject: RE: Barlow Knife - Want lyrics From: Les Blank The Barlow knife is a major theme in the Hedy West (Vanguard Records) song, "Cotton Mill Girls". Also, FWIW, Guy Clark (Dublin Blues) would rather have a Randall knife !! |