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02 Jul 02 - 03:22 PM (#740864) Subject: Downtown Blues From: GUEST,garyvoa Anybody out there have the correct lyrics for "DOwntown Blues"? I mean the one by the great Memphis blues musician Frank Stokes, recorded in the late 1920s. Geoff Muldaur recorded it with the Kweskin Jug Band in the '60s, but it's a bit difficult to understand the lyrics. Can anybody help? |
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02 Jul 02 - 07:42 PM (#741026) Subject: Lyr Add: DOWNTOWN BLUES From: masato sakurai Two takes for this blues by Frank Stokes.
DOWNTOWN BLUES
(1) record number: (41822-1) Vi-21272 BC-5
1 Hey listen mama : the world is done gone away
(2) record number: (41822-2) Vi unissued His HLP-31
1 Hey listen mama : the world is done gone away
*...*: questionable passage(s)
(From: Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Garland, 1983, pp. 257-258) ~Masato
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07 Dec 11 - 11:00 AM (#3269851) Subject: Lyr Add: DOWNTOWN BLUES (Frank Stokes) From: Jim Dixon This is a different recording. The tune and guitar arrangement is the same (as near as I can tell) but the words are quite different. My transcription from the recording at Spotify: DOWNTOWN BLUES As sung by Frank Stokes on "The Best of Frank Stokes" (2005) And I don't drink whiskey, but I'm crazy 'bout my gal(?) It is 1928 an' it must be a brand-new year(?) And it's my yard; take me to your back door If the time get rough, I ain't gon' make it there no more An' I'm goin' downtown, gon' stay right there till dark You don't like my treatments, you can make you another start An' I'm settin' right here now, look straight in your face If you're goin' to ..., well, it's time for you to make haste Now when you lay down at night, lay down early; try to take your rest You'll get a couple ... : wake up ... to try to do your best Now what make I know that my good gal like me so 'Cause she takes her time; she do work ev'rywhere she goes |
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07 Dec 11 - 12:10 PM (#3269883) Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN TOWN BLUES (Curtis Jones) From: Jim Dixon This is a totally different song with a similar title. I figure I might as well post it here rather than start a new thread. My transcription from the recording at Spotify: DOWN TOWN BLUES As sung by Curtis Jones on "Curtis Jones: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Vol. 3, 1939-1940" (Document DOCD-5298, 2005) My baby—Lord, she hangs around downtown. With these policy writers [or "riders"?]—she tore her reputation down. I don't want no woman—want ev'ry downtown man she sees. If I was the chief policeman—she would not be let out on the street. I did you wrong—when I let you have your way. Now someone else, baby—hung his snow(?) ring in your face. Pretty soon—all my worries will be done. It's true I love you baby—but someday that I'll overcome. |
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10 Dec 18 - 12:31 PM (#3965814) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Downtown Blues (Frank Stokes) From: GUEST,Bill Yake This seems to be the Geoff Mulduar version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUV9XzvKAoY Downtown Blues – Geoff Muldaur via Frank Stokes Hey little mama: the world done gone away Hey little mama: the world done gone away I got a bad-luck deal: give me trouble every day And I'm going I'm going: put a black crepe on your door And I'm going I'm going: put a black crepe on your door Cause your babe ain't dead: don’t go to your house no more And I'm going downtown: going down past your door And I'm going downtown: going down past your door Hey, hey little mama: I’m about the carry on. Well, look out baby, now mama when I get back Well, look out baby, now mama when I get back Don’t wanna find no monkey-man lining my tracks. I got a gal in the country: got two that stays, two that stays in town I got a gal in the country: got two that stays in town Reason I seem so nice is one might put me down. So I'm going downtown: I'm going downtown I'm going downtown: I’m going down past your door Hey, hey, hey little mama: I’m about the carry on. |
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16 Dec 18 - 05:20 PM (#3966675) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Downtown Blues (Frank Stokes) From: GUEST beer not gal |