01 Oct 98 - 12:17 AM (#40118) Subject: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicologist From: BSondahl I ain't no ethnofolkmusicologist, I ain't no ethnofolkmusicologist's son, But I can digress on a song's etymology, Till the folkethnomusicologist come. http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl/bradindex.html burma shave |
01 Oct 98 - 12:12 PM (#40180) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Bill D as can we ALL, Brad, old fellow... |
01 Oct 98 - 02:06 PM (#40197) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Pam S. I think I'm in love with you, BSondahl. |
01 Oct 98 - 02:50 PM (#40202) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Ewan McV Your address reminds me of the WWII front trench signs I read about Be careful as you walk about Or you'll be picking shrapnel out Of Burma Shave |
01 Oct 98 - 03:13 PM (#40206) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Joe Offer Brad - that sounds like it's supposed to be a verse to a song I'm supposed to know. Trouble is, my feeble mind can't figure out what song it's supposed to be. Can you tell me the song, before I get seriously frustrated? Is your verse original, or am I right in thinking I've heard it somewhere else before? Sounds like it could be somebody taking a poke at Pete Seeger or John & Alan Lomax. -Joe Offer- |
01 Oct 98 - 04:56 PM (#40211) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Barbara There's one in the DT, Joe. I searched [ain't no doctor] and got If the River Were Whiskey. Might be more. Seems like I remember a trade song, that plugs in tons of different professions, each with a double entendre on the end (ain't no mailman; ain't no mailman's son, but I can put it in the box till the mailman comes) and the like. Might be another version of Hesitation Blues. That sounds right. Blessings Barbara |
01 Oct 98 - 05:30 PM (#40221) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Roger Himler Barbara,
How about:
Gather 'round people, 'bout to sing this song,
CHO:
Hello Central, what's a'matter with that line?
Don't want no sugar, in my tea,
A'int no fireman, I ain't no fireman's son,
Ain't no doctor, I ain't no doctor's son,
Words from memory of 60's or 70's jug band recording. Perhaps I can find it later.
However, the thread may be referring to a Smother's Brothers song/routine. Is this it, Joe?
My old man's a sailor, now whaddya think about that?
CHO:
They move through occupations to "Cotton pickin', finger lickin', chicken plucker." e.g. Roger in Baltimore |
02 Oct 98 - 11:14 AM (#40226) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Mountain Dog Barbara, I think you pegged it as a variation (mayhap a wryly pedantic one?) of them ol' Hesitation Blues. |
02 Oct 98 - 11:41 AM (#40227) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Brad Sondahl The lyrics were original, been percolating in my brain for years. it's based on the pattern of Hootchie Cootchie Man, which of course is Muddy Waters rendering of the Willie Dixon standard which falls in the the genre of "I ain't no" lyrics: I ain't no miller, ain't no miller's son, But I can do your grinding till the miller come etc. blah blah blah. But I digress. It's not intended to rip anybody-- just years ago I heard some fellow folk junky with a degree described as an ethnofolkmusicologist. And to Pam S: Sorry, I'm spoken for... |
02 Oct 98 - 01:08 PM (#40230) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Joe Offer Roger, that Smothers Brothers routine sounds familiar, but it's not on the one Smothers CD I have and my memory doesn't go back that far very well these days. Sure does ring a bell, though. I always liked the Brothers Smothers. I was kind of proud of the Smothers routine I used to do as a camp counselor. -Joe Offer- |
03 Oct 98 - 10:26 AM (#40271) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Rockaday Johnny Roger - that '70's jugband tune you thought of was Jim Kweskin's recording of "Wild about my Lovin" (Geof Muldaur did the vocals) it was based on Jim Jackson's 1928 version -- |
03 Oct 98 - 07:55 PM (#40297) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Dani BSondahl, I needed a chuckle tonight~ thanks! Joe, don't you remember the pheasant plucker and his son?? I'm pretty sure it was discussed ad nauseum here sometime. |
04 Oct 98 - 03:06 AM (#40308) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: gargoyle I first heard it in 1960, from a bar-owner's daughter....it is a tongue-twister. Try saying it three times.
I'm not a sheet slitter |
04 Oct 98 - 03:32 AM (#40311) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Joe Offer Ohhhh, the Pheasant Plucker (click here) thread. I forgot.... Gee, It's even in the database (click here). -Joe Offer- |
05 Oct 98 - 04:21 PM (#40406) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Barry Finn Rockaday, I believe that's the same version covered by John Sebastian, what I still have from memory goes, maybe like this.
Hello central what's the matter with the line
CH: Cause I'm wild about my loving,
Hello Mr. Chief of Police, I think there was more but the fog is to thick. Barry |
05 Oct 98 - 06:25 PM (#40420) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: northfolk just went through quickly, so maybe the answer is already here. the reference to the smothers b's, was close. The show included a series of poems, I think, by Mason williams? called "Them Poems". Them Moose Goosers was more widely known than them Pheasant pluckers.... |
05 Oct 98 - 06:55 PM (#40425) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: Joe Offer I'm not sure if there's a connection to ethnofolkmusicologists, but click here and you'll find the refreshing, entertaining, and strangely satisfying thread we had on Mason Williams and the Moose Goosers and such. -Joe Offer- |
05 Oct 98 - 07:29 PM (#40427) Subject: Lyr Add: HESITATIN' BLUES From: Barbara Gee, it's good to be back. About 25, 30 years ago someone gave me a copy of Hesitatin' Blues with about a zillion verses. I just found it, but the top page -- with the music and the info about whose version it was -- is gone. Here's the words: HESITATIN' BLUES
Hesitatin' stockings, hesitatin' shoes
If the river was whiskey, and I was a duck
Well, I'm standin' on a corner, dollar in my hand,
Well you hesitate by one, and you hesitate by two
I was born in Alabama, I was raised in Tennessee,
I looked down the rroad just as far as I could see
I ain't no doctor, ain't no doctor's son,
Well the eagle on the dollar say "In God we trust"
Pussy ain't nothin' but meat on a bone,
Ain't no fireman, ain't no fireman's son,
Ain't no iceman, ain't no iceman's son,.
Ain't no postman, ain't no postman's son,.
Ain't no chimney sweeper, ain't no chimney sweeper's son,.
Ain't no garage mechanic, ain't no garage mechanic's son,.
Ain't no Good Humor man, ain't no Good Humor man's son,
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22 Jan 17 - 05:45 PM (#3834169) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: GUEST,Joseph Scott The familiar "I ain't no plumber..." stuff is at least as old as 1916, because it was used in this: http://www.worldcat.org/title/german-blues-its-neutral/oclc/24261434?referer=di&ht=edition Lurtey was born in Kentucky in about 1887. _Billboard_ wrote on 10/28/1916 that "The German Blues: It's Neutral" was the "[b]est burlesque song on the boards" and on 5/26/1917 that it was "[m]aking a great hit everywhere." |
22 Jan 17 - 05:59 PM (#3834172) Subject: RE: I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist From: GUEST,Joseph Scott P.S. "The German Blues: It's Neutral" had AAB lyrics, unlike "Hesitating Blues." |