Lyr Add: Trifling Woman (from Frank Proffitt)

04 May 05 - 03:12 PM (#1478091)
Subject: Lyr Add: TRIFLING WOMAN (from Frank Proffitt)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

TRIFLING WOMAN

O Lord, I been a-working
Like a dog all day
Just to make another dollar
For you to throw away.

You spend all my money
And go dressed so fine,
While I wear old clothes
And don't have a dime.

You won't bake my biscuits,
You won't cook my beans,
You want to stand by the log road
So you can be seen.

I'd be better off
Just to go on away
And let you do what you want to
All the lievelong day.

I'd rather be a-hanging
On a old grapevine
Than to know I have to spend my days
With you all the time.

Emrich, Duncan, American Folk Poetry - An Anthology, Chapter "Oh, I Wish I were Single Again: Brown and Co. 1974 p185.
"Trifling Women" was collected by Anne and Frank Warner from the singing of Frank Proffitt, Watauga County, North Carolina, 1951. From the Warner Collection, with permission.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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04 May 05 - 04:12 PM (#1478147)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TRIFLING WOMEN
From: Joe Offer

This song is the very first cut on the very first Folk-Legacy album, CD-1, Frank Proffittt of Reese, NC.
Good song.
-Joe Offer-

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05 May 05 - 01:51 AM (#1478541)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TRIFLING WOMEN
From: Sandy Paton

Title should be "Triflin' Woman" -- not Women. Emrich omits Frank's spoken asides ("You triflin' woman, you!" and "You're runnin' me crazy, woman!") which Frank used when he recorded the song for me. I like 'em.
    Emrich's book, however, is a fine source of texts and has a splendid bibliography prepared by Joe Hickerson that is worth the price of the book.
    Sandy

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05 May 05 - 10:54 PM (#1479151)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TRIFLING WOMEN
From: GUEST

Sandy - tell more about your session with Frank and the recording

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