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29 Nov 05 - 03:14 PM (#1616566) Subject: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Charlie Baum Evolution Girl Once I met a fair young lady And I learned to love her well She believes there is no Saviour And she says there is no Hell Cheeks were red; her eyes do sparkle And her hair was chestnut brown She believes in evolution And she lives in New York Town And she says we came from monkeys Many many years gone by But I know she'll need a Saviour When her time shall come to die Won't you change your way of living Won't you be a better girl And prepare to meet the Saviour In a bright and better world You must walk that lonesome valley You must cross that troubled tide Don't you want to meet your mother Over on the other side Don't believe in false teaching For the truth to you I've told Don't believe in evolution For the devil will get your soul Transcribed (CB) from the recording "Evolution Girl" by the Double Decker String Band. Their liner note: "Evolution Girl" was recorded by the Carolina Buddies. We'd rather not talk about it. Scope it out for yourself. |
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29 Nov 05 - 04:18 PM (#1616628) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Bill D *grin* |
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29 Nov 05 - 08:52 PM (#1616821) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: The Fooles Troupe Ah! Thanks for the 'ID Approved' song! Any more, anyone? |
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29 Nov 05 - 09:34 PM (#1616841) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Art Thieme It took some really intelligent design to write that song !!! ;-) That said, I love the Double Decker guys. And this is a favorite song of mine of all the fine ones that they do. It has a great tune. It is a unique, well stated polemic that, miraculously, manages to exhibit exquisite irony in that it champions one side even while advocating the opposite position! CRAIG JOHNSON, who sang high tenor with this band for many years, is one of my favorite song makers of all time. He is one of the singer/songwriters whose written compositions sound like they could easily be actual folksongs. I think that's one main reason why I love them so much; why I gravitated to them in the first place. The other reason is that the tales told in his songs truly transport the listener to other eras and places where hard times labor scenarios shine revealing light on situations folks ought to know about. --- I do believe I was the first one to record his taumatergic songs "The Keweenaw Light" and "Fire In The Jackpines". (If I sound proud of that fact, it's because I am!) -------- Later on, I put his songs A North Country Tragedy" and "Way Down The Road" on my last CD in 1998. Now I'm wondering who wrote this one??! Or did the song simply evolve Might it be one of Craig Johnson's ??? Art Thieme |
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29 Nov 05 - 10:01 PM (#1616857) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Joe Offer D'ya think Craig would tell you who wrote it, Art? Seems to me that if he'd tell anybody, he'd tell you (and then you could tell US). -Joe- |
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29 Nov 05 - 11:23 PM (#1616901) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Desert Dancer This song has been one of my favorites on a favorite album. The Carolina Buddies were recording in the late '20s/early '30s, so I doubt Craig Johnson wrote the song for them. :-) ~ Becky in Tucson |
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29 Nov 05 - 11:45 PM (#1616914) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: The Fooles Troupe But Art's been around forever! |
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30 Nov 05 - 03:44 AM (#1616960) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Art Thieme But, alas, I won't be! (Around forever, that is ;-) Joe, I've lost his E-mail address. Last thing I recall, he is in North Carolina, with a PhD now, and teaching. But if you'd like to check out a photo of him with Cathy Fink, wearing a monkey mask and putting a hollowed out, carved-like-a-pumpkin, watermelon on his head---just go to my folk photos web site. http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html Once again: To get in to view my snapshots, when prompted, enter the lower case word, mudcat, as both the "password" AND the "user name". In the photos there are some of Craig jamming with the fine fiddler Joe Thompson. Also, a few of him singing with Cathy and Alice Girrard and John Beam and Mike Seeger back in the 1980s. We were in Takoma Park, Maryland and had a jug of moonshine---which explains (sort of) both the watermelon and why and how the watermelon got on Mr. Johnson's head. The monkey mask Cathy was wearing was a stage thing she sometimes wore when playing a style of frailed banjo she had invented called "Monkey Music". In it, specific out-of-the-chord notes appeared at unusual, but regular, intervals a bit like what Charlie Parker did on his sax. --- As you, maybe, can see from my choice of words here, recounting that good afternoon prods me to feel the effects of that good moonshine whiskey all over again (to paraphrase Yogi Berra ;-) Art (I can't sleep tonight!! ;-) |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:08 AM (#1617260) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Art Thieme Becky, I'd never heard of the Carolina Buddies before. Is there a reissue record with this song on it? (And thanks for that insight!) Art |
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30 Nov 05 - 01:09 PM (#1617362) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: dick greenhaus You might also check out: The Bible's True The Big Band Theory It's a Long Way From Amphioxus The Darwinian Theory The Scopes Trial and That's All They're all in the DT. |
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30 Nov 05 - 02:08 PM (#1617395) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST Here's the story of one of their "hits", Otto Wood as told in The Old Time Herald. Sound file included. It's the sort of thing you'll like, Art. http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-9/9-6/otto-wood.html Actually, though the lineup changed every now and then, the lineup on this page was a common one. Odell Smith and Norman Woodlieff who played with Charlie Poole at opposite ends of his career and Walter "Kid" Smith. |
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30 Nov 05 - 02:17 PM (#1617400) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST http://www.honkingduck.com/BAZ/baz_one.php?req=ARTIST&pg=2&auid=1060 Carolina Buddies at Honking Duck. Broken Hearted Lover, Otto Wood The Bandit,The Murder Of The Lawson Family. No Evolution Girl, though. |
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30 Nov 05 - 02:57 PM (#1617429) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Art Thieme I remember the Stanley Brothers (Carter Stanley vocalizing)doing "The Murder Of The Lawson Family" at the first or second (maybe the third) University Of Chicago Folk Festival--1961--or '62 (maybe '63). A fine old song -- carried on... I've got that old Old Time Herald issue with the Otto Wood article. Thanks for reminding me! That good magazine is one of the indispensable ones for me. I probably must've heard the Carolina Biddies before after all. Art |
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30 Nov 05 - 06:16 PM (#1617567) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Jim Dixon Foolestroupe: What's this term "ID approved" I keep seeing? |
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30 Nov 05 - 07:37 PM (#1617630) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: The Fooles Troupe 'Intelligent Design Approved' ;-) (It's all about a Religious argument with followers of Darwin!) |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:00 PM (#1617641) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: frogprince But, when you consider the age of the song, was it really written essentially as irony? To a certain extent, yeah; it's too light-hearted, with the narrator loving the rosy-cheeked gal despite her beliefs, to be a straight-faced diatribe. But, if this came out of the southland (did it?)of the '20s, don't bet that the writer really believed in that citified, Satanic, Yankee doctrine. |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:05 PM (#1617647) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST I have no doubt it was written in utter seriousness. I do doubt that most late 20th cent./ early 21st cent. performers sing it without irony. :-) ~ Becky in Tucson (Double Decker cited the Carolina Buddies; I Googled 'em. Beyond that, others have replied better than I could.) |
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02 Dec 05 - 08:59 AM (#1618444) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: Jim Dixon The Carolina Buddies' recording of MY EVOLUTION GIRL appears on "Walter Smith and Friends, Vol. 2 (1930-1931)," Document CD 8063, 2003. (Walter Smith was a member of The Carolina Buddies.) Allmusic.com lists the composer as "Smith." Among the other songs on that album are WHEN HE DIED HE GOT A HOME IN HELL performed by Kid Williams and the Texas Mud Splashers, and GOD'S GETTING WORRIED by the Virginia Dandies. |
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08 Jan 24 - 12:57 PM (#4195124) Subject: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Wally Macnow As recorded by The Double Decker String Band. To me, it sounds like it could have been written by Craig Johnson but I never asked any of the band members. I've never heard anyone else play it. If anyone knows anything about the source, I'd sure be interested. EVOLUTION GIRL Songwriter? Once I met a fair young lady And I learned to love her well She believed there is no saviour And she said there is no hell. Cheeks were red. Her eyes did sparkle And here hair was chestnut brown She believed in evolution And she lived in New York town And she said we came from monkeys Many, many years gone by But I know she'll need a saviour When her time shall come to die Won't you change your way of living Won't you be a better girl And prepare to meet the saviour In a bright and better world You must walk that lonesome valley You must cross that troubled tide Don't you want to meet your mother Over on the other side Don't believe in false teachings For the truth to you I've told Don't believe in evolution For the devil will get your soul |
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08 Jan 24 - 01:02 PM (#4195125) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GUEST,Wally Macnow Just found this from the Liner notes posted by Brenda VanLunen. “Evolution Girl was recorded by the Carolina Buddies. We’d rather not talk about it. Scope it out for yourself.” |
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08 Jan 24 - 01:29 PM (#4195128) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: cnd Thanks for sharing, Wally. Looks like we have an earlier thread on it: link The Carolina Buddies were a 1920s/30s string band based out of North Carolina. Most known for their song Otto Wood the Bandit, several of the members of the Buddies were the same as those of Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers. This particular song was written by the group's guitarist and vocalist, Walter "Kid" Smith. |
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07 Mar 24 - 08:08 AM (#4198675) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: cnd I was looking through old posts of mine recently in an effort to contribute to another thread and realized that I failed to actually include the link: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=86805 |
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08 Mar 24 - 04:47 AM (#4198749) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GeoffLawes Evolution Girl - Double Decker String Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_3fXc7_nQg |
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08 Mar 24 - 05:46 AM (#4198752) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Evolution Girl From: GeoffLawes The Carolina Buddies-My Evolution Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SroCAqw8Q4 |