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03 Mar 97 - 10:51 PM (#2776) Subject: Baby, Please Don't Go From: asenauke@igc.apc.org Does anyone have lyrics to the blues song "Baby, Please Don't Go"? Thanks, Alan Senauke |
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04 Mar 97 - 06:10 PM (#2818) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: alarose@ncwc.edu I think I've heard a friend sing it. Try jjoplin@ncwc.edu. |
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11 Mar 97 - 01:25 PM (#3019) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Barry What I remember from the 60's went Baby, please don't go, Baby please don't go, Baby please don't go down to New Orleans you know I love you so Baby please don'y go,You know I walked the line(3x) with my shackles on, to the county farm, Baby please don't go, You put me way down here.... That's all I can recall. Ido remember it being sung at a fast clip, slowed down it would sound related to Another Man Done Gone, a prison holler,wih it's origins pre dating chain gang, coming out of slavery. |
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16 Feb 05 - 07:04 AM (#1411653) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: GUEST The song as covered by Them is on lots of cheapo early Van Morrison CDs |
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16 Feb 05 - 09:26 AM (#1411699) Subject: Lyr Add: BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO (Big Joe Williams) From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler at the backdoor BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO (Big Joe Williams) 1. Baby, please don't go. Baby, please don't go. Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans. You know I love you so. 2. Turn your lamp down low. Turn your lamp down low. Turn your lamp down low, now baby, all night long, Now baby, please don't go. 3. I believe your man done gone. I believe a man done gone to the county farm, He got his shackles on. 4. Afore I be your dog, Afore I be your dog, I git you way down here, I make you walk the log. 5. You got me way down here. You got me way down here. You got me way down here by a rollin' fog You treat me like a dog. Baby, please don't go. 6. Don't call my name. Don't call my name. Don't call my name; you got me way down here, Wearin' a ball an' chain. 7. Baby, please don't go. Baby, please don't go. Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans. You know I love you so. RtS (From the singing of Mississippi Fred McDowell & others) |
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16 Feb 05 - 09:49 AM (#1411707) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: GUEST,Jim Dixon I think the Amboy Dukes did the one I remember that got a lot of radio play in the late 60s. I pulled up a sound sample to try to confirm this, but the sample contained only a guitar solo, very psychedelic-sounding, so I'm not certain. allmusic lists 468 recordings. Some of those who have recorded it, or some version of it: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Mose Allison, Big Bill Broonzy, Paul Butterfield, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Bukka White. |
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16 Feb 05 - 09:57 AM (#1411715) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: GUEST,Jim Dixon It just occurred to me that SUSIE-Q has a very similar tune and structure. |
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16 Feb 05 - 11:22 AM (#1411819) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Mark Ross It's a re-working of the old ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE. Mark Ross |
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16 Feb 05 - 01:01 PM (#1411980) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: clueless don Yes indeed, GUEST,Jim Dixon, The Amboy Dukes recorded it on their first album (titled, as I recall, simply "The Amboy Dukes".) Considerably more up-tempo than the usual bluesy rendering. It was mainly a vehicle for Ted Nugent to do his guitar thing. Don |
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16 Feb 05 - 01:32 PM (#1412025) Subject: RE: Baby, Please Don't Go From: PoppaGator I may be dead wrong, but in my mind's ear I think I can hear John Lee Hooker singing this one... |
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30 Aug 11 - 08:07 PM (#3215565) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Bugsy I remember Big Bill Broonzy recorded this sometime in the 50's. Can anyone tell me who wrote it and when it was written? Cheers Bugsy |
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30 Aug 11 - 08:36 PM (#3215579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Bobert The best version I have heard is by the band Delta Moon, who BTW, won the IBC (International Blues Challenge) about 10 years ago in Memphis... B~ |
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31 Aug 11 - 08:51 AM (#3215842) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: melodeonboy I believe it was written by Big Joe Williams. Some zydeco and cajun bands (like mine!) add a verse in French, e.g. Pas t'en aller, pas t'en aller, pas t'en aller a New Orleans, tu sais je t'aime beaucoup. I also sing the line "Let me ride in your mo'" (I'm blowed if I know where I got that from!). Perhaps that's a more recently written verse. |
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01 Sep 11 - 04:36 AM (#3216374) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Bugsy Apparently, Big Joe Williams first recorded it in 1935. Cheers Bugsy |
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01 Sep 11 - 04:56 AM (#3216381) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: GUEST Bugsy, In his note to Big Joe Williams 'Ramblin' and Wanderin'' Storyville SLP 163 (1965), Paul Oliver wrote that Williams composed the song whilst a prisoner on Parchman Farm, Mississippi, 'and sang his way out of jail with it'. Unfortunately, Oliver gave no specific date. At that time, the blues world knew Williams as 'Poor Joe'. He didn't become 'Big Joe' until the 50s. --Stewie. |
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01 Sep 11 - 05:20 PM (#3216689) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: GUEST,sixtieschick Mose Allison sings a good version of the song too. |
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01 Sep 11 - 07:37 PM (#3216756) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Bugsy Thanks for that Stewie, and thanks again for your music at the "Top Half Festival". It was good to catch up again. Cheers Bugsy |
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02 Sep 11 - 05:09 AM (#3216921) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Stewie My pleasure, Bugsy. I did search my library for a precise date, but to no avail. It was a great little festival. Have you been able to adjust back to normalcy after being a star? Regards to the memsahib. --Stewie. |
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03 Sep 11 - 07:49 PM (#3217787) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baby, Please Don't Go From: Bugsy Almost back to "Normal", but I still insist on Breakfast in bed! Cheers Bugsy |