White House Blues Lyrics. Chorus (after each verse): In the pines, in the pines. Plant Some Flowers By My Grave Lyrics. I'm a-going where the cold winds blow. It's sometimes interesting to color your music like a partly cloudy day — some sun mixed with clouds. Cripple Creek Lyrics. As if that's not quite bad enough, she then gets her head cut off when she fell under the driving wheel of a train.
Have fun spicing up In the Pines, or any song, for that matter. Lou Ella Robertson, "In the Pines" (Capitol 1706, 1951). Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Lyrics. Her rapist, a male soldier, was later beheaded by the train. SharpAp 203, "Black Girl" (1 text, 1 tune). And printable PDF for download. You Won't Be Satisfied That Way Lyrics. Banks Of The Ohio Lyrics. This software was developed by John Logue. Careless Love Lyrics.
All we have to do to add some lonesome spice to a song like In the Pines, is to flatten that 3rd (F#) one half step or one fret. There is also a fairly characteristic tune. McMichen's lyrics as they appear in his 1934 songbook are rather unusal and are included as Version 2 in my collection. Originating around the time of the Civil War, the history of In the Pines is entangled with such songs as The Longest Train I Ever Saw, Where Did You Stay Last Night, Look Up, Look Down That Lonesome Road, Don't Tell Me No Lie, and Black Girl. Anglo Irish 4 piece alt folk. Leisy, James F. (ed. )
Presenting: The New Christy Minstrels, Columbia CS 8672, LP (1962), trk# B. INTRO: E. B7 E Whoo-hoo whoohoo hoo VERSE:. Her husband was a hard-working man Just about a mile from here His head was found in the driver's wheel But his body never was found. Black girl, black girl, don't lie to meThe first commercial recording seems to have been by Dock Walsh in 1926 and contains all three of Judith McCulloh's common motifs (thanks to Eric Levy for pointing me to this): Where did you stay last night. Alan Lomax, the folk music archivist and promoter, reported to Ms. McCulloh that Leadbelly learned parts of the song from someone who had taken it from the 1917 Sharp version and other parts from the 1925 cylinder recording. Some versions refer to "Joe Brown's coal mine" which dates back to 1873 thus the 1870s date reference in Wiki.
Monroe, Bill; and his Bluegrass Boys. Hang down your little head and cry. Highway Of Sorrow Lyrics. This is only known to have been played once by the Grateful Dead, on 17 July 1966. High Lonesome Sound, Folkways FA 2368, LP (1965), trk# B. She noted: Also known as Black Girl and Where Did You Sleep Last Night, this song is often credited to Huddie Ledbetter, a. k. a. The "longest" train can kill or give one's love the means to run away or leave an itinerant worker stranded far from his home. The Old Brown County Barn Lyrics. As well as rearrangement of the three frequent elements, the person who goes into the pines or who is decapitated has been described as a man, a woman, an adolescent, a wife, a husband or a parent, while the pines have represented sexuality, death or loneliness. Her head got caught in the driver's wheel.
Reissued on Lead Belly: Where Did You Sleep Last Night. Roscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1998). In a 1970 dissertation, Judith McCulloh found 160 permutations of the song. E He said he throwed his watch away E. E7 A E A long steel rail and a short cross tie.. B7 E I'm on my way back home. Roll On Buddy, Roll On Lyrics. How silent it seems here today.
Where did you stay last night?