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Treasury of Field Recordings.- Candid Records CJM 8026 peoples, that's everybody what I mean retaining the motif of sinner's confession with The Good lord Sets You Free" in American _ they all of 'em got music. his own funeral prescription - include ''The Ballads and Folk Songs. Bad Girl's lament", "One Morning In May," The first publication as a recitatiVe was You see the fact of it is when they go to "Wrap In My Tarpaulin Jacket," and "St. "Jest Talking" in Richardson's American express what they be feeling or what James Infirmary." Many of these retain the Mountain Songs (reprinted in Spaeth's Weep they be thinking, they liable to produce anachronistic description of a military funeral. Some More, My lady.) W. J. Jackson of Dibo!J, Three Versions were published in Cowboy Texas, a former cornetist with minstrel shows music out of it. Compiled by MACK McCQRM1CK Songs, irocluding one from James (Ironhead) recalls hearing these same verses in a number And that's what it is here. It's all different Baker which combines elements of several called the "Jailhouse Song", a comic mono­ .. A panorama of the traditions kinds of the music put down on record of the American variants. A version of "Streets logue used by Black Patties Mi nstrels after of Laredo" or "The Cowboy's lament" is in­ the first World War. found in Houston - the city and so's you can hear and know 'bout the cluded in almost every general anthology with Probably the earliest recording of "Talking things going on. You listen and you know, an extensive comparative study in Belden's Blues" was made in 1928 by Chris Bouchillon its neighboring bayous, beaches, It's sounding out to give you an under­ Ballads and Songs. "The Talking Comedian Of The South". A standing. - LICHTIN' HOPKINS Recordings include Johnny Prude's "Streets South Carolina singer with a dry wit, his ver­ prisons, plantations, plains, and of laredo" issued by the library of Congress, sion of "Talking Blues" on Columbia 15120-0 piney woods. LP #28; Dick Devail's "Tom Sherman's is close to that of the present singer. Barroom", Timely Tunes 1563; Harry Mc· Jimmy Womack learned the piece from a THE STREETS OF LAREOO Clintock's "Cowboy's l ament", Victor 21761 neighbor in Shreveport in the early 1920's. and Buell Kazee's "Toll the Bells", Brunswick BALLADS • BLUES • MONOLOGUES • 351. HARRY STEPHENS THE JEALOUS LOVER COWBOY SONGS. WASHBOARD BAND Harry Stephens has been a vital source of TALKING BLUES • PRISON WORK SONGS cowboy lore to two generations of collectors . JlMMY WOMACK The first encounter is documented in a foot­ JIMMY WOMACK A large part of Jimmy Womack's lore comes note by John Lomax, Sr.: "One morning in from his mother who was anxious for him to the spring of 1909, Harry leaned over the Jimmy Womack is a country boy who came make these recordings to give permanency to Notes by MACK McCQRM1CK gate of my home on the campus of the to the big city _ bringing with him an im­ songs handed down in her family. Contrary Copyright, 1960, by Mack McCorm!ck Ag ricultural and Mechanical College of Texas mense stock of traditional lore and an ir­ to the notion of "oral tradition", it is the habit Note : International copyright protection has beero and called to me: 'Professor, I've come to secured for the ero tire contents of these record· repressible song-making impulse. Born in of many families to have a song book in which ines. Each selection is lrodividua!1y protected and say good-by. Grass is a·rising and I've got Missouri, raised around Shreveport, Louisiana harod written texts of ballads are kept. Such any adaptioro or arran eemerot blSed on original to move on.' Though afterwards he has often and now a part-time auto mechanic in Hous­ song books are, like the family Bible with its material corotained oro these recordings will con· written to me, I have never seen him since." ton, he represents the full range of the white birth and marriage records, handed down stitute Infrirogemerot. Fortunately, he tUrned up again in 1951 in co untry tradition; from the cloying senti­ from generation to generation. Unfortunately, Houston singing more songs in a voice that mentalism of ''The Letter Edged In Black", to at the time of this recording, the Womack _ wherever you hear it - sounds mingled the pro-lynching ballad "little Mary Phagan", song book had been destroyed in a fire, but COLLECTED BY with the chilly winds of an open prairie. In to the Negro derived "Crawdad Song." Mrs. Womack and her son we re busy writing Harold Belikoff • Ed Badeaux • Pete Seeger the 40 year interim, he'd wrangled cattle on Now if you weron a let to heaven, let me out from memory a new one to be passed • Chester Bower _ John lomax, Jr, _ Mack big ranches thru the west, trail-herded from tell you how to do it. along to "the six Womack children . Texas to Idaho, spent a while doing rope tricks Just grease your feet iro a little muttoro suet, McCormick Oowro, dowro by the weepirog willow, on the vaudeville stage, built up a permanent Just slip rIght over into th e devil's harods, SPONSORED BY Slide rillht oro to the promised land. Where the violets gently bloom, hostility to Indians, and finally settled down There lies my owro dear f lora, Oowro iro tile hero·house, on my knees, Aloroe there in her tomb. The Houston Folklore Group to live in Denison, Texas. I thought I heard an old chlckero sroeeze, The Texas Folklore Society It was only the rooster awey upstairs. But she died not brokenhearted, All of his songs are about the life he's A-helpiro' th e chiekeros a· say,ro· their prayers. Nor a sickroess caused her death, lived - a night herd's stampede in "Little It was all lor the Jealous Lover, A shortage oro the eggs . .. get mOre tomorrow. Who robbed her of her health. VOLUME ONE Joe the Wrangler" or an Apache attack in Now, down iro the woods, just a siltiro' on a log, aroe rlight in last September, Traditional Music and Song "Billy Venero" - and he sings them with a With my linger on the trigger end my Whero the moon was shiroing bright, eye oro the hoe, serose of close, personal identification. As he Up stepped th is Jealous Lover. Side A I pulled the t,llIer and the gun went flip, To her owro little cabin light. puts it, "All these songs is copied from some Arod I I,ebbed that hog with al! my grip. The Streets of Laredo Harry Stephens Said, "Flora, my owro dear Flora, true thirog that'd happen and they'd make up Lo~e chittlins . .. hog..eyes . .. crackliros, too. Come, let us take a walk, Talkinl Blu es p. Jimmy Womack something about it ... " Wel! there airo't rlo rl eed 0 m~ workJro' so h"d, Flora, my own dear Flora, Th e Jealous Lover . Jimmy Womack Ceuse I got a wife in the white folks' yard, Of our weddirog day we'U talk." Yellow Gal . Harald Burton and Group As I rode out in the streets of Laredo, She kills a chickero arod nves me the head, "0 Edward, I'm so weary, As I rode out iro Laredo one day, Arod brirols it home where I'm layiro' iro ~. And I do root care to roam. K.C . Aln't Nothinl But A Ra&: Andrew EvereU I nw a hard sigh!. ·twas a lIarodsome yourol Dreaminll of women ... blondes ... brunettes Edward, I·m so weary, The Waitress and the Sai lor .... Ed Ba dea ux cowboy, ~rod redheads. And I pray you take me home.'· All wrapped iro white linero 8$ cold as the day. Clffine, Corrina ................. Lilhtin' Hopkins COP,rllht secured In III orllln'l m,terl,1. Now, up stepped this Jealous Lover, 'Twas oroce lro the saddle I used to go dashlrog, Jimmy Womlck , yoc al and lultlr Arod he made one silent move. The Ballad of Davy Crockett Mrs. Melton 'Twas once in the saddle I used to go gay. R ~ ord e red by Mack McConnlek. April 1959, Houston Said, "No mortal hand shall save you, The Miller Bo y John Anderson First to the dram-house arod thero to the For you have met your doom." card·house, These stanzas go back to early plantation Cry;n ' Wan't Make Me Stay R. C. Forest and Got shot in the breast and I'm dyirog today. Oowro, down she kroelt her before him, songs of the Negro designed to tickle the Arod she humbly bened for her life, GOlY Kilpatrick o beat the drum lowly arod play the fife slowly, But into her sroow white bosom, Baby, Plea se Don't Go Dudley Alexander and Arod play the dead march as you carry me along, white masters. The talking form is an out­ He pluroged the daner kroife. Take me to the gree n valley and roll sod o'er me, growth of the "coon" songs popular in the last Washboard Band For I'm a wild cowboy arod I kroow I've doroe wronl_ "0 Edward, I'll forgive you, Copyrieht secured In all orlglnJI material. century on the minstrel stage where both As I draw my last breath, Side B o Edward, I'I! for, ive you," Harry Stephens, unaccompJnled v(I(;,I. white and Negro comics propagated the cari­ Arod she closed her eyes iro death.
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