[lbo-talk] Sad Songs Say So Much

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 26 06:17:11 PDT 2005


--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Well, if we are going to go way back, there's
> nothing
> darker than the old Irish-Scots-English-Appalachian
> folk tradition, full of really weird shit -- "that
> old
> weird America," Greil Marcus once called it. For
> ecample, there is the chilling traditional Pretty
> Polly"
>

There's also this beaut from the Father of the Delta Blues:

32-20 Blues by Robert Johnson recording of 2nd of 5 sessions, November 26 1936, San Antonio, Texas

'F I send for my baby, and she don't come 'F I send for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none

And if she gets unruly, thinks she don't wan' do And if she gets unruly and thinks she don't wan' do Take my 32-20, now, and cut her half in two

She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light I got a 32-20, got to make the caps alright

If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none

I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my gatling gun I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gotta shoot my gatling gun You made me love you, now your man have come

Ahoh, baby, where you stayed last night Ahah, baby, where you stayed last night You got your hair all tangled and you ain't talking right

Her .38 special, boys, it do very well Her .38 special, boys, it do very well I got a 32-20 now, and it's a burning

If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Wisconsin sure can't help her none

Hey, hey, baby, where you stayed last night Hey, hey, baby, where you stayed last night You didn't come home until the sun was shining bright

Ahoh boy, I just can't take my rest Ahoh boy, I just can't take my rest With this 32-20 laying up and down my breast

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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