Bluegrass Karaoke

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If you have a favorite, and you would like to sing it or wish others would or wish someone knew the words 'cause you play a mean whatever you play, put the lyrics here and I’ll make a songbook. Anyone have the lyrics to Angeline the Baker? Otherwise, here’s my other favorite. Let’s play, I’ll start:

In Tall Buildings
Posted by Larry Karnowski at February 11, 2003 01:03 PM

By John Hartford, 1976

Someday, baby, when I am a man,
and other’s have taught me
the best that they can
they’ll sell me a suit
and cut off my hair
and send me to work in tall buildings

and it’s goodbye to the sunshine
goodbye to the dew
goodbye to the flowers
and goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
going to work in tall buildings

now when I retire
and my life is my own
I made all the payments
it’s time to go home
and wonder what happened
betwixt and between
when I went to work in tall buildings

and it’s goodbye to the sunshine
goodbye to the dew
goodbye to the flowers
and goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I mustn’t be late
going to work in tall buildings

(lyrics from the Gillian Welch version on Live From the Mountain Stage)

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Great idea!

I’ll get my song ready and post soon . . .

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Seriously, no one wants to play Bluegrass Karaoke?

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OK… I’ll bite…

I would love to sing Hard-Headed Woman by Elvis (well… a revised version), in a way that puts the “Blue” in bluegrass:

Well a hard headed woman,
and a soft hearted man
been the cause of trouble
ever since the world began.
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
oh hard headed woman been
a thorn in the side of man.

Now Adam said to Eve,
“Listen here to me,
don’t you let me catch you
messin’ round that apple tree.”
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
yeah, hard headed woman been
a thorn in the side of man.

Now Samson told Delilah
loud and clear,
“Keep your cotton pickin’ fingers
out my curly hair.”
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
Oh hard headed woman been
a thorn in the side of man.

I heard about a king
who was doin’ swell
till he started playing
with that evil Jezebel.
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
yes, hard headed women been a thorn in the side of man.

I’m a hard headed woman,
my head like a rock.
But if I ever went away
You’d cry around the clock.
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
us hard headed woman been
a thorn in the side of man.

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Here’s one of many . . .

WAYFARING STRANGER (sung by Jerry Garcia, Emmy Lou, Crucial Country, and a million other people!!!

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
While traveling thru this world of woe
Yet there’s no sickness, toil or danger
In that bright world to which I go

I’m going there to see my father
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

I know dark clouds will gather around me
I know my way is rough and steep
Yet beauteous fields lie just before me
Where God’s redeemed their vigils keep

I’m going there to my mother
She said she’d meet me when I come
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over me

There are SO many different versions of this song, which will make it that much more fun to sing when everyone is together!!!

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Ahhhh… Emmylou! :flower

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yeah! I’m totally on the prep for this one. Keep 'em coming.

C

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I need help! What are all the words to that song, “take a little time for sunshine, take a little time for love” that sam bush sings (i don’t think he wrote it though)??? I’d love to sing that with a BIG group of people!

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That’s “Howlin’ at the Moon”, and I’m pretty sure he wrote it.

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Speaking of Sammy and Emmy…

I would love to sing “The River’s Gonna Run” with someone… I found a whole new sound in my voice singing along with that one!

xo

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Speaking of…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLwgfO46QA

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Thats what i thought, but when i searched I only got hank williams’ “howling at the moon” . . which is a competely different song, no?

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Wow Rhonny, Thanks! I enjoyed that very much!

Hope Lin :pickin

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If you can find the lyrics, add them to your post either in the message or as an attachment.

Here’s one that’s different from the way Crooked Still plays it. I love this one.

Angelina Baker
From Dwight Diller on Elzics Farewell. Key of D

Angelina Baker, lived near the village green
The way I always loved her, beats all you’ve ever seen
Her father was a baker, they called him Uncle Sam
I never can forget her, no matter where I am

Chorus:
Angelina Baker, age of 43
I gave her candy by the peck, but she wont marry me
Angelina Baker, left me here alone
Left me hear to weep a tear and play on the old jaw bone

Said she couldn’t do hard work, because she was not stout
Baked her biscuits every day, poured her coffee out
Chorus

Sixteen horses in my team, the old grey went before
Almost broke Angelina’s heart, to hear the wagons roll
Angelina Baker, Angeline I know
Wish I’d married Angeline, twenty years ago
Chorus

Bought Angeline a brand new dress, neither black nor brown
It was the colour of a stormy cloud, before the rain pour down
Sixteen horses in my team, the leader he was blind
I came close to dying when they sold my Angeline

Chorus

Angelina Baker. Alternative words

Angelina Baker, age of 23
Prettiest little girl in the whole wide world, but she won’t marry me

Angelina Baker, age of 33
I got down on bended knee, the day she married me

Angelina Baker, age of 43
Chidren playing round her feet, and a banjo on her knee

Angelina Baker, prettiest little girl alive
She says that she’s twenty three, but I know she’s forty five.

from http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/old-time-songs/old-time-songs-A.htm

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The River’s Gonna Run (Julie Miller) (As performed by Sam Bush / Emmy Lou Harris)

I GOT A HOLE IN MY POCKET
I GOT A TEAR IN MY HEART
I GOT A DOOR I CAN’T UNLOCK IT
I LIVE ON SHADOWS IN THE DARK

I HEAR THE SOUND OF A HEARTBEAT
I HEAR A SECRET IN THE RAIN
IT’S LIKE THE KISS OF A LOVER
IT’S LIKE A STRANGER KNOWS YOUR NAME

I’M GONNA ROCK ON THE WATER
i’m gonna dance on the flood
I’M GONNA LAY DOWN WITH THE WIND
and believe like a child
I FEEL THE SWELL OF THE TEMPEST
i feel the passion of a soul
LIKE THERE’S A STORM COMIN IN
a storm of love going wild

AND WHEN THE THUNDERHEADS START BEATING LIKE A DRUM
and the thunder cracks the sky in two
THE WIND IS GONNA BLOW AND THE RAIN IS GONNA COME
AND THE RIVER’S GONNA RUN

I WANNA WALK ON A WIRE
an unbroken line
I WANNA LIVE WHEN I DIE
and shake my soul loose from time
I WANNA RIDE WITH THE ANGELS
on that invisible street
AND LEAVE MY FOOTPRINTS IN THE SKY
and feel the stars beneath my feet

GONNA TAKE THE TRAIN THAT’S GONNA GET ME THERE
ALL THE TRACKS BEHIND ME ARE BURNING IN THE AIR
THE CURE IS GONNA KILL ME BUT I DON’T CARE

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Geez, there’s so many, how do you pick? I love singing this one at the top of my lungs to anyone who will listen! :flower

It’s A Great Day To Be Alive
Darrell Scott

I got rice cooking in the microwave | I got a three day beard, I don’t plan to shave | And it’s a goofy thing but I just gotta say, I’m doing all right | I think I’ll make me some homemade soup | I’m feeling pretty good and that’s the truth | It’s neither drink nor drug induced, no I’m just doing all right

And it’s a great day to be alive | I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes | It’s hard times in the neighborhood | But why can’t everyday be just this good

It’s been fifteen years since I left home | Said good luck to every seed I’d sown | Gave it my best, then I left it alone | I hope they’re doing all right

Redbird, redbird what do you see? | He says, “I see a lone wolf looking at me | Head in the clouds but harmless as a tree | I guess he’s doing all right”

And it’s a great day to be alive | I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes | It’s hard times in the neighborhood | But why can’t everyday be just this good

Sometimes it’s lonely | Sometimes it’s only me and the shadows that fill this room | Sometimes I’m falling, desperately calling, howling at the moon

It’s a colorful life that we go through | It’s neither black or white, nor just shades of blue | …Maybe I’ll grow me a fu man chu

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Hey, we also need James Buchanan’s song “Packin’ for Telluride” on this here list. Anyone know the lyrics by heart??

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Sammy gives James L Ratts and John McEuen credit for writing Howlin’ at the Moon. And I don’t think anyone wants me to perform Karaoke, so I won’t suggest a song! :secret

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I’m pretty sure Telluride Tom has a small PA, I’ve got some pretty nice microphones, maybe all we need is a few good pickers, an easel with a large pad of paper, and someone with a laser pointer. :thumbsup

Sound like the makings of a new way to party :lol :lol :lol

:cheers

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What would be really fun is if we took a little “Karaoke Super Happy Lucky Death Challenge”… draw a song out of the hat, flip to the appropriate page… game on.

Does anyone have a hook or a gong?

xoxo
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