Re: [Harp-L] Re: Zep tunes [When the Levee Breaks]

["Dan Berger" <dberger1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DAVE WROTE:>
> This is a Jimmie Rodgers line from "T for Texas."
> "Gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I am tall...
> Gonna shoot poor Thelma just to see her jump and fall. "
>
> Peg Leg Howell, Sadie Lee Blues:
> "Gonna buy me a pistol, long as I am tall...
> I'm gonna shoot li'l Sadie, see her rise and fall"
>
> This is a line from Ma Rainey's See See Rider:
> "I'm gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I am tall...
> Shoot my man, and catch a cannonball."
>
> > From Sonny Terry:
> Well, I'm gonna buy me a pistol, little woman, made up on a .44 frame...
> Well, you can look down in the ground, little woman, whoa, you know, you 
> can see that undertaker man
>
> > From "Mean Mama Blues" maybe somebody did it earlier, but the guy I'm 
> > thinking of is Ernest Tubb, who did it in 1941:
> Iâm gonna buy me a pistol Iâll think Iâll get a 44...
> And when I get through shootinâ that girl wont step no more

 You KNOW Jimmie Rodgers got it somewhere else- I love these kind of songs- 
it was rural, southern music (no color)

These are travelin' lyrics, they can can go in all kinds of songs-  my band 
mate, Rick Nestler, has a head full of lyrics
and loves to mix 'em up, and he sure can yodel in "T for Texas"-  he's got a 
big voice and his "Neanderthal slash"
on his Taylor twelve string let's me just let loose on harp (but not when 
he's yodeling).

Dan