Horse v. mule

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Tue Nov 29 22:20:49 UTC 2005


Though a reviewer of the first edition doubted whether the source recordings were always sufficiently audible for every word to be distinguished, Taft's work stands alone and remains extremely valuable.

  Thanks for bringing this new version to our attention, George.

  JL

George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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Quite some time ago, there were postings here from Jesse and myself
regarding a concordance to blues songs published in the 1970s by
Garland Publ.; author Michael Taft. We both deplored the fact that
the book was long out of print and not to be found in the OP market.
A new edition of the accompanying anthology was published earlier this
year by Routledge, I believe, and it seems that a revised version of
the concordance is on line at http://dylan61.se/taft.htm

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Zimmer
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 0:13 am
Subject: Re: Horse v. mule

> Quoting Wilson Gray :
>
> > Yes, that's what I had in mind, especially if it contains the
> phrase, "Fie
> > on thy cuckold face," by which the wife introduces her
> explanations of what
> > her husband thinks he sees. Actually, there are two other blues
> songs that
> > are closer than the two that I previously cited. In one, the man
> starts out
> > by asking, "Whose muddy shoes under my bed where my shoes used
> to be?"
> > There's another one that 's almost a rewrite of the Brit
> original, but I
> > can't track it down at the moment.
>
> This one?
>
> -----
> Jones, Coley
> Drunkard's Special
> Dallas, 6 Dec. 1929
> (149558‑2) Co‑14489‑D Fwy FA‑2951
>
> First night that I went home : drunk as I could be
> There's another mule in the stable : where my mule ought to be
> Come here honey : explain yourself to me
> How come another mule in the stable : where my mule ought to be
> Oh crazy oh silly : can't you plainly see
> That's nothing but a milkcow : where your mule ought to be
> I've traveled this world over : million times or more
> Saddle on a milkcow's back : I've never seen before
> Second night when I got home : as drunk as I could be
> There's another coat on the coat rack : where my coat ought to be
> Come here honey : explain this thing to me
> How come another coat on the coat rack : where my coat ought to be
> Oh crazy oh silly : can't you plainly see
> Nothing but a bed quilt : where your coat ought to be
> I've traveled this world over : million times or more
> Pockets in a bed quilt : I've never seen before
> The third night when I went home : drunk as I could be
> There's another head on the pillow : where my head ought to be
> Come here honey come here : explain this thing to me
> How come another head on the pillow : where my head ought to be
> Oh crazy oh silly : can't you plainly see
> That's nothing but a cabbage head : that your grandma sent to me
> I've traveled this world over : million times or more
> Hair on a cabbage head : I've never seen before
> http://dylan61.se/MTBluesJ_L/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%
20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20J-L.htm#_Toc71651425
> -----
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
>




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