Say It Isn’t So
(Irving Berlin)
1932
Say it isn’t so. Say it isn’t so.
Everybody’s saying you don’t love me.
Say it isn’t so. Continue Reading
Sally Whiskey
aka: Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From
(Rev. Gary Davis)
1930s
Old man Peter was a mighty man,
Combed his head with a frying pan,
Washed his face in a wagon wheel,
Died with a toothache in his heel.
Sally, where’d you get your liquor from?
Where’d you get it?
(Man downtown.)
All you’re good for, woman, is to get drunk and clownin’
Where’d you get your liquor from?
(Man downtown.) Continue Reading
Run Like Water
©1997, Scott Ainslie.
All rights reserved.
Needle in a haystack, diamond in the rough.
Bright like a mirror, and blind like love.
Run like water, taste like wine;
Walk into town—about supper time. Continue Reading
Rocks and Gravel
(John Jackson)
It takes rocks and gravel to build a solid road.
Takes rocks and gravel to build a solid road.
It takes high priced whiskey—t’ satisfy my soul.
Now, tell me baby, where’d you stay last night?
Tell me baby, where’d you stay last night?
Come in this mornin’, you’re clothes ain’t fittin’ you right. Continue Reading
Rice Grows Again In Vietnam
© 1995, Scott Ainslie
A family working in the sun.
Food must be grown for everyone.
So green—-new life has begun.
Rice Grows Again In Vietnam. Continue Reading
Police Dog Blues
(Arthur Blake)
Said, all my life—I been a ramblin’ man.
Said, all my life—I been a ramblin’ man.
Livin’ alone, I try to do the best I can. Continue Reading
Ramblin’ on my Mind
(Robert Johnson)
I got ramblin’—-I got ramblin’ on my mind.
I got ramblin’—I got ramblin’ on my mind.
Hate to leave my baby, but she treats me so unkind. Continue Reading
Phonograph Blues
(Robert Johnson)
Music & Media, Intl.
My baby, she got a phonograph, but it won’t say a lonesome word.
My baby, she got a phonograph, but it won’t say a lonesome word.
What evil have I done? What evil has that poor girl heard? Continue Reading
Pay Day
(John Hurt)
Wynwood Music
Well, I did all I can do and I can’t get along with you.
I’m goin’ to take you to your Mama, Pay Day.
Pay Day. Pay Day.
I’m goin’ to take you to your Mama, Pay Day. Continue Reading
Parchmans Farm
Judge give me life this mornin’, down on old Parchmans Farm.
Judge give me life this mornin’, down on old Parchmans Farm.
I wouldn’t hate it so bad, but I miss my wife and my home. Continue Reading