"Hand Me Down My Old Suitcase" Performance
Added 2021-01-01 16:30:00 +0000 UTCgCGCD relative (fB♭FB♭C actual). I learned this song from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. George learned it from his father, Mal Gibson, who played it for him one time, laid the banjo down, and declared, "Son, that was Clay Collins' favorite song."
Hand me down my old suitcase
And all of my dirty clothes,
Policeman comes around here tonight
Tell him I'm sleeping out of doors!
If you see my brother
Take him a letter from me,
Tell him not to ramble not to gamble
Not to leave his happy home!
If I'd listened to what my mother said
I wouldn't have been here today,
I wouldn't have been in this old jail house
Rotting my sweet life away!
Comments
Those are usually the better songs.
Clifton Hicks
2021-01-11 02:07:40 +0000 UTCI am especially fond of songs in which the narrator admits he should have listened to his mother.
Cecilia Vore
2021-01-11 01:02:06 +0000 UTCReally great tune. Can't wait to learn it!
Florian Jean Albiez
2021-01-08 17:15:36 +0000 UTC
