"Trouble On My Mind" Performance (revisited)
Added 2020-06-05 14:31:53 +0000 UTCgDGBD relative (~fCFAC actual). The subject matter of this song involves repeated trips to 'the whipping post,' something we today rightly associate with the African American experience in this country. I think it's equally important to remember that working-class whites in the Antebellum South were also brutally oppressed (even whipped and lynched) by the slave owning class.
I learned this piece from George Gibson as "Trouble On My Mind." See Doc Watson's "I'm Troubled" and Blue Sky Boys' "I'm Troubled, I'm Troubled" for variants.
Once I had an old banjo
Head was strung with twine,
Only song that it could pick
Was Trouble On My Mind!
CHORUS
Trouble on my mind, boys
Trouble on my mind,
If trouble don't kill me
I'll live a long time!
I went down to Lynchburg
To get a jug of wine,
They hitched me to the whipping post
Gave me ninety-nine...
I went back to Lynchburg
To get a pint of gin,
They hitched me to the whipping post
Gave me Hell again...
I went back to Lynchburg
I didn't go to stay,
But I fell in love with a woman
And I couldn't get away...
Comments
That is very kind of you. Thanks
Harrison Stuart
2020-10-02 15:37:02 +0000 UTCOnce I had an old banjo Head was strung with twine, Only song that it could pick Was Trouble On My Mind! CHORUS Trouble on my mind, boys Trouble on my mind, If trouble don't kill me I'll live a long time! I went down to Lynchburg To get a jug of wine, They hitched me to the whipping post Gave me ninety-nine... I went back to Lynchburg To get a pint of gin, They hitched me to the whipping post Gave me Hell again... I went back to Lynchburg I didn't go to stay, But I fell in love with a woman And I couldn't get away...
Clifton Hicks
2020-10-02 14:20:39 +0000 UTCAny chance you could make the lyrics available?
Harrison Stuart
2020-10-02 11:25:56 +0000 UTCWonderful tune...thanks
Harrison Stuart
2020-10-02 11:22:05 +0000 UTCI love this performance of trouble! love your teaching and playing style. Glad you are going to tab out this tune. Glad to be a patron of yours!
Richard Ervin
2020-06-11 21:07:40 +0000 UTCLove this performance, I've had this tune stuck in my head since Thursday!
Alex McFarlane
2020-06-07 07:52:37 +0000 UTCLoved it! I'll look forward to the lesson!
Kevin W Smith - KW4KWS
2020-06-07 02:11:50 +0000 UTCI certainly will--with tab!
Clifton Hicks
2020-06-06 16:52:36 +0000 UTCLove this tune and your version is awesome. Could you please do a lesson for it? Thank You
Jeremy Lee Wright
2020-06-05 23:25:59 +0000 UTCI learned this one from you after seeing your first video performance. Such a great tune and you really kill it! Thanks, Clif.
Florian Jean Albiez
2020-06-05 19:09:17 +0000 UTCYes! This is one of my favorite songs.
J Vaughn
2020-06-05 16:16:35 +0000 UTCThat's another great version. I'm always amazed that, even playing at a good clip, you are still able to maintain note accuracy and that super-consistent, chunky strum. Practice, practice! Whoa!
Richard Hawkins
2020-06-05 14:56:45 +0000 UTC
