"On the Road Somewhere" (I've Got a Mule to Ride) | Performance
Added 2018-08-05 17:07:28 +0000 UTCI learned this song last month from George R. Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky who learned it from his neighbor Gran Hudson during the 1950s. This old railroad song was popularized by the Stanley Brothers under the title "I've Got a Mule to Ride."
My c. 1890 J.B. Schall "Edmund Valentine" banjo is tuned fB♭FB♭C one step below gCGCD ("Double C" aka "Hook & Line" tuning).
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If the freight train wrecks I got a mule to ride (x2)
I won't have to catch her cause she's already tied,
She's on the road somewhere (x2)
I got me a woman on the road somewhere.
Curly-headed woman won't treat me right (x2)
She sleeps all day walks the streets at night,
You can drink your Bottled in Bond (x2)*
I'll save my money for the good old corn,
If you come home and your woman wants to fight (x2)
Pick up a chair and poke her out of sight,
You've got my woman but you won't have her long (x2)
She's got a new way of loving--greenhorn can't catch on,*
* "Bottled in Bond" was the legal designation for prescription alcohol during the United States' prohibition era 1919-1933.
* "Greenhorn" means a young or romantically inexperienced man.
Comments
Wow, what a great song! Is there gonna be instructional for this one? Greetings, John
John van den Elsen
2018-08-10 08:58:26 +0000 UTCMade me feel good!
john bowden
2018-08-06 01:11:01 +0000 UTCNice depth to support the voice, nice deep voice supported by the over hand brushes nice
Tony Thomas
2018-08-06 00:25:47 +0000 UTCPretty good.
Jeffrey Young
2018-08-05 19:13:07 +0000 UTC
