Tanner's Boarding House
Kathy Vandemortel
"Tanner's Boarding House?" I am at a loss at this point. My
interpretations are similar to those fractured versions of the Pledge of
Allegiance by little kids.
Thanks in advance!
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Kathy Vandemortel
Ken Miner
"Kathy Vandemortel" <vandemorR...@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> Whew. Can anyone please tell me what the words are to the last verse of
> "Tanner's Boarding House?" I am at a loss at this point. My
> interpretations are similar to those fractured versions of the Pledge of
> Allegiance by little kids.
If you mean the "All-go-hungry Hashhouse" - man, I have been trying to get
those words down for years now. If you have everything but the last verse
you are doing way better than I am; if you have a scanner pls consider
giving it to us. Here's what I have for the last verse (I'm afraid it's
pretty fractured):
the molasses made of paint - if you smell them you will faint
they were yellow and they still be in a gourd;
oh the eggs are made of mats
if you touch them they will hatch
at that All Go Hungry Hashhouse where I board
Good luck!
George Conklin
Of course, there was also the E. V. Stoneman version of
the same sing, right? I have it on a cylinder and the words
are virtually impossible to understand. I also have it on a
reissued CD, and even that is hard to deal with too!!!
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Jason Hill
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>"Kathy Vandemortel" <vandemorR...@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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>> Whew. Can anyone please tell me what the words are to the last verse of
>> "Tanner's Boarding House?"
>If you mean the "All-go-hungry Hashhouse" - man, I have been trying to get
>those words down for years now.
No, Tanner's Boarding House is not the same as the Old Go Hungry
Hashhouse. I used to perform it something like 30 odd years ago with an
old-timey band. I can't remember the words off the top of my head, but
I'm sure I've got Gid Tanner's recording somewhere. It starts: "I'm
just a country fellow from way out in the sticks ..." If I can find the
recording I'll post the words - unless, of course, someone beats me to
it.
>
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Jason Hill
tony goldenberg
record made near the end of the 70's.
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In article <$1lFRAA$e4L5...@burslem.demon.co.uk>, Jason Hill
johnhenry29
"Tanner's Boarding House" is currently in print on Old
Homestead's cassette # OHCS-193 entitled, "Gid Tanner & His
Skillet Lickers featuring Riley Puckett: Early Classic String
Bands - Vol. 3" (I highly recommend it by the way). The words
are a little difficult to make out completely but I will begin to
try and decipher them.
Johnh
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tony goldenberg <to...@waypt.com> wrote in message
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Andrew A. Alexis
<mi...@lark.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:
>
>"Kathy Vandemortel" <vandemorR...@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
>news:392DE1...@frontiernet.net...
>> Whew. Can anyone please tell me what the words are to the last verse of
>> "Tanner's Boarding House?" I am at a loss at this point. My
>> interpretations are similar to those fractured versions of the Pledge of
>> Allegiance by little kids.
>
>If you mean the "All-go-hungry Hashhouse" - man, I have been trying to get
>those words down for years now. If you have everything but the last verse
>you are doing way better than I am; if you have a scanner pls consider
>giving it to us. Here's what I have for the last verse (I'm afraid it's
>pretty fractured):
>
>the molasses made of paint - if you smell them you will faint
>they were yellow and they still be in a gourd;
>oh the eggs are made of mats
>if you touch them they will hatch
>at that All Go Hungry Hashhouse where I board
I have read far enough forward in this thread to know this isn't the
version the original poster was asking for, but if Ken is referring to
the Charlie Poole song, the Kinney Rorrer books does say that Poole
was famous for his hard to understand words. There was even some
speculation that he did this intentional to foil imitators.
That being said, I always thought it was the AWFUL Hungry Hashhouse;
"All Go" don't make no kind of sense.
Mike Schway
Alexis <nd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>That being said, I always thought it was the AWFUL Hungry Hashhouse;
>"All Go" don't make no kind of sense.
As in "all go hungry". Everybody who tries to eat there ends up going
hungry. Since the food was so bad, starvation was preferable.
Tanner's Boarding House is a much more agreeable place. :-)
--Mike Schway
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Lyle Lofgren
<vandemorR...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>Whew. Can anyone please tell me what the words are to the last verse of
>"Tanner's Boarding House?" I am at a loss at this point. My
>interpretations are similar to those fractured versions of the Pledge of
>Allegiance by little kids.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>BTW, if you wish to contact me directly, remove REMOVETHIS from my
>address. Prevents spam problems.
>
>Kathy Vandemortel
I notice that you've got all kinds of responses, with the exception of
the words. Here's Uncle Willie's transcription of the recording.
Although he sometimes made some errors, I find him to be 95% or so
accurate. In listening to the recording and comparing these words, I
can't improve on them:
(INSTR.)
I'm just a country fellow from way out in the sticks;
I have a lot of trouble, I get a lot of kicks;
I raise my cotton and corn, I never owned a Ford;
I run the boardin' house where the folks don't pay no board.
CHORUS:
My boardin' house, my boardin' house, it sits up on the hill;
Now come along and join us all, and you're welcome if you will;
Eat corn bread and 'taters, too, and drink out of a gourd;
My boardin' house, my boardin' house, where the folks don't pay no
board.
"Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha!"
There is a lot of people, sometimes they make me blue;
They stay with me all the summer, and spend the winter, too;
They brag about how well they live when they are up in town,
But when my grocery bill comes due, they never are around.
"Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha!"
(INSTR.)
CHORUS
(INSTR.)
Hunt and fish all day 'til they're out of breath;
Come home to supper, perished 'most to death;
Eat my ham and middlin's too, they certainly have suffish;
And rush right on off to bed, and never wash a dish.
(INSTR.)
"Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha!"
CHORUS
"By Jesus, I'm gone!"
Jason Hill
>That being said, I always thought it was the AWFUL Hungry Hashhouse;
>"All Go" don't make no kind of sense.
>
--
Jason Hill
Andrew A. Alexis
wrote:
>In article <heb8jssr93e2858la...@4ax.com>, Andrew A.
>Alexis <nd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>That being said, I always thought it was the AWFUL Hungry Hashhouse;
>>"All Go" don't make no kind of sense.
>
>As in "all go hungry". Everybody who tries to eat there ends up going
>hungry. Since the food was so bad, starvation was preferable.
>
Of course, now that you explain it, it seems perfectly obvious...
Kerry Blech
>
> ... but if Ken is referring to
> the Charlie Poole song, the Kinney Rorrer books does say that Poole
> was famous for his hard to understand words. There was even some
> speculation that he did this intentional to foil imitators.
We once asked Lonnie Austin, who fiddled on many of Charlie
Poole's recordings, if he knew the words to some of the
songs we could not decipher (I think 'Monkey on a String'
was the particular one involved in this tale). Lonnie
said, "I was *this* close to him (indicating about 18
inches) and couldn't understand what he was singing!
He was so drunk no one could have understood him."
I believe Kinney Rorrer does discuss this a bit in
his book, as Charlie was so nervous that he'd take a bit
of liquor to calm his nerves, but he tended to
"overcalm" them.
Best,
kerry
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- The Rector Trio, Asheville, NC 1930
bill blevins
his father's house quite a bit and there was always a bucket
of 'shine complete with dipper in the middle of the musicians.
He said his father would not let him in the house while these events
took place, but he rigged up a way to peep in the window and
watch the proceedings. Evidently the party broke up as soon
as the bucket was empty. Funny how some things just don't
change.. That gentleman had some very good hooch to back up
his story!
Ken Miner
"Andrew A. Alexis" <nd...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >If you mean the "All-go-hungry Hashhouse" - man, I have been trying to
get
> I have read far enough forward in this thread to know this isn't the
> the Charlie Poole song, the Kinney Rorrer books does say that Poole
> was famous for his hard to understand words. There was even some
OK, wrong song! Thanks for the info.
Words are a constant problem because sometimes when you do find out what was
actually sung, it *doesn't* make sense, and you wasted time trying to
rationalize a "corrupt" text.
This is an interesting theoretical problem. There seems to be a tension
between two principles. Given a case of imperfect transmission, one
principle (a) says "keep the words the way they are, even if they don't make
sense" and the other (b) is part of what we used to call The Folk Process:
"change the words for any reason you like." We know that both principles
operate since we have one the one hand words that make no sense (a) and on
the other, plenty of alternate versions of particular songs (b).
C*O*N*A*N
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>oh the eggs are made of mats
>if you touch them they will hatch
Oh the eggs are made to match
Ken Miner
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One step closer! Thanks.
C*O*N*A*N
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