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billchav

 

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Post  Posted 16 Feb 2000 11:21 pm    
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Back in the 30's/40's/50, Robert Lunn did a version of the Talking Blues on the Opry or on the E T Midnite Jamboree. Does anyone remember the words? www.billchaviers.com
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Kenny Dail


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Post  Posted 17 Feb 2000 12:37 pm    
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Bill I remember him on the GOO but for the life of me I don't remember any of the lyrics. I think he was "slippin' and slidin' up and down the mantle piece" looking for something, maybe a 'chaw of tobacco or ... Do you remember "Jamup & Honey" and the "Duke of Paduca"? Those were definately the "good ole days".

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kd...and the beat goes on...

[This message was edited by Kenny Dail on 17 February 2000 at 12:40 PM.]

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billchav

 

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Post  Posted 17 Feb 2000 1:09 pm    
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Yeah, Kenny. I started listening to the show in the late 30's. Enjoy reading your posts. www.billchaviers.com ICQ# 36667112

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Lee Baucum


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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
Post  Posted 17 Feb 2000 6:43 pm    
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Down in the hen house, on my knees
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
Nothin' but a rooster sayin' his prayers
Thankin' the Lord for the hens upstairs

About 20 years ago I would throw in some of those old talkin' blues in to Cotton Eyed Joe. I "ustacud" (a redneck term) do four or five verses. That's the only one I can remember right now. Kenny, you're right. There was a verse about slippin' up and down the mantle piece. I'll have to think about this for a bit.

Lee, from South Texas
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Lee Baucum


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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
Post  Posted 17 Feb 2000 6:46 pm    
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Just thought of another one:

I got this gal, lives down the hill
She don't kiss like her sister will
Never takes a bath, not even a rub
'Fraid she'll fall through a hole in the tub

(Awful skinny!)

Lee, from, well, you know where.
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Donny Hinson

 

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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
Post  Posted 19 Feb 2000 6:19 pm    
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Don't remember the song you're referring to, but Earnest Tubb did a blues song in the '40s called "My Baby Still Loves Me" that was positively hilarious...

"I bought her a brand new Cadillac,
for all the world to see.
Then I came home one night,
and she had drove it up a tree!
But my baby still loves me,
yeah my baby still loves me.
Yes, my baby still loves me
in her own peculiar way."

Each verse she does something worse, but he still thinks she loves him!
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Janice Brooks


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Pleasant Gap Pa
Post  Posted 19 Feb 2000 6:55 pm    
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There was a picture and mention of Lunn
in Charles Wolfes 'A Good Natured Riot
an early history of the Grand Old Opry.

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Jimmy Youngblood


Post  Posted 19 Feb 2000 7:09 pm    
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"If you wanna get to Heaven,
let me tell you what to do

You gotta grease your feet with a little mutton stew"

Sorry, that's all I remember...long time ago!
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billchav

 

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Houston, TX USA
Post  Posted 19 Feb 2000 8:24 pm    
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Thanks to everyone that contributed to this topic. I will try to put the verses in some kind of order if I stop laughing long enough, and will e-mail results. www.billchaviers.com
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Jerry Hayes


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Virginia Beach, Va.
Post  Posted 20 Feb 2000 8:41 am    
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Hey Kenny D.
Most of us ain't old enough to remember Jamup and Honey or the Duke of Paducah! I don't remember this guy but for some good talkin' blues West Coast style I found a CD by Tex Williams and the Western Caravan which has some really great stuff plus steel by JoaQuin Murphey and a little guitar by Jimmy Bryant here and there.

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Have a good one! JH U-12

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billchav

 

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Houston, TX USA
Post  Posted 20 Feb 2000 9:39 am    
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Jerry, I seem to remember the Tex W. & Archie Campbell's version of The Hot Rod Race was sort of follow-up to the Talking Blues. I will reply to all when I get the verses together. Thanks,& I hope to see everyone in Dallas at "Charlies' Show". www.billchaviers.com
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