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Topic: Maddox Brothers & Rose Lyrics |
Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 5 Aug 2011 6:22 am |
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Is there someone (from the older generation) who remembers the Maddox Bros & Rose song "New Step It Up And Go"?
We would like to perform the tune but I gave it up to get the lyrics, no chance.... I do not understand what they are singin'!
Is there someone who can help?
Here is what I got:
Well I got a girl she's little and low
She used to love me but she don't no more
I step it up and go
yeah I know
Step it up and go
uuuuuuhy
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Late last night when I came in
I found a new sticker within my pin
I had to step it up and go
yeah go
Step it up and go
uuuuuhy
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Well me and my girl.......
Way down yonder in the ......
Well me and my wife and my brother Joe......
The lyrics are quite different to the traditional tune of Blind Boy Fuller or Dylans version.
Would be great if we'll get help! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 5 Aug 2011 10:23 pm
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thanks for the Youtube Link, great - it's a different version which I got, where the vocals are a little bit louder - now the refrain is getting clearer, something like that: I can stand that ( instead of the original Fuller text Can't stand pat...??) I swear I had to step it up and go, right?
But the other verses still remains miracles to me.... |
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 8 Aug 2011 7:40 am
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| No one else with an idea for the missing verses? |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 8 Aug 2011 11:05 am
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The last two lines of the chorus appear to be:
Well I can't take that (sometimes she says "stand that" instead)
I swear I got to Step It Up and Go
Late last night when I came in
I found a new pig rooting in my pen
Well me and my gal went huckleberry hunting
She fell down and I kept hunting
Way down yonder in the forks of the branch
The old sow fiddled and the little pigs danced
If you can send me an audio file I can try to decipher it better.
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A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 8 Aug 2011 11:48 am
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Hi Brad, you're the man!
wow great, thank you very much, super!!!!
again, thanks and a hello to CA! |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 12 Aug 2011 11:56 am
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Thanks to everyone for help, I got it now - Brad's Oki feeling and listening solved all the miracles... 
Yes I know the old Fuller recording - Dylan was not born at that time. The Fuller lyrics are different to the Maddox version, seems that a lot of musicians at that time made their own lyrics for this song.
regards and thanks again! |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Aug 2011 9:40 pm
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| A singer named Harmie Smith used "Step It Up And Go" for a theme song for his radio show in Shreveport,La. on KWKH radio. I only remrmber the words to the first verse. I got a little gal she's little and low, she used to love me but she don't mo, you gotta step it up and go, yeah step it up and go, you can;t stay and pat it out I swear you gotta step it up and go. Jody. |
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