Post by Jim on Oct 22, 2016 15:00:44 GMT -5
I was running through some tunes today for fun - not rehearsing for anything. I started playing Joni Mitchell's For Free, and realized that I first learned that song when I lived in an apartment over Keye's Feed Mill circa 1970. Many of the songs I played that long ago and even longer have disappeared from my repertoire. Many have disappeared from my memory, but some have remained.
The first tune I ever played on guitar, circa 1959, was Frog Went A Courting. I still sing it to my grandkids, always including the last two verses that my dad used to sing to us:
They paddled off across the lake u-huh,
They paddled off across the lake u-huh,
They paddled off across the lake
And got swallowed up by a big black snake, U-huh, u-huh, u-huh.
Well that was the end of him and her u-huh,
That was the end of him and her u-huh,
That was the end of him and her
Now we won't have tadpoles covered in fur, u-huh, u-huh, u-huh.
From the early sixties are songs like Hazel's Hips, St. James Infirmary, Jesse James, Boodle Am Shake, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out and Jack O' Diamonds are some of the songs I still play.
What are some of the songs that have stayed with you?
