But she sings it as. 491-502, "The Longest Train/In the Pines" (3 texts containing many floating verses, 1 tune). Will be out by a lake in my underwear Catching dinner with my hands Forest Service Road Don't Care Which Number It's so Critical For this Pine Tree. Killed a mile and a half from here. Lyr Req: The Longest Train (9). Tell me where did you sleep last night?
"Black Girl" seems to be the earliest version collected; 1917 by Sharp; only one verse: Black Girl, black girl, don't lie to me. First verse of the 1921-1922 version in Brown: Little darling, little darling, don't tell me no lie. All copyrights remain with their owners. Daniels, Charlotte; and Pat Webb. Lyr Req: In the Pines (18). White obtained four lines that a student of his had heard sung by a black railroad work gang in Buncombe County, North Carolina: The longest train I ever saw. Pick a Bale of Cotton. Curiously, McMichen and Bryant still receive royalties from their version though their lyric version is not well known. Clayton McMichen recorded the song twice first under the alias of Bob Nichols as "Grave in the Pines. " 05 (Little Girl) Journeymen. Clayre, Alasdair (ed. ) The train has been described killing a loved one, as taking one's beloved away or as leaving an itinerant worker far from home. Wish, and little pine got its needles again. In 1993, Nirvana performed a famous acoustic concert on the MTV Unplugged TV show where they performed Where Did You Sleep Last Night.
R. Crumb performed "In the Pines" in Hamburg, Germany in 2003.
Out in the Country, Intermedia/Quicksilver QS 5031, LP (1982), trk# 2. The long steel rail and the short cross tie, They carried me away, Was transportation brought me here, But I'll make it home some day. Lomax-FSNA 290, "The Longest Train" (1 text, 1 tune). Here's a comment from this sound file's viewer comment thread*. Walsh's text also later implies that a mining train was involved: Oh, transportation has brought me here, Take a money for to carry me away. How to use Chordify. Starting the year following the 1925 recording, commercial recordings of the song were done by various folk and bluegrass bands.
I used my forensic software to split the guitar from vocals in this classic recording. Wasn't there a miner's strike over bringing in black convicts as scabs sometime in the late 1800's? Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy. "Leadbelly also sang it as "My girl, my girl....... " "... From: GUEST, Doc John. White singers such as Cisco Houston used to sing 'My Girl' although Lonnie Donegan recorded it is 'Black Girl' again. Tenneva Ramblers (Grant Brothers).
In a 1970 thesis, some 160 permutations of the song appear. Mrs. Ellison had stated that it was her belief that the song was from the time shortly after the U. S. Civil War. Taylor, Earl; and the Stoney Mountain Boys. PSeeger-AFB, p. 28, "Little Girl" (1 text, 1 tune). Pete Seeger's version of "Black Girl" appears on the 2002 Smithsonian Folkways re-release of recordings from the 1950s and the 1960s entitled American Favorite Ballads, Vol. She only sings a couple of lines of it, but I couldn't get them out of my head. Most modern listeners are familiar with the variant of the song by grunge band Nirvana, who covered Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lida Belli. These days, the song is mainly associated with the American folk musician Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), who recorded several versions in the 1940s and on more recent versions is often credited as the songwriter. The content of this post is presented for folkloric, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes. The song appears in the 1958 play A Taste of Honey, by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney. Was on the Seaboard Air Line, The engin pas' at a ha' pas' one, And the caboose went pas' at nine. Riley Puckett, "The Longest Train I Ever Saw" (Decca 5523, 1938) (Bluebird B-8104, 1939). Anyway, please solve the CAPTCHA below and you should be on your way to Songfacts.
Notes Ballad Index: This song became the basis of "Blue Diamond Mines" in the 1970s. The Smithsonian Folkways Collection. I really loved the feel of it and the haunting melody - still do. The longest day and the longest night, Was the day Evalina died, I walked the track the whole day long, Hung down my head and cried. I shivered all night until the morning. Yes, bobad, he used to sing it that way sometimes and I heard he was none to keen to do so. The Railroad in American Folksong, U. Illinois, Sof (2000/1981), p491 [1926/04/17]. Gamblers Blues, Verve/Folkways FV 9007, LP (1965), trk# 3.
I have heard many different versions of this song and loved most. Uncle Henry's Favorites, Rounder 0382, CD (1996/1994), trk# 4. You've taken my house, you've taken my love. The lines are: Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me. Interesting information, Barry, which I didn't know.
The song was later included on the band's album MTV Unplugged in New York. I dunno about was his version that introduced the song to me (and through me to my 2-1/2 yo daughters who haven't yet quite mastered the "p" material when they sing it). Mainer's Mountaineers. The identity of the song's author is unknown, but it has been recorded by dozens of artists in numerous genres. Mike Seeger recorded a song about convicts putting the unions workers out of a job, but I can't recall it now. High Lonesome Sound, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40104, CD (1998), trk# 12. Tragic Songs of Life, Rounder SS012, LP (1987/1956), trk# A. The song is mentioned in Charles Frazier's novel Thirteen Moons. From: Peter Timmerman.