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Roy AcuffMule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) Lyrics: Good morning captain. Good morning 'shine. Do you need any skinners. Down on that new mud line? [Yodel.]
Workin' on the railroad, Dollar and a dime a day. My little girl's in town each Sat'iday night, To draw my little pay. [Yodel.]
Going downtown, honey, [ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/hqO8 ] What d'you want me to bring you back? A walking cane, A brand new Stetson hat. [Yodel. [
Oh, little water boy, Bring that water round. If you don't like your job, You can throw your bucket down. [Yodel.]
I like to work. I'm rollin' all the time. I can plop my initials, On a mule just any ol' time. [Yodel.] Lyrics: Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8), Roy Acuff [end]
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Roy Acuff Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) Lyrics Information:
MULE SKINNER BLUES (BLUE YODEL NO. 8)3
Music/Lyrics written by: Traditional/Jimmie Rodgers & George Vaughn
Performed by: Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseana or His Smoky Mountain
Boys 45
First released: 6
Single: 1936
Album: 1964 7
1 'Shine is short for sunshine.
2 "Plop my initials on a mule..." refers to branding, or burning initials
into the flesh of an animal to identify its owner.
3 "Mule Skinner Blues," aka: "Muleskinner Blues," and "Muleskinner's
Blues," was originally titled, "Blue Yodel #8." It is a classic folk/country
song, which acquired the title "Mule Skinner Blues," when the lyrics were
re-written by Vaughn Horton, a pseudonym for George Vaughn, for Bill Monroe
when he recorded it in 1946. The song tells the tale of a down-on-his-luck
mule skinner, approaching the "Captain" of a work crew, looking for work.
The skinner boasts of his skills and hopes for "a dollar and a half a day."
There have been many different lyrics over the years.
4 From 1934 to 1935, Acuff's backup group was named The Tennessee
Crackerjacks , 1935 to 1938, they were called The Crazy Tenneseeans. In
1938 their name was changed again to The Smoky Mountain Boys. Depending
upon the time records were pressed, the labels reflect the change of name.
Personnel performing on this recording:
* Roy Acuff (guitar)
* Jesse Easterly (switches to bass guitar)
* Beecher Kirby aka: Bashful Brother Oswald (Dobro guitar 8 )
* Lonnie "Pap" Wilson (guitar)
* Rachel Veach (banjo)
* The album(s) and record(s) listed here may have different versions
of the song than the one that was transcribed. Also, this list is not
intended to be the complete discography on which this song appears.
7 There may be earlier issues that contain this song, but I haven't been
able to find written documentation of them.
8 Dobro is a trade name now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for
a particular design of resonator guitar, often called a Hawiian Guitar. The
name, Dobro, was coined by the Dopyera brothers when they formed the Dobro
Manufacturing Company in 1928. In time Dobro came to mean any resonator
guitar, or specifically one with a single inverted resonator.
9 Transcribed from the track on this album.
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