Shootin' Creek - Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers
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Shootin' Creek played by Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers
Recording date: July 23rd, 1928
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Lyrics
- (spoken)
- - Who that knockin' on that door out there?
- - That's me.
- - Well if it ain't ol' Roy Harvey, hello Roy, how you getting along?
- - Hello Charlie, looks like you're having some music 'round here, who's that you got with you there?
- - That's ol' (), don't you know him?
- - Oh yeah, that's that old boy we used to play with up on Shootin' Creek.
- - Yes boy.
- - Remember that old tune you used to play, Shootin' Creek?
- - Yes boy, have you got your guitar with you?
- - I reckon I have got it.
- - Boy supposin' we have us a little tune here.
- - Alright just wait til I roll down my britches and pull off these old shoes and we'll go.
- - Alright.
- - Alright, now step on it.
Buy me a horse and make me a sled
Nobody ride ()
I got a wren, she live in town
She weighs four hundred and forty pounds
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
(Whip it boy, whip it!)
I got a wren, she's a darned ol' fool
Tryed to put a saddle on a hump-back mule
Up the road and cross the creek
Cain't get a letter but once a week
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
Goin' up in Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
Take my () from a Gatling gun
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
(Boy I wish we was goin' up to Shootin' Creek!)
Goin' up in Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
Take my () from a Gatling gun
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
(Best people in the world!)
Goin' up in Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
- Goin' up in Shootin' Creek, goin' on a run
- Goin' up to Shootin' Creek, to have a little fun
Source
From archive.org (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?...)
- Recorded on July 23, 1928. This tune is clearly related, if not the same tune, to the old-timey and bluegrass standard "Cripple Creek." Alan Jabbour has speculated that the "Cripple Creek" title may be related to certain labor disputes in the Cripple Creek area of Colorado during 1903 and 1904. On the other hand, a Cripple Creek flows through Grayson and Carroll Counties in Southwest Virginia. As for the title "Shootin' Creek," there exists a Shooting Creek region in Franklin County also in Southwest Virginia. This area was famous as a center for distilling homemade whiskey and it appears that Poole was a frequent visitor.
