Love the Hotel Scarborough Blues idea, Crow. I'm working on it..
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OldBiscuit
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virtuallywill
offlineMemberHOLBECK HALL BLUES...
Woke up this mornin'
Not much left of my room
It was slippin' and slidin'
Just no chance to dust my broom (with my baby)Woke up this mornin'
That was my first mistake
Elmore on the radio
Surely life cannot be this greatWoke up after lunch
or should I say dinner
don't wanna appear middle class
the blues ain't no vote winnerWoke up in Scarborough
later on son
had sand in my shoes
was channelling Robert Leroy JohnsonPosted 3 years ago # -
Nice one, virtual. I got somewhere with my version, but not very far yet, but I'll share the first draft for what it's worth. Slow blues, 6/8 time, in Bb, probably...
Hotel Scarbro Blues
Woke up this morning with the Hotel Scarbro Blues
My bed was in the sea, there was seaweed in my shoes
Up on top the cliff are the outside broadcast crews
The BBC is streaming me on the breaking news
Please rescue me (yes, Lord, I do believe)
Instead of shouting down at me ‘Are you seasick, Steve?’Posted 3 years ago # -
Scroat
offlineMemberI've just popped in for some Horlicks. It's all getting a bit nasty out there. There's a lynch mob outside the perimeter fence shouting "Scroat must die" and "Death to Scroat" and stuff like that. I just went over to the old place and there's no-one there. Just some tumbleweed.
Cheerio then all. If they ask, don't tell them you've seen me. Might be best all round. Oh, and Mr Hack can have my cider if I'm not around to finish it. And you can help yourself to my Old Holborn. It's in my tin, in my cupboard.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMember(I've been out, so please, make allowances for spelling and grammar)
Am I alone in adding - "Ner ner ner ner ner, bmtsh, bmtsh, ner, ner, ner, etc- between each line of the songs?
I feel all sort of "Muddy Waters" now. But that may have been the JD's and Coke.
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Crow
offlineMemberDear Blues Brothers Virtual and Malgor, and Jeni BB King.
Great stuff. Loved Virtual's lunch and dinner and delightfully appalling rhyming of son and Robert Johnson.
Malgor: What can I say? 'Blues...seaweed in my shoes...!' I do believe Seasick Steve was bloody brilliant.
OldBiscuit Ovaltine mugs on their way.Posted 3 years ago # -
PluckyMunky
offlineMember(guitar: 'bo diddley bom-bom...bom bom', between each line).
Bo Diddley stayed at Scarborough Hall
Jammed with Elmore and some more
Bo Diddley says 'this place is slipping'
Elmore says 'its just my riffing'
Scarborough Hall begins to slide
Goes over the edge and catches the tide.
Bo Diddley says 'I told you so'
Elmore says, 'your right, let's go'
Bo Diddley says 'you're such a cunt'
'Stay cool', says Elmo, 'I got a punt.'Scarborough Hall, Hey!
(bo diddley bom-bom...bom-bom...to fade)Posted 3 years ago # -
Bit more
Hotel Scarbro Blues
(Prequel: the night before)It’s three o’clock in the morning and I can’t even close my eyes,
I’m wond’rin’ what on earth could mean this talk of ‘dawn surprise’.
My baby, yeah, is satisfied, she said, for what it’s worth,
‘That was something special, dear, for me you moved the earth.’
If I could keep one moment, this moment I would choose,
Before I find out what they mean by ‘Hotel Scarbro Blues’.This bed’s a funny angle, the mattress feels quite steep,
It’s interfering with my work of counting all these sheep.
But now I’m drifting off at last, falling fast... asleep.
I love this floating feeling, sinking, sinking deep...
I’m dreaming of an ocean, with waves of verbal clues
And in my wake I’ll know the truth of ‘Hotel Scarbro Blues’.Posted 3 years ago # -
That's truly authentic, Plucky.
Another one for the Holbeck Hall songbook. This is the Eric Burden & the Animals version (with guitar chords) and it’s called
House of the Sliding Sun-lounge
(Am) There was a (C) house in (D) Scarbo-(F)-ro’
(Am) They called The (C) Sliding (E7) Hall
(Am) It lies in (C) ruins way (D) down bel-(F)-ow
(Am) I know, I (E) saw it (Am) fall.Posted 3 years ago # -
theumpire
offlineMemberI'm surprised that no one has posted a link to this - It's one I'm addicted to - but, personally, I prefer this one, which is simply irresistible
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberTo get myself in peak condition for this blues-fest, I have spent the weekend in intensive training.
This training has involved the consumption of copious amounts of Jack Daniels, and smoking heavily.
I do believe I have reached the perfect blues level, as I am currently suffering from the shakes, and my throat is completely fucked.So, ready when you are boys....
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Crow
offlineMemberRamble: It wasn't Greensleeves. Could have been The Incredible String Band's Black Jack David. But I might have been California Sunshine dreamin'.
Plucky: Great Bessie Smith link. You can come off the naughty step.
Malgor: Excellent stuff. The prequel...waves of verbal clues...House Of The Rising Sun Lounge...
Theumpire: Great Robert Palmer link. Remember seeing him with Elkie Brooks in Vinegar Joe at a college gig in the Seventies.
Jeni: Hope the throat hasn't cleared up because you are now our Janis Joplin...one, two...one two thee four...Posted 3 years ago #
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