 | Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $8.74 The edition I used to create this list. All page numbers below come from this edition.
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 | Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1 by Leadbelly
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.92 p ix: 'Goodnight Irene'
Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in the town;
Sometimes I get a great notion
To jump into the river . . . an' drown.
[Lead Belly's original is superb, but a more likely jukebox rendition is on Red Foley's album below.]
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 | The Definitive Collection 1955-1962 by George Jones
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $2.50 p14: 'You're Still On My Mind'
To try an' ferget I turn to the wine . . .
A empty bottle a broken heart
An' still you're on my mind.
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 | Vintage Collections by Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $3.49 p15: 'I Cast A Lonesome Shadow'
Ah cast a lone-some shadow
An' Ah play a lone-some game.
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 | This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 by Woody Guthrie
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.98 p21: 'Going Down The Road Feeling Bad'
This Springfield water tastes like turpentine,
I'm goin' down . . . that long dusty road
[The Burl Ives version may be more what Kesey had in mind... that album is listed below.]
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 | Chattanoogie Shoeshine Boy by Red Foley
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.49 p30: 'Smoke On The Water'
There'll be smoke on the water, on the land an' the sea,
When our Army and our Navy overtake the en-ah-mee . . .
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 | The Essential Hank Snow by Hank Snow
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.22 pp60, 62, 64, 91, 217, 585: 'I'm Movin' On'
Mr. Engineer, take that throttle in hand
'Cause this rattler's the fastest in the southern land.
Keep movin' on. . . .
I'm movin' on,
Just hear my song. . . .
Fireman, shovel that coal,
Let this rattler roll,
'Cause I'm movin' on.
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 | Original Studio Radio Transcriptions by Rosemary Clooney
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $7.99 p150: 'All The Pretty Little Horses'
. . . when you wake, you'll have cake
And all the pretty little horses . . .
. . . dapples and grays, purple and bays,
All the pretty little horses.
[There's also the very popular Peter, Paul & Mary version, but Clooney seems more akin to Viv's 'succulent warbling.']
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 | Legends of Country Music: The Best of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.97 p209: 'New San Antonio Rose'
And in dreams I live . . . memory . . .
Moon . . . splendor . . . love.
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 | Country Music Hall of Fame by Jimmie Davis
Buy used from: $6.34 pp210-211: 'Suppertime'
Oh minny years ago in days of childhood . . .
I used to play till shadows come:
And heard my mother call at set of sun:
Come home, come home,
It's suppertime.
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home,
It's suppertime.
I'm going home at last.
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 | The King Of Country Music 1936-1947 by Roy Acuff
Buy used from: $7.12 pp246, 254: 'The Precious Jewel'
A jewel here on earth, a jew-wul in heaven,
She's one of the diamonds around God's great throne. . . .
When we was sixteen, we courted each other. . . .
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 | The Wolf Man
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.95 p257: Poem by Curt Siodmak from the film 'The Wolf Man'
Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers at night
May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright.
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 | Africa/Brass by John Coltrane
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.93 pp316: 'Africa/Brass'
And I put on what? Of course. John Coltrane. 'Africa Brass.'
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 | Candy Kisses by George Morgan
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.98 p385: 'Candy Kisses'
Candy kisses, wrapped in pay-per,
Mean more to you, than any of mine. . . .
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 | Which Side Are You On? by Almanac Singers
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.86 pp425, 428, 656: 'Which Side Are You On?'
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
When we all line up in the bat-tul . . .
Tell me which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
In this war for life and liberty,
Which side are you on?
. . . When that line of smoky fire is drawn
Tell me which side are you on?
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 | Poor Wayfaring Stranger by Burl Ives
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $7.00 pp539-540: 'Saturday Night'
Bluejay pulled a four-horse plow
Sparrow why not you-oo?
'Cause my legs is little an' long
An' they might get broke in two.
Wild geese flying through the air
Through the sky of blue-oo . . .
They're now a-floating where the south sun glows
So why not me and you. . . .
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 | The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) by Carl Smith
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.08 p564: 'Loose Talk'
I know you love me
An' happy we could be
If some folks would leave us alone. . . .
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| Keep Your Eyes On Jesus
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.84 pp567-569: 'Leaning On The Everlasting Arms'
Leaning on Jee-zus, leaning on Jee-zus
Safe an' secure from all alarms . . .
Leaning on Jee-zus, leaning on Jee-zus
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
[Many recordings to choose from here Red Foley, Burl Ives, Stanley Brothers but this seems the strongest choice.]
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 | The Wayfaring Stranger by Burl Ives
Buy used from: $4.99 pp571-573, 575-576, 582-583: 'The Doughnut Song'
When you walk the streets you will have no cares
If you walk the lines and not the squares.
As you walk through life you will have no cares
If you walk the lines and not the squares. . . .
. . . in golden letters three foot high
Is this phil-os-o-fee.
. . . watch the doughnut, not the hole.
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 | Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics by Frank Sinatra
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $1.99 pp609, 619, 643: 'Blue Skies'
Blue skies, smilin' at me . . . nothin' but blue skies
Nothin' but blue skies . . . do I skooby-dooby see E E E . . .
Gray days, hurryin' by . . .
. . . when you're in love, my how they fly.
[Many possibilities here as well; Sinatra seems closest to the spirit of Ray and Rod's version.]
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