The song featured today has been recorded ny Billy Bragg and Wilco, and you can also hear the voices of Natalie Merchant and Eliza Carthy when listening to Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key. The lyrics (and some hints on the musical style) have been written by Woody Guthrie, but he has never recorded the song, as he has not done with so many others he has written the lyrics to (so we do not know what the music in his mind was like for these songs). Some of them have been set to music and recorded by Wilco and Billy Bragg on an album called Mermaid Avenue, where this song is taken from. It is simply beautiful, and if the only thing Billy Bragg had ever done had been to do this song, he would be one of my fav guys solely for that. But there are many more things he deserves my respect for.
I lived in a place called Okfuskee
And I had a little girl in a holler tree
I said, little girl, it's plain to see
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
She said it's hard for me to see
How one little boy got so ugly
Yes my little girly that might be
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
There ain't nobody that can sing like me
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
To see the frog eat the goggle-eye bee
To hear the west wind whistle to the east
There ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Oh my little girly will you let me see
Way over yonder where the wind blows free
Nobody can see in our holler tree
And there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
And laid it on the she and me
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Now I have walked a long long ways
And I still look back to my Tanglewood days
I've led lots of girls since then to stray
Saying ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
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