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2017/11/04 01:22:00 (permalink)

Need help with unintelligible lyric

Weeping Willow Blues by Bert Jansch. At 0:54 (and two other places) he sings a line which is "???????....gonna find signs of love." I cannot work out what in the hell he is singing before "you're gonna." It sounds like it starts with "All around" and contains the word "green" but I cannot work out the rest. And yes I've searched high and low for the lyrics online - nothing doing. It's a traditional blues song but like most blues and folk songs there's as many different lyrics as there are recordings. None of the other versions have anything in them which would remotely serve as a clue. Any ideas? At one point I thought he was singing "green eggs," maybe in reference to those mourning doves. But the more I think about it the less likely it seems. 
 

 
 
 
 

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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 01:31:53 (permalink)
Not, sure, maybe...
 
"all around claim her"
 
 
 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 01:42:39 (permalink)
"All around well clean air..."
 
That may not be what he's actually saying but phonetically it would work.
 
Contextually it seems to kind of work too in a weird way. I might be able to figure it out better if I had the rest of the lyrics.
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 03:24:26 (permalink)
Interesting that you're both hearing things other than "green." I've been trying to rack my brains along those lines as well. I keep coming up with similar ideas that fit with the syllables he's singing but which don't make any sense lyrically.

I also considered "green hair" because maybe a willow tree looks like it has green hair.

But what puzzles me, if that's the case, is the word after "all around." It definitely seems to start with a w. See, if "green hair" was right then "All around her green hair" would probably make more sense than anything else I've come up with, but he's not singing "her." It's baffling.

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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 03:45:15 (permalink)
Just seems like an outdoorsy/nature type statement. Like he's outside in the breeze and there is country love up in the air (ripe for the pickin').
 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 08:23:48 (permalink)
No luck here, thought I could hear it better listening to someone else like Wizz Jones, but the only version of it online (BBC4) isn't available now.
 
Edit: I'm going to go with ''All around wild green air, gonna find songs of love''
post edited by jamesg1213 - 2017/11/04 08:59:46

 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 09:34:43 (permalink)
All around my green earth, gonna find songs of love
 
Final answer
 
 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 12:43:23 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby KenB123 2017/11/04 13:34:06
Hey, if it's unintelligible, then just sing it the same way! 
 
I can't help but be reminded of this:
 

 


 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 13:33:50 (permalink)
I like a challenge, but had enough. Best I can tell is:
 
"All 'aram' with clean air"
 
For the life of me cannot figure out that 'aram' garble. His accent evades me.
 
Just to note, watching in YouTube lets you slow down the speed with audio (down to half-speed). That might help you a bit.

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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 14:07:48 (permalink)
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All around my green earth, gonna find songs of love
 
Final answer
 
 
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Not sure, but it makes the most sense lyrically. 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 14:21:20 (permalink)
Ok, listened to SEVERAL versions of this song (ignoring the Bessie Smith versions) and found that nobody seems to say the same thing at that point in the song.  Here are the various lyrics I heard:
 
All along the walk out of moor (Jansch with Loren Auerbach singing)
All around the clean air (Jansch by himself - the clip above)
All around the willow (cover of Jansch version)
Got a gal up country that I sure do love (this, or similar, was the most common - Blind Boy Fuller version)
 
However, THIS is MY favorite version! 
 


 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 14:37:44 (permalink)
I guess you never know what will lead you where!
 
After stumbling onto that last version of Weeping Willow Blues by High&Drys, I've been listening to a few of their songs (actually just one guy playing all instruments) and I'll be buying an album or two once I get paid next week.  This is great background stuff! 
 
(Yes, I could be a jerk and buy both now dirt cheap - they're set for "Name your price" in Bandcamp, but I wouldn't want that to happen to me so I'll wait.)

 
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 15:02:19 (permalink)
Yeah I cannot watch a single YouTube video without ending up surfing through about eleventy gabillion more. 
 
I don't think anyone's got that lyric yet. I'd be happy with "All around my green earth" but I think the word before "green" (or whatever it is) starts with a W. And actually I think "All around her green earth" would make more sense lyrically, but I don't hear a "her." 
 
It's baffling. I've transcribed dozens of his guitar parts and have managed to pick out the most unintelligible guitar lines buried under vocals etc, through highly concentrated deep listening and thinking about what would make most sense to his fingers on the fretboard. But for the life of me I cannot come up with anywhere near a satisfactory interpretation of that lyric. I've tried listening at half speed as well.

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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 15:33:33 (permalink)
Got that weeping willow
That morning dove
Got that weeping willow
That morning dove
All around the world
Men are lookin' for signs of love
 
Now yonder stands my babe
Standing by the door
Yonder stands my babe
She's standing by the door
Last time that I saw her
She was oozin' across my floor
 
Now yonder stands my babe
Standing by the door
I said yonder stands my babe
Standing by the door
Last time I saw her ........... ah she's gone
 
 
Many thanks to Alf Cole
 
 
 
 
Still doesn't sound the same though 

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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 16:01:19 (permalink)
You might have a better go if you switch to Willow Weep For Me.
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Re: Need help with unintelligible lyric 2017/11/04 16:15:24 (permalink)
Channeling Keith Richards ...? 
 
(phonetics over actual words, re "Happy")
 

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