2017/11/04 14:21:20
craigb
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! 
 

2017/11/04 14:37:44
craigb
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.)
2017/11/04 15:02:19
sharke
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.
2017/11/04 15:33:33
SteveStrummerUK
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 
2017/11/04 16:01:19
bapu
You might have a better go if you switch to Willow Weep For Me.
2017/11/04 16:15:24
jackson white
Channeling Keith Richards ...? 
 
(phonetics over actual words, re "Happy")
 
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