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Lost Lover Blues/Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now/Honey Babe Blues
NOTE: This is not a version of "Crawdad Song" "Sugar Babe" or "Honey Babe." Some titles are the same. The song is related but is a different song.
Old-time breakdown; blues
ARTIST: Blind Boy Fuller- 1940
Listen to: Blind Boy Fuller
Listen to: Elizabeth Cotton
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumetal songs
DATE: 1940 EARLIEST DATE: Late 1800s- early 1900s
RECORDING INFO: Honey Babe Blues
Ashley, Clarence (Thomas/Tom). Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley's. Part 1, Folkways FA 2355, LP (1961), trk# 15 [1962ca]
Carter Family. Carter Family on Border Radio, JEMF 101, LP (1970ca), trk# A.09 [1938-41]
Darlington, Sandy & Jeanie. Sandy and Jeanie Darlington, Folk Legacy FSI 028, LP (1966), trk# 1
Erbsen, Wayne. Erbsen, Wayne / Manual on How to Play the 5-String Banjo for the com...., Erbsen, sof (1974), p55
Hawker, Ginny; and Kay Justice. Pathway to West Virginia, Pathway, Cas (1988), trk# 3
Muldaur, Maria (D'Amato). Waitress in a Donut Shop, Reprise MS 1294, LP (1974), trk# B.01
Watson, Doc and Merle. Pickin' the Blues, Flying Fish FF 352, LP (1985), trk# 12
RECORDING INFO: Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now [Me II-AA29]
Rt- Lost Lover Blues (Fuller);
Cotten, Elizabeth. Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, Folkways FG 3526, LP (1958), trk# 5
RECORDING INFO: Lost Lover Blues
Rt - Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now
Fuller, Blind Boy (Fulton Allen). Grossman, Stefan; Stephen Calt, Hal Grossman / Country Blues Songb, Oak, Sof (1973), p158
Renbourn, John. Another Monday, Transatlantic TRA 149, LP (1966), trk# 5
OTHER NAMES: Honey Babe Blues; Got No Honey Baby Now; Lost Lover Blues
RELATED TO: Red Apple Juice; Red Rocking Chair
SOURCES: Folk Index
NOTES: There's an instrumental blues version by Elizabeth Cotton and a blues version recorded by Blind Boy Fuller under the title "Lost Lover Blues." The lyrics are part of the old-time (bluegrass) songs Honey Babe Blues/Red Rocking Chair/Red Apple Juice family of songs.
Ashley titled this "Honey Babe Blues" and Doc Watson arranged his version after Ashley's.
This song is not related (only the title is similar to Blind Boy Fuller's version) to Doc Boggs song, "Lost Love Blues" learned from W. E. Myer is a waltz (3/4 time). Boggs/Myers song is related to old versions of "More Pretty Girls Than One," which were in waltz time. It's similar to Asa Martin's "Lost love" also a waltz.
Here are the 1940 Fuller lyrics:
Lost Lover Blues- Blind Boy Fuller
Said I went down by that freight depot
And that freight train he come rollin' by
Lord and I sure ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I sure ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I went off in that far distant land
I wasn't there long before I got a telegram
(What did it say?)
Sayin' now man won't you please come home
Now man won't you please come home
Then I went back home, I looked on the bed
And that best old friend I had was dead
Lord, and I ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I'm sorry, sorry, sorry to my heart
But that best old friend someday must part
Lord I ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I ain't got no lovin' baby now
(Play it for me now)
Now as sure as the birds wings in the sky above
Life ain't worth livin' if you ain't with the one you love
Lord and I ain't got no lovin' baby now
Lord I ain't got no lover now
If I'd knowed you didn't love me and didn't want me to
I would've taken morphine and died
Lord I ain't got no lovin' baby now
And I ain't got no lovin' baby now
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