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Honey Babe Blues/Lost Lover Blues/Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now
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: Doc Watson
Listen To: Clarence Ashley- vocal & banjo; Fred Price- fiddle
Listen to: Elizabeth Cotton
Listen to: Blind Boy Fuller
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental songs
DATE: 1962 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 Doc Watson's lyrics:
Honey Babe Blues- Doc Watson
Well I ain't got no honey baby now,
I guess she didn't love me anyhow;
Well it's oh me and oh my,
Ain't got no honey baby now.
Well she left me on that early morning train,
I'll never see my girl again;
Well it's oh me and oh my,
Ain't got no honey baby now.
Now good girl you ain't no gal of mine
My honey babe done traveled down the line
Well it's oh me and oh my
Ain't got no honey baby now
I'll see you when your troubles are like mine
When you haven't got a nickel or a dime
Well it's oh me and oh my
Ain't got no honey baby now
Well I ain't got no honey baby now
I guess she didn't love me anyhow
Well it's oh me and oh my
Ain't got no honey baby now
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