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Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way/Chilly Winds/Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Traditional Old-Time, Song and Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, North Carolina.
ARTIST: Carolina Tar Heels- 1964
Listen: Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way- Carolina Tar Heels
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes;
DATE: Earliest recording 1927;
RECORDING INFO: Rounder 0132, Bob Carlin - "Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo" (1980. Learned from revival musicians in New York in the early 1970's). Rounder CD 0383, Mike Seegar and Paul Brown - "Down in North Carolina." Alden, Ray. Old Time Friends, Marimac 9009, Cas (1987), cut# 22; Carlin, Bob. Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo, Rounder 0132, LP (1980), cut# 17; Cohen, John and Penny. String Band Project, Elektra EKS 7292, LP, cut#B.02; Harman, Bob; and the Blue Ridge Descendants. Music of the Blue Ridge, Galaxie, LP (198?), cut#B.06; Hooven, Greg. Tribute to Fred Cockerham, Heritage (Galax) 079C, Cas (1993), cut#A.07; Houston, Cisco. Cisco Special, Vanguard VSD-2042, LP (196?), cut#B.04; Jarrell, Tommy. Pickin' on Tommy's Porch, County 778, LP (198?), cut# 4; Jarrell, Tommy. Music of North Carolina, Heritage (Galax) 024 (XXIV), LP (1979), cut#A.02; Kimble Family. Carroll County Pioneers, Marimac 9036, Cas (1992), cut# 5; Paley, Tom. Old Tom Moore and More, Global Village C 309, Cas (1991), cut# 2; Parrish, Pete. Galax International, Heritage (Galax) 067, LP (1988), cut# 5; Round Peak Band. Round Peak Band, Marimac 9044, Cas (1992), B.11; Schwartz, Hank. Room at the Top, JHU, LP (197?), cut#B.06; Seeger, Mike; and Paul Brown. Way Down in North Carolina, Rounder 0383, CD (1996), cut#19; Seekers. Seekers, Pickwick SPC-3068, LP (197?), cut#A.02; Smith, Orriel. Voice in the Wind, Columbia Special Prod. CSRP 8924, LP (196?), cut#B.02; Spilkia, Dave; and Alden, Ray. Tribute to Tommy Jarrell, Heritage (Galax) 063, LP (1986), cut# 13; Ward, Wade. Round the Heart of Old Galax, Vol 3., County 535, LP (1980), cut# 12; Ward, Wade. Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes & Spirituals, Library of Congress AAFS L 2, LP (195?), cut# 18; Ward, Wade. Uncle Wade. A Memorial to Wade Ward, Old Time Virginia Banjo ..., Folkways FA 2380, LP (1973), cut# 10; Ward, Wade. Sounds of the South, Atlantic 7-82496-2, CD( (1993), cut#1.24;
OTHER NAMES: Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad; Lonesome Road Blues; Levee Moan; Honey Your Hair Grows Too Long; East Coast Blues.
SOURCES: From A Treasury of Folk Songs, Kolb; Sandburg, pp. 225-227, "Levee Moan" (2 texts, 1 tune) Alcazar Dance Series ALC 202, Sandy Bradley - "Potluck & Dance Tonite!" (1979). Carryon 005, "The Renegades" (1993). County 778, Tommy Jarrell - "Pickin' on Tommy's Porch" (1984?. Learned from Carlie Holder). Heritage XXIV, Tommy Jarrell- "Music of North Carolina" (Bradywine, 1978). Marimac 9009, John Cohen- "Old Time Friends" (1987). Reed Island Rounders - "Wolves in the Wood" (1997); Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: The "New" Carolina Tar Heels were rediscovered in the folk boom during early 1960s. After decades of inactivity, Dock and the group reformed his old group in 1961. The second generation of the Carolina Tar Heels featured his son, Drake Walsh of Millers Creek, recently a member Elkville String Band as well as original member Garley Foster.
They recorded "Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way" on an album for Folk Legacy in 1964. Drake, born on Dec. 28, 1930, played fiddle and guitar, played with his Danc-A-Lons at the North Wilkesboro VFW on Saturday nights.
Dock Walsh has been dead (born July 23, 1901, Lewis Fork, Wilkes County, North Carolina, died May 28, 1967) for many years but played at the Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Convention as recently as 1959.
Several versions of "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" including Bruce Springsteen's are titled: "Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way" Here are lyrics by Bruce Springsteen and Joe Ely, performed on 29 Sep 1996:
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way
I'm goin' where the water taste like wine
I'm goin' where the water taste like wine
I'm goin' where the water taste like wine, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way
I'm goin' where the grapes and peaches grow
I'm goin' where the grapes and peaches grow
I'm goin' where the grapes and peaches grow, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
I'm goin' where the chilly winds don't blow
I'm goin' where the chilly winds don't blow
I'm goin' where the chilly winds don't blow, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
I'm a-goin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
My children they need three square meals a day
Now, my children they need three square meals a day
My children they need three square meals a day, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
They got me in the jailhouse on my knees
They got me in the jailhouse on my knees
They got me in the jailhouse on my knees, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
They're feeding me on corn bread and maize
They're feeding me on corn bread and maize
They're feeding me on corn bread and maize, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
I'm gonna change this whole damn world around
I'm gonna change this whole damn world around
I'm gonna change this whole damn world around, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
I'm a-goin' down this old dusty road
I'm blowin' down this old dusty road
I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
Notes about "Chilly Winds" from Kuntz: "G Major. Chilly Winds is a related version of “Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad". Both are frequently categorized under “Lonesome Road Blues.” The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler and banjo player Tommy Jarrell learned the tune in early in the 20th century and played it in AEAE tuning. He related to Mike Seegar:
"Carlie Holder and me was playing for a dance when I was about fifteen or sixteen years old--I was just beginning to play the fiddle... back then you didn't have over six or eight girls, you know, and they'd get tired and want to rest a while. While they was a-resting, why Carlie, he got to playing that tune, the first time I ever heard it. Then I got him to play it right smart little bit, maybe over two or three times and I learned it right there. I was young then, I could listen to a fellow play a tune, you know, and it would go in my head and stay...I thought it was the prettiest thing I ever heard. And I used to know a lot of words to it but I forgot 'em cause I quit making music for about forty years there. I didn't play none much and I forgot some of them songs." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way- Carolina Tar Heels
Listen: Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way- Carolina Tar Heels
[Slide guitar]
I'm wonderin' if my woman loves me
I'm wonderin' if my woman loves me
I'm wonderin' if my woman loves me
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way
I'd raher be dead and in my grave
I'd raher be dead and in my grave
I'd raher be dead and in my grave
Than to always be treated this a-way
Lay down my honey, take your rest
Lay down my honey, take your rest
Lay down my honey take your rest
Oh honey babe I can't stand it long.
I'm goin' if I have to run away
I'm goin' if I have to run away
I'm goin' if I have to run away
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way
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