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Saty All Night/Waterbound
Old-Time and Bluegrass Breakdown; Southeast US.
ARTIST: Tommy Jarrell
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: Oscar Cofey 1928 recording (not released).
RECORDING INFO: Stay All Night Rt - Waterbound #3
1. Backwoods Band. Jes' Fine, Rounder 0128, LP (1979), cut# 8
2. Greenbriar Boys. Greenbriar Boys, Vanguard VRS-9104, LP (196?), cut#B.07
3. Homer and the Barnstormers. Blue Grass Banjos - Flaming Banjos, Alshire 2-120-1/2, LP (197?), cut#1A.03
4. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; pg. 191. County 741, Tommy Jarrell, Fred
5. Cockerham & Oscar Jenkins - “Stay All Night and Don’t Go Home” (1973).
RELATED TO: Waterbound
OTHER NAMES: “Waterbound,” “Way Down in North Carolina.”
SOURCES: Kuntz; The Carter Brothers and Son via the New Lost City Ramblers [Kuntz, Phillips]. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 351-352. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 206. Flying Fish 102, New Lost City Ramblers - "20 Years/Concert Performances" (1978). Folkways 2492, New Lost City Ramblers- "String Band Instrumentals" (1964). OKeh 45202 (78 kkRPM), The Carter Brothers and Son.
NOTES: A Major. Standard or AEae tunings. AABB form; This song is a version of Waterbound, not the Bob Wills song "Stay All Night Say A Little Longer." Perhaps Wills was inspired by the title as Wills song is composed of traditional/minstrel lyrics but resembles Cripple Creek in form and melody.
This is the melody to the song “Waterbound.” Mike Seeger sings the "Stay all night" lyrics in his version of Waterbound.
Stay All Night From Brad Leftwich. Round Peak Style Clawhammer Banjo. Words from Tommy Jarrell. Key A
Stay all night and don’t go home (3x)
Stay with me till morning.
River’s up and I can’t get across (3x)
Stay with me till morning.
I give five dollars for an old blind horse (2x)
He sat down and I couldn’t get across.
Stay with me till morning
I kicked and I spurred, I couldn’t get him in (2x)
I give five dollars to take him back again
Stay with me till morning
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