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Music and banjos of John Hartford

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Group to talk about Hartford's picking style, low-tuned banjos, banjos he used, and to share licks, and especially lyrics.

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From hartfordman on 2/2/2011 12:50:06 PM

I am trying to assemble a personal JH songbook, becuase I do some of his tunes at shows. Does anyone have the lyrics to these songs:

Streetcar

All Fall Down

On the Road

Old Joe Clark

Got No Place to Go

Bye-Bye

Crystallia Daydream

Paducah

You Don't Have to do that

Nobody Knows What You do

Bed on my mind

Self Made Man

And the band played on

Living in the Mississippi Valley

See the Julia Bell Swain

The False Hearted Tenor Waltz

A Man Smoking A Cigar

might be more...

Please make sure that the words are correct, and are not guesses. Thanks for any help!

7 Comments
	TonyS says: 2/2/2011 4:11:31 PM ...have you tried a Free Lyrics Site? Google Search "lyrics" - John Hartford Lyrics, etc ... I've found stuff, 99% accurate (some obvious mistakes I already knew) but I have a whole bunch printed from Mr computer! Good Luck
	TonyS says: 2/2/2011 4:12:24 PM ...again - sorry - how about asking on the John Hartford Facebook Page...
	hartfordman says: 2/2/2011 4:29:52 PM never thought about FB page, i have gotten all i can from google. none of these were on there (a few were, but the words were so messed up, I couldn't use them.
	TonyS says: 2/3/2011 3:13:00 PM ...sorry to hear this... there's a tribute page for John, how about an old fashioned paper songbook? :(
	hartfordman says: 2/3/2011 4:14:58 PM I heard that the Hartford family is working on one...but no release date, etc
joonyer says: 2/18/2011 9:20:41 AM Streetcar ********** streetcar streetcar ain't goin too fast headed for the schoolyard streetcar streetcar comin' in last bang along that track ain't working too hard sittin' on the sandbox pretend I'm in control back and forth across the county ridin' stoppin' in the morning dew to watch the sun come up play a little catch down at the sidin' streetcar streetcar makin' me late takin' it down on the levy streetcar streetcar with your precious freight and your load it must be heavy strainin' every timber as your plungin' through the woods listen to your windows almost breakin' whistlin' down the bottom, then up to Clayton Road gotta stop, pull up, pick up some little old lady streetcar streetcar wasn't you fine when we played so hard streetcar streetcar on down the blind headed for the schoolyard give me that old streetcar and that cinder box of pine where I can climb aboard and be playin' so hard streetcar streetcar wasn't you fine headed for the schoolyard streetcar...comin' so slow headed for the schoolyard southbound...anywhere you go bang along that track ain't working too hard
	hartfordman says: 2/18/2011 6:45:29 PM Thanks so much! I have been wanting to perform this for some time, but could barely make out the words.
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