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Karen Dalton (1938 – 1993) was an American folk singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan. Her bluesy, world-weary voice is often compared to that of iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, motown -- making over each song in her own inimitable style. She played the twelve string Gibson guitar and a long neck banjo. Her second album, In My Own Time (1971), was recorded at Bearsville studios, produced by Bob Dylan's former bass player Harvey Brooks, with liner notes by Fred Neil, originally released on Michael Lang's (Woodstock promoter) label, Just Sunshine. The cover photos were taken by Elliot Landy, and The Band's current piano player, Richard Bell, guested on the album. Less common is her first album for Capitol, It's Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (1969), re-released by Koch Records in 1996. Known as "the folksinger's answer to Billie Holiday" and "Sweet Mother K.D.", it is said that the song Katie's Been Gone by The Band from the Basement Tapes was written about her. She struggled with drugs and alcohol for many years and died in 1993.
It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best
Little bit of rain ( Fred Neil ) If I should leave you Try to remember all the good times Warm days filled with sunshine And just a little bit of rain And if you should look back Try to forget all the bad times Lonely blue and sad times And just a little bit of rain If I should leave you Try to remember all the good times Long days filled with sunshine Just a little bit of rain Just a little bit of rain Just a little bit of rain
Sweet substitute ( Ferdinand Joseph "Jelly Roll" Morton ) My man went away My man went away I said I'd miss him every night and day And I began to look around Wish I could show you what I found Sweet substitute Sweet substitute He tells me that he's mine, all mine Everytime I tell him You know love is blind He's got such loving ways Got my head in a daze My new recruit is mighty sweet and cute I'm crazy about my substitute He's got such loving ways Got my head in a daze My new recruit is mighty sweet and cute I'm crazy about my substitute Crazy about my substitute Ribbon Bow If I had a ribbon bow To hide my hair If I had a fancy sash My own true love would find me fair My red shoes would go dancing Whe'er my fancy would My love would wish That he had taken me while he could If I were like city girls And fair with smile Not a man in all these parts Would know my heart My red shoes would go dancing Whe'er my fancy chose I'd lark about the sidewalk And wear them foreign clothes If I were like city girls If I had a fancy sash If I had a ribbon bow To hide my hair If I had a fancy sash My own true love would find me fair I Love You More Than Words Can Say ( Eddie Floyd / Booker T. Jones ) Please, let me sit down beside you I've got something to tell you, darling You wanna know I just can't wait, no not another day I love you, more than words can say Yes I do Living without you is so painful I was tempted to call it a day You've got me in your hand Why can't you understand I love you, more than words can say Yes I do I just can't sleep When I lay down in my bed The thougths of you Linger in my head Without you it's so painful I was tempted to call it a day You've got me in your hand Why can't you understand I love you more than words can say Let me sit down beside you I've got something to tell you, darling You wanna know I just can't wait, no not another day I love you, more than words can say More than words can ever say Yes I do In The Evening ( Leroy Carr ) In the evening In the evening, darling When the sun goes down In the evening When the sun goes down It's so lonesome and lonesome When the one you love is not around Last night I was laying sleeping, darling All by myself Last night I was laying sleeping, darling All by myself And the one I really really love He was laying somewhere else The sun rises in the East It sets down over in the West Sun rises in the East, darling It sets down over in the West It's so hard, so hard to tell Who's gonna love you the best Goodbye, oh my old sweethearts and pals I'm goin' away I may come back to see you darling Some old rainy rainy day Oh in the evening, in the evening darling Maybe when the sun goes down When the sun goes down Blues On The Ceiling ( Fred Neil ) Blues on the ceiling Over my head Running down the walls Across the floor Over my bed Blue lights across the street Blinkin' off and on I'm so lonely now you're gone I'll never get out of these blues Never get out of these blues alive And keep on coming Up my weary head Even cocaine couldn't ease the pain I'd be better off dead Blue lights gone out so I can't sleep The bitter the blues the better they keep I'll never get out of these blues alive, alive Never get out of these blues I'll never get out of these blues Never get out of these blues alive On the ceiling Over my head Running down the walls Across the floor Under my bed Blue lights across the street Blinkin' off and on I'm so lonely now you're gone I'll never get out of these blues Never get out of these blues alive It Hurts Me Too ( Meldon London ) I love you baby Ain't gonna lie Without you darling I can't be satisfy If things are going wrong for you You know it hurts me too Run here baby, Put your hands on mine I've got something to tell you, darling I wanna change your mind If things are going wrong for you You know it hurts me too Hurts me too I love you baby Ain't gonna lie Without you darling I can't be satisfy If things are going wrong for you You know it hurts me too You know it hurts me too How Did the Feeling Feel to You
( Tim Hardin ) Making love has been as much as I could hope it would be Every night has been like one night to me You've got me feeling again The feeling you gave me before But to you those nights like any other night Tonight is just one more Don't try to tell me that you care enough to love me When you can't even do the things I need you to do Don't make me listen to words you think will please me When pleasing me don't mean anything to you Just one more night makes no difference As long as there's another night To make right what you did wrong The last days we had of one another will have to do While you're on your way, while you're on your way How did the feeling feel to you You've got me feeling again The feeling you gave me before But to you those nights like any other night Tonight is just one more Just one more night makes no difference As long as there's another night To make right what you did wrong The last days we had of one another will have to do While you're on your way, while you're on your way How did the feeling feel to you
Right, Wrong Or Ready ( Major Wiley ) I could have told him about the morning The daylight always dawning I could have told him that he'd be resting on my mind He stays on my mind, he stays on my mind I could have told him about another time Another place maybe later, oh I'm gonna love you better, right, wrong or ready Right, wrong or ready If he's right, wrong or ready, he stays on my mind I could have told him about a man Who Pays his own dues for his own price And is home before his own woman Right, wrong or ready, right, wrong or ready He stays on my mind, he stays I could have told him about the morning The love light always dawning I could have told him that he'd be resting on my mind He stays on my mind If he's right, wrong or ready, he stays on my mind He stays on my mind, he stays
Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me Down) (Huddie Ledbetter) Don't you follow me down. Don't you follow me down Follow me down to some old back street in town Mama told me, papa told me, too "Living down on the street is gonna be the death of you" Went to my mama, got down on my knees Hollering, "Oh, mama, won't you forgive me, please" Crying, "Oh, mama, won't you forgive me, please Nobody down on the street will ever cry for me Oh, cry for me" Follow me down to some old back street in town Mm—mm, cry for me Mm—mm, cry for me
In My Own Time
Something on Your Mind ( Dino Valenti ) Yesterday Any way you made it was just fine Saw you turn your days into night-times Didn't you know You can't make it without ever even trying And something's on your mind, isn't it Let these times Show you that you're breaking up your mind Leaving all your dreams too far behind Didn't you see You can't make it without ever even trying And something's on your mind, isn't it Maybe another day you'll want to feel another way You can't stop crying You haven't got a thing to say You're feeling you want to run away There's no use trying anyway I've seen the writing on the wall Who cannot maintain will always fall Didn't you know You can't make it without ever even trying And something's on your mind, isn't it Something's on your mind, isn't it Something's on your mind When a man loves a woman ( Calvin Lewis / Andrew Wright ) When a man loves a woman He can do no wrong He'd tell the world what a good thing he's found If she is bad, he can't see it Cause She can do no wrong He turn his back on his best friend if he put her down When a man loves a woman He'll give his very last dime Trying to hold on to what he needs And give up all his comforts And sleep out in the rain If she tells him that's the way it ought to be When a man loves a woman He give up everything he has Trying to hold on to your precious love Please don't treat me bad When a man loves a woman Deep down in his soul She can bring him such misery If she is playing him for a fool He's the last one to know Loving eyes can never see When a man loves a woman I know exactly how he feels 'Cause that's the way you've always been to me In my own dream ( Paul Butterfield ) I didn't know I could be fool It took me a long time To find out My mind Is upside down What I was standing on Too solid ground To satisfy That's what I thought I'd be I kept on living in my own dream In my own dream Everyday I grew blinder Oh I thought I was so strong I didn't need nobody's help Oh but the strongest river Can't flow up hill To satisfy That's what I thought I'd be I kept on living in my own dream In my own dream To satisfy That's what I thought I'd be I kept on living in my own dream, own dream In my own dream Katie Cruel ( Traditional ) When I first came to town They call me the roving jewel Now they've change their tune They call me Katie Cruel Through the woods I go And through the boggy mire Straight way down the road 'Til I come to my heart's desire If I was where I would be Then I would be where I am not Here I am where I must be Where I would, I can not When I first came to town They brought me drinks plenty Now they've changed their tune They bring me the bottles empty If I was where I would be Then I would be where I am not Here I am where I must be Where I would, I can not How sweet it is ( Holland Dozier ) How sweet it is to be loved by you Yes it is How sweet it is to be loved by you I close my eyes at night And wonder what would I be without you in my life Everything was just a bore All the things I did seems I'd done them before But you brighten up all of my days With you sweet love in so many ways I want to stop and thank you I want to stop and thank you How sweet it is to be loved by you Yes it is How sweet it is to be loved by you I needed the shelter of someone's arms And there you were I needed somebody to tell my ups and downs And there you were Your sweet love and devotion Deeply touching my emotions I want to stop and thank you I want to stop and thank you How sweet it is to be loved How sweet it is to be loved by you I needed the shelter of someone's arms And there you were I needed somebody to tell my ups and downs And there you were Your sweet love and devotion Deeply touching my emotions I want to stop and thank you, baby I wanna stop and thank you How sweet it is to be loved How sweet it is to be loved by you How sweet it is to be loved How sweet it is to be loved by you... In A Station ( Richard Manuel ) Once I walked through the halls of a station And someone called your name In the street I heard children laughing They all sound the same Wonder, could you ever know me Know the reason why I live Is there nothing you can show me Life seems so little to give Once I climbed to the top of a mountain And ate the wild fruit there Fell asleep until the moonlight woke me Dreaming I could touch your hair Isn't everybody dreaming! Then the voice I hear is real Out of all the idle scheming Can't we have something to feel Once upon a time leaves me empty Tomorrow never came I could hear the sound of your laughter Still I don't know your name Must be some way to repay you After all the good you gave If a rumour should delay you Love seems so little to save Oh save me... Take Me ( George Jones / L. Payne ) Take me in your darkest room Close every window and bolt every door The very first moment I heard your voice I'd be in darkness no more Take me to the most barren desert A thousand miles from the nearest sea The very moment I saw your smile It would be like heaven to me There's not any mountain too rugged to climb No desert too barren to cross Darling if you would just show a sign of love I could bear with all loss Take me to Siberia And the coldest weather of the winter time, And it would be just like spring in California As long as I knew you were mine
Same Old Man
( Traditional / Arranged by Steve Weber )
It's the same old lady, hanging out her wash Standing in the rain, wearing a mackintosh Same old lady standing in the rain Even the thought of New York was going insane Hey little leaf, lying on the ground Now you're turning slightly brown Why don't you get up on the tree Turn the color green the way you ought to be My mind is failing and my body grows weak My lips won't form the words I speak I'm floating away on a barrel of pain New York City won't see me again The same old man, sitting at the mill The mill turns around of its own free will I'm certainly glad to be home New York City will continue on alone
One night of love ( Joe Tate ) He gives me one night of love Sometimes he gives me two Hmm when I'm gone He don't even think my name It's got me down Down to the ground Looks like this whole world And my best friend got me down I gave him all my money All of my good loving too Ah, when I'm gone He don't even mention my name It's got me down Down to the ground Looks like this whole world And my best friend got me down It's got me down I'm just singing this song I wouldn't do anything wrong It's got me down I'm just telling the truth I can't show you no kind of proof It's got me down Got me down Down to the ground This whole world And my best friend got me down It's got me down One night of love Gives me one night of love One night of love One night of love One night of love Are you leaving for the country ( Richard Tucker ) Are you leaving for the country You say the city brings you down Leave the iron clown behind And feel the circus moving on Are you leaving for the country I know a little country town Where dogs are sleeping in the road And the flagpole's falling down Dying vines, hold the wheel in time Spread their weight and let the planet spin Do you feel like something's not real Let the spirit move you again Are you leaving for the country Do you feel like something's not real Let the spirit move you again Are you leaving for the country You say the city brings you downg Leave the iron clown behind And feel the circus moving on
SHUCKIN' SUGAR
Shiloh Town (Traditional / Feat. Richard Tucker) It is so cold in Shiloh Town Birds can hardly sing All the pretty girls gonna leave this town Won't be back 'til spring I'll sing hallelujah You'll sing hallelujah We'll all sing hallelujah When they arrive at home I'll sing hallelujah (It is so cold in Shiloh Town) You'll sing hallelujah (Birds can hardly sing) We'll all sing hallelujah (All the pretty girls gonna leave this town) When they arrive at home (Won't be back 'til spring) It is so cold in Shiloh Town (I'll sing hallelujah) Birds can hardly sing (You'll sing hallelujah) All the pretty girls gonna leave this town (We'll all sing hallelujah) Won't be back 'til spring (When they arrive at home) I'll sing hallelujah You'll sing hallelujah We'll all sing hallelujah When they arrive at homee Every Time I Think Of Freedom (Traditional) I've been hammering Since December Wind so cold Wind so cold If I cross that White oak mountain I'll go free I'll go free Every time I I think of freedom Can't keep from crying Keep from crying Oh freedom Oh freedom I got a rainbow (a rainbow) ? at my shoulder Ain't gonna rain Ain't gonna rain
Ribbon Bow If I had a ribbon bow To hide my hair If I had a fancy sash My own true love would find me fair My red shoes would go dancing Whe'er my fancy chose I'd lark about the sidewalk And wear them foreign clothes If I were like city girls And fair with smile Not a man in all these parts Would know my heart My red shoes would go dancing Whe'er my fancy would My love would wish That he had taken me while he could If I had a ribbon bow To hide my hair If I had a fancy sash My own true love would find me fair Blues Jumped The Rabbit (Traditional) When the blues jumped up a rabbit Rabbit he'll run a mile Poor little rabbit Crying like a newborn child Wish I was a headlight On some Western train I'd shine my light on Cool Colorado rain Wish I was in cool Colorado Up on some mountain high I'd seen my darling As he went riding by Some like white or yellow Some crave black or brown The man I'm craving Won't never turn me down Blues jumped up a rabbit Rabbit he'll run a mile Poor little rabbit Cries like a newborn child Katie Cruel (Traditional) I first came to town They call me the roving jewel Now they've changed their tune Call me Katie Cruel Wish I was where I would be Then I'd be where I am not Here I am where I must be Where I'd be I can not Through the woods I go Through the boggy mire Straight way down the road 'Til I come to my heart's desire Wish I was where I would be Then I'd be where I am not Here I am where I must be Where I'd be I can not When I first came to town They bought me drinks plenty Now they've changed their tune They have me the bottles empty Wish I was where I would be Then I'd be where I am not Here I am where I must be Where I'd be I can not