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[Quietguy]

Originally in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, since parodied in other films including Blazing Saddles.

 

 

[Quinn]

[Quietguy]

bbg prefers this

[JustSumGai]

I was alerted to the fact that I'd made my 500th post..."Posting Machine"....and am a Newbie. ?

[Quietguy]

I am now an 'Apprentice' ! 

[Quinn]

[Lefty]

https://fb.watch/6x47kCCUUI/

[Lefty]

[Lefty]

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here

He only came to town about twice a year

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line

Everybody knew that he made moonshine

Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad

He headed up the holler with everything he had

It's before my time but I've been told

He never came back from Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side

Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

Well him and my uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night

Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right

He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday

They draft the white trash first, 'round here anyway

I done two tours of duty in Vietnam

And I came home with a brand new plan

I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico

I just plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road

And now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air

I wake up screaming like I'm back over there

I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know

You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

 

[JustSumGai]

I think Lefty broke out the good stuff :)

 

[Quinn]

Saw Steve Earle and the Dukes a couple of times many years ago - outstanding !

[Quinn]

Back to the 'Badgers' !

[Quinn]

[Lefty]

Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Everybody's building ships and boats
Some are building monuments, others are jotting down notes
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody's gonna jump for joy
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
I like to go just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet
But jumping queues and makin' haste, just ain't my cup of meat
Everyone's beneath the trees, feedin' pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
All the pigeons gonna run to him
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Let me do what I wanna do, I can't decide 'em all
Just tell me where to put 'em and I'll tell you who to call
Nobody can get no sleep, there's someone on everyone's toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody's gonna wanna doze
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Bob Dylan

 

[Lefty]

 

[Pdoggg]

2 hours ago, Lefty said:

Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody's gonna jump for joy

 

[Lefty]

6 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

 

Not to be blasphemous, but Manfred Mann did Quinn the best. One of the few times a cover was better than the original. 

[Pdoggg]

9 minutes ago, Lefty said:

Not to be blasphemous, but Manfred Mann did Quinn the best. One of the few times a cover was better than the original. 

This is an old argument between the Leftster and me.  I like covers and sometimes they are better than the original.  Sometimes the "original" is not by the songwriter.

[Woodie]

14 hours ago, Lefty said:

Not to be blasphemous, but Manfred Mann did Quinn the best. One of the few times a cover was better than the original. 

Far and away Manfred was the better one!.

[blind boy grunt]

33 minutes ago, Woodie said:

Far and away Manfred was the better one!.

not to be picky but if my memory serves me well, Dylan never recorded in a studio 'The mighty Quinn'  it was simply recorded with The Band in the basement at Big Pink around 1967. As part of what was intended as demo tracks. it first appeared on 'Great White Wonder' A bootleg. Even when Columbia officially released 'The Basement tapes' some years later... It wasn't on the album. no recorded studio version is available i believe, only the Pig Pink demo which made it to an official Columbia album earlier this century  and of course live versions.

i could be wrong, forgiveness is asked for if i am, cos i'm getting old and forgetful.

Now, where was i? oh yes... so comparing a properly recorded Manfred version with a demo track is not the way to go.

i do recall at the Isle of Wight Dylan announced the Mighty Quinn as "a song done by Manfred Mann, a great band a really great band" something like that.

anyone interested in the Big Pink stuff... on you tube is a video of Garth Hudson returning to there for a look around. 40 odd years  down the road....

anyway, i'm off for a coffee with the mighty Quinn himself...

[Lefty]

15 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

This is an old argument between the Leftster and me.  I like covers and sometimes they are better than the original.  Sometimes the "original" is not by the songwriter.

I generally prefer the versions by the original artist. Since Bob wrote Quinn and we do have evidence he performed the song, even if never on an album,  that IMO makes his version the original. 

Jagger and Richards wrote Dead Flowers and the Stones performed it. They did their usual great job. But Townes Van Zant's cover is the best. He owned that song as if it was written for him. 

 

 

[duke007]

I have a 'Contributor' Badge now 

[Woodie]

4 hours ago, blind boy grunt said:

not to be picky but if my memory serves me well, Dylan never recorded in a studio 'The mighty Quinn'  it was simply recorded with The Band in the basement at Big Pink around 1967. As part of what was intended as demo tracks. it first appeared on 'Great White Wonder' A bootleg. Even when Columbia officially released 'The Basement tapes' some years later... It wasn't on the album. no recorded studio version is available i believe, only the Pig Pink demo which made it to an official Columbia album earlier this century  and of course live versions.

i could be wrong, forgiveness is asked for if i am, cos i'm getting old and forgetful.

Now, where was i? oh yes... so comparing a properly recorded Manfred version with a demo track is not the way to go.

i do recall at the Isle of Wight Dylan announced the Mighty Quinn as "a song done by Manfred Mann, a great band a really great band" something like that.

anyone interested in the Big Pink stuff... on you tube is a video of Garth Hudson returning to there for a look around. 40 odd years  down the road....

anyway, i'm off for a coffee with the mighty Quinn himself...

Thanks for the ramble. Still think Manfred did it better!!!. Dylan had sort of a cult following which sort of drowns out any ability to hear the better version.

[blind boy grunt]

 

11 minutes ago, Woodie said:

Still think Manfred did it better!!!

you could well be right Woodie. but my point is that you are comparing 2 different things. One, MMs version, and two, a song that the songwriter never recorded only as a demo for other artists or ocaissonally performed live.  They can't be compared as there was nothing to compare with really MM had the hit and deserved it, Dylan never even recorded it.. There were loads of songs from the Big Pink sessions that others recorded and had hits with too. Mighty Quinn was just one.

But, don't get the wrong idea.. i liked most of the stuff the Manfred's did, including Mighty Quinn. Manfred Mann's Earth Band later did a great version too. check it out.

it's similar to comparing Clint Eastwood with the cowpoke!

[Quinn]

Townes Van Zandt - lucky enough to see him twice. The last time was in a pub in Doncaster (UK) playing to about 50 of us on a wet winters night. Superb. He was mightily chuffed when my chums informed him they has started up a pub/micro brewery and named it (after him) Townes Brewery. Produced some magnificent ales too.