I am a man of constant sorrow

[mondo joe]

Sorry - I just came across this and remembered how much I love O Brother Where Art Thou.

It's the first time I ever like George Clooney and now I adore him.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. My mom loves that song.

She's never seen the movie, but she loves that song and has the soundtrack. hehe

[TrustingDog]

5. so many other Great songs, buy her the soundtrack...

which was, btw, an Afterthought sale to the movie

[saltpoint]

2. Your admiration for Clooney's work in this film and your appreciation --

-- of that song in particular is indication of a sound mind.

You're putting the right music into your ears, mondo joe.

[FreepFryer]

3. I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow.

One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
He said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm heading for a land that's far away
Beside the crystal fountain
I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Chorus:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain,
It's a land that's fair and bright,
The handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
The boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the sleet don't fall
And the winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Chorus:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
You never change your socks
And little streams of alkyhol
Come trickling down the rocks
O the shacks all have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And gingerale too
And you can paddle
All around it in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Chorus:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
The cops have wooden legs
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the sleet don't fall
And the winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Chorus:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain,
The jails are made of tin.
You can slip right out again,
As soon as they put you in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws nor picks,
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

(btw: fuck Hootie and Burger King for raping this song)

[TrustingDog]

4. o man! me too! first time a clooney liker too.

I LOVE that movie, spin it regularly. It's is soooo rich in so many things. The soundtrack is goosebumply.

John Goodman played a reality show fundie freak, huh?

[mondo joe]

6. And y'know, for as greasy and goofy and dirty as he was, it

was the first time I ever thought Clooney was SO handsome.

It's a mystery.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

7. It was the hair! nt

[mondo joe]

8. The pomade!

[TrustingDog]

9. Tommy, now why'd you go and sell your soul to the devil...

Tommy: It's not like I was using it or anything. LOL!

[TrustingDog]

10. have you ever seen Crossroads...

RALPH MACCHIO is a classical guitar prodigy studying at New York's Julliard School. He worships the great blues musicians of the 1930s and 1940s and considers this his true calling despite not being born to the culture.

outstanding as well, different but the same.

[Elidor]

11. Don't you weep pretty baby

She's long gone with her red shoes on
Gonna meet another loving baby. . .

Go to sleep little baby,
You and me and the devil makes three
Don't need no other loving baby

[TrustingDog]

12. Goosebumplies here.

awesome soundtrack,

did I say that already?

[Freebird12004]

22. One of our favorites !

[sakabatou]

13. But I'm a Dapper Dan man!

[jdj]

14. this song was written around the same time.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/girl.html

Lyrics as recorded by Sarah Ogan Gunning, 1960s, transcribed by Manfred Helfert.


I am a girl of constant sorrow,
I've seen trouble all my days.
I bid farewell to old Kentucky,
The state where I was born and raised.
My mother, how I hated to leave her,
Mother dear who now is dead.
But I had to go and leave her
So my children could have bread.

Perhaps, dear friends, you are wonderin'
What the miners eat and wear.
This question I will try to answer,
For I'm sure that it is fair.

For breakfast we had bulldog gravy,
For supper we had beans and bread.
The miners don't have any dinner,
And a tick of straw they call a bed.

Well, we call this hell on earth, friends,
I must tell you all goodbye.
Oh, I know you all are hungry,
Oh, my darlin' friends, don't cry

edit: replaced my comments with text from the link.

"In recent years, the Appalachian lament "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has become popular in urban folksong circles, in part through the performance of the Stanley Brothers and of Mike Seeger. No study of this haunting piece is available; the earliest text I have found was printed about 1913 in a pocket songster hawked by Dick Burnett, a blind singer from Monticello, Kentucky. During 1918, Cecil Sharp collected the song and published it as "In Old Virginny" (Sharp II, 233). Sarah's recomposition of the traditional "Man" into a more personal "Girl" took place about 1936 in New York, where her first husband, Andrew Ogan, was fatally ill. The text was descriptive of loneliness away from home and anticipated her bereavement; the melody she remembered from a 78 rpm hillbilly record (Emry Arthur) she had heard some years before in the mountains."

[mondo joe]

15. I am the only daddy you got! I'm the damn pater familias!

"But you ain't bona fide!"

[demgrrrll]

16. We're in a tight spot. Damn I missed that tonight. eom

.

[Catherine Vincent]

17. Love that movie!

I have it in my DVD collection.

[mondo joe]

19. I thinkit's pretty flawless.

[Bake]

18. My band does that tune and it brings the house down EVERY TIME!

People love that song!!

Bake

[JimmyJazz]

20. Are you BONE-A-FIDE by any chance?

:o

[kittenpants]

21. I agree the whole CD is good (except 'Ooooh Death' is a bit of a downer)

thanks for reminding me!