Lonnie Donegan - Talking Guitar Blues (Remastered) Lyrics

Lyrics Talking Guitar Blues (Remastered) - Lonnie Donegan



If you wanna get in trouble let me tell you how to do it
Get yourself a guitar and then you're right into it
You play all day and you play all night
People say you'll never learn to play the thing right
Always messing about, groaning at you
Moaning, won't let you practise
So I bought meself a guitar about a year ago
The man said I could learn it in a week or so
Gave me a little book, pick or two
Said, "Here y'are mate, it's up to you"
Dirty rotter, cost me ten nicker, all the loot I had
Good guitar, though, called it a pluckit
Anyway, spent me dough
And I couldn't let it all go to waste, you know
So I took the book, guitar and all
And I went back home where the trees are tall
Down in Woodford, good place to be if you've got a guitar
Pretty rotten if you ain't
Well, for weeks and weeks I worked hard
And I tried to learn a few main chords
The book says they're easy as ABC
Cor, my fingers is killing me, got sore on the ends
Couldn't hold the strings down
Wanted to pack up, cor, I felt rough
Anyway, kept on playing with all me might
I could see Mum's hair was turning white
And her face was lined with discontent
She said her patience was pretty near spent
She was nervous, ears ringing, wanted to scream
You know, couldn't get no relief
So sister, anyway, she took it worst of all
'Cause she got married the following fall
She said "For love" but I got me doubts
I think the guitar chased her out
She's a game girl, though
Just couldn't take it, you know, limit to everything
Dad, he took it a different way
He said, you can turn your Mum's hair grey
Drive your sister away from home
But you or me boy's gonna start to roam
And I ain't going, never intend to
You figure it out, so I did, fast, you know
Anyway, next day had me clothes all packed
And I slung me guitar across me back
Caught meself a great long train
Searched the world for me share of fame
Ain't found none, just hardships, messing about
Skiffle, Tommy Steele



Writer(s): TUBB


Lonnie Donegan - 100 (100 Original Tracks Remastered)
Album 100 (100 Original Tracks Remastered)
date of release
23-02-2014

1 Long Summer Day - Remastered
2 Michael Row the Boat (Remastered)
3 Sing Hallelujah (Remastered)
4 The Party's Over (Remastered)
5 Frankie and Johnny (Remastered)
6 I Shall Not Be Moved (Remastered)
7 Stewball (Remastered)
8 Puttin' On the Style (Remastered)
9 Don't You Rock Me Daddy O (Remastered)
10 Talking Guitar Blues (Remastered)
11 I Wanna Go Home (Remastered)
12 The Grand Coulee Dam (Remastered)
13 Battle of New Orleans (Remastered)
14 Nobody Loves Like an Irishman (Remastered)
15 This Train - Remastered
16 Tom Dooley (Remastered)
17 Cumberland Gap - Remastered
18 Have a Drink On Me (Remastered)
19 Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?) - Remastered
20 House of the Rising Sun - Remastered
21 Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Remastered)
22 Over the Rainbow - Remastered
23 Dead or Alive - Remastered
24 San Miguel - Remastered
25 Virgin Mary - Remastered
26 Lively (Remastered)
27 Bewildered (So Bewildered) - Remastered
28 Steal Away - Remastered
29 Gamblin' Man (Remastered)
30 Ramblin' Round - Remastered
31 Wreck of the Old '97 - Remastered
32 The Sunshine of His Life (Remastered)
33 Ain't You Glad You Got Religion - Remastered
34 Times Are Getting Hard Boys - Remastered
35 Lazy John (Remastered)
36 I'm a Ramblin' Man - Remastered
37 The Comancheros - Remastered
38 Bring a Little Water, Sylvie (Remastered)
39 When the Sun Goes Down - Remastered
40 Ain't No More Cane On the Brazos (Remastered)
41 John Henry - Remastered
42 Fancy Talkin' Tinker (Remastered)
43 Jack of Diamonds - Remastered
44 Jimmy Brown - Remastered
45 The Gold Rush Is Over - Remastered
46 You Pass Me By (Remastered)
47 Gloryland - Remastered
48 Lost John (Remastered)
49 I've Got Rocks in My Bed (Remastered)
50 Nobody's Child - Remastered
51 Take This Hammer (Remastered)
52 Sal's Got a Sugar Lip - Remastered
53 Mr Froggy (Remastered)
54 Bury My Body (Remastered)
55 Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord (Remastered)
56 Forth Worth Jail (Remastered)
57 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (Remastered)
58 No Hiding Place (Remastered)
59 Knees Up Mother Brown (Remastered)
60 Pick a Bale of Cotton - Remastered
61 My Old Man's a Dustman (Remastered)
62 Down in the Valley (Remastered)
63 Sally, Don't You Grieve - Remastered
64 Corrine Corrina (Remastered)
65 Diggin' My Potatoes - Remastered
66 Leave My Women Alone (Remastered)
67 His Eye Is On the Sparrow (Remastered)
68 John Hardy - Remastered
69 Born in Bethlehem (Remastered)
70 Lumbered (Remastered)
71 New Burying Ground (Remastered)
72 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Remastered)
73 (Bury Me) Beneath the Willow [Remastered]
74 Rock Island Line - Remastered
75 Glory (Remastered)
76 Kevin Barry (Remastered)
77 Good News! Chariots a' Comin' (Remastered)
78 Junko Partner - Remastered
79 Sorry but I'm Gonna Have to Pass (Remastered)
80 Nobody Understands Me (Remastered)
81 Seven Golden Daffodils - Remastered
82 I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Remastered
83 The Market Song - Remastered
84 Tit-Bits - Remastered




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