whiskey river

by John Doe 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  John Doe

  If the River Was Whiskey

  If the river was whiskey and I was a duck
  I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up

  Oh tell me how long do I have to wait
  Oh can I get you now, mustn't hesitate

  If the river was whiskey and the branch was wine
  You'd see me in swimming just any ole time

  I was born in England, raised in France
  I bought a suit of clothes and they wouldn't send the pants

  I was born in Alabama, raised in Tennesee
  If you don't like my peaches then don't shake my tree

  I looked down the road just as far as I can see
  A man had my woman and the blues had me

  I ain't no doctor but the doctor's son
  I can do the doctoring till the doctor comes

  Got the hesitation stockings got the hesitation shoes
  Oh my Lord I got the hesitation blues

  I was born in Kingston, raised in Rosendale
  I went through a stop sign and they threw me in jail
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  John Doe

  Does anyone know who wrote or performed that?
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  monophonic

  don't know about the original, but nick cave and the bad seeds recorded it as a b-side.

  i searched and Billy Whiteman And His Orchestra looks like they recorded it in the 1930's...but it may have been a standard that was written years earlier.

  i highly recommend the nick cave cover version....and now interested in hearing the whiteman version.
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  monophonic

  finding out a lot a bands recorded it. i found a tex ritter version i'm downloading right now.
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  Burger Time

  Appears to be a standard and the first known recording was by Mississippi Fred McDowell
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  bluesbreaker59

  Its very much a standard, but Fred McDowell is the first and also definitive version of the song. A couple of the local blues bands do this song too, one of them does a really great version.