wine for me song
1997-98 Research Associate, , Words by Robert Hunter; music by Bob Weir Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; Moses came riding up on a guitar His spurs were a-jingling, the door was ajar His buckle was silver, his manner was bold I asked him to come on in out of the cold His brain was boiling, his reason was spent He said if nothing was borrowed then nothing was lent I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun Said Now n'again these things just got to be done sitting on a fence You'd get right to work if you had any sense Y'know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench Gideon come in with his eyes on the floor Says: Y'ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door Moses stood up a full six foot ten Says: You can't close the door when the wall's caved in I asked him for water, he poured me some wine We finished the bottle then broke into mine You get what you come for, you're ready to go
Based on a book of the same title by Fulton Oursler. A reference to the biblical figure, also alluded to in by John Perry Barlow. Hunter notes, in : This note from a reader: Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:16 PM Subject: Greatest Story ever told
best wine labels of all time I love your site, and i visit it all the time.
best wine labels of all time Just one very minor point: in the listing for "Greatest Story Ever Told,"
wine and beer business you point out that "Hunter notes in BOX OF RAIN: 'Bob Weir sings QUASAR(referring to the line "moses came riding up on a However, when the song was first sung with the Dead, Weir actually does say "GUITAR" rather than "QUASAR." The very first performance of the song was
in Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on February 18, 1971. I do not know when he actually started saying "quasar." Again, great site... keep it up! [name withheld by request] Richard McKenna's book, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984), explains that the left-handed monkey wrench is an item every novice sailor is sent to fetch, as an initiation. This is what's known in the folklore trade as a "fool's errand." list of similar tools which a new apprentice or recruit may be sent to find: (from Eric Partridge's , p. 1381.) Jewish tribal leader, ca. 12th century B.C.E. His story is to be found in Compare the line in the "Cool Drink of Water Blues": And this note from a reader: I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am to find your site! I've been reading over some of the lyrics, and I think I have an annotation to add in "Greatest Story Ever Told" I suspect that, in staying with the tonal quality of the rest of the song,
the reference "asked him for water he poured me some wine" is not, related to the soug you suggest (Compare the line in the "Cool Drink of Water Blues": "Well, I asked for water and She gave me gasoline." Devil's Music, p. 156) ). Rather, I'd postulate that it's much simpler than that - another biblical- Jesus' first miracle of turning water into wine. maybe I'm full of it! Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:27 AM Subject: AGDL: Greatest Story Ever Told I know everyone begins their submissions with this, but I wholeheartedly agree: Your site is an invaluable and fantastic resource! I was reading through the Greatest Story Ever Told entry, and another reader had mentioned that Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine, a possible interpretation of the line "I asked him for water, he poured meHowever I would think that it is related to a different passageWhen Jesus was hanging from the cross, he asked the Roman guards for a drink of water.
Instead, they filled a sponge with old wine (vinegar) and put it to his lips. This might be something your readers would be interested in. Keep up the good work! From: clifford stephens [mailto:cliffrojousa@netscape.net] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:49 AM I married a farm girl who listens to C&W. (Go figure) But was listening to some of her Marty Robbins (El Paso, Big Iron) stuff the other day and the song "Cool Water" and the last line in his song is "Cool clear water" repeated twice. Keep up the great work! keywords: @bible, @water, @wine First posted: March 23, 1995 Last revised: November 27, 2002Favorite Food, Wine & Drinking Songs © by Randy Caparoso What are your favorite eating and drinking songs? There must be a million of them; but then again, maybe not. But these days the vast library in the internet sky allows you put your favorites all together in once place, making for one, big musical food, wine, beer, whiskey, and coffee fest.
Yet for all the eating and drinking songs in our own language, one of my favorites is actually French - La Danse de Limonade, performed by the Savoy-Doucet Cajun band - that starts: Mon j'aime cousine, mon j'aime cousin j'aime mieux la cuisiniere . . . (I like my girl cousin, I like my boy cousin, but I like the cook the best) . . . and then goes on to describe the typical Cajun dance party; where the girl, in her innocent voice, describes how she gets "drunk like a big pig," begs her friends to force her to drink lemonade, but in the end needs to turn to Hadacol (a snake charmer's medicinal, popular in the 1940s) to recover. One of the oldest classics is Bessie Smith's circa-1920s Gimme a Pigfoot ( . . . and a bottle of beer . . . give the piano man a drink because he's bringing me down), although I think Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's Wining Boy Blues - composed and first performed in the New Orleans brothels that employed him - pre-dates Smith's Pigfoot.
Here's the way Morton once described how he came up with the bluesiest wine song ever written: When the place (Hilma Burt's on Basin Street) was closing down, it was my habit to pour these partly filled bottles of wine together and make up a new bottle from the mixture. That fine drink gave me a name and from that I made a tune that was very, very popular in those days . . . I'm a wining boy, don't deny my name, I'm a wining boy, don't deny my name . . . Hate to say it, but it reminds me of exactly what we used to do when I first got into the restaurant business (I've since acquired "good taste" . . . Otherwise, I wouldn't exactly call most of the songs written about wine "great." After a while, for example, the repetitive cycle of UB40's Red Red Wine - penned, but never performed, by Neil Diamond - starts to wear thin. Diamond's Cracklin' Rose ( . . . you make me smile), on the other hand, still sounds fresh today, more than thirty-five years after it hit the charts.
However, Eric Burdon's Spill the Wine now seems as dated as his Sky Pilot, as do Dean Martin's and Mel Tillis's renditions of Little Ole Wine Drinker Me. But if there was any song that plucks the heart strings of a wine lover, it would be Jesse Winchester's little known, under-appreciated (hey, just like a French vin de pays!) Little Glass of Wine: Little glass of wine, a good thing you are here You're warm on my lips, warm as a tear A comfort to the fool who's restless in his mind The lover's trusty potion, little glass of wine The most sing-able wine song ever written? For that honor, I nominate Jerry Jeff Walker's Sangria Wine, which even contains a recipe for the best sangria and suggested sangria-friendly foods: In Texas on a Saturday night Everclear is added to the wine sometimes Some nachos, burritos and tacos Who knows how it usually it goes . . . It goes . . . I love that sangria wine Just like I love old friends of mine
They tell the truth when they're mixed with the wine That's why I blend in the lemons and limes Is that poetry in a bottle or what? Almost as elegiac as the names of the best she-done-left-me-and-drove-me-to-drink country songs; like George Jones's If the Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) and Jerry Lee Lewis's What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made a Loser Out of Me). Eating and drinking songs are just like wines - it's difficult to name your favorite. But I'll give it a try, dividing them into four categories. Going by the names of my favorite performer(s) of each respective song: 1. Diana Krall/Nat King Cole - Frim Fram Sauce 2. Leon Redbone - Mr. Jelly Roll Baker 3. Bessie Smith - Gimme a Pigfoot 4. The Andrews Sisters - Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) 5. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys/Asleep at the Wheel & Dixie Chicks - Roly Poly 6. Ry Cooder - Crow Black Chicken 7. Diana Krall - Peel Me a Grape 8. Michael Franks - Eggplant
9. Taj Mahal - Fishing Blues 10. The Coasters/Loudon Wainwright III - Smokey Joe's Café 11. The Kinks - Skin and Bones 12. Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts 13. Michael Hurley - You'll Never Go to Heaven 14. Jimmy Rogers/Merle Haggard - Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia 15. Hank Williams Sr. - Jambalaya 16. Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes 17. Ka'au Crater Boys - He `Ono 18. Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman & Jimmy Durante - Black Strap Molasses 19. Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions 20. Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - I Don't Want Love 21. Dusty Springfield/Chrissie Hynde & UB40 - Breakfast In Bed 22. Average White Band - Cut the Cake 23. Presidents of the United States - Peaches 24. The Mamas & the Papas - Sing for Your Supper 25. Bob Dylan - Country Pie 1. Jimmie Rogers/Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine 2. Jerry Jeff Walker - Sangria Wine 3. Jesse Winchester - Little Glass of Wine
4. Jelly Roll Morton/Leon Redbone - Wining Boy Blues 5. The Band - Strawberry Wine 6. Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rose 7. Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Wine Do Yer Stuff 8. Arlo Guthrie - Lightning Bar Blues 9. UB40 - Red Red Wine 10. Eric Burdon & War - Spill the Wine 11. Marsha Thornton - A Bottle of Wine and Patsy Cline 12. Emmylou Harris - Two Bottles of Wine 13. Cerys Matthews - Chardonnay 14. The Fireballs - Bottle of Wine Favorite Drinking Songs (Non-Country) 1. The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola 2. Lil' Bob & the Lollipops/Los Lobos - I Got Loaded 3. Leroy Carr - Hustler's Blues 4. Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - La Danse de Limonade 5. Flaco Jimenez - En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza 6. Billie Holiday - Riffin' the Scotch 7. Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues 8. The Kinks - Demon Alcohol 9. Damian Junior Gong Marley - One Cup of Coffee 10. Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs - Sugar Shack
11. Harry Nilsson - Coconut 12. Randy Newman/Bonnie Raitt - Guilty 13. John Prine - They Oughta Name a Drink After You 14. The Doors - Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) 15. Billie Holiday/Frank Sinatra/Dolly Parton - I Get a Kick Out of You 16. UB40 - Bring Me Your Cup 17. Adam Carroll - Of Milwaukee's Best 18. John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 19. Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk to Fuck 20. Sublime - 40 oz. to Freedom Favorite Country-Western Drinking Songs 1. Merle Haggard/George Jones - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down 2. Gram Parsons - Kiss the Children 3. Kris Kristofferson/Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down 4. George Jones/The Byrds - You're Still On My Mind 5. Hank Thompson/Merle Haggard - Wild Side of Life 6. Rhonda Vincent - Drivin' Nails In My Coffin 7. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Juanita 8. Louvin Brothers/Johnny Cash - Kneeling Drunkard's Plea 9. George Jones - If the Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
10. Ernest Tubbs - Pass the Booze 11. Kitty Wells - Death at the Bar 12. Hank Williams Sr. - Honky Tonkin' 13. Tommy Alverson - Uno Mas Cerveza 14. Garth Brooks - Friends In Low Places 15. Leon Russell/Hank Thompson - A Six Pack to Go 16. Daryle Singletary/New Riders of the Purple Sage - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music) 17. Jerry Lee Lewis - What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made a Loser Out of Me) 18. Louvin Brothers - The Drunkard's Doom 19. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Lone Star Beer 20. Hank Williams Sr. - There's a Tear In My Beer 21. Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Lost In the Ozone Again 22. Loretta Lynn - Honky Tonk Girl 23. George Strait/Poco - Honky Tonk Downstairs 24. Tanya Tucker - Somebody Buy This Cowgirl a Beer 25. Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a'Drinkin' (with Lovin' on Your Mind) 26. Alan Jackson - It's Five o' Clock Somewhere 27. Tom T. Hall - I Only Think About You When I'm Drunk