Mule Skinner Blues - Fendermen

Mule Skinner Blues

 

Written by: Jimmie Rodgers, Vaughn Horton
First recording: Blue Yodel No. 8 by Jimmie Rodgers (February 6, 1931)
First release: Blue Yodel No. 8 by Jimmie Rodgers on audio single Blue Yodel No. 8 (1931)

Mule Skinner Blues Lyrics

Well, good morning, Captain
Well, good morning to you
Do you need another mule skinner
Down on your new mud run
Ha, ha, hip, ee, ee.........

Well, I'm an old mule skinner
From down Kentucky way
And I can make any mule listen
Or I won't accept your pay
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha
Well hey, hey

Little water boy, come here boy
Bring that water bucket around
Ha, ha, ha
If you don't like your job
Water boy, put that bucket down
Ha, ha, ha, ee, ee, ha, ha, ha

Mule Skinner Blues Singers

1 Blue Yodel No. 8 Jimmie Rodgers 1931 2 Mule Skinner Blues Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys October 1940 3 New Muleskinner Blues Maddox Brothers and Rose June 1948 4 Mule Skinner Blues Odetta 1956 5 Mule-Skinner Blues Lonnie Donegan 1957.
6 Mule Skinner Blues The Fendermen (billboard hot 100) 1960.


7 Mule Skinner Blues Cisco Houston 1960 8 Mule Skinner Harry Belafonte 1962 9 Mule Skinner Blues Connie Francis & Hank Williams, Jr 1964 10 Mule Skinner Blues José Feliciano 1965 11 Muleskinner Blues John Jackson 1968 12 Mule Skinner Blues Merle Haggard May 1, 1969 13 Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) Dolly Parton 1970 14 Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) Jerry Reed 1970 15 Mule Skinner Blues Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 1973 16 Muleskinner Blues Muleskinner 1974 17 Mule Skinner Blues Tony Rice 1984 18 Muleskinner Blues The Cramps 1990 19 Mule Skinner Blues Van Morrison 1997 20 Muleskinner Blues Old & In the Way 1997 21 Mule Skinner Blues The Belmont Playboys May 18, 1999 22 Muleskinner Blues Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber January 25, 2000 23 Muleskinner Blues Chrystal Sawyer April 2004.




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