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)
Lyrics:
Well it's good morning captain
Good morning shine
Do you need another muleskinner
Out on your new mud line
I like to work
I'm rolling all the time
I can pop my initials
On a mule's behind
Hey little water boy
Bring that water round
If you don't like your job
Set that water bucket down
Workin' on the good road
Dollar and a half a day
My good girl's waiting on a Saturday night
Just to draw my pay
I'm going to town, honey
What you want me to bring you back
Bring a pine apple
And a John B Stetson hat
I smell your bread a-burning
Turn your damper down
If you ain't got a damper, good gal
Turn your bread around
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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