Guitar,
Vocal - Robin
Bass - Barry Weisenfeld
Harmonica - Adam Carper
Percussion - Cheryl Prashkar
I first heard this as a teenager
and loved the sassiness of the woman narrator. I had forgotten where
I heard it until a Canadian DJ and blogger named Mike Regenstreif identified
it as a Judy Roderick re-write of a song by a blues artist named Rabbit Brown.
It
was
on her 1965
album "Woman Blue" and I believe she played in on a 12-string.
This is played in open G tuning.
Born In The Country
I was born in the country, you thought
I was easy to rule
I was born in the country, you thought I was easy to rule
But times are changing, babe, a country girl ain't anybody's fool
You're a mean tight papa, make a
longtime woman hurt down deep
You're a mean tight papa, make a
longtime woman hurt down deep
I'm gonna find me a candy man, who'll rock this poor girl down to sleep
I gave sugar for sugar, now I give
salt for salt
I gave sugar for sugar, now I give
salt for salt
If you don't like it baby, I guess it's your own goddam fault
I'm leaving you baby, I got to be moving on
I'm leaving you baby, I got to be moving on
You don't believe it honey, you just sit and count the days I'm gone
You walk
by my doorway, honey you walk right by my gate
You walk by my doorway,
honey you walk right by my gate
If you walk by my window, honey you won't get by my .38
Sometimes baby, I think you're too
sweet to die
Sometimes baby, I think you're too
sweet to die
But then sometimes baby, I think you oughta be buried alive
I was born in the country, you thought I was easy to rule
I was born in the country, you thought I was easy to rule
But times are changing, babe, a country girl ain't anybody's fool
But times are changing, babe, a country girl ain't anybody's fool
But times are changing, babe, a country girl ain't anybody's fool