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Overview[ edit ] A talking blues typically consists of a repetitive guitar line utilizing a three chord progression which, although it is called a "blues", is not actually a twelve bar blues. The vocals are sung in a rhythmic, flat tone, very near to a speaking voice, and take the form of rhyming couplets. At the end of each verse, consisting of two couplets, the singer continues to talk, adding a fifth line consisting of an irregular, generally unrhymed, and unspecified number of bars, often with a pause in the middle of the line, before resuming the strict chordal structure. This example, from "Talking Blues" by Woody Guthrie , a cover of "New Talking Blues" by Bouchillon, serves to explain the format:[ citation needed ] Mama's in the kitchen fixin' the yeast Papa's in the bedroom greasin' his feets Sister's in the cellar squeezin' up the hops Brother's at the window just a-watchin' for the cops Drinkin' home brew The lyrics to a talking blues are characterized by dry, rural humor, with the spoken codetta often adding a wry commentary on the subject of the verse, like Bob Dylan 's "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues". In the bathroom. The "Talking Blues" begins with the line: Well, if you want to get to heaven, Let me tell you what to do, Got to grease your feet into little mutton stew. Several sources of the s — s, including the Almanac Singers , wrongly credited Guthrie as the creator of the talking blues. By the s, what had started as a comedic country music genre became a more pronounced form of wry political protest singing. This sample lyric, from "Talking Union" by Pete Seeger , Lee Hays , and Millard Lampell shows the development of the genre into a vehicle for political commentary:[ citation needed ] Now, if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you You got to build you a union, got to make it strong But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long You'll get shorter hours, better working conditions, vacations with pay Bob Dylan Talking Blues Music Analysis
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Let me die in my footsteps before I go down under the ground. I was going through some town and they were making this bomb shelter right outside of town, one of these sort of Coliseum-type things and there were construction workers and everything.
I was there for about an hour, just looking at them build, and I just wrote the song in my head back then, but I carried it with me for two years until I finally wrote it down. As I watched them building, it struck me sort of funny that they would concentrate so much on digging a hole underground when there were so many other things they should do in life. If nothing else, they could look at the sky, and walk around and live a little bit, instead of doing this immoral thing.
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