“Down the Road (I)”
Description
Floating verses, usually not terribly cohesive. Various choruses: "Down the road, down the road/I've got a sugar baby down the road"; "Bound to go, bound to go/Over the road I'm bound to go"
Notes
Even for Uncle Dave, these words are incoherent. And -- hot dog! -- that's saying something. -PJS
Cross references
- cf. "Letter from Down the Road"
- cf. "On the Road Again"
- cf. "Kassie Jones" (Furry Lewis's version)
- cf. "Ida Red" (tune)
Recordings
- Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, "Down the Road" (Mercury 6211, 1949)
- Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Down the Road" (AAFS 1802 A1, 1935)
- Uncle Dave Macon, "Over the Road I'm Bound to Go" (Brunswick 329, 1929)
- Sonny Osborne, "Down the Road" (Kentucky 564, n.d.)
- Marion Rees, "Down the Road" (AAFS 837 B3, 1936)
- Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Down the Road" (on Watson01)
References
- Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 208-209, "Over the Road I'm Bound" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, CSW208