[78-L] Shame and Sorrow cover versions

[Ray Kilcoyne]

Just an amazing bit of research Cary.  After reading the plot you outlined, 
I remembered a similar song by Jimmy Driftwood.  It is basically the same 
with the sexes switched.  I assume you can add it to you cover versions, if 
you can be sure it wasn't the first.  Here are the lyrics, but I heard an 
even more elaborate version by Driftwood on the radio, maybe on Prairie Home 
Companion, not sure......

Father, oh dear father, get off of your lazy bones
Tomorrow I will marry my lover Jimmie Jones
Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another
You cannot marry Jimmie Jones for he is your half brother

Father, oh dear father, I hope that you won't care;
Tomorrow I will marry my lover John O'Dare.
Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another,
You cannot marry John O'Dare for he is your half brother.

Father, oh dear father, I hope that you won't frown,
Tomorrow I will marry my lover Jimmie Brown.
Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another,
You cannot marry Jimmie Brown for he is your half brother.

Mother, oh poor mother, my poor heart is undone,
Every boy I love, turns out to be my father's son.
Daughter, oh dear daughter, go on and make your vow,
It ain't no sin, for you're no kin to your father anyhow!

RayK


From: Cary Ginell
Covers : Sir Lancelot with Gerald Clark’s Calypso Serenaders (1946) [on 
Keynote as Scandal In The Family; again he sings "Shame and sorrow"
instead; the film version and the record version have the same lyrics;
reissued on Mercury in '53, triggering covers by the dozen], Odetta
(1956) [as Shame And
Scandal on lp Sings Ballads And Blues, as if it was an old folk song],
Burl Ives (1956) [as The Harlem Man], Maya Angelou (1957) [as Scandal In
The Family], Gateway Singers (1961) , Lord Melody (1962) [influential
version as Wau Wau, where a son comes home with a girl he can't marry
because according to his father she's his sister; for his mother
marriage is no problem since his father happens not to be his natural
father anyhow], Shawn Elliott (1964) [n°1 B as Shame
And Scandal In The Family credited to obscure calypsonians Huon
Donaldson and Slim Henry Brown], Hiltonaires (1964) , Kingston Trio
(1964) [as Ah Woe, Ah Me], Lance Percifal (1965) [idem], Cocktail Trio
(1965) [as Groot Schandaal In De Familie], Mounties (1965) [idem],
Derrick Harriott (1965) , Sacha Distel (1965) [as Scandale dans la
famille], Surfs (1965) [idem], Peter Tosh & The Wailers (1965) , Don
Drummond & The Skatalites (1965) , Maskers (1965) [as Potverdrie,
Groot Schandaal in onze Familie], Blues Busters (1966) , Horace Faith
(1970) , Johnny Chester & Jigsaw (1971) [hit Australia], Clint
Eastwood & General Saint (1982) , Freddie McGregor (1994) ,
Africando (2000) [as Scandalo], R.L. Burnside (2002) [as He Ain't Your
Daddy; joke on live cd Burnside On Burnside, exactly the same storyline
as Lord Melody's version], David Lindley & Wally Ingram (2003) ,
Relator (2003) , Madness (2005) [most as Shame & Scandal], …..