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COUNTRY CLASSIC FROM THE LATE GREAT HANK WILLIAMS ON AN ORIGINAL US MGM 78

MY BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE IN IT

b/w  LET'S TURN BACK THE YEARS

Hank Williams is the father of contemporary country music. Williams was a superstar by the age of 25; he was dead at the age of 29. In those four short years, he established the rules for all the country performers that followed him and, in the process, much of popular music. Williams wrote a body of songs that became popular classics, and his direct, emotional lyrics and vocals became the standard for most popular performers. Hank lived a life as troubled and reckless as that depicted in his songs.

There are several versions of how Williams got his first guitar. His mother stated that she bought it with money from selling peanuts, but many other prominent residents of the town claimed to have been the one who purchased the guitar for him. While living in Georgiana, Williams met Rufus "Tee-Tot" Payne, a street performer. Payne gave Williams guitar lessons in exchange for meals prepared by Lillie Williams.

Payne's base musical style was blues. He taught Williams chords, chord progressions, bass turns, and the style of accompaniment that he would use in most of his future songwriting. Later on, Williams recorded one of the songs that Payne taught him, "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It."

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

I can't buy no beer 

Bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

I can't buy no beer 

Well I'm standin' on a corner 

With a bucket in my hand 

Waitin' for a woman 

That ain't got no man 

My bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

I can't buy no beer 

Went up to the mountain 

Looked down to the sea 

All the crabs and the fishes 

Doin' the bip bop bee 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

I can't buy no beer 

Ain't no use of me 

Workin' so hard 

When I got a woman 

In the boss man's yard 

Yea my bucket's got a hole in it 

Yea my bucket's got a hole in it 

Well my bucket's got a hole in it 

I can't buy no beer

DISC DETAILS

UK MGM 666  78rpm SHELLAC 10"

CONDITION = V+/E-   

some scuffs and marks but plays great!

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