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I'm going away - Young & Moody (1977) Elizabeth Cotten cover — DeepCutsArchive
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I'm going away - Young & Moody (1977) Elizabeth Cotten cover

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Micky Moody arranged this song written by Elizabeth Cotten. Her original version appeared with Folkways records, 1967 (E. Cotten, Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree) E. Cotten on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/elizabethlibbacotten Left handed Libba Cotten used to play right handed instruments. Her thus developed unique fingerstyle is known as cotten picking. Young & Moody came with Magnet Records, 1977 and was reissued with Repertoire Records, 1996. I'm going away, baby, and I'm going to stay, You spends all my money. You got no time for me. I'm going away honey, and I'm going to stay. Baby you're going to miss me. That's why I'm going away. You calls me your honey, You spends all my money. Then you think that's funny? That's why I'm going away. You know you were't true, baby, I believed in you, I am broken-hearted, just over the way you do. You said you loved me, honey, no other one but me, You never gave me no lovin' -- that's why I'm going away. Never gonna be no sunshine, 'Sgonna always be rain, Honey, you're gonna want me to come back again, Never gonna be no sunshine, s'gonna always be rain, You never gave me no lovin' -- that's why I'm going away.



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Elizabeth Cotten was a self-taught blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter. born January 5, 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina died June 29, 1987 in Syracuse, New York (Aged 94) She developed her own style of playing left-handed by holding a normally tuned guitar upside down so she played the melodies with her thumb and the bass lines with her fingers. Her style of playing became known as "Cotten picking". Cotten wrote most of her music in her early teens and earlier (she wrote "Freight...

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