サニーボーイの名盤、Down and Out Blues に誤ったタイトルの曲

Downandoutblues1. Don't Start Me To Talkin'
2. I Don't Know
3. All My Love In Vain
4. The Key (To Your Door)
5. Keep It To Yourself
6. Dissatisfied
7. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
8. Wake Up Baby
9. Your Funeral And My Trial
10. Ninety Nine
11. Cross My Heart
12. Let Me Explain

 

私のハープの先生、ソーボクさんからの指摘もあり、このサニーボーイの『Keep It To Yourself』には曲が２種類あるのではないかと疑問を持ちました。『Keep It To Yourself』という曲は不倫な関係を『内緒にしておいてね＝Keep It To Yourself』という内容の歌詞のはずなのですが、イントロの部分も違うし、歌詞も違います。ネットで調べると、チェスレコードのファイルでは『Keep It To Yourself』になっているそうですが実際には『Please forgive』という曲が正しいとのことです、私の持っているＣＤのジャケットには『Keep It To Yourself』、LPのジャケットには『Keep It To Yourself(Please forgive)』と印刷されていました。

曲名を間違って印刷していることってあるのですね。

 

Please Forgive ( *Keep it to yourself* )
(SBW – recorded in 07-Aug.-1956 –Checker LP 1437)

I know I hurt your feelin’s
and I’m asking you to forgive
I know I hurt your feelin’s darlin'
and I’m asking you to forgive
Because you got a sweet disposition
[that] strictly gives me a thrill
(harp solo)
I’ll admit, Darlin’,
I really done you wrong
I’ll admit, Baby,
I really done you wrong
But if you believe in me
you will be happy from this day on
(harp solo)
I’ll O-dmit, the words
I said were not right
I’ll admit, Little girl, the words
I said were not right
You’re too nice a girl to forgive me this night
I did you wrong and
I’m beggin’ you to forgive
I know I did you wrong and
I’m beggin’ you to forgive
Because your sweet disposition
strictly gives me a thrill

これが『Keep It To Yourself』正しい曲と歌詞です。

 

Keep It To Yourself   by Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller)

Baby, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself
Please, darling, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself
I don't want you to tell nobody in your family,
and don't mention it to nobody else

Don't tell your mother
Don't tell your father
Don't tell your sister
Don't mention it to your brother
Please, darling, keep our business to yourself
Don't you tell nobody,
and don't mention it to nobody else

You have a husband,
I have a wife
If you start to talkin',
that's gonna mess up our life
Please, please baby, keep our business to yourself
Don't you tell nobody,
and don't mention it to nobody else
Goodbye darlin'