Leave your stepping stones behind something calls for you, forget the debts you left they will not follow you

The La De Das

Best version I've ever heard ~

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stick around, we'll figure it out

Developed in the 1930s, the "ball and biscuit" microphone 

was used by  the British Broadcasting Corporation (The BBC).

It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son

It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done

Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball, girl
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
And we'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it

You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
That my strength is ten-fold, girl
I'll let you see it if you want to before you go

Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
We'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it

Yeah, I can think of one or two things to say about it, now listen

It's quite possible that I'm your third man
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It was the other two which made me your third
But it was my mother who made me the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done

Yeah, you just wait
So stick around, we'll figure it out

White once said he has three dads: his biological father, God and Bob Dylan. Dylan was the first concert he ever saw — he says he had seat No. 666 — and he shares with his hero a love for manipulating and obscuring his own persona. 

How Jack White got to play Ball & Biscuit with Bob Dylan:

“That was just by accident. I went and saw him play in Detroit and he said to me, “We’ve been playing one of your songs lately at sound checks.” I thought, Wow. I was afraid to ask which one. I didn’t even ask. It was just such an honor to hear that. Later on, I remember I went home and I called back. I said, “Can I talk to the bass player?” I called the theater. I was like, “Did Bob mean that he wanted me to play tonight? ‘Cause he said some things that I thought maybe – maybe I misconstrued. Was he meaning that he wanted me to play with him tonight? I don’t want to be rude and pretend that I didn’t hear or something like that.” So turned out yeah, we played together that night. He said yeah, come on, let’s play something, and we played “Ball and Biscuit,” one of my songs. It’s not lost on me that he played one of my songs, not the other way around.”

Jack Outside the Box - NY Times

In Vain

Shot in the Dark

recoreded june 1992

 BROMBERG SESSIONS....1992

"Polly Vaughn

Trad.
Recorded by Bob Dylan during the Bromberg Sessions, early/mid June 1992
All ye brave huntsmen who follow the gun
Beware of a-shooting at the setting of the sun
For her true love went a-huntin' and he shot in the dark
But oh and alas Polly Vaughn was his mark.
She had her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan
Oh and alas - it was she, Polly Vaughn
He ran up beside her when he found it was she
His legs they grew weak and his eyes could not see
He embraced her in his arms when he found she was dead
And a fountain of tears for his true love he shed
Oh, she had her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan
Oh and alas - it was she, Polly Vaughn
He took her in his arms and home ran he
Crying: "Father, dear father, I've shot fair Polly
I've shot that fair female in the bloom of her life
And I always intended to make her my wife
She had her apron wrapped about her and I took her for a swan
Oh and alas - it was she, Polly Vaughn"
Midnight, in his chamber, Polly Vaughn did appear
Crying: "Jimmy oh Jimmy you have nothing to fear
Stay in your country till your trial comes on
you shall not be convicted for what you have done
For I had my apron wrapped about me and you took me for a swan
But oh and alas - it was I, Polly Vaughn"
In the midst of his trial Polly Vaughn did appear
Crying: "Uncle dear Uncle Jimmy Randall must be cleared"
The judge and the lawyers stood around in a row
Polly Vaughn in the middle like a fountain of snow
She had her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan
Oh and alas, it was she, Polly Vaughn"

In early June, 1992, Bob Dylan went into Acme Recording in Chicago with David Bromberg. Most of the recordings remain unreleased,  although two tracks were included in 2008's Tell Tale Signs.

Acme Recording; Chicago, Illinois
3-5 June 1992
Produced by David Bromberg.

1. I'll Rise Again (trad.)
2. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Blind Willie Johnson)
3. Lady From Baltimore (trad.)
4. Polly Vaughan (trad.)
5. Casey Jones (trad.)
6. Duncan And Brady (trad.)
7. Kaatskil Serenade (David Bromberg)
8. World Of Fools (David Bromberg)
9. Miss The Mississippi (Jimmie Rodgers)

10. Sloppy Drunk (Jimmie Rodgers)

1-2, 4-10 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) backed by David Bromberg (guitar) and his band: Peter Ecklund (trumpet), John Firmin (tenor saxophone & clarinet), Curtis Linberg (trombone), Glen Lowe (guitar), Dick Fegy (fiddle & mandolin), Jeff Wisor (fiddle & mandolin), Christopher Cameron (keyboards), Robert Amiot (bass), Richard Crooks (drums).

2 Bob Dylan (vocal) and David Bromberg (acoustic guitar).

1-2 Chicago South Side Gospel Choir

Read more @  The Examiner

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