Folk Music Revival
"Corrine, Corrina" entered the folk-like acoustical tradition during the American folk music revival of the 1960s when Bob Dylan began playing a version he titled "Corrina, Corrina". Although his blues based version contains lyrics and song structure from Corrine Corrina, his melody is lifted from "Stones in My Passway" (Vocalion 3723) recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937. Dylan's version also borrows lyrics taken from Johnson's song:
- I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings.
- I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings.
Joni Mitchell covered the song in 1988 on her album Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm; titling it "A Bird That Whistles (Corrina Corrina)", and adding a flight-evoking Wayne Shorter sax solo. Many other different artists have covered this folk/blues classic over the years, including Eric Clapton, who sings it as "Alberta, Alberta", Willie Nelson, and Conor Oberst. They generally sing a Bob Dylan style of it, with similar lyrics, although Oberst includes in the first verse: "I've been worried about you Coquito (a sweet coconut beverage), ever since you've been gone".
Dylan also found a relationship to "Alberta, Let Your Hair Hang Low" which few others find:
- Alberta, let your hair hang low,
- Alberta, let your hair hang low,
- I'll give you more gold,
- Than your apron can hold,
- If you'd only let your hair hang low.
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