Cover Song: "Tell Old Bill" (Patreon)

This one has been covered by a lot of people, most notably Joni Mitchell and the Chad Mitchell Trio (no relation). From the first time I heard Chad, Joe, and Mike sing it, I loved it. And, let me tell you, I worked hard on those harmonies.

Tell old Bill when he gets home this morningTell old Bill when he gets home this eveningTell old Bill when he gets homeTo leave those downtown women aloneThis morning, this evening, so soon Bill's woman was bakin' bread this morningBill's woman was bakin' bread this eveningBill's woman was bakin' breadWhen they brought her the news that her Bill was deadThis morning, this evening, so soon "Oh no, it can't be so this morningOh no, it can't be so this eveningOh no, it can't be soI saw my Bill about an hour agoThis morning, this evening, so soon" They're bringin' Bill home in the hurry-up wagon this morningThey're bringin' Bill home in the hurry-up wagon this eveningThey're bringin' Bill home in the hurry-up wagon Can't you see how his shoes are draggin'?This morning, this evening, so soon

Nicked from jonimitchell.com:

This song was copyrighted by Carl Sandburg as "Dis Mornin' An' Dis  Evenin' So Soon." The song is clearly an African-American country blues  number that may have originated from an older song in Georgia in the  mid-nineteenth century. Sandburg told of hearing it in St. Louis in 1922  from a Nancy Barnhart, and it was roughly her arrangement he published.  Sometime in the 30s, the recently-deceased Sam Hinton heard another  version in Texas and recorded it. Sandburg's later editions of Song Bag  reflect some of the elements of Hinton's song, and it is through that  latter arrangement that most of us have come to know the number,  courtesy of Sandburg's fellow Chicagoan Bob Gibson.

Image: "Happy Days" -- photograph of performers, from a review of Black America, in Illustrated American (June 29, 1895)