Yonder Wall
HERBERG DE KELDER
now like Baby Please Don’t Go, Goodnight Irene How Come Your Dog Don’t Bark etc etc and too many others to mention Yonder Wall is one of those public domain blues standards that I was so fascinated by as youngster (13 or so) and I think the first time I heard it was from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and/or John Mayall (Bluesbreakers?) and it has stuck . . . . I have it as Yonders Wall [as indeed it is sung here] by loads of folk and the pluralisation intrigued me always.
Written in 1945 by Memphis Jimmy [James "Beale Street” Clark] it is most associated with Elmore James upon whose version most contemporary versions are based (1961?) and Jazz Gillum recorded the earliest about a year after Clark wrote it and many folks think that it his despite the label acknowledgment that it is written by Clark. It is also frequently known as Hand Me Down My Walking Cane . . . . but the ‘Yonders’ intrigued me the most. Who was Yonder and why did he have a wall, why do I need to get my walking cane and is his wife expecting him back any minute now!?😉
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