"Where Did You Sleep Last Night", mot bai hat cung đuoc biet đen voi ten "In The Pines" va "Black Girl", la mot bai hat dan ca cua My co som nhat la vao khoang nhung nam 1870, đuoc coi la co nguon goc tu phia Nam cua Appalachian. Tac gia cua bai hat hien van chua xac đinh đuoc la ai, nhung bai hat đa đuoc bieu dien boi rat nhieu nghe si nhu Leadbelly, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Chet Atkins, The Grateful Dead, Connie Francis, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana, Dolly Partonva Smog.


Lich su ban đau Cung giong nhu nhieu bai dan ca khac, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" đa đuoc truyen khau qua nhieu the he. Phien ban đau tien cua bai hat đa đuoc Cecil Sharp bien tap va cho in vao nam 1917 chi co 4 cau va mot giai đieu. Vao nam 1925, mot phien ban bai hat đa đuoc mot nha suu tam dan ca thu am bang phonograph cylinder va nhung nam tiep theo nhieu ban nhac đa trinh dien bai hat nay.


Nhung phien ban đang nho = Leadbelly =
Theo nha am nhac hoc Alan Lomax, nhac si dan ca nguoi My Leadbelly đa hoc bai "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" tu phien ban đuoc in vao nam 1917 va ban thu am nam 1925. Leadbelly đa lam cho bai hat tro nen pho bien hon, đa thu am hon nua ta phien ban tu nam 1944 đen nam 1948 ma phan lon cac bai hat mang ten la "Black Girl" (hay "Black Gal").
Ban bien tap đau tien cua Leadbelly đuoc Musicraft Records thu am o Thanh pho New York vao thang 2 nam 1944 đuoc cho rang la ban quen thuoc nhat cua anh.


= Bob Dylan =
Bai hat cung đa đuoc trinh dien boi ca si, nhac si nguoi My, Bob Dylan, vao ngay 4 thang 11 nam 1961 tai Carnegie Chapter Hall o Thanh pho New York. Dylan cung đa hat lai bai nay vao ngay 12 thang 1 nam 1990 tai Toad's Place o New Haven, Connecticut.


= The Grateful Dead =
Bai hat đuoc thu am boi ban nhac rock My, The Grateful Dead, vao ngafy 17 thang 7 nam 1966. No co ten la "In The Pines" trong bang nhac The Golden Road nam 2001 cua ho. Phien ban đay tru tinh cua ho thuc su đa đai dien cho cac di ban khac cua bai hat. (Xem phan: Loi bai hat).


= Mark Lanegan =
Mot phien ban choi ghi ta đien cua bai "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" đuoc thu am vao thang 8 nam 1989 boi Mark Lanegan thuoc ban nhac rock My The Screaming Trees. No cung đuoc xuat hien trong album đau tay The Winding Sheet cua anh vao nam 1990.


= Nirvana =

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" la mot bai hat đuoc cong dien boi ban nhac rock My Nirvana trong thap ky 90.
ca si, tay choi ghi ta Kurt Cobain đa đuoc Lanegan gioi thieu ve bai hat nay va tham chi anh con choi ghi ta cho phien ban bai hat nay cua Lanegan. Cung giong nhu Lanegan, Cobain thuong gao len trong phan cuoi cua phien ban nay.
Cobain đa nhan đuoc nhung loi khen ngoi voi cach choi nhac cu thuong trong buoi dien MTV Unplugged cua Nirvana vao nam 1993. Bai hat nay đa đuoc phat hanh trong album MTV Unplugged in New York cua ban nhac sau khi Cobain chet (va o mat B đia đon no co ten la Pennyroyal Tea) vao nam tiep theo.
Sau khi xem trinh dien cua Cobain trong Unplugged, Lanegan đa coi no la "đich đen" vi tot hon phien ban cua anh. That nuc cuoi vi ke hoach ban đau cua Cobain chi la muon trinh dien bai hat voi Lanegan.
Bai hat cua Cobain đuoc Allen Ginsberg, mot nha tho nguoi My, goi la "mot phien ban...cua mot nghe si tuyet voi", va noi rang no "hay nhu bai hat cua Leadbelly". [1] Luu tru ngay 4 thang 11 nam 2005 tai Wayback Machine
Mot ban solo bai hat nay o nha Cobain đa đuoc thu am nam 1990 co trong hop bang cua ban nhac nam 2004 mang ten la With the Lights Out. Bai hat khong co phan keu gao o cuoi bai nhu cac phien ban sau nay.


= Dolly Parton =
Mot phien ban bai hat đa đuoc thu am boi ca si hat nhac đong que Dolly Parton vao nam 1994. Bai hat co ten la "In The Pines" trong album thu truc tiep nam 1994 Heartsongs: Live From Home.
"Bai nay rat de đanh, hat va đay xuc cam", Parton đa noi ve bai hat nhu vay, co đa hoc bai nay tu cac thanh vien lon tuoi hon trong gia đinh minh. "Mot bai hat hoan hao cho nhung nguoi đon gian"[2]


Xuat hien = Tren phim =
Mot vai cau trong bai đa đuoc Sissy Spacek hat trong khi đang đong vai Loretta Webb/Lynn trong bo phim Coal Miner's Daughter nam 1980.
Phien ban bai hat cua Leadbelly đa xuat hien trong mot bo phim kinh di nam 1997 co ten la I Know What You Did Last Summer.


= Trong kich =
Bai hat co trong vo kich A Taste of Honey nam 1958, vo kich do nha soan kich nguoi Anh Shelagh Delaney viet. Nhan vat Josephine đa hat bai nay va thay "black girl" bang tu "black boy". "Black boy" trong vo kich chinh la Jimmy, mot thuy thu nguoi da đen đa lam cho co co thai sau mot đem o voi nhau, mac du anh đa bo đi nhung Josephine van con yeu anh ta.


Loi bai hat Phien ban đuoc in đau tien vao nam 1917:

Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me
Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shines
And shivered when the cold wind blows.
Leadbelly đa tao nen 2 phien ban khac nhau cua bai hat nay. Mot bai dai hon ten la Black Girl va phien ban kia co ten la Where Did You Sleep Last Night.
Phien ban "Black Girl" cua Leadbelly:

Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me,
Tell me where did you sleep lastnight?
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines,
I would shiver the whole night through.
Black girl, black girl, where will you go?
I'm goin' where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines,
I would shiver the whole night through
Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me,
Tell me where did you sleep lastnight?
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines,
I would shiver the whole night through
My husband was a real old man,
Killed a mile and a half from here
His head was found in a driver's wheel,
And his body haven't never been found
Black girl, black girl, where will you go?
I'm goin' where the cold wind blows
You caused me to weep, and you caused me to moan,
You caused me to leave my home
Phien ban "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" cua Leadbelly:

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me, where did you sleep last night?
(Come on and tell me, baby).

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
My girl, my girl, where will you go?
I'm going where the cold wind blows
(Where's that, baby?)

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
My girl, my girl, don't you lie to me
Tell me, where did you sleep last night?
(Come on and tell me something about it).

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
(Shiver for me now).
(Uh-huh).
(What happened down there?)

My husband was a hard-working man
Killed a mile and a half from here
(What happened to him?)

His head was found in a driver wheel
And his body haven't never, never been found.
My girl, my girl, don't you lie to me
Tell me, where did you sleep last night?
(Come on and tell me something about it).

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
Phien ban cua Kurt Cobain

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me, where did you sleep last night?
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
Her husband was a hard-working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in the driver's wheel
But his body never was found.
My girl, my girl, where will you go?
I'm going where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through.
Mot vai phien ban cua bai hat con đe cap đen mot tai tan tau hoa tien đinh voi nhung dong sau "The longest train I ever saw/ Went down the Georgia line"; su đa dang nay con lam cho loi bai hat đuoc viet thanh "The Longest Train":

The Longest train I ever saw
Went down that Georgia line
The engine passed at 6 o'clock
The cab passed by at 9.
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And we shiver when the cold wind blows.
I asked my captain for the time of day
He said he throwed his watch away
A long steel rail and a short crosstie
I'm on my way back home.
Little girl, little girl, what have I done
That makes you treat me so?
You caused me to weep, you caused me to moan
You caused me to leave my home.


Tham khao Lien ket ngoai Nghe bai hat online Luu tru ngay 27 thang 9 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine
Video bai hat do Nirvana bieu dien