Allman Brothers' "Statesboro Blues"
Wake up momma, turn your lamp down low;
Wake up momma, turn your lamp down low.
You got no nerve baby, to turn Uncle John from your door.
I woke up this morning, I had them Statesboro Blues,
I woke up this morning, had them Statesboro Blues.
Well, I looked over in the corner, and Grandpa seemed to have them too.
Well my momma died and left me,
My poppa died and left me,
I ain't good looking baby,
Want someone sweet and kind.
I'm goin' to the country, baby do you wanna go?
But if you can't make it baby, your sister Lucille said she wanna go.
(and I sure will take her).
I love that woman, better than any woman I've ever seen;
Well, I love that woman, better than any woman I've ever seen.
Well, now, she treat me like a king, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I treat her like a doggone queen.
Wake up momma, turn your lamp down low.
Wake up momma, turn your lamp down low.
You got no nerve baby, to turn Uncle John from your door.
Pre...MUD
"John Ashcroft"
(To be sung to Waylon Jennings' "Amanda")
I've held it all in, Lord...God knows I've tried...
But it's an awful awakening in a patriot's life...
To know of Left's tyranny and Slick's shameless lies...
We put "OUR GUYS" in Justice, then they IGNORE Clinton's CRIMES...
John Ashcroft, please do what's Right!!
Fate...it SHALL force you to INDICT Left's blight!!
John Ashcroft, put up a Fight!!
Patriots will help you when you do what's Right!!
That's what's special 'bout FReepers, folks, we understand...
The pleasures of fightin' Slick's BigMoneyMan.
T-Mac screwed o'er the Teamsters...his crimes are OBSCENE.
Now Ashcroft's in Power, Fer Justice We FReep!!
John Ashcroft, Pride of the Right...
Left, they may hate you, but they'll learn our Might!!
John Ashcroft, Slick we'll INDICT...
Fate shall then make Bill his Cell-Buddy's "wife"!!
Mudboy Slim
Anyway, I lifted several cuts off various CDs of the new 5-CD collection I acquired which are nothing *but* pre-war blues, constituting over 125 songs from as many different artists.
You'll know 'em when ya hear 'em if you haven't already, trust me.
Point is, do you know much about the song, Statesboro Blues?
Lemme quote what it says about that song -- which appears on one of the CDs -- by the *original* artist, OK?
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Statesboro Blues
(Willie McTell) 2:32
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell, vocal, guitar.
Recoreded Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia, October 17, 1928
Original issue Victor 38001/BVE-47187-3
Bob Dylan had it right when he sang, "No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell." The Youngbloods and Taj Mahal covered this piece in 1967, and the Allman Bothers made it into a stadium rock standard four years later, but this is the original...more or less. McTell once said that he often "jumped" his songs from the work of others, and Statesboro Blues comes in part from Sippie Wallace's Up The Country Blues. McTell, who died in 1959, would have made a good living on the folk circuit had he lived another few years: his last recordings show that his nimbleness on the then-popular 12-string guitar was undimmed. Had he lived into the Seventies, Statesboro Blues would have made him fabulously rich, and had he survived the Ninities, he might have played at Blind Willie's in Atlanta.
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I'll include the *original* Statesboro Blues by Blind Willie McTell on a future EMA volume.
...just for you. ;^)