Blind Lemon Jefferson
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Bad Luck Blues
I wanna go home and I ain't got sufficient clothes
Doggone
my bad luck soul
Wanna go home and I ain't got sufficient clothes
I mean
sufficient, talking about clothes
Well, I wanna go home, but I ain't got
sufficient clothes
I bet my money and I lost it, Lord, it's so
Doggone my bad
luck soul
Mmm, lost it, ain't it so?
I mean lost it, speakin' about so,
now
I'll never bet on the deuce-trey-queen no more
Mama, I can't gamble, son, why don't you quit tryin'?
Doggone my bad luck soul
Mmm, why don't you quit tryin'?
Why don't you
quit, I mean tryin'?
That joker stole off with that long-haired brown of mine
Sugar, you catch the Katy, I'll catch that Santa Fe
Doggone
my bad luck soul
Sugar, you catch that Katy and I'll catch that Santa Fe
I
mean the Santy, speakin' about Fe
When you get in Denver, pretty mama, look
around for me
The woman I love's 'bout five feet from the ground
Doggone
my bad luck soul
Hey, five feet from the ground
Five feet from the, I mean
ground
She's a tailor-made woman, she ain't no hand-me-down
I ain't seen my sugar in three long weeks today
Doggone my
bad luck soul
I ain't seen my sugar, three long weeks today
Three long
weeks to, I mean day, girl
It's been so long, seems like my heart's gonn'
break
I'm gonna run 'cross town, catch that southbound Santa Fe
Doggone my bad luck soul
Mmm, Lord, that Santa Fe
I mean the Santy,
speakin' about Fe
Be on my way to what they call lovin' Tennessee
Rambler Blues
Well, it's train time now, and the track's all out of
Line
Well, it's train time now, and the track's all out of
Line
And I come here
soon, I wanna catch that Number Nine
I am worried and bothered, don't know what to do
I was
worried and bothered, don't know what to do
Reason I'm worried and bothered,
it's all on the 'count
Of you.
When I left my home, I left my baby cryin'
When I left my
home, I left my baby cryin'
She keeps me worried and bothered in the mind.
Now, don't your house look lonesome, when your baby
Pack up and leave
Now, don't your house look lonesome, when
your baby
Pack up and leave
You may drink your moonshine, but, baby, your
heart
Ain't free.
If you take my rider, I can't get mad with you
If you take
my rider, I can't get mad with you
Just like you're takin' mine, I'll take
someone else's
Too
I got a girl in Texas, I've got a brown in Tennessee
I got
a girl in Texas, I've got a brown in Tennessee
Lord, but that brown in
Chicago have put that jinx bug
On me.
Black Snake Moan
I - I ain't got no mama now
She told me late last night,
"You don't need no mama no
How"
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Some pretty mama better come and
get this black snake
Soon
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, baby a
chinch
Can't bite that hard
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, honey a
chinch
Can't bite that hard
Ask my sugar for fifty cents, she said "Lemon,
ain't a
Child in the yard"
Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right
for you
Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right for you
Mama, that's
all right, most seen all you do
Mmm, mmm, what's the matter now?
Mmm, mmm,
honey what's the matter now?
Sugar, what's the matter, don't like no black
snake no
How
Mmm, mmm, wonder where my black snake gone?
Mmm, mmm,
wonder where this black snake gone?
Black snake mama done run my darlin'
home.
Black Horse Blues
Tell me what time do the trains come through your town.
I
wanna know what time do the trains come through your
Town.
I wanna laugh
and talk with a long-haired teasin' brown.
One goes south at eight and it's one goes north at nine.
One goes south at eight and one goes north at nine.
I got a hour to talk with
that long-haired brown of mine.
Go and get my black horse and saddle up my grey mare.
Go
get my black horse and saddle up my grey mare.
I'm goin' off to my good gal,
she's in the world
Somewhere.
I can't count the times that I stole aside and cried.
I
can't count the times that I stole aside and cried.
Sugar, the blues ain't on
me, but things ain't goin' on
Right.
One Kind Favor
Just one kind favor I ask of you
One kind favor I ask of
you
One kind favor, I ask of you
To see that my grave is kept clean
If you ever hear a church bell toll
If you ever hear a
church bell toll
If you ever hear, a church bell toll
You'll know by that
I'm dead and gone
Dig my grave with a silver spade
Dig my grave with a silver
spade
Dig my grave, with a silver spade
Mark the place where I would lay
Just one kind favor I ask of you
One kind favor I ask of
you
One kind favor, I ask of you
See that my grave is kept clean
See
that my grave is kept clean
See my grave is kept clean
Easy Rider Blues
Aw, tell me where my easy rider's gone.
Tell me where my
easy rider's gone.
Well, (anywhere these) women always in the wrong.
Your easy rider died on the road.
Man, the easy rider died
on the road.
I'm a poor boy here and ain't got nowhere to go.
There's gonna be the time that a woman don't need no
Man.
Well it's gonna be a time (that) a woman don't need no
Man.
Say, baby,
shut your mouth and don't be raisin' sand.
Train I ride don't bum no coal at all.
Train I ride don't
bum no coal at all.
The coal I bum everybody say is the cannonball.
I went to the depot,
I mean I went to the depot, sat my
suitcase down.
The blues overtake me and the tears co me rollin' down.
Woman I love, she must be out of town.
Woman I love, man,
she's outta town.
She left me this momin' with her face in a terrible
Frown.
I got a gal across town, she crochets all the time.
I got a
gal across town, crochetin' all the time.
Sugar, you don't quit crochetin',
you're gonna lose
Your mind.
Say fair brown, what's the matter now?
Say fair brown,
what's the matter now?
You're tryin' your best to quit me, woman, and you
Don't know how.
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László Zoltán 2013
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