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Ruslan Son House '30 (6) Add: MY BLACK MAMA, PREACHIN' THE BLUES, DRY SPELL 30 Sep 99


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Please check.

Walking Blues is missing.
1st verse of dry spell blues is missing too.
Who can send a lyrics for the items?

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'30
Walking Blues
My Black Mama (part 1)
My Black Mama (part 2)
Preachin' The Blues (part 1)
Preachin' The Blues (part 2)
Dry Spell Blues (part 1)
Dry Spell Blues (part 2)

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'30
Walking Blues

MISSING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Black Mama (part 1)

Oh, black mama, what's the matter with you?
Said, if it ain't satisfactory, don't care what I do
Hey, mama, what's the matter with you?
Said, if it ain't satisfactory, baby, don't care what I do

You take a brownskin woman'll make a rabbit move to town
Say, but a jet-black woman'll make a mule kick his stable down
Oh, a brownskin woman will make a rabbit move to town
Oh, but a real black woman'll make a mule kick his stable down

Say, t'ain't no heaven, say, there ain't no burnin' hell
Say, where I'm going when I die, can't nobody tell
Oh, there ain't no heaven, now, there ain't no burnin' hell
Oh, where I'm going when I die, can't nobody tell

Well, my black mama's face shine like the sun
Oh, lipstick and powder sure won't help her none
My black mama's face shine like the sun
Oh, lipstick and powder, well, they sure won't help her none

Well, you see my milk cow, tell her to hurry home
I ain't had no milk cow since that cow been gone
If you see my milk cow, tell her to hurry home
Yeah, I ain't had no milk cow since that cow been gone

Well, I'm going to the race track to see my pony run
He ain't the best in the world, but he's a runnin' son-of-a-gun
I'm going to the race track to see my pony run
He ain't the best in the world, but he's a runnin' son-of-a-gun

Oh, Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
Wouldn't mistreat you, baby, for my weight in gold
Oh, Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
Wouldn't mistreat you, baby, for my weight in gold

My Black Mama (part 2)

Hey, I solemnly swear, Lord, I raise my right hand
That I'm goin' get me a woman, you get you another man
I solemnly swear, Lord, I raise my right hand
That I'm goin' get me a woman, you get you another man

I got a letter this morning, how do you reckon it read?
"Oh, hurry, hurry, gal, you love is dead"
I got a letter this morning, how do you reckon it read?
"Oh, hurry, hurry, gal, you love is dead"

I grabbed my suitcase, I took off, up the road
I got there, she was laying on the cooling board
I grabbed my suitcase, I took on up the road
I got there, she was laying on the cooling board

Well, I walked up close, I looked down in her face
Good old gal, you got to lay here till Judgment Day
I walked up close, and I looked down in her face
Yes, been a good old gal, got to lay here till Judgment Day

(spoken: Aw sho' now, I feel low-down this evenin'!)

Oh, my woman so black, she shays apart of this town
Can't nothin' "go" when the poor girl is around
My black mama stays apart of this town
Oh, can't nothing "go" when the poor girl is around

Oh, some people tell me the worried blues ain't bad
It's the worst old feelin' that I ever had
Some people tell me the worried blues ain't bad
Buddy, the worst old feelin', Lord, I ever had

Hmmm, I fold my arms, and I walked away
"That's all right, mama, your trouble will come someday"
I fold my arms, Lord, I walked away
Say, "That's all right, mama, your trouble will come someday"

Preachin' The Blues (part 1) Big Fat Thanks to Jon W.

Yeah, I'm gonna fold my arms. I'm gonna kneel down in prayer. (2x)
When I get up I'm gonna leave my preacher shoes (?) laying there.

Now I met the blues this mornin', walkin' just like a man.
Oh-o-o, walkin' just like a man
I said "Good mornin' Blues, wanna give me your right hand?"

Now aint nothing now baby, Lord that's gon' worry my mind
Oh-o-o, that's gon' worry my mind
Oh I'm satisfied, I've got the longest line.

Oh I've got to stay on the job, I ain't got no time to lose
Hey hey-ay, I ain't got no time to lose
I swear to God, I got to preach these desperate blues.

(Great God A'mighty)

Oh--I preach these blues, and choose my seat, and sit down
oh--I'm a preach these blues now, and choose my seat and sit down
When the Spirit comes, I want you to jump (say) up and down.

Preachin' The Blues (part 2)

Oh, I'm gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist Church (2x)
I'm gonna be a Baptist preacher, and I sure won't have to work.

Oh, I'm gonna preach this blues now, and I want everybody to shout
Mmm-mmm-mm I want everybody to shout
I'm gonna do like the prisoner, I'm gonna roll my time all out.

Oh, I went in my room, I bowed down to pray (2x)
Say the blues good mornin, and I blowed my buried (?) way

Oh I (could'a) had religion, 'til this very day (2x)
But the womens and whiskey well they, would not let me pray.

Oh, I wish I had me a heaven of my own (great God A'mighty)
Hey---, heaven of my own
Tell (?), I'd give all my womens, a long long happy home

Hey, love my baby just like I love myself
Oh-o-o, just like I love myself
Well if she don't have me, she won't have nobody else.

Dry Spell Blues (part 1)

1ST VERSE IS MISSING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been so dry, you can make a powder house out of the world
Well, it has been so dry, you can make a powder house out of the world
And holler money mens, like a rattlesnake in his coil

I throwed up my hands, Lord, and solemnly swore
I have throwed up my hands, Lord, and solemnly swore
Well, ain't no need of me changing towns, it's the drought everywhere I go

It's a dry old spell everywhere I been
Oh, it's a dry old spell everywhere I been
I believe to my soul this old world is bound to end

Well, I stood in my backyard, wrung my hands and screamed
Well, I stood in my backyard, wrung my hands and screamed
Well, I couldn't see nothing, couldn't see nothing green

Oh, Lord, have mercy if you please
Oh, Lord, have mercy if you please
Let your rain come down and give our poor hearts ease

These blues, these blues is worthwhile to be heard
Oh, these blues, worthwhile to be heard
Lord, t'ain't even likely that there ain't no God

Dry Spell Blues (part 2)

Now the people down South soon won't have not home
Now the people down South soon won't have not home
'Cause this dry spell has parched all their cotton and corn

Hard luck's on everybody, ain't missing but a few
Hard luck's on everybody, ain't missing but a few
Now I've been trying to shower and kind of heavy too?

Lord, I fold my arms and I walked away
Lord, I fold my arms and I walked away
Just like I tell you somebody's got to pray

Pork chops forty-five cents a pound, cotton is only 10
Pork chops forty-five cents a pound, cotton is only 10
I can't keep no women, no not one of them

So dry old boll weevil turn up his toes and die
So dry old boll weevil turn up his toes and die
No ain't nothin to do, but bootleg moonshine and rye


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