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Thread #72444   Message #1247880
Posted By: Roberto
15-Aug-04 - 02:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Police Dog Blues -and- Statesboro Blues
Subject: RE: lyric req: police dog /statesboro blues
I little better than the first-aid Statesboro Blues I've posted before, but it would need a complete check. I've seen that there are many transcriptions online that claim to be Blind Willie McTell's Statesboro Blues, but the words are often quite different from what he actually sang.

Blind Willie McTell – Statesboro Blues (1928)

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
Have you got the nerve to drive papa McTell from your door

My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
Mother died and left me reckless, daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
No, I'm not good lookin', but I'm some sweet woman's angel child

She's a mighty mean woman, do me this a-way
She's a mighty mean woman, do me this a-way
When I leave this time, pretty mama, I'm goin' away to stay

Once loved a woman, better than, I ever seen
I once loved a woman, better than, I ever seen
Treated me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen

Sister, tell your Brother, Brother tell your Auntie
Now Auntie, tell your Uncle, Uncle tell my Cousin,
Cousin tell my friend
Goin' up the country, Mama, don't you want to go?
May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more

Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
You can reach over in the corner, mama, and hand me my travelin' shoes
You know by that, I got them Statesboro blues

Mama, Sister got 'em, auntie got 'em
Brother got 'em, friend got 'em, I got 'em
Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues
I looked over in the corner,
Grandpa and grandma had 'em too