The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157325   Message #3808088
Posted By: leeneia
02-Sep-16 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: Who started the Delta blues myth?
Subject: RE: Who started the Delta blues myth?
Sorry, Joseph, but a man blaming his woman for all his troubles is hardly original. And the lines about waking up crying and being away from home are very common.

It's just so much safer to blame your woman or to hurt your woman than to go after your employer, the government, the taxman or the Klan.

One exception: "She laid in jail, back to the wall." Why was she in jail? We'll never know for sure, but experience suggests one of these:

for shoplifting
for attacking the man who had been beating her
for prostitution

In modern times, you can add writing bad checks to this list of common female offenses.