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Thread #34375   Message #700012
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Apr-02 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Black Cat Bone
Subject: Lyr Add: I BLEED THROUGH MY SOUL (Hogg)
The link that Sorcha posted no longer works. I'm not sure if this is the same song.

Copied from http://www.luckymojo.com/bluesibleedthroughhogg.html

I BLEED THROUGH MY SOUL
(Andrew "Smokey" Hogg)

I believe to my soul, my woman has black cat bone,
I believe to my soul, my baby has a black cat bone,
Every time I leave her, sure that I'll go back home.

I tried so hard, never more to call her name.
I tried so hard, never more to call her name.
She have a sweet way of loving, would drive any man insane.

She the first girl I ever loved, the last one I ever will.
She the first girl I loved, last one I ever will.
Lord this-a thing baby, will get somebody killed.

Sometime I believe I'm on my last go round,
Sometimes I believe I'm on my last go round,
She knows that I love her. She tries to tear me down.

COMMENTS BY CAT [YRONWODE]: This song ... has the distinction ... of being tied for first place in the category some call "Song Title Most Badly Transcribed by a Tin-Eared Producer," since the title obviously should have been "I *Believe To* My Soul."

V.1 black cat bone (to force a lover to return)

DATE OF REC.: recorded in Los Angeles circa 1950 for Modern Records.
ORIGINAL ISSUE: 1966 LP "Smokey Hogg Original Folk Blues" Kent KST 5024.