Is there an old blues lyric database?

Subject: Blues lyric sites
From: Stewie
Date: 11 Dec 00 - 08:06 PM

Blues lovers may like to bookmark these if they do not have them already:

Tabs, lyrics and mp3s for MJH -

Mississippi John Hurt

Lyrics for SRV:

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The unfortunate or misguided few who do not have the Robert Johnson boxed set can find lyrics to 18 songs here:

Robert Johnson

Cheers, Stewie.

Subject: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: GUEST,Doug
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 01:49 PM

I've tried to find old blues lyrics on DigiTrad and have had no luck. For instance on the M. Sheiks' song Stop and Listen Blues. Believe me, I've stopped and listened to it, and can't decipher the whole lyric. Does anyone know of a database or other lyric resource that specializes in trad blues?

Thanks

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 01:50 PM

Harry's Blues is one.......

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 01:51 PM

Yeaaa!! Another 1 minute clickie!!

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Pene Azul
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 01:52 PM

You can get the lyrics here (click).

Jeff

Subject: ADD: STOP AND LISTEN BLUES 2
From: Pene Azul
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 01:56 PM

STOP AND LISTEN BLUES 2

recording of December 19 1930, Jackson, Mississippi
from Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1930-1931) (Document DOCD-5084), copyright notice
(Mississippi Shieks)

Well I left town this morning, I was on my way back home
Now don't you a hear me talkin' pretty mama?
Well I left town this morning. I was on my way back home
I heard the woohoo church bells makin' a woohoo mournful sound

I stopped and listened, fell from hanging on
Now don't you a hear me talkin' mama?
I stopped and listened, fell from hanging on
I know about that a sound but it isn't gone?

Well I got home now people met me and said
Now don't you a hear me talkin' pretty mama?
When I got home people said me regrets
I run your woohoo your sweet little faror is dead

Well I got home
People said get in touch, scream and cry
Now don't you a hear me talkin' pretty mama?
Well I got home, guess I'll scream and cry
I thought my little woohoo baby was too cute to die

I went to the churchyard, cried at the door
Now don't you a hear me talkin' pretty mama?
I went to the churchyard, cried at the door
I never will see my sweet baby anymore

__________
Note: Walter Vinson-guitar; Lonnie Chatman-violin. Mamlish S-3804;
Note 1: faror, 'fair one', girl friend

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 08:38 PM

Michael Taft's Pre-War Blues Lyrics is an amazing collection - and there's a concordance, too!
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Doc John
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 07:32 AM

I don't know if there's an old blues database on the 'net, Stewie but Document records release (nearly) every recorded blues on CD and there is (or was) a series of books by RR MacLeod called 'Document Blues' which list all the lyrics. A bit expensive tho and I don't know if they still exist.
Why you can get the most completed old blues CD's from Scotland and some good Scottish CD's from Washington bests me!
Doc John

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Lowden Jameswright
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 08:05 AM

Anyone put me onto a good tab of "Key to the Highway" please?

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Lowden Jameswright
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 08:09 AM

..PS the Mississippi John Hurt link returns a "404 Error Document Not Found"

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 08:37 AM

That's because it is 6-7 years old....all these posts are dated - Joe Offer just refreshed an old thread.

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 09:50 AM

The loss of "Uncle Tink"'s MJH lyric site is a cryin' shame. It was more than complete, insofar as there were comments and footnotes in addition to transcriptions of just about every existing recording.

I'm not sure exactly how long ago it disappeared; maybe it had something to do with Katrina and/or Rita in August 2005.

Tweed or Khandu may know something about this ~ ??

Subject: RE: Is there an old blues lyric database?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 10:08 AM

In the U.S./Canada, the best "old blues lyric database" that I know is still travelling around the world playing gigs. That's people like Paul Geremia, and Roy Book Binder and others, who over 40 years ago, were searching out '78's and bluesmen who were still alive. They went right to the source in the deep south...