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Brian Hoskin Lyr Req: Rough Alley Blues (Blind Willie McTell) (4) RE: Lyr Req: Rough Alley Blues 15 May 07


Here's some additions to Jim Dixon's:

3rd verse:

Go wild, baby, I'm not scared to fear. (Aw, sing it, baby)
Go wild, baby, I'm not scared to fear.
Then I'll give it all to you, mama, like a Cadillac changing gear.

3rd line to the 4th verse (something like ???)
I guess I'll be my own singer, neighbours turn cherry red.

(Play that thing boy. Aw, play that thing for me and miss Mary, 'Cause it's gettin good. It drove my partner out of town. I wouldn't have done it without that old Harris street corner.)

It was a mean old miller that taught me how to grind.
(Taught you how to twist too, I believe.)
It was a mean old miller that taught me how to grind.
And it was a married woman , mama, that learned me that old s(h)un-shine.

I'm going down this alley and get me two more drinks of booze.
(They have police down there. They'll sure arrest you.)
I'm going down this alley, get me two more drinks of booze.
Because I'm drunk now, mama, and I've got those old rough alley blues.

(Stand by, people, if you wants to know it all.)


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