I heard this one on Spotify—you can also hear it on YouTube. Discographical information from 78discography.com. By the way, on this recording and the previous one, I think I hear a bassoon—a very unusual instrument in a blues song. MOANING SINNER BLUES As recorded by Monette Moore on Victor 20484, 1927. I've been down all my days. All my friends have gone away. [record skips] all around. That's just why I'm all down. I'm deep down with trouble. I'm sorry to my soul 'Cause I ain't got no place to go. I'm out here in the cold. Oh, I'm tired and worried And don't know what to do, 'Cause I'm a moaning sinner, So lonesome and so blue. I want ev'rybody In this wide world to know That I'm deep down with trouble And got no place to go. Oh, I'm sick with sorrow To my very soul, 'Cause I'm a moaning sinner Out here in the cold.
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