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Thread #12687 Message #102107
Posted By: Dale Rose
03-Aug-99 - 10:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Black Dog Blues
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK DOG BLUES (Dick Justice)
Here is the Dick Justice version, transcribed from Yazoo LP 1024, Mister Charlie's Blues.
Black Dog Blues
as sung by Dick Justice, 1929
Chorus
Old black dog when I'm gone, Lawd, Lawd
Old black dog when I'm gone
When I come back with a ten dollar bill
And it's honey, where you been so long?
My daddy he's a gambler, he taught me how to play
No need to bet my money on ace deuce jack and trey
Chorus
Been all around Kentucky, with state of poor Tennessee
Anywhere I hang my hat, it'll be home, sweet home to me
Chorus
See the train a-coming, she is packin' my casket along
Going to the graveyard, where the grave will be my home
Chorus
And here is a clip from Bayless Rose's version, compliments of tunes.com http://db2.tunes.com/t unes-cgi2/tunes/track_play/242719/276 (It is mislabeled on the album East Coast Blues, Yazoo 1013.) The songs are all there, just not in the listed order.