The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98439   Message #1949389
Posted By: 12-stringer
27-Jan-07 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Forty-Four
Subject: RE: Folklore: Forty-Four
Remembered this as soon as I posted previously:

I have to give you my number, 4-11-44
I'll be there forever, I ain't nowhere else to go,
I have to go to the chain gang,
Back to the murderers' home.
I'd a-been in better shape, mama, if I'd let that reckless woman alone.

Blind Willie McTell, "Murderer's Home Blues," recorded for the Library of Congress, 5 November 1940.