Interesting ~ almost all these "traditional" blues songs are NOT anonymous, but rather attributable to one or another recording artist. Much different from, say, old English ballads, a field wherein known authorship automatically excludes a piece from consideration as "traditional."

Of course, so many of the lines and phrases in these songs are "traditional" or "public-domain," they're just strung together in different orders by different singers who build a song around an original line or two by "padding" with stock phraseology.

One of my favorite blues numbers is the sly and sexy "Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl." Of the many very fine versions, I'll vote for Mississippi Fred MacDowell's.

Honorable mention to my fellow whiteboy babyboomer Van the Man Morrison, who sometime around age 45-50 altered the traditional lyric "...tell your mama and your papa / I'm a little schoolboy too" to the more plausible ".. I used to be a schoolboy..."

Of course, it was always part of the song's appear to know that the line in question was being delivered by a well-seasoned aging roue, and that a gray-haired old geezer like Fred or Muddy or whoever was trying to get away with a really outrageous lie. Nevertheless, Van gave me a good chuckle with his rewrite, as recorded on the live "Night in San Francisco" CD a while back.