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Thread #3950   Message #20965
Posted By: Art Thieme
08-Feb-98 - 01:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tishomingo Blues
Subject: Lyr Add: TISHOMINGO BLUES (Peg Leg Howell)
Here is Peg Leg Howell's "Tishomingo Blues" from ll/8/'26 Might've been flip side of "Coal Man Blues" recorded same date. But it doesn't seem to be the song you're looking at here. That's life.

I'm goin' to Tishomingo because I'm sad today (repeat)
Pretty woman I love--she done drove me away.

I'm goin' to Tishomingo to have my ham bone boiled, (repeat)
These Atlanta women done let my ham bone spoil.

I woke up this mornin' 'tween midnight and day, (repeat)
I felt for my rider--she done walked away.

Can't you always tell when your good gal gonna treat you mean? (repeat)
Your meals is unreg'lar---your house ain’t never clean.

You can always tell that something’s goin' on wrong, (repeat)
When you come in your radishes out and gone.

When she come in she got a rag tied 'round her head, (repeat)
You think about lovin'--she swear that she's almost dead.

Sweet mama, what's on your lovin' mind? (repeat)
You can't quit me---turn on me on a dime.

I've got a lovin' fairy, she long & tall like me, (repeat)
[That's what I hear here. Must mean a fair skinned person.]
I love my brown skin--don't care where she be.


Art Thieme