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Thread #57189   Message #2754542
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Oct-09 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Independent Blues
Subject: Lyr Add: INDEPENDENT BLUES (Valerie Wellington)
Valerie Wellington recorded INDEPENDENT BLUES (which she also wrote) on her album "Million Dollar Secret" (1984, reissued 1995).

Although she died in 1993 of a brain aneurism, there is a MySpace page for her where you can hear this song, so I transcribed it, even though it doesn't quite fit the description in the request above:


INDEPENDENT BLUES
Valerie Wellington

I don't need no man hang around and bother me. (2x)
Yeah, I'm tired of all you mistreaters always tryin' to mistreat me.

All you no-good men stop hangin' round my door. (2x)
You don't mean me no good. All you want is a whore.

Yeah, I gained independence. Now I'm glad that I'm free. (2x)
I don't need none o' you men tryin' to bother me.

Yeah, I been downhearted since my good man's been gone. (2x)
So all you no-good paupers, yeah, you can travel on.