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Thread #126809 Message #2821054
Posted By: GUEST
25-Jan-10 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Req: Tell Me Baby & Sweet Mary Blues (Leadbelly)
Subject: Lyr Add: TELL ME BABY (Leadbelly)
Hi Claude
Please find below one of the lyrics
TELL ME WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH YOU (recorded Hollywood October, 4, 1944)
Huddie LEADBELLY
Guitar intro
Tell me baby what on earth is wrong with you
Tell me baby what on earth is wrong with you
I just want to know pretty mama ooh lord how come you do me like you do
You caught the Santa Fe I caught the Sadie Lee
You caught the Santa Fe I caught the Sadie Lee
The first thing I ask you pretty mama ooh lord yeah how come ya quit for me
TP and the Morgan, it's runnin' side by side
TP and the Morgan, it is runnin' side by side
Ah if you can't catch the TP, ooh lord, the Morgan will let you ride.
Well it rained forty days and forty nights without stoppin'
Jonah got mad cause the rain kept a droppin'
Johah run got in the belly of a whale
Now is the time I'm gonna tell a great big tale
The whale began to wiggle and Jonah began to scratch
The whale threw Jonah in somebody's sweet potato patch
Tell me baby what on earth is wrong with you
I just want to know pretty mama ooh lord how come you do me like you do
You caught the Santa Fe I got on behind
You caught the Santa Fe I got on behind
Ah, brown skinned woman pretty mama, ooh lord, make a moon eyed man go blind.
Go blind for me now
Guitar break for ending
Hope it helps
Regards
Licette