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Thread #155423   Message #3655750
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
01-Sep-14 - 03:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Charley Patton: Running Wild Blues
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Charley Patton: Running Wild Blues
This is the transcript from the Revenant album No. 212 "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charlie Patton"

Chorus:
I'm running wild, that mighty boy (girl)
That mighty boy (girl), (s)he's running wild

He's on my knee, oh, how I grieve
That mighty boy, he's running wild

He's all night long, she's on my mind
That girl of mine, that girl of mine, she's on my (his) mind

All night long, my baby gone
He's on my mind, that boy of mine

He's all I need, it seems to me
That mighty girl, mighty girl, she's running wild

All night long, Cordelia gone
That mighty boy, he's running wild

It seems to be, you talkin' to me
That mighty girl, she's running wild.

There is also the following note: "This is a reduction of the 1923 James P. Johnson-Cecil Mack Broadway hit 'Runnin' Wild, set to a tune that reminds us of the 1921 Prohibition anthem 'How Dry I Am'."

The transcript in John Fahey's book "Charlie Patton" has some word differences. (In fact, quite a few differences!)