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Thread #288   Message #568813
Posted By: masato sakurai
10-Oct-01 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: songs by Sonny Boy Williamson
Subject: Lyr Add: SUSIE-Q and WHISKEY HEADED BLUES etc
Maybe overdue for the reply, but this will make one unanswered thread answered. None of these lyrics are in Blues Lyrics On Line or Harry's Blues Lyrics Online (See Mudcat links page).

SUSIE-Q (1938)

1 Well now I knowed a family : lived down in the avenue
2 Old man Mose : and sister Sue
3 Well now I knowed the man : by the name of old man Mose
4 He got so happy : pull off all his clothes
5 Well I knowed a lady : by the name of sister Kate
6 Pulled off her clothes : in front of her front gate
7 Crying you step one step : then mess all around
8 You look up : then you look down
9 Well now I know a girl : by the name of sister Louise
10 She jumped up : and danced with who she pleased
11 Now look a-here baby : now tell me what you going to do
12 You can't marry me : and somebody else do

WHISKEY HEADED BLUES (1938)

1 Now you's a whiskey-headed woman : now and you drunk all the time
2 Now if you don't stop drinking : now I believe you going to lose your mind
3 Well now every time I see you : you's at some whiskey joint
4 Standing at the back door : asking for another half a pint
5 Because you's a whiskey-headed woman : now and you stay drunk all the time
6 Now if you don't stop drinking : I believe you going to go stone blind
7 Well now and I took you out of the street baby : when you didn't have no place to lay
8 You ain't acting nothing but a fool : dogging me around this a-way
9 Well now every time I meet you baby : you walking up and down the street
10 You grinning laughing nd talking : with most every man you meet

GOODBYE RED (1938)

1 Well goodbye Red : now ain't going to cry
2 Well I ain't going to frown : wouldn't tell you no lie
3 Well my little Red : she just don't know
4 Well now she say she love me : she wild about Mr so-and-so
5 Well I ain't going to worry : about the way you do
6 Well the way you treat me : coming back home to you
7 Well I ain't going to frown : I ain't going to make no noise
8 Well I ain't going to bring no *help* : and none of these ??? *toys*
9 Well I waved my hand : Red shook her head
10 Well I'm sick and tired : I reckon I'm going to bed
11 Now tell me Red : what you want me to do
12 Now do you think I can love you : and be your little dog too
13 Well after a while : be all over now
14 Now because didn't have nobody : to raise no sand nohow

LORD, OH LORTD BLUES (1938)

1 Now I'm going away baby : just to wear you off my mind
2 Now and you keep me bothered : worried all the time
3 Now and sometimes I feel : like I'm going away to stay
4 Well I get to thinking about my baby : I just as swear and I can't stay away
5 Now I want you to tell me baby : baby just what's getting wrong with you
6 Now and you don't treat me : nothing baby like you used to do

???: undecipherable
*--*: questionable

SOURCE: Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology (Garland, 1983)

~Masato