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Thread #47106   Message #700900
Posted By: Tweed
29-Apr-02 - 11:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Catfish Blues (David 'Honeyboy' Edwards)
Subject: Lyr Add: CATFISH BLUES (David "Honeyboy" Edwards)
Is that CD “Mississippi Delta Bluesman” by any chance? I think the words are included in the liner notes. If you don't have the liners, here's the lyrics:

CATFISH BLUES

1. If I was a catfish, swimming in the deep blue sea,
I'd have all these women now, now,
Fishin’ after me. *

2. Yes, I'm going, yes, I'm going, and your crying won't make me stay.
More you cry darling, now, now,
Further you drive me away.

3. Well, my mama told my papa just a day before I was born,
“Boy child's coming, now, now,
Going [to] be a rolling stone.”

4. (Repeat #2)

5. Well, I'm going, mama. Yes, I'm going. I might get lonesome here.
I'm going, pretty mama, I know.
You don't [a] bit more care.

*The last phrase of the second line of each verse is repeated four to six times.

Hope that's the version you're hunting.

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