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Thread #60937   Message #976522
Posted By: Mark Cohen
04-Jul-03 - 06:07 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk
Subject: Lyr Add: Blue Blazin' Blind Drunk
I heard a song that I think is the one you're talking about on a Smithsonian collection called "Music of Scotland." I found the record in the Hershey, PA public library in 1973, and I'm sure it was at least 10 or 15 years older than that. I don't have the record (though I wish I did), so I don't know what the liner notes say about the song. Here are the words, so you can see if it's the one you mean:

BLUE BLAZIN' BLIND DRUNK

Oh, friends, I have a sad story
A very sad story to tell
I married a man for his money
But he's worse than the Devil himsel'

CHORUS
So I'll go and I'll get blue blazin' blind drunk
Just to give Mickey a warnin'
And just for spite I will stay out all night
And come roarin' home drunk in the mornin'

Oh, when Mickey comes home I get battered
He batters me all black and blue
And if I say a word I get scattered
From the kitchen right ben [back] to the room

Ah, but whiskey I ne'er was a-lovin'
But what can a poor woman do?
I'll go and I'll drown all me sorrows
But I wish I could drown Mickey too

Aloha,
Mark