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Lyr Req: Tupelo Blues (John Lee Hooker)

06 Apr 97 - 05:44 AM (#3901)
Subject: Tupelo
From: Erik

I'm looking for the lyrics of a song called "Tupelo" or "Tupelo Blues" by John Lee Hooker.

Thanks.

10 Apr 97 - 08:25 AM (#4438)
Subject: RE: Tupelo
From:

Hi Erik, Is that the song with the chorus: "She's as sweet as Tupelo in April. She an angel of the first degree....." by Van Morrison? If so get back to me and I am sure I can find the words somewhere.

Peace, marla

10 Apr 97 - 03:10 PM (#4448)
Subject: RE: Tupelo
From: Erik.

Somehow, I very much doubt that, though I don't know _any_ of the words. Nick Cave's "Tupelo" is inspired by or based on the John Lee Hooker song with the same name, I heard. That's why I'd very much like to see the words of the Hooker song.

01 May 97 - 02:58 PM (#4764)
Subject: Lyr Add: TUPELO BLUES (John Lee Hooker)
From: Erik

OK, you guys didn't know this one, but I found the lyrics some other way. Here they are.

Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker (3:23)
(From the album The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker, Riverside 1959) Recorded several more times, issued as Vee Jay single "Tupelo (Backwater Blues) / Dusty Road", 06/60; also on 1962 Vee Jay album "The Folklore of John Lee Hooker" as "Tupelo." Also issued a live recording from Newport Folk Festival, early 60s.
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TUPELO BLUES (John Lee Hooker 1959)

Did ya read about the flood?
Happened long time ago,
In Tupelo, Mississippi.
There were thousands o' lives,
Destroyed.

It rained, it rained,
Both night and day.
The poor people was worried.
Didn't have no place to go.
Could hear may people, cryin' "Lord!"
Have mercy!"
'Cause you're the only one,
That we can turn to"
Happened a long time ago.
A little town,
Way back in Mississippi,
In Tupelo

Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,
Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,
Hm- mm, Hm-mm-mm,
Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,

There was women, and there was children,
They were screamin' an' cryin',
Cryin', "Lord, have mercy!
You're the only one now, that we can turn to."

Way back down in Mississippi, a little country town.
I know ya read about it,
'Cause I'll never forget it.
The mighty flood in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Been years ago.

Hm-mm, Hm-mm Hm-mm-mm,
Oh-hoh, Oh- hoh Oh-oh-oh
Hm-mm-mm
Oh-hmm, Lord, have mercy!
Wasn't that a mighty time? Tupelo's gone.

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