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Obligatory wandering blues lines

30 Jun 10 - 11:21 PM (#2937661)
Subject: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: mousethief

If you were going to write a blues song that contains nothing but lines found in multiple blues songs, what would those lines be?

My suggestions to start out:

Woke up this morning, saw the blues walkin' like a man
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday

What else should we add?

01 Jul 10 - 03:40 AM (#2937714)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: GUEST,The Pom

Mah mamma she dun left me
Please baby please come home

01 Jul 10 - 04:19 AM (#2937726)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: Roger the Skiffler

Squeeze by lemon till the juice runs down my leg

Rock Me baby, one more time

Wonder if a match box hold my clothes

Asked for water she gave me gasoline

and so forth

RtS

01 Jul 10 - 11:14 AM (#2937919)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: Wesley S

I've got a woman mean as she can be.

One of my favorites: If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

01 Jul 10 - 04:16 PM (#2938084)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: Joe_F

Been down so long, it feels like up to me.

02 Jul 10 - 01:30 AM (#2938301)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: mrdux

Drink muddy water and/or sleep in a hollow log.

02 Jul 10 - 02:58 PM (#2938671)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: PoppaGator

Blues ain't nuthin' but a good man feelin bad.

02 Jul 10 - 06:40 PM (#2938802)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: maple_leaf_boy

Here I am in Memphis, sitting in jail.
Ain't got nobody, for to go my bail.

02 Jul 10 - 08:19 PM (#2938864)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: lefthanded guitar

These worried blues have got the best of me
Nobody gets the blues like me.

02 Jul 10 - 08:44 PM (#2938874)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: Bobert

Well, I'm not too sure exactly what "obligatory" means here but my guess is that it ain't a compliment to the blues...

How about a thread "Obligatory Shanty Sing Lines" or "Obligatory Folk Song Lines"??? I mean, I think the entire idea that the blues is this monolithic form of music is downright insulting to both current and deceased blues players...

Nuthin' "Obligatory" to it any more than any other genre of music...

B~ (bluesman)

02 Jul 10 - 09:20 PM (#2938895)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: maple_leaf_boy

I was just going with the flow of the thread. I didn't know what
obligatory means either, but I wasn't trying to be offensive to the
blues. I sing real blues songs, too. But, none with the lyrics mentioned above. I was just going with the flow.

02 Jul 10 - 10:09 PM (#2938920)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: frogprince

Bobert, bro, didja get up on the wrong side of the bed? There are "floater" lines that turn up all over in the blues, just like in other "strains" of folky stuff; nobody said that they thought the blues was "this monolithic form of music", except me when I suggested that title "There's Only One Shade of Blues".

03 Jul 10 - 04:16 AM (#2939025)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: fat B****rd

"I shake my head and slowly walk away"

03 Jul 10 - 12:06 PM (#2939162)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: VirginiaTam

Don't know about obligatory but some of my favourites are

He left out here dis mo'nin didn carry nothin but his hat

I got da worse kinda gin house blues

You got a bad habit daddy of talkin in yo sleep

03 Jul 10 - 12:14 PM (#2939166)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: mousethief

Bobert, if you were an efficient stalker you'd know that most of what I have to say (intelligently) about music on the 'cat is about Blues because that's the form I know best. I love folk music when I hear it, but am a total nebbish about its history, roots, etc. It's the blues that hits me where I live.

In other words, I love love love the blues and am not attacking it in any way, shape, or form.

But can't we be a little silly once in a while? I think it's fun that there are so many lines that show up in so many different blues songs. I was thinking it would be fun to write a blues song that has nothing but lines that show up in (say) 3 or more blues songs. Just because you can.

It really is "the folk process" writ large, with thick black letters. The Blues (the old stuff, the stuff that really passed around via a folk process) is the ultimate democratic (small-d) music.

03 Jul 10 - 03:06 PM (#2939254)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: VirginiaTam

mousethief... right there with you, only my affinity is only recently discovered.

Now I got the too much music and not enough time blues.

03 Jul 10 - 03:14 PM (#2939256)
Subject: RE: Obligatory wandering blues lines
From: Smokey.

"Gin done took ma momma,
Gin done took my dad.
Gin done split ma vision,
Now things look twice as bad."

(Moonshine Mills)