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11 Jun 98 - 04:04 PM (#30546) Subject: Lyrics to Muddy's 'Can't Be Satisfied' From: Mark Brown I'm looking for the lyrics to what I think is called Can't Be Satisfied by Muddy Waters. The chorus is something like, "But I just can't be satisfied, I just can't keep from cryin'" Thanks guys&gals |
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11 Jun 98 - 04:30 PM (#30549) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Muddy's 'Can't Be Satisfied' From: Jon W. You mean this one? This is a from fairly recent version, recorded in the 70's or 80's with Johnny Winter on accoustic (probably National or Dobro) slide guitar, but Muddy did it much earlier also. I've got a guitar tab of that in a book by Woody Mann, it might have more lyrics. I'll check tonight. Meanwhile, enjoy:
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11 Jun 98 - 08:11 PM (#30564) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Muddy's 'Can't Be Satisfied' From: Dear Jon, That's the one! Thanks ONCE AGAIN! mark brown
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12 Jun 98 - 11:22 AM (#30594) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Muddy's 'Can't Be Satisfied' From: Jon W. Here is the version from the book. I haven't heard the early recording so I can't say whether Woody Mann "standardized" the grammar (except for the title) or not.
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12 Jun 98 - 07:07 PM (#30618) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Muddy's 'Can't Be Satisfied' From: mark brown Dear jon, No, it was definitely the first one but there was another verse. I was about to write you what I could understand of that verse and see if you could figure out the rest but while listening to it...I FIGURED IT OUT!! Aren't you proud? I am. I've been trying to figure it out for ever, like years, mind you I haven't been REALLY trying but still... I think I figured it out now because I've been working on listening so much and becoming more familiar with blues lingo and common themes and phrases. Today, I am your prodigy! Aaaaaaanyway, in case anybody else gives a crap here it is Well I feel like snappin' This pistol in your face I'm gonna let some graveyard lord, be your restin' place. I think. Mark Brown |
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09 Dec 14 - 04:41 PM (#3684004) Subject: Lyr Add: I CAN'T BE SATISFIED 9Big Bill Broonzy) From: Jim Dixon Same title, but not very closely related to Waters' song: I CAN'T BE SATISFIED As recorded by Big Bill Broonzy, 1930 1. Now listen here, baby; tell you what I want you to do: I want you to treat me, mama, like I do you. Lord, I can't be satisfied, And I can't be satisfied, And I can't mistreat you, not to please nobody's mind. 2. I love my ... [pause] tell you the reason why. My baby got somethin' that satisfies my mind. Lord, I can't be satisfied, And I can't be satisfied, And I can't mistreat her, not to please nobody's mind. 3. Lord, starvation's in my kitchen, rent sign on my door. Good girl told me she can't use me no more. Now, and I can't be satisfied, And I can't be satisfied, And I can't mistreat her, not to please nobody's mind. 4. I'm leakin' out the heart, bleedin' out the nose. Good girl told me she can't use me no more. Now and I can't be satisfied, And I can't be satisfied, And I can't mistreat her, not to please nobody's mind. 5. Got on my high-cut stockin's, and my low-cut shoes. Mama and I ain't bettin' and I sure can't lose. Oh, I can't be satisfied, And I can't be satisfied, And I can't mistreat that woman, not to please nobody's mind. 6. Now looka here, boys; ain't this rich? I got to pay my wife for ever'thing I gets. Lord, I can't be satisfied And I can't be satisfied And I can't mistreat her, not to please nobody's mind. |
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09 Dec 14 - 05:30 PM (#3684014) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Can't Be Satisfied (Muddy Waters) From: GUEST,Joseph Scott This folk song was collected by Howard Odum by 1908 and published by him as "Knife-Song": "... 'Fo' long, honey, 'fo' long, honey, 'Fo' long, honey, 'fo' long, honey, L-a-w-d, la-w-d, la-w-d! ... I hate to hear my honey call my name, Call me so lonesome an' so sad. L-a-w-d, l-a-w-d, l-a-w-d! I got de blues an' can't be satisfied, Brown-skin woman cause of it all. L-a-w-d, l-a-w-d, l-a-w-d! That woman will be the death o' me, Some girl will be the death o' me. L-a-w-d, l-a-w-d, l-a-w-d! ..." Odum also collected a song with related, AAAB lyrics by 1908: "So she laid in jail back to de wall So she laid in jail back to de wall So she laid in jail back to de wall Dis brown-skin man cause of it all." Independently, a Mr. Aldrich collected these folk lines in 1909: "I laid in jail, back to the wall Brown skin gal cause of it all I've got the blues; I'm too damn mean to talk A brown skin woman make a bull-dog break his chain" John Hurt, who was 17 years old in 1909, recorded a "Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied." Franklin Seals included "I got the blues, can't be satisfied today" in his "Baby Seals Blues," published in August, 1912 -- before Handy published his first blues. Another popular subject in the earliest known blues lyrics, paralleling not being satisfied, was crying. Butler May was quoted as singing these lyrics as of early 1914: "I got the blues but I ain't going to cry." The earliest published blues song had been two years before that, "The Blues (But I'm Too Blamed Mean To Cry)" by Smith and Brymn. Years before that, Odum had collected "I got the blues but too damn mean to cry." |
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10 Dec 14 - 12:39 AM (#3684096) Subject: Lyr Add: I CAN'T BE SATISFIED (Muddy Waters) From: Jim Dixon Apparently Waters recorded this several times, and the lyrics vary. On Spotify, it is easiest to distinguish them by their timings. This version appears on several anthologies. I CAN'T BE SATISFIED (2:41) As recorded by Muddy Waters 1. Well, I'm goin' away to leave; won't be back no mo'. Goin' back down south, child; don't you want to go? Woman, I'm troubled; I be all worried in mind. Well, babe, I just can't be satisfied, and I just can't keep from cryin'. 2. Well, I feel like snappin' a pistol in your face. I'm 'on let some graveyard, Lord, be her restin' place. Woman, I'm troubled; I be all worried in mind. Well, babe, I can't never be satisfied, and I just can't keep from cryin'. 3. Well now, all in my sleep, hear my doorbell ring, Lookin' for my baby; I didn't see not a doggone thing. Woman, I was troubled; I was all worried in mind. Well, honey, I could never be satisfied, and I just couldn't keep from cryin'. 4. Well, I know my little ol' babe, she gon' jump and shout. That old train be late, man, Lord, and I come walkin' out. I be troubled; I be all worried in mind. Well, honey, ain't no way in the world for me to be satisfied, and I just can't keep from cryin'. |
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10 Dec 14 - 01:38 PM (#3684371) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Can't Be Satisfied (Muddy Waters) From: GUEST,Joseph Scott This song was first recorded under the "I Be's Troubled" title, in 1941 with acoustic guitar for the Library Of Congress. When Lomax met him, Muddy was poor but owned a few records, including ones by the bluesman Peetie Wheatstraw and the jazzman Jay McShann (whose band included the bebopper Charlie Parker), he said he considered Fats Waller his favorite radio star, and he was playing in a fiddle band: waltzes, blues, and whatever else dancers at the gigs wanted. He told Library of Congress researchers that the tunes he knew included "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "I Ain't Got Nobody," "Dinah," "Deep In The Heart Of Texas," "Darktown Strutters' Ball," and "Red Sails In The Sunset." He said the first song he had learned to play on the guitar was Leroy Carr's "How Long How Long Blues." "I Be Bound To Write To You" is another recorded acoustic version of "I Be's Troubled" from before Aristocrat. Muddy got his first electric guitar, a gift from an uncle, in about 1945. Lomax wrote in 1942 that Muddy had written "I Be's Troubled" while fixing a tire, but he was apparently being sloppy, Muddy having actually told him that he wrote "Country Blues" in 1938 while fixing a tire, and wrote "I Be's Troubled" while walking down a road. |
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11 Dec 14 - 12:30 PM (#3684732) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Can't Be Satisfied (Muddy Waters) From: GUEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIEhH7xOXg |