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Subject: BLUES (MUSIC) Matches Found: 2125 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-2-0 BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: If I send for my baby : and she don't come Last Line: And my forty-four : laying up and down my breast Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 3 6 AND 9, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Well hello there old gal : you sure looks fine Last Line: Fine old boy : he was tight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 31ST STREET BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Railroad take me back : got the thirty-first street blues Last Line: New york don't get me : chicago must Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 32-30 BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If I send for my baby : and she don't come Last Line: With this thirty-two twenty : laying up and down my breast Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 34 BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to tell nobody : thirty-four have done for me Last Line: Oh lord oh lord : let me see your brand new year Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (mood); Blues (music); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians 44 BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: And now I walked all night long : with my forty-four in my hand Last Line: Lord I wake up every morning : the world be scratching on my door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 45 PISTOL BLUES, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: I'm going over to third alley : lord but I'm going to carry my forty-five Last Line: Because you know I done got shot once over there : lord it's about three or four times Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 49 HIGHWAY BLUES, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Well I'll get up in the morning : catch the highway forty-nine Last Line: Malvina she's my sweet woman : she on highway forty-nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 4A HIGHWAY, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: My baby woke me up this morning : she told me she's joliet bound Last Line: I'd get on that four-a highway : and god knows I'd roll that highway down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) 80 HIGHWAY BLUES, by SON BONDS Poem Source First Line: Sitting down here thinking : yes babe I believe I better go Last Line: Baby now I just open up my chiffrobe : and you'll see where my dollar lies Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ABERDEEN MISSISSIPPI BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I was over in aberdeen : on my way to new orleans Last Line: They been had the poor boy : all hobbled down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ABILITY TO MAKE A FACE LIKE A SPIDER WHILE SINGING BLUES, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Who knows if they sing in their webs Last Line: What you deserve, a gleam, a solo look, %a song to repair the break of day Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) ADAM AND EVE, by TOMMIE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Because adam said to eve : *you been cute so cute* Last Line: You know by that : they must have shook that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ADAM AND EVE HAD THE BLUES, by HOCIEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Eve called adam : and he got close to her side Last Line: You two have bit some fruit : from that forbidden tree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AFTER WHILE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I walked around this world : ??? Last Line: I want you to let them know : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AFTER YOU'VE GONE, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Now listen honey : while I say Last Line: You'll miss the best pal : you ever had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIN'T GOIN' TO BE YOUR LOW DOWN DOG, by OLLIE RUPERT Poem Source First Line: I'm going to buy me a mansion : out on bunker hill Last Line: When the north wind blows : blows news everywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIN'T GOING TO DO LIKE I USED TO DO, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: I : ain't going to do like I used to do Last Line: I will start being nice : and keep you on my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIN'T IT A PITY AND A SHAME, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well that a pity and a shame : ways the women treats the men Last Line: Well now my little girl she quit me : mama now now shy did she run away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIN'T NO TELLIN', by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Don't you let : my good girl catch you here Last Line: Going to turn over : try it on this side Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIN'T NO USE IN TRYING TO TELL ON ME, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Just as sure as this paper : sticks aside the wall Last Line: You don't give it to me : want to make me mad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIRPLANE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: I'm going to get in my airplane : I'm going to ride all over I'm going to ride. Last Line: Now I will be your santa claus : even if my whiskers even if my whiskers is white Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AIRY MAN BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now *look here mr* ??? : *says you take a good drop* Last Line: You can iron my shirts : you can bless my soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALABAMA BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I tell you girls : and I'm going to tell you now Last Line: She's crying to me son : please son don't you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALABAMA BLUES--PART 1, by BILLY BIRD Poem Source First Line: Now t for texas : and t for tennessee Last Line: And I seen two monkeys : playing around after me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALABAMA BLUES--PART 2, by BILLY BIRD Poem Source First Line: I went up on a mountain : just to see what I could see Last Line: I looked in through the keyhole : there's another nigger in my stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALABAMA WOMAN BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Did you ever go down : on the mobile and k c line Last Line: Don't my gal look good : when she's coming after me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALBERTA, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh alberta oh alberta : don't you hear me calling you Last Line: Because she know she can take him : and raise him to hang Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALL I WANT IS A SPOONFUL, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I told you once : this makes twice Last Line: Ask that man : that run me last Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALL MY MONEY GONE BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: All my money gone : and there ain't no more to say Last Line: Have all my money gone : I feel myself sinking down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALL NIGHT BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: All night blues : ever ever on my mind Last Line: Ain't got nobody : to tell my troubles to Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALL NIGHT LONG BLUES, by LOUISE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : blues all around my bed Last Line: Because the man that I'm loving : I swear he sure don't treat me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALL NIGHT LONG BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Stay out all night long : babe now to keep you off my mind Last Line: Well well now you may need his help some day baby : oh well well you don't know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALLEY BOOGIE, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I'm doing something now : I ain't never done before Last Line: I been doing my alley boogie : I been boogying all of my days Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ALLIGATOR POND WENT DRY, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Now old mr alligator : he got way back Last Line: Wasn't a drop of water in the pond : a-when he got back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ANTS IN MY PANTS, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: It makes no difference : baby where you go Last Line: Now love me baby : like you done last night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ANY WOMAN'S BLUES, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Soft lamp shinin Last Line: Naw. My song ain't through Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Women ANYBODY HERE WANT TO TRY MY CABBAGE, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Anybody here want to try my cabbage : just step this way Last Line: When I got through feeding him : he said gal you're free Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ARKANSAS, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Oh little honey : don't you make me go Last Line: And *yesterday* ??? : *was filled with ice and snow* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ARKANSAS ROAD BLUES, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to travel : this big road all by myself Last Line: Daddy if you don't want me : had a-plenty more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ARMY CAMP HARMONEY BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: My man is leaving : crying won't make him stay Last Line: *when I look down* : I'd find my old-time man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ARRANGEMENT FOR ME--BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby I'll split your kindling : you know I'll bellow your fire Last Line: So a woman like you : could take a little fish at me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AS TRUE AS I'VE BEEN TO YOU, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Now listen here babe : is that the way you intend to do Last Line: But I won't be around here : mama and let you have your way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ASH TRAY BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I ain't talking to one : I ain't talking to two Last Line: You look for me : I'll be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ASHES IN MY WHISKEY, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: They put ashes in my whiskey : they put strychnine in my glass Last Line: Lord I believe some other good joker : trying to root me out of my place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AT THE NEW JUMP STEADY HALL, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: Now the jump-steady club : they gave a ball Last Line: *eat cake* with some raisins : and you're bound for jail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ATLANTA BLUES, by CHASEY COLLINS Poem Source First Line: When I find a town : that will satisfy my mind Last Line: And I'm a motherless child : and I just can't keep from crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ATLANTA MAN, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Oh nobody knows : atlanta like I do Last Line: Like you take her from me : somebody sure take her from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ATLANTA STRUT, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Went up on kinnesaw mountain : gave my horn a blow Last Line: Throwed them sweet arms around me : like a grape vine around a stump Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AUNT CAROLINE DYER BLUES, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to newport news : just to see aunt caroline dyer Last Line: I'm going back to newport news : and do what aunt caroline dyer told me to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AVALON BLUES, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: I been in new york this morning : just about half past nine Last Line: Going back to avalon : stay there with pretty mama all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AWAY FROM HOME, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Standing in the station Last Line: I'm drinking muddy water : sleep in a hollow log Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AWFUL FIX BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Hey mama : tell me what have I done Last Line: Now your little daddy's gone : now who you going to get to chop your wood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) AWFUL MOANING BLUES--PART 1, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Mmm: mmm Last Line: Says I'm going to moan going to moan: till I treat my baby right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) B AND O BLUES NO.2, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I'm going to grab me a train : I'm going back to baltimore Last Line: Because I got another hot mama : and she lives in baltimore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY DOLL, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I went to see the doctor the other day : he said I was well as well could be Last Line: She say you in hard luck bessie : doggone your bad-luck soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY GOT THE RICKETS, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: And it's one of these mornings : honey and it won't be long Last Line: ??? Tomorrow : sing them to yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY PLEASE DON'T GO, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Now baby please don't go : now baby please don't go Last Line: Trying to leave your daddy here they got me way down here : and you don't feel my care Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME NO MORE, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I been lonesome all day : I've been grieving all night long Last Line: All I ask you baby : please don't leave me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY PLEASE LOAN ME YOUR HEART, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now you know baby : you know it's true Last Line: All you got to do : is to lone me your heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY, DON'T YOU LOVE ME NO MORE?, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mmm : baby why you have to go Last Line: Go money baby : going to use it as I like Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY, DON'T YOU WANT TO GO?, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Mmm : baby don't you want to go Last Line: To that land of california : sweet old chicago Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK BITING BEE BLUES, by LEOLA B. WILSON Poem Source First Line: Early this morning : heard someone calling me Last Line: I know by that : some mule is kicking in my stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK DOOR, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Oh tell me mama : who's that here awhile ago Last Line: With one leg in his pants : and his shoes in his hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK DOOR BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says the blues come down the alley: headed up to my back door Last Line: If you think about that old black woman: lord that led you off astray Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK DOOR BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I left my baby : standing in the back door crying Last Line: She will take your bad treatments : and do the best she can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK DOOR BLUES, by BO JONES Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : I set down in my door Last Line: So she can see my name : if she never see me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK DOOR BLUES, by JOE STONE Poem Source First Line: I'm going to buy me a little red rooster mama : put it in my back door Last Line: And I wonder why mama : that you can't get along with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK GNAWING BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I ain't never loved : but three womens in my life Last Line: If you allow me a chance : I will gnaw your backbone half in two Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK ON THE JOB, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Some of these days you're going to miss me : mama lord when I'm gone Last Line: But the next time I go strolling : just try to find you someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK TO THE WOODS BLUES, by CHARLIE SPAND Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : clock was striking four Last Line: How my train is waiting : baby and I got to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK WATER BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: When it rained five days : and the skies turned dark as night Last Line: There ain't no place : for a poor old girl to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK WOODS BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Got the backwoods blues : but I don't want to go back home Last Line: Yes I'm going down there : I'm going to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD BOY, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: I been a bad boy : didn't treat nobody right Last Line: I ain't going to sing no more : baby that is all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD FEELING BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I got the bad feeling blues : keeps me worried all the time Last Line: I'm going to pack my grip : leave this lonesome town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD IN MIND BLUES, by LITTLE BUDDY DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Boys I ain't doing no good : this slow death is killing me Last Line: She'll forever keep you working : working with your coffin on your back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now there's rouble trouble : I been having all my days Last Line: I'd kill my sister and my brother : not a woman *break my line* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I want to go home : and I ain't got sufficient clothes Last Line: Be on my way : to what you call loving tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Hey people : listen while I sing my news Last Line: You might as well die : give your soul to the man far above Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now did you hear about this bad luck : the bad luck happened just about six mon Last Line: Now but tell them if they be good they come to see me : people on resurrection day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK DICE, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I believe I'll try : them bad-luck dice again Last Line: But if I ever get lucky : I swear I'll have my diamonds on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK MOAN, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: Bad luck in my bed : bad luck's in my home Last Line: Somebody better come here : pretty doggone soon Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD LUCK'S MY BUDDY, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: And it's trouble here : it's trouble in the air Last Line: I been in trouble : ever since I been Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAD NOTION BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Oh I woke up this morning : sure was feeling bad Last Line: I wouldn't mistreat my woman : for to save nobody's soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BADLY MISTREATED MAN, by CARL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I worked hard baby : I worked hard every day Last Line: I've been badly mistreated : I've been drove from door to door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAKERSHOP BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm standing in front of the bakershop : and I'm feeling lowdown in mind Last Line: If I don't get a break soon : I'll fall dead front of this bakershop Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAKING POWDER BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Got up this morning : by the rising sun Last Line: Because I'm going to give you some more money : and I'm going to give it to you sure Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BALKY MULE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I got up this morning : sure was feeling fine Last Line: Now here come my bad cat mama : to run me away with them bad cat blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BALL AND CHAIN BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm laying in jail : my back turned to the wall Last Line: This ball and chain : about to kill me dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Last Line: And truncated a woman's chronicle, %and plain old margaret fuller died as well Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BAMALONG BLUES, by JIM BAXTER Poem Source First Line: Who's going to be : in the second bamalong Last Line: I got the one : that I love the best Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BANKER'S BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: If you got money in the bank : don't let your woman draw it out Last Line: When I get down to the bank : and draw my money out Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BANTY ROOSTER BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to buy me a banty : put him in my back door Last Line: I can tell my rider : if I feel her in the dark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARBECUE BESS, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: When you come to my house : come down behind the jail Last Line: And you can get my meat : any night at twelve Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARBECUE BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning gal : 'twixt midnight and day Last Line: Some brownskin woman : going to be the death of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAREFOOT BILL'S HARD LUCK BLUES, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: Baby I been working : all this blasted year Last Line: Barefooted hungry and raggedy : doggone my hard-luck soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BAREFOOT BLUES, by JAYDEE SHORT Poem Source First Line: Let's get stomp barefoot mama : and get drunk and run Last Line: You're a no-good woman : you don't feel in your hard-workingman's care Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARREL HOUSE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Got the barrelhousing blues : feeling awfully dry Last Line: Papa likes his outside women : mama likes the outside men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARREL HOUSE FLAT BLUES, by MARY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got a barrelhouse flat in *eastport* : and one I st louis too Last Line: If you women want a good time : stop by this barrlhouse flat of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARREL HOUSE WOMAN, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: My woman so lowdown : she barrelhouse all the time Last Line: Gets her head full of whiskey : and wants to start a fight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARREL HOUSE WOMAN NO. 2, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Well this barrelhouse woman : waht makes you so mean Last Line: If you got to get drunk baby : mama please just let me be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BARREL OF WHISKEY BLUES, by JAMES STUMP JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to marry : and I ain't going to settle down Last Line: If we don't today : we will tomorrow night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BASEMENT BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: The man I love : got lowdown ways for two Last Line: But my eye is at the ??? : in the basement blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BE MY KID BLUES, by ELIZABETH JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If you be my kid : I'll be your teddy bear Last Line: Sleep with my man : if it kills me dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEALE STREET MESS AROUND, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Woke up early this morning : blues around my bed Last Line: ??? : sing them to yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEALE TOWN BOUND, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Said I'm [leaving mama, going away] : I'm going to leave you now Last Line: You didn't have no business mama : starting this deal with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEANS, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I don't want no more navy beans : boys I don't want no more Last Line: Run to the little house in the back : couldn't shut the door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Beans; Blues (music) BEAT IT RIGHT, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Some got both queens : some got both kings Last Line: Keep on beating : it's going to take your life Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEAT YOU DOING IT, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I've have the blues about my money : had the blues because I'm feeling bad Last Line: Because there's always been some good man : to beat you doing what you're trying to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BED SLATS, by UNKNOWN+215 Poem Source First Line: And I went upstairs : about four o'clock Last Line: The gait she's carrying me : is most too fast Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BED SPRINGS BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Got something to tell you : make the hair rise on your head Last Line: I'm worried about the movements you got : and those springs trembling on your bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEDROOM BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: My room sure looks lonesome : since my good man been gone Last Line: I thinks about my sweet man : all night long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEDSIDE BLUES, by JIM THOMPKINS Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to be : your lowdown dog no more Last Line: And then these women : sure take care of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEDTIME BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now when you lay down at night : call your good friend by name Last Line: The last time I seen you : trying to make your get-away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEEDLE UM BUM, by BOB ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: It'll make a dumb man speak : make a lame man run Last Line: You get a little taste : you'll want some more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEEN MISTREATED BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: I had a sweet woman : she done turned sour on me Last Line: But the good lord knows : that the women don't treat me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEER DRINKING WOMAN, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I walked into a bar tavern : to give a girl a nice time Last Line: She said daddy buy me a small bottle of beer : so I can concentrate my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEFORE LONG, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: When I had money baby : you was good to me Last Line: Look like it *do you good somebody* : the day they saw me crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEG LEG MAMA, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now it's mama mama mama : please keep you big legs down Last Line: When I load this carload of coal captain : I sure ain't going load no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEGGIN' BACK, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Listen here mama : I'll be good Last Line: Take you back : in the wintertime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BELIEVE I'LL GO BACK HOME, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I believe I believe : I believe I'll go back home Last Line: And it took my baby : and it left me standing here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BELL STREET BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I live down in bell street alley : just as drunk as I can be Last Line: Got me laying back here on my bunk : nobody in the world to go my bail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEORGIA BARREL HOUSE, by BILL GAITHER Poem Source First Line: I know you from georgia : but you are all right with me Last Line: You know what I mean : give me back everything I bought Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BERTHA LEE BLUES, by ROBERT PETWAY Poem Source First Line: Bertha lee : you sure have been good to me Last Line: If you do bertha lee : please lay my money down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BESSEMER BOUND BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : looking for my darn old shoes Last Line: But I'd rather be in memphis : reading by a candle light Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BESSIE, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: My gloriana Last Line: Of our most common need Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BESSIE SMITH'S FUNERAL, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: The brief procession Last Line: Her song is news, begins the dispensation %of the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Funerals; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BESSIE'S MOAN, by BESSIE TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Hey : hey hey hey hey Last Line: Just like you found me : you can put me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BETTER LEAVE THAT STUFF ALONE, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: People across the water : they're crying for meat and bread Last Line: She's only hustling them people : to get that stuff they call that old canned heat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BETTY SUE BLUES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: Betty sue betty sue : is the sweetest girl I know Last Line: Giving away my luggage : and trying to love me too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIDDLE STREET BLUES, by HENRY SPAULDING Poem Source First Line: Say some strange something : is easing down on me Last Line: Because I know my baby's there : she will take my loving on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG APPLE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I know you got some good apples : right down on mr rudolph's farm Last Line: Now if somebody don't give me *any* something to eat pretty soon : I just as swear we won't be here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG BILL BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Lord my hair is a-rising : my flesh begin to crawl Last Line: I ain't going to fix up your black *tarnation* : I ain't going to be your doggone fool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG BOAT WHISTLE, by JOHNNIE TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: And I heard a mighty rumbling : and it [sound, looks] just like a passenger tra Last Line: Now that's only this darling : ooo will you love me baby when I'm old Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG CHIEF BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I'm going away baby : take me seven long months to ride Last Line: Big chief lord : be my daddy-in-law Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG FAT MAMA BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Crying big fat mama : meat shaking on her bones Last Line: Mmm big fat mama : meat shaking on her bones Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG FOUR BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Big four blowed this morning : at the break of day Last Line: I'm just trying to make it : back to that gal who is worrying my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG FOUR BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: And that big four the big four : is a mean old train to ride Last Line: You going to reach for your boiler : and your plate will be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG HOUSE BOUND, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I never will forget the day ; they transferred me to the county jail Last Line: I says mmm : I mean come and go my bail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG LEG BLUES, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Raise up baby : get your big leg off of mine Last Line: I seen you faro : going up the right of way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG MAMA, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: She got them great big legs : she got the walking size Last Line: But you know I never told her : she could not shake that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG NIGHT BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: My feets is so cold : can't hardly wear my shoes Last Line: Well I needs my daddy : because my clock is run down at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG ROAD BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Crying I ain't going down : this big road by myself Last Line: Now you think you going to do me : like you done poor cherry red Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG ROCK JAIL, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: Said high sheriff been here : got my girl and gone Last Line: I don't get nothing : but the mean old high sheriff blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG SHIP BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now this big ship was a-rocking : and my body's filled with aches and pains Last Line: Soon as we make a few more lurches : I will be right back in new york town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIG WOMAN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Got a little bitty mama : and a big mama too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BILLIKEN'S WEARY BLUES, by TEXAS BILL DAY Poem Source First Line: Don't the moon look pretty : shining through the trees Last Line: So when my good girl gets worried : she can sit down and talk to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BILLY GOAT BLUES, by JOHN BYRD Poem Source First Line: Lord that harlem goat mama : sure was feeling fine Last Line: With my head on a pillow : where my goat lord used to lay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BIRD NEST BOUND, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Come on mama : out to the edge of town Last Line: You don't need no telling : mama take me in your car Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK ACE, by BUCK TURNER Poem Source First Line: I am the black ace : I'm the boss card in your hand Last Line: Because I'd be a good fellow : mama if you would please let me stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK AND EVIL BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: I'm black and I'm evil : and I did not make myself Last Line: As you wish on every *no-good* star : *bring here your baby to me* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK ANGEL BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I got a sweet black angel : I like the way he spread his wings Last Line: He's got a new way of getting goose : and he sure can shake that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK ANNIE, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Well I stood on the corner mama: and I looked for two blocks and a half Last Line: Lord if you don't live with me mama: well you ain't going to live with nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK BOTTOM HOP, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: First you get over *town* : ??? Last Line: They'll break up the dance : with a battle royal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK CAT BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I got a big black cat : sitting in my back door Last Line: I got one-eyed cats : everywhere I go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK CAT SWING, by UNKNOWN+208 Poem Source First Line: Yes you is one black rat : some day I'll find your trail Last Line: Trapped in ??? : I'm going to catch him some day soon Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK DOG BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you mama : what my black dog done done to me Last Line: Because you got the nerve : to leave my good woman to cry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK EVIL BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: And I'm black and I'm evil : and I did not make *myself* Last Line: You will turn over and hug a pillow : where your daddy used to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK EYE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Take all my money : blacken both my eyes Last Line: Give it to another man : come home and tell me lies Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK GAL SWING, by SON BONDS Poem Source First Line: Now a yellow gal rides in an automobile : a brownskin gal rides the same Last Line: But a black girl spit bacca juice *shoo* snuff all on your lips : oh loving you just the same Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK GAL WHAT MAKES YOUR HEAD SO HARD?--NO.2, by JOE PULLUM Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : couldn't even get out of my bed Last Line: And if I see you with another woman : I would rather kill myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK GYPSY BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: My woman must be a black gypsy : she knows every place I go Last Line: I asked her for water : and she brought me gasoline Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK HEARSE BLUES, by MONETTE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Old death wagon : don't you dare stop at my door Last Line: I'm just using him up : on the old ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK HORSE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: [tell me, I want to know] what time : do the trains come through your town Last Line: Sugar the blues ain't on me : but things ain't getting on right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK MARE BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Hitch up my buggy : saddle up my black mare Last Line: Says you going to have : a rounder for your own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK MATTIE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Oh black mattie : where did you stay last night Last Line: Now the day that you quit me : I won't be mad with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK MINNIE, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Black minnie black minnie : you know you ain't doing me right Last Line: And if you don't do : I'm going to break your neck a-trying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK MOUNTAIN BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Back in black mountain %a child will smack your face Last Line: I'm out here for trouble %I've got the black mountain blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK PANTER BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: My baby thinks she's a black panther : she want to climb up in a tree and jump Last Line: Now but some day she going to meet the lion : she ain't going to even have no place to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK PONY BLUES, by ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP Poem Source First Line: I got a coal-black mare : but lord how that horse can run Last Line: Well I'll follow that horse : man in any land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK SKUNK BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: I caught a pretty little animal : it was striped black and white Last Line: He as pretty as a white dog : but he ain't worth a doggone dime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK SNAKE BLUES, by LOUIS WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: I'm crying oh : where in the world my black snake gone Last Line: I'm crying oh now : black snake crawling all on my room Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK SNAKE DREAM BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Black snake is deceitful : crawling in all in my bed Last Line: But I'm getting tired of that black snake : lying in my baby's arms Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK SNAKE MOAN, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Hey : ain't got no mama now Last Line: Lord that black snake mama : done run my darling home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK SNAKE SWING, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: That is some black snake : trying to get the best of me Last Line: Mmm : baby you really made me sore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK TRAIN BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: My heart is filled with pain : I believe I can't be trained Last Line: That's the same black train : that left me in this pain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK WOMAN IS LIKE A BLACK SNAKE, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: A black woman is like a black snake : she will strike and run Last Line: Because a black girl's evil : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLAKE'S WORRIED BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : worried in my mind Last Line: That's a bow-legged woman : crazy about a cross-eyed man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLIND LEMON'S PENITENTIARY BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Take fort worth for you dressing : and dallas all for your sal Last Line: They got walls at the state penitentiary : you can't jump man as hard as you try Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLIND MAN BLUES, by SARA MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to marry : I ain't going to settle down Last Line: Every time she shimmies : a skinny woman leaves her home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLIND PIG BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Let me in please charlie : no one here but me Last Line: I'm loaded down with bootleg : like to make them yammies bawl Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLOCK AND TACKLE, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: My babe got a block and tackle : and I swear I can't get away Last Line: But if you don't want your good gal : ooo well now she will put a block and tackle on you too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE BIRD BLUES--PART 1, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I wonder where is my bluebird : wonder where is my bluebird gone Last Line: Now because a good bluebird now babe : peoples I just do swear they's hard to find Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE COAT BLUES, by BLUE COAT TOM NELSON Poem Source First Line: Hey baby : see what you have done Last Line: For I believe : some dirty rascal stole my jellyroll Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE DOGS, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: Singing tonelessly, a blues if only because the phrases keep repeating Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Blues (music) BLUE GHOST BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm : something cold is creeping around Last Line: My lover's ghost has got me : and I know my time won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE GHOST BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm : I feel myself sinking down Last Line: They worry me so in this haunted house : I wish I was dead and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE GOOSE BLUES, by JESSIE BABYFACE THOMAS Poem Source First Line: If I lose : I'm going get some more Last Line: You find blue goose : happen to carry you down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE KENTUCKY BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: You can always tell : when your best man don't want you around Last Line: Tell her the folks up here : won't let my kentucky man alone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE SPIRIT BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Had a dream last night : that I was dead Last Line: Run so fast : till someone woke me up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUEBIRD BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Bluebird bluebird : please fly down south for me Last Line: If I can't see you today : it'll be all right tomorrow night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Blues (music) BLUES, by L. LOUIS ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Yeah! Tell it about the blues, hard Last Line: Listen! - a higher source saying; %hey blues one. The answer lie with me Subject(s): Blues (music) BLUES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those five or six young guys Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BLUES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those five or six young guys Last Line: About love. If it's so tough, %forget it Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT...???, by GEORGIA+(2) WHITE Poem Source First Line: Oh the blues ain't nothing : but a woman want to see her man Last Line: Falling out with your man : you feel like leaving town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I had the blues before sunrise : with tears standing in my eyes Last Line: I'm going to buy me a hard-shooting pistol : and put her in her grave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES DON'T CHANGE, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: And I was born with you, wasn't I, blues? Last Line: Opening their pores, rolling their hips and lips. %they can shake their bodies but they can't shake Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Blues (music) BLUES EVERYWHERE I GO, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Well well it's blues : it's blues everywhere I go Last Line: And the blues in my bed : because I'm sleeping by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES FOR BESSIE, by MYRON O'HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: Let de peoples known (unnh) / what they did in dat southern town Last Line: Wid de blood (lawd) a-streamin' down Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Racism; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Social Protest; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BLUES FOR THE LONELY, by JEREMY ROBSON Poem Source First Line: Now the birds begin to crow. It is time for them to crow Last Line: The silence and the hundred questions illuminated in the sky Subject(s): Blues (music); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES HARVEST BLUES, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Standing on the mountain : far as I can see Last Line: With my heavy burden : lord I wished I was dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES IN D, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: And I'm going and I'm going : and your crying won't make me stay Last Line: ??? Shoulders : nice and cute through the waist Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES IS ALL WRONG, by LEOLA MANNING Poem Source First Line: *feel like voting* : fall in line Last Line: You got the *train* : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES ON CENTRAL AVENUE, by JOE TURNER Poem Source First Line: I'm in the land of sunshine : standing on central avenue Last Line: I'll always remember : I met you on central avenue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES WITHOUT A DIME, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Bad luck and trouble : and the blues without a dime Last Line: Because every day's like sunday : I mean she's always got a dollar in her hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BO BO STOMP, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Come on boy : let's go down on tenth street Last Line: Boy you liable to slip up : and fall on your yas yas yas Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BO CARTER SPECIAL, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Bo carter is a man : broadcasts all over this land Last Line: But to that broadcasting bo carter : their women they are bound to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BO CARTER'S ADVICE, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now listen here men : what bo carter say for you to do Last Line: Just learn to live a bachelor : then you play safe the first Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BO-WEAVIL BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Hey boll weevil : don't sing the blues no more Last Line: That bug is so evil : I'm afraid it might poison me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOB LEE JUNIOR BLUES, by JENNIE CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: I can't sleep for dreaming : and I can't stay awake for crying Last Line: But the same train carried him : going to bring him back some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOB MCKINNEY, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: One of these mornings : won't be long Last Line: I'm looking for that bully : and that bully can't be found Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOODIE BUM BUM, by CHARLIE BURSE Poem Source First Line: Oh tell me baby : where did you stay last night Last Line: You don't know how to boodle-bum-bum : I know you didn't do it nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOODLE-DE-BUM BUM, by BLIND BOGUS BEN COVINGTON Poem Source First Line: I went down in the alley : trying to sell my coke today Last Line: And jackson got down like a raindeer : and he runned her some Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOOGER BOOGER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I drived to the station : woman I bid you all adieu Last Line: If you ever shift that habit : now I can't keep my business straight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOOSTER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: My right foot itches : something going on wrong Last Line: I'm fixing to leave town : and hang crepe on your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOOTIN' ME 'BOUT, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I got a brownskin mama : she built right to the ground Last Line: Because I'm a fool about that woman : don't want nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOOTLEG RUM DUM BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I love my whiskey : crazy about it as I can be Last Line: If you see me reeling : mama go hide in your trunk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOOTLEGGING BLUES, by JIM JACKSON Poem Source First Line: This corn liquor ??? : there's plenty more to be made Last Line: I haven't nothing so long as corn liquor lasts : and I got no money to spend Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOTHERIN' THAT THING, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: I went to my window : my window was *cracked* Last Line: Bothering that thing : is going to kill you dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOX CAR BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Every time : I see a railroad track Last Line: Ride me ride me : sooth my boxcar blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BOY FRIEND BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I'm alone : traveling by myself Last Line: Ever since you been gone : you sure is worrying me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BREAD BAKER, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: She's got a bed in her bedroom : it shines like a morning star Last Line: Because in your kitchen baby : it's where the good stuff can be found Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BREAK 'EM ON DOWN, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yes I'm a gambling man : still gambling yet Last Line: Take them down boys : because you know this stuff is here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BRIDWELL BLUES, by NOLAN WELSH Poem Source First Line: I was standing on the corner : did not mean no harm Last Line: I said don't do me this a-way people : you know I been here before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROADWAY ST. WOMAN BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: I was standing on the corner : just between broadway and main Last Line: And the judge said hold you head up : for you are bound to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE AND HUNGRY, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I am broke and hungry : ragged and dirty too Last Line: So I can leave at once : and hunt me somewhere else to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE DOWN ENGINE, by LONNIE CLARK Poem Source First Line: If you ever been down mama : you know just how I feel Last Line: Go out on some railroad track : and rob your daddy a passenger train Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE DOWN ENGINE, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Feel like a broke down engine : mama ain't got no driving-wheel Last Line: Can I get off *sneak living and tapping* : playing tip light across your floor Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE DOWN ENGINE BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Feel like a broke down engine : ain't got no driving-wheel Last Line: If you's a real hot mama : drive away daddy's weeping spell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE MAN BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Well I dreamed last night now : that my old shack was falling down Last Line: And a since I been a broke man : nobody seems to want to go my way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE MAN BLUES, by SYLVESTER PALMER Poem Source First Line: I know just how baby : lord a broke man feels Last Line: Because I been broke baby : and I got these broke man blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKE MAN'S BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Just another evening : wasted away Last Line: If I could get you back : mama I wouldn't need nothing more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKEN BACK BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It is a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BROKEN BACK BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It's a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians BROKEN BUSTED BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I've got those broken busted blues : I feel bad Last Line: I've got those can't be treated blues : gee I'm sad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKEN HEARTED BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I'm broke and I'm hungry : ragged and I'm dirty too Last Line: Now when your big dog comes : I want you to tell him what your little dog done done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKEN-HEARTED MAN, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Minutes seem like hours : and hours seem like years Last Line: Now I ain't never loved no woman : like I loved you yet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROKEN-HEARTED, RAGGED AND DIRTY TOO, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I'm broken-hearted : ragged and dirty too Last Line: You know I'm bound to ??? : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROOKLYN BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Since we been apart : ??? Seems strange to me Last Line: You going to want me baby : just for company Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROTHER JAMES, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Brother james went out riding : riding in that twenty-nine ford Last Line: I will be at the *official table* : ooo well when *they send* brother james *my way* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROWN AND YELLOW WOMAN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I'm going to get me a brownskin woman : lord and let all the yellow ones go Last Line: I was so glad of that : ooo well I didn't like her lowdown ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROWN SKIN GIRL, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Now I got a brownskin [girl, woman] : with her front tooth crowned with gold Last Line: Just a little bit of loving : and then you can be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROWN SKIN GIRLS, by CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: Got a gang of brownskin womens : bunch of high yellows too Last Line: She wears a bearcat skin : she got a suit of navy blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROWNSKIN MAMA BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Brownskin mama : what in the world you want me to do Last Line: That's the reason why : I'm moaning these brownskin mama blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROWNSVILLE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I can straighten your wires : you know poor vasser can grind your valves Last Line: Because I'm acquainted with john law : and they won't let me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE IN IT, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: When you walking down thirty-first street : you had better look around Last Line: Going to drink good liquor : and let all women be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUDDIE BROWN BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Captain rung the bell this morning : just at the break of day Last Line: Says I'm going to eat my breakfast : please and lay back down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUG JUICE BLUES, by KID PRINCE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Love my bug juice : just as crazy about it as I can be Last Line: ??? : mama I'm going to hide in your trunk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUILT RIGHT ON THE GROUND, by BLIND DARBY Poem Source First Line: I never cried : till my baby got on the train Last Line: Little babe done quit me : and I'll give on up to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUKKA'S JITTERBUG SWING, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Hey come on you women : let's a-do the jitterbug swing Last Line: Hey : please ma'am don't say uh-oh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BULL COW, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you got you a bullcow : *feed her morning grass* Last Line: I been all out in the country : with my big bell on Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BULL COW BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: If you got a good bullcow : better feed him every day Last Line: Lord at daybreak call me baby : you'll find your bullcow gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BULL DOZE BLUES, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I'm going away babe : and it won't be long Last Line: If you don't believe I'm sinking : look what a fool I've been Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BULL FROG BLUES, by WILLIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Have you ever woke up with them bullfrogs on your mind Last Line: The sun going to shine : in my back door some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BULL FROG BLUES, by JENNY POPE Poem Source First Line: Hey hey hey hey : bullfrog blues is really on my mind Last Line: And you can cook a breakfast : right on my brand new stove Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUMBLE BEE, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Bumblebee bumblebee : where is you been so long Last Line: It's all I want now : my bumblebee just to stay at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUMBLE BEE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Bumblebee bumblebee : won't you please come back to me Last Line: He had me to the place : where I wish to god that I could die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUNKER HILL BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now old bunker hill : place that I [long, wants] to stay Last Line: If you don't treat me right mama : you can't *treat* nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BURYING GROUND BLUES, by MOOCH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Well I went up on the mountain : give my horn a blow Last Line: Lord these ain't like the shoes I got on the gutter : hole right in the bottom Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUS RIDER BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: Going the catch that old greyhound : going to ride from town going to ride from Last Line: Then I will be your santy claus : says even if my whiskers says even if my whiskers ain't white Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUST UP BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : couldn't even walk in my shoes Last Line: Now that's the thanks you give me : you left me with those bust up blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUSY BOOTIN', by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Busy bootin : and you can't come in Last Line: You tell what you see : don't you call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BUTTER AND EGG MAN BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Everybody in town : got a butter and egg man but me Last Line: Because my weakness is pretty women : keep me with the butter and egg blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BY THE MOON AND STARS, by LOUISE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: ??? : I saw the moon go down Last Line: Now I just want to tell you : black man how you have treated me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BYE BYE BABY BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: Which a-way which a-way : do that blood red river run Last Line: There's one in my bosom : t'other one in my heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BYE BYE BABY BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: Well I'm leaving sweet baby : can't carry you Last Line: But I know she realized the trouble : since she met another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BYE-BYE BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Crying by-and-by : baby by-and-by Last Line: You got my woman : babe I know you're satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) C AND A BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: It's a little train leaving out of here : they call the c and a Last Line: Why did I leave you baby : because I'm tired of taking you dogging Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) C AND A BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well now let me tell you people : what the c and a will do for you Last Line: Well well well going to send it up the country : mama now to see if my little girl there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) C AND O BLUES, by BLIND JOE AMOS Poem Source First Line: Did you ever wake up: between midnight and day Last Line: I love you baby: don't care what you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) C. C. RIDER, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See see rider : see what you done done Last Line: Let me be your sidetrack : till your mainline comes Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAIRO BLUES, by HENRY SPAULDING Poem Source First Line: Cairo : cairo is my baby's home Last Line: I'm going home : and I swear and it won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CALIFORNIA BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: How long how long : how long my train been gone Last Line: Honey I'm from missouri : you have to *side* me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CALIFORNIA DESERT BLUES, by LANE HARDIN Poem Source First Line: Now I was just sitting here wondering : where I would go get some ease Last Line: Now the people in los angeles : they didn't know what it's all about Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CALL YOUR NAME, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Have you ever been low in spirits : mama and you didn't know what was on your m Last Line: Lord you know the way that you left me : mama it almost broke my heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CALLIN' CORRINE, by FRANKIE HALF PINT JAXON Poem Source First Line: Ain't you getting tired : of [trying to cheat, cheating] on your papa hon' Last Line: Got a corrine in harlem : make a rabbit hug a hound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAN'T BE TRUSTED BLUES, by SYLVESTER WEAVER Poem Source First Line: I don't love nobody : that's my policy Last Line: Got ways like the devil : papa's *sneaking* on all fours Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAN'T MAKE ANOTHER DAY, by EDITH NORTH JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: All this world's against me : I believe my baby is too Last Line: That's what it takes to ease my mind : and stop all my tears Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAN'T SEE YOUR FACE, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Your picture has faded : mama that hangs up on the wall Last Line: But now you gone and left me : and I can't see your face at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CANDY BLUES, by LEM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I left my baby : standing in the doorway crying Last Line: When one pretty woman quits me : I'll have three Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CANDY MAN BLUES, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Want all you ladies : all gather around Last Line: It just gets better : so the ladies say Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CANNED HEAT BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Crying canned heat mama : sure lord killing me Last Line: Believe to my soul : lord it going to kill me dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CARRY IT RIGHT BACK HOME, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: Look here woman : making me mad Last Line: You left a man on the doorstep : hollering and crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAT MAN BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Cat man cat man : stay away from my house at night Last Line: If the cat man is got nine lives : he going to need them when I get through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CATFISH BLUES, by ROBERT PETWAY Poem Source First Line: Well I lay down last night : well I tried to take my rest Last Line: See if my baby my baby : do she thinking of little old thing of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CATS GOT THE MEASLES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now the cat's got the measles : dog's got the whooping cough Last Line: But the women cry papa : just because I take my time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAUGHT THE OLD COON AT LAST, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Here I am : head over heels in love again Last Line: Woman I don't believe I could be any happier : if I were living in heaven above Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CAVE MAN BLUES, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Mr caveman : doggone your caving soul Last Line: And I'll dig and dig : till my good gal comes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CELL BOUND BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Hey jailor : tell me what I have done Last Line: That's what I said : I got those cell bound blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CENTRAL AVENUE BLUES, by WILL DAY Poem Source First Line: I'm going to build me a little mansion : on central avenue Last Line: Some little brownskin woman : *stepping* in my way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CENTRAL TRACKS BLUES, by WILLIAM MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Mmm : what's the matter now Last Line: Oh just hand me my suitcase : I'll leave your dallas town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHAIN GANG TROUBLE, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: I asked my captain : for the time of day Last Line: Nothing I can get : but bad news Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHANGE MY LUCK BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Hey hey mama : that rider's done and gone Last Line: I'm going to be gone mama : so I can change my luck Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHANGE MY MIND BLUES, by CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: If I change my mind jane : I'll change my mind once again Last Line: Good as I have been to you darling : now I can't get the things I need Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHARMIN' BETSY, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I'm going around the mountain charming betsy : going around the mountain to lea Last Line: Black gal rides in an old airship : but she riding just the same Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHERRY BALL, by MISSISSIPPI BRACEY Poem Source First Line: I'm going to give my baby : no more cherry ball Last Line: Ain't got nobody to love me : nobody to feel my care Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHERRY BALL BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: I love my cherry ball : better than I love myself Last Line: I'm going to ride and ramble : till cherry come back to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHERRY BALL BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Ain't going to give you : no more cherry ball Last Line: I can do your driving : till that driver comes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHERRY STREET BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: Just as sure as the train comes in san antone : then ease up in the yard Last Line: Well I'll tell you men something : know you ain't going to think it's so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHICKASAW TRAIN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I might tell everybody : what that chicksaw have done done for me Last Line: And she start picking up men : all up and down this line Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHINCH BUG BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I never feel uneasy : I know how you love your tricks Last Line: All of ??? *lord* : here with the chinch bug blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHOCK HOUSE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: So many wagons : they have cut that good road down Last Line: She's a fine looking fair brown : but she ain't never learned from lemon's rule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHOCOLATE TO THE BONE, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: So glad I'm brownskin : chocolate to the bone Last Line: But that brownskin gal : with her coal-black dreamy eyes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHOO CHOO BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: The sound of a train : fills my heart with misery Last Line: I'm going back to dixie : if I have to crawl all the way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Now it's the day before christmas : mama won't you hear me moan Last Line: I'm going to be your santa claus : even if my whiskers ain't white Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHRISTMAS MORNING BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well it was on one christmas morning : *t-bird's* christmas coming back again Last Line: Well now be sure to do what I told you : santa claus before I tell you goodbye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHRISTMAS TIME BLUES, by BUCK TURNER Poem Source First Line: Santa claus: what is you going to bring Last Line: And teach him to follow my baby : everywhere she goes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHURCH BELL BLUES, by LUKE JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Children's in the pulpit : mama trying to learn the psalms Last Line: She had a nerve to ask me : would a matchbox hold my clothes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CHURCH BELLS BLUES, by LUKE JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Children's in the pulpit : mama trying to learn the psalms Last Line: You going to run over some of these mornings : papa swear you can't get in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CIGARETTE BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Says now come over here sweet baby : because I'm all alone Last Line: My cigarette ain't too big : and you know it ain't too long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CLEAN UP AT HOME, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: I washed my clothes : I hanged them by the fire Last Line: All you got to do : act kind of nice Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CLEARING HOUSE BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: It seems to me : as if I'm all broke down Last Line: Since I lost all my change : I lost my sealskin brown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CLOUDY SKY BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: It seem cloudy brown : I believe it's going to rain Last Line: You can hunt you another home : because she don't want you no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COAL MAN BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : about five o'clock Last Line: Don't believe I'm leaving : count the day I'm gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COAL MAN BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I get up early in the morning : sweet mama and I comb and currymy horse Last Line: Some standing on the corner : trying to get themselves in jail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COAL OIL BLUES, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Woke up early this morning : got out of my bed Last Line: Before the rising sun come : sure won't *scarcely know* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COAL RIVER BLUES, by UNKNOWN+204 Poem Source First Line: Going up coal river : coming down no more Last Line: I got the blues so bad pretty mama : I can't *gee* away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COCAINE BLUES, by LUKE JORDAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going gal : don't you take me for no fool Last Line: The doctors say it'll kill you : but they didn't say when Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COCAINE HABIT BLUES, by BEN RAMEY Poem Source First Line: Cocaine habit : is mighty bad Last Line: Strut your stuff : long as you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COCKEYED WORLD, by MINNIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : feeling mighty sad Last Line: I tell the cockeyed world : I'll follow you to your grave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COCKTAIL MAN BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Good morning people : just got back from cocktail land Last Line: But now when it comes to mixing cocktails : ooo well here's the little cocktail man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COFFEE GRINDER BLUES, by JAYBIRD COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going to grind my coffee : two or three dollars a pound Last Line: I'm a coffee=grinding fool : now let me grind you some Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COFFEE GRINDIN' BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: It ain't nobody in town : can grind their coffee like mine Last Line: And I'm a coffee-grinding mama : won't you let me grind you some Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COFFEE POT BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: You can always tell : when your good gal don't want to be seen Last Line: Because my throat's got dry : swear my tonsil's sore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COFFIN BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Daddy oh daddy : won't you answer me please Last Line: And it hurts me so bad : to tell the man I love goodbye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLD IN HAND BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Now I've tried hard : to treat him kind Last Line: Because the one I've got : have done gone cold in hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLD IRON BED, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: Baby take me upstairs : baby won't you lay me down in your cooliron bed Last Line: If I don't see you tomorrow : I'll see you tomorrow night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLD WINTER DAY, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I did everything baby : that I could do Last Line: Soon as you got on your feet : you wouldn't pay me no mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLDEST STUFF IN TOWN, by HATTIE HART Poem Source First Line: When I go out singing : I goes out all alone Last Line: I thought slim was working : and he wasn't doing a doggone thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLDEST STUFF IN TOWN, by ALLEN SHAW Poem Source First Line: Hattie hattie hattie : what have you done to me Last Line: Because that jive you and willie b's shooting : coldest stuff in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLLECTOR MAN BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now go open the door : here comes the collector man Last Line: Well now you can tell him watch and see old sonny boy getting some money : oh lord know it's some of Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ALONG LITTLE CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+211 Poem Source First Line: Now some folks say : a preacher won't steal Last Line: I'll *drop* my way : to the promised land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON AROUND TO MY HOUSE MAMA, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Come on around to my house mama : ain't nobody there but me Last Line: Think my baby : done quit poor me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON BOYS LET'S DO THAT MESSIN' AROUND, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I'm feeling blue : lowdown as I can be Last Line: But don't let me catch you : messing around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON IN, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Oh set right down : and let's have some fun Last Line: If you want to : you can pull off your underwear Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON IN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Sit right down : have some fun Last Line: Why don't you : put on your underwear Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON IN MY KITCHEN, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm : mmm Last Line: You can't make the winter babe : just dry long so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COME ON, MAMA, DO THAT DANCE, by FRANKIE HALF PINT JAXON Poem Source First Line: Come on and let me know : who you are Last Line: Some day : this thing's going to happen to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COMPETITION BED BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Competition worrying me : you been having a competition with me Last Line: Now there's so much competition : I believe I'll leave your town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CONSTRUCTION GANG, by JOE EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Now here's all I ask of you : kind man Last Line: So you bring me all your money : when they pay your check Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CONSTRUCTION GANG, by JOE EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Now there is something : you say that you expect Last Line: I want you to come back from work : looking just like first one thing and then another Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COOL DRINK OF WATER BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I asked for water : and she gave me gasoline Last Line: Son buy your ticket buy your ticket : because the train ain't none of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COON CAN SHORTY, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well now they call me cooncan shorty : the man from cooncan land Last Line: But now you know I got a chump : ooo well well if he come in this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COON CRAP GAME, by BIG BOY GEORGE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Well I went down to a coon crap game : although it went against my will Last Line: Well I heard the ??? : ??? Be no friend of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORINNA BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: See see rider : you see what you done done Last Line: I ain't had no true love : since corinna been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORN LICKER BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now I love my good corn liquor : and I really mean I do Last Line: I ain't going to bother nobody : just let the good times baby roll on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORN LIQUOR BLUES, by LEWIS BLACK Poem Source First Line: Hey hey hey : corn liquor in my bones Last Line: If you catch me out drinking : I'm not drinking just keep to keep from crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORN WHISKEY BLUES, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Now bring me that bottle : and let's have another drink of booze Last Line: And on account of moonshine : her people don't allow me around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORN-BREAD BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I've got a brownskin woman: she lives up on that hill Last Line: They cook corn bread for their husbands: and biscuits for their men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORPUS BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: I remember one time people : oh it is in nineteen and twenty-four Last Line: Oh you want to be mean to me woman : give me a good word all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CORRINE CORRINA BLUES, by JAMES BOODLE IT WIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Corrine corrina : where you been so long Last Line: When I'm coming back babe : can't nobody tell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COTTON PICKIN' BLUES, by ROBERT PETWAY Poem Source First Line: She's a cotton-picking woman : lord she does it all the time Last Line: Pick so much cotton now partner : will you forgive me if you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COTTONFIELD BLUES, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to texas : have to ride to rods Last Line: You going to call me : and I'll be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COTTONFIELD BLUES--PART 1, by GARFIELD AKERS Poem Source First Line: I said look a-here mama:what in the world are you trying to do Last Line: And it's trouble here mama: baby good gal I don't know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COTTONFIELD BLUES--PART 2, by GARFIELD AKERS Poem Source First Line: I got something I'm going to tell you: mama keep it all to yourself Last Line: And I just can't remember: babe last old words you said Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COUNTRY BOY BLUES, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: I got a man : a real handsome one Last Line: There's no need to explain : because they really wouldn't understand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COUNTRY FOOL, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I says he's a country man : but that fool done moved to town Last Line: Know he'll say going back to the country : going to sow some more cotton seed down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COUNTRY WOMAN, by WILL BATTS Poem Source First Line: I'm got two women in the country : I'm got two women stays in town Last Line: And she puts *straw* in your mattress : makes you wish you was dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COUNTY JAIL BLUES, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Here I am judge this morning : and here is my forty-five Last Line: May be a good luck to you : because I haven't forgot you yet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COURT HOUSE BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I give him beer : then a glass of ale Last Line: And it all on account : of one trifling man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COURT STREET BLUES, by UNKNOWN+215 Poem Source First Line: Thought I'd get me a picket : off a graveyard fence Last Line: Reason I asks you browny : you about to run me blind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAPSHOOTER'S BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: My baby's a crapshooter : and she shoots them like a man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAVING BLUES, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: Some people crave for loving : some people crave for gold Last Line: When I want to love him : he wants to fuss and fight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAWLIN' KING SNAKE, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yes I'm a crawling king snake : baby I'm going to ??? All around your door Last Line: I'm going to throw my poison : on every pretty woman in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAZY 'BOUT MY BLACK GAL, by CHARLIE PICKETT Poem Source First Line: Now tell me little black gal : what are you going to do Last Line: She was *breaking* and bumming : every man she meet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAZY CRYIN' BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I been going crazy : I just can't help myself Last Line: I'm just as crazy crazy : as a poor girl can be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRAZY WITH THE BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I wake up this morning : just crazy with the blues Last Line: I'm going to the railroad then to the river : oh well well but I don't know which one that I will ch Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CREEPER'S BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : and I looked up against the wall Last Line: You done taken all my money : and now you want to take my life Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROOKED WOMAN BLUES, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: When a man gets down : the trouble lasts always Last Line: That 's s the monday morning : I broke my mama's Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROOKED WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: You can always tell : when your woman don't want you around Last Line: By the great long hair : and the same little dress she wore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROOKED WOMAN BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Oh the way my wife treats me : it sure is a sin Last Line: I got them blues : and I'm sure lord got to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROSS CUT SAW BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Now I'm a crosscut saw : drive me across your log Last Line: You you's a good girl : but you ain't been out long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROSS ROAD BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I went to the crossroads : fell down on my knees Last Line: Lord that I'm standing at the crossroad baby : I believe I'm sinking in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROSS THE WATER BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: I say you got a sweet woman : man which you just don't understand Last Line: I want you talk baby-talk to me : and then suck my tongue cherry red Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROWIN' ROOSTER BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: What makes the rooster : crow every morning before day Last Line: They're not satisfied with a good husband : they want some other woman's man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CROWING ROOSTER, by WALTER RHODES Poem Source First Line: Going to buy me a rooster : put him in my back door Last Line: I can tell my baby : if I see her in the dark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRYIN' FOR THE BLUES, by SAMMY HILL Poem Source First Line: Did you ever wake up in the morning baby : same thing all on your mind Last Line: Sweet mama I haven't my right mind baby : lord since you been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CRYING MOTHER BLUES, by UNKNOWN+212 Poem Source First Line: Dear mother dead and gone to glory : my old dad done strayed away Last Line: If you can't stay with me mother : it must have been your time to leave from here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CUT OUT BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I'm going to cut out my way of living : and I'm going to change my ways Last Line: And when my *toby* tells me : ooo well I'm going to cut in with some good jane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) CYPRESS GROVE BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: I would rather be buried : in some cypress grove Last Line: Well you just getting ready : honey for the cypress grove Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) D B BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Who is that coming : hey with a motor so strong Last Line: Ever since I was old enough to catch a brown : give me the automobile Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DADDY DON'T CARE, by BUDDY MOSS Poem Source First Line: She goes out lord : and stays all day Last Line: Said I know my babe : she ain't treating me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DALLAS BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I've got the dallas blues : and the main street heart disease Last Line: Maybe someone else : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DANGEROUS BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I'm like a red-hot stove : I'm burning down Last Line: I'm red-hot : and dangerous as can be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DARK ROAD BLUES, by WILLIE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: Crying I ain't going down : that dark road by myself Last Line: Crying I was standing right there : police had me barred Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DE KALB CHAIN BLUES, by FRED MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: And I'll tell all you people : that ain't no place to go Last Line: Well I believe to the lord : these going to kill me dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEAD DRUNK BLUES, by LILLIAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: You knowed I was drunk : when I lay down across your bed Last Line: Because when I'm drunk : nothing don't worry my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEAD DRUNK BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Give me houston : dallas is not my crave Last Line: Because when I'm drunk : nothing don't worry my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEAD SHRIMP BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : and all my shrimps was dead and gone Last Line: I couldn't do nothing : until I got myself unwound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH BELL BLUES, by TOM DICKSON Poem Source First Line: Hey hey : death bells in my ear Last Line: That leaves no one : to love and care for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH CELL BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Mmm : chained down in this dark cell by myself Last Line: Inside my breast felt lonely : my baby left my heart in pain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH LETTER BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I received a letter : that my man was dying Last Line: Mama loves you sweet papa : but I just can't take your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH LETTER BLUES--PART 1, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes she wrote me a letter : what you reckon it read Last Line: I love you pretty mama : just can't take your place Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH LETTER BLUES--PART 2, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many high *gate* buggies : were a-standing around Last Line: Don't you feel mistreated : but you won't let on Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH STING ME BLUES, by SARA MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I want all you women : to listen to my tale of woe Last Line: Oh death please sting me : and take me out of my misery Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEATH VALLEY BLUES, by ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP Poem Source First Line: I went down in death valley : among the tombstones and dry bones Last Line: You going to follow poor crudup : down to his burying ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Death Valley DECEITFUL BROWNSKIN WOMAN, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: There's a brown across town : and she's taller as a sycamore tree Last Line: Every time it shakes : it's a sign of my baby's home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DECEIVING BLUES, by BLIND DARBY Poem Source First Line: You deceived me babe : about the things I did not want you to do Last Line: And you going to be sorry : that you done me this a-way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEEP BLUE SEA BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going babe I'm going : and crying won't make me stay Last Line: Don't got nobody now now now : give me my last pair of shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEEP BLUE SEA BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: My man's on the ocean : bobbing up and down Last Line: That's the man that keeps rocking : on the deep blue sea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEEP DOWN IN THE GROUND, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: You hear that rumbling : deep down in the ground Last Line: Now with your hair all tangled : and your clothes ain't fitting you right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEEP SEA LOVE, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I went home last night : and my honey doll was mad Last Line: Because now you know your love done changed : ooo well well that I feel this a-way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DENTIST CHAIR BLUES--PART 1, by LAURA BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I'm having so much trouble : with those tooth ache blues Last Line: Cocaine or soothing liquid : to ease my pain for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DENTIST CHAIR BLUES--PART 2, by LAURA BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I told him : he was grinding into my roots too deep Last Line: But all my pain had left me : he really done me good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEPRESSION'S GONE FROM ME BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: All last winter : and all last fall Last Line: Your black man : ought to get on out of town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DETROIT MOAN, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Detroit's a cold cold place : and I ain't got a dime to my name Last Line: And if I ever get back home : I ain't never coming to detroit no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Detroit, Michigan DEVIL GOT MY WOMAN, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be the devil : to be that woman's man Last Line: But he got lucky : stoled her back again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEVIL IN THE LION'S DEN, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Now my mama's dead : and my papa can't be found Last Line: More you cry : the farer I'll ride away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEVIL SENT THE RAIN, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Good lord send the sunshine : devil he send the rain Last Line: I'm going away : mama don't you want to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEVIL'S GOT THE BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Good morning blues : where have you been so long Last Line: The blues will leave you with murder in your mind : that's when the devil out of hell steps in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DEVILMENT BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Listen here baby : you got devilment on your mind Last Line: If I take you away from your husbands : ooo well well you will leave me for another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DICE'S BLUES, by BOB CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I said dices oh dices : please don't you three on me Last Line: Say I just want to show you honey : just what gambling have done for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DICES' BLUES, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: Yes you know dices oh dices : please don't three on me Last Line: But you know says I've got to win some money : so I can give it to that gal of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIDDIE WA DIDDIE, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: There's : a great big mystery Last Line: Because I talk :about diddie wa diddie too much Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIGGIN' MY POTATOES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Baby's digging my potatoes : tramping on my vines Last Line: Never found a bruised one : till I caught them in my bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DINNER BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I asked my good girl : to feed me some Last Line: Now you know : we're carrying the good work on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIRTY BUTTER, by MINNIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Old aunt dinah : she's a sister of the church Last Line: He's full of whiskey : and take me to the promised land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIRTY DEAL BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : baby something was on my mind Last Line: Please god ??? : make my woman reap righteous seed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIRTY MOTHER FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I ain't no doctor : but I'm the doctor wife Last Line: You done *spread* my *liver* : now you done *broke the rungs* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: District attorney : sure is hard on a man Last Line: He taken me from my woman : caused her to have some other man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DIVING DUCK BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now if the river was whiskey : and I was a diving duck Last Line: If the train don't hurry : going to be some walking done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DO IT RIGHT, by KID WESLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: When your gal gets old : she wants to be alone Last Line: Got a mouthful of kitty : and it's tight like that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DO THAT THING, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: She's long and tall : and wears a diamond ring Last Line: You throws your backbone : clean out of sight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DO YOUR DUTY, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I heard you say you didn't love me baby : *you say you heard* mrs brown Last Line: If I'm tired of sleeping by myself : you too dumb to realize Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOGGIN' ME AROUND BLUES, by JENNY POPE Poem Source First Line: I'm a stranger here : just blowed in your town Last Line: The reason I'm leaving you : I don't like your doggone ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOGGIN' ME MAMA BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: There's no need of you dogging me : mama I ain't done nothing to you Last Line: If you keep on dogging daddy : I sure ain't going the treat you right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOIN' THE BEST I CAN, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: When a man is out working : working hard all his life Last Line: But my woman she *keeps that* on me : I ain't going to work tonight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOIN' THE SCRAUNCH, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Down in dixie : there's a dance that's new Last Line: She do that scraunch : it's good like that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOIN' WRONG, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Take me sweet mama : allow me one more show Last Line: I'm going to pack my suitcase : I'm going to blow this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOING A STRETCH, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I had a fall : five to twenty-one Last Line: I know : still love me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOLLAR BLUES, by ROBERT COOKSEY Poem Source First Line: My woman woke up this morning : dollar in her hand Last Line: Two bits for the monkey : six bits for her man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T ADVERTISE YOUR MAN, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Your head will hang low : and your heart will ache Last Line: Some other woman : sure to take him away from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T CRY BABY, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: Don't worry baby : daddy been here so long Last Line: Don't you worry nothing about me : because I'm coming back home some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T EASE ME IN, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I walk : and sometimes I talk Last Line: They got all the women coming down to the man : *I mean in texas too* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T HANG MY CLOTHES ON NO BARBED WIRE LINE, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I don't want my clothes : hung on that barbed wire line Last Line: Well well now I wonder do she know : that I'm fixing to beatit on back to 'bam Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T KILL HIM IN HERE, by GEORGE THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I went out last night folks : I meant to have some fun Last Line: And don't you take all my money : and please don't kill him in here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T LEAVE ME BLUES, by SPIDER CARTER Poem Source First Line: Don't leave me *don't you* babe : all my clothes in pawn Last Line: You're going to hear : this old lonesome song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T LEAVE ME HERE, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I was standing on the corner : a-talking to my brown Last Line: If she heads to the south great god : she's alabama bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T NEVER TELL NOBODY, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't never tell nobody : what your perfect good man can do Last Line: You just get them anxious : to try some of his good points too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T PUT THAT THING ON ME, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Don't care what you say : don't care what you do Last Line: If you got a good woman partner : you'd better treat her right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T PUT YOUR DIRTY HANDS ON ME, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: If you put your dirty black hands on me : I'm going to put you back in jail Last Line: *pull a number of* women : *to their* mighty few men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T SELL IT, by OSCAR WOODS Poem Source First Line: It was early one morning : about the break of day Last Line: I can get more women : than a passenger train can haul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T SELL IT--DON'T GIVE IT AWAY, by OSCAR WOODS Poem Source First Line: Says it was early one morning : about the break of day Last Line: I got a brand new gal : and I don't want you no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T SHAKE IT NO MORE, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Shimmy-shee-wobble : babe that's all Last Line: Just shake it around and around : don't shake it no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T TAKE A CHANCE, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: It's a crime to take a chance : when you know you can get by Last Line: It's a crime on taking a chance on losing her : ooo well well when you drive her from your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T TRUST NOBODY BLUES, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: I don't trust nobody : but the good lord above Last Line: While that lowdown man of mine : is trying to make his 'fore-day creep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T WAKE IT UP, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Now the girl's got something : I don't know what it is Last Line: You ain't going to get : none of my *peppermint cloth* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T WANT NO WOMAN, by JOE+(1) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dont want no woman : have to give my money to Last Line: That's the way baby : you have *things* to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T WANT NO WOMAN, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: You's a worthless ??? Man : I'll take it all away from you Last Line: Well I'm a good-hearted woman : just trying to get along with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE, by PAPA HARVEY HULL Poem Source First Line: Boat's up the river : running side by side Last Line: Well it's fifteen miles sweet loing babe : memphis to my home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE, by LAURA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't you leave me here : a good gal I've been Last Line: Take a chair and break it over his doggone head : and walk the streets all night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T YOU WANT TO GO, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I heard somebody calling me : papa don't you want to go Last Line: All alone by myself baby : won't be satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DONE SOLD MY SOUL TO THE DEVIL, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: He trails me like a bloodhound : he's quicker than a snake Last Line: Where lions bears and tigers : all come to take their rest Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOODLE HOLE BLUES, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: I'm a little bit worried : getting kind of old Last Line: Get this doodle : it's sure worth the price Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOUBLE CROSSING BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Some men like dogging: I just declare I don't Last Line: She had so many men: she kept me always crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOUBLE DOZENS, by SWEET PEASE SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Now you think : you are smart Last Line: Now you d p aching : just go to Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOUBLE TROUBLE BLUES, by JANE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: When you get in trouble : you can always tell who's your friend Last Line: Sometime I'm happy : most every time I am blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOUBLE UP IN A KNOT, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Go down the river ; there's something new Last Line: See if they can : take your man from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOUGH ROLLER BLUES, by GARFIELD AKERS Poem Source First Line: And I rolled and I tumbled: and I cried the whole night long Last Line: I said that's all right sweet mama: your trouble's going to come some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN HEARTED BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Gee but it's hard to love someone : when that someone don't love you Last Line: I'm going to hold it : until you men come under my command Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN BLACK BOTTOM, by JOE EVANS Poem Source First Line: You go down in black bottom : put your money in your shoe Last Line: Take god to tell : who she been waiting on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN BLACK BOTTOM, by BLACK BOTTOM MCPHAIL Poem Source First Line: Now down in black bottom : that is so they say Last Line: Tell them the black bottom buddy : done been here and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN BOOGIE ALLEY, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Way down in boogie alley : ain't nothing but skulls and bones Last Line: The womens will get your man down there : and they won't let him go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN TENNESSEE, by LONNIE CLARK Poem Source First Line: I'm worried today mama : but I won't be worried long Last Line: I ain't going to let you mistreat me mama : so I won't have to cry no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I've got a man : he had a hound Last Line: If you'll play : that thing for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN IN THE BASEMENT BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Down to the depot mama lord : I looked up on the board Last Line: Because she will hide in the bushes : she is hard to find Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN ON MY BENDED KNEE, by KING SOLOMON HILL Poem Source First Line: Ella ella : down on my bended knees Last Line: I'm worried about my baby : down on my bended knee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm going back down south : man where the weather suits my clothes Last Line: Because my baby she didn't want me : to come way back up here nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm just sitting here thinking : of dear old sunny tennessee Last Line: I'll be so glad : when my train pulls up in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I'm going down south : and I'll stay until winter is gone Last Line: But my gal so mean : I'm scared to call her name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH BLUES, by COLETHA SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to write down home : tell mama to send for me Last Line: He's sleeping with you : but he's loving somebody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the station : and catch the fastest train that goes Last Line: Because I'm broke-down-hearted : got those down-south blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN SOUTH BLUES, by HANNAH SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: I have learned my lesson : believe me I am through Last Line: Because I'm broken-hearted : got those down-south blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN THE BIG ROAD BLUES, by MATTIE DELANEY Poem Source First Line: I can't go down : that big road by myself Last Line: I had a happy home : and I wouldn't stay there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN THE COUNTRY, by LEOLA B. WILSON Poem Source First Line: You ever wake up : just about the break of day Last Line: Walking away from here : these old down the country blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN THE DIRT ROAD BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I'm going away : to the one I know Last Line: I don't carry my rider : going to carry me someone's else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN THE HIGHWAY, by CHARLIE PICKETT Poem Source First Line: Now I'm going to leave here walking : going down highway sixty-one Last Line: Now if I don't be home sunday : ??? Will be home ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN TO SKIN AND BONES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: I say my little woman : got me down to skin and bone Last Line: Because you go with every man : mmm in anybody's neighborhood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN-HEARTED BLUES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Gee, but it's hard to love someone, when that someone don't love you Last Line: Had the down-hearted blues and couldn't be satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWNTOWN BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Hey listen mama : the world is done gone away Last Line: The reason I can *fill it* so careful : because man don't know me there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRAYMAN BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Mr drayman mr drayman : back your truck up to my door Last Line: Say the days seem so lonesome : and the nights so long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DREAM BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Had a dream last night : and the night before Last Line: Since I had that dream last night : mama don't mind dying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds again Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) DREAMING BLUES, by WILLIE REED Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave you : but I'll be bac some old day Last Line: And that man had my woman : lord and the blues had me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRIVE AWAY BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I believe that if I had my sweet woman's heart : in my hand in my hand Last Line: You drove me away : and drove my heart insane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DROP DOWN, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: My old lady coming ; down the line Last Line: Women out there : look like sex of men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DROP DOWN MAMA, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now drop down baby : let your ??? Be Last Line: You know I ain't no stranger : done been here before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DROP DOWN MAMA, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Drop down mama : let daddy see Last Line: Because when you get to chicago : these women walking around here any day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DROP THAT SACK, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now I got a gal : works in the yard Last Line: If you ever come back : you got to drop that sack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRUNKARD'S SPECIAL, by COLEY JONES Poem Source First Line: First night that I went home : drunk as I could be Last Line: Hair on a cabbage head : I've never seen him before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRUNKEN BARRELHOUSE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: If you listen to me good people : I'll tell you what it's all about Last Line: I feel myself getting sober : I want to get back drunk again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRUNKEN HEARTED MAN, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I'm a [poor] drunken-hearted man : my life seems to misery Last Line: But the day you get weak for no-good woman : that's the day that you surely fall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRY LAND BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I can look through muddy water baby : and spy dry land Last Line: What you going to do : when your trouble get like mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRY SOUTHERN BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Well my mind leads me : to take a trip down south Last Line: I got a brown yonder in dallas : I's afraid to call her name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRY SPELL BLUES--PART 1, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: The dry spell blues have fallen : drive me from door to door Last Line: Now ain't nothing to do : bootleg moonshine and rye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRY SPELL BLUES--PART 2, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: It have been so dry : you can make a powderhouse out of the world Last Line: For it's very likely : bound to rain somewhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRY WELL BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: When I was living at lula : I was living there at ease Last Line: Lord you ought to have been there : lord see the womens all leaving town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DUCK YAS-YAS-YAS, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: Mama bought a rooster : she thought it was a duck Last Line: I better stop that noise : before they crack my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DYIN' RIDER BLUES, by ROMEO NELSON Poem Source First Line: I got a letter from my rider : what do you reckon it read Last Line: The way I been treated : I sure will pass away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DYING PICKPOCKET BLUES, by NOLAN WELSH Poem Source First Line: It was in new york city workhouse : *so they called big sam for days* Last Line: I've ruined her health : trying to spring me from this vault Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Pickpockets DYNAMITE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I feel like tramping : from the *great big corral* Last Line: Going down with the whales : and the mermaids make love to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EAGLE EYED MAMA, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: My woman got eyes like an eagle : and she watching me all the time Last Line: If I ever leave here : I must be going insane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EAGLE RIDING PAPA, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Listen everybody : from near and far Last Line: Always have : seven eight or nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EAGLES ON A HALF, by GEESHIE WILEY Poem Source First Line: It's a low it's a low low : lowdown dirty shame Last Line: I love you daddy : want your dollar first Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EARLY EVERY MORN', by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Everybody in this world : got something that they crave Last Line: A funny feeling : goes from my head to my toes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EARLY IN THE MORNING, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Lord when a little girl become twelve years old : begin to think she's grown Last Line: I know you don't love me : you wild about mr so-and-so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EARLY IN THE MORNING NO.2, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: Says me and my good girl : we had a falling out Last Line: Then I turn over and hug the pillow : where my baby used to lay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EARLY MORNING BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Early this morning : my baby made me sore Last Line: The day you try to quit me : baby that's the day you die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EASE IT TO ME BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Some people want to have plenty of money : some want their wine and song Last Line: I'm going to kill everybody : ever treat me mean Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EASIN' BACK TO TENNESSEE, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now woke up this morning : couldn't hardly see Last Line: That's where you get : my nineteen and thirty-two Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EASY RIDER BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Says I wonder where: my easy rider gone Last Line: Say when you get to loving: man I near about to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EASY RIDER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Now tell me : where my easy rider's gone Last Line: You turn your back to quit me : woman and you don't know how Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Railroad Wrecks EASY RIDER DON'T DENY MY NAME, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Going up to town : what you want me to bring you back Last Line: The day you quit me : that's the day you die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ELDER'S HE'S MY SON, by COLEY JONES Poem Source First Line: I washes hard : both day and night Last Line: The police don't get you : now the undertaker must Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ELEVEN TWENTY-NINE BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: She ain't good-looking : but the good gal do go clean Last Line: I'm going to ask that jailor : can I do my good gal's time myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ELM STREET BLUES, by TEXAS BILL DAY Poem Source First Line: Elm street painted in brass : main street painted in gold Last Line: If you want to make a good woman : have to get on *hospital*avenue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ELM STREET WOMAN BLUES, by CARL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Now if you're ever in dallas boy : please visit old elm street Last Line: Lord I'm crazy about my pork and beans : wild about my good beef stew Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ELSIE BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Elsie : is sweetest girl I know Last Line: If your good man don't see you : I'll try to see you tomorrow night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EMPTY BED BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : with an awful aching head Last Line: Else he'll double-cross you %and leave you with them empty bed blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EMPTY HOUSE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: The furniture man : he done been here and gone Last Line: Soon as you get some of my loving : they can't keep you out of town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EMPTY ROOM BLUES, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: My room was empty : and my woman was gone Last Line: You come home feeling very happy : and find only a empty room Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ERIE TRAIN BLUES, by MILTON SPARKS Poem Source First Line: Lord I hate to hear : that erie train whistle when he blow Last Line: That train come and stole my baby people : swear it won't bring her back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ETHEL SINGS 'EM, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: It's getting so I can't sleep for dreaming : and I can't laugh for crying Last Line: It jams everybody : now it's about to jam poor me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERGREEN MONEY BLUES, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: I been drinking all night long baby : mama I ain't going to drink no more Last Line: I allow you don't need no telling mama : babe because you already know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERY MORNING BLUES, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: Says every morning every morning : I wakes with the rising sun Last Line: For you would take my money : then you will slip on home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERY WOMAN BLUES, by ANNA BELL Poem Source First Line: I love my daddy : better than I love myself Last Line: If you take a peep in my back yard : better take a look at mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERY WOMAN'S BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm so worried : down-hearted in mind Last Line: My brown treat me so mean : sometime don't know right from wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERYBODY OUHTA MAKE A CHANGE, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now change in the ocean : change in the deep blue sea Last Line: I change baby : just to keep from being balked Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT SADIE GREEN, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Down in memphis : tennessee Last Line: Some day : I'll see what sadie's got Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Yes yes : worst feeling I ever had Last Line: These old evil blues keep following me : death valley going to be my home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL DEVIL BLUES, by JOHNNIE TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be dead : and in my horrible tomb Last Line: Lord he got lucky : and stoled her back again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL DEVIL WOMAN BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be the devil : be that woman's man Last Line: I tried to be : tried to be a man to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL HEARTED WOMAN, by OSCAR WOODS Poem Source First Line: I had an evil-hearted woman : she mistreated me all the time Last Line: Thinking about you jesse : you have been with someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL WOMAN BLUES, by JAMES BOODLE IT WIGGINS Poem Source First Line: I wake up every morning : with leaving on my mind Last Line: I want to see : if I can find my good gal there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EVIL-HEARTED WOMAN, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: You evil-hearted woman : you got a heart like a stone Last Line: I done took your foolishness long enough : and I don't want you no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EXPERIENCE BLUES, by RUTH MARY WILLIS Poem Source First Line: I once loved a man : that didn't mean me no good Last Line: That's why I'm singing : these old experience blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EXPLAINING THE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Whole world would be forgived me : if I could just explain Last Line: But I'll never be down-hearted : if I can explain these blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EXPRESSMAN BLUES, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I said expressman expressman lord : you have parked your wagon wrong Last Line: I'm going to put this mandolin under my arm : to the ??? *cafe* ill go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAKING BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I got plenty of whiskey : put them up on the shelf Last Line: I thought about my faking jellyroll : come on back to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FALLING DOWN BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I got the blues so bad : it hurts my feet to walk Last Line: If I ever see her : I never turn around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FALLING DOWN BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of standing : on the long lonesome road Last Line: I will meet you some day : when you down in hard luck too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FALLING RAIN BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: The storm is rising : the rains begin to fall Last Line: Every once in a while : think I hear my baby call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FALSE HEARTED WOMAN, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Lying here in prison : longing to be free Last Line: No other false-hearted woman : ooo well well can drive me this a-way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAMILY TROUBLE BLUES, by ANDREW HOGG Poem Source First Line: Well now I have a woman : I try to treat her right Last Line: Well now you have a new man : ooo well well she can't use me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FARE THEE WELL BLUES, by JOE CALICOTT Poem Source First Line: Told me late last fall : you never had no man at all Last Line: Well it's the last chance : shaking in bed with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAREWELL TO YOU BABY, by CARL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving you baby : just because you won't be true Last Line: Farewell to you baby : get yourself a monkey-man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FARRELL BLUES, by HENRY SIMS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to farrell : so I can have my fun Last Line: The blues go away : I am going too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAST STUFF BLUES, by GEORGE THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I keep tough : I'm clean all the time Last Line: You can't get a baby : because you most too old Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAT MOUTH BLUES, by BEN CURRY Poem Source First Line: Do anything mama : tell the truth don't mean no lie Last Line: Some of these days mama : you going to do like I want you to Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FAT MOUTH BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Tell me tell me : please has abybody seen my brown Last Line: Then along come a fatmouth : keep me shaking that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FEATHER BED, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: I went downtown; didn't mean no harm Last Line: Am going across the street ??? : going to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FEED YOUR FRIEND WITH A LONG HANDLED SPOON, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Boy my mother always taught me : to learn to feed my friends with a long-handle Last Line: I quit a thousand dollar woman : *but it wasn't worth*??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FEELIN' BLUE, by DAISY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Does anybody : does anybody feel like me Last Line: If I ever find a way to leave him : if we cannot agree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FENCE BREAKIN' BLUES, by ED SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm going to start a-rambling : ain't going to stop mama from raising sand Last Line: Now you may treat me right babe : that's all I can do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FENCE BREAKIN' YELLIN' BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Here comes two women : I liked to drove them wild Last Line: You can have all this world : but leave my honeycomb home with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIELD MOUSE STOMP, by MINNIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Now use to think : that you are cute Last Line: Trying to be : too hard and rough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIGHTIN' THE JUG, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Went home last night : my baby won't let me in Last Line: Getting sick and tired : of fighting that jug Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FINE AND MELLOW, by ELEANORA HOLIDAY Poem Source First Line: My man don't love me Last Line: It has turned off and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIRE DEPARTMENT BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now go call the fire department : for my house is burning down Last Line: You know little martha hardin's house done burnt down : she done moved on bathurst street Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIRE DETECTIVE BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: My house burning down : the firemen are taking their time Last Line: Reason why it worries me : to hear that fire bell ring Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIRST AND LAST BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I'm just sitting here thinking : thinking about the first Last Line: And maybe people : ooo well well I could get her to understand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIRST SHALL BE THE LAST AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well now the first shall be the last : and the last shall be the first Last Line: If I just could know : ooo well well now what woman treats me the worst Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIRST TIME I MET YOU, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: The first time I met the blues mama : they came walking through the wood Last Line: They give me more hard luck and trouble : then I ever had before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIX IT, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Now when I fix it lady : sure will be mighty good Last Line: I fixed so many of them : all over this neighborhood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIX IT, by JANE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Mr oh mr : can't you fix this thing for me Last Line: So don't have no part missing : I want you to work all night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FIXIN' TO DIE BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I'm looking funny in my eyes : and I believe I'm fixing to die Last Line: And don't leave them screaming and crying : on the graveyard ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLOATING BRIDGE, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I never will forget : that floating bridge Last Line: Lord have mercy : where we going Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLOOD BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: I'm standing in this water : wishing I had a boat Last Line: What else is there : for a poor girl to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLOOD WATER BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It's been snowing forty days and nights : lakes and rivers begin to freeze Last Line: The flood water have broke the levee : and we ain't safe here no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLORIDA BOUND, by EDWARD+(3) THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to florida : where I can have my fun Last Line: Don't you let them bell-bottom : make no fool of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLOWER BLUES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I'd rather see the flowers : growing on top of my baby's grave Last Line: I will work hard and I'll slave : babe I'll bring that money back home to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLYING CROW BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Flying crow leave port arthur : come to shreveport to change her crew Last Line: The red is for trouble : and the green is for my rambling mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FLYING CROW LEAVE PORT ARTHUR : WHY THEY COME IN SHREVEPORT, by UNKNOWN+203A Poem Source First Line: To change their crew Last Line: Well I hate to hear : that old fireman when he tones the bell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FO DAY CREEP, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: You passed my door brown : you won't even look in Last Line: Some are *so ???Ing* : some are so lowdown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOOL'S BLUES, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Some people tell me : god takes care of old folks and fools Last Line: People it don't seem like to me : that god takes care of old folks and fools Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FORTY-FOUR BLUES, by JAMES BOODLE IT WIGGINS Poem Source First Line: I ealked on and on : with my forty-four in my hand Last Line: I wake up every morning : wolves sitting in my door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOUR DAY BLUES, by TOMMIE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Lord it's early this morning : lord about four o'clock Last Line: Lord she'll take bad treatment : and she'll do the best thing she can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOUR DAY HONORY SCAT, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I have a man I can't control : I don't know what to do Last Line: Want you to tell it : to who you choose Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOUR DAY RIDER, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'm a 'fore-day rider mama : riding all night long Last Line: You brought me these blues mama : seems like they're going to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOUR FLUSHING PAPA, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Four-flushing papa : what kind of man is you Last Line: You take it all papa : because it's all yours Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOURTEENTH STREET BLUES, by UNKNOWN+204 Poem Source First Line: Fourteenth street women : don't mean no man no good Last Line: Had the nerve to tell me : another man's got my place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FOURTH AND BEALE, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: And it's hey mama : I'm going to leave your town Last Line: If I can't find roberta : I hope to find lucille Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRANCE BLUES, by PAPA HARVEY HULL Poem Source First Line: Have you ever took a trip : baby on the mobile line Last Line: So you can talk to your daddy : any time when he's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRANK STROKE'S DREAM, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: And I'm going I'm going : and your crying won't make me stay Last Line: When the frank stokes blues come around : I got a place to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREAKISH MAN BLUES, by GEORGE HANNAH Poem Source First Line: Call me a freakish man : what more was there to do Last Line: I'll wake up in the mornings : that feeling will be here to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREE WOMAN BLUES, by JELLY ROLL ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Six bits ain't no dollar: six months ain't no long time Last Line: I'm going to wake up one morning: and have all my glad rags gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREEZE TO ME MAMA, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Said come along mama : give me a hug Last Line: She said daddy : I would like to ride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I hate to hear : that engine blow boo hoo Last Line: When a man gets the blues : he catches a freight train and rides Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I hate to hear : that freight train blow boo hoo Last Line: But the sun's going to shine : in my back door some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I hate to hear : that engine blow boo hoo Last Line: But when a man gets the : he catches a freight train and rides Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRIAR'S POINT BLUES, by ROBERT LEE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Babe I know that you love me : you won't treat me right Last Line: All you want to do : is fuss and fight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRIED PIE BLUES, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: I ain't going down baby : that long road by myself Last Line: Papa weaver got something : find that mojo with Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRIENDLESS AND BLUE, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Don't the world seem lonely : when you got to battle it all by yourself Last Line: The blues skies was my blanket : and the moonlight was my spread Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRISCO BLUES, by BILLIKEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I told the ticket agent : don't let your window down Last Line: That would leave big fat billiken : *walking along out there* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRISCO BOUND BLUES, by JAMES BOODLE IT WIGGINS Poem Source First Line: That frisco train : runs a mile a minute Last Line: Been together so long : now got to get apart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRISCO TOWN, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: That old frisco train : left a mile a minute Last Line: We been together so far : we got to get ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRISCO WHISTLE BLUES, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: Well I saw the frisco : when she left the yard Last Line: I was on the corner : police had me barred Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FROM FOUR UNTIL LATE, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: From four until late : I was wringing my hands and crying Last Line: And when I return again : you'll have a great long story to tell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FROM NOW ON, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: Oh you used to told me : you could drive me like a cow Last Line: From now on mama : I said I'm going to let you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FRONT DOOR BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I knocked on my front door mama: my good gal wouldn't seem to let me in Last Line: Says I'm tired: of being worried with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FROST TEXAS TORNADO BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I was sitting looking: way out across the world Last Line: Does it seem like hell was broke out: in this place below Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Tornadoes FURNITURE MAN, by LIL MCCLINTOCK Poem Source First Line: Well a-this piano : and everything Last Line: Mr cooper had it written down : under my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FURRY'S BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I believe I'll buy me : a graveyard of my own Last Line: Wouldn't rest contented : till I come to tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) FUTURE BLUES, by WILLIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Can't tell my future : and I can't tell my past Last Line: Lord bless that woman : that put that thing on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GAMBLER'S DREAM, by HOCIEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I've traveled traveled : and I've seen Last Line: Don't you let no gamblers : be the ruin of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GARAGE FIRE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: My house on fire : where's that fire wagon now Last Line: I got a cadillac eight : take me anywhere I want to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GARBAGE MAN, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Stick out your can : her comes the garbage man Last Line: Ain't nobody : stick it out like you can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GARDEN OF JOY--BLUES, by ELIZABETH WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: Well take me down : and have a time Last Line: All I want : is [a bottle of, some more] Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GAS MAN BLUES, by JOHN BIRD Poem Source First Line: Oh yes pretty mama : have no money to pay Last Line: I can't help it pretty mama : the gasman don't take no chance Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GAS MAN BLUES, by MAE GLOVER Poem Source First Line: Mr gasman : please don't turn off my gas today Last Line: Mr gasman : you got that old hot bankroll right over there in your pants Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GASOLINE BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: You can always tell baby : when your woman going to treat you mean Last Line: They'll cook *make one* for their husband : they'll chicken for their man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEE, BUT IT'S HARD, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Take me back sweet mama : try me one more time Last Line: Thinking if you die : would that end it all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEORGIA BLUES, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: A certain party : that I know Last Line: Even bought me : a great big diamond ring Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEORGIA BOUND, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Packing my duffle : going to leave this town Last Line: I'll be glad : to get bac to that georgia gal of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEORGIA CRAWL, by HENRY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Run here papa : look at sis Last Line: Do the georgia crawl : till she died away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEORGIA RAG, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Down on atlanta : on harris street Last Line: Singing : these doggone atlanta blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GEORGIA SKIN, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: The reason I like the game : the game they call georgia skin Last Line: Because the womens can play : well so as the men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GERMAN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I believe I'll go back to germany : and pay a deposit gold Last Line: Nobody been here : since your daddy left you home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GET AWAY BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I walked down to the station : fold my troubled arms Last Line: You did something to me : I ain't going to tell nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GET DOWN BROTHER, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Now listen here brother : you may can understand Last Line: And when my wife asked you to do her a favor : you pretend you were asleep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GET IT FIXED, by KATHERINE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Papa papa : let me tell to you Last Line: If you ain't got nothing : please tell me so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GET YOUR HEAD TRIMMED DOWN, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The wind begin to blow : and my baby gegin to knock on my door Last Line: Well now you keep on running around baby : you going to get your head trimmed down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GETTIN' ALL WET, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Woke up my baby : come my love Last Line: Papa's in the rain : getting all wet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GETTIN' DIRTY JUST SHAKIN' THAT THING, by ROMEO NELSON Poem Source First Line: Now sister fooled brother man : and brother *moved down* Last Line: Shake your shoulder ; shake your wig Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GETTIN' READY FOR TRIAL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Down in alabama : we will have a trial Last Line: If you start to fooling : I'll shoot with my gun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIMME A PIGFOOT, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Up in harlem : every saturday night Last Line: Do the shim-sham-shimmy : till the rising sun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIN HOUSE BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the gin house : when the whistle blows Last Line: I want him to drive them off : so they won't come back no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GINE DONE DONE IT, by KID WESLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Going to take my gal : to a social dance Last Line: Get some money : if she have to sell a little coal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIRL I LOVE, SHE GOT LONG CURLY HAIR, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I'm going to brownsville : take that right-hand road Last Line: Go in your kitchen : lord and cook until she come home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIVE YOUR MAMA ONE SMILE, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: I love you baby : ain't gonna tell you no lie Last Line: And love your mama baby : love your mama right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIVING IT AWAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Say I woke up this morning : about the break of day Last Line: I ain't seen my woman : since she leave this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GO AWAY WOMAN, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Last night : and the night before Last Line: You always got me : feeling so blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' AWAY BLUES, by LOTTIE BEAMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going away : it won't be long Last Line: I ain't got nobody : to really comfort me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' AWAY BLUES, by CHARLIE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: One of these mornings : it won't be long Last Line: I wake up in the morning : I can't tell her shoes from mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' BACK TO MY BABY, by TEXAS BILL DAY Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning moaning : with the worried blues on my mind Last Line: When you think you got a good girl : lord she done turn off and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' BACK TO TEXAS, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Oh mercy dear : you caused my heart Last Line: *glory be* : I see that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' BACK TO TEXAS, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: When I lived in texas : doing very well Last Line: ??? : I'm *stopping* to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' TO CHICAGO BLUES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Going to chicago, sorry that I can't take you Last Line: Tell 'em little jimmy rushing, he's been here and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOIN' TO LEAVE YOU BLUES, by BIG BOY CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: The train I ride : burn no coal at all Last Line: Train's down here : track's all out of line Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOING BACK HOME, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Lord wonder : will I ever get back home Last Line: But you will never forget the day : I knocked upon your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOING BACK TO MEMPHIS, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving here mama : don't you want to go Last Line: Because I've got what they call : *the new living here* blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOING DOWN SLOW, by JIMMY ODEN Poem Source First Line: I have had my fun : if I don't get well no more Last Line: Just say your son is gone : I'm out in this world somewhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOING TO GERMANY, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to germa : I'll be back some old day Last Line: Now I'm in trouble : you don't pay me no mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOING TO MOVE TO ALABAMA, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Aah : she's long and tall Last Line: Didn't have no other brown : didn't have no man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GONE DADDY BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I'm going away : I'm going to stay Last Line: I long for my daddy : somewhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GONE DEAD TRAIN, by KING SOLOMON HILL Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm going way down ; lord I'm going to try to leave here today Last Line: Because I'm a traveling man : boys I can't stay here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GONNA HIT THE HIGHWAY, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I'm going to hit this old highway : catch the fastest thing I see Last Line: Now I may not find her in the next twenty years : ooo lord but I'll be forever trying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GONNA PUT YOU RIGHT IN JAIL, by LAURA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Since you gone : and got so rough Last Line: I won't stand : for that caveman stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GONNA TIP OUT TONIGHT, by SIMMIE DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I says go on girl : don't sing them blues to me Last Line: I'm going to tip out tonight : and I'm going to strut my stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD BOY BLUES, by ARTHUR PETTIES Poem Source First Line: When you's a good fellow : they'll always leave you alone Last Line: I was wandering and walking : to see my baby's face Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD CHIB BLUES, by EDITH NORTH JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Ooh : tomorrow I may be far away Last Line: I'm five feet two : lord and that sweet man's five foot three Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD COFFEE BLUES, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: I heard you say this morning mama : that your head was throbbing through and th Last Line: I swear I'll give them good coffee : and won't give them no rotten tea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD FEELING BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: You got a little woman : she won't treat you right Last Line: Wake up mama : loving is just began Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD GAL, by CHARLIE SPAND Poem Source First Line: You wonder why : I treat you so Last Line: I got a new gal : she's tight like that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD GIN BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Good morning friends : I want [me] a drink of gin Last Line: Because I don't care nothing : about oh them revenue men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD LIQUOR GONNA CARRY ME DOWN, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Now I know a little girl : about sixteen years old Last Line: Said if you don't big bill : some other man will carry your business on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD LOOKING GIRL BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Don't you wish : your good girl was long and tall like mine Last Line: I be so glad : I sure can't help but shout Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD LOOKING PAPA BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Oh good-looking papa : where have you been so long Last Line: But there is nothing doing : what you are thinking about Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD MORNING, BLUES, by JIMMY RUSHING Poem Source Last Line: Good morning, how are you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD MORNING, JUDGE, by CARL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: They arrested my baby : accused her of selling moon Last Line: And let my baby : go back home with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD TIME BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : I had the blues three different ways Last Line: Because I got a letter this morning : my baby was coming back home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD TIME FLAT BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Can't sell no whiskey : I can't sell no gin Last Line: No use in grieving : I'm going to leave this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD WOMAN BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Women if you got a good man : give him three good meals every day Last Line: She's my buddy : and I swear she is my pal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOOD WOMAN BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: What makes me love you baby : she loved me when I was down Last Line: Well now I don't care : ooo well if I never see a woman on the street Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOODBYE MAMA MOAN, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: For years and years : I been your hard-working mule Last Line: Don't come back : but treat me like you did before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOODBYE RED, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well goodbye red : now ain't going to cry Last Line: Now because didn't have nobody : to raise no sand nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT A GANG OF BROWNSKIN SWEET WOMEN : GOT A GANG OF HIGH YEL, by PAPA HARVEY HULL Poem Source First Line: Lows too Last Line: And I hope some day : she'll learn to love daddy too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT A LETTER FROM MY DARLIN', by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: I got a letter from my darling : said hurry home Last Line: *easy kind of* walk : *reel and* rock behind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT THE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I walked from dallas : I walked to wichita falls Last Line: Went in to eat my breakfast : and the blues all in my bread Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT THE BLUES CAN'T BE SATISFIED, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Got the blues : can't be satisfied Last Line: You got the blues : and still ain't satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT TO REAP WHAT YOU SOW, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : lord and my baby was gone Last Line: Because the good book says : you going to reap just what you sow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOT YOUR WATER ON, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: I met my gal this morning : long long way from home Last Line: I got a-this old elgin movement : make the springs tremble all on your bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOTTA SHAVE 'EM DRY, by JAMES BOODLE IT WIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Now if you be my sweet woman : tell you what I'm bound to do Last Line: If I keep on worrying about you baby : you know I can't last long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GOVERNMENT MONEY, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now on the farm : they all have joined the government loan Last Line: You know long through the winter : you can have something to eat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRAND DADDY BLUES, by JAYDEE SHORT Poem Source First Line: Now please mr grandaddy : don't crawl up and down my wall Last Line: The reason I feel that way mama : I ain't got nobody to feel my care Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRANDMA'S FARM, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Got up this morning : with the same thing on my mind Last Line: And I got so many women : till the men don't want me around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRANDPA AND GRANDMA BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Grandma got something : make grandpa break his pipe Last Line: Because he broke his pipe : he had forth years ago Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRAVEL CAMP BLUES, by LEWIS BLACK Poem Source First Line: I'm going away tomorrow mama : going out on the cue Last Line: When I had you black gal : you didn't have nobody nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRAVEL ROAD WOMAN, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I don't want no skinny mama : I wants a woman she got on plenty of meat Last Line: I'm going to try to find my woman : I know she's strolling babe on the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRAVEYARD DREAM BLUES, by MATTIE HITE Poem Source First Line: Blues on my mind : blues all around my head Last Line: But when I woke up : I found it was only a dream Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRAVY SERVER, by BUDDY MOSS Poem Source First Line: I've got a woman : she's sweet as she can be Last Line: Said and everything she serves me : she serves it to me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GREEN COUNTRY GAL, by AMOS EASTON Poem Source First Line: Now I talked and I talked : now I ain't got no more to say Last Line: Some day I'll be running : with the biggest shots in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GREEN RIVER BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I went up green river : rolling like a log Last Line: I'm going away : to make it lonesome here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GREYHOUND BLUES, by BILL WILBER Poem Source First Line: Going to catch me a greyhound : going to leave here tonight Last Line: House full of children : ain't nar' one mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRIEF WILL KILL YOU, by LITTLE BUDDY DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Lord grief will kill you : it will get you down to skin and bones Last Line: Boys you better watch them women : because they're just slipping up the kingdom's steps Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRIEVIN' ME BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: I went down on the corner : with my money in my hand Last Line: Someone's in the basement : trying to find the hole Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GRINDER MAN BLUES, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: My name is memphis slim : they call me the grinder man Last Line: Because I'm a very busy fellow : you know they call me the grinder man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GROCERIES ON THE SHELF, by CHARLIE SPECKS MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: My name is piggly wiggly : I've got groceries on my shelf Last Line: Going to miss your daddy : cuddling by your cozy side Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GROUND HOG BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I'm just a walking ground hog : mama and I walks around in my den Last Line: Now if you don't pet me baby : I believe I'll go back down to new orleans Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GUITAR RAG, by FRANK BRASSWELL Poem Source First Line: I long to hear that : old guitar rag Last Line: Take me back : to my home in tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GULF COAST BLUES, by CLARENCE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I've been blue all day, my gal's gone away Last Line: Flow over me someday Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HA-HA BLUES, by ROSIE MAE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Go on old man : don't sing those blues to me Last Line: I'm sick and tired : of your dirty ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HALF CUP OF TEA, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Hey : what do you want your man to do Last Line: Every time I stay with you : *carried* from door to door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HALLELUJAH JOE AIN'T PREACHIN' NO MORE, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Everybody thought : he was through Last Line: Then he wrote another blues : about move your hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAM BONE BLUES, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: Jellyroll jellyroll : jellyroll is so hard to find Last Line: She got the same jellyroll : she had forty years ago Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAM HOUND CRAVE, by RUBIN LACY Poem Source First Line: You can read my letter : now you sure don't know my mind Last Line: And I rock you easier : you straight chair ever done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAMBONE WILLIE'S DREAMY-EYED WOMAN'S BLUES, by HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN Poem Source First Line: I've got a dreamy-eyed woman : lives down on cherry street Last Line: Want me to cut my throat : baby trying to get along with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAMMER BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Going to buy me a hammock : carry it underneath Last Line: I think I heard : the bob lee boat when she moaned Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HANGMAN'S BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Hangman's rope : it's so tough and strong Last Line: And that trifling woman staying : until I breaks my neck Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAPPY BLUES, by TOM DICKSON Poem Source First Line: Just as happy : woman as I can be Last Line: Well my train ain't here : but it's somewhere on the go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAPPY NEW YEAR BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking about the year : of nineteen and twenty-nine Last Line: Because when I take two or three drinks : I'll be drunk the whole year long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD DALLAS BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Go out to santa fe : my baby go down Last Line: When you look for your friend : they will all be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD HEARTED MAMA BLUES, by KID COLE Poem Source First Line: Oh now it's loving : really really wor-worrying me Last Line: Said take your bible pretty mama : and read the days your daddy's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD HEARTED PAPA, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'm a hard-hearted papa : there's nothing pleases me Last Line: And I think they will stay changed : for the rest of my days Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD LUCK BLUES, by HELEN GROSS Poem Source First Line: My man done quit me : he done throwed me down Last Line: Dream about your man : and all your ??? *is gone* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD LUCK BLUES, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Two kind of people in this world mama : babe that I sure can't stand Last Line: Says my brother stole a *ham sand* : the police has locked up me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD LUCK MAN BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: My babe my babe : she don't do no way to comfort me Last Line: If I didn't have good friends : I don't know what would become of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD ROAD BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Keep on walking and walking : talking to myself Last Line: Going to walk this hard hard road : until my mustache drags the ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD ROAD BLUES, by BUDDY MOSS Poem Source First Line: Walking down the hard road : done wore the soles off of my shoes Last Line: Walking these hard roads : going to drive me insane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD SCUFFLIN' BLUES, by LITTLE BUDDY DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Scuffling have got so hard : seem like I can't even make a dime Last Line: But it seem like the *many ways draining* out of me : more and more every day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD TIME AIN'T GONE NO MORE, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: People is [raving, hollering] about hard times : tell me what it's all about Last Line: If some people was like me : they didn't have no money when times was good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD TIME BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm going down to the river : just to see the water run Last Line: Now guess you know : what these hard time is all about Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD TIME KILLIN' FLOOR BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: Hard times here : everywhere you go Last Line: Hard times will drive you : from door to door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD TO RULE WOMAN BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I've got a girl : I wish I could keep her home at night Last Line: That's why : I got them automobile blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD-HEADED BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: A hard-headed woman : just like a bulldog without a chain Last Line: When you got a hard-headed woman : you bound to have the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DOWN, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: If you ever been down : you know just how I feel Last Line: I'm going to find another papa : then I can't use you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT WAY?, by KATHERINE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: You're walking around : no one in sight Last Line: You're talking to yourself : lord but you don't know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HE LIKES IT SLOW, by JOE EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: He likes it slow : when he goes to *play* Last Line: Just like a snail : that man of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HE LIKES IT SLOW, by JOE EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Says I never like to hurry : I just take my time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HE LIKES IT SLOW, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Lord he likes it slow : when he goes to dance Last Line: He always got : the lowdown blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HE'S IN THE RING, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Hey all you peoples going out tonight : just going to see joe louis fight Last Line: Joe louis would take a chance with them : I would put you on your feet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HE'S MINE, ALL MINE, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: He works all day : with all his might Last Line: And he's up every morning : at half past four Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HEAD CUTTIN' BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I believe to my soul : there's a black cat sleeping under my bed Last Line: Says I'm going to go far : take two dollars to send me a postal card Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HEART BREAKIN' BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: Well, I'm going downtown baby : won't be gone so long Last Line: But when I first met you babe : you didn't have no hair at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HEART LIKE RAILROAD STEEL, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: My babe's got a heart : like a piece of railroad steel Last Line: I didn't find me nobody : did not have a man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HEAVY SUITCASE BLUES, by CHARLEY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm so *blurred so blurred* : can't hardly stand to play those blues mysel Last Line: My suitcase is too heavy : to walk down that dusty road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HELL HOUND ON MY TRAIL, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I've got to keep moving : blues falling down like hail Last Line: All I need my little sweet woman : and to keep my company Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HENRY'S WORRIED BLUES, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: My blues start in the morning : and they worries me the whole day long Last Line: But I got another woman : drive my troubles away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HESITATION BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: She has the hesitating stockings : the hesitating shoes Last Line: Have a woman : take me anywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HESITATION BLUES, by JIM JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Hello central : what's the matter with your line Last Line: If you want to hear any more : you'll have to buy this song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HEY HEY DADDY BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Hey hey : your daddy's feeling blue Last Line: I told you what I said : don't you drive the blues away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGH FEVER BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I'm taken down with the fever : and it won't let me sleep Last Line: Doctor said she do me more good in a day : than he would in all of his days Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGH SHERIFF BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: When the trial was in belzoni : it ain't no use to screaming and cry Last Line: Mr purvis on his mansion : he don't pay no mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE: 1, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: The backwater done rose all around sumner : drove [me, poor charley] down the l Last Line: I'm going back to the hilly country : won't be worried no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE: 2, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: The water was rising : up in my friend's door Last Line: I thought I would take a trip lord : out on the big *ice slab* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods HIGHWAY 49, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Well I'm going to get up in the morning : get to highway forty-nine Last Line: Lord I'm tired of laying around : ooo well boys on highway forty-nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGHWAY 61 BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: If you ever been to memphis : you stop down in hollywood Last Line: You know I'm wild about your kind mama : I ain't going to do nothing wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGHWAY NO. 61 BLUES, by WILL BATTS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave here walking : going down number sixty-one Last Line: I'm going to ask the good lord : give me back my baby if he please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGHWAY NO. 61 BLUES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave here walking : I'm going down number sixty-one Last Line: I'm going to ask the good lord : to give me back my baby if you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HIGHWAY NO. 61 BLUES NO.2, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I can hear the hell dog ringing : and the people all a-crying Last Line: That is the reason I am so *love with it* : sixty-one has give me a new start Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HITCH ME TO YOUR BUGGY AND DRIVE ME LIKE A MULE, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: You can hitch me to your buggy : babe drive me just like I was a mule Last Line: Every time I put my hand on her : boy she really get on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOBO JUNGLE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now when I left chicago : I left on that g and m Last Line: Now if you ain't got your fare : that's where they will let you down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOCK MY SHOES, by ROBERT COOKSEY Poem Source First Line: I hocked everything : from my hat down to my shoes Last Line: So now sweet mama : I got those doggone hockshop blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOLD THEM PUPPIES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Nights so lonesome : and the days so long Last Line: I want some of your loving : don't care what you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Last Line: And shone that smile on us and sang Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) HOME WRECKIN' BLUES, by ED SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Oh tell me baby : the way back to your town Last Line: I'm going to leave from here baby : ain't coming back no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De railroad bridge's / a sad song in de air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Railways; Trains HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De railroad bridge's %a sad song in de air Last Line: To keep from cryin' %I opens ma mouth an' laughs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads HONEY, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now it don't make no difference sweet little old honey : a-how you trying to ca Last Line: You fool right around now little old honey : and let me catch you dead to the right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY BABE LET THE DEAL GO DOWN, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Honey babe : please let my deal go down Last Line: Tell me sweet baby : what fault you find on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY BEE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I want you to come on baby : now and take a walk with me Last Line: Now because you said that I was your little honeybee : and I could make your honey just right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY BLUES, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Come and kiss me honey babe : before I go Last Line: And lose his head : about a little piece of tail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY DRIPPING PAPA, by KID PRINCE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Tain't none of my business : but it sure ain't right Last Line: I'd go up on the mountain : call my baby back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY WHERE YOU BEEN SO LONG, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: My honey left me : he's gone away Last Line: Bad luck's *over* my house : ??? Then begine to ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY, I'M ALL OUT AND DOWN, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm broke baby : and I ain't got a dime Last Line: A jet-black woman : make a rabbit hug a hound Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEY, WON'T YOU ALLOW ME ONE MORE CHANCE, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Honey allow me a-one more chance : I only I will treat you right Last Line: One kind of favor I'll ask of you : just allow me just one more chance Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HONEYMOON BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Betty mae betty mae : you shall be my wife some day Last Line: I'm going to take you for a honeymoon : in some long long distant land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOOKWORM BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Hookworm in your body : and your food don't do you no good Last Line: Her man like a hookworm : taking a hold to my babe Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOP HEAD BLUES, by SMOKY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Lord I remember : what my big fat mama said Last Line: To keep papa's little gold *watch-key* : from doing that 'fore-day creep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOPELESS BLUES, by ANNA BELL Poem Source First Line: Is it hopeless : when I lost my best friend Last Line: I want somebody to help me : if you ??? Please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOPPIN' TOAD FROG, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm harmless as I can be : I stays out of all people's way Last Line: I can dive down to the bottom : and take my time and tread right back up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOPPING TOAD BLUES, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: What I give that man, some other woman takes Last Line: Come hopping home one morning and find your sweet mamma gone Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians HOT JELLY ROLL BLUES, by GEORGE+(2) CARTER Poem Source First Line: Jellyroll jellyroll : you can eat it on the fence Last Line: You can ask anybody : on auburn avenue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOT PAPA, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Hot papa : don't keep me waiting so long Last Line: If you were trying : to play me for a fool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOT PAPA BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I ain't good-looking : and I don't dress cute Last Line: I'm just a red-hot papa : just blowed in your town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOT TIME BLUES, by WILLIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Say it makes no difference : what mama don't allow Last Line: Whenever you quit me : I ain't going to take you back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOUSE DANCE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+214 Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you people : some of the grandest news Last Line: I'm going away to leave you : and ain't coming back here at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOUSE RENT SCUFFLE, by LIL JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Play that thing : play that thing just right Last Line: I wouldn't have no lights : but the lightman couldn't get in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW CAN I GO ON?, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: I'm so sorry you heard : I don't know what to do Last Line: I'm sorry for the time : I made you blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW COME MAMA BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: How come you do me like you do baby : how come you do me like you do Last Line: You have to make them : one of your g b v ds Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW DO YOU DO IT THAT WAY?, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Oh when the river runs : flowers are blooming in may Last Line: Oh the hen had chickens : how do they do it that way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW LONG BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone Last Line: How long, how long, how long? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW LONG HOW LONG, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Standing at the station : watch my baby leave town Last Line: Thinking about the trouble : a good man always have Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW LONG?, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: I never never never : can forget that day Last Line: I ain't had no loving : since my baby gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW YOU WANT IT DONE?, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Why don't you tell me loving mama : how you want your rolling done Last Line: Lord I know you going to call me : baby lord and I'll be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOW YOU WANT YOUR ROLLIN' DONE, by LOUIE LASKY Poem Source First Line: Now tell me mama : just how do you want your rolling done Last Line: Because she's three time seven : and she knows just exactly what to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOWLIN' TOM CAT BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now don't you hear me mama : I'm begging at your door Last Line: But most any man : will howl about something like that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOWLING WIND BLUES, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The north wind has begin howling : [and, but] the skies are pretty and blue Last Line: And if it don't : I swear it will always be the same Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOWLING WOLF BLUES--NO. 1, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: I am the wolf that everybody been trying to find out : where in the world I pro Last Line: Seem like he wants me to be a prowler : and a howling wolf all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HOWLING WOLF BLUES--NO. 2, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Baby here I am : down on my bended knees Last Line: Watch the roads dark as night mama : and you liable to see me prowl Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HUNGRY WOLF, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm that hungry wolf : and the ground is where I dug my cave Last Line: Old wolf is hungry now I'm going to do most 'napping : than I done since god knows when Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HUNKIE TUNKIE BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Baby I'm going uptown : tell the chief police Last Line: Head is curly : baby and bushy too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HUNTING BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Said I went out hunting : hunting all *night and day* Last Line: Then you'll set right here : play and begin to sing this song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HURRY AND BRING IT BACK HOME, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: I got them blues : and I can't be satisfied Last Line: You got what I want : so hurry bring it back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HURRY BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: I know this eagle's on a dollar : other side in god we trust Last Line: Then again you hear me singing : sweet atlanta blues to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Hurry down sunshine : see what tomorrow brings Last Line: Two keen long whistles : bid me long farewell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HUSTLER'S BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Whiskey is my habit : good women is all I crave Last Line: I would drink good whiskey : and gamble all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T GIVING NOBODY NONE, by MAE GLOVER Poem Source First Line: My man left me : he left me feeling bad Last Line: I don't care how I do it : doggone heart disease Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T GOIN' TO PLAY SECOND FIDDLE, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you daddy : mama ain't going to sit and grieve Last Line: They you're going : to hang your head and weep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T GONNA BE WORRIED NO MORE, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: You know I worried last night : all night before Last Line: Come home last night : had the back door locked Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T GONNA BE YOUR FOOL, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I work all day long for you : until the sun go down Last Line: And when they get through playing with your heart : and they'll start dragging you all around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T NO ICE MAN, by CHARLES COW COW DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: I ain't no iceman : I ain't no iceman's son Last Line: But I can furnish you plenty of cream : baby until the milkman comes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AM CALLING BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Listen here woman: I'm calling on your name Last Line: When I love my woman: it puts me in a strain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I BELIEVE I'LL DUST MY BROOM, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to get up in the morning : I believe I'll dust my broom Last Line: If I can't find her on philippines island : she must be in ethiopia somewhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I BELIEVE I'LL MAKE A CHANGE, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now I believe : I believe I'll go back home Last Line: Going to turn off this gas stove : I'm bound for a brand new range Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CALLED YOU THIS MORNING, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: I called you this morning : about half past one Last Line: You told me : that it was out of fix Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CALLED YOU THIS MORNING, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I got something to tell you : hope I don't make you mad Last Line: Yes you going to leave your mama : standing in this door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN BEAT YOU PLENTY, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Now if you ever go down south : go down in dixieland Last Line: I am looking for the woman : that ain't got no man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN DEAL WORRY, by UNKNOWN+207 Poem Source First Line: I'm worried now lord : I won't be worreid long Last Line: Say she taking one bite : threw the teacup at my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN TELL BY THE WAY YOU SMELL, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Your hair all wrinkled : and you full of sweat Last Line: Just look at papa out there : on that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN'T BE SATISFIED, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Now listen here my baby : tell you what I want you to do Last Line: I got to pay my wife : for everything I get Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN'T LAST LONG, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Lonesome lonesome : yes I'm sinking sinking sinking down below my grave Last Line: Please don't you wait : for I'll be dead and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I CAN'T STAND IT, by BEN RAMEY Poem Source First Line: Now what are you going to do : when your supper get like mine Last Line: I say where have you been mama : been out selling sweet jellyroll Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I COULDN'T HELP IT, by ALLEN SHAW Poem Source First Line: Well I got up this morning : feeling bad Last Line: The way you got : it's going to be the ruin of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I COULDN'T STAY HERE, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: I went home last night baby : found my good gal there Last Line: I can buy you foresight baby : when the lord ain't give you none Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DO BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: Oh woman I do : god knows I do Last Line: Oh you told me you was going : you was going to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T CARE WHO GETS WHAT I DON'T WANT, by ANNA BELL Poem Source First Line: If that were me : and me was it Last Line: But I think : those days now gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T KNOW, by CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: Got to sit around : for a while Last Line: ??? Things : is got your habits on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T CARE BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I don't know and I don't care : where my loving daddy's gone Last Line: Because I keep : the don't know and don't care blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T LIKE THAT, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: I saw you doing something : don't do it no more Last Line: Begged till daybreak : and I ain't got none yet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T LOVE NOBODY, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I don't want nobody : I want the world to know Last Line: And if he ask to kiss me : I would knock him down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I DON'T WANT THAT JUNK OUTA YOU, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I give you my money : and I ain't ashamed Last Line: I do anything : to give your poor heart ease Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GET THE BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now listen here sweet baby : please listen to me Last Line: Thinking about your loving : mixed with some other man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GET THE BLUES AT BEDTIME, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I get the blues at bedtime : them things don't leave until day Last Line: I think I would get married : baby and I would settle down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GOT EVERYTHING A WOMAN NEEDS, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I've got everything that a woman needs : to make a good man fall Last Line: Then I'll show them how : I can do my stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GOT GOOD TATERS, by CHARLIE BURSE Poem Source First Line: I got a house : way up on the hill Last Line: I've got potatoes : lord they ought to ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GOT SOMEBODY ELSE, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Now you didn't want me : when I was treating you nice and kind Last Line: When I wanted you : you wanted someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GOT TO GO BLUES, by BARREL HOUSE BUCK MACFARLAND Poem Source First Line: I got to go : got to leave my baby be Last Line: You worry me woman : babe I don't know what to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I GOT WHAT IT TAKES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I saved it up : since the lord knows when Last Line: And then you realize : your sweet mama's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I HAD A GAL FOR THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, by ROBERT HILL Poem Source First Line: When the rooster gets to worrying : be brings it to the hen Last Line: You got to find another place : for to park your *rotsy* hips Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I HATE THAT TRAIN CALLED THE M. AND O., by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I hate that train : that they all call the m and o Last Line: To see that m and o train : and me and my daddy part Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND, by JIMMY ODEN Poem Source First Line: I have made up my mind : to explain to you in every way Last Line: I've got a woman in ??? : so you can find you another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I KEEP THE BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: About four this morning : blues come in my door Last Line: Because I'm full of blue : and I have got to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I KNOW YOU GONNA MISS ME, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Well I beg you baby : baby so long Last Line: Going back home to my baby : won't have to cry no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I LAID MY CARDS ON THE TABLE, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I laid my cards on the table : still you wouldn't give me a break Last Line: Now you are too late baby : because someone else in your stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I LET MY DADDY DO THAT, by HATTIE HART Poem Source First Line: Says people call me mama treetop : because I'm slender and tall Last Line: But when any easy riding : goes on here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I NEVER MISS MY SUNSHINE, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: You said you want to leave me : at the door Last Line: Ain't found nobody else to love me : like my loving daddy done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I PACKED MY SUITCASE, STARTED TO THE TRAIN, by JENNIE CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: It is up to you baby : do anything that you want to do Last Line: You are three times seven : you know just what you want to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I PACKED MY SUITCASE, STARTED TO THE TRAIN, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Hey black folks is evil : do anything that you want to do Last Line: I wouldn't hurt so bad mama : but you had another man just the same Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I RAISED MY WINDOW AND LOOKED AT THE RISIN' SUN, by OLLIE RUPERT Poem Source First Line: Lord early one morning : just about the break of day Last Line: It's a hard-driving papa : just as sure as you born Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I SEE MY GREAT MISTAKE, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I've got something to tell you baby : don't let it break your heart Last Line: Found out you acting funny : I'm sure going to let you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANT IT AWFUL BAD, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You get mad : someone call your name Last Line: You squeezed my lemon : caused my juice to run Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANT MY SWEET DADDY, by HANNAH SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: Every night : when I go to bed Last Line: That's the reason : why he makes a fool out of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANT MY SWEET DADDY NOW, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Folks I'll tell : that he's not my regular man Last Line: He gives me plenty loving : treats his mama right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANT PLENTY OF GREASE IN MY FRYING PAN, by MARGARET CARTER Poem Source First Line: You know I use plenty grease : every day Last Line: I said sweet papa : put some grease in my pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANT YOU TO KNOW, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby I want you to know : babe I want you to know Last Line: I don't mean you no more good : now please get you another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WANTA TEAR IT ALL THE TIME, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Tear it long : tear it wide Last Line: You know by that : I didn't tear it just right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WHIPPED MY WOMAN WITH A SINGLE TREE, by TEWEE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I said my woman : had a falling out Last Line: Every time she walks : she leaves a lot behind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WILL TURN YOUR MONEY GREEN, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: When I was in missouri : would not let me be Last Line: Woman I love : she don't pay me no mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I WON'T BE IN HARD LUCK NO MORE, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I said goodbye baby : oh yes I got to go Last Line: I got a gal in east st louis : she lives in polack town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL BE GONE LONG GONE, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I beg you baby : to treat me right Last Line: But some day baby : you'll long for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL BE UP SOME DAY, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I've been traveling mama : all by myself Last Line: But I got another little sweet woman : and I don't want your three sixty-nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL GET ALONG SOMEHOW, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave here : walking too Last Line: You taken my money : and gave me the air Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL GO WITH HER BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I'll go with her I'll follow her I will : to her burying place Last Line: Makes me think about that song : my baby used to sing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Say I feel myself : falling again Last Line: In the same hole : that I once was in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL OVERCOME SOME DAY, by MISSISSIPPI BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Worked all the summer : and all the fall Last Line: Somebody : stole my little all-in-all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SPRING WHEN THE BIRDS BEGIN TO SING, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: And I'm going away : just to wear you off my mind Last Line: You keep me troubled : honey all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M A BACK BITIN' MAMA, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I'm a backbiting mama : looking for a cheating man Last Line: I learned backbiting : when I went to school Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M A GUITAR KING, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: I'm a guitar king : singing the blues everywhere I go Last Line: Crazy about a married woman : afraid to call her name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M A RATTLESNAKIN' DADDY, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : about half past four Last Line: Half past nine : I'm going to rattle again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M A REAL KIND MAMA, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I'm a real kind mama : looking for a loving man Last Line: At morning noon and night : that's all I'm thinking of Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M A STEADY ROLLIN MAN, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I'm a steady rolling man : I roll both night and day Last Line: Well boys she get rambling in her brain : mmm some other man on her mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M ALABAMA BOUND, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Stood on the corner : feet got soaking wet Last Line: Just before you and your partner get ready to go : leave a dime for her Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M AN OLD BUMBLE BEE, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I am an old bumblebee : a stinger just as long as my arm Last Line: And they all crying bumblebee : you know it hurts so good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M DOWN IN THE DUMPS, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: My man's got something : he gives me such a thrill Last Line: I need a whole lots of loving : because I'm down in the dumps Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M FEELING LOW DOWN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I've got the blues : I feel so lowdown Last Line: Because I love my baby : *and there's such a good time* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GETTING WILD ABOUT HER, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Good morning judge : he done lowered the fine Last Line: Daddy wild : about my heavy stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GOIN' TO ST. LOUIS, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Well trouble start this morning : at my front door Last Line: But you wouldn't try : to treat me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GOING BACK HOME, by JOE+(1) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh mercy dear : you cause my heart Last Line: Day you leave me : that's the day you die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GOING BACK HOME, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: When I was born : I was resting at ease Last Line: Know when you had your money : thought that you wouldn't get broke Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GONNA CUT OUT EVERYTHING, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I have cut out my way of living : I have changed my ways Last Line: And if my money lasts me : ooo well I know I won't have to cut it with no-good jane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GONNA GET IT, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Say the holdup man ; says don't act tough Last Line: Makes no mistake : yes I'm running wild Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave you baby : out here on the outskirts of town Last Line: Now we got seven children : ain't none of them look like me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GONNA MOAN MY BLUES AWAY, by BLIND RICHARD YATES Poem Source First Line: I went to the gypsy : to have my fortune told Last Line: I done moaned I done groaned : moaned my blues away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M GONNA TEAR YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: You only had : a boot and a shoe Last Line: Because mama's going to stop you : with a *blue steel bill* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M LEAVIN' TOWN, by WILLIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Yeah mean mama : where you stay last night Last Line: Easy mama : no good bearing down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M NOT THE LAD, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: You are the same girl : I met in nineteen hundred and four Last Line: You are a lying sweet woman : so get up and out of that mud Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M NUTS ABOUT THE GAL, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Now she ain't good-looking : she don't dress fine Last Line: But I believe to my soul : she put that thing on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M NUTS OVER YOU, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If love is a crime then I'm guilty : but there's nothing I can do Last Line: After all the good women in this world : why did I have to fall in love with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M ON MY WAY BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I was standing on the corner : and I was wringing my hands Last Line: Yeah the good book do tell you : ooo that crime do not pay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M SIITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: The day you left me : you throwed me down Last Line: I write you a letter : come sneaking back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M SO GLAD I'M TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD TODAY, by JOE DEAN Poem Source First Line: Well I'm so glad : I'm twenty-one years old today Last Line: Lord I'm three times seven : I'm going to have my way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M SO TIRED OF LIVING ALL ALONE, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Although we are drifting : so far apart Last Line: My arms may be empty : but never down in my heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: You can quit me : do anything you want to do Last Line: Want me to be your mammy : and your doctor too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU--NO. 2, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: You up and quit me : do anything you want to do Last Line: Want me to be your mammy : and your doctor too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M TIRED OF BEING MISTREATED, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Ain't going to cut no kindling : ain't going to buy no corn Last Line: You must have found something : to keep you away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M WAITIN' ON YOU, by AMOS EASTON Poem Source First Line: Come here pretty mama : come here right now Last Line: There many more women : just rearing to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M WASTING MY TIME ON YOU, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: I'm so down-hearted : feeling sad Last Line: Hard luck and trouble : meets me at the door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M WILD ABOUT MY LOVIN', by JIM JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell the sergeant : *he the* chief of police Last Line: I'm going to see my gal : and it won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M WILD ABOUT MY STUFF, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: All of my chicken : is dressed mighty fine Last Line: Kansas joe : been here and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'VE BEEN TREATED WRONG, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I don't know my real name : I don't know when I was born Last Line: I'm too old for the orphan : and too young for the old folks' home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'VE GOT BLOOD IN MY EYES FOR YOU, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I was out this morning : feeling blue Last Line: You ain't going to get : none of my santa claus Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'VE GOT FORD MOVEMENTS IN MY HIPS, by CLEO GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I've got ford movements in my hips : ten thousand miles guarantee Last Line: Take a ford engine boys : to do your stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'VE GOT TO DIG YOU, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Going to tell you women: and it goes for the men Last Line: I'm going to plant you now woman : but I will dig you later Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'VE STOPPED MY MAN, by HOCIEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I know you love me : daddy it's understood Last Line: *since my mother* : put that thing on you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I.C. BLUES, by JELLY ROLL ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Trouble trouble: ever since I been a man Last Line: I'll be back to see my baby: but the lord only knows when Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ICE AND SNOW BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to build me a castle : out of ice and snow Last Line: After all your mistreating : no one can take your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ICE AND SNOW BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: This winter babe : going to be ice and snow Last Line: And the ??? : didn't have no : baby have no place to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IDA COX'S LAWDY, LAWDY BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Tell me pretty daddy : what's the matter now Last Line: That to hear the man I love : say I don't want you no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I DIDN'T LOVE YOU, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Baby what's the matter : why don't you be yourself Last Line: If I didn't love you : I'd get somebody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I GET LUCKY, by ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP Poem Source First Line: That's all right mama : that's all right for you Last Line: I'm going back to mississippi : lord now where I belong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I HAD POSSESSION OVER JUDGMENT DAY, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If I had possession : over judgment day Last Line: I want to tell you : all about the way they treated me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT ONCE YOU'LL DO IT ALL OF TIME, by MARGARET+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You said you's going to leave me : but I don't care Last Line: But when you came home : you didn't know the name of the play Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I LOSE, LET ME LOSE, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I got on : my walking shoes Last Line: In the jail : would be my end Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF I'M A FOOL, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: You say I'm a fool : and everyone knows Last Line: I love him : and darn the rest Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF YOU HAVEN'T ANY HAY GET ON DOWN THE ROAD, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: If you haven't any hay : get on down the road Last Line: You'll find me riding : mama lord lord in this world somewhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF YOU WANT A GOOD WOMAN--GET ONE LONG AND TALL, by WILEY BARNER Poem Source First Line: If you want a good woman : go to the larkin dam Last Line: Well I had a high fever : going up to my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IF YOU WANT ME TO LOVE YOU, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Now if you want me to love you : here's what you got to do Last Line: Send me a telegram : that your heart is dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IGGLY OGGLY BLUES, by SMOKY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: So soon this morning mama : you were knocking on my door Last Line: Says I'm going too far baby : that you can't hear me say Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IN MY GIRLISH DAYS, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Late hours at night : trying to play my hand Last Line: I had to travel : before I got wise Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IN THE HOUSE BLUES, by BESSIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Setting in the house with everything on my mind Last Line: They runs around my house in and out of my front door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) INS AND OUTS OF MY GIRL, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Says my baby got something : I don't know what it is Last Line: Says I want you to come : and do my loving in my own home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) INSURANCE MAN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+219 Poem Source First Line: Insurance man came this morning : and knocked on my door Last Line: Ain't got no money : now my insurance is due Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) INSURANCE MAN BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Every monday morning : people the insurance man knocking on my door Last Line: Well I say I don't live up north : my home is back down in tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) INSURANCE POLICY BLUES, by ? SMITH Poem Source First Line: I said hey hey insurance man : quit knocking on my door Last Line: You haven't done no ways : like that old policy read Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) INTERURBAN BLUES, by BILLIKEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Standing here a-wondering : will that car pass my way Last Line: She throws her arms around me : like the circle around the sun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT AIN'T WHAT YOU USTA BE, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You see it ain't what you used to be baby : it's what you are today Last Line: She treats me so cold sometimes : I think she got somebody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT LOOKS BAD FOR YOU, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I tried to get you ; to stop raising sand Last Line: Don't you looking : for me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WON'T ACT RIGHT, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: I take my gal out : to a dance one night Last Line: I told her : to let my thing alone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WON'T BE LONG, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: I aim to take my gun : ??? In your face Last Line: Don't you forget : how I went away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WON'T BE LONG, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I believe sweet mama : going to do like she say Last Line: She gets up before day : and she puts that thing on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WON'T BE LONG NOW, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Some day you'll wan't me : and it won't be long Last Line: Some day you'll want me : and it won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WON'T BE LONG NOW, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: One of these mornings : mama and it won't be long Last Line: You get a call before down : wake up and try to do your best Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT WOULDN'T BE SO HARD, by WHISTLIN' ALEX MOORE Poem Source First Line: I get up early every morning : to toil the whole day through Last Line: I don't know that she loves me : but still she calls me her southpaw Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S A CRYING PITY, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: It's a crying pity : a lowdown dirty shame Last Line: Because you going with the man : that lives right in my neighborhood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S A FIGHT LIKE THAT, by ROBERT COOKSEY Poem Source First Line: Now right is right : wrong is wrong Last Line: You see women : give money to men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S A GOOD LITTLE THING, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Look a-here mama : just a word or two Last Line: She gets kissing : like a shaggy dog Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S A GOOD THING, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now when I was young Last Line: But all the darn women : got more than one Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S A PAIN TO ME, by LONNIE CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I've had a funny feeling : all day and all night Last Line: Get well away from home : then it will roll across your mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S ALL OVER NOW, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: When I had you baby : you wouldn't act right Last Line: I looked for you baby : you could not be found Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S COLD IN CHINA BLUES, by UNKNOWN+210 Poem Source First Line: So cold in china : birds can't hardly sing Last Line: Quit being so reckless : be my baby child Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S HARD TIME, by JOE STONE Poem Source First Line: And it's hard time here : hard time everywhere Last Line: She don't call so lonesome : but she calls *my name* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S HARD TO BE MISTREATED, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Well it's hard to be mistreated : when you ain't done nothing wrong Last Line: But every man I love : don't seem like he want to pay me no mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S HARD TO PLEASE MY MAN, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: You keep me thinking : and wondering all the time Last Line: Soon as I get cold in hand : you be ready to kick me out Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S HEATED, by FRANKIE HALF PINT JAXON Poem Source First Line: Folks I'm going to tell you : about a brand new song Last Line: But I can keep your boiler hot : till the superintendent come Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S RED HOT, by MADLYN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Now you talk about rags : boys but you ought to hear mine Last Line: Now blow it boys : you know it's just too bad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S SWEET LIKE SO, by TEDDY BUNN Poem Source First Line: Three pickaninnies : eating sugar-cane Last Line: *black hair* : *for my prejudice* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S TIGHT LIKE THAT, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: Listen here folks : I'm going to sing a little song Last Line: We was seeing a film : when they broke it off Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) IT'S TOO SHORT, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now I'm down and out : ain't got no friends around Last Line: I'm just a little skinny fellow : and a player is strong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) J. C. JOHNSON'S BLUES, by T. C. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was born in the state : of old arkansas Last Line: For he's the bootlegging fellow : your *turkey* sure can swing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) J.C. HOLMES BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Listen people : if you want to hear Last Line: I been mistreated : and I don't mind dying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JACK AND JILL BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now the sun going to shine : in my back door some day Last Line: Now me and my baby : was playing old jack and jill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JACK O'DIAMONDS BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Jack of diamonds : you appear to be my friend Last Line: He would play dice and cards : and his game was old cooncan Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JACKSONVILLE BLUES, by NELLIE FLORENCE Poem Source First Line: Let me be your wiggler : until your wobbler come Last Line: But the man I'm loving : lives down in jacksonville Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JACKSONVILLE--PART 2, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to write you a letter : my wife and I ain't going to do right no more Last Line: Lord I'm going down the country : let you have mr so-and-so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAIL BREAK BLUES, by UNKNOWN+217 Poem Source First Line: The rising sun : will never catch me here Last Line: Get me some cold-hearted man : I'm jailhouse bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAIL HOUSE BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: When I was lying in jail : with my back turned to the wall Last Line: I believe I'll lay down : take morphine and die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAIL HOUSE BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: Oh look like : I can see trouble in the air Last Line: When I come back here woman : you going to have me some more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAIL-HOUSE BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Thirty days in jail : with my back turned to the wall Last Line: Say I just come here : to have a few words with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAILHOUSE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I was sitting in jail : with my eyes all full of tears Last Line: Now you ought need not feel uneasy : you won't have to take this workhouse advice Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAILHOUSE FIRE BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Hey mr jailor : don't sleep so sound Last Line: *and hey* mr jailor : I hope the jailhouse burns down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAKE LEG BLUES, by WILLIE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: I say jake leg jake leg jake leg : tell me what in the world you going to do Last Line: Because he done drunk so much jake oh lord : till they got the *lemon leg* too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAMES ALLEY BLUES, by RICHARD RABBIT BROWN Poem Source First Line: Times ain't now : nothing like they used to be Last Line: Then another time I think : you ought to be buried alive Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JASPER'S GAL, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: How he's got a gal : she's shaped like a hog Last Line: And she thinks soap and water : is a doggone crime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAZZBO BROWN FROM MEMPHIS TOWN, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't you start no crowing : lay your money down Last Line: There ain't nothing on that horn : that old jazz can't do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAZZONIA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silver tree! Last Line: Six long-headed jazzers play. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JEALOUS HEARTED BLUES, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: You can have my money : all I own Last Line: If I catch you with a man : going to be too tight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JEALOUS HEARTED BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: You can have my money : everything I own Last Line: To keep my man : from making his midnight creep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JEALOUS MAMA BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I got the blues : blue as blue can be Last Line: If you take my man : sure going to wake up dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JEFFERSON COUNTY BLUES, by SAM BUTLER Poem Source First Line: If you wants your man : keep him out of birmingham Last Line: Because I'm going up the country : mama how bad *I feel* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JELLY ROLL MILL, by EITHEL SMITH Poem Source First Line: I sold some jelly : to a man named will Last Line: If you have to have jelly : you won't have to steal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JELLYROLL, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I went to the gypsy : get my fortune told Last Line: I'm going to the river : I'm going to jump overboard and drown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JENNY'S BALL, by MAMIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: There's a man in town : who's called the ladies' lover now Last Line: There'll be no preachers : at miss jenny's ball Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JERSEY BULL BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: If you got a good bullcow : you ought to keep your bull bull at home Last Line: I were way upstairs : throwing myself away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JESSE JAMES BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I wonder if you going to mistreat me woman : good as I have been to you Last Line: Because this is jesse james : and you should not tell him a lie Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIG HEAD BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I stay drunk so much : I can't tell night from day Last Line: Because I drink so much : I can't hardly see Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIM JACKSON'S JAMBOREE--PART I, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: Nobody knows : old memphis like I do Last Line: Don't bring her to memphis : jim jackson will take them away from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIM STRAINER, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Oh jim strainer told lula : on a friday night Last Line: Jim strainer killed poor lula : I'm booked out and bound to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIM TAMPA BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Hey jim tampa : you treat your women so mean Last Line: Give a gander the way : jim tampa used to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIVE ME BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: You can jive me baby : but I don't believe a thing you say Last Line: You can tell by that : I won't be here long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JOE LOUIS AND JOHN HENRY, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well well I was sitting in madison square gardens : now to justwatch the big fi Last Line: Well well and I bet my fifty cents on joe : ooo well in no time I won my fifty cents back again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JOE LOUIS BLUES, by CARL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Now listen all you prize fighters : who don't want to meet defeat Last Line: Take a tip from me : stay off joe louis' beat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JOHN BERRYMAN LISTENING TO ROBERT JOHNSON'S 'KING OF THE DELTA BLUES', by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a dead man? Am I a dead man? Last Line: The gin with ice cube, lemon twist Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Blues (music); Jazz; Johnson, Robert (1913-1938); Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers JOLIET BOUND, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: How these police coming : with his ball and chain Last Line: Now I done got on that dock : and I'm joliet bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Joliet, Illinois; Prisons And Prisoners JUDGE HARSH BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Good morning judge : what may be my fine Last Line: Lots of people had justice : and been in penitentiary too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JUMP STEADY DADDY, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Jump steady daddy : please take your time Last Line: And the way he jumps steady : it's just too bad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JUMPIN' AND SHOUTIN' BLUES, by GARFIELD AKERS Poem Source First Line: Lord I know my baby: sure going to jump and shout Last Line: Says I know it's something: gal it aint no use Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JUNGLE MAN BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Ain't nothing in the jungle : that's any better than me Last Line: Because ain't nothing in the jungle : that's any better than me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JUST ROCKIN', by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Rocking : rocking myself to sleep Last Line: I'm going to rock right here : until the break of day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JUST WANT TO TALK AWHILE, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Now I walked over to the table : and I picked up my telephone Last Line: Lord I wonder is she listening : and won't even answer me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) K.C. MOAN, by TEWEE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I thought I heard that k c : when she blowed Last Line: Going to love my baby : like I never loved before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) K.C. RAILROAD BLUES, by JIM BAXTER Poem Source First Line: Thought I heard : old k.C. When it blowed Last Line: I'm going to talk : to that brown of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KANSAS CITY BLUES, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Boy I got three high yellows : one black and brown Last Line: Your hair's all wrinkled : that they beating you right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KANSAS CITY MAN BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Soon I will be : kansas city bound Last Line: It's all on account of : taking one woman's man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KANSAS CITY PAPA, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to kansas city : I'm going to lower my line Last Line: I tell you about the troubles : that your sister had Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KATY FLY, by ELIJAH JONES Poem Source First Line: I was standing at the station : wondering what train boys must I ride Last Line: Now every time I get to studying about my sweet woman : boys I can hardly keep from crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KATY MAE BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Katy mae's a good-looking woman now : but she stays out all night long Last Line: Katy mae won't do nothing : oh but walk the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEEP IT CLEAN, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: I went to the river : couldn't get across Last Line: See what's the matter : with his yas yas yas Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEEP IT CLEAN--NO. 2, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: I runned to the river : runned so fast Last Line: Every time you see me : you looking for some soap Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Boy she strictly tailor-made : boy she ain't no hand-me-down Last Line: Because the day I catch you with her : boy that's the day you're going to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEEP YOUR WINDOWS PINNED, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Keep your back door locked : baby keeps your windows pinned Last Line: And I think it's time for me : to make my get-away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KELLY'S 44 BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Lord I say good morning mr pawnshop man : as I walked in his door Last Line: Before I'll be mistreated : I'm going to shoot my forty-four Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KENTUCKY BLUES, by BIG BOY GEORGE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I'm worried today : lord and I'm worried in mind Last Line: I woke up this morning : baby and feeling bad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEY TO THE HIGHWAY, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I got the key to the highway : billed out and ready to go Last Line: I'm going to roam this highway : until the day I die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEY TO THE HIGHWAY, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I'm going to ask the good lord : what evil have I done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEY TO THE MOUNTAIN BLUES, by MARY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My man's in the mountain : and I've got the mountain key Last Line: Oh my man's in the mountain : and I've got the mountain key Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEYHOLE BLUES, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Well I followed my woman : to a place she didn't want me to be Last Line: And I seen something : that I did not want to see Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KID MAN BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now my [old] heart is ticking : just like a clock up on the wall Last Line: When I go away to leave you : I will stop by to see you sometime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KID MAN BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: Papa papa : something's going on wrong Last Line: My kid-man don't want nobody : to talk to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KID MAN BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Baby when I was all down and out : you just could not be found Last Line: I am ??? : so don't bring your blues to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KIND HEARTED WOMAN BLUES (VERSION 1), by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got a kind-hearted woman : do anything in this world for me Last Line: You have to kill me : just to have it on your mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KIND HEARTED WOMAN BLUES (VERSION 2), by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got a kind-hearted woman : do anything in this world for me Last Line: I can't give any more of my loving : because I just ain't satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KIND MAMA, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: She's a real kind mama : looking for another man Last Line: Think my baby : trying to eagle rock Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KING OF SPADES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I'm the king of spades : and the women takes on over me Last Line: Then again I will scratch for you little mama : ooo well well like a rooster scratch for a hen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KING SPIDER BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Let me be your king spider : I want to build my web on your wall Last Line: And now the way that I feel this morning : ooo well really now I got to ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KINGFISH BLUES, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: Little minnows in the river : kingfish in the deep blue sea Last Line: That's why so many women : crying those kingfish blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KNOCKIN' MYSELF OUT, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Listen girls and boys : I've got one stick Last Line: But it's the only thing : ease my heart about my man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KO-KO-MO BLUES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: Now my first love is in texas : my [next one, second] lives in kokomo Last Line: And you know : that you have I say done me wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KOKOMO BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: Mmm : baby don't you want to go Last Line: My train is ready : and I'm going to kokomo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KYLE'S WORRIED BLUES, by CHARLIE KYLE Poem Source First Line: I'm worried now : but I won't be worried long Last Line: I saw two little monkeys : doing the monkey jellyroll Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) L AND N BLUES, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The l and n is a fast train : also that I n c n Last Line: When she left me good people : she rode that l and n Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LABOR BLUES, by TOM DICKSON Poem Source First Line: Said good morning captain : said good morning shine Last Line: For your shoes unfastened : and your skirt don't fit you right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LADY, YOUR CLOCK AIN'T RIGHT, by KI KI JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Every man that comes to see you : in this neighborhood Last Line: It used to be on the *centre* : close to your back door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LANGSTON BLUES, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your lips were so laughing Last Line: Long gone sour %for langston hughes Subject(s): Blues (music); Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) LAPLEGGED DRUNK AGAIN, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I've been drinking all night long : I've started again today Last Line: Love will drive you to many places : sometimes where you don't belong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated / arm torn out Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated %arm torn out Last Line: I'm not the same as I used to be %this is my last affair Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) LAST CHANCE BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: I said hey baby : I give you your last chance Last Line: I done everything baby : can't get along with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST CHANCE BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: I said hey mama : I'll give you your last chance Last Line: I begun ??? *to worry* : that's just what I should Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST DIME BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I once have had money : but now I'm down to my last dime Last Line: Well now don't be no fool : ooo well well and give it to her all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST FAIR DEAL GONE DOWN, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If you cry about a nickel : you die about a dime Last Line: She wouldn't cry : but the money ain't mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST GO ROUND, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Hey listen at me mama : don't be all night Last Line: And she treats me nice : around her house Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST MINUTE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Minutes seem like hours : hours seem like days Last Line: Tell them you don't know the writer : but ma rainey put it on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAST TIME BLUES, by CHARLIE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Babe just as sure as a blackbird : flies in the skies above Last Line: It may be my last time baby : knocking on your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAUGH AND GRIN BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now when you happy mama : everybody smiles with you Last Line: Says you need not ask for no small favors : just go ahead laugh and grin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAW GONNA STEP ON YOU, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I done told you told you : I told you too Last Line: You better draw : your business in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAWDY LAWDY WORRIED BLUES, by BLIND DARBY Poem Source First Line: What's on your worried mind Last Line: You're the only woman : can give my poor poor heart ease Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAWYER CLARK BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now got offices in town : resident out on *sentry* road Last Line: He the first man that proved : that water run upstream Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAZY MAN BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Wake up man : see how bright the sun does shine Last Line: Because you's the laziest man : that I ever had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LAZY WOMAN'S BLUES, by BLANCHE CALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: A lot of these women : too lazy to put up with none of good man's dirt Last Line: But the truth *is* ??? : and I surely have to carry it on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAD HEARTED BLUES, by BERTHA HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Baby baby : I am so lonesome for you Last Line: Blues is driving me crazy : must be reaping what I sow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVE MY MAN ALONE, by JANE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Didn't get this man : for nobody else Last Line: Mama I'm going to : kill you dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVENWORTH PRISON BLUES, by BO JONES Poem Source First Line: I ain't go no money : nobody will loan me none Last Line: Says I done killed my rider : and I got them leavenworth blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVIN' HOME, by WILLIE REED Poem Source First Line: I'm going to leave you : leaving some old day Last Line: Girl that's the very reason : I'm bound to jail today Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVIN' TOWN BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Now I tell you mama : now I'm sure going to leave this town Last Line: I can't live over here mama : a long way from my home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVING HOME BLUES, by WALTER RHODES Poem Source First Line: Well I dreamt a dream : I never dreamt before Last Line: Well the life you're living : honey'll be the death of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEAVING TOWN BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Now I'm leaving town baby : because you know you treats me wrong Last Line: And I won't be dead : baby but I ain't coming here no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LECTRIC CHAIR BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I walked to the jail with my partner : asked him how come he's here Last Line: There wasn't no blood left in my heart : and they brought my electrocuted daddy to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEFT ALONE BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: I said the woman I'm loving : caught the train and gone Last Line: Mama sure as I told you : I fall down on my knees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEGACY, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the south, sleeping against Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Blues (music) LEMON'S WORRIED BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell you why : I got lemon's lowdown worried blues Last Line: His man better watch his footsteps for the hen : now doggone his ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEND ME YOUR LOVE, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now lend me your love : baby please lend me your love Last Line: But some day I'm going to find another woman : is going to buy your love mortgage out Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET HER GO, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I have never been worried : like I'm worried today Last Line: I did not think my baby : would go out and stay all night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET ME IN YOUR SADDLE, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: You is built for speed : and fast just like twenty grand Last Line: I'm a good jockey rider : and I don't stay there too long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET ME PLAY YOUR VENDOR, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: First time I heard your music : I was just sixteen Last Line: I can't play it right now : I'll play it later on tonight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET ME ROLL YOUR LEMON, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now listen here sweet baby : I never have been down Last Line: I want to roll your lemon baby : just before I go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET ME SQUEEZE YOUR LEMON, by CHARLIE PICKETT Poem Source First Line: Now you got fruit on your tree : lemons on your shelf Last Line: Will you let me tell you baby : what it was all about Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET YOU MONEY TALK, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Let your money talk let your money talk : let your money talk let your money ta Last Line: Don't stand around looking cute : and on a bum Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET YOUR LOVE COME DOWN, by BERTHA HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Let's get our gauge up papa : let our love come down Last Line: Can't get my gauge up : and let my love come down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET'S GET DRUNK AGAIN, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby I got the whiskey : and you got the gin Last Line: Since you don't hold back baby : honey in rubbing with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET'S GO RIDING, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: Now come on girl : let's go out and have some fun Last Line: I want you to go out riding with me : and have a good time today Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LET'S HAVE A NEW DEAL, by CARL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Now everybody's crying : let's have a new deal Last Line: I'm sitting right here : waiting on that brand new deal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Down in the levee : camp number nine Last Line: Just to cure to blues : the blues of the leveecamp girl Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE BOUND BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: I had a brown in my town : sweet as any gal could be Last Line: I feel like leaving : if it takes me all night long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE CAMP BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Says I worked in a leveecamp : just about a month ago Last Line: I'm going to keep on winding : because I'm the best old winder in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE CAMP MOAN, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I am sorry : that I can't take you Last Line: Going back to the one I love : and acknowledge that I done wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE CAMP MOAN BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Lord they accused me of murder: I haven't harmed a man Last Line: Oh if she don't come on the big boat: she better not land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LIFE IS JUST A BOOK, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Life is just a book : every day is a brand new page Last Line: Standing around : depending on the w p a Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LIFE SAVDR BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It's raining and storming on the sea : we're miles and miles from shore Last Line: We say we live in new york city : red white and blues brought us all the way through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LILY KIMBALL BLUES, by SAM TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Tell me lilly kimball : what did you do to me Last Line: Take me back lilly : I'll be a different man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LIQUOR STORE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now if you're ever on *fourth street* : I'll tell you what to do Last Line: You ask him for a favor : he won't make you ashamed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LISTEN TO MA, by HOCIEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I grow lonely : day by day Last Line: You're always welcome : in her home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE BOY BLUE, by ROBERT LOCKWOOD Poem Source First Line: Little boy blues : please come blow your horn Last Line: I believe to my soul : that the little girl is out of town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE COW AND CALF IS GONNA DIE BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: Hey hey hey hey : hey hey hey hey hey Last Line: Hey pretty mama : please don't tell on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE GIRL BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Little girl little girl : I got something I want to say to you Last Line: Well I said that I always love you : and sonny boy don't care where you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE GIRL IN ROME, by OTTO VIRGIAL Poem Source First Line: I got a letter this morning : from that girl in rome Last Line: He said baby can't quit me : ain't no need of you trying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE HAT BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: Oh the train pass by : oh with my sweet baby inside Last Line: Another year you hear me moaning : lord let thy will be done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE LAURA BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Little laura was a gal : she was sixteen Last Line: She had dream all about loving : and she know just what to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE LEG WOMAN, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Well look here mama : let your daddy see Last Line: Sweetest honey : now come from no bee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE QUEEN OF SPADES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm she is a little queen of spades : and the men will not let her be Last Line: Let's we put our heads together : ooo fair brown then we can make our money green Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE ROCK BLUES, by PEARL DICKSON Poem Source First Line: I started to heaven : but I changed my mind Last Line: And if you don't want me baby : you don't have to use me as no fool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LITTLE SARAH, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: And I got up this morning : a light all in my room Last Line: And I'm going to slip right back home : to my same old used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOCK AND KEY BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Springtime coming : and the grass all growing green Last Line: I ain't going to tell the northern women : what the southern women can do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOCK STEP BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I used to take my feet : in a midnight tramp Last Line: I'm screaming for my mama : can't make no time at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONE WOLF BLUES, by OSCAR WOODS Poem Source First Line: Lord my mother told me : when I was quite a child Last Line: If that don't bring her : I know my shotgun will Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONELY ONE IN THIS TOWN, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Because I'm a stranger here : everybody turned their back on me Last Line: I believe I'll go right back : to grand old tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME ATLANTA BLUES, by BOBBY GRANT Poem Source First Line: I'm so lonesome : I'm so lonesome and I'm so blue Last Line: If I can't find my baby : I'll be so kind to meet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: The blues came down my alley : and stopped right at my door Last Line: It takes all twenty-two : to run my good man down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME BLUES, by HENRY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Did you ever wake up lonesome : all by yourself Last Line: I ain't had no righteous woman : since my baby blowed this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME DAY BLUES, by RUBY GLAZE Poem Source First Line: You can go : you can stay Last Line: You was standing in your back door : with a hung down head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME DAY BLUES, by JESSE JAMES Poem Source First Line: Lord today has been : a long lonesome day Last Line: But I believe my partner : lord got a lifetime here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME DREAM BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: I had a dream last night : babe I can't understand Last Line: But when you think of your loving : I know that you cannot behave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME HOME BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lonesome place : don't seem like it's home to me Last Line: Says I'll acknowledge now pretty baby : that I treated you mean Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME HOME BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Won't you wash my jumper : starch my overalls Last Line: I ain't got no woman : speak in my behalf Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME HOUSE BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I had a dream last night : all about my gal Last Line: It has settled on my brain : and it hurts my tongue to talk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME LOVESICK, by BLANCHE CALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Lonesome lovesick blues will make you feel so lonely : when you're left all alo Last Line: My heart is aching : gee I'm all confused Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME MAN BLUES, by GEORGE TOREY Poem Source First Line: Baby how long baby how long : *long* before you bring your *load* back home Last Line: Some man had my woman : and the worried blues had me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME MIDNIGHT BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I'm lonesome I'm lonesome : and I got them lonesome midnight blues Last Line: My daddy was leaving : and the blues had me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME MIDNIGHT DREAM, by WILLIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: If you just listen closely : tell you just what I mean Last Line: Why when I came to find out : that it was just a lonesome midnight dream Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME ROAD BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: You did cause me to weep : you did cause me to moan Last Line: These blues : going to let me rest Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME SHARK BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Out across the hill : I built a lonesome shack Last Line: So when we part : be hard to find a ??? *beans* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME SWAMP RATTLESNAKE, by JAYDEE SHORT Poem Source First Line: Way lonesome : out in some swamp I know Last Line: When the rattlesnake crawl : there ain't nobody can tell you what to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONESOME WEARY BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: When I'm alone : I long to see my used-to-be Last Line: If I ever lose these blues : never be worried again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG AGO BLUES, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Mmm can't you remember baby ; long long time ago Last Line: I'm going to stay down on the levee : babe until you change your ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG AND TALL, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I love you mama : but you don't even care for me Last Line: Now if you mess with me mama : I'm sure going to turn your damper down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG DISTANCE BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Hello central : give me long-distance please Last Line: Because I'm tired : of making all these nights alone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG DISTANCE MOAN, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm flying to south carolina %I gotta go there this time Last Line: This long distance moan %about to worry me to death this time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG LASTIN' LOVIN', by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I wonder why : my partner sitting around looking sad Last Line: Lord when she starts to loving : man it ain't in the book Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG LONESOME BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Well the blues come to texas : loping like a mule Last Line: Can't go look down the street : but she's always raising sand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG LONESOME DAY BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Yes today has been: a long old lonesome day Last Line: Woman *use the jelly*: I like those old-time ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG OLD ROAD, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: It's a long old road : but I'm going to find the end Last Line: Found my long lost friend : and I might as well stayed at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG TALL MAMA, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Got a long tall mama : she stands about seven feet nine Last Line: To satisfy that woman : takes more than a bumblebee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG TRACK BLUES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went down to the yards Last Line: Shine down on that babe o' mine Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads LONG TRAIN BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: She walked down in the yard : caught the longest train she seen Last Line: Take it down ??? : I'm getting sick and about to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG WAY FROM HOME, by LOUISE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I woke up this morning : blues all around my bed Last Line: Well I done cried I cried : lord have mercy on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONGING FOR MY SUGAR, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'm longing for my sugar : and I don't want no one else Last Line: Thinking the woman that I love : ain't been treated right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOOK HERE MAMA BLUES, by UNCLE BUD WALKER Poem Source First Line: I I want to tell you : what I know about you Last Line: Oh let me tell you : what my used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LORD, OH LORD BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I'm going away baby : just to wear you off my mind Last Line: Now and you don't treat me : nothing baby like you used to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOST ALL I HAD BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : a thousand things on my mind Last Line: If I don't go crazy : then I will lose my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOST WANDERING BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving this morning : with my clothes in my hand Last Line: That's the reason why : mama's got the lost wandering blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOST YOUR HEAD BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was with you baby : when you didn't have a dime Last Line: I'm a good gal : but I've just been treated wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOUISE, by BIG BOY TEDDY EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Standing on the corner Last Line: Was louise coming : coming to get her man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOUISE LOUISE BLUES, by JOHNNIE TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: Louise : is the sweetest gal I know Last Line: If she don't strike deep water : I swear she'll never land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOUISIANA BOUND, by CHARLEY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Oh baby you now that I love you : that is the reason you treat me so unkind Last Line: And when I come back baby : I don't want you to call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE IN VAIN, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: And I followed her to the station : with a suitcase in my hand Last Line: Well the blue light was my blues : and the red light was my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE ME, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: I tried hard : a long time Last Line: We should love some : every night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE ME LIKE YOU USED TO, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Please come back and love me like you used to : I think about you every day Last Line: I wish I had you here : to hold my aching head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE MY STUFF, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I love my stuff babe : I want to give it *a hop* Last Line: I'm going to go to the river : and stop at dago hill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE WITH A FEELING, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: If you're going to have a woman : love here with a thrill Last Line: The way you got doing babe : won't take your life Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVE-CHANGING BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: My love don't change : there's going to be some stealing done Last Line: My woman done left me : I got these love-changing blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVER'S LANE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: My name is washboard sam : but many call me loving joe Last Line: And they will all tell you : that loving sam is the man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVESICK BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: Lonesome lovesick blues will make you feel so lonely : when you're left all alo Last Line: My heart is aching : gee I'm all confused Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOVING LADY BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: I never felt so worried : till I found the loving lady blues Last Line: For I done got worried : with that gal of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN DESPONDENT BLUES, by LENA HENRY Poem Source First Line: I feel worried : I feel sad Last Line: When I think of how he left me : I can't help but cry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN DOG BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to be : your lowdown dog no more Last Line: The train is at the station : my mind's made up to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN HOUND BLUES, by HOUND HEAD HENRY Poem Source First Line: Now run here pretty mama : tell papa where you been so long Last Line: I looked over in the corner : my poor grandma *what* had them too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN LOVING GAL, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Listen folks : to my moan Last Line: But that gal : was the cause of it all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN MOJO BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I love my baby : better than a farmer likes his jersey cow Last Line: The way she bumps over the hill : it would make a panther squall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN RASCAL, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: You's a lowdown rascal : just as mean as you can be Last Line: But now when you get broke and hungry : ooo well well please now don't you worry me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN ROUNDER BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Just a worried old rounder : with a troublesome mind Last Line: I feel so disgusted : I've got them lowdown rounder blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN WAYS, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now listen little baby : do you think I'm going to be your fool Last Line: Now when I leave her this time : I swear I'm going away to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW DOWN WOMAN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Hey hey baby ; why you acting so lowdown Last Line: I'm going to stop these lowdown women : because I'm going to start raising hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW LAND BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to marry : ain't going to settle down Last Line: Don't believe I'm a donkey : put me in a stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW LAND MOAN, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I went down to the levee : and [over, out] to the freight house yard Last Line: I tried to love you so hard : but I found out there's no use Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOW-DOWN MISSISSIPPI BOTTOM MAN, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: In the lowlands of mississippi : that's where I was born Last Line: I'm just a lowdown man : always feeling lowdown and blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOWLAND BLUES, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I wonder why : that southbound train don't run Last Line: I'm just like a big mule baby : I ain't got no stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LUCKY ROCK BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Going to new orleans : to find that lucky rock Last Line: Just to ease my mind : of all this trouble I've got Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) M AND O BLUES, by WILLIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now when I leave here : I'm going to catch that m and o Last Line: But she never showed up : at the shack last night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) M. AND O. BLUES, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My baby's gone : and she won't come back no more Last Line: She didn't know how much I loved her : or else she wouldn't have left at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) M. AND O. BLUES NO. 3, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'm a railroad man : and I love that m and o Last Line: I'm going to leave here people : going to catch that m and o Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Last Line: She jes' gits hold of us dataway Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing And Singers; Women MACON GEORGIA CUT-OUT, by BOBBY LEECAN Poem Source First Line: Now if you want to learn this dance : don't do it in a *pout* Last Line: If you want to do this dance : macon cutout Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAD DOG BLUES, by ROSIE MAE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Read my search warrant lady : I'm just looking for my man Last Line: I'd rather we both to be dead : than to see him with someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAGGIE CAMPBELL BLUES, by TOMMY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm who's that yonder : coming down the road Last Line: And if I meet my good gal : well I won't be back at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAILMAN BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Mailman : please stop by my box today Last Line: You know I'm looking for a letter from my babe : some of my people might be dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MALTED MILK, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I keep drinking malted milk : trying to drink my blues away Last Line: I have a warm old feeling : and the hair rising on my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MALTESE CAT BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Rats is mean in my kitchen : and I lost my maltese cat Last Line: And a good strong brownskin : man it's tight like that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA DON'T ALLOW NO. 1, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: No we don't care : what the mama don't allow Last Line: We going to play washboards : anyhow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA DON'T ALLOW NO. 2, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Says we don't care : what mama don't allow Last Line: We going to easy-woodle : anyhow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA YOU DON'T KNOW HOW, by PAPA HARVEY HULL Poem Source First Line: Ooh : I ain't got no mama now Last Line: Because the landlady's liquor : lord its coming too slow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA YOU DON'T MEAN ME NO GOOD, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: I love you mama : but you don't mean me no good Last Line: What it takes to please : I'm going to carry that around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S ADVICE, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well well I loved my little girl : and I loved her for myself Last Line: Well well well if she do : well well she sure don't feel my care Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S GONE GOODBYE, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: For years you dog me around : but now is the time Last Line: All I need is some good daddy : turn my damper down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S QUITTIN' AND LEAVIN'--PART 1, by MAGNOLIA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I feel bluer this morning : than I ever felt before Last Line: But it's going to hurt you to your heart : when I leave for a while Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S QUITTIN' AND LEAVIN'--PART 1, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Talking about changing men : mama you been saying that stuff all over town Last Line: And rather than see someone else mistreat you : I'd rather keep you and mistreat you myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S QUITTIN' AND LEAVIN'--PART 2, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: When you drinking you talk too much mama : forgive me if you please Last Line: And you can do just as you please : and I'll act just like some mother's child Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA'S QUITTIN' AND LEAVIN'--PART2, by MAGNOLIA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of being scolded : when I know I'm doing to best I can Last Line: I'll give you one more chance ; to make a man out of yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA, 'TAIN'T LONG FO' DAY, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Wake up mama : don't you sleep so hard Last Line: Maybe : the sunshine'll drive these blues away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA, DON'T RUSH ME BLUES, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: Paid my room rent last night : half past ten Last Line: You better stop your sister : from doing her *gait* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMA, DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW?, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Got a knock-kneed mama : down in tennessee Last Line: You can't switch your tail : like I switch mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMLISH BLUES, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: Used to be my sugar : you ain't sweet no more Last Line: And the blind man looked at you : sure look good to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAMMA, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Don't know what to do with myself : at night Last Line: The sort that will thrill me : from my head to my feet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN GROUBLE BLUES, by JAYBIRD COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Trouble worried trouble : I been having all my days Last Line: Now my baby has a-quit me : talked all out of my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN I LOVE IS OH SO GOOD, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: The man I love : is oh so good to me Last Line: Meals with him : all taste like wedding cake Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN KILLING BROAD, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You've got a hatchet under your pillow baby : you got ice pick in your hand Last Line: Trying to steal my life : to have your old used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN OF MY OWN, by RUTH MARY WILLIS Poem Source First Line: Now I went down on eighteenth street : didn't have no hat Last Line: So why fetch me : no train I'm on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN STEALER BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I went to bed last night : and the blues wouldn't let me rest Last Line: Said he ain't had no woman to love him : lord like I done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN TROUBLE BLUES, by JAYBIRD COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: When a man gets in trouble : every woman throws him down Last Line: When I'm in my good whiskey : this is the way I sing my blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAN YOU WON'T GIVE ME NO MONEY, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Man you won't give me no money : you won't buy me no clothes to wear Last Line: Don't forget these last words : you sure got to come under my rule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARRIED MAN BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: When you lose your money : please don't lose your mind Last Line: Man's a fool : if he thinks he's got a whole woman by himself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARRIED WOMAN BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now don't ever take : a married woman to be your friend Last Line: I ain't crazy faro : woman that I ever seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARRIED WOMAN BLUES, by GEORGE TOREY Poem Source First Line: If you ever been mistreated : then you know how mistreated feels Last Line: And my heart struck sorrow : and the tears come easing down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARY ANNA CUT OFF, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: I'm going mary anna : I'm riding that old engineer Last Line: I'm going to see that black gal : boys so help me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARY COME ON HOME, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Stopped little mary : across the creek Last Line: Ask anybody : little mary in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MARY JOHNSON BLUES, by MARY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I once was a married woman : sorry the day I ever was Last Line: I once was a married woman : sorry the day I ever was Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MASON-DIXON BLUES, by MATTIE HITE Poem Source First Line: Way down : below the mason-dixon line Last Line: But it will never cure : the mason-dixon line Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MATCH BOX BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting here wondering : will a matchbox hold my clothes Last Line: If my mind don't change : I'll never knock here no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MATCH BOX BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the river : going to walk down by the sea Last Line: Baby the more you cry : the further you drive me away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MATCH BOX BLUES, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting down here wondering : would a matchbox hold my clothes Last Line: Lord : have mercy on me Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAXWELL STREET BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I was walking down morgan : stopped on maxwell street Last Line: Because I swear I don't walk : said buly buly buly how do you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAYBE I'LL LOAN YOU A DIME, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now once I lived a life : of a millionaire Last Line: Bring me the titanic : that sailed the sea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MAYBE IT'S THE BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Something pounding : in my breast Last Line: If I only had someone : just to drive my tears away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND MY BUDDY, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Me and my buddy : I mean he is my friend Last Line: Because we got wise to women : ooo well well we knows what it's all about Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND MY CHAUFFEUR BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Won't you be my chauffeur : I want someone to drive Last Line: Then he can be my little boy : yes I'll feed him good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND MY GIN, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Stay away from me : because I'm in my sin Last Line: I don't want no pork chop : just give me gin instead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND MY WHISKEY, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: When I'm in my whiskey : I don't care what I say Last Line: Wild women and whiskey : can make a fool out of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND THE DEVIL BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early this morning : when you knocked upon my door Last Line: So my old evil spirit : can get a greyhound bus and ride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME, MYSELF, AND I, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Everybody wants to know : how do memphis slim get by Last Line: I said baby at this particular time : it's just me myself and I Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN ACTIN' MAMA, by ELIJAH JONES Poem Source First Line: Now I can remember my baby : it was late one friday night Last Line: Now you even had me down walking baby : I could hardly but crawl along Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN BLACK MOAN, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: It's a mean black moan : and it's lying front of my door Last Line: But when the strike is over : lord I will be all right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN CONDUCTOR BLUES, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: That same train : same engineer Last Line: Some train don't run : why be some walking done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN JUMPER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I feel like jumping : through the keyhole in your door Last Line: I had to talk and plead : for to keep him from blowing me d own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN MISTREATER BLUES, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: You's a mean mistreating mama : and you don't mean me no good Last Line: When the woman that you loving : is loving someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN MISTREATER MAMA, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: You're a mean mistreater mama : and you don't mean me no good Last Line: When the one that you love : is loving someone else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN OLD 'FRISCO BLUES, by ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP Poem Source First Line: Well that mean old old frisco : and that lowdown santa fe Last Line: I might leave : because I don't feel welcome here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN OLD BED BUG BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Yes bedbugs sure is evil : they don't mean no good Last Line: Got myself a wishbone : wish they cut their own doggone throats Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN OLD BEDBUG BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Man those bedbugs sure is evil : he sure don't mean me no good Last Line: Because the mean old bedbug : told me I can't live there no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN OLD TWISTER, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now this dark cloud is rising : and it's thundering %all around Last Line: Says I got everybody happy : around here in my neighborhood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN PAPA, TURN IN YOUR KEY, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Mean papa turn in your key : because you don't live here no more Last Line: I think there'll be trouble : and I had better go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEET ME AROUND THE CORNER, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Meet me around the corner baby : bring my boots and shoes Last Line: Got a lien on her body : got a mortgage on her soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS BOUND BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: You've got to drift to leave me : you're going to leave your home some day Last Line: My man is gone and left me : gone to memphis tennessee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS BOY--BLUES, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Going out west partner : going to marry me an indian squaw Last Line: Lord I ain't going to stay with no woman : lord no great long time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS JUG--BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Hey drop down drop down : mama like drops of rain Last Line: Lord I can see everything : that my easy roller do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS MAN, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: Memphis man : comes knocking at the door Last Line: He could write a book : on his loving ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS MINNIE-JITIS BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Mmm : the meningitis killing me Last Line: I heard my ??? Companion say : I will see your smiling face again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS ROUNDERS BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now what makes memphis women : love a rounder so Last Line: Know if you hear me doing any singing : I'll be standing around my door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS TOWN, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Went to the station : to get me a train Last Line: Going down to memphis : see my gal again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEMPHIS YO YO BLUES, by HATTIE HART Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : feeling sad and blue Last Line: Listen women : I don't mean to start no row Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEN FOOLER BLUES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I had a girl : give her everything I had Last Line: Well she's got something on the under : seep just like a *pool hall eye* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MENINGITIS BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I come home one saturday night : pull of my clothes and lie down Last Line: I'm spinning I'm spinning baby : my head is nearly down in to my knees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: In the morning : right between midnight and day Last Line: If your coming don't bring sunshine : it sure god will bring rain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT BLUES, by WILLIAM MOORE Poem Source First Line: Some people say : that the midnight blues ain't bad Last Line: Going to carry it in my pocket : and make you stay at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT BLUES, by HANNAH SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: Daddy daddy : please come back to me Last Line: To face this cruel world : world all by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT BLUES, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: Daddy daddy : please come back to me Last Line: To face this cruel world : well all by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT HOUR BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: In the wee midnight hours : long before the break of day Last Line: So I guess that's why : I've had these midnight hour blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT SPECIAL BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: When you get up in the morning : when the ding-dong rings Last Line: Looking for some sergeant : to release some man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIDNIGHT WEEPING BLUES, by NELLIE FLORENCE Poem Source First Line: I moaned I moaned : I cried the whole night long Last Line: Said I'm right upset : and I've got those weeping blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILK COW BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Hollering good morning: I said blues how do you do Last Line: Lord the little woman I love mama: have done drove me from her door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILK COW BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now asked sweet mama : let me be her kid Last Line: But it's a slow consumption : killing you by degrees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILK COW BLUES, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: Listen to my story now : please listen to my song Last Line: Can't you imagine how I feel now : I done told my real milkcow bye bye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILK COW BLUES--NO. 4, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I can't get my milk in the morning : I can't get my cream no more Last Line: I don't mind her drinking her whiskey : but please don't ballyhoo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILKCOW'S CALF BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Tell me milkcow : what on earth is wrong with you Last Line: She been suckling some other man's bullcow : ooo lord in a strange man's town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MILL MAN BLUES, by BILLY BIRD Poem Source First Line: Yond comes a woman : with a peck of corn on her back Last Line: Said I'm worried now baby : won't be worried long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MIND READER BLUES, by BERTHA LEE Poem Source First Line: Baby I can see : just what's on your mind Last Line: Well I'm worried now : and I won't be worried long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MINGLEWOOD BLUES, by ASHLEY THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Don't you never : let no woman rule your life Last Line: Says you coming back baby : and I'll be almost dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MINING CAMP BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Once I had a daddy : and he worked down in a hole Last Line: And I'm nearly dying : with these mining camp blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MINUTE MAN BLUES--PART 1, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Every since every since : I [first] left my mother's door Last Line: I've got a v-eight ford now sweet mama : lord you know I'm a minuteman Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MINUTE MAN BLUES--PART 2, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My tires ain't going to fail me : and my motor it is good and strong Last Line: This minuteman is on that lonesome highway : and I swear it won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISERY BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Early this morning : when everything was still Last Line: The next thing I give him : will be six feet of ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISERY BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I love my brownskin : indeed I do Last Line: Work is the thing : that's breaking my heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISS HANDY HANKS, by ARCHIE LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I got spreading mustard from north to south Last Line: Seeds taste good : right in your mouth Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISS LOUISA BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now ever since louisa you been gone : my life don't seem the same Last Line: Now but I'm scared that when you get back : louisa you ain't going to have no place to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISS MEAL CRAMP BLUES, by ALEC JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm broke and hungry : and my money's all gone Last Line: Right now I could eat more : than a whole carload of tramps Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISSISSIPPI BO WEAVIL BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: It's a little boll weevil : she's moving in the air Last Line: Next time I seen you : you have your family there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISSISSIPPI BOTTOM BLUES, by KID BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Way down in mississippi : where I was bred and born Last Line: Nothing I had did : but was something she had heard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISSISSIPPI JAIL HOUSE GROAN, by RUBIN LACY Poem Source First Line: Eee laying in jail now : with my back turned to the wall Last Line: If my woman kills me now : lord I'll pray to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISSISSIPPI MOAN, by UNKNOWN+210 Poem Source First Line: Hey : something going on wrong Last Line: Lord I tried and tried : and I just can't let her go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISSISSIPPI RIVER BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Mississippi river : is so long deep and wide Last Line: Lord I'm going to get me a good girl : or jump overboard and drown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTER CHARLIE, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Why shouldn't I take a chance mama : when good luck comes along Last Line: Says I felt so lonesome : I didn't have my baby by my side Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATED BLUES, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: My baby mistreat me : night and day Last Line: And some old day pretty baby : you'll do like I want you to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATED THE ONLY FRIEND YOU HAD, by JAMES+(2) COLE Poem Source First Line: Mistreat me baby : mistreat your only friend Last Line: I'm going to shoot my baby : just to see her fall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATIN' BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now you mistreat me : oh baby drove me from your door Last Line: For the gal that I'm crazy about : have took my appetite Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATIN' MAMA, by JAYBIRD COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I done told you mama : ain't going to tell you no more Last Line: Lord I can't *let its* continue : don't care what I do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATIN' MAN, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: If your heart ain't iron : it must be marble stone Last Line: Sometime I believe I do : sometime I believe I don't Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATIN' WOMAN BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Boys have you ever had a woman : and she didn't mean you no good Last Line: Because she's only been *you* : I cant tell *you about the* mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MISTREATING MAN BLUES, by SARA MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I've got the blues : since I made up my mind Last Line: *that's why* I can't go on : loving a mistreating man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOANIN' BLUES, by JOHN D. FOX Poem Source First Line: And I got a letter from my baby : and it said that she was dying Last Line: ??? *has beaten* mama : you're going to be sorry some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOANIN' THE BLUES, by ALLEN SHAW Poem Source First Line: When I woke up this morning : mama's feeling bad Last Line: Crying mmm : don't nobody know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOJOE BLUES, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Oh the mojo blues mama : crawling across the floor Last Line: That must not been : them lowdown things I had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOLLY MAN, by MOSES MASON Poem Source First Line: Molly man's coming : I hear his voice Last Line: Says I can't hardly get them : out of my can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MONKEY MAN BLUES, by CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: Some of these old days mama : some of these old and lonely nights Last Line: Because when I try to love you right baby : seems like my loving won't do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MONKEYIN' AROUND, by JAKE JONES Poem Source First Line: I'm going to buy me a pistol : hang it up side the wall Last Line: When he knows anything : she done got his dollar and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOOCH RICHARSON'S LOW DOWN BARREL HOUSE BLUES PART 1, by MOOCH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: I got something :some people call it worse than blues Last Line: *sitting by the* ??? Lord : Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOON GOING DOWN, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Oh the moon is going down : baby sun's about to shine Last Line: I got to see my rider : where she's getting her dough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOONLIGHT IS MY SPREAD, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The blue sky is my blanket : and the moonlight is my spread Last Line: If the woman that you were loving : would mistreat you both night and day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOONSHINE, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I got to leave this town : I've got to go before the sun go down Last Line: I done made up in my mind : not to sell moonshine no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOONSHINE, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now and it's moonshine : moonshine do harm to many men Last Line: Moonshine will make you curse out : most anybody you meet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOONSHINE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I've been reeling and a-rocking : hounded like a hound Last Line: I'm going to stop : my running around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MORNING AFTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so sick last night I Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks MORNING AFTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so sick last night I Last Line: You jesta little bit o' woman but you %sound like a great big crowd Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians MOSQUITO MOAN, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Lamp sits in my kitchen : mosquitoes all around my screen Last Line: I stepped back in my kitchen : and they springing up in my back yard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOTHERLESS CHILD BLUES, by ELVIE THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My mother told me : just before she died Last Line: Didn't have no blues : I couldn't be satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOTHERLESS CHILE BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: If I mistreat you gal : I sure don't mean no harm Last Line: If the lbues overtake me : going to rock on away from here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOVE THAT THING, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Last night : my gal went to bed Last Line: You haven't laid an egg : since I don't know when Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MOZELLE BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Mozelle : why can't we get along Last Line: Every time I hear somebody speaking about you : I will beat you in the *b w o l* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. CONDUCTOR MAN, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I got up this morning : hear the train whistle blow Last Line: Lord and the woman I been loving : she don't want me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. CRUMP DON'T LIKE IT, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: If mr crump don't like it : he ain't going to have it here Last Line: Don't like my fruit : let my orange juice be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. DEVIL BLUES, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Good morning mr devil : I come here to chain you down Last Line: I'm going to ask dr jesus : if the devil ever been there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. FREDDIE'S KOKOMO BLUES, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: Won't you come on baby come on baby : let's go back to kokomo Last Line: When that train leaves tomorrow morning : I want to catch that morning train and ride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. FURRY'S BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I wish I had : my poor heart in my hand Last Line: I'm going away to leave you : it will be too late to pray Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. HUGHE'S TOWN, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mama told me : my sister too Last Line: Tell them : huddie ledbetter's done been here and gone Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. JOHNSON SWING, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Want all of you people to listen : while my guitar sings Last Line: If you were born with that rhythm : honest you can't never go wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. JOHNSON'S BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I want all you people to listen to my song Last Line: Remember me : after the days I'm gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. MCTELL GOT THE BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving town : baby going to leave my home Last Line: Some of these nice-looking women : going to take me to my grave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. SO AND SO BLUES, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Babe I feel so worried : yeah and I feel so low Last Line: *you're off having a binge* : you don't come home at all at night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MR. SYKES BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Mmm I done you wrong : but I won't do that no more Last Line: I'm watching everybody : I'm only watching my only best friend Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MUD WATER SHANGO, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: A big muddy daddy my daddys gris-gris to the world Last Line: I'm a river hip daddy mama dig a muddy hole Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians MUDDY WATER BLUES, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: I know you heard the story : listen now people I know the song Last Line: Now before I'd stay with you : and take these lowdown dirty things you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Well I'm laying here in this jailhouse : scared as any fool can be Last Line: And here they got me charged : with murder in the first degree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MUSHY LOVE, by KATHERINE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Pick me up : don't let me go Last Line: Because everybody's crazy : about mushy love Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MUSIC, by EVERETT HOAGLAND Poem Source First Line: Your archival voice Last Line: Guitar-book-long-song %crazy Subject(s): Blues (music); Guitars; Jazz; Music And Musicians MY BABE MY BABE, by BILL WILBER Poem Source First Line: My babe my babe : sure is good to me Last Line: I didn't have to do nothing : but lay around and throw it away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I taken my baby : to the candy stand Last Line: She fell on her face : about the moneyman Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY DON'T WANT ME NO MORE, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I don't believe : my baby wants me no more Last Line: Done left my good man : all on account of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY LEFT ME, by ROBERT PETWAY Poem Source First Line: My baby left me this morning : she did not even shake my hand Last Line: I'm going to leave in the morning now partner : with that little sweety sure god on my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY MADE A CHANGE, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now peoples I believe : somebody oh somebody's changed that lock on my door Last Line: Oh said you keep on fooling around sonny boy : says I swear one of them going to change your name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY'S DOGGIN' ME, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Now she dog me every morning : she dog me late at night Last Line: I love that little old woman : better than any woman that I ever seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BABY'S GONE, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: My baby's gone : and I'm almost in my grave Last Line: Says my good gal she's gone : she didn't mean me no good at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BACK TO THE WALL, by IRENE SCRUGGS Poem Source First Line: Everybody is screaming trouble : times ain't like they used to be Last Line: Well a single man's all right : but he ain't got that married man's touch Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BLACK GAL BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Black gal she took meth : gave my brown *to her* death Last Line: I turned back my *chivver* : blues all in my bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BLACK MAMA--PART 1, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Well black mama : what's the matter with you today Last Line: I wouldn't mistreat you baby : for my weight in gold Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BLACK MAMA--PART 2, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Well I solemnly swear : lord I raise my right hand Last Line: That's all right mama : your troubles will come some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BLACK NAME BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I can hear my black name a-ringing : all up and down the line Last Line: Now I was just thinking my woman didn't love me : I hope she ain't in love with nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY BROWN MAMA BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Won't you tell me mama mama : what have I said *or done* Last Line: Lord it's soon in the morning : going to believe I'll leaving here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY CRIME BLUES, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: I got the blues for my baby : she got the blues for I say me Last Line: It ain't no fine for you : get ready for the electric chair Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY DADDY WAS A MOVIN' MAN, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: We drinking whiskey : champagne and wine Last Line: Sell your stuff : to who you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY DOGGONE LAZY MAN, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: He ain't worth the salt : that goes in his bread Last Line: The fool sat there : too tired to stand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY DREAM BLUES, by BLACK BOTTOM MCPHAIL Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell all you people : my dream I had one week ago Last Line: Then I can sleep at night : and won't have to dream no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY FEET JUMPED SALTY, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Then the cow jumped salty : lord because it was against her rule Last Line: Now if you think that I liked it : ooo well you just a black eyed fool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY FRIEND BLIND LEMON, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamed last night : and all that night before Last Line: You's a long time coming : daddy but you welcome here Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY GAL TREATS ME MEAN, by WILEY BARNER Poem Source First Line: Take your picture : make it in a frame Last Line: In the corner : can get what I want Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY GAL'S DONE QUIT ME, by LUKE JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Well a-my gal had quit me : the talks all over town Last Line: Kept a-feeling my pocket : and I didn't have a lousy dime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY GEORGIA GRIND, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Look here papa : I don't mean no harm Last Line: Going down in georgia : where I get my grinding done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY GREY PONY, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I got me a pony lord : and she already trained Last Line: Well well why break her heart : you know ooo lord treat her this way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY HANDY MAN, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Whoever said : a good man hard to find Last Line: I got a fresh place : every day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY JOHN BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: You take a southbound *regular* : you ride my weary blues away Last Line: If I find her with my john : I'll slice and I'll cut and send her to her grave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY LITTLE GIRL, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: I say my little girl : just as sweet as she can be Last Line: But the way you doing : I swear it's coming back home to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY LITTLE MACHINE, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Oh yes :something getting wrong with my little machine Last Line: Baby you is so sweet : but you just won't be true Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MAMA WAS A SAILOR, by JULIUS DANIELS Poem Source First Line: My mama was a sailor : she love the ocean life Last Line: Tell them julius daniels : done been here and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MAN BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: My man my man : treats me so lowdown Last Line: Says I'm sorry for you woman : another woman has taken your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MAN IS BOOGAN ME, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Just one thing : I want my man to know Last Line: And he knows doggone well : the times is done got hard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MAN JUMPED SALTY ON ME, by ROSETTA CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Going down to the river : take a rope and a rock Last Line: Cut him if he stands still : shoot him if he runs Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MARY BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : *my mind* ??? Last Line: That's when I get back home : can't anyone tell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MEAN BABY BLUES, by WILLIE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: When my baby left me : she didn't even say goodbye Last Line: Some day you doing to want to love the poor boy : and I'll be done changed my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY MELLOW MAN, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Mmm : oh my mellow man Last Line: But that ain't his name : his name is plain leroy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY ROAD IS ROUGH AND ROCKY, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: You don't believe I'm traveling : on the road somewhere Last Line: I could hear something pushing : all around my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY SILVER DOLLAR MAMA, by HOUND HEAD HENRY Poem Source First Line: The gal I love : she lives on a silver dollar Last Line: But the gal on the dollar : that's the sweetest baby for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY WASH WOMAN'S GONE, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: My baby's *deaf-toweled* : can't hardly hear Last Line: Cried lord have mercy : if you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY WELL IS DRY, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I never missed my water : not until my well went dry Last Line: Says I got a hard-hearted woman : and she don't know how to treat me right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY WIFE DROVE ME FROM THE DOOR, by CHARLEY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: When I came home this morning : my wife she met me at the door Last Line: Say I got a brown : says I can hear her laugh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MY WOMAN'S GONE WRONG, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now I woke up this morning : my woman was standing over me Last Line: Because you got me all wrong baby : honey that was another man's wife Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads; Railways; Trains MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long Last Line: The mystery train is sixteen coaches long. %the whistle howls, the wheels click along Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads NADHVILLE STONEWALL BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I stayed in jail : it was thirty long days Last Line: I get out I'm going to that woman : and I'll be right back again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NAPPY HEAD BLUES, by BOBBY GRANT Poem Source First Line: When you hear me walking : turn your lamp down low Last Line: And you must a-want me : to lay down and die for you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NAPTOWN BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Nobody knows old naptown : baby like I do Last Line: Because there ain't nobody : knows old naptown like I know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NARROW FACE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+219 Poem Source First Line: You can talk about burnt liver : but narrow-face is the meat I crave Last Line: *johnny* it with you : and eat those narrow-face too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NASHVILLE WOMEN'S BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Folks up north : you all have heard the blues Last Line: They way they strut : is really no bluff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEED MORE BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Need-more : it has hung a-many men Last Line: Get all my loving : you let mr so-and-so go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEEDIN' MY WOMAN BLUES, by ROBERT HILL Poem Source First Line: My baby's gone : please don't wait till day Last Line: Ain't nothing in this world boys : lord for your black man to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEHI BLUES, by BLIND JOE REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: Some girls wear short dresses : some of these married women wear them too Last Line: They work hard all the time : trying to stay in these young men's ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEHI MAMA BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: White man take the blues : he walk to the river and sit down Last Line: The nehi women keep me : everywhere I go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEVER DRIVE A BEGGAR FROM YOUR STREET, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: If you see a blind man : on the street Last Line: Never drive : a beggar from your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEVER GO WRONG BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Now boys I once had a good woman : but I really did not treat her right Last Line: Because a real good woman : can't be found every day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEVER LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND DO, by LIL JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I had the blues last night : I've got them again today Last Line: Don't let your left hand : know what your right hand do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEVER MIND BLUES, by GEORGIA BOYD Poem Source First Line: Never mind : honey never mind Last Line: Spread your heart : babe just like mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEVER TELL A WOMAN FRIEND, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: If you start telling her : he's got the stuff Last Line: Because what you got must suit him : that's the surest sign Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW BLACK SNAKE BLUES--PART 1, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Something keep a-moaning : I don't know what it is Last Line: The black snake is got the dough : you can't roll him from home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW BLACK SNAKE BLUES--PART 1, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: In my path lay a black snake : about eight or nine inches long Last Line: Wonder if he's got another woman : lord since he been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW BLACK SNAKE MOAN, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ooh : I ain't got no mammy now Last Line: That old black snake mama : done run my darling home Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW BUMBLE BEE, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I got a bumblebee : don't sting nobody but me Last Line: He stinging somebody : everywhere he lands Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW COME BACK BABY, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Now you must have a heart : like a rock in the sea Last Line: But I like to please you : every once in a while Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW DIRTY DOZENS, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I don't want them banties : mixed up with my *dominics* Last Line: They all got drunk : and showed their santa claus Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW FALLING RAIN BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Storm is rising : and the rain begin to fall Last Line: Every once in a while : I can hear my baby call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW HIGHWAY NO. 51, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Highway fifty: runs right by my baby's door Last Line: Come out to little tommy's cabin : he lives on highway fifty-one Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW HOW LONG HOW LONG BLUES--PART 2, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the country : put my watch in pawn Last Line: But I will ride the rods baby : to be with you again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW HUNTSVILLE JAIL, by JOE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Write me a letter : and send it by mail Last Line: Cockroaches and chinches : begin to crawl over my breast Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW LOUISE LOUISE BLUES, by JOHNNIE TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: Louise left me this morning : she never said a word Last Line: But she cooked my breakfast : brings it to my bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I was born in the desert : I was raised in the lion's den Last Line: Says there's womens in the camp : don't mean no man no good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW SHAKE THAT THING, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: So cold up north : till the birds can't sing Last Line: The train come along : and it broke my back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD, by LONNIE CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Made a date today : early or late Last Line: To keep these men : from stealing my loving from me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW SOMEDAY BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: When trouble first started : down in my front door Last Line: You done made me love you : now your man done come Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW STOCK YARD BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: Listen here men : what I've got to say Last Line: Speak to mr kelly : he's the auctioneer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW STOP AND LISTEN BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I went to the graveyard : and I peeped down in her face Last Line: ??? : you didn't want ooo me nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW SUGAR MAMA, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Sugar mama sugar mama : won't you please come back to me Last Line: You know I don't like nothing but my sugar : and that's what it takes to ease my misery Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW TWO SIXTEEN BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: I got a woman in dallas : got one in san antonio too Last Line: Honey I'm going to stop in town : I believe that I haven't never been before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW WALTY DOG, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Said come in here : and you shut that door Last Line: She shakes her shimmy : to who she pleases Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW WAY OF LIVING BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I got a new way of living : everybody can catch on Last Line: So if one wants to quit : I can turn her *go* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEW YORK BLUES, by BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES Poem Source First Line: I got a brown in new york : what I am afraid Last Line: If I *just tell her* in her face baby : *that will* ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NEXT WEEK SOMETIME, by ALEC JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I went out last night I got drunk : I was in whiskey up to my head Last Line: He says look here brother : when are you going to rest Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NIAGARA FALL BLUES, by KID COLE Poem Source First Line: I got the niagara falls blues : pretty mama keeps a-worrying you Last Line: I looked around for my baby : daddy I can't use you yet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NICKEL'S WORTH OF LIVER BLUES, by EDITH NORTH JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Bring me a nickel's worth of liver : a dime's worth of stew Last Line: I'll kill you about him : and my hand won't even quiver Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NIGHT TIME BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Nighttime's falling : the day is almost dawned Last Line: But I'm just broken-hearted : trying to overcome these nighttime blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NINETY-EIGHT DEGREE BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I'm going to get up in the morning: do like buddy brown Last Line: If she don't love me: she won't love nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NINETY-NINE YEAR BLUES, by JULIUS DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I'm take me my pistol : three rounds of ball Last Line: Give you ninety-nine : don't come back here no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO BABY BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Hey no more baby : I ain't got no more baby now Last Line: That poor child got drownded : sailing after me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO DOUGH BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: It's a hard time now : good man can't get no dough Last Line: I'm going to get me a job : keep coal in your cold kitchen range Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO EASY RIDER BLUES, by GERTRUDE PERKINS Poem Source First Line: I walked all night : got a few more miles to go Last Line: When you ain't here to love me : I'll simply hey hey Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO GOOD MAN, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm one woman : who can't use a no-good man Last Line: That's a two-faced woman : and a lying man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO GOOD WOMAN BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I got a no-good woman : and she sure don't mean me no good Last Line: But she's taught me a lesson : about no-good women and men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO GOOD WOMAN BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: I don't want no woman : partner that wants every man in town Last Line: I'm going to fill you car with gasoline : and meet you going downtown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO GOOD WOMAN BLUES, by JESSIE BABYFACE THOMAS Poem Source First Line: What makes some women : when you treat them so nice and kind Last Line: Now you ain't got nobody : and a good man's hard to find Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO JOB BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I been walking all day : and all night too Last Line: I got to get me another meal ticket woman : so I won't have to work no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO MATTER HOW SHE DONE IT, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: I know a gal : by the name of marylou Last Line: She shook it for the judge : and put the cop in jail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO MORE GOOD WATER, by JAYBIRD COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Says there's no more good water : because this pond is dry Last Line: Hey pretty mama : tell me what have you done Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO MORE WOMAN BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Lord she won't pick cotton: girl won't pick no corn Last Line: Lord I walked all last night: and all last night before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO NO BLUES, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : my good gal was gone Last Line: I long to hear : some good gal call my good gal call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO NO BLUES, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Got up this morning : my good pal was gone Last Line: Don't let no woman : make a fool out of make a fool out of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NO WOMAN NO NICKEL, by AMOS EASTON Poem Source First Line: I'm cold in hand : can't get nothing here Last Line: Lord you know I want a friend : like the one that adam had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY KNOWS, by HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN Poem Source First Line: There was one old brother : by the name of mose Last Line: Got way back : and done the double eagle rock Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT, by BOBBY LEECAN Poem Source First Line: Now I went downtown : along broadway Last Line: He said he lost on that number : the very same way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Once I lived the life : of a millionaire Last Line: Nobody wants me : around their door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY UT MY BABY IS GETTING MY LOVE, by BESSIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now some folks say : that love is blind Last Line: Because I don't believe : in that two-time stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY'S DIRTY BUSINESS, by MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Poem Source First Line: Some of these mornings : going to wake up crazy Last Line: Oh you take me back : I'll treat you better Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NORTH BOUND BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Going north child : where I can be free Last Line: *so I won't be alone* : can hear my northbound blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NORTH MEMPHIS BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I tell all you people : you can rest at ease Last Line: You go to north memphis cafe : get something you never had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOTHIN IN RAMBLING, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I's born in louisiana : I raised in algiers Last Line: But I'm going to stay right here : and eat these old charity beans Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOTHING BUT THE BLUES, by CLEO GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I'm so blue : just as blue as I can be Last Line: Because these mens in atlanta : about to let my hambone spoil Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOTORIETY WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I got a notoriety woman : she about to drive me wild Last Line: Everybody knows : when my notoriety woman come to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NUMBER FIVE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Number five number five : please bring my baby back to me Last Line: Well I know you didn't love me : now I'm going to find me some other place to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NUMBER NINE BLUES, by BLIND CLYDE CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Down on number nine : where the m and m men go Last Line: Drink good whiskey : gin and wine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NUMBER THREE BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: I lost all my money : I got nowhere to go Last Line: I got to stay there : to eat them all by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NUT FACTORY BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN Poem Source First Line: Jellyroll keep working : just about sixteenth street Last Line: Well you hear one jellybean ask the other one : which way did the good girl go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OF WALTER WHITE'S FATHER IN THE RAIN, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Denied %like bessie Last Line: Passing in the rain, separate, %and forever unequalled Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Racism; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) OH AMBULANCE MAN, by HATTIE HART Poem Source First Line: Hey daddy hey daddy : don't let me cry in vain Last Line: And you ought to be careful : how you handle my jellyroll Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OH LAWDY MAMA, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Meet me down at the river : bring me my suit of clothes Last Line: I may be back in june baby : may be back in first of may Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OH OH LONESOME BLUES, by SIX CYCLINDER SMITH Poem Source First Line: If I had wings baby : just like a morning dove Last Line: That is why you hear me : singing these lonesome blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OH RED, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Oh red : wish you were dead Last Line: You didn't have no right : raise no hell nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OH, JOE, PLAY THAT TROMBONE, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: It makes me crazy : when you blow it up high Last Line: That give me such a *kicking and a twicking* : around my heart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OIL WELL BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: There ain't nothing mama : no use ??? Last Line: When I starts to drilling : you hear women hollering too black bad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD BLACK CAT BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I believe: that I got those black cat blues Last Line: Lord if the black cat blues don't leave me mama: lord I've got to get further down the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD DEVIL, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Go back old devil : and look up on your shelf Last Line: You don't need no man baby : don't know you in the dark when he feel Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD FOLKS STARTED IT, by MINNIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Talks about your *miller* : *he's from shore to shore* Last Line: A woman with the strut : can always get a man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD JIM CANAN'S, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I wished I was back : at old jim canan's Last Line: That's the reason why : I wished I was back at jim canan's Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD ORIGINAL KOKOMO BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now one and one is two mama: two and two is four Last Line: You mess around here pretty mama: you going to catch you a lot of hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD ROCK ISLAND BLUES, by LONNIE COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I've got the rock island blues : waiting for the rock island train Last Line: Just tell lonnie coleman : done been to your town and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD ROUNDERS BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I ain't going to marry : ain't going to [be no settling, settle] down Last Line: I got to dreaming so : I was talking all out of my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD TAYLOR, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now I love to sing : that good old taylor blues Last Line: He going to give us a little drink : just before he go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD TIMBROOK BLUES, by JOHN BYRD Poem Source First Line: Old timbrook was a black horse : black as any crow Last Line: Old mrs went to the race track : and lost all her mon' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD TIME RIDER, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Believe I'll take : my old-timey rider back Last Line: Says I can't do nothing : till that woman come back to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ON THE ROAD AGAIN, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: I wouldn't want a black woman : tell you the reason why Last Line: Come on mama : let's get on the road again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ON THE WALL, by LOUISE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Well I'm going to memphis : come to stop at cincinnat' Last Line: Well I'm going to leave here : Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE AND TWO BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: If you want me to love you : *keep much* Last Line: Be a long-tailed one : have plenty of jack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE LETTER HOME, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I believe I'll write : just one more letter home Last Line: Now tell me what is the reason : that a-we can't get along Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE MAN NAN, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: The very thought of sam sinking : that's my *cup* Last Line: It's going to be my place : to pick him up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE MORE TIME, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: I can't sleep no more : can't get her off my mind Last Line: Lord and if that don't do it : might be one more rounder gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE TIME BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Ah : the rising sun going down Last Line: I'll get up every morning : work hard all day for you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE WAY GAL, by WILLIAM MOORE Poem Source First Line: There's one thing I like : about that gal of mine Last Line: She takes the blues away : and satisfies my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONLY WOMAN, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Now this was my sad story : I never will forget the day Last Line: Lord I'm sorry you couldn't be here now : to have the last few words with me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ORGAN GRINDER BLUES, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Organ grinder organ grinder : organ grinder play that melody Last Line: If you are done : let mama grind awhile for you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OUT ON SANTA FE--BLUES, by ARTHUR PETTIES Poem Source First Line: The little woman in the cellar : the boss upstairs Last Line: *it won't be love you* : back up this road I'm going Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OUT WEST BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: I were laying upstairs mama : trying to take my rest Last Line: And I'm out westbound : that's if the bull don't have me barred Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OUT WITH THE WRONG WOMAN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: I went to a party last night : I was dressed to kill Last Line: When that lady opened that door : I said I'll never do this no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND JOE REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: When you lose your money : please god don't lose your mind Last Line: While you're off with your woman : your wife could be at home beating you doing buddy what you tryin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OVER TO MY HOUSE, by GEESHIE WILEY Poem Source First Line: Come around to my house : ain't nobody here but me Last Line: Every married woman : got a back-door man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OVERTIME BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I been working overtime baby : oh the sun got hot Last Line: That's when you'll call for poor walter : but he won't be in your home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PACK UP YOUR TRUNK BLUES, by TOMMIE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Everybody here baby : seem to have a jolly time Last Line: Now seem everything everything you do : it is to worry my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PACKING TRUNK BLUES, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting down here wondering : would a matchbox hold my clothes Last Line: You get half a gallon of whiskey : you get on your big drunk Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAINFUL BLUES, by RUTH MARY WILLIS Poem Source First Line: My heart is painful : I believe my blues are pouring down Last Line: He has me almost crazy : till I was satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PANAMA LIMITED, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I ain't got nobody : take me to this train Last Line: Mmm : mmm Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PANTHER SQUALL BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I got a sweet mama : she ain't low at all Last Line: I bet you my last dollar : she don't put them jinx on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAPA LONG BLUES, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Woke up early this morning : blues all around my bed Last Line: You will call for me : and I'll be a thousand miles from home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAPA WANTS A COOKIE, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Mama's baking cookies : out in the kitchen Last Line: Mama just smiles : when she hear papa say Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAPA WANTS TO KNOCK A JUG, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I saw your mama : in kansas city Last Line: It's four or five times : and then some more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAPA'S LAWDY LAWDY BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I love my baby : and my baby do love me Last Line: I got a wife got a girl : and I'm fooling on the outside too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PARCHMAN FARM BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Judge give me life this morning : down on parchman farm Last Line: But I hope some day : I will overcome Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PATTIN' DAT CAT, by TEDDY BUNN Poem Source First Line: Marths's sitting : on up that fence Last Line: Sashaying : all around the house Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PAY ME NO WIND, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Have you woke up in the morning : *you weep and moan* Last Line: Now I got me another woman : best in the neighborhood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEA VINE BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I think I heard : the pea vine when she blowed Last Line: She blowed just like : she wasn't going to blow no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEACH ORCHARD MAMA, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Peach orchard mama : you swore nobody'd pick your fruit but me Last Line: Because when I gets mad : I acts just like a clown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEACH ORCHARD MAMA, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Peach orchard mama : you swore no one get your fruit but me Last Line: Now peach orchard mama since you been in trouble : you wish to god that I would die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEACH ORCHARD MAMA, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Peach orchard mama : you swore wasn't nobody going to use your peaches but me Last Line: Ever again I want a peach orchard mama : ooo well well widh to god that you would die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEACHES IN THE SPRINGTIME, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Now you give me peaches in the springtime : apples in the fall Last Line: So I can see my good gal : when she try and pass me by Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEETIE WHEATSTRAW STOMP, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Women all raving : about peetie wheatstraw in this land Last Line: The way I strut my stuff : ooo well now you never can tell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEETIE WHEATSTRAW STOMP NO. 2, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Everybody hollering : here come that peetie wheatstraw Last Line: You can come up : and see me sometime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PENAL FARM BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : on my way to the penal farm Last Line: My time is up : and penal farm has set me free Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PENITENTIARY, by BESSIE TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Aah ha ha : what's the matter with my man today Last Line: You going to keep on *a-palling* : you going to wake up in your grave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PENNILESS BLUES, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: I been blue all night : what is I going to do Last Line: And you know it's going to be some hell raised : lord if she don't bring some of my money back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN BLUES, by SIX CYCLINDER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Working in the steel mills baby : handling ??? Last Line: Well they're so doggone evil : break up every woman's bone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE, by CHARLIE SPECKS MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: People people : you don't know my mind Last Line: You got a home : just as long as I've got mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PHONOGRAPH BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Yeah but she got a phonograph : but it won't say a lonesome word Last Line: I can bring your clothes back home : and try me one more time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PICCOLO RAG, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: You talk about loving : that sure is *hit* Last Line: You do that loving : let it go round and round Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PIG IRON SALLY, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Some folks say black is evil : but I will tell the world they're wrong Last Line: And if you don't believe I'm dirty : you can watch my bogus stroke Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PIG MEAT BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: You may be little : you may have a tender snout Last Line: Still you got your grunt ; but you done lost your root Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PIG MEAT MAMA, by MAE GLOVER Poem Source First Line: I'm a pigmeat mama : pigmeat's all I crave Last Line: If I don't get my pigmeat : lord I'd rather be dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PIG MEAT PAPA, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just look a-here mama : don't treat pigmeat the way you do Last Line: Take a boat to china : then it's *catch us* anywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PIGMEAT BLUES, by GEORGIA+(2) WHITE Poem Source First Line: I know this is pigmeat : the kind that you won't regret Last Line: *register it poor on* china : *span* the test sanywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PILE DRIVIN' BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Drove so many piles : my hammer's all worn out Last Line: You have broke my hammer : my hammer's out of line Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PINEBLUFF ARKANSAS, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Ooo well I got a little woman : in pinebluff arkansas Last Line: She said I declare if you want me daddy : you better hurry home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PINEY WOODS MONEY MAMA, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Lord heavy-hipped mama : she done moved to the piney wood Last Line: But that fool just off and left me : she done moved to the piney wood Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PISTOL SNAPPER BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I can tell my dog : anywhere I hear him bark Last Line: That's a lying woman : and a monkey-man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PITCHIN' BOOGIE, by WILL EZELL Poem Source First Line: Now look here girl : put on your best dress Last Line: Close the door : ain't going to let nobody up here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLAY IT A LONG TIME AGO, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Play it a long time ago : your mama's feeling blue Last Line: That you have come : to have to plink Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLAYING POLICY BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Numbers numbers : about to drive me wild Last Line: I'm going to keep playing policy : till some good luck comes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEADIN' FOR THE BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: I'm not crying : pleading at your feet Last Line: I will leave anybody : that treats me like you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEADING BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Folks you don't know : how worried must I be Last Line: Now one gal is in jail : and the other one is in the pen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE BABY, by LONNIE CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Please baby please baby : won't you come back to your daddy one more time Last Line: I got to take my meals : and can't eat a bite Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE BABY, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Please baby please baby : won't you come back to your daddy one more time Last Line: Please baby please baby : I need you here to carry my loving on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE DON'T ACT THAT WAY, by TOMMIE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wonder : I want to go back home Last Line: I took all my money : and I brought it home to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE DON'T GO, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Now baby please don't go : baby please don't go Last Line: Don't call my name you got me way down here : wearing the ball and chain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE DON'T MISTREAT ME, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Please don't mistreat me : if you don't want me around Last Line: Lord I wouldn't say hard things to you mama : to make you hang your head and cry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLEASE MA'AM, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Been begging you : all night long Last Line: Begging you : babe if you please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PLYMOUTH ROCK BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I got so many chickens : can't tell my roosters from my hens Last Line: I don't want them banties : mixed up with my plymouth rocks Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PNEUMATIC BLUES, by BLIND CLYDE CHURCH Poem Source First Line: You can go to the ocean : you can go to the deep blue sea Last Line: But to keep down trouble : mama guess I better go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PNEUMONIA BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm aching all over : believe I got the pneumonia this time Last Line: Tell my good gal I'm going : but I'm still a-standing pat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POKER WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I love to gamble : and gambling's all I do Last Line: Going to keep her with me : each and every day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POLICE DOG BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: All my life: I been a traveling man Last Line: Before she sics : her police dog on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POLICE SERGEANT BLUES, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell you : baby tell you now Last Line: Because the girl I love : she's not got a dime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POLICY BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Hey I wonder : where is that policy right man [at] now Last Line: Just cut across on st lawrence avenue : and bring my money on home to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POLICY WHEEL BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now while you playing policy buddy : play four eleven and forty-four Last Line: Think you going to get my money mama : that's your yas yas y as Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POLOCK BLUES, by JABO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Way down way down : way down in polack town Last Line: And *the luck of the fortune* mama : you may need me around some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PONY BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: You can catch my pony : saddle up my black mare Last Line: I don't want to marry : just want to be your man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOLE COUNTRY BLUES, by EDDIE KELLY Poem Source First Line: There's nobody know : polk country like I do Last Line: I'm going to sing this old song : everywhere I go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR BOY A LONG WAYS FROM HOME, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: I'm a poor boy : I'm a long way from home Last Line: I want to hear : from that bobcat gal of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR BOY BLUES, by SAM BUTLER Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : blues all around my bed Last Line: Lord lord : ain't going to moan no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR BOY BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Lord I'm a poor boy : I'm going to and fro Last Line: Lord I just want you : give this poor boy's heart some ease Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR BOY BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I was down in louisiana : doing as I please Last Line: And my home's on the water : and I sure don't like land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR BOY, LONG WAYS FROM HOME, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: Been a poor boy : a long way from home Last Line: I cried please ma'am : give me thirteen forty-nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR COAL PASSER, by FRANK JAMES Poem Source First Line: I'm a poor coal loader : I'm in the mine Last Line: Woman I swear : you's a no-good chick Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR HOUSE BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: The road to hardship : leads right to the poorhouse door Last Line: In the poorhouse : I'll be till judgment day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR JOHN BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I'd rather be dead : sleep in an old hollow log Last Line: Lord I ain't crazy : about nobody I ever seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR MAN BLUES, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: And it's never mind never mind baby : I've got my doggone eyes on you Last Line: I done give you my money : I can give you most anything Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR MAN'S BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Mr rich man rich man : open up you heart and mind Last Line: If it wasn't for the poor man : mr rich man what would you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR MAN'S FRIEND, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Well well when you see * lindy women* : I want you to throw your wives in the v Last Line: Well well it's find somebody : hey got a t model ford Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR ME, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: You may go : you may stay Last Line: I can see bertha lee : lord but she can't see me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POST SEQUENCE DRIFT: BLUES 1, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You %catch my breath with your waking Last Line: No rest in my slumber %no sugar in my bowl Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians POST SEQUENCE DRIFT: BLUES 2, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Such accidents do happen Last Line: They can barely read what they say, %and when they do, they forget Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians POT HOUND BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: You must bring me a job : or money from anywhere Last Line: And you's a dirty pot hound : dirtier than any man I seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRATT CITY BLUES, by BERTHA CHIPPIE HILL Poem Source First Line: Pratt city : is where I was born Last Line: Don't worry hot papa : I'm *driftrack* bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRAYING BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Folks you don't know : half the trouble I've seen Last Line: One man is in jail : the other one is in the pen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHER BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN Poem Source First Line: If you want to hear : preacher curse Last Line: Better not catch you : at that house of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHERS BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Some folks say : a preacher won't steal Last Line: ??? Over that preacher : you be done lost your wife Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHIN' BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got up this morning : the blues walking like a man Last Line: Going to the ??? : stay out there all day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHIN' THE BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Because just a little spirit : of the blues tonight Last Line: Jumped up and done a shimmy : you ain't never seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHIN' THE BLUES--PART 1, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Oh I'm going to get me religion : I'm going to join the baptist church Last Line: Well if she don't have me : she won't have nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHIN' THE BLUES--PART 2, by SON HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Hey I'm going to fold my arms : I'm going to kneel down in prayer Last Line: When the spirit comes sisters : I want you to jump straight up and down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: All day long I'm worried : all night long I'm blue Last Line: Then I'll sign a paper : died with heart disease Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRETTY MAMA BLUES, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Hey pretty mama : can I get a job with you Last Line: That was my mama my sister : my sweetheart and my wife Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRETTY MAMA BLUES, by JOE LINTHECOME Poem Source First Line: Listen here pretty mama : what's on your worried mind Last Line: I'm going to grab that train : travel far down the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRISON BLUES, by ALICE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Oh the judge he sentenced me : and the clerk he wrote it down Last Line: Because the man I'm loving : I don't care where he *follow me* ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRISON CELL BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Getting tired of sleeping : in this lowdown lonesome cell Last Line: I'm getting tired of sleeping : in this lowdown lonesome cell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRISON WALL BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: When they bring you : through that gate Last Line: You see the bottom of my feet so many times : you think I'm on my knees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PRISONER'S BLUES, by MATTHEW MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Did you ever get in trouble : and they take you down to jail Last Line: That's the only thing I know : to cure a prisoner's blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PROJECT HIGHWAY, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well well well I've got to get some money : I wants to buy a v-eight ford Last Line: Well well then I'm going to tell them don't get excited : oo o same ??? *bit* I was singing about be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PROVE IT ON ME BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Went out last night, had a great big fight Last Line: Sure got to prove it on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PUSSY CAT BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh pussy cat pussy cat : where you been so long Last Line: Says all around your mouth : is something like mud Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PUSSY CAT BLUES, by JANE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: You can play with my pussy : but please don't dog it around Last Line: The rats may overtake you : need your pussy cat some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PUSSY CAT BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Pussy cat pussy cat : where have you been so long Last Line: You sleep all day : run up the alley all night long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PUT IT WHERE I CAN GET IT, by HOCIEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I got something at home : on my shelf Last Line: That every woman wants a man : that means her good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Why don't they tip %their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers RABBIT FOOT BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Blues jumped a rabbit : run him one solid mile Last Line: Reason I'm going home with you sugar : I ain't much hard to be fooled Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RACKETEERS BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If you got over fifteen grand : better split it ninety-nine different ways Last Line: You can even move to west hell : doggone if they don't find you there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAG BABY, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: Yonder she goes : with a broom in her hand Last Line: Sweep me off : for another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAG, MAMA, RAG, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: Says I'm going up to town : hat in my hand Last Line: Ought to hear her hollering : don't murder me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAIDIN' SQUAD BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: It's too late too late : too late too late too late Last Line: Now I'm in this raid : my friends have all thrown me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAILROAD BILL, by WILL BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Railroad bill : ought to be killed Last Line: Go through the world : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAILROAD BILL (2), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Railroad bill, railroad bill Last Line: Well it's ride, ride, ride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Railroads RAILROAD BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Now if the train falls on the track : I'm alabama bound Last Line: And if the seaboard god bless : I'm alabama bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAILROAD BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Every time you hear me sing this song Last Line: But when a man's in trouble, it's a long freight-train and ride Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads RAINY DAY BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Rainy day rainy day : you ought to hear my baby sing the blues Last Line: Now when I get my money : babe I'm going to be ???Ing just like you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAINY NIGHT BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now it was early one morning mama: I was on my way to school Last Line: Because the little woman I love mama: has a-drove me from her door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAM ROD DADDY, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm a ramrodding daddy : I stays up on main street Last Line: It ain't no other ramrodding daddy : can put his load below where I put mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Well the train's ??? : track's all out of line Last Line: Lord but that brown in chicago : have put that jinx bug on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLIN' MAN, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I feel like rambling : rambling stays on my mind Last Line: Because I'm going to ramble : until the day that I die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLIN' MIND BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: And I lay down last night : tried to take my rest Last Line: Says a letter's too slow : and a telegram may get left Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLIN' ON MY MIND, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got rambling : I got rambling [all] on my mind Last Line: I got to leave my baby : but she treats me so unkind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLING BLUES, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : with rambling on my mind Last Line: I may not suit you : but I'll do the best I can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMBLING BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Early this morning : the blues come walking in my room Last Line: The last time you were here : you made me cry and walk the floor Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAMROD BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I wonder where is the ramrod : belongs to my gun Last Line: When I ain't got the ramrod : belongs to my gun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RATTLESNAKE BLUES, by MARY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Rattlesnake treating papa : what makes you treat your mama so mean Last Line: And I can tell by that : you ain't treating your mama right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RATTLESNAKE BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I say I'm just like a rattlesnake baby : I say in the middle of his coil Last Line: If I leave here this morning : never say daddy how do you feel Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RAZOR BALL, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Down in atlanta at the razor ball : even at the razor ball Last Line: Put me at the head of the list : and don't forget to call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) REACHING' PETE, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: When you go to helena : stop on cherry street Last Line: Every time he meet you : he's ready for plenty hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) REAL ESTATE BLUES, by WILL BENNETT Poem Source First Line: All I want is a new pair of shoes : that is all I pray Last Line: For I didn't bring nothing to this old world : and I can't carry nothing away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RECKLESS BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: When I was young : nothing but a child Last Line: Come in pretty papa : mama wants some loving right now Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RECKLESS WOMAN, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: A woman gets tired : of one man all the time Last Line: But I like as man men : I see is good to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RED BEANS AND RICE, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: When I was down in georgia : I was doing mighty well Last Line: Says I got where I can't get no loving : not until my payday comes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RED CROSS BLUES, by SONNY SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you : what the what the red cross people will do Last Line: Because I can't take you down the hill : but I'll show you to the red cross store Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RED HOT BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Hey get your partner : put on your dancing shoes Last Line: But now she's gone : and I got these red-hot blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RED RIPE TOMATOES, by JACK KELLY Poem Source First Line: I've got a thirty-two twenty : shoots just like a forty-five Last Line: They are going through the bushes : and they are going in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RED RIVER BLUES, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me which a-way : do the red river run Last Line: I love my baby : you going to let me be Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) REMEMBER AND FORGET BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: It's so easy to remember : and it's so hard to forget Last Line: Since the woman I loved have deceived me : ooo well well now I don't want nobody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RENEWED LOVE BLUES, by LITTLE BUDDY DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Now baby let's stop our foolishness : and try to renew love over again Last Line: Maybe some day you will consider baby : lord and acknowledge that you have done wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) REVENUE MAN BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Aw the revenue man is riding : boy you'd better look out Last Line: I have been a good provider : but I believe I've been misled Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RICHARD'S BLUES, by RICHARD CECIL Poem Source First Line: At three a.M., alone, not sleepy Last Line: Who wrote and sang their high passion Subject(s): Blues (music); Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians RIDE JOCKEY RIDE, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I got a jockey : riding for me Last Line: Wave your whip : and make it crack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RIGHT KIND OF LIFE, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I'm only twenty-four : I just declare I been married twice Last Line: Now when this little woman that you been loving : have fell in love with mr so-and-so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RIGHT NOW BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Right now's the time : mama for you to change your mind Last Line: I do everything mama : to try to satisfy your mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RIGHT OF WAY BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I hate to hear : my good gal call my name Last Line: There's a whole lots of women : *just ran through your brown's hall* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RIGHTEOUS BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Listen everybody : I'm going to sing a song Last Line: I thought she was too old : I'm telling you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RILEY SPRINGS BLUES, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: I ain't going down : to riley springs no more Last Line: You broke my heart : and left me in misery Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RISIN' SUN, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: My woman got something: just like the rising sun Last Line: Sometime I wonder: what in the hell is that Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RISING HIGH WATER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Backwater rising : southern people can't make no time Last Line: I leave with a prayer in my heart : backwater won't rise no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods RISING RIVER BLUES, by GEORGE+(2) CARTER Poem Source First Line: Rising river blues : running by my door Last Line: *if you need to talk* : take a long long time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RISING SUN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+207 Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : look at the rising sun Last Line: It takes all twenty-two : to run my brownskin down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RISING SUN BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Well now I lay down every morning : but I get up with the rising sun Last Line: Well then again after I'm gone : ooo please now don't bother with me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RIVERSIDE BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: I went down to the river : just thirty-one days and nights Last Line: I'm going to the station : meet the cannonball Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROAD TRAMP BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I have walked the lonesome road : till my feet is too sore to walk Last Line: And change my way of living : oh oh well well so I won't have to tramp around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROBBIN' AND STEALIN' BLUES, by GENE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: My baby ain't good-looking : and she don't dress fine Last Line: Your woman don't know how to rob : she is too doggone scared to steal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROBERTA--PART 1, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh roberta : honey where you been so long Last Line: Well I'll stay right here lord : until roberta come down Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROBERTA--PART 2, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh roberta : what in the world you mean Last Line: This man ain't got nobody : to take his troubles to Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROCK ISLAND BLUES, by LEWIS BLACK Poem Source First Line: See the train : weaving up and down the track Last Line: I got a mind to ramble : mind to leave this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROCKY ROAD BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now my road is rocky : but it won't be rocky long Last Line: Say I ain't to let these hard-headed women : make me lose my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLL AND TUMBLE BLUES, by HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN Poem Source First Line: And I rolled and I tumbled : and I cried the whole night long Last Line: Says that's all right sweet mama : your trouble going to come some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLED FROM SIDE TO SIDE BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: Mr ferris mr ferris : let your womenfolks go Last Line: You keep a poor man troubled : really looking down-hearted all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLIN' MAMA BLUES, by RUBY GLAZE Poem Source First Line: Now tell me baby : how do you want your loving done Last Line: Won't you come back baby : you get me all confused Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLIN' MAMA BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I want you to start in the morning baby : and roll me with the setting of the s Last Line: That's why I'm singing : these barrelhouse woman blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLING BLUES, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now listen here women : I want you to know Last Line: She roll it good and easy : and it ain't too slow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLING LOG BLUES, by LOTTIE BEAMAN Poem Source First Line: I been drifting and rolling : along the road Last Line: Going to fix it : so I won't have to drift no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROLLS-ROYCE PAPA, by VIRGINIA LISTON Poem Source First Line: Daddy I'll drop you in my garage : and that's no doubt Last Line: And I know doggone well : your spark plugs ain't hitting right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROOSTER'S CROWING BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: And hey what makes a rooster : crow at the break of day Last Line: They'll take your baby from you : *just like ??? Hen* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROOT HOG OR DIE, by HERB MORAND Poem Source First Line: I pawned my watch : and my clothes and diamond ring Last Line: Now you will have to stop : shaking shaking that old thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROOT MAN BLUES, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Mama here come your root man : open the door and let him in Last Line: She say go away from here doctor : you got too much root for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROOTIN' GROUND HOG, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Well I'm a rooting ground hog : and I roots both nights and days Last Line: Couldn't hear nothing : but my babe's train crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROPE STRETCHING BLUES--PART 1, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I caught a stranger in my house : and I busted his head with a club Last Line: In just a few more days : I won't be able to sing my song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROPE STRETCHING BLUES--PART 2, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Don't trust no woman : who mistreats her man Last Line: Just keep the flies from buzzing by me : and then I will be satisfied Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROUGH AND TUMBLE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the western union : type the news all down the line Last Line: Because my man's on the wabash : with the rough and tumbling blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROUND AND ROUND, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: My gal's got something : that I surely like Last Line: If they miss *airy* movement : it sure is their last Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ROWDY BLUES, by KID BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Ain't going to marry : neither settle down Last Line: It's a sad word to say : but the best of friends have to part Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RUN, MOLLY RUN, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Music in the kitchen : music in the hall Last Line: Just got there in good old time : to wear them ball and chain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RUNNIN' ME CRAZY, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Says I'm almost crazy : and I'm all here by myself Last Line: And when you know anything : you'd be almost crazy with the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RUSTLIN' MAN, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I'm a rustling man : I rustle night and day Last Line: I haven't found nothing : boy for a poor rustling man to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAD AND BLUE, by IVY SMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm going to write : my man today Last Line: Because when I start slipping : I'll make you sad and blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAD AND LONESOME BLUES, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I was sad and lonesome : when I walked into my baby's door Last Line: I did not think : you would treat me this a-way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAD NEWS BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I got a letter : I got a letter here in my hand Last Line: Even though you been kind : there's nothing that you can do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SALES TAX, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: These times now : ain't suiting me Last Line: Everything is sold : by the government rule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SALTY DOG, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now just one thing : that worry my mind Last Line: He saves his money : and use his fist Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SALTY DOG BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Says it ain't but the one thing : that grieve my mind Last Line: I'll be the *worst* boy : to pour the coffee pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAM, YOU'RE JUST A RAT, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Sam you say you my friend : but your ways I just don't like Last Line: So I'm going to give you a vacation : that's a round-trip ticket to hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SANTA CLAUS, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Santy claus : won't you please hear my lonesome plea Last Line: I don't want nothing for christmas : but my baby back to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SATURDAY BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Now you tell me mama : do you think that's right Last Line: It takes all them dogs : to run my woman down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SATURDAY NIGHT SPENDER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Every saturday : go to work in a doggone place Last Line: My regular found out I was a saturday night spender : and it sure did make her mad Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAVANNAH MAMA, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Mmm : lordy lordy lord Last Line: Says I'd like to love you baby : but your good men got me barred Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAVE IT FOR ME, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: You's a good-looking woman : pretty as you can be Last Line: Just want to know mama : if you save it for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAVE ME SOME, by JED DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: Work now mama : both night and day Last Line: Doing that stuff : will be the death of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SAWMILL BLUES, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Oh : hey hey hey hey Last Line: Because I can't sleep for dreaming : sure can't stay woke for crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCANDAL BLUES, by MONETTE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Spreading lies and gossip : surely is one shameful sin Last Line: I'll put coals in someone's shoes : to make warts when they walk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCAREY DAY BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I wants to wait around here baby : until your fried *rice* get done Last Line: I been wandering around georgia : with these doggone scary day blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCHOOL GIRL BLUES, by ROSIE MAE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Now tell me little daddy : what you got on your worried mind Last Line: Lord that brownskin man : caused me not to obey my poor mother's rule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCOOP IT, by KID WESLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Scoop it : pretty mama for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCOOP IT, by LEOLA B. WILSON Poem Source First Line: Now you grab your partner : large or small Last Line: I can get way back : in my knees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCREAMIN' AND HOLLERIN' BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: Hackson on a high hill mama : natchez just below Last Line: Take god to tell : when I'll be back here anymore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SCREAMIN' THE BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Talk about blues : you ought to hear mine Last Line: Just let him know : that you got another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEARCH WARRANT BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Mr police captain : listen to my plea Last Line: If she thinks she can quit me : she really have lost her mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEARCHING THE DESERT FOR THE BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: You may search the ocean : you might go across the deep blue sea Last Line: That's why : I'm walking my baby home anyhow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SECOND-HAND WOMAN BLUES, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: All dolled up : looking keen Last Line: Can't use it : if it's forty years old Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SECTION GANG BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I been working on the section: *section* thirty-two Last Line: Oh he looked at me: and he walked away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEE, SEE RIDER, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: See see rider, see what you done done Last Line: You didn't come home till the sun was shinin' bright Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEEN BETTER DAYS, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I seen better days: when times wasn't so hard Last Line: Sometime I think: lord I declare I declare Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SELLING THAT STUFF, by BOB ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Aunt jane gave a dance : and she had a crowd Last Line: She used to sell stuff : and she sells it still Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SELLING THE JELLY, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I'm a jelly-selling woman : I sell it every day Last Line: Before you buy my jelly? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEMINOLE BLUES, by GEORGE NOBLE Poem Source First Line: And I came up this morning : baby don't you want to go Last Line: Lord I got a-traveling on the mind : *anyone thing I'll be dying* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEMINOLE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: My baby's gone : won't be back no more Last Line: I'm going to find my baby : if I have to ride the blinds Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Judge judge please mr judge : send me to the electric chair Last Line: I don't wan : to spend no ninety-ninety years in jail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY, by JIMMY RUSHING Poem Source First Line: Don't the moon look lonesome shining through the trees Last Line: Baby, you can't love me and treat me thataway Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SET DOWN GAL, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Said I ain't no preacher : I'm just a bachelor man Last Line: Don't like to catch you : start to messing around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEVEN SISTER BLUES, by EDWARD+(3) THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Coal-black woman : fry no meat for me Last Line: Says I knowed by that : my gal was graveyard bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEVEN SISTERS BLUES--PART 1, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: They tell me seven sisters in new orleans : they can really fixa man up right Last Line: Will you build me up where I'm torn down : and make me strong where I'm weak Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEVEN SISTERS BLUES--PART 2, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: I went to new orleans louisiana : just on account of something I heard Last Line: If seven sisters can't do anything in louisiana : bet you'll have to go to new orleans Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHACK BULLY STOMP, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I used to play slow : but now I play it fast Last Line: I got something new : that I ain't never told you yet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHADY GROVE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now baby but I'll see you : baby in the spring Last Line: You know my woman she done quit me : and I'm going to start to raising hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHADY LANE BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now I've got a girl : she lives down in in shady lane Last Line: Don't lose your temper : when you've been drinking booze Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAGGY DOG BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: I'm going up on a mountain : I'm going to do just like a hog Last Line: Son these women around here : just *they pretty want* you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Say you lying around here sweet baby : your face full of frowns Last Line: There's a good time here : better one around the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Get your nightshirt mama : and your gown Last Line: Made me drunker : than that old whiskey still Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE HANDS AND TELL ME GOODBYE, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I don't want you no more sweet baby : shake hands and tell your daddy goodbye Last Line: You give your loving : to the other men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE IT DADDY, by MAE GLOVER Poem Source First Line: You used to be sweet milk : but you done turned sour on me Last Line: Because the way you shake it : will make me do things right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE IT, BLACK BOTTOM, by ANNA BELL Poem Source First Line: There's a certain girl : name is suley brown Last Line: I spent all my money : to ??? That thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE MATTIE, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Shake shake mattie : shake rattle and roll Last Line: I know old mattie : by the dress she wore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE THAT THING, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says down in georgia : where the dance is new Last Line: You don't need no lesson : to shake that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAKE THAT THING, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now down in georgia : they got a dance that's new Last Line: The *hobo* ??? : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHANNON STREET BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I went down on shannon street : now to buy me some alcohol Last Line: She said sonny boy I'm scared if you get a drink of whiskey : and I'm scared that we won't ride very Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHANTY BLUES, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to the nation : I ain't going to make no fuss Last Line: Show me that woman : anybody can trust Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHAVE EM DRY, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now here's one thing : can't understand Last Line: If your man catch you : I don't mean no harm Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE AIN'T NO GOOD, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Some men likes their country girl : my girl lives in town Last Line: I got up next morning and come back home : been running ever since Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE BELONGS TO ME BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: It was early one morning : just about the break of day Last Line: And the reason I love her : says she belong to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE BELONGS TO THE DEVIL, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: She belongs to the devil : lord I cried many a day Last Line: Yes she belongs to the devil : ooo well she have wrecked a-many home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE CAN LOVE SO GOOD, by FRANKIE HALF PINT JAXON Poem Source First Line: I've got a gal : she's low and squatty Last Line: Came all the way from dixie : to put that thing on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE COULD TOODLE-OO, by HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN Poem Source First Line: Her mama phoned the doctor ; says come here quick Last Line: Fell down : and broke her little toodle-oodle-oo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE DON'T LOVE ME THAT WAY, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I got something to tell you baby : you can't do Last Line: You let these cats : make a fool of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE DONE SOLD IT OUT, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: You know I had a gal : she run a java shop Last Line: I believe I can find something : just begun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE ROLLS IT SLOW, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I got a little woman : but I swear she treats me mean Last Line: Gets it all together : then she mix it in her dough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE STAYS OUT ALL NIGHT LONG, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: I told my old lady : no longer than the week before last Last Line: Lord how can a poor man feel : one he loves stays out all night long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE STAYS OUT ALL NIGHT LONG, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Lord I told my old lady : no longer than week before last Last Line: Just like a hobo on a freight train : haven't had a decent meal today Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE WAS A DREAMER, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now my baby was a girl : she was sweet sixteen Last Line: She was the dreamingest girl : from miles around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE WON'T TREAT ME KIND, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Well I worry I worry : I worries all the time Last Line: Because the good times I used to have : I can't have no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S A FOOL GAL, by ED BELL Poem Source First Line: Now you need not think : because you're black Last Line: Big as an elephant : strong as a mule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S A GOOD LOOKING MAMA, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: She's a good-looking woman : teeth don't even shine like pearls Last Line: Sure I love you sweet mama : but I sure ain't going to be your dog Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S GONE BLUES, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: When you were down : sick down on your bed Last Line: I'll be up the country : drinking that cool can beer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S GOT A MEAN DISPOSITION, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: She got a mean disposition : and she got such a lowdown dirty way Last Line: I just sit around and worry : I worry with my fool self Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S GOT A NICE LINE, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: Big girl I love : live on eighteenth street Last Line: I better not catch : nobody else with it Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE'S JUST GOOD HUGGIN' SIZE, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Oh my baby : just about good hugging size Last Line: But I caught her two-timing me : and I swear I turn her damper down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHEIK OF DESPLAINES STREET, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I know a man : he's on our street Last Line: His ways and actions : is hard to beat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHELBY COUNTY WORKHOUSE BLUES, by HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN Poem Source First Line: I left old memphis tennessee : on my way back to [dear old] *maltree* Last Line: Lord the guards done treat me : like I was a lowdown dog Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHIELDS STRONG, NULLA NULLAS ALIVE, by LIONEL FOGARTY Poem Source First Line: Morning dawning stems that core Last Line: How sad are you. %or shields are strong %nulla nullas alive Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHIM SHAMMING, by EDDIE KELLY Poem Source First Line: Said I don't care : what mama don't allow Last Line: Going to *eeya-eeya* : anyhow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHINEY TOWN BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: I ain't no rounder : but I stays at home Last Line: Ain't nothing that separate from me : for you to be my wife Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHININ' PISTOL, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'm going to get me a brand new [shiny] pistol : with a long shiny barrel Last Line: I won't be dead with trouble : you know I died to *lose* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHIPWRECK BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Captain : tell your men to get on board Last Line: I feel like : someone has shipwrecked poor me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHIPWRECKED BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Oh the gale is raging : and my ship without a sail Last Line: Lord if someone don't save me : I'll go down singing the shipwreck blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOOK IT THIS MORNING BLUES, by JOE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Now I shook it this morning : baby until late last night Last Line: I ain't go nowhere : to lay my weary head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOOTIN' STAR BLUES, by LIZZIE MILES Poem Source First Line: I done crossed my fingers : and counted up to twenty-three Last Line: But when the stars are shooting : I know bad luck is in that sign Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHORT HAIR BLUES, by KID STORMY WEATHER Poem Source First Line: That's all right baby : lord that's all right for you Last Line: Dirty roaches and the chinches : done tore my little gin house down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHORTY GEORGE, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well shorty george : ain't no friend of mine Last Line: I ain't got long down here : honey you heard I had Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOTGUN BLUES, by BOB CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Get me a shotgun : and use it in the woods Last Line: You done started me to loving you : and now your other man done come Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOTGUN BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: You ought to heard my grandmother : when she got my grandfather told Last Line: Now if you can stand to leave me : I'll try to love to see you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOUTING BABY BLUES, by UNKNOWN+213 Poem Source First Line: I know my baby : she going to jump and shout Last Line: Oh hollering and screaming : where that long-gone man of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHOWERS OF RAIN BLUES, by EDWARD+(3) THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Don't mistreat me mama : because I'm your little wild Last Line: What see the way them fishes : do the shivaree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHRIMP MAN, by MOSES MASON Poem Source First Line: Shrimp is the thing : you love best Last Line: I'm going to holler : but I'm going home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHUCKIN' SUGAR, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I've got your picture : and I'm going to put it in a frame Last Line: I only want to stay like I am : and slip from town to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SICK BED BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: When I left [home] : my little girl was sick and in the bed Last Line: I *never did mind though* : ooo well now when all your *gold* is gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SICK MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bands of black men seem to be drifting in air Last Line: The peaceful, blissful words, well-tuned, well-sung, well-spoken Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians SICK WITH THE BLUES, by HENRY TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: People I've tried every doctor : every doctor in my neighborhood Last Line: Because I've already found out : that your love is not true Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SING SONG BLUES, by BOB COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: If you ever been down mama : you know just how [I, a prisoner] feel Last Line: I drinking wine and whiskey : mama and your home-brewed beer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SINGLE TREE BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Hit my woman : with a singletree Last Line: She ain't there : she's all over town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SINGLE WOMAN'S BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I don't feel welcome : I'm going to blow Last Line: Then I will quit wandering : before it's too late Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SISSY MAN BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I believe: I believe I'll go back home Last Line: Lord you going to hear these blues again mama: well you sure got to sing them yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SITTIN' ON A LOG, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I was sitting on a log: just like a doggone dog Last Line: I'm going to stay right here: wait on something new Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SITTING DOWN THINKING BLUES, by JIMMY ODEN Poem Source First Line: Just sitting down thinking : drinking my trouble through Last Line: And if I don't love you : I wouldn't care what you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD, by JOE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Worked all the summer : and all the fall Last Line: Why should you beg me : and say goodbye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Was all the summer : and all the fall Last Line: Why should you beg me : and say goodbye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKEET AND GARRET, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Got me accused for murder : and stealing was my crime Last Line: You been following me : around this whole week Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKIN GAME BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Good morning skin game : hollering skin game please last Last Line: I would take a walk downtown : buy me a brand new pair of shoes and hat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKIN GAME BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: When I ??? Game last night : thought I'd have some fun Last Line: Soon as I reach old georgia : the niggers carried a handcuff to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKIN MAN, by HI HENRY BROWN Poem Source First Line: Skin man's hollering : passing right by my door Last Line: Well they sell your wife skins : and take her away from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKINNY WOMAN, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Lord I don't want no skinny woman : I want a woman with a-plenty of meat Last Line: Now she was a sweet little woman : she just wouldn't be loving and kind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKOODLE DO DO, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I got up this morning : mama about half past four Last Line: Whop you on the head : until you learn some sense Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKOODLE DO DO, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Got up this morning : about half past four Last Line: Whop you on your head :until you learn some sense Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SKOODLE UM SKOO, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Now I got a lady : by the name of sue Last Line: All these brownskins : none of them mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLAVE TO THE BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Ain't robbed no train : ain't done no hanging crime Last Line: I'm a good-hearted woman : but still I'm chained to the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Now let me tell you : how I'd like to see my baby now Last Line: I want you to hug and kiss me baby : now when I come walking in your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLEEPY MAN BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: When a man gets troubled in mind : he want to sleep all the time Last Line: I will do most anything : to keep from weaking down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOP JAR BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I feel just like mama: throwing my slop jar in your face Last Line: Says I walked all the way up beale street: I bowed my head at every old gal I met Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOPPY DRUNK AGAIN, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My gal done quit me : found somebody else Last Line: A brownskin woman : tell her when I come to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOPPY DRUNK BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be a sloppy drunk : than anything I know Last Line: And I'm sloppy drunk : drinking by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOPPY DRUNK BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be sloppy drunk : than anything I know Last Line: Now I'm sloppy drunk mama : sleeping all by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOPPY DRUNK BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now I would rather be sloppy drunk : oh than anything I know Last Line: Now if you want me to stop drinking whiskey : you ain't talking about nothing at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOW DRIVING MOAN, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I rambled till I'm tired : I'm not satisfied Last Line: Don't play that band mr : just play the blues for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SLOW MAMA SLOW, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Take your time kind mama : I'm going to do it just as slow as I can Last Line: Look out your back door : see me leave this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SNAKE DOCTOR BLUES, by JAYDEE SHORT Poem Source First Line: I'm a snake doctor man : everybody's trying to find out my name Last Line: He's got roots and herbs : steals a woman man everywhere he land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SNATCH IT BACK BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to lay my head : down on some railroad track Last Line: Ooo : ooo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SNIGGLIN' BLUES, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: I done everything : a poor ??? Man can do Last Line: And tell me so many ??? : that I have no need no cash Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SNITCHIN' GAMBLER BLUES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: People in this town: lord they ain't no friend to you Last Line: I left all the snitching people : way behind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SO LONELY AND BLUE, by JOHNNIE TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: Baby I'm feeling so lonely : and I'm feeling so blue Last Line: You know about that baby : you have done throwed me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SO LONESOME, by RAMBLIN' THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I'm so lonesome lonesome : I don't know what to do Last Line: Said be careful in your traveling son : you got to reap just what you sow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOBBIN' HEARTED BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: You treated me wrong : I treated you right Last Line: Going to keep on walking : until I lose these sobbing-hearted blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOBBIN' WOMAN BLUES, by ELIZABETH JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh I ain't got : no easy rider now Last Line: Keep me worried : bothered all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOCIETY BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: When I was society : the women would not let me be Last Line: It was a little brownskin woman : stole my heart away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOME DAY, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby I say you going to need : my little help some old lonesomeday Last Line: You got me here in all this lowdown trouble : baby and this lowdown way that you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOME SCREAMED HIGH YELLOW, by SAM BUTLER Poem Source First Line: I didn't *roll in here* : *till lord sometime* last night Last Line: Catch a long jumping judy : go on across the hill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEBODY'S BEEN BORROWING THAT STUFF, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Look a-here judge : give me the lowest fine Last Line: I am going : to raise some hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEBODY'S BEEN TALKIN', by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I hate to see : that rising sun go down Last Line: Lord I got a notion : my woman done and left this town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEBODY'S GOT TO GO, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Well well me and my woman : we can't get along no more Last Line: And it may be me : and it may be you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEDAY BABY, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Don't care where you go : how long you stay Last Line: You can steal my best woman : but you sure can't make her stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEDAY BABY BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: I don't care how long you gone : I won't care how long you stay Last Line: You's a no-good woman : you don't mean no good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMEDAY I'LL BE IN THE CLAY, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: I dropped my baby off : among my friends Last Line: If I ain't gone to heaven : you know I gone to hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMETHING FISHY, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You arms don't feel the same : your lips is icebox cold Last Line: But since you been running out with your girl friend : you just a plain old everyday clown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMETHING GONNA HAPPEN TO YOU, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: I'm going to ask my buddy now : how come he shares Last Line: Used to gang around me : like the ants on a bug Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMETIME MAMA, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Sometime mama : you're good as good can be Last Line: You going to get you another man : if you don't stop your sometime ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOMETIMES I THINK I LOVE YOU, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Hey sometime I think I love you : then again I don't Last Line: Want for me to beg rob and steal : bring it all home to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOO COW SOO, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: If you see my cow : tell her hurry home Last Line: I'd give anything : that the poor cow needs Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOPHISTICATED MAMA, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Sophisticated mama : don't turn your nose up at me Last Line: Can't give you nothing but loving : and you'll have to make that do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SORE BUNION BLUES, by BLIND RICHARD YATES Poem Source First Line: Told the shoe man : give me a size fourteen Last Line: Let him start : to working on my buns Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SORROWFUL BLUES, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: If you catch me stealing : I don't mean no harm Last Line: Just stip in my back yards : and take a peep at mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTH BOUND BACKWATER, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It's been snowing forty days : and the ground is covered with snow Last Line: Backwater done wrecked my cabin : and there's no place that I can call my home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTH CAROLINA RAG, by WILLIE WALKER Poem Source First Line: I asked her for a drink of water : she brought gasoline Last Line: Ain't so pretty : but she's the sweetest in town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTH MEMPHIS BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: I don't want you to weep mama : I don't want you to moan Last Line: Before I'll take you to south memphis : I going bid you adieu Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHBOUND BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: No need to ask me : why I'm packing my clothes Last Line: So I'm going down south : shake this dust of this town off my feet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN BLUES, by WILLIAM LEE CONLEY BROONZY Poem Source First Line: When I got up this mornin', I heard the old southern whistle blow Last Line: I say my baby's gone to georgia, I believe I'll go to georgia, too Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads SOUTHERN BLUES, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Blues jumped the monkey : and run him for a solid mile Last Line: And when they gets on me : talk like a natural man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: House catch on fire %and ain't no water 'round Last Line: If he beats me ragged %he's got to rag it some Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN CAN IS MINE, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Now look here mama : let me tell you this Last Line: But every time I hit it : you going to holler god dog Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN CAN MAMA, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Now look a-here mama : let me explain you this Last Line: I'll grab you woman : and turn you every way but loose Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN CASEY JONES, by JESSE JAMES Poem Source First Line: I heard the people say : casey jones can't run Last Line: You got another lady : on the same damn track Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN RAILROAD BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says my gal she caught the southern: and the fireman he rang the bell Last Line: Said I'm going back home mama: and I'm going back there to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN SEA BLUES, by JAKE JONES Poem Source First Line: I was shipwrecked on the ocean : throwed off on the southern sea Last Line: If I don't love you pretty mama : I will pray to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Way down south : you ought to see the women shimmy and shake Last Line: I won't go to fishing : mama I done broke my pole Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOUTHERN WOMAN'S BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Takes a southern woman : to sing this southern song Last Line: These northern men : are about to let my poor hambone spoil Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SPECIAL AGENT, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now when I left for richmond : the weather was kind of cool Last Line: Now I got to do some recording : and I ought to be recording right now Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SPECIAL DELIVERY BLUES, by SIPPIE WALLACE Poem Source First Line: My man packed his trunk : and said I'm going away Last Line: Because if you didn't : it will give me those special delivery blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SPECIAL RIDER BLUES, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: I ain't got no : special rider here Last Line: Hear you done call : the easy rider special blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SPECIAL STREAM LINE, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Hey dad : I'm sorry to leave my home Last Line: Mmm : I believe I'll lose my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SPIDER AND THE FLY, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Up said the spider : to the little fly one day Last Line: I'll give you loving : loving until you die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SQUABBLIN' BLUES, by UNKNOWN+201 Poem Source First Line: My baby done quit me : talked all over town Last Line: Said it's traintime now : *said that* ring I did adore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SQUAT IT, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: I've got a man : works on the railroad track Last Line: But when he's doing the squatting : you might a-hear me squall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SQUEAKY WORK BENCH BLUES, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I can't love you baby : I'm going to tell what's this all about Last Line: Said I'd rather go by myself : and look to the good lord above Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS BLUES, by KATHERINE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: I hate to see : that evening sun go down Last Line: Why the man I love : would not have gone nowhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS BLUES, by JIM JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Well I hates to see : that evening sun go down Last Line: And a black-headed girl : will make a preacher ball the jack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I hate to see : the evening sun go down Last Line: The man I love : wouldn't go nowhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS CYCLONE BLUES, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was sitting in my kitchen : looking way out across the sky Last Line: How the cyclone spared us : nobody but the lord can tell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS DADDY, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I hate to leave st louis : and I tried so hard to stay Last Line: Now I'm going to detroit : and find me an angel man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. PETER BLUES, by NOLAN WELSH Poem Source First Line: Mama mama : baby how can it be Last Line: I'll say look a-here st peter : you got any white lightning here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STACK O' DOLLARS, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Stack of dollars : just as long as I am tall Last Line: It weren't nothing that she knowed lord : just something that she heard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STACK O' DOLLARS BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Now it's too late to holler baby : too late to weep and moan Last Line: For that stack of dollars is worrying me : lord and I got togo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STAGGERING BLUES, by ROSIE MAE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Because you see me staggering : baby don't you think I'm drunk Last Line: But the day you try to quit me : brother that's the day you die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STAMP BLUES, by TONY HOLLINS Poem Source First Line: Well I woke up this morning : half past four Last Line: Streets was crowded : and I couldn't get through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STAND UP SUITCASE BLUES, by UNCLE BUD WALKER Poem Source First Line: Hey mama : honey what's the matter now Last Line: Said this sideboard soo lord : carry load of wine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STARVATION BLUES, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: Starvation in my kitchen : rent sign's on my door Last Line: Mean my luck going to change : and I going to be treated this a-way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STARVATION FARM BLUES, by BOB CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Well I'm going to detroit : get myself a job Last Line: Woman if you keep on a-smiling : I'm sure going to take your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STATE OF TENNESSEE, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: I got a voice like a radio : it broadcasts everywhere Last Line: Double e double r : double e double n o p Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STATE OF TENNESSEE BLUES, by JENNIE CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: I'm worried now ; and I won't be worried long Last Line: If you don't want no trouble : please don't you worry my man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STATESBORO BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Wake up mama : turn your lamp down low Last Line: I looked over in the corner : grandma and grandpa had them too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEALIN' STEALIN', by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Stealing stealing : pretty mama don't you tell on me Last Line: She's a married woman : come to see me sometime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEALING BO-HOG, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I'm not an elephant baby : my snout is large and round Last Line: I got me a pigmeat woman : don't need no sowbelly no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEEL DRIVIN' MAN, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Steel-driving sam : steel-driving man of mine Last Line: He works on the railroad : daylight-savings time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEP IT UP AND GO, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: Had a little girl : she was little and low Last Line: Hear my gal call me : and I got to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEPFATHER BLUES, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When I was a little boy baby : about sixteen inches high Last Line: He's a no-good weed : and swear he done me wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STERED GAL, by MISSISSIPPI BRACEY Poem Source First Line: She wouldn't if she could : and she wouldn't do it at all Last Line: Ain't mush *chitlin* : but stir it in the house Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEVEDORE MAN, by LEOLA B. WILSON Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning about half past nine : and I just could no keep from cryin Last Line: And that woman done got lucky : lord and stoled her man back again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STEW MEAT BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: A man say I had something : look like new Last Line: You try my stuff one time : you can't get enough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STINGING SNAKE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: This house is full of stinging snakes : crawling all in my bed Last Line: I believe to my soul : that my stinging snake trying to put me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STINGY WOMAN--BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: And it's stingy woman : come and sit down on my knee Last Line: And you trying to quit me : lordy woman and you don't know how Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOCKING FEET BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Somebody : just keep on calling me Last Line: Won't some good man : tell me some woman's name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOLE RIDER BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I'm going to grab me a train : ride the lonesome rail Last Line: That why : I've got these old stole rider blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOMP DOWN RIDER, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: When I first met you mama : you were so nice and kind Last Line: Come back and show you : how to eagle rock Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOMP THAT THING, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now my song's gotten tight : they won't treat me right Last Line: Stomping that thing : is about to change my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STONE IN MY PASSWAY, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I got stones in my passway : and my road seem dark as night Last Line: I been feeling ashamed about my rider : babe I'm booked and I got to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STONE PONY BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I got me a stone pony : and I don't ride shetland no more Last Line: Come a storm at night : and tore the wire down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STONEWALL BLUES, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Tell me mailman : I can't get no news Last Line: Down in that old foundry : trying to roll my cares away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STONEWALL STREET BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Hey hey hey hey : hey hey hey hey Last Line: I ain't going to stay around here : and be your stumbling block Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP AND LISTEN BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Yes I'm *jailhouse* ??? : long old lonesome day Last Line: It was ??? : ??? All around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP AND LISTEN BLUES NO. 2, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: When I left town this morning : I was on my way back home Last Line: I never will see : sweet babe ever anymore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP BREAKIN' DOWN BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Every time I'm walking : down the street Last Line: When some pretty mama : starts breaking down on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP LOOK AND LISTEN, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Oh stop and listen : hear those bells a-tone Last Line: Watch the pallbearers : when they lay my faro down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP THAT THING, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now mama killed a chicken : and thought it was a duck Last Line: The monkey told the baboon : you got no sense Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP YOUR RAMBLING, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Baby stop you way of rambling : stay at home with me sometime Last Line: But some day baby : you'te going to reap just what you sow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STORMY WEATHER NO 1, by JOSHUA+(1) WHITE Poem Source First Line: Lord it rained : it rained as far as I could see Last Line: And I won't be worried : about these stormy weather blues no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOVE PIPE BLUES, by UNKNOWN+205 Poem Source First Line: When you get down to memphis : won't find me there Last Line: Good lord now when you get to memphis : won't find me there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STRANGE MAN, by HELEN GROSS Poem Source First Line: Last night I went out alone : I was lonesome as could be Last Line: I ain't got nobody : and you sure look good to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STRANGE PLACE BLUES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I'm a stranger at this place : and I'm looking for my mother's grave Last Line: I be glad when that day comes : ooo well when these blues drive me away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STRANGER BLUES, by ROSIE MAE MOORE Poem Source First Line: If I feel tomorrow : like I feel today Last Line: Lord I find my man : I'm going to nail him to the wall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STREAMLINE TRAIN, by CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON Poem Source First Line: Streamline train : back train to front Last Line: One thing I can tell you : get your mind off that man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STREET CAR BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now I know the people : is on the wander everywhere Last Line: Lord I'm going to quit my bad way of living : and visit the sunday school Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STREET WALKIN', by SONNY BOY NELSON Poem Source First Line: Nobody knows : streetwalking women like I do Last Line: Then again she will tell you : to pack your clothes and go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STRUCK SORROW BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going away : now don't you want to go Last Line: Going to leave town : and hang crepe on your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUE COW, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Little boy little boy : who made your britches Last Line: I got to have that milk today : to make my bread Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR MAMA, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Sugar mama sugar mama : where did you get your sugar from Last Line: Everybody wants some of your sugar mama : ooo well well but please don't let them have more than fou Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR MAN BLUES--PART 1, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Sugar man sugar man : please come back to me Last Line: I ain't had nothing sweet : since my sugar been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR MAN BLUES--PART 2, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Sugar man sugar man : you got the best sugar in town Last Line: Lord I want my sugar : just to *have my* sugar *and how* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR PUDDING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of the women : the day she cook Last Line: I'm talking about the ??? : ??? Your head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGARLAND BLUES, by UNKNOWN+306 Poem Source First Line: You never have nothing : long as you live in sugarland Last Line: Because I've got another woman : baby and I'm going to let you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUICIDE BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: If somebody finds me : when I'm dead and gone Last Line: Goodbye cruel world : I'm glad I left you behind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUICIDE BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: If somebody finds me : when I'm dead and gone Last Line: So goodbye old cold world : I'm glad you're left behind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUITCASE FULL OF BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Hand me down my suitcase : *reach* my walking cane Last Line: *get* another ??? : ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUN BEAM BLUES, by BILLIKEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Sunbeam's on time : I ain't got my fare Last Line: But if I miss the sunbeam : I will be seldom seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNDOWN BLUES, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Sun going down Last Line: I didn't think this day would end Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Blues (music); Evening; Jazz; Music And Musicians SUNDOWN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+203 Poem Source First Line: I was standing in my back door : looking at the evening sun go down Last Line: She left me this morning : I hadn't done nothing wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Evening SUNDOWN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+205 Poem Source First Line: Mama I woke up this morning : mama had the sundown blues Last Line: When the wintertime gets here : I'll wear the b v ds Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Evening SUNNYLAND, by ELMORE JAMES Poem Source First Line: Seems like I heard Last Line: And I hope it won't be long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNRISE BLUES, by WILL DAY Poem Source First Line: Well the sun rose this morning : and laid down on my floor Last Line: Got the blues so bad : I really can't hardly see Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNSHINE BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: I've got the worried blues : got nowhere to go Last Line: And it may bring sunshine : and it may bring rain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNSHINE MOAN, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Oh tell me baby : how can it be Last Line: Got to give me lots of loving : and keep my company Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNSHINE SPECIAL, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Burn the railroad down : so that sunshine special can't run Last Line: If I leave texas anymore : going to leave on that l and n Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNSHINE SPECIAL, by SODARISA MILLER Poem Source First Line: Sunshine special : shine down on me Last Line: ??? : my ruination ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUSIE-Q, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well now I knowed a family : lived down in the avenue Last Line: You can't marry me : and somebody else too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET HOME BLUES, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I was thinking about going home : I don't believe that I will go Last Line: Well then again then if I go home : ooo well now do you think she will be mean to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET HOME CHICAGO, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Ooh : baby don't you want to go Last Line: Somebody will tell me : that you need my help some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET JELLY ROLLIN', by UNKNOWN+220 Poem Source First Line: Listen here mama : don't you be so fast Last Line: Can't get the woman I want : I'm going to use my Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET MAMA, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I say you used to be sweet mama : but I ain't going to call you sweet no more Last Line: It had ??? : of my old-time used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET MAMA BLUES, by COLEY JONES Poem Source First Line: I tried to love you : way back on my young days Last Line: If the blues overtake me : rock away from there Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET MAN, SWEET MAN, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Sweet man sweet man : what makes you candy taste so hard Last Line: And I want to see my man : because because he's so good and kind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET PAPA MOAN, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Ooh : what am I going to do now Last Line: Than be here in the world : baby and be your slave Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET PATUNI, by JESSE JAMES Poem Source First Line: Ah wake up mama : wake up and don't sleep no sound Last Line: And I done told you two or three times : I don't want no junk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET PATUNIA, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you : what sweet patunia do Last Line: He got ways like a barber : he's a full-blown man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET PATUNIA, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: I've got a gal : lives down by the jail Last Line: Baby had good tunis : but she couldn't get none Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET PATUNIA BLUES, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: I got the blues for my baby : she got the blues for I say me Last Line: If I get what I want : you can have the rest Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET POTATO BLUES, by UNKNOWN+207 Poem Source First Line: There ain't no more potatoes : the frost done killed that vine Last Line: She could feed the ??? *pigmeat* : corn bread for her man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET SIXTEEN, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Uncle bert thought : he had *his daughter* trained Last Line: And she strutting her stuff : to who she please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET TO MAMA, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Lord I woke up this morning : with the blues all around my baby's bed Last Line: And now stop and take your time : and do your work everywhere you go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEET WOMAN YOU CAN'T GO WRONG, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I'm lonesome as I can be : baby please come home to me Last Line: Although you my sweet woman : and I mean you can't go wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SWEETEST THING BORN, by UNKNOWN+212 Poem Source First Line: Says a married woman : sweetest thing ever been born Last Line: If you can't do like I tell you : mama go on your no-good way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T AND T BLUES, by MOOCH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Will you iron my jumper : yes and starch my overalls Last Line: But I ain't got me nobody : I'm sleeping every night just by myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T MODEL BLUES, by WALTER ROLAND Poem Source First Line: Said it's mmm baby : mmm baby mmm Last Line: Because you know I'm got to go home and ??? My old lady : because she won't come back no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T N AND O BLUES, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: The train I ride : is eighteen coaches long Last Line: Please send me back : the only man I love Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T-BONE STEAK BLUES, by JAMES YANK RACHEL Poem Source First Line: Say you talking about your red ripe tomato : I'm crazy about my t-bone steak Last Line: But you going to want me some of these mornings : and poor dad won't have you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T. B. BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now but ooh : t b's is killing me Last Line: And now even won't none of my friends : come and even rub my aching head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T. B. WOMAN BLUES, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's too late too late : too late too late too late Last Line: I got tuberculosis : consumption is killing me Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T. B.'S GOT ME BLUES, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: T b's got me : all my friends done throwed me down Last Line: Well I wished I was dead : and in the land I'm doomed to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) T.P. WINDOW BLUES, by JACK RANGER Poem Source First Line: I was leaning in my window : looking in my baby's door Last Line: Taking my baby away : she ain't coming here no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME, by ROBERT LOCKWOOD Poem Source First Line: Come on baby : please take a walk with me Last Line: Until every time you see me : you want to walk some more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE A WALK AROUND THE CORNER, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Believe I'll take a walk : around the corner by myself Last Line: I just love to hear : my baby call my name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE ME BACK, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Now what I mean : by treating you right Last Line: I'll be good : as any man can act Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE ME BACK BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Take me back baby : you know I don't know my mind Last Line: Because you flirting with the undertaker : I mean it ain't no lie Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE ME FOR A BUGGY RIDE, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Daddy you really knows your stuff : when you take me for a buggy ride Last Line: You done sent salvation : to my very soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE YOUR FINGERS OFF IT, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I walk : with me ??? Last Line: Her feets in the kitchen : her head's in the hall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKING YOUR PLACE, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Now tell me baby : how come you do me this a-way Last Line: Now someone has done something mama : about to take your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TALKING TO MYSELF, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Good lord good lord : send me an angel down Last Line: It weren't a thing : but the women trying to run me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TALLAHASSEE WOMAN, by LOUIS WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: When you get in tallahassee : put your money down in your shoe Last Line: When you get in tallahassee : your woman put a *method* on you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TALLAHATCHIE RIVER BLUES, by MATTIE DELANEY Poem Source First Line: Tallahatchie river rising : lord it's mighty bad Last Line: But this tallahatchie river ; done got the best of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAMPA BOUND, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: I'm going back to tampa : to that girl I left behind Last Line: I'm going back to tampa : just to kill my lowdown blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAPPIN' THAT THING, by CHARLIE BURSE Poem Source First Line: Say excuse me mama : I don't mean no harm Last Line: *got no rest : over my dead loot* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEASIN' BROWN BLUES, by LOUIE LASKY Poem Source First Line: Oh mama : I dream about you night and day Last Line: But she ain't not a good one : I'm going to cling on to my teasing brown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEDDY BEAR BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to make friends : with the fish in the deep blue sea Last Line: Tie a string on my neck : and I'll follow everywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELEPHONE ARGUIN' BLUES, by JAYDEE SHORT Poem Source First Line: There's so many people : arguing on the telephone Last Line: Some woman love I used to have : gone seen my babe some day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELEPHONING THE BLUES, by VICTORIA SPIVEY Poem Source First Line: Hello there central : please give me my best man Last Line: Bet you fifty to one hundred : something is going on wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL IT TO THE JUDGE NO.1, by DESSA FOSTER Poem Source First Line: I'm telling you this morning : I'm tired of you searcing my house Last Line: That judge is going to lick me : because I been here so many times Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL IT TO THE JUDGE NO.1, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: Now you can lose your temper : but please don't lose your head Last Line: You better get on your knees and ask for mercy : because the judge giving breaks no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL IT TO THE JUDGE NO.2, by DESSA FOSTER Poem Source First Line: I'm guilty kind old judge : please treat me nice and kind Last Line: When I come back I'm going to gamble : and sell moonshine all my life Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL IT TO THE JUDGE NO.2, by J. T. FUNNY PAPER SMITH Poem Source First Line: They got you charged with having liquor : now tell me what is your plea Last Line: And change your sentence from the bridewell : send you to the pen for ninety-nine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL ME ABOUT IT, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: *some* was good : some said mean Last Line: *men say why* : *and hog people's stuff* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL ME BABY, by KING SOLOMON HILL Poem Source First Line: Now tell me baby : what time your ??? Leave Last Line: All these winston women : going to be the ruin of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELL ME MAN BLUES, by HENRY SIMS Poem Source First Line: Tell me man : which way the rising sun Last Line: I'm going to get me : a khaki suit Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TELLIN' YOU 'BOUT IT, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: When a man gets the blues : he sure will run around Last Line: But some day baby : you really need my little aid Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TENNESSEE WORKHOUSE BLUES, by JENNY POPE Poem Source First Line: This is that new workhouse : way out in merlin tennessee Last Line: I hate to see my daddy : carrying that heavy load Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TERRAPLANE BLUES, by FRANK EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: I saying I sad and lonesome : lord what I'm going to do Last Line: Say I can *peel off* that accelerator : and that gas come through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TERRAPLANE BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Well I feel so lonesome : you hear me when I moan Last Line: And when I mash down on your little starter : then your spark plug will give me fire Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TERRIBLE OPERATION BLUES (1), by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Get up on the table : pull off that gown Last Line: Go kind of easy : with them connection rods Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TERRIBLE OPERATION BLUES (2), by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Get up on this table : pull off that gown Last Line: From now on you'd be careful : with them there connection rods Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS AND PACIFIC BLUES, by COLEY JONES Poem Source First Line: That mean t p [railroad, railway] : sure has done me wrong Last Line: It makes me : want to pack up all my clothes and go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS BLUES, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I'm texas bound : I got a freight train on my mind Last Line: Because my sweet mama quit me : left me with the texas blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS BLUES, by MARSHALL OWENS Poem Source First Line: I'm going back to texas : hear that wild ox moan Last Line: I hugging the pillow : where my fair brown did lay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS BLUES, by WILLIE REED Poem Source First Line: I'm going out in west texas : where you hear the wild ox moan Last Line: Thinking about my lover : she had done put me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS EASY STREET BLUES, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Tell me mama : what's the matter now Last Line: When you see me running : something going on wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS MOANER BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was born in texas : but I didn't stay Last Line: When one don't want you : the other one will take you in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TEXAS WORRIED BLUES, by HENRY+(1) THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I've got the worried blues : lord I'm feeling bad Last Line: Now fare thee my honey : fare thee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT BLACK SNAKE MOAN, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Oh : ain't got no mama now Last Line: Black snake mama : done run my darling home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT BLACK SNAKE MOAN NO 2, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm : going to run that black snake down Last Line: He occupied my livingroom : and broke my *fairybook* down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT CRAWLIN' BABY BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Well the baby crawling : on up to his mama's knee Last Line: My woman threw my clothes outdoors : and now I got those crawling baby blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT DA DA STRAIN, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: Have you heard it have you heard it : the da da swing Last Line: When everybody : hums this tune Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT LONESOME TRAIN TOOK MY BABY AWAY, by CHARLIE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : found something wrong Last Line: Looked like every minute : I was stepping in another world Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT STUFF YOU SELL AIN'T NO GOOD, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: That stuff you sell : ain't no good Last Line: I wouldn't buy none of that : even if I could Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT WILL BE ALRIGHT, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Well look here mama : see what you done done Last Line: Heard my gal : putting *cider* in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THAT'S NO WAY TO GET ALONG, by ROBERT WILKINS Poem Source First Line: I'm going home : sit down and tell my ma Last Line: And that be no way : for me to get along Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THE BLUES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Blues (music) THE DAWN-STAR MAIDEN AND THE HONEY BLOSSOM BLUES, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Sing us a dance in jazz-land numbers Last Line: Dance the honey-blossom blues! Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE WEARY BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droning a drowsy syncopated tune Last Line: He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: My walk will be different : my talk and my name Last Line: Why I'm thinking about changing : the way I got to strut my stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THEY AINT WALKING NO MORE, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I'm up : sometimes I'm down Last Line: And if you think I'm lying : follow me to the door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THINK YOU NEED A SHOT, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: You got bad blood mama : I believe you need a shot Last Line: I don't want to waste none of it mama : I want you to have it all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THIRD ALLEY BLUES, by IVY SMITH Poem Source First Line: I just want to get back : to birmingham Last Line: Because these women in third alley : won't let my rider alone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THIRD STREET WOMAN BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: Mmm : come my third street woman now Last Line: If you can't do my rolling mama : you can't spend my change Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THIRTY-EIGHT AND PLUS, by WALTER TAYLOR ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning: about half past four Last Line: One said no: and the other said yes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Middle Age THIS MORNIN' SHE WAS GONE, by JIM JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Oh how she loved to dance : that old grizzly bear Last Line: The more you do for people : the less they think of you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THOSE ALL NIGHT LONG BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I have ???Ed : for many a week Last Line: And I suffer : with those all night blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THOSE DOGS OF MINE, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Oh lord : these dogs of mine Last Line: I can't wear me : no *dark-toes* shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THOUSAND WOMEN BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I ain't never loved : but a thousand women in my life Last Line: Every time I kiss her : and a cold chill run over me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THREE BALL BLUES, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: I was walking around the streets : hear somebody call me and I can't stop Last Line: Says it's two to one buddy : you don't get your things back out of here at all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THREE WOMEN BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Got three womens : yellow brown and black Last Line: I'd a-been home sleeping : in a doggone feather bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THROUGH TRAIN BLUES, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: I hate to hear : that through train blow boo hoo Last Line: Ain't going to stay around here : and be no stumbling block Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THROW ME IN THE ALLEY, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: *when I get low* : let's go down in the alley Last Line: The way you treat me little mama : you don't mean me no good nohow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THROWN ME DOWN, by SKIP JAMES Poem Source First Line: Hey you throw me down : and you threw me from my home Last Line: Ain't going to wear it no more : till these old blues stop worrying me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) THUNDERSTORM BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Hear the thunder rumbling : see the lightning flash Last Line: I'll start in praying : till the storm is through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TICKET AGENT BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Good lord good lord : send me an angel down Last Line: When I walk out the front door : I hear that back door slam Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TICKET AGENT EASE YOUR WINDOW DOWN, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Ticket agent : ease your window down Last Line: Because you can get a crooked daddy : most anywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIGHT HAIRED MAMA BLUES, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Here come my tight-haired woman : I can tell by the way she walks Last Line: Baby now you got good hair : but you bought bought this from the jew Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIGHT TIME BLUES, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Times is done got so tight : so I'm going to rob and steal Last Line: And when I start to stealing : I'm going to pick the rounders clean Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIME IS DRAWING NEAR, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now it used to be the time : be getting two bucks a day Last Line: But now we go : to buy one another's clothes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIMES, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Truly alone muley Last Line: Human blows sound blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians TIN CUP BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I was down and I cried : *my pillowcase was on the line* Last Line: That tough luck has sunk me : and the rats is creeping in my hat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIRED AS I CAN BE, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: I worked all the winter : and I worked all the fall Last Line: And I'm going back south : to my used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIRED OF RUNNIN' FROM DOOR TO DOOR, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I'm getting so tired of runnin from town to town Last Line: Says I'm getting so tired : of running from door to door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TIRED OF YOU DRIVING ME, by BEN RAMEY Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : the crying blues on my mind Last Line: Because I done got tired of you driving me : ???Ing me all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TISHAMINGO BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tishamingo : because I'm sad today Last Line: I love my brownskin : don't care where she be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TITANIC BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : just about four o'clock Last Line: And the band all playing : nearer my god to thee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) TOBACCO WAREHOUSE BLUES, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The bluesman in pungent mood Last Line: A freight-train rider -- a mean primer and curer %of men Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians TOM CAT BLUES, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: It was late last night : I tried so hard to sleep Last Line: For you will lose your nine lives : if you don't let my baby alone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOM RUSHEN BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: I lay down last night : hoping I would have my peace Last Line: Ah he brought me here : and I was drunk as I could be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOO BLACK BAD, by MADLYN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be in the *cripty* river : floating like a log Last Line: You ought to see : them preachers run Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOO TIGHT, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Grab your gal : fall in line Last Line: Too tight : to shake that thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOO TIGHT BLUES, by PEG LEG HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Grab your gal : fall in line Last Line: Too tight : it make us afraid Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOO TIGHT BLUES NO. 2, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Got my gal : took a chance Last Line: Too tight : went to my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOOTIN' OUT BLUES, by UNKNOWN+213 Poem Source First Line: You used to be my sugar : but you ain't sweet no more Last Line: And then the blind man told her : said you sure look good tome Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) TOUCH ME LIGHT MAMA, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Touch me light pretty mama : this may be your last Last Line: Because my good gal done me : sure you can't feel no peace Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TOUGH LUCK, by ROBERT LEE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Now got in tough luck : all my people dead and gone Last Line: Because you treats me mean : you know you done me wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRAIN FARE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Mama all that I want : lord is just my train fare home Last Line: Lord and they sure did treat me mean : because they taking my babe away from here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRAVELIN' BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Mr engineer : let a [poor] man ride the blind Last Line: I love you emerald : tell the world I do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRAVELIN' THIS LONESOME ROAD, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I am traveling this lonesome road : if I never get back no more Last Line: I will pack my suitcase : while I hunt from town to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRAVELING MAMA BLUES, by JOE CALICOTT Poem Source First Line: Well a short-legged mama : trying to carry your daddy by Last Line: Said *nothing funny* :in a state about you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If your man gets personal : want to have your fun Last Line: We can still barrelhouse baby : because it's on the riverside Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRICKS AIN'T WORKING NO MORE, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Times is done got hard : money's done got scarce Last Line: And I've got to change my luck : if I have to move next door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRINITY RIVER BLUES, by AARON T-BONE WALKER Poem Source First Line: That dirty trinity river : sure have done me wrong Last Line: *if it wasn't for* ??? Baby : honey it won't rise to more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRIXIE BLUES, by ANNA JONES Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : blues all around my bed Last Line: He'll be hugging and kissing you : and quit you all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROMBONE CHOLLY, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: If gabriel knowed : how you could blow Last Line: A-doing the charleston : while you blow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROUBLE BLUES--PART 1, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: When trouble starts : it stops at my front door Last Line: Come and got my regular : then took my used-to-be Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROUBLE BLUES--PART 2, by FRANCIS SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Poem Source First Line: I can get my money : but trouble won't let it stay Last Line: Nobody knows : but the good lord and me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROUBLE IN MIND, by RICHARD M. JONES Poem Source First Line: Trouble in mind, I'm blue Last Line: I'm laughin' just to keep from cryin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROUBLE-HEARTED BLUES (1), by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Down so long : down don't worry me Last Line: If I don't get no better mama : believe I'm going I'm going Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROUBLE-HEARTED BLUES (2), by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: I've been down so long : down don't worry me Last Line: Tell them you don't know the writer : he'd rather had his happy song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRUCKIN' THRU' TRAFFIC, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: Listen here man : don't talk about me Last Line: Taken my money : and then throwed me down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRUE BLUE WOMAN, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I know my babe : is bound to think of me Last Line: Then again you know I know my babe : ooo well now is bound to think of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRUST NO MAN, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: I want all you women : to listen to me Last Line: Come out in the summer : you'll find your pig will be gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TRY ME ONE MORE TIME, by MARSHALL OWENS Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : get my shoes Last Line: You got to live in your place : ??? You Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TURPENTINE BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Going home in the morning : woman and I sure can't carry you Last Line: Take you a mouthful of sugar : boy and drink a bottle of turpentine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TUXEDO BLUES, by UNKNOWN+205 Poem Source First Line: I don't want no sugar : stirred up in my rice Last Line: When you love your daddy : give me your right hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWELVE POUND DADDY, by PEARL DICKSON Poem Source First Line: Mmm : hey hey hey hey Last Line: If you are *loving* me : I don't want no partnership man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWELVES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Says I want everybody: fall in line Last Line: You know by that: the big boy's coughing in hell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWO FACED WOMAN, by CURLEY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Two-faced woman : trying to see her two days at one time Last Line: I done spend all my money : now tell me you don't want me no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWO LITTLE TOMMIES BLUES, by PAPA HARVEY HULL Poem Source First Line: Got two little tommies : can't hardly tell them apart Last Line: Can you tell me : how far jackson to back home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWO OF A KIND, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Woman you been having your way : and you don't want to see me have mine Last Line: I'll talk baby-talk to you : if you'll talk baby-talk to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWO STRING BLUES, by LITTLE HAT JONES Poem Source First Line: I said listen baby : honey I can't move no more Last Line: I'm going to stop my woman : and fix it so she can't have another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TWO TIME BLUES, by ARTHUR PETTIES Poem Source First Line: A two-timing woman : don't want no one man Last Line: Well well well well : I ain't going to stay here long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNCLE SAM BLUES, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you postman : what the army has done to me Last Line: He took all the booze away : and my good brown from town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNDERGROUND (BLACK CAT), by CONRAD KENT RIVERS Poem Source First Line: Under bright city lights Last Line: I swing through the city full of blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians UNDERTAKER BLUES, by BUSTER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mr undertaker mr undertaker : drop your hammer and saw Last Line: I have to leave you to heaven : *oh my baby's do no wrong* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNDERTAKER'S BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Six pallbearers : take his to his last go-round Last Line: Rambled : till the butcher cut him down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNHAPPY BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: I can't be contented : oh nowhere I be Last Line: For I'm so unhappy : out here on the county farm Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNNAMED TITLE, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Let me be your little dog : until your big hound comes Last Line: Because that's that's something : it will never do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UNTIL MY LOVE COME DOWN, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now you got fruit on your tree : lemons on your shelf Last Line: I asked you about your lemons : baby and you ups and tells me a lie Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) UP THE WAY BOUND, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: My baby done quit me : and talk's all over town Last Line: I'm going to ride : until I find that good-goody woman of mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VERNITA BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Vernita : honey what do you want me to do Last Line: Now I could come to love you : if you would treat me nice and kind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VICKSBURG BLUES NO. 2, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: I've been worrying all day mama : and could hardly sleep last night Last Line: All I know I do in vicksburg : lord is *paraday* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VICKSBURG BLUES--PART 3, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Had a cool loving mama : and they call her jesse p Last Line: The reason I really love her : I think of vicksburg on the hill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VIOLA LEE BLUES, by NOAH LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The judge he repeat it : the clerk he wrote it down Last Line: I been drinking white lightning : it gone to my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VIOLIN BLUES, by NAP HAYES Poem Source First Line: Ooh : my baby don't treat me good no more Last Line: When she go to bed every night : she tells everything what's on her mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VOICE THROWIN' BLUES, by WALTER BUDDY BOY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Come in at dawn : stay out late Last Line: The woman I got : sweet enough for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) VOL STEVENS BLUES, by VOL STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Woke up early this morning : feeling awful low Last Line: Get blue tomorrow : sing them for yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) W. P. A. BLUES, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: Everybody's working in this town : and it's worrying me night and day Last Line: They was tearing my house down on me : ooo that crew from the w p a Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WABASH RAG, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Down south : on wabash street Last Line: Get on wabash : break them down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAIT AND LISTEN, by FRED MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Well you can't wait and listen : hear me when I cry Last Line: *but with searching* I cry mama : see my baby laying on the bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAKING BLUES, by OTIS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Did you ever wake up with the blues : and didn't have no place to go Last Line: Mr blues ain't doing nothing : and I would like to get a job from you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WALKIN' ACROSS THE COUNTRY, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Walking walking : talking to myself Last Line: A woman can still make a man : act like a clown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WALKIN' BLUES, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : feeling around for my shoes Last Line: Break in on a dollar : most anywhere she goes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WALKING BLUES, by CHASEY COLLINS Poem Source First Line: You can mistreat me here ; but you can't when I go home Last Line: I seen another darky : trying to change my woman's mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WALKING BLUES, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : with my head bowed down Last Line: I'll soon be there : because I've got the walking blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WALKING THE STREET, by GEORGIA+(2) WHITE Poem Source First Line: Stood on the corner : till my feet got soaking wet Last Line: I've got to make six dollars : just to buy my man a pair of shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WANDA'S BLUES, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: Wanda's daddy was a railroadman, she was his little wife Last Line: Wanda-a-a-a the steam whistle hollered. O my american refrain! Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians WANDERING BLUES, by CHARLIE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Every night : I wander by myself Last Line: Because I never get the loving : that I really should Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAR HORSE MAMA, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: War horse papa : how come you do me like you do Last Line: War horse papa : you know you can't be true Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WARM IT UP TO ME, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Take a little trip : up on a mountain top Last Line: One of these here women : ain't going to treat you right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WARTIME BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: What you going to do : when they send your man to war Last Line: You treat me : like my trouble have just begun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WATCHA DOIN'?, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: I married my baby : married her for myself Last Line: Ask her cook your breakfast : but she never did Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WATER BOUND BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Now my home's on the water: spending awhile on land Last Line: Says I traveled over this country: every kind of man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAY BACK DOWN HOME, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: I went to the western union : just to send up a telephone Last Line: I must've didn't have the right number : when I went to the western union to the telephone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAY DOWN THAT LONESOME ROAD, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Look down look down : that long old lonesome road Last Line: Then the blues will make you think : about all your right-hand friends Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAY I FEEL BLUES, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: Hey : I know you don't know the way I feel Last Line: Lord it breaks my heart : to hear the *work-hard* miss so-and-so's name Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WAYWARD GIRL BLUES, by LOTTIE BEAMAN Poem Source First Line: I've got the blues : on mother's knee Last Line: I had no mother : here to take my part Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WE CAN SELL THAT THING, by ROOSEVELT SYKES Poem Source First Line: There you was : down in then *lees* Last Line: Don't it smell : when it blowing your way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WE GONNA MOVE, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: When I get you mama : we going to move on the outskirts of town Last Line: If we have any babies : I want them all to look like me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER, by FRANK EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Hitler cutting the world : gotten disturbed Last Line: Crying lord they musn't let him : please don't go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WE SURE GOT HARD TIMES NOW, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Got a song to sing you : and it's no excuse Last Line: And after election was over : your head's down like a billygoat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEAK-MINDED BLUES, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: I wonder : will a matchbox hold my dirty clothes Last Line: Every time she smiles : she throws that light on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEARY HEARTED BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: Look a-here pretty mama : I'll tell you what I'll do Last Line: I'll give her a dollar in the street : and I'll give here two at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEEPING WILLOW BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I went down to the river : sat beneath a willow tree Last Line: The way he treats me girls : he'll do the same thing to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WELFARE BLUES, by JOSHUA+(1) WHITE Poem Source First Line: The welfare helping people : each and every day Last Line: If I don't make nothing off my cotton : boss will pay me for my seed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WELFARE STORE BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now me and my baby talked last night : and we talked for nearly an hour Last Line: I say and if you do that for me : I won't have to go down to that welfare store Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEST END BLUES, by KATHERINE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm full of mean evil feeling : and I'm full of gin Last Line: I'm on my way to the west end to leave those ugly old west end blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEST TEXAS BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: I got a letter from texas : how do you reckon it read Last Line: And you can't really imagine : how you hear those wild ox moan Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEST TEXAS WOMAN, by WHISTLIN' ALEX MOORE Poem Source First Line: I met a woman in west texas : she had been left by herself all alone Last Line: The man in the moon looked down on us : but had nothing to say Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEST VIRGINIA BLUES, by EDWARD+(3) THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: On west virginia : where the brown I love Last Line: Then you know : that brown going to be the death of me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WESTERN UNION BLUES, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Western union : send this telegram Last Line: Stomach's empty : think my throat is stuck Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WESTERN UNION MAN, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Western union man : please stop by my house today Last Line: Now what's the use of me worrying about a western union man : when I have passenger plane flying rig Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT HAVE I DONE?, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Listen babe: tell me the truth Last Line: You haven't did babe : what you should do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT IS IT THAT TASTES LIKE GRAVY?, by UNKNOWN+216 Poem Source First Line: What is it tastes like gravy : boys I bet you don't know Last Line: Just see tampa red : and his best gal too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT MORE CAN I DO?, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: I come to your house : and knock upon your door Last Line: Because you don't want me : there must be some other man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT YOU GONNA DO?, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: What you going to do : when they put you in jail again Last Line: Do like I would do : open it if you can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT YOU WAS YOU USED TO BE, by DAISY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Because what you was you used to be : but you ain't no more Last Line: Keep right on running : go chase yourself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT'S THAT TASTES LIKE GRAVY, by UNKNOWN+207 Poem Source First Line: Says she killed a chicken : and she cook him down low Last Line: I was laying coal yard : strutting my stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT'S THE MATTER BLUES, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Oh now I wonder what's the matter : I can't rest at night Last Line: You give me a bad-luck deal : kept something on my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH LOVE?, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: You got me : feeling sad Last Line: The worst feeling : I ever had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE MILL?, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Well I had a little corn : I put it in a sack Last Line: If you're going to the mill : you get to there crying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHAT'S THE MATTER?, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: Now yonder comes baby : he's coming down the street Last Line: I seen two bullfrogs : doing the *cold down low* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN A 'GATOR HOLLER, FOLK SAY IT'S A SIGN OF RAIN, by MARGARET+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Blow whistle : my stomach say it's eating time Last Line: The weather's getting cloudy lord : how these *birdies sing* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN A MAN GETS DOWN, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: When a man gets down : feel like he ain't got no friends at all Last Line: When you get up : try to remember everybody that mistreated you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN A MAN GETS DOWN : THE TROUBLE LASTS ALWAYS, by WILLIE BAKER Poem Source First Line: When a man gets down : the trouble lasts always Last Line: That's the monday morning : I broke my mama's rule Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN CAN I CHANGE MY CLOTHES, by WASHINGTON WHITE Poem Source First Line: Never will forget the day : when they had me in parchman jail Last Line: Taken my citizen's clothes : and throwed them away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN I GET MY BONUS, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: When I was broke : didn't have a dime Last Line: You think you can get my money : that is going to be your d b a Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN I HAD MONEY, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I listened to my baby : when she was telling me her dreams Last Line: Lord I would not have been here no : baby laying in this old hospital bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: If it keeps on raining : levee's going to break Last Line: Cause me to leave my baby : and my happy home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN YOU FALL FOR SOMEONE THAT'S NOT YOUR OWN, by LONNIE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: They tell me blues and trouble : walk hand in hand Last Line: Only thing that hurts you : she have to go home sometime Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN YOU GET A GOOD FRIEND, by ROBERT+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: When you got a good friend : have her stay right by your side Last Line: Got you a close friend baby : then your enemies can't do you no harm Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN YOU GET TO THINKING, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: A married woman: best woman ever been born Last Line: Say the woman I love lord: she is my partner's maid Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHEN YOUR WAY GETS DARK, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: When your way gets dark : baby turn your lights up high Last Line: I'm going away baby : don't you want to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHERE DID YOU STAY LAST NIGHT?, by THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY Poem Source First Line: Tell me pretty mama : where'd you stay last night Last Line: My gal come home : with a tie across her back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHERE DID YOU STAY LAST NIGHT?, by JANE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: You can talk about me going : push me to the wall Last Line: Check up on my loving : but you sure can't get it all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHERE IS MY GOOD MAN, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Lord I wonder : where is my good man at Last Line: He left here this morning : didn't carry nothing but his hat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY AND GIN BLUES, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been out all day : drinking both whiskey and gin Last Line: I'm going to drink good whiskey : the rest of my doggone days Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY DRINKIN' BLUES, by JENNY POPE Poem Source First Line: Have you ever woke up : with whiskey-drinking on your mind Last Line: And the guard told the prisoner : it ain't no whiskey-drinking here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY HEAD MAN, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: Now he's a whiskey-headed man : and he stays drunk all the time Last Line: Sniffing around the back door : begging one more half a pint Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY HEADED BLUES, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Now you's a whiskey-headed woman : now and you stay drunk all the time Last Line: You grinning laughing and talking : with most every man you meet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY MAN BLUES, by BLACK BOTTOM MCPHAIL Poem Source First Line: Well I drink so much whiskey : till they call me whiskey man Last Line: And I drink so much whiskey : till they call me whiskey man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY MOAN BLUES, by CLIFFORD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I been drinking and gambling : barrelhousing all my days Last Line: But it's been so different now : since I have fell down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHITEWASH STATION BLUES, by WILL SHADE Poem Source First Line: You can toot your whistle : blow your horn Last Line: Know I've got : the memphis jug band blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHITEWASH STATION BLUES, by UNKNOWN+211 Poem Source First Line: You can toot your whistle : blow your horn Last Line: Know I've got : the memphis jug band blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHO'S BEEN HERE, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby who been here : since your daddy been gone Last Line: And the sisters back in the amen corner : their southern bound Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHO'S BEEN TELLIN' YOU BUDDY BROWN BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Baby who : I mean who been telling yo Last Line: Know I can tell my little woman : if I feel her in the dark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHOOPEE BLUES (1), by KING SOLOMON HILL Poem Source First Line: Baby you been gone all day : that you may make whoopee all night Last Line: Then I got to go through death valley : there ain't a house for twenty-five miles around Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHOOPEE BLUES (2), by KING SOLOMON HILL Poem Source First Line: Honey you been gone all day : that you may make whoopee all night Last Line: Then I got three hundred miles to go : traveling throught the mud and clay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHY DON'T YOU COME HOME BLUES, by FURRY LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Sarah lee : why don't you come home Last Line: I would not have : this *here red suit on* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT?, by LIL GREEN Poem Source First Line: You had plenty of money : in nineteen twenty-two Last Line: Now all you got to offer me : is a drink of gin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHY SHOULDN'T I BE BLUE, by WALTER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Mama why should I be worried : and why should I be so blue Last Line: Lord I would do all right with you baby : but you know you try to be too nice Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WICKED DADDY BLUES, by ALURA MACK Poem Source First Line: I feel awfully : sad and blue Last Line: Wicked daddy all you do : is take and take Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD ABOUT MY LOVING, by LONNIE COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Wild about my loving : *crazy deeds* I have my fun Last Line: Nothing up the country : monkey-man can do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD CAT SQUAWL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went home last night : about half past four Last Line: One at your window : one at your door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD COW BLUES, by JOE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yeah I got up this morning : I was feeling awful bad Last Line: I cried all night long lordy : and I can't get along with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD JACK BLUES, by BILLIKEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Wild jack on the mountain : and he brays the whole day long Last Line: Going the keep my wild jack : if I have to chain him down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD WATER BLUES, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : I couldn't even get out of my door Last Line: Says you took my house out of cairo : carried it down in new orleans Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: I hear these women raving : about their monkey-man Last Line: Wild women are the only kind : that do ??? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WINDOW PANE BLUES, by TOMMIE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Lord when I got up this morning : snow was on my windowpane Last Line: Lord and if I don't love you : I would not if I could Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WOKE UP COLD IN HAND, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Since the hard time is got me : I've been running from door to door Last Line: Well you dreamed you had a dollar : and your woman's got another man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WOLF RIVER BLUES, by GUS CANNON Poem Source First Line: Says I left memphis : went down the macon road Last Line: Lord I need somebody : hear me sing this song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WOMAN GETS TIRED OF THE SAME MAN ALL THE TIME, by UNKNOWN+215 Poem Source First Line: Oh a woman gets tired I mean real tired : of the same man all the time Last Line: Oh well she's around the corner : *oozing* sweet jellyroll Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WOMAN I LOVE BLUES, by EURREAL LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: The woman I love : she only sixteen years of age Last Line: And the one I hate : at the house every day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WOMAN WOMAN BLUES, by ISHMAN BRACEY Poem Source First Line: Woman woman woman woman : lord what in the world you trying to do Last Line: Lord I felt so hard : till the blues crept up on me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: TO BESSIE SMITH, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bring from chattanooga tennessee Last Line: Each longed-for holiday, each terminal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) WORK ON BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Mama I ain't going to be: your old work ox no more Last Line: Says they will have your buddy: then play fake on you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORKING MAN, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I been up the line : been up the line Last Line: And I'm trying so hard : to do the best I can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORKING MAN BLUES, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Now you done spent all my nineteen forty rent : woman you done worked on my sub Last Line: You know the children can go in the daytime : ooh boys and the old folks have it at night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORKING ON THE PROJECT, by PEETIE WHEATSTRAW Poem Source First Line: I was working on the project : begging the relief for shoes Last Line: Now how can you make ends meet : oh well well well when you can't get no pay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORLD IS GOING WRONG, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Strange things have happened : that never before Last Line: No use asking me babe : because I'll never be back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORLD'S JAZZ CRAZY AND SO AM I, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Jazz them : everybody jazz them now Last Line: The world's jazz crazy : lord and so am I Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORN DOWN DADDY BLUES, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: The time has come : for us to part Last Line: You're just an old has-been : like a worn out joke Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORREID MAN BLUES, by JOHN D. FOX Poem Source First Line: On a sunday morning just about half past four Last Line: If you will love me mama : you'd never treat me wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORRIED ABOUT THAT WOMAN, by WILL WELDON Poem Source First Line: And I get worried I worry : I worries all the time Last Line: Because the good times I've had : I don't have no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WORRYING YOU OFF MY MIND - PART 1, by UNKNOWN+202 Poem Source First Line: I made a long day : walking along and crying Last Line: When they raising a squabble : taking some woman's Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WRINGING THAT THING, by ED MACON Poem Source First Line: Now listen here folks : we don't mean no harm Last Line: Had no breakfast : she been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WRITIN' PAPER BLUES, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I wrote you a letter mama : put it in your front yard Last Line: Because you can't quit me papa : there's no need in trying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WRONG WOMAN BLUES, by KI KI JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was lying down dreaming : when the blues eased up on me Last Line: You'll ask her for loving : she'll swear she's almost dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YA-DA-DO, by GERTRUDE PRIDGETT RAINEY Poem Source First Line: Every evening : about half past four Last Line: Big piano playing : near my door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YELLOW DOG BLUES, by SAM COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Easy mama : don't fade away Last Line: Just as sure as the train : leaves the rounded curve Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YELLOW DOG BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Ever since miss suzie johnson : lost her jockey lee Last Line: She's wondering : where her easy rider's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YELLOW GIRL BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Some of these women: I just can't understand Last Line: So these brownskin women: can cluster around my throne Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YELLOW JACKET, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow jacket yellow jacket : you sting me once more Last Line: But if I catch you stinging : believe I'll pull your nest all on down Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YES I GOT YOUR WOMAN, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: You been tooting your whistle : and you been blowing your horn Last Line: Oh she walked these blocks for you : both day and night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YO YO BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: I want to yo-yo : but I broke my yo-yo string Last Line: I'm feeling funny and foolish : I can't shake that thing no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YO-YO BLUES NO.2, by ROBERT HICKS Poem Source First Line: Hey mr conductor : let me ride your train Last Line: You want to yo-yo mama : call on barbecue call on barbecue bob Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YODELING FIDDLING BLUES, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: Out in san antone texas : a long long ways from home Last Line: I see the way you going : you sure won't be here long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU CAN'T DO WHAT MY LAST MAN DID, by ETHEL WATERS Poem Source First Line: You can't do : what my last man did Last Line: Then left me alone : to sigh and cry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU CAN'T GIVE IT AWAY, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: What is that : you going around here trying to sell Last Line: What you trying to sell : ain't nobody buying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU CAN'T KEEP NO BROWN, by SAM BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Now I woke up this morning mama : blues all around my bed Last Line: Because I'm going I'm going : to sing long-distance blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU CAN'T READ MY MIND, by TOMMY MCCLENNAN Poem Source First Line: I say my good-looking woman : honey she lives up on that hill Last Line: If I hadn't been in my whiskey too : it's liable to cause our fussing and fight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU DON'T KNOW MY MIND, by CLARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I went to the race track : my man *on derby* won Last Line: Pull the shoes off my feet : let me out in the cold Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU DON'T MEAN ME NO GOOD, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I got wise to you baby : after so many years Last Line: That I would treat you better : anybody else Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU DRINK TOO MUCH WHISKEY, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: The graveyard is lonely : you better put brakes on yourself Last Line: And as soon as all the taverns close : you then head for some moonshine joint Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GIVE AN ACCOUNT, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell you something : baby you can't do Last Line: Way out on my door : she made a loving sign Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GONNA QUIT ME BLUES, by BLIND BLAKE Poem Source First Line: You going to quit me baby : good as I been to you Last Line: Jailhouse ain't no place baby : believe me 'tain't no lie Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GONNA WORRY TOO, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm down now baby : I'll be up some day Last Line: I know it's going to worry me : but it won't last long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT ME ROLLIN', by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: You got me rolling mama : I don't know how come Last Line: Mama : then I'll bite like a cat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO DIE SOME DAY, by LUCILLE BOGAN Poem Source First Line: You may be beautiful : but baby you got to die some day Last Line: When you love someone : and that someone don't love you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO HAVE YOUR DOLLAR, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: When I had money : I had womwn and friends for miles around Last Line: Yes she got me doing things : that I never did before Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO HELP ME SOME, by PETER CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Now you may be sweet little woman : as an apple on a tree Last Line: We'll just call partners : so you cannot get sold for slaves Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO MOVE--PART 1, by JOE MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Say little girl : can I spend the night Last Line: Now she's begging : every man she meets Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO MOVE--PART I, by UNKNOWN+209 Poem Source First Line: Look here baby : you ain't got to go Last Line: I made a-plenty money : all last week Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU GOT TO STEP BACK, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Well I asked you woman : where did you stay last night Last Line: When I ain't got no bottom : on my last pair of shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU LEFT ME CRYING, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: You left me crying baby : please come back to me Last Line: If you don't come back to me : hot spring water won't help you none Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU MAY GO, BUT YOU'LL COME BACK SOME DAY, by MAGGIE JONES Poem Source First Line: Now you may go : but you'll come back some day Last Line: But you'll find another mule : just kicking in your stall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU MAY LEAVE BUT THIS WILL BRING YOU BACK, by CHARLIE BOZO NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: My father was a jockey : learned me to ride behind Last Line: Will feed every dame : in *jack burse* yard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU RUN AND TELL YOUR DADDY, by CHARLEY JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Well it's everything I tell you : you run and tell your daddy-law Last Line: She say you might get mawkish : baby you won't keep it hid Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU SCOLDED ME AND DROVE ME FROM YOUR DOOR, by MISSISSIPPI BRACEY Poem Source First Line: You scold me faro now : drove all from your door Last Line: Know my buddy got something now : lord I'd like to own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU SHALL, by FRANK STOKES Poem Source First Line: Oh well it's our father : who art in heaven Last Line: Don't allow my preacher at my house no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT, by SLEEPY JOHN ESTES Poem Source First Line: Don't a man do wrong : till a man make hisself at home Last Line: I won't be worried with the ??? : I'm going to move out to the edge of town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU STOLE MY LOVE, by UNKNOWN+218 Poem Source First Line: Gal you stole my love : and you know that it was a crime Last Line: Everything I start : I want you to meet me halfway Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU STOLE MY MAN, by IDA COX Poem Source First Line: Old pal old pal : you stole my man away Last Line: But that's no sign : we should take each other's man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'LL LIKE MY LOVING, by OTIS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I know you like my loving : I can tell from the way you wine Last Line: But before it's over with : we hollering lord oh lordy lord Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'LL NEVER MISS YOUR JELLY TILL YOUR JELLY ROLLERS GONE, by LIL JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning : with the blues all around my bed Last Line: You never miss your jelly : till your jellyroller's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'RE LAUGHING NOW, by BILL JAZZ GILLUM Poem Source First Line: Said I work for you baby : I treat you like a baby child Last Line: Well you laughing at me now mama : you'll be crying after a while Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Look a-here daddy : I want to tell you please get out of my sight Last Line: He's a good old wagon : daddy and he ain't broke down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE BEEN FOOKIN' ROUND TOWN, by JOHN LEE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to tell you something : keep it to yourself Last Line: Marry mr so-and-so : you can have your way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE GOT ME GRIEVING, by LEROY CARR Poem Source First Line: Now you got me grieving mama : over nobody else but you Last Line: You going to leave me : bye bye bye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING THERE, by BLIND BOY FULLER Poem Source First Line: The day I went uptown : caught you looking well Last Line: A mighty bad sign : to advertise your gals Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE GOT TO BEAT ME TO KEEP ME, by TRIXIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Beat me up for breakfast : knock me down for tea Last Line: Beat me to a frazzle : with your skillets pots and pans Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUNG WOMAN'S BLUES, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Woke up this morning : when the chickens was crowing for day Last Line: And I'm a good woman : and I can get plenty of men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR BABY AIN'T SWEET LIKE MINE, by PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Everybody's talking : about the *gren??? Day* Last Line: Your baby : ain't sweet like mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR BISCUITS ARE BIG ENOUGH FOR ME, by BO CHATMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby don't put no more baking powder : in your bread you see Last Line: Some men don't like bun and biscuits : like the doggone flat batter cake Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR GOOD MAN CAUGHT THE TRAIN AND GONE, by WALTER VINCSON Poem Source First Line: If you don't want me : won't you please tell me no Last Line: I had a good man : he caught the train and gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR MAN IS GONE, by FREDDIE SPRUELL Poem Source First Line: I feel like taking my suitcase : sitting down by that railroad side Last Line: You know that's the last of my good man : because they putting him down in the cold cold ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR TIME TO WORRY, by BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Poem Source First Line: I done told you mama : right from the start Last Line: Mess around with you : the chain-gang will be my home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUR WAYS AND ACTIONS, by KOKOMO ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Now your ways and actions : speaks almost as loud as words Last Line: Now she's gone and left me : she didn't mean me no good Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) |
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