Huddie Ledbetter - My Friend Blind Lemon текст песни

My Friend Blind Lemon 3:05 Trk 1 Disc 2
(Huddie Ledbetter)
Recorded: New York, February 5th 1935
Album: The Essential by Allegro Classic Blues
by Document Records - compilation & prod.
Gary Atkinson. CBL 200003 (dates/details not incl.)
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com




Spoken:
Here's a song I composed 'bout my friend Blind Lemon
We's runnin' together for so many years in Dallas
He went away and he stayed 'way from his wife he gots
Til' they get together in seventy-five years on the *Pea

And his wife lied down and dream 'bout it one night
When he woke up the second night, here what she said:

Dreamed last night and-a all night, night befo'
Lord, I dreamed last night and-a all night, night befo'
Dreamed last night and-a all night, night befo'
Heard my baby knockin' on my do'
Lord, I heard my baby knockin' on my do'
Thought I heard my baby knockin' on my do'

Cryin' babe, have I ever done you wrong?
Lordy cried, my babe have I ever done you wrong?
Tell me baby, have I ever done you wrong?

She told her little boy to play the piano a piece for her
(guitar sounds like piano)

Don't know it when he come home
He knocked on his do'
And his wife asked him, she from de church
Preacher jus' speak to his wife
And devoted preacher wouldn't take him back no mo'

But when he come and sung that song
She walked to the do' with her hands behind her
And here what she said to him
'Cold Blind Lemon, standin out there cryin'

You's a long time comin', daddy, but you welcome here
You's a long time comin', daddy, but you welcome here
You's a long time comin', daddy, but you welcome here

She tol' her little girl to play the piano piece for her
(guitar sounds like piano)
After little girl played the piano a piece
Then the woman she sit down, she played a piece, herself
(guitar sounds like piano)

~

*Pea Vine Train
Also, 'peavine' came to be known as general railroad slang for any
winding branch line. (more info see Max Haymes' Charlie Patton site)




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