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Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
 
Just curious y'all.
Do you have a favorite line
from a blues tune?
Some examples:

"I'm long gone like a turkey
through the corn"
(Lightnin' Hopkins)
"Cry'd so hard,gave the blues
t' my neighbor next door"
(Ray Charles)
I'll roll like a big wheel
in a Georgia cotton field,
honey hush"
(Chuck Willis)
"Feel like I wanna hollar'
but the room too small"
(?)
"Gonna call up China, see if
my womans' over there"
"Albert King"
And so on...
By the way, the blues make me
feel good.

Have a warm day!
CrazyJack
 

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Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
 
Saucy Jacky.....
Dunno who wrote it, but my daddy used to sing it to me:
"A woman will sweet-talk, and give ya the glad-eye,
but when the sweet-talkin's done...A woman's a two-face
A worrisome thing, will leave you to sing
the blues in the night"
I like the blues too, and man do I got em!
Love- JILL
 

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Posted by Joe Endicott (Member # 628) on :
 
most of my favorite blues lines can't be repeated here.
 

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Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
 
Must have a million of these -- I love them blues!

From Sue Foley's "The Same Thing"

Why do men try to run a big legged woman down?
Why do men try to run a big legged woman down?

Must be the same old thing that makes a Bulldog hug a hound!
 

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Posted by Chuck Peterson (Member # 70) on :
 
"There's one way to tell when a man's got the blues, When he ain't got no soles on the bottom of his shoes" - Sleepy John Estes
 

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Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
 
Jill,

That might have been
(Joe Williams).
 

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Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
~~I got the all-nite laundr'mat blooz~~~~~~~~
Washin' everything I own 'cept my shooooz~~~~~

~~~~If yer gonna wear clothes~~
~~~~~~~~~you gotta pay yer dooooooooz~~~~~~~~~~
an' get the all-nite laundry-mat bloooz.

I ferget who sang that but you can do a lot with that song to perk up a two hour laundromat stint . .
 

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Posted by faye welsh (Member # 2524) on :
 
~crazy...for feelin so lonesome, crazy for feelin soooo blue~~~~ the queen of rock-a-billy blues ......patsy cline~~~~~~sigh....
 

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Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
 
"it looks like we're in for stormy weather,
that aint no cause to run away,
just lie here in my arms,
let it wash away the pain,
cause it feels like rain, it feels like rain."
-Buddy Guy
(that song makes we weak in the knees!!)
 

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Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
 
"Up and down the road
In our worn out shoes..
Talk'n bout good things
And Sing'n the Blue"

"Living life by the drop"... This line is my Favourite!
 

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Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
 
Yew know Ah axe my babie fer nickel........
She gimmie a twennie dallah bill.
Ah axe her fo a small drank a likker....
and she bought me a whiskee still.

Muddy Waters

Betty an Dupree
Another Mule be Kickin in Yer Stall
 

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Posted by dave parr (Member # 3868) on :
 
Will you accept instrumentals (guitar solos) Jack?

Roy Buchanan's "Ramon's Blues"

or Gary Moore's rendition of Roy Buchanan's "The Messiah Will Come Again"

Wow!
 

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Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
 
That's cool Dave.
By the way....correction.
That line about callin' China,
was an original of (Robert Johnson).

CrazyJack

P.S. Jill,
I think that line was originally done by
Lena Horne, with the woman, transposed to
man.
 

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Posted by Terry Baird (Member # 3495) on :
 
"Oh Baby...
you treat your daddy so damn mean."
"When I ask you for water...
you give me gasoline"
John Mooney
 

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Posted by jay gordon (Member # 4457) on :
 
the boy gots it in 'em
and he gots ta get it out
boogie chillin'
the great john Lee Hooker
 

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Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
 
Okay, so it's a little more than a line...

You know my mother told me the story
About that li'l dog that couldn't see too well
He was crossing a railroad track one day
When the train cut off a piece of his tail
He turned around but never looked up
Just to peep over the rail
That dog lost his whole head
Trying to find a little piece of tail
 

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Posted by John Byrd (Member # 825) on :
 
"...the roaches jump down on the rats' back,
race them 'round the floor.
They killed, skint and ate my cat,
and drove my dog outdoors."

Rats in my bedroom: Dave McKinsey?

OK it's more than a line too...but...hey Pat started it!


web page
 

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Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
 
From a Sonny Terry blues harmonica instuction CD:

"I always heard that money talks,
I know it must be true,
'cuz everytime I get some,
it tells me GOODBYE"

I think there's a line from another song (same CD) that says:

You got a head like a phonograph,
A mouth like a radio
 

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Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
 
Boom boom boom boom,
How how how how.

(~John Lee Hooker)


Sheila, All Night Laundromat Blues was short on a Joe Walsh album. Cant remember whether it was Rocky Mountain Way or The Smoker You Play The Drinker You Get. Anyway, I love that too.
 

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Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
 
Taj Mahal - From the song Lining Track.

Oh Boy, do you line?
Don't you know I just got hired.
All I know about lining track, is
these old rails about to break my back.
Later

Moses standing on the Red Sea Shore,
He was parting that water with a two by four.
Singing Oh Boy.....
and then

Me and My Baby laying in the shade,
talking about the money that I ain't made.
 

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Posted by Mark Sheflo (Member # 3608) on :
 
Jane Diaz wrote:

"it looks like we're in for stormy weather,
that aint no cause to run away,
just lie here in my arms,
let it wash away the pain,
cause it feels like rain, it feels like rain."
-Buddy Guy
(that song makes we weak in the knees!!)


Written by one of my favorites, John Hiatt. One of his that always brings a smile to my face:


Well the day was long now, supper's on the thrill is gone but something's taking place

Yeah the food is cold and your wife feels old but all hands fold as the two year old says grace

She says help the starving children to get well

But let my brother's hamster burn in hell

You love your wife and kids

Just like your dad did

Mark
 

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Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
 
It's not quite blues, but Cat Stevens'
"If they were right, I'd agree... but it's them they know, not me..."
has always struck a chord with me

best wishes
 

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Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
 
My love is like a fire,
Your love is like a cigarette,
My love is like a fire,
Your love is like a cigarette,
I watched you step down and crush it, Baby
Tell Me, How blue, How blue can you get?
---B.B. King

The jam version done in the Blues Brothers 2 movie is a star studded killer. Lou Rawls delivers with his phrasing and vocal tone.

[ February 14, 2004, 08:42 AM: Message edited by: Santo ]
 

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Posted by Bill Cosharek (Member # 1274) on :
 
How about the, "I got those can't seem to find my way around Letterville without stumbling into non-marked as such OT blues". "Although I don't
mind the OT posts, would it be too much trouble to mark them as such?" "Thought this was a discussion of colors, but it not."

Maybe if something like that was put to song, it might be remembered more often. Like: "Where have all the OTs gone?" (in a blues riff)
Or...maybe not.
 

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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
 
bill that one is the TOUGH s*** BLUES....its an old muddy waters tune.
i dont play em much when iam workin...."cause when i hears the blues....i dont wana work, i wana
pick up my pool que and shoot the day away"!!!!
when i learned to shoot pool that all the played in the place. didnt have much apperciation for em then....but last 20 yrs or so....i cant shoot pool with out stevie ray vaughn, bb king, muddy waters, john lee hooker,bobby "blues" bland,taj,mavis staples,bo-diddly, gatemouth,and some gregg almund.....goin at it in the background.
 

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Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
 
i talk to gatmoth brown all da time, he hangs around all the local greasy spoons.
real nice ol dude.

Carries a little 32, he has a commision too
 

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Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
LOL, Here ya go Bill........

~~~~I got the Off-Topic letterville bloooz~~~~~
~~~~they never give me any kind'a cloooooz~~~~~
~~~~but if I wanna vote for change
~~~~I gotta pay my doooooz . . . . .
~~~~to stop these off-topic letterville blooooz~~



[ February 15, 2004, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
 

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Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
 
good one sheila!!

here's mine, from BB King's "Some outside help I don't really need"

quote:

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I want to tell that slick insurance man
That he’d better write some insurance on his self.

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