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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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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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"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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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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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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"Oh Baby... you treat your daddy so damn mean." "When I ask you for water... you give me gasoline" John Mooney
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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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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-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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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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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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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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"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
-------------------- Mark Sheflo Renton, Washington A-Squared Signs, LLC Posts: 145 | From: Renton, Washington | Registered: Feb 2003
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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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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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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.
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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.
-------------------- Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs N.Huntingdon,Pa
bcosharek@juno.com Posts: 703 | From: N.Huntingdon, Pa, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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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.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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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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"My baby she done left me, and she stole my best friend Joe" "My baby she done left me, and she stole my best friend Joe" "Now I'm all alone and cryin', 'cause I miss him so."
Why not write your own blues?? Just three things needed: a subject, a locale and bad grammer.
SUBJECT: Good Blues- treachery, infidelity, your mojo Bad Blues- Rising interest rates, an impending market correction, the scarcity of good help
LOCALE: Good Blues- Memphis, the Bayou, prison Bad Blues- Aspen, Rodeo Drive, Starbucks
GRAMMAR: Good Blues- "My baby done me wrong." Bad Blues- "My life-partner has been insensitive to my needs."
See! It's easy!
(ok,ok... this was all stolt from "Guitar for Dummies")
-------------------- David McDonald Palm Harbor Florida USA
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