Jackson Blues Lyrics by Sonny Boy Williamson I

Jackson Blues Lyrics

    Jackson Blues Track 3 2:56
    Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee)
    (John Lee Williamson)
    John Lee - vocal & harmonica
    with Joe Williams - guitar and Robert Lee McCoy - guitar
    Wed. May 5, 1937 Aurora, Illinois Leland Hotel
    Album: The Bluebird Recordings 1937-1938 (66723-2)
    BMG (RCA-Bluebird) Blues & Heritage Series 1997
    Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com


    Now when I left out of Jackson
    My baby was standin' in her do'
    Now when I left out of Jackson
    I rode that *M&O

    Now, my baby like the Chevrolet
    But I believe I'll buy a V8 Fo'
    She say, 'Is he too fast
    To try to hold in the road?'

    Well, I'm goin' back to Jackson
    Good old Jackson, Tennessee
    I can't do no good up here
    I've gotten the jinx on me

    (harmonica & guitar)

    A-yon' come my baby
    I can tell by the way she walk
    I wouldn't know her so well
    But I can tell by the way she talks

    Oh, now tell me baby
    Sweet, now wha'cha want me to do?
    You think that I can love you
    And be yo' little doggie?

    (harmonica and guitar)

    Well, mother told me, an' told me
    My father he sat down an' cried
    She say, 'You too young-a-man, son
    To have them many women on yo' side.

    ~
    *M&O - Mobile & Ohio Railroad

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