Statesboro Blues-Blind Willie McTell

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[00:00.00]Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
[00:10.60]Wake up mama turn your lamp down low
[00:18.44]Wake up mama turn your lamp down low
[00:24.77]Have you got the nerve to drive papa mctell from your door
[00:33.56]My mom died and left me reckless
[00:35.72]My daddy died and left me wild wild wild
[00:40.51]Mother died and left me reckless
[00:42.65]Daddy died and left me wild wild wild
[00:48.73]No I'm not good looking
[00:49.98]But I'm some sweet woman's angel child
[00:55.39]She's a mighty mean woman to do me this a way
[01:01.22]She's a mighty mean woman to do me this a way
[01:06.92]When I leave this town pretty mama going away to stay
[01:12.83]While I loved a woman better than even I'd ever seen
[01:18.24]I once loved a woman better than I'd ever seen
[01:23.81]Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen
[01:31.15]Sister tell your brother brother tell your now auntie
[01:33.71]Auntie tell your uncle uncle tell my cousin now cousin tell my friend
[01:38.22]Goin'up the country mama don't you want to go
[01:43.03]May take me a fair brown may take one or two more
[01:49.91]Big eighty left savannah lord and did not stop
[01:52.80]You ought to saw that colored when fireman he got that boiler hot
[01:55.49]You can reach over in the corner mama and my hand me travelin'shoes
[02:01.37]You know by that I've got them statesboro blues
[02:09.45]Mama sister got 'em auntie got 'em
[02:13.21]Brother got 'em friend got 'em I got'em
[02:16.68]Up woke this morning we had them statesboro blues
[02:21.60]I looked over in the corner grandma and grandpa had 'em too