Huddie Ledbetter - My Friend Blind Lemon lyrics

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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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