2609 A blues Song

I don’t remember how this came to be, but I said to someone that the lyrics in a blues song we were talking about were not so good. He said to me that I shouldn’t complain over a song’s lyrics because I couldn’t write lyrics for a song. I drove home and wrote this song in 15 minutes and sent it back to him.

July 16, 2001

‘Ma woman done lef me’

Woke up dis mornin’
Feelin’ kinda bad
Ma woman done gone away
She da best wom’n I eva had.

Look out da winda, fell on da chair back
woman done lef wit my big red Cadillac.

Ma woman done lef me
She da best woman I eva had
She took ma shoes and ma Cadillac
I’m fraid da woman gone bad.

If I don’t fin dat woman I be singin da St. Louie blues
Don’t know how I gonna fin her
cause da woman done took my shoes

Woman don lef me an ma big ole lonely bed
Ma whiskey bottle empty
An da dog an been fed.

I’d go look for da woman in Memphis
But I gotta somet’n ta dred
Da man I done shot dere
He still listed as dead!

Dat Big Mama she older dan dirt.
But when she see a man she done want’n
Big Mama she know how ta flirt.

She drink a mans whiskey
She share a mans bed
Den she take da mans Cadillac
Afta she clack him in da head.

Da whiskey done lef me blind
Da blow ta ma head done made me a cripple
If it weren’t fer da feel a da bottle
I wount know it were da ripple.

I’m looking for da woman
I’m on da southbound train
Done tryin ta change ma image
So I don end up in da Memphis jail again

Hope I don end up in da Memphis jail again
Don wanna die old an wrinkled
In da company a all dose bad men.

Ma woman done lef me
She da best woman I eva had
She took ma shoes and ma Cadillac
I’m fraid da woman gone bad.

Well that’s my first and original Blues song. I wrote it in about fifteen minutes after reading the enclosed rules for a Blues song. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did composing it. If this should get into the hands of a recording company, I sure hope I’m not dead in the Memphis jail when it happens.

I wish you love and hope and peace in your lives tonight and tomorrow.

Bill