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Highway 41
04:50
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I drive a straight 6 Benz
I play my guitar like a gun
I drive a straight 6 Benz
Play my guitar like a gun
Lord I’s born to run going down highway 41
I’m gonna go down to Macon GA
I got a good girl down there
I’m gonna go down to Macon GA
I got me a good girl down there
If her heart can’t be won
I’ll keep on rolling down 41
I like them Georgia back roads
Rollin’ blues hills
Smoke them cheap cigars
And drink my fill
Love my woman
Till my days are done
I keep on rolling down Highway 41
Highway 41 Georgia Highway East 19
Lord I’s born to run
Going down to Highway 41
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Dutch
03:53
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He’s got a double-barreled Shotgun under his bed
In the back of a ’57 panel truck
He’s got a 5th of Seagram 7 going straight to his head
I strongly recommend you learn to duck
He’s married to a monster or the Devil her self
With a tongue like a razor blade
He never got one minute of peace
No one knows why he stayed
He’s really mean when he’s really drunk
And he smells like kerosine
Some said he was a Godless fool
But he’s the smartest man I’ve ever seen
He railed against a world that he knew was cruel
And he’d never be missed
He said that God had cursed him
Because he knew that he didn’t exist
He was born in a matchbox two story tomb
No one made it out alive
It burned to the ground in 1932
Every damn one of them died
He lost his soul in Saipan
Some can’t escape their fate
Ask him about the state of affairs
And he’ll vituperate
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Hard Times and Trouble
05:03
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Hard times are coming, I see trouble on the rise
Hard times are coming, I see trouble on the rise
Every time I hear the news a little piece of me just dies
The sun will rise tomorrow, but you may not be here to see it
The sun will rise tomorrow, but you may not be here to see it
You may regret every wasted moment, on this earth once you leave it
Beat a dog long enough and a jumps when you raise your hand
Beat a dog hard enough and he jumps when you wave your hand
Hard times are coming just like they always planned
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Deep River Blues
04:38
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Let it rain, let it pour
let it rain just a little bit more
Cause I got them deep river blues
I don’t care if the sun don’t
I don’t care for the day that I die
Cause I got them deep river blues
My ol’ gal she makes me grawl
She likes to crawl and scream and out loud
When I get them deep river blues
I’m going back to New Orleans
Where they dance up and down the street
Cause we’ve got them deep river blues
Let it rain, let it pour
let it rain just a little bit more
Cause I got them deep river blues
I don’t care if the sun don’t
I don’t care for the day that I die
Cause I got them deep river blues
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Soul Release
02:08
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Key to the Highway
05:05
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I've got the key to the highway
Billed out and bound to go
I'm gonna leave here runnin'
‘cause walkin's much too slow
I'm going back to the border
Where I'm better known
You haven't done nothin'
But drive a good man from his home
Give me one more kiss mama
Just before I go
'Cause I'm leavin' here baby
I won't be back no more
When the moon peeps over the mountain
Honey, I'll be on my way
I'm gonna walk this highway
till the break of day
Well, it's so-long, so-long baby
I must say good-bye
I'm gonna roam these roads
Until the day I die.
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Roswell Blues
05:39
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Well, I woke up Sunday morning Oh Lord I couldn’t find my head
Well, I woke up Sunday morning Oh Lord I couldn’t find my head
Well I looked everywhereBut I found out I was dead
God damn the Devil God damn these Roswell Blues
God damn the Devil God damn these Roswell Blues
I gonna get the hell out of Roswell
Cause ol’ Satan is on the loose
Well I went to the penthouse
And all my friends they was bumpin’ Coke
Well I went to the penthouse
And all my friends they was bumpin’ that Coke
And didn’t nobody seem to give a damn if I stay or if I go
God damn the Devil God damn these Roswell Blues
God damn the Devil God damn these Roswell Blues
I gonna get the hell out of Roswell
Cause ol’ Satan is on the loose
Well me and that ol’ Devil we kinda tight
Well me and that ol’ Devil we alright
I’ve been ridin’ with ol’ Lucifer
All the day and all the night
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Left California bound for the Georgia line
Left California bound for the Georgia line
Couldn’t take one more day casting pearls before the Swine
Ran into trouble just north of Tupelo
Ran into trouble just north of Tupelo
Got to make my way to Macon makin’ my way too Slow
A cigarette in one hand the other on the wheel
A cigarette in one hand the other on the wheel
Elmore James on the radio screaming into steel
Reverend T in the back seat praying for my soul
Reverend T in the back seat praying for my soul
With a half a pint of Scotch Johnny Walker Gold
Lost Morgan right off 6th street just after 3:00 am
Lost Morgan right off 6th street just after 3:00 am
We found him in a Parking lot passed out and stinking of gin
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Ersatz Blues
04:56
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Suburban punk turned 12/8 groove
Marking time in 1982
We all know anyone can play the blues
If you know 3 chords you can play some too
Everyone knows I was born to lose
That’s why they call me Ersatz Blues
Route 66 on a Thursday Night
Something in here just don’t feel right
A pale tone of suburban white
Way too much 1960s Hype
Everyone knows I was born to lose
That’s why they call me Ersatz Blues
Welcome to the world of hats and Strats
Hawaiian shirts and cats named Fats
We’re all deaf with names like “Blind” this or that
We all know Dylan is where it’s at
Everyone knows I was born to lose
That’s why they call me Ersatz Blues
Everything I know about the Blues and nothing more
I learned on Feb 9th 1964
That was the day that music was born
We all know nothing came before
Everyone knows I was born to lose
That’s why they call me Ersatz Blues
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Big Daddy T Band Atlanta, Georgia
Influenced by a wide range of blues styles – ranging from 20’s jazz and country blues from the 30s, electric Chicago-style blues, and the electric blues rock of the first wave of English interpreters of the blues – bassist and vocalist Tony “Big Daddy T” Wisler has distilled it all to create a unique style of house-rockin’ blues that goes well beyond the expected 12-bar format. ... more
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