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Long
Way From Home (Version 1)
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1968
from Lightnin' Hopkins The Ultimate Texas
Bluesman (Bluetab BTAB CD-1000), copyright
notice
Next time I take a trip, down south, baby,
baby, I may take you and we'll be through
(spoken: I know you be wonderin' what we be through
with,
but I'm gonna tell ya, next time I take a trip down
south)
Little girl I may take you and we'll be trough
Yes, we'll be through with these people's keep on a tellin'
us,
in this world, what they want us to do
Last time I'm gonna tell you, little girl, somebody's got to
go
Last time I got to tell you, little girl, somebody's got to
go
You know it may be, ol' Lightnin', baby, neither one of us
sure don't know
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Long
Way From Home (Version 2)
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 19
from probably Talkin'
Some Sense (Jewel 5001),
copyright
notice
Any time a take a trip down South-a ways babe, I may take
you with me too
Any time a take a trip down South-a ways babe, I may take
you with me too
Yeah, but two or three people keep tellin' me, what in the
world do they want us to do
Last time I'm gonna tell you, little girl, somebody's gotta
go
Last time I'm gonna tell you, little girl, somebody's gotta
go
You know it may be you or me, baby, either one of us, sure
don't know
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Long
Way From Texas
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1950, New York
from The
Blues (Mainstream 311),
copyright
notice
I come all the way from Texas just to shake glad hands with
you
I come all the way from Texas just to shake glad hands with
you
Yes, but when I seed in your smiling face I didn't know just
what to do
I ought to been knowing these things for a great long
time
I ought to been knowing these things for a great long
time
You know it take me for quite awhile 'fore I made it up in
my mind
(Spoken: Got to play it a minute)
I'm gonna tell all my friends just as soon as I go back
home
I'm gonna tell all my friends just as soon as I go back
home
Know they all gonna get on and wonder what is I been waiting
on
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Love Me
This Mornin'
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1970
from Lightnin' Hopkins The Ultimate Texas
Bluesman (Bluetab BTAB CD-1000), copyright
notice
Love me this mornin',
ol' Lightnin' is fixin' to go away
Love me this mornin',
ol' Lightnin' is fixin' to go away
I may not be gone for ever,
but I'm tryin' to make up in my mind to stay
Whoa, I'm tryin to make up in my mind to stay
Tell me, baby,
little girl do you got anything else to say?
Tell me, oh,
little girl do you got anything else to say?
Ol' Lightnin', he goin' away to leave you,
this time po' Lightnin' he may stay
(spoken: one mo' time)
Yeah!
Po' Lightnin' may leave this time or stay
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Lovin'
Arms
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1969
from Lightnin' Hopkins The Ultimate Texas
Bluesman (Bluetab BTAB CD-1000), copyright
notice
I can remember, when I was layin' up in your lovin' arms
I can remember, when I was layin' up in your lovin' arms
Sounds like I could hear "just take it easy Lightnin' ",
you don't have to worry because she's already home
Such a long time
Yes, you know it would drive a poor man 'way from home
Such a long time
Do you know that 'd drive a poor man away from his home?
Whoa, he got the Misses out, when he can't lay up in her
lovin' arms
(spoken: All right, I got to play right here)
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Mama
And Papa Hopkins
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 19
from Golden
Classics Pt. 3: Mama & Papa Hopkins (Collectables
COL-5145), copyright
notice
I wonder why my mama don't love my papa no more?
I guess my daddy been doing somethin' wrong
I wonder why my mama don't love my papa no more?
Yeah, my daddy must been doing somethin' wrong
You know, I asked my mama, I said "Mama, what's the
trouble?"
She looked at me and said, "Boy, you'd better go head
on"
I looked at my mama, she looked at me unconcerned,
I told my mama, "Don't forget mama, you never gets too old
to learn"
That time I was talkin' my daddy, walked in the door,
Said, "Let that boy alone, 'cause he's tellin' you something
right, don't ya know?"
Mmmmm, you never gets too old to learn
Still, I say my papa must-a done somethin' wrong,
oh yeah, to 'cause my mama's heart to ruin
Well, you take two old people that's been together a long
time,
they don't want children's or nobody else messin' round
their bidness
See, that's what I'm talkin bout!
But, the reason why I was talkin', 'cause my mama,
I didn't want her to feel too bad over what papa do
And I don't want papa to feel too bad over what mama do
And I had-a tell 'em
You two people is livin', you been together for a great,
long time
You two people's been livin', yeah you been together for a
great, long time
Yeah, you know you had four boys and one girl to raise,
now, ya better get bad things off your mind
Y'all just get together and try to get along,
'cause, you ain't got many more days here
You know, then papa told mama, "come, sit down on my
knee"
Said, "Little things I've did, will you please, forgive
me?"
And it made me feel so good, man, I went truckin' on down
the line
You know I wa't'nt gonna leave 'til I get them old folks
together,
whoa yeah, and get bad things of they mind
Sho'h 'nough
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Mama's
Baby Child
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1948
from Lightnin'
Hopkins And The Blues (Imperial
12211), copyright
notice
I was born'd on the levee,
I'm my mama's baby child
I was born'd on the levee, I'm my mama's baby child
Yes, you know, it ain't but one thing I hate, some women
have made mama's baby wild
Yes, if I'd have listened, yes, to what my mama said
If I'd have listened, yes, to what my mama said
Yes, you know, I wouldn't be here this evening, I'm talking
about, with a hung-down head
Yes, you know, I'm going back home to mama, fall down on my
mama's knee
I'm going back home to mama, fall down on my mama's knee
Yes, you know, I'm gonna ask my mama, "Please, ma'am, pray
for me"
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1948
from Lightnin'
Hopkins And The Blues (Imperial
12211), copyright
notice
Whoa, miss Loretta, where did you get all these good looking
women from?
Well, well, miss Loretta, Lord, will you please tell me,
baby, where did you get all these good looking women
from?
She said they come in here unexpected, you know they was
blowed in here by a storm
I said, "Sugar mama, sugar mama, now will you please come
back to me?
Sugar mama, sugar mama, won't you please, ma'am, come back
to me?
Yes, I say bring me my granulated sugar, oh Lord, and ease
my misery"
Yes, miss Loretta, here's something I got to tell you I want
you to do
Long as you live, I want you to keep these women 'round here
with you
I said miss, please ma'am, miss Loretta, keep these womens
here with you
'Cause I might be a sugar maker and I may make it just as
sweet as sugar can be
Yeah, you know I went to church last night; I didn't get
there on time
They called on me to pray and I had praying on my mind,
thinking about miss Loretta and the women, yes, man, they
was on my mind
Yes, I thought about how nice miss Loretta was and how the
women treated me so nice and kind
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 19
from The
Complete Aladdin Recordings (Aladdin/EMI
E2-96843),
copyright
notice
Baby, you mistreated me all the time
Baby, you mistreated me all the time
Yes, you know I hope some day baby,
that you will change your mind
Baby, now what wrong have I done
Baby, now what wrong have I done
You try to mistreat me baby,
when I try to have my fun
Baby, it's all comin' back to you
Baby, it's all comin' back to you
You're gonna be sorry darlin',
that you treat me like you do
Baby, got to go and leave you here
Baby, got to go and leave you here
But maybe some day baby,
you will feel my care
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 19
from The
Complete Aladdin Recordings (Aladdin/EMI
E2-96843),
copyright
notice
You know I went down to my baby's house, fell down on my
knees,
crying please, please help poor me, help old me
She said, "Lightnin' I wished I was rich and you were
poor"
The meals that you've been getting, I will see that you
never get them no more
She's talking to me and I'm down on bended knee
Somebody help me, help me, please
You know I went to my house, wasn't nobody there but me
That was trouble, that was worry, Lord, Lord, like the whole
world would see
Somebody please help me, I've been wondering about my
fate
Her little smiling, baby, I can't see
Well I'm about to make it up in my mind to let her go ahead
on
Baby, you go have a good time, while I walk my floor and
moan
You may not miss me now, but you're gonna miss me when I'm
gone
Well I just can't do nothing but cry, I just got to walk my
floor and moan
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1968, Houston, Texas
from Free Form Patterns (), copyright
notice
(Spoken, without accompaniment:)
Once in the country there was a little boy; every morning
that he would go to the table with his little two sisters
and brothers, you know, he would go there, he couldn't talk
but his mother didn't know what was wrong with him so... she
would go to the table in the morning, she would fix for
breakfast, she'd fix toast and coffee, enough, coffee for
the tin, toast for the eggs for the church, then she would
ask and say, "what you want this morning?" Oh mama, toast
and milk, you know things like that you know. But the little
old boy he couldn't talk good, so she asked him say "what
you want son"? Said "sa-sa-a I want-t t-t-t-" She said
"Hush". Say "I tell you what to do. You just hush, I just go
bring you what I bring the rest of 'em, cause one of these
days I'm gonna learn you how to talk."
She goin' back and she fixes, the next morning same thing.
"So what would you children want this morning?" "Butter 'n
toast mama." Get around to the little old boy, say "What you
want"? He say, "bu-bu-bu- bu-bu-bu..." she say "Lord, have
mercy," that's what mama said and she walked away, say
"wonder what's wrong with my child?"
He heard her. But you know the little boy couldn't do no
better. So after he'd find out that mama couldn't understand
him, and he couldn't understand the way his mama was doin'
him, he packed up his little flower sack, and he decide that
he would leave.
So when he left, on his way, he run up on a old rollin'
mill, what they call Mister Charlie's. So he walked up to
mister Charlie, mister Charlie was workin' round in his rose
bushes 'n things... so he taps him: "mi-mi-mi..." say
"Mister!" But he didn't know his name that time. The man
straightened up and said "my name is mister Charlie". He say
"mi-mi-ch-ch-ch-ch-" He said "but boy I ain't got to fool
with you, you can't work." He said, "me-me can work!"
So the man went on workin' and he'd tap him again. He said
"me-me-me wanna home". He said "look, boy, I've got a old
bunk house out in the back," said "and if you promise me
that you will stay in this bunk house, and watch my mill,
and keep the fire from burning my mill down," say "I live
two blocks up the road," say "and if you see the mill's on
fire, say you run up and tell me the mill's on fire, you got
a home and meal as long as I've got it." "Ta-ta-ta-ta-thank
you mister Charlie." So the little old boy went to bunkin'
that night.
Sho' enough, late one Sunday morning, mister Charlie's mill
caught on fire. Which he'd forgot about what he had told the
little boy. The little boy run up to him, he was cleaning
out his front yard, makin' it beautiful with them rose
bushes, you know with them red rose bushes you know how to
keep 'em red those rose bushes, and the little boy run up
there, tapped him on his back, and he raised up and said
"Hey son, why here's you again."
"Ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye" and he was pointing back toward the
mill, tryin' to tell him his rollin' mill was on fire. So
mister Charlie said, "I ain't got time to fool with you." So
the little boy stuttered too bad for him to understand. So
mister Charlie stooped over him again, he pat him on the
back, said "ye-ye-ye-ye-your ro-ro-" he said "Wait a
minute." He said, "if you can't talk you must sing", and he
hollered:
(sung)
Whooooooa mister Charlie, do you know your rolling mill is
burnin' down?
Mister Charlie, do you know your rolling mill is burnin'
down?
Mister Charlie said if you ain't got no water boy, just let
that old mill burn on down
Little boy was lonesome, he walked off and cried, he
said,,,
He walked back and he said it one more time
Whooooooooa mister Charlie, I won't have no place to
stay
Mister Charlie, I won't have no place to stay
Mister Charlie said Boy, you'll have a home with me, just as
long as there is a day
Little boy sighed and he tell it one more time
He hollered at him:
Whooooooa mister Charlie, do you know your rolling mill is
burnin' down?
Mister Charlie, do you know your rolling mill is burnin'
down?
Mister Charlie said, "If you ain't got no water boy, just
let that old mill burn on down"
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1962
from Complete
Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 or
Prestige 4406-2),
copyright
notice
I can hear my black name ringing, oh hurryin' down the
line
I can hear my black name ringing, oh hurryin' down the
line
Whoa she got another man now, little girl won't pay me no
mind
You know that woman said that she loved me, but now I
believe she was lyin'
Yes she said that she loved me, but now I believe she was
lyin'
Whoa, I don't believe she love me no more Spider*,
I believe I'm driving away my turn
Whoa, that woman done quit me, and I'm just about to lose my
mind
That black woman done quit me, and I'm just about to lose my
mind
Whoa yeah, my black name was ringing, oh hurrying down the
line
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1961
from Complete
Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 or
Prestige 4406-2),
copyright
notice
I want all you young people to know what to do,
leave my grandpa alone 'cause he done got old too
That's my grandpa, that's my grandpa,
that's my grandpa, sweetest man I ever saw
Mama told me, oh, day of old,
your grandpa stood by, tell this is told
Now don't bother my grandpa 'cause he done got old too
I ain't jivin', I
ain't jokin',
ain't gonna never bother you
My grandpa he shouts for joy,
been takin' care of me ever since I was a boy
He getting old now,
and he really is
Really I know it 'cause I'm old myself
My grandpa says "Son, take me a walkin',
say I wanna go where's the coolest place you know"
I say "Why, grandpa?",
'cause grandpa's getting old
Tell all you people, done want you to understand,
grandpa once have been a young man
He getting old now
He's getting to be an old man
He can't remember 'morrow, but he still understands
He look at me and he say, "What's this all about?
Give me my pipe son", and he had it in his mouth
He's an old man, you know he don't got the mind,
you see he don't hardly know what he's doing
But he's still my grandpa
But he ain't nothin' else to turn
Tell all you young people, I don't mean no harm,
I just want you to leave my grandpa alone
He says I've got old now, have pity on me
If you bother my grandpa,
I'm the one you gotta see
My dear old dad
My dear old dad
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My
Suggestion
by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1968
from Lightnin' Hopkins The Ultimate Texas
Bluesman (Bluetab BTAB CD-1000), copyright
notice
My suggestion,
little girl, it may not be just the same as your'n
My suggestion,
little girl, it may not be just the same as your'n
Yeah, you know it's just like little red ants,
some, yes, is goin' an' they come
(spoken: Ev'rybody gettin' together here. It kind-a seem
little funny)
Tell me baby,
yes, do you know where you're at right now?
(spoken: Ol' girl gettin' outta line. I got to talk to her a
little bit")
Tell me, mmm,
little girl do you know where you're at right now?
She said, "I'm just thinkin', out in this lonesome world
somewhere"
(spoken: Poor little girl, I love her, it don't make no
difference nobody do wit'me)
But if I lose you, darlin',
yes, I've got to go and look for me another friend
Whoa, I got to go and look for me another friend
Then I might have to tell the good Lord and the people,
whoa, Lord, this is the end
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by Sam
"Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1962
from Complete
Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 or
Prestige 4406-2),
copyright
notice
Never miss your water till your well run dry
Never miss your water till your well run dry
You know you never miss your little woman until she says
goodbye
Whoa you know, I'm my papa's baby, I'm my mama's baby
child
You know I'm my papa's baby, oh mama's baby child
Whoa you know you never miss your water, Lord until your
well go dry
You know I've been wonderin', what makes a well run dry?
Whoa you know, I've been wonderin', wonderin', oh boy what
makes a well run dry?
You know that's when the earth done settle down on the
water,
ain't no more water passing by
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