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![[Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller)]](../photographs/sonny_boy_williamson_ii.jpg)
 
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by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
You talk about your woman, I wish you could see
mine
You talk about your woman, I wish you could see mine
Every time she starts her lovin', she brings eyesight to the
blind
You know her daddy gave her magic, I can tell by the way she
walks
Her daddy gave her magic, I can tell by the way she
walks
Every time she starts to shakin', the dumb begin to talk
She's got the power to heal you, never fear
She's got the power to heal you, never fear
Just a word from her lips, and the deaf begin to hear
Top
by Willie
Dixon
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
Baby, baby,
I'm gonna bring it on home to you
I done bought my ticket, I got my load
Conductor done hollered, "All, aboard"
Take my seat and ride way back,
and watch this train move down the track
Baby, baby,
I'm gonna bring it on home to you
I think about the good times I once have had
Soul got happy now, my heart got glad
I think about the way you love me too
You can bet your life, I'm comin home to you
I'm goin home,
I'm gonna bring it on home, now
I'm gonna bring it on home, now
I'm gonna bring it on home, now
Gonna bring it on home,
bring it on home to you
Top
by
recording of 19
from , copyright
notice
Got some mighty sad news and I ain't got nothin' to
say
I heard some mighty sad news and I don't have nothin' to
say
My baby left me, started me drinkin' on Christmas day
Lord, I tried to fetch religion but the devil would not let
me pray
Lord, I tried to fetch religion boys, but the devil he will
not let me pray
That's why I gotta stay drunk all day Christmas Day
(spoken: Ooh, on a Christmas Day, You know that's one day I
hate to have the blues; you know when she walked out and
left me she give 'em to me, so I have to drink 'em all. I
don't even have a Christmas tree in my house unless she
comes home, but if she do happen to come home I will enjoy
this Christmas)
Yes, run here baby and let me tell you what I got to say
Please, please run here darlin' and let daddy tell you what
he got to say
Unless'n you come back to me, I'll be drunk all day
Christmas Day
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
My baby a kind hearted woman, so lovely and so sweet
she's so kind
Yeah, she's a kind hearted woman, so lovely and so sweet
she's so kind
She's got such a cool disposition, she just makes me love
her all the time
She got me doin' things, peoples I just can't sleep at
night
She got me doin' things, you know boys I just can't sleep at
night
I don't eat my breakfast in the mornin', and my teeth and
tongue begin to fight
Yes, she's 41 through the shoulders, 29 in the waist,
I'll never find another woman, to take my baby's place
She's so lovin', she's so sweet she's so kind
She's got such a cool disposition, makes me love her all the
time
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
Don't lose your eye, man to spite your face,
Don't lose your eye, man to spite your face,
Because if people started snitchin' on ya, can't hide at no
place
If you do wrong, the world gonna find you out
If you do wrong, the world gonna find you out
You know you can't do wrong and get by, ain't no use in
tryin', the dogs that doubt
If I was you, I'd play fair in anything I do
If I was you, I'd play fair in anything I do
Any time that the people find out that you're crooked man
their not goin', do nothin' in the world for you
My daddy taught me, ever since I was a child
My daddy taught me, ever since I was a child
Always treat your neighbors right, be fair with your friends
like wild
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
Well, I'm goin' down to Rosie's, stop at Fannie
Mae's
Gonna tell Fannie what I heard, her boyfriend say
Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell her everything I
know
I'm gonna break up this signifyin',
'cause somebody's got to go
Jack give his wife two dollars, go downtown and get some
margarine1
Gets out on the streets, ol' George stopped her
He knocked her down, and blackened her eye
She gets back home, tell her husband a lie
Don't start me to talkin, I'll tell everything I know
I'm gonna break up this signifyin', somebody's got to go
She borrowed some money, go to the beauty shop
Jim honked his horn, she begin to stop
She said, "Take me, baby," around the block,
I'm goin to the beauty shop, where I can get my hair
sock2"
Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell everything I know
Well, to break up this signifyin', somebody's got to go
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Note 1: John W. Harrelson suggest that instead of
"margarine" it should read "market". He says it's southern
dialect, "go down to the store and get my market(ing) done".
Thanks John;
Note 2: sock, when black men (usta)get their hair
"processed" (see also John Lee Hooker's song Process)
it required a tight wrapping (every night for protection in
sleep). A hair sock did the job... Thanks to John W.
Harrelson again.
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from , copyright
notice
You've talking about your woman, I wish to God, man,
that you could see mine
You're talking about your woman, I wish to God that you
could see mine
Every time the little girl start to loving, she bring
eyesight to the blind
Lord, her daddy must been a millionaire, 'cause I can tell
by the way she walk
Her daddy must been a millionaire, because I can tell by the
way she walk
Every time she start to loving, the deaf and dumb begin to
talk
I remember one Friday morning, we was lying down across the
bed
Man in the next room a-dying, stopped dying and lift up his
head, and said,
"Lord, ain't she pretty, and the whole state know she
fine!"
Every time she start to loving, she bring eyesight to the
blind
(Spoken: All right and all right, now. Lay it on me, lay it
on me, lay it on me
Oh lordy, what a woman, what a woman!)
Yes, I declare she's pretty and the whole state knows she's
fine
Man, I declare she's pretty, God knows I declare she's
fine
Every time she starts to loving, whoo, she brings eyesight
to the blind
(I've got to get out of here, now, let's go, let's go, let's
go now)
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
It took me a long time, to find out my mistakes
Took me a long time, to find out my mistakes,
it sho'h did man
But I bet you my bottom dollar, I'm not fattenin' no more
frogs for snakes
I found out my downfall, back in nineteen and thirty,
I started checkin'
I found out my downfall, from nineteen and thirty
I'm tellin' all of my friends, I'm not fattenin' no more
frogs for snakes
All right now
Yeah it is nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all
of my mistakes
Whoa man, nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all
of my mistakes
I'm tellin' my friends includin' my wife and everybody
else,
not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from , copyright
notice
Good evening, everybody, tell me how do you do
Good evening, everybody, tell me how do you do
I'm one of the artists of Chess, come out to work a
little
Goodbye, hello, goodbye
Goodbye, hello, goodbye
I didn't come here to stay, I just come here to work
awhile
This morning I just dropped in your town
This morning I just dropped in your town
I'm in the studio over in Chicago, trying to knock these
blues around
Top
by Sonny
Boy Williamson II (Rice
Miller)
recording of 19
from The
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess/MCA
9343), copyright
notice
Have you ever been in love with a woman, like I am in
love today
Have you ever been in love with a woman, like I am in love
today
I wonder to myself, why she broke my heart this way
Oh baby, I know you don't understand
Oh baby, oh baby, I know you don't understand
It's so tough, that you drive a man insane
The woman I'm talkin' about, she's specially built
A heavied hipted woman, her shoulders are full filled
She got knee action body, hydraulic hips
Air conditioned stomach makes her, back bone slip
Have you ever been in love, like I am in love today
I'm cryin' and beggin' the little girl, why she treat me
this a way
Said she would meet me, a quarter to nine
Better believe it dear 'cause, wasn't on time but
Have you been in love, like I'm in love today
She broke my heart, I wonder why she treat me this a way
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