#StatesboroBlues January 5
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For January 2025, several of us are taking part in the 30-Day Song Lyrics Coach4aday Challenge. Each day we utilize a theme and post the song lyrics from a song that connects the two. Today my theme is on colors and my song is Statesboro BLUES.
I suspect that I have listened to Allman Brothers Band songs more than any other artist in my lifetime. Some music critics claim that the Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East (Double Album) changed the boundaries of a what an album could be. It was a double album only having 7 songs. That album consisted of the band covering music done by other artists.
During the bands history they covered Willie Dixon, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters songs so well that many people believed there were all Allman Brothers original songs, but they were not.
If you were to cue up the Fillmore East Album the 1st track is Statesboro Blues which was written by Blind Willie McTell in 1928.
Song Lyrics 30-Day Challenge Guidelines
Like previous challenges there are no hard and fast rules to participate. There are a few suggested guidelines
- Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, and explain, if necessary, why it connects to your daily theme.
- Please try to include the songwriters
- Link to a video so people can listen to the song
Lyrics-Statesboro Blues
Written by Blind Willie McTell-1928
(One NOTE: The Allman Brothers version replace Papa McTell with Uncle John)
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door
My mother died and left me reckless
My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
Mother died and left me reckless
Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
No, I’m not good lookin’
I’m some sweet woman’s Angel child
You’re a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way
You’re a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way
When I leave this town, pretty mama, I’m going away to stay
While I loved a woman, better than even I’d ever seen
I once loved a woman, better than even I’d ever seen
Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen
Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie now
Auntie tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin now, cousin tell my friend
Goin’ up the country, mama, don’t you want to go?
May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more
Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
You can reach over in the corner mama and hand me my travelin’ shoes
You know by that, I’ve got them Statesboro blues
Mama, sister got ’em, auntie got ’em
Brother got ’em, friend got ’em, I got ’em
Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues
I looked over in the corner, grandpa and grandma had ’em too
Jan 5th-Theme Colors-Song Statesboro Blues
Before I get to posting the video please check out an article by Dan Rys on “7 Great Blues Songs that The Allman Brothers Made Their Own”
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