Lyr Req: Alcohol Blues (Sonny Boy Williamson)

Subject: Lyr Req: alcohol blues
From: GUEST,paulw
Date: 09 May 04 - 08:45 PM

anyone got the lyrics for mance lipscomb's alcohol blues?

thanks in advance

paul

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: alcohol blues
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 May 04 - 09:12 PM

I posted a link to this song a couple of weeks ago, try a search, [or click on my name].

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: alcohol blues
From: Joybell
Date: 10 May 04 - 06:11 PM

paulw, It's on a thread with the title "Alcoholic Blues". Joy

Subject: Lyr Add: ALCOHOL BLUES (Sonny Boy Williamson I)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 May 04 - 10:22 PM

I suspect this is the one paulw wants. It's a different song from ALCOHOLIC BLUES by Edward Laska and Albert Von Tilzer.

Lyrics copied from MetroLyrics:

ALCOHOL BLUES
Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson), 1947.

I went down 31st Street, now,
Just to buy me a drink of alcohol, honey.
I went down 31st Street, now,
Just to buy me a drink of alcohol, now.
I told the old man to cut it half full o' water,
But that old man, y'know, didn't-a put any drop at all in.

So, I'm drinkin' mine straight out-a-can,
See, an' I went jus' staggerin' on down the street, now.
I drinkin' mine straight out-a-can, now,
So I went jus' staggerin' down the street, now.
Now but my head got so heavy,
My eyes couldn't even give a peep, now.

All right, Lacey.

(Guitar & instrumental) Ee!

My baby tells me, "Papa, Papa,"
She says, "Sonny Boy, you know you ain't no good at all, now."
My baby tell me, "Papa, Papa," now,
She says, "Sonny Boy, you know you ain't no good at all."
She says, "The reason you don't make me happy,
Because you drink too much of this old alcohol, now."

I said, "But baby, won't you go ridin' now?
Oh, can I take you ridin' in my car now?"
I said, "But baby, won't you go ridin' now?
Can I take you ridin' wit' me in my car now?"
She said, "But I'm scared you gonna drink alcohol."
Says, "Sonny Boy, then we wouldn't ride very far."