Blind Willie McTell - Searching the Desert for the Blues

"you make me feel like cryin' when you talk like that"
"sure enough, that's too bad baby"

William Samuel "Blind Willie" McTell recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956. This one's from 1932.

You may search the ocean, you might go 'cross the deep blue sea
But Mama, you'll never find another hot shot like me

I followed my baby from the station to the train
And the blues came down like (???) rain

I left her at the station wringing her hands and crying
I told her she had a home, just as long as I had mine

I've got two women, and you can't tell them apart
I've got one in my bosom, the other one in my heart

The one in my bosom, she's in Tennessee
And the one in my heart, don't even give a darn for me


I used to say a married woman was the sweetest woman that was ever born
But I've changed that thing, you better let married women alone


Take my advice: let these married women be
'Cause their husbands'll grab you, beat you ragged as a cedar tree

When a woman say she love you 'bout good as she do herself,
I don't pay her no attention, tell that same line to somebody else


I really don't believe no woman in the whole round world do right,
act like an angel in the daytime, mess by the ditch at night

I'm going, pretty mama, please don't break this rule;
that's why I'm searching these deserts for the blues

I'm going, pretty mama, searching these deserts now
That's why I'm walking my baby home anyhow

Lord, oh Lord
Lordy, Lordy, Lord
Oh Lordy Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord

When a woman say she love you 'bout good as she do herself,
I don't pay her no attention, tell that same line to somebody else

Lord, Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord