Blues Lyrics

Blues lyrics can be about anything.

That's one of the things I love about the blues.

Here's one song for starters, called Born Yesterday, by Little Milton. I heard it yesterday morning on my way into Hell.

"I hear you been telling your friends across town, that I'm in the dark about your running around, and how your Fool in the house don't know nothin' 'bout your woman on the side, (she said) I might have been born yesterday but I stayed up late last night."

I love the simplicity of that statement - "I might have been born yesterday, but I stayed up late last night."

If you need closure, when she found out he was cheating she took some revenge. While he was cheating on her, she was cheating on him. And in the song he says he was hurt when she told him that. Fucking men, man. We don't understand shit.

Here's some darker stuff - Your Funeral and My Trial, by Sonny Boy Williamson. "Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me, because I and you are man and wife tryin' to start a family, I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive, if you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial."

Can you tell this is old school? Holy shit, man - that is pretty direct. You probably couldn't even get a song like that published today.

Here's the opposite end of the spectrum. Fresh Out, by Christone Kingfish Ingram.. No coffee for my breakfast, no butter on my roll, ain't got a drop of milk for the cornflakes in my bowl,.................no jelly in the jar, no flour in the sack........

Obviously he gets to the point that his woman is gone and his life has gone to shit, but I love the minor, everyday things he chooses to make that point.

I thought this was a brilliant perspective on my part, insightful analyisis and all that. But I ran out of things to say.

Still, take some time, think about what I was getting at, ponder my words.

The effort will enrich your life.