Muddy waters
Mama was angry Said: "Girl you must have lost your head Only the lazy Stay the whole day long in bed Your skirts need mending And the floor cries to be swept Don't make me scream, girl Did you...
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I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.
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I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
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Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
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I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
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You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
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Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
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I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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