This is Rabbit Blues recorded by Charley Booker in 1952.
I probalby makes some mistakes, just one guy helped me in The Real Blues Forum and this is what he heard on the record. I hope you can help me for a definitive lyric.
CHARLEY BOOKER
- Rabbit Blues (MM1794)
- No Ridin' Blues (MM1796) 1)
rec. c. January 23, 1952 in Greenville, MS; Charley Booker, voc, g; Houston Boines, hca; Ike Turner, p; Jesse 'Cleanhead' Love, dr
(INFORMATION FROM WIRZ)
Well I'm just, just like a rabbit. Baby ain't got no special home.
Well, I'm just like a rabbit, got no special home.
Been round here every day, but I may be gone.
*(Hangin' round here today, 'morrow I'll may be gone)
Now you taken, taken my rider when I never said a word.
Taken my rider, never said a word.
No you taken my rider and I sure gone *pay you first.(?)
Spoken: Play it boy
Now its bye, bye bye rider, baby now *if you call that song.
*(if you call that gone)
Bye bye rider, till you call that song.
Now I would stay round here and might trouble your happy home.
I probalby makes some mistakes, just one guy helped me in The Real Blues Forum and this is what he heard on the record. I hope you can help me for a definitive lyric.
CHARLEY BOOKER
- Rabbit Blues (MM1794)
- No Ridin' Blues (MM1796) 1)
rec. c. January 23, 1952 in Greenville, MS; Charley Booker, voc, g; Houston Boines, hca; Ike Turner, p; Jesse 'Cleanhead' Love, dr
(INFORMATION FROM WIRZ)
Well I'm just, just like a rabbit. Baby ain't got no special home.
Well, I'm just like a rabbit, got no special home.
Been round here every day, but I may be gone.
*(Hangin' round here today, 'morrow I'll may be gone)
Now you taken, taken my rider when I never said a word.
Taken my rider, never said a word.
No you taken my rider and I sure gone *pay you first.(?)
Spoken: Play it boy
Now its bye, bye bye rider, baby now *if you call that song.
*(if you call that gone)
Bye bye rider, till you call that song.
Now I would stay round here and might trouble your happy home.