Hi all,
John Lee Hooker recorded "Bumble Bee Blues" with an ensemble and it appears on an anthology called "Essential Detroit Blues". John Lee accompanied himself out of E position in standard tuning for the performance and his guitar has a wonderful "ripping sheet metal" sort of tone. I analyzed John Lee's vocal phrasing of this performance in the thread "Vocal Phrasing: The Long and the Short of it", at
https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=951.msg90203#msg90203 for any of you who are interested. I don't know who his band members were, and would appreciate that information if any of you know it Here is "Bumble Bee Blues":
INTRO
Bumble bee, bumble bee, bumble bee . . . bumble bee, please come back to me
Bumble bee, bumble bee, bumble bee . . . bumble bee, please come back to me
Bring me my granulated sugar, bumble bee, and try to ease my baby to me
She stung me this morning, I been lookin' for her all day long
Yes, she stung me this morning, yes, yes, I been lookin' for her all day long
Get me to the place, one time, hate to see my bumble bee leave home
My bumble bee got a stinger, just as long as her right arm
Yes, my bumble bee got a stinger, just as long as her right arm
Every time she sting me, hate to see my bumble bee leave home (Spoken: Now rock the blues away!)
PIANO SOLO
Yes, buzz me, buzz me, buzz me, 'til I don't want no more, buzz me, buzz me, bumble bee now, rock me all night long, I said
Buzz me, buzz me all night long
I said buzz me, buzz me, I don't want no more
CODA
All best,
Johnm