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Muddy Waters Lyrics
MarkC:
My two cents - that recording is so clear, and all the other lyrics so easily understood, that I wonder if Muddy just forgot those words while recording and fudged them.
Maybe there’s another song with that blues couplet somewhere.
MarkC:
Somehow I didn’t see Banjochris’s comment. Spot on regarding Son House.
MarkC:
I just listened to Son House’s Preachin’ the Blues Part 1 - I hear his version as:
Oh ‘coulda had religion
Lord this very day
Blues Vintage:
Screamin' And Cryin'
Muddy Waters – Vocals, Guitar
Jimmy Rogers – Guitar
Johnny Jones – Piano
Leroy Foster – Drums
Chicago, Illinois
Ca. September 1949
Piano in E
Screamin' and cryin' thinkin' about my past life and gone
Screamin' and cryin' thinkin' about my past life and gone
Well you know I used to have a sweet little mother well boy you know I had such a happy home
Screamin' and cryin' thinkin' about the time have been
Screamin' and cryin' thinkin' about the time have been
Well you know I used to have seven wives well boys you know I used to have twenty girlfriends
Screamin' and cryin' wonderin' where’s my peoples gone
Screamin' and cryin' wonderin' where’s my peoples gone
Well you know I feel my poor self sinkin' down child I don’t think I can last very long
Blues Vintage:
I Got My Brand On You
Muddy Waters – vocals, guitar
Otis Spann – Piano
James Cotton - Harmonica
Pat Hare - Guitar
Andrew Stephens - Bass
Francis Clay - Drums
Newport, Rhode Island
July 3, 1960
Piano in G
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
There ain't nothin' you can do, I got my brand on you
Well, you may go away and leave me, but I ‘clare you can’t stay, you gonna come runnin' home, baby, home to me some day
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
There ain't nothin' you can do, I got my brand on you
I don’t put my brand you know, baby, on no certain part, but when I kiss you, darlin’, I’ll stab it in your heart
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
There ain't nothin' you can do, I got my brand on you
Well, you know you can call on your doctor, baby, there ain’t nothin’ he can say, but shake his head, baby you know, and slowly walk away
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
There ain't nothin' you can do, I got my brand on you
GUITAR/PIANO SOLO
Well, you know I got you, baby you know, like a fish out on the line, I can reel you in, darlin’, most any time
I got my brand on you, I got my brand on you
There ain't nothin' you can do, I got my brand on you
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