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Author Topic: Muddy Waters Lyrics  (Read 5456 times)

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Offline Blues Vintage

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #30 on: August 16, 2021, 04:13:06 PM »
Little Anna Mae


Otis Spann played guitar on the session. I can’t find conclusive evidence who played guitar on this cut. The musicians below were present at the gig.

Muddy Waters
Otis Spann
Luther 'Georgia Boy-Snake' Johnson
Sammy Lawhorn 
Lawrence 'Little Sonny' Wimberley
 S.P. Leary

October 18, 1967
Montreal, Canada


Standard tuning, A position





INTRO

Hush, I heard, I heard little Anna Mae callin' my name
Hush, I heard, I heard little Anna Mae callin' my name
You know the girl speak lisp-tonguely, she don’t talk so doggone plain

Anna Mae, is a good little girl, but she love to run around at night
Anna Mae, she's a good little girl, but she just love to run around at night
But I know she loves me, you know the little girl’s gonna treat me right

Anna Mae, Anna Mae, I don’t want you foolin’ ‘round with no other men
Anna Mae, Anna Mae, I don’t want you foolin’ ‘round with no other men
You know I’m kinda half crazy, little girl you know I don’t understand

(Spoken: Anna Mae don’t do nothin’ wrong)

Hush, I heard peoples, I heard little Anna Mae callin' my name
Hush, I heard, I heard little Anna Mae callin' my name
How come the girl don’t talk plain, that’s something peoples I don’t understand

SOLO (Spoken: I’m gon’ play one for you’s boy, have mercy, have mercy)

Goodbye, Anna Mae, I don’t have no more to say
Goodbye, Anna Mae, little girl I don’t have no more to say
Well, I know you’s a wrong doing girl, I'm gon’ let you go ‘head and have your way
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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2021, 10:45:07 AM »
Hi Harry,
Thanks for posting this one, I'd never heard it before. There are two guitars on the track and no other instruments. They're both playing out of A position in standard tuning, and the solo is kind of an homage to Robert Johnson's solo from Scrapper Blackwell on "Kind-Hearted Woman". It sounds to me like Muddy sings "Annie Mae" right through the song, despite its title. I think in the tagline to the first verse Muddy sings "lisp-tonguely", coming up with a new adverb.
All best,
Johnm

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #32 on: August 20, 2021, 02:10:56 PM »
I'm sorry. Off course it's A position. So recognisable from that turnaround too.
In almost every live Muddy YouTube video I see him playing with the capo in E position.
I made the "lisp-tonguely" change. "Annie" vs "Anna" is hard to hear. I keep what I had.

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2021, 05:38:08 PM »
In Muddy's original 1947 version of Little Anna Mae he also pronounced the name as "Annie".

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2024, 10:57:15 AM »
Jitterbug Blues


Muddy Waters – Vocals, Guitar
James “Beale Street” Clark – Piano
Homer Harris – Guitar
Ransom Knowling – Bass
Judge Riley – Drums

September 27, 1946
Chicago, Illinois

Piano in G





INTRO

Be my baby, Anna Mae, don’t fool with no jitterbug
Come on and be my baby, Anna Mae, don’t you fool with no jitterbug
Now you know, jitterbug will stay all night with you, get up and tell everything he heard

Please don’t love him, don’t let him take you to the picture show
Please don’t love him, don’t let him take you to the picture show
Well I, you know he gonna beg you to buy his ticket, before you leave he'll beg you for more

Jitterbug is a man, honey, don’t mean you no good
You know, jitterbug is a man, honey, don’t mean you no good
Now you know, he got every woman, round there in his neighborhood (Spoken: Alright now)

ENSEMBLE SOLO (Spoken: Play a long time)

Wake up and don’t be no fool, honey, please don’t be no fool
Wake up and get hip to yourself, honey, please don’t you be no fool
You go down with a jitterbug, you have broke your daddy’s rule
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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2024, 12:18:28 PM »
One suggestion is the end of 2.3 "before YOU LEAVE HE'LL BEG YOU for more"
Chris

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2024, 12:52:15 PM »
Thanks, Chris.  I knew what I had wasn't right.

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Re: Muddy Waters Lyrics
« Reply #37 on: February 10, 2024, 02:26:28 PM »
Hard Day Blues


James “Beale Street” Clark – Piano
Homer Harris – Guitar
Ransom Knowling – Bass
Judge Riley – Drums

September 27, 1946
Chicago, Illinois

Piano in G





INTRO

Had some hard days, out in the falling rain
Yes, I had some hard days, out in the falling rain
Well you know, I didn’t had nobody to love me, people, wasn’t that a crying shame

Had some hard days, when I didn’t have no place to go
Yes, I had some hard days, when I didn’t have no place to go
Well you know, the little girl that I was loving, she put me out in the ice and snow

Had some hard days, when I {stole} away and cried
Well, I had some hard days, when I {stole} away and cried
I didn’t have no blues, but I just couldn’t be satisfied (Spoken: Alright, Jimmy)

ENSEMBLE SOLO (Spoken: Give me the blues, Jimmy)

Had some hard days, when I didn’t even have no friends (Spoken: Mighty hard on you, boy)
Well, I had some hard days, when I didn’t even have no friends
Well you know, I didn’t had nobody to love me, I didn’t have no one to take me in

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