Topic: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012

[Gumbo]

I got a gal, she lives in town ... I'm gonna see if I can run her down! - James Cole's String Band (I Got A Gal)

[Gumbo]

When the rooster saw the eggs and they was red, he walked across the road and knocked the peacock dead - Blind Blake (Low Down Lovin Gal)

[Gumbo]

"The first woman I had, made me get down on my knees. And she had the nerve to ask me ... if I liked Limberger cheese" - Peetie Wheatstraw (The First Shall Be Last).

[Gumbo]

I believe you got ways like a passenger train, when one gettin' off the other one gettin' on - Blind Boy Fuller (Passenger Train Woman)

[Gumbo]

"I ain't never loved but a thousand women in my life" Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman Blues

[JohnLeePimp]

Next time I marry, I'm gonna marry good
I'm gonna get me somebody, don't know a thing about this world

Tony Hollins - Married Woman

[JohnLeePimp]

Big Bill Broonzy: Have you ever shot craps in your life?
Sonny Boy Williamson: Oh, I have errr...
BB: is that what you call it down there "shooting craps" ?
SB: shootin' craps, that's right
BB: You ever been locked up in jail for shooting craps
SB: ...of course I have

Sonny Boy Williamson being knowingly grilled by Big Bill

[JohnLeePimp]

Life have gotten miserable, seem like no more happiness to be made

Little Buddy Doyle, Hard Scufflin' Blues

[Gumbo]

"...  and a lot of excitement is generated by their approach, which is just to pile on top of each other, play as loud, hard, and strong as they can, and let the devil take the hindmost." John Miller on Little Buddy Doyle's 'Renewed Love Blues'

[sofingraw]

The world don't owe me nothin'. - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, from his bio of the same title.

[uncle bud]

She runs a weenie stand, way out in no man's land, oh boy, that's where my money goes - Riley Puckett, Nobody's Business

(if I am hearing things right!)

[Gumbo]

that's what I hear, too, uncle bud
good catch

[uncle bud]

And Earl Johnson sang the line before Puckett, on his 1927 recording of Ain't Nobody's Business.

[Lyle Lofgren]

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a weenie is just a weenie. But maybe not in this case.

Lyle

[JohnLeePimp]

"I saw some cross-eyed people, I saw a man was so cross-eyed that when he cried tears ran down his back"

"I saw a man, Bill, with his eyes so near the top of his head, when he get ready to see he had to pull off his hat!"

Sonny Boy Williamson on cross-eyed people.