Jerry Ricks has a good take on James Alley Blues, though not the way Rabbit Brown played it. He does it in open C tuning, C G C G C E. The melody comes readily to hand once you find your way around and the low tuned C is tres funky. It's on his Deep In The Well album.
See That My Grave..., I bluff it in E std.
99 Year Blues, I learned Jorma's 1 chord version, also unauthentic but fun so what the hell. I did lift all the lyrics from the original though:
99 Year Blues, Julius Daniels, Atlanta 1927
Bring me my pistol, three rounds of ball
I'm gonna kill everybody, won't leave this poor boy alone
Poor boy alone, poor boy alone, poor boy alone, poor boy alone.
On Monday I arrested, Tuesday I was tried
The jury found me guilty and I hung my head and cried
Head and cried, head and cried, Lord and cried, Lord and cried.
Then I asked the judge what would be my fine,
Says a pick and a shovel way down Joe Brown's coal mine
Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine. (Coal mine...)
Be light on me judge, I ain't been here before
Give me 99 years, don't come back here no more
No more, no more, no more, no more, my Lord
Be light on me judge, I ain't been here before
Give me 99 years, don't come back here no more
No more, no more, my Lord.
