Sunnyland Slim - Johnson Machine Gun
Chicago ?, 1947
With Muddy Waters (guitar), Ernest 'Big' Crawford (bass), unknown (drums).
Aristocrat arranged for this session in 1947, and Sunnyland wanted his friend Muddy Waters on the session. Muddy had a job delivering venetian blinds in Chicago, and when he heard Sunnyland wanted him that afternoon, Muddy told his boss that a cousin had just been stabbed in an allley and that he had to leave for the day.
Yes I feel mistreated boys seem like my time ain’t long
Yes I feel mistreated seem like my time ain’t long
Because the best friend I had done stole my lover and gone
I'm gonna buy me a Johnson machine gun and a carload of explosion ball
Babe I'm gonna buy me a Johnson machine gun and a carload of explosion ball
Yes I'm gonna be a walking cycloon from Saginaw to the Niagara Fall
Go and bring me my typewriter and a whole round belt of ball
Go and bring me my typewriter and a whole round belt of ball
I'm gonna free my no good woman boy she’s down in the state penitentiary wall
Now little girl the undertaker been here girl I give him your height and size
Yes the undertaker been here darling I give him your height and size
Now if you don’t be makin' whoopee with the devil tomorrow this time baby god knows you’ll be surprise
