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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959), was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he came to exclusively use twelve-string guitars. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Delta bluesmen, such as Charlie Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music, and hokum. more »

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Good Lord good Lord : send me an angel down
Can't spare you no angel : will spare you a teasing 
brown

That new way of loving : swear to God it must be best
Because these Georgia women : won't let Willie McTell 
rest

There was a crowd down on the corner : and I wondered 
who could it be
Weren't a thing : but the women boy trying to get to me

I went down to the shed : put my suitcase in my hand
Crowd of women run crying : that McTell be my man

Ticket agent ticket agent : which away has my woman 
gone
Say describe your woman : and I'll tell you what road 
she's on

She's a long tall mama : five and a half from the 
ground
She's a tailormade mama : and she ain't no handmedown

Mama if you ride the Southern : I'll ride the Santa Fe
When you get in Memphis : pretty mama look around for 
me

You can't never tell : what a doublecrossing woman 
will do
They'll tip out with your buddy : and come home play 
sick on you

I got two women : you can't tell them apart
I got one in my bosom : the other one's in my heart

Now the one in my bosom : she's in Tennessee
And the one in my heart : don't even give a darn for me

I used to say a married woman : was the sweetest woman 
ever was born
I changed that thing : you better let married women 
alone

Take my advice : let all married womens be
Because their husbands will grab you : and beat you 
ragged with a cedar tree

Now love ain't nothing : single women loving married 
men
It will do for a while : but it will jam you after a 
end

When a woman says she loves you : about as good as she 
do herself
Don't pay her no attention : tell the same lie to 
somebody else

She'll tell you that she love you : and love you all 
her life
She'll have a man on the corner : and tell that same 
lie twice

My baby she got a mojo : I believe she trying to keep 
it hid
Mctell got something : to find that mojo with

I want to tell you pretty mama : exactly who I am
When I walk out the front door : I hear that back door 
slam

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