Greatest blues song titles ever!

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A certain Mr. H. Wolf provides us with a great definition of “The Blues”:

A lot of people’s wondering, ‘What is the blues?’ I hear lots of people saying ‘The blues, the blues.’ But I’m gonna tell you what the blues is: When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues. When you ain’t got no money to pay your house rent, you still got the blues. A lot of people’s hollering about, ‘I don’t like no blues.’ But when you ain’t got no money, and can’t pay your house rent and can’t buy you no food, you damn sure got the blues. That’s where it’s at. If you ain’t got no money, you got the blues, ‘cause you’re thinkin’ evil. That’s right. Any time you thinkin’ evil, you thinkin’ 'bout the blues.

My runner-up for the greatest blues song title ever is:

However, even that blues-tastic title pales in comparison with my winner:

Oh man! He got the blues… but there’s more to the lyrics than initially meets the eye :wink:

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A certain Mr. H. Wolf…born Chester Arthur Burnett…
Devil Got My Woman was used in extensively throughout “Ghost World” a 2001 American black comedy starring Scarlett Johansson.

My entry is; “If You See Kay Tell Her I Love Her”
Memphis Slim version

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Dead Shrimp Blues, Robert Johnson

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“Generic Blues”

I woke up this morning
Then I went back to bed
Said I woke up this morning
Then I went right back to bed
Got a funny kind of feelin’ like I got broken glass in my underwear
And a herd of wild pigs is trying to chew off my head
You know what I’m sayin’

Well I ain’t got not money
I’m just walkin’ down the road
Said I ain’t got no money, honey
So I’m just walking down this lonely old road
Well, I wish I could get me some money
But I forgot my automated teller code

I was born in a paper sack in the bottom of a sewer
I had to eat dirt clods for breakfast, my family was so poor
My daddy was a waitress, my mama sold bathroom tiles
My brothers and sisters all hated me 'cause I was an only child

I got the blues so bad, woo
Kinda wish I was dead
Maybe I’ll blow my brains out mama
Or maybe I’ll, yeah maybe I’ll just go bowlin’ instead

I’m just a no good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime

Nothing but a low-down beer bellied, bone headed, pigeon toed, turkey necked, weasle faced, worthless hunk of slime

Guess I pretty low self image
Maybe it’s a chemical imbalance or something – I
I should probably go and see a doctor about it when I’ve got the time
Make it talk
Aw, make it talk, son, make it talk
OK, now make it shut up

Plagues and famine and pestilence always seem to get me down
I always feel so miserable whenever I’m around
I wish somebody would come along, stick a pitchfork through my brain
I’d flush myself right down the toilet, but I’d just clog up the drain

I got the blues so bad
Kinda wish I was dead
Maybe I’ll blow my brains out mama
Or maybe I’ll go bowling
Or I just might go bowling
Maybe I’ll just rent some shoes and go bowling
Maybe I’ll join a league, enter a tournament, put on a stupid looking
shirt and go bowling instead
Yeah

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Looked out my window, saw you standin’ there
Yeah I looked out my window, saw you standin’ there
Didn’t know you was my window cleaner baby
‘Til I saw you standin’ there

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Can Blue Men Sing The Whites ? (Bonzo Dog Band)

Can blue men sing the whites
Or are they hypocrites ?

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B.B. King - Nobody Loves Me But My Mother (and She Could be Jivin’ Too)

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B.B. King - All Over Again

I’ve got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
I say, I’ve got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
To pick up me a tombstone, and be pronounced dead

When I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
And that’s when I decided, that I would be better off dead

It read, there is no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Oh, there’s no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Yes, because it’s all over now, and baby you can bet on that.

Version of this by Fleetwood Mac (on bootleg - Dead Dust Blues - is IMHO one of the best solos ever recorded by Peter Green).

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“White Boy Lost in the Blues”–Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee on the great album, ‘Sonny & Brownie’.

You bought you a six string Gibson
You bought you a great big house
You try to sing like Muddy Waters
And play like Lightnin’ sounds

But since we blowed our harp
You feelin’ mean and confused.
We got you chained to your earphones,
You just a white boy, lost in the blues.

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Great blues song title.
Great blues lyric.
Great blues song…

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A.J. Croce

Well, he walks right, he talks right
Knows what makes them girls feel fine
He’s got a way with women
And he just got away with mine

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Just off of titles: “Love Stinks”.

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Lonnie Brooks: I Want All My Money Back

Great lines in the song: “You take all my money, leave me flat broke,
You don’t leave enough to buy a hamburger and a coke,
I think you’re using me…”

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Seasick Steve - I started out with nothin’ and I still have most of it left.

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I saw him on the tour for this album. Great show.

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One Bourbon, one Scotch and one Beer.

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so I guess that wouldn’t be 19th century Austrian composer Hugo Wolf. Wrote lots of songs, I don’t know how blue any of them are.

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SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II
“Fattening Frogs For Snakes”
(Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller))
It took me a long time, to find out my mistakes
Took me a long time, to find out my mistakes,
It sho’h did man
But I bet you my bottom dollar, I’m not fattenin’ no more frogs for snakes
I found out my downfall, back in nineteen and thirty,
I started checkin’
I found out my downfall, from nineteen and thirty
I’m tellin’ all of my friends, I’m not fattenin’ no more frogs for snakes
All right now
Yeah it is nineteen and fifty-seven, I’ve got to correct all of my mistakes
Whoa man, nineteen and fifty-seven, I’ve got to correct all of my mistakes
I’m tellin’ my friends includin’ my wife and everybody else,
Not fattenin’ no more frogs for snakes

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How about John Lee Hookers ‘Stripped Me Naked’ from 1991’s Mr. Lucky. The song opens up with a killer bass line, then hits you with the screaming guitar of Carlos Santana. What’s not to love? :wink:
Couldn’t find the lyrics, so I had to write them down myself. Listened to the song so many times that I gotta go cry in my beer now.

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-Stripped Me Naked-

Takin’ me, downtown
Judge, takin’ everything, I had
Stripped me naked, stripped, me stripped me, everything I had
Yes, yes. Took my house. Took my Cadillac too, and money in the bank.
He took that too.
Stripped me stripped me stripped me
Stripped me naked
Everything I had
Judge stripped me, stripped me
Everything, I had, I ha’ha’had
All but the clothes, on my back
I’m gonna say it one more time, one more time
She took my house, and my Cadillac too.
Everythin, but my clothes on, on my back, on my back
Had money, in the bank, took that too took it too
Lordy lord lordy lord lord lord

That was a mean mean, that was a mean mean old judge
He took, everythin I had, yeah yeah
He took everythin, that I ha’ha’ha’had
Yeah, yeah
he stripped me, he stripped me
Oh he stripped me
Everythin I had, on my back
Lord lord lord lord
It was a mean ol’ judge
Mean judge

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Oh man, I love Roon!! I read this and started laughing all by myself.
Thank you guys.