Poor John Blues

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Poor John Blues - Sleepy John Estes
Self-accompanied, with Jab Jones, piano and Yank Rachell, mandolin

Now, I'd rather be dead, sleepin' in a hollow log
Now, I'd rather be dead and sleepin' in a hollow log
Than to be here, baby, and you doin' me like a dog

Now, what you want poor John to do?
Now, what you want poor John to do?
Lord, I done done ev'ything, try to get along wit' you

Now, the woman I'm lovin', she got one teeth solid gold
Now, the woman I'm lovin', she got one teeth solid gold
Lord, that's the onliest woman got a mortgage on my soul

Now, sure as the grass on the Texan earts grow green
Now, sure as the grass on the Texan earts grow green
Lord, I ain't crazy about nobody I ever seen.


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