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Legacy Blues
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As far down South as we got on this album. This one goes out to Miss Rosie in Tennessee:)
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Andres Roots
Andres Roots
Snakes and Devils
Fri Jun 03, 2005
Blues : Country Blues
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» highest in charts:   # 71   (38,109 songs currently listed in Blues)
» highest in sub-genre:   # 11   (3,075 songs currently listed in Blues > Country Blues)
About the song
The Bullfrog Brown trio, plus Peeter Piik on upright bass and Raul Terep on marching bass drum. Probably the most traditional song on the new album.
Lyrics
They call me Muddy Waters
But you know that’s not my name
Well they call me Muddy Waters
But you know that’s not my name
I don’t look too much alike him
But you know I feel the same

They call me the Howlin’ Wolf
I was born the year he died
Oh they call me the Howlin’ Wolf
I was born the year he died
Every time I hear him howlin’
Makes me wanna lay down & cry

Sometimes they call me Lightnin’
‘Cause that’s the way my playin’ sounds
You know sometimes they call me Lightnin’
‘Cause that’s just the way my playin’ sounds
If they’d know ‘bout Mr. Hopkins
Man they’d surely put me down

I’m green as a pooltable
& you know I’m twice as square
Yes I’m green as a pooltable
& you know I’m twice as square
You know the place that I belong to
They would say I ain’t nowheres

Well I’m goin’, I’m goin’
Where the Southern cross the Dog
Yes I’m goin’, people
Where the Southern cross the Dog
May take awhile before I get there
But I will get there ‘fore too long