Well this is a straight blues in the style of Robert Johnson. In fact it is very similar to 'Kind Hearted Woman' but I wanted some fresh lyrics.
Light acoustic rock folk
I play guitar and sing against backings that I have created using various software tools. I am therefore a home recorder primarily concerned with minting decent recordings of my own songs rather than a performer.
Story behind the song
I play quite a bit of blues and I've always loved the thoroughly non-PC lyrics of the old bluesmen. They lived in a time before "Elf n Safety" and when killing yo' woman was considered only a bit of drunken carelessness during foreplay.
I wanted to write some blues lyrics and decided I had to "wake this mornin" and "love my baby" for authenticity. Of course then I had to kill my baby with my "44 Special" before "riding the blind" otherwise how could it be the blues.
For the uninitiated the 44 Special is a pistol although I suspect that the true calibre would be .45. Riding the blinds refers to that habit of the old bluesmen to hitch lifts in the blind spaces on the old freight trains.
So that's it really, I plug the old broad and that man o hers too. Still as I'm a "do right" man then it's all forgiven in the end.
Now ask yourself whether you could write a story like that for children today without the government in the UK setting the social services on you. I dare say there are race relations being abused too but hey, it was black guys that wrote these blues songs?
Lyrics
Well, woke up this mornin’, got but one thing on my mind
Done killed my baby, she treated me unkind
With my 44 Special, I’m set to ride the blind’
I loved my baby, my baby don’t love me
I loved my baby, but she don’ let me be
With my 44 Special, I just done set her free
Well that man of hers, he chased her all the time
That man of hers, well he ain’t worth a dime
With my 44 Special, I’m guilty of the crime
Well I’m a do right man, an I’ll do alright alone
I’m a do right man, I’ll give that dog a bone
Sell my 44 Special, she’ll get a nice headstone
