1. |
Walking to New Orleans
03:00
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2. |
Baldheaded Blues
03:05
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3. |
Big Jim
04:24
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BIG JIM
FOLKS CALL HIM BIG JIM
HE’S GOOD TO ROCK ALL NIGHT
FOLKS CALL HIM BIG JIM
LORD, HE WAS BORN TO ROCK ALL NIGHT
ALL HE’S GOT IS THEM THERE BAD BLUES
HE SINGS ‘EM WITH ALL HIS MIGHT
HE GREW UP ON THE SOUTH SIDE
IT WAS TOO COLD TO HIM ROUND THERE
THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO
IT WAS TOO COLD TO HIM ROUND THERE
NOW HE LIVES IN JACKSON COUNTY
IT’S HIS HOME, HE DOES DECLARE
THEY GAVE JIM A GUN
AND SENT HIM OFF TO FIGHT
SENT HIM OFF TO NAM
TO BE PART OF THAT THERE FIGHT
THINGS THAT HE SAW THERE
STILL COME BACK TO HIM IN THE NIGHT
THE BLUES AND JACK DANIELS
ARE MUCH OK BY HIM
SINGIN’ THE BLUES AND OLE JACK DANIELS
ARE MUCH OK BY HIM
WHEN THE BAND’S IN THE ZONE
HE’S ALL DOWN WITH THE JAM
REPEAT FIRST VERSE
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4. |
Trouble in Mind
03:03
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5. |
That's Just How I Am
03:42
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That’s Just How I Am
Back in Chicago people all know
Soon as I open my mouth
My home is down south
Not up around there
Sometimes someone will stare
‘Scuse me, sir or ma’am,
I say but that’s just how I am
Old mom and old dad said it was bad
I didn’t do like they’d say
Boy, you blast tunes all day
They’d cry god on high, act like a natural guy
‘Scuse me sir and ma’am
I’d say but that’s just how I am
Now it has been said I’m a strange so and so
Might get crazy you don’t ever know
Guess that’s true, sometimes I get in a jam
I do like I do, that’s just how I am
I won’t eat onions or turn on the AC
Some folks wonder what is wrong with me
That’s OK--like this ole boy gives a damn
Man, say what you may, that’s just how I am
Some folks here and there give me the sneer
Now because I tend to talk back
Times when they attack
Man, they dish it out
And I push back, ain’t no doubt
Scuse me everyone,
ain’t no lie, that’s just how I am
I don’t give a damn, take it or leave it
that’s just how I am.
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6. |
Rollin' and Tumblin'
04:06
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7. |
Autumn Leaves
03:13
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8. |
May You Still Beleive
03:14
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MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
YOU SAID LOVE WOULD FIND A WAY
TO BRING PEACE ON EARTH
SURE AS DAWN COMES EVERY DAY
BUT NOW YOU’RE GROWN
WATCHIN THAT CABLE NEWS
AND SEEIN HOW THINGS ARE
SURE GIVES YOU THE BLUES
CHORUS: MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
DESPITE ALL THE NEWS YOU RECEIVE
MY FRIEND--MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
IN SCHOOL YOU PLEDGED
YOURSELF TO THE LAND OF THE FREE
ONE LAND UNDER GOD--JUSTICE AND LIBERTY
NOW STEAD OF BLACK
AND WHITE THERE’S SHADES OF GRAY
WHAT’S JUST AND WHO IS FREE
GET’S REAL HARD TO SAY
CHORUS
YOU SAY THAT GOD
IS WHERE WE GO AND ALL COME FROM
YOU SAY THAT GOD IS LOVE
AND GOD’S RULE ONE DAY WILL COME
YET MADMEN BATHE IN BLOOD
TO PLEASE THEIR GOD
AND ASK GOD TO BLESS THEIR
CRUSADE OR JIHAD
CHORUS/REPEAT CHORUS
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9. |
I Burnt the Candle
02:39
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I BURNT THE CANDLE
Well, they’ll be seven women weepin’ when I die
Forty-seven children gonna wanna cry
I rolled the bones till my luck ran out
I burnt the candle till the fire went out
CHORUS: Out all night till break of day
I burnt the candle every way
I got no worries I worry about
I burnt the candle till the fire went out
I said the preacher’s gonna look for somethin
good to say
The government gonna look for taxes
I can’t pay.
I spent the money fore my
luck ran out.
I burnt the candle till the
fire went out
CHORUS
My mama said don’t burn the candle--at both ends
But, Lord, the heat and light they be--my best friends
I’m here to rock, and I’m--here to shout
I burnt the candle till the fire went out
CHORUS
Repeat First Verse and Chorus
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10. |
Hello in There
04:26
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12. |
Big Boss Man
03:51
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Tawl Paul Carbondale, Illinois
Tawl Paul (AKA Paul Frederick) was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. He served in the Vietnam War & afterwards attended SIU in Carbondale. While in school there he joined a rock band, and discovered two things: a) Singing American roots music, especially the blues, was his life work. And b) Carbondale was his home. For close to fifty years he's lived in Carbondale & sung the blues. ... more
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