Bring It On Home To Me
(Sam Cooke) Abkco Music
If you ever change your mind
About leaving, leaving me behind.
Bring it to me, bring your sweet loving,
Bring it on home to me. Continue Reading
Big Fat Mama
(Tommy Johnson)
Big Fat Woman, meat shake on her bone.
Big fat Mama, meat shake on her bone.
Ev’ry time she shake it, some skinny girl will lose her home. Continue Reading
Avalon Blues
(Mississippi John Hurt)
1928
Avalon, my hometown, always on my mind.
Avalon, my hometown.
Pretty mamas in Avalon, want me there all the time. Continue Reading
Another Man Done Gone
(Public Domain)
Another man done gone. [3x}
Down to New Orleans,
Another man done gone.
The Land That I Love
The Land That I Love
©2009, Scott Ainslie. All rights reserved.
For Grecia Cruz, who crossed into the Tohono O’odham Reservation desert and was lost June 23, 2007.
I go to the market – in the town, ‘ I was born.
It’s full of cheap clothes from China – and American corn.
But we have a small farm – that we water with tears.
How can we compete? The gringo farms are so big. Now we cannot stay here. Continue Reading
Ain’t Misbehavin’
(Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf)
1929
No one to talk with. All by myself.
No one to walk with. But I’m happy on the shelf.
Ain’t misbehavin’,
I’m savin’ my love for you.
(For you, for you, for you.) Continue Reading
Amazing Grace
(John Newton)
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I’m found;
Was blind but now I see. Continue Reading
You Gotta Get Up
©1997, Scott Ainslie
Push me to the ground, Try and keep me down
I’m gonna get up!
Treat me like a slave, Put me in my grave,
I’m gonna get up!
Throw me into jail, With no money for my bail
I’m gonna get up!
You know you’re bound to die, When you come into this life,
You gotta get up. Continue Reading
You Don’t Know What Love Is
(Don Raye-Gene DePaul/MCA, Inc.)
You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the Blues.
Until you’ve loved a love you had to lose:
You don’t know what love is. Continue Reading
You Better Lie Down
Captain got a way he got to stop
O’ waking me up at four o’clock.
All o’ you old, long time rounders,
You Better Lie Down. Continue Reading