Got The Blues, I Can’t Be Satisfied

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the-last-shot-got-him(Mississippi John Hurt)
1928

I got the blues, I can’t be satisfied (2x)
You can keep those blues, gonna catch that train and ride.

Well, whisky straight can drive the blues away,
That being the case, I’ll take a quart today.

I bought my gal a great big diamond ring,
Come right back home and caught her shakin’ that thing.

I said, “Baby, what make you treat me this-a-way?”
“Tell me honey, what make you treat me this-a-way?”
She says, “you wouldn’t miss the things I give away.

I got my gun and I broke the barrel down,
I shot my baby, put her six feet under the ground.
I cut that joker so long deep and wide,

I got the blues, I’m still not satisfied.
I got the blues I can’t be satisfied.
You can keep those blues, gonna catch the train and ride.

 

I couldn’t pass up a verse like, “Whiskey straight can drive the blues away. That being the case, I’ll take a quart today.”

Scott Ainslie

Born in Rochester NY in 1952, Scott Ainslie has been playing music on something since he was three years old. A guitarist since 1967 with powerful appreciation for and apprenticeships with elder black and white musicians in different musical traditions, Ainslie carries a portion of them forward in his own traditional blues performances and songwriting.

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