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Copy of Lightnin' Hopkins Rock Me Baby
https://youtu.be/fD0IA4atNgg



Lightnin' Hopkins Blues Logoi-χ.ν.κουβελης c.n.couvelis

Samuel John Lightnin' Hopkins  Centerville Texas  March 15  1912
παιδι,ο ηχος των blues,8 χρονων ειδε και ακουσε τον Blind Lemon Jefferson στο
Buffalo, Texas,η Blues Αποκαλυψη,μεσα '1930 στην Houston County Prison Farm,
Los Angeles 1946 the Hopkins Lightnin' and the pianist Wilson Thunder Smith,
T-Model Blues and Tim Moore's Farm at  SugarHill Recording Studios in Houston,
Carnegie Hall on October 14, 1960  Mary Don't You Weep,Mojo Hand in 1960
Hopkins's fingerstyle technique :bass, rhythm, lead, and percussion at the same time
alternating and monotonic bass styles imaginative chromatic turnarounds and single
-note lead lines,12-bar blues,phrasing  free and loose,sing talking of life in the segregated
South, bad luck in love, the his humorous introductions to songs,
Samuel John Lightnin' Hopkins  Houston  January 30  1982,

Lightnin' Hopkins Fast Life Woman
https://youtu.be/9FXCKV-KFoM



You may see a fast life woman sittin' round a whiskey joint,
Yes, you know, she'll be sittin' there smilin',
'Cause she knows some man gonna buy her half a pint,
Take it easy, fast life woman, 'cause you ain't gon' live always...

Katie Mae Shotgun Blues Baby Please Don’t Go Automobile Blues
Give Me Central 209 (Hello Central) Coffee Blues I’m Beggin’ You
Contrary Mary Moanin’ Blues Penitentiary Blues Fan It
Conversation Blues Last Night Blues Mighty Crazy Mojo Hand
Baby Don’t You Tear My Clothes Blue Bird Blues Mad With You
Seems Funny Baby Black Bull Blues Lonesome Road Blues
Back to New Orleans Baby Please Don't Go  Mojo Hand
Rock Me Baby Everybody's Down On Me

https://youtu.be/SnXhqrc3MFE



People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel
it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.
I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.So I went ahead
and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take
me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I
made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that
little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.
Lightnin’ changes chords when Lightnin’ wants to!

Katie Mae Lightnin' Hopkins
https://youtu.be/L7L2DAumDaE



I play it from my heart and soul…The blues is something that the people can’t get rid of. And
if you ever have the blues, remember what I tell you. You’re gonna hear this in your heart…
 slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup
It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.
Well, I don't want no bald headed woman.

Short Haired Woman     Sam ("Lightnin'") Hopkins
https://youtu.be/5mA71kk6Q9I



I don't want no woman
If her hair ain't no longer than mine
I don't want no woman
If her hair ain't no longer than mine

Yes, you know, she ain't no good for nothin' but trouble
That keep you buyin' rats all the time

Yes, you know I care no why to the hairdresser
And this what the hair dresser said
She's a [Incomprehensible]
I can't treat a woman's hair wrong
God knows I can treat her hair, I told her no
If her hair ain't no longer than mine

Yes, you know, she ain't no good for nothin' but trouble
That keep you buyin' rats all the time

Yes, you know I woke up this morning
People, poor Sam, he woke about the break of day
I even found a rat on her pillow where she used to lay

No, I don't want no woman
'Bove her hair no longer than mine
Yeah, you know, she ain't no good for nothin' but trouble
That keep you buyin' rats all the time

Every one of those farms gave Friday and Saturday night dances…All you had to do was to
rap on your guitar and they’d pat and holler. Ol’ sister would shout, ‘You swing mine and
I’ll swing yours!
the so-called ‘monotonic bass’ thumb strike to accompany his songs. With this pattern,
the picking thumb didn’t move between strings, but sets up a solid rhythm on one or
two bass strings

Lonesome Road Blues Lightnin Hopkins
https://youtu.be/oGgH8D_Z7Eo



Lonesome in Your Home Lightnin Hopkins
https://youtu.be/EP8y4_3qbQQ



Ain’t it lonesome, ain’t it lonesome, sitting in your home alone
Ain’t it lonesome, ain’t it lonesome, sitting in your home alone
Yes, you know, when your wife done quit your black self and the girl you love is gone

Yeah, you know she kind of like Katie Mae
I give her everything in the world she needs
That’s why she don’t do nothing, man, but lay up in the bed and read

And you know, she’s kind of like Katie Mae
Boy, I give that woman everything in the world she needs
Yes, that’s why, you know, she don’t do nothing, man, lay up in the bed and read

Yes, you know I bought her a radio, I even bought her a’electric fan
She said, “Sam. I’m gon’ lay here and read and God knows I won’t have no other man”
That made me feel so good till I don’t know what to do
Yes, darling, every dollar poor Sam makes, you know, he got to bring it back home to you
(Got to play it out right here)

Still, I say, can’t a woman act funny, I’m talking about when she got another man?
You know she won’t look straight at you, boy, she always raising sand
Can’t a woman act funny, boy, when she got another man
Yes, you know she won’t look straight at you, then she’s always raising sand
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Jailhouse Blues Lightnin Hopkins
https://youtu.be/2HnpYWNlgSY




Well I wouldn't mind staying in jail, but I've gotta stay there so long
Well I wouldn't mind staying in jail, but I've gotta stay there so long
You know it seem like all my friends, you know they done shook hands and gone

Thirty days in jail, with my back turned to the wall
Thirty days in jail, with my back turned to the wall
Yes you know some other skinner must be kickin' in my stall

Hey mister jailer please, will you please bring me the key
Hey mister jailer, will you please sir bring me the key
I just want you to open the door, cause this ain't no place for me
Trouble in mind  Woke Up This Morning  Guitar Lightnin'
Have you ever loved a woman Jailhouse Blues Black Cat Blues
Black Cadillac Blues In My Bottle  Blues Is A Feeling Rain
I Was Standing on 75 Highway Shaggy Dad Rainy day in Huston
Rock Me Mama Goin' away  Bring me my shotgun Last Night Blues
The Howlin' Wolf A Man Like Me Is Hard To Find Come Go With Me
Stranger Here Catfish Blues Mighty Crazy Goin' To Dallas
What'd I Say Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey Hurricane Betsy

The Howlin' Wolf Lightnin Hopkins
https://youtu.be/ii4NieQZKJU



(Sound like I hear that wolf howlin'...)

Yeah I'm the wolf and everybody in the world,
Trying to find out who I prowl
I'm the wolf and everybody in the world,
They're trying to find out who I hound
Well you know they can't see me at night,
But they can hear me when I howl

(Howl, wolf... I said howl... Now you're howlin'!...)

I take time when I'm prowlin',
Wipe my tracks out with my tail
(A lot of people wonder why I do this but I wanna tell you)
I take time when I come prowlin',

Wipe my tracks out with my tail
That's in order that no one discover,
Whoa Lord he can't cross my trail

I'm that wolf, dig a hole,
Stick my nose down in the ground (hound)
I'm that wolf, dig a hole,
Stick my nose deep down in the ground
Yeah you know I'll be hiding right at you baby,
You'll think I'm way out on the outskirts of town

(That's that wolf)

Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight
https://youtu.be/b3_87n7Kn94


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Nothin' but the Blues Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty Lightnin's Boogie
Life I Used to Live Sick Feelin' Blues Evil Hearted Woman Blues for My Cookie
Sittin' Down Thinkin' My Baby's Gone  Lonesome in Your Home Lightnin's Special
My Little Kewpie Doll Honey Babe Rollin' and Rollin' See See Rider So Long
Mistreated Blues Penetentiary Blues Bad Luck and Trouble Come and Go With Me
Trouble Stay 'Way From My Door See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Goin' Back to Florida
Reminiscences of Blind Lemon Fan It Tell Me Baby She's Mine You Better Watch Yourself
Mean Old Frisco Shining Moon Come Back, Baby Thinkin' 'bout an Old Friend
The Walkin' Blues Down There Baby Rocky Mountain Got to Move Your Baby
So Sorry to Leave You Take a Trip With Me Lightnin' Stroke Hard to Love a Woman
Conversation Blues Born in the Bottoms The World's in a Tangle I Went to Louisiana
Feel Like Ballling the Jack Go Ahead I Wonder Where She Can Be Tonight Old Man
Movin' Out Cryin' for Bread Long Time Baby! Long Gone Like a Turkey Thru the Corn
Prison Blues Come Down on Me Backwater Blues Gonna Pull a Party Bluebird, Bluebird
Worrying My Mind Till The Gin Runs Get Here Bunion Stew You Got to Work to Get You Pay
Go Down Old Hannah Hear My Black Dog Bark In the Evening, the Sun Is Going Down
Mama and Papa Hopkins The Foot Race Is On That Gambling Life When the Saints Go
Marchin' In Get Off My Toe Bottle Up and Go So Long Baby Santa Fe Blues Take It Easy
Your Own Fault Baby, to Treat Me the Way You Do I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No
More Lightnin's Piano Boogie Wonder Why Mister Charlie Buddy Brown's Blues 98 Degree
Blues Wine Spodee-O-Dee Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On Death Bells Goin' to Dallas to See My
Pony Run Jailhouse Blues Beans, Beans, Beans My Grandpa Is Old Too! Meet You at the
Chicken Shack Once Was a Gambler Speedin' Boogie Ice Storm Blues California Showers
Burnin' in L.A. Do the Boogie Bald Headed Woman Goin' Out Coffee for Mama Awful Dream
Black Mare Trot Have You Ever Loved a Woman Glory Be Sometimes  She Will  Shine On
Moon Santa Sis' Boogie Come Back, Baby Daddy Will Be Home One Day Baby You're Not
Going to Make a Fool Out of Me Morning Blues Have to Let You Go Let Me Play With Your
Poodle Down Baby Fast Mail Rambler Thinkin' and Worryin' Picture on the Wall
You're Not Goin' to Worry My Life Anymore Walkin' This Road by Myself Black Gal
How Many More Years I Got to Let You Dog Me Around Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
Worried Life Blues Happy Blues for John Glenn Good Morning Little School Girl The Devil
Jumped the Black Man Coffee Blues "T" Model Blues Jackstropper Blues You Cook All Right
My Black Name You Never Miss Your Water Let's Do the Susie-Q Ida Mae Smokes Like
Lightning Prison Farm Blues Sinner's Prayer Angel Child The Fox Chase I Got a Leak in This
Old Building You Is One Black Rat My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating Pneumonia Blues
Mama Blues Have You Ever Been Mistreated Honey Babe So Long Feel So Bad Abilene
The Twister Green Onion Sun Goin' Down Come Go Home With Me I'm a Stranger
Me and Ray Charles In the Evenin' Ain't It Crazy Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had
Everything I Work Down at the Chain Gang Meet Me in the Bottom I'm Going to Build Me a
Heaven of My Own My Babe Too Many Drivers I'm a Crawlin' Black Snake Rocky Mountain
Blues I Mean Goodbye Howling Wolf Black Ghost Blues Darling, Do You Remember Me?
Lonesome Graveyard Long Way From Home Lightnin' Strikes One More Time  Uncle Stan,
the Hip, Hit Record Man You're Gonna Miss Me The Purple Puppy Walkin' Blues
Viet Nam War I'm Tired of Trouble Talkin' Some Sense My Suggestion Lonesome Lightnin'
Found My Baby Crying Move On Out, Pt. 1 Back Door Friend Fishing Clothes Morning Blues
Wig Wearing Woman Lonesome Dog Blues Last Affair Move on Out, Pt. 2 Little and Low
Hold Up Your Head Good Times Here, Better Down the Road Annie's Boogie My Starter
Won't Start This Morning One Kind Favor I Ask of You Little Girl Baby Please Don't Go
I Hear You Calling Me Come on Baby At Home Blues Take a Walk Little Antoinette
Cut Me Out Baby California Mudslide Rosie Mae Easy on Your Heels New Santa Fe
Jesus, Would You Come By Here No Education Change My Way of Living Los Angeles Boogie
Call On My Baby Little Wail Cotton Take Me Back, Baby Really Nothin' but the Blues
Guitar Lightnin' Woke Up This Morning Shake Yourself Home in the Woods Tap Dance
Boogie Worried Life Blues One Kind of Favor Untrue Blues Fast Life Woman My Heart to
Weep I'll Never Forget the Day Broken Hearted Blues Lightnin's Gone Again European Blues
Cairo Blues Bad Whiskey Ground Hog Blues Got to Go Unsuccessful Blues Rollin' Woman
Blues Big Mama Jump Ida Mae Shake That Thing I'm Leaving You Now Walk a Long Time
Just Picking  Coffee for Mama Awful Dream Black Mare Trot Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Glory Be Sometimes She Will Roberta It's a Sin to Be Rich, It's a Low-Down Shame to Be
Poor Y'all Escuse Me Just Out of Louisiana Get Out Your Pencil I Forgot to Pull My Shoes Off
Turn Me On Candy Kitchen Play With Your Poodle Needed Time Mad With You
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