Blues at the BBC

I'll tell y'all one thing -

a lot of people have been wonderin' about this thing they call blues.

Blues, all the time.

B-L-U-E-S, blues.

From Mississippi, it's that famous "Boom Boom" boy, John Lee Hooker.

# Boom, boom, boom, boom

# I'm gonna shoot you right down

# Right off of your feet

# Take you home with me

# Put you in my house

# Boom, boom, boom, boom

# I love to see you strut

# Up and down the floor

# When you're talkin' to me

# That baby talk

# I like it like that

# Haw, haw, haw, haw

# Whoa, baby!

# Your spell

# Your spell

# Walk your walk, baby

# Wh-o-o-a-a, baby

# Walk your walk, baby

# Your spell

# When she walk that walk

# And talk that talk

# And whisper in my ear

# Tell me she love

# I love that talk

# When she talk like that

# She knock me out

# Right offa ma feet

# Haw, haw, haw, haw

# Whoa, baby

# Walk your walk for me, baby

# Your spell

# Your spell

# Your spell

# Your spell. #

APPLAUSE

PLAYS UPBEAT BLUES RHYTHM

We're goin' down to the chicken shack.

# Have you ever been down to New Orleans

# You know, boy, just what I mean

# All through the week days quiet as a mouse

# Saturday night they go from house to house

# The chicken shack

# Yeah, the chicken shack

# At the chicken shack right down in New Orleans

# Well, the women drink wine, Sawyer's Gin

# They all get drunk and stay all night in

# At the chicken shack

# At the chicken shack

# At the chicken shack, right down in New Orleans

# Hit it, boy, hit it

# Well, you don't have to worry about the folks next door

# Give 'em a bottle of wine you know, they'll hear no more

# At the chicken shack

# The chicken shack

# At the chicken shack right down in New Orleans

# There's a junk down there not the name of Mack

# Everybody knows they call it the chicken shack

# When they get drunk they get in the groove

# All get to rockin' and gettin' groovy

# Chicken shack

# Get down there, boy, get goin'

# I'll tell you one more time before we go

# All you got to do is hit that door

# When you get drunk and you're needin' to hide

# You got more money than you want outside

# Chicken shack

# Chicken shack

# At the chicken shack right down in New Orleans

# Chicken shack!

# Chicken shack!

# Chicken shack!

# Chicken shack!

# At the chicken shack right down in New Orleans. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

# Got love if you want, babe

# Got love if you want, babe

# I got love if you want it I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# You don't ask all the while

# You don't ask all the while

# I love you, little woman

# I love you, little woman

# If we had to choose all again

# We'd do it all again

# But you mistreat me baby, yeah Bring our love down

# Bring our love down

# I got love if you want, babe

# I got love if you want, babe

# I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# You don't ask all the while

# You don't ask all the while

# You don't ask all the while, yeah... #

All right, boys, let's roll!

# Got love if you want, babe

# Got love if you want, babe

# I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# You don't ask all the while

# You don't ask all the while

# I love you, little woman I love you little woman

# The way your hair hang down

# The way your hair hang down

# But you mistreating baby, yeah Bring our love down

# Bring our love down

# Bring our love down, yeah

# You don't ask all the while

# Baby, you don't ask all the while

# Baby... #

Right, boys, let's roll!

# I love you, little woman

# I love you, little woman

# The way your hair hang do-o-own

# The way your hair hang do-o-own

# Well, you mistreat me, baby, yeah

# Bring our love down

# Bring our love down

# You don't ask all the while, yeah. #

-APPLAUSE

-The Kinks and I've Got Love If You Want It.

T-Bone Walker.

# Hey, baby

# Come on home to me

# Hey, bab-aa-aa-y

# Come on home to me

# Well, you know your daddy mistreat her

# All the time, he used to beat

# Hey, baby

# I'm in love with you

# Well, Mama

# I'm in love with you

# Well, you know I love you, pretty mama

# Nothin' else will do. #

APPLAUSE

# I've never seen

# The people I know

# In the bright light of day

# So how can I say

# That you're any friend of mine

# And I'm feelin' fine

# That's my time

# Midnight, midnight till six

# Midnight, midnight till six, hey

# Midnight, midnight till six

# Midnight, midnight till six

# I sleep through the day

# I rise about four

# But I always feel down

# I never get off the floor

# Till the night comes around

# Take in some sound

# That's my time

# Take in some sound

# Tell me some more

# Midnight, midnight to six

# Midnight, midnight to six, hey

# Midnight, midnight to six, hey

# Midnight, midnight to six, hey. #

Good evening. It gives me great pleasure now to introduce one of England's finest singers

and I might add, one of the finest blues singers I've ever met,

Long John Baldry, singing Stormy Monday.

# They call it Stormy Monday

# Ye-e-aah, but Tuesday's oh, just as bad

# I simply ca-aa-ll it Stormy Monday

# Ye-ee-aah, but Tuesday's just as bad

# Yeah!

# I go to work on a Wednesday

# Oo-oo-oh, and I get a feelin' so bad

# Oh, baby it's a bad feelin' I'm gettin'

# I see the eagle flies on a Friday

# Yeah, but Saturday is when I go and collect my pay

# Oh, yeah

# The folding green's gone

# I said the eagle flies on a Friday

# Ye-ee-ah

# But on Saturday I go in and get my pay

# Don't you know, I go to church on a Sunday

# Ooo-ooh

# And I get right down on my knees and pr-aa-aa-y

# I get to pray about all them bad things that I've done wrong now

# Oh, just wait a minute

# Yeah!

# Oo-oo-h

# I said, Lord have mercy

# Yeah, I said, Lo-oo-ord have mercy on me

# Oh, baby

# Aaah, I said, Lo-oo-rd have mercy

# I said, Lord have mercy on me

# Yeah, cos I'm tryin'-a, tryin'-a, tryin'-a find my baby

# I got my poor old heart in miser-yy-yy-yy

# Oh, Stormy Monday blues. #

This week I've got some friends and the friends are Bobby Whitlock who sings

and Dave Mason and Eric Clapton, who you of course know, on guitar.

And they're going to do their tribute to the blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson

with a thing called Poor Elijah, Delaney and Bonnie.

APPLAUSE

# Come on, children

# Poor Elijah

# Livin' on the bayou way

# Poor Elijah

# He had to take over raisin' 14 kids when his daddy got caught stealin' chickens from a neighbour one day

# Work on, Elijah

-# Poor Elijah

-Born the son of a slave

-# Poor Elijah

-He was damn near blind when he died last week

# From working in the sun for the man like a dog all day

# Work on, Elijah

# Work on

# Poo-oo-oo-r Elijah

# Poo-oo-oo-r Elijah

# Oh, Lord, yeah

# Poo-oo-oo-r Elijah

# Poo-oo-oo-r Elijah

# Work on

# You're gonna hear some guitar pickin' right now, yes you do

# Yeah, hey hey, yeah

# I'm gonna sing you a song

# Yeah!

# It's all about a man

# Nobody hardly knows him

-# I said,

-nobody hardly knows him

# Say it one more time

# Nobody hardly knows him

# And his name

-# Good morning, Robert

-Johnson, son

# You lived your life

-# Before your

-song was sung

-# People agree and now you're

-number one

# So sad to think we had to wait so long

# It keeps on getting better every day

# And maybe someday soon people will say,

-# Ain't nobody here

-but good people

# Ain't nobody here

# Here but good people

-# Ain't nobody here

-here, but good people

# We're just drinkin' the wine

# And lovin' in slow motion. #

APPLAUSE

# She's got so much blues her best friend can't help her

# Her best friend's a woman

# How can a woman help her?

# Woman's got the blu-uu-ues

# She just feels like cryin'

# She just feels like dyin'

# Woman's got the blu-uu-ues

# She just feels like cryin'

# She just feels like dyin'

# Woman's got the blu-uu-ues

# Woman's got the blu-uu-ues. #

APPLAUSE

PLAYS SLIDE GUITAR

# He got a letter this mornin'

# Ho-oo-ow do you reckon it read?

# It said, "Hurry, hurry, cos the gal you love is dead"

# You know, he grabbed up his suitca-aa-se

# And he took off down the road

# He grabbed up his suitcase

# I said, and I took off down the road

# But when I got there

# she was layin' on a coolin' board

# You know it's a sha-aa-aa-me

# Yeah, a low down, old dirty shame

# You know that's a sha-aa-aa-me

# Yeah, I said a low down, dirty shame

# You know, I'm so sorry to leave you, little girl

# And that I ever knowed your little name

# Yeah, but when you get lo-oo-nesome

# Please sit down and write for me

# Ooh, honey, when you get lonesome

# I said, sit down and write for me

# You know I can read your writin'

# Ooh, don't care where in the world I'd be

# You know, I went in my room

# I sat, I sat, I sat down and I cried

# You know, I went in my room

# I say I sat down and I cried

# You know, I didn't have no blues

# Ooh, but I just went inside and cried

# I'm gonna wait

# I must stay here a great long time

# Yes, I'm gonna wait

# I said I must stay here a great long time

# I said, I ain't never comin' back

# Oh, baby until you change your mind

# You know that's a shame

# Oh, that's a low down, dirty shame

# I said, you know that's a shame

# Yeah, that's a low down, dirty shame

# Mmm, if you didn't want me, honey

# Mmm, I wish I had never knowed your name. #

# Did you hear about that man of mine?

# Talkin' about his rise to fame

# I met him as his record rose

# Jim Salter was his name

# He sang his songs to black eyed girls

# His movements gettin' kinda slow

# He opened his hand and he grabbed my heart

# With the help of Cupid's b-oo-oo-w

# Who-oo-aa, never again

# With the devil, I la-aa-y

# Whoa, never, never, never again

# With his evil touch he stole my soul

# I was a servant to his sin

# He made me clean the dirt off his old brown boots

# Each time he went out ramblin'

# His selfish love won't touch me, tough

# Cos I'll be homeward bound

# His lyin' and double-timin' is gonna fall on stony ground

# Whooo-hoo, hoo

# Whoo-aa, never again

# With the devil I lay

# Whoa, never, never, never again

# Down the road in the mornin' light my sunken eyes can see

# As long as the drunken shadow moves

# Big Salter's comin' for me

# The selfish love won't touch me, though

# Cos I'll be homeward bound

# His lyin' and double-timin' Is gonna fall on stony ground

# Whoo-oo-aa, never again

# With the devil I lay

# Whoa, never, never, never, never, never again. #

It's a pleasure to welcome to the Whistle Test, Tony McPhee.

# When you get home, baby

# Please write me a few short lines

# When you get home, baby

# Please write me a few short lines

# You know, that's a big consolation An end to my worried mind

# I left my baby

# Standin' at the back door, cryin'

# I left my baby

# Standin' at the back door, cryin'

# You know, I never felt so sorry

# Felt so sorry Honey, till you said goodbye

# I'm goin' down the river

# And sit down on the ground

# Goin' down the river

# And sit down on the ground

# Felt the waves on the water

# Waves on the water, and carried my troubles down. #

# Woke up this mornin'

# My baby was gone

# Woke up this mornin'

# My baby was gone

# I feel so bad

# I was all alone

# I ain't got nobody

# To stay home with me

# I-I-I-I ain't got nobody

# To stay at home with me

# My baby, she's gone

# I'm in misery

# We-ee-ll, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# Whoo-oo-a, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# I can love you, baby Better than you used to be

# Wh-oo-oo-a, baby

# Oh, Lord

# Yeah, baa-aa-by, I'm all alone

# I ain't had no lovin' Since my baby been gone

# Oo-ooh, baby

# Don't you want a man like me?

# Yeah, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# I can love you, baby Better than you used to be

# He-ee-y, baby

# Don't you want a man like me?

# You better come home, woman

# Don't you want a man like me?

# I can love you, baby Better than you used to be

# Yeah, baby

# Oh, Lord

# Ye-ee-s, baby Don't you know I'm all alone

# I am so lonely Since my baby been gone

# All right!

# Hee-ee-eey, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# Oo-ooh, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# I can love you, baby Better than you used to be

# Hey-ey-ey, baby Don't you want a man like me?

# He-ee-ee-y, baby Don't you want a man around?

# My baby, she's gone My baby, she gone. #

This one's called Double Trouble.

# I lay awake at night Oh, so low

# I'm just so troubled

# Can't get a job

# Laid off and I'm having double trouble

# Hey, hey, to make it you've got to try

# Baby, that's no lie

# Some of this generation is millionaire-es

# I can't even keep decent clothes to wear

# Laugh at me walking

# And I have no place to go

# Bad luck and trouble's taken me

# I have no money to show

# But, hey, hey, to make it you've got to try

# Baby, that's no lie

# Some of this generation is millionaire-es

# And I can't even keep decent clothes to wear. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you very much.

# The thrill is gone

# The thrill is gone away

# The thrill is gone, baby

# The thrill is gone away

# You've done me wrong, baby

# You're gonna be sorry someday

# The thrill is gone

# The thrill has gone away for good

# The thrill is gone, baby

# The thrill has gone away for good

# I know I'll be over it all one day, baby

# Like I know a good man should

# The thrill is gone

# The thrill has gone away for me

The thrill is gone, baby

# The thrill has gone away for me

# Although I'll still live on

# But so lonely, I'll, I'll be

# I'm free, baby

# I'm free from your spell

# Oh, free, free, free now

# I'm free from your spell

# And now that it's all over

# All I can do is wish you well. #

Glory, glory, hallelujah.

# Glory, glory, hallelujah

# Oh, I say as I laid my burden down

# Glory, glory, hallelujah

# Since I laid my burden down

# I said, "Glory, glory, oh hallelujah"

# As I laid my burden down

# Glory, glory, hallelujah

# Since I laid my burden down

# I feel better, yeah

# So much better

# Whoa, since I laid my burden down

# I feel better, so much better

# Since I laid my burden down

# I'm going home to live with Jesus, yeah

# Since I laid my burden down

# I'm going home to live with Jesus, well...

# Since I laid my burden down

# Hey, gonna live there

# Oh, hallelujah

# Since I lay my burden down

# Glory, glory hallelujah

# Since I lay my burden do-oo-oo-oo-wn. #

# You damn right, I've got the blues From my head down to my shoes

# You damn right, I've got the blues From my head down to my shoes

# You know I can't win Cos I don't have a thing to lose

# I stopped by my daughter's house You know I just want to use the phone

# Yes, I stopped by my daughter's house, people

# You know I just want to use the phone

# My grand baby came to the door

# And said, "Granddaddy, you know ain't nobody at home"

# You damn right, I've got the blues From my head down to my shoes

# You damn right, I've got the blues Yes, from my head down to my shoes

# You know I can't win, people Cos I don't have a thing to lose. #

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