25 Baby Please Don't Go Lyrics

[E] Baby, please don't go

[E] Baby, please don't go

[E] Baby, [B] please don't go, down to [F#] New Orleans

[F#] You know I [E] love you so

[E] Before I be your dog

[E] Before I be your dog

[E] Before I [B] be your dog, I get you [F#] way'd out here,

[F#] And let you [E] walk alone

[E] Turn your lamp down low

[E] Turn your lamp down low

[E] Turn your [B] lamp down low, I beg you [F#] all night long,

[F#] Baby, [E] please don't go

[E] Baby, please don't go

[E] Baby, please don't go

[E] Baby, [B] please don't go, back to [F#] New Orleans

[F#] I beg you [E] all night long

[E] You brought me way down here

[E] You brought me way down here

[E] You brought me [B] way down here, 'bout to [F#] Rolling Forks,

[F#] You treat me [E] like a dog

[E] Before I be your dog

[E] Before I be your dog

[E] Before I [B] be your dog, I get you [F#] way'd out here,

[F#] And let you [E] walk alone

[E] You know I been done gone

[E] You know I been done gone

[E] You know I [B] been done gone to [F#] the county farm,

[F#] With all the [E] shackles on

key: E, writer: Big Joe Williams credited

I play all E B F# minor 7ths on this. You can play whatever works in the keys shown.

23 Santa Clarita Valley Blues Society Presentations

 I presented, with backing, songs at three events since February 2023.

I presented "Before You Accuse Me" at the 2023.02.19 with a drummer and bassist. Lyrics at https://tinyurl.com/5ad49m9a

I presented "Blue Tail Fly" at the 2023.03.12 event with a different drummer and a different bassist. Lyrics at https://tinyurl.com/49hm4xda

I presented "Baby, Please Don't Go" and "Before You Accuse Me" at the 2023.04.09 event with yet another different drummer, the same bassist as in March, a violinist, and a harmonica player. "Baby, Please Don't Go" lyrics at https://tinyurl.com/2p8u4r6d.

Next time I present songs, I hope to video the presentations.

24 Blue Tail Fly Lyrics

 Blue Tail Fly

Verse

E..............................A

When I was young I used to wait

E......................................B
On a master and hand him his plate,

E.......................................A
And pass the bottle when he got dry,

B..............................E
And brush away the blue tail fly.

Chorus

E.................................B

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

B.................................E
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

E.................................A
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

E
That master's gone away.

And when he.d ride in the afternoon,
I'd follow with a hickory broom;
The pony being rather shy,
When bitten by the blue tail fly.

Jimmy crack corn....

One day he rode around the farm,
The flies so numerous they did swarm;
One chanced to bite the pony on the thigh.
Thank you Lord, for that blue tail fly.

Jimmy crack corn....

The pony run, he jumped and pitched,
And pitched the master in the ditch;
He died, and we wondered why;
We think it mighta been the blue tail fly.

Jimmy crack corn....

Master lies beneath a 'simmon tree - 
His epitaph is there for to see:
"Beneath this tree I'm forced to lie,
The victim of a blue-tailed Fly."

Jimmy crack corn....

22 Vincent Hill Presentation 2023.03.26

Presentation of
Firewater (https://tinyurl.com/2wrfb9kf)
Before You Accuse Me (https://tinyurl.com/3zpp6rjv)
Slip Away (https://tinyurl.com/4xdu7cke)

2023.03.26 Sunday pm during open mic event at Vincent Hill Saloon and Restaurant in Acton CA to show skills. (Lyric links within parentheses.)

Firewater starts at 0:51
Before You Accuse Me starts at about 6:01
Slip Away starts at about 11:47

Video link at https://tinyurl.com/y62xx6c2

21 Firewater Performance

 I performed "Firewater" at the Impulse Music Company store open mic 2023.02.01 Wednesday. Lyrics in comments. Photo taken by Johnny Romantic.

20 Just perform anyway

the key to performing live is to don’t give a fuck; just perform anyway.

so attendees don’t pay attention to you? don’t give a fuck; just perform anyway.

the venue sucks? don’t give a fuck; just perform anyway.

you are afraid that you will make mistakes? don’t give a fuck; just perform anyway.

you’re concerned that you will disappoint listeners? don’t give a fuck; just perform anyway.

19 New Songs 2022.07.31

 I introduced Lies in the Sky  and part 1 of 3 of The Hangman by Ogden; I concluded with Before You Accuse Me. 

Here are the lyrics to part 1

THE HANGMAN By Maurice Ogden

1..................... 5

Into our town the Hangman came,

2........................ 6
Smelling of gold and blood and flame.

6.....................................2
And he paced our bricks with a diffident air,

5................................ 1
And built his frame in the courthouse square.

The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
Only as wide as the door was wide;
A frame as tall, or little more,
Than the capping sill of the courthouse door.

And we wondered, whenever we had the time,
Who the criminal, what the crime
That the Hangman judged with the yellow twist
of knotted hemp in his busy fist.

And innocent though we were, with dread,
We passed those eyes of buckshot lead --
Till one cried: "Hangman, who is he
For whom you raised the gallows-tree?"

Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye,
And he gave us a riddle instead of reply:
"He who serves me best," said he,
"Shall earn the rope of the gallows-tree."

And he stepped down, and laid his hand
On a man who came from another land.
And we breathed again, for another's grief
At the Hangman's hand was our relief

And the gallows-frame on the courthouse lawn
By tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone.
So we gave him way, and no one spoke,
Out of respect for his Hangman's cloak.

The next day's sun looked mildly down
On roof and street in our quiet town,
And stark and black in the morning air
Was the gallows-tree in the courthouse square.

And the Hangman stood at his usual stand
With the yellow hemp in his busy hand;
With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike
And his air so knowing and business-like.

And we cried, "Hangman, have you not done
Yesterday, with the foreign one?"
Then we fell silent, and stood amazed,
"Oh, not for him was the gallows raised."

He laughed a laugh as he looked at us:
"Did you think I'd gone to all this fuss
To hang one man? That's a thing I do
To stretch a rope when the rope is new." 

That's a thing I do, to stretch a rope when the rope is new

That's a thing I do, to stretch a rope when the rope is new

That's a thing I do, to stretch a rope when the rope is new

When the rope is new