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....