Good Mornin', Blues

DESCRIPTION: "I woke up this morning' with the blues all around my bed... Went to eat my breakfast, had the blues all in my bread." The singer describes how the loss of his girl has left him lonely, in pain, and otherwise miserable
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (recording, Ashley & Foster)
KEYWORDS: loneliness separation
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 311, "Good Mornin', Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 75, "Good Morning Blues" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Moses Asch and Alan Lomax, Editors, _The Leadbelly Songbook_, Oak, 1962,p. 64, "Good Morning Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11687
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster, "Drunk Man Blues" (Oriole 8183, rec. 1931; on Ashley04)
NOTES [29 words]: Another Alan Lomax special; I don't know what fraction of it is traditional. - RBW
Well, Lead Belly sang it with those words. - PJS
OK, so it's a Lomax/Lead Belly special. - RBW
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File: LoF311

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