Eyesight to the Blind

DESCRIPTION: Singer says his lover is so pretty and fine, and the way she walks ... When she "starts loving" she "brings eyesight to the blind," "the deaf and dumb begin to talk," "man in the next room dying, stopped dying and held up his head"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (recording, Sonny Boy Williamson II)
KEYWORDS: love sex beauty nonballad lover
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Sam Myers, "Eyesight to the Blind" (on USMississippi01)
Sonny Boy Williamson (II), "Eyesight to the Blind" (Trumpet 129, 1951)
File: RcEyettB

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