Jonestown Blues

DESCRIPTION: Singer leaves Lula for Jonestown where the "browns did make me frown." He decides that Jonestown is "too small a burg for me." He goes to Memphis, where he got "good whisky" and "my good girl laid me down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (recording, Gus Cannon)
KEYWORDS: sex rambling drink
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RECORDINGS:
Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon, with Blind Blake), "Jonestown Blues" (Paramount 12588,1927; on USChartersHeroes)
Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Jonestown Blues" (Victor V38629,1929)
NOTES [33 words]: Three line blues: the first line is repeated and the last line completes the thought.
The description follows the Jug Stompers recording, which has a shorter story than Cannon's first recording. - BS
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