Roll and Tumble Blues

DESCRIPTION: "I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long." The singer woke up not knowing right from wrong. His woman mistreated him but her "trouble come some day" He walked away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (recording, Hambone Willie Newburn)
KEYWORDS: sex rejection parting nonballad lover
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Hambone Willie Newburn, "Roll and Tumble Blues" (OKeh 8679, 1929; on StuffDreams2)
Moses Williams, "Rolling and Tumbling" (on USFlorida01)
File: RcRoTuBl

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