Sweet Mama (II)

DESCRIPTION: Singer can't call his "mama" "sweet" any more: "every time I come to your house It's a man standing in your door" He's leaving: "going up the country Where the Southern cross the Dog" He worries: "My plan needs a future (with) my old-time used to be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (StuffDreams1)
KEYWORDS: infidelity love sex parting nonballad lover nonballad
FOUND IN:
Roud #29292
RECORDINGS:
Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes and Jab Jones, "Sweet Mama" (on StuffDreams1)
NOTES [92 words]: Three line blues: the first line is repeated -- more or less -- and the last line completes the thought.
"One year later (1903) band leader and composer W.C. Handy encountered the blues again at a railroad station in the Delta town of Tutwiler, Mississippi. There a man pressed a knife on the strings of a guitar and sang the line, 'Goin' where the Southern cross the Dog,' three times in succession. The like referred to the Southern and Yazoo Delta ('Yellow Dog') railroads." (David Evans, Big Road Blues (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1982), p. 34.). - BS
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