Things That I Used to Do, The

DESCRIPTION: "Things I used to do I ain't gonna do no more." Singer looked for his lover but she was "hid out with her other man." He says he's sending his lover to her home and he'll go to his home. "I ain't gonna live this old life no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1953 (Recording, Guitar Slim)
KEYWORDS: infidelity sex parting home nonballad lover
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), "The Things That I Used To Do" (Specialty XSP-482, 1953)
George Lee 'Sun Bud' Spears, "I Ain't Gonna Live It No More" (on USMississippi01)
NOTES [82 words]: Sister Rosetta Tharpe's "Things That I Used To Do (And I Don't Do No More)" (1959,on "The Gospel Truth," Mercury MG 20412) (attributed to Katie Bell Nutin) is the same format as Guitar Slim's song, but Thorpe is singing a spiritual and the things she doesn't do are not anything like his. Tharpe's chorus is ("Things I used to do I don't do 'em no more" (x3) "What a bad change since I been born") She goes on "bad change ... goodby" She sings "Lies I used to tell, I don't tell 'em no more." - BS
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