Backalleyblues

Traditional Old-Time, Bluegrass; Breakdown and Song- Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky. ARTIST: Source: Dennis 'Little Hat' Jones 'Kentucky Blues' recorded in San Antonio, Texas, on 14 June 1930 and issued as Okeh 8815. Note: the first four stanzas are from the transcription in Paul Oliver 'Songsters & Saints' Cambridge Uni Press 1999 p 70. The last stanza (omitted by Oliver) is my transcription from the reissue on Various Artists 'My Rough and Rowdy Ways Vol I' Yazoo CD 2039. CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: Early 1900’s; Here are the lyrics to “Kentucky Blues/Lost John” from "Little Hat" Jones: Well whiles we here tryin' to have our fun 'Spose the law jumped up and said, 'Nobody run!' Well, you know I'm long gone, from Kentucky Long gone, an' got away lucky 'Cause I'm gonna leave so keen I'll be just like a submarine Well, my woman poked her head out the window of the bed Said, 'Please don't let them kill Mister Little Hat dead' I said, 'No use worryin', sweet mama, I ain't gon