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TRANSFUSION BLUES
Album: Now, There Was a Song!
KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A
VERSE:
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Early one morning while making the rounds
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Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down
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Went right home and I went to bed
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Well I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head
VERSE:
Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
Took a transfusion and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico
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Laid in the hot joints taking the pill
In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said Willie Lee your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down
VERSE:
Said yes oh yes my name is Willie Lee
If you got a warrent just read it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
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When I was arrested I was dressed in black
Put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friends for to go my bail
They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail
VERSE:
Into the courtroom my trial began
Where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out
Well I saw that little judge commence to look about
VERSE:
In about five minutes in walked a man
Holding the verdict in his right hand
Verdict read in the first degree
Well I hollered Lordy, Lordy have mercy on me
VERSE:
Judge me smiled as he picked up his pen
Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen
Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
I can't forget the day I shot my woman down
VERSE:
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Come all you gotta listen unto me
B7 E A
Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be
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This is the same as Cocaine Blues. I have both songs, but one just says transfusion, and the other says cocaine. but it's right, though. -macg1 | 10/25/2005 | Song: Transfusion Blues By Johnny Cash Original music and lyrics by traditional, T.J. Arnall
On audio album Now, There Was a Song! (1960)
This cover is credited to Roy Hogsed, which we think is a mistake. The confusion is probably due to the fact that Roy Hogsed had a little hit with a cover version of "Cocaine Blues". Finally, note that the song was renamed "Transfusion Blues" because cocaine was taboo. Interestingly, when Johnny Cash released this song under the original title "Cocaine Blues" in 1968 it was again credited to T.J. Arnall.
Cover hierarchy Little Sadie written by traditional () Little Sadie by Clarence Tom Ashley (1930) Cocaine Blues by Slumber Nichols' Western Aces (1947) Cocaine Blues by Roy Hogsed (1947) Transfusion Blues by Johnny Cash (1960) Cocaine Blues by George Thorogood & The Destroyers (1978) Cocaine Blues by Hans Theessink & Blue Groove (1993) Cocaine Blues by Hank Williams III (1999) Little Sadie by Bob Dylan (June 8, 1970) Bad Lee Brown by John Dilleshaw (1997)
-lmofle | 10/25/2005 | Oh, cocaine was taboo? I didn't know that. People were singing about cocaine before the song.I thought it was written as transfusion blues, then Johnny changed it to cocaine blues because he thought that it sounded better.Bob Dylan has a song called cocaine blues, but they're different words. -macg1 | 12/10/2005 |
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