This is a page of blues, some of these are from my new CD (October 2010) and will be up on CDbaby.com if it isn't already. The CD has 18 songs. Some are ballads, and some bluegrass, but all blues tinged!
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1. Lord, I'm Going Down Slow
gospel tinged blues
3. Jack John's Blues (I'm Not Ready To Go") How to get Mr. Death to give you a little more time
Jack John’s Blues
(I'm Not Ready To Go)
By B. McDermott
Verse 1
Now ‘ol Jack John had a long soulful life
Thirteen children and a very pretty wife
Rock’in on the porch playing his guitar
Pick’in and a sing’in when he saw that long black car
2.
T’was Cadillac hearse he could plainly see
The driver was a shadow where a man now he ought to be
Coming for his soul gon’na take Jack John for a ride
Jack bolted the door looking for a place to hide
Chorus
Come sit with me
I hear him knocking, yeh now knock’in at my front door
I guess I’ll have to let him in now
But I’m not ready to go///
3.
Jack said Mr. D you look a little blue
Could this death dealing be gett’in to you
Give me one more year I’ll write you a tune
To ease your troubled mind, and none too soon
4.
Mr. Death had eyes like burning coals
I know your reputation Jack among my many souls
T’is a bargain and I’ll be back this time next year
Better have that song or you’ll know fear.
5.
So ‘ol Jack John had time to say goodbye
They say the tune he wrote would made the angels cry
I hear it sometimes at night when I’m near his grave
But you can’t recall a song for a spirit made.
