Which of the original bluesmen has the most intricate/poetic/interesting lyrics? I love the fingerpicking of the delta school but the lyrics most of the time seem so cliche. I'm voting Robert Johnson
>I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand
>it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell When all your love's in vain
Greatest lyrics in blues
Henry Bennett
Benjamin Smith
nonce they were illiterate
John Lee
some of my favourites at the top of my head
>St. Jame's Infirmary
>Set me free, why don't you, babe
>Hey Joe
>The sky is crying
Jace Jones
Johnson's great but c'mon, it's gotta be Leadbelly.
Dominic Gray
Who were the original bluesmen? I'm not American so I don't know but I like Son House's Death Letter which goes like "I got a letter this morning, how do you reckon it read?/Say, 'Hurry, hurry! The gal you love is dead'" It's like a story in two sentences.
Eli Foster
Sometimes I take a great notion, to jump into the river and drown
Robert Butler
Blind Willie McTell. He puts together some interesting metaphors.
Jonathan Reed
played a mean guitar, too
Austin Howard
The best ones are all about adultery, break ups and having to skip town after losing all your money.
Hunter Allen
>tfw your woman won't quit her low down dirty ways
Charles Butler
The car needs a tune up
I'm gonna need teeth
TV won't play
The house roof leaks
My wife needs a new coat
My kid needs shoes
My woman in the street
She want's new things too
(I tell ya) I don't wanna get out of bed no more
(I tell ya) My credit didn't go through
What am I gonna do
Josiah Hernandez
Thomas Rivera
This is a mean old world, try and live it by yourself
Can't get the one you love, have to use somebody else
Carter Hill
gtfo
Hudson Roberts
I listen to this song everyday. god bless the best is yet to come my heroes & villains youtu.be
Colton Cox
Give me champagne when I’m thirsty
Give me reefer when I want to get high
Luke Long
Bump
Andrew Cooper
Jose Myers
i’ll do one too
Owen Phillips
David Long
No one cares about me
No, I ain't even got a friend
Well, my baby's gone and left me
When will my troubles end?
Black night is falling
Oh, I hate to be alone
Well, I'm crying for my baby
Another day is gone
Got no one to talk with
To tell my troubles to
I don't even know the minute
Baby, since I lost you
Black night is falling
Oh, I hate to be alone
Well, I'm crying for my baby
Another day is gone
Well my mother has her troubles
My father has them too
My brother sent to rehab
And I don't even know what to do
Black night is falling, yeah
Oh, I hate to be alone
Well, I'm crying for my baby
Well, I'm crying for my baby
Another day is gone
Joshua Cox
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Hopkins or Janis when they get to talking at the audience
Joshua Jackson
Amazing
Angel Turner
johnson was based
>Me and the Devil
>Was walkin' side-by-side
>Me and the Devil, ooh
>Was walking side-by-side
>I'm going to beat my woman
>Until I get satisfied
Henry Bennett
i have one kind favour to ask of you
please see that my grave is kept clean
now that's a lyric for all occasions
Anthony Thomas
Isaiah James
holy BASED
Aiden Scott
and it's a battered old suitcase
to a hotel someplace
and a wound that will never heal
no prima donnas the perfume is on
an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey
and goodnight to the street-sweepers,
the night watchmen flame-keepers
and goodnight matilda too.
Jonathan Howard
I like how we don't even try to talk about books anymore.
Justin Allen
OP here, made thread on accident
Bentley Perry
Bump
Matthew Gomez
One of the McCoy Brothers definitely
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Joe probably wrote more of the famous ones.