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| Well the blues : is a aching old heart disease | Johnson, Robert; Preachin' Blues; San Antonio, 27 Nov. 1936; (SA26321) ARC70460 Co C30034 |
| Well the blues : is a aching old heart disease | Johnson, Robert; Preachin' Blues; San Antonio, 27 Nov. 1936; (SA26322) ARC70460 Co C30034 |
| I was bonedown weary : a low and ache aching head | Darby, Blind; Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues; Richmond, Ind., 7 Sept. 1929; (15566) Pm12828 Yz L1003 |
| I woke up this morning : with an awful aching head | Smith, Bessie; Empty Bed BluesPart; New York, 20 Mar. 1928; (14578??) Co14312D Co CL858 |
| When your knee bones aching : and your body cold | James, Skip; Cypress Grove Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. Feb. 1931; (L7472) Pm13088 Bio BLP12029 |
| Says he left me standing here : with the doggone achingheart blues | Arnold, Kokomo; My Well Is Dry; New York, 11 May 1938; (63748A) De7540 CC25 |
| You keep my poor heart aching : I'm blue through and through | Blake, Blind; Brownskin Mama Blues; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (201062) Pm126062 Bio BLP12003 |
| Now I know she wished that I was there : ooo well now to hold her aching head | Wheatstraw, Peetie; Sick Bed Blues; Chicago, 2 Nov. 1937; (91317A) De7403 Say SDR192 |
| I'm aching all over : believe I got the pneumonia this time | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Pneumonia Blues; Richmond, Ind., 24 Sept. 1929; (15669) Pm12880 Mil MLP2013 |
| Now my old bones is aching : and my hair is turning grey | Arnold, Kokomo; Southern Railroad Blues; Chicago, 18 Apr. 1935; (C9921A) De7139 Say SDR163 |
| Now my poor heart is aching : and I really don't know what to do | Arnold, Kokomo; Broke Man Blues; Chicago, 3 Nov. 1937; (91332A) De7417 CC25 |
| Now my poor heart is aching : and my head can't rest no more | Arnold, Kokomo; Tired of Runnin' from Door to Door; New York, 11 May 1938; (67346) De7464 Say SDR163 |
| My heart is aching : breaking for some news | Calloway, Blanche; Lonesome Lovesick; Chicago, 9 Nov. 1925; (9459A) OK8279 CC32 |
| My heart is aching : gee I'm all confused | Calloway, Blanche; Lonesome Lovesick; Chicago, 9 Nov. 1925; (9459A) OK8279 CC32 |
| Hearts is aching day is breaking : listen to me pray | Hart, Hattie; Oh Ambulance Man; Memphis, 17 May 1930; (599322) ViV38605 Mel MLP7324 |
| My heart is aching : breaking for some news | Hill, Bertha Chippie; Lovesick Blues; Chicago, 26 Nov. 1926; (9971A) OK8453 CC32 |
| My heart is aching : gee I'm all confused | Hill, Bertha Chippie; Lovesick Blues; Chicago, 26 Nov. 1926; (9971A) OK8453 CC32 |
| Oh my heart is aching : and the blues are all around my *loo* | Martin, Sara; Death Sting Me Blues; Long Island City, Nov. 1928; (278A) QRSR7042 BYG529073 |
| Mmm : how my poor heart is aching for me | Pullum, Joe; Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard??? No. 2; San Antonio, 3 Apr. 1934; (82786?) BBB5592 Rt RL327 |
| My heart is aching : mama feel like crying | Rainey, Ma Gertrude; Dream Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1924; (16991) Pm12098 BYG529.078 |
| My heart is aching : all for that man | Rainey, Ma Gertrude; Honey Where You Been So Long; Chicago, c. Mar. 1924; (17012) Pm12200 BYG529.078 |
| My black snake is gone : and my poor heart is aching me so | Spivey, Victoria; Black Snake Swing; Chicago, 7 July 1936; (90785A) De7203 AH58 |
| Because I ain't got you pretty mama : to hold my aching head | Carr, Leroy; You Left Me Crying; New York, 14 Dec. 1934; (164182) Vo unissued Bio BLPC9 |
| I never had no good man : I mean to ease my aching head | Johnson, Louise; All Night Long Blues; Grafton, Wis., 28 May 1930; (L3981) Pm12992 OJL11 |
| I didn't have my daddy : to hold my aching head | Jones, Anna; Trixie Blues; New York, c. June 1923; (14731) Pm12052 His HLP15 |
| Because you like : to break my aching heart | Rainey, Ma Gertrude; Oh My Babe Blues; New York, Jan. 1926; (23741) Pm12332 Jo SM3098 |
| I wish I had you here : to hold my aching head | Smith, Trixie; Love Me Like You Used To; New York, c. Dec. 1925; (2365?) Pm12330 CC29 |
| Know by that baby : got no one to hold my aching head | Stevens, Vol; Stonewall Blues; Memphis, 29 May 1930; (62542 ) BBB5675 BC2 |
| Since now I got no baby : ooo well now to hold my aching head | Wheatstraw, Peetie; True Blue Woman; Chicago, 13 Feb. 1936; (C12581) Vo03185 Say SDR191 |
| I laying on my bed : holding my aching head | Wheatstraw, Peetie; Working Man; New York, 18 Feb. 1936; (60506A) De7200 BC4 |
| And now even won't none of my friends : come and even rub my aching head | Williamson, Sonny Boy; T. B. Blues; Chicago, 21 July 1939; (040532 ) BBB8333 BC20 |
| Heart she left me here : heart full of aching pain | Weaver, Curley; Oh Lawdy Mama; Chicago, 23 Apr. 1935; (C9940A) Ch50077 Rt RL326 |
| Now your D P aching : just go to | Spivey, Sweet Pease (Addie Spivey); Double Dozens; Chicago, 12 Aug. 1936; (90787C) De7204 AH158 |
| Stop your aching : let my poor feet be | Yates, Blind Richard; Sore Bunion Blues; New York, c. 9 Apr. 1927; (GEX578A) Ge6104 His HLP1 |
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ACID.............1
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| I'd drink carbolic acid : and I'd poke a gatling gun | Smith, Clara; Done Sold My Soul to the Devil; New York, 30 Sept. 1924; (1400763) Co14041D VJM VLP17 |
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ACKNOWLEDGE......6
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| Maybe some day you will consider baby : Lord and acknowledge that you have done wrong | Doyle, Little Buddy; Renewed Love Blues; Memphis, 14 July 1939; (MEM1521) OK05771 Rt RL329 |
| Going back to the one I love : and acknowledge that I done wrong | Gibson, Clifford; Levee Camp Moan; New York, 10 Dec. 1929; (577542) ViV38577 Yz L1027 |
| I'll acknowledge : I done wrong | Howell, Peg Leg; Please Ma'am; Atlanta, 20 Apr. 1928; (1461592) Co14356D RBF RF15 |
| Says I'll acknowledge now pretty baby : that I treated you mean | Johnson, Tommy; Lonesome Home Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. Jan. 1930; (L2302) Pm13000 Yz L1007 |
| Lord acknowledge to my good gal mama : Lord that I have done you wrong | Arnold, Kokomo; Sissy Man Blues; Chicago, 15 Jan. 1935; (C9654A) De7050 CC25 |
| Now some day you're going to want me back : baby now now and you going to acknowledge | McClennan, Tommy; She's a Good Looking Mama; Chicago, 10 May 1940; (044992 ) BBB8545 Rt RL305 |
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ACKNOWLEDGED.....1
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| Now I have acknowledged : baby that I have done you wrong | Gillum, Bill Jazz; One Letter Home; Chicago, 5 Dec. 1941; (070443 ) BBB8943 RCA INT1177 |
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ACQUAINTED.......2
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| Let Mr Peter Adams : get acquainted with you | Estes, Sleepy John; Liquor Store Blues; New York, 22 Apr. 1938; (63648A) De7491 RBF RF11 |
| Because I'm acquainted with John Law : and they won't let me down | Estes, Sleepy John; Brownsville Blues; New York, 22 Apr. 1938; (63653A) De7473 RBF RF8 |
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| Across deep water : ain't no skiffs around | Blind Percy; Coal River Blues; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (201382) Pm12584 Yz L1010 |
| *Lord* took another man : *right across my face* | Barefoot Bill; I Don't Like That; Atlanta, 19 Apr. 1930; (1503011) Co14544D Rt RL325 |
| Don't the clouds look lonesome : across the deep blue sea | Carr, Leroy; Alabama Woman Blues; Chicago, 19 Sept. 1930; (C6091B) Vo1549 RBF RF1 |
| Stopped little Mary : across the creek | Estes, Sleepy John; Mary Come On Home; Chicago, 4 June 1940; (93006A) De7814 Sw S1220; |
| I just weep in my ??? : across my head | Sylvester, Hannah; I Want My Sweet Daddy; New York, c. 21 Sept. 1923; (70329) Pat032007 VJM VLP40 |
| Just see me do this scoop it : across the floor | Wilson, Leola B.; Scoop It; Chicago, c. Aug. 1926; (26074) Pm12379 His HLP1 |
| Slipping and sliding : all across the streets | James, Jesse; Southern Casey Jones; Chicago, 3 June 1936; (90761A) De7213 AH158 |
| You done been across the country : awith my long clothes on | Ledbetter, Huddie; RobertaPart 1; New York, 23 Jan. 1935; (16683 ) ARC unissued Co C30035 |
| I got a brown across town : she crochet all the time | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Match Box Blues; Chicago, 14 Mar. 1927; (80524B) OK8455 RBF RF1 |
| For that brown across town : I declare she is worrying me | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Struck Sorrow Blues; Chicago, c. Sept. 1927; (200392) Pm12541 Rt RL335 |
| There's a brown across town : and she's taller as a sycamore tree | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Deceitful Brownskin Woman; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (200652) Pm12551 Bio BLP12015 |
| Brown across town : going to be my teddy bear | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Match Box Blues; Chicago, c. Apr. 1927; (44242) Pm12474 Mil MLP2004 |
| Oh the mojo blues mama : crawling across the floor | Lincoln, Charley; Mojoe Blues; Atlanta, 4 Nov. 1927; (1451053) Co14475D RBF RF15 |
| Well you said you'd rather see a rattlesnake : ooo well well now come crawling across your | Wheatstraw, Peetie; The Rising Sun Blues; Chicago, 25 Mar. 1935; (C921A) Vo03066 Say SDR191 |
| Just cut across on St Lawrence Avenue : and bring my money on home to me | Chatman, Bo; Policy Blues; Atlanta, 12 Feb. 1940; (0476531) BBB8495 Yz L1034 |
| I started to kill my woman : till she laid down across the bed | Brown, Willie; M and O Blues; Grafton, Wis., 28 May 1930; (L4132) Pm13090 OJL5 |
| Then I went upstairs : fell down across my bed | Coleman, Jaybird; Man Trouble Blues; Atlanta, 22 Apr. 1930; (1506311) Co14534D Rt RL313 |
| I got up this morning : fell down across my bed | Collins, Sam; My Road Is Rough and Rocky; New York, c. Oct. 1931; ( ) unknown Yz L1038 |
| Now you know you didn't want me : when you lied down across my bed | Fuller, Blind Boy; Pistol Snapper Blues; New York, 5 Apr. 1938; (226741) Vo04106 BC11 |
| I want you to take me on with you baby : let you ease me down across your bed | Jones, Little Hat; Cross the Water Blues; San Antonio, 14 June 1930; (404199B) OK8829 Yz L1032 |
| You knowed I was drunk : when I lay down across your bed | Miller, Lillian; Dead Drunk Blues; Richmond, Ind., c. 3 May 1928; (13718A) Ge6518 OJL6 |
| Now moonshine will make you go home : lay down across your bed | Williamson, Sonny Boy; Moonshine; Aurora, Ill., 13 Mar. 1938; (0201131) BBB7603 RCA LPV518 |
| I got up this morning : I was easing across this floor | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Balky Mule Blues; Chicago, c. Feb. 1928; (203813) Pm12631 Mil MLP2007 |
| Come here pretty mama : going to take you far across the pond | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Teddy Bear Blues; Chicago, c. June 1927; (45672) Pm12487 Mil MLP2007 |
| Says I told you mama : when you first fell across my bed | Arnold, Kokomo; Old Original Kokomo Blues; Chicago, 10 Sept. 1934; (C9429B) De7026 BC4 |
| And you know you didn't love me : you fell across my bed | Collins, Chasey; Walking Blues; Chicago, 31 Oct. 1935; (962481) BBB6261 Rt RL316 |
| I got a gal across town : she crochets all the time | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Easy Rider Blues; Chicago, c. Apr. 1927; (44232) Pm12474 Mil MLP2004 |
| Now if I get across the Atlantic Ocean : good people I will not live to Spain | Arnold, Kokomo; Big Ship Blues; Chicago, 30 Mar. 1937; (91167A) De7361 Say SDR163 |
| I went to the river : couldn't get across | Jordan, Charley; Keep It Clean; Chicago, c. mid June 1930; (C5836 ) Vo1511 Yz L1030 |
| I got a girl across town : she crochets all the time | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Match Box Blues; Chicago, c. Apr. 1927; (44464) Pm12474 Bio BLP12000 |
| Oh the black cat told the white one : let's go across town and clown | Burse, Charlie; Boodie Bum Bum; Chicago, 7 Nov. 1934; (C7921) OK8956 Jo SM3104 |
| You may search the ocean : you might go across the deep blue sea | McTell, Blind Willie; Searching the Desert for the Blues; Atlanta, 22 Feb. 1932; (716061) Vi23353 RCA LPV518 |
| Hey hey mama : let's go across town | Washboard Sam; Big Woman; Chicago, 21 Dec. 1936; (01885 ) BBB6870 BC10 |
| Am going across the street ??? : going to town | Cannon, Gus; Feather Bed; Memphis, 9 Sept. 1928; (470022) ViV38515 Fwy FA2953 |
| And I wished that I could fall : here across your coffin dead | Cox, Ida; Coffin Blues; Chicago, Sept. 1925; (22931) Pm12318 BYG529073 |
| Can I get off *snake living* and tapping : playing tip light across your floor | McTell, Blind Willie; Broke Down Engine Blues; Atlanta, 23 Oct. 1931; (1519051) Co14632D Yz L1005 |
| Can I get off *sneak living and tapping* : playing tip light across your floor | McTell, Blind Willie; Broke Down Engine; New York, 18 Sept. 1933; (140362) Vo02577 RBF RF15 |
| I was standing beside the ocean : looking across on the other side | Jones, Jake; Southern Sea Blues; Dallas, c. Oct. 1929; (DAL474 ) Br7130 His HLP2 |
| If the man across town : may get my rider's place | Perkins, Gertrude; No Easy Rider Blues; Dallas, 6 Dec. 1927; (1453401) Co14313D Fwy FJ2802 |
| I got a market across the street : where I sell my meat | Bogan, Lucille; They Ain't Walking No More; Chicago, late Mar. 1930; (C5549 ) Br7163 Yz L1017 |
| Now they carried me in the house : and they laid me across the bank | Estes, Sleepy John; Floating Bridge; New York, 2 Aug. 1935; (62465A) De7442 RBF RF8 |
| Now I'm a crosscut saw : drive me across your log | McClennan, Tommy; Cross Cut Saw Blues; Chicago, 15 Sept. 1941; (064885 ) BBB8897 Rt RL305 |
| When I said that : he rapped me across my head | McTell, Blind Willie; Bell Street Blues; Chicago, 23 Apr. 1935; (C9946A) De7078 Rt RL324 |
| Well I'm going up the country : I mean across the deep blue sea | Spivey, Victoria; Don't Trust Nobody Blues; Chicago, 20 Mar. 1931; (VO150 ) Vo1640 Spi LP2001 |
| Rowed my boat : just about four miles across the pond | Johnson, Lonnie; South Bound Backwater; New York, 31 Mar. 1938; (63524A) De7461 Sw S1225 |
| Then they rowed a little boat : about five miles across the pond | Smith, Bessie; Back Water Blues; New York, 17 Feb. 1927; (1434911) Co14195D Co CL858 |
| The man needs to take you women : and move across the no man's land | Jones, Little Hat; Cross the Water Blues; San Antonio, 14 June 1930; (404199B) OK8829 Yz L1032 |
| I wouldn't hurt so bad : but the doggone news across town | Lewis, Furry; Jellyroll; probably New York, 28 May 1927; ( ) Vo1115 RBF RF11 |
| Catch a long jumping Judy : go on across the hill | Butler, Sam; Some Screamed High Yellow; Chicago, c. Oct. 1926; (26772) Pm12423 Yz L1016 |
| She jumped up sweet babe : tipped on across the floor | Jackson, Papa Charlie; Coffee Pot Blues; Chicago, c. Feb. 1925; (10043?) Pm12264 Yz L1029 |
| If I don't find my rider : I'm going to walk on across the way | Perkins, Gertrude; No Easy Rider Blues; Dallas, 6 Dec. 1927; (1453401) Co14313D Fwy FJ2802 |
| Got a man upside one downside : one across the street | Johnson, Edith North; Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues; Richmond, Ind., 7 Sept. 1929; (15558A) Pm12823 CC37 |
| I was sitting looking : way out across the world | Alexander, Texas; Frost Texas Tornado Blues; San Antonio, 9 June 1930; (404117B) OK8890 Rt RL316 |
| Says *I am* with your mama : out across the field | Arnold, Kokomo; The Twelves; Chicago, 18 Jan. 1935; (C9671A) De7083 Say SDR163 |
| Now I met Alberta : way out across the sea | Estes, Sleepy John; Vernita Blues; New York, 2 Aug. 1935; (62463A) De7342 Cor CP58 |
| I was sitting in my kitchen : looking way out across the sky | Johnson, Lonnie; St. Louis Cyclone Blues; New York, 3 Oct. 1927; (81503B) OK8512 CC30 |
| Caught a taxicab : she's out across town somewhere | Washboard Sam; Diggin' My Potatoes; Chicago, 15 May 1939; (034797 ) BBB8211 BC10 |
| Out across the hill : I built a lonesome shack | Memphis Minnie; Lonesome Shark Blues; Chicago, 27 June 1940; (WC3166A) OK05728 BC1 |
| My mama's dead : my papa's across the sea | Dickson, Tom; Death Bell Blues; Memphis, 27 Feb. 1928; (400355B) OK8590 Yz L1002 |
| People across the water : they're crying for meat and bread | Shade, Will; Better Leave That Stuff Alone; Memphis, 24 Sept. 1928; (47092 ) Vi21725 Mam S3803 |
| She doing the shimmysheewobble : right across the hall | Wallace, Minnie; Dirty Butter; Memphis, 23 Sept. 1929; (555712) ViV38547 Rt RL322 |
| And you rode across my mind : baby each and every day | Johnson, Robert; Honeymoon Blues; Dallas, 20 June 1937; (DAL401 ) Vo04002 Co C30034 |
| Get well away from home : then it will roll across your mind | Chatman, Lonnie; It's a Pain to Me; Grafton, Wis., c. July 1932; (L15452) Pm13143 Bio BLP12041 |
| The prison wall blues : keep rolling across my mind | Woods, Hosea (Gus Cannon); Prison Wall Blues; Memphis, 28 Nov. 1930; (64747) Vi23272 Rt RL329 |
| I'm going to run across town : catch that southbound Santa Fe | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Bad Luck Blues; Chicago, c. Oct. 1926; (30902) Pm12443 Mil MLP2007 |
| He catches every rat : run across my floor | Memphis Minnie; Black Cat Blues; Chicago, 27 May 1936; (C13861) Vo03581 Pal PL101 |
| Things happen way back down home now : they I declare they sure run across my mind | Spruell, Freddie; Way Back Down Home; Chicago, 17 Nov. 1926; (9909A) OK8422 Mam S3802 |
| Look like I would kind of run across your mind : baby you would want to know just where I am | Williamson, Sonny Boy; Train Fare Blues; Chicago, 17 May 1940; (049198 ) BBB8610 BC20 |
| Lord some folks said blues and trouble nothing : but evil running across your mind | Arnold, Kokomo; Old Black Cat Blues; Chicago, 15 Jan. 1935; (C9653A) De7050 CC25 |
| Now some folks says blues is trouble : nothing but evil running across your mind | Arnold, Kokomo; Back Door Blues; Chicago, 15 Jan. 1935; (C9656A) De7156 CC25 |
| Now if you want to sin : slide across to me | Thomas, Hociel; Put It Where I Can Get It; Chicago, 11 Nov. 1925; (9474A) OK8258 Bio BLPC6 |
| I'm going to play them straight across : man you know [I'm playing, I got] them straight down | Chatman, Bo; Policy Blues; Atlanta, 12 Feb. 1940; (0476531) BBB8495 Yz L1034 |
| I'm going to get me a wire : stretched across the deep blue sea | Day, Texas Bill; Billiken's Weary Blues; Dallas, 5 Dec. 1929; (1495392) Co14514D Rt RL335 |
| My gal come home : with a tie across her back | Dorsey, Thomas A.(Georgia Tom); Where Did You Stay Last Night; Richmond, Ind., 19 Nov. 1930; (17277A) Ch16171 Riv RM8803 |
| I got up in my stockings : tipping across the floor | Collins, Sam; My Road Is Rough and Rocky; New York, c. Oct. 1931; ( ) unknown Yz L1038 |
| I went to see my gal : up across the hall | Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker); It's Tight Like That; Chicago, c. Sept. 1928; ( ) Vo1216 His HLP1 |
| You can ride or walk across it : and you can't even hear a knock | Kelly, Jack; Highway No. 61 Blues No. 2; New York, 1 Aug. 1933; (13713) Ba32934 Rt RL329 |
| Every night I pray : for you to walk across my door | White, Joshua; Stormy Weather No 1; New York, 6 Mar. 1934; (149031) Ba33024 His HLP22 |
| He walked across the road : and knocked the peacock dead | Blake, Blind; Low Down Loving Gal; Chicago, c. Sept. 1928; (208875) Pm12695 Bio BLP12003 |
| Walked across my floor : Lordy how I moan | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Prison Cell Blues; Chicago, c. Feb. 1928; (203882) Pm12622 Mil MLP2004 |
| I woke up one morning : walking across the floor | Willis, Ruth Mary; Experience Blues; Atlanta, 23 Oct. 1931; (1519061) Co14642D Yz L1037 |
| Walking across the country : trying to get a stake | Blake, Blind; Walkin' Across the Country; Chicago, c. Sept. 1928; (208682) Pm12754 Bio BLP12031 |
| Walking across the country : with my head bowed down | Blake, Blind; Walkin' Across the Country; Chicago, c. Sept. 1928; (208682) Pm12754 Bio BLP12031 |
| My wife caught me easing : way across that Richland Road | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Chinch Bug Blues; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (200641) Pm12551 Bio BLP12015 |
| I met my Mary : way across the sea | McCoy, Joe; My Mary Blues; Chicago, c. early June 1930; (C5830 ) Vo1576 Pal PL101 |
| It made me think about : going way across the sea | Richardson, Mooch; Burying Ground Blues; Memphis, 23 Mar. 1928; (400375A) OK8576 Mam S3803 |
| I miss Corinna : way across the sea | Wiggins, James Boodle It; Corrine Corrina Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. Jan. 1930; (L1032) Pm12916 Her H205 |
| Grab another man : and went across the hall | Bracey, Mississippi; Stered Gal; Jackson, Miss., 17 Mar. 1930; (404766B) OK8867 Yz L1038 |
| I turned around sweet mama : I went across town | Thomas, Henry; Don't Leave Me Here; Chicago, c. 7 Oct. 1929; (C4624) Vo1443 Yz L1004 |
| Going to take you across the water : where that brownskin man can't go | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Shuckin' Sugar; Chicago, c. Oct. 1926; (30772) Pm12454 Mil MLP2007 |
