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| I can't earn money to buy no bread : and you know I can't buy my snuff | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Tin Cup Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1929; (211981) Pm12756 Mil MLP2013 |
| I couldn't earn enough money : to buy me a loaf of bread | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Tin Cup Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1929; (211981) Pm12756 Mil MLP2013 |
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EARNED...........1
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| I never earned nothing : oh so much to hurt me so | Jones, Little Hat; Corpus Blues; San Antonio, 21 June 1929; (402701B) OK8735 Rt RL315 |
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EARNS............1
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| My gal's a housemaid : and she earns a dollar a week | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Tin Cup Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1929; (211981) Pm12756 Mil MLP2013 |
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| Now her ears are so long : her nose so flat | Chatman, Peter (Memphis Slim); Jasper's Gal; Chicago, 1 Apr. 1941; (0594991) BBB8749 RCA730.581 |
| I give her three gold teeth : I put earings in her ears | Crudup, Arthur Big Boy; Black Pony Blues; Chicago, 11 Sept. 1941; (0648731) BBB8896 RCA LPV518 |
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| But I found no heaven on earth : Lord nowhere I go | James, Jesse; Lonesome Day Blues; Chicago, 3 June 1936; (90762A) De7213 AH158 |
| Tell me milkcow : what on earth is wrong with you | Johnson, Robert; Milkcow's Calf Blues; Dallas, 20 June 1937; (DAL4032) ARC71065 Yz L1026 |
| Tell me milkcow : what on earth is wrong with you | Johnson, Robert; Milkcow's Calf Blues; Dallas, 20 June 1937; (DAL4033) ARC unissued Co CL1654 |
| And the women do tell me : I'm the sweetest black man on earth | MacFarland, Barrel House Buck; I Got to Go Blues; Chicago, 20 Aug. 1934; (C9321 ) De7013 OJL20 |
| Know you hear them Frank Stokes blues : anywhere on earth you go | Stokes, Frank; Frank Stoke's Dream; Memphis, 30 Sept. 1929; (563052) Vi23411 Yz L1008 |
| Now sure as the grass : on Texas earth grow green | Estes, Sleepy John; Poor John Blues; Memphis, 21 May 1930; (59968 ) ViV38628 Rt RL323 |
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| Ease out to your job : without disturbing me | Edwards, Joe; Construction Gang; New York, 12 Sept. 1924; (72817B) OK8163 Sw S1240 |
| Ease your pain : till your doctor come | Hawkins, Walter Buddy Boy; Voice Throwin' Blues; Richmond, Ind., 14 June 1929; (15219) Pm12802 Yz L1010 |
| Ease my head in the window : she's singing Lemon's worried blues again | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Lemon's Worried Blues; Chicago, c. Feb. 1928; (203753) Pm12622 Mil MLP2004 |
| Ease up daddy : you been a good old scout | Leecan, Bobby; Macon Georgia CutOut; New York, c. June 1927; ( ) Pat7533 His HLP17 |
| *Just ease your train eleven days* : I'm Alabama bound | Thomas, Henry; Don't Leave Me Here; Chicago, c. 7 Oct. 1929; (C4624) Vo1443 Yz L1004 |
| But it's the only thing : ease my heart about my man | Green, Lil; Knockin' Myself Out; Chicago, 21 Jan. 1941; (0591521) BBB8659 RCA LPV574 |
| That's the road to ride baby : ease your troubling mind | Hull, Papa Harvey; France Blues; Chicago, c. 8 Apr. 1927; (12690) Ge6106 OJL2 |
| I stood and watched the graveyard diggers : ease poor Lula down | Shade, Will; Jim Strainer; Memphis, 21 May 1930; (599612) Vi23421 Rt RL337 |
| Ticket agent : ease your window down | Smith, Bessie; Ticket Agent Ease Your Window Down; New York, 5 Apr. 1924; (816702) Co14025D Co CL855 |
| I said to the ticket agent : ease your window down | Williams, Jabo; Polock Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. May 1932; (L1406?) Pm13130 Yz L1028 |
| For I'm not at ease : with anyone else | Johnson, Joe (Memphis Minnie); I'm Going Back Home; Memphis, 26 May 1930; (59992 ) Vi23352 His HLP32 |
| Not at ease : with anyone else | McCoy, Joe; Goin' Back to Texas; New York, 18 June 1929; (1487092) Co14455D OJL21 |
| When I was home : I was resting at ease | Memphis Minnie; I'm Going Back Home; Memphis, 26 May 1930; (59992 ) Vi23352 His HLP32 |
| I tell all you people : you can rest at ease | Memphis Minnie; North Memphis Blues; Chicago, c. 15 Oct. 1930; (C6443 ) Vo1550 BC13 |
| I tell all of you people : you can rest at ease | Memphis Minnie; North Memphis Blues; Chicago, c. 15 Oct. 1930; (C6443 ) Vo1550 BC13 |
| When I was living at Lula : I was living there at ease | Patton, Charley; Dry Well Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. 28 May 1930; (L4292) Pm13070 Yz L1020 |
| I ain't no doctor : I can't ease your pain | Montgomery, Eurreal Little Brother; Mama You Don't Mean Me No Good; New Orleans, 10 Aug. 1935; (944211) BBB6072 CC35 |
| When she blows for the crossing : I'm going ease it on | Bell, Ed; Mean Conductor Blues; Chicago, c. Sept. 1927; (48201) Pm12546 Yz L1006 |
| All day I stood by your coffin : trying to give my poor heart ease | Cox, Ida; Coffin Blues; Chicago, Sept. 1925; (22931) Pm12318 BYG529073 |
| You're the only woman : can give my poor poor heart ease | Darby, Blind; Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues; Richmond, Ind., 7 Sept. 1929; (15566) Pm12828 Yz L1003 |
| All you care : is to give your poor heart ease | Gillum, Bill Jazz; Riley Springs Blues; Chicago, 4 July 1941; (064737 ) BBB8846 RCA INT1177 |
| I do anything : to give your poor heart ease | Memphis Minnie; I Don't Want that Junk Outa You; Chicago, c. 30 Jan. 1931; (VO111A) Vo1678 Yz L1008 |
| You told me that you loved me : to give my poor heart ease | Speckled Red (Rufus Perryman); House Dance Blues; Memphis, 22 Sept. 1929; (M184 ) Br7137 OJL20 |
| Let your rain come down : and give our poor hearts ease | House, Son; Dry Spell BluesPart 2; Grafton, Wis., 28 May 1930; (L4262) Pm12990 OJL11 |
| I buy her a ticket : let her ease on down the line | Noble, George; The Seminole Blues; Chicago, 11 Feb. 1935; (C8972) ARC70675 Yz L1028 |
| I'll make one trip there : to see can I ease my mind | Smith, Bessie; The Gin House Blues; New York, 18 Mar. 1926; (1418203) Co14158D Co CL856 |
| I believe it'll give me ease : baby all up in my mind | Chatman, Bo; Let Me Roll Your Lemon; New Orleans, 19 Jan. 1935; (876241) BBB5861 Yz L1034 |
| It takes a little coke : to give me ease | Ramey, Ben (Memphis Jug Band); Cocaine Habit Blues; Memphis, 17 May 1930; (599332) ViV38620 BC2 |
| Every time I start to loving : she ease that thing on me | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Low Down Mojo Blues; Chicago, c. June 1928; (206361) Pm12650 Mil MLP2004 |
| Now I was just sitting here wondering : where I would go get some ease | Hardin, Lane; California Desert Blues; Chicago, 28 July 1935; (914501) BBB6242 Rt RL319 |
| That's the reason why : give my poor heart some ease | Jackson, Papa Charlie; The Faking Blues; Chicago, c. May 1925; (2121?) Pm12281 Yz L1029 |
| If you speak one word babe : you can give my heart some ease | Ledbetter, Huddie; Death Letter BluesPart 2; New York, 24 Jan. 1935; (166961) ARC unissued Bio BLP12013 |
| Lord I just want you : give this poor boy's heart some ease | Sykes, Roosevelt; Poor Boy Blues; Chicago, 16 Nov. 1929; (403323A) OK8787 Yz L1033 |
| Want you to tell me something : give my mind some ease | Wilkins, Robert; I Do Blues; Memphis, 8 Sept. 1928; (47000 ) Vi23379 OJL5 |
| Just as sure as the train come in San Antone : then ease up in the yard | Jones, Little Hat; Cherry Street Blues; San Antonio, 14 June 1930; (404300A) OK8829 Yz L1032 |
| Cocaine or soothing liquid : to ease my pain for me | Bryant, Laura; Dentist Chair BluesPart 1; Long Island City, c. Jan. 1929; (322A) QRSR7055 His HLP21 |
| Lord I'm going to ease it down in Roebust : catch my baby out on a midnight creep | Estes, Sleepy John; Street Car Blues; Memphis, 13 May 1930; (59919 ) ViV38614 RBF RF8 |
| That's where I'm going : just to ease my mind | Hite, Mattie; MasonDixon Blues; New York, c. mid Nov. 1923; (70414) Pat032014 VJM VLP40 |
| I'm going tell you something : to ease your trouble in mind | James, Skip; Special Rider Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. Feb. 1931; (L7602) Pm13098 Yz L1001 |
| That's the gal'd walk through the rain and snow : for to ease that thing on me | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Deceitful Brownskin Woman; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (200652) Pm12551 Bio BLP12015 |
| I went uptown last night : I tried drinking hard to ease my pain | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Sad News Blues; Chicago, c. July 1928; (207722) Pm12728 Rt RL306 |
| That's what it takes to ease my mind : and stop all my tears | Johnson, Edith North; Honeydripper Blues; Richmond, Ind., 7 Sept. 1929; (15561) Pm12823 Mil MLP2018 |
| 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 never had no good man : I mean to ease my worried head | Johnson, Louise; Long Way from Home; Grafton, Wis., 28 May 1930; (L3992) Pm12992 OJL11 |
| Bring me that granulated sugar : that all it take to ease my misery | McClennan, Tommy; New Sugar Mama; Chicago, 12 Dec. 1940; (053737 ) BBB8760 Rt RL305 |
| You know I don't like nothing but my sugar : and that's what it takes to ease my misery | McClennan, Tommy; New Sugar Mama; Chicago, 12 Dec. 1940; (053737 ) BBB8760 Rt RL305 |
| Lord I just come here : to ease my troubled mind | Moore, Rosie Mae; Stranger Blues; Memphis, 3 Feb. 1928; (418332) Vi21408 OJL6 |
| All admit she got something : to ease my worried mind | Moss, Buddy; Gravy Server; New York, 21 Aug. 1935; (17981 ) ARC61156 Rt RL318 |
| Just to ease my mind : of all this trouble I've got | Rainey, Ma Gertrude; Lucky Rock Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1924; (17042) Pm12215 BYG529.078 |
| I want to be somebody's babydoll : to ease my mind | Smith, Bessie; Baby Doll; New York, 4 May 1926; (1421472) Co14147D Co CL857 |
| Organ grinder organ grinder : your sweet music seems to ease my mind | Spivey, Victoria; Organ Grinder Blues; New York, 12 Sept. 1928; (401115A) OK unissued Spi LP2001 |
| Organ grinder organ grinder : your sweet music seems to ease my mind | Spivey, Victoria; Organ Grinder Blues; New York, 12 Sept. 1928; (401115C) OK8615 Sw S1240 |
| They dynamite the levee : thought it might give us ease | Wallace, Sippie; The Flood Blues; Chicago, 6 May 1927; (80840B) OK8470 Sw S1240 |
| Because I have something to tell you baby : will ease your trouble in mind | Spaulding, Henry; Biddle Street Blues; Chicago, c. 6 May 1929; (C3450 ) Br7085 OJL20 |
| When you don't play the dozens : they will ease you in | Wilkins, Robert; Old Jim Canan's; Jackson, Miss., 12 Oct. 1935; (JAX117 ) Vo unissued Yz L1018 |
| I can strut my pudding : spread my grease with ease | Florence, Nellie ; Jacksonville Blues ; Atlanta, 21 Apr. 1928; (1461741) Co14342D OJL6 |
| Don't a man act funny : when a single woman ease in town | Estes, Sleepy John; You Shouldn't Do That; Chicago, 24 Sept. 1941; (0649161) BBB8915 BC7 |
| I guess it would ease : these old writing paper blues | McTell, Blind Willie; Writin' Paper Blues; Atlanta, 18 Oct. 1927; (403081) Vi21474 Yz L1005 |
| You see I'm wounded wounded and bleeding : can't you ease my pain | Hart, Hattie; Oh Ambulance Man; Memphis, 17 May 1930; (599322) ViV38605 Mel MLP7324 |
| 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 |
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| I was lying down dreaming : when the blues eased up on me | Johnson, Ki Ki; Wrong Woman Blues; Long Island City, c. Aug. 1928; ( ) QRSR7003 His HLP17 |
| And felt for your rider : she done eased away | Amos, Blind Joe; C and O Blues; probably Chicago, c. July 1927; ( ) Vo1116 OJL17 |
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| And I rock you easier : you straight chair ever done | Lacy, Rubin; Ham Hound Crave; Chicago, Mar. 1928; (204203) Pm12629 Yz L1009 |
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| Thought about my little good girl : come aeasing on back | Virgial, Otto; Little Girl in Rome; Chicago, 31 Oct. 1935; (962401) BBB6213 Mam S3802 |
| When you see my man : Lordy he come easing by | Patton, Charley; When Your Way Gets Dark; Grafton, Wis., c. late Nov. 1929; (L491) Pm12998 Yz L1020 |
| And my heart struck sorrow : and the tears come easing down | Torey, George; Married Woman Blues; Birmingham, Ala., 2 Apr. 1937; (B642) ARC70857 Yz L1002 |
| ??? : when he go easing by | Nelson, Blue Coat Tom; Blue Coat Blues; Memphis, 17 Feb. 1928; (400258B) OK8838 Rt RL316 |
| Say some strange something : is easing down on me | Spaulding, Henry; Biddle Street Blues; Chicago, c. 6 May 1929; (C3450 ) Br7085 OJL20 |
| You know I feel just like easing : back down into Tennessee | Estes, Sleepy John; Easin' Back to Tennessee; New York, 22 Apr. 1938; (63649A) De7516 Sw S1220 |
| My wife caught me easing : way across that Richland Road | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Chinch Bug Blues; Chicago, c. Oct. 1927; (200641) Pm12551 Bio BLP12015 |
| And the blues ain't there : they easing everywhere | Stevens, Vol; Papa Long Blues; Memphis, 13 Feb. 1928; (418892) Vi21278 Rt RL322 |
| 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 |
