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| Just get your *best friend's good man* : and do the best you can | Baker, Willie; WeakMinded Blues; Richmond, Ind., 10 Jan. 1929; (14668) Spt9427 Yz L1012 |
| Just get your *best friend's good man* : and do the best you can | Baker, Willie; WeakMinded Blues; Richmond, Ind., 11 Mar. 1929; (14896) Ge6751 Her H201 |
| Going to take my best friend's gal : said the one that lives next door | Lincoln, Charley; Hard Luck Blues; Atlanta, 4 Nov. 1927; (1451042) Co14272D His HLP4 |
| The water was rising : up in my friend's door | Patton, Charley; High Water EverywherePart II; Grafton, Wis., c. early Dec. 1929; (L602) Pm12909 Yz L1020 |
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| I'm motherless and I'm fatherless : I'm almost friendless too | Johnson, Lonnie; Friendless and Blue; New York, 31 Mar. 1938; (63517A) De7487 Sw S1225 |
| I am friendless and I'm lonesome : people you would be the same old way | Davis, Walter; Moonlight Is My Spread; Chicago, 31 Oct. 1935; (962341) BBB6167 RCA INT1085 |
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| Friends it could be worser : you don't seem to understand | Johnson, Lonnie; Hard Time Ain't Gone No Where; Chicago, 8 Nov. 1937; (91340A) De7388 Sw S1225 |
| Friends I drink to keep from worrying : I smile to keep from crying | Johnson, Lonnie; Laplegged Drunk Again; New York, 31 Mar. 1938; (63522A) De7537 Sw S1225 |
| I'm tired of mean black moans : friends lying front of my door | Patton, Charley; Mean Black Moan; Grafton, Wis., c. early Dec. 1929; (L771) Pm12953 Yz L1001 |
| The churnwheel knocking : friends I'm Alabama bound | Wilkins, Robert; Alabama Blues; Memphis, c. 23 Sept. 1929; (M190 ) Br7205 Rt RL333 |
| When I had money : I had women and friends for miles around | Fuller, Blind Boy; You Got to Have Your Dollar; Chicago, 19 June 1940; (WC3140A) OK05712 His HLP31 |
| Yeah now I'm broke : women and friends they can't be found | Fuller, Blind Boy; You Got to Have Your Dollar; Chicago, 19 June 1940; (WC3140A) OK05712 His HLP31 |
| You can ever so much money : and friends of different kinds | Gibson, Clifford; Beat You Doing It; Long Island City, c. June 1929; (482A) QRSR7087 Yz L1027 |
| Oh come back friends : when I need my gin | White, Washington; Good Gin Blues; Chicago, 7 Mar. 1940; (WC2982A) OK05625 Co C30036 |
| I'm crying please : please let us be friends | Johnson, Robert; Stone in My Passway; Dallas, 19 June 1937; (DAL3772) ARC71267 Co CL1654 |
| If you don't want to be my woman : we will still be friends | Washboard Sam; Lover's Lane Blues; Chicago, 4 Nov. 1941; (0703811) BBB9007 BC10 |
| Blues and trouble : have been my best friends | Arnold, Kokomo; Back Door Blues; Chicago, 15 Jan. 1935; (C9656A) De7156 CC25 |
| Because old man wild water done been here : took her best friends and gone | Arnold, Kokomo; Wild Water Blues; Chicago, 12 Mar. 1937; (91134A) De7285 Cor CP58 |
| Blues and trouble : have been my best friends | McFadden, Charlie Specks; People People Blues; Grafton, Wis., c. Feb. 1930; (L1541) Pm12928 Riv RM8819 |
| All the best friends : sure has got to part | Smith, Bessie; Shipwreck Blues; New York, 11 June 1931; (1515973) Co14663D Co CL858 |
| It's tough when you're broke friends : you can't even get a dime | McClure, Matthew; Prisoner's Blues; Richmond, Ind., 22 Sept. 1932; (18798) Ch18514 Riv RM8819 |
| I'm changing friends and men : and I won't be blue no more | Harris, Magnolia; Mama's Quittin' and Leavin'Part 1; Chicago, c. late Dec. 1930; (C7100 ) MeM12077 Yz L1031 |
| Looking for her good friends : none can be found | Johnson, Robert; Come On in My Kitchen; San Antonio, 23 Nov. 1936; (SA25851) ARC unissued Co CL1654 |
| But any time that you're broke : your good friends they can't be found | McClure, Matthew; Prisoner's Blues; Richmond, Ind., 22 Sept. 1932; (18798) Ch18514 Riv RM8819 |
| Tell all my good friends : because I know I can't last long | Spivey, Victoria; I Can't Last Long; Chicago, 20 Aug. 1936; (C14502) Vo03314 Spi LP2001 |
| Mama think about the things in the world : that your good friends have | Stokes, Frank; Beale Town Bound; Chicago, c. Aug. 1927; (47752) Pm12576 Rt RL308 |
| If I didn't have good friends : I don't know what would become of me | Sykes, Roosevelt; Hard Luck Man Blues; Louisville, 9 June 1931; (69404 ) Vi23320 Yz L1033 |
| When you got a lot of money: you've got friends for miles around | McClure, Matthew; Prisoner's Blues; Richmond, Ind., 22 Sept. 1932; (18798) Ch18514 Riv RM8819 |
| Now when I had money : I had friends and a real good home | Big Bill (Broonzy); When I Had Money; Chicago, 17 Apr. 1940; (WC3036A) Vo05563 RBF RF16; |
| I had money baby : I even had friends for miles around | Williams, Joe; I Won't Be in Hard Luck No More; Aurora, Ill., 5 May 1937; (076641) BBB7065 RCA INT1087 |
| You say hello friends : I'm just passing by | Washboard Sam; Get Down Brother; Chicago, 4 Nov. 1941; (0703801) BBB9018 RCA LPV577 |
| Said she's telling all her friends : that's a nineteen thirty Ford | Calicott, Joe; Traveling Mama Blues; Memphis, c. 21 Feb. 1930; (MEM779 ) Br7166 Yz L1009 |
| She asking all her friends around now : where she find number FourA highway | Spruell, Freddie; 4A Highway; Chicago, 12 Apr. 1935; (85782 ) BBB5995 Mam S3802 |
| Oh come in friends : and have a drink of gin | White, Washington; Good Gin Blues; Chicago, 7 Mar. 1940; (WC2982A) OK05625 Co C30036 |
| I'm going to make friends : with the fish in the deep blue sea | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Teddy Bear Blues; Chicago, c. June 1927; (45672) Pm12487 Mil MLP2007 |
| Tell me friends : ever since that *pull in Jackson maid* | Wilkins, Robert; Alabama Blues; Memphis, c. 23 Sept. 1929; (M190 ) Br7205 Rt RL333 |
| I don't mind no men friends : but I am afraid of my grandma's child | Jefferson, Blind Lemon; Saturday Night Spender Blues; Chicago, c. Mar. 1929; (212012) Pm12771 Rt RL335 |
| I know you got men friends : baby when I drive from your door | Williams, Joe; Get Your Head Trimmed Down; Aurora, Ill., 17 June 1938; (0208541) BBB7719 RCA INT1175 |
| Good morning friends : I want [me] a drink of gin | White, Washington; Good Gin Blues; Chicago, 7 Mar. 1940; (WC2982A) OK05625 Co C30036 |
| Said all my friends done forgot me : everybody's down on me in my neighborhood | Arnold, Kokomo; Old Black Cat Blues; Chicago, 15 Jan. 1935; (C9653A) De7050 CC25 |
| Lord I done lost my money : babe my friends and home is gone | Big Bill (Broonzy); When I Had Money; Chicago, 17 Apr. 1940; (WC3036A) Vo05563 RBF RF16; |
| I spent all of my money : showing my friends a great big time | Carr, Leroy; Hard Hearted Papa; New York, 14 Dec. 1934; (164172) Vo unissued Bio BLPC9 |
| When I had money : my friends all ganged around | Jordan, Charley; Raidin' Squad Blues; Chicago, c. mid June 1930; (C5840 ) Vo1528 Yz L1030 |
| Now I'm in this raid : my friends have all thrown me down | Jordan, Charley; Raidin' Squad Blues; Chicago, c. mid June 1930; (C5840 ) Vo1528 Yz L1030 |
| I dropped my baby off : among my friends | McCoy, Joe; Someday I'll Be in the Clay; Chicago, 13 Aug. 1932; (C9290) De7008 Rt RL329 |
| Boy my mother always taught me : to learn to feed my friends with a longhandled spoon | Shade, Will; Feed Your Friend with a Long Handled Spoon; Memphis, 27 Sept. 1929; (555981) ViV38578 Rt RL311 |
| I carried my friends : out for a good time | Smith, Bessie; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; New York, 15 May 1929; (1485343) Co14451D Co CL856 |
| T B's got me : all my friends done throwed me down | Spivey, Victoria; T. B.'s Got Me Blues; Chicago, 7 July 1936; (90790A) De7222 Spi LP2001 |
| All my friends come to see me : and say well I told you so | White, Joshua; Stormy Weather No 1; New York, 6 Mar. 1934; (149031) Ba33024 His HLP22 |
| But when I had plenty money : my friends would come around | White, Washington; Sleepy Man Blues; Chicago, 7 Mar. 1940; (WC2980A) OK05743 Co C30036 |
| Well all the money gone : ooo well and my friends cannot be found | Williams, Joe; I Won't Be in Hard Luck No More; Aurora, Ill., 5 May 1937; (076641) BBB7065 RCA INT1087 |
| 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 |
| My friends don't know me : and I can't get a dime or two | Blackwell, Francis Scrapper; Hard Time Blues; Richmond, Ind., 24 Nov. 1931; (18220) Ch16361 Yz L1019 |
| My friends have turned against me : smiling in my face | Howell, Peg Leg; Low Down Rounder Blues; Atlanta, 20 Apr. 1928; (1461611) Co14320D RBF RF1 |
| I told mama last night friends : and papa the night before | Wilkins, Robert; Alabama Blues; Memphis, c. 23 Sept. 1929; (M190 ) Br7205 Rt RL333 |
| Now I'm down and out : ain't got no friends around | Carr, Leroy; It's Too Short; New York, 17 Dec. 1934; (164401) Vo02875 Co C30496 |
| I ain't even got no friends : even got no gal | Evans, Joe; Shook It This Morning Blues; New York, 21 May 1931; (106652) Or8083 Yz L1015 |
| Because I have no friends : baby and no place to go | Palmer, Sylvester; Broke Man Blues; Chicago, 15 Nov. 1929; (403305B) Co14524D RBF RF12 |
| Oh you ever get in jail : boy and you have no friends | Stevens, Vol; Stonewall Blues; Memphis, 29 May 1930; (62542 ) BBB5675 BC2 |
| Poor boy poor boy : ain't got no friends at all | Sykes, Roosevelt; Poor Boy Blues; Chicago, 16 Nov. 1929; (403323A) OK8787 Yz L1033 |
| When a man gets down : feel like he ain't got no friends at all | Wheatstraw, Peetie; When a Man Gets Down; Chicago, 26 Oct. 1936; (90961A) De7243 Say SDR192 |
| About their trifling husbands : and their nogood friends | Cox, Ida; Wild Women Don't Have the Blues; Chicago, c. Aug. 1924; (1842?) Pm12228 Jo SM3098 |
| It's a sad word to say : but the best of friends have to part | Bailey, Kid; Rowdy Blues; Memphis, c. 25 Sept. 1929; (M211) Br7114 OJL5 |
| But the Good Book says : that the best of friends must part | MacFarland, Barrel House Buck; I Got to Go Blues; Chicago, 20 Aug. 1934; (C9321 ) De7013 OJL20 |
| But remember the times : that the best of friends must part | Wallace, Sippie; Special Delivery Blues; Chicago, 1 Mar. 1926; (9547A) OK8328 CC32 |
| Then the blues will make you think : about all your righthand friends | Johnson, Lonnie; Way Down That Lonesome Road; San Antonio, 13 Mar. 1928; (400490A) OK8574 CC30 |
| Spent my money : spent it on my socalled friends | Jones, Maggie; Poor House Blues; New York, 9 Dec. 1924; (1401712) Co14050D VJM VLP23 |
| Socalled friends : all that they do | Spivey, Victoria; Don't Trust Nobody Blues; Chicago, 20 Mar. 1931; (VO150 ) Vo1640 Spi LP2001 |
| And *Martin* said I know I got some friends : I want someone to go and get my mother please | Williamson, Sonny Boy; Bad Luck Blues; Chicago, 21 July 1939; (040525 ) BBB8265 BC3; |
| I'd rather be somewhere friends : buried on my knee | Wilkins, Robert; I Do Blues; Memphis, 8 Sept. 1928; (47000 ) Vi23379 OJL5 |
| And all the friends I had : done shook hands and left there | James, Jesse; Sweet Patuni; Chicago, 3 June 1936; (90760 ) De unissued Yz L1028 |
| All the friends I had : done shook hands and gone | James, Jesse; Sweet Patuni; Chicago, 3 June 1936; (90760 ) De unissued Yz L1028 |
| Old pal you said : two friends could understand | Cox, Ida; You Stole My Man; Chicago, c. Aug. 1928; (207681) Pm12704 BYG529073 |
| Because when you get broke and down baby : your friends all turn you down | Big Bill (Broonzy); Rustlin' Man; Chicago, 9 Dec. 1935; (C8903) ARC unissued Rt RL316 |
| When you got money : your friends will hear your plea | Darby, Blind; Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues; Richmond, Ind., 7 Sept. 1929; (15566) Pm12828 Yz L1003 |
| Just let me tell you : what your friends will do | Johnson, Lil; Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Do; Chicago, 23 Apr. 1929; (C3355 ) Vo1299 His HLP2 |
| Talk about Texas I mean Texas : Texas people are your friends | Smith, Clara; Texas Moaner Blues; New York, 19 Aug. 1924; (819321) Co14034D VJM VLP17 |
| Now when your friends want coffee : please send all your friends to me | Smith, J. T. Funny Paper; Good Coffee Blues; Chicago, c. 20 Sept. 1930; (C6409 ) Vo1590 Yz L1031 |
| Now when your friends want coffee : please send all your friends to me | Smith, J. T. Funny Paper; Good Coffee Blues; Chicago, c. 20 Sept. 1930; (C6409 ) Vo1590 Yz L1031 |
| You can tell all your friends around baby : you heard the last word I had to say | Spruell, Freddie; Your Man Is Gone; Chicago, 12 Apr. 1935; (85784 ) BBB6025 Mam S3802 |
| Your friends have turned on you : ooo well well then again your little girl has gone | Wheatstraw, Peetie; Deep Sea Love; New York, 20 Feb. 1936; (60539A) De7167 Say SDR192 |
