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Blues

Andrew Lansdown

Oct 01 2013

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i

The blues singer—

how did he know right now is

the needed time?

 

ii

John Lee Hooker’s dead

and all the bright day it’s been

raining here, raining …

 

iii

Tangled up in blues …

and yet getting from Bob such

shelter from the storm.

 

iv

Listening to Satchmo—

Nobody knows the trouble …

Oh, sweet Lord, swing low!

 

Andrew Lansdown

 

 

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