Yellow Dog Blues - 1920

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 28 Aug 2001

E'er since Miss Susan Johnson
lost her Jockey Lee,
there has been much excitement,
more to be;
You can hear her moaning night and morn.
Wonder where my Easy Rider's gone?
Cablegrams come of sympathy
Telegrams go of inquiry,
Letters come from down in 'Bam'
and ev'rywhere that Uncle Sam
has even a rural delivery.
All day the phone rings
but it's not for me,
at last good tidings
fill our hearts with glee,
This message comes from Tennessee.

Dear Sue your Easy Rider
struck this burg today
on a south boun' rattler
side door Pullman car.
Seen him here an' he was on the hog.
Easy Rider's got a stay away,
so he had to vamp it
but the hike ain't far.
He's gone where the Southern cross'
The Yellow Dog.

Dear Sue your Easy Rider
struck this burg today
on a south boun' rattler
side door Pullman car.
Seen him here an' he was on the hog.
Easy Rider's got a stay away,
so he had to vamp it
but the hike ain't far.
He's gone where the Southern cross'
The Yellow Dog.

I know the Yellow Dog District
like a book,
indeed I know the route
that Rider took,
Ev'ry crosstie bayou burg and bog.
Way down where the Southern cross' the Dog,
Money don't 'zactly grow on trees
on cotton stalks it grows with ease,
No race horse, race track no grandstand
is like Old Beck an' Buckshot land.
Down where the Southern cross' the Dog.
Every kitchen there is a cabaret,
down there the bolwevil works
while the farmers play,
this Yellow Dog Blues
the live long day.

Dear Sue your Easy Rider
struck this burg today
on a south boun' rattler
side door Pullman car.
Seen him here an' he was on the hog.
Easy Rider's got a stay away,
so he had to vamp it
but the hike ain't far.
He's gone where the Southern cross'
The Yellow Dog.

Dear Sue your Easy Rider
struck this burg today
on a south boun' rattler
side door Pullman car.
Seen him here an' he was on the hog.
Easy Rider's got a stay away,
so he had to vamp it
but the hike ain't far.
He's gone where the Southern cross'
The Yellow Dog.

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Yellow Dog Blues 1920 W. C. Handy

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Yellow Dog Blues 1920 W. C. Handy
words and music by W. C. Handy
© 1920 Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc., New York
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Sequenced for Piano by
Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Tuesday 28 Aug 2001 at 18.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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