I love you, but you
Treat me poorly. Sometimes I
Wish you would drop dead.
Bob Dylan performed a reasonable version of the "James Alley Blues" in April 1963 at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie, and it eventually appeared on the hard-to-find "50th Anniversary Collection 1963," which was released in November 2013. The recording that he took it from, by Richard "Rabbit" Brown, is one of the strangest and most amazing blues songs I've ever heard, due in no small part to Brown's oddball voice. Dylan used the "sugar for sugar/salt for salt/Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault" line, amended, in the song "Crash on the Leveee," also known as "Down in the Flood," several years later.
Times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
Well times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
You know I'll tell you all the truth, won't you take my word from me
Well I seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
Well I've seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
I had a lot better time with those women down in New Orleans
Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
She wants to hitch me to a wagon and drive me like a mule
I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
She tried to get me to wash her clothes but I got good common sense
Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
It ain't like I'm a man that ain't got nowhere else to go
I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault
Well, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
Yea, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
You're my daily thought and you're my nightly dream
Well, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
Ah, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
And other times I think that you ought to be buried alive
Treat me poorly. Sometimes I
Wish you would drop dead.
Bob Dylan performed a reasonable version of the "James Alley Blues" in April 1963 at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie, and it eventually appeared on the hard-to-find "50th Anniversary Collection 1963," which was released in November 2013. The recording that he took it from, by Richard "Rabbit" Brown, is one of the strangest and most amazing blues songs I've ever heard, due in no small part to Brown's oddball voice. Dylan used the "sugar for sugar/salt for salt/Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault" line, amended, in the song "Crash on the Leveee," also known as "Down in the Flood," several years later.
Times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
Well times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
You know I'll tell you all the truth, won't you take my word from me
Well I seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
Well I've seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
I had a lot better time with those women down in New Orleans
Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
She wants to hitch me to a wagon and drive me like a mule
I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
She tried to get me to wash her clothes but I got good common sense
Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
It ain't like I'm a man that ain't got nowhere else to go
I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault
Well, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
Yea, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
You're my daily thought and you're my nightly dream
Well, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
Ah, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
And other times I think that you ought to be buried alive
Hello Robert, yes another track from Bob Dylan's Music Box http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/324/James-Alley-Blues Lift the lid and listen to every version of every song composed or performed by Bob Dylan.
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