BLIND WILLIE HARPER

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Song Title
BLIND WILLIE HARPER
Writers
Silverstein, Casey
Publisher
EVIL EYE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Alone, Arrest, Blues, Cold, Dime, Guitar, Home, Jail, Leave, Night, Play, Sweet, Town, Window
Lyrics
On a stoned cold night in Memphis,
Willie Harper came to town,
With a blue-tick hound at his heels and a dime in his shoe.
He could make that guitar sing,
You should’a heard that pavement ring
When Blind Willie Harper played the blues.

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And he’d sing:
Hey, Jeannie, why’d you go and leave me all alone in the dark this way.
Hey, Jeannie, why’d you go and leave me with these blind man dues to pay and these blues to play.

In the scarlet light of Beale Street
Willie Harper found a home
Any song you name, he don’t refuse
Sweet or dirty, white or black,
Just drop a nickel in the hat,
And hear Blind Willie Harper play the blues.

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Then Willie stops in the middle of a song
As a love dealin’ lady walks by
He says, “You smell sweet like someone I once knew”,
Then he touches her face and some words are said,
And a knife blade shines and her blood runs red
And Blind Willie walks off singin’ the blues.

On a stone cold night in Memphis
They took Blind Willie down
They shaved his head and took away his shoes,
And from a window of a Beale Street jail cell,
Said as a whippoorwill and clear as a bell
We heard Blind Willie Harper singin’ the blues.

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