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Verse 1
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those old walkin' blues
Johnny Shines, from Memphis,
Tennessee,
met Robert Johnson in Helena,
Arkansas,
the Mobile in Ohio,
Johnny Shine says Robert Johnson
was the greatest guitar player
I'd ever heard.
The things he was doing
heard nobody else to do.
by which he meant
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it was hard to get too close to Robert.
who could wake him up any time
when he was ready to go.
Say, for instance,
you had come from Memphis to Helena,
probably,
and lay down to sleep the next morning
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I hear a train let's catch it.
he's just ready to go.
We go right back to Memphis
that's where the train's going
it didn't make him no difference
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just so he was going.
We was stayin' in West Memphis
at a place called John Hurt's
and this place burnt down
I didn't know that Robert knew anything
But he came up with this
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We were out on Highway 61
and slappin' his hands, pattin' his hands,
blowin' and singin'.
And in a few minutes,
the whole highway
was almost blocked off with cars.
He'd sing, I would sing.
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We had enough money to
buy guitars with.
And truthfully speaking,
we didn't have no money
when we started out.
and sometimes not much food,
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let alone a decent place to
spend the night,
or inside dirty places of the sort you
played in those times.
And as I catch my breath
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looking like he's just stepping out of church.
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