Willie Mae chords by
Big Bill Broonzy

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You just came from England.
What would you say the trend
is there?
Any particular kind of blues
they liked the best
when you sang in England recently?
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Well, the main thing about it is, if you can,
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if you get up and explain what you're going to play,
the people will sit quiet
and listen to whatever you sing,
and then they'll take it
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from there.
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And there's no country I've been
in in my life
that people don't have blues.
Of they have it a different way.
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They have it through wars
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and through different destructions
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and things that we don't have here.
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And therefore, they don't have the same way,
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have the blues the same way that I do.
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So I'm singing it the way that I have it.
And therefore, it never happened
to them over there.
And then when I explain it before
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I start singing it,
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then they know what I mean.
It's trouble.
I'm singing about the trouble I
It's the same in every language.
Yeah.
So if they had trouble, so they understand that I'm
singing about the trouble I have,
then they feel it.
Is there any particular blues
that you found was very popular there,
of all the songs that you have?
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Well, yes, I've got one that I do play over there
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for them that they all like,
and they understand it,
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because I'm singing about woman trouble,
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and I think every man born have
had woman trouble.
It doesn't matter what language
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he speaks.
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I got a girl named Willie Mae
and she lives in the low, low land.
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I got a girl named Willie Mae,
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and she lives in the low, low land,
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Lord, the way I  got
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All my life, baby, know I've had it wrong
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All my life, Willie Mae,
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you know I've had it wrong.
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Not just on the count of me breaking
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up one poor man.
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Willie Mae, Willie Mae, Willie
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Don't you,
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yeah I've been callin' you
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Not if I don't get my Willie Mae
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There's no other woman
When I get a thing about Willie Mae
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A cold chill creeps up and
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down my spine
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When I get a thing about Willie Mae,
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cold chills creeps up
and down my spine.
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Sometimes I wished I was dead,
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but Willie Mae ain't no round
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for me to die.
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I'm going to leave here, baby,
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and I'm going on down the line.
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I'm going to leave here, Willie Mae,
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and I'm going on down the line.
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You know I don't do nothin' here,
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Willie Mae,
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but grieve and cry.
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You know I don't, don't do nothin' here,
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Willie Mae,
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but grieve and cry.
Willie Mays.
Willie Mays.
Well, on the subject of women,
since they've been,
I guess, the basis of most of the blues,
you know.
So, let's sort of wander around,
Brownie?
Yeah, I think the first woman
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blues I ever did
wasn't about the woman, was Daisy. Daisy.

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