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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:32 |
Heart Like Railroad Steel
"Baby got a heart
like a piece of railroad steel
& if I leave here this mornin'
never say, 'Daddy
how do you feel?'"
--Charley Patton
So Hayes McMullen says of Charley Patton:
"If those women made him mad
he'd jus' fight, &,
you know,
knock 'em out with that old guitar.
I knew one of his wives,
named Lizzie,
& she said one day he just
walked on off with his guitar
& never came back.
She hadn't done nothin' to him.
He hadn't done nothin' to her.
Well, after that,
she would talk a lot
about how mean he was.
But she kept his picture
right there on her mantel.
She kept it
until the day
she died."
Detroit
March 11, 1982
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