| Book Title: |
Blues Fake Book, The |
| Song count: |
400 songs |
| Imprint: |
Milwaukee : Hal Leonard, 199- |
| Callnumber: |
MP1630.28 .B5 1999 |
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Song Title
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Composer
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23 hours too long |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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32-20 blues |
Robert Johnson
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99 blues |
Robert Brown
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Ah'w baby |
Walter Jacobs
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Ain't gonna worry my life anymore |
B. B. King
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Ain't misbehavin' |
Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks
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Ain't that loving you baby |
Clyde Otis, Ivory Joe Hunter
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Alabama bound |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Alimonia blues |
John Lee Hooker
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All aboard |
McKinly Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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All blues |
Miles Davis
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All my love in vain |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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All your love (I miss loving) |
Otis Rush
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Alright, okay, you win |
Sid Wyche, Mayme Watts
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Angel eyes |
Earl Brent, Matt Dennis
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Apologize |
John Lee Hooker
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As the years go passing by |
Deadric Malone
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Ask me no questions |
B. B. King
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At my front door |
John C. Moore, Ewart G. Abner, Jr.
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Aw shucks, hush your mouth |
Jimmy Reed
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Babe, I'm gonna leave you |
Anne Bredon, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
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Baby doll |
Bessie Smith
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Baby how long |
Chester Burnett
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Baby, let's play house |
Arthur Gunter
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Baby, please don't go |
Joe Williams
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Baby scratch my back |
James Moore
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Baby, what you want me to do |
Jimmy Reed
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Baby what's wrong |
Jimmy Reed
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Baby, won't you please come home |
Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
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Back door man |
Willie Dixon
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Backwater blues |
Bessie Smith
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Basin street blues |
Spencer Williams
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Beale street blues |
W. C. Handy
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Bell bottom blues |
Eric Clapton
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Big hunk o' love, a |
Aaron Schroeder, Sid Wyche
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Big road blues |
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Billie's blues (I love my man) |
Billie Holiday
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Black coffee |
Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke
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Blow wind, blow |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Blue prelude |
Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop
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Blue train (blue Trane) |
John Coltrane
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Blue turning gray all over you |
Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller
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Blueberry hill |
Al Lewis, Larry Stock, Vincent Rose
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Bluebird |
John Lee Hooker
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Blues ain't nothin' but a woman cryin' for her man, the |
J. Mayo Williams
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Blues before sunrise |
Leroy Carr
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Blues for Alice |
Charlie Parker
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Blues has a baby and they named it rock and roll, the |
McKinley Morganfield ( Muddy Waters), Brownie McGhee
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Blues on the ceiling |
Fred Neil
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Blues with a feeling |
Walter Jacobs
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Bo Diddley |
Ellas McDaniel
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Boogie Chillen No.2 |
John Lee Hooker, Bernard Besman
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Boom boom ( Out go the lights) |
Stan Lewis
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Born in Mississippi, raised up in Tennessee |
John Lee Hooker
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Born to be blue |
Robert Wells, Mel Torme
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Bottle it up and go |
Robert Brown
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Bourgeois blues |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Bright lights, big city |
Jimmy Reed
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Bring it on home |
Willie Dixon
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Broke and hungry |
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Broken hearted blues |
Willie Dixon
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Built for comfort |
Willie Dixon
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Caldonia (what makes your big head so hard?) |
Fleecie Moore
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Can't hold out much longer |
Walter Jacobs
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Can't you hear me talking to you |
B. B. King, Dave Clark
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Canal street blues |
John Lee Hooker
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Candy man blues |
"Mississippi" John Hurt
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Careless love |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Catfish blues (rollin' stone) |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Check yourself |
Lowell Fulson
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Checkin' up on my baby |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Chicago blues |
Lonnie Johnson
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Chicago bound |
James Lane
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Close to you (I wanna get) |
Willie Dixon
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Clouds in my heart |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Cold weather blues |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Come back baby |
Mance Lipscomb
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Come on in my kitchen |
Robert Johnson
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Confessin' the blues |
Jay McShann, Walter Brown
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Continental blues |
Ernie Watts
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Cool drink of water blues |
Tommy Johnson
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Country boy blues |
Big Bill Broonzy
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Country girl |
B. B. King
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Cow cow blues |
Charles Davenport
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Crackin' up |
Ellas McDaniel
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Crazy blues |
Perry Bradford
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Crossroads (cross road blues) |
Robert Johnson
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Cryin' in my sleep |
Jimmy Yancey
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Custard pie |
Sonny Terry
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Dallas blues |
Lloyd Garrett, Hart A. Wand
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De kalb blues |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Dead Presidents |
Willie Dixon, Billy Emerson
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Decoration day |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Devil got my woman |
Nehemiah "Skip" James
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Did you ever |
Jimmy Rushing
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Diddie wa diddie |
Blind Blake
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Dippermouth blues |
Joseph Oliver
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Dirty no-gooder's blues |
Bessie Smith
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Dissatisfied |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Diving duck |
Otis Spann
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Do me right |
Willie Dixon
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans |
Eddie DeLange, Louis Alter
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Don't go no further (you need meat) |
Willie Dixon
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Don't smoke in bed |
Williard Robinson
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Don't you lie to me (I get evil) |
Hudson Whittaker
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Double trouble |
Otis Rush
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Down hearted blues |
Alberta Hunter, Lovie Austin
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Down in the bottom |
Willie Dixon
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Down in the dumps |
Leola P. Wilson, Wesley Wilson
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Drunken hearted man |
Robert Johnson
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Dust pneumonia blues |
Woody Guthrie
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Easy rider |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Empty bed blues |
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End of the blues |
Earl Hooker
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Everyday (I have the blues) |
Peter Chatman
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Evil (is going on) |
Willie Dixon
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Eyesight to the blind |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Fattening frogs for snakes |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Feel like going home |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Fever |
John Davenport, Eddie Cooley
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Fine and mellow |
Billie Holiday
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Five long years |
Eddie Boyd
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Flip, flop and fly |
Charles Calhoun, Lou Willie Turner
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Folsom prison blues |
John R. Cash
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Foolish man blues |
Bessie Smith
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Forty days and forty nights |
Bernard Roth
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Forty-four |
Chester Burnett
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From four till late |
Robert Johnson
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Furthur on up the road |
Joe Veasey, Don Robey
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Gee baby, ain't I good to you |
Don Redman, Andy Razaf
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Georgia on my mind |
Stuart Gorrell, Hoagy Carmichael
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God bless' the child |
Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday
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Going down slow |
J. B. Oden
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Good man is hard to find, a |
Eddie Green
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Good marning little schoolgirl |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Good mornin' blues |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Good morning heartache |
Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake
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Good rockin' tonight |
Roy Brown
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Goodbye baby |
Sam Ling, Joe Josea, Jules Taub
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Got the blues, can't be satisfied |
"Mississippi" John Hurt
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Got to hurry |
Oscar Rasputin
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Gulf coast blues |
Clarence WIlliams
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Happy with the blues |
Peggy Lee, Harold Arlen
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Have you ever loved a woman |
Billy Myles
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Heartbreak hotel |
Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley
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Hellhound on my trail |
Robert Johnson
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Help me |
Sonny Boy Williamson, Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon
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Hesitation blues |
Billy Smyth, J. Scott Middleton
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Hey hey |
William "Big Bill" Broonzy
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Hey lawdy mama |
Cleve Reed
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Hey, pretty mama |
Willie Dixon
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Hidden charms |
Willie Dixon
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Highway 40 blues |
Larry Cordle
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Highway 51 blues |
Curtis Jones
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Home to mama |
Willie Dixon
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Honest I do |
Jimmy Reed, Ewart G. Abner, Jr.
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Honey Bee |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Hootie blues |
Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Walter Brown
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Hound dog |
Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
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How many more years |
Chester Burnett
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Howlin' for my darling |
Willie Dixon, Chester Bernett
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Hush hush |
Jimmy Reed
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I ain't for it |
Hudson Whittaker
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I ain't got nobody (and nobody cares for me) |
Roger Graham, Spencer Williams, Dave Peyton
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I ain't got nothin' but the blues |
Don George, Duke Ellington
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I ain't superstitious |
Wilie Dixon
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I almost lost my mind |
Ivory Joe Hunter
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I believe I'll make a change |
Robert Brown
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I believe I've been blue too long |
B. B. King, Dave Clark
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I can make love |
Willie Dixon
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(I) can't afford to do it |
"Homesick" James Williams
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I can't be satisfied |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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I can't quit you baby |
Willie Dixon
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I can't stop, baby |
Willie Dixon
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I don't know |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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I got by brand on you |
Willie Dixon
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I got it bad and that ain't good |
Paul Francis Webster, Duke Ellington
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I got to find my baby |
Willie Dixon
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I got what it takes |
Willie Dixon
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I gotta right to sing the blues |
Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen
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I just want to make love to you |
Willie Dixon
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I keep going back to Joe's |
Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal
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I know your wig is gone |
T-Bone Walker
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I need love |
Willie Dixon
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I wanna put a tiger in your tank |
Willie Dixon
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I want to be loved |
Willie Dixon
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I want you close to me |
Willie Dixon
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I'd rather drink muddy water |
Eddie Miller
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I'm a man |
Ellas McDaniel
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I'm a natural born lover |
Willie Dixon
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I'm a steady rollin' man (steady rollin' man) |
Robert Johnson
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I'm a woman |
Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
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I'm ready |
Willie Dixon
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I'm so glad |
Nehemiah "Skip" James
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I'm tore down |
Sonny Thompson
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I'm your hoochie coochie man |
Willie Dixon
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I've been dealin' with the devil |
Robert Brown
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I've been treated wrong |
Robert Brown
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Ice cream man |
John Brim
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In the evening (when the sun goes down) |
Leroy Carr
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In the house blues |
Bessie Smith
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It do me so good |
Willie Dixon, Billy Emerson
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It hurts me too |
Mel London
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It makes my love come down |
Bessie Smith
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It seems like a dream |
Yank Rachell
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It serves me right to suffer |
John Lee Hooker
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It's a low down dirty deal |
T-Bone Walker
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It's a low down dirty shame |
Ollie Shepard
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It's my own fault |
John Lee Hooker
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It's too bad things are going so tough |
Freddie King
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Jailhouse blues |
Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams
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Jelly roll blues |
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
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Jim Crow |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Juke |
Walter Jacobs
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Just a dream |
Big Bill Broonzy
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Just like I treat you |
Willie Dixon
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Key to the highway |
Big Bill Broonzy, Chas. Segar
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Killing floor |
Chester Burnett
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Kindhearted woman blues |
Robert Johnson
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Kokomo blues |
Fred McDowell
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Lady sings the blues |
Herbert Nichols, Billy Holiday
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Last night |
Walter Jacobs
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Lemon song, the |
Chester Burnett, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones
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Let me love you baby |
Willie Dixon
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Let's get down to business |
B. B. King
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Letter to my baby |
John Lee Hooker
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Life is like that |
Memphis Slim
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Little baby (you go and I'll go with you) |
Willie Dixon
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Little queen of spades |
Robert Johnson
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Little red rooster |
Willies Dixon
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Live another day |
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Lonely boy blues |
Jay McShann, Walter Brown, Skippa Hall
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Lonesome whistle blues |
Rudy Toombs
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Long distance call |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Long gone blues |
Billie Holiday
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Long gone lonesome blues |
Hank Williams
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Long road |
Bessie Smith
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Look what you've done |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Louise, Louise blues |
Johnny Temple, J. Mayo Williams
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Love in vain blues |
Robert Johnson
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Love struck baby |
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Lover man (oh where can you be) |
Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman
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Lovin'est woman in town |
Willie Dixon
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Loving you |
WIlie Dixon
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Lucille |
B. B. King
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Mad man blues |
John Lee Hooker
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Mary had a little lamb |
Buddy Guy
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Matchbox |
Carl Lee Perkins
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Maudie |
John Lee Hooker
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Mean mistreater |
James Gordon
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Mean old Frisco blues |
Arthur Crudup
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Mean old world |
Big Bill Broonzy
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Mean woman blues |
John Lee Hooker
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Mellow down easy |
Willie Dixon
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Memphis blues |
W. C. Handy
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Mercury blues |
K. C. Douglas, Robert Geddins
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Merry Christmas, baby |
Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore
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Michigan water blues |
Clarence Williams
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Midnight |
B. B.King
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Midnight special, the |
Hudder Ledbetter
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Midnight sun |
Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer
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Milk cow blues |
Kokomo Arnold
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Mind your own business |
Hank Williams
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Moanin' at midnight |
Chester Burnett
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Moanin' for my baby |
Chester Burnett
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Mule kicking in my stall |
McKinley Morganfield
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My babe |
Willie Dixon
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My baby is sweeter |
Willie Dixon
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My baby left me |
Arthur Crudup
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My country sugar mama |
Chester Burnett
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My first wife left me |
John Lee Hooker
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My home is on the delta |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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My John the conquer root |
Willie Dixon
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My last goodbye to you |
Big Bill Broonzy
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My man blues |
Bessie Smith
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Mystery train |
San C. Phillips, Herman Parker, Jr.
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New York town |
Woody Guthrie
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Night train |
Oscar Washington, Lewis C. Simpkins, Jimmy Forrest
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Nine below zero |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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No particular place to go |
Chuck Berry
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No place to go |
Chester Burnett
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Nobody knows the way I feel this morning |
Tom Delaney, Pearl Delaney
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Nobody knows when you're down and out |
Jimmy Cox
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Oh! Darling |
John Lennon, Paul McCartney
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On the road again |
Alan Wilson, Floyd Jones
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer |
John Lee Hooker
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One more time |
Williie Dixon
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Ooh wee |
Willie Dixon
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Paying the cost to be the boss |
B. B. King
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Peach orchard mama |
Joe Williams
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Pickpocket blues |
Bessie Smith
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Pinetop's blues |
Pinetop Smith
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Piney Brown Blues |
Joe Turner, Pete Johnson
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Please help me get him off my mind |
Bessie Smith
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Please send me someone to love |
Percy Mayfield
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Poison ivy |
Mel London
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Pride and joy |
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Prison bound |
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Rain is such a lonesome sound |
Jimmy Witherspoon, Rachel Witherspoon
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Ramblin' on my mind |
Robert Johnson
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Reconsider baby |
Lowell Fulson
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Riverside blues |
Thomas A. Dorsey, Richard M. Jones
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Road runner |
Ellas, McDaniel
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Roberta |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Rock me baby |
Joe Josea, B. B. King
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Rocking chair blues |
Bessie Smith, Irving Johns
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Roll 'em Pete |
Pete Johnson, Joe Turner
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Rollin' and tumblin' |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Rollin' stone (catfish blues) |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Royal garden blues |
Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams
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Rusty dusty blues |
J. Mayo Williams
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Saint James infirmary |
Joe Primrose
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Same thing, the |
Willies Dixon
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San Frandico Bay blues |
Jesse Fuller
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See see rider |
Ma Rainey
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Seventh son, the |
Willie Dixon
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Shady lady blues |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Shake that thing |
Papa Charlie Jackson
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Shipwrecked blues |
Spencer Williams
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Silver city bound |
Huddie Ledbetter
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Six cold feet of ground |
Leroy Carr
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Smokestack lightning |
Chester Burnett
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Some of these days |
Shelton Brooks
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Something inside of me |
Elmore James
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Sorrowful blues |
Bessie Smith
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Spoonful |
Willie Dixon
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St. Louis blues |
W. C. Handy
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Standing around crying |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Statesboro blues |
Willy McTell
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Steamroller |
James Taylor
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Stella Mae |
John Lee Hooker
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Still a fool |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Still got the blues |
Gary Moore
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Stormy weather (Keeps rainin' all the time) |
Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen
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Sugar blues |
Lucy Fletcher, Clarence Williams
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Sun's gonna shine in my door |
Big Bill Broonzy
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Sweet home Chicago |
Robert Johnson
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T-Bone shuffle |
T-Bone Walker
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Tail dragger |
Willie Dixon
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Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do |
Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins
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Take it easy baby |
Sonny Boy Williams
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Terraplane blues |
Robert Johnson
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Texas flood |
Larry C. Davis, Joseph W. Scott
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That's all right |
Arthur Crudup
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That's alright |
John Lee Hooker
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That's no way to get along |
Rev. Robert Wilkins
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They're red hot |
Robert Johnson
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Things ain't what they used to be |
Mercer Ellington
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This pain in my heart |
Willie Dixon
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Three hours past midnight |
Johnny Watson, Sam Ling
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Three hundred punds of joy |
Willie Dixon
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Three o'clock blues |
B. B. King, Jules Bihari
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Thrill is gone, the |
Roy Hawkins, Rick Darnell
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Time seems so long, the |
T-Bone Walker
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Tin roof blues |
Walter Melrose, New Orleans Rhythm Kings
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Tishomingo blues |
Spencer Williams
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Tobacco road |
John D. Loudermilk
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Tollin' bells |
Willie Dixon
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Too young to die |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Traveling riverside blues |
Robert Johnson
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Trouble in mind |
Richard M. Jones
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Trouble no more (Someday baby) |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Trying to get back on my feet |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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Tupelo (Tupelo blues) |
John Lee Hooker
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Twenty nine ways to my baby's door |
Williy Dixon
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Vicksburg blues |
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Vida Lee |
T-Bone Walker
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Walk on |
Brown McGhee, Ruth McGhee
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Walkin' blues |
Robert Johnson
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Walking through the park |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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Wang Dang Doodle |
Willey Dixon
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Wasted life blues |
Bessie Smith
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Weary blues |
Mort Greene, Goerge Cates, Artie Matthews
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Wee baby blues |
Pete Johnson, Joe Turner
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West end blues |
Joe Oliver, Clarence Williams
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(What did I do to be so) Black and blue |
Andy Razaf, Harry Brooks, Fats Waller
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When the lights go out |
Willie Dixon
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When you got a good friend |
Robert Johnson
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Whisky and wimmen |
John Lee Hooker
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Who do you love |
Ellas McDaniel
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Who's been talkin |
Chester Burnett
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Why don't you do right (Get me some money, too!) |
Joe McCoy
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Why I sing the blues |
B. B. King
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Woke up cold in hand |
Jazz Gillum
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Woman alone with the blues |
Willard Robinson
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Worried life blues |
Maceo Merriweather
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Worried man blues |
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Yellow dog blues |
W. C. Handy
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Yer blues |
John Lennon, Paul McCartney
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You can't judge a book by the cover |
Willie Dixon
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You can't lose what you ain't never had |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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You don't have to go |
Jimmy Reed
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You don't know my mind |
Virginia Liston, Samuel Gray, Clarence Williams
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You gonna need my help |
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
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You know I got to do it |
Huddie Ledbetter
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You know my love |
Willie Dixon
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You need love |
WIllie Dixon
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You shook me |
Willie Dixon, J. B. Lenoir
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Young fashioned ways (old fashioned ways) |
Willie Dixon
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Your funeral my trial |
Sonny Boy Williamson
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