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Wayward Son Blues - 12 string guitar blues - Lottie Kimbrough

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Channel: daddystovepipe · 2014 · Music

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http://www.daddystovepipe.com/
My version and adaptation of "Wayward Girl Blues" by Lottie Kimbrough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Kimbrough
Do listen to her version as it's one of the milestones of country blues.(as well as her other songs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8he-yirtj0

I'm playing this on a Gibson LG12 from around 1969.
I'm tuned down to C# and playing out of E position. I'm also using a second high G string which gives the hammmers on the third string and the chords up the neck an eerie quality.
The original song is played in F position using a high B string. 

Another good version is performed by the Carolina Chocolate Drops, also played out of E position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2eE9rWOjs

I've got the blues from my mother's knee
And I know she's got the blues for me (Hey, hey)

I've been thinking all day, thinking of the past
And I'm thinking of my mother last(Oh, Lord!)

I received a letter, what do you suppose it read?(What'd it say?)
Says, "Come home, your poor old mother's dead."(What'd you do?)

Then I grabbed a train, I went home a-flying
She wasn't dead but she was slowly dying

Said, "Run here, daughter, fall down on your knees.
Won't you sing, "Nearer My god, to Thee"?"

Fell on my knees, I began to moan
"Yes, dear mother, I'll try to sing that song."

HUMMED/YODELED VOCAL INTERLUDE

GUITAR SOLO

The tears rolled down like the black showers of rain
"Goodbye, mother, I won't see you again."

Then I scampered away with fear in my heart
I had no mother here to take my part

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