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Lightnin' Hopkins - Its A Sin To Be Rich, Its A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Morning Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Shotgun Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Give Me Back That Wig
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Home In The Woods
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Affair
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Never Miss Your Water
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke Up This Morning
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Your Own Fault Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Abilene
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Aint It Crazy
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Another Fool In Town
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Back Door Friend
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bald Headed Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Big Black Cadillac Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bring Me My Shotgun
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Burnin In L.A.
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Conversation Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Death Bells
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Gambler's Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin Back Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin To Dallas To See My Pony Run
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy Blues For John Glenn
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Highway Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I Worked Down On The Chaing Gang
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'll Be Gone
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Tired Of Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jake Head Boogie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Night Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Way From Texas
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama's Baby Child
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Miss Loretta
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mr. Charlie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Black Name
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Pneumonia Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Santa Fe Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Howling Wolf
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Too Many Drivers
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder Why
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Ghost Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues For My Cookie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Breakfast Time
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Lightnin' Hopkins - California Landslide
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Lightnin' Hopkins - California Showers
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Candy Kitchen
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Catfish Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Cemetery Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffee Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Contrary Mary
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Darling, Do You Remember Me?
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Keep My Baby Long
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Everything
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Feel So Bad
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Found My Baby Cryin'
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Fugitive Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grandma Told Grandpa
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grievance Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grosebeck Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Hard To Love A Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I Asked The Bossman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Coming Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jailhouse Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Life I Used To Live
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Little School Girl
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Dog Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Graveyard
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Way From Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Love Me This Mornin'
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lovin' Arms
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama And Papa Hopkins
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mistreated Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Grandpa Is Old Too
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Suggestion
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Lightnin' Hopkins - No Education
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Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor I Ask Of You
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Picture On The Wall
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Prison Blues Come Down On Me
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Ride In Your New Automobile
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Rosie Mae
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Sail On Little Girl
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Smokes Like Lightnin
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Some Day Baby
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Stool Pigeon Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Talkin' Some Sense
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Lightnin' Hopkins - That Woman Named Mary
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Foot Race Is On
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Tim Moore's Farm
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Vietnam War
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Lightnin' Hopkins - War News Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Where She Used To Lay
Mr. Charlie
Lightnin' Hopkins
would go to the table with his little two sisters and brothers, you know,
he would go there, he couldn't talk but his mother didn't know what
was wrong with him so... she would go to the table in the morning, she
would fix for breakfast, she'd fix toast and coffee, enough, coffee for
the tin, toast for the eggs for the church, then she would ask and say,
"what you want this morning?" Oh mama, toast and milk, you know
things like that you know. But the little old boy he couldn't talk good,
so she asked him say "what you want son"? Said "sa-sa-a I want-t
t-t-t-" She said "Hush". Say "I tell you what to do. You just hush, I just
go bring you what I bring the rest of 'em, cause one of these days I'm
gonna learn you how to talk."
She goin' back and she fixes, the next morning same thing. "So what
would you children want this morning?" "Butter 'n toast mama." Get
around to the little old boy, say "What you want"? He say, "bu-bu-bu-
bu-bu-bu..." she say "Lord, have mercy," that's what mama said and
she walked away, say "wonder what's wrong with my child?"
He heard her. But you know the little boy couldn't do no better. So
after he'd find out that mama couldn't understand him, and he couldn't
understand the way his mama was doin' him, he packed up his little
flower sack, and he decide that he would leave.
So when he left, on his way, he run up on a old rollin' mill, what they
call Mister Charlie's. So he walked up to mister Charlie, mister Charlie
was workin' round in his rose bushes 'n things... so he taps him: "mi-mi-mi..." say "Mister!" But he didn't know his name that time. The man-acapo