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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bring Me My Shotgun
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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 - Woke Up This Morning
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Night Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Ghost Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy Blues For John Glenn
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama And Papa Hopkins
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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 - Bad Luck And Trouble
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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 - Black Cat
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues For My Cookie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Breakfast Time
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Burnin In L.A.
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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 - Conversation Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Darling, Do You Remember Me?
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Death Bells
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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 - Gambler's Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Give Me Back That Wig
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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 - 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 - Highway Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Home In The Woods
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I Asked The Bossman
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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 Coming Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Tired Of Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jailhouse Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jake Head Boogie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Affair
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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 - Long Way From Texas
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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 Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama's Baby Child
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Miss Loretta
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mistreated Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Morning Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mr. Charlie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Black Name
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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 - Never Miss Your Water
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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 - Pneumonia Blues
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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 - Santa Fe Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Shotgun Blues
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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 - The Howling Wolf
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Tim Moore's Farm
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Too Many Drivers
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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
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder Why
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Your Own Fault Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
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
