Wednesday, April 4, 2007

You can't live with them and you can't live without them


Hi everyone!

I´ve been listening to Lonnie Johnson's: The Complete Folkways Recordings, it's a great one.
The lyrics are fantastic, All he sings about is love, broken hearts and evil women -which he has to get rid of...
Here is one, (I think the first line is absolutely mind blowing, -this lady is brutal!)


Juice Headed Baby
My baby ‘s so evil she can’t sleep straight in the bed.
My baby ‘s so evil she can’t sleep straight in a bed.
She gets full of wine at night and wish that everybody was dead.

I’ve got a juice headed baby, stays drunk all the time.
I’ve got a juice head baby, stays drunk all the time.
Funny thing ‘s I’m in love with this evil woman, she’s drivin’ me out my mind.

She starts to drinkin’ early in the mornin’, drink until she can’t hold no more.
Starts to drinkin’ early in the mornin’, drink until she can’t hold no more.
Then she gets evil with the world, comes back home and kick down the door.

She ‘s got a blackjack under the pillow, sawed off shotgun layin’ ‘side the bed.
She ‘s got a blackjack under the pillow, sawed off shotgun layin’ ‘side the bed.
If you try to put your arms around her, she ‘s ready to go up side your head.

She ‘s about the evilest woman, I ever had in my life.
She ‘s ‘bout the evilest woman, I ever had in my life.
Sometimes I don’t think she ‘s really human, she must have been the devil’s wife.

But some day I’ll get rid of her, get rid of my baby somehow.
Some day I’ll get rid of her, get rid of my baby somehow.
‘Cause I found out she ‘s too evil, and I can’t cuddle no how.

1 comment:

Anthony B said...

Lonnie Johnson is often spine-shivering, touches a place I don't even know where. Draws you in with his sweetness and guitar playing, and then the wickedness.

Hey, did you ever here this one: "You can't live with 'em, and you can't shoot 'em"? Apply that as you wish.