Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/01/07

You may search the ocean, you might go 'cross the deep blue sea

But Mama, you'll never find another hot shot like me

I followed my baby from the station to the train

And the blues came down like night and showered me

I left her at the station wringing her hands and crying

I told her she had a home, just as long as I had mine

I've got two women, and you can't tell them apart

I've got one in my bossom, and one I got in my heart

The one in my bossom, she's in Tennessee

And the one in my heart, don't even give a darn for me

I used to say a married woman was the sweetest thing that ever been born

But I've changed that thing, you better leave married women alone

Take my advice: let these married women be

'Cause their husbands'll grab you, beat you ragged as a cedar tree

When a woman say she love you 'bout good as she do herself,

I don't pay her no attention, tell that same line to somebody else

I really don't believe no woman in the whole round world do right,

act like an angel in the daytime, mess by the ditch at night

I'm going, pretty mama, please don't break this rule;

that's why I'm searching these deserts for the blues

I'm going, pretty mama, searching these deserts now

That's why I'm walking my baby home anyhow

Lord, oh Lord

Lordy, Lordy, Lord

Oh Lordy Lord

Lord, Lord, Lord

When a woman say she love you 'bout good as she do herself,

I don't pay her no attention, tell that same line to somebody else

Lord, Lord

Lord, Lord, Lord

Comments

9 years ago

LuvBlues64

Know one sang The Blues like Willie Mctell...

9 years ago

Distant Field Productions

This is the greatest song ever

9 years ago

Phase One

Ugh. Jack White is no Bluesman.

9 years ago

BIG TASTE

my friend pop eye RIP played this all the time and we drank pop whisky down in Mississippi one of the realist person i have ever known 

9 years ago

Israel Nungaray

Amazing. Pure and raw but pristine at the same time. Jack White mashed up this song along with "Three Women Blues" in his version of "Lord, send me an angel" (also known as "Ticket agent blues" back in 2000. In my opinion, it's a very good cover by The White Stripes. 

9 years ago

Gulam Bogans

One of the coolest songs I have ever heard!

9 years ago

Kenneth Terrell

Its so incredible that these WBM recordings survived in such good condition. Hallaluhuh, and thank God for youtube as a repository for such important historical recordings.

10 years ago

lhasa7

Line 4: “And the blues came down like dark night showers of rain”

10 years ago

idiotboxx999

That makes me feel so good baby

10 years ago

Barbara Salisbury

Blind Willie McTell was not a parakeet and this recording is 3 clicks or 1 1/2 steps TOO FAST-"Searchin' The Desert For The Blues"was recorded as the key and PITCH of G NOT Bb-sounds like dodoly squat-no wonder he said "every time he recorded it always came to greif"-see chris young does mctell-Chris Young 2013

10 years ago

kushasaures

I was just going to make the correction, it looks like you beat me to it... by a couple years ;)

10 years ago

Tomas Gonzalez

For anyone wondering the tuning for this one is C tuning ( 2 steps down), hope this helps someone

10 years ago

Jimmylikesfuzz

Best 12 string player ever.

10 years ago

Neil Devlin Shield

The source....incredible!

10 years ago

Jamie Bambie

I,m in a kind of desert too , but Blind Willie showed me the way out .Thanks for this great song Willie ,R.I.P.

10 years ago

bornfedslaughter

I fucking love willie mctell

11 years ago

3006khz

And Ticket Agent Blues, & Talkin' To Myself. I think there's another one too. I believe they were all recorded under different names

11 years ago

simplethunder

Damn, you missed the point so hard it's not even funny.

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