Heart full of trouble
Weighin' down like lead
Prayin' to Jesus
I don't wake up dead
Saw a man hangin'
From a cypress tree
I seen the ones who done it
Now they comin' after me
With a razor in my hand
I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bones
Call it the blues
Runnin' an' hidin'
Did I hear a hound bark?
Sleepin' by day
Movin' after dark
Headed for Chicago
With a heavy load
Tryin' to get to Memphis
On a midnight road
With a razor in my hand
I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bones
Call it the blues
Tell you people
If you dare to hear
It's a crime an' a shame
The way we're livin' in fear
It's not God's will
To keep the Black man down
With your еvil Jim Crow
An' your sundown towns
With a razor in my hand
People, I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bonеs
Call it the blues
Weighin' down like lead
Prayin' to Jesus
I don't wake up dead
Saw a man hangin'
From a cypress tree
I seen the ones who done it
Now they comin' after me
With a razor in my hand
I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bones
Call it the blues
Runnin' an' hidin'
Did I hear a hound bark?
Sleepin' by day
Movin' after dark
Headed for Chicago
With a heavy load
Tryin' to get to Memphis
On a midnight road
With a razor in my hand
I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bones
Call it the blues
Tell you people
If you dare to hear
It's a crime an' a shame
The way we're livin' in fear
It's not God's will
To keep the Black man down
With your еvil Jim Crow
An' your sundown towns
With a razor in my hand
People, I don't wanna use
Got a song in my bonеs
Call it the blues
Contributed by Pluck - 2025/11/14 - 19:41
"Delta Getaway" dice di un tempo in cui la meta era chiara ma abbandonare la piantagione per andare a Chicago non era facile. I latrati dei cani sono proprio dietro di te. Dormi di giorno e cammini la notte. La rabbia stringe un coltello che non vuoi usare. Il ritmo è cardiaco, inseguitore e fuggitivo.
Fonte: Eric Bibb, Migration Blues - Mescalina
Fonte: Eric Bibb, Migration Blues - Mescalina
Pluck - 2025/11/16 - 23:23
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The vast majority of the album is dark, and brooding.
“Delta Getaway,” speaks of trying to leave Mississippi for the Northern promised land in the 1920s. With hounds on his trail, threats of lynching, and Jim Crow laws surrounding him, the traveler is defended only by a razor in his hand that he doesn’t want to use, and a song in his bones that keeps him going.
Fonte : Migration Blues - Eric Bibb's Most Powerful Album