All you blues fans please take part in this and we can make a published Poetbay folk blues. All due acknowledgements will be accorded


Poetbay Folk Blues challenge by M.A.Meddings

During the late 1950 and early 1960s I was involved in the resurgence of interest on the UK folk music scene with American Folk blues. Singers Such as Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind lemon Jefferson Charlie Patton, Big Bill Broonsey, Sonny Terry and Brownie Mghee and a host of others were legends in their own right. They were lauded by visitors to the many folk and Jazz clubs that were formed around that scene

I sang the blues to ease aching hearts and true to the tradition of The American Folk blues, whereby the singer sang to ease a troubled mind, I ignored the advice of one celebrated blues verse viz:

'I am gonna
Lay down my head
On that lonesome
Railroad line
And let that midnight freight train
Pacify my mind'

And turned to a blues by Blind Lemmon Jefferson called

'If You Have Ever Been Down '

The first verse is as follows

If you've ever been down
Lord you know How I feel
I feel like an engine
Ai'nt got no, No Drivin wheel

My challenge to all you blues fans is to add more verses of your own in a similar format and spirit the aim to ease the troubled minds of all you lovelorn souls
And avoid any drastic measures. My next two original verses are added to start the challenge. For the record a 'Black cat bone' was a good luck mojo taken from the skeleton of a black cat.

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If you'd ever seen the darkness
Lord that's in my mind
I ain't seen no sunshine
Since I don't know when

Gonna get to leavin now
Yes my lonesesome home
I am headin down the highway
Aint carryin no 'black cat bone'









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Written on 2006-08-29 at 10:04

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kath
what a nice idea, I will try but I am not all to sure I will manage ......... :)
2006-08-30


Judy T Lloyd
But I am still leavin,
leaving these blues behind you see.
Cause if I look back,
they might catch up a with me.
2006-08-30



A great challenge, hero!
Just yesterday I was here, singing a barbershop arrangement of the San Francisco Bay Blues along with the other 3/4 of our brand new quartet :)))
I'll give this a try, pal!
2006-08-29