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Have You Ever Been Lonely?
Writers: Burnside/Explosion
From:
A Ass Pocket of Whiskey (LP, US)
Source: Transcribed by Pop-Catastrophe.co.uk
nb. Text in RED is unconfirmed, text in BLUE is sung by Jon Spencer.
Hold it Mr Barnes, hold it
Hold it Mr Barnes, hold it

I'm so lonely
Hey!

Lonely
Hey
Up in my Mississippi
Yeah
I'm lonely in Mississippi
Well
Blues
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah

R.L. Burnside

Hey
Have you ever been lonely?
Lotta times you know?
Yeah?
Have you ever been lonely in Hollis Springs, Mississippi?
E-red, Yeah!
Well
The main thing
Hoooo
Well, Hey
Yeah
Lonely
Yeah
Lonely
Yeah
Feeling bad
Yeah
Way down
Yeah
Low down
Yeah
Low down
Yeah
Low down
Yeah
Awwwww
Well

Hey
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Talkin' 'bout the blues
Yeah

Yeah
Feeling so bad
Yeah

Yeah
Yeah
Talking 'bout the blues
Yeah
Yeah
Feeling so bad
Yeah

Yeah
Hey
Yeah

Well
Yeah

Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeah
Hey
Yeaaaaahhhh
Lonely
Lonely
Wooooaahhh
Wooooaahhh
Wooooaahhh
Wooooaahhh
Wooooaahhh

Owwwwwww
Hey
Well
You know I'm lonely man
Owwwwwww
Wooo-weeee
I feel so bad
Feeling blue
Hey
Yeah

Yeah

Yeah
Uh
I got the blues
Uh
Talking bout the blues
Talking bout the blues
Hey, the blues
Yeah
Low-down dirty blues
I'm getting low, low, low, low, low
Yeah

Well, well
ohh-hooo
Well
Well
Yeah

R.L.
Get with it, you don't know when you got the blues
Lotta people don't know
I don't know
When you really got the blues
You start coming home, late that night
Yeah
You meet your cat coming out the drive way and the first thing you meet
The first thing he says to ya "she ain't her, she ain't here, she ain't here"
You know then you got the blues man
Woaoowwww
You got the blues
Get in the house, you know what it's all about
Look in the closet, she got all her clothes out, you got the blues then
That's when you got the blues
Ask me if I had the blues
Told 'em hell yeah, from my head down to my shoes
Hey
Yeah
Awwwwwwww, ha, ha, ha
Hey
Waaaaaaaaa
Hey
I got that lonely feeling
Feeling bad
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
I said
Yeaaaaaa
Yeah
Yeah
Blues, blues, blues, blues
I got the blues, blues, blues
Hey
Blues
Hey
Blues
Blues
Hey, Hey
Hey
Blues
Low down dirty blues
Hey
 
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