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W.C. Handy called Joe Turner the “granddaddy of blues.” (source: Sandburg)
Lyrics
(W.C. Handy, 1915)
They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone. (repeat)
Oh Lordy, got my man and gone.
See also
- Subject: blues
- Harmony: I IV V chords
- Source: Making Music Your Own, Grade 6, Silver Burdett Company, 1965 / Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
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- Song with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
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