special rider blues

Special Rider Blues 5:09 Trk 5
Nehemiah Curtis Skip James
Skip James - vocal, guitar and piano
Album: Blues From The Delta
From Vanguard Today! album 1966
Vanguard Records CD 96517-2 1998
I aint got no, special rider here
I aint got no, no special rider here
I aint got nobody
To love and feel my care
(guitar)
I woke up this monin
Looked at spec-special risin sun
I woke up this monin
I looked at special risin sun
Now, I pray up to the good Lord
That my special rider, she would come
(guitar)
I got up off-a my pallet
I laid down cross my bed
I got up off my pallet
An I laid down across my bed
When I went to eat my breakqast
An the blues was all in my bread
(guitar)
You know, I got a letter
How do you reckin it read?
I got a letter
An how do you reckin it read?
You better hur up an come home
Because yo special rider, shes dead
Thats the reason I aint
Got no special rider
Rider, here
Thats the reason I aint
Got no special rider, here
Now, I aint got nobody
To love and feel my care.
(guitar to end)
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