Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Reminiscences of Blind Lemon, artist - Lighnin' Hopkins. Date of issue: 22.06.2017
Song language: English
Reminiscences of Blind Lemon |
| Yes, it’s been a long time but you know |
| I can remember some things that we used to do |
| I was playing with him when I was 8 years old |
| That would’ve made me such a guitar player in a way |
| Of speaking, because he never learnt me a note |
| But he’d always play it in front of me |
| And I’d do that on my own in a way of speaking at this |
| We had gone a long ways together, and |
| And we used to play together at a place you call |
| Buffalo, Texas, that was our signified going towards Dallas |
| The last I heard of Blind Lemon, he was in Dallas |
| And, so I heard that he got frozen up past |
| So I didn’t know, he was nice to me in every way |
| And I appreciated everything he’s done |
| And he used to holler at me, said «Boy, you better play it right» |
| And I’d go 'head on and play with him, and he say |
| «You know there’s one kind of favor I’ll ask to you» |
| And you see me and him would just Cadillac, at you know |
| And I just come on up to be one of them peoples, now |
| I’m an old man now, nearby old |
| 'Cause I think I’m 16 tomorrow, ha haha, yeah |
| (When did you first hear him |
| What town did you first hear him) |
| Well the first the man was in Waxahachie |
| Waxahachie, Texas, now it was fixin' to be a sensation |
| At the Buffalo, Texas, uh, that we come and we |
| So we all got together and went up there |
| We rode a flat back '25 truck, mall truck |
| Yeah, all us just crowed up on the road |
| Better than to hear him singin' and all, so |
| I played with him |
| (Was he well known with your buddies?) |
| Well known, well known up there, that was his home |
| Where he was bred and born, his mother, daddy |
| And everything |
| Brothers, cousins all up there, up in there |
| (What'd he look like?) |
| Oh he was a great big fat dog man with big stomach |
| He’d lay that guitar 'cross his stomach, man, it was a shame |
| See and the guitar stick out way towards his chin |
| Yeah, yeah he had that much stomach way back, haha |
| (Was anybody there leading him around |
| Or did he get around on his own?) |
| No, he wouldn’t like leading 'cause you see |
| You called him blind, you know, don’t call him blind |
| 'Cause he done never, he did never feel like he blind |
| 'Cause he’s always like that, born like that, you see |