What's Getting Wrong With You - John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson

Big Bill Broonzy — vocal

John Lee Williamson — harmonica

Chicago July 30, 1942

With Blind John Davis — piano, Big Bill Broonzy — guitar

Alfred Elkins — imb

The Essential Recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson

Indigo Recording Ltd IGOCD 2014

Yeah, the day I met her

Long, old lonesome day

Why don’t you hear me talkin'?

Pretty mama, listen to what I’m sayin'

We-ell, that day I found you

A long old lonesome day

Well, an' it seem like tomorrow

I’ll be the same old way

Well, tell me baby

What’s gettin' wrong wit’ch you?

Why don’t you hear me, pretty mama

Listen to what I’m sayin', bay-by?

Tell me baby

Baby, what’s gettin' wrong wit’ch you, now?

Well, ya don’t treat me nothin'

Baby, like you used to do

(You got it John, take it an' keep it!)

(harmonica — Sonny Boy & instrumental)

Now, an remember babe

I kneeled down on your flo'?

Why don’t you hear me Or listen to what I’m sayin'?

Yee-eah, remember baby

When I kneeled down on the floor, now?

A-now but if you forgive me this time

I won’t never do that no mo'

Now, but I’m goin' downtown

See the chief police

Why don’t ya hear me talkin'

Or listen to what I’m sayin'?

Yee-eay, goin' downtown

A-see the chief police

Now because these women 'round here

A-won't let me see no peace.