Future Blues

Tuning: Spanish - DGDGBD
Date transcribed:
March 14, 2024
Reference audio: YouTube
Video lesson: YouTube

i. Sheet music / tablature

Transcribed by Blahnok

ii. Slow-downer / pitch shifter

iii. Notes

This is 1 of 2 recordings that Willie Brown recorded in August 1930 for Paramount records, released as Paramount 13090. Brown uses the descending bass run, similar to Son House on Jinx Blues or Charley Patton on Revenue Man Blues.

Lyrics

Can't tell my future<br>And I can't tell my past<br>Can't tell my future<br>And I can't tell my past<br>Lord, it seems like every minute<br>Sure gonna be my last<br><br>The minutes seems like hours<br>And hours seems like days<br>The minutes seems like hours<br>And hours seems like days<br>And it seems like my woman<br>Outta stop her low down ways<br><br>The woman I love now<br>She's five feet from the ground<br>I said, the woman I love now<br>Lordy, five feet from the ground<br>And she's tailor made<br>And ain't no hand me down<br><br>Lord, and I got a woman now<br>Lordy, she's lightnin when she<br>Lightnin' when she, lightnin' smile<br>I say, I got a woman<br>Lord, and she's lightnin when she smiles<br>Five feet and four inches<br>And she's damn good lookin' size<br>