M & O Blues

portrait of willie brown with guitarWillie Brown
  • Tuning: Standard - EADGBE
  • Date transcribed:
    March 24, 2025
  • Reference audio: YouTube
  • Video lesson: YouTube

i. Sheet music / tablature

Transcribed by Blahnok

ii. Slow-downer / pitch shifter

iii. Notes

This is one of the few recordings which persist of Willie Brown. It is played in E-position, in standard tuning.

iv. Lyrics

I leave here I'm going to catch that M&O
Now when I leave here I'm going to catch that M&O
I'm going way down South where I ain't never been before

Once I had a notion, Lord, and I believe I will
Once I had a notion, Lord, and I believe I will
I'm going to build me a mansion out on Decatur Hill

Now it's all of you men oughta be ashamed of yourself
It is all of you men oughta be ashamed of yourself
Going 'round here swearing before God you got a poor woman by yourself

I started to kill my woman till she laid down across the bed
I started to kill my woman till she laid down across the bed
And she looked so ambitious till I took back everything I said

And I asked her how about it, Lord, and she said "All right"
And I asked her how about it, Lord, and she said "All right"
But she never showed up at the shack last night