What's Your Favorite Blues Line?

[Don Ro]

Must be thousands of them.
Not the best stanza or the best song lyrics, but just the line.
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A big fan of Mississippi John Hurt, I was playing one of his tunes, CC Rider (Easy Rider) on my guitar yesterday.
Here's one of my favorite lines:
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"Ain't no more potatoes, the frost have killed the vine..
Well, the blues ain't nothin' but a good woman on your mind." - Ma Rainey(?)
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Another:
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"Lots of people talkin', few of them know... the soul of a woman was created below." - Led Z
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Oops, maybe not Ma Rainey...but Chuck Willis?

[livi]

From the top of my head and some would probably not even call it blues, but I do.

Whitesnake

- Would I lie to you... just to get into your pants?

- He he... I THINK SO!

[ForBell]

"They accuse me of forgery, and I can't even write my name"

[Nostril Cheese]

Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a
sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you
had some meat...

[RWebb]

Cissy Strut!

[imcarthur]

You got a boy child's comin'

Ian

[Gogar]

Woke up this Mornin'

[Seahawk]

They call me Back Door Santa
I make my runs about the break of day
They call me Back Door Santa
I make my runs about the break of day
I make all the little girls happy
While the boys are out to play

I ain't like the old Saint Nick
He don't come but once a year
I ain't like the old Saint Nick
He don't come but once a year
I come runnin' with my presents
Every time you call me dear

I keep some change in my pocket, in case the children are home
I give 'em a few pennies so that we can be alone
I leave the back door open so if anybody smells a mouse
And wouldn't old Santa be in trouble if there ain't no chimney in the house

[ForBell]

"You men eat yo dinner, eat yo pork n beans...
I eats mo chicken any man ever seen." Back Door Man (Muddy Waters?)

[azasadny]

"My woman so mean, I ask for water and she gives me gasoline"

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by Gogar

Woke up this Mornin'

...with the Monday mornin' blues" - Monday Morning Blues

[craigster59]

Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die.

[UconnTim97]

Hull and Oates

[on2wheels52]

Ain't but one way out.....

[Flieger]

[MRM]

It's 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing shades.

Hit it.

[mikesride]

Cause if my baby don't love me no more.......
I know her sister will!!!!

[Moses]

The tar in the street starts to melt from the heat
And the sweats runnin' down from my hair
I walked 20 miles and I'm dragging my feet
And I'll walk 20 more I don't care

-Jonny Lang


If the river was whiskey
And I was a diving duck
I would dive to the bottom, and baby I would drink my way up.

-Taj Mahal


I've been a long time leavin'
But it'll be a long time gone.

-Waylon Jennings (Roger Miller)

Some folk built like this
Some folk built like that
But the way I'm built
Don't you call me fat
Because I'm built for comfort
I ain't built for speed
But I got everything
All you good girls need

-Howlin Wolf

[GWN7]

"Been down so G****m long it looks like up to me"

Been Down So Damn Long - The Doors - YouTube

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Flieger

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