2:27
single, 1953
Written by Frankie Lee Sims and Ishman Bracey
Sims was Lightnin' Hopkins' cousin, and only issued nine singles during his career. The songwriting credit on this one goes to Sims and Ishman Bracey, who wrote the very similar "Saturday Blues" in 1928. It's a slinky electric blues, in which the narrator has a lady for every day of the week, but "Better not let my, good gal catch you here / Ain't no tellin' what poor little Lucy Mae do." Sims sings the lyrocs in a mush-mouth growl as his guitar does all the heavy lifting. I like the line "She left one Christmas coming back that afternoon / Next time I see her, boy, it was the nineteenth of June."
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