Lord, Send Me An Angel - Blind Willie McTell
2:55
single, 1933
Written by Blind Willie McTell
I really don't think there's anyone quite like Blind Willie McTell; there's no overstating his songwriting and influence. In addition to being a great 12-string player with a unique voice, he wrote songs that mixed the profane, the lecherous, and the surreal in a brew sampled often in the later works of Bob Dylan. This song begins with the narrator asking God for an angel; the best God can send him is a "teasin' brown." Some verses boasting of his attractiveness to women follow, and then, in a whiplash-causing change of topic, some advice about not eating black hens' eggs, and: "My baby studyin' evil, and I'm studyin' evil too / I'm gonna hang round here to see what my babe gon' do." He has three women after him! "One is Atlanta yellow, another one Macon brown / But the Statesboro darkskin will turn your damper down." So... now you're forewarned.
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