Good Old 51 Highway Trk 20 2:33

'Jazz' Bill Gillum (William McKinley Gillum)

(Bill Gillum)

Bill Gillum & His Jazz Boys

Jazz Gillum - vocal & hmc with Big Bill Broonzy - guitar, unk bass

prob. Washboard Sam (Robert Brown) - washbrd

Recorded: Aurora, Ill., Thursday June 16th, 1938

Album: Bill 'Jazz' Gillum The Bluebird Recordings 1934 -1938

Bluebird 66717-2 RCA, BMG 1997.

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com







My baby woke up this mornin'

And she said she highway bound

Yes, my baby woke up this mornin'

An she said she highway bound

She wanna find Number 51

That the main highway outta town



She wouldn't even talk to me

Didn't have a word to say

She wouldn't even talk to me

Didn't have a word to say

She asked all her friends

Where she could find 51 Highway



Tell her, I feel like takin' my suitcase

An sittin' down on a lonesome highway

I feel like takin' my suitcase

An sittin' down on a lonesome highway

So (she) if she leave out on Number 51

I'll overtake her just 'fore day



(harmonica & instrumental)



If I had my machine

I wouldn't worry about her leavin' town

If I had my machine

I wouldn't worry about her leaving town

'Cause I'd hit that 51 Highway

Lord know, I'd roll that highway down.



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