Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Canonical path: /blind-lemon-jefferson/oil-well-blues
Related lyric paths: 6
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Oil Well Blues
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Oil Well Blues
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There ain't nothing mama : no use
There's a long distance well : and it's blowing oil that's all
Ain't nothing to hurt you : it ain't nothing that's bad
It's the first oil well : that *your* ??? ever had
I'm a long distance driller : and I work every country through
Going to stop working : if I bring in this well for you
I'm a mean old well driller : and I been a driller since I been a man
Ain't going to stop drilling : till I strikes that *Woodburn sand*
I got a [mean] reputation : and they call me Drilling Sam
When I starts to drilling : you hear women hollering too black bad
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Blind Lemon Jefferson performs "Oil Well Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Blind Lemon Jefferson catalog on LyroVerse.
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