Blues Baby Poem by Lightman George Garrett Anastasia

Baby Blues
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.
Big mama Thorton
singing Hound Dog Man.'
The howling wolf
Howling, clear across the land.
Brothers, Albert and B.B King
making Lucile cry.
Chasing those blues into the by and by.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi
where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.

When blues had a baby and
They called it rock n' roll.

And theres Robert Johnson
playing his great blues.
Playing the owners wife he had to pay his dues.
He slipped him a hot shot
in his bottle of juice.
The dues he had to pay there was no antibuse.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.

We had a blind keyboard man
Singing Baby Shake That Thing.
And a white boy named Elvis They ended up calling King.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.

Mr. Deon sings Sony Boy You Better Stop Drinking That Wine.
Or you'll wake up one morning
And you'll be out of time.
There was Janis Joplin
Tells lifes a ball and chain.
She kept on taking something
To get rid of the pain.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.

Theres Lady Eita James thought
She sing the blues no more.
Until she woke up one morning
And her sugars on the floor.
And Mr. T.J Hooker Steady stayed the jam.
Fell in a mess of blues
And fit right in the plain.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.

They took the blues
up to Texas.
Gave it to a guitar man by
the name of Stevie Ray.
He mixed country with the blues And the world heard him play.
Stevie Ray pluged it in and
Ran it through the juice.
Came up with a new jam Then he turned it loose.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down in Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll.

Its up in the trees
In the song of a bird.
In everything you see and everything you've heard.
Its in the soul of the living And they feel it as they die.
And starts on the first day As a new born baby cries.
Way down south where the muddy waters ran.
Down the Mississippi where the blues began.
Blues had a baby they called it Rock N' Roll.
It touched everybody's heart and shook everybody's soul.
When blues had a baby and
they called it rock n' roll.
GEORGE GARRETT ANASTASIA
NCR/SENT FOR
07/15/2008