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Cypress Grove

by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

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1.
Hard Times 02:54
Well it’s hard time here people Everywhere I go These hard times got me on a greasy floor Got me on so greasy floor If I ever get up off of This old greasy floor I’ll never drop down this low, low I’ll never drop down this low, low This low no more No more This low no more No more I say now papa lordy mamma So and so My papa o my momma So and so My papa o my momma So and so So and so So and so So and so
2.
I‘d rather be dead Dead on some old side of the road I’d rather be dead Dead on some old side of the road Dead and have a woman I can’t control When you body start achin’ And your body start to get cold When your body start achin’ And your body start to get cold You know about that You headed for some old side of the road
3.
Said if I were the Catfish Swimming it on Deep blue sea I’d have all the women Swimmin’ after me Swimmin’ after me Said I love You black woman And I love Your husband too Well now the reason I love him Wanna go home, home with you Wanna go home, home with you Said I’m broke Broke and hungry I’m dirty Dirty and raggly too But if I clean up Can I go home, Can I go home Home with you, home with you I don’t want to be no crappie I don’t want to be no, no bullfrog If I can’t be a catfish I don’t want to be no fish at all
4.
Yes I’m going away With you on my mind I’m going away Worry you off my mind You keep keep me worried Bothered all the time If you don’t want me Please don’t dog me around Yeah if you don’t want me Woman please don’t dog me around Yes I got to spy on you Before I can put you down
5.
Rock Me 04:16
Rock me momma Honey rock me all, all night long Rock Me, Rock Me Honey all night long Well I want you to rock me Just a like my back ain’t got no bone I want you to roll me Just like you roll me Wagon wheel Yes I want you to roll me, roll me Just like child rolls a wagon wheel I know you got a husband Just don’t get me killed I hear somebody knockin’ On your front door I hear somebody knockin’ Up on your front door Might be your husband, might be your husband I sure don’t know One thing woman One thing I want to know I want you to keep on rolling with me Until I tell you to don’t roll with me no more Rock me Rock me Rock me one time before I go
6.
I got a little red rooster Can’t get that rooster To crow for days Yes I got a little red rooster Can’t get him to crow ‘fore day But you know he keeps all my hens satisfied You know in, every way If sometime tomorrow Anytime tomorrow, you hear your dog begin to howl If sometime tomorrow Your ‘ole dog begin to howl You better go check your hen out Think my rooster on the prowl
7.
I said come back baby I said come back baby please Come back baby Try me one more time I know it was nothing but the devil Make you change your mind Woke up early this morning Woke up real early this morning Yes I woke up early this monring Had that woman on my mind I said come back woman please come back Try me one more time Laid down last night Yes I laid down last night Yes I laid down last night Trying to get my rest But you know my mind My mind got a ramblin’ Like a wild geese from the west
8.
All night long All night long All night long All night long I’ve been a waiting on my woman All night long All night long I’ve been a waiting on my woman To come home All night long All night long I’ve been waiting All night long All night long All night long
9.
If you keep on livin Man you gonna get old Gonna get old someday If you keep on livin Boy if you keep on livin I swear you sure will get old Old someday You gonna wake up one morning Look in the mirror You gonna be bald, bald and grey Yes I said I was gonna stop drinking And I was gonna stop running around Yes I said I was gonna stop drinking And I was gonna stop runnin around I said I wasn’t gonna wait until I got old Before I settled down How do you know when you get old Yeah Let me tell ya when you get old I’m gonna tell you something I swear is true You’re gonna wake up one morning, one morning And you can’t do the things you used to do
10.
Train Train 02:58
Train, train Going down the railroad track Train, train Going down the railroad track I wonder, I wonder Is it gonna bring my baby back Tell me one train Train at midnight Yeah they tell me one train Train at midnight One train Ran just before day I wonder, I wonder What train carried my gal away
11.
Two Women 04:08
Tell me, tell me My woman better be hangin round Hanging round the county jail Yes they tell me, they tell My woman been hangin round, hanging round The county jail tell me she makes a whole lot of money Going from cell, cell to cell Yes I got a little bitty woman And I got a big bedroom woman too Yes I got a little bitty woman And I got a fat woman too You know my little bitty sure can cook I can’t tell you what my fat woman can do My fat woman told me My fat woman told me I’m gonna do something for you Jimmy Duck But you sure got to keep it to yourself My fat woman told me I’m gonna do something for you Jimmy Duck But you sure got to keep it to yourself She said what I’m gonna do for you Jimmy Duck I swear I wouldn’t do to nobody else

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72-year-old bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ new album, the Dan Auerbach produced Cypress Grove, captures the raw, explosive sound of real Mississippi Juke-Joint Blues today. Cypress Grove is an aural postcard of a typical Saturday night at Holmes’ Blue Front Café, America’s longest operating juke joint. The album is anchored by tradition — which is natural, since Holmes is the last of the original torchbearers of the rural style known as Bentonia blues—but it’s also explosive, raw, and unpredictably in the moment.

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released October 18, 2019

Produced by Dan Auerbach
Recorded and Engineered by M. Allen Parker at Easy Eye Sound
Assistant Engineering by Alex Skelton and Caleb VanBuskirk
Mixed by M. Allen Parker and Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound
Mastered by Richard Dodd

Marcus King appears courtesy of Fantasy Records

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