[00:20.46]Special Rider Blues 5:09 Trk 5
[01:03.75]Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James
[01:04.53]Skip James - vocal, guitar and piano
[01:06.69]Album: Blues From The Delta
[01:07.29]From Vanguard 'Today!' album 1966
[01:12.78]Vanguard Records CD 96517-2 1998
[01:14.82]I ain't got no, special rider here
[01:15.87]I ain't got no, no special rider here
[01:22.59]I ain't got nobody
[01:23.07]To love and feel my care
[01:25.86](guitar)
[01:26.70]I woke up this mo'nin
[01:27.12]Looked at spec-special risin' sun
[01:28.11]I woke up this mo'nin
[01:28.53]I looked at special risin' sun
[01:36.06]Now, I pray up to the good Lord
[01:39.15]That my special rider, she would come
[01:40.29](guitar)
[01:44.37]I got up off-a my pallet
[01:47.16]I laid down 'cross my bed
[01:47.76]I got up off my pallet
[01:48.21]An I laid down across my bed
[01:53.43]When I went to eat my break'qast
[01:54.21]An the blues was all in my bread
[01:55.47](guitar)
[01:55.62]You know, I got a letter
[01:58.23]How do you reck'in it read?
[02:10.98]I got a letter
[02:11.28]An how do you reck'in it read?
[02:11.82]You better hur' up an come home
[02:31.86]Because yo' special rider, she's dead
[02:32.85]That's the reason I ain't
[02:41.16]Got no special rider
[02:41.67]Rider, here
[02:41.97]That's the reason I ain't
[02:47.52]Got no special rider, here
[02:49.86]Now, I ain't got nobody
[02:51.78]To love and feel my care.
[02:53.55](guitar to end)
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