YELLOW DOG BLUES (aka YELLOW DOG RAG)
(W.C. Handy)


W.C. Handy - 1915
Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra (Instr.) - 1920
Bessie Smith - 1925
Duke Ellington & His Orch. - 1928
Ben Pollack & His Orch. (vocal: Ben Pollack) - 1929
Ted Lewis & His Band (Instr.) - 1930
Henry "Red" Allan & His Orch. - 1932
Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - 1954
Eartha Kitt (feat. in the film "St. Louis Blues") - 1958
Al Hirt - 1962

Also recorded by: Nat King Cole; Big Maybelle; 
Ken Collyer's Jazzmen; Eddie Condon; Bob Helm; 
Chris Barber's Jazzband; Alexis Korner; Kid Ory; 
Humphrey Lyttelton: ....... and many others.




Ever since Miss Susan Johnson lost her Jockey Lee
There has been much excitement, more to be
You can hear her moaning night and morn
"Wonder where my Easy Rider's gone?"

Cablegrams come of sympathy, telegrams go of inquiry
Letters come from down in "Bam"
And everywhere that Uncle Sam has a rural delivery

All day the phone rings, but it's not for me
At last good tidings fill our hearts with glee
This message comes from Tennessee

Dear Sue, your easy rider struck this burg today
On a southboun' rattler, side door Pullman car
Seen him here an' he was on the hog

Easy rider's gotta stay away
So he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far
He's gone where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog





(Contributed by Mel - January 2009)