JOHNNY WINTER: I'm A Bluesman (2004)

1. I'm a Bluesman
2. Cheatin' Blues
3. I Smell Smoke
4. Lone Wolf
5. So Much Love
6. The Monkey Song
7. Shake Down
8. Sweet Little Baby
9. Pack Your Bags
10. Last Night
11. That Wouldn't Satisfy
12. Sugar Coated Love
13. Let's Start All Over Again

I’M A BLUESMAN
I’m a bluesman so don’t get in my way
I’m a bluesman baby and I’m here to stay
Don’t say nothin’ just step right back
‘Cause I’m a bluesman straight from the tracks
And if you don’t believe a single word I say
Check out this guitar ‘cause I’m ready to play

I’ve been around the world seen people come and go
And there’s one thing they all need to know
You can slice you can dice it any way that you can
Just tell the rest that you don’t give a damn
And if you’re feelin’ wrong about the life you choose
That’s right son now you ain’t got the blues

I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman gonna stay this way till I die
Bluesman

I’ve been playing the blues around these years
Making money and women and hearing the cheers
So think about that for just one day
And you’ll get the itch to wanna play
Here’s a few words and I don’t mean to boast
But bluesman do it all and I done the most
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman
I’m a bluesman

I’m a bluesman baby gonna stay this way till I die

CHEATIN’ BLUES
I used to take you out
I used to treat you fine
You used to make sweet love like everyday was Valentine’s
We had a good thing going
Until I found out the truth
Yeah you blinded me with lies with your low-down cheatin’ blues

I used to hold your hand
I used to kiss you right
I used to take you home I’m rock you all night
I can’t believe
All the sweet love I wasted on you (wasted on you)
You blinded me with lies with your low-down cheatin’ blues

You told me you were working late
You were working all right
Prowling all over town
Like a stray cat in the night
I should have seen it coming
But now I know the truth
You blinded me with lies with your low-down cheatin’ blues

You told me you were working late
You were working all right
Prowling all over town
Like a stray cat in the night
I should have seen it coming
But now I know the truth
You blinded me with lies with your low-down cheatin’ blues

You say you wanna come back
It was all a mistake
You can’t shed your skin honey a snake is still a snake
What goes around
Is going to come right back to you
Someday you’ll be all alone with nothing but the low-down cheatin’ blues
Yeah I’ll leave you all alone with nothing but the low-down cheatin’ blues
Now wish it feel to be stuck with your low-down cheatin’ blues

I SMELL SMOKE
I smell smoke
You must be burning me behind my back
I smell smoke
You must be burning me behind my back
I can't see the fire,
but I feel the flame
I found a matchbook
with another man's name, oh yeah!
Just before you spoke
I smell smoke

What can a man do?
When good love turns to bad
What can a man do?
When he's lost everything he’s ever had
I can't feel the heat,
but I see it in your eyes
When we talk it over
all I get is lies, oh yeah!
Baby it's no joke
I smell smoke

It's a heavy price
that I have to pay
working for you
every night and day
Deep in the night
when I turn to you
I feel my worst fears
have come true

I smell smoke
when you think you're alone
and nobody is looking me
I smell smoke
in the middle of the night
and I know nobody is cooking
You can play you down
hide it with perfume
I smell something burning
when you walk into the room, oh yeah!
Baby it's no joke
I smell smoke

Oh yeah!
Baby it's no joke
I smell smoke

I smell smoke
I smell smoke
I smell smoke

LONE WOLF
I'm a lone wolf and I howl from town to town
I'm a lone wolf and I howl from town to town
I'm gonna huff and I'll puff until I blow your little house down
(Yes I will!)

I'm a lone wolf, don't do no running with the pack
I'm a lone wolf, don't do no running with the pack
I'm a big bad wolf, I'll pull the wool right off your back
Yeah!

When the moon comes up, I'll come a snifin' around your door
When the moon comes up, I'll come a snifin' around your door
I'll howl all night, leavin' you beggin' for more, more, more!

Yeah!

I'm a lone wolf and I howl from town to town
I'm a lone wolf and I howl from town to town
I'm gonna huff and a-puff until I blow your little house down.

I'm a lone wolf!
I'm a lone wolf!
I'm a lone wolf!
I'm a lone wolf!
I'm gonna huff and I'll puff until I blow your little house down
Oww!

SO MUCH LOVE
My mama told me when I was just a child
Said “You got what it takes to drive the little girls wild
You got whay it takes to make ‘em screan, jump and holler”
You can’t buy that for a million dollars
I got so much love, I got so much love,
I got so much love I got spread it all over this world

I got enough love to make the mountains shake
The ocean’s boilng and the South Pole bake
I got enough love to make a grey sky blue
And I still got plenty left for you
I got so much love, I got so much love,
I got so much love, I’m gonna spread it all over this world

Europe, America, North and South
The whole round world is what I’m talkin’ about
Asia, Africa, Australia too
And I still got plenty left for you, you, and you, and you
I got so much love, I got so much love,
I got so much love I got spread it all over this world

And I still got plenty left for you, you, and you, and you
I got so much love, I got so much love,
I got so much love I got spread it all over this world

THE MONKEY SONG
Now don’t go thinkin’ that I’m crazy
And don’t go thinkin’ that I’m sick
But I need a little favor from you
I want you to shave that monkey slick
I won’t tell nobody
I won’t say nothin’ mean
You can have anything you want
But you gotta shave that monkey clean

Now you see I’ve tried everything
To keep that monkey happy
But you’re gone and taken advantage of me
You’ve gone and let that monkey get nappy
I won’t tell nobody
I won’t say nothin’ mean
You can have anything you want
You’ve got to shave that monkey clean

You see, you’ve gotta shave that monkey
I want to see that monkey shine
Put a razor to that rascal
‘Cause I got slick money on my mind
I won’t tell nobody
I won’t say nothin’ mean
You can have anything you want
If you just shave that monkey clean

Shave that rascal

Now if you don’t straighten out that rascal
I’m goin’ right out that door
Gonna get me a brand new monkey
Goin’ down to the monkey store
I won’t tell nobody
And I won’t say nothin’ mean
But you can have anything you want
But you gotta shave that monkey clean

You know I’ve got and idea baby
Something I think you’ll really dig
When you get tired of that bald monkey
I’m gonna get that monkey a wig
I won’t tell nobody
I won’t say nothin’ mean
You can have anything you want
You gotta shave that monkey clean

Do a favor for me
I want to see that monkey shine
Little girl you know
‘Cause that monkey’s all mine
Put a razor to that rascal
Make that monkey slick
You know I’m got that monkey
Make it slick enough to lick

Raise that monkey, raise it real high
‘Cause when I see that monkey
I want to be lookin’ in his eye
You better shave that thing
Put a razor to the rascal

SHAKE DOWN
It was a long time ago back in ‘63
In a town full of lust and misery
Turn around
Hit the ground
Shake down, don’t want no shake down, no, no, no

He cried framed from the start never stood no chance
They could see his quilt from just one glance
Turn aroun
Hit the ground
Shake down, don’t want no shake down
Can’t take no shake down
Please no more shake down, no, no, no

Would he do it again he asks himself avery day
To kill for romance is the price he’ll pay
Turn around
Hit the ground
Don’t want no shake down
Can’t take no shake down
Don’t want no shake down
Please no more shake down, it’s the price to pay

Shake down, don’t want no shake down
Can’t take no shake down
Oh Lord shake down
It’s price he’ll pay

SWEET LITTLE BABY
I got a sweet little baby
She do anything in the world for me
She’s a sweet little baby
And she do anything in the world for me
She’s a fine lookin’ woman
And she will not leave me be

The woman cooked my breakfast
and she bring it to my bed
The woman cooked my breakfast
and she bring it to my bed
She eased my worried mind
and she rubs my achin’ head

So if you got a sweet woman
you better love and treat her right
If you got a sweet woman
you better love and treat her right
You better love her all day
and keep her happy every night

PACK YOUR BAGS
Pack your bags, baby
Don’t want you here no more
Pack your bags, baby
Don’t want you here no more
When I’m come home this evening
You best be out the door

Don’t give me no lies
Don’t want you here no more
Don’t give your lies, baby
I heard ‘em all before
If you’re still here this evening
You know there’s gonna be a war

You’re an evil woman, baby
And you know that, that’s a fact
The only way I’ll see you
Is leavin’ out the back
Pack your bags, baby
Don’t want you here no more
When I’m come home this evening
You best be out my door

Your cheatin’ ways
Have led us to this day
Your cheatin’ ways, baby
Have let us being to pay
To give your love to another man
Is just too much for me to stand

So pack your bags
Don’t want you here no more
Pack your bags, baby
Don’t want you here no more
When I’m come home this evening
You best be out my door

LAST NIGHT
Last night
You kept coming into my dreams
Last night
You were making up all your schemes
But it’s the last night
I’ll be thinking of you

I’m gonna be movin’ on
Movin’ on down the line
I’m gonna be movin’ on
Movin’ on down the line
‘Cause it’s the last night
You played your last game with my mind

Today I saw your mother
Down in Birmingham
She treated me just like I ain’t your man
After last night
I gotta keep movin’ on
It wasn’t the dream that bothered me
Baby but what happened later on

Everybody told me
You were foolin’ around
You were with my best friend
Meant I left town
Last night
Baby I had my doubts
But last night
Baby I found you out

I’m gonna be movin’ on
Movin’ on down the line
I’m gonna be movin’ on
Movin’ on down the line
‘Cause it’s the last night
You played your last game with my mind

THAT WOULDN’T SATISFY
I’m in love with you baby
But you love somebody else
I’m in love with you baby
But you love somebody else
May God bless you, have fun for yourself

Are you happy pretty baby?
I heard you was doin’ fine
Are you happy pretty baby?
I heard you was doin’ fine
Just to think baby I thought you would be mine

Sometimes I think baby
Of committing suicide
Sometimes I think baby
Of committing suicide
Then again baby that wouldn’t satisfy

SUGAR COATED LOVE
Well, you oughta see my baby
Man, that girl’s so fine
If love me every mornin’ and every night
And she’s always on my mind
She got sugar coated love
Yes, sugar coated love
She’s a real gone baby and I don’t mean maybe she’s fine

I don’t have to worry about money
I don’t have to worry about clothes
I don’t have to worry about anything
She’s my baby and goodness knows
She got sugar coated love
Yes, sugar coated love
She’s a real gone baby and I don’t mean maybe she’s fine

You can take your pick of the others
Take anyone you may choose
I’m a-holdin’ on to this baby of mine
‘Cause she’s got what I can use
She gor sugar coated love
Yes, sugar coated love
She’s a real gone baby and I don’t mean maybe she’s fine

If you wanna know what sugar coated love is
It’s the best love that they got
It’s the kind of love make the old feel young
And makes the North Pole hot
She gor sugar coated love
Yes, sugar coated love
She’s a real gone baby and I don’t mean maybe she’s fine

LET’S START ALL OVER AGAIN
I drown in a river
Of my own tears
Chased shots of drepression
With cases of beer
It’s late in the game
But I think we can win
Oh baby
Let’s start over again

This coud be heaven
Or this could be hell
I’m doubling down
Only time will tell
This could bring pleasure
This could bring pain
Oh yeah baby
Let’s start over again

I’m coming back
It’s been a lonely road
At times to do it’s hard
But I carried the load
Come back to me
Let’s begin
Oh yeah baby
Let’s start over again

I drown in a river
Of my own tears
Chased shots of drepression
With cases of beer
It’s late in the game
But I think we can win
Oh yeah baby
Let’s start over again
Oh yeah baby
Let’s start over again
Yeah baby
Let’s start over again