Well I've been down to Dallas Texas, even went to San Antone
But I when I got to Mississippi, my best friend was dead and gone
Yes Bilbo is gone, whoa he had to put it down
Well I feel like a lonesome stranger, yes a stranger in my own home town
I was a playboy and a devil, I had time that was really wild
Since mister Bilbo is dead, it makes me feel like a fatherless child
yes Bilbo is gone, yes he had to put it down
I feel like a lonesome stranger in my own home town
Well you've been livin' in the big city, broke and had to get along
But you can hurry back to Mississippi, cause Bilbo is dead and gone
Yes he's gone, whoa he had put it down
I feel like a lonesome stranger in my own home town.
But I when I got to Mississippi, my best friend was dead and gone
Yes Bilbo is gone, whoa he had to put it down
Well I feel like a lonesome stranger, yes a stranger in my own home town
I was a playboy and a devil, I had time that was really wild
Since mister Bilbo is dead, it makes me feel like a fatherless child
yes Bilbo is gone, yes he had to put it down
I feel like a lonesome stranger in my own home town
Well you've been livin' in the big city, broke and had to get along
But you can hurry back to Mississippi, cause Bilbo is dead and gone
Yes he's gone, whoa he had put it down
I feel like a lonesome stranger in my own home town.
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2016/3/14 - 11:16
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Parole di Aleta (?)
Musica di Ernest Alvin Archia Jr. (1919-1977), sassofonista afroamericano, e di Leonard Chess (nato Lejzor Czyż, 1917-1969), ebreo polacco, fondatore della mitica casa discografica Chess Records di Chicago.
Interpretata da Andrew Tibbs (resident singer del Macomba Lounge, club di proprietà di Chess a Chicago) con la Dave Young’s Orchestra
L’etichetta che pubblicò il 45 giri era la The Aristocrat of Records, finanziata da Leonard Chess, il quale di lì a poco la assorbì nella neonata Chess Records.
Uno dei primi brani prodotti da questo geniale ebreo polacco innamorato della musica nera fu una cinica e satirica canzone in morte di Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947), detto “The Man”, senatore democratico, a lungo governatore del Mississippi, convinto segregazionista, suprematista e membro di primo piano del Ku Klux Klan. Il suo trattato sui fondamenti politico-filosofici del razzismo, “Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization” (1947), è citato ancora oggi dai populisti e razzisti americani.