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Ballad of Curtis Loew
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Well I used to wake the morning before the rooster crowed.
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Searchin for soda bottles to get myself some dough.
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Brought them down to the corner, down to the country store.
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Cash em in and give my money to a man named Curtis Loew.
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Old Curt was a black man with white curly hair.
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When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care.
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He used to own an old Dobro, used to play it .cross his knee.
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I'd give old Curt my money he'd play all day for me.
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Play me a song Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew.
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Well I got your drinkin money tune up your Dobro.
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People said he was useless, but them people all were fools.
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Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker
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to ever play the blues.
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He looked to be sixty and maybe I was ten
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Momma used to whoop me, but I'd go see him again.
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I'd clap my hands, stomp my feets, try to stay in time.
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He'd play a song or two then take another drink of wine.
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On the day old Curtis died, nobody came to pray.
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Old preacher said some words,
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and they chucked him in the clay.
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Well he lived a lifetime of playing the black man's blues.
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And on the day he lost his life,
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well that's all he had to lose.
Chorus.