{"id":974,"date":"2018-11-30T19:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=974"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:13:17","slug":"joe-turner-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/joe-turner-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Turner Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">W. C. Handy&#8217;s latest song success in 1915<br>words and music by W. C. Handy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Joe-Turner-Blues.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Joe Turner Blues - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b1c980cb-c7e7-4415-ad51-7cc57d95f221\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Joe-Turner-Blues.pdf\">Joe Turner Blues &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Joe-Turner-Blues.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b1c980cb-c7e7-4415-ad51-7cc57d95f221\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8705b021-07aa-445a-b0a5-020f303abf1f\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Joe-Turner-Blues-MIDI.mid\">Joe Turner Blues &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Joe-Turner-Blues-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8705b021-07aa-445a-b0a5-020f303abf1f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. You&#8217;ll never miss the water till your well runs dry<br>Till your well runs dry<br>You&#8217;ll never miss Joe Turner till he says &#8220;Good Bye&#8221;<br>Sweet Babe, I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to leave you, and the time ain&#8217;t long<br>No, the time ain&#8217;t long<br>If you don&#8217;t b&#8217;lieve I&#8217;m leavin&#8217;, count the days I&#8217;m gone<br>You will be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>You will be sorry, be sorry from your heart (uhm) (uhm)<br>Sorry to your heart (uhm) (uhm)<br>Some day when you and I must part<br>And every time you hear a whistle blow<br>Hear a steamboat blow<br>You&#8217;ll hate the day you lost your Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I bought a bulldog for to watch you while you sleep<br>Guard you while you sleep<br>Spent all my money, now you call Joe Turner &#8220;Cheap&#8221;<br>You never &#8216;preciate the little things I do<br>Not one thing I do<br>And that&#8217;s the very reason why I&#8217;m leavin&#8217; you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Sometimes I feel like nothin&#8217;, somethin&#8217; throwed away<br>Somethin&#8217; throwed away<br>And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day<br>Now if your heart beat like mine it&#8217;s not made of steel<br>No, tain&#8217;t made of steel<br>And when you learn I left you this is how you&#8217;ll feel<br>You will feel&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/beE1Ij93GIk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] W. C. Handy&#8217;s latest song success in 1915words and music by W. C. Handy The sheet music:\u00a0 Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. You&#8217;ll never miss the water till your well runs dryTill your well runs dryYou&#8217;ll never miss Joe Turner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/joe-turner-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Turner Blues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}