Edited by Azizi Powell
This post showcases the Willie Dixon song "Seventh Song" and is Part II in a three part series of post on three Blues songs that include references to the power of the number seven. Each of these songs are examples of "bragging Blues" and not the "sad Blues" that many think are the only way that Blues can be.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/10/muddy-waters-hoochie-coochie-man-video.html "Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man (Video, Lyrics, Comments)" for Part I of this series.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/10/jt-funny-paper-smith-seven-sisters.html "J.T. "Funny Paper" Smith - Seven Sisters Blues (Video, Lyrics, Comments)" for Part III of this series.
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FEATURED VIDEO: Willie Dixon Seventh Son(1980)
Uploaded by kazuharp on Sep 26, 2009
[from jump street』 with Oscar Brown,jr featuring Willie Dixon & the Chicago Blues All-Stars (Lafayette Leak p, John Watkins gu, Freddie Dixon ba, Jimmy Tillman dr)
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LYRICS: SEVENTH SONG
(written by Willie Dixon)
Well now, ev'rybody cryin'
About the Seventh Son
But in the whole round world
There is only one
An I'm the one
Yes, I'm the one
I'm the one, I'm the one
I'm the one they called the Seventh Son
Well, I can tell yo' future
Befo' it come to pass
An I can do things for you
That make your heart feel glad
A-look in the skies
And predict the rain
I can tell when a woman
Got another man
An I'm the one
Yes, I'm the one
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
The one they call the Seventh Son
(harmonica & instrumental)
Now, I can hold ya close
An I can squeeze you tight
An I can make you cry for me
Both day and night
An I can heal the sick
An even raise the dead
And make you little girls
Talk out of your head
Yes, I'm the one
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
I'm the one they call the Seventh Son
'Ooh!'
(guitar & instrumental)
Now, I can talk these words
That sound so sweet
I can make your little heart
Even skip a beat
I'm the one
I can make you, baby
Hold you in my arms
And make the flesh quiver
On yo' lovely bones
I'm the one
Yes, I'm the one
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
The one they call the Seventh Son
(piano, bass & instrumental)
Well now, ev'rybody cryin'
About the Seventh Son
But in the whole round world
There is only one
I'm the one
Yes, I'm the one
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
I'm the one they called the Seventh Son
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
I'm the one they call the Seventh Son
Well, I'm the one, I'm the one
I'm the one they call the Seventh Son.
Reposted from http://www.lyricstime.com/willie-dixon-the-seventh-son-lyrics.html
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
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COMMENTS ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE NUMBER SEVEN
From http://www.nairaland.com/1473/life-possessed-number-seven-7/1 "My Life is Possessed by the Number Seven"
posted by cushman, October 15, 2005
"THE NUMBER SEVEN
Article by H. P. Blavatsky
A DEEP significance was attached to numbers in hoary antiquity. There was not a people with anything like philosophy, but gave great prominence to numbers in their application to religious observances, the establishment of festival days, symbols, dogmas, and even the geographical distribution of empires. The mysterious numerical system of Pythagoras was nothing novel when it appeared far earlier than 600 years B.C. The occult meaning of figures and their combinations entered into the meditations of the sages of every people; and the day is not far off when, compelled by the eternal cyclic rotation of events, our now sceptical unbelieving West will have to admit that in that regular periodicity of ever recurring events there is something more than a mere blind chance...
The number seven was considered sacred not only by all the cultured nations of antiquity and the East, but was held in the greatest reverence even by the later nations of the West. The astronomical origin of this number is established beyond any doubt. Man, feeling himself time out of mind dependent upon the heavenly powers, ever and everywhere made earth subject to heaven. The largest and brightest of the luminaries thus became in his sight the most important and highest of powers; such were the planets which the whole antiquity numbered as seven. In course of time these were transformed into seven deities. The Egyptians had seven original and higher gods; the Phœnicians seven kabiris; the Persians, seven sacred horses of Mithra; the Parsees, seven angels opposed by seven demons, and seven celestial abodes paralleled by seven lower regions. To represent the more clearly this idea in its concrete form, the seven gods were often represented as one seven-headed deity. The whole heaven was subjected to the seven planets; hence, in nearly all the religious systems we find seven heavens"...
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http://www.nairaland.com is a Nigerian blog ["Naira" is a contemporary vernacular term for Nigeria, West Africa]. In particular read the posts by cushman. A number of his posts are quotes from http://www.luckymojo.com/number7.html
By the way, the name "cushman" might be a chosen name as "The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient African state situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush
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From http://webpages.shepherd.edu/ckline01/website/superpage3.htm
"Seventh Child
If a seventh son is born to a seventh son or a seventh daughter is born to a seventh daughter, then this child is said to have magical properties; most commonly, the gift of healing. In some cultures this child can only have magical powers if the six children preceding them are of the same sex. The child was thought to cure evil by the touch as well as ringworm and burns. Most of these children possess the power to tell the future."
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Other quotes about the meaning of the number seven can be found on the other pancocojams post in this series.
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RELATED LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixon
"William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer."
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http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoohistory.html Hoodoo, Conjure, Rootwork, Definition Of Terms
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http://www.seiyaku.com/reference/seven/seven-church.html
This article discusses the significance of seven in the Bible & Christian religion
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND THANKS
Thanks to Willie Dixon for composing & performing "Seventh Song". Thanks also to those whose transcriptions and comments I quoted in this post, and thanks to the uploader of this post's featured video.
Finally, thank you for visiting pancocojams.
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