Howlin Wolf - Forty Four (sound file & lyrics)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part V of a five part series about "The Forty Fours" Blues songs. This post provides a sound file and lyrics to Howlin Wolf's "Forty Four".

Part I of that series provides the text to the song entitled "Forty-Four" that is included in African American folklorist & Fisk Univesity professor Thomas W. Talley's 1922 collection Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise & Otherwise. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/09/forty-four-from-thomas-w-talleys-1922.html for that post.

Part II provides a sound file & lyrics to Roosevelt Sykes's song "44 Blues". Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/09/roosevelt-sykes-44-blues-sound-file.html for that post.

Part III provides information about Leothus Lee Green's song "Number 44 Blues" as well as a sound file & the lyrics to that song. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/09/leothus-lee-green-number-44-blues.htmlfor Part III of this series.

Part IV provides the lyrics and sound file to "Vicksburg Blues" by Little Brother Montgomery. Part IV provides the lyrics and sound file to "Vicksburg Blues" by Little Brother Montgomery. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/09/little-brother-montgomery-vicksburg.html for that post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT HOWLIN WOLF
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howlin'_Wolf
"Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was born in West Point, Mississippi in an area now known as White Station.

With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits."[1] A number of songs written or popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful"—have become blues and blues rock standards."...

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LYRICS: FORTY FOUR
(Chester Burnett [Howlin Wolf])

I wore my .44 so long, I've made my shoulder sore.
I wore my .44 so long, I done made my shoulder sore.

Well, I'm wondrin everybody, where'd my baby go.
Well, I'm so mad this mornin, I don't know where in the world to go.

Well, I'm so mad this mornin, I don't know where in the world to go.
Well, I'm lookin for me some money, pawned gun to have some gold.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/howlin+wolf/forty+four_20200764.html

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SHOWCASE SOUND FILE

Howlin' Wolf - Forty Four (1954)



leon wadsworth, Uploaded on Sep 24, 2010

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