Shuggie's Boogie

You know sometimes when I'm fooling around with my guitar

I think back a few years to when I was first starting out

And I remember some of the first blues licks I learned to play

I remember hearing Pete Lewis, Jimmy

Nolen and Mel Brown with my father's band

They were fine blues men

And of course, the great B.B. King

And my man T-Bone Walker

And Pee Wee Creighton, Johnny Moore, Robert

Johnson, Freddie King, and the great Son House

And don't forget Elmer James

And then a few years ago, I remember things got kinda rough

And my father put together a little R&B group with Delmore Evans

Sugar Kane Harris, and the Mighty Flea, and some more cats

We went out and played some funky little gigs

And I used to wear dark glasses and paint a

Mustache on so I'd look older than I really was

Some of the joints we played were kinda depressing

But we had a cookin' little band, we had a lot of fun

Especially when we played the blues

Here's one of the things I used to like

Give me a little drum beat, Abe

Two, a-one two three