Songs
It can be hard to figure out the lyrics to old blues songs, so we're posting all the lead sheets we've written up, as a public service and a thank you to all who have posted their own transcriptions on the Internet. These lead sheets don't always match the original recordings and don't even always match what we play … but they should send you in the right direction.
Note: Italics in the lyrics means we're guessing (except for when it means a background vocal part). If you have suggestions for these missing pieces, please contact us!
For more lead sheets, visit humpnightthumpers.com
| Title | Artist (cover artist) |
| A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird | Louis Jordan |
| Adam and Eve In the Garden | “Bogus” Ben Covington |
| Against the Law | Woody Guthrie (Billie Bragg and Wilco) |
| Always In Love With You | Charlie McCoy |
| Aunt Caroline Dye | Memphis Jug Band |
| Banjoreno | Dixieland Jug Blowers |
| Better Leave That Stuff Alone | Will Shade |
| Black Betty | Leadbelly |
| Blues In a Bottle | Prince Albert Hunt |
| Bottle It Up and Go | Memphis Jug Band |
| Cakewalk Into Town | Taj Mahal |
| Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon | Frank Stokes |
| Cocaine Habit | Memphis Jug Band |
| Come On In | The Harum Scarums (The Second Fiddles) |
| Corrine Corrina (sic) | Bo Chatmon and Charlie McCoy |
| Death Letter Blues | Son House |
| Down Home In Kentuck | Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon |
| Foldin' Bed | Whistler’s Jug Band |
| Fried Pie Blues | Curley Weaver |
| Get It from Behind | Memphis Jug Band |
| Get It from the Front | Memphis Jug Band |
| Honey Pie | The Beatles |
| How Long Blues | Leroy Carr |
| I Ain't Gonna Marry | Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band with Maria Muldaur |
| I Got Mine | Frank Stokes |
| I'm All Right Now | Big Joe and His Rhythm |
| If You Take Me Back | Big Joe and His Washboard Band |
| If You're a Viper | Stuff Smith (Lorraine Walton) |
| Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby | Louis Jordan |
| Last Time Blues | Charlie McCoy |
| Let the Good Times Roll | Louis Jordan |
| Let's Get Drunk and Truck | Tampa Red (Harlem Hamfats) |
| Move That Thing | Memphis Jug Band |
| Newport News Blues | Memphis Jug Band |
| Papa's Got Your Bathwater On | Memphis Jug Band |
| Pencil Full of Lead | Paolo Nutini |
| Save Me Some | Palooka Washboard Band |
| Skoodle Um Skoo | Papa Charlie Jackson |
| Sleepwalk | Santo & Johnny |
| Stingy Woman Blues | Memphis Jug Band |
| Sunset Waltz | Charlie McCoy |
| Tappin' That Thing | James “Yank” Rachell |
| That Hand You Tried To Deal Me | Memphis Jug Band |
| That Lonesome Train | Charlie McCoy |
| The Dirty Dozen | Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon |
| This Is the Life | “Weird Al” Yankovic |
| Tobias and Keechungus | Polk Miller’s Old Southern Quartet |
| Uncle Bud | Tampa Red and Georgia Tom |
| Vicksburg Stomp | Charlie McCoy |
| Who Done It | Harlem Hamfats |
| Who Pumped the Wind In My Doughnut | Johnny Wilson (Washboard Sam) |
| Whoa, Mule Get Up In the Alley | Cannon's Jug Stompers (Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band) |
| Won't You Be Kind To Me | Hattie Hart with the Memphis Jug Band |
| Won't You Ride With Me Tonight | Cat Porter and Will Shade |
| Yes She Do, No She Don't | California Ramblers (Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band) |
| You Drink Too Much | Harlem Hamfats |
| Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine | Papa Charlie Jackson |
