The Blues Fake Book by Hal Leonard Corp. StaffCall Number: MP1630.28 .B5 1999
ISBN: 0793558557
Publication Date: 1999-06-01
Ah'w baby / Words and music by Walter Jacobs -- Aw shucks, hush your mouth / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- Ain't gonna worry my life anymore / Words and music by B.B. King -- Ain't misbehavin' / Words by Andy Razaf, music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks -- Ain't that loving you baby / Words and music by Clyde Otis and Ivory Joe Hunter -- All blues / Miles Davis -- All aboard / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Alabama bound / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter -- All my love in vain / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- All your love (I miss loving) / Words and music by Otis Rush -- Alimonia blues / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Angel eyes / Words by Earl Brent, music by Matt Dennis -- Apologize / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- As the years go passing by / Words and music by Deadric Malone -- Alright, okay, you win / Words and music by Sid Wyche and Mayme Watts -- Baby how long / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Babe, I'm gonna leave you / Words and music by Anne Bredon, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant -- At my front door / Words and music by John C. Moore and Ewart G. Abner Jr. -- Baby, let's play house / Written by Arthur Gunter -- Ask me no questions / Words and music by B.B. King -- Baby scratch my back / James Moore -- Baby doll / Bessie Smith -- Baby, what you want me to do / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- Baby, please don't go / Words and music by Joe Williams -- Baby, won't you please come home / Words and music by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams -- Baby what's wrong / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- Back door man / Written by Willie Dixon -- Beale street blues / Words and music by W.C. Handy -- Backwater blues / Bessie Smith -- Basin street blues / Words and music by Spencer Williams -- A big hunk o' love / Words and music by Aaron Schroeder and Sid Wyche -- Bell bottom blues / Words and music by Eric Clapton -- Big road blues / Traditional -- Billie's blues (I love my man) / Billie Holiday -- The blues ain't nothin' but a woman cryin' for her man / Words and music by J. Mayo Williams -- (What did I do to be so) Black and blue / Words by Andy Razaf, music by Harry Brooks and Fats Waller -- Blue prelude / Words by Gordon Jenkins, music by Joe Bishop -- Black coffee / Words and music by Paul Francis Webster and Sonny Burke -- Bluebird / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Blue turning grey over you / Lyrics by Andy Razaf, music by Thomas "Fats" Waller -- Blueberry hill / Words and music by Al Lewis, Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose -- Blues before sunrise / Words and music by Leroy Carr -- Blue train (Blue trane) / John Coltrane -- Blow, wind, blow / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Blues for Alice / Charlie Parker -- The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and Brownie McGhee -- Blues on the ceiling / Words and music by Fred Neil -- Bo Diddley / Words and music by Ellas McDaniel -- Boogie chillen no. 2 / Words and music by John Lee Hooker and Bernard Besman -- Boom boom (out go the lights) / Words and music by Stan Lewis -- Born in Mississippi, raised up in Tennessee / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Bottle it up and go / Words and music by Robert Brown -- Blues with a feeling / Words and music by Walter Jacobs -- Born to be blue / Words and music by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé -- Come on in my kitchen / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Candy man blues / Words and music by "Mississippi" John Hurt -- Bright lights, big city / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- Broke and hungry / Traditional -- Broken hearted blues / Written by Willie Dixon -- Built for comfort / Written by Willie Dixon -- Bourgeois blues / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter, edited by Alan Lomax -- Bring it on home / Written by Willie Dixon -- Caldonia (What makes your big head so hard?) / Words and music by Fleecie Moore -- Checkin' up on my baby / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Can't hold out much longer / Words and music by Walter Jacobs -- Can't you hear me talking to you / B.B. King and Dave Clark -- Canal street blues / John Lee Hooker -- Careless love / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter, edited by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax -- Catfish blues (Rollin' stone) / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Check yourself / Words and music by Lowell Fulson -- Chicago blues / Words and music by Lonnie Johnson -- Close to you (I wanna get) / Written by Willie Dixon -- Chicago bound / Words and music by James Lane -- Clouds in my heart / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Come back baby / Written by Mance Lipscomb -- Confessin' the blues / Words and music by Jay McShann and Walter Brown -- Continental blues / Written by Ernie Watts -- Country girl / B.B. King -- Crackin' up / Words and music by Ellas McDaniel -- Cool drink of water blues / Words and music by Tommy Johnson -- Cold weather blues / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Crossroads (Cross road blues) / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Decoration day / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Crazy blues / Words and music by Perry Bradford -- Devil got my woman / Words and music by Nehemiah "Skip" James -- Cryin' in my sleep / Words and music by Jimmy Yancey -- Dallas blues / Words by Lloyd Garrett, music by Hart A. Wand -- Country boy blues / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy -- Cow cow blues / Words and music by Charles Davenport -- Dissatisfied / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Custard pie / Words and music by Sonny Terry -- Don't go no further (You need meat) / Written by Willie Dixon -- De Kalb blues / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter, edited by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax -- Dead presidents / Written by Willie Dixon and Billy Emerson -- Diddie wa diddie / Words and music by Blind Blake -- Did you ever / Words and music by Jimmy Rushing -- Dirty no-gooder's blues / Bessie Smith -- Do me right / Written by Willie Dixon -- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans / Lyric by Eddie de Lange, music by Louis Alter -- Don't you lie to me (I get evil) / Words and music by Hudson Whittaker -- Dippermouth blues / Music by Joseph Oliver -- Dust pneumonia blues / Words and music by Woodie Guthrie -- Diving duck / Words and music by Otis Spann -- Down hearted blues / Words by Alberta Hunter, music by Lovie Austin -- End of the blues / Words and music by Earl Hooker -- Down in the dumps / Lyric by Leola P. Wilson, music by Wesley Wilson -- Drunken hearted man / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Don't smoke in bed / Willard Robison -- Double trouble / Words and music by Otis Rush -- Down in the bottom / Written by Willie Dixon -- Easy rider / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter -- Everyday (I have the blues) / Words and music by Peter Chatman -- Empty bed blues / Traditional -- Eyesight to the blind / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Evil (is going on) / Written by Willie Dixon -- Fattening frogs for snakes / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Feel like going home / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Fever / Words and music by John Davenport and Eddie Cooley -- Fine and mellow / Words and music by Billie Holiday -- Flip, flop and fly / Words and music by Charles Calhoun and Lou Willie Turner -- Five long years / Words and music by Eddie Boyd -- Folsom prison blues / Words and music by John R. Cash -- Forty-four / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Foolish man blues / Bessie Smith -- Forty days and forty nights / Words and music by Bernard Roth -- From four till late / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Going down slow / Words and music by J.B. Oden -- Gee baby, ain't I good to you / Words by Don Redman and Andy Razaf, music by Don Redman -- Further on up the road / Words and music by Joe Veasey and Don Robey -- Georgia on my mind / Words by Stuart Gorrell, music by Hoagy Carmichael -- Good morning heartache / Words and music by Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham, and Ervin Drake -- A good man is hard to find / Words and music by Eddie Green -- God bless the child / Words and music by Arthur Herzog Jr. and Billie Holiday -- Good mornin' blues / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter and Alan Lomax -- Got the blues, can't be satisfied / Words and music by "Mississippi" John Hurt -- Good rockin' tonight / Roy Brown -- Goodbye baby / Words and music by Sam Ling, Joe Josea, and Jules Taub -- Got to hurry / Oscar Rasputin -- Good morning little schoolgirl / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Gulf coast blues / Words and music by Clarence Williams -- Hesitation blues / Words and music by Billy Smythe and J. Scott Middleton -- Have you ever loved a woman / Words and music by Billy Myles -- Happy with the blues / Lyric by Peggy Lee, music by Harold Arlen -- Heartbreak hotel / Words and music by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley -- Help me / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson, Ralph Bass, and Willie Dixon -- Hellhound on my trail / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Hey hey / Words and music by William "Big Bill" Broonzy -- Hush hush / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- Hey, pretty mama / Written by Willie Dixon -- Hidden charms / Written by Willie Dixon -- Highway 40 blues / Words and music by Larr Cordle -- Hey lawdy mama / Words and music by Cleve Reed -- Highway 51 blues / Words and music by Curtis Jones -- Hootie blues / Words and music by Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, and Walter Brown -- Honest I do / Words and music by Jimmy Reed and Ewart G. Abner Jr. -- Honey bee / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Home to mamma / Written by Willie Dixon -- Hound dog / Words and music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller -- How many more years / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Howlin' for my darling / Written by Willie Dixon and Chester Burnett -- I ain't for it / Words and music by Hudson Whittaker -- I almost lost my mind / Words and music by Ivory Joe Hunter -- I ain't got nobody (and nobody cares for me) / Words by Roger Graham, music by Spencer Williams and Dave Peyton -- I ain't superstitious / Written by Willie Dixon -- I ain't got nothin' but the blues / Words by Don George, music by Duke Ellington -- (I) Can't afford to do it / Words and music by "Homesick" James Williams -- I believe I'll make a change / Words and music by Robert Brown -- I believe I've been blue too long / Words and music by B.B. King and Dave Clark -- I can make love / Written by Willie Dixon -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Words by Ted Koehler, music by Harold Arlen -- I can't be satisfied / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- I don't know / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- I can't stop, baby / Written by Willie Dixon -- I can't quit you baby / Written by Willie Dixon -- I got my brand on you / Written by Willie Dixon -- I got it bad and that ain't good / Words by Paul Francis Webster, music by Duke Ellington -- I got what it takes / Written by Willie Dixon -- I got to find my baby / Written by Willie Dixon -- I just want to make love to you / Written by Willie Dixon -- I keep going back to Joe's / Words and music by Marvin Fisher and Jack Segal -- I know your wig is gone / Written by T-Bone Walker -- I want to be loved / Written by Willie Dixon -- I need love / Written by Willie Dixon -- I wanna put a tiger in your tank / Written by Willie Dixon -- I want you close to me / Written by Willie Dixon -- I'm a man / Words and music by Ellas McDaniel -- I'd rather drink muddy water / Words and music by Eddie Miller -- I'm so glad / Words and music by Nehemiah "Skip" James -- I'm a steady rollin' man (Steady rollin' man) / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- I'm ready / Written by Willie Dixon -- I'm a natural born lover / Written by Willie Dixon -- It's a low down dirty shame / Words and music by Ollie Shepard -- I've been treated wrong / Words and music by Robert Brown -- I'm a woman / Words and music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller -- I'm your hoochie coochie man / Written by Willie Dixon -- I'm tore down / Words and music by Sonny Thompson -- I've been dealin' with the devil / Words and music by Robert Brown -- In the house blues / Bessie Smith -- Ice cream man / Words and music by John Brim -- In the evening (when the sun ggoes down) / Words and music by Leroy Carr -- Jim Crow / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter -- It do me so good / Written by Willie Dixon and Billy Emerson -- It hurts me too / Words and music by Mel London -- It makes my love come down / Bessie Smith -- It seem like a dream / Words and music by Yank Rachell -- It's a low down dirty deal / Written by T-Bone Walker -- It serves me right to suffer / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Just like I treat you / Written by Willie Dixon -- It's my own fault / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- It's too bad things are going so tough / Words and music by Freddie King -- Jailhouse blues / Words and music by Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams -- Jerry Roll Blues / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- Juke / Words and music by Walter Jacobs -- Just a dream / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy -- Killing floor / Chester Burnett -- The lemon song / Words and music by Chester Burnett, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones -- Key to the highway / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy and Chas. Segar -- Kokomo blues / Written by Fred McDowell -- Lady sings the blues / Words and music by Herbert Nichols and Billie Holiday -- Kindhearted woman blues / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Life is like that / Words and music by Memphis Slim and Alan Lomax -- Letter to my baby / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Last night / Words and music by Walter Jacobs -- Let me love you baby / Words and music by Willie Dixon -- Let's get down to business / B.B. King -- Little red rooster / Written by Willie Dixon -- Little baby (You go and I'll go with you) / Written by Willie Dixon -- Long gone lonesome blues / Words and music by Hank Williams -- Live another day / Written by Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Little queen of spades / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Long road / Bessie Smith -- Lonesome whistle blues / Words and music by Rudy Toombs -- Lonely boy blues / Words and music by Jay McShann, Walter Brown, and Skippa Hall -- Long distance call / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Long gone blues / Billie Holiday -- Look what you've done / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Louise, Louise blues / Words and music by Johnny Temple and J. Mayo Williams -- Love struck baby / Written by Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Love in vain bluese / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Lover man (Oh, where can you be?) / Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, and Jimmy Sherman -- Lovin'est woman in town / Written by Willie Dixon -- Lucille / Words and music by B.B. King -- Loving you / Written by Willie Dixon -- Mad man blues / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Matchbox / Words and music by Carl Lee Perkins -- Mary had a little lamb / Written by Buddy Guy -- Mean mistreater / Words and music by James Gordon -- Mean old Frisco blues / Words and music by Arthur Crudup -- Mean woman blues / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Maudie / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Mean old world / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy -- Mercury blues / Written by K.C. Douglas and Robert Geddins -- Memphis blues / W.C. Handy -- Michigan water blues / Words and music by Clarence Williams -- Merry Christmas, baby / Words and music by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore -- The midnight special / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax -- Mellow down easy / Written by Willie Dixon -- Moanin' for my baby / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Moanin' at midnight / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Midnight sun / Words and music by Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, and Johnny Mercer -- Midnight / B.B. King -- Milk cow blues / Words and music by Kokomo Arnold -- Mind your own business / Words and music by Hank Williams -- My baby left me / Words and music by Arthur Crudup -- My babe / Written by Willie Dixon -- Mule kicking in my stall / Words and music by McKinley Morganfield -- My baby is sweeter / Written by Willie Dixon -- My country sugar mama / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- My first wife left me / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Mystery train / Words and music by Sam C. Phillips and Herman Parker Jr. -- My man blues / Bessie Smith -- My home is on the delta / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- My John the conquer root / Written by Willie Dixon -- New York town / Words and music by Woody Guthrie -- No particular place to go / Words and music by Chuck Berry -- My last goodbye to you / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy -- Night train / Words by Oscar Washington and Lewis C. Simpkins, music by Jimmy Forrest -- 99 blues / Words and music by Robert Brown -- Nobody knows the way I feel this morning / Words and music by Tom Delaney and Pearl Delaney -- No place to go / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Nine below zero / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- On the road again / Words and music by Alan Wilson and Floyd Jones -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out / Words and music by Jimmie Cox -- One bourbon, one scotch, one beer / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Oh! Darling / Words and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- Ooh wee / Written by Willie Dixon -- One more time / Written by Willie Dixon -- Ramblin' on my mind / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Paying the cost to be the boss / Words and music by B.B. King -- Prison bound / Traditional -- Peach orchard mama / Words and music by Joe Williams -- Pickpocket blues / Bessie Smith -- Please help me get him off my mind / Bessie Smith -- Pinetop's blues / Words and music by Pinetop Smith -- Piney brown blues / Words and music by Joe Turner and Pete Johnson -- Riverside blues / Words and music by Thomas A. Dorsey and Richard M. Jones -- Please send me someone to love / Words and music by Percy Mayfield -- Roberta / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax -- Poison ivy / Words and music by Mel London -- Saint James infirmary / Words and music by Joe Primrose -- Pride and joy / Written by Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Reconsider baby / Words and music by Lowell Fulson -- Rain is such a lonesome sound / Words and music by Jimmy Witherspoon and Rachel Witherspoon -- Rocking chair blues / Lyric by Bessie Smith, music by Bessie Smith and Irving Jones -- The same thing / Written by Willie Dixon -- Roll 'em Pete / Words and music by Pete Johnson and Joe Turner -- Rock me baby / Words and music by Joe Josea and B.B. King -- Road runner / Words and music by Ellas McDaniel -- San Francisco Bay blues / Words and music by Jesse Fuller -- Rollin' and tumblin' / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Royal garden blues / Words and music by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams -- Rollin' stone (Catfish blues) / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Shake that thing / Words and music by Papa Charlie Jackson -- The seventh son / Written by Willie Dixon -- Rusty dusty blues / Words and music by J. Mayo Williams -- Smokestack lightning / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- See see rider / Words and music by Ma Rainey -- Sorrowful blues / Words and music by Bessie Smith -- Shady lane blues / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Six cold feet of groun / Words and music by Leroy Carr -- Shipwrecked blues / Words and music by Spencer Williams -- Silver city bound / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter and Alan Lomax -- Some of these days / Words and music by Shelton Brooks -- St. Louis blues / Words and music by W.C. Handy -- Standing around crying / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Something inside me / Words and music by Elmore James -- Statesboro blues / Words and music by Willy McTell -- Spoonful / Written by Willie Dixon -- Steamroller (Steamroller blues) / Words and music by James Taylor -- Sugar blues / Words by Lucy Fletcher, music by Clarence Williams -- Stella Mae / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Stormy weather (keeps rainin' all the time) / Lyric by Ted Koehler, music by Harold Arlen -- Still a fool / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Sweet home Chicago / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Still got the blues / Words and music by Gary Moore -- T-Bone shuffle / Words and music by T-Bone Walker -- Sun's gonna shine in my door / Words and music by Big Bill Broonzy -- Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do / Words and music by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins -- Tail dragger / Written by Willie Dixon -- Take it easy baby / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- That's no way to get along / Words and music by Rev. Robert Wilkins -- Terraplane blues / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Texas flood / Words and music by Larry C. Davis and Joseph W. Scott -- That's alright / Written by John Lee Hooker -- That's all right / Words and music by Arthur Crudup -- Things ain't what they used to be / Mercer Ellington -- They're red hot / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Three hundred pounds of joy / Written by Willie Dixon -- This pain in my heart / Written by Willie Dixon -- Three o'clock blues / Words and music by B.B. King and Jules Bihari -- Tin roof blues / Lyric by Walter Melrose, music by New Orleans Rhythm Kings -- 32-20 blues / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Tishomingo blues / Spencer Williams -- The thrill is gone / Words and music by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell -- Tobacco road / Words and music by John D. Loudermilk -- Too young to die / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- The time seems so long / Written by T-Bone Walker -- Traveling riverside blues / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Tollin' bells / Written by Willie Dixon -- Trying to get back on my feet / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Trouble in mind / Words and music by Richard M. Jones -- Trouble no more (Someday baby) / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Tupelo (Tupelo blues) / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Twenty nine ways to my baby's door / Written by Willie Dixon -- Vicksburg blues / Traditional -- Weary blues / Lyric by Mort Greene and George Cates, music by Artie Matthews -- 23 hours too long / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Vida lee / Written by T-Bone Walker -- Worried man blues / Traditional -- Walk on / Words and music by Brownie McGhee and Ruth McGhee -- Walking through the park / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Wang dang doodle / Written by Willie Dixon -- Wasted life blues / Bessie Smith -- Wee baby blues / Words and music by Pete Johnson and Joe Turner -- When the lights go out / Written by Willie Dixon -- Who do you love / Words and music by Ellas McDaniel -- Who's been talking / Words and music by Chester Burnett -- Walkin' blues / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- West End blues / Words and music by Joe Oliver and Clarence Williams -- Whiskey and wimmen / Words and music by John Lee Hooker -- Why don't you do right (Get me some money, too!) / Joe McCoy -- When you got a good friend / Words and music by Robert Johnson -- Why I sing the blues / Words and music by B.B. King -- Woke up cold in hand / Words and music by Jazz Gillum -- Woman alone with the blues / Words and music by Willard Robison -- You can't lose what you ain't never had / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- Yellow dog blues / Words and music by W.C. Handy -- Worried life blues / Words and music by Maceo Merriweather -- Yer blues / Words and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- You can't judge a book by the cover / Written by Willie Dixon -- You don't have to go / Words and music by Jimmy Reed -- You don't know my mind / Words and music by Virginia Liston, Samuel Gray, and Clarence Williams -- You know I got to do it / Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter -- You gonna need my help / Written by McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) -- You know my love / Written by Willie Dixon -- You need love / Written by Willie Dixon -- You shook me / Written by Willie Dixon and J.B. Lenoir -- Your funeral my trial / Words and music by Sonny Boy Williamson -- Young fashioned ways (Old fashioned ways) / Written by Willie Dixon.