Yodling Blues
by Hill / Williams 
recording of June 14, 1923 
from 
The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 (Columbia/Legacy C2K-47091) 
The blues, the blues, the yodling 
blues 
They seem to haunt me all the time 
Because that I ain't got no one 
That will console my mind 
It seems to me no happiness will I ever find 
No happiness will I find 
Lord, lord, lord, lord 
Lord, lord, lord, lord 
My man went out without a cause 
I wonder who put them 
jinx 
on me, I said, them jinx on me, 
I wonder who put them jinx on me, lowdown jinx on me 
My man's gone back to his used-to-be 
I'm gonna yodel, yodel my blues away, I said, my blues away 
I'm gonna yodel, yodel my blues away, ee-ooo, I'm gonna yodel 
Till things come back my way 
I've got the blues, go spread the news 
I've got those doggone yodling blues 
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Note 1: yodling, to sing by suddenly changing from a natural voice to a falsetto and back. Also, to shout or call in a similar manner. From the German word Jodeln.