Annotation:Thirty First Street Blues
X:1 T:Thirty First Street Blues N:From the playing of the Leake County Revelers (Mississippi) M:C L:1/8 R:Blues (instrumental and vocal) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/thirty-first-street-blues D:Columbia 15668-D (78 RPM), Leake County Revelers (1931. Recorded D:12/1930 in Jackson, Mississippi D:Document DOCD 8030, "Leake County Revelers, vol. 2" (199) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:F A6G2|AG3 F3[GA]-|[AA]GAG AG3|F4-FD C2| A6G2|AG3 F3[GA]-|[AA]GAG AGAG-|G6 A-B| c2c2 cdcA-|BB3 B4|AGAG AGAG|AGAG- G2C2| A6G2|AG3 F3[GA]-|[AA]GAG AG3|F8||
THIRTY FIRST STREET BLUES. American, Blues (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Thirty First Street Blues" was written by Wendell Hall and Harry Geise and was first recorded in 1924 for Columbia Records (14009-D)by African-American songstress Clara Smith, billed as "The World's Champion Moaner." The Mississippi group the Leake County Revelers, with fiddler Wil Gilmore, covered it in Dec., 1930, also recording it for Columbia Records in Jackson, Mississippi (released the following year). The words go:
Railroad take me back: got the Thirty-First Street blues,
Please don't jump the track: I ain't got no time to lose.
Can't get nothing, while roving around
But it's all gravy, in my home town.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
New York don't get me, Chicago must.