I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.