Lightnin' Hopkins — Reminiscences Of Blind Lemon

[Verse] Yes, it's been a long time but you know I can remember some things that we used to do I was playing with him when I was 8 years old That would've made me such a guitar player in a way Of speaking, because he never learnt me a note But he'd always play it in front of me And I'd do that on my own in a way of speaking at this We had gone a long ways together, and And we used to play together at a place you call Buffalo, Texas, that was our signified going towards Dallas The last I heard of Blind Lemon, he was in Dallas And, so I heard that he got frozen up past So I didn't know, he was nice to me in every way And I appreciated everything he's done And he used to holler at me, said "Boy, you better play it right" And I'd go 'head on and play with him, and he say "You know there's one kind of favor I'll ask to you" And you see me and him would just Cadillac, at you know And I just come on up to be one of them peoples, now I'm an old man now, nearby old 'Cause I think I'm 16 tomorrow, ha haha, yeah (When did you first hear him What town did you first hear him) Well the first the man was in Waxahachie Waxahachie, Texas, now it was fixin' to be a sensation At the Buffalo, Texas, uh, that we come and we So we all got together and went up there We rode a flat back '25 truck, mall truck Yeah, all us just crowed up on the road Better than to hear him singin' and all, so I played with him (Was he well known with your buddies?) Well known, well known up there, that was his home Where he was bred and born, his mother, daddy And everything Brothers, cousins all up there, up in there (What'd he look like?) Oh he was a great big fat dog man with big stomach He'd lay that guitar 'cross his stomach, man, it was a shame See and the guitar stick out way towards his chin Yeah, yeah he had that much stomach way back, haha (Was anybody there leading him around Or did he get around on his own?) No, he wouldn't like leading 'cause you see You called him blind, you know, don't call him blind 'Cause he done never, he did never feel like he blind 'Cause he's always like that, born like that, you see