TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - DON’T LEAVE ME HERE

DON’T LEAVE ME HERE

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO'

SONGWRITERS: GARY NICHOLSON; TAJ MAHAL & keb mo

COUNTRY: u. s. a.

ALBUM: TAJ MO

LABEL: concord records

GENRE: blues

YEAR: 2017

 

              Taj Mahal (born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many others, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.

            Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name.

           TajMo is the thirteenth studio album and a collaborative album by the American blues musicians Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'. It was released May 5, 2017. It won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

How the weather in the country?

How the weather down south?

How the weather in the Delta?

How the food taste in your mouth?

Butter beans and cornbread, grits and greens

Candied yams and black eyed peas

 

If you're going to Mississippi

Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear

Ooh, y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago

Please don't leave me here

 

When you see Ludella, tell her hey for me

Last time I saw her, it was in my dreams

She's the sweetest thing under the sun

When I think about some lovin', she's still the one

 

Now if you're going to Mississippi

Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear

Well you know, I'm stuck here in Chicago

Please don't leave me here

 

What they doin' in Vicksburg down in Aberdeen?

They got more fine big-legged women

Than any one man ever seen

What they doin' in Jackson and little old Itta Bena?

I ain't been to Clarksdale since 1963

 

'Cause if you're going to Mississippi

Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear

Y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago

Please don't leave me here

 

How the weather in the Delta?

Sure cold up here

Baby run off and left me late last year

It was just before Christmas

Deep, deep snow on the ground

Came home later in the evening

She done tore my playhouse down

 

So if you're going to Mississippi

Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear

Ooh, y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago

Please don't leave me here

 

Don't leave

Please don't leave me here, mmm

Please don't leave, ooh

Please don't leave me here

 

Ooh, well I'll be

Please don't leave me here

Please don't leave me

Please don't leave me here

 

Please don't leave me

Please don't leave me here

Please don't leave.