Johnson, Robert - 32-20 Blues Lyrics

Still getting used to this clarity. Eerie

Music of a
simpleton. Look what better music white people made of it.

Oh yay another song glorifying domestic violence🎉

Am I the only 20 year old that's learning all his song??

Kyle Billie I’m a pre teen.

A song of love's jealousy is something many Schubert and Schurman songs are about. This is another literally violent. He's got a guitar in his hands not a 32-20.

"Ow- baby where you stay last night?"

Qui est la grâce a Didi Chandouidoui

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@Jules venet On ne perce pas en écrivant un commentaire vieux.

Decades before the advent of double tracking, and Robert Johnson made his one guitar sound like two. What an absolute talent.

He is playing lead guitar and rhythm guitar at the same time and singing on top of that. Wow.

robert johnson's songbook from guitar center brought me here. most poorly transcribed book ever

Alcohol and a love for the blues brought me here.

Came here cuz of drake lol

Blow wind blow Muddy Waters

MY Model 1905 K Frame Hand Ejector 4th change Smith & Wesson .32-20, that is.

I wasn’t born yet and I’m listening to this

I suppose it's possible there are some 82 year olds on here listening to this, but most of us were not born yet either.

Fuck drake lol

reading about handgun cartridges used in the old West brought me here

Oldheads: These damn kids, all they do these days is rap about guns and shit
Robert Johnson:

Chain did a magnificent cover of this around 1971.

Who the fuck Is drake? Lol

I like how at one point Robert slips and reverts to the original "all the doctors in Wisconsin" lyric.

AllBobsAllTheTime He mentions Hot Springs first, and then Westminster. I'm thinking it's you that's slipping up.

Who gives a flying FUCK if "drake" brought you here.....

So many little subtleties in his playing, I'm constantly finding new elements and touches that I hadn't noticed before! Such a downright mean tune too!

Dumbest comment thread on youtube.

seemed that my generation of college students was awakening to this music in the mid-late '90s in the mountains of North Carolina: some fruit grew out of those times: Blue Rags, Snake Oil, Old Crow, Avett Bros

thanks for this post, I love the opening chords , the way it floats along

The Good Reverend Ray just pimpin' out some sweet lady blues for y'all....  https://youtu.be/OUDJHnDqMUw

what does Drake have to do with this song out of curiosity

why did you jump cut the intro near the beginning?

How the fuck is it possible that Johnson's so good. He plays bass, rhythm guitar and lead guitar at the same time.. What the actual fuck
Edit: ON A FUCKING 6 STRING

My single speed bike brought me herrrrre (32:20)

Mr. Johnson wrote gangsta rap nearly a hundred years before jerry curled kids in Compton did.

Johnny Winter brought amazing song both versions. :) Drake can fuck off

West Memphis, NOT Wisconsin.

The original Hey Joe.. Where you goin' with that 32-20 in your hand?

Talm bout shooting his cheating girl... shit's cray.

Pretty violent song. Talking bout shooting his woman when she's unruly SHEESH

Music before widespread soy consumption

Then she better learn

Well, she's a cheatin' whore, and he needs everyone in the labor camp to know he can take care of his business.

The first rock and roll record imho.

maybe his song "theyre red hot" is more rock-n-roll.

The King of them all y'all!
sounds like a whole band ,way that R. hand cooks..lotta guitar -zans m ade careers outta lifting Mr J's shiznit.. who's Drake? s some suburban wanna be claming he's from T.O.?
maybe Jane & Holdup .
can borrow my razor 4 sho! .

speak english

Justin beiber brought me here

that just sounds so wrong

+Johny Grasa haha Ino , we're living in the wrong era

22-20 blues was the OG

Eric Clapton brought me here many years ago

"got your hair all tangled and you ain't takin right." favorite part, guitar playing is crazy.

drizzy ain't bring me here...Robert Johnson is the man who sold his soul to the devil for guitar skills...he metal af

+joe reed
Why do you type like that? Did you done got the blues sir?

+Rich West i am blues.

+joey d. luffy That legend does back to Africa 1000s of years. It's legend.

a century of black music There is no metal with out the blues, so definitely worthy of comparison.

Matthew Bulls i agree

drake sucks, I'm using this to learn it in guitar.

zachos2 wise choice

This misic was not created for juveniles or morons to comment on!.

Robert Johnson-The Original Gangsta!!

River Johnson was the first blues man.. That's what makes him so great. He was an innovator

Robert***

+Auz Stafford River Johnson actually sounds pretty cool

Auz Stafford That's no where near accurate. Charlie Patton is probably the original blues man.

Robert was influenced quite a bit by Charlie Patton and Son House. Robert Johnson was not the first bluesman and neither were Charlie or Son.

So everyone saw that drake interview from the arts show

drake brought me here

same here

Drake brought me here, and I don't understand why this song is okay? Shooting a woman because she didn't come? This song is fucked up.

so why celebrate it now. Drake said he listens to it before he performs. 

Cause its still music. You can pull inspiration from a lot of different places.

You really are fucking stupid

+Tommy DiMassimo Listen to the song, dipshit. There is more to it. If it really bothers you, you're a mangina with shit taste m8.

You're the classic shithead that still thinks of music as lyrics on a pedestal, grow up some balls into music, fucking close minded dumbfuck ...

Drake brought me here!!

drake real for recognizing real music

Too bad he cant make good music too

Drizzy put me on.

Me too shout out to drizzy

Jordy Dennis what does he have to do with this

Worldstar brought me here haaa and drizzy

Drizzy brought me here

Drake brought me here

yeah who the fuck is drake

drake is a canadian nightmare that won't go away. and fuck justin bieber too

nvnvd com lol of all artists. Drake? haha

That's sad.

Is it a song by Drake that brought you here? If so, which song?

Not a walk behinder, he's a new note finder.
Thank you Robert Johnson R.I.P

was this old school gangsta rap?

+crushsatan Gangsta Blues. Most definitely.

crushsatan this is the original of it all

Pretty much. LMFAO. Ole Robert Johnson was mean sometimes. Horrible. LOL.

crushsatan pretty much. as a matter of fact. yeah

crushsatan yes

Thanks for posting!

Oh it sounds weird to hear TALANTED music for a change. I'm so used to hearing crap lmao

Now this is some old blues...1936

The original version "22-20 blues" is even older, Skip James wrote it, and played it on Piano instead of guitar. Johnson just covered it, and changed some of the lyrics.

@Fuzz Face I've listened to some old blues and noticed that the same lyric would crop up in several songs. I guess the guys knew each other and copyrighting didn't exist in their social circle. I hope new converts to the blues make the effort to look further than the usual artists and seek out other blues artists whose music hasn't received as much attention as other musicians. 

I got a .32 long colt and it will cut your ass in two!

This will be easy to perform... Coolio

imagine if kurt cobain would have covered some of Robert Johnson's stuff for his solo album? coincidence? theyre both part of the 27 club

pity that kurt was crap as a guitarist

Dude, there also a 28 club, a 29 club, a 30 club, a 31 club, a 32 club, etc etc, it's nothing mystic, there are so many famous people that funnily enough, you sometimes get a lot dying at a certain age...

@Jim Wisecrack 'Word'

@establishmentblues He wasn't crap but he wasn't great, he was average

"He sure is one of the first great" No, he first recorded in the late '30s, during the Swing Era, after many other blues greats such as Lemon Jefferson, Frank Stokes, Peg Leg Howell, Jaybird Coleman, Henry Thomas, Charlie Patton, Robert Wilkins, John Hurt, Andrew Baxter, Joe Callicott, Bessie Smith, Ed Andrews, William Moore, Freeman Stowers, Skip James, Simmie Dooley, Ed Bell, Willie McTell, Furry Lewis, and Blind Blake.

Joseph Scott Point? Just because he didn't record when others did, doesn't mean he wasn't "one of the first greats". He was around following people like Son House and Willie Brown to gigs learning from them. Everyone you listed is an early great, as is R.J. The greatest of all IMHO is Blind Willie Johnson. I grew up in the town where he was born, so it is definitely a biased opinion.

EL MEJOR !!

where is his third arm on the picture?

in between his legs

doctors and hot springs . . .

Listen to the music that was around before robert johnson and then you see what came after. Even the blues singers who became popular later and who actually played with robert johnson will all admit that he was special and started something...

I see where your going with that but i had to refrain from making a similar comment because i just couldn't bring myself to make any comparison at all of this too rap:)

Listen to skip's (the writer)'s version.Hard to decide! Also I read all the DODGERS in Hot Springs they can't help her none.

Based on a 32-20 Winchester. Rap before rap.

I disagree. This guy is singing. Rap ic talking or yelling.

32-nice blues

absoutely amazing

I m gonna learn this song, wish me luck.

ericsaguirre howd it go

slick tune mr. Johnson - i like it - very good

shoot that cheatin bitch, robert!! Shoot her for all of us!!

Robert Johnson for ever ...

this should have 100000000000000000000000 LIKES love robert johnson

sintonia perfeita entre instrumento e voz! muito bom!

"Crossroads." Good film!

What hype, Dipshit. They were all good. They all made their contribution. You're missing the whole point. Just enjoy the music.

He played his guitar like a piano. He did things that other blues men from that era weren't doing. At very least enough to carry the blues just that much further. It makes no difference if he was "better," but he did make a significant contribution, and is rightfully recognized for it.

In a week. Perhaps in a month, perhaps in half a year, you'll come back to one of Robert's songs, and you won't know why, but you will want to hear it again.

No need to be an ass... It's a cool legend and we like to keep it alive 'round here.

He sure is one of the first great, although sometimes in this song he seems to be about to lose the rhythm, which is a terrible thing.
Blues on anyway!

The Devil is damned ugly then if that's him.

@AllBobsAllTheTime Found it!!!! Skip James

I can't remember whose song was Johnson covering here ..

That's his

For a change of pace and great slide guitar listen to Blind Willie Johnson.His lyrics are religious so if that bothers you so be it, but he's a great singer, narrator, and slide player. He does a great version of John the Revelator.

moses wapshot What a great player.

The best country blues slide guitarist. He's to country blues what Earl Hooker was to electric slide.

I think he's a better singer and guitarist than most of them. Especially the singing part. And he made a lot of recordings. But part of his fame is probably having written Crossroads, which Cream made famous. Variations in tempo and so are not exactly outlawed - this is delta blues y'all!

@Milestones01 Don't worry, you're not alone. Robert Johnson is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but all this mythology about how great he is and so forth is a buncha bologna. He was a great bluesman. But Son House, Charlie Patton, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, et al were just as good or better. Don't believe the hype. Kudos for your enlightenment.

I swear his tempo always changes..and this song is one of the better songs I have heard ...tempo wise..I like other bluesman of his era the same or better ..I am missing what makes him better than other guys from 1890 to 1940 .people say Phrasing or writing and singing ..I don't know I guess I've always wanted to hear a profound difference.
maybe I am just not familiar enough with his work...he actually goes against the grain for me..