Robert Johnson
Album: Attack of the Chicken
By: Tyrannosaurus Chicken
By: Tyrannosaurus Chicken
Duration
3:39
Description
my bandmate bob was told this story of his death by a witness - an old old blues man - when he was at pinetop perkins' birthday party. robert johnson made the wrong bar owner mad and then drank from a bottle with a broken seal.. word is that the whiskey was poisoned and that later he howled and foamed at the mouth until he died.
Lyrics
robert johnson had a bottle and several more of them to follow flowed the devil from his grotto taking breath with every swallow robert johnson was a model of indestructible bravado he had women in every hollow had a brand new gibson flat-top lord have mercy he could play that pop and everywhere he stopped the devil filled his pot whatever he did want. sonny boy was the man who knocked the bottle out his hand but he didn't understand that open bottle mean treachery it didn't matter much he told his friend to bust and then he drank it up it doesn't matter what you do your selfish deeds come back to you boys you've played with, girls you've used the devil got his soul wasn't even cold oh how he rolled around and howled through the foam
