não se sabe exactamente a origem deste azul. big joe williams gravou várias versões a partir de 1935, acústicas e simples. a primeira tentativa "eléctrica" é esta, de muddy waters com little walter na harmónica. acabou por ser verdadeiramente seminal: há covers de lightnin' hopkins, john lee hooker, big bill broonzy, van morrison e os them, e até grupos como os ac/dc e os aerosmith...

Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans


You know I love you so



Before I be your dog


I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone




Turn your lamp down low


I beg you all night long, baby, please don't go



You brought me way down here


'bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog



Baby, please don't go, back the New Orleans


I beg you all night long




Before I be your dog


I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone

You know your man down gone


To the country farm, with all the shackles on