esta cover de um azul clássico (uma das pérolas de robert johnson) foi incluído no disco de estreia de otis spann, lançado, um pouco tardiamente, em 1960. a letra foi modificada e o ritmo também, num curioso jogo de cadências entre o piano de spann e a guitarra e voz de robert lockwood.

I've got ramblin', I've got ramblin' on my mind

I've got ramblin', I've got travellin’ on my mind


I still love you pretty baby, but you treats me so unkind

When i first met you baby, you treated me like a king

When i first met you pretty baby, you treated me just like a king

Yes we’ve been together so long until my little love don’t mean a thing

That’s why I've got ramblin', I've got travellin' on my mind

I've got ramblin', I've got ramblin' on my mind

Yes I still love you pretty baby, but you treats me so unkind

I believe, I believe I’ll go back home
I believe, I believe I’ll go back home
I just wanna tell the little girl who I’m in love with that she haven’t done me wrong

I hate to leave my baby, standin’ in the backdoor cryin’

I hate to leave my baby, standin’ in the backdoor cryin’

Yes she done me so lowdown lately, I got ramblin’ all on my mind

[ inevitável na noite de hoje, um azul sobre a lua ]

It is a brand new moon, since two men walked up there

Yes, we got a brand new moon, since the two men they walked up there


But it's the same old world for us. babe, you know we ain't goin nowhere

They got all of that bread, just to send people into space


You know they got all of that bread, just to send people up in space

But there's trouble there for us, baby we aint goin any place

I saw a flag on the moon, and I was just as proud as I could be

I saw a flag on the moon, and I was just as proud as I could be


You know, I love my country, baby, but my country dont love me



Ooh ooh ooh, you know I just got the moon blues


Yes, I said ooh ooh ooh, peoples I just got the moon blues


Cause all we got down here on earth, babe, I think we might as well go to the moon

este é um dos grandes cartões de visita de otis spann, um dos maiores pianistas de azuis de todos os tempos. 
custa pensar que morreu de cancro no fígado aos quarenta anos em chicago e que durante mais de trinta anos 
a sua sepultura permaneceu não identificada.

I got a gal that lives up on the hill

If she won't marry me, I know her sister will

My baby's little and low and she builds up from the ground

Every time that I kiss her, know my loves comes fallin' down

Tell me baby, what's on your worried mind?

When I thought you were leaving, you were lovin' me all the time.

Cause you're little and low and you're built up from the ground

Every time that I kiss you, know my loves comes fallin' down

Goodbye baby, little girl you left your card and gone
I'm gonna miss you baby, and the way that I carry on.

otis spann está para os azuis um pouco como keith jarrett está para o jazz. 
a sua maneira de tocar e o seu fraseado, de um lirismo sincero, foram seminais 
- e não há pianista algum que o não tenha imitado um bocadinho.
hoje é uma segunda-feira particularmente feliz para mim, mas as segundas são dias de azuis…

good morning mr blues, mr blues how do you do?

i know i feel alright now, but i come home to worry you

you know i feel so alone, till i don’t know what to do

you know i’m so glad you came home, you know that i’m in love with you

you know i got nobody, lord, to tell my troubles to
you know when my mother left me, it broke my heart in two