She blew through town on the 4th of
July
Red one and blue guns a -blazin'
She took no prisoners if
you caught her eye
Men just found her amazing
First she gave the teacher
Private lessons more than twice
Oh, then she took the preacher
On a three -day trip to paradise
They tried to hold and keep her
But they never could
She's got the girls
Men stood in line
Tried to play in her game
To win her a smile and affection
Some jumped for joy, some went insane
Each time she made a selection
Even
Bill the banker always had a heart like ice
Yes he did,
well he became a gambling fool
Then she rolled him like a pair of dice
He tried to hold and keep her, but he never could,
she's got the groove.
Then she was gone, not a single goodbye,
yeah you could hear men sighing, there was some
Talk about the
FBI
Chasing her down with a lion
From
Maine to
California
From
Fairbanks to
Miami
Beach
Oh, now everybody wants her
But she's always just out of reach
They'd love to hold and keep her
If they only could, she's got the good
One time, come on
Once in a while she will drop on the line
Then half the town talks about it
She sends her love and she's doing fine
They all just smile,
they don't doubt it
Hearts start beatin' faster
Dreamin' about those magic nights
Oh, when they flirted with disaster
And how she made them feel alive
In their dreams they hold her
Like it never could, she's got the goods
July
Ah, yeah.
I think we've all known a couple like that,
huh?
Now we're gonna take a
little musical excursion
down the
Mississippi
River, down into the
Delta.
The
Delta is the birthplace of some of
America's greatest blues singers,
including the man
who made this next song famous,
something we recorded on our first album, that certainly
goes back a ways.
He was born in the
Delta,
McKinley
Morgan
Field.
He took his music to
Chicago, and from there it went around the world,
and the world got
to know and love him as
Muddy
Waters.