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Baby Wants To Boogie

(1987, Blue Groove BG-1020)

Baby Wants To Boogie 
My Baby Changed The Lock On Her Door
Slidin’ Delta
Stones In My Passway
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Darkest Hour
Southsea Shuffle
Hunted Man
Went To The Doctor
When Things Go Wrong
baby-cover

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up  Musicians

Hans Theessink: vocals, acoustic, electric & steelbody guitars, mandolin, harmonica
Jon Sass: tuba
Alex Munkas: drums, percussion
Christian Dozzler: harmonica
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Nicola Parov: gadulka
Pippa Armstrong, Dana Gillespie: backing vocals


up  Baby Wants To Boogie

Hans Theessink

Baby where you going to
With your red shoes on ?
You been here such a short time,
You been gone so long

Baby wants to boogie, daddy wants to rockīnīroll (2 x)

Baby where you going to
In your dress so fine ?
Wonīt you stay another while
And give me some of your time

Baby wants to boogie ...

You look like an angel
You make my heart skip a beat
The way you move your body - Babe
Knocks me off my feet

Baby wants to boogie ...

Poached eggs - scrambled eggs
In the house on the hill
Drinks and music
īTil you had your fill

Baby wants to boogie ...

Baby where you going to
With your red shoes on ?
You been here such a short time,
You been gone so long

Baby wants to boogie ...


up  My Baby Changed The Lock On Her Door

Hans Theessink

My baby changed - changed the lock on her door
My mama changed - changed the lock on her door
The key I've got - it just don't fit no more

My mama told me - my papa told me too
My dear old mother told me - my papa told me too
Settle down with that woman - she'll make a wreck out of you

You threw out my clothes and my blue suede shoes
And my old guitar - a Gibson Kalamazoo
But how on earth could you throw out my rhythm 'n blues
(Spoken: especially that old Ray Charles record)

They say you've got a new man - the rumour's spread all over town
You got yourself a new man - the rumour's spread all over town
Guess I'm leaving you baby - you won't stop messing īround

Bye bye baby - believe it's time to go
Bye bye baby - believe it's time to go
You won't stop messinī with mr. so and so


up  Darkest Hour

Hans Theessink

Oh the sun is nearly rising
And the night is almost gone (2x)
The darkest hour is just before dawn

Won't you cuddle up a little closer
Mama won't you hold my hand (2x)
The blues is creeping on me
Got to loose īem if I can

Oh the sun is nearly rising ...

I can hear the rooster crowing
Mama īt ain't long fore day (2x)
Wait for the sunshine
To drive my blues away

Oh the sun is nearly rising ...


up  Hunted Man

Hans Theessink

I'm running, running, running
Feet they hardly touch the ground
Policedogs on my trail
'Cause I shot my woman down

I caught my baby
On a midnight creep
Blew a bullet through her head
Before she woke up from her sleep

I'm a hunted man
Can't find no hiding place
Gotta keep on moving
Like the wild geese flyin' to the west

Gonna charge me for murder
Murder in the first degree
Take me down to the jail
Spend my time in misery

Judge and jury
Gonna send me to the 'lectric chair
Gonna meet my baby
When I fly away from here

Got a rabbit-bone
And I got a mojo-bone
All the good luck charms in the world
Can't help me none

Dark is the night
Cold is the ground
Cryin' lord have mercy
On a poor boy death-cell bound


up  Went To The Doctor

Hans Theessink

Been across the country - been a-travellin' 'round
Been in every city - been in every town
Lived the hard life - drinkin' whiskey and wine
If the boogie woogie kills me - lordie - I don't mind

I don't mind - lord - I don't mind
If the boogie woogie kills me - lordie - I don't mind

Went to the doctor - doctor told me son
Ain't very wise what you done done
If you don't skip your sporting life
You gonna be a dead man - before you're forty-five

Before you're forty-five - before you're forty-five
You gonna be a dead man before you're forty-five

I tell you good people - 'bout a friend of mine
A picker and a singer - gave us all a good time
One day it hit him - hit him so bad
Nearly killed the best friend - I've ever had

I've ever had - I've ever had
I tell you good people it nearly killed him dead

Been across the country ...


up  What the press said ...

Theessinks' re-workings of traditional delta-blues are light years past any other contemporary bluesman. His own songs are capable of standing up to the classics. (Metro West/Boston, USA)

CAN A DUTCHMAN SING THE BLUES? YOU BET! (Frets Magazine, USA)


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