Lyrics Rough Alley Blues - Ruth Mary Willis & Blind Willie McTell

Close down your windows and let down all your blinds
Close down your windows and let down all your blinds
So the next-door neighbour, baby, won't hear your best friend cryin'

Take it low down and easy, don't let your bedspring moan
Take it low down and easy, don't let your bedspring moan
So your next-door neighbour, baby, won't hear you grieve and groan

Go wild, baby, I'm not scared to fear. (Aw, sing it, baby)
Go wild, baby, I'm not scared to fear
And I'll give it all to you, mama, like a Cadillac changing gear

I take it to my room and lay it 'cross my big brass bed
I take it to my room and lay it 'cross my big brass bed
I guess, I'll be my own singer, neighbours, turn cherry red

(Play that thing boy. Aw,
Play that thing for me and miss Mary, 'Cause it's gettin' good
It drove my partner out of town
I wouldn't have done it without that old Harris street corner)

It was a mean old miller that taught me how to grind
(Taught you how to twist too, I believe)
It was a mean old miller that taught me how to grind
And it was a married woman, mama,
Who learned me that old shun-shine

I'm going down this alley and get me two more drinks of booze
(They have police down there. They'll sure arrest you)
I'm going down this alley, get me two more drinks of booze
Because I'm drunk now, mama, and I've got them old rough alley blues

(Stand by, people, if you wants to know it all)