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Well, CornElvis, you did get some of it right. I will make the necessary corrections at this time. This particular song, you know, was called "Motherless And Fatherless".

"You know, I'm motherless and I"m fartherless.
I'm sisterless and brotherless too. (2x)
Baby, that's the reason I'm beggin' and pleadin' so hard
honey, to get along with you.

Lord, if you see my mama,
will you please tell her to pray for me. (2x)
Tell her I'm way up here in Washington
just as sick as a boy can be.

Tell her she ain't to send me no doctor
'cause a doctor can't do me no good. (2x)
Because it's all of my fault.
Because I haven't did the things I should.

You can love me. You can leave me.
Just most anything you wanna do. (2x)
Because it's so many strange things happening,
something may happen to you.

Yes, and I done had all of my fun,
if I don't get well anymore. (2x)
Because my health is done failing,
babe, and I'm goin' down slow.

Yes, you can love or you can leave me -
just most anything you want to do. (2x)
So many strange things are now happening.
Baby, something may happen to you."

Skip was brought up to Washington, DC by John Fahey and friends, and he was already estranged from his first wife, Bertha. In a short time, Skip would meet my second cousin, Lorenzo, in Philadelphia and they would marry. Man, Skip thought my cousin was the most - high society, so to speak. On one of my weekly stays at the house Eric Clapton bought for them, I found "Motherless And Fatherless" in a notebook that Skip had written down in pencil. You see, I ALWAYS slept in Skip's bed upstairs, whenever I visited.

Yes, CornElvis, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt are part of my family. It is true. MJH, a blood relative, and Skip by marriage.

Say, I thoroughly enjoyed the Jackie D. Blues & Rock Band. If that is your group, you cats really smoke. I want you to know how much I dig you bigtime.

Yes, quite correct. Having known him personally, I never knew him to play the same song the same way twice.

It is also true that Skip married MJH's niece who was my mother's first cousin. Her father (Hennis Hurt) made some of the best corn liquor around the Mississippi Delta.

Yes, indeed, the tracks on Skip's album, "Hard Time Killin' Floor", are the recordings that were made in Grafton, Wisconsin in 1931. I have never purchased the re-mastered version as of yet, but hope to soon.

The version of "Motherless And Fatherless" that I gave to you were, of course, recorded in the 1960s. When I heard Skip play it at home, he liked to get in a corner someplace, sort of away from the people who were listening to him. I do not know exactly why he did that.