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   Trouble in the Mind
  (1927) Richard Jones
   
  Trouble in mind, I'm blue
But I won't be blue always,
'Cause the sun's gonna shine
In my backdoor some day.

I'm all alone at midnight
And my lamp is burnin' low
Ain't never had so much
Trouble in my life before.

Trouble in mind, that's true
I have almost lost my mind,
Life ain't worth livin,
Sometimes I feel like dyin'.

Goin' down to the river
Gonna take my ol' rockin' chair
And if the blues don't leave me
I'll rock away from there.

You been a hard-hearted mama
Great God! You been unkind
Gonna be a cold, cold papa
Cause you to lose your mind.

I'm gonna lay my head down
On some lonesome railroad line
And let the two nineteen
Pacify my mind.

Well it's trouble, oh trouble
Trouble on my worried mind,
When you see me laughin'
I'm laughin' just to keep from cryin'.
 
 
First recorded in 1927 by Chippie Hill and Louis Armstrong.
   
  Recording session unknown
    LP 1977 Lamentations Versatile NED 1120
   
  Recording live session 1960 Jun. 30, Newport, Fifth Newport Jazz Festival -- (LP At Newport)
    LP 0000 Golden Hour Of Golden Hour [3:58]
    LP 1960 At Newport Colpix CP/CPS 412 [0:38]
    LP 1963 Nina's Choice Colpix CP/SCP 443
    CD 1988 At Newport Official 86014 [6:20]
    CD 1996 Anthology, The Colpix Years Rhino R2 72567
    CD 1998 At Newport, Village and Elsewhere West Side WESD 210
    CD 1998 Forbidden Fruit + At Newport Collectables [5:32]
   
  Recording studio session 1965 May 19-20, New York -- (LP Pastel Blues)
    LP 1966 Pastel Blues Philips (US) PHM 200-187, (E) 852-073 [0:41]
    CD 1988 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Mercury 834 308-2 [2:41]
    CD 1990 Pastel Blues+ Let It All Out Mercury 846 663-2 [2:41]
    CD 1990 51 Great Jazz Performances That's Jazz TJ401 [2:40]
    CD 1993 Autour de Minuit Verve 518 165-2 [2:41]
   
  Recording live session 1977, Berkeley
   Never issued, as far as I known
 
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