GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL

In 1934, Sonny Boy Williamson moved to Chicago, where a thriving blues scene was in

full swing. An experienced artist, he immediately made his imprint, first as a much-

recruited accompanist and, when he began to play his own compositions, as a much-

sought-after headliner. Three years after he moved to the “Windy City,” Williamson made

his first recording, “Good Morning, Little School”, for Victor’s subsidiary Bluebird label.

This recording introduced his unusual, individualistic, and widely influential instrumental

style of “squeezed” notes and “crossed-harp” playing–his distinctive style was imitated

by many other musicians. From 1937 to 1945, Williamson recorded for the Bluebird

label, sharing many sessions with guitarist Big Joe Williams.

Good mornin’ ‘lil school girl,

can I go home, can I go home with you?

Tell your mother and your father,

I’m a little school boy too

Woke up this mornin’,

woke up this mornin’,

I didn’t know what to,

I didn’t know what to do

I didn’t have no blues,

baby, bit I couldn’t be satisfied

I’m gettin’ me an airplane,

get in my airplane

Gon’ fly all oh-oh, gon’ fly all over this land

I’m gonna find my little school girl,

find her in the world somewhere

Good mornin’ ‘lil school girl,

good mornin’ ‘lil school girl

Can I go home with, can I go home with,

can I go home with you?

Tell your mother and your father,

Johnny little school boy too

Come be my baby, come be my baby,

I buy you a diamond, I buy you a diamond ring

You don’t be my little baby,

I ain’t gonna buy you a doggone ring

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