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Courtesy Photo

Eddie Lang (1902-1933)

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This is Blind Willie Dunn talking to ya (G7)

Nobody else (Am) you can see my

Nimble fingers even if (F major)

I can’t see yours what happened

What happened I’ll (E9) give ya

The straight dope (C major) I got no

Reason to lie Eddie I sd Eddie (Em)

I don wancha (C major) to go into that

God damn hospital you know (C major 7)

People die (G7) in hospitals Jesus Blind

(wch is what he called me, Am) Crosby

Said to do it and (E9) I tell ya Crosby

Knows what he’s talking about and Kitty (Cm)

Sd it was ok so why (G7) should I

Worry Christ (D7) nobody worries about tonsils

Gimme (A major) the racing form I wanna

Pick a winner (G7)

And (I Am) (I Am) (I Am)

He died

– Jack Foley

© 2009 Jack Foley

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The Official Eddie Lang Website

Sally-Ann Worsfold: The Quintessential Eddie Lang (1925-1932)

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Ruth Etting and Eddie Lang:
“Without That Man” (1932)

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Katherine Hastings

Jack Foley

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ekleksographia: wave two
issue four | november 2009
edited by Judith Skillman

features exciting new poetry, prose and drama

by Jack Foley

© Timothy Cross

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