Great original blues by Jelly Roll Morton, Michigan Water Blues
I have always sung the verse as Michigan water taste like sherry wine. Mississippi water taste like turpentime. Eric Noden taught me Jelly Roll Morton's piano song arranged for the acoustic guitar. But when I listened to the original, I see Jelly Roll had recorded it as "Michigan water tastes like sherry wine. Michigan water tastes like sherry wine." He repeats the line, and never mentions Mississippi water.
Michigan water taste like sherry wine, Michigan water taste like sherry wine.
Believe to my soul my gal got a black cat bone. I believe a black cat bone. She go away but she surely come back home.
Michigan water taste like sherry wine, Michigan water taste like sherry wine.
It looks llke a frog hops like a kangaroo, If you aint got no hopper let him be your hopper too.
Michigan water taste like sherry wine, Michigan water taste like sherry wine.
Gal in Alabama, one in Spain, another in Mississippi, scared to call her name.
Michigan water taste like sherry wine, Michigan water taste like sherry wine.
"original blues by Jelly Roll Morton" "the original" "Michigan Water Blues" was written by Clarence Williams, as it says on the label. Recordings of it, such as Sara Martin's, started in 1923, and this recording by Jelly is from 1939.
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