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—We here at the WANK are very proud to have you in our studio, Sir.
—I'm proud to be here, baby. Proud to be here.
—For our audience who is not aware of, of your work, you are Blind Funk Earwax, who around 1928 was really an up and coming blues singer...
—That's right.
—...And we just found you a few moments ago out in front of our studios pushing pencils.
—Yep, I've come a long way, you know. From that time.
—What did you think of such contemporaries of yours at the time, such as Robert Johnson, for instance?
—Oh, Robert Johnson. He used to follow me around, played harmonica for me. I taught him the blues. Yeah, I taught all them guys the blues, you know, Robert Johnson...
—Leadbelly.
—Leadbelly, oh, Leadbelly. He took everything. He took half of my songs.
—How about Bessie Smith?
—Well, I never met Messie [sic] Smith. She, she was up here in New York, you know, I was way down in the Delta in Mississippi at that time just 'fore they, 'fore they send me to Angola prison.
—Tell me, how do you describe your music? How do you describe it when people say Blind Funk Earwax? What do you do for a living?
—I didn't... I don't know. I just write my songs. I mean, a lot of people say I'm a genius, but, you know, I don't, I don't know whether that's true, but I just play my songs.
—You wrote one particular song that we happen to have an old 78 of here.
—Excuse me.
—I believe, in fact it was the only recording that you ever made because shortly after that you were arrested.
—Yeah, that's right. That's, that's when I was sent up on that rape charge, got sent up to Angola down there.
—And we, if we, if you'd like us to, we'd like to play this old 1928 recording. Is there any kind of preface you would like to give to it?
—Well, this is a song I had, I wrote while I was in Angola prison, and it kind of exp'essed my feelings. I was sent up on a rape charge, a 12 year old girl, you know. But it wasn't true though, you know, 'cause I was framed. She, she gave me permission, see.
—Well, we'd like to take our time now and play that great 1928 recording entitled "Baby Molesting Blues".
—"Child Molesting", same, same meaning.
—Child. Child Molesting.
—Yeah. Am I getting paid for this union scale, anything?
She's my jellyroll mama, Lord, she's white and 12 years old.
She's my jellyroll mama; I said she's white and 12 years old.
Lord, you know I molest her every morning; she only charge me a tootsie roll.
You know I love that woman ever since she was 9 years old.
Said I love that woman ever since she was 9 years old.
When I molest her in the basement, ooo-hoo, Lord, she take my heart and soul.
Lord, it's baby, baby, baby, Lord said baby, fat is where it's at.
Yes, I said baby, baby, baby, ooh, baby, fat is where it's at.
You know, she likes it on the kitchen table, ooo-hoo, Lord, I likes it on my karate mat.
Play the blues now, boy!
Yes, you know, I woke up this morning, Lord, the blues was sittin' in my face.
Yes, I said I woke up this morning, Lord, them big ugly blues was sittin' in my face.
You know, I looked up and I said, "Ooo-hoo, Lord, blues, won't you get off my face?"
(Words and music by Patrick "Blind Funk Earwax" Sky, 1971)
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