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"Little Sadie" is a 20th-century American folk ballad in D Dorian mode. It is also known variously as "Bad Lee Brown", "Cocaine Blues", "Transfusion Blues", "East St. Louis Blues", "Late One Night", "Penitentiary Blues" and other titles. It tells the story of a man who is apprehended after shooting his wife/girlfriend. He is then sentenced by a judge. ==Earliest transcription== The earliest written record of the song dates from 1922.〔Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle ("Bad Lee Brown (Little Sadie) [Laws I8]]" ) Traditional Ballad Index〕 This lyric fragment, transcribed in Joplin, Missouri, is noted in the 1948 book ''Ozark Folksongs, Vol. II''. "Bad Lee Brown" Last night I was a-makin' my rounds, Met my old woman an' I blowed her down, I went on home to go to bed, Put my old cannon right under my head. Jury says murder in the first degree, I says oh Lord, have mercy on me! Old Judge White picks up his pen, Says you'll never kill no woman ag'in. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Sadie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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