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"Look on Yonder Wall", or "Get Ready to Meet Your Man" as it was first named, is a blues song first recorded in 1945 by James "Beale Street" Clark. Clark, also known as "Memphis Jimmy", was a blues pianist from Memphis, Tennessee. During the 1940s, he appeared on recordings by Jazz Gillum, Red Nelson (aka Dirty Red), and an early Muddy Waters session, as well as several singles in his own name. ==Origins== "Look on Yonder Wall" was performed as a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues, with a recurrent post-World War II theme.〔 〕 It tells of a "man who is somewhat disabled and has not been drafted and takes advantage of that to entertain lonely married women".〔 :Now baby I've been worried, ever since victory day :Every time I pick up the paper, your man is comin' this a way :Look on yonder wall, hand me down my walkin' cane :Said I'm gonna find me woman, woo-hoo look here come your man :Now your man have been in the army, 'n' I know that awful rough :I don't know how many men he done killed, but I think he done killed enough... Jazz Gillum, with whom the song is often associated, recorded a version on February 18, 1946 (RCA Victor 20-1974), four months after Clark. Although the release was retitled, it credits "James Clark" as the composer.〔 〕 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「Look on Yonder Wall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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