"Questionnaire Blues" — the blues man responding to an interrogation.
I've got my questionaire
Aand they need me in the war
I've got my questionaire
Aand they need me in the war
Yes, if i have to commit murder
Won't have to (???)
I want the thirty two-twenty
Made on a forty-five frame
I want the thirty two-twenty
Made on a forty-five frame
And a red, white and blue fag
Wear it in my right hand
Yeah, you can tell my baby
Tell her to please wait for me
Yeah, you can tell my baby
Tell her to please wait for me
Well i meet her one mornin'
Down by that old red sea
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- An early B.B. King recording. The questionnaire — the demand for answers, the formal inquiry — applied to the blues man's personal situation gives the tradition an unusual bureaucratic flavour.