Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, Mississippi-native Taylor took up the guitar when he was 20 years old. He made a few appearances on Sonny Boy Williamson's fabled KFFA King Biscuit Time radio broadcasts out of Helena, AR, before coming to Chicago in 1942. It was another 15 years before Taylor made blues his full-time vocation, though. Taylor was a favorite on the South and West sides during the late 50s and early 60s. It's generally accepted that Freddie King copped a good portion of his classic "Hide Away" from an instrumental he heard Taylor cranking out on the bandstand.
Taylor's relentlessly raucous band, the HouseRockers, consisted of only two men, though their combined racket sounded like quite a few more. Second guitarist Brewer Phillips, who often supplied buzzing pseudo-bass lines on his guitar, had developed such an empathy with Taylor that their guitars intertwined with ESP-like force, while drummer Ted Harvey kept everything moving along at a brisk pace.
Hound Dog Taylor began playing guitar when he was 20 and became a full-time musician around 1957. He wasn’t well known outside of the Chicago area until his debut album, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers, with Alligator Records in 1971. The LP contained the typically rowdy Give Me Back My Wig while Taylor's first Alligator encore in 1973, Natural Boogie, boasted the hypnotic Sadie and a stomping Roll Your Moneymaker.
His fourth Alligator album, Beware of the Dog, was recorded live in 1974 but only released after his death. Hound Dog Taylor died of cancer in 1975 and was buried in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984.
Sitting Here Alone
Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers Lyrics
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Ain't it lonesome when you're sitting at home alone
The girl you love, she's done bad now, she's gone
You travel to the corner, she said "daddy, it's far as I gonna go"
You drive her to the corner boy, she said "daddy, it's far as I gotta go"
Don't see me by twelve, I'll be ready by half-past-four
You go by four o'clock, and you sit and blow your horn
When the people start to look at you, boy, you know your doing wrong
You drive away feeling bad, wonder why the little girl lie to me
You drive away feeling bad boy, oh, why the little girl lie to me?
She want to get me in trouble, and why, man, I just can't see yeah
In this song by Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, the singer is expressing his loneliness while sitting at home alone. He reflects on the fact that the girl he loves has done him wrong and left him. He tries to reach out to her, but she is not interested and tells him to stop at the corner. He obeys her, but realizes that she is not coming back. He blows his horn, hoping that she'll hear it, but instead of coming back to him, people start staring at him. He then drives away and wonders why the little girl lied to him.
The lyrics express the pain of loneliness and unrequited love. The singer's attempts to win back the girl he loves fail, and he is left feeling foolish and alone. The mention of blowing the horn and the people staring add a layer of embarrassment to the heartbreak the singer is feeling. The lyrics also explore the theme of deception as the girl lies to the singer, which further adds to his pain.
Line by Line Meaning
Lord, ain't it lonesome, well, when you're sitting at home alone
Being by yourself can be really lonely.
Ain't it lonesome when you're sitting at home alone
It's really lonely being at home by yourself.
The girl you love, she's done bad now, she's gone
The person you love has done something bad and left.
You travel to the corner, she said "daddy, it's far as I gonna go"
You drive her to a corner and she insists that's as far as she wants to go.
You drive her to the corner boy, she said "daddy, it's far as I gotta go"
You take her to a corner and she tells you that's as far as she needs to go.
Don't see me by twelve, I'll be ready by half-past-four
She tells you to come back by 4:30 if she's not there by noon.
You go by four o'clock, and you sit and blow your horn
You arrive at 4 and honk your horn while waiting for her.
Don't go out by four o'clock boy, you sit there and blow your horn
You shouldn't leave at 4, just wait and honk your horn.
When the people start to look at you, boy, you know your doing wrong
When people start staring at you while you honk your horn, you know you're doing something silly.
You drive away feeling bad, wonder why the little girl lie to me
You leave feeling sad and questioning why the girl would lie to you.
You drive away feeling bad boy, oh, why the little girl lie to me?
You feel terrible after leaving because you still don't understand why she lied to you.
She want to get me in trouble, and why, man, I just can't see yeah
You realize that the girl may have done something to get you in trouble, but you don't know why she would do that.
Lyrics © Exceleration Music Partners, LLC
Written by: THEODORE R TAYLOR
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