Worried Life Blues
Rosa Lee Hill (September 25, 1910 – October 22, 1968) was an American blues… Read Full Bio ↴Rosa Lee Hill (September 25, 1910 – October 22, 1968) was an American blues musician.

Rosalie Hill was born in Como, Mississippi, United States. Her album, Rosa Lee Hill and Friends, was part of Fat Possum’s campaign to reissue the recordings made by George Mitchell. It included Hill’s niece, Jessie Mae Hemphill, as well as Jim Bunkley, Catherine Porter, Will Shade, Essie Mae Brooks, Precious Bryant, and Lottie Kate.

Hill played music that was in the tradition of north Mississippi, singing acoustic blues that made use of subtly varied repetition. The daughter of Sid Hemphill, her song “Bullyin’ Well”, which was recorded by Alan Lomax, has been included on a number of releases over the years.

Hill died in October 1968, aged 58, in Senatobia, Mississippi.

Rosalie Hill was a daughter of the Mississippi Hill Country’s composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, and musical patriarch Sid Hemphill. Sid taught Rosalie to play the guitar when she was six; by the time she was ten she was playing dances with him. The only two songs she recorded, for Alan Lomax, were marked by a desolate, keening intensity, although by all accounts she was a jolly woman. Her father died in 1961, after which, as blues researcher George Mitchell noted, most of the very musical Hemphills “just didn’t feel like playing no more.” Rosie hung up her guitar for a time, but by the time Mitchell visited in 1967 she was playing again, and recorded for him a barely less spry version of “Rolled and Tumbled.” She died a year later. (Hill’s first name often appears “Rosa Lee,” but she signed her contract with Lomax “Rosalie.”)

Worried Life Blues
Rosalie Hill Lyrics


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Animals Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
B. B. King [featuring Eric Clapton] Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
B.B. King %26 Eric Clapton Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
B.B. King ; Eric Clapton Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
B.B. King und Eric Clapton Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
BB King/Eric Clapton Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Ben Waters Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
Big Bill Broonzy Oh, lordy Lord, oh, lordy Lord It hurts me so bad…
Big Maceo When you squeeze me baby You make me hollar whoa whoa…
Big Maceo Merriweather Whoa, Lordy, Lord Oh Lordy, Lord It hurts me so bad For u…
Big Bill Broonzy Oh, lordy Lord, oh, lordy Lord It hurts me so bad…
Billy Boy Arnold Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Chuck Berry Oh lordy Lord, oh lordy Lord It hurts me so bad…
Clapton Eric (& B.B. King) Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
COTTON JAMES Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
Eric Clapton Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Eric Clapton B. B. King Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Freddie King I don't care, alone you go I don't care, alone you…
Gordon Smith Oh, lordy Lord, oh, lordy Lord It hurts me so bad…
Greg Rzab Been lying here for hours Can't get my eyes to close Can't…
James Cotton I ain't gonna worry my life any more It hurts me…
James Cotton & Charlie Haden Quartet West Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
Jimmy Reed All alone, all alone, got misery so bad, I have…
John Lee Hooker Oh, lordie Lord, oh, lordie Lord Oh, you hurt me so…
King B.B. & Clapton Eric Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Lightnin' Hopkins Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
Lightnin. Hopkins Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
Little Walter Oh Lordy Lord, oh Lordy Lord It hurt me so bad,…
Maceo Merriweather Whoa, Lordy, Lord Oh Lordy, Lord It hurts me so bad For u…
Merriweather When you squeeze me baby You make me hollar whoa whoa…
Merriweather Big Maceo When you squeeze me baby You make me hollar whoa whoa…
Otis Spann Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…
Ray Charles Oh Lordy Lord, oh Lordy Lord It hurts me so bad…
Robben Ford Oh lordy, lord, oh lordy, lord It hurts me so bad…
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Oh, Lordy Lord, oh, Lordy Lord Well, it hurts me so…
Tampa Red & Big Maceo When you squeeze me baby You make me hollar whoa whoa…
The Animals Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord It hurts me so bad…
The Animals攀 Oh Lord, Lordy Lord, it hurts me so bad for…



The Blues Magoos Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord. It hurts me so bad…


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@syourke3

So grateful that Alan Lomax went down south and recorded these people. Or we would have lost something very special.

@hilmarwensorra1215

In VERY loving memory of Mrs. Rosa Lee Hill (1910 - 1968 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).

@MikeyLovesLife

Wow! So thankful for this.

@spoonful1018

This might be the best version I've heard - so haunting

@krystingrant6292

Her father should be proud 😢❤

@vincentbuccieri9305

Thank You for Preserving these Artists Performances for Music History

@TheBluesmanBlue

That's Per Mississippi Hill Country blues at its best

@abluerambler

Other gem.
Thank you forever Mr Alan Lomax. 🌹

@primitiveonpurpose

Sweetly sad happy.

@robertedwards2624

Does not get any more genuine than this !!!
I could listen to this all day.

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