Best Beale Poems

Way down in Itta Bena
Down the Mississippi way
B. B. King was born
         And boy could this guy play         


This Beale Street blues boy
Watched T-Bone Walker strum
He said to himself...

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BEALE STREET LADY
My heart has no endurance for the haul
thru loves heart rending nuisance of it all;
I'll not allow a trival game
entice my soul to burn a flame
and raise my heat, then wait for you to call;

so if you have intent regarding me,
just lay you...

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