Six Stringer from Swamp Blues by 8 Ball Aitken

They laid it down, played it right
Made them guitars, sound dirty and cool
Sweetest sound ever from a six stringer
Makes ya wanna strap on an axe and play the blues

John Lee Hooker’s Epiphone
Make ya boogie all night long
And Robert Johnson was so badass
Those English rockers couldn’t help but steel his songs
Hound Dog Taylor had six fingers
Played house rocking slide in E
And Albert King’s four fret bends
On the backwards flying V

They laid it down, played it right
Made them guitars, sound funky and cool
Sweetest sound ever from a six stringer
Makes ya wanna strap on an axe and play the blues

Magic Sam’s tremolo
Otis Rush on a 335
Freddy King’s Gold Top Les Paul
Dwayne Allman’s SG slide
Blind Willie Johnson played a mean
Pocketknife on a Stella
And Son House’s National
Thumping out Death Letter

They laid it down, played it right
Made them guitars, sound funky and cool
Sweetest sound, ever from a six stringer
Makes ya wanna strap on an axe and play the blues

Muddy Waters telecaster
BB King making Lucille moan
And many delta-bluesman
Make ya jump with a diddley bow
Elmore James dusting his broom
Hendrix burning his strat on stage
And did you ever hear anyone
Play with the soul of Stevie Ray?

They laid it down, played it right
Made them guitars, sound coolass cool
Sweetest sound, ever from a six stringer
Makes ya wanna strap on an axe and play the blues

Yeah makes ya wanna strap on an axe and play the blues
Makes ya wanna strap on a guitar and play the blues
Makes ya wanna strap on a six string and play the blues yeah

• 8 Ball Aitken
• Americana
• Blues
• Groovy-blues
• Soul
• Swamp-blues-rock
• alt.country
• blues rock
• singer-songwriter
• six stinger
• six string
• six string bass
• slide guitar
• swamp rock
• Australia