Spoonful

Words & Music:

Willie Dixon

 

Why, yes, it is a bone-simple, one-chord song.  Oh, and by the way, this is a different song than "Spoonful Blues" by Charley Patton.  The Howlin' Wolf version of this is fully transcribed in the June 2006 issue of Guitar One.  A great discussion of the Eric Clapton Cream cover (and how to play it) is on the "Slowhand Blues Guitar site (www.12bar.de/solocream.php).  It is just a basic shuffle blues in E (Cream plays it in Em, Howlin' Wolf in E7).

 

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It could be a spoonful of diamonds,

Could be a spoonful of gold.

Just a little spoon of your precious love

Satisfy my soul

A man lies about little.

Some of them cries about a little;

Some of them dies about a little.

Everything fight about a spoonful,

That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful.

 

It could be a spoonful of coffee,

Could be a spoonful of tea.

But a little spoon of your precious love

Good enough for me.

Men lies about that.

Some of them dies about that;

Some of them cries about that.

But everything fight about a spoonful,

That spoon, that spoon, that...

 

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE:

 

It could be a spoonful of water

Saved me from the desert sand.

But one spoon of little .45

Saved you from another man.

Men lies about that.

Some of them cries about that;

Some of them dies about that.

Everybody fightin' about a spoonful.

That spoon, that spoon, that...